Judge's 37th homer helps lead Yankees
BALTIMORE >> Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 37th home run, fellow All-Star Nestor Cortes pitched six sharp innings and the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-0 on Sunday.
Jose Trevino, another Yankees All-Star, produced the first four-hit game of his career. New York, with the best record in the big leagues, took two of three and have now won 22 of its 32 completed series this year.
Judge has seven home runs in his last nine games and leads the majors with 81 RBIs.
Cortes (8-3) allowed six hits, struck out seven and walked none. Clarke Schmidt pitched three innings and earned his first career save.
ASTROS 8, MARINERS 5 >> Jose Altuve and Jeremy Peña hit back-to-back home runs off Robbie Ray to begin the game, and Houston roughed up the reigning AL Cy Young Award to complete a threegame sweep of Seattle.
Martín Maldonado had three RBIs from the No. 9 spot in the lineup and AllStar lefty Framber Valdez (9-4) took a shutout into the seventh inning for the Astros, who won their fifth straight and increased their AL West lead to 13 games over secondplace Seattle.
BLUE JAYS 8, RED SOX 4 >> Raimel Tapia had three hits and drove in four runs, giving him 10 RBIs for the series, and Vladimir Guerrero had four hits as Toronto beat bumbling Boston for a three-game sweep.
ANGELS 9, BRAVES 1 >> Taylor Ward homered in a five-run first, Reid Detmers pitched five scoreless innings and Los Angeles
cooled off Atlanta.
REDS 6, CARDINALS 3 >> Joey Votto hit a three-run homer to back Tyler Mahle's sharp return from injury as Cincinnati beat St. Louis.
TWINS 9, TIGERS 1 >> Sonny Gray allowed two hits in six innings to lead Minnesota over Detroit.
CUBS 4, PHILLIES 3 >> Yan Gomes hit two home runs, Drew Smyly tossed six sharp innings and Chicago completed a three-game sweep of Philadelphia.
MARLINS 6, PIRATES 5, 10 INNINGS >> Nick Fortes and Miguel Rojas hit RBI singles in the 10th inning and the Miami Marlins topped Pittsburgh.
WHITE SOX 6, GUARDIANS 3 >> Dylan Cease threw six innings in his third straight scoreless start, Leury Garcia and AJ Pollock homered, and Chicago beat Cleveland to salvage a four-game split.
ROYALS 4, RAYS 2 >> Kris Bubic went seven strong innings, Hunter Dozier and MJ Melendez had late-inning RBIs and Kansas City won a series against Tampa Bay for the first time in five years.
BREWERS 10, ROCKIES 9 >> Andrew McCutchen's tiebreaking, two-run double capped a two-out rally in the eighth inning that lifted Milwaukee over Colorado.
NATIONALS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 3 >> Keibert Ruiz had three hits, including a goahead single in the eighth inning, and Washington avoided a three-game sweep by beating Arizona.
The Nationals were sloppy in the field.
METS 8, PADRES 5 >> Pete Alonso hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off Joe Musgrove and had four RBIs to retake the major league lead, leading the New York Mets over the San Diego Padres.