La Stella, Belt lead Giants to 6th win in a row

Tommy La Stella and Brandon Belt each hit three-run homers, and the San Francisco Giants pounded the host Chicago Cubs 15-4 on Saturday for their sixth straight win.

La Stella finished with three hits, including a double, five RBIs and scored three runs for surging San Francisco, which improved to a major-league best 92-50. The Giants entered 2 1⁄ games ahead of the

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Dodgers in the NL West.

La Stella’s home run off Tommy Nance in the fifth thudded off Wrigley’s right-field videoboard and capped a six-run rally that allowed San Francisco to pull away for its eight win in nine.

Belt went deep and doubled for the second straight day. The Giants’ first baseman has 23 homers, with 12 in his last 28 games, and 10 hits in his last 21 at-bats.

Evan Longoria had three RBI on two hits and a sac fly, while Mike Yastrzemski drove in two runs. Kris Bryant had two singles, walked and scored two runs against his former team after going 0-for-3 with a walk in his return to Wrigley on Friday.

The Cubs dropped their second straight, and third in four following a sevengame winning streak

AMERICAN LEAGUE

A Rangers 8, Athletics 6: Jonah Heim hit a tworun home run with two outs in the eighth to cap a five-run rally, lifting Texas at Oakland.

Trailing 6-2 after being held down by starter Cole Irvin, the Rangers took advantage of the A’s struggling bullpen.

It’s the sixth time in 76 games this season that the Rangers have come back to win after trailing going into the eighth.