Yelich ties record hitting for third cycle of his career
Christian Yelich bolted out of the box, sprinting around the bases and cruising into third standing up for his first triple of the season. A very welltimed triple, too.
The Milwaukee Brewers star hit for a recordtying third cycle — amazingly, all of them against Cincinnati. Yelich accomplished the feat Wednesday in a 14-11 loss at Cincinnati.
“I’d definitely rather win the game,” Yelich said. “Weird things happen in baseball. Any time you can hit for a cycle, it’s pretty cool. I will try to enjoy it as much as possible."
Yelich tripled during a six-run ninth inning rally. His teammates were well aware of the significance, and they stood on the top row of the dugout to applaud him.
Yelich became the sixth player in major league history to hit at least one home run, triple, double and single in the same game three times. He joined Trea Turner, Adrián Beltré, Babe Herman, Bob Meusel and John Reilly in accomplishing the feat.
Earlier, Yelich doubled in the first, hit a three-run homer in the third and singled in the fifth.
Yankees 5, Blue Jays ●
3: Gleyber Torres sent a fastball soaring, started jogging toward first base and raised his right arm about the time a young boy in the first row of the right field short porch at Yankee Stadium caught the ball on the fly. Torres followed his go-ahead, three-run homer with a two-run single and led surging New York to its 15th win in 17 games.
“My swing is getting better and better,” Torres said. “I think confidence is back, and that is the most important for me.”
A heralded phenom who is just 25, Torres
came up to the Yankees in 2018 and became an All-Star in each of his first two seasons, hitting 62 home runs. But he slumped for the next two seasons, totaling just 12 long balls.
But though he was benched for six of this season’s first 25 games, Torres had a game-ending single against Cleveland on April 23, a walkoff home run in the opener of Sunday’s doubleheader against Texas and drove in all the runs in the series finale against the Blue Jays.
Phillies 4, Mariners
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2: Rhys Hoskins homered for the third straight game and provided all of Philadelphia’s offense with the second grand slam of his career in a win at Seattle.
The Phillies took two of three from the Mariners helped by the homer barrage by Hoskins. He had solo homers in each of the first two games and provided the big blow with his first grand slam since March 28, 2019, against Atlanta.
Cubs 7, Padres 5:
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Alfonso Rivas hit a tiebreaking two-run single against his hometown team in the eighth inning, leading Chicago at San Diego.
Rivas, who grew up in Chula Vista, came up with the bases loaded and singled to center off Luis Garcia (0-2).
One-time Padres pitcher Rowan Wick got a six-out save, striking out Manny Machado to end the eighth with a runner on second.
Chicago took two of three in the series after arriving in San Diego with a five-game losing streak.
Pirates 5, Dodgers 3:
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Daniel Vogelbach hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning, and host Pittsburgh took a series from Los Angeles for the first time in nearly five years.
Vogelbach lined a shot to the seats in right field off Daniel Hudson (1-2), putting the Pirates back in front after they squandered a three-run lead in the top of the inning. Jack Suwinski hit his second home run in three days for Pittsburgh.
Giants 7, Rockies 1:
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Brandon Crawford homered, and host San Francisco earned its 10th straight win over Colorado.
Crawford drove in three runs and scored twice as San Francisco extended its overall winning streak to five. Alex Cobb (2-1) pitched 5 1⁄3 innings of one-run ball in his first victory since April 12.
LATE TUESDAY: ANGELS’ NO-HITTER
Angels 12, Rays 0:
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Angels rookie Reid Detmers pitched the majors’ second no-hitter this season, cruising after he benefitted from a borderline error call in the seventh inning.
The 22-year-old left hander threw a career-high 108 pitches in his 11th big-league start, striking out two and walking one. Detmers (2-1) completed the 12th no-hitter in franchise history when Yandy Diaz grounded out shortstop Andrew Velazquez to end the game.
He got a crucial assist from the official scorer in the seventh. Brett Phillips reached with one out when first baseman Jared Walsh ranged to his right and bobbled Phillips’ grounder. The crowd of 39,313 at Angel Stadium cheered and Walsh clapped moments later when the videoboard showed the play was ruled an error.
Mike Trout had his second multi-homer game of the season and drove in three for the Angels.
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Guardians: Cleveland ● is dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that has sidelined manager Terry Francona and several of the team’s coaches, leading to the postponement of Wednesday’s game against the Chicago White Sox. Shortly after Francona’s positive test became known, Major League Baseball said there were “multiple positive COVID-19 tests” in Cleveland’s organization and called the game. It’s the first coronavirus-related postponement since the season started on April 7.