Orioles' Santander homers to spoil the return of Judge
Anthony Santander homered off Tommy Kahnle in the ninth inning to give the Baltimore Orioles a 1-0 victory over the visiting New York Yankees on Friday night, spoiling Aaron Judge's return for the Yankees.
Judge walked three times in his first game back from a toe injury, but the Orioles kept New York off the scoreboard with a spectacular defensive effort — particularly in the eighth inning, when Santander made a lunging, sliding catch in right field and second baseman Adam Frazier made a diving stop on Anthony Rizzo's grounder with a man on second.
The Orioles remained 1 ½ games ahead of Tampa Bay atop the AL East, and they now lead the last-place Yankees by nine.
The game was delayed 2 hours, 32 minutes. Judge lined out to right field on the first pitch to him in the first, but he reached base the other three times.
Judge had been out since tearing a ligament in his right big toe June 3 when he crashed into the right-field fence while making a catch at Dodger Stadium.
BRAVES 10, BREWERS 7 ❯❯ Ozzie Albies singled in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning and Austin Riley and Matt Olson hit back-to-back homers in a four-run seventh for host Atlanta, which snapped a two-game skid. Ronald Acuña Jr. got the rally started in the fifth with a single and his 49th stolen base, most in the majors. After he scored on Albies' 73rd RBI, Albies went first to third on Riley's single and scored on Olson's sacrifice fly for a 6-4 lead. Olson has 33 homers and 82 RBIs, second-most in the majors in both categories.
The Braves (65-36) were coming off two straight losses in Boston and had dropped seven of 10. Milwaukee (5747) began the night with a 1 ½-game lead in the NL Central.
RAYS 4, ASTROS 3 ❯❯ Brandon Lowe hit a three-run homer early and José Siri doubled and scored the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning in the for visiting Tampa Bay.
The game was tied entering the ninth when Siri, who played for Houston last season, doubled to left field off Ryan Pressly (3-3) and moved to third on a sacrifice fly by Christian Bethancourt. The Rays took a 4-3 lead when Siri scored on a sacrifice fly by Yandy Díaz.
The victory was just Tampa Bay's third in the last 11 games and the team's sixth this month.
METS 5, NATIONALS 1 ❯❯ Pete Alonso homered twice to become the second player in Mets history with four 30-homer seasons, leading host New York over Washington. Alonso joined Mike Piazza as the only players with four 30-homer seasons for the Mets. Max Scherzer (9-4) allowed six hits and struck out seven in seven solid innings. Scherzer carried a shutout into the seventh, when Luis García hit a leadoff homer.
MARLINS 6, TIGERS 5 ❯❯ Jon Berti's second hit of the game was a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning, helping host Miami beat Detroit.
Luis Arraez doubled and had two singles to raise his major league-leading batting average to .380, and Bryan De La Cruz homered and doubled and drove in three runs for the Marlins. Andy Ibañez, Nick Maton and Spencer Torkelson drove in runs for Detroit.
RED SOX 3, GIANTS 2 ❯❯ Moved up in the batting order and Triston Casas homered and hit an RBI double to back Kutter Crawford for visiting Boston, which won its fifth straight. Second baseman Justin Turner delivered the defensive gem of the night to save at least one run in the seventh. He backhanded a two-hopper by pinch-hitter Blake Sabol and flipped the ball to shortstop Yu Chang for the force out on Patrick Bailey. Josh Winckowski then struck out the last two batters.
CUBS 3, CARDINALS 2 ❯❯ Patrick Wisdom homered and Trey Mancini had a tiebreaking RBI single for visiting Chicago. Drew Smyly (8-7) allowed just two hits in 4 1/3 effective innings in relief as the Cubs won their seventh straight game.
ATHLETICS 8, ROCKIES 5 ❯❯ Zack Gelof and Ramon Laureano homered, JP Sears (2-7) won for the second time this season and visiting Oakland snapped a three-game skid. Shea Langeliers had a double, a triple and scored twice, Laureano had two hits and scored twice and Tony Kemp had two doubles as the major league-worst A's pounded out 14 hits.