San Antonio Express-News

Turner gets cycle in Nationals’ rout

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WASHINGTON — Trea Turner hit his second career cycle, and Stephen Strasburg earned his major league-leading 13th win as the Washington Nationals routed the Colorado Rockies 11-1 on Tuesday night.

Turner led off the first inning with homer, singled in the second and tripled leading off the fifth. After grounding into a double play in the sixth, he doubled home a run during Washington’s eight-run seventh.

It was the fourth cycle for the Nationals since relocating to Washington in 2005, half of them by Turner against the Rockies. He’s the 26th player to hit for multiple cycles and third with a pair against the same team, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Pittsburgh’s Fred Clarke had two against Cincinnati, and Milwaukee’s Christian Yelich did it twice against Miami last season.

Christian Vazquez hit a tiebreakin­g homer in the seventh inning, Marcus Walden bailed Boston out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth, and the Red Sox beat host Tampa Bay to move into second place in the AL East for the first time since the second day of the season.

Robinson Cano hit three home runs, breaking loose from a season-long slump in a huge way and leading host New York over San Diego.

Paul Goldschmid­t homered for the second straight night, Jose Martinez added his 10th homer, and Dakota Hudson rebounded from a shaky start to lead St. Louis past host Pittsburgh.

Justin Smoak tied the game with a homer in the ninth inning and knocked in the winning run with a two-out single in the 10th as Toronto beat visiting Cleveland.

Lucas Duda delivered Kansas City’s first pinch-hit homer of the season to break a tie in the eighth, and the visiting Royals beat Atlanta.

Caleb Smith retired his first 17 batters and cruised through seven innings of two-hit ball, and Miami won at Chicago.

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