Dodgers’ Greinke tops Mets’ Harvey
Gonzalez homers for L.A.
LOS ANGELES — Zack Greinke scattered four hits over seven scoreless innings to outpitched Matt Harvey, Adrian Gonzalez hit a solo homer and the Los Angeles Dodgers held on despite a shaky bullpen to beat the New York Mets 4-3 on Saturday night.
Greinke (7-2) extended his scoreless innings streak to 27⅔, striking out four and walking none. He had a two-out single in the fourth inning, too.
J.P. Howell got the final out for his first save since June 12, 2011, against Tampa Bay.
Harvey (7-6) gave up seven hits and three runs in five innings. He struck out four and tied a career high with five walks while getting in bases-loaded jams in the second, third and fifth innings. His ERA ballooned to 3.11.
The Mets closed to 4-2 with two outs in the eighth on Lucas Duda’s RBI double and Wilmer Flores’ RBI single after three Dodger relievers gave up a combined four hits. Pedro Baez, who allowed Flores’ hit, gave up a sacrifice fly to Juan Lagares in the ninth that made it 4-3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cubs 7, Marlins 2 at Chicago: Kris Bryant hit two home runs, including a grand slam, to lead the Cubs.
The multihomer game was the second for Bryant, who hit a two-run drive in the first inning and chased Marlins starter Jarred Cosart (1-4) with a grand slam in the second that made it 7-0.
Bryant is the first Cubs player to hit two grand slams in his rookie season since Hall of Famer Billy Williams in 1961. City, Mo.: Joe Mauer hit a two-run homer in his first four-hit game in nearly two years for Minnesota.
Mauer homered with Brian Dozier aboard in a three-run first. Aaron Hicks’ grounder scored Trevor Plouffe, who missed the cycle by a home run, with the other run.
Plouffe’s triple scored Mauer in the fifth to extend the lead to 4-0.
Tigers 8, Blue Jays 3 at Detroit: J.D. Martinez homered and David Price pitched seven strong innings as the Tigers beat Toronto.
Price (8-2) pitched seven innings, giving up one run on eight hits and a walk and striking out seven. The Tigers are 14-3 when he starts and 27-36 with anyone else.
In the ninth, Jeff Ferrell allowed a two-run homer to Chris Colabello while making his major-league debut. He had only pitched one inning above DoubleA before being called up Friday.
Yankees 3, Rays 2 at New York: A ninth-inning throwing error by pitcher Brad Boxberger gave the Yankees their second straight walk-off win against the Rays.
Mark Teixeira doubled past James Loney, who was guarding the first-base line, and into the rightfield corner against Boxberger (4-4) leading off the bottom half of the ninth. Chris Young walked and rookie Ramos Flores sacrificed. Boxberger threw wildly to first, and pinchrunner Jose Pirela scored from second.