Heyward sparks Cardinals’ rally
ST. LOUIS — Jason Heyward hit a two-run, tiebreaking double in the seventh inning to key a five-run rally, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals 8-5 on Monday night.
St. Louis won for the eighth time in nine games and moved five games ahead of the idle Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Central.
Washington, which had won six of its previous eight, fell 6½ games behind the New York Mets in the NL East.
The Cardinals sent 10 batters to the plate in the seventh and erased a 5-3 deficit with five two-out runs.
Kolten Wong followed Heyward’s hit with a runscoring single to push the lead to 8-5.
Stephen Piscotty and Jhonny Peralta had RBI hits off Casey Janssen (13) to tie the score. Felipe Rivero gave up the double to Heyward.
Kevin Siegrist (6-1) won despite allowing three runs in the seventh.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Mets 3, Phillies 1 at New York: Bartolo Colon breezed through eight snappy innings and the Mets got homers from Curtis Granderson and Michael Conforto.
The 42-year-old Colon (12-11) struck out nine, walked one and yielded four harmless singles, pushing his scoreless streak to 16 innings.
He also hit a two-out single just before Granderson’s 23rd homer.
Marlins 4, Braves 0 at Atlanta: Martin Prado and Justin Bour each had an RBI double in the eighth and Miami extended Shelby Miller’s winless streak to 19 starts.
Miller, an All-Star with a 2.56 ERA, began the night with the worst support in the majors, and the Braves, losers in six straight and 13 of 14, stayed true to form. Atlanta has scored two runs or fewer in 20 of Miller’s 27 starts.
Miller (5-12) gave up six hits and struck out seven in seven innings.
Reds 13, Cubs 6 at Chicago: Eugenio Suarez and Adam Duvall hit two-run homers in a four-run sixth for Cincinnati.
Duvall, who was called up from Triple-A earlier Monday, snapped a 5-5 tie with his pinch-hit homer off Cubs reliever Justin Grimm (2-4), who gave up all four runs in one-third of an inning. Grimm started the inning by walking Ivan DeJesus Jr. and then gave up the home run to Suarez that tied it.
Cincinnati scored six unearned runs in the ninth off Chicago relievers Travis Wood and James Russell after second baseman Starlin Castro committed two of his three errors in the inning.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Astros 8, Mariners 3 at Houston: Dallas Keuchel allowed one run and struck out eight in seven innings to become the American League’s first 16-game winner.
Rookie Carlos Correa, who returned after missing four games with a hamstring injury, hit a two-run homer and Jed Lowrie and Hank Conger added solo shots to boost the AL West-leading Astros.
Keuchel (16-6), who gave up six hits, improved to 12-0 at home this season and has won 13 straight in Houston dating to last year.
Indians 4, Blue Jays 2 at Toronto: Jerry Sands singled home the go-ahead run in the seventh and Danny Salazar struck out 10 as Cleveland won its sixth straight game.
Salazar (12-7) allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings. He reached double digits in strikeouts for the fifth time this season and the first time since striking out 10 against Baltimore on June 6. Bryan Shaw got two outs in the eighth and Cody Allen finished for his 28th save.
Toronto’s Edwin Encarnacion extended his hitting streak to 26 games with a leadoff single in the sixth. Encarnacion’s streak is the longest in the majors this season and baseball’s longest since a 28-game run by Colorado’s Nolan Arenado in 2014.
Encarnacion finished 2 for 4 with a double.
Left-hander David Price (13-5) allowed three runs and six hits in seven innings, losing for the first time in six starts since joining Toronto. He walked one and struck out nine.
Red Sox 4, Yankees 3 at Boston: David Ortiz hit his 495th home run and Jackie Bradley Jr. had three hits and threw out a runner at the plate to lift the Red Sox.
Mookie Betts hit a tworun homer for the Red Sox.
Didi Gregorius had four singles for New York. He flied out to the warning track with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the ninth.
Ortiz lined a shot into the first row of Green Monster seats off Ivan Nova (57). In his next at-bat, Ortiz brought the crowd to its feet again when he lined a 3-0 fastball halfway up the wall in left for a double.
Boston’s Eduardo Rodriguez (8-5) pitched five innings, allowing two runs and seven hits. Jean Machi escaped a bases-loaded jam for his fourth save.
Rays 6, Orioles 3 at Baltimore: Chris Archer pitched six shutout innings, and Tampa Bay hit three home runs.
Asdrubal Cabrera and Evan Longoria homered off Wei-Yin Chen (8-7), and Tim Beckham added a solo shot against Brad Brach. Logan Forsythe had three hits for the Rays, coming within a home run of the cycle.
Archer (12-10) gave up four hits, walked three and struck out six to earn his first win against Baltimore in seven starts since June 7, 2013.