Yanks overcome Scherzer’s gem with win in 11th
Gleyber Torres’ tying single in the ninth inning and a winning infield single in the 11th helped the New York Yankees overcame Max Scherzer’s commanding 14-strikeout performance to beat the Washington Nationals 4-3 Saturday.
Scherzer allowed two hits in 7 1/3 innings, but the Yankees rallied three times.
Kyle Higashioka’s home run tied the score at 1 in the third, Torres made it 2-all against Brad Hand in the ninth and Mike Ford’s single evened it 3-3 against Hand in the 10th.
With automatic runner DJ LeMahieu on second in the 11th, Tanner Rainey (0-2) walked Giancarlo Stanton on a full count and Aaron Judge on four pitches, loading the bases.
Washington went to a five-man infield, replacing left fielder Kyle Schwarber with Jordy Mercer. Torre hit a dribbler to the third-base side that bounced off Rainey’s bare hand as New York got its first walk-off win this season. CARDINALS 9, ROCKIES 8 >> Yadier Molina drove in three runs in his return from the injured list, Paul Goldschmidt homered and also gad three RBIs, and St. Louis defeated Colorado.
Molina hadn’t played since April 26 because of a strained tendon in his right foot. BREWERS 6, MARLINS 2 >> Adrian Houser struck out 10 in six innings and homered off Daniel Castano for the second time this season, and Milwaukee snapped a six-game losing streak by beating Miami, which had won four straight.
The Marlins struck out 18 times and totaled only six hits.
Houser (3-3) allowed two runs while matching a career high in strikeouts. He also homered against Castano and beat Miami on April 27, and is the first pitcher to homer off the same pitcher in separate games in the same season since Bronson Arroyo did it against Glendon Rusch in 2006.
INDIANS 9, REDS 2 >> César Hernández hit a three-run triple and Aaron Civale (5-0) pitched seven strong innings as Cleveland struck back after being no-hit for the second time in 24 days by belting Cincinnati.