Castillo, Reds put end to Dodgers’ winning streak

Luis Castillo struck out 10 while outpitching Walker Buehler, Kyle Farmer doubled twice and the host Cincinnati Reds snapped the Los Angeles Dodgers’ six-game winning streak with a 3-1 victory Friday night.

The Reds have dropped their last seven series to slip to fourth in the NL wild-card standings.

Castillo (8-15) didn’t allow a runner past second base in 6-1/3 shutout innings. He threw a season-high 111 pitches and gave up five hits and two walks.

Reds reliever Luis Cessa went 1-2/3 scorless innings. Michael Lorenzen allowed Matt Beaty’s RBI single with two outs in the ninth before getting pinch-hitter Albert Pujols to fly out for his fourth save.

Buehler (14-4) was hoping to notch his career-high 15th win, but the Reds reached him for three runs on six hits and two walks in six innings.

The Reds broke through against Buehler in the fifth after Farmer led off with a double. Tucker Barnhart hit an RBI single and excitedly clapped his hands and pointed at the Cincinnati dugout to celebrate.

Nick Castellanos and Joey Votto hit backto-back singles with one out in the sixth and they both scored on Farmer’s double. YANKEES 8, INDIANS 0 >> Corey Kluber won for the first time in nearly four months, pitching six shutout innings in his first outing against the team that helped him blossom into a star, and New York routed Cleveland at Yankee Stadium.

Joey Gallo homered twice, and Aaron Judge, Brett Gardner and Giancarlo Stanton hit one each for the Yankees, who tied their season high with five home runs.

With 14 games left, New York moved a half-game ahead of Toronto for one of the two AL wild-card berths in a tight race that also includes Boston. The Yankees are just 30-37 vs. the AL East but 47-28 against other teams.

Kluber (5-3) allowed four hits, struck out four, walked two and hit a batter with a pitch, escaping two-on, no-outs trouble in the third and fifth innings. The 35-year-old righthander was 98-58 for the Indians from 201119, winning a pair of AL Cy Young Awards. TWINS 7, BLUE JAYS 3 >> Vladimir Guerrero Jr. connected for his major league-leading 46th homer, but Jorge Polanco hit a two-run home run and Josh Donaldson, Miguel Sano and Brent Rooker added solo shots as visiting Minnesota defeated Toronto.

Michael Pineda (7-8) pitched 5-2/3 innings to win his third straight start, allowing three runs and three hits. The right-hander is 3-0 with a 2.63 ERA in September after going 0-3 with a 5.88 ERA in August.

Blue Jays left-hander Hyun Jin Ryu (13-9) allowed five runs, five hits and a walk in twoplus innings.