Urias, home runs lift Dodgers in win
Corey Seager hit two solo homers, Julio Urías posted his MLB-leading 19th victory and the Los Angeles Dodgers won their 100th game of the season by beating the host Arizona Diamondbacks 3-0 on Sunday.
The Dodgers won 16 of 19 games against the D-backs this season.
Urías (19-3) scattered five hits over five scoreless innings, striking out three and walking one.
Seager and Trea Turner hit solo homers on back-to-back pitches in the first inning for a 2-0 lead off Humberto Mejia.
CARDINALS 4, CUBS 2 >> Andrew Knizner scored the go-ahead run on Codi Heuer’s wild pitch in the ninth inning, and St. Louis beat Chicago at Wrigley Field for its 16th straight victory.
The Cardinals’ franchise-record streak is the longest in the majors since Cleveland took 22 in a row in 2017, and the best in the National League since the New York Giants won 16 straight in 1951.
Paul Goldschmidt and Harrison Bader homered to help extend a streak that has rocketed the Cardinals into position for the second NL wild card.
BREWERS 8, METS 4 >> Milwaukee clinched its second NL Central title in four years, beating visiting New York behind Willy Adames’s tworun homer and three RBIs.
The Brewers completed a three-game sweep and sent the skidding Mets to their 10th loss in 11 games.
RAYS 3, MARLINS 2 >> Rookie Shane Baz pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings to win his second straight start and AL East champion Tampa Bay beat Miami for its team-record 14th series sweep.
Baz (2-0), a 22-year-old right-hander who was on the U.S. Olympic team, allowed three hits, struck out nine and walked one. He gave up two runs and two hits — both homers — over five innings to beat Toronto in his big league debut on Sept. 20.
Nelson Cruz had two RBIs for the Rays, who on Saturday night clinched their second consecutive division title and fourth since 2008.
MARINERS 5, ANGELS 1 >> Shohei Ohtani wasn’t enough to keep Los Angeles from its sixth straight losing season.
Ohtani allowed Jarred Kelenic’s tying home run in the seventh inning, and Mitch Haniger hit a go-ahead single in a four-run eighth against the bullpen that lifted Seattle to victory.
Ohtani gave up one run and five hits in seven innings with 10 strikeouts and no walks.