The Mercury News

Pirates' McCutchen hits 300th home run

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Andrew McCutchen hit his 300th home run, Jack Suwinski had a grand slam off Zack Wheeler and the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Philadelph­ia Phillies 9-2 on Sunday.

The 37-year-old McCutchen, who hit 15 homers in his lone season with the Giants in 2018, drove a Ricardo Pinto slider into the left-field seats in the ninth inning for his first home run this season. He became the 13th player with 2,000 hits, 400 doubles, 45 triples, 300 homers and 200 stolen bases.

McCutchen stole home as part of a double steal in the fourth inning.

BRAVES 9, MARLINS 7 >> Marcell Ozuna hit a three-run homer with two outs in the top of the ninth inning, and the Atlanta beat Miami.

Atlanta wasted a 5-1 lead and fell behind 7-5 in the sixth when Jesús Sánchez hit a tying RBI single with two outs against Charlie Morton and scored on Nick Gordon's two-run homer off Dylan Lee.

Ozuna hit an RBI double in the seventh against Anthony Bender. Then in the ninth, Ronald Acuña Jr. singled off Tanner Scott (0-3) leading off, Matt Olson walked with two outs and Ozuna drove a slider with an 0-2 count to center for his seventh home run this season. GUARDIANS 8, YANKEES 7, 10 INNINGS >> Andrés Giménez's sacrifice fly capped Cleveland's wild, three-run rally in the 10th as the Guardians salvaged the finale of a three-game home series with a stunning win over New York.

Down 7-5, the Guardians scored three in the 10th off Caleb Ferguson (0-2) on a forceout, fielder's choice and sacrifice fly.

The Yankees (12-4) had taken a 7-6 lead in the 10th on Anthony Rizzo's two-run double. CUBS 3, MARINERS 2 >> Michael Busch homered for the fourth straight game and Chicago won at Seattle.

Reliever Adbert Alzolay picked off pinchrunne­r Julio Rodríguez to end the game.

Busch, acquired from the Dodgers in the offseason, hit a two-run homer in the fourth. DIAMONDBAC­KS 5, CARDINALS 0 >> Zac Gallen pitched six sharp innings and Corbin Carroll hit a two-run single in a five-run fifth to lead Arizona at home over St. Louis.

Gallen (3-0) gave up four hits and two walks with seven strikeouts.

ASTROS 8, RANGERS 5 >> Jose Altuve homered off Nathan Eovaldi in his first two at-bats and Cristian Javier pitched seven strong innings to lead host Houston past Texas.

Javier (2-0) allowed five hits and two runs with five strikeouts.

REDS 11, WHITE SOX 4 >> Christian Encarnacio­nStrand homered and tied a career high with four RBIs, and Cincinnati routed Chicago for a three-game road sweep.

BLUE JAYS 5, ROCKIES 0 >> José Berríos and two relievers combined on a two-hitter, Justin Turner had three hits and three RBIs and Toronto topped visiting Colorado.

Berríos (3-0) allowed two hits, both singles, walked two and struck out seven.

ORIOLES 6, BREWERS 4 >> Jackson Holliday delivered his first big-league hit in the seventh, then scored the tiebreakin­g run to help Baltimore avoid a home sweep against Milwaukee.

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