The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Astros blast Blue Jays with offensive onslaught
Corey Julks hit his first career grand slam in a six-run first inning and the visiting Houston Astros used a season-high 19 hits to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 11-4 Monday night.
Yordan Alvarez and Kyle Tucker hit solo homers and Jake Meyers added a two-run blast as the Astros won for the eighth time in 11 games. Yainer Diaz had four hits, including two doubles.
Alejandro Kirk and Daulton Varsho homered as Toronto had its four-game winning streak halted.
Alek Manoah (1-7) failed to get out of the first in his seventh straight losing decision, retiring just one of the nine batters he faced. He allowed six runs on seven hits and walked one.
RAYS 4, RED SOX 1 >> Shane Mcclanahan pitched six innings of five-hit ball to earn his major league-leading ninth win and Tampa Bay beat Boston at Fenway Park.
The Rays beat Boston for a third straight game and seventh time in eight tries this year.
Tampa Bay scored three runs in the fifth inning to break a scoreless tie. Luke Raley started the rally with a line drive double high off the Green Monster. Manuel Margot and Francisco Mejia followed with RBI singles, and Josh Lowe drove in another when he beat the relay on a potential double play groundout with the bases loaded.
Mcclanahan (9-1) took a shutout into the fifth inning before giving up a home run to Justin Turner.
PADRES 5, CUBS 0 >> Gary Sánchez hit a two-run homer and Blake Snell and three relievers combined on a four-hitter for host San Diego, which blanked Chicago to salvage a split of a four-game series.
Manny Machado had three hits, scored twice and made a sensational play at third base in his fourth game back from a stint on the injured list with a fractured left hand.
Sánchez, claimed off waivers from the New York Mets a week earlier, hit his third homer in seven games with the Padres when he lined a 2-2 pitch from Kyle Hendricks (0-2) into the left field seats with one out in the second.
Snell (2-6) allowed just two singles and walked three in six innings while striking out eight.
PHILLIES 8, TIGERS 3 >> Aaron Nola took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and struck out 12, Trea Turner homered twice and knocked in three runs to lead host Philadelphia over Detroit for its third straight win.
Nola (5-4) fanned 10 and had faced the minimum through six as he tried to pitch the Phillies’ first no-hitter since 2015. The ace righthander ran into trouble in the seventh when two batters reached on a walk and a fielding error. Nola still had two outs when he hung an 0-2 breaking ball to Nick Maton and the former Phillie crushed one into right to make it a 5-3 game.
Maton’s bat-flip homer was the only hit allowed by Nola. He walked three over seven innings.
RANGERS 4, CARDINALS 3 >> Nathaniel Lowe hit a game-ending RBI single with one out in the ninth inning and AL West-leading Texas extended its winning streak to four games by edging St. Louis.
Marcus Semien, who had already extended his majors-best hitting streak to 24 games with two hits, had a one-out walk in the ninth off Génesis Cabrera (11). Corey Seager followed with a single and Semien scored the winning run when Lowe hit an opposite-field grounder through the left side of the infield.
The Cardinals, who have lost four straight, tied the game in the eighth on Nolan Arenado’s RBI double.
MARLINS 9, ROYALS 6 >> Luis Arraez had three hits to raise his Mlbleading batting average to .399, and Miami beat visiting Kansas City.
Arraez drove in two runs for the Marlins, who won their fourth straight game.
REDS 2, BREWERS 0 >> Stuart Fairchild and Tyler Stephenson hit solo home runs off Julio Teheran (1-2) and Andrew Abbott threw six scoreless innings in his major league debut, leading Cincinnati to a home win over Milwaukee that avoided a four-game sweep.
The 24-year-old Abbott, a 2021 second-round draft pick from the University of Virginia, allowed one hit, walked four and struck out six.
PIRATES 5, ATHLETICS 4 >> Andrew Mccutchen’s tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning lifted Pittsburgh to a home victory over Oakland, extending the Pirates’ win streak to six games and sending the major league-worst A’s (12-50) to their 15th consecutive road loss.