Braves win fourth straight NL East title

ATLANTA (AP) — Ian Anderson turned in another dominant pitching performance, Jorge Soler and Austin Riley homered, and the Atlanta Braves won their fourth straight NL East title by completing a sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies with a 5-3 victory Thursday night.

After an up-and-down season marred by injuries and legal issues but bolstered by a flurry of moves at the trade deadline, the Braves won their 21st division title since moving from Milwaukee to Atlanta in 1966.

They open the best-of-five Division Series at the NL Central champion Brewers on Oct. 8.

Soler hit the first leadoff homer of his career, going deep for the 26th time this season on a 3-2 pitch from Kyle Gibson (4-6).

Riley added to the lead with his 33rd homer in the fourth. He drove in another run with a broken-bat single in the fifth to extend the lead to 5-0.

YANKEES 6, BLUE JAYS 2

TORONTO (AP) — Aaron Judge hit two of New York's five home runs and the Yankees extended their AL wild-card lead by beating Toronto.

Gleyber Torres and Anthony Rizzo also connected off Blue Jays starter Robbie Ray (13-7), and Brett Gardner added a solo homer as New York (91-68) slimmed its magic number to clinch a postseason spot to two. The Yankees moved two games ahead of Boston and idle Seattle. Toronto trails New York by three games.

Michael King (2-4) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings for the win in relief of Corey Kluber.

New York's first five hits were homers.

CARDINALS 4, BREWERS 3

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rookie Dylan

Carlson homered from each side of the plate and St. Louis beat Milwaukee

J.A. Happ (10-8) gave up three runs on nine hits and struck out seven in 6 1/3 innings, his longest outing since St. Louis acquired him from the Minnesota Twins on July 30.

Kodi Whitley and T.J. McFarland combined for two innings of scoreless relief and Luís Garcia earned his second save as the Cardinals won the rubber game of the series after having their franchise record 17-game winning streak snapped the night before.

CUBS 9, PIRATES 0

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Justin Steele breezed through seven innings and Chicago handed Pittsburgh its 100th loss of the season.

Steele (4-4) struck out seven and gave up four hits on 76 pitches.

Sergio Alcántara drove in three runs, two coming on a homer to right off Miguel Yajure (0-2) that gave Chicago a 3-0 lead in the sixrun second.

TIGERS 10, TWINS 7

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Niko Goodrum homered twice and drove in four runs and Detroit beat Minnesota in a slugfest with seven homers.

Dustin Garneau's sacrifice fly and Willi Castro's RBI single capped an eighth-inning comeback for Detroit, which snapped a four-game skid and avoided the series sweep.

Alex Lange (1-3) got the win with 1 1/3 innings of perfect relief. Michael Fulmer earned his 13th save.