Seattle hit five home runs, including Cal Raleigh’s 53rd, and starter Luis Castillo broke a string of four poor outings to help the visiting Mariners overpower the Atlanta Braves 18-2 on Sunday in the rubber game of their three-game series.
The Mariners, who won 10-2 on Saturday, sent 12 men to the plate and scored eight runs in the third inning to take command. They batted around again in the ninth and scored seven more times. Seattle scored a season high for runs.
The Mariners got back-to-back homers for the ninth time this season. Jorge Polanco, with his 24th, and Josh Naylor, with his 18th, accomplished the feat in the third inning. Eugenio Suarez added two homers, the last one off position player Vidal Brujan, his 44th and 45th.
Raleigh hit a three-run homer that carried 426 feet in the ninth inning. It pulled him with one homer from tying Mickey Mantle for the most by a switch hitter in a single season. Mantle hit 54 for the New York Yankees in 1961.
Dodgers 5, Orioles 2
Shohei Ohtani homered twice and Los Angeles starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw (10-2) took a shutout into the sixth inning and this time the Dodgers held on to avoid a series sweep by beating host Baltimore.
Mookie Betts also homered and drove in another run with a ninth-inning single. The Dodgers ended a 1-5 road trip and remained atop the National League West, one game up on the San Diego Padres.
The Orioles won with ninth-inning walk-off stunners in the first two games of the series. Tomoyuki Sugano (10-8) surrendered four runs on seven hits in three-plus innings. He lost a third straight decision while the Orioles saw their five-game winning streak end. Baltimore batters struck out 15 times.
Marlins 5, Phillies 4
Otto Lopez recorded his first career multi-homer game as Miami topped visiting Philadelphia.
Lopez, who came into the game without an RBI this month, went 3-for-4 with four RBIs in helping Miami salvage the finale of the weekend series. Troy Johnston added two hits for the Marlins. After scoring a total of five runs in the first two games of the series, Miami sent 10 batters to the plate during a four-run first inning against Phillies starter Taijuan Walker (4-8).
Brandon Marsh went 3-for-3 with an RBI for Philadelphia, which had its winning streak snapped at three games. Trea Turner homered before leaving with a hamstring strain.
Nationals 6, Cubs 3
Josh Bell hit a go-ahead three-run homer during Washington’s five-run ninth inning and the visiting Nationals rallied past Chicago in the rubber match of a three-game series.
Chicago led 3-1 in the ninth before closer Daniel Palencia (1-6) allowed Robert Hassell III’s leadoff homer. After the next two batters reached safely, Bell homered on Palencia’s first offering to put the Nationals ahead. Mason Thompson (1-0) earned the win and Jose Ferrer pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his seventh save. Lile had two hits for Washington, which won for the fifth time in its last six games.
Carson Kelly hit a pair of solo homers and Nico Hoerner had two hits for Chicago, which held the Nationals to three hits before the ninth-inning uprising.
Padres 8, Rockies 1
Jackson Merrill had three hits, including one of four home runs for San Diego, and the Padres beat Colorado in Denver.
Manny Machado homered and doubled, and Ramon Laureano and Gavin Sheets also went deep for San Diego. The Padres remained a game behind the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. Sheets, Jake Cronenworth and Freddy Fermin finished with two hits each for San Diego.
Warming Bernabel had two hits for Colorado. The Rockies, who have lost 100-plus games for three straight seasons, tied the franchise record for losses set in 2023 (103).
Guardians 2, Rays 1
Cleveland starting pitcher Parker Messick beat Tampa Bay for the second time in less than two weeks to claim the four-game series against the host.
Messick (2-0) allowed just one run over six innings in his fourth career start. He whiffed four without a walk. Angel Martinez came off the bench and was 2-for-3 with a run for the Guardians.
Rays starting pitcher Drew Rasmussen fired five scoreless innings and allowed three hits. He struck out two, walked three and hit a batter. Carson Williams homered and Brandon Lowe was 2-for-4 with a double.
Brewers 10, Pirates 2
Andrew Vaughn had four hits with a double and an RBI to back up a quality start from rookie Jacob Misiorowski and lead Milwaukee to a rout of host Pittsburgh.
Misiorowski (5-2) struck out eight and allowed only one run on three hits over seven innings. Brice Turang and Jake Bauers each finished with two hits and two RBIs. Blake Perkins had two hits and one RBI while Joey Ortiz and Danny Jansen each added an RBI.
Pirates top prospect Bubba Chandler (2-1), who made his first career start, gave up nine runs on nine hits over 2 2/3 innings. Liover Peguero and Cam Devanney drove in the Pirates’ only two runs.
Reds 3, Mets 2
Hunter Greene (6-4) dazzled in a crucial game for Cincinnati, allowing just a run and a hit while striking out 12 in a victory over visiting New York.
Greene, who missed more than two months of the season because of a groin injury, pitched seven innings for the first time since April, matching his season high in strikeouts. Austin Hays had two RBIs for the Reds.
Mets starter Brandon Sproat (0-1) no-hit the Reds through the first 5 1/3 innings of his big-league debut. They got home runs from Brett Baty and Juan Soto, and put the go-ahead run on base in the ninth before an inning-ending double play.
Yankees 4, Blue Jays 3
Max Fried continued his turnaround from a rough stretch by pitching seven innings and earning his fourth straight victory as host New York inched closer to Toronto in the American League East race with a victory
The Yankees pulled within two games of the Blue Jays. Fried (16-5) allowed three runs on six hits and one walk with four strikeouts. He has a 1.67 ERA in his past four outings after posting a 6.80 ERA in his previous eight starts from July 1-Aug. 16.
Toronto starter Max Scherzer (5-3), who was pushed back a day to give his tight back another day to heal, allowed four runs on three hits in 4 1/3 innings, including Ben Rice’s three-run homer in the first inning and Cody Bellinger’s tiebreaking RBI double in the third.
Red Sox 7, Diamondback 4
Pinch hitter Nick Sogard hit a tiebreaking, two-run double with two outs in a three-run ninth and Boston beat Arizona to salvage the final contest of a three-game series in Phoenix.
Romy Gonzalez hit a one-out single in the ninth before Taylor Rashi (0-1) walked Nate Eaton and got Ceddanne Rafaela on a flyout. Sogard found the gap in left-center to drive in two, and pinch hitter Carlos Narvaez singled him in. Closer Aroldis Chapman struck out four in the ninth — one reached on a wild pitch — for his 29th save in 31 chances. It was his franchise-record 17th consecutive hitless appearance, the third-longest such streak in the modern era (since 1901).
Gabriel Moreno had two hits and an RBI, and Blaze Alexander and Jordan Lawlar had RBI singles for the Diamondbacks.
White Sox 6, Tigers 4
Lenyn Sosa homered, provided the go-ahead single in the eighth inning and drove in three runs as Chicago again beat Deroit, winning for the seventh time in its last eight games.
Chase Meidroth and Mike Tauchman hit back-to-back singles for the White Sox in the eighth. A walk loaded the bases before Sosa’s two-run single gave Chicago a 6-4 lead. Grant Taylor (2-4) picked up the win in relief, while Mike Vasil recorded his fourth save.
Detroit starter Charlie Morton lasted just three innings. He gave up three runs on four hits and three walks while throwing 72 pitches. Tommy Kahnle (1-4) took the loss after allowing the two runners that Sosa knocked in to reach base.
Twins 5, Royals 1
Bailey Ober (5-7) earned his first victory since May 3 by allowing one run over 5 1/3 innings while Byron Buxton and Kody Clemens homered in visiting Minnesota’s win over Kansas City.
Buxton led off the game with his 30th homer, joining late Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett as the only Twins with 30 home runs and 20 stolen bases in a season before leaving the game after being hit in the knee by a pitch.
Michael Lorenzen (5-10) was charged with four runs while allowing seven hits over 5 1/3 innings. Vinnie Pasquantino’s RBI single in the sixth was the only run managed by Kansas City, which left the bases loaded in the eighth and ninth.
Cardinals 4, Giants 3
Lars Nootbaar drove in one run and scored to complement Sonny Gray’s strong start as St. Louis edged visiting San Franciso.
The Cardinals won for the fourth time in five games while the Giants suffered just their third loss in 14 games. Gray (13-8) allowed three runs on two hits and four walks in 5 1/3 innings. He retired the first 11 batters he faced and did not give up a hit until the sixth inning.
Giants starter Kai-Wei Teng (2-4) allowed four runs on three hits and five walks in four innings. He struck out eight.
Rangers 4, Astros 2
Jake Burger’s two-run, two-out home run in the sixth inning produced the winning runs as Texas beat Houston in the rubber match of a key three-game American League West series in Arlington, Texas.
Burger’s opposite-field homer off Framber Valdez just reached the first row of the seats in right field barely out of the reach of outfielder Cam Smith. Phil Maton (3-5) was the beneficiary of Burger’s round-tripper after allowing a run on one hit and striking out two in 1 1/3 innings of work in relief.
Valdez (12-9) went seven innings, surrendering four runs (three earned) on five hits and a walk in seven innings while striking out five.
Angels 4, Athletics 3
Travis d’Arnaud drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning with a ground-rule double as Los Angeles salvaged the final game of its three-game series with the Athletics with a win in Anaheim, Calif.
d’Arnaud, who entered the game an inning earlier after starting catcher Logan O’Hoppe was hit in the jaw with a backswing by Jacob Wilson, lined a double into the gap in right-center off reliever Osvaldo Bido (2-5) to drive in Chris Taylor, who had walked and advanced to second when Oswald Peraza was hit by a pitch. It was a franchise-record fifth Angel to get hit by a pitch in the game.
Jo Adell hit a home run and Yoan Moncada reached base four times in the win. Reid Detmers (5-3) picked up the win in relief and Kenley Jansen pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to earn his 26th save and the 473rd of his career.
