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BOSTON (AP) – JD Martinez hit his major league-leading 32nd homer, Mookie Betts had two RBI doubles and the Boston Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 10-4 on Saturday night for their 17th win in 21 games. [19659002] Betts raised his MLB-leading average to .346 and Jackie Bradley Jr. hit a two-run triple for the Red Sox. They have a 5 1/2-game lead over the New York Yankees atop the AL East and the majors' best record at 73-33.
Logan Morrison hit a solo homer for the Twins, a night after they appeared Eduardo Escobar and reliever Ryan Pressly
Boston star Rick Porcello (13-4) labored through 5 2/3 innings on a steamy night, giving up four times on five hits Jake Odorizzi (4-7) gave up five runs on nine hits
Trailing 4-1, Boston scored three times in the fourth and moved ahead on Martinez's shot that left Fenway Park over the Green Monster seats in the fifth.
ROYALS 10, YANKEES 5, 1ST GAME
YANKEES 5, ROYALS 4, 2ND GAME
NEW YORK (AP) – Greg Bird honored to begin a two-rally in the eighth inning and New York Zach Britton and a tumble by CC Sabathia, beating Kansas City for a break from their day-night doubleheader
In the opener, the Royals tagged All-Star ace Luis Severino for six runs in 4 1/3 innings. The doubleheader was caused by a rainout Friday.
Bird opened the eighth with a drive off Brian Flynn (2-2) that made it 4-all. The Yankees went on to load the bases and Aaron Hicks hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly
Aroldis Chapman worked around a leadoff single and a walk for his 27th save.
Dellin Betances (2-3) threw a scoreless eighth.
In the first game, Severino got hit hard in another shaky start. Trying for his major league-leading 15th win, Severino instead was pulled after Lucas Duda's two-run homer made it 6-0 in the fifth inning. Rosell Hererra hit an early two-run double, and Salvador Perez had a two-run single that set up Duda.
Severino (14-4) allowed eight hits, walked one year ago and struck out in the beginning of the year
The Yankees lost in their first game since slugger Aaron Judge sustained a fractured right when he was hit by a pitch from Kansas City's Jakob Junis on Thursday
Rookie Brad Keller (4-4) went 5 2 /
RANGERS 7, ASTROS 3
HOUSTON (AP) – Rougned Odor hit an inside-the-park homer and a regular over-the-fence shot, going 5 for 5 to help Texas beat Justin Verlander and Houston.
Odor rocketed a ball to right-center field in the fifth in that George Springer made a leap attempt on goal missed. The ball ricocheted off the wall and rolled along the warning track. Odor raced around the bases and beat the throw home-for-first-in-the-park home run.
Ariel Jurado (1-1), who was called up from Double-A Frisco for the start, set down 12 of the first 13 batters he faced. The only blemish through his first homeroom was Springer's solo homer in the fourth. Jurado gave up one run on two hits in six innings for his first major league win.
Joey Gallo and Isiah Kiner-Falefa also homered for the Rangers.
Verlander (10-6) was the loser.
CARDINALS 6, CUBS 2
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Marcell Ozuna hit a big slam in a six-run first inning, Miles Mikolas pitched six strong innings and St. Louis beat Chicago in front of a season-high 47,514 fans at Busch Stadium.
The Cardinals improved NL Central-leading Cubs.
Ozuna hit his second big slam this season and the fifth of his career. Ozuna had three hits
Jose Martinez drew a base-loaded walk from Jose Quintana (9-7), and Ozuna followed with his 11th home run. Yairo Munoz added an RBI double. The last time the Cardinals scored six runs in the opening inning was eight years to the day, on July 28, 2010, against the Mets
Mikolas (11-3) allowed six hits, including a two-run homer by Javier Baez.
DODGERS 5, BRAVES 1
ATLANTA (AP) – Yasiel Puig, hometown and drove in three strokes following his return, Alex Wood pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings to win his sixth straight decision Los Angeles beat Atlanta.
Reinstated after missing 15 games with a right oblique strain, Puig made it 1-0 with a sacrifice fly in the second off Max Fried (1-4) and pushed the lead to 3-0 in the sixth with his 12th homer, a towering shot off Luke Jackson
Wood (7-5)
The Braves Have 1919-1961 ORIOLES 11, RAYS 2
BALTIMORE (AP) – Trey Mancini and Joey Rickard combined for s Even hits, including back-to-back home runs in the second inning, and Baltimore breezed past Tampa Bay.
Mancini had a career-best four hits and his homer especially delighted the fans, who were given a bobblehead in his likeness . Rickard got three hits and a matched career with five RBIs
Caleb Joseph also had three hits. Mancini, Rickard and Joseph, the bottom third of the Orioles' order, went 10 for 12 with nine RBIs. Coming off a 15-5 Friday, the Orioles scored in double-digits in consecutive games for the first time since July 18-19, 2017.
Kevin Gausman (5-8) allowed two runs and nine hits over seven innings . Kevin Kiermaier had a pair of hits, including a home run, for the Rays.
PIRATES 5, METS 0
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Trevor Williams outdueled Jacob ofGrom in Pittsburgh's victory over New York.
Williams ( 9-7) allowed five hits in six innings with five strikeouts and three walks.
The Pirates have won 13 of their past 15 games, while the Mets have lost two straight after winning their previous three games. DeGrom (5-6) lost for the fourth time since June 28.
REDS 6, PHILLIES 2
CINCINNATI (AP ) – Joey Votto drove in the go-ahead with a sharp single that glanced off second baseman Cesar Hernandez's glove, leading Cincinnati past Philadelphia.
Votto drove in two runs and four players each knocked in one. The Reds are last in the NL Central goal beat the East Division-leading Phillies for the second straight day.
Wandy Peralta (2-2) got the win with 1 1/3 innings of relief. Sal Romano and Jared Hughes each get double-play balls to finish the seventh and eighth. Hughes pitched the ninth for a five-out save, his career-high seventh save. Tommy Hunter (2-1) took the loss
TIGERS 2, INDIANS 1
DETROIT (AP) – JaCoby Jones hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the third inning to help Detroit beat Cleveland. 19659002] Blaine Hardy (4-3) gave up a run over five innings. Three relivers combined to scoreless relief.
WHITE SOX 9, BLUE JAYS 5
CHICAGO (19659002) Mike Clevinger (7-7) was a writer who was born in 1965 and was born in 1965. (AP) – Pinch-hitter Daniel Palka gave Chicago the lead with a two-run single and Leury Garcia added a three-run triple in a six-run eighth, White Sox over Toronto.
Garcia finished 2 for 4 with a career-high oven RBIs. Yolmer Sanchez and Nicky Delmonico for homer for Chicago, who snapped a three-game losing streak.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had two hits to extend his multihit streak to a Toronto-record 10 games. Russell Martin also homered for Toronto, which blew up to 5-1 lead
Juan Minaya (1-2) (1965) Ryan Tepera (5-4) removes a batter
MARLINS 2, NATIONALS 1, 10 INNINGS
MIAMI (AP) – JT Realmuto singles with the bases loaded and none out in the 10th inning, and Miami snapped a streak of eight consecutive home losses to Washington
Miami beat Washington for only the second time in the past 18 meetings.
Magneuris Sierra reached on a bunt single to start the 10th against Kelvin Herrera (1-1). Miguel Rojas tried to sacrifice, with the help of Spencer Kieboom, leaving the box and being awarded first base for obstruction. A single by Brian Anderson loaded the bases. With the Nationals using a five-infielder, two-outfielder alignment, Realmuto hit a single fly-in-the-line
Daniel Murphy's one-out RBI single off Kyle Barraclough.
Brett Graves (1-1), Miami's sixth pitcher, worked a perfect 10th for his first career win
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