SEATTLE — Cal Raleigh hit a grand slam for his major league best 27th home run and drove in six to tie a career high, Bryan Woo gave up one hit over seven innings, and the Seattle Mariners snapped Boston’s six-game winning streak with an 8-0 victory over the Red Sox on Tuesday night.
Raleigh cleared the bases in the second inning, turning on an elevated changeup from Red Sox starter Walker Buehler (5-5). It capped off a five-run frame for the Mariners in which rookie Cole Young also drove in a run with an RBI double.
Raleigh added two more RBIs in the fourth inning with a double. The Mariners catcher also drove in six runs Aug. 21, 2023 against the Chicago White Sox.
Woo (6-4) gave up a pair of walks and a single by Marcelo Mayer in the fifth inning. He struck out six.
DETROIT — Javier Báez hit two of the Detroit Tigers’ four home runs in a 7-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.
Báez hit solo homers in the fifth and seventh innings on the day he reached 10 years of major league service. Wenceel Pérez and Riley Greene also homered for Detroit.
Casey Mize (7-2) got the win, allowing three runs — two earned — on five hits in six innings. He struck out four without walking a batter.
Pittsburgh took a 1-0 lead in the second when Spencer Horwitz singled and scored on Adam Frazier’s groundout, but the Tigers scored twice in the bottom of the inning on Pérez’s homer.
Alexander Canario’s two-run single put the Pirates back in front 3-2 in the third, but Báez tied the game with a homer in the fifth. Canario replaced Bryan Reynolds in right field in the second inning after his wife went into labor.
Pérez gave the Tigers a 4-3 lead with an RBI triple in the sixth and Báez made it a two-run game with a leadoff homer in the seventh. Greene hit a 436-foot home run to right later in the inning, making it 7-3.
Carmen Mlodzinski (1-5) allowed four runs in two innings of relief.
MIAMI — Eric Wagaman and Jesús Sánchez homered as Miami snapped a five-game home skid with a win over Philadelphia.
Xavier Edwards had three hits and Javier Sanoja tripled and singled for the Marlins.
Nick Castellanos was benched by Phillies manager Rob Thomson on Tuesday for “an inappropriate comment” the outfielder made after he was pulled for a defensive replacement in the series opener Monday. The benching ended Castellanos’ streak of 236 consecutive starts.
Edwards’ RBI single capped a three-run sixth that put Miami ahead 5-3. Phillies reliever Tanner Banks inherited two base runners from starter Jesús Luzardo and allowed an RBI groundout by Kyle Stowers and Sanoja’s run-scoring triple.
Sánchez connected off reliever Joe Ross with a solo blast in the seventh inning, his seventh homer of the season.
Freddy Tarnok (1-0) pitched the top of the sixth and earned the win.
WASHINGTON — The Rockies hit a franchise record-tying seven home runs, including two from Michael Toglia, and Antonio Senzatela won his second game of the season, as Colorado held off Washington.
Colorado hit seven homers in a game for the third time in franchise history, matching April 1997 at Montreal and against Cincinnati in May 2016. The Rockies have won three in a row for the second time this season.
It was the second multihomer game of Toglia’s career. He hit three homers on July 14 last season against the Mets.
Four of the homers came in the six-run seventh, highlighted by a three-run shot from Hunter Goodman and a solo shot by Ryan McMahon off Nationals reliever Cole Henry.
The Rockies last hit four or more homers in one inning on June 20, 2021 against Milwaukee.
Thairo Estrada, Sam Hilliard and Mickey Moniak also homered for the Rockies.
Senzatela (2-10) allowed one unearned run on three hits and three walks in five innings. The right-hander also defeated the Nationals on April 20.
Washington’s Michael Soroka (3-5) pitched six innings, striking out a season-high nine batters, but allowed five hits and three runs.
NEW YORK — Kyle Hendricks and three relievers combined on a four-hitter as Los Angeles beat New York to hand the Yankees their third straight shutout.
New York manager Aaron Boone tinkered with his lineup — batting rookie Jasson Domínguez first and dropping Paul Goldschmidt to sixth — but it didn’t yield results for the Yankees, who were 0 for 10 with runners on and got just three to second base.
Aaron Judge went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts and heard boos following whiffs in the sixth and eighth. He is 2 for 19 with 12 strikeouts in his last five games.
The Yankees, who haven’t scored in 29 innings since the ninth inning of a 4-3 loss at Boston on Saturday, were last blanked in three consecutive games from Sept. 22-24, 2016. They have never been shut out in four straight games.
Hendricks (5-6) allowed four hits and walked one while striking out nine — his most since he whiffed 10 for the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 18, 2020. Ryan Zeferjahn, Reid Detmers and Hunter Strickland tossed a hitless inning apiece for the Angels, who threw consecutive shutouts for the first time since Aug. 26-27, 2022.
BLUE JAYS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 4
TORONTO — Bo Bichette and Addison Barger hit back-to-back home runs off Shelby Miller in the ninth inning and Toronto rallied to beat Arizona.
Jeff Hoffman (6-2) pitched one inning for the win as Toronto snapped a three-game skid.
Toronto trailed 4-3 heading to the final frame before Bichette tied it with a one-out drive to left, his ninth of the season. Barger followed with a game-winning shot to right, his eighth.
For Miller (3-2), the blown save was his fourth in 11 chances.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his ninth homer of the season and drove in three runs for the Blue Jays, who were swept at Philadelphia over the weekend.
The Diamondbacks came in having won five of six. Arizona failed to hit a home run for the first time in 11 games.
CINCINNATI — TJ Friedl hit a decisive two-out, two-run double in the sixth inning and Cincinnati rallied for a over Minnesota.
Cincinnati has won eight of its last 11 games to climb within two games of the third NL wild-card spot.
Byron Buxton’s solo homer off Andrew Abbott put the Twins ahead 1-0 in the third.
David Festa held Cincinnati hitless until the fourth when Will Benson’s two-run double put the Reds ahead 2-1.
Festa left the game in the fourth with a right hand contusion after allowing four runs, two earned.
Jake Fraley drove in two more runs with a single to make the score 4-1.
A throwing error by Reds third baseman Christian Encarnacion-Strand opened the door for a Twins rally in the sixth. Harrison Bader’s three-run homer caromed over the wall off Fraley’s glove to put them ahead 5-4.
Abbott allowed five runs, but only one earned, dropping his ERA to 1.84. He struck out five and didn’t walk a batter.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Salvador Perez homered twice, Bobby Witt Jr. went deep in his hometown team’s ballpark for the first time and Kansas City stopped a six-game losing streak with a victory over Texas.
Seth Lugo struck out a season-high nine for his first win since May 1 as all three active Kansas City All-Stars from last year’s Midsummer Classic at Globe Life Field returned to Texas and had a hand in ending the team’s five-game skid against the Rangers.
Lugo (4-5), who threw a scoreless inning in the American League’s 5-3 victory last July, gave up three hits and a run over six innings in his return to Arlington.
With the Royals coming off an 0-6 homestand that matched their longest losing streak of the season, Perez hit a two-run shot for a 3-0 lead in the first inning. After adding an RBI double in the fourth, Perez connected for his eighth homer of the year, a solo shot that made it 6-1 in the sixth.
Witt also homered off Jack Leiter in a matchup between sons of former major league pitchers. Witt grew up in the Dallas area, where Bobby Witt settled after spending 11 of his 16 big league seasons with the Rangers.
Leiter (4-4) is the son of Al Leiter, who had a 19-year major league career. The rookie right-hander gave up eight hits and six runs — both matching season highs — in 5 2/3 innings.
CARDINALS 12, WHITE SOX 2
CHICAGO — Brendan Donovan had four hits and Iván Herrera drove in four runs to back a strong start by Matthew Liberatore as St. Louis handed Chicago their sixth straight loss.
Alec Burleson went 3 for 5 for St. Louis, including his sixth home run, a solo shot in the seventh that made it 9-2. Victor Scott II — in the midst of a 5-for-35 slump — hit a two-run homer off Chicago position player Vinny Capra in the ninth.
Donovan drove in a run, hit his 21st double and scored twice in his third four-hit game this season and the fifth of his career.
Herrera had a two-run single in a five-run second inning. Michael A. Taylor took a home run away from Herrera leading off the fifth, but he came back to drive in a pair with a sixth-inning single.
Liberatore (4-6) gave up two runs on five hits in six innings for his first win since beating the Pirates on May 6.
TAMPA, Fla. — Colton Cowser hit a go-ahead homer and Baltimore beat Tampa Bay.
Jordan Westburg and Dylan Carlson each had three hits for the Orioles, who have won 12 of 17. Ramón Laureano drove in two runs.
Westburg fell inches shy of a second-inning homer when his flyball bounced off the top of the left-center fence. After a replay review upheld the double, Westburg scored the first run on Laureano’s single.
Eight of nine starters had at least one hit for Baltimore.
Rays starter Zack Littell (6-7) had retired 10 straight until Cowser launched a slider into the right-field seats for a solo shot that broke a 1-all tie in the fifth.
Baltimore starter Dean Kremer (6-7) allowed one run and four hits over five innings, leaving with a 2-1 lead. Four relievers combined to shut out the Rays over the final four innings, improving the bullpen’s ERA to 1.76 since May 24.
BRAVES 5, METS 4, 10 INNINGS
ATLANTA — Austin Riley hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to deep center field in the 10th inning, lifting Atlanta to a comeback win over New York.
Marcell Ozuna tied the score with a three-run double in the eighth, and the Braves rebounded from a 10-1 loss at home Sunday to lowly Colorado. Atlanta has won four of five.
New York, which leads the NL East, has dropped four in a row for the first time this season.
Luke Williams, who opened the 10th on second base as the automatic runner, advanced to third on a wild pitch from Huascar Brazobán (3-2), who walked Matt Olson to load the bases. Riley’s flyball allowed Williams to easily score the game-ending run.
Raisel Iglesias (4-5) pitched a perfect 10th.
Tyrone Taylor homered and drove in three runs, and Juan Soto also homered as the Mets built a 4-1 lead.
CHICAGO — Seiya Suzuki and Pete Crow-Armstrong homered, and Chicago beat Milwaukee in a matchup of NL Central contenders.
Kyle Tucker had three hits as Chicago improved to 4-1 on a 10-game homestand. Matt Shaw lined a run-scoring double, and Ben Brown (4-5) pitched five innings of two-run ball.
The Cubs upped their division lead to 6 1/2 games over the second-place Brewers, who won the NL Central in each of the past two years.
Isaac Collins hit a two-run homer for Milwaukee. Collins also made a terrific diving catch on Michael Busch’s liner to left in the second.
The Brewers had a 2-1 lead before the Cubs rallied in the fifth against Chad Patrick (3-7).
Ian Happ reached on a one-out walk and Tucker doubled before Suzuki connected for his 18th homer, driving a sinker into the bleachers in left-centre.
Brown allowed six hits, struck out five and walked two in his first win since May 2. The right-hander improved to 2-0 with a 1.00 ERA in three career starts against Milwaukee, striking out 19 in 18 innings.
SAN FRANCISCO — Gabriel Arias hit a go-ahead homer in the sixth inning and doubled in the ninth on a night when San Francisco celebrated new slugger Rafael Devers at every chance, and Cleveland spoiled the fun by beating the Giants.
Jung Hoo Lee singled to start the bottom of the ninth against Emmanuel Clase, and Devers singled one out later before Heliot Ramos walked to load the bases for Dominic Smith. He flied out and Casey Schmitt struck out to end it as Clase earned his 15th save.
Devers went 2 for 5 with two strikeouts in his Giants debut after being acquired in a trade from the Boston Red Sox on Sunday. He hit a go-ahead double in the third inning only for the Guardians to answer on Carlos Santana’s RBI single in the fourth. Devers struck out in the first and fifth.
Schmitt and Mike Yastrzemski hit consecutive singles to start the eighth against Hunter Gaddis, then Wilmer Flores entered as a pinch hitter. Flores lined out to left fielder Steven Kwan, who fired to second to get Schmitt for the double play.
Arias connected for his fifth homer off lefty Robbie Ray (8-2), who struck out five and walked two, allowing three runs on five hits over six innings. Austin Hedges had a sacrifice fly in the third for Cleveland.
Slade Cecconi (2-3) struck out six over five innings for the Guardians, who were coming off a sweep by the Mariners in Seattle and had lost five of six overal
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Cam Smith hit two of Houston’s five home runs and finished with four hits as the Astros routed the Athletics to halt their four-game winning streak.
Jason Alexander, claimed off waivers from the Athletics last month, pitched six shutout innings for Houston before tiring in the seventh. Mauricio Dubón, Christian Walker and Cooper Hummel also homered for the Astros.
Smith and Dubón went back-to-back in the fourth.
Smith connected for leadoff shots in the second and fourth. He drove in three runs and scored three times. The 22-year-old rookie has five major league homers — and two multihomer games.
Dubón followed Smith’s second home run with his second this season for a 5-0 lead against A’s starter JP Sears, who walked the bases loaded in the first before giving up a two-run single to Jake Meyers.
Smith finished off his first four-hit game with an RBI double in the eighth.
Alexander (1-0) threw a season-high 95 pitches in his 12th career start and first since Sept. 18, 2022, with Milwaukee. He allowed three runs — two earned — and three hits.
LOS ANGELES — Will Smith hit a tiebreaking two-run homer to cap a 12-pitch at-bat in the sixth inning, and Los Angeles defeated the rival San Diego.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts got ejected in the third after Fernando Tatis Jr. and Shohei Ohtani were hit by pitches. Another Padres player, Jose Iglesias, was plunked in the seventh.
Andy Pages went 4 for 4, hitting a pair of two-out homers and driving in another run during a five-run sixth when the Dodgers batted around in taking an 8-3 lead.
Tatis was hit by a pitch from Dodgers reliever Lou Trivino in the third, and Randy Vásquez plunked Ohtani in the bottom half. Both benches were warned and a fiery Roberts came onto the field to complain. He was tossed by third base umpire Tripp Gibson.
Jeremiah Estrada (2-4) took the loss.
