Rick Porcello pitched seven innings to become the first 20-game victor in the majors, Hanley Ramirez hit a three-run homer and the Boston Red Sox increased their AL East lead to two games by routing Toronto 13-3 on Friday night.
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Mark Teixeira’s fourth-inning grand slam extended the New York Yankees’ winning run to six and put them within one game of Detroit and Baltimore.
The 36-year-old Teixeira drove Kevin Jepsen’s 94 miles per hour fastball into the Yankees’ bullpen in right-center for his 12th home run this season, the 406th of his career, and his 11th big league slam and helped the Yankees closed within one game of Baltimore and Detroit for the second AL wild card.
Reliever Scott Feldman allowed four runs (three earned) in the seventh on a solo homer by Bogaerts, his 18th of the season, and a three-run shot by Ramirez, his 22nd.
Well, there’s something the Boston Red Sox don’t get to brag about often.
Kris Bryant’s two-run homer gave the Chicago Cubs a 2-0 win over the Houston Astros and Jose Fernandez matched a career-high 14 strikeouts in the Miami Marlins’ 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
This was Kershaw’s first appearance since he injured his back on June 26, and he was clearly off his game, negating what could have been a great pitching matchup.
An inning after allowing a one-run lead to slip away, the Reds regained it by playing small ball in the ninth. The 23-year-old also worked four hitless innings in his previous road turn on August 16 at Baltimore and has allowed three runs or fewer in eight of his last nine outings overall.
Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh 4-3 on Jose Peraza’s sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth.
Washington coughed up a 4-0 lead before knocking off Philadelphia 5-4 on Trea Turner’s walk-off homer with two out in the bottom of the ninth. Encarnacion was 0-for-3 with a strikeout and Bautista was 1-for-2 (infield hit) and a hit batsman. Happ allowed one run over seven frames on April 18 in a win versus the Red Sox, improving to 4-3, 3.81 in 11 appearances (10 starts) against them.WALK-OFFS1.
Former Brave Kelly Johnson delivered a tiebreaking, RBI double during a four-run eight that pushed the Mets to their sixth consecutive victory, 6-4 in Atlanta. The Royals, who are in the hunt for the American League’s second wild-card spot, lost for the sixth time in their last nine games.
That’s true. But the Sox have the best AL rotation of the second half anchoring them, and the contrast in play last night was huge.
Saladino broke the game open in the eighth inning with a two-run single, his third hit of the night.
Dustin Pedroia had three hits and four RBIs for the Red Sox, who have won three in a row.
Iwakuma (15-11) ended his career-high tying four-game losing streak and had his fourth quality start in his past five outings. Toronto 3B Josh Donaldson has drawn six walks but struck out seven times while going hitless in 16 at-bats over his last five games.3.
Rangers ace Cole Hamels (14-5, 3.25 ERA) tries to get back on track when the AL West leaders visit Mike Trout and the Angels.
Estrada threw 30 pitches in the first inning Friday.
Chatwood the hitter went 2-for-3 with a two-run triple and scored ahead of Charlie Blackmon on the center fielder’s third-inning, two-run homer off Padres starter and loser (7-9) Luis Perdomo as the Rockies defeated the Padres.
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At Chase Field, the Arizona Diamondbacks took the San Francisco Giants all the way to a 12th inning before finally succumbing to a 7-6 defeat.
