METS 6, REDS 3 Noah Syndergaard lasted five shaky shutout innings and NY won its fifth in a row, beating host Cincinnati for a three-game sweep. With injuries to the rotation NY might make a call up from the minors or go with a pitcher by committee.
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Gardner ran back, jumped and corralled the ball at the top of the fence as he banged into the padding.
Astros 4, Indians 3: Corey Kluber lost for the first time since July 3 after Marwin Gonzalez connected for a three-run homer off Cleveland’s ace in the second inning.
Kluber (15-9) had won his previous seven decisions, a span during which he dominated the way he did while winning the Cy Young Award in 2014.
ATHLETICS 4, ANGELS 1 The entire infield ran to the mound to congratulate Jharel Cotton on a memorable major league debut, and he showed last-place Oakland a glimpse of a promising future when it beat visiting Los Angeles.
Then Brian McCann, starting at designated hitter, singled home Didi Gregorius, who doubled, to make it 2-0 Yankees. The 29-year-old rookie replaced Brad Peacock. But he made a few costly mistakes – one of which resulted in Castro’s homer – and ended up allowing those two runs and seven hits.
Following a nail-biting victory in game two as well as game one, the New York Yankees are set out to do something they have yet to do against any team this season, sweep a three-game series. Right after the single, Tyler Austin hit a monstrous opposite field home run into the right-field bleachers.
Austin hit a solo homer in the ninth to give NY its season-high fifth straight victory, 5-4 over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night.
He has homered in five straight games, tying Harmon Killebrew and Marty Cordova for the longest streak in Twins history.
Camarena made two relief appearances and went 0-1 with a 6.00 ERA in 6 innings.
The Rays had just beaten the Orioles, 7-6, meaning a victory would pull the Yankees within 2½ games of Baltimore for the second AL wild-card spot. He struck out seven over six innings of one-run ball in a win against Toronto last time out and has a 2.61 ERA in two starts against NY this season. Pillar lined a two-out, two-run double in the eighth that gave the Blue Jays a 4-3 edge.
Michael Taylor, Danny Espinosa and Ben Revere scored eighth-inning runs to help the Washington Nationals to a 9-7 win over the Atlanta Braves.
So it came as no surprise that, despite the fact he had no available big-league starter for Wednesday’s game and the obvious solution, Bryan Mitchell, in his clubhouse, having just been recalled from AAA Scranton, Girardi hedged when asked if Mitchell would start the finale of the series against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Buchholz (6-10) was making his first start since August 23 as his last three appearances came out of the bullpen.
Working exclusively from the stretch, Buchholz allowed a run, eight hits and struck out six in facing the Padres for the first time. The Red Sox were facing San Diego on the West Coast.
The Chicago White Sox blanked Detroit 2-0. He got Gerardo Parra to hit into a double play to end the game.
Buster Posey began the top of the ninth by hitting a grounder to shortstop Daniel Descalso, who overthrew first baseman Parra and allowed Posey to cruise into second. Mitchell last pitched Friday, and threw 5⅓ innings on 91 pitches.
All of the Yankees’ wildest October dreams remained in play after their 2-0 win at the Stadium, a victory that pushed them to within 2½ games of the Orioles, who are now in control in the battle for the final AL wild-card spot.
Curtis Granderson and Jose Reyes had solo shots off Brandon Finnegan.
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Milwaukee rallied from a 1-0 deficit as its first seven batters reached against Hammel (14-8).
