Terry Francona missed Tuesday’s game after mentioning pain in his chest.
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Gonzalez allowed four runs and seven hits, including a home run by Francisco Lindor, and struck out five in five-plus innings.
Ramirez is unstoppable. He stole third and scored on Lonnie Chisenhall’s bloop single to left.
With one out, Rajai Davis singled and went to second on a ground out.
Cody Allen pitched the 9th for his 21st save. In eight career starts against them, he’s 5-0 with 1.07 ERA, though only one of those meetings has come since 2013. He is 8-for-16 in his brief major league career.
Seattle’s Kyle Seager had two key hits that tied the score and Mike Zunino lofted a game-winning sacrifice fly in the 15th inning to give the Mariners a 6-5 win against Detroit and a fifth straight victory.
The Nats put two on with no outs in the bottom half though, via Danny Espinosa’s bunt single and Ben Revere’s pop-up down the left field line that fell in.
MIAMI – Tom Koehler pitched seven scoreless innings to lead Miami over San Francisco. He allowed a season-high seven earned runs on nine hits over 4 2/3 innings in his last start, a loss to the Yankees. He went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, leaving four Giants runners on base. Werth then walked before Daniel Murphy whacked an RBI double to chase Tomlin.
“I don’t know why it’s still a shock to anyone”, said Gonzalez, who got the win Wednesday. He has just 13 RBIs over his 40-game streak – which is three short of Ryan Zimmerman’s Nationals record – but has 30 walks in that time.
ST. LOUIS – Billy Hamilton reached base four times, stealing three bases and scoring three runs as Cincinnati beat St. Louis.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Todd Frazier belted a three-run homer in the 10th inning to propel Chicago over Kansas City.
David Robertson (3-2) blew a save in the ninth when Alcides Escobar’s two-out single scored pinch-runner Jarrod Dyson. It was the franchise’s first championship since the 1918 season.
MINNEAPOLIS – Jose Altuve had four hits following a brief absence from the lineup, and Carlos Correa homered and drove in four runs to help Houston beat Minnesota. Four relievers completed a five-hitter.
DIAMONDBACKS 5, METS 3: Zack Greinke won in his return from a six-week stay on the disabled list, Michael Bourn hit a go-ahead triple in the seventh inning and Arizona rallied at NY.
Werth was 2 for 3 and scored three runs to lead the outburst.
The rally made a victor out of Greinke (11-3), who was activated from the disabled list before the game after missing five weeks with a left oblique injury.
RAYS 9, BLUE JAYS 2: Drew Smyly pitched six innings to win his second straight decision, Logan Forsythe hit a solo homer and Tampa Bay won at Toronto.
Porcello allowed two runs and struck out six.
This will be game two of the set. He went hitless on Tuesday for the third straight game, a span of 10 at-bats. He didn’t get charged with the first run because it involved his own error, which is a unusual Major League Baseball rule.
Jenkins scattered three hits and a walk while striking out three. In the finale he put San Francisco ahead with his 11th home run leading off the fourth.
By then, the Nationals were enjoying a three-run lead. “That would have been first and second with one out as opposed to a full-fledged rally”. “If I’m having one, just don’t take my answers if they’re bad answers”.
But on Wednesday, the bullpen, beginning with Matt Belisle wiggling out of the sixth-inning jam and closing with Mark Melancon’s ideal ninth inning for his second save with the Nationals, sealed the victory.
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Meanwhile, Gonzalez tossed two spotless innings before encountering trouble in the sixth.
