Aaron Judge homers in 2nd game back to help the Yankees beat the Orioles 8-3

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BALTIMORE (AP) — Aaron Judge homered and singled twice in his second game back from the injured list and the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-3 on Saturday night.

Giancarlo Stanton and Kyle Higashioka went deep as well for the Yankees, who knocked out struggling Orioles starter Tyler Wells (7-6) in the third inning. In the sixth, Isiah Kiner-Falefa capped a 10-pitch at-bat with a three-run double to make it 8-3.

Judge has three walks and three hits in nine plate appearances since returning Friday from the toe injury that kept him out since early June.

Ryan Mountcastle homered for the Orioles, but Clarke Schmidt (7-6) made it through five tough innings and the New York bullpen took it from there.

The Orioles remained 1 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay atop the AL East. The Yankees are 3 1/2 behind Toronto and Houston for the final two wild cards in the American League.

Judge walked three times Friday night, but the Yankees lost that game 1-0 on a ninth-inning homer by Baltimore’s Anthony Santander. New York’s offense was relentless a night later.

PADRES 4, RANGERS 0

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Slumping Texas agreed to acquire three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer during a loss to Yu Darvish and San Diego, its sixth loss in eight games, cutting its AL West lead to one game over Houston.

The blockbuster trade with the New York Mets came as Rangers ace Nathan Eovaldi had his next start pushed back again and manager Bruce Bochy spoke of the need for the rotation to improve. Then Martín Pérez gave up four runs in the second inning, when the 32-year-old left-hander allowed five straight baserunners and two runs before getting his first out.

Darvish (8-7) held his former club to three hits in six innings while striking out nine and walking two. Pérez (8-4) allowed four runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings, walked three and struck out one.

BRAVES 11, BREWERS 5

ATLANTA (AP) — Ronald Acuña hit his 24th home run and stole his 50th base and Atlanta used a six-run first inning to beat Milwaukee.

Bryce Elder (8-2) shut down the Brewers after being staked to the big lead. He allowed one run and four hits while striking out three in seven innings.

Taylor Hearn allowed four runs in the eighth for the Braves before Michael Tonkin closed out the game with a scoreless ninth.

Acuña went 3 for 4 with two runs, two RBIs, a home run, a steal and a walk. He is on pace for 39 home runs and 79 steals for the season.

Julio Teheran (2-5) lost to his former team.

BLUE JAYS 6, ANGELS 1

TORONTO (AP) — Alejandro Kirk hit two home runs, Santiago Espinal added a two-run homer and Toronto beat Los Angeles.

Kirk hit a leadoff homer against former Blue Jays left-hander Aaron Loup in the seventh inning, then hit a two-run shot off right-hander Jaime Barria in the eighth. It was Kirk’s first multihomer game of the season and the fourth of his career.

Toronto won for the 14th time in 20 games and moved a season-best 13 games above .500 at 59-46. The Angels lost their second straight.

Shohei Ohtani started for the Angels after leaving Friday in the ninth because of cramps in both legs. Ohtani was hit on the left foot by a pitch in the first inning, doubled in the third, and was intentionally walked in both the fifth and sixth.

Angels outfielder Taylor Ward left after he was hit in the side of the head by a pitch from Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah in the fifth.

Génesis Cabrera (2-1) was the winner. Reid Detmers (2-8) took the loss.

GIANTS 3, RED SOX 2

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — J.D. Davis homered on the first pitch from Kenley Jansen in the ninth inning to lift San Francisco past Boston.

After the Red Sox tied it in the top of the ninth on Justin Turner’s two-run single against All-Star closer Camilo Doval that deflected off diving second baseman Casey Schmitt’s glove and rolled into center field, Davis came through for San Francisco with his second game-ending hit of the season.

Jansen dropped to 2-5 with the blown save.

Giants slugger Wilmer Flores continued his hot streak with three hits and an RBI and made a terrific defensive play at first base.

Doval (3-3) got the win after blowing the save.

ASTROS 17, RAYS 4

HOUSTON (AP) — Jeremy Peña had a career-high four RBIs, Yainer Díaz and José Abreu added three apiece and Houston touted Tampa Bay with its highest-scoring game of the season.

Díaz put Houston up early with a two-run shot in the second. Peña, who had two hits, made it 5-0 with a bases-loaded double in the fourth. Chas McCormick hit a two-run triple in Houston’s three-run fifth and Abreu made it 11-0 with his 10th homer of the season in the sixth.

Hunter Brown (7-7) allowed four hits and two runs in six-plus innings for his first win since June 13. Taj Bradley (5-7) took the loss.

Isaac Paredes hit a two-run homer in the seventh and a solo shot in the ninth and Wander Franco added a home run in the eighth for the Rays.

With the game out of hand, manager Kevin Cash brought in catcher René Pinto for his first career pitching appearance to start the seventh inning. With Pinto throwing as slow as 50 mph, the Astros easily padded the lead. Jose Altuve hit a two-run homer with one out and Alex Bregman added a two-run shot with two outs before Yordan Alvarez homered on the next at-bat to make it 16-2.

DODGERS 3, REDS 2

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Muncy hit a pair of two-out homers, including a go-ahead shot in the sixth inning, and Los Angeles rallied to beat Cincinnati,

Muncy had the Dodgers’ only two hits. The rest of the lineup went 0 for 25.

Both of Muncy’s homers came off Luke Weaver (2-3). Muncy gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead in the first with a 400-foot shot to right. In the sixth, he snapped a 2-all tie with a 371-foot shot into the lower right-field seats.

The Reds had the potential tying run at second in the eighth. Matt McLain singled off reliever Brusdar Graterol and took second on pinch hitter Kevin Newman’s groundout. After Graterol struck out Spencer Steer,

Joe Kelly (2-5) got the victory in his Dodgers debut after being acquired from the Chicago White Sox a day earlier. Evan Phillips got the final four outs for his 13th save.

WHITE SOX 7, GUARDIANS 2

CHICAGO (AP) — Tim Anderson homered for the first time in more than a year on a three-hit night, Mike Clevinger tossed five shutout innings in his return from the injured list and Chicago beat Cleveland.

Andrew Vaughn hit a two-run homer and Yoán Moncada had two RBIs to help the White Sox beat Cleveland for the second straight night following a six-game losing streak. Luis Robert Jr. and Eloy Jiménez drove in runs with singles in the seventh inning.

Clevinger (4-4) allowed just two singles, walked none and struck out three against his original team after missing six weeks with right biceps inflammation. The right-hander had last pitched on June 14 against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, and left after 72 pitches in this one.

Cleveland manager Terry Francona was ejected in the first inning by first base umpire Todd Tichenor for arguing after Steven Kwan was doubled off first. Logan Allen (4-4) was the loser.

DIAMONDBACKS 4, MARINERS 3

PHOENIX (AP) — Corbin Carroll started an eighth-inning rally with some distracting base running, Dominic Canzone brought his fellow rookie home with a single for the go-ahead run and Arizona beat Seattle.

Carroll — the speedy All-Star — started the eighth inning with a walk off reliever Andrés Muñoz. He then advanced to second on a balk by Muñoz (2-4) and stole third against the flat-footed infield a few pitches later. Seattle pulled its infield in with one out before Canzone delivered a chopper that bounced through.

Carroll has 32 stolen bases and 21 homers this season, consistently causing problems for opposing teams with his power-speed combo. It was a much-needed win for the D-backs, who are still just 7-15 in July.

Seattle had a great chance to score in the ninth after a one-out triple by Cade Marlowe, but José Caballero whiffed for the second out. J.P. Crawford then walked before Scott McGough struck out All-Star Julio Rodríguez to end the game.

Kevin Ginkel (4-0) was the winner.

NATIONALS 11, METS 6

NEW YORK (AP) — New York, shortly after agreeing to trade three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, lost to Washington.

The deal, which a person with knowledge of the details said would send Scherzer to the AL West-leading Texas Rangers, was reported in the first inning, which ended with Washington leading 4-0 after an announced crowd of 30,858 sat through an 80-minute rain delay before the first pitch.

Riley Adams hit a two-run double in the third inning and added another RBI double in the ninth for the Nationals. Patrick Corbin (7-11) was the winner.

Mark Vientos, Tommy Pham, Francisco Lindor and Francisco Álvarez homered for New York. Carlos Carrasco (3-5) took the loss.

TIGERS 5, MARLINS 0

MIAMI (AP) — Akil Badoo and Riley Greene homered and five pitchers combined on a seven-hitter in Detroit’s victory over Miami.

Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera doubled and singled in four at-bats and continued to receive cheers in his final visiting series against the club he began his 20-year career with. The game, promoted as Venezuelan Heritage Day in honor of Cabrera, attracted a crowd of 32,936 — the Marlins’ largest home crowd since April 2017.

Joey Wentz (2-9) pitched 4 2/3 innings in relief for the victory.

Miami’s Luis Arraez went 2 for 4 to increase his major league-leading batting average to .381. Johnny Cueto (0-2) was the loser.

ATHLETICS 11, ROCKIES 3

DENVER (AP) — Zack Gelof and Brent Rooker each homered in a five-run second inning and major league-worst Oakland handed Colorado its fourth straight loss and fifth in six games.

Rooker finished with three RBIs, two from his 17th home run of the season. Ramón Laureano’s two-run double highlighted Oakland’s four-run sixth inning and Seth Brown had three hits and a pair of RBIs as the A’s ended the night one run shy of their season high.

Randal Grichuk had three hits for the Rockies, including a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth inning off Tayler Scott.

Paul Blackburn (2-2) allowed two runs and nine hits in a 106-pitch, six-inning outing for Oakland. He struck out seven and walked none. Chris Flexen (0-5) went 3 2/3 innings and gave up six runs on four hits.

PIRATES 7, PHILLIES 6

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Endy Rodriguez hit a go-ahead, bases-loaded triple and drove in four runs, fellow rookie Liover Peguero had a home run among his three hits and Pittsburgh beat Philadelphia.

Rodriguez’s triple sparked a four-run fifth inning against Aaron Nola (9-7) that put the Pirates in front 7-4. Phillies center fielder Brandon Marsh was unable to make a play on the sinking liner and Rodriguez then scored on Alika Williams’ single, which was his first career hit.

Peguero hit a leadoff home run in the third, his second, to open the scoring.

Yet another rookie, Quinn Priester (2-1), won his second straight start despite allowing five runs and six walks in five innings. Closer David Bednar entered the game in the eighth inning with the Pirates leading 7-5 and gave up a run-scoring single to rookie Johan Rojas. However, he got J.T. Realmuto to hit into a game-ending double play with runners on first and third for his 21st save.

CUBS 5, CARDINALS 1

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Yan Gomes and Ian Happ homered and Chicago beat St. Louis for its eighth straight victory.

Jameson Taillon (5-6) allowed a run on two hits and four walks and struck out four in seven innings.

Adam Wainwright (3-5) took the mound after a rain delay of 1 hour, 47 minutes and allowed four runs on seven hits and walked three batters. The 41-year-old Wainwright is 0-4 with a 10.89 ERA in his last five starts after winning his 198th career game June 17 at the New York Mets.

ROYALS 10, TWINS 7

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr. went 4 for 5 with three RBIs, a home run and a triple and Kyle Isbel also was 4 for 5 to help Kansas City beat Minnesota.

Witt hit a solo homer in his first at-bat of the game, a night after hitting a walk-off grand slam and finishing with a career-high six RBIs. He leads the Royals with 60 RBIs and 18 homers.

Jordan Lyles (2-12) tossed five innings and allowed three runs on four hits with four strikeouts, two walks and a hit batter. Scott Barlow finished for his 13th save. Bailey Ober (6-5) was the loser.

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