Danny Duffy couldn’t get the no-hitter, but he still came away with a team record.

The lefthander pitched eight innings of one-hit ball and had a franchise-record 16 strikeouts to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 3-0 win over the host Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night.

Duffy (7-1) flirted with the Royals’ first no-hitter in nearly 25 years before giving up a line-drive double to Desmond Jennings leading off the Tampa Bay eighth.

‘‘There’s been a number of occasions when Danny’s stepped on the mound and I said this might be the night,’’ Royals manager Ned Yost said. ‘‘But when he got through the seventh I thought this may be the night.’’

Bret Saberhagen pitched the Royals’ last no-hitter on Aug. 26, 1991, and Zack Greinke owned Kansas City’s strikeout record of 15 until Monday night.

‘‘It’s an honor to have a game like those guys had,’’ Duffy said, ‘‘but I understand they had a lot more of those than I did. So I'm really still trying to do as good as I did tonight down the road.’’

Jennings came off the disabled list Monday after missing all of July with a strained hamstring.

‘‘It was hittable, a good pitch to hit,’’ Jennings said of the fastball he hit into the left-field corner. ‘‘It wasn’t looking too good for a little while.’’

Kendrys Morales’s 18th home run, a towering shot over the center field wall off Rays starter Chris Archer (5-15), got the Royals on the scoreboard in the seventh. They added two runs on three hits in the eighth.

Kelvin Herrera pitched the ninth for his second save.

Duffy, a 27-year-old lefthander who spent the first six weeks of the season in the bullpen, walked one.

He struck out seven in his first trip through the Rays’ lineup, and did not allow a baserunner until walking Logan Forsythe to lead off the fourth.

‘‘My fastball was jumping out of my hand, and my changeup was there,’’ he said. ‘‘It was one of the few-and-far-between times that somebody has all of their pitches working the way they want.’’

Archer gave up three runs on six hits in 7⅓ innings, striking out six to raise his AL-leading total to 161. Tampa Bay snapped a four-game win streak.

Cubs 5, Marlins 0 — Kyle Hendricks pitched a seven-hitter for his second career shutout, providing Chicago’s bullpen a needed breather in a victory over visiting Miami.

After a wild, 12-inning win a night earlier in which manager Joe Maddon used 22 players, Hendricks (10-7) threw 123 pitches and lowered his ERA to 2.22, third-best in the majors. He allowed three walks and struck out five.

Anthony Rizzo finished a home run shy of the cycle and reached base five times and Addison Russell had a two-run single in the first off wild Marlins starter Adam Conley (7-6).

The lefty walked six, one intentionally, and hit a batter while needing 97 pitches to get through four innings.

The Cubs stranded nine runners in that span until Hendricks drove in Willson Contreras with a grounder through a drawn-in infield off Dustin McGowan in the fifth.

Rizzo tripled and scored on Javier Baez’s sacrifice fly in the sixth. Rizzo doubled in the first, singled in the eighth and was walked and hit by a pitch in the Cubs’ ninth shutout of the season.

It marked the second time Hendricks came through with a depleted bullpen. He tossed 6⅔ innings in a June victory at Cincinnati a night after a 15-inning win.

Twins 12, Indians 5 — Rookie Max Kepler had three two-run homers and six RBIs to lead Minnesota in Cleveland.

The German-born Kepler homered off All-Star Danny Salazar in the first and third innings and hit another off Cody Anderson in the sixth.

His was the 12th three-homer game in the majors this season, and Kepler became the first Twin to homer three times in a game since Justin Morneau in 2007. He also had a single.

Joe Mauer was 4 for 4 and homered in the eighth off Andrew Miller, who was making his first appearance with Cleveland after being acquired Sunday from the Yankees.

Jose Berrios (2-1) retired 15 straight after a three-run first inning. The rookie righthander, recalled from Triple A Rochester before the game, allowed four hits in six innings.

Salazar (11-4) lost for the first time since May 22. The righthander allowed three homers and was charged with six runs in two innings, the shortest outing of his career.

Miller received a standing ovation from the crowd of 15,018 when he ran in from the bullpen. He retired Kepler on a groundout, the only other batter he faced.

Mike Napoli hit a two-run homer in the eighth for the Indians, whose lead in the AL Central over idle Detroit was cut to four games. Minnesota is 6-4 this season against Cleveland.

Kepler began the season at Rochester but leads AL rookies in homers (14) and RBIs (44). He has homered 13 times and driven in 37 runs since June 19.

Eddie Rosario led off the second with a home run. Jorge Polanco had a three-run triple in the third and tripled again in the fifth.

Yankees 6, Mets 5 — Starlin Castro hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning as the Yankees rallied to victory in Citi Field.

Didi Gregorius hit a tying single with two outs in the eighth and new closer Dellin Betances worked out of a major jam for his first save this season.

The Yankees snapped a four-game slide and won for the seventh time in the past nine meetings with their crosstown rivals.

Wilmer Flores and rookie Matt Reynolds homered for the skidding Mets, who lost their fifth in six games as fans in the sellout crowd of 42,125 traded chants throughout the night following a hectic afternoon at Citi Field.

Astros 2, Blue Jays 1 — Carlos Correa’s RBI double in the 14th inning gave Houston the walkoff victory.

Jose Altuve, who homered earlier in the game, opened the 14th inning with a single to shallow left field off former teammate Scott Feldman (5-4), and Correa followed with his hit off the fence in right-center field. It gave Houston its ninth walkoff win this season, and 14th with its last at-bat.

Feldman was traded from the Astros to the Blue Jays earlier in the day.

Michael Feliz (7-1) pitched a perfect 14th inning after Chris Devenski pitched 4⅓ perfect innings after entering the game in the ninth.

Russell Martin tied the score with a leadoff homer in the ninth against Astros closer Will Harris, who has blown three of his last five save chances.

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Travis Wood got four outs and made an impressive catch in left field Sunday night. Pitcher Jon Lester made the winning play — at the plate. Five Chicago Cubs played two or more positions.

Manager Joe Maddon went deep into his bag of tricks to steal one from the Seattle Mariners.

Lester drove in Jason Heyward with a two-strike squeeze bunt in the 12th inning, and the Cubs overcame a six-run deficit on the way to a wild 7-6 victory over the Mariners.

‘‘I just kept telling myself, ‘Don’t be late to square around,’ ’’ Lester said. ‘‘That’s one thing over the last year that I’ve kind of picked up on on bunting, and it’s helped me just be a little more consistent.’’

Heyward sparked the winning rally with a leadoff double against Cody Martin (1-1). He advanced on Willson Contreras’s fly ball to center before Lester, hitting for Hector Rondon (2-2), managed to get a safety squeeze down right in front of the plate.

Heyward made it home with a headfirst slide, sparking a frenzied celebration at Wrigley Field.

‘‘Joe does it again,’’ Lester said. ‘‘You kind of sit there sometimes and scratch your head and it seems to always kind of work out.’’

The Cubs trailed, 6-3, before they pushed across three runs in the ninth against Steve Cishek, handing the sidewinding righthander his sixth blown save in 31 opportunities. Addison Russell hit an RBI single and Contreras drove in another run when he hustled down the line to beat out a potential double-play grounder.

With two outs and runners on the corners, Cishek uncorked a wild pitch that allowed Russell to come home with the tying run. Matt Szczur then flied out to right, ending the inning.

‘‘Stuff was terrible tonight,’’ Cishek said. ‘‘I had a hard time commanding my fastball, slider was the not the same and I got exposed.’’

It was a heartbreaking loss for Seattle, which was in position to take the rubber game of the weekend series before the late rally by Chicago.

Nelson Cruz, Robinson Cano, and Dae-Ho Lee each hit a two-run homer against Brian Matusz, helping the Mariners jump out to a 6-0 lead.

‘‘I think for our club, coming in here, they’ve got the best record in baseball. And quite frankly, we should have got two out of three,’’ Mariners manager Scott Servais said. ‘‘It didn’t happen. You’ve got to finish.’’

Looking for an extra day of rest for its rotation, Chicago promoted Matusz from Triple A Iowa for a spot start.

The Cubs also wanted to take a look at the veteran left-hander before an opt-out clause in his contract gave him the option of leaving the organization.

What they saw was a shaky three innings. Matusz, who signed a minor league deal with Chicago in June after he was cut by Atlanta, allowed six hits, walked two, threw a wild pitch, and hit a batter.

Long after Matusz departed, Wood worked out of a jam in the sixth and then made a solid grab while playing left in the seventh. Wood hauled in Franklin Gutierrez’s liner as he collided with the ivy-covered wall, earning a standing ovation from the crowd of 40,952 and big smiles from Maddon and reliever Pedro Strop.

‘‘Travis, star of the game, between his pitching and that catch he made at the wall,’’ Maddon said. ‘‘Not many guys play a brick wall like he just did. That was a great catch.’’

Wood returned to the mound in the eighth and threw to first as Shawn O’Malley was caught stealing to end the inning.

‘‘This was an exciting one, just with everything going on, us battling back,’’ Wood said. ‘‘Playing as good as we could and battling back and pulling it off.