Francisco Lindor singled to break up Max Scherzer’s no-hit bid and scored in the seventh inning, and Trevor Bauer pitched the Cleveland Indians to a 3-1 win over the Nationals on Tuesday night in Washington.
Jose Ramirez went 2 for 4 with an RBI double in the seventh and an RBI single in the ninth. Lonnie Chisenhall drove in Ramirez in the seventh while Cleveland cracked Scherzer after Bauer kept the Nationals at bay.
Bauer (8-5) allowed four hits and no runs and struck out four in 6⅓ innings opposite Scherzer’s attempt to record his third no-hitter. Scherzer (12-7) retired 19 of the first 20 batters before struggling in the seventh, and the righthander finished with 10 strikeouts.
Jayson Werth hit a solo home run off Indians trade-deadline acquisition Andrew Miller in the eighth, his 14th of the season, and extended his on-base streak to 39 games.
Center fielder Ben Revere had preserved the no-hit bid in the sixth with a leaping catch against the wall to rob Roberto Perez of extra bases.
After allowing Lindor’s single, Scherzer committed a two-base error on a pickoff attempt and then allowed a run-scoring double to Ramirez and a bloop RBI single to Chisenhall as Cleveland took a 2-0 lead.
Scherzer threw two no-hitters last season, against the Pirates on June 20 and the Mets on Oct. 3. He tied a major league record this year with 20 strikeouts May 11 against Detroit.
Scherzer was trying to become the sixth pitcher in major league history to toss three no-hitters.
The Indians were playing without manager Terry Francona, who complained of chest pain while speaking to reporters before the game.
The Indians say Francona was examined by the Nationals Park EMT and remained at the stadium. They added that Francona was feeling better at first pitch and was not expected to need to go to the hospital, calling the decision not to manage a precautionary one.
The 57-year-old Francona has twice suffered a pulmonary embolism. In 2006, he joined others around baseball to educate people on deep-vein thrombosis.
In his pregame meeting with reporters in the visitor’s dugout, Francona at one point paused and grabbed his sternum. He continued discussing the matters of the day while joking about his pain.
‘‘I don’t think I'm having a heart attack,’’ Francona said. ‘‘If I'm having one, just don’t take my answers if they’re bad answers.’’
Francona, who could still be seen in the dugout during the game, was replaced by bench coach Brad Mills.
Diamondbacks 5, Mets 3 — Zack Greinke won in his return from a six-week stay on the disabled list and Michael Bourn hit a go-ahead triple in the seventh inning as Arizona won in New York.
Paul Goldschmidt and late substitute Brandon Drury each homered for Arizona. The Diamondbacks also stole five bases, with a double steal setting up Bourn’s two-run liner that erased a 3-2 deficit.
Neil Walker hit his 20th home run for the wild card-contending Mets, who missed a chance to post back-to-back wins for the first time in more than a month.
Greinke (11-3) earned his eighth straight victory. The Arizona ace had been out since June 28, when he strained his left side while batting.
Greinke gave up three runs on five hits and a walk in six innings. It was the first time he faced the Mets since losing the decisive Game 5 of the NL Division Series last October while with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
A solid hitter, Greinke took no chances taking big swings. He watched three called strikes in a row his first time up, then put down a sacrifice bunt.
Rays 9, Blue Jays 2 — Drew Smyly pitched six solid innings and Logan Forsythe hit a solo homer for visiting Tampa Bay.
Evan Longoria reached base four times, scored twice, and drove in three runs for the Rays. Forsythe had three hits, two RBIs, and scored twice as the Rays roughed up Toronto’s bullpen, scoring six runs off two relievers.
Tampa Bay finished with 15 hits, three shy of its season high. The Rays had 18 hits in a 13-7 victory over Boston on June 27.
Smyly (4-11) allowed two runs and six hits, improving to 3-0 with a 1.23 ERA in five career games at Rogers Centre.
The lefthander is 13-4 with a 2.32 ERA in 35 career games against the AL East. The Rays are 14-6 in Smyly’s 20 starts against division foes since he joined the team in 2014.
Erasmo Ramirez pitched the final three innings for his first career save.
Rangers 7, Rockies 5 — Adrian Beltre hit a two-run double and Elvis Andrus added a tiebreaking single as visiting Texas scored four runs in the eighth inning in the victory.
The AL West leaders had five hits in the inning and handed Colorado another tough loss in the two-game sweep. The late-game rally came after the Rangers scored three times in the ninth to beat the Rockies, 4-3, on Monday night.
The Rangers, who have won four straight and 9 of 12, finished their road trip 5-3. The teams head to Texas to begin a two-game set Wednesday.
‘‘Everything is kind of working out for us right now,’’ Andrus said. ‘‘We have to keep going the way we’re doing and continue to get more wins.’’
On Tuesday, Texas had four consecutive hits as Carlos Beltran drove in a run with a single and Beltre tied the game with a two-run double. Andrus gave his team the lead when he drove in Beltre with his second hit of the game.
Alex Claudio (3-1) threw 2⅓ scoreless innings of relief and Sam Dyson picked up his 25th save in 28 chances.
Tyler Chatwood allowed two runs and struck out a season-high eight for Colorado, but Scott Oberg (0-1) allowed four runs in the eighth.
The shaky bullpen performance comes after Carlos Estevez blew two ninth-inning leads in four days and was taken out of the closer role.
Charlie Blackmon homered and doubled, rookie David Dahl tripled to extend his hitting streak to 15 games, and Nolan Arenado drove in his National-League leading 90th and 91st RBIs for the Rockies.
Cubs 5, Angels 1 — Kris Bryant hit his 28th home run, John Lackey outpitched friend and former teammate Jered Weaver, and host Chicago won its eighth straight game.
Willson Contreras also homered and Ben Zobrist added an RBI double for the major league-leading Cubs, who won their 70th game and moved a season-high 29 over .500.
Kole Calhoun homered on Lackey’s third pitch, but the former Angels righthander later retired 12 straight. Lackey (9-7) allowed three hits over eight innings, and all six of his strikeouts were looking.
Weaver (8-9) gave up four earned runs and another one that was unearned when he dropped a throw to first base for an error during the Angels’ fifth straight loss.
Pirates 6, Padres 4 — Gregory Polanco hit a tiebreaking three-run homer and Chad Kuhl pitched six innings for the win after being called up from the minor leagues for host Pittsburgh.
Polanco’s three-run blast deep into the seats in right-center off Luis Perdomo was his 16th homer and it put the Pirates ahead 5-2 and keyed a four-run sixth inning that included Francisco Cervelli’s RBI double.
Kuhl (2-0) allowed two runs and five hits while striking out four and walking four. He made four starts with the Pirates earlier this season and was 6-3 with a 2.37 ERA in 16 starts for Indianapolis.
David Freese had three hits and scored three runs and Josh Harrison added two hits for the Pirates, who improved to 4-6 in a 12-game stretch against teams who are at least 10 games under .500.
Marlins 2, Giants 0 — Tom Koehler pitched seven innings to help host Miami beat San Francisco.
Giancarlo Stanton’s RBI double and Marcell Ozuna’s groundout in the first inning provided the scoring the day after a 14-inning game won by the Giants, 8-7.
Fernando Rodney, filling in for the injured A.J. Ramos, pitched the ninth to record his 19th save in 21 opportunities.
Koehler (9-8) allowed two hits and three walks. He struck out six. Koehler is 3-0 with a 0.67 ERA over his last four starts.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy was back in the dugout after missing Monday’s game with an irregular heartbeat following an overnight stay in a local hospital.
Brandon Crawford, Monday’s hero for the Giants who went 7 for 8 including the go-ahead RBI in the top of the 14th, was hitless in four at-bats.
Stanton’s RBI double came off a broken bat that bounced over the head of left fielder Angel Pagan and one-hopped the wall scoring Dee Gordon, who reached on a leadoff walk.
Astros 7, Twins 5 — Jose Altuve had four hits following a brief absence from the lineup, Carlos Correa homered and drove in four runs, and Houston won in Minnesota.
Altuve was given the night off during Monday’s series opener, ending the longest active streak in the majors at 202 consecutive games played. He didn’t miss a beat one day later, going 4 for 4 with a run and an RBI. His third hit helped spark a three-run sixth inning for the Astros, and his fourth drove in Tony Kemp for a 6-4 lead in the seventh.
The All-Star second baseman has reached base safely in 39 straight road games, the longest current run in the majors.
Correa hit a two-run shot and tied his career high for RBIs. Houston had gone seven games without a home run before he connected four batters in Tuesday. Correa went deep to left field off Twins starter Hector Santiago for an early 2-0 lead.
Astros starter Mike Fiers (8-5) gave up three home runs — he allowed four total in his previous eight starts — but benefited from a good night at the plate from his offense. Fiers entered ranked fifth in the American League in run support (6.75 runs per game).
White Sox 7, Royals 5 — Todd Frazier hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and Justin Morneau had four hits to lift Chicago in Kansas City.
Frazier is tied for the major league lead with 31 homers, and this one came on the first pitch from Kelvin Herrera (1-4) after a single by Jose Abreu and a double by Morneau.
David Robertson (3-2) blew a save in the ninth when Alcides Escobar’s two-out single scored pinch-runner Jarrod Dyson.
Dan Jennings struck out Eric Hosmer to end the game, logging his first career save.
White Sox All-Star lefthander Chris Sale is 0-3 in five starts since a July 2 victory over Houston. He gave up three runs and seven hits in the first 2 1/3 innings but did not allow a hit after that. He threw 115 pitches in seven innings, striking out seven and walking one.
Reds 7, Cardinals 4 — Adam Duvall drove in two runs and Tyler Holt’s double drove in the winning run for visiting Cincinnati.
Holt’s double off Matt Bowman (1-4) broke a 4-4 tie in the eighth. He then scored from second on an infield hit by Billy Hamilton after Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter bobbled a barehanded attempt to get the speedy Hamilton at first.
Duvall’s two-run single in the third broke a career high 0-for-18 skid and gave the Reds a 2-1 lead.
Joey Votto had two hits, an RBI and a walk and has hit safely in 18 of his last 19 games.
Highly touted prospect Alex Reyes made his Cardinals debut in the ninth. The righthander’s fastball topped out at 101 miles per hour twice in a perfect frame that included a strikeout of Duvall.
Hamilton stole three bases and he has nine steals in his past three games. He has more stolen bases (48) than the Reds have wins (46).
Braves 2, Brewers 1 — Tyrell Jenkins pitched six strong innings and Nick Markakis and Adonis Garcia drove in a run each in the seventh inning for visiting Atlanta.
Jenkins (2-2) allowed one run and three hits in six innings. He walked three and struck out three in his sixth career start and 10th major league appearance. The righthander has a 1.00 ERA over his past three starts.
His only mistake was Ryan Braun’s home run in the fourth.
Mauricio Cabrera pitched the ninth for his third save.
Wily Peralta (4-8) was recalled Monday when the Brewers placed righthander Junior Guerra on the 15-day disabled list with right elbow inflammation. He allowed two runs and four hits over six-plus innings.
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Brandon Crawford was a big hit Monday night. Seven of them, to be exact.
Crawford became the first major leaguer in 41 years to get seven hits in a game, finally putting the San Francisco Giants ahead to stay with an RBI single in the 14th inning of an 8-7 victory in Miami.
‘‘A great performance,’’ said Giants bench coach Ron Wotus, who filled in as manager after Bruce Bochy was hospitalized with an illness. ‘‘Bochy picked a heck of a day to take off.’’
The previous player to get seven hits in a game was Pirates infielder Rennie Stennett on Sept. 16, 1975, at the Chicago Cubs. He did it in nine innings, the only big leaguer to accomplish that feat since before 1900.
The San Francisco shortstop, who entered in a 6-for-36 slide, raised his batting average 13 points to .278. He tripled, doubled, and had five singles in eight at-bats, tying the NL record for hits in a game.
‘‘I got a couple to drop in and squeak past and then I hit a few balls hard, too, that found holes,’’ Crawford said. ‘‘I felt good.’’
The seven hits set a franchise mark.
‘‘It’s crazy to me,’’ Crawford said. ‘‘The history of the Giants with all of the great players that have come through, you would think that somebody pushed across seven hits in one day, but it’s pretty crazy to be in pretty small company.’’
Crawford’s hits came off six pitchers.
‘‘What do you have to do to get that guy out? I don’t know,’’ Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. ‘‘We didn’t figure it out today. He’s a tough out right now and obviously, when you’re getting seven hits, you’re feeling pretty good about yourself. So I'm sure this whole series, it’s not going to be fun trying to get him out.’’
The only major league player besides Stennett to get seven hits in a nine-inning game was Wilbert Robinson for the old Baltimore Orioles of the National League in 1892.
Johnny Burnett holds the major league mark for an extra-inning game with nine hits for Cleveland in a 1932 contest that lasted 18 innings.
George Kontos (3-2) pitched two scoreless innings to earn the victory.
The Giants were without Bochy, admitted to a Miami hospital in the morning after feeling ill.
San Francisco went 6 for 21 with runners in scoring position and left 18 on base in a game that took 5 hours, 34 minutes — the longest of the season for both teams.
‘‘Exhausting,’’ Crawford said. ‘‘I'm tired right now.’’
Andrew Cashner, Miami’s scheduled starter for Friday, entered in the top of the 14th to face Crawford with two on and he lined a single to center field that scored Brandon Belt for an 8-7 lead.
‘‘I try to take every at-bat separate whether I'm 0 for 4 with four strikeouts or 6 for 7,’’ Crawford said. ‘‘I was just trying to get the runner in any way I could.’’
Christian Yelich homered and tied a career high with four RBIs for the Marlins. Martin Prado also went deep and drove in two runs. They hit back-to-back homers in the fifth.
San Francisco threatened in the 13th when Crawford hit a one-out triple off Dustin McGowan (1-3). After the second out, Mattingly intentionally walked two batters to get to the pitcher’s spot in the order.
The Giants were out of position players, leaving ace pitcher Madison Bumgarner, a .183 hitter with legitimate power, to pinch-hit with the bases loaded. He struck out to end the inning.
The Marlins took a 5-1 lead into the seventh behind a solid outing from Jose Fernandez, who allowed one run in six innings.
The Giants scored five times in the seventh off three relievers and started the inning with six consecutive hits on their way to a 6-5 lead.
Miami responded with Yelich’s two-run single. Crawford’s single in the eighth tied it at 7.
‘‘We bounced back,’’ Mattingly said. ‘‘They bounced back and from there it was crazy after that.’’
Giants starter Johnny Cueto allowed five runs in five innings.
