Didi Gregorius and Matt Holliday each hit a go-ahead homer and New York piled on from there, lifting the host Yankees over the Los Angeles Angels, 8-4, on Wednesday night to snap a season-high seven-game losing streak.
New York’s skid was its longest since 2007. The Yankees haven’t lost eight straight since August 1995. They moved back ahead of the Red Sox for first place in the AL East a night after losing the division lead for the first time since mid-May.
Jordan Montgomery pitched two-run ball over 5⅔ innings. Relievers Chad Green and Dellin Betances got the ball to Tyler Clippard in the ninth, but Clippard allowed a two-run homer to Martin Maldonado, his second of the game. Aroldis Chapman came on to close out.
Ricky Nolasco lost his seventh consecutive start to match George Brunet’s franchise record from 1967.
The righthanded Nolasco allowed the homers to Holliday and Gregorius, and has given up 23 long balls this season, tied for the major league lead with Cincinnati’s Bronson Arroyo.
Marlins 2, Nationals 1 — Max Scherzer’s bid for the third no-hitter of his big league career ended with one out in the eighth inning, and he then gave up two unearned runs host Miami rallied to beat Washington.
After backup catcher A.J. Ellis reached on an infield single for Miami’s first hit, an error by first baseman Adam Lind and a hit batter loaded the bases with two outs. Scherzer threw a wild pitch that scored the tying run, and Giancarlo Stanton lined an RBI single — the Marlins’ only other hit — to put them ahead.
Scherzer threw no-hitters against the Pirates and Mets in 2015, and he seemed on his way to another when he began the eighth inning with a 1-0 lead.
He retired 18 in a row before Ellis hit a chopper that bounced in front of the plate and glanced off the tip of Scherzer’s glove as he reached overhead for it. The ball rolled to shortstop Trea Turner, who failed in his attempt to make a barehanded pickup and rush a throw.
Official scorer Ron Jernick immediately ruled the play a hit, and Scherzer knew it. He picked up the ball and angrily flung it to the dugout — not as a souvenir.
Washington totaled five hits against Dan Straily and three relievers. Kyle Barraclough pitched the eighth, and A.J. Ramos worked around a two-out single in the ninth for his 10th save.
Scherzer threw a season-high 121 pitches and had 11 strikeouts, reaching double figures for the sixth game in a row, the franchise’s longest such streak since 2005.
He lowered his ERA to 2.08, best in the NL. He also leads the league with 145 strikeouts. The other no-hitter in the majors this year was achieved on the same mound by Miami’s Edinson Volquez against Arizona on June 3.
The crowd of 22,659 for the 12:10 p.m. start included thousands of youngsters on camp day, and they gave the game a scream-filled soundtrack.
The score was 0-0 until Washington’s Ryan Raburn hit his first homer of the year in the fifth. Raburn was a late replacement for outfielder Michael A. Taylor, who was scratched because he wasn’t feeling well.
That was the only run allowed by Straily, who went six innings.
Scherzer walked Christian Yelich with two out in the first and hit Derek Dietrich with a pitch with one out in the second. That was Miami’s last baserunner until the eighth.
Rays 8, Reds 3 —Left fielder Mallex Smith rushed in to tag out speedy Billy Hamilton after a lengthy rundown, highlighting Tampa Bay's win over Cincinnati in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Hamilton stole his major league-leading 31st base in the fourth inning. But he later got trapped when he thought about scoring from second base on a two-out grounder by Eugenio Suarez that shortstop Daniel Robertson bobbled.
It took five throws to nab Hamilton between home and third, with six Rays lined up ready to take part in the rundown.
Smith dashed from the outfield and was stationed at third to take a throw and tag Hamilton.
Smith also singled twice, extending his hitting streak to 12 games for Tampa Bay. The string has taken place since he was recalled from Triple-A Durham on June 9 to replace Gold Glove center fielder Kevin Kiermaier, out with a broken right hip.
Padres 3, Cubs 2 — Erick Aybar hit a tying shot home run in the sixth inning, Luis Torrens walked with the bases loaded against Koji Uehara in the eighth and visiting San Diego stopped a three-game losing streak.
Chicago rookie Ian Happ hit a two-run homer in the fourth against reliever Craig Stammen, going deep for the second straight game and third time in four.
Jose Pirella started the comeback with an RBI single in the fifth off Eddie Butler, and Aybar tied the score against Brian Duensing.
Uehara, the fifth of six Cubs relievers, replaced Pedro Strop starting the eighth and allowed singles to Wil Myers leading off and Cory Spangenberg with one out. Erick Aybar was intentionally walked, loading the bases, Matt Szczur fouled out and Torrens took a 3-1 fastball that sailed inside.
