


Brandon Marsh singled home the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning after the Philadelphia Phillies used two bunt hits to load the bases and beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 on Monday night.
Ian Happ tied it at 2 for the Cubs on a solo homer off reliever Matt Strahm in the eighth. Pete Crow-Armstrong hit an RBI double in the 11th off Carlos Hernández (1-0) for a 3-2 lead.
J.T. Realmuto made it 3-all when he drove in the automatic runner with a single off Daniel Palencia (0-2). The Phillies then got two straight bunt singles — the first from Bryson Stott and then from rookie third baseman and former Troy High School standout Otto Kemp, who had the third of his first three big league hits in the game to set up the clutch swing from Marsh.
The Phillies needed this one after they were swept in three games over the weekend at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia was 1-9 over its past 10 games and fell from the top of the NL East standings.
The 25-year-old Kemp, who was undrafted out of Point Loma Nazarene, singled in the fifth for his first hit since he was promoted to the Phillies on Saturday. He scurried to third on Cubs starter Matthew Boyd’s errant pickoff attempt and scored on Weston Wilson’s RBI single for a 2-1 lead.
Braves 7, Brewers 1: Chris Sale struck out a season-high 11 while allowing just one run over seven innings as Atlanta snapped a seven-game skid by winning at Milwaukee.
Matt Olson, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Eli White homered to make sure the Braves avoided their first eight-game losing streak since 2016.
Sale (4-4) allowed just five hits and two walks.
Pirates 10, Marlins 3: Bryan Reynolds hit a bases-loaded triple to cap a four-run third inning and Pittsburgh defeated visiting Miami for its season-high fourth straight win.
All nine Pirates had hits, and Andrew McCutchen and Adam Frazier paced a 15-hit attack with three apiece.
Rays 10, Red Sox 8 (11): Jake Mangum had four hits, and Junior Caminero drew a bases-loaded walk in the 11th inning as visiting Tampa Bay beat Boston at Fenway Park.
Tampa loaded the bases off Zack Kelly in the 11th and Caminero took a 3-2 pitch for a walk. Mangum followed with a chopper to the right side that was fielded by first baseman Romy Gonzalez, but his throw to Kelly (1-3) was awkward and late.
Reds 7, Guardians 4: Jake Fraley had three hits, including a home run in the fourth inning, Wade Miley got his first win since 2023 and visiting Cincinnati beat Cleveland in Terry Francona’s return to Progressive Field.
Francona managed Cleveland for 11 seasons (2013-23) before being hired by the Reds last October.
TJ Friedl also went deep for the Reds, who have won four straight.
Miley (1-0) got the win in his second game and first start since signing a one-year deal with the Reds on June 4. He went five innings and allowed three runs and five hits.
Blue Jays 5, Cardinals 4 (10): Alejandro Kirk homered and had four hits, including a go-ahead double in the 10th as Toronto edged host St. Louis.
Kirk opened the 10th with a double off Phil Maton (0-2) to score automatic runner Addison Barger from second base as the Blue Jays (36-30) won for the 10th time in 12 games.
After blowing a three-run lead in the eighth, Toronto tied it at 4 in the ninth when No. 9 batter Jonatan Clase hit his first home run this year and the second of his career — a one-out shot off Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley.