
Jose Quintana earned his 100th career win with 6 2/3 sharp innings Saturday as the surging New York Mets extended their longest winning streak in more than six years with a 4-0 home victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
Harrison Bader homered to spark a four-run sixth inning for the Mets, who have won nine straight games for the first time since April 2018. New York hasn’t trailed in its last 72 innings since Aug. 30 — the longest streak in the majors this season.
J.D. Martinez laced a two-run double to cap the sixth..
Quintana (8-9) allowed five hits and struck out six in becoming the 19th active pitcher to reach 100 wins. He has a 0.50 ERA in his last three starts.
GIANTS 6, PADRES 3 >> San Francisco rookie Grant McCray homered twice and drove in five runs in a road win over San Diego.
McCray, who made his major league debut Aug. 14, put the Giants ahead 3-2 on his three-run drive deep into the seats in right field off Dylan Cease (12-11) with two outs in the second inning.
McCray again went deep to right in the ninth, a two-run blast off Yuki Matsui for his fifth homer.
Logan Webb (12-9) went six innings, allowing three runs and 10 hits, to get the win.
Cease also pitched six innings, giving up four runs and six hits.
BLUE JAYS 9, BRAVES 5 >> Spencer Horwitz homered twice among his four hits, José Berríos pitched six effective innings and Toronto knocked host Atlanta out of the final NL wild-card spot.
With just 20 games left to play, the Braves fell one game behind the Mets.
Berríos (15-9) allowed one earned run and five hits to set a career high for wins. He struck out five and walked one.
Horwitz opened the scoring with a solo shot in the second and then hit another in the fourth to make it 2-0. He finished with three RBIs.
Braves starter Spencer Schwellenbach (6-6) gave up six runs — three earned — and 10 hits in five innings.
ASTROS 11, DIAMONDBACKS 5 >> Jose Altuve and Jeremy Peña homered as AL West-leading Houston improved to 7-0 in games started by Yusei Kikuchi by beating visiting Arizona.
Altuve had three hits and scored three times. Peña’s 15th homer was a three-run shot, capping a five-run sixth inning.
The Diamondbacks have dropped three straight and seven of 10.
Kikuchi (8-9) allowed four runs and seven hits over six innings. He struck out six, giving him a career-high 183 strikeouts this season.
The left-hander has a 3.07 ERA since joining the Astros in a trade from the Toronto Blue Jays on July 29, with a 32.1% strikeout rate.
RAYS 7, ORIOLES 1 >> Yandy Diaz homered among his three hits and drove in two runs, and Tampa Bay won at Baltimore, knocking the Orioles from the AL East lead.
Taylor Walls also homered and had two RBIs as the Rays dropped the Orioles a half-game behind the New York Yankees.
The Rays’ Ryan Pepiot (8-6) allowed only one run over 5 1/3 innings.
YANKEES 2, CUBS 0 >> Clarke Schmidt and Nestor Cortes combined on a four-hitter, and New York clinched its 32nd straight winning season by blanking Chicago at Wrigley Field.
Schmidt pitched 4 2/3 innings of four-hit ball in his first big league game since May 26. Cortes (9-10) closed it out in his first relief appearance since 2021.
The 32 straight seasons with a winning record is the second-longest such period in major league history, trailing a run of 39 consecutive seasons for the Yankees from 1926-64.
MARLINS 9, PHILLIES 5 >> Otto López was a triple shy of the cycle, Connor Norby homered and drove in three runs, and host Miami snapped NL East-leading Philadelphia’s six-game winning streak.
Phillies starter Aaron Nola (12-7) was lifted after he allowed five runs and nine hits over 4 2/3 innings, walking two and striking out five.


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