



Giancarlo Stanton hit a three-run homer, Austin Wells went deep for the third consecutive game and the New York Yankees pounded the Seattle Mariners 10-3 on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium in the opener of a three-game series between American League playoff contenders.
Aaron Judge and Cal Raleigh traded late home runs after the outcome was all but decided, with Raleigh’s 36th of the season keeping the Seattle catcher two ahead of Judge for the major league lead.
Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt each had three hits for the Yankees, who won their second straight following a six-game slide. Rookie right-hander Will Warren (6-4) pitched 5 2/3 shutout innings.
Oswald Peraza’s run-scoring single off Mariners starter Logan Gilbert (2-3) with two outs in the fifth ended Seattle’s team-record streak of 33 scoreless innings.
Gilbert also got off to a great start before fading in the sixth. Judge and Bellinger opened the inning with consecutive singles before Stanton connected for his 431st career homer to make it 4-0.
Three batters later, Wells pulled the first pitch from reliever Casey Legumina to right field for his career-best 14th homer, a two-run shot.
Goldschmidt added a two- run single to make it 10-0 in a four-run seventh that included Judge’s solo homer.
Blue Jays 6, White Sox 1 (7): Chris Bassitt pitched six strong innings, Davis Schneider homered and visiting Toronto beat Chicago in a game shortened to seven innings because of rain.
The Blue Jays have won 10 in a row — their longest win streak since they won 11 straight in 2015 — and 12 of 13.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had two hit and two RBIs.
Schneider hit a leadoff homer off starter Aaron Civale (1-6) to open the scoring before Guerrero and Addison Barger each hit an RBI double in Toronto’s five-run third inning.
Bassitt (9-4) gave up four hits and a run — a solo homer by Josh Rojas in the sixth.
Padres 1, Diamondbacks 0: Luis Arraez homered leading off the seventh inning against Merrill Kelly (7-5) and outfielders Jackson Merrill and Fernando Tatis Jr. made home run-robbing catches for San Diego, which beat visiting Arizona.
Tigers 4, Rays 2: Colt Keith homered and drove in three runs as Detroit won its fifth straight game, beating visiting Tampa Bay.
Detroit has outscored its opponents 19-6 in the winning streak.
Tigers starter Jack Fla- herty allowed two runs in 6 1/3 innings, striking out eight.
Jonathan Aranda homered in the first, then doubled and scored to give the Rays a 2-0 lead in the third.
Ryan Pepiot didn’t allow a hit until Spencer Torkelson’s 21st homer made it 2-1 in the fourth.
Colt Keith tied the game with a fifth-inning single. In the seventh, Zach McKinstry walked, stole his second base of the game, and scored when Keith hit his eighth homer off Edwin Uceta (5-2).
Red Sox 10, Rockies 2: Brayan Bello struck out a season-high 10 in the first nine-inning complete game of his career, Trevor Story hit a three-run homer and Boston defeated Colorado at Fenway Park for its fifth straight win.
Bello (5-3), who had seven strikeouts after one trip through the Rockies lineup, gave up five hits and one walk. He threw a rain-shortened, six-inning complete game on Sept. 25, 2022, a 2-0 loss to the Yankees.
Ceddanne Rafaela hit a two-run double during a four-run rally in the sixth, followed by a six-run outbreak in the seventh when Story homered and Jarren Duran added a solo shot.
Hunter Goodman ended the shutout bid with a two-run homer in the ninth, but Bello struck out Ryan McMahon for the final out.
Mets 7, Orioles 6 (10): Juan Soto singled in the tiebreaking run in the top of the 10th inning, and New York hit three home runs in a comeback victory over Baltimore.
Ronny Mauricio, Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso homered for the Mets
Soto hit the first pitch from Yennier Cano (1-5) to score Lindor in the 10th, and Huascar Brazobán worked the bottom half for his second save.
The Orioles got an immaculate inning — three strikeouts on nine pitches — from rookie starter Brandon Young, and Jackson Holliday homered for a 6-2 lead in the seventh.
Marlins 12, Reds 2: Miami extended its franchise-record road winning streak to 11 with a victory at Cincinnati.
Eury Pérez (2-2) made his sixth start for the Marlins since returning this season from Tommy John surgery and allowed only two hits including Matt McLain’s solo homer in the first. Pérez struck out eight and didn’t walk a batter over five innings.
After Nick Martinez (6-9) retired the first six batters he faced, the Marlins collected six consecutive hits off him in the third, including a two-run double by Xavier Edwards to take a 7-1 lead.
Martinez, who made his first home start since taking a no-hitter into the ninth against the Padres, allowed a career-high 10 earned runs on seven hits.
Twins 8, Cubs 1: Simeon Woods Richardson outpitched Shota Imanaga with five scoreless innings, and Minnesota beat visiting Chicago.
Ryan Jeffers had three RBIs and the first of three homers for the Twins in a six-run eighth off Porter Hodge, who was also taken deep by Willi Castro and Harrison Bader.
Royce Lewis drove in two runs, and Byron Buxton and Jeffers greeted Imanaga (5-3) with back-to-back doubles to start a two-run first inning.
The left-hander, who was an All-Star as an MLB rookie last year, finished six innings for the first time since April 4 after missing nearly two months with a strained hamstring.
Justin Turner’s 200th career home run in the ninth ended the shutout.
Guardians 10, Astros 6 (10): Angel Martínez hit a grand slam off Josh Hader with two outs in the top of the 10th to lift Cleveland over Houston.
José Ramírez and Brayan Rocchio also homered to help the Guardians beat the Astros for a second straight night after entering the series on a 10-game skid.
Out for a second inning after throwing a scoreless ninth and with a runner starting on second, Hader (5-2) intentionally walked Ramírez before walking Carlos Santana to load the bases. Hader struck out pinch-hitter Johnathan Rodríguez before Martínez sent a sinker 344 feet into the first row of the seats in left field.
Jose Altuve drove in four runs for the Astros.
Houston starter Hunter Brown, who entered with an MLB-leading 1.82 ERA, yielded six hits and a season-high six runs in six innings.
Royals 4, Pirates 3: Nick Loftin hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh, then won it in the bottom of the ninth with a one-out RBI single as Kansas City edged Pittsburgh.
Rookie Jac Caglianone homered for the Royals, a 421-foot drive leading off the second inning.
Pittsburgh’s Oneil Cruz tied it in the fourth with a 458-foot shot over the fountains in right field.