ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Yandy Díaz hit a leadoff homer and drove in two runs as Tampa Bay beat Boston, 3-1.
Jonathan Aranda knocked in the tiebreaking run with a fifth-inning single for the AL East leaders, who had lost five of six.
Díaz put Tampa Bay on the board with his fourth leadoff homer this season, hitting the first pitch from Boston starter Connelly Early into the left-field seats. Díaz then drove in Taylor Walls on a sacrifice fly in the eighth, when Tampa Bay manufactured an insurance run without a hit.
Aranda’s two-out single scored Austin Slater from third to break a 1-all tie in the fifth, chasing Early (5-4). Slater, making his Tampa Bay debut, reached on an infield single before stealing second and advancing to third on a wild pitch.
Left-hander Ian Seymour, the Rays’ opener, retired his first five batters and didn’t allow a hit until the third, when Marcelo Mayer evened the score with a solo homer.
But after that, Seymour set down his final six batters. He pitched a season-high four innings, allowing one hit and a walk with five strikeouts. Tampa Bay’s bullpen shut out Boston over the final five innings, yielding just three hits. Casey Legumina (2-0) got the win and Bryan Baker earned his 17th save.
BREWERS 15, ATHLETICS 14 (12 innings)By: Sportsnet Staff
The Athletics introduced themselves to their new home in one of the most epic games in baseball this season.
Unfortunately for fans in Las Vegas, the home team came out on the losing end.
The A’s lost 15-14 in a 12-inning instant classic to the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday at Las Vegas Ballpark, home of the triple-A Las Vegas Aviators.
The 29 combined runs were the most in an MLB game this season, as were the 11 home runs.
The A’s led 8-3 after three innings and 10-7 after 7 but the Brewers forced extras with a run in the eighth and two more in the ninth. In the 10th inning, Milwaukee scored four times — including a three-run homer from William Contreras — and appeared to be in control but back-to-back home runs from Nick Kurtz and a pinch-hitting Jonah Heim tied the game at 14.
The Brewers ultimately scratched another run across in the 12th inning and held on for the win.
The game was the first of six games for the A’s this week in Vegas, three against the Brewers, followed by three against the Rockies. The A’s are expected to move into a new ballpark currently being built on the Las Vegas Strip for the 2028 season.
BALTIMORE — Josh Naylor hit a grand slam during a five-run fifth inning and the Seattle Mariners beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-3 on Monday night.
Randy Arozarena had three hits for the AL West-leading Mariners, who have won 10 of their last 13 games.
Baltimore, which was 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position, has lost three in a row for the first time since getting swept May 18-20 at Tampa Bay.
The Mariners tied it at 1 in the fifth on Ryan Bliss’ one-out sacrifice fly. Cole Young’s single ended Baltimore rookie Trey Gibson’s outing, and reliever Anthony Nunez walked Julio Rodríguez to load the bases. Naylor then lofted a fly just over the wall in right for his seventh homer of the season.
The Orioles closed within 5-2 in the seventh when reliever Matt Brash’s wild pitch reached the backstop and allowed Coby Mayo to score. Brash nearly walked Pete Alonso to force in another run two batters later, but Seattle challenged and Alonso was out on a called third strike. Colton Cowser grounded out to leave the bases loaded.
CLEVELAND — Cody Bellinger hit a two-run single with the bases loaded in the 10th inning and New York defeated Cleveland.
Paul Goldschmidt and Ryan McMahon homered for the Yankees, who won for the first time in four extra-inning games this season.
Angel Martínez connected for a two-run homer in the fifth to give the Guardians a 5-4 lead before Goldschmidt’s grounder in the eighth drove in Trent Grisham to tie it.
With Ali Sánchez as the automatic runner in the 10th, Ben Rice was intentionally walked with one out. Max Schuemann challenged a called strike three on a full count and got it overturned to ball four, loading the bases. The Guardians pulled their infield in, but Bellinger’s base hit to left field off Shawn Armstrong (1-1) drove in Sánchez and Rice.
David Bednar (2-3), the seventh Yankees pitcher, struck out three in 1 2/3 hitless innings for the win. He retired five of the six batters he faced.
TORONTO — Cristopher Sánchez struck out 10 and allowed two runs in seven innings to win for the sixth time in seven starts, Adolis García hit a two-run homer and Philadelphia beat Toronto.
Alec Bohm reached base twice and drove in a run as the Phillies won for the sixth time in seven games.
Sánchez’s shutout streak ended at 50 2/3 innings in his previous start, a win over San Diego. The left-hander didn’t permit a run in five May starts.
This time, Sánchez (8-2) walked one and gave up four hits, including two doubles and a homer. He is 4-0 with a 2.12 ERA in five career starts against the Blue Jays.
Jhoan Duran finished for his 16th save in 16 chances.
ASTROS 5, ANGELS 4 (10 innings)
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jose Altuve scored the go-ahead run in the 10th inning on a popout to shallow center field, and Houston Astros left fielder Brice Matthews threw out Mike Trout at home plate in the bottom half to preserve a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.
Christian Walker hit an RBI single for Houston off Kirby Yates with one out in the ninth, tying it 4-all.
Altuve began the 10th as the automatic runner at second base and moved to third on Matthews’ bunt single. Sam Aldegheri (1-1) struck out Cam Smith and got Jake Meyers to pop out to a backpedaling Nick Madrigal behind second. Altuve tagged up and took off, sliding in safely at the plate when catcher Logan O’Hoppe couldn’t come up with an in-between hop on Madrigal’s throw home.
O’Hoppe was charged with an error on the play, and Meyers was not credited with an RBI.
Trout started the bottom of the 10th as the automatic runner on second, but was erased trying to score on a leadoff single by Jose Siri. Bryan Abreu then struck out Jo Adell and retired Denzer Guzman on a liner to left for his fourth save.
Josh Hader (1-0) struck out the side in the ninth for the win.
SAN DIEGO — Gavin Sheets hit a tying double and then scored the go-ahead run while the Cincinnati Reds misplayed three consecutive bunts by the Padres in the seventh inning, sending San Diego to a 6-2 victory Monday night.
Freddy Fermin homered in his third consecutive game and drove in two runs for the Padres, who were struggling offensively for yet another night until they found a highly unorthodox way out of their slump and into just their third win in 14 games.
After Sheets doubled in Xander Bogaerts to chase starter Andrew Abbott (4-4), the next three San Diego batters bunted against Tejay Antone — and the Reds couldn’t field any of them.
Jase Bowen and Samad Taylor got credit for singles when Antone and his infielders failed to play their bunts cleanly, with Sheets scoring the tiebreaking run on what appeared to be a safety squeeze attempt by Taylor.
Antone was then charged with a fielding error on Fermin’s bunt, although the reliever shook it off and escaped the bases-loaded, nobody-out jam.
Bowen and Taylor, the Padres’ two recent outfield callups, contributed more than just big bunts.
Taylor added a two-run single in the Padres’ three-run eighth, while Bowen had two hits and stole the first two bases of his major league career. Taylor also threw out Matt McLain at home to end the second.
SAN FRANCISCO — Daylen Lile hit a go-ahead single in the ninth inning after CJ Abrams’ tying base hit, and the Washington Nationals rallied against closer Keaton Winn to spoil Logan Webb’s impressive outing and beat the San FRancisco Giants 4-3 on Monday night.
Pitching for the third straight day, Winn (2-2) couldn’t hold a two-run lead. He gave up a one-out double to Luis García Jr. and hit Curtis Mead with a pitch to put the tying runs on base. A passed ball advanced both runners, who scored on Abrams’ single.
One out later, Abrams stole second and scored when Lile singled up the middle.
Bryce Eldridge hit a go-ahead double in the eighth against winner Clayton Beeter (2-1) after Jung Hoo Lee beat out an infield single.
Gus Varland struck out Eldridge to secure his fifth save, stranding runners at corners.