UNDATED (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers possess the first nine-game winner of the major league season.
Julio Urías is 9-2 after allowing three runs over six innings of the Dodgers’ 6-3 win over the Pirates. Urias also had a two-run single as Los Angeles beat Pittsburgh for the 13th consecutive time.
Mookie Betts homered just three pitches into the game after beginning the day hitting just .250, 48 points below his career average.
Zack McKinstry drove in two runs in a game that was called by rain in the top of the eighth.
In other major league action:
— Jean Segura’s two-run single completed the Phillies’ 10th-inning comeback in a 4-3 win over the Braves. Atlanta scored two earned runs in the 10th after Freddie Freeman belted a solo homer to tie it. Alec Bohm got the Phils within 3-2 with an RBI single before Segura allowed Philadelphia to earn its second straight walk-off win over the Braves.
— Daniel Vogelbach slammed a two-run homer and Jace Peterson provided a tiebreaking, two-run single in the sixth inning of the Brewers’ 11th win in 13 games, 7-2 over the Reds. Freddy Peralta allowed just one run and two hits over four innings, leaving for a pinch-hitter following a rain delay. Luis Castillo fell to 2-9 despite leaving with a 2-1 lead in the sixth.
— The Red Sox took advantage of a pair of dropped balls in a five-run sixth inning that allowed them to beat the Astros, 12-8 and avoid a three-game sweep. J.D. Martinez hit his 13th homer and Christian Arroyo hit a three-run drive in a 3-hour, 47-minute marathon.
— Josh Donaldson and Nelson Cruz hit two-run homers off Aroldis Chapman in the bottom of the ninth to send the Twins past the Yankees, 7-5. Giancarlo Stanton drove a slider off the end of his bat 422 feet for a three-run, first-inning homer while New York was building a 5-2 lead.
— The White Sox posted a 5-2 win over the Blue Jays as Dallas Keuchel pitched six effective innings and Yasmani Grandal homered. Adam Engel also went deep, and reigning AL MVP José Abreu hit a pair of RBI doubles as Chicago increased its lead in the AL Central to 4 1/2 games over the Indians. Marcus Semien and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. each drove in a run for Toronto, which lost for the fourth time in six games.
— Jonathan Schoop and Robbie Grossman homered and Isaac Paredes singled home the tiebreaking run in the Tigers’ 8-3 defeat of the Mariners. Detroit scored two unearned runs in three Seattle errors and beat the Mariners for the fifth time in six tries this season. The M’s wasted Mitch Haniger’s two home runs.
— Jorge Soler and Andrew Benintendi homered to help back Mike Minor in the Royals’ 6-1 win at Oakland. Minor gave up one run and three hits while fanning eight over seven innings to help Kansas City halt a five-game skid.
— Starling Marté had four hits, including a homer and double in the Marlins, 11-4 romp over the Rockies. Adam Duvall and Jazz Chisholm also went deep and Trevor Rogers allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings to improve to 7-3. Colorado fell to a major league-worst 5-24 on the road this season.
— The Giants-Nationals game in Washington has been postponed and will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader on Saturday.
