UNDATED (AP) — The New York Yankees are off to their best 30-game start in 19 years after winning for the 15th time in their last 19 contests.
Gleyber Torres delivered a go-ahead, three-run homer and a two-run single in leading the Yankees to a 5-3 win over the Blue Jays. Torres was the star just hours after Aaron Judge belted a three-run, walk-off home run.
The Yanks have won seven straight series to get to a major league-best 22-8.
Elsewhere in the majors:
— Vidal Bruján collected his first hit of the season by delivering an RBI double leading off the 10th inning of the Rays’ 4-2 win over the Angels. Kevin Kiermaier hit a solo homer in the second and scored the tiebreaking run as Tampa Bay stopped a three-game skid. Pinch-hitter Taylor Ward hit a tying two-run homer in the eighth for the Angels, who lost for the fifth time in their last 18 games.
— Houston and Minnesota had their game suspended when a severe thunderstorm rolled through and halted play in the top of the fourth inning. The Astros were leading, 5-1 on Jeremy Peña’s three RBIs and Jose Altuve’s home run. The two teams will pick up where they left off on Thursday afternoon and play the last six innings before starting another game.
— The Athletics hammered the Tigers, 9-0 as Zach Logue pitched seven innings of five-hit ball in his second major league start. Sean Murphy and Kevin Smith each drove in two while Christian Bethancourt supplied three hits, two runs scored and an RBI for the A’s. Oakland is 3-1 in the five-game series after entering Detroit on a nine-game losing streak.
— Local high school star Bobby Witt Jr. hit a two-run double and had his first three-RBI game to highlight the Royals’ 8-2 rout of the Rangers in Texas. Whit Merrifield homered for the first time since last August, helping Kansas City halt a three-game skid. Emmanuel Rivera padded a three-run Royals lead in the ninth inning with a bases-loaded triple.
— Alfonso Rivas hit a go-ahead, two-run single against his hometown team in the eighth inning to push the Cubs past the Padres, 7-5. The Padres had tied the game at 5 on home runs by Eric Hosmer and Luke Voit in the seventh. The Padres announced during the game that manager Bob Melvin had successful prostate surgery and is expected to make a full recovery.
— Brandon Crawford was the catalyst in the Giants’ 10th straight win over the Rockies, 7-1. Crawford hit a two-run homer, drove in three runs and scored twice to back Alex Cobb, who limited Colorado to one run on three hits in 5 1/3 innings. San Francisco handed Rockies starter Chad Kuhl his first loss of the season, tagging him for five runs in 4 2/3 innings.
— Christian Yelich hit for a record-tying third cycle — all of them against Cincinnati — but the Brewers’ rally fell short in the ninth inning in a 14-11 loss to the Reds. Tyler Stephenson drove in four runs with a pair of doubles and Colin Moran hit a three-run homer for Cincinnati. Hunter Renfroe hit two solo homers for the Brewers.
— Paul Goldschmidt drove in three runs and the Cardinals snapped a three-game losing streak by clobbering the Orioles, 10-1. Juan Yepez homered and Brendan Donovan added a two-run double to the Cards’ 11-hit attack. Winning pitcher Miles Mikolas allowed one run on four hits over seven innings.
— The Braves pulled out a 5-3 win over the Red Sox as Orlando Arcia had three hits, including a game-winning, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth. Albies ended an 0-for-10 slump by leading off the ninth with the single before scoring on the game-winning blast. Red Sox manager Alex Cora and catcher Kevin Plawecki were ejected by home plate umpire Adam Beck after Beck’s bases-loaded called third strike on Plawecki ended the sixth inning in a 3-3 tie.
— Juan Soto slammed a two-run homer and Nelson Cruz added a three-run blast as the Nationals hammered Tylor Megill and the Mets, 8-3. Megill was tagged for eight runs in 1 1/3 innings, the shortest start of his career. Pete Alonso hit a two-run homer in the first to give the Mets a 3-0 lead.
— Rhys Hoskins homered for the third straight game by belting a grand slam in the Phillies’ 4-2 downing of the Mariners. Hoskins lined a fourth-inning pitch from Seattle starter Logan Gilbert, who entered the game 4-0 with a 1.36 ERA. Phillies starter Bailey Falter was one out away from earning his first victory of the season before being pulled with two outs in the fifth inning at his target of 65 pitches.
— Jacob Stallings laced a tiebreaking, RBI single that ignited the Marlins’ eight-run ninth in an 11-3 thrashing of the Diamondbacks. Jazz Chisholm followed with a three-run blast that pushed Miami’s lead to 7-3. Avisaíl García capped the ninth with another three-run shot.
— The Pirates wasted a three-run lead before Daniel Vogelbach hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning of their 5-3 win over the Dodgers. Jack Suwinski hit his second home run in three days for Pittsburgh, which took a series from Los Angeles for the first time in five years. Josh VanMeter also homered in the sixth inning, but he committed an error in the seventh that led to a three-run double by Edwin Rios.
— The Guardians-White Sox game was postponed due to COVID-19 concerns within the Cleveland clubhouse. It’s the first COVID-related postponement of the season.
