UNDATED (AP) — It’s fair to say the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox don’t like each other.
Yankees’ third baseman Josh Donaldson got into a dustup with White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson for the second time in a week before New York completed a 7-5 win. Donaldson rounded second base after the final out of the third inning and began jawing with Anderson as the teams came off the field. The two were separated by team personnel.
Two innings later, White Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal stood up from his crouch and began jawing at Donaldson as he approached the plate. The barking continued as relievers ran in from the bullpens and the benches emptied.
Anderson accused Donaldson of making a racist remark by calling him Jackie Robinson. Anderson is Black and said Donaldson said “What’s up, Jackie?”
Donaldson is white and said he did use Robinson’s name but didn’t mean for it to be disrespectful.
Major League Baseball is looking into the incident.
The Yankees had the last laugh as DJ LeMahieu belted a grand slam in a five-run second that carried them to the 10th win in their last 12 meetings with the Sox.
The Yanks improved to 29-10, their best 39-game start since the 1998 team opened 30-9 and matched the third-best start in team history.
Jose Abreu smacked a three-run homer off winning pitcher Nelson Cortes, who entered the game with a major league-best 1.35 ERA.
Elsewhere around the majors:
— Randy Arozarena continued his career-long assault on Baltimore by homering twice in a 6-1 victory for the Rays. Arozarena Is batting .413 with 11 home runs and 25 RBIs in 92 at-bats over 23 career games against Orioles. Kevin Kiermaier went 3 for 4 with a homer to back Jeffrey Springs, who threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings.
— Bo Bichette drove in the Blue Jays’ runs with a pair of homers in a 3-1 victory over the Reds. Alek Manoah tied the longest stint of his career, allowing a run and seven hits over eight innings for his first win since April 28 against Boston. Hunter Greene gave up one run and four hits over six frames for Cincinnati.
— Rafael Devers homered twice and Christian Vázquez had a tiebreaking single in the eighth inning of the Red Sox’s fourth consecutive win, 6-5 against the Mariners. The Red Sox erased a 5-0 deficit by scoring a run in the third on Devers’ homer over Boston’s bullpen and four in the fifth when they chased starter Chris Flexen. Rookie Julio Rodríguez had three hits for Seattle, which has dropped five of six and 18 of its last 24.
— Justin Verlander scattered six singles across six scoreless innings without a walk in the Astros’ 2-1 decision over the Rangers. The 39-year-old Verlander tied a season-high with eight strikeouts and improved to 6-1 with a major league-best 1.22 ERA this season following Tommy John surgery. Yordan Alvarez had two hits and an RBI in Houston’s 10th win in 11 home games.
— Mike Trout scored his 1,000th run and the Angels halted a four-game skid with a 5-3 verdict over the Athletics. Michael Lorenzen threw six innings of three-hit ball to become the fourth AL pitcher to get at least five wins. Luis Rengifo hit a go-ahead solo shot in the fifth inning and Andrew Velazquez added a two-run homer in the seventh for Los Angeles.
— Carlos Correa doubled home a pair while the Twins scored four times in the ninth to break open a win over the Royals, 9-2. Luis Arraez reached base four times, drove in two and scored three for the AL Central leaders. Joe Ryan only allowed one run on five hits in 5 2/3 innings of work with six strikeouts.
— Make it seven straight wins for the Dodgers after Mookie Betts led them to a 7-4 downing of the Phillies. Betts homered, doubled, singled, knocked in three runs and threw out the potential go-ahead run at the plate. Gavin Lux lined the go-ahead single to right over a drawn-in infield in the eighth, one inning before Austin Barnes homered.
— Joe Musgrove was sharp in the Padres’ 2-1 win over the Giants, allowing four hits over seven shutout innings to move to 5-0. San Diego won for the fifth time in six games on Manny Machado’s 425-foot homer in the third inning and a squeeze bunt by Trent Grisham in the sixth. Wilmer Flores homered for the Giants, who lost their third straight after winning eight of 10.
— Starling Marte came off the bereavement list to go 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs in the Mets’ 5-1 win at Colorado in Game 1 of a twinbill. Marte homered on his first swing of the afternoon to give the Mets a 2-0 lead in the opening inning. Patrick Mazeika had a two-run double in the second, Luis Guillorme provided three of the Mets’ 13 hits and Carlos Carrasco held the Rockies to a run and seven hits over 5 1/3 innings.
— Brian Serven’s first two major league hits were two-run blasts as the Rockies earned a split of their doubleheader with the Mets, 11-3. C.J. Cron also went deep and Connor Joe had three hits for Colorado. The Rockies led just 4-3 before erupting for seven runs in the sixth off Adonis Medina and Chasen Shreve.
— Andrew McCutchen hit a lead-off home run, Luis Urías added a solo shot and Brandon Woodruff allowed one run in six effective innings to send the Brewers past the Nationals, 5-1. McCutchen drove the first pitch from Patrick Corbin (0-7) into the Nationals bullpen in right for his 20th career lead-off home run and second this season. Keston Hiura (HEE’-rah) added two hits and two RBIs as he continues his resurgence since his minor league recall.
— William Contreras hit a pair of solo homers and Kyle Wright worked five shutout innings of two-hit ball in the Braves’ 4-3 victory against the Marlins. Ronald Acuña Jr. singled and walked for the Braves, extending his on-base games streak to 28. Kenley Jansen allowed an RBI double by Garrett Cooper before nailing down his 10th save.
— The Tigers and Guardians were postponed with poor weather in the forecast for Cleveland. The game is now slated for July 14.
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