UNDATED (AP) — The New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays are right back where they were when they began their four-game series in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
The Rays earned a four-game split and pulled within 4 1/2 games of the AL East lead by downing the first-place Yankees for the second straight day, 4-2. Tampa Bay managed just two hits on Sunday, but the Rays scored twice in the seventh on four walks and a hit batter.
Taylor Walls and J-Man Choi homered for Tampa Bay’s only hits.
Elsewhere on major league diamonds:
— The Red Sox tagged Bruce Zimmermann for five home runs in just four innings of their ninth win in 12 games, a 12-2 dismantling of the Orioles. Bobby Dalbec hit a two-run homer for Boston, which also received solo homers from Rafael Devers , Kiké Hernández, Franchy Cordero and Christian Arroyo. Jake Pivetta gave up one run on five hits in six innings, improving to 4-0 with a 1.59 ERA in his last five starts.
— Ryan Pressly got Luis Torrens to ground into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded in the ninth inning, preserving the Astros’ 2-1 win over the Mariners. Yordan Álvarez broke an eighth-inning tie with a two-out bases-loaded single off Paul Sewald, who had relieved Marco Gonzales. Jeremy Peña hit a second-inning home run, giving Houston its first lead of the series.
— The Blue Jays overcame two homers by Shohei Ohtani to beat the Angels, 11-10. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. doubled home the tiebreaking run in the eighth for his season-high fifth RBI. Raimel Tapia drove in three and Bo Bichette hit a tying homer in the eighth before Toronto earned its first four-game sweep of the Angels in 30 years. Los Angeles fell behind, 6-2, and took a 9-6 lead before dropping its fifth in a row.
— The Athletics pulled out a 6-5 win over the Rangers on Jed Lowrie’s two-out RBI single off Brett Martin in the bottom of the ninth. Tony Kemp, Cristian Pache, Seth Brown and Elvis Andrus had two hits apiece to help Oakland win. Corey Seager homered for the second consecutive day for the Rangers, who matched their season-high of five errors.
— Homers by Harold Castro and Jeimer Candelario powered the Tigers past the Guardians, 2-1. Castro homered for the third time in three games to help Detroit win with just four hits. The Tigers beat Cleveland for just the seventh time in their last 28 games at Comerica Park.
— Sonny Gray cruised into the seventh inning and Gio Urshela banged out a three-run homer as the Twins topped the Royals, 7-3. Gray allowed two hits and retired 14 in a row before Andrew Benintendi’s single leading off the seventh. The Minnesota starter left the game in the seventh with a sore right pectoral muscle.
— Tyler Anderson threw six effective innings and Will Smith belted a solo as the Dodgers completed a four-game sweep of the Diamondbacks, 3-1. Anderson scattered five hits and has given up just two earned runs over his last 21 innings, spanning three starts that all ended in wins. Los Angeles added two more runs in the third on Freddie Freeman’s RBI single and Trea Turner’s RBI groundout.
— The Padres beat the Pirates, 4-2 on Trent Grisham’s two-run, walk-off homer in the ninth inning. Padres rookie lefty MacKenzie Gore pitched seven scoreless innings before the Pirates broke through against Nabil Crismatt to tie it at 2-2 in the eighth. Catcher Jorge Alfaro scored on the game-winning drive and made a diving play to tag automatic runner Hoy Park on a wild pitch in the top of the 10th.
— The Mets wasted a 3-0 lead before scoring once in each of their final two at-bats to complete a three-game sweep of the Phillies, 5-4 in 10 innings. Eduardo Escobar delivered a walk-off double after Nick Plummer singled home the tying run with his first major league hit. Nick Castellanos crushed a go-ahead, three-run homer in the eighth for the Phils after Chris Bassitt held them to a run and two hits over six frames.
— Marcell Ozuna homered twice while the Braves sprayed nine extra-base hits in a 6-3 verdict over the Marlins. Ozuna and Austin Riley hit back-to-back homers off Elieser Hernández in the first inning. Of the Braves’ 11 hits, six were doubles and three were homers.
— Evan Longoria’s fourth homer in as many games was a go-ahead, three-run drive in a six-run eighth inning that lifted the Giants over the Reds, 6-4. Tyler Mahle took a no-hit bid into the seventh and Cincinnati led 2-0 in the eighth when Tommy La Stella doubled off Jeff Hoffman with one out. Luis González doubled in two runs for a 6-2 lead as San Francisco avoided a three-game sweep.
— Juan Soto snapped a 15-game home run drought with a two-run shot in the Nationals’ 6-5 decision over the Rockies. Lane Thomas also hit a two-run shot as Washington took three of four from Colorado. Rockies starter Kyle Freeland exited with an apparent left leg injury with two outs in the sixth inning.
