Michael Brantley singled in Greg Allen with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Cleveland Indians their second consecutive walk-off victory, 5-4 over the visiting Minnesota Twins on Thursday afternoon.
Allen opened the inning with a single off reliever Addison Reed (1-6), stole second and went to third on groundout by Francisco Lindor—who had won Wednesday night’s contest with a three-run, walk-off homer. Brantley followed with the game-winning single through a drawn-in infield into right field.
It was 12th walk-off loss for Minnesota, the most for the Twins since their 1987 World Series winning squad.
Lindor had two hits—his American League-leading 47th multi-hit game—and drove in three runs, and Yonder Alonso homered for Cleveland. Jason Kipnis walked three times and scored two runs for the Indians, who improved to 21-6 at home against AL Central opponents.
Nationals 6, Braves 3
Michael A. Taylor took advantage of a surprise opportunity, and Gio Gonzalez threw seven strong innings as host Washington defeated Atlanta.Bryce Harper was in the original starting lineup for the Nationals. Manager Dave Martinez scratched the All-Star in favor of Taylor due to Harper experiencing lower right leg discomfort as a result of being hit by a pitch Wednesday.
Padres 8, Brewers 4
Hunter Renfroe hit a grand slam in the top of the ninth to highlight a six-run inning and lead visiting San Diego to a victory at Milwaukee in the rubber match of a three-game series.Renfroe’s drive off Joakim Soria into the left field seats was his 12th home run of the season. He has homered in four consecutive games as part of a career-best seven-game hitting streak.
Rookie Franmil Reyes followed Renfroe with an opposite-field homer to right off Jacob Barnes for the Padres’ final run.
Blue Jays 8, Red Sox 5
Mookie Betts hit for the cycle for the first time in his career Thursday night, but it was not enough to give the visiting Boston Red Sox a three-game sweep over the Toronto Blue Jays, who held on to win 8-5.Boston’s six-game winning streak ended while Toronto snapped a three-game skid.
Betts hit his 27th homer of the season against Ken Giles in the ninth inning to go with a single in the first, a triple in the second and a double in the fourth. It was the first cycle of the major league season. He also walked in the sixth.
Dodgers 8, Rockies 5
Chris Taylor and Brian Dozier homered in a three-run ninth inning that snapped a 5-5 tie, and Los Angeles beat Colorado in Denver.Cody Bellinger, Joc Pederson and Max Muncy also went deep for Los Angeles, and Caleb Ferguson (3-1) got the win with 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief. The Dodgers moved into a tie with the idle Arizona Diamondbacks for first place in the NL West.
Chris Iannetta went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer, and Nolan Arenado also had three hits for the Rockies, who have lost three of four on their homestand and fell to 2-7 in August.
Yankees 7, Rangers 3
Giancarlo Stanton hit a mammoth solo homer in the fifth inning, J.A. Happ pitched six solid innings, and New York beat visiting Texas.Stanton homered for the third straight game when he hammered a 1-1 fastball from rookie Ariel Jurado (2-2) into the lower rows of the left field bleachers.
Mariners 8, Astros 6
Mitch Haniger, Denard Span and Jean Segura -- the top third of the Seattle batting order -- combined to finish 10-for-13 with six runs and seven RBIs in a win at Houston. The trio totaled seven extra-base hits, with Span and Segura each recording their ninth homers.James Paxton (10-5) improved to 4-0 in four starts against the Astros this season. Paxton wound up surrendering four runs on seven hits and three walks with five strikeouts over 5 2/3 innings.
Astros starter Justin Verlander was ejected after the second inning, having allowed six runs on seven hits with two strikeouts and no walks.
Rays 5, Orioles 4
Jake Bauers drove in three runs, two on a single that gave Tampa Bay the lead in the seventh inning, as the Rays twice rallied to knock off Baltimore in the rubber game of a three-game series in St. Petersburg, Fla.After the Orioles broke a 3-3 tie in the top of the seventh on a solo home run by Renato Nunez, the Rays loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning against Cody Carroll (0-1), who walked two in setting up Bauers’ two-out hit to right.
Pirates 10, Giants 5
Elias Diaz, Josh Bell and David Freese hit home runs as Pittsburgh, using a five-run seventh inning that was set up by two errors, overpowered host San Francisco in the opener of a four-game series.Ivan Nova (7-6) limited San Francisco to two runs on three hits over six innings.
Diaz smacked a two-run homer in the second inning off Giants starter Andrew Suarez (4-8), and Bell immediately followed with a long ball as the Pirates took a 3-0 lead and were never headed.
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