Arizona, USA: Brandon Belt homered and drove in three runs as visiting San Francisco snapped a five-game losing streak.
Belt broke a 4-4 tie in the eighth with a two-out, two-run single off Brad Ziegler (1-1). Ziegler retired the next two batters before loading the bases with consecutive walks to Gregor Blanco and Brandon Crawford.
Jean Machi (1-0) earned his first major-league victory with a scoreless seventh inning and Sergio Romo worked around a leadoff single in the ninth for his ninth save for San Francisco, which ended a six-game road losing skid.
Meanwhile, Oakland’s Brandon Moss hit a walk-off two-run homer in the 19th inning to end the longest game in history - 6 hours, 32 minutes - for both teams, and of the baseball season.
Moss homered twice for the Athletics, who were twice down to their final out before rallying. Jerry Blevins (2-0), the last relief pitcher available for Oakland, worked the final 1 2/3 innings.
The Athletics rallied from a five-run deficit against the Angels’ bullpen by scoring four times in the eighth followed by a two-out RBI single by Yoenis Cespedes in the ninth to hand Ernesto Frieri a blown save.
Albert Pujols had four hits for the Angels, including two solo home runs.
In another game, Nolan Arenado recorded his first three major-league hits - including a home run - and Tyler Chatwood pitched six shutout innings and went 3-for-4 with two RBIs for visiting Colorado.
The Rockies did not take batting practice after a mechanical problem with their plane led to a late arrival in Los Angeles.
It hardly mattered, though, as they recorded 19 hits, the most at Dodger Stadium in team history en route to only their third win in the last nine games.
Nick Green’s second sacrifice fly of the game plated Justin Ruggiano with the winning run in the bottom of the 15th inning as Miami rallied to beat New York.
Rob Brantly singled home the tying run for his third hit before Green lifted a pitch by Shaun Marcum (0-2) to left field to win the contest.
Ruben Tejada, who had three hits, put New York ahead 3-2 in to the top of the 15th with an RBI infield single off winning pitcher Jon Rauch (1-2).
Joe Saunders allowed two runs and four hits in a complete-game effort and improved to 6-0 against Baltimore as host Seattle won the opener of the three-game series.
Former Orioles infielder Robert Andino delivered the tiebreaking single in the fourth inning and Kyle Seager’s run-scoring triple capped a three-run sixth as the Mariners won for the fourth time in five games.
Andrelton Simmons drove in the go-ahead run with a seventh-inning sacrifice fly, lifting hosts Atlanta in the opener of a four-game series.
Washington took a 2-1 lead in the second on run-scoring singles by Chad Tracy and Kurt Suzuki. Atlanta tied the contest at 2-2 in the fourth on Gerald Laird’s single to center.
Washington starter Stephen Strasburg gave up two runs with eight strikeouts in six innings and remains 1-4 on the season.
Elsewhere, Cody Ransom homered and drove in the go-ahead run against his former team as hosts Chicago claimed the opener of a four-game series.
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