Los Angeles Dodgers’ Austin Barnes hits a single in the eighth inning against the Atlanta Braves at Dodger Stadium on Saturday.
Corey Seager, Chase Utley and Chris Taylor homered, and Rich Hill pitched 6 1/3 strong innings to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves at Dodger Stadium on Saturday.
Hill (7-4) struck out eight and allowed two runs and six hits. Los Angeles snapped a two-game slide after winning 11 in a row.
Francisco Lindor’s home run leading off the bottom of the 10th inning lifted Cleveland over Toronto.
Lindor hit a 3-2 pitch from reliever Danny Barnes (2-3) over the right field wall for his 15th home run. Bryan Shaw (3-4) got the last out of the top of the 10th to get the win.
Wilmer Flores’ walk-off homer in the ninth inning capped a stirring comeback by New York, which scored the final six runs to stun Oakland.
Flores’ line-drive homer into the left field seats off Simon Castro (0-1) gave the Mets their fourth straight win. New York tied the score in the eighth when Travis d’Arnaud doubled with two outs and scored on Lucas Duda’s pinch-hit RBI single.
Elsewhere, Nelson Cruz singled home Ben Gamel with the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning as Seattle overcame another home run by Aaron Judge to defeat New York.
Gamel, a former Yankee, led off the 10th with a double off the center-wall field against New York reliever Adam Warren (2-2). After an intentional walk to Robinson Cano, Cruz lined a single to left field to score the winning run.
The Yankees tied the score in the ninth against closer Edwin Diaz, who had converted all five of his save opportunities since the All-Star break, on Ronald Torreyes two-out RBI single.
Meanwhile, Anthony Rizzo hit a go-ahead double in a three-run eighth inning as Chicago rallied past St. Louis. The Cubs tied the score in the eighth with Ben Zobrist’s RBI double and Kris Bryant’s broken-bat, RBI single. Paul DeJong and Randal Grichuk hit back-to-back home runs off Jon Lester (7-6) in the eighth inning to put the Cardinals ahead.
Albert Pujols had three hits and Andrelton Simmons hit his 10th home run of the season and drove in three runs as Los Angeles defeated Boston.
The Angels’ JC Ramirez (9-8) had a rough two innings, allowing four hits and two walks and making an error, then bounced back and retired 12 straight at one point to pick up the win. Ben Revere had two hits and a stolen base for Los Angeles.
The Red Sox’s David Price (5-3), who had allowed only two runs in his previous 23 innings, gave up six runs (five earned), seven hits and walked three in five innings, his worst outing since an early June loss to the Yankees.
