
Mariners sweep Tigers with 35 runs in three-game series
Julio Rodriguez, Randy Arozarena and Mitch Garver also hit solo home runs for the Mariners, who humbled the major league-leading Tigers with 12-3 and 15-7 wins in the first two games of the series.
Seattle's 35 runs is the most they have scored in a three-game series since 2002.
The Tigers are taking a season-high four-game losing streak into the All-Star break.
After Polanco broke a 4-all tie in the ninth and Young created a two-run cushion, the Mariners scored two more runs.
Matt Brash (1-0) struck out two in the eighth to earn the win.
Tommy Kahnle (1-2) gave up three runs on two hits and a walk without getting an out in the pivotal ninth.
Detroit scored two unearned runs off Logan Gilbert in the first inning, taking advantage of Luke Raley's throwing error, and went ahead again in the seventh on Riley Greene's 24th homer of the season.
RED SOX 4, RAYS 1
BOSTON (AP) — Ceddanne Rafaela hit a two-run homer, Brayan Bello pitched one-run ball into the seventh inning and Boston extended its winning streak to 10 games with a series-sweeping victory over Tampa Bay.
Rafaela, who
hit a walk-off, two-run homer
for Boston on Friday, hit his 14th homer of the season in the sixth inning. Trevor Story added a go-ahead single in the sixth.
Boston last had a 10-game win streak in July 2018 and heads into the All-Star break in third place in the competitive AL East, behind Toronto and the New York Yankees.
Tampa Bay's Chandler Simpson extended his hitting streak to 16 games, a club record for a rookie. The Rays lost for the 11th time in 14 games and closed out their road trip to Minnesota, Detroit and Boston with a 2-8 record.
The 26-year-old Bello (6-3) gave up six hits, struck out five and didn't issue a walk over 6 1/3 innings. He was coming off
his first nine-inning complete game
in his previous start. All-Star Aroldis Chapman struck out the final three batters for his 17th save.
Boston moved ahead 1-0 when Rays third baseman Junior Caminero was called for obstruction with his foot blocking the bag on a pickoff play, allowing Marcelo Mayer to score.
The Rays snapped an 18-inning scoreless stretch in the fourth inning, tying the game on Josh Lowe's sacrifice fly.
Ryan Pepiot (6-7) gave up four runs, three earned, in six innings.
CUBS 4, YANKEES 1
NEW YORK (AP) — Shota Imanaga struck out Aaron Judge twice while pitching seven sparkling innings, leading Chicago to a victory over New York.
In his fourth start since returning from a strained left hamstring, Imanaga (6-3) allowed a homer to Giancarlo Stanton in the second and a single to Austin Wells in the seventh. He struck out six and walked one.
Michael Busch and Dansby Swanson homered for the Cubs, who headed into the All-Star break with 57 wins, their most since 2008. Daniel Palencia handled the ninth for his 12th save, finishing a two-hitter.
Stanton hit his 433rd career homer as the Yankees lost their second straight following a five-game winning streak. Judge struck out twice on splitters, a day after hitting his 350th career homer.
Cody Bellinger went 0 for 3 on his 30th birthday and had a career-high 17-game hitting streak stopped. He was traded from Chicago to New York in December.
Busch connected on Will Warren's second pitch in his first career plate appearance in the leadoff spot. Swanson made it 3-1 with a tiebreaking two-run drive off Ian Hamilton in the sixth.
Pete Crow-Armstrong added an RBI infield single that scored Seiya Suzuki from second in the seventh when shortstop Anthony Volpe's throw to first baseman Paul Goldschmidt bounced.
Warren (6-5) permitted two runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings.
RANGERS 5, ASTROS 1
HOUSTON (AP) — Marcus Semien hit his 250th career home run and Adolis García also went deep to back up a strong start by Nathan Eovaldi and give Texas a series clinching victory over Houston.
Eovaldi (7-3) limited Houston to five hits and a run with eight strikeouts in 7 2/3 innings for his third straight win.
Houston starter Hunter Brown (9-4) allowed five hits and four runs while striking out eight in five innings as the AL West leaders lost for the fifth time in six games. It was the second straight tough outing for the All-Star, who gave up a season-high six runs in his last start against Cleveland.
Wyatt Langford walked to open the second and the Rangers made it 1-0 when he scored on a triple by Evan Carter. There were two outs in the inning when Carter scored on a ground-rule double by Ezequiel Duran to push the lead to 2-0.
García's third homer in the last four games put Texas ahead 3-0 with two outs in the third inning.
Carter doubled to start the fourth and Kyle Higashioka singled before Carter scored on a sacrifice fly by Alejandro Osuna to make it 4-0.
The Astros cut it to 4-1 on a home run by Zack Short with no outs in the sixth inning.
Semien's shot with one out in the eighth inning was his second of the series and gave him 250 in his 13-year career.
REDS 4, ROCKIES 2
CINCINNATI (AP) — TJ Friedl homered and scored three times, and Cincinnati manager Terry Francona got his 2,000th win when he directed the Reds to a win over Colorado.
Matt McLain and Austin Hays each had two hits as Cincinnati won the rubber game of the weekend series. Nick Martinez (7-9) pitched 5 1/3 innings of two-run ball.
The Reds are 50-47 at the All-Star break in their first season since Francona
was hired
in October. The 66-year-old Francona is 2,000-1,719 in 24 years
as a big league skipper
.
Mickey Moniak drove in two runs for Colorado, and Austin Gomber (0-3) allowed two earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.
The Rockies go into the break with a major league-worst 22-74 record. They have dropped seven of nine.
PIRATES 2, TWINS 1
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Spencer Horwitz had a bases-loaded RBI ground out in the ninth inning and Pittsburgh ended an eight-game slide by beating Minnesota.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa tied a career high with four hits for Pittsburgh.
Ke'Bryan Hayes singled with one out in the ninth off Twins closer Jhoan Duran (5-4). Pinch-hitter Oneil Cruz had an infield single and Kiner-Falefa singled to load the bases.
Horwitz hit a sharp grounder that second baseman Brooks Lee dove to his right to stop. Looking to start a double play, Lee couldn't cleanly get the ball out of his glove and had to settle for a force out at first allowing Hayes to score.
Dennis Santana pitched a scoreless eighth (3-2) for the Pirates and David Bednar earned his 13th save.
Byron Buxton, Carlos Correa and Harrison Bader each had two hits for Minnesota, which finished 6-3 on a nine-game homestand but failed to get back to .500 for the first time since June 17.
Mitch Keller allowed one run in six innings for Pittsburgh but again got little support. The Pirates have scored one or zero runs while Keller is in the game in 11 of his 20 starts.
Yet, his 14 quality starts are tied for second in the majors with Philadelphia's Zack Wheeler. San Francisco's Logan Webb has 15.
Tommy Pham homered in the second for Pittsburgh. Buxton,
who hit for the cycle Saturday
, had an RBI double in the third.
BREWERS 8, NATIONALS 1
MILWAUKEE (AP) — All-Star Freddy Peralta pitched one-run ball through 6 2/3 innings, Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang homered and Milwaukee extended its winning streak to seven games with a victory over Washington.
Peralta (11-4) carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning before Jacob Young, Washington's No. 9 hitter, slapped a hit through the infield between third and short. The 29-year-old right-hander got the first four Nationals to open the game and rebounded after Turang's two-base fielding error on Luis García Jr.'s grounder in the second inning by retiring the next 12 batters.
Peralta, who allowed three hits and a walk and struck out seven, left the game following Daylen Lile's run-scoring single with two out in the seventh. The Brewers climbed to a season-best 16 games above .500 at 56-40.
Peralta made his 20th start of the season and relinquished his second All-Star selection. Reliever Trevor Megill took Peralta's spot and joins rookie right-hander Jacob Misiorowski on the NL team.
Chourio hit a three-run homer and Turang added a solo shot, all in the eighth, for Milwaukee.
Washington's Jake Irvin (7-5) allowed four hits in five innings with five strikeouts.
Brewers right fielder Sal Frelick left the game in the third after making a sliding catch in foul territory. The team said he had left hamstring soreness.
Shortstop C.J. Abrams was scratched from Washington's lineup due to minor right-shoulder soreness. Paul DeJong got the start.
After Saturday's game, the Nationals optioned right-hander Shinnosuke Ogasawara (0-1, 13.50 ERA in two starts) to Triple-A Rochester and recalled righty Andry Lara from Double-A Harrisburg on Sunday.
ROYALS 3, METS 2
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Nick Loftin delivered his second game-winning hit in less than a week, driving in Tyler Tolbert from second base with a single in the ninth inning to give Kansas City a win over New York.
Tolbert singled off Sean Manaea, who had been dominant in relief in his season debut for the Mets. And when the speedster stole second base, that gave Loftin the chance to deliver another winner after his deciding single Tuesday against Pittsburgh.
Manaea (0-1), who had been out after straining an oblique in spring training and then developing an elbow issue during his rehab outings, allowed that lone run and five hits while striking out seven in 3 1/3 innings.
Noah Cameron delivered another brilliant start for Kansas City, scattering seven hits while matching a career best with eight strikeouts over 6 2/3 scoreless innings. And the rookie left-hander was in line for his fourth win when John Schreiber and Lucas Erceg shepherded a 2-0 lead — courtesy of John Rave's second-inning double — to All-Star closer Carlos Estévez.
Ronny Mauricio led off the ninth with a double off Estévez (4-2). Jeff McNeil followed with an RBI triple off the center-field wall, and fellow pinch hitter Jared Young delivered a sacrifice fly moments later to tie the game.
Clay Holmes allowed two runs and five hits and a walk over five innings for New York.
GUARDIANS 6, WHITE SOX 5, 10 INNINGS
CHICAGO (AP) — Steven Kwan knocked in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and
made a sliding catch
to help prevent a run from scoring in the bottom of the inning as Cleveland beat Chicago.
Kwan's fly off Brandon Eisert (2-2) scored automatic runner Angel Martínez. Kwan covered a lot of ground in left field and made a catch just inside the foul line on a fly ball by Mike Tauchman leading off the 10th.
Kyle Manzardo hit his 15th homer
— a three-run shot off Aaron Civale, the player he was traded for in June — to cap a four-run sixth and give Cleveland a 4-3 lead. Brayan Rocchio doubled with one out and scored on a force out by José Ramírez for the first run.
Austin Slater hit his fourth home run, a leadoff shot off Joey Cantillo in the fourth, to put the White Sox ahead 1-0. Michael A. Taylor's sac fly and Slater's RBI single extended the lead to 3-0 in the fifth.
Andrew Benintendi hit his 11th home run, a solo shot off Cantillo, to tie it at 4 in the sixth.
Kwan drew a walk in the eighth off Grant Taylor, took third on a single by Nolan Jones and scored on Ramírez's sac fly for a 5-4 lead.
Edgar Quero doubled in the eighth and pinch-runner Will Robertson scored on Luis Robert Jr.'s two-out double to tie it 5-all.
Cantillo allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings with six strikeouts. Closer Emmanuel Clase (5-2) didn't allow a hit in the final two innings as Cleveland won three of four in the series.
MARLINS 11, ORIOLES 1
BALTIMORE (AP) — All-Star Kyle Stowers had his first three-homer game and drove in six runs against his former team, leading Miami to a win over Baltimore.
Stowers is the first Marlins player to hit three homers in a game since Brian Anderson on Sept. 18, 2020, in the second game of a doubleheader against Washington. The 27-yeaer-old left fielder also joins fellow Marlins Mike Lowell (2004) and Cody Ross (2006) in accomplishing the feat.
Ramón Laureano homered for Baltimore, which has lost consecutive games for the first time since July 1-2.
Stowers led off the second inning with
a shot to right
against Brandon Young (0-4) to open the scoring. An inning later, he sent Young's first-pitch curveball 398 feet for
a two-run blast to right-center
.
In the fifth, Stowers worked a 2-2 count before homering
over the scoreboard in right
. The 27-year-old had a base hit in the seventh and added an RBI single in the eighth for his
first career five-hit game
.
It was Stowers' fourth multi-homer game of the season. At the break, he has career highs in home runs (19) and RBIs (54).
Baltimore selected Stowers in the second round of the 2019 amateur draft. He debuted in 2022, and the Orioles sent him to Miami at last year's trade deadline as part of a package for pitcher Trevor Rogers.
Otto Lopez
followed Stowers' homer in the third with a solo shot, the second time Miami hit consecutive home runs this season.
Miami starter Eury Pérez (3-2) allowed three hits and struck out six in seven shutout innings.
Young surrendered a career-high seven runs in 4 1/3 innings.
The game was delayed 1 hour, 38 minutes at the start due to rain.
ATHLETICS 6, BLUE JAYS 3
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Tyler Soderstrom, Nick Kurtz and Austin Wynns each hit a two-run homer, helping the Athletics beat Toronto.
Jeffrey Springs (8-6) pitched 6 2/3 innings of three-run ball in the win. He struck out five and walked none.
The A's won for the third time in four games. They are 41-57 at the All-Star break in their first year in Sacramento.
Davis Schneider and Addison Barger homered for AL East-leading Toronto, who finished with four hits and three errors. The Blue Jays (55-41) dropped to 13-4 in their last 17 games.
The A's jumped in front in the second. With Gio Urshela aboard after a leadoff single, Wynns hit a one-out drive to left off José Berríos for his sixth homer.
Kurtz hit a leadoff double in the third and scored on Soderstrom's 18th homer, a 410-foot drive to center on a 1-2 sinker. Soderstrom hit a total of 12 homers in his first two years in the majors.
The Blue Jays got one back when Schneider hit a solo shot in the fifth. But Kurtz went deep in the bottom half after All-Star Jacob Wilson reached on a throwing error on reliever Tommy Nance.
Wilson and Kurtz are two of the leading contenders for AL Rookie of the Year at the break. Wilson is hitting .332 with nine homers and 42 RBIs, and Kurtz is batting .257 with 17 homers and 44 RBIs.
Berríos (5-4) permitted four runs and five hits in three innings. He went 3-0 with a 2.52 ERA in his previous four starts.
PHILLIES 2, PADRES 1
SAN DIEGO (AP) — J.T. Realmuto doubled in Bryce Harper with the go-ahead run with two outs in the eighth inning and Cristopher Sánchez was impressive for 7 1/3 innings as Philadelphia beat San Diego to prevent a three-game sweep.
Sánchez (8-2) got a nice ovation from several hundred Phillies fans sitting behind the third-base dugout after manager Rob Thomson lifted him with one out in the eighth. He held the Padres to one run and six hits while striking out six and walking three.
With the Padres ceding most of the left side of the infield and All-Star lefty reliever Adrian Morejon (7-4) pitching, the left-handed Harper sent a hard shot a few feet inside the third base line that rolled into left field. David Morgan came on and struck out Nick Castellanos before Realmuto doubled into the gap in left-center to bring in Harper. Morgan shouted into his glove in frustration.
Harper scored both Phillies runs, the first one coming in the first when the Padres committed two errors. He drew a two-out walk off Nick Pivetta, advanced on All-Star third baseman Manny Machado's throwing error and Realmuto's infield single, and scored on first baseman Luis Arraez's throwing error.
DIAMONDBACKS 5, ANGELS 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jose Herrera hit a two-run double in a four-run fourth inning and Arizona avoided a three-game sweep with a victory over the Los Angeles Angels.
Blaze Alexander had two hits as the bottom of the Diamondbacks' order was productive in a positive result just before the All-Star break. Alexander was batting eighth and Herrera ninth for Arizona, which won for just the fourth time in its past 12 games.
Diamondbacks right-hander Merrill Kelly (8-5) overcame early control trouble to give up one run and one hit over five innings. He had six strikeouts, with two of his four walks to the first three Angels batters of the game.
Mike Trout drove in a run for the Angels, who fell short in their bid to earn a third home series sweep since the start of June.
Los Angeles right-hander Jose Soriano (6-7) gave up five runs, but just one was earned over five innings, with three walks.
The Angels led 1-0 after Trout's RBI single in the third inning.
The Diamondbacks moved in front 4-1 in the fourth inning on a game-tying grounder from Eugenio Suarez, an RBI double from Alexander and Herrera's two-run double. Suarez added an RBI double in the fifth.
DODGERS 5, GIANTS 2, 11 INNINGS
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Freddie Freeman blooped a single into shallow right-center with two outs in the 11th inning to score James Outman for the go-ahead run, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat San Francisco for a winning series, one day after snapping a season-worst, seven-game losing streak.
Spencer Bivens (2-3) intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani to start the 11th and retired Mookie Betts and Will Smith before Freeman delivered with a ball that dropped between three Giants.
Teoscar Hernández then beat out an infield single for an insurance run and Andy Pages followed with an RBI single.
Ben Casparius (7-3) got Willy Adames to ground out ending the 10th, then pitched a perfect 11th for the win.
Pinch-hitter Luis Matos hit a tying two-run homer in the ninth after Matt Chapman's one-out single started the rally against Tanner Scott, who blew his seventh save in 26 opportunities.
Miguel Rojas homered and Freeman had an early RBI double that had Los Angeles ahead until the ninth.
Dodgers starter and first-time All-Star Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out seven over seven innings and allowed three hits.
CARDINALS 5, BRAVES 4
ST. LOUIS (AP) — José Fermín hit his first major league home run to break a sixth-inning tie in St. Louis' victory over Atlanta.
In his 159th career plate appearance, the 26-year-old Fermín smacked a sinker over the left-field fence off Jesse Chavez (0-1) with Masyn Wynn on base to cap the scoring.
Two rain delays totaled 4 hours, 2 minutes. The game lasted 2:38.
The Braves added a run off Gordon Graceffo (3-0) in the seventh. Graceffo threw 1 2/3 innings. Ryan Helsley pitched the ninth for his 19th save.
Matt Olson led the Braves with three RBIs on two hits.
Chavez started the fifth for Atlanta. He gave up two runs with two outs when Willson Contreras dropped a double in shallow right field to tie it at 3.
Reliever Steven Matz surrendered two runs in the fifth. Just before the game was halted for a second time, Olson singled home two runs for a 3-1 advantage.

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MLB Insider Expects Seth Lugo Trade; Cubs Listed Potential 'Best Fit'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The Kansas City Royals were one of the better storylines in baseball last year. They went from being one of the worst teams in the league to a postseason contender in one season. Now, the Royals have fallen off a bit, currently sitting four games under .500 shortly after the All-Star break. With the team struggling to stay afloat, it should be expected that the front office will trade away some of the team's expiring contracts ahead of the trade deadline, potentially including its ace, Seth Lugo. ESPN's Jeff Passan recently listed the Chicago Cubs as one of the best fits in a trade for Lugo this year. MIAMI, FLORIDA - JULY 18: Seth Lugo #67 of the Kansas City Royals reatcs after allowing a home run to Jesús Sánchez #7 of the Miami Marlins in the game against the Kansas City Royals... MIAMI, FLORIDA - JULY 18: Seth Lugo #67 of the Kansas City Royals reatcs after allowing a home run to Jesús Sánchez #7 of the Miami Marlins in the game against the Kansas City Royals at loanDepot park on July 18, 2025 in Miami, Florida. More Jasen Vinlove/"Lugo has posted mid-3.00s or lower ERAs for five seasons despite having below-average fastball velocity and good-not-great strikeout rates," Passan wrote. "His ability to strand runners and limit hard contact comes in part thanks to his nine different pitches. With a Nathan Eovaldi-type contract awaiting Lugo in free agency, Kansas City could opt to move him, especially if Cole Ragans' injured shoulder doesn't improve." The Cubs have struggled with pitching depth for months now. It's very likely their front office will go all in at the trade deadline with starting pitching being high on their list of priorities. Adding Lugo would be the kind of move to expect out of the Cubs. While going out and getting Sandy Alcántara has been the biggest rumor surrounding Chicago, adding Lugo might be the smarter idea. Lugo was incredible last season and has been solid again this year. He holds a sub-3.00 ERA with an impressive 1.09 WHIP. The righty is the exact kind of pitcher the Cubs need to add to their roster in the coming weeks. More MLB: Could Tigers $66 Million Reunion With Hottest Hitter In Baseball Be In Cards?