Blue Jays beat Giants 6-3 for ninth straight home win

TORONTO (AP)– Addison Barger had a career-high 4 hits, Will Wagner hit a go-ahead two-run double in a four-run 6th inning and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Saturday for their ninth straight home victory.Tyler Heineman

homered and drove in 3 runs for heaven Jays. They have actually won 15 of 19.

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Eric Lauer started out seven in 6 innings as the AL East-leading Blue Jays won for the 21st time in their past 25 home games. Toronto is 34-16 at home.Jeff Hoffman finished for his 23rd save in 27 chances.The Blue Jays routed 2-0 getting in the bottom of the 6th versus right-hander Logan Webb, however turned it around as five of the first six batters had hits.Webb (9-7) allowed 4 runs and a season-high 11 hits in 6 innings.Willy Adames hit a pair of solo crowning achievement for the Giants, his 13th and 14th. It was his ninth career multihomer game.Lauer(5-2)allowed two runs and 2 hits in six innings. The left-hander retired the very first 13 batters in order before Adames homered in

the fifth.Advertisement MARLINS 3, ROYALS 1 MIAMI(AP )– Otto López hit a consent two-run double in the eighth inning and Miami beat Kansas City.Xavier Edwards tripled and doubled for the

Marlins, who won their fourth straight and are

21-10 since June 13. Miami’s Kyle Stowers doubled and had two strolls after striking five homers in the last 2 games.Salvador Pérez homered

for the Royals’ run.Graham Pauley drew a leadoff walk versus Kansas City reducer Lucas Erceg(4-3)in the 8th before he advanced two bases on Edwards’double. After Jesús Sánchez was purposefully strolled, López hit a drive over left-fielder Nick Loftin to score Pauley and Edwards.Advertisement Anthony

Bender closed with an ideal ninth for his third save.REDS 5, METS 2 NEW YORK(AP )– Jake Fraley matched a career high with 3 hits and drove in two runs as Cincinnati Reds beat New York.On a joyful afternoon at Citi Field, the Mets honored David Wright by retiring his No. 5 jersey and inducting him into the group’s Hall of Fame during a pregame ceremony. They jumped out to a 2-0 lead, too, before Fraley doubled

and scored on a two-base tossing error by catcher Luis Torrens in the third inning.Fraley then provided a tiebreaking single in the 4th and a run-scoring

double in the sixth for the Reds, who moved a season-high 5 games over.500 at 52-47. Ad New York’s first two batters reached base in the ninth, but Emilio Pagán pitched out of problem to earn his 21st save.PHILLIES 9, ANGELS 5 PHILADELPHIA(AP )– Kyle Schwarber struck a grand slam in the sixth inning and Bryce Harper capped the scoring

with a two-run homer in the eighth, carrying Philadelphia to a win over Los Angeles.Schwarber’s shot to ideal field off reducer José Fermin was his 8th profession grand slam and 32nd homer of the season.Taylor Ward and Jo

Adell struck back-to-back crowning achievement for the Angels in the 4th inning for a 3-1 lead that wouldn’t stand after Los Angeles

starter Yusei Kikuchi left after 5 strong innings.Advertisement The Phillies destroyed what could have been a big inning in the first, when Schwarber and Trea Turner got caught in rundowns and were tagged out on the exact same grounder by Harper.

Nick Castellanos followed that with a two-out, RBI single for a 1-0 lead.WHITE SOX 10, PIRATES 4 PITTSBURGH(AP )– Mike Tauchman had a go-ahead

three-run double in a six-run 6th inning, Lenyn Sosa had three hits and three RBIs and Chicago beat Pittsburgh.Tauchman provided Chicago a 7-4 lead with the two-out double off Isaac Mattson. The White Sox scored the first four runs of the inning off

Caleb Ferguson (2-2), who retired one batter and quit 4 hits.Advertisement Bryan Reynolds and Nick Gonzales had back-to-back songs leading off the fourth against Adrian Houser. Both scored on a one-out double by Ke’Bryan Hayes, who scored on a two-out single by Isiah Kiner-Falefa

to provide the Pirates a 3-0 lead.Luis Robert Jr. had the first hit off novice Mike Burrows when he reached on an infield single with one out in the fifth. Robert took his 24th base before scoring on a single by Sosa. Josh Rojas’RBI double cut it to 3-2. RAYS 4, ORIOLES 3 TAMPA, Fla.(AP )– Chandler Simpson had a tying RBI single and scored the consent work on Ryan O’Hearn’s throwing error in a three-run eighth inning in Tampa Bays’triumph

over Baltimore.Advertisement Tampa Bay rallied after Seranthony Domínguez changed Baltimore starter Dean Kremer to start the eighth inning with the Orioles leading 2-1. Ha-Seong Kim had a leadoff single and a take and scored on Simpson’s single to center. Simpson took 2nd and

innovative to 3rd when José Caballero walked on a wild pitch. Caballero stole his 32nd base– tops in the majors– and Gregory Soto replaced Domínguez with the bases filled. Jonathan Aranda hit a grounder to O’Hearn in the beginning base, however his throw home was off target when Soto crossed his course enabling 2 to score for a 4-2 lead.Tyler O’Neill had a one-out double off Scott Fairbanks in the ninth and scored on Cedric Mullins’two-out single to get Baltimore within a run. Mullins swiped his 14th base before Fairbanks

completed it for his 16th save in 19 opportunities.RANGERS 4, TIGERS 1 Advertisement ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)– Kumar Rocker took a no-hitter into the 6th inning and Rowdy Tellez hit a three-run crowning achievement in his second game with the Rangers as Texas beat slumping Detroit.Rocker(4-4 )pitched 6 1/3 innings, enabling only Wenceel Pérez’s two-out single in the 6th that was pulled down the first-base line on an 0-2 cut fastball that was low and inside.The rookie set out five and walked three, tossing 96 pitches, one shy of his career high.The Rangers won for the sixth time in their last eight games in spite of having just four hits. At 50-49, they’re over.500 for the very first time since being 25-24 on May 20. Riley Greene separated the nothing quote with a ninth-inning crowning achievement.