BOSTON (AP) — Carlos Santana homered and hit Cleveland’s first triple of the season, Greg Allen added a pair of three-baggers and the Indians pounded out a season-high 18 hits in a 14-9 win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night.
Santana, who finished a single shy of the cycle, was 3 for 4 with five RBIs as Cleveland matched its season best for runs.
Jose Ramirez had two doubles and two RBIs. Allen and Kevin Plawecki also drove in two runs apiece for the Indians, who won two of three against the World Series champions in Boston.
The Indians, shut out over the first seven innings Tuesday night before rallying with seven runs over the last two for a 7-5 win, scored at least once in each of the first seven innings Wednesday.
Mookie Betts, Jackie Bradley Jr., Andrew Benintendi and Xander Bogaerts homered for Boston. The Red Sox scored three in the eighth, two on Bogaerts’ 10th home run of the season, to pull to 14-9 and loaded the bases with one out in the ninth before the Indians called on Brad Hand to close it out for his 15th save.
DODGERS 9, METS 8
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cody Bellinger hit a tying double in the ninth inning and Los Angeles scored four runs off All-Star closer Edwin Díaz to rally past New York.
Joc Pederson and Max Muncy opened the bottom of the ninth with consecutive homers off Díaz (1-3), who was pitching for the fourth time in five days. Justin Turner doubled and scored on Bellinger’s double.
With the bases loaded and still nobody out, Alex Verdugo’s sacrifice fly easily scored Bellinger with the winning run.
Pete Alonso hit a pair of two-run homers to back starter Noah Syndergaard, and the Mets built an 8-3 lead in the seventh following back-to-back homers by Amed Rosario and Dominic Smith. But they squandered an excellent chance to add more, and New York’s shaky bullpen gave up six runs while managing only seven outs the rest of the way.
PHILLIES 11,
CARDINALS 4
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper hit his 10th homer, his 200th career double and drove in four before fouling a ball off his foot and exiting in the fifth inning, and Philadelphia beat St. Louis.
The hot-hitting Harper drove a two-run homer in the third and followed an inning later with a two-run hustle double. He had three hits when he left the game with the Phillies ahead by 10 runs.
Aaron Nola (6-0) struck out eight over seven innings. Scott Kingery and Maikel Franco hit back-to-back homers in the fifth, and Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run shot two batters later to blow the game open.
PIRATES 7, REDS 2
CINCINNATI (AP) — Josh Bell tied Pittsburgh’s record with his 12th homer in May, and the Pirates stopped Derek Dietrich’s home run spree in beating Cincinnati for a split of the teams’ four-game series.
Bell’s three-run homer tied Jason Bay’s mark from May 2006. His 23rd extra-base hit in May left him one shy of Paul Waner’s club record for any month. He had three hits, raising his average to .345 with 18 homers overall.
Colin Moran also had a three-run shot off Anthony DeSclafani (2-3), who has given up seven homers in his last three starts.
YANKEES 7,
PADRES 0
NEW YORK (AP) — DJ LeMahieu and Luke Voit jolted rookie Chris Paddack with instant home runs, James Paxton pitched four hitless innings in his return from the injured list and New York beat San Diego.
Gio Urshela also connected off Paddack, Gleyber Torres hit a late homer and Voit added his first big league triple as the Yankees won their eighth straight series.
San Diego didn’t get a hit until the sixth when Wil Myers’ blooper bounced out of LeMahieu’s glove as he drifted out from second base.
Paddack (4-3) was pulled after five innings trailing 4-0.
NATIONALS 14, BRAVES 4
ATLANTA (AP) — Aníbal Sánchez allowed one hit in six scoreless innings, Howie Kendrick hit a three-run double and Washington withstood a grand slam by rookie Austin Riley to beat Atlanta.
Sánchez (1-6) returned to Atlanta, where he thrived in 2018, to earn his first win of the season. He was perfect through 5 1/3 innings and allowed one hit and one walk with seven strikeouts.
Juan Soto and Matt Adams homered for Washington, which swept the two-game series and ended Atlanta’s streak of five straight series victories. The Nationals have won five of six.
CUBS 2, ASTROS 1
HOUSTON (AP) — Kyle Hendricks pitched eight strong innings, Kyle Schwarber homered for the second straight game and Kris Bryant added a solo shot in his return to the lineup to help Chicago avoid a sweep with a win over Houston.
The game included a scary and jarring moment when a young fan was hit by a foul line drive off the bat of Albert Almora Jr. in the fourth inning. The Astros did not provide an immediate update on the girl’s condition, though a photo taken by The Associated Press appeared to show her conscious and crying as she was quickly whisked away and nearby fans looked on.
Almora, the Cubs’ center fielder, and other players from both teams were visibly shaken up by the scene.
ROCKIES 5,
DIAMONDBACKS 4
DENVER (AP) — Jeff Hoffman pitched five solid innings and beat out a bunt single to drive in a key run as Colorado topped Arizona.
Brendan Rodgers had a two-run single and Trevor Story added three hits for the Rockies, who won their season-high fourth in a row at home and clinched a series win in the four-game set.
Carson Kelly homered and singled to drive in two runs for the Diamondbacks. Adam Jones also went deep and rookie Kevin Cron doubled twice and scored a run.
Hoffman (1-1) allowed three runs and seven hits, helping the Rockies get back to .500 at 27-27. He struck out six and walked two.
RANGERS 8,
MARINERS 7
SEATTLE (AP) — Nomar Mazara and Asdrubal Cabrera hit consecutive doubles in the ninth inning, lifting Texas over Seattle.
The Rangers capitalized on three errors and a wild pitch by relief pitchers in the sixth inning, leading to one of four lead changes. Shin-Soo Choo then hit a two-run single in the eighth to tie it at 7 in an unexpected pinch-hit appearance to set up Texas’ ninth-inning rally.
Texas scored three runs in the first against Wade LeBlanc, but LeBlanc settled in and worked through the fifth inning, leaving with Seattle down 3-0.Things went very wrong when LeBlanc was replaced.
TIGERS 4, ORIOLES 2
BALTIMORE (AP) — Brandon Dixon hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the ninth inning to lead Detroit past Baltimore.
The Tigers took two of the three games and won their first road series since April 1-3 against the Yankees.
Orioles reliever Mychal Givens allowed a solo homer to John Hicks that tied the game 2-2 in the eighth.
RAYS 4, BLUE JAYS 3, 11 INNINGS
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Willy Adames delivered a long single against a five-man infield in the 11th inning, driving in the winning run as Tampa Bay beat Toronto.
Adames’ hit came off Justin Shafrer (0-1), who walked two and allowed a single by Avisail Garcia. With one out and the infield jammed with fielders, Adames drove a ball to deep center field.
Diego Castillo (1-3) got the win after pitching the 11th for the Rays, who have won five straight.
WHITE SOX 8,
ROYALS 7
CHICAGO (AP) — Six innings after being beaned with a pitch from Kansas City starter Glenn Sparkman, Tim Anderson doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth, lifting Chicago over Kansas City.
José Abreu hit a three-run homer, Yoán Moncada also connected and the White Sox swept a three-game series for the first time this season.
Jorge Soler homered and drove in three runs for Kansas City.
