HOUSTON \u2014 Luis Severino struck out eight in seven innings and Luis Urias homered to lead the Athletics to a 5-2 victory over AL West-leading Houston.<\/p>\n
Severino (4-11) allowed four hits and two earned runs as the A\u2019s snapped a four-game skid. Mason Miller earned his 20th save.<\/p>\n
Urias hit his eighth homer in the sixth inning and finished with two hits. Nick Kurtz went 3 for 5 with an RBI double in the two-run fourth inning. Max Schuemann also knocked in a run in the inning on a fielder\u2019s choice grounder.<\/p>\n
Christian Walker drove in a run with a sacrifice fly to right field and Victor Caratini scored on a groundout by Cam Smith \u2014 all in the seventh inning \u2014 for the Astros, who had their four-game winning streak halted.<\/p>\n
Jason Alexander (1-1), a former member of the Athletics who was claimed off waivers in May, allowed five earned runs and 11 hits in six innings. The 32-year-old right-hander finished with three strikeouts and two walks.<\/p>\n
CLEVELAND \u2014 Gunnar Henderson singled in Alex Jackson with the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and Charlie Morton matched his longest start of the season, helping the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> to a 4-3 win over the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n Henderson\u2019s liner to right came against Erik Sabrowski, giving the loss to Guardians starter Logan Allen (6-9). The Orioles won for the second time in nine games and avoided a four-game series sweep.<\/p>\n Morton (6-8) went 6.2 innings and threw a season-high 107 pitches, giving up three runs while striking out seven. Gregory Soto tossed a clean ninth for his first save, filling in for injured closer F\u00e9lix Bautista, who is on the injured list with right shoulder discomfort.<\/p>\n Steven Kwan hit a pair of solo homers and Nolan Jones had a sacrifice fly for Cleveland, which is 11-3 since July 7 and wrapped up its homestand with five wins in seven contests. The Guardians\u2019 current surge came immediately after they lost 10 straight.<\/p>\n DETROIT \u2014 Ernie Clement and Joey Loperfido hit back-to back hit home runs in the fifth inning to help surging\u00a0Toronto\u00a0rout slumping\u00a0Detroit\u00a0in a matchup of first-place teams going in opposite directions.<\/p>\n The AL East-leading Blue Jays have won 19 of their last 24 games, and the AL Central-leading Tigers have lost 10 of 11.<\/p>\n Clement\u2019s three-run home run gave Toronto a 4-1 lead and Loperfido followed with a soaring, solo shot to right field.<\/p>\n Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a game-tying double in the sixth to bring home the first of five runs in the inning. Guerrero\u2019s RBI double in the four-run seventh helped the Blue Jays pull away with a 9-1 lead.<\/p>\n The Blue Jays didn\u2019t let up, going ahead 11-1 in the eighth on Nathan Lukes\u2019 two-run homer.<\/p>\n ST. LOUIS \u2014 Brendan Donovan and Willson Contreras hit three-run homers in the second inning and St. Louis beat San Diego in the opener of a four-game series.<\/p>\n Willson had with four RBIs and Donovan finished with three hits. Iv\u00e1n Herrera had three hits and two RBIs, including a solo homer in the sixth.<\/p>\n Sonny Gray (10-4) gave up seven runs \u2014 six earned \u2014 on 11 hits with five strikeouts in five innings. Ryan Helsley pitched a scoreless ninth for his 20th save.<\/p>\n Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado each had three hits for San Diego. Tatis led off the third with a home run and Machado added a two-run shot that made it 7-5.<\/p>\n ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Julio Rodr\u00edguez, Randy Arozarena and Jorge Polanco homered, Logan Evans gave up one run in five innings, and Seattle beat Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Rodr\u00edguez, who stole third base in the first inning, has 15 home runs and 20 stolen bases this season. The 24-year-old is the first player in MLB history with at least 15 homers and 20-plus stolen bases in each of their first four seasons.<\/p>\n Evans (4-3), a 24-year-old rookie, allowed three hits and walked three with three strikeouts. Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz pitched a scoreless ninth for his 23rd save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 Luis Severino struck out eight in seven innings and Luis Urias homered to lead the Athletics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-22639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}