George Lombard Jr. hit his second career homer in the seventh to give the Yankees a 4-2 lead. The shortstop, who homered in his big league debut Tuesday, also drew a walk in the fifth following consecutive successful ABS challenges.<\/p>\n
New York rookie Spencer Jones drove two runs, with a single in the second and his first career triple in the fifth. Jones also scored the tie-breaking run on a balk by Sale in the fifth. Ben Rice added his 32nd homer in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Cole allowed two runs in the fifth and four of his six hits in the frame. He struck out nine and walked two in his third straight win.<\/p>\n
Cole, who was the 2023 AL Cy Young winner, became the 13th Yankee to reach 1,000 career strikeouts when he got Matt Olson to end the fifth.<\/p>\n
Lombard opened the fifth with a walk against Sale. Jones tripled, scoring Lombard. New York went ahead when Sale was called for a balk by plate umpire Dan Merzel before throwing a pitch to Austin Wells.<\/p>\n
BOSTON \u2014 Boston failed in its bid for a second winning streak of 10 or more games in the same season, losing to the Athletics.<\/p>\n
Boston recorded a\u00a0franchise record-tying 15-game winning stretch, matching a mark from 1946, before it was stopped on July 22. The team\u2019s attempt for a second streak of 10 or more games for the first time in the franchise\u2019s 126-year history fell short against the A\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Gage Jump worked six strong innings, Tyler Soderstrom and Henry Bolte hit solo homers, and Jonah Heim and Donovan Walton added two-run doubles for the Athletics, who snapped a nine-game skid. The A\u2019s hadn\u2019t won\u00a0since beating the Red Sox at home on July 28.<\/p>\n
Jump (5-7) struck out a season-high 11 and allowed two runs and six hits.<\/p>\n
Andruw Monasterio had a two-run single in the first inning for the Red Sox, whose nine-game run started the day after Jump earned a victory by pitching six scoreless innings.<\/p>\n
Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras returned after missing two games with an illness, went 0 for 4 and was booed for jogging lightly on a ground out.<\/p>\n
The Athletics\u2019 bullpen, which entered with the majors\u2019 highest ERA (5.64), allowed one run in the last three innings. Hogan Harris got the last four outs for his 10th save.<\/p>\n
MIAMI \u2014 Sandy Alcantara struck out eight in seven innings, becoming the Miami Marlins\u2019 career leader in innings pitched, and Xavier Edwards had three RBIs in a victory over Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Alcantara (13-6) broke the\u00a0record\u00a0in the third, working his 1,226th inning and passing Ricky Nolasco, who pitched 1,225 2\/3 innings for the Marlins from 2006-13. He gave up three hits and walked one. Reliever Pete Fairbanks struck out all three batters in the ninth to end the game.<\/p>\n
Edwards hit an RBI double as Miami took a 2-0 lead in the third, followed by Otto Lopez\u2019s two-run single to double the Marlins\u2019 lead. Jakob Marsee tripled to lead off the fifth, and Edwards singled to send him home.<\/p>\n
Griffin Conine singled and Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez doubled in the fifth to make it 7-0.<\/p>\n
Angels starter Walbert Ure\u00f1a (7-8) pitched the first 2 1\/3 innings. He allowed four hits and four earned runs. He walked three and struck out two. Brett Kerry pitched the final 5 2\/3 innings, striking out seven and walking one. He gave up six hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Lombard Jr. hit his second career homer in the seventh to give the Yankees a 4-2 lead.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-851533","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\/851533","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=851533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}