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<\/p>\nThe Toronto Blue Jays have made a steep climb back up the standings and into the chase for the playoffs, but that momentum was put on pause Sunday.<\/p>\n
With a series-ending 4-3 loss to the New York Yankees and a 10-2 win by the Baltimore Orioles over the Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto didn’t gain any ground in the American League, as it still sits a full game back of the final wild-card slot.<\/p>\n
Luckily for the Blue Jays, the teams in the hunt around them also failed to capitalize on Sunday. The Texas Rangers, half a game back of Baltimore \u2014 and ahead of Toronto \u2014 for the third wild-card spot, lost 5-2 to the Athletics. Meanwhile, the Detroit Tigers also remain one game back after a series-sweeping 7-5 loss to the Chicago White Sox. As for the Minnesota Twins, who entered the day also one game back, they dropped another half game after a 7-5 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n
Here’s how the AL standings look after Sunday’s action:<\/p>\n
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YANKEES 4, BLUE JAYS 3, 10 INNINGS<\/p>\n
TORONTO \u2014 Ben Rice hit a tiebreaking home run in the 10th inning and New York beat Toronto to avoid a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n
New York\u2019s four runs were twice as many as they had scored in the previous three games, all losses.<\/p>\n
Rice\u2019s first hit of the series was a two-run homer, his33rd this season, off Braydon Fisher (3-4).<\/p>\n
Tim Hill gave up an RBI single to Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez in the bottom of the 10th but held on for his second save in six chances.<\/p>\n
Toronto erased a 2-1 deficit in the bottom of the ninth but David Bednar (6-3) stranded the winning run at second base.<\/p>\n
Josh Smith reached on Rice\u2019s fielding error to begin the ninth and Alejandro Kirk walked to put the tying run in scoring position. Brandon Valenzuela ran for Kirk and, one out later, both runners moved up on a wild pitch before Ernie Clement tied it with a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Colton Cowser hit a two-run homer and Christian Encarnacion-Strand had a three-run double in a seven-run sixth, Trevor Rogers allowed two runs in six innings and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Jackson Holliday also drove in three runs for Baltimore, which has won three consecutive games as it chases the final wild-card spot in the American League.<\/p>\n
Rogers (8-8) scattered seven hits while striking out six.<\/p>\n
The teams will conclude a four-game series on Monday.<\/p>\n
Freddy Peralta (5-10) allowed just one hit through 4 2\/3 innings but allowed two runs to take the loss in his first start at home for Tampa Bay since being acquired from the New York Mets on Aug. 3. Peralta has not recorded a victory since June 14.<\/p>\n
PITTSBURGH \u2014 Bryan Reynolds, Brandon Lowe, and Nick Yorke each had two RBIs to lift Pittsburgh over Boston after a 2 1\/2-hour rain delay.<\/p>\n
The tarp came out after the sixth inning at 3:35 p.m. local time, and play resumed at 6:05.<\/p>\n
The Pirates won their franchise-best eighth consecutive home series against an AL opponent, a streak extending back to a three-game sweep of Detroit from July 21-23, 2025.<\/p>\n
Reynolds got Pittsburgh on the board first with an RBI double in the first, and scored when Lowe added a single.<\/p>\n
Reynolds singled in a run to spark the Pirates\u2019 five-run third. Lowe added his second RBI single and Yorke hit a two-run single before Henry Davis hit a sacrifice fly that made it 7-0.<\/p>\n
Lake Bachar worked three innings as the opener, surrendering two hits and fanning four. Kirby Yates (1-5) picked up his first win after striking out two in a scoreless seventh.<\/p>\n
ATLANTA \u2014 Matt Olson hit a three-run homer to back six strong innings from Bryce Elder, leading Atlanta past Arizona to avoid a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n
After Ildemaro Vargas homered in the seventh off Didier Fuentes (5-1) to tie the game at 2, Olson hit a 3-0 pitch from Brandyn Garcia over the center-field wall with two outs and a pair of runners aboard in the bottom half.\u00a0The 437-foot shot\u00a0was Olson\u2019s 36th homer of the season.<\/p>\n
Elder bounced back from one of his worst starts of the season by allowing just four hits, including\u00a0Gabriel Moreno\u2019s homer\u00a0leading off the fourth that evened the score at 1. Elder surrendered seven runs and 10 hits in a loss to the New York Mets in his previous appearance.<\/p>\n
Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. put the Braves up 2-1 with\u00a0a run-scoring double\u00a0in the fifth, but he struck out against Garcia with runners at first and third in the seventh. Olson followed with the game-winning homer as the first-place Braves salvaged the series finale after dropping the first two games.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK \u2014 Christian Scott pitched into the seventh inning for the first time since undergoing Tommy John surgery and Luis Torrens hit a two-run homer, helping surging New York win over Washington and a three-game series sweep.<\/p>\n
Scott (4-3) gave up three runs and struck out seven, one shy of his career high, over 6 1\/3 innings \u2014 his longest outing since his big league debut on May 4, 2024, when went 6 2\/3 innings against the Tampa Bay Rays. The right-hander made eight more starts before having the reconstructive elbow surgery three months later.<\/p>\n
Kodai Senga earned his third save by striking out two in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Torrens\u2019 407-foot homer to straightaway center off Jake Irvin (2-7) put the Mets ahead for good in the fourth and was his fourth round-tripper in his last six starts. He had two homers in his first 67 games through Aug. 1.<\/p>\n
CLEVELAND \u2014 Luis Rengifo and Gavin Sheets hit back-to-back home runs in the second inning, Casey Mize allowed three hits in six innings to pick up his first win in a San Diego uniform, and the Padres defeated Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Jase Bowen and Jake Cronenworth also went deep for the Padres, who hit at least four homers in a game for the sixth time this season.<\/p>\n
San Diego \u2014 which took two of three in the weekend series \u2014 has gone 6-0-1 in its last seven series and is a major league best 17-5 since July 24.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez had two hits for the Guardians, who have dropped their last five series and are 4-11 since July 31.<\/p>\n
Mize (5-7), acquired from Detroit at the trade deadline, gave up three hits in his third Padres\u2019 start.<\/p>\n
DETROIT \u2014 Munetaka Murakami hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning and Chicago rallied for a win over Detroit to complete a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n
Chicago trailed 3-0 and 4-1, but scored twice in the fifth and once in the sixth to tie the game.<\/p>\n
Tyler Holton (1-5) walked Sam Antonacci to start the seventh and Murakami followed with his 28th homer of the season to put the White Sox up 6-4.<\/p>\n
The White Sox now lead Detroit by 5 1\/2 games in the AL Central. Hagen Smith (2-0) went 1 2\/3 innings for the win and Sean Newcomb pitched the final two innings for his fourth save.<\/p>\n
CINCINNATI \u2014 Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez and Javier Sanoja hit home runs late in the game to lift Miami over Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
Hern\u00e1ndez hit his team-leading 18th home run of the season to make it 1-0 with two out in the eighth. Agust\u00edn Ram\u00edrez reached on a throwing error by Elly De La Cruz, Xavier Edwards singled, and Sanoja walked to load the bases.<\/p>\n
Griffin Conine took ball four, which Reds catcher Jose Trevino challenged, but the call was confirmed and Ram\u00edrez scored from third.<\/p>\n
Ram\u00edrez added a double in the ninth, which was followed by Sanoja\u2019s three-run homer to make it 7-1.<\/p>\n
Reliever Josh Ekness (1-1) pitched a 1-2-3 seventh. Eury P\u00e9rez pitched the first six innings and allowed two hits. He walked five and struck out five.<\/p>\n
MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Bryan De La Cruz hit a two-run single in the eighth inning and Philadelphia overcame a five-run deficit to beat Minnesota and sweep the three-game series.<\/p>\n
Alec Bohm hit a three-run home run as Philadelphia won for the fifth time in seven games.<\/p>\n
Brooks Lee hit a grand slam, and Kody Clemens also homered for Minnesota, which fell to 4-10 in August.<\/p>\n
Down 5-0, Bohm hit a three-run home run as part of a four-run sixth inning.<\/p>\n
A bloop RBI single by Bohm made it 5-all in the eighth before a roller by De La Cruz snuck between first baseman Royce Lewis and the bag to plate two more runs.<\/p>\n
CHICAGO \u2014 Alec Burleson and Jordan Walker both homered and finished with three hits and four RBIs, and St. Louis pounded Chicago for a second straight win at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n
Burleson has homered in consecutive games, boosting his total to 21 to tie his career high. Walker\u2019s drive, his 24th, was just the second in 30 games for the All-Star right fielder and capped the Cardinals\u2019 six-run fourth inning.<\/p>\n
Walker doubled twice and Burleson once to help St. Louis cruise to its fifth win in seven games.<\/p>\n
Joshua B\u00e1ez, who became the first player to hit\u00a0three home runs in his first three at-bats in the major leagues\u00a0on Saturday, went 0 for 5 with three strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Pete Crow-Armstrong cracked his 28th home run, a two-run shot. Miguel Amaya added a solo drive in the ninth as Chicago lost for the third time in four.<\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Adael Amador and Brett Sullivan each hit a three-run home run Sunday to help Colorado beat San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Amador hit a first-pitch fastball into McCovey Cove in the second inning to take 4-1 lead. It was the 23-year-old\u2019s first home run of the season.<\/p>\n
San Francisco\u2019s Rafael Devers blasted a three-run shot \u2014 his 25th home run this season \u2014 in the second.<\/p>\n
Zac Veen reached on a fielder\u2019s choice and moved to second when Jordan Beck walked before JT Brubaker replaced Sam Hentges with two out in the sixth. Veen scored on a wild pitch to make it 7-7, Amador and Jake McCarthy walked to load the bases and Beck came home with Cole Carrigg was hit by a pitch.<\/p>\n
Mickey Moniak followed with a two-run single that made it 10-7.<\/p>\n
Hentges (1-5) allowed two runs in 1 1\/3 innings in the loss.<\/p>\n
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Zack Gelof and Lawrence Butler each hit two-run homers, Tommy White had his first major league homer and the Athletics beat Texas.<\/p>\n
The A\u2019s won their first home series since June 12-14 in Las Vegas, and first series in West Sacramento since April 28-30. They were 0-12-1 over the previous 13 series at their current home ballpark.<\/p>\n
Jacob Lopez (6-4) struck out six and gave up two runs on five hits in six innings for his first win in his past four starts, after getting no-decisions in his previous three.<\/p>\n
After Jake Burger hit a solo home run in the second to put the Rangers ahead, Butler responded with a 394-footer that wrapped around the right-field pole to give the A\u2019s the lead.<\/p>\n
Hogan Harris locked down the ninth with two strikeouts for his 12th save.<\/p>\n
ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Noah Cameron pitched a one-hitter, Michael Massey and Bobby Witt Jr. hit home runs, and Kansas City beat Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Cameron (7-8) struck out eight and walked one, throwing 115 pitches in nine innings. He gave up his only\u00a0hit\u00a0in the seventh, when Angels first baseman Vaughn Grissom singled high over the head of Witt.<\/p>\n
Cameron retired his first 15 batters before issuing a leadoff walk to Oswald Peraza in the sixth. Peraza advanced on Travis d\u2019Arnaud\u2019s groundout before Josh Lowe struck out swinging and Zach Neto bounced to second.<\/p>\n
He struck out Mike Trout leading off the seventh before Grissom\u2019s single.<\/p>\n
Massey hit a solo home run in the fourth inning for the Royals, followed by Witt\u2019s home run in the fifth to make it 2-0. Carter Jensen hit an RBI single in the seventh.<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES \u2014 Logan Henderson allowed one run in seven innings, Jake Bauers had four hits and two RBIs, and Milwaukee beat Los Angeles to take three of four in the matchup of division leaders.<\/p>\n
Henderson (7-2) struck out six while giving up three hits and one walk in the longest outing of his two-year MLB career, helping the Brewers secure the tiebreaker over the Dodgers.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee is three games ahead of Los Angeles in the race for the National League\u2019s best record.<\/p>\n
Bauers put the Brewers in front 2-1 in the fifth inning with an RBI single and made it 3-1 in the seventh with a scoring double, driving in Jackson Chourio both times.<\/p>\n
Bauers then avoided Ben Rortvedt\u2019s tag at home plate for a 4-1 lead on Andrew Vaughn\u2019s single.<\/p>\n
It was Bauers\u2019 first career 4-for-4 game and his fourth time with four hits.<\/p>\n
HOUSTON \u2014 Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena homered to lead Seattle to a victory over Houston.<\/p>\n
Arozarena went deep in the first inning and Raleigh connected in the sixth to make it 3-1. The victory gives the Mariners a 9-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n
The Mariners led by a run when the Astros loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth inning after Jose Altuve singled when reliever Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez tripped and fell trying to catch his infield pop up.<\/p>\n
But Dom\u00ednguez struck out Daulton Varsho to escape the jam.<\/p>\n
Seattle\u2019s Bryan Woo (9-8) yielded three hits and two runs while striking out five in six innings. Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz walked one in a scoreless ninth for his 22nd save.<\/p>\n
\u2014 with files from Sportsnet staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays have made a steep climb back up the standings and into the chase for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-860940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860940","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=860940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}