Weston Wilson and Randy Arozarena each went deep in Seattle\u2019s four-run fourth inning Sunday afternoon, and the Mariners salvaged one win on their six-game Florida road trip by defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 8-2 in St. Petersburg, Fla.<\/p>\n
Having entered Sunday with 12 runs on the road swing, the Mariners tallied three times in the second before adding four more on the home runs to end their season-high-tying five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
J.P. Crawford went 3-for-4 with two doubles, three RBIs, a run and a walk. Josh Naylor reached base three times on a single, a walk and a hit-by-pitch.<\/p>\n
Starter Emerson Hancock left in the second inning after taking a comebacker off his pitching hand in the first. He did not allow a hit over 1 2\/3 scoreless innings with two strikeouts and a walk. X-rays were negative, with that hope being that he\u2019ll be able to recover over the break.<\/p>\n
Jose A. Ferrer (2-1) tossed 1 1\/3 innings of one-hit ball while fanning two, including a key strikeout of All-Star slugger Junior Caminero.<\/p>\n
The American League East-leading Rays retired former third baseman Evan Longoria\u2019s No. 3 in a pregame ceremony. They only managed four hits as they finished off a 4-3 homestand.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Aranda homered to reach 64 RBIs, while Yandy Diaz was 2-for-4 with a run.<\/p>\n
Ian Seymour (6-2) surrendered six runs (five earned) on six hits in 3 1\/3 frames with three punchouts and three walks.<\/p>\n
Owning an 0-5 record and 2-for-38 hitting mark with runners in scoring position in Florida, the Mariners crafted their best offensive frame of the series to that point by sending three runs across early.<\/p>\n
Victor Robles\u2019 sacrifice fly plated Naylor, and Crawford looped a two-run double down the left field line to score Mitch Garver and Cole Young.<\/p>\n
Hancock, who barehanded a hard comebacker by Diaz in the first, battled a finger issue and signaled to the staff in the bottom of the second. The right-hander then removed himself in place of Ferrer.<\/p>\n
With two outs in the third, Ferrer yielded Diaz\u2019s single and hit Aranda before fanning Caminero, who got caught looking in a full count on a 101-mph sinker on the 10th offering of the at-bat. Wilson jumped on a 1-2 sweeper from Seymour in the fourth and sent it out to left for his second homer. Arozarena sliced a Cole Sulser sweeper to right-center for his 11th homer, a three-run blast, to push it to 7-0.<\/p>\n
Aranda slashed an opposite-field two-run shot to left, his 14th, to spoil the shutout chance in the eighth, but Crawford doubled in a run the next frame.<\/p>\n
Ildemaro Vargas,
\nDiamondbacks rally to complete sweep of Dodgers<\/p>\n
Ildemaro Vargas delivered a go-ahead single in the sixth inning and Tim Tawa hit a home run as the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks rallied for a 5-3 victory Sunday to complete a three-game series sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n
Nolan Arenado and Ryan Waldschmidt also drove in runs for the Diamondbacks, who head into the All-Star break on a four-game winning streak, their longest since a five-game run of success in May.<\/p>\n
Mitch Bratt filled in for an injured Zac Gallen and gave up three runs over three innings before the bullpen came to the rescue with six scoreless innings. In his second career start, Bratt gave up three hits and walked three without recording a strikeout.<\/p>\n
Ryan Thompson (4-2) pitched a scoreless inning to earn the win and Paul Sewald worked the ninth for his 22nd save.<\/p>\n
Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff home run for the Dodgers, who lost three consecutive games for the first time since they were on a four-game skid in early May.<\/p>\n
Tommy Edman had a two-run single, while Emmet Sheehan gave up three runs over 5 1\/3 innings for Los Angeles with seven strikeouts. Edgardo Henriquez (4-1) gave up the go-ahead run in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Despite the recent skid, the two-time defending champion Dodgers will enter the All-Star break with a major league-best 61-34 record.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead when Ohtani hit a home run to center field, his 22nd, on Bratt\u2019s first pitch of the game.<\/p>\n
Bratt did not allow another hit until Ohtani doubled to lead off the third. Ohtani and Andy Pages scored on Edman\u2019s bloop single to left field for a 3-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
The Diamondbacks got to Sheehan in the fifth. Vargas and Arenado had back-to-back doubles for a run. Arenado reached third when Pages dropped Tim Tawa\u2019s drive to center at the wall. Waldschmidt followed with a full-count sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
Arizona tied the score 3-3 in the sixth inning when Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a ground ball to third base and Geraldo Perdomo scored when he was hit by Max Muncy\u2019s throw to the plate. Vargas followed with his go-ahead single into the right-field corner.<\/p>\n
The Diamondbacks plated an insurance run in the eighth on Tawa\u2019s third homer of the season, two of which have come in the last three games.<\/p>\n
Padres score twice in
\neighth to rally past Blue Jays<\/p>\n
Ty France\u2019s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth inning Sunday snapped a tie and lifted the San Diego Padres to a 5-4 win over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
Trailing 4-3 entering the inning, San Diego reached Jeff Hoffman (5-6) for the tying and winning runs. Xander Bogaerts led off with an infield single, swiped second and scored on Manny Machado\u2019s single to center.<\/p>\n
Gavin Sheets\u2019 grounder to short moved Machado to second. Jase Bowen pinch-ran for Machado and stole third before France\u2019s long drive to the warning track in right-center was hauled in by Daulton Varsho as Bowen trotted home.<\/p>\n
Adrian Morejon (7-2) picked up the win despite allowing a run in the eighth, and Mason Miller worked the ninth to earn his 25th save in as many chances.<\/p>\n
Neither starter was around for the decision. Toronto\u2019s Kevin Gausman worked six innings, allowing four hits and three runs while walking three and fanning eight. San Diego\u2019s German Marquez toiled for four innings, yielding six hits and three runs with two walks and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Nathan Lukes gave the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead two batters into the game, launching his fifth homer of the year into the seats in right. The Padres erased that in the second during a weird three-run rally.<\/p>\n
Jake Cronenworth lined a bases-loaded single into left-center for a run. After Rodolfo Duran fouled out for the first out, Sung-Mun Song took a 3-0 pitch for a strike and tried to appeal but plate umpire Jen Pawol didn\u2019t grant it. San Diego hitting coach Steven Souza Jr. was ejected for arguing the call, Pawol\u2019s first big league ejection.<\/p>\n
Song walked on the next pitch to force the go-ahead run home and Gausman balked in the third run with two outs.<\/p>\n
Ernie Clement tied the game at 3 in the fourth with a two-run homer to left, his eighth of the season. Jonatan Clase gave Toronto a short-lived 4-3 lead in the top of the eighth with a two-out RBI single to center.<\/p>\n
Machado stroked three of the Padres\u2019 seven hits. Clase and Kazuma Okamoto had two of the Blue Jays\u2019 nine hits apiece.<\/p>\n
White Sox crush Athletics
\nto complete sweep<\/p>\n
Rookie Braden Montgomery went 2-for-4 with a career-high four RBIs, including a three-run home run in a six-run first inning, and Sam Antonacci also homered as the host Chicago White Sox routed the skidding Athletics 9-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Chicago, which has lost 100 games in each of the past three seasons, completed a three-game sweep of the A\u2019s to enter the All-Star break atop the American League Central.<\/p>\n
Shea Langeliers connected on a solo shot against Noah Schultz to give the Athletics a lead three batters into the game, marking the first time the club has held an advantage since July 1.<\/p>\n
Antonacci hit a leadoff homer in the bottom half, beginning a tough day for right-hander J.T. Ginn and the A\u2019s, who have now lost nine straight and 13 of 14.<\/p>\n
Ginn allowed six of the first seven White Sox to reach base. Braden Montgomery\u2019s home run capped the early outburst after Kyle Teel delivered a two-run single.<\/p>\n
Although Ginn retired nine in a row during one stretch spanning the second and fifth innings, Chicago\u2019s crooked number in the first proved too much to overcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weston Wilson and Randy Arozarena each went deep in Seattle\u2019s four-run fourth inning Sunday afternoon, and the Mariners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-340144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}