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Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jared Jones delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Pittsburgh, Wednesday. (AP Photo)<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 The NL East-leading Atlanta Braves broke up a combined perfect-game bid by Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers Jared Jones and Mason Montgomery in the seventh inning Wednesday night.
\nJones started and struck out eight on 77 pitches, including 53 strikes, before being replaced by Montgomery at the start of the seventh. Montgomery got Michael Harris II to ground out to first before allowing a single to left field by Ozzie Albies, ending the bid at 6 1\/3 innings.
\nAtlanta catcher Joey Bart hit a two-run home run off Dennis Santana with two outs in the eighth and the Braves won 3-0.
\nThe 24-year-old Jones hasn\u2019t thrown more than 81 pitches in eight starts since returning May 20 after missing all of last season following ulnar collateral ligament internal brace surgery on May 21, 2025.
\n\u201cIt was fun. Felt good the whole game. It was just fun playing baseball,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt does suck. Something\u2019s cool coming on, but I\u2019m on what? My eighth start off of surgery? I completely understand it, and it is what it is.\u201d
\nPirates manager Don Kelly said Jones was originally pegged for five innings, but was efficient enough to warrant a sixth.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a tough one, man,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cWe\u2019ve talked about it before. Health is the most important thing. Winning the game and then personal accomplishments (is) third. Wanting guys to stay healthy is the No. 1 thing with these guys because we need Jared for the rest of the season throwing the ball like that.\u201d
\nJones started the game with 10 straight fastballs, five topping 100 mph. His bid was nearly ended by Bart in the third inning, but a long fly ball to left off Jones\u2019 slider was grabbed by Bryan Reynolds at the wall. He then struck out five of the next seven batters.
\n\u201cI felt like I threw it where I needed to, except for the Joey Bart at-bat where he almost took me yard,\u201d Jones said. \u201cBut outside of that, yeah, everything felt great today.\u201d
\nA second-round pick in the 2020 MLB draft, Jones is 7-9 with a 4.19 ERA in two seasons in the majors. He lowered his ERA this season to 4.37 from 5.28 entering Wednesday.
\nJones said he didn\u2019t entertain attempting to complete the perfect game.
\n\u201cNot with the pitch count,\u201d he said. \u201cNot really ever expecting to go nine right now, so that was never in my head.\u201d
\nThe Miami Marlins faced a nearly identical dilemma on Sunday when Eury P\u00e9rez used 92 pitches make it through seven perfect innings with eight strikeouts in his third start back from a leg strain. He was pulled for Lake Bachar to start the eighth and the Marlins allowed eight runs to the Athletics in the final two innings, but held on to win 9-8.
\nOn Wednesday, Jones became the first pitcher in Pirates history to depart with a perfect game intact after at least six innings.
\n\u201cHis health is too important,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cHaving not even approached anything like nine innings, and at 80 pitches, in essence, already, you\u2019re looking at 120 coming off of surgery. There was no way.\u201d
\nThere have been 24 perfect games in major league history. Most recently, Domingo Germ\u00e1n struck out nine in an 11-0 win for the New York Yankees against the Athletics at Oakland Coliseum on June 28, 2023.
\nOn May 25, the Houston Astros provided the latest of 327 no-hitters in the history of the majors. Tatsuya Imai walked four and struck out two in the first six innings of a 9-0 win against the Texas Rangers before Steven Okert walked one in his only inning inning and Alimber Santa was perfect in the final two.
\nBLUE JAYS 10, GIANTS 0
\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Toronto\u2019s Dylan Cease worked eight no-hit innings against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday before allowing a single to Heliot Ramos leading off the ninth as the Blue Jays rolled to a 10-0 victory.
\nCease (6-4) was pulled after Ramos\u2019 clean line-drive single to center and got a standing ovation from the San Francisco crowd. The All-Star right-hander threw a career-high 118 pitches, 81 for strikes. Former Giants reliever Tyler Rogers got the final three outs on four pitches.
\nCease struck out 11 to increase his American League-leading total to 148.
\nBRAVES 3, PIRATES 0
\nPITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Joey Bart hit a two-run home run with two outs in the eighth inning, lifting the NL East-leading Atlanta to a win over his former team after Pittsburgh starter Jared Jones pitched six perfect innings before being lifted.
\nBart, traded to the Braves from the Pirates on June 18, followed a double by Mike Yastrzemski with a 422-foot drive to left-centerfield off a slider from Dennis Santana (2-4). Drake Baldwin added an RBI single to center in the ninth.
\nJones struck out eight on 77 pitches, including 53 strikes, to lower his ERA to 4.37 from 5.28. His bid was nearly ended by Bart with one out in the third, but a long drive to left was caught at the wall by Bryan Reynolds.
\nRAYS 3, YANKEES 0
\nST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jonathan Aranda drove in three runs, Shane McClanahan pitched 6 1\/3 innings and Tampa Bay beat New York to extend their AL East lead to five games.
\nMcClanahan (8-5) scattered four hits and struck out five without a walk on 85 pitches. He had his longest outing of the season and his second consecutive start without giving up a run. Bryan Baker struck out the side in the ninth inning for his 25th save.
\nThe Rays have struck out the Yankees 45 times in the first three games of the series.
\nMARLINS 2, MARINERS 0
\nMIAMI (AP) \u2014 Kyle Stowers homered, major league batting leader Otto L\u00f3pez had his 40th multi-hit game and Miami beat Seattle.
\nTyler Phillips (2-3) pitched five sharp innings, allowing four hits on 71 pitches, before three relievers finished off Miami\u2019s fifth straight victory. The Marlins are a major league-best 25-8 since June 1.
\nL\u00f3pez went 2 for 4, increasing his average to .345 and becoming the first player since Houston\u2019s Jose Altuve in 2014 with 40 multi-hit games before the All-Star break. His fifth-inning double tied Luis Arraez in 2023 for the most hits by a Marlins player before the All-Star break at 126.
\nXavier Edwards added an RBI triple on a two-hit night.
\nTIGERS 6, ATHLETICS 1
\nDETROIT (AP) \u2014 Jake Rogers and Spencer Torkelson homered and Detroit won their fourth straight game, beating the Athletics.
\nTroy Melton (5-1) allowed one unearned run on four hits and a walk in 5 1\/3 innings. He struck out nine as the Tigers won for the seventh time in eight games.
\nJeffrey Springs (3-9) took the loss for the Athletics, who have lost five straight and nine of 10. He gave up six runs in 4 1\/3 innings to fall to 0-9 in his last 15 starts.
\nNATIONALS 8, ASTROS 2
\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 CJ Abrams and Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. both hit their 20th homers of the season, and Washington pounded Houston.
\nFoster Griffin (10-2) allowed one run in seven innings for Washington, which took two of three from Houston to move two games over .500. Griffin\u2019s 10 victories are the most for a Nationals rookie since the club moved from Montreal before the 2005 season.
\nBrice Matthews had Houston\u2019s lone RBI on a fifth-inning single.
\nCUBS 9, ORIOLES 7
\nBALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Pete Crow-Armstrong hit two of Chicago\u2019s five home runs and the Cubs outslugged Baltimore.
\nMichael Conforto and Carson Kelly also went deep on the first two pitches of the fifth inning for Chicago, tying the game immediately after Pete Alonso\u2019s two-run shot had given Baltimore a 3-1 lead.
\nChicago then scored five runs in the seventh, including a three-run shot by Seiya Suzuki.
\nTyler O\u2019Neill homered twice for Baltimore and Coby Mayo also went deep.
\nMETS 6, ROYALS 2
\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jared Young was plunked with the bases loaded in the eighth inning, sparking a five-run rally that lifted New York to a win over Kansas City.
\nYoung took a 90 mph slider off his right elbow by Alex Lange (0-4), who allowed five straight baserunners with two outs. Brett Baty chased Lange with a two-run single and Young scored on a wild pitch by Jose Cuas, who then allowed an RBI single to Francisco Alvarez.
\nBrooks Raley (3-3) worked around Lane Thomas\u2019 double in the eighth.
\nRookie A.J. Ewing hit his first career leadoff homer, a 420-foot blast off opener Steven Cruz. Ewing is the fifth Mets player to hit a leadoff homer this season.
\nSalvador Perez and Carter Jensen had RBI singles for the Royals.
\nCARDINALS 5, BREWERS 1
\nST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Alec Burleson and Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn homered, Michael McGreevy worked 6 1\/3 strong innings and St. Louis snapped a seven-game losing streak against Milwaukee.
\nMcGreevy (4-7) struck out six and allowed five hits and one run on his 26th birthday. The 26-year-old right-hander in his third big league campaign made his career-high 18th start of the season.
\nAfter the Cardinals\u2019 Masyn Winn hit a leadoff double in the first, Jordan Walker followed with an RBI double and Burleson drove in Walker with the third double of the inning.
\nWalker was 2 for 4 with two runs scored.
\nFerm\u00edn hit a 404-foot solo homer to left-center in the fourth, extending the lead to 3-0. Burleson homered on a cutter from Jared Koenig that traveled an estimated 443 feet to right in the sixth.
\nKyle Harrison (8-2) allowed four hits and three runs in four innings, striking out two in the loss. Garrett Mitchell led the Brewers with a single and a double.
\nRED SOX 5, WHITE SOX 0
\nCHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Jake Bennett allowed four hits in seven innings, Tsung-Che Cheng had his first multi-RBI game and Boston beat the Chicago for their fifth straight victory.
\nBoston has won 10 of 12 and and 13 of its last 18.
\nBennett (4-3) has allowed more than two runs just twice in eight starts. He struck out four and walked one.
\nCheng had an RBI single in the third to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead, and Ceddanne Rafaela drove in Cheng two batters later.
\nAnthony Seigler came across on a wild pitch from Davis Martin (9-4), but Seigler left the game after a collision with catcher Kyle Teel at the plate.
\nANGELS 13, RANGERS 1
\nARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Mike Trout hit a two-run homer in his return rom the injured list, Jo Adell had two home runs and drove in a career-high five runs and the Los Angeles beat Texas.
\nTrout, who missed 17 games due to a strained right hamstring, hit a 438-foot shot that gave the Angels an 11-0 lead in the eighth. Trout has 48 career homers against the Rangers, the most by any player since the franchise moved to Texas in 1972 and the second-most ever against the club. Reggie Jackson hit 54 home runs against the Washington Senators\/Texas Rangers.
\nAdell hit a two-run shot in the fourth inning and a three-run homer in the fifth that made it 7-0.
\nVaughn Grissom went 4 for 5 with a double and four RBIs, and Zach Neto was 3 for 4 with two doubles and three runs. Denzer Guzman and Jose Siri each had two hits.
\nAngels starter Walbert Ure\u00f1a threw 90 pitches and walked five in four scoreless innings before he was replaced by Samy Natera Jr. (1-0) to begin the fifth. Natera, a rookie left-hander, had five strikeouts in two perfect innings for his first career win.
\nTWINS 6, GUARDIANS 5
\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Alan Roden hit a game-winning RBI single in the ninth inning as Minnesota beat Cleveland for their fourth straight win over the Guardians.
\nThe Twins have won four in a row and five of six overall.
\nRoden singled twice and drove in two runs. Kody Clemens went 3 for 4 with a double and an RBI, and Brooks Lee singled twice and drove in a pair of runs.
\nYoendrys G\u00f3mez (1-0) pitched a scoreless ninth for his first win this season.
\nBrayan Rocchio and Rhys Hoskins homered for the Guardians.
\nDODGERS 4, ROCKIES 3
\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Mookie Betts singled in the go-ahead run with two strikes in the eighth inning, lifting Los Angeles to a victory over Colorado in the series finale.
\nBetts ended the nine-pitch at-bat with his hit to center off Rockies reliever Antonio Senzatela (8-1) that scored Tommy Edman, who singled and moved to third on Freddie Freeman\u2019s double.
\nThe Dodgers took two of three to prevent Colorado from winning its first series at Dodger Stadium since August 2021.
\nThe Rockies loaded the bases against reliever Alex Vesia in the eighth, but Edgardo Henriquez (4-0) came in and got Karros to fly out for the third out.
\nTanner Scott retired the side in the ninth to earn his 13th save.
\nPADRES 10, D-BACKS 4
\nSAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Luis Campusano homered, Miguel Andujar had a career-high three doubles along with two RBIs and San Diego beat Arizona to get back to .500.
\nMichael King (6-7) pitched six strong innings for the Padres, who tied their season high in runs and won for just the third time in 12 games. The Padres and Diamondbacks came into the night 14 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West and five games out of the third wild-card spot, with three teams ahead of them.
\nSan Diego had been one-half game ahead of Los Angeles after it beat the Dodgers 1-0 behind King in San Diego on May 18. But the Padres lost the next night and began slipping further behind their rivals.
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