ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sean Manaea won consecutive starts for the first time this season, Tyrone Taylor hit a three-run double from the No. 2 slot in the batting order and the New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-0 Monday in the makeup of a May 8 rainout.
Manaea (8-4) allowed six hits in seven innings, struck out 10 and walked none. He has pitched 14 scoreless innings in his last two starts, giving up eight hits, striking out 21 and walking one. The Mets have won eight of his last 10 starts.
Ryne Stanek and Edwin Díaz finished with hitless relief in the Mets’ fourth shutout -- all from July 11 on.
New York (59-53) won the season series 4-2 and holds the tiebreak advantage over the Cardinals should it be needed to determine a wild-card berth or postseason homefield advantage. The Mets are 10-7 since the All-Star break.
GIANTS 4, NATIONALS 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Matt Chapman homered in his third straight game, Logan Webb pitched into the sixth inning and San Francisco beat Washington.
The Giants have won nine of their past 12 games and at 57-57 have reached the .500 mark for the first time since they entered play on June 1 at 29-29 before an eventual loss to the Yankees.
San Francisco’s Tyler Fitzgerald had two hits and went deep for the second straight game. He has homered in 10 of his past 17 games, with 11 homers total.
Webb (9-8), coming off a five-hit shutout against the A’s, allowed a run on four hits over 5 2/3 innings. He struck out four and walked three while throwing 95 pitches. Camilo Doval struck out the side in the ninth for his 21st save.
Washington starter Patrick Corbin (2-12), who was seeking his 100th career win, allowed four runs on seven hits in six innings.
REDS 10, MARLINS 3
MIAMI (AP) — Elly De La Cruz became the youngest Cincinnati player with four extra-base hits in a game since at least 1901 and the Reds overcame Jesús Sánchez’s 480-foot home run, the longest in the major league this season, in a 10-3 win over Miami.
Nick Martinez (6-5) pitched five scoreless innings to win on his 34th birthday in his first start since May 22.
De La Cruz entered in an 0-for-13 slide and put Cincinnati ahead with a two-run homer off Roddery Muñoz (2-6) in the first inning. He doubled in the fourth and sixth innings and hit a solo homer in the eighth against Shaun Anderson, his 20th home run this season. De La Cruz has three multihomer games, including two this season.
It was the 20th four-extra-base hit game by a Reds player since 1901 and at 22 years, 207 days De La Cruz became the youngest Cincinnati player to accomplish the feat since then.
De La Cruz has a major league-leading 57 steals and joined Hall of Famer Joe Morgan and Eric Davis as the only Reds with 20 homers and 50 stolen bases in a season. De La Cruz has four homers against Miami this year.
Ty France had three hits, including his first homer since he was acquired from Seattle on July 30, and Noelvi Marté also went deep for the Reds.
Martinez, who had been pitching out of the bullpen, allowed four hits, struck out five and walked none in a 70-pitch in outing.
DIAMONDBACKS 7, GUARDIANS 6, 10 INNINGS
CLEVELAND (AP) — Eugenio Suárez singled off All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase in the 10th inning to score automatic runner Corbin Carroll, lifting Arizona to a victory over Cleveland.
The Guardians had forced extra innings on Daniel Schneemann’s sacrifice fly in the ninth off Ryan Thompson, which plated Bo Naylor. There were four lead changes and five ties in the wild, interleague matchup.
Ketel Marte and Gabriel Moreno hit back-to-back homers off Logan Allen to start the game, helping the Diamondbacks move within a percentage point of the top National League wild-card spot and win for the 22nd time in 31 games since June 29.
Gold Glove catcher Moreno exited the game with a left groin strain in the second.
Thompson (6-3) allowed one run in one inning for the victory, while Justin Martinez picked up his first save of the season. Clase (4-2) had his eight-inning scoreless streak end with the unearned run.
RED SOX 9, ROYALS 5
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — James Paxton pitched six solid innings, Masataka Yoshida tied his career high with four of Boston’s 18 hits and the Red Sox beat Kansas City.
Boston, which has won four their last five, now trails the Royals by 1 1/2 games for the final American League wild card spot.
Paxton (9-3) allowed two runs on five hits to pick up his first win since being traded to the Red Sox by the Dodgers.
Brady Singer (8-7) allowed four runs on 10 hits in 5 2/3 innings. He allowed at least one hit in every inning.
RANGERS 4, ASTROS 3, 10 INNINGS
ARLINGTON, Texcas (AP) — Josh Smith hit a game-ending two-run homer in the 10th inning to give the Texas a win over Houston, in the opener of the final series this season between the AL West rivals and last two World Series champions.
Smith pulled a 410-foot homer into right-center on a 94 mph fastball from Caleb Ferguson (2-3) with two outs.
That made a winner out of All-Star closer Kirby Yates (4-1), who in the top of the 10th hit consecutive batters with pitches, the first a disputed play, to force in a go-ahead run.
Texas had intentionally walked slugger Yordan Alvarez with one out before Yainer Diaz checked his swing and claimed he was hit on the hand by the pitch. The Rangers challenged when home plate umpire Will Little granted the base, but the call stood on replay review. Yates then hit Jeremy Peña with a pitch to force in a run.
Both starting pitchers, Houston’s Hunter Brown and Texas lefty Andrew Heaney, struck out four while giving up only one run over six innings.
TWINS 3, CUBS 0
CHICAGO (AP) — David Festa struck out a career-high nine over five innings, and Minnesota beat the Chicago Cubs.
Minnesota drew within 3 1/2 games of AL Central-leading Cleveland, the closest the Twins have been to first place since before play on May 18.
Making his fifth big league start since his debut on June 27, Festa (2-2) allowed two hits and two walks while throwing 82 pitches, one more the the previous high for the 24-year-old right-hander.
Caleb Thielbar, Jorge Alcala, Jhoan Duran and Griffin Jax finished a four-hitter, with Jax getting three outs for his eighth save in 12 chances.
ATHLETICS 5, WHITESOX 1
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Chicago White Sox lost their 21st straight game, tying American League record with a 5-1 defeat to Oakland as Max Schuemann hit a tiebreaking, two-run single in the fourth inning.
Chicago is on the longest losing streak since the 1988 Baltimore Orioles lost 21 in a row. The NL record since 1900 is held by the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies, who lost 23 straight.
Tyler Nevin’s first-inning sacrifice fly put the A’s ahead, but Andrew Benintendi tied the score with an RBI single against JP Sears (9-8) in the fourth.
JJ Bleday doubled in the bottom half off Ky Bush (0-1), a 24-year-old left-hander making his big league debut, Zack Gelof walked and Darell Hernaiz was hit by a pitch, loading the bases. Schuemann grounded a single between shortstop and third that bounced into left for a 3-1 lead.
Lawrence Butler added a sixth-inning homer against Chad Kuhl, his 16th home run this season. Gelof added a run in the eighth when he sprinted home from first when Jared Shuster’s pitch bounced away from catcher Korey Lee as Schuemann struck out. Lee looked toward Gelof at third and threw to first baseman Andrew Vaughn for the out, and Gelof ran home as Vaughn’s throw skipped past Lee.
Sears allowed three hits in seven innings with five strikeouts and a walk, improving to 5-1 in his last six decisions.
Austin Adams and Tyler Ferguson finished a four-hitter that took just 2 hours, 15 minutes.
DODGERS 5, PHILLIES 3
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teoscar Hernández hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the third inning, Shohei Ohtani went deep in the eighth and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia in a matchup of NL division leaders.
Tyler Glasnow (9-6) struck out nine and gave up three runs and four hits in six innings. The right-hander has notched a career-high 164 strikeouts on the season.
Glasnow retired the side in order four times, including getting Kyle Schwarber, Trea Turner and Bryce Harper on swinging strikeouts in the first.
Harper struck out three times in all as the NL East-leading Phillies lost for the seventh time in eight games after taking a 2-0 lead with two outs in the second.
Freddie Freeman returned to the Dodgers’ lineup after missing eight games while tending to his ailing 3-year-old son. He was 1 for 4.
New York Mets starting pitcher Sean Manaea throws during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)
