CINCINNATI — Yu Darvish hit his first career home run in a no-decision and Adrian Beltre drove in the eventual winning run with a double in the eighth inning, lifting the Texas Rangers to a 6-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday night at Great American Ball Park.
The Rangers gained a split of the two-game interleague series and lead the Seattle Mariners by 6 1/2 games in the American League West.
Jake Diekman (4-2) picked up the victory. Darvish didn’t allow a hit until the fifth and wound up yielding five runs (three earned), four hits and five walks while striking out five, but Cincinnati rallied from a three-run deficit to hand Darvish a no-decision.
Texas regained the lead in the eighth on Beltre’s two-out RBI double off Blake Wood. It was career hit No. 2,900 for Beltre.
With two outs in the fifth, Darvish crushed a pitch onto the grassy knoll in center for his third career hit. Ian Desmond followed with his 21st homer to give Texas a 5-2 lead.
Marlins 3, Royals 0
MIAMI — Jose Fernandez improved his career home record to 27-2 and set a franchise record for strikeouts, leading Miami over red-hot Kansas City.
The Royals had their nine-game win streak snapped.
Fernandez (13-7) set his personal best with his 13th win. He also finished the game with 213 strikeouts this year, breaking the Marlins’ previous season record of 209 set by Ryan Dempster in 2000.
Fernandez went 2-for-2 as a hitter, raising his batting average to .286. His one-out single in the sixth inning started a three-run Miami rally. Dee Gordon and Martin Prado followed with singles, and Christian Yelich, up with the bases loaded, lined a two-run single to right. Marcell Ozuna capped the rally with a sacrifice fly.
Orioles 10, Nationals 8
WASHINGTON — Manny Machado had four hits and four RBIs, Matt Wieters had two hits and four RBIs and Wade Miley picked up his first win in five starts with Baltimore.
Machado drove in Hyun Soo Kim, who also had two hits, with a single and Jonathan Schoop had an RBI single in the eighth to give the Orioles a 7-3 lead. Wieters then hit a three-run homer to make it 10-3. That came after an RBI single by Washington’s Daniel Murphy had trimmed the margin to 5-3 in the seventh.
Murphy (three hits) hit a grand slam with one out in the ninth to pull the Nationals to 10-7. That brought on closer Zach Britton, who gave up an RBI double to Anthony Rendon to make it 10-8 before Ryan Zimmerman hit into a double play to end the game.
Rays 4, Red Sox 3 (11)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Boston dropped the ball on potential third outs twice on one play and Tampa Bay walked off with an 11-inning win as Kevin Kiermaier drove in Luke Maile.
With two outs and two on in the 11th, Kiermaier hit a ground ball to first base, but the throw to reliever Heath Hembree went off his glove for a fielding error. The throw home was in time to get Maile at the plate, but catcher Sandy Leon didn’t hold onto the ball and the winning run scored.
Before Longoria’s 30th home run, Boston’s David Ortiz got his 30th, becoming the oldest player in baseball history to reach 30 in a season. Ortiz, 40, also got to 100 RBIs with the home run, giving him 10 seasons of 30-plus home runs and 100-plus RBIs, the most ever for a Red Sox player.
Phillies 5, White Sox 3
CHICAGO — Jerad Eickhoff allowed a sixth-inning home run and little else to help lead Philadelphia over Chicago and a split in the two-game interleague series.
Eickhoff (9-12) made it three straight wins while allowing two runs on four hits and striking out two in six innings.
White Sox starter James Shields (5-16) suffered his fourth straight loss and seventh since July 10. He gave up two home runs, including Tommy Joseph’s 17th of the season to open a 4-0 Phillies lead in the sixth.
Tigers 9, Twins 4
MINNEAPOLIS — Miguel Cabrera homered and finished a triple short of the cycle as Detroit hammered Minnesota.
Cabrera’s solo home run in the first inning gave Detroit the lead and the Tigers never trailed, scoring five runs in the third and tacking on three in the eighth to put the game out of reach.
Justin Upton also homered and now has four consecutive two-hit games after a 1-for-31 skid put him on the bench for a few games last week.
Cardinals 8, Mets 1
ST. LOUIS — Carlos Martinez Martinez limited New York to four hits and a run in eight dominant innings and St. Louis pounded Jacob deGrom.
Martinez (12-7) walked three and struck out five while inducing two more double play balls, giving him a National League-high 27 for the year. Meanwhile, deGrom (7-7), who allowed 13 hits and eight runs Thursday night at San Francisco, was ripped for 12 hits and five runs in 4 2/3 innings, walking two and fanning three.
The Cardinals (67-58) tied a season high with 19 hits. Stephen Piscotty went 3-for-5 with three RBIs, and Yadier Molina also went 3-for-5, singling home the last run in the eighth to cap the onslaught.
Brewers 7, Rockies 1
MILWAUKEE — Ryan Braun hit two home runs, Zach Davies struck out eight and Milwaukee finished a three-game sweep of Colorado at Miller Park.
Davies (10-6) had lost two in a row coming into the game but scattered five hits and three walks in six innings. The only blemish on his line was a first-inning home run by Nolan Arenado, who moved into sole possession of first place on the National League leaderboard with 34 for the season — one ahead of Chicago’s Kris Bryant.
Colorado starter Tyler Anderson (4-5) struck out 10 while allowing three hits and two walks in five innings.
Astros 5, Pirates 4
PITTSBURGH — Evan Gattis belted a two-run homer and three others drove in a run as Houston built an early lead and held on for a victory over Pittsburgh at PNC Park.
Houston claimed the rubber match of the interleague series and has won five of its past six games.
Gregory Polanco drove in two runs and Jordy Mercer hit a homer for Pittsburgh, which has lost five of its past six.
Cubs 6, Padres 3
SAN DIEGO — Kyle Hendricks tossed six strong innings and Ben Zobrist hit a two-run triple and scored two runs as the Cubs completed a three-game sweep.
The Cubs outscored the Padres 16-7 in the three games and their pitchers held the San Diego hitters to 16 hits.
Hendricks (12-7) allowed two runs and four hits and struck out eight in the win. Left-handed closer Aroldis Chapman picked up his second save in as many games, giving him nine with Chicago and 29 for the season.
Athletics 5, Indians 1
OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland’s Kendall Graveman (10-8) took a shutout into the seventh inning and yielded just one run in 6 2/3 innings against first-place Cleveland.
Khris Davis triggered a five-run second inning with a triple off Indians right-hander Trevor Bauer, helping the A’s win a second straight game against an Indians team that was held to one run in each of the three games in the series.
The only run Graveman allowed was a disputed solo home run by Roberto Perez with two outs in the seventh inning. The ball appeared to hit the top of the right-field fence and bounce back into play, but the umpires ruled it had cleared the wall and replay confirmed the call.
All three Indians runs in the series came on homers.
Yankees 5, Mariners 0
SEATTLE – Red-hot rookie Gary Sanchez homered for the seventh time in eight games and Masahiro Tanaka outdueled former Japanese league teammate Hisashi Iwakuma to lift New York.
Besides his first-inning homer, Sanchez doubled in the fifth and was walked intentionally in the seventh and ninth with runners aboard and first base open.
Tanaka (11-4) allowed six hits in seven scoreless innings, striking out five and walking one to improve to 5-0 in five career starts against the Mariners.
Iwakuma (14-9), who had won eight of his 10 previous starts, allowed three runs and six hits in six innings to lose consecutive decisions for the first time since April.