C.C. Sabathia pitched six sharp innings before being ejected for arguing balls and strikes and Brett Gardner hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer on Sunday as the New York Yankees won their season-high sixth straight game 6-2 over the Los Angeles Angels.
Jose Pirela hit his first MLB homer and Chris Young also connected off C.J. Wilson (3-5) for New York, who came back to win after building big leads in the first two games of the series. The Yankees swept the Angels, losers of five in a row, in a series of at least three games for the first time since 2003.
Sabathia (3-7) gave up back-to-back homers to Mike Trout and Albert Pujols in the first inning, but then breezed through a struggling Angels lineup the rest of the way, notching his 2,500th career strikeout in the fifth.
RAYS 3, MARINERS 1
In Seattle, Chris Archer became the first pitcher in more than 100 years to reach double digits in strikeouts without a walk in three straight starts, leading Tampa Bay in a win over Seattle.
Archer (7-4) fanned 11 with zero walks in seven innings. No other pitcher has managed such a streak since 1914.
Archer had five three-ball counts and gave up six hits, along with an unearned run. After striking out 12 against Seattle on May 27 and 15 against the Angels on Tuesday last week, he won his fourth straight decision overall.
Kevin Jepsen pitched the ninth for his fourth save of the season and third in the four-game series.
Mike Montgomery (0-1) pitched well against his former club, but got little run support.
ORIOLES 7, INDIANS 3
In Cleveland, Ohio, Matt Wieters hit his first home run in more than a year and Bud Norris won in his return from the disabled list as Baltimore beat Cleveland.
Adam Jones also went deep to help the Orioles take two of three in the series. They have won three of four after losing five in a row.
Wieters, the MLB All-Star catcher who returned on Friday from Tommy John surgery last season, connected in the ninth for his first home run since May 1 last year. He was five for 12 with three RBIs in the series.
Norris (2-4) allowed one run and struck out seven in five innings to win for the first time since April 26.
CARDINALS 4, DODGERS 2
In Los Angeles, Jhonny Peralta homered and singled home the go-ahead run during a three-run eighth inning, leading the St Louis Cardinals to a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.
Matt Carpenter drew a leadoff walk from reliever Adam Liberatore, and scored the tying run on a triple down the right-field line by Matt Holliday that skipped past Yasiel Puig — who was playing his second game after missing 39 because of a strained left hamstring.
Holliday’s hit came off Juan Nicasio (1-2). Peralta, who leads St Louis with 34 RBIs, followed with his clutch hit and scored on Mark Reynolds’ one-out double to left-center.
In other results, it was:
‧ Phillies 6, Giants 4
‧ Royals 4, Rangers 3
‧ Mets 6, Diamondbacks 3
‧ Cubs 6, Nationals 3
‧ Red Sox 7, Athletics 4
‧ Blue Jays 7, Astros 6
‧ Pirates 3, Braves 0
‧ Tigers 6, White Sox 4
‧ Reds 4, Padres 0
‧ Marlins 3, Rockies 2
‧ Twins 2, Brewers 0
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
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