Masahiro Tanaka allowed just five hits for his first complete game in more than a year, leading the New York Yankees to a 4-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday.
The Yankees won their third straight following a five-game skid and extended their American League East lead over Toronto to one-and-a-half games. The Blue Jays, coming off an 11-game winning streak, lost for the second day in a row to New York.
Carlos Beltran and Mark Teixeira connected for solo shots to back Tanaka (9-5).
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Tanaka struck out eight and walked three while helping the Yankees rest their taxed bullpen.
Marco Estrada (10-7) lost for the first time in four starts, allowing two runs and three hits in six innings.
TIGERS 4, ASTROS 2
Victor Martinez hit a tiebreaking RBI double in a three-run 11th as Detroit outlasted Houston.
Preston Tucker led off the bottom of the ninth with a homer to right-center against Bruce Rondon to tie the score at 1-1, spoiling an impressive start by Justin Verlander.
J.D. Martinez and Tyler Collins followed Victor Martinez with back-to-back run-scoring singles off Pat Neshek (3-3) to make it 4-1 in the 11th. Jose Iglesias singled and Miguel Cabrera walked to start the inning.
Al Alburquerque (2-0) pitched the 10th for the win. Neftali Feliz gave up a two-out RBI single to Jed Lowrie before getting Carlos Gomez to ground out for his first save with the Tigers and seventh this season.
RED SOX 22, MARINERS 10
Jackie Bradley Jr hit two homers and three doubles to drive in seven runs as Boston battered Felix Hernandez and Seattle.
The Red Sox broke loose for the second straight day after manager John Farrell took a medical leave for the rest of the season to deal with lymphoma.
Boston got 26 hits in the highest-scoring game ever against the Mariners. Pablo Sandoval and Alejandro de Aza homered, and David Ortiz and Blake Swihart each had three RBIs. Sandoval homered in his first at-bat, then was hit in the right elbow by Hernandez and left with a bruise.
Nelson Cruz hit his major league-leading 35th homer for the Mariners.
Hernandez (14-7) was tagged for a career high-tying 10 runs in just 2-1/3 innings.
Wade Miley (9-9) went seven innings for Boston.
In other games, it was:
‧ Pirates 5, Mets 3
‧ Twins 4, Indians 1
‧ Orioles 4, Athletics 3
‧ Giants 12, Nationals 6
‧ Cardinals 6, Marlins 2
‧ Royals 9, Angels 4
‧ Diamondbacks 8, Braves 4
‧ Brewers 4, Phillies 2
‧ Cubs 6, White Sox 3
‧ Rangers 12, Rays 4
‧ Padres 7, Rockies 5
‧ Dodgers 8, Reds 3
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