MAJOR LEAGUES
Chris Davis hit his major league-leading 20th homer to ignite a three-run seventh inning as the Baltimore Orioles came back to beat the Detroit Tigers 4-2 on Sunday.
Nate McLouth drove in the go-ahead run for the Orioles, who got a strong pitching performance from rookie pitcher Kevin Gausman. Prince Fielder homered and scored both runs for the Tigers, who have lost five of six games. Rick Porcello (2-3) lost for the first time in seven starts since April 20.
Gausman pitched six impressive innings, striking out Miguel Cabrera and getting the Tigers star to hit into a pair of double plays.
Also in the American League, Clay Buchholz allowed two hits in an abbreviated shutout as the Boston Red Sox got home runs from David Ortiz and Jose Iglesias in a 3-0 victory over the New York Yankees that was stopped after 5-1/2 innings because of rain.
Buchholz (8-0) outpitched Hiroki Kuroda and was pulled after the second of three weather delays.
Red Sox reliever Andrew Miller was announced into the game and was warming up on the mound when play was abruptly halted again, but Buchholz would be credited with a complete game because Miller never faced a batter, according to official scorer Jordan Sprechman.
Just before that, the game had resumed for all of four minutes before heavy rain returned.
The Oakland Athletics shut out the White Sox 2-0 after Josh Donaldson’s sixth-inning sacrifice fly ended a career-best 28-inning scoreless streak by Chicago’s Chris Sale.
In other AL games, the Houston Astros edged the Los Angeles Angels 5-4, the Texas Rangers downed the Kansas City Royals 3-1, the Minnesota Twins trounced the Seattle Mariners 10-0 and the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Cleveland Indians 11-3.
The Toronto Blue Jays beat the San Diego Padres 7-4 over 11 innings in the only interleague game.
In the National League, Patrick Corbin became the major leagues’ first nine-game winner after six innings in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 8-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
Corbin (9-0) allowed four runs and six hits, equaling the team record for consecutive wins at the start of the season set by Brandon Webb in 2008. The Diamondbacks are 11-0 in his starts.
Wil Nieves had three hits and two RBIs for Arizona.
Atlanta’s B.J. Upton and Ramiro Pena hit home runs as Paul Maholm won his third straight decision in the Braves’ 6-3 win over the Washington Nationals.
The Braves won two of three from the Nationals and lead Washington by 6-1/2 games.
Ian Desmond hit a homer for Washington in the sixth inning to cut Atlanta’s lead to 4-3. Freddie Freeman answered with a two-run double in the bottom of the inning.
Marcell Ozuna drove in four runs and Greg Dobbs hit a three-run homer to help the Miami Marlins complete a three-game sweep over New York with an 11-6 win.
In other NL games, the Colorado Rockies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-2, the Pittsburgh Pirates outlasted the Cincinnati Reds 5-4 over 11 innings, the San Francisco Giants downed the St Louis Cardinals 4-2 and the Philadelphia Phillies won 7-5 over the Milwaukee Brewers.
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