The Toronto Blue Jays’ break day wasn’t variety to them on the out-of-town scoreboard.
A lot of the different groups within the American League wild-card race that have been in motion Monday picked up a victory.
The Rangers moved into first place within the AL West with a rout of the White Sox, whereas the Guardians took over the ultimate wild-card spot by beating the Angels.
It was a tough evening for the idle Astros, as they fell from first place within the AL West to out of a playoff spot.
The Twins and Mariners additionally picked up victories, whereas the lone AL wild-card contender to lose was the slumping Tigers.
Here is a take a look at how the standings take care of Monday’s outcomes:
Toronto: vs. Kansas Metropolis, 7:07 p.m. (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+)
Houston: at New York Yankees, 7:05 p.m. (Sportsnet ONE, Sportsnet+)
New York Yankees: vs. Houston, 7:05 p.m. (Sportsnet ONE, Sportsnet+)
Boston: at Miami, 6:40 p.m.
Texas: at Chicago White Sox, 7:40 p.m.
Cleveland: at Los Angeles Angels, 9:38 p.m.
Baltimore: at St. Louis, 7:45 p.m.
Minnesota: at Athletics, 9:40 p.m.
Seattle: vs. Philadelphia, 9:40 p.m. (Sportsnet+)
Detroit: vs. Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.
CHICAGO — Corey Seager had three hits and three RBIs, and Jake Burger and Wyatt Langford homered to guide Texas to a victory over Chicago.
Ezequiel Duran drove in two runs and Texas (66-66) outhit the AL Central leaders 14-5 to maneuver a half-game forward of idle Houston and take sole possession of first place within the AL West for the primary time since July 30.
Kumar Rocker (5-10) pitched 5 2/3 innings for the win, permitting two runs on 5 hits with eight strikeouts and three walks. Robby Ahlstrom retired all 4 batters he confronted and Jordan Montgomery completed with two excellent innings.
Joc Pederson drew a stroll from José Urquidy (2-2) to begin the sport earlier than scoring on Duran’s groundout. Evan Carter added a two-out RBI double for a 2-0 lead.
Brandon Nimmo robbed Andrew Benintendi of a two-run homer within the backside of the inning to maintain it 2-0.
Duran’s two-out infield hit with the bases loaded made it 3-0 within the second. Pederson was ejected by plate umpire Chris Guccione for feedback from the dugout earlier than Carter’s groundout ended the inning. Pederson — mired in an 0-for-24 droop — struck out trying and was too late making an attempt to problem the decision to begin the inning.
Tristan Peters homered for a 3rd straight recreation and the tenth time this season — a two-out shot within the second off Rocker that lower it to 3-2.
Seager drove in two with a two-out double within the third for a 5-2 benefit.
Burger hit his twenty second homer main off the fifth. Justin Foscue — who changed Pederson — and Seager had back-to-back doubles with two outs for a 7-2 lead.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Parker Messick pitched six innings of one-run ball and Austin Hedges hit a two-run homer within the Cleveland Guardians’ 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday evening.
Jo Adell hit a go-ahead single for the Guardians towards his former crew. Messick (10-8) gave up three hits, struck out 4 and walked one whereas extending to 9 his string of consecutive begins with two or fewer runs allowed.
Via 26 begins, the rookie left-hander has a 2.50 ERA with 156 strikeouts in 155 innings.
Colin Holderman struck out three of 4 batters within the seventh. Hunter Gaddis tossed a scoreless eighth and Cade Smith gave up a run within the ninth earlier than incomes his thirty fourth save.
Cleveland received its fifth straight and pulled inside 2 1/2 video games of the first-place Chicago White Sox within the AL Central.
SEATTLE — Cal Raleigh busted out of a season-long droop with the primary three-homer recreation of his profession Monday evening.
The switch-hitting catcher capped a five-run first inning with a two-run shot off struggling Philadelphia Phillies ace Zack Wheeler. Raleigh added a leadoff homer towards Wheeler within the fifth and a solo drive off reliever Chase Shugart within the seventh to present him 17 house runs this season.
It was the primary multihomer recreation of the yr for Raleigh, who completed 3 for 3 with a stroll in a 9-2 victory and raised his batting common from .159 to .167.
Raleigh was runner-up for the AL MVP award final yr, when he led the majors with 60 house runs and added 125 RBIs.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Zebby Matthews allowed six hits and one run over seven innings, Josh Bell drove in three runs, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Athletics 9-6 on Monday evening.
Byron Buxton had three hits and scored 4 instances, rookie Kaelen Culpepper had 4 hits for the primary time in his 14th recreation, and Ryan Kreidler homered to assist the Twins snap a three-game skid.
Matthews (8-8) struck out seven and gave up one stroll. The appropriate-hander has received all 4 of his August begins.
Tommy Nance pitched a scoreless eighth, however Yoendrys Gómez surrendered a two-run double to Jeff McNeil and back-to-back RBI doubles to Zack Gelof and Lawrence Butler within the ninth earlier than Andrew Morris retired Tommy White on a lineout to first for his fourth save.
Kody Clemens drove in Buxton with RBI singles within the fifth and eighth innings. Culpepper singled house Bell within the eighth for the Twins’ ultimate run.
DETROIT — Jonathan Aranda homered and Drew Rasmussen gave up three hits in six sturdy innings because the Tampa Bay Rays beat the slumping Detroit Tigers 4-1 on Monday evening.
Tampa Bay had misplaced seven of its final 10, however by no means trailed towards the Tigers, who’ve misplaced six straight and 9 of 10 to fall behind within the race for the ultimate AL wild card.
Rasmussen (14-5) allowed one run to win his seventh straight begin. It’s the second-longest streak in franchise historical past, trailing solely Blake Snell’s nine-start streak in 2018.
Bryan Baker pitched the ninth for his thirty eighth save.
Detroit starter Framber Valdez (8-9) gave up 4 runs — three earned — on eight hits in six innings. He walked two with out hanging out a batter.
Tampa Bay took a 2-0 lead within the second. Yandy Diaz led off with a single and took third when left fielder Brett Callahan misplayed Ryan Vilade’s base hit. Diaz scored on Junior Caminero’s groundout. After an infield single put runners on the corners with one out, Aranda beat out a double-play try, permitting Vilade to attain.
Within the fourth, Jorge Mateo began the inning with a double and took third on Nick Fortes’ sacrifice bunt. Chandler Simpson put down a squeeze bunt and Mateo beat third baseman Kevin McGonigle’s hurried flip to the plate.
Simpson’s bunt prolonged his hitting streak to fifteen video games.
MIAMI — Anthony Seigler hit a go-ahead triple within the ninth inning, and Boston beat Miami.
Mickey Gasper had two hits and walked twice for the Crimson Sox, who received their fourth straight. Boston has received 19 of 20 towards groups with data of .500 or higher.
Miami nearer Pete Fairbanks (4-5) began the ninth however left with an damage after issuing a leadoff stroll to Gasper. Fairbanks stepped off the mound and touched his throwing arm as he talked with catcher Brian Navarreto and supervisor Clayton McCullough.
Tyler Zuber relieved Fairbanks and allowed Seigler’s line drive towards the fitting area foul space that scored pinch-runner Eli White from first and snapped a 2-all tie. Nick Sogard adopted with an RBI single.
Erik Miller (3-0) pitched a scoreless eighth round two singles and a stroll. Aroldis Chapman closed it out for his thirtieth save.
The Marlins have been 2 for 18 with runners in scoring place.
PHOENIX — Michael Conforto and Carson Kelly hit back-to-back homers, Kevin Gausman gave up simply three hits over seven innings and the Chicago Cubs beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-0 on Monday evening.
The Cubs moved to five 1/2 video games behind the Milwaukee Brewers for the NL Central lead. The Brewers have been off Monday.
Conforto and Kelly hit their homers off reliever Taylor Clarke with two outs within the sixth, breaking open a good recreation. Conforto’s two-run shot to proper area made it 4-0 after which Kelly — who performed 4 1/2 seasons with the Diamondbacks — harm his former crew with a solo smash to left.
That was loads of help for Gausman (2-1), who cruised by way of the D-backs’ lineup, needing simply 94 pitches to finish his seven innings. The appropriate-hander gave up three hits and a stroll whereas hanging out six in his greatest outing for the Cubs since being acquired on the commerce deadline from the Toronto Blue Jays.
WASHINGTON — CJ Abrams had the go-ahead RBI in a five-run fifth inning, Cade Cavalli received his fourth consecutive begin and Washington defeated Colorado for its season-worst seventh consecutive loss.
Daylen Lile homered and drove in 5 runs for the Nationals, who had dropped three video games in a row and 7 of eight.
Willi Castro and Ezequiel Tovar homered for Colorado.
After going hitless for the primary 4 innings towards Rockies starter Ryan Feltner (5-8), the Nationals opened the fifth with two singles. Nasim Nuñez then laid down a sacrifice bunt towards third that Castro threw down the right-field line for an error, permitting two runs to attain.
Abrams laced a double to proper to drive in Nuñez and provides the Nationals a 3-2 lead. Abrams stole third and scored on Abimelec Ortiz’s grounder. Lile and Brady Home hit consecutive doubles so as to add one other run.
Abrams, who missed the earlier 4 video games with a sprained ankle, went 1 for 4 with two stolen bases as Washington’s designated hitter.
SAN FRANCISCO — Rafael Devers hit a three-run homer within the second inning and the San Francisco Giants snapped a four-game dropping streak by beating the Cincinnati Reds 5-0 on Monday evening.
Jason Foley (1-1) labored 1 1/3 innings for the win after relieving lefty Carson Whisenhunt, who left within the third inning with ache in his pitching elbow. He was coming off an outing during which he surrendered a career-worst seven runs and 9 hits over 4 innings of an 8-1 loss at Cleveland final Tuesday. He could have an MRI on Tuesday.
San Francisco leadoff hitter Drew Gilbert doubled in every of his first two at-bats on a cool evening and effectively earlier than the mist started hovering over the outfield within the center innings.
The Giants started the sport with 4 straight hits off right-hander Chase Burns (14-3), together with Jung Hoo Lee’s RBI single adopted by a run-scoring double from Turner Hill within the first. Two of Burns’ three losses this yr have are available in his final three outings.
There seemed to be no lingering unwell will within the first assembly between the golf equipment since a three-game collection at Cincinnati in mid-April that featured a benches-clearing brawl.
The Reds have been shut out for the 14th time this season, tied for probably the most within the majors this season.
PIRATES 3, PADRES 2 (12 innings)
SAN DIEGO — Nick Gonzales led off the twelfth inning with an RBI single and the Pittsburgh Pirates snapped their three-game skid with a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Monday evening.
Esmerlyn Valdez homered and Rafael Flores Jr. had an RBI double within the sixth for the Pirates, who rebounded from getting swept at Dodger Stadium final weekend with simply their eleventh win in 31 video games.
Jake Cronenworth tied it within the eighth with a two-out RBI single for the Padres, whose three-game successful streak ended with solely their eighth loss in 29 video games. San Diego’s eight-game house successful streak additionally ended.
San Diego loaded the bases with one out within the eleventh, however Kirby Yates (2-5) struck out Jackson Merrill and received Xander Bogaerts to line out. Merrill went 0 for five on his bobblehead evening, hanging out on three pitches with the bases loaded in each the eighth and eleventh, and in addition didn’t make a diving catch on Flores’ RBI double.
