PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cristopher Sánchez ran his consecutive shutout innings streak to before allowing a run and earned the win after J.T. Realmuto and Kyle Schwarber homered in the seventh inning, leading the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night.
Jhoan Duran worked a scoreless ninth for his 14th save.
Sánchez’s streak ranks as the third-best overall dating to the start of the Live Ball Era in 1920 behind the Los Angeles Dodgers’ with a record 59 straight scoreless innings in 1988, and Don Drysdale with 58 in 1968. With a scoreless first inning against the Padres, Sánchez topped Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell’s mark of 45 1/3 in 1933 for longest by a left-hander.
Sánchez (7-2) breezed through six scoreless innings against the Padres before allowing a two-out double in the seventh to Ty France. Sánchez allowed an RBI single to lefty-swinging Jackson Merrill that scored France and accounted for the only run he allowed since the end of April.
Sánchez stood on the mound and finally cracked a smile and fidgeted with the bill of his cap after a nearly minute-long standing ovation from 40,453 Phillies fans. He finished with eight strikeouts.
Sánchez last allowed two runs in the first inning of a 3-2 victory over the Giants on April 30.
Sánchez got the run support he needed for the win in the bottom of the seventh when Realmuto and Schwarber hit solo homers off Padres reliever Jason Adam (2-1) to make it 3-1.
TIGERS 7, RAYS 2
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Troy Melton allowed only two runs over a career-long eight innings, Dillon Dingler drove in four runs and Detroit finished off a three-game sweep of Tampa Bay.
Detroit scored 25 runs on 19 extra base hits in the three games at Tropicana Field. The road sweep for Detroit is the first since last July at Cleveland.
Tampa Bay has dropped eight of the past 10 games. The Rays’ lead in the AL East dropped to 0.5 games heading into Wednesday night.
Melton, making his third start of the season after beginning the year on the 60-day disabled list with right elbow inflammation, held the Rays to four hits while striking out five in eight innings on 94 pitches. Melton retired the final 17 batters he faced. Drew Anderson retired the side in the ninth.
Dingler drove in Gleyber Torres with a base hit in the first inning and delivered a three-run home run in the fourth that put Detroit up 6-2. Dingler finished the series with three homers and nine RBIs.
Jake Rogers also homered for Detroit, delivering his first of the season with a solo shot in the second inning.
MARLINS 4, NATIONALS 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Max Meyer allowed two hits in seven innings, and Joe Mack hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the eighth to lift Miami to a win over Washington and a three-game sweep.
Meyer (6-0) is unbeaten in 13 starts this year, tying the franchise record to start a season set by Livan Hernandez in 1997. He allowed a run and two walks with seven strikeouts.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth, Mack lined a single to right-center field off Clayton Beeter (1-1) to put Miami up 3-1. Calvin Faucher worked the bottom of the eighth for the Marlins, and Pete Fairbanks finished for his seventh save in nine chances.
It’s been a streaky stretch for the Marlins, who lost three in a row, won four and lost five before their current run of three straight wins.
Esteury Ruiz homered in the second to give the Marlins a 1-0 lead, but the Nationals tied it in the third. With the bases loaded and one out, shortstop Otto Lopez — playing in a bit — wasn’t able to handle a grounder up the middle by Dylan Crews. Everyone was safe and Lopez was charged with an error.
Curtis Mead followed with another grounder to Lopez, who this time started a double play to end the inning.
After a walk and a wild pitch to start the fifth, Washington second baseman Nasim Nuñez pulled off a risky move when he threw to third on a grounder up the middle. It was in time to retire Connor Norby, and the call was upheld after a review.
WHITE SOX 8, TWINS 0
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Erick Fedde pitched five scoreless innings for his first win in 10 months as beat to stave off a series sweep.
Rookie Sam Antonacci went 4 for 4 with two doubles, a walk and a hit by pitch for the White Sox, who took a 4-0 lead in the first on Twins starter Taj Bradley and improved to 33-29 after losing the .
The White Sox got their 33rd win last season on July 18 and didn’t get there in 2024 until Sept. 8.
Fedde (1-5) retired the first 11 batters he faced and didn’t allow a hit until consecutive two-out singles in the fifth inning while throwing 61 pitches. The journeyman right-hander, who has switched teams four times in three years, recorded his most recent victory on Aug. 9, 2025, in a start for St. Louis. The 33-year-old Fedde has made eight starts and four bulk relief appearances this season.
Bradley (5-2) failed to finish five innings for the second straight start, his third turn since returning from the injured list with pectoral muscle inflammation. He has allowed 24 runs over 11 starts, including 10 in the first.
METS 7, MARINERS 1
SEATTLE (AP) — Bo Bichette had four hits, Freddy Peralta threw six strong innings and New York beat Seattle.
Bichette had his 19th career four-hit game and first with the Mets after signing a three-year, $126 million contract during the offseason. He drove in three runs, two in the fourth with a broken-bat single into center field that broke a 1-1 tie. He added an insurance run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Peralta (4-4) allowed one run on six hits in six innings for New York while striking out six. He kept Seattle 0 for 4 with runners in scoring position, including inducing a bases-loaded double play grounder from Randy Arozarena in the third inning.
Joe Gerber, Brooks Raley and Luke Weaver kept the Mariners hitless for the final three innings.
Jared Young and A.J. Ewing each had two hits as the Mets chased Mariners ace George Kirby (5-5) after four innings.
J.P. Crawford led off with his 10th homer of the season for Seattle. It was his 17th leadoff homer of his career — second most in franchise history.
BRAVES 7, BLUE JAYS 3
ATLANTA (AP) — Mauricio Dubón hit a go-ahead, three-run in the third inning and Atlanta beat Toronto to continue its mastery of left-hander Patrick Corbin.
A homer by Nathan Lukes off Grant Holmes (4-2) in the third inning gave Toronto a 2-1 lead. The Braves answered off Corbin (2-2) in the bottom of the inning. With two outs, Matt Olson singled and moved to third on Ozzie Albies’ double. Dubón’s homer into the Braves’ bullpen behind the center-field wall gave Atlanta a 4-2 lead.
Olson, who hit a tie-breaking homer in Atlanta’s over Toronto on Tuesday night, had three hits. Olson singled and scored on Albies’ three-run homer off left-hander Adam Macko in the seventh to extend the lead to five runs.
Toronto catcher Brandon Valenzuela hit a homer off Tyler Kinley in the ninth.
Corbin gave up four runs on six hits and two walks in five innings for his 12th consecutive loss to the Braves. The last pitcher in the majors to lose 12 consecutive decisions to one team was Mark Buehrle, who lost 12 straight to the New York Yankees from 2004-14 with the White Sox, Miami and Toronto.
Corbin is 6-13 against Atlanta for his career. The streak of losing 12 straight decisions over 13 starts began on Sept. 6, 2019, with Washington.
RED SOX 8, ORIOLES 1
BOSTON (AP) — Wilyer Abreu hit a two-run homer and drove in three runs, Payton Tolle pitched six scoreless innings and Boston beat Baltimore.
Mickey Gasper had a two-run triple in Boston’s five-run fifth inning and Ceddanne Rafaela had three hits for the Red Sox, who have scored five or more runs in six of their last nine games. They had recently endured a stretch where they went 11 straight games without scoring more than four runs.
Willson Contreras had two singles and a double, and every spot in the Red Sox batting order had at least one hit.
Tolle (3-2) allowed seven hits, struck out five, walked two and lowered his ERA to 2.28. He has allowed less than four runs in nine of his 10 career starts.
Jarren Duran hit a leadoff single to extend his hitting streak to 10 games. Abreu drove Duran across to put the Sox ahead 1-0, and added a two-run homer in the third that made it 3-0.
The Red Sox erupted for five runs in the fifth, started by Gasper’s two-run triple. Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Caleb Durbin, and Rafaela each drove in one run in the frame.
Adley Rutschman got the O’s on the board with an RBI triple in the seventh. Chris Bassitt (4-4) allowed six hits and three runs in three innings, and Taylor Ward had three singles.
GUARDIANS 5, YANKEES 4
NEW YORK (AP) — José Ramírez launched one of Cleveland’s three home runs off Gerrit Cole and finished with three hits for the second consecutive game as the Guardians beat New York.
New York slugger Aaron Judge missed his second game in a row because of a that’s been causing pain in his right shoulder. Judge was scheduled to see a specialist Wednesday and the Yankees were still awaiting more information, manager Aaron Boone said before the game.
Kyle Manzardo homered for the second straight night in the Bronx and doubled twice. Rhys Hoskins also went deep and drove in three runs for the Guardians, who improved to a major league-best 10-1 on the road since May 6.
Cleveland, which has won 15 of 20 overall, will go for a three-game sweep Thursday afternoon in this matchup of American League contenders. Gavin Williams (9-3) allowed three runs and struck out six over 5 1/3 innings to win his fourth consecutive start for the Guardians, who won a series at Yankee Stadium for the first time since September 2021.
Williams had lasted at least six innings in a career-high eight straight starts.
Cade Smith allowed a run in the ninth before converting his big league-leading 21st save and 18th in a row.
GIANTS 1, BREWERS 0
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Logan Webb carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning, Victor Bericoto hit his first career homer and San Francisco edged Milwaukee.
Webb (3-4) struck out four and allowed one hit and one walk over seven innings. Milwaukee’s only hit off Webb came when Brice Turang lined a one-out single to left in the seventh.
Webb didn’t allow a baserunner until Sal Frelick led off the sixth by walking on a 3-2 pitch that missed high.
Keaton Winn got the final four outs to earn his second career save, and first since 2023. The Brewers left the potential tying run in scoring position in each of the final two innings.
Christian Yelich led off the ninth with a double to right and advanced to third when Andrew Vaughn grounded to first. Winn preserved San Francisco’s win by striking out Turang and retiring William Contreras on a grounder to shortstop Willy Adames.
In the eighth, the Brewers had runners on first and second with one out before Winn entered and got Gary Sánchez to ground into an inning-ending double play.
The Giants won for just the second time in nine games while snapping Milwaukee’s three-game win streak.
ROYALS 5, REDS 2
CINCINNATI (AP) — Michael Massey hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, Vinnie Pasquantino and Nick Loftin homered and Kansas City beat Cincinnati to win the three-game series.
Massey’s line drive to right field off Tony Santillan (1-3) scored pinch-runner Tyler Tolbert and Loftin’s first home run this season capped the scoring.
Daniel Lynch IV (2-0) relieved starter Stephen Kolek in the eighth and did not allow a run before Alex Lange pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save — and his first save opportunity — since 2024 with Detroit. Kolek gave up two runs with eight strikeouts in seven innings.
The Royals won their second road series and their first since a three-game sweep May 1-3 at Seattle. Kansas City is 2-4 in rubber games and 6-14 in series finales.
Kansas City had lost seven of its previous eight games overall.
Pasquantino, Massey and Jac Caglianone had two hits apiece.
Reds starter Chase Burns allowed two runs and four hits with nine strikeouts in six innings. The 23-year-old has 81 strikeouts in 70 1/3 innings this season.
CARDINALS 5, RANGERS 3
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alec Burleson drove in three runs, Andre Pallante threw 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball, and St. Louis defeated Texas.
The Cardinals improved to 26-3 when leading after seven innings and got back to .500 at home, while the Rangers saw their five-game win streak end.
Pallante (6-4) allowed three hits and struck out five. After reliever JoJo Romero gave up a two-run triple to Joc Pederson in the seventh, Ryne Stanek followed with 1 2/3 scoreless innings and Riley O’Brien worked the ninth for his 15th save.
Burleson hit a two-out RBI single in the first inning. Josh Jung answered for Texas with a run-scoring single in the third.
The Cardinals had three straight hits to begin their half of the third, and Burleson drove in two with a double to right field that made it 3-1.
Thomas Saggese drove in a run in the fifth with his first career triple, and Nelson Velázquez brought one more home with a single in the sixth.
Texas’ MacKenzie Gore (4-5) worked 4 2/3 innings, allowing nine hits and four runs while striking out five.
