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Highlights of Wednesday's Major League Baseball games

[September 07, 2017] (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Wednesday's Major League Baseball games:

Indians 5, White Sox 1

Carlos Carrasco pitched a three-hitter, and the Cleveland Indians equaled a team record with their 14th consecutive victory in a 5-1 win over the Chicago White Sox.

Adam Engel spoiled Carrasco's shutout bid with a two-out, ninth-inning home run. Carrasco (14-6) struck out nine, walked none and threw 97 pitches. He retired the first 12 batters.

Carlos Santana hit a two-run homer among his three hits for the Indians.

Diamondbacks 3, Dodgers 1

Taijuan Walker pitched six solid innings as Arizona won its franchise-record 13th straight game.

Arizona has shaved 10-1/2 games off Los Angeles' National League West lead in 12 days but still trail the Dodgers by 10 1/2 games.

Walker (9-7) has not given up more than one earned run in any of his past four starts.

Red Sox 6, Blue Jays 1

Doug Fister pitched seven strong innings and Jackie Bradley Jr. homered to lead Boston to a rain-soaked victory over Toronto.

Fister (5-7) picked up his fifth win in his past seven starts as he allowed a run and struck out nine.

Bradley's 15th homer of the season capped a four-run fourth inning that chased starter Joe Biagini (3-10).

Cubs 1, Pirates 0

Alex Avila delivered an RBI triple in the ninth inning as Chicago snapped a three-game losing streak.

Anthony Rizzo drew a one-out walk against Pittsburgh's Daniel Hudson (2-6) in the ninth.

Pinch runner Leonys Martin stole second and, after Ian Happ struck out, Avila sent a liner into the right-field corner to drive in Martin.

Pedro Strop (4-4) worked the eighth inning while Wade Davis tossed the ninth for his 29th save.

The Pirates' Gerrit Cole pitched eight innings, allowing two hits and striking out eight.

Nationals 8, Marlins 1

Ryan Zimmerman hit his 31st homer and Gio Gonzalez recorded his 14th win as Washington swept Miami.

Zimmerman went 3-for-5 with three runs scored and two RBIs as the first-place Nationals increased their division lead over the second-place Marlins to 18 games.

Gonzalez (14-6, 2.50 ERA) pitched five scoreless innings, allowing three hits and three walks.

Astros 5, Mariners 3

Cameron Maybin hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer off closer Edwin Diaz in the ninth inning.

Diaz (3-6) gave up a leadoff double to Carlos Beltran in the ninth. Two batters later, Maybin took Diaz the other way, homering off the right-field foul pole.

Chris Devenski (8-3) pitched 1-1/3 scoreless innings to close out the contest.

Giants 11, Rockies 3

Joe Panik had a career-high-tying five hits as San Francisco snapped a 10-game slide at Coors Field.

Panik, Austin Slater and Nick Hundley each drove in two runs Wednesday. Johnny Cueto (7-7) limited the Rockies to five hits and one run in five innings.

Gorkys Hernandez had three RBIs for the Giants.

Cardinals 3, Padres 1

Stephen Piscotty ended the shutout bid by rookie Dinelson Lamet with a two-run homer in the seventh inning to lift St. Louis past San Diego.

Lamet (7-7) had shut out the Cardinals on a hit and three walks, striking out eight, through six innings when he gave up a single to Jose Martinez opening the seventh.

Piscotty then drove the first pitch from Lamet into the left-field stands to erase a 1-0 deficit.

Yangervis Solarte homered off St. Louis rookie Jack Flaherty in the fourth inning.

Reds 7, Brewers 1

Luis Castillo allowed one run with a career-high 10 strikeouts in his final start of the season, lifting Cincinnati to a three-game sweep of Milwaukee.

Castillo (3-7) retired 22 of the last 24 batters he faced during his eight-inning stint. He threw 111 pitches, his second-most this season.

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Zack Cozart and Jose Peraza each homered for the Reds.

Neil Walker hit a solo home run for Milwaukee, which has lost four of its past five games.

Twins 10, Rays 6

Ehire Adrianza hit a three-run homer and Eduardo Escobar was 3-for-5 with three RBIs as Minnesota salvaged the finale of the three-game series.

The Twins took a 7-6 lead in the seventh off a throwing error by Rays reliever Steve Cishek (3-2) that allowed Brian Dozier to score from first base. Escobar made it 8-6 with a bloop single to right-center that plated Jorge Polanco.

Tampa Bay received home runs from Evan Longoria, Lucas Duda and Kevin Kiermaier but fell three games behind in the American League wild-card race.

Athletics 3, Angels 1

Sean Manaea pitched six shutout innings and Khris Davis hit his American League-leading 39th home run as Oakland ended its season-worst eight-game losing streak.

Manaea (10-9) allowed five hits, walked three and fanned six.

Los Angeles' Tyler Skaggs (1-5) allowed three runs (two earned) on five hits over six innings, getting back on track after three rough starts.

Rangers 12, Braves 8 (1st game)

Elvis Andrus was 4-for-5 with a home run and Texas produced a season-high nine extra-base hits in a victory over Atlanta in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.

Andrus hit his 20th homer, added a double and drove in three runs. Mike Napoli hit his 29th homer as the Rangers won their third straight game.

Texas took the lead with a four-run rally in the fourth. An opposite-field RBI double by Brett Nicholas and a two-run triple by pinch hitter Will Middlebrooks, who then scored on a wild pitch, gave the Rangers a 6-4 lead.

Braves 5, Rangers 4 (2nd game)

Freddie Freeman's two-run double highlighted a five-run second inning as Atlanta salvaged a doubleheader with Texas.

Freeman was 1-for-4 and finished 3-for-7 for the doubleheader.

The Braves' Julio Teheran (10-11) pitched five innings and allowed three runs on five hits and a season-high five walks.

Cole Hamels (9-3) pitched six innings and allowed five runs (four earned), six hits and two walks with five strikeouts. After allowing all five runs in the second, Hamels retired nine straight and gave up only one hit and one walk in his final four innings.

Royals 13, Tigers 2

Salvador Perez smacked two homers, and Whit Merrifield hit three doubles and drove in three runs as Kansas City manhandled Detroit.

Perez, who drove in three runs, has three homers over the past three games. He has a career-high 24 homers this season after blasting 22 last season. Alcides Escobar supplied four hits, two runs and an RBI for the Royals.

Kansas City's Jason Hammel (8-10) gave up two runs on nine hits and two walks in six innings. He struck out six.

Mets 6, Phillies 3 (6 innings)

Travis d'Arnaud hit a two-run homer in the first inning, and Robert Gsellman was credited with his first complete game as New York defeated Philadelphia in a contest shortened to six innings because of rain.

The game, played in an increasing downpour in front of what appeared to be fewer than 1,000 people, was called after Phillies reliever Edubray Ramos struck out pinch hitter Travis Taijeron for the first out in the bottom of the sixth.

Gsellman (6-6) carried a three-hit shutout into the sixth. He wound up allowing three runs (two earned) and five hits. He also delivered an RBI single in the second inning.

Yankees at Orioles, ppd., rain

The game between New York and Baltimore was postponed because of rain and will be made up on Thursday.

The starting pitchers will remain the same, with Kevin Gausman (10-9, 4.79 ERA) going for the Orioles vs. the Yankees' Sonny Gray (8-9, 3.36 ERA with Oakland and New York).

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