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HOUSTON (AP) Nick Fortes homered and hit a run-scoring double, Junior Caminero added a solo shot, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Houston Astros 3-1 on Friday night to extend the longest active win streak in the major leagues to nine games.
The Rays have homered in a season-high eight consecutive games.
Tampa Bay had its streak of nine straight games scoring at least four runs snapped.
Steven Okert (1-1) replaced starter Spencer Arrighetti to begin the seventh and struck out Jonathan Aranda swinging before Caminero hit a 1-1 slider over the wall in left field to give the Rays a 2-1 lead.
Kevin Kelly (5-3) pitched 1 2/3 innings of no-hit relief for the win.
Bryan Baker pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for 23rd save this season.
Yordan Alvarez hit his American League-leading 27th home run this season, a 427-foot shot off Rays starter Nick Martinez in the sixth that made it 1-1.
Philadelphias Kyle Schwarber leads MLB with 30 homers.
CARDINALS 17, CUBS 1 CHICAGO (AP) Nathan Church and Masyn Winn hit three-run homers and St.
Louis had 17 hits overall to cool off Chicago.
Winn and Alec Burleson had two hits and four RBIs each to help St.
Louis win for the fourth time in its last five games and end NL Central rival Chicagos five-game win streak.
Ivan Herrera and Blaze Jordan had three hits each.
Cardinals starter Andre Pallante (10-5) limited the Cubs to five hits and one walk over 5 2/3 innings.
Churchs drive off David Peterson (4-7) in the second inning was his third in four games.
The center fielder has eight RBIs in the span.
Alex Bregman had two hits and drove in the Cubs run with a double in the seventh inning.
Peterson gave up a career-high 10 earned runs on nine hits in 3 2/3 innings in his second start with the Cubs since being acquired from the Mets on June 25.
The Cardinals went on to build a 17-0 lead, their biggest over an opponent since an 18-0 lead at Pittsburgh on May 22, 2022.
NATIONALS 9, PIRATES 5 WASHINGTON (AP) Luis Garcia Jr.
and Daylen Lile each homered twice, and Jose Tena also went deep for Washington as the Nationals beat Pittsburgh.
Foster Griffin (9-2) allowed a run and four hits in five innings, lowering his ERA to 2.87 for the Nationals.
Washington has won five of six.
Bryan Reynolds homered for Pittsburgh.
Mitch Keller (6-6) allowed five runs and eight hits in six innings.
The temperature at game time was 100 degrees, and the ball was certainly carrying.
Garcia opened the scoring in the first with his 17th homer of the season, a solo shot to right.
An inning later, Lile hit a 417-foot drive to center to make it 2-0.
Reynolds solo homer to center in the third went 426 feet to get the Pirates on the board, but after James Wood led off the bottom half with a triple, Tena hit a two-run shot also to center that went 434 feet.
BRAVES 5, METS 3 ATLANTA (AP) Matt Olson hit two home runs, Michael Harris II added a two-run shot, and Ozzie Albies also homered as the Atlanta Braves cranked up their power game to beat the New York Mets 5-3 on Friday night.
The Braves lead second-place Philadelphia in the NL East by three games despite entering the four-game series with a 5-14 record since June 9.
New York dropped 16 games under .500 for the first time since 2018.
The most games under .500 for a team that reached the postseason was 16 by the 1914 Boston Braves at 12-28, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
The Braves reclaimed their power stroke with the four homers.
They had not hit as many as three homers in a game since a 5-2 win at Cincinnati on May 30.
ORIOLES 3, REDS 0 CINCINNATI (AP) Samuel Basallo hit a two-run homer and Trevor Rogers pitched out of trouble for five innings as Baltimore beat Cincinnati.
The Orioles executed a double steal in the first inning and Gunnar Henderson scored when the throw to third base from Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson sailed into left field for an error.
Basallos 13th homer came off starter Brady Singer to make it 3-0 in the third.
It was the 20th home run allowed by Singer in 17 starts this season, surpassing the 19 homers he gave up last year in 32 starts.
Rogers (6-7) limited Cincinnati to two hits and struck out four.
But he matched a career high with five walks, a total he also reached May 4 against the New York Yankees.
Rico Garcia tossed two innings and Yennier Cano worked the eighth.
With reliever Ryan Helsley placed on the injured list before the game, Tyler Wells pitched the ninth to finish the four-hitter.
YANKEES 5, TWINS 2 NEW YORK (AP) Ben Rice hit go-ahead two-run homer in the third inning after a rain delay and New York ended a seven-game losing streak with a victory over Minnesota.
Trent Grisham hit a leadoff homer and had a sacrifice fly in his return from a strained right hamstring, and Gerrit Cole (3-3) pitched five innings to help the Yankees end their longest slide since a nine-game skid Aug.
12-22, 2023.
The game was stopped after Cole struck out Brooks Lee to end the third.
During the 53-minute delay, the center field scoreboard showed the end of Argentinas 3-2 extra-time victory over Cape Verde in the World Cup.
Following Grishams single, Rice snapped a 1-1 tie by hitting rookie starter Mike Paredes full-count fastball into the right-field seats.
Rices 24th homer helped the Yankees win the fourth time in 15 games and beat the Twins for the 12th time in the last 14 meetings.
After Carlos Rodon was placed on the 15-day injured list with left elbow inflammation, Cole allowed two runs and five hits in five innings.
The right-hander struck out seven, walked none and was warming up in the bullpen when Rice homered.
ROCKIES 15, GIANTS 3 DENVER (AP) Jake McCarthy got Colorado started with a leadoff homer, hit a grand slam in a seven-run fifth and drove in a career-high six runs in the Rockies win over San Francisco.
McCarthy was 4 for 5 to raise his batting average to .308.
He also homered twice in a 2024 game with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
McCarthy sent the first pitch he saw from Logan Webb (5-6) 440 feet to right center, then made it 7-1 in the third with an RBI single.
He also went to right center in the fifth for the grand slam his career-best ninth home run of the season.
After the grand slam, Hunter Goodman doubled, TJ Rumfield walked and Cole Carrigg drove them both in with his third triple.
Tyler Freeman drove in Carrigg.
Ezequiel Tovar was 3 for 4 with a two-run homer in the second inning, and Carrigg went 2 for 4 with three RBIs.
The Rockies had 18 hits.
Ryan Feltner (3-2) threw six strong innings, striking out a season-high nine.
He allowed six hits and three runs two of them earned.