DETROIT (AP) — The New York Yankees won consecutive games for the first time in four weeks, beating the Detroit Tigers 4-2 Tuesday night as Gleyber Torres homered for the second straight game.
Kyle Higashioka and Anthony Volpe also homered for the Yankees, who had not won back-to-back games since Aug, 2 against Tampa Bay and the next day against Houston. New York has won consecutive road games for the first time since June 28-29 at major league-worst Oakland.
Last-place New York (64-68), in danger of ending its streak of 30 consecutive winning seasons, has two chances against the Tigers to end its run of 10 winless series since a three-game sweep of Kansas City from July 21-23.
Detroit (59-73) has lost four straight.
Jhony Brito (5-6) gave up two hits in 3 1/3 shutout innings for the win. Tarik Skubal (3-3) allowed three runs, two earned, four hits and two walks while striking out nine in six innings in the loss.
PHILLIES 12, ANGELS 7
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alec Bohm followed an intentional walk to Bryce Harper with a go-ahead three-run homer, Harper hit career home run No. 299 and Philadelphia beat Los Angeles for its fifth straight win.
Shohei Ohtani had three hits and knocked in two runs for an Angels team that reportedly put at least six players on waivers and seemingly surrendered any shot at salvaging the season.
Kyle Schwarber hit his 37th homer of the season, Bryson Stott added a two-run homer and Trea Turner hit a solo shot for the Phillies, who hold the top spot in the NL wild-card standings. Michael Lorenzen (8-8) struck out five in five innings and won for the first time since his Aug. 9 no-hitter.
Luis Rengifo homered twice and Randal Grichuk went deep for Los Angeles. Tyler Anderson (5-6) took the loss as the Angels lost for the seventh time in nine games.
RANGERS 2, METS 1
NEW YORK (AP) — Mitch Garver homered to snap a scoreless tie in the seventh inning and Texas emerged from a slump and beat New York.
Ezequiel Duran had an RBI single and Andrew Heaney had seven strikeouts in 5 1/3 shutout innings for the Rangers, who began the day a game behind AL West-leading Seattle. Chris Stratton (2-1) picked up his first win for Texas since being acquired from St. Louis in a July 30 trade.
Mark Vientos hit a two-run homer in the ninth for the last-place Mets (60-73). Drew Smith (4-5) picked up the loss as New York wasted six scoreless innings from José Quintana and lost for the sixth time in seven games.
NATIONALS 5, BLUE JAYS 4
TORONTO (AP) — Keibert Ruiz hit a three-run home run, Carter Kieboom had a two-run drive and Washington dropped Toronto 3 1/2 games behind Houston for the final AL wild card.
Washington’s Jacob Young got his first major league hit, a bunt single in the seventh and threw a runner out at the plate to end the eighth.
Washington (62-71) is 17-9 in August and moved two games ahead of the last-place New York Mets in the NL East.
Rookie Davis Schneider homered for Toronto, which has lost five of seven.
Washington left-hander MacKenzie Gore (7-10) allowed one run and six hits in five innings to win for the first time in six starts since July 23. Kyle Finnegan picked up his 25th save in 32 chances.
RAYS 11, MARLINS 2
MIAMI (AP) — Randy Arozarena, Josh Lowe and Isaac Paredes homered as Tampa rallied from two early deficits and beat Miami.
José Siri hit a go-ahead two-run double in the sixth inning and Yandy Díaz added two singles for the Rays, who trail AL-leading Baltimore by 2 1/2 games in the East Division and maintained their 5 1/2-game lead in the race for the AL’s top wild-card spot.
Miami slugger Jorge Soler left the game in the seventh inning due to right hip tightness. Soler, who has 35 homers this season, swung at a pitch from Tampa Bay reliever Erasmo Ramírez and stepped away from the plate.
Aaron Civale (7-3) overcame a 32-pitch first inning and worked five frames of two-run ball, allowing seven hits and striking out five.
Marlins starter Sandy Alcantara (6-12) gave up four runs, seven hits, walked two and struck out four in 5 2/3 innings for the Marlins (66-66), who are 13-27 since the All-Star break. Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a solo homer.
ORIOLES 9, WHITE SOX 3
BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Santander hit a go-ahead three-run double in the seventh inning, and AL-best Baltimore beat Chicago and matched its victory total from last season.
Baltimore (83-49), which has won nine of 11, remained 2 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay in the AL East. The Orioles went 83-79 in 2022, their first winning season since 2016.
Lenyn Sosa hit his third homer in five games for Chicago (52-81), which has lost 12 of 17. Aaron Bummer (4-3) took the loss.
Danny Coulombe (4-1) picked up the victory.
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