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Suárez's 12 strikeouts, Schwarber's 50th homer lead Phillies past Mets

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit his 50th home run of the season and Ranger Suárez struck out a career-high 12 over six shutout innings to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 9-3 win over the New York Mets on Tuesday night.

The Phillies have won the first two games of the four-game series and lead the NL East by nine games over the Mets.

Suárez (12-6) turned in another terrific outing.

The left-hander tossed one-hit ball as he lowered his ERA to 2.77 and showed again why the Phillies believe he can be a No. 1 starter in the postseason with ace Zack Wheeler sidelined due to complications from a blood clot.

Schwarber’s three-run shot off reliever Justin Hagenman in the seventh gave the Phillies a 7-1 lead and made him the first National League player to reach 50 homers this season. Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh leads the majors with 53.

The fan favorite designated hitter came out of the dugout for a curtain call for a crowd roaring “MVP! MVP!” as “50 Schwarbombs” flashed on the big screen.

Suárez struck out Juan Soto and Pete Alonso in the first inning and threw 60 strikes out of his 99 total pitches. Suárez has allowed just one earned run and struck out 29 in his last 24 innings over four starts.

GUARDIANS 2, ROYALS 0

CLEVELAND (AP) — Joey Cantillo allowed four hits in a career-best eight-plus innings, José Ramírez homered, doubled and scored twice, and Cleveland beat Kansas City for its fifth straight victory.

Cantillo (5-3) struck out five and didn’t issue a walk. Cade Smith pitched a scoreless ninth for his 12th save for the Guardians, who entered play 2 1/2 games behind Seattle for the final wild-card spot.

Ramírez, who had three hits, hit a solo homer off Royals starter Noah Cameron (7-6) with two outs in the first. David Fry hit the second of back-to-back to doubles to drive in Ramírez in the fourth.

Cameron, a 26-year-old rookie, gave up two runs on six hits with eight strikeouts in seven innings.

The Guardians, who has won six of seven, beat the Royals 10-2 in the series opener Monday.

CUBS 6, BRAVES 1

ATLANTA (AP) — Rookie Cade Horton threw 6 1/3 strong innings, Pete Crow-Armstrong drove in two runs and Chicago pulled away from Atlanta late for a win.

Horton (10-4), a leading candidate for National League Rookie of the Year, allowed one run on four hits with no walks. His 2.70 ERA leads all rookies and 10 wins lead National League rookies. He pitched into the seventh inning for the third time this season.

Andrew Kittredge recorded the final two outs in the seventh, and Caleb Thielbar and Ben Brown each pitched a scoreless inning.

Crow-Armstrong went 1 for 2, walked, was hit by a pitch and had two steals. Ian Happ was 2 for 5 with a double and a run scored. Matt Shaw had a two-run single during a four-run eighth inning.

Crow-Armstrong had a sacrifice fly in the first inning that drove in Michael Busch and an RBI single in the third that scored Happ. Dansby Swanson walked with the bases loaded in the eighth before Shaw’s single.

Ronald Acuña Jr. scored the lone run for the Braves off an RBI single from Jurickson Profar.

Braves starter Spencer Strider (5-13) gave up two runs on six hits while striking out eight.

ORIOLES 3, PIRATES 2, 11 INNINGS

BALTIMORE (AP) — Samuel Basallo hit an RBI single in the 11th inning that was initially ruled a foul ball to give Baltimore a walk-off win over Pittsburgh.

Basallo’s popup to left grazed off the glove of left fielder Tommy Pham, landed on the chalk in the outfield grass, and was ruled foul. After a review, it was ruled a hit to drive in Gunnar Henderson for the Orioles’ third straight walk-off win.

Dietrich Enns (3-2) threw two innings with no hits and one strikeout in extra innings. Kyle Bradish struck out six, allowing four hits and one run in his third start since returning from Tommy John surgery on Aug. 26.

Jeremiah Jackson gave the Orioles a 2-1 lead with a solo homer in the sixth, but Pham hit a solo homer in the top of the ninth to make it 2-all.

Jackson was 2 for 3 for his 10th multihit game since making his MLB debut on Aug. 1.

Jackson Holliday also had two hits, scoring the first Orioles run in the first inning.

Dauri Moreta (1-1) surrendered two hits and a walk in the 11th, and allowed the walk-off hit. Pirates starter Mike Burrows threw four innings with two hits, one run, and six strikeouts.

NATIONALS 7, MARLINS 5

MIAMI (AP) — Josh Bell homered for the fourth time in three games, Mitchell Parker threw 7 2/3 innings of two-run ball and Washington beat Miami.

Rookie Daylen Lile also went deep while CJ Abrams and James Wood doubled and singled each for the Nationals.

Parker (8-15) retired 14 straight after allowing Joey Wiemer’s solo homer in the second. The left-hander allowed four hits, struck out two and walked two.

After losing five of their first six against the Marlins this season, the Nationals have won five straight against their NL East opponent.

Washington built a 7-1 lead before the Marlins rallied on Agustín Ramírez’s RBI single in the eighth and rookie Victor Mesa Jr.’s two-run double in the ninth that made it 7-4. After Jose A. Ferrer allowed Xavier Edwards’ RBI infield single that scored Mesa, he retired Ramírez on a groundout for his eighth save.

RAYS 5, WHITE SOX 4

CHICAGO (AP) — Tristan Gray, Josh Lowe and Richie Palacios homered to help Tampa Bay beat Chicago.

Gray hit a tiebreaking solo drive off Tyler Alexander (5-14) in the seventh inning. It was Gray’s third homer in 17 games since he was acquired in a July 26 trade with the White Sox for cash.

Kevin Kelly (2-3) got one out for the win, and Pete Fairbanks handled the ninth for his 25th save in 30 opportunities.

Tampa Bay returned to .500 with its 11th win in 16 games. It had dropped three in a row since a seven-game win streak.

Kyle Teel homered for the last-place White Sox, who had won seven of eight.

Tampa Bay right-hander Adrian Houser struck out nine while pitching 5 1/3 innings of three-run ball against his former team. He came over in a July 31 trade with Chicago.

TIGERS 12, YANKKES 2

NEW YORK (AP) — Parker Meadows hit a go-ahead single to spark a nine-run seventh inning and Kerry Carpenter added a two-run triple as Detroit took advantage of wild relievers Fernando Cruz and Mark Leiter Jr. in a victory over New York.

Detroit sent 14 batters to the plate in the seventh and the first nine reached against Cruz (2-4) and Leiter, who combined to allow four walks, four hits and a hit batsman.

Meadows hit a tying two-run homer in the fifth off starter Will Warren and singled after Cruz opened the seventh by allowing a double to Riley Greene and issuing two walks. Meadows scored Detroit’s fourth run of the inning when Colt Keith was hit by a pitch.

Carpenter lined a triple to deep left field to make it 10-2. That came after Trey Sweeney scored on Leiter’s wild pitch to the backstop.

Sweeney hit an RBI single to give Detroit a 5-2 lead when shortstop Anthony Volpe could not complete an over-the-shoulder catch in shallow center field.

Greene added an RBI single in the eighth as the Tigers scored their most runs at Yankee Stadium since June 21, 2015.

BLUE JAYS 4, ASTROS 3, 10 INNINGS

TORONTO (AP) — Tyler Heineman drove in the winning run in the 10th inning and Toronto Blue rallied to beat Houston.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached on an infield single against Craig Kimbrel (0-1) to begin the 10th, advancing automatic runner Myles Straw to third base. Daulton Varsho struck out and Heineman followed with a fielder’s choice grounder to first base, where a diving Christian Walker couldn’t throw home in time to retire the speedy Straw.

Jeff Hoffman (9-6) pitched one inning for the win.

Toronto trailed 3-1 heading to the bottom of the ninth against Bryan Abreu, but the Blue Jays loaded the bases with two walks and a single before Isiah Kiner-Falefa lined a game-tying hit to left field.

Abreu sent it to extra innings by striking out George Springer and getting Straw to fly out.

Carlos Correa hit a two-run home run for Houston but the Astros lost for the fourth time in five games.

RANGERS 5, BREWERS 4

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Michael Helman hit a two-run home run during a four-run fifth inning minutes after making a leaping backhand catch over the fence in left center that prevented a two-run homer as the Texas Rangers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 on Tuesday night.

Wyatt Langford’s RBI triple and Kyle Higashioka’s run-scoring single off Aaron Ashby (3-2) capped the Rangers’ rally after Milwaukee scored three times in the top of the fifth.

Hoby Milner (3-4) pitched a scoreless inning of relief after allowing six runs in two-thirds of an inning in his two previous outings. Shawn Armstrong earned his eighth save in 11 opportunities despite giving up a pinch-hit home run to Jake Bauers.

Texas has won 13 of its last 17 games to cut a 7 1/2-game deficit behind first-place Houston in the AL West to 2 1/2 games.

Helman, a rookie claimed off waivers from Pittsburgh on May 19, was the star of the Rangers’ 5-0 win in Monday night’s series opener. The Texas A&M product hit his first major league grand slam and had five RBIs.

In a matchup of rookie starters, neither Texas’ Jack Leiter nor Milwaukee’s Chad Patrick, called up from Triple-A Nashville, made it through five innings.

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