MLB roundup: Red Sox get another win over Yankees

Nathaniel Lowe laced a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning to help the visiting Boston Red Sox earn a 6-3 win over the New York Yankees on Thursday and improve to 6-1 against their American League East rivals this season.

Roman Anthony had a game-tying single in the sixth and added insurance with a two-run homer into the second deck in the ninth for the Red Sox, who snapped a three-game losing streak and moved within a half-game of the Yankees for the top American League wild-card position.

The Red Sox won despite leaving 14 runners on base and going just 3-for-19 with runners in scoring position.

Ben Rice homered and Paul Goldschmidt and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit RBI singles for the Yankees, who had their five-game winning streak snapped. New York committed four errors that led to three unearned runs.

Brewers 4, Cubs 1

Brice Turang homered and six pitchers combined on a five-hitter in Milwaukee’s win over host Chicago.

Turang’s two-out, two-run homer in the second gave the Brewers a 2-0 lead. He drove Shota Imanaga’s 2-0 four-seam fastball through the wind, which was blowing in, and into the stands in right for his 14th home run and eighth in 18 games. Isaac Collins added a two-run single in the eighth.

Milwaukee starter Quinn Priester gave up a run on three hits in 4 1/3 innings, and Trevor Megill handled the ninth for his 30th save. Imanaga (8-6) allowed two runs on three hits in seven innings. Pete Crow-Armstrong drove in Chicago’s lone run on a sacrifice fly.

Dodgers 9, Rockies 5

With Shohei Ohtani taking the day off after being bruised by a comebacker the night before, Freddie Freeman and Andy Pages homered to lead Los Angeles to the victory over Colorado in Denver.

Clayton Kershaw (8-2) picked up his 220th career win as he allowed six hits and three runs over 5 2/3 innings. Alex Freeland went 3-for-5 with a double and a triple while Freeman, Pages and Mookie Betts poked two hits apiece.

Brenton Doyle went 2-for-3 with a home run and four RBIs for the Rockies. Starter Chase Dollander (2-10) surrendered nine hits and seven runs before being lifted with two outs in the fourth.

Athletics 8, Twins 3

Tyler Soderstrom went 4-for-4 and Lawrence Butler delivered a three-run double as the Athletics won in Minneapolis, completing their first three-game sweep at Minnesota since 2014.

Nick Kurtz poked his 26th home run as part of the Athletics’ 12-hit attack. Jack Perkins (3-2) allowed three hits and two runs over five innings while Osvaldo Bido threw the final three innings to pick up his first MLB save.

Twins starter Jose Urena (0-1) surrendered seven hits and six runs in five innings. Royce Lewis cracked an RBI double while James Outman and Austin Martin added RBI singles.

Padres 8, Giants 4

Manny Machado’s two-run double highlighted a six-run fifth inning for host San Diego in a come-from-behind win over San Francisco.

Machado also had an RBI single in the fourth to begin the Padres’ comeback from a 2-0 deficit. Xander Bogaerts had two RBIs and Fernando Tatis Jr., Luis Arraez and Ramon Laureano joined Machado in supplying two hits apiece.

Rafael Devers and Willy Adames hit back-to-back homers in the sixth for the Giants, who fell to 9-22 since the All-Star Break. Andrew Knizner (RBI double) and Heliot Ramos (run-scoring double play) staked San Francisco to a first-inning lead.