Arozarena’s 10th-inning – Randy Arozarena launched a two-run homer to lead off the 10th inning as the Seattle Mariners edged the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 on Tuesday. The night also featured Andy Pages and Paul Skenes starring for the Dodgers’ rout of the Pirates, Toronto rallying past Phi
BALTIMORE — Randy Arozarena didn’t just break the deadlock in the 10th inning. He made sure Baltimore felt it immediately.
With a two-run homer to lead off the frame. Arozarena carried the Seattle Mariners to a 6-5 win over the Orioles on Tuesday night. Mitch Garver added a homer as Seattle. already riding momentum. extended its surge by winning 11 of its last 14 games and landing at 36-32. tied for a season-high four games over .500.
Baltimore had answers. Coby Mayo homered during a two-run ninth inning to pull the Orioles level at 4-4. setting up a tense extra-inning finish. The Orioles’ rally wasn’t enough to stop the pain of momentum slipping away: it was their first four-game losing streak since a five-game skid from April 30 to May 4.
Arozarena’s 10th-inning shot came from Rico Garcia’s 0-1 slider. It sailed over the wall in right for Arozarena’s seventh home run of the season. bringing around automatic runner Julio Rodríguez. Garcia (3-1) entered the at-bat having allowed only three runs in 27 innings this season—numbers that now felt painfully close to perfect.
Seattle’s plan for the 10th unfolded quickly after the homer. Nick Davila. called up from Triple-A Tacoma. hit Blaze Alexander and then yielded Leody Taveras’ RBI single to open the inning. Mayo popped out, and third baseman Patrick Wisdom threw out Alexander at home. Davila then struck out O’Neill for his first career save.
PITTSBURGH — Not every game waited for late heroics. In the National League, the Dodgers turned the moment on when Pirates ace Paul Skenes exited.
Andy Pages hit a two-run homer and added a sacrifice fly during a seventh-inning outburst against Pittsburgh’s bullpen as Los Angeles quickly pulled away.
Skenes, the reigning NL Cy Young winner, allowed two runs and struck out seven in six innings. He retired Los Angeles star Shohei Ohtani all three times he faced the four-time MVP, getting Ohtani to ground out twice and fanning him once. But when Skenes left, the Dodgers pounced.
Dalton Rushing led off the seventh with a single off Wilber Dotel (1-0), advanced to third on a single through the hole by Alan Freeland, and scored the go-ahead run when Pirates catcher Henry Davis’ attempt to pick Rushing off third hit the Dodger catcher instead and rolled away.
Ohtani then delivered an RBI-double. and Pages extended the damage with his fourth home run in 12 career games against the Pirates to make it 6-2. The biggest inning for Los Angeles since an 11-run outburst against St. Louis on June 2. 2021. also included a throwing error by Pirates second baseman Brandon Lowe and “a couple of bases-loaded walks.” Freddie Freeman added his 2. 500th career hit with a sharp RBI-single to centre.
Will Klein (2-2) picked up the win in relief of starter Eric Laurer, who allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings.
TORONTO — Elsewhere in the American League, Toronto’s late push came after Philadelphia’s ninth-inning advantage held.
Brandon Valenzuela hit a game-winning single in the ninth inning, and the Blue Jays scored twice off Jhoan Duran to beat Philadelphia.
Duran (1-3) blew a save opportunity for the first time this season after starting 16 for 16.
Jesús Sánchez reached on an infield single to start the ninth and was replaced by Myles Straw. Yohendrick Piñango followed with a single, sending Straw to third. Daulton Varsho replaced Piñango and stole second before Straw scored the tying run on a wild pitch. with Varsho advancing to third. Valenzuela lined the next pitch into left field to score Varsho.
Sánchez also homered off Zack Wheeler, his seventh. The rally began after Bryson Stott gave Philadelphia the lead with an RBI double in the top of the ninth.
Across the rest of the slate, multiple games turned on big moments.
NEW YORK — Alec Burleson homered and finished with three RBIs as surging St. Louis beat New York. Dustin May tossed six solid innings to snap a seven-start winless streak for the Cardinals, who have won five straight games—one shy of their season high.
JJ Westerholt’s two-run double against Freddy Peralta (4-5) sparked a four-run third. Jordan Walker had an RBI double and Lars Nootbaar added a run-scoring groundout later in the inning.
Burleson hit a two-run shot to left field in the fifth and then delivered an RBI double off Joey Gerber in the seventh. The three-RBI game was the fifth of the season for Burleson, who entered Tuesday tied for seventh in the NL in RBIs.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jac Caglianone flipped a game Kansas City trailed early, going 3 for 3 with two home runs and three RBIs as the Royals defeated Texas.
Caglianone missed Kansas City’s previous game with right shoulder soreness, then immediately made his impact felt by ending Nathan Eovaldi’s no-hit bid with a leadoff homer in the fifth that sailed into the right-field bullpen.
In the sixth, Caglianone drove reliever Jalen Beeks’ first-pitch changeup 431 feet to right-centre for a two-run shot that gave the Royals a 5-2 lead. It was his second multihomer game in the majors; he also hit a pair against the Rangers on June 19, 2025—the first two home runs of his career.
Kansas City added on with five extra-base hits in a four-run sixth. Steven Cruz (1-2) earned the win by retiring all four batters he faced, striking out two. Alex Lange struck out two in a hitless ninth for his fourth save this season, all in the last six Royals games.
MIAMI — Otto Lopez provided the spark for Miami’s turnaround, hitting a tiebreaking RBI single to start off the Marlins’ four-run eighth inning. Joe Mack went 4 for 4 and scored three runs as Miami beat Arizona for its sixth win in seven games.
Lopez’s run-scoring single began a four-hit sequence in the eighth. Javier Sanoja drove in two more runs with a single, and Esteury Ruiz followed with a one-run single as the Marlins broke open a 6-all tie.
Mack, at 22 years, 164 days, became the youngest catcher in Marlins history to record four hits in a game. He also became the 13th MLB catcher with 10 runners caught stealing this season, doing so in just 28 games.
Miami jumped out to an early 3-1 lead behind a Xavier Edwards RBI single in the first, a Connor Norby one-run double in the second, and a sacrifice fly from Edwards in the third. Liam Hicks and Kyle Stowers added two-run doubles in the sixth for a 6-2 lead.
Pete Fairbanks (1-1) threw a one-hit ninth inning, striking out two.
CLEVELAND — Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered leading off the eighth inning and New York defeated Cleveland.
Spencer Jones also hit a home run for his first major league home run for the Yankees, who have won three straight and are 10-4 since May 24.
Cleveland’s Angel Martínez had two hits and an RBI. The Guardians have dropped three straight and five of six, and they are 2-6 in their last eight home games.
Chisholm used one of Aaron Judge’s bats again, driving a full-count slider from reliever Tim Herrin (0-2) into the right-field stands to put the Yankees on top. It was his third homer in his last six games.
Chisholm walked to start the second. Jones, the 25th overall pick in the 2022 amateur draft, connected on starter Slade Cecconi’s cutter down the middle of the plate and drove it 443 feet over the centre-field wall.
The Yankees’ bullpen pitched five scoreless innings. Camilo Doval (2-0) got the win. Fernando Cruz walked the leadoff hitter in the ninth before striking out the next three for his first save.
TORONTO — In the Rays vs. Red Sox game, Nick Martinez gave up six hits over seven innings as Tampa Bay held on to beat Boston.
Martinez (6-2) allowed three runs while striking out two. Ben Williamson and Nick Fortes hit RBI doubles, and Kevin Kelly added a hitless eighth before Bryan Baker pitched the ninth for his 18th save.
Ryan Vilade had three hits and scored the Rays’ first run in the fourth inning. Williamson and Fortes each had two hits, and Tampa Bay managed 12 overall while going 5 for 10 with runners in scoring position.
Red Sox rookie Payton Tolle (3-3) went six innings, allowing nine hits and four runs while striking out three. His streak of eight consecutive starts with three or fewer runs allowed ended.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa went 2 for 3 with two runs, and Marcelo Mayer drove in two runs with an eighth-inning double that pulled Boston within 4-3.
Boston threatened to tie the game in the eighth, but Kelly entered and forced three straight groundouts to escape the inning.
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