Pete Crow-Armstrong delivered the tiebreaking RBI double in the 10th as the Cubs completed a four-game sweep of the Mets. The day also featured an Athletics ninth-inning surge over the Giants, Junior Caminero’s three-homer game to power the Rays past the Royal
NEW YORK — Pete Crow-Armstrong didn’t just hurt the Mets. He arrived with the moment already built in, driving in a run with an RBI double in the 10th inning to power Chicago to the win and complete a four-game sweep.
The Cubs went 7-0 against New York across the series, outscoring them 51-24. New York, meanwhile, kept sinking—absorbing its sixth straight loss to drop to a season-high 13 games under .500, the furthest below .500 they’ve been since 2023.
Crow-Armstrong. a former first-round pick of the Mets who was sent to the Cubs in the Javier Baez deal in 2021. delivered the tiebreaking hit off Brooks Raley (2-3). Chicago then cashed in late as Michael Conforto. Alex Bregman and Ian Happ came through with RBI hits in the sixth. when the Cubs’ runs were unearned because of a pair of errors. Chicago’s final eight runs of the series were unearned.
Jacob Webb (2-2) worked around a walk in the ninth, and Trent Thornton retired all three batters he faced in the 10th for his second career save.
SAN FRANCISCO — Jonah Heim’s RBI single tied the game, Lawrence Butler followed with a go-ahead RBI hit, and the Athletics scored four times with two outs in the ninth to rally past the San Francisco Giants 9-6.
Henry Bolte opened the ninth with an infield single off Caleb Kilian (2-4). Bolte advanced to second on a wild pitch. Kilian got two outs before walking Tyler Soderstrom. Heim then singled down the left-field line to score Bolte and tie it at 6. Butler put Oakland ahead with a single to right that scored Soderstrom. After Butler stole second. Max Muncy’s bloop single to left scored two more runs and gave the Athletics a 9-6 edge.
San Francisco had built a lead earlier. The A’s led 2-1 in the sixth before Jung Hoo Lee hit a go-ahead. three-run triple with two outs and Victor Bericoto followed with a two-run homer. his third. to put the Giants ahead 6-2. Bericoto had hit a game-ending solo homer in the Giants’ 2-1 win Wednesday night.
In Thursday’s series finale, Oakland’s comeback started to take shape in the middle innings. The Athletics got a two-run single from Shea Langeliers in the seventh and an RBI single from Jeff McNeil in the eighth. McNeil had three of the Athletics’ 15 hits.
Geoff Hartlieb (1-0) threw two hitless innings of relief for his second career victory, and Mason Barnett worked a perfect ninth to earn his second save.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Junior Caminero hit three home runs and drove in six runs as Tampa Bay beat Kansas City, with three pitchers combining for 8 1/3 no-hit innings.
The Rays’ opener, Casey Legumina, retired the first four batters before Ian Seymour (4-1) took over in the second inning. Seymour and Legumina combined to retire the first 16 Kansas City batters before Starling Marte drew a one-out walk in the sixth off Seymour.
Craig Kimbrel started the ninth with a walk to Marte. He struck out Tyler Tolbert before allowing a two-run home run to Carter Jensen to the right-field stands for Kansas City’s only hit of the game.
Tampa Bay salvaged a split of the four-game series after dropping the first two games.
Caminero tied a franchise record with his three home runs and registered his sixth career multi-homer game and second this season. He hit a two-run home run in the first inning and added a solo shot in the fifth. both off Seth Lugo (3-5). before going deep off Tolbert in the ninth. Victor Mesa Jr. added a three-run homer in the fourth.
Yandy Diaz extended his hitting streak to nine games with a seventh-inning double.
PITTSBURGH — Brandon Lowe went deep for his team-leading 19th home run of the season, Henry Davis added a two-run blast, and Pittsburgh beat Seattle.
Lowe’s homer came as a solo shot off Bryce Miller with one out in the bottom of the first inning to open the scoring. He then added an RBI single in a two-run eighth. Lowe also leads the Pirates with 51 runs batted in after being acquired from Tampa Bay in an offseason trade.
Davis entered the game with a .136 batting average, but his two-run home run—his sixth—came in the third inning and pushed Pittsburgh’s lead to 3-1. Davis finished 2 for 3 to raise his average to .148.
Miller (3-2) tied his career high with 11 strikeouts in just 5 2/3 innings. He also had no walks as the American League West leaders lost two of three in the series.
Rookie Bubba Chandler (3-7) earned the win with 5 1/3 innings, allowing one run on five hits while striking out four and walking three. Evan Sisk, Yohan Ramirez, Mason Montgomery and Gregory Soto combined for 3 2/3 scoreless relief innings.
DETROIT — Tatsuya Imai struck out 10 in six scoreless innings, and Taylor Trammell homered to lead Houston to a victory over Detroit.
Imai (5-3) allowed two hits and a walk while throwing 63 of his 96 pitches for strikes in the opener of the four-game series. AJ Blubaugh struck out three in two innings, and Enyel De Los Santos gave up Dillon Dingler’s 19th home run in the ninth on the way to his fifth save.
Detroit starter Troy Melton carried a perfect game into the sixth before Trammell hit a one-out, 0-1 pitch 422 feet to right field for his second home run and a 1-0 lead.
Houston then added insurance in the late innings. Jeremy Peña singled leading off the ninth against Kenley Jansen and stole second. Peña took third on a groundout by Yordan Alvarez and scored on a sacrifice fly by Isaac Paredes for an insurance run for Houston.
Melton (4-1) allowed one run on two hits with six strikeouts in six innings. The Tigers have lost three straight.
Riley Greene’s two-out single off Imai in the fourth was the first hit by either team against the rookie starters.
TORONTO — Wyatt Langford launched a three-run home run, Jake Burger and Joc Pederson also went deep, and Texas beat Toronto.
Pederson went 2 for 3 with two walks and scored twice as Texas bounced back after losing the previous two. Toronto’s Kazuma Okamoto cut the deficit to one with a two-run homer off Jacob Latz in the ninth, his 18th.
Latz recovered by retiring Alejandro Kirk on a grounder and striking out pinch hitter Brandon Valenzuela for his 15th save in 17 chances.
Rangers shortstop Corey Seager went 0 for 2 and walked twice after being activated off the concussion list. The two-time World Series MVP missed 12 games.
Texas left-hander MacKenzie Gore (5-6) allowed three runs and four hits in seven innings, snapping a four-start winless streak.
BOSTON — Caleb Durbin broke a tie with a two-run homer in the fifth inning, Connelly Early allowed two runs over six innings, and Boston beat New York.
Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman bounced back after two losses for his 15th save of the season. Nate Eaton and Ceddanne Rafaela each drove in a run for Boston, which beat the Yankees at Fenway Park for the first time this season. New York swept a three-game series at Fenway back in April.
Durbin’s homer came off Yankees starter Cam Schlittler (8-4) and came one day after his left pinkie was dislocated against Colorado. The third baseman was in the starting lineup and sent a shot into the first row of the Green Monster seats for his fifth homer this month.
Early (7-5) struck out a season-high nine while allowing five hits and walking two.
Jose Caballero homered for New York.
Schlittler lowered his ERA from 1.71 to 1.62 but left with New York trailing 4-2 after allowing four runs—none were earned—on five hits while striking out nine.
WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the ninth inning and Derek Hill followed with a three-run shot as Philadelphia rallied from an early five-run deficit to beat Washington.
The Phillies came from behind for a third straight game, winning the series by scoring 15 runs in the ninth inning against the majors’ worst bullpen after dropping the opener of the four-game series 4-1.
Harper homered off Gus Varland (1-2), scoring pinch-runner Garrett Stubbs after Kyle Schwarber singled to start the inning. It was Harper’s ninth career go-ahead homer in the ninth inning or later, and his 103rd homer at Nationals Park—where he played his first seven seasons.
Hill added his sixth home run one night after winning the game with a pinch-hit shot.
Philadelphia had become the first team in history to win two straight games after being down to their last strike with the bases empty. On Thursday, the Phillies were trailing 5-0 after the Nationals scored four runs in the first off ace Cristopher Sánchez.
Curtis Mead homered for the third time in the series and 14th overall—a one-out solo shot off Sánchez to highlight the four-run first. Jacob Young’s two-out RBI single made it 5-0 in the third.
Sánchez allowed five runs on seven hits in five innings. Orion Kerkering (5-0) struck out two in a scoreless eighth for the win.
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Crow-Armstrong sounds like a video game character lol
How are the Mets losing SIX straight? Like what happened, did they just give up? I swear every time I check the score it’s another L.
Wait wasn’t Crow-Armstrong on the Mets like, forever? I saw something about the Baez deal so now I’m confused if they traded him and that’s why they’re bad. Also 7-0 is wild, 51-24 is basically getting bullied.
The article is like 4 stories at once with the Rays and Athletics too, but the main thing is the Cubs swept them. Mets been under .500 since 2023?? That seems off, unless they really just fell apart after one bad month. Also “unearned runs” doesn’t sound good for the Mets’ pitching, so yeah.