NEW YORK (AP) — Marco Estrada outpitched Masahiro Tanaka (mah-sah-HEE’-roh tah-NAH’-kah) and the Jays banged out two long homers in Sunday’s 2-0 blanking of the Yankees in New York. Estrada tossed three-hit ball into the seventh inning before Toronto became the first team to post back-to-back shutouts of the Yankees since the Angels in May 1999. Josh Donaldson and Jose Bautista provided the long balls for the Blue Jays, who are within 1 1/2 games of the AL East-leading Yankees.
UNDATED (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels are within a half-game of the AL West-leading Houston Astros after Los Angeles beat Baltimore 5-4 on David Murphy’s walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th. Murphy’s three-run blast put the Angels ahead 4-2 in the third, but the Orioles extended the game on homers by Gerardo Parra and Chris Davis in the sixth. The Astros grabbed a 4-3 lead on Colby Rasmus’ three-run homer in the ninth before Josh Reddick and Danny Valencia delivered RBI singles in the bottom half to give Oakland a 5-4 victory and a three-game sweep of Houston.
UNDATED (AP) — The New York Mets continue to lead the NL East by 1 ½ games following second-place Washington’s 6-4 loss to Colorado. DJ LeMahieu (leh-MAY’-hyoo) hit a tiebreaking, two-run single off Drew Storen with two out in the eighth inning to give the Rockies the rubber match of the series. The Mets absorbed a 4-3 loss to Tampa Bay on Richie Shaffer’s solo homer in the seventh.
UNDATED (AP) — Khris Davis smacked a pair of homers, including a go-ahead, two-run shot in the eighth inning as Milwaukee beat St. Louis 5-4 to avoid a three-game sweep. The Cardinals ended a four-game winning streak even after Matt Carpenter’s three-run blast off Jimmy Nelson put the Redbirds ahead 4-3 in the seventh. The Cards top the NL Central by five games over the Pittsburgh Pirates, who put together a nine-run seventh in a 13-6 rout of the Dodgers.
CHICAGO (AP) — Jake Arrieta (ehr-ee-ET’-uh) pitched four-hit ball into the eighth inning to lead the Chicago Cubs past San Francisco 2-0. Arrieta also tripled and scored in the second as the Cubs completed their first four-game sweep of the Giants since 1977 and won for the 10th time in 11 games overall. The Giants are 3 ½ games behind the Cubs for the second NL wild-card berth, and three behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West.
