ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Manuel Margot hit a run-scoring single in the 10th inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Kansas City Royals 2-1 on Wednesday night.

Kevin Kiermaier advanced from second to third when Taylor Walls flied out to deep center field against Tyler Zuber (0-2). After Austin Meadows was intentionally walked, Margot won it on just the Rays’ third hit of the game.

Andrew Benintendi homered leading off the ninth against J.P. Feyereisen (1-2) as the Royals tied it at 1. Feyereisen worked out of a jam with a runner on third and one out in the 10th.

Tyler Glasnow pitched eight stellar innings for the Rays, whose 11-game winning streak ended Tuesday night with a 2-1 loss to Kansas City. He scattered three hits, struck out 11 and walked two.

Royals starter Mike Minor gave up one run, two hits and four walks with nine strikeouts over five innings during a 96-pitch outing. Greg Holland, Scott Barlow, Josh Staumont and Jake Brentz combined on four hitless innings.

Glasnow retired his first 13 batters on just 40 pitches before Kelvin Gutierrez lined a single to right with one out in the fifth. The right-hander was coming off a start Friday against Toronto in which he allowed five runs and nine hits over 4 2/3 innings.

Mike Brosseau drew a walk from Minor in the fourth, advanced to second on a grounder and scored to put the Rays up 1-0 on Mike Zunino’s single.

ATHLETICS 6, MARINERS 3: James Kaprielian pitched seven scoreless innings and Oakland beat viditing Seattle to avoid a three-game sweep.

Kaprielian (2-0) surrendered just two hits and two walks, striking out four in his third career start as the A’s snapped a three-game losing streak.

Matt Olson launched his 13th homer of the season and Seth Brown had two hits and two RBI for Oakland. Ramon Laureano and Matt Chapman also drove in runs.

TWINS 3, ORIOLES 2: Miguel Sano hit a three-run homer, leading host Minnesota to a three-game sweep of major league-worst Baltimore.

Michael Pineda (3-2) allowed one run and three hits over six innings in his first start since May 13 following a trip to the injured list caused by a thigh abscess. He struck out eight and walked two, and fell behind in the first on Trey Mancini’s 11th home run.

Minnesota rallied to win for the sixth time in seven games and extend its winning streak to a season-high four. The Twins have has beaten Baltimore 15 straight times since March 31, 2018.

The Orioles have lost nine straight, the longest skid since dropping 10 in a row from June 12-21, 2019, and have been outscored 72-39 during the slide. Baltimore has lost 16 of its last 18, falling to 17-32.

ANGELS 9, RANGERS 8: Taylor Ward hit a three-run homer in the first inning and had a career-high five RBI, leading Los Angeles over visiting Texas.

Ward hit a drive to right-center on a slider from Dane Dunning (2-4) in a five-run first and drove in a pair of runs with a bloop single to left in a four-run fifth that boosted the lead to 9-1. Ward had the third three-hit game of his big league career, his second against the Rangers.

TIGERS 1, INDIANS 0: Niko Goodrum doubled, advanced on Jake Rogers’ bunt and scored on Robbie Grossman’s sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, and Detroit won at home.

Detroit’s Jose Urena gave up three hits and three walks over 5 2/3 innings before exiting with a forearm injury in the middle of an at-bat after a trainer made a brief visit to the mound. Jose Cisnero, Michael Fulmer (4-3) and Gregory Soto completed the four-hitter, with Soto earning his fifth save.

The Tigers had just three hits.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

CUBS 4, PIRATES 1: Trevor Williams pitched six innings and singled twice against his former team, helping streaking Chicago win at Pittsburgh.

Chicago won for the fifth time in six games and stayed a half-game back of NL Central-leading St. Louis. David Bote hit a two-run homer for the Cubs, and Kris Bryant had three hits and two RBI/

Pittsburgh dropped its fifth straight game.

MARLINS 4, PHILLIES 2: Slumping Jon Berti hit a go-ahead. two-run single in a three-run eighth inning, and Miami beat visiting Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, playing without injured stars Bryce Harper, Didi Gregorius and J.T. Realmuto, built a 2-1 lead on Brad Miller’s bases-loaded walk in the third off Nick Neidert and Rhy Hoskins’ fifth-inning sacrifice fly against Anthony Bender.

INTERLEAGUE

CARDS 4, WHITE SOX 0: Tommy Edman homered twice, and St. Louis won at Chicago to avoid a three-game sweep.

Edman connected against Carlos Rodon (5-2) in the third and Aaron Bummer in the eighth for a 2-0 lead. Edmundo Sosa added a two-run single in the ninth, and the NL Central-leading Cardinals came away with the win after losing 4 of 5.

The Cardinals committed two errors, raising their series total to seven, yet managed to stop a five-game road losing streak.

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