Tampa Bay’s Shane McClanahan delivers a pitch against the Rangers on Sunday in St. Petersburg, Florida. Mike Carlson/Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Shane McClanahan became the first 10-game winner in the major leagues and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Texas Rangers 7-3 on Sunday, taking two of three games in a matchup of the teams with the best records in baseball.
McClanahan (10-1) allowed three runs, all in the third inning, and four hits over seven innings. The 26-year-old left-hander retired his final 15 batters. He won a career-best 12 games in 28 starts last season.
Wander Franco homered for MLB-leading Tampa Bay (48-20), which improved to 31-7 at home.
After Colin Poche worked a perfect eighth. Jason Adam walked Adolis Garcia and gave up a double to Josh Jung with one out before walking Jonah Heim to load the bases. The right-hander then got a game-clinching double-play grounder from Ezequiel Duran.
Robbie Grossman homered for the AL West-leading Rangers (41-23), who have lost three of four.
ORIOLES 11, ROYALS 3: Gunnar Henderson homered for the second consecutive day, and Baltimore won at home to complete a three-game sweep and extend Kansas City’s losing streak to six.
Starter Kyle Gibson earned his fourth consecutive victory for Baltimore, while Ramón Urías had four hits and Ryan O’Hearn homered as part of a three-hit day that included two walks and four runs scored. The Orioles (41-24) have won four in a row for the first time since May 9-13 and are 17 games over .500 for the first time since July 26, 2016.
BLUE JAYS 7, TWINS 6: Cavan Biggio hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the eighth inning and the Blue Jays overcame a five-run deficit to beat Minnesota in Toronto, avoiding a three-game sweep.
Biggio’s fifth homer of the season came off Emilio Pagán (3-1), who began the eighth by giving up singles to Alejandro Kirk and Santiago Espinal.
Matt Chapman added a two-run homer and had three RBI for the Blue Jays, who are 8-3 in June.
GUARDIANS 5, ASTROS 0: Shane Bieber had his most dominant start this season with nine strikeouts over seven innings, and Andrés Giménez homered, leading host Cleveland over Houston.
Bieber (5-3) gave up just three hits, walked two and was in command from the outset. The right-hander came in with only eight strikeouts combined in his previous three starts before matching his season-high set against Detroit on May 9.
ANGELS 9, MARINERS 4: Rookie Zach Neto had his first two-homer game, Shohei Ohtani kept up a hot June with three hits and host Los Angeles bounced back with win over Seattle.
Andrew McCutchen waves to the crowd after recording his 2,000th career hit, a single off Carlos Carrasco, in the Pirates’ 2-1 win over the Mets on Sunday in Pittsburgh. Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
PIRATES 2, METS 1: Andrew McCutchen got his 2,000th hit, Jack Suwinski hit his 12th home run and Pittsburgh won at home – New York’s eight loss in nine games.
McCutchen became the 291st player and fifth active player to reach 2,000 hits when he turned on a slider from Carlos Carrasco (2-3) leading off the first and laced it to left field.
The five-time All-Star, who signed a one-year deal in January to return to the team he starred for from 2009-17, drew a loud ovation from his adopted hometown as he rounded first base with his wife, Maria, and their three children watching from a private box along the third-base line.
NATIONALS 6, BRAVES 2: Dominic Smith and Jeimer Candelario hit two-run homers in the sixth inning and Washington won in Atlanta to stop a six-game skid and the Braves’ seven-game winning streak.
Trevor Williams (3-4) allowed two runs, seven hits and one walk in five innings with six strikeouts, winning for just the second time since April 8.
PHILLIES 7, DODGERS 3: Nick Castellanos homered, Trea Turner had three hits and Philadelphia beat visiting Los Angeles.
Bryce Harper had two hits, an RBI and reached base all four times to help the defending NL champion Phillies win the finale of the three-game series for their seventh victory in eight games.
Freddie Freeman and Jason Heyward went deep for the Dodgers, who have lost six of eight and dropped 3 1/2 games behind first-place Arizona in the NL West.
ROCKIES 5, PADRES 4: Ryan McMahon hit a tying homer in heavy rain just before a 1-hour, 25-minute delay in the ninth inning and Nolan Jones hit a game-ending 472-foot drive just after the resumption that gave Colorado a win over San Diego in Denver.
REDS 4, CARDINALS 3: Rookie Elly De La Cruz flashed his speed, getting two hits, reaching base four times and scoring the go-ahead run with a head-first slide on an eighth-inning grounder to spark Cincinnati over the Cardinals in St. Louis.
De La Cruz beat out an infield single in the first inning with 31.2 foot per second sprint speed, and the 21-year-old tied the score 2-2 with an RBI single in the third off 41-year-old Adam Wainwright.
GIANTS 13, CUBS 3: Joc Pederson and Thairo Estrada hit two-run homers and drove in four runs as San Francisco built a six-run lead through five innings and rolled to a win at home.
INTERLEAGUE
DIAMONDBACKS 7, TIGERS 5: Christian Walker hit a go-ahead double with two outs in a four-run ninth inning, and Arizona won in Detroit for a three-game sweep that extended Detroit’s losing streak to nine games.
MARLINS 6, WHITE SOX 5: Bryan De La Cruz hit a two-run double in Miami’s three-run ninth inning, and the Marlins won in Chicago.
Jorge Soler hit two of Miami’s four solo homers, helping the Marlins rally for the victory in the rubber game of the weekend set. Garrett Cooper and Jean Segura also connected.
It was Miami’s fifth comeback win in its last seven games and No. 20 on the season. The Marlins scored five times in the ninth inning of a 5-1 victory on Saturday.
ATHLETICS 8, BREWERS 6: Seth Brown and Brent Rooker hit back-to-back homers in the fourth inning to help Oakland complete its first series sweep of the season with a win in Milwaukee.
Kevin Smith also homered as the A’s erased an early 2-0 deficit and won their fifth straight. This marks the first time they’ve had five consecutive victories within the same season since September 2021.
NOTES
WHITE SOX: Closer Liam Hendriks has been sidelined by elbow inflammation after he missed the start of the season while he recovered from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Hendriks was placed on the 15-day injured list before Sunday’s series finale against the Miami Marlins. Left-hander Tanner Banks was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte.
General Manager Rick Hahn said Hendriks’ elbow discomfort is currently presenting in the same way as an issue the pitcher had last season, when he was placed on the IL on June 14 because of a strained right forearm flexor and then reinstated on July 4.
ROCKIES: Outfielder Charlie Blackmon has a fractured right hand and is expected to be sidelined for four-to-six weeks.
Blackmon was placed on the 10-day injured list and Colorado recalled infielder Coco Montes, who was to make his major league debut at second base against the San Diego Padres.
Blackmon, who turns 37 on July 1, fractured the fifth metacarpal when he was hit by a pitch by Kansas City’s Daniel Lynch leading off a game on June 3. Blackmon remained in the game and started the next four games before pinch hitting in Saturday’s loss to San Diego.
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