Anthony Santander (25) douses Cedric Mullins after Mullins hit a two-run double to give the Orioles a 6-5 win over the Yankees on Sunday in Baltimore. Nick Wass/Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Cedric Mullins hit a two-run double in the ninth inning to give the Baltimore Orioles a 6-5 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday – after an error by shortstop Anthony Volpe kept the two-out rally going.

The Yankees actually made two defensive misplays in the ninth. Mullins’ liner appeared catchable, but left fielder Alex Verdugo started in at first and couldn’t recover well enough to prevent the ball from going over him.

Ben Rice hit a three-run homer in the top of the ninth off Craig Kimbrel (6-2) to put the Yankees up 5-3, but New York’s closer couldn’t hold a lead either. Clay Holmes (1-4) allowed the Orioles to load the bases with two out. Then Ryan Mountcastle’s grounder should have ended it, but Volpe’s error made it 5-4 and kept the bases loaded.

Mullins, who came on as a pinch-runner the previous inning, delivered the big hit that snapped Baltimore’s five-game losing streak and enabled the Orioles to take a one-game lead over the Yankees in the AL East into the All-Star break.

Baltimore went 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position and 2 for 22 in the series, but Mullins enabled the Orioles to avoid a three-game sweep at home. Anthony Santander and Gunnar Henderson homered for Baltimore. Trent Grisham went deep for New York.

BRAVES 6, PADRES 3: Travis d’Arnaud had two home runs and four RBI, Chris Sale pitched five solid innings for his major league-leading 13th win and Atlanta won in San Diego in the final game before the All-Star break.

Atlanta has won six of its last nine games and took two of three from San Diego, which ended the first half losing by losing six of its last seven.

The Braves finished the first half 53-42 and in second place in the NL East, 8 1/2 games behind the Philadelphia Phillies.

RAYS 2, GUARDIANS 0: Ryan Pepiot allowed two hits in six scoreless innings, Jose Siri and Brandon Lowe homered, and Tampa Bay beat struggling AL Central-leading Cleveland in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Despite losing 11 of 18, the Guardians (58-37) have the AL’s best record at the All-Star break for the first time since 1999. Cleveland was outscored 6-4 in dropping two of three to the Rays.

Tampa Bay was hitless in six at-bats with runners in scoring position, and finished 1 for 33 in the series. Cleveland was 0 for 5 on Sunday and 1 for 20 overall in the series.

ATHLETICS 18, PHILLIES 3: Lawrence Butler hit three home runs, Brent Rooker and Seth Brown each had two homers, and Oakland routed the NL-East leading Phillies in Philadelphia.

Butler had six RBIs. Rooker tied his career high with five RBI for Oakland, which entered with the fourth-fewest wins in baseball and trailing Seattle by 16 games in the AL West. The Athletics’ eight home runs were estimated at a combined 3,340 feet.

RANGERS 4, ASTROS 2: Josh Smith homered twice with four RBI to lead Texas to a win in Houston.

Smith had a two-run shot in the first and added another one with two outs in the eighth to push the lead to 4-1. It’s the first multi-homer game of the 26-year-old’s career.

The Rangers won the last two games of the series after dropping Friday’s opener 6-3. They also got a 2-1 victory Saturday thanks to Nathaniel Lowe’s RBI single in the 10th inning.

TIGERS 4, DODGERS 3:  Pitcher Yohan Ramírez had two consecutive errors in the ninth inning, paving the way for Detroit to beat visiting Los Angeles for its second straight comeback win over the NL West leaders.

Wenceel Pérez had a sacrifice bunt to advance runners in the final at-bat and Ramírez made a wide throw to third, allowing Justyn-Henry Malloy to score the second run of the inning for the victory. The right-hander failed to field Ryan Vilade’s sacrifice bunt in the previous at-bat, advancing Malloy to second.

GIANTS 3, TWINS 2: Mike Yastrzemski tripled and scored in the bottom of the ninth when the relay throw skipped past Minnesota third baseman Diego Castillo, giving the Giants a win in San Francisco.

After San Francisco closer Camilo Doval blew a save in the top of the ninth, Yastrzemski laced a 2-1 splitter from Jhoan Duran (5-4) into the gap in right-center. Twins center fielder Manuel Margot fell while chasing the ball, allowing Yastrzemski to take third.

Minnesota second baseman Brooks Lee got the relay throw and fired the ball to third, but Castillo failed to make the play as the Oracle Park crowd roared.

BLUE JAYS 8, DIAMONDBACKS 7: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a go-ahead solo homer, Kevin Kiermaier added a grand slam and Toronto recovered from blowing a seven-run lead to beat Arizona in Phoenix.

Guerrero’s homer in the seventh came off reliever Kevin Ginkel (6-2), who had his scoreless streak of 10 2/3 innings snapped. The Blue Jays avoided a sweep after dropping the first two games of the series.

BREWERS 9, NATIONALS 3: Willy Adames had a homer and four RBI, Garrett Mitchell homered for the first time in more than a year and Milwaukee avoided a series sweep with a win at home over Washington.

MARLINS 3, REDS 2: Xavier Edwards’ RBI single in the eighth inning gave Miami a victory in Cincinnati.

Edwards’ two-out hit drove in Jake Burger for the Marlins, who salvaged the series finale.

CUBS 8, CARDINALS 3: Pete Crow-Armstrong and Christopher Morel each homered twice to lead Chicago to a victory in St. Louis.

Tomas Nido and Ian Happ also homered for the Cubs, who split the four-game set against their NL Central rivals.

ROCKIES 8, METS 5: Michael Toglia became the first Colorado switch-hitter to homer three times in a game, leading the Rockies to a victory over the Mets in New York.

PIRATES 9, WHITE SOX 4: Joey Bart and Bryan Reynolds homered, Ke’Bryan Hayes had three hits and Pittsburgh won its fourth straight game, beating the White Sox in Chicago.

ANGELS 3, MARINERS 2: Jo Adell hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning and Carson Fulmer threw four hitless innings to lead Los Angeles to a win over Seattle in Anaheim, California.

NOTES

DODGERS: Right-hander Dustin May had esophagus surgery and won’t return this season, another setback for him and the team’s banged-up pitching staff.

May needed the procedure to repair a tear after he experienced discomfort following a dinner earlier in the week, the Dodgers confirmed.

Los Angeles has a short-handed rotation without injured pitchers Clayton Kershaw, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Walker Buehler.

METS: Pitcher Kodai Senga allowed one run over 4 2/3 innings in his third minor league rehab start.

Sidelined all season with a troublesome right shoulder, the New York right-hander threw 40 of his 66 pitches for strikes in his second start for Triple-A Syracuse. Senga allowed a pair of singles, walked two and struck out three. The run, which scored on a fourth-inning sacrifice fly, was the first allowed by Senga across his three rehab starts.

He struck out three over 2 2/3 scoreless innings July 9 and struck out six of the nine batters he faced across 2 2/3 hitless innings in his first start July 3.

BREWERS: The Dallas Keuchel experiment in Milwaukee appears to be over.

The former Cy Young Award winner, acquired from Seattle in late June for cash, was designated for assignment. Keuchel gave up five consecutive hits to open the fourth inning as the Brewers let an early five-run lead slip away in a 6-5 loss to the Nationals on Saturday.

In four starts with the Brewers, Keuchel posted a 5.40 ERA, allowing 10 runs and 23 hits in 16 2/3 innings, without a decision. The 36-year-old left-hander made it past the fourth inning just once, allowing two runs on four hits in 5 1/3 innings in his second start against Colorado.

ROYALS: Kansas City added some bullpen depth in their quest for a playoff run Saturday night, acquiring right-hander Hunter Harvey from the Washington Nationals for a minor-league infielder and their competitive balance pick in Sunday night’s draft.

The 29-year-old Harvey pitched in 43 games for the Nationals, going 2-4 with a 4.20 ERA, striking out 50 with just 12 walks in 45 innings.

ALL-STAR GAME: Two-time World Series MVP Corey Seager has been named to the American League All-Star roster as a replacement for injured Minnesota shortstop Carlos Correa, giving the reigning champion and host Texas Rangers a third player in Tuesday night’s game.

Correa was held out of Minnesota’s 3-2 loss at San Francisco on Sunday after undergoing an MRI which revealed plantar fasciitis in his right foot. Correa is still expected to attend the All-Star activities in Arlington, Texas.