NEW YORK — The New York Yankees scored five runs in the second inning, then held on for a 6-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday in the second game of a double-header.
Cameron Maybin drove in three runs, and Austin Romine was three-for-four with two RBIs in the nightcap. The Yankees won the first game 7-3.
New York hit safely in five of their first seven opportunities with runners in scoring position. The Yankees have won seven straight and 11 of their last 12 games.
They continued their dominance against the Royals in this century. Since 2000, the Yankees have won 16 season series, with three splits and just one Royals series win (2014). The Yankees are 100-43 in the 2000s against Kansas City.
Chance Adams picked up the win for New York. He allowed three runs on five hits in four innings of relief. Aroldis Chapman picked up his 14th save in 15 chances, the 250th of his career.
Jorge Lopez (0-6) took the loss. He gave up five runs on six hits in one inning plus six batters in the second. The Royals’ bullpen gave up one run on four hits in eight innings of work.
The Royals got on the board in the first. Adalberto Mondesi singled with two outs and scored on an RBI double by Hunter Dozier.
The Yankees unloaded for five runs off Lopez in the second inning. The first six runners reached base before Royals manager Ned Yost pulled Lopez. Romine hit a bases-loaded single, scoring the first two runners. Maybin then doubled home two more runs. D.J. LeMahieu then singled Maybin home, and Lopez’s night was done.
Maybin drove in his third run with a two-out single in the third. Mondesi doubled in Whit Merrifield in the bottom of the third for the Royals’ second run. But Mondesi was thrown out at third.
Jorge Soler doubled in Dozier, then scored on Cam Gallagher’s single to cut the lead to 6-4 in the fourth. Gallagher drove in Billy Hamilton with a sac fly in the ninth for the final run.
METS WALK OFF IN 13 OVER TIGERS
Tomas Nido homered leading off the bottom of the 13th inning Saturday night as the New York Mets finally outlasted the Detroit Tigers, 5-4.
The Mets are 5-1 on a seven-game homestand. The Tigers have dropped 10 of 11.
The Mets loaded the bases with one out and failed to score in the bottom of the 11th before the Tigers did the same thing in the top of the 12th. Nido, who was the last player on the Mets’ bench when he entered in the 11th inning, capped a four hour and 11-minute duel when he hit his first walk-off homer off Buck Farmer (3-4).
PADRES 19, BLUE JAYS 4
Austin Hedges hit his first career grand slam, Hunter Renfroe and Wil Myers each homered twice and visiting San Diego set a franchise record with seven homers while defeating Toronto.
Ian Kinsler and Eric Hosmer also homered for the Padres. Hedges had five RBIs and Myers had four.
Right-hander Cal Quantrill (1-2) struck out nine in six innings to earn his first career win for San Diego. Quantrill, who is from nearby Port Hope, Ont., and the son of former major league pitcher Paul Quantrill, allowed three runs on two hits, both home runs, and two walks in his fourth career start.
ATHLETICS 6, MARINERS 5
Matt Chapman hit a home run, and Mike Fiers pitched six quality innings as Oakland defeated visiting Seattle for their eighth consecutive victory.
Domingo Santana hit two solo homers, and Mitch Haniger had one for Seattle, which lost its fifth in a row, eighth of nine and 20th of 25.
Chapman lined a solo shot over the wall in right-center field in the first inning against Mariners left-hander Yusei Kikuchi (3-2). Seattle twice tied the score after being down a run, but the Athletics never trailed.
CUBS 8, REDS 6
Jason Heyward, Addison Russell and Albert Almora Jr. each hit home runs, and Chicago Cubs outlasted visiting Cincinnati.
Anthony Rizzo also drove in a pair of runs for Chicago, which evened the series at one game apiece heading into Sunday’s finale. The Cubs improved to 18-9 at Wrigley Field. Tucker Barnhart, Derek Dietrich and Yasiel Puig each homered for Cincinnati. — Reuters
