Schwarber, Harper homer again as Phillies beat Mets
Philadelphia Phillies' Kyle Schwarber, right, hits a three-run home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Sunday in Philadelphia. (AP Photo)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper each homered for the second straight game and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the New York Mets 6-2 on Sunday night. The Phillies duo followed up their historic night on Saturday in which Schwarber hit three home runs and Harper hit for the cycle, by both going deep against the Mets again. Schwarber launched a second-deck blast, a three-run homer off of Mets starter David Peterson in the second inning, for his Major League-leading 29th home run. Harper finished with three hits, which included a solo shot, his 17th this season, and a double, giving him five extra base hits in the last two games. Zack Wheeler (7-1) pitched 5 2/3 innings and allowed two runs and four hits with seven strikeouts as the Phillies won the weekend series from New York. Philadelphia scored a pair of runs in the first inning without hitting a ball out of the infield. Peterson walked Trea Turner and Schwarber before a one-out infield single by Alec Bohm. Turner scored on a throwing error by Brett Baty on the play and Edmundo Sosa followed with another infield single that drove in Schwarber. Carson Benge hit a solo homer in the third inning. Peterson (3-6) allowed five runs on six hits across four innings. The Mets have dropped four of their last six games. MARINERS 3, RED SOX 1 SEATTLE (AP) — Dominic Canzone homered, Logan Gilbert allowed one run on three hits in 6 1/3 innings and the Seattle Mariners beat the Boston Red Sox 3-1 on Sunday. Gilbert (6-4) struck out eight and walked two. The game was scoreless in the second inning when Canzone lined an opposite-field solo shot to left off Payton Tolle (3-5) for his 12th homer of the season. The Red Sox tied the game at 1-1 in the third when Nate Eaton hit his first homer of the season into the upper deck in left field. Cole Young delivered a key RBI single in the fifth to take a 2-1 lead. Weston Wilson lined a two-out single to left field, stole second base, and scored on Young’s ground ball that got through the infield into center. Canzone hit a fielder’s choice groundout that scored Julio Rodríguez in the sixth. Beside the homer, Gilbert gave up an infield single to Ceddanne Rafaela in the first and a single to Caleb Durbin in the fifth. Gabe Speier, Eduard Bazardo, and Andrés Muñoz finished up for Seattle with 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief, with Muñoz pitching a shutout ninth for his 13th save. Tolle gave up three runs on six hits in six innings. He struck out two and walked two. ANGELS 9, ATHLETICS 7 WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Zach Neto hit a two-run shot in the ninth inning that gave Los Angeles its first lead, Denzer Guzman added a three-run home run in the eighth, and the Angels beat the Athletics 9-7 on Sunday. Donovan Walton also homered and had three RBIs while Nolan Schanuel and Jose Siri each added two hits to help the Angels win the series after being shut out on Saturday. Nick Kurtz hit his 19th home run and Zac Gelof had a single and a double to extend his hit streak to 24 games for the A’s. Kurtz has 55 career homers, tied with Bob Johnson (1933-34) for the most in franchise history through the first two seasons of a career. Five players drove in runs for the A’s, who took three of four games from LA. Joey Meneses had an RBI single in his Athletics debut after being called up from the minors before the game. Chase Silseth (2-1) had two strikeouts and worked a scoreless eight for the win. Sam Bachman pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his first save of the season. Guzman’s second home run in as many days, a three-run drive off Hogan Harris (3-1), tied the score at 7-7. After Siri singled with one out in the ninth, Neto belted an 0-1 fastball that landed just beyond the fence in left field. Angels’ starter Reid Detmers allowed five runs and walked four in six innings. Gelof singled leading off the game, doubled in the fourth then reached on an error in the seventh before Kurtz’s home run. His hitting streak is tied for the second-longest in franchise history since 1961. A’s starter Jack Perkins had eight strikeouts in five innings and allowed four runs. ORIOLES 12, DODGERS 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colton Cowser tied his career-high with four RBIs, Pete Alonso added a three-run homer, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 12-1 on Sunday. Cowser had three hits including a home run as he notched four RBIs for the fifth time in four seasons in the majors, helping the Orioles take the series win over the Dodgers. Brandon Young (6-2) allowed one run on five hits in five innings. Baltimore is now 10-2 this season when he starts. Emmet Sheehan (3-5) gave up six runs in 3 1/3 innings as Los Angeles lost consecutive games for the first time since a four-game skid from May 9-12. The Orioles jumped on Sheehan in the first inning by loading the bases before Samuel Basallo’s single through the gap to right and Cowser’s bloop to short left each drove in a run for a 2-0 lead. Taylor Ward had a solo homer in the second to put Baltimore up 3-1. Cowser hit a solo shot to dead center in the third for a 4-1 lead and had a two-run single with the bases loaded to make it 6-1 off reliever Jack Dreyer after Sheehan had been pulled earlier in the fourth. Alonso continued the barrage with his 18th homer of the season, sending Jonathan Hernández’s sinker 398 feet to right in the seventh. Blaze Alexander had a two-run shot in the eighth. TWINS 2, D-BACKS 2 PHOENIX (AP) — Alex Jackson’s single tied the game in the seventh and the go-ahead run scored on an error, leading the Minnesota Twins to a 4-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday. The rally spoiled the major-league debut of Arizona’s José Cabrera. Called up to make the start Sunday, the 24-year-old Dominican held the Twins to three hits in five-plus innings, including a strikeout of Byron Buxton with two on and two out to end the third inning. He struck out three. Cabrera threw 62 pitches, 42 for strikes, and was pulled after Jackson’s bunt single leading off the sixth. Royce Lewis led off the seventh with a single. Juan Morillo (2-4) retired the next two hitters, then Ryan Kreidler singled with Lewis going to third. Pinch-hitter Josh Bell singled to drive in Minnesota’s first run, then Jackson singled to right to make it 2-2. Corbin Carroll’s throw to third hit Bell as he slid and got past Nolan Arenado, which allowed Bell to score. Cody Laweryson (1-0) pitched the sixth and picked up his first major-league victory. Anthony Banda pitched the ninth for his second save. Trevor Larnach added an RBI double in the ninth. Kreidler had three of the Twins’ 11 hits, following up a three-hit, four-RBI performance Saturday in a 16-8 win over Arizona. The Twins have won six of their last seven games. Ketel Marte drove in both Diamondbacks runs in the second with a double, one of six hits off Twins starter Mike Peredes. He walked three and struck out one in five innings.