St Petesburgo., Mexican Jonathan Aranda hit a home run for the third consecutive game with the Tampa Bay Rays, who beat the Blue Jays 4-3 to complete a three-game series sweep.
Aranda swung his bat, heard the creaking of the wood and waited a few seconds until he confirmed that the ball was going between right and center field, all the way to the back rows of the stands where a daring fan caught it with his bare hands. The two-run homer put the Rays up 2-1 in the sixth. Six of Aranda’s 10 homers have come against the Blue Jays.
Pinch-hitter Christopher Morel hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning off Genesis Cabrera (3-3) before Brandon Lowe’s solo homer in the eighth made it 4-2. Lowe has 20 homers on the season.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Dominican Republic brought the Blue Jays within 4-3 with a single, his third hit of the game, in the ninth off Edwin Uceta, who rallied to get his fourth save.
The Rays have won four straight to get back to .500 at 78-78. It’s their longest winning streak since they had four from May 15-18.
Mexican-born slugger Triston Casas hit three home runs in consecutive at-bats and drove in seven runs in the first game of a doubleheader, leading the Red Sox to an 8-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
With a chance to match a historic feat, Casas was retired on a grounder in his fourth and final at-bat.
In their bid for an AL wild-card spot, the Twins have lost 12 of their last 18 games.
The record for home runs in a game is four, and it has been reached 18 times in the Major Leagues. The last to do so was J.D. Martinez on Sept. 4, 2017, while playing for Arizona against the Los Angeles Dodgers. No American League player has done it since Josh Hamilton, playing for Texas, against the Baltimore Orioles on May 8, 2012.
Conversely, the White Sox reached a negative record of 120 losses, a mark that ties them with the 1962 New York Mets.
The Pates Blancos fell to the San Diego Padres 4-2 after coming back from three runs down in the eighth inning, capped by a towering home run by Dominican Fernando Tatis Jr.
The White Sox (36-120) had taken a 2-1 lead on homers by Korey Lee and Miguel Vargas off Yu Darvish, but that lead quickly disappeared in the eighth.
The loss came a day after the White Sox tied the American League record of 119 losses set by the Detroit Tigers in 2003.
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders hold the major league losing record at 20-134.
The Padres (90-66) posted their first 90-win season since 2010, when they went 90-72 but missed the postseason because of a September collapse.
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– 2024-09-24 00:56:20
