NEW YORK (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton and Ben Rice homered in the first two innings and the New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-4 in a game delayed by rain for nearly three hours Thursday.
The Yankees highlighted a busy trade-deadline day by agreeing to acquire reliever David Bednar from Pittsburgh in a deal they were working to finalize.
Stanton hit his eighth homer since returning from tendinitis in both elbows last month four batters in for a 3-0 lead against Tampa Bay starter Ryan Pepiot (6-9). Rice hit a three-run homer into the Yankees’ bullpen in right-center to make it 6-0.
New York starter Marcus Stroman (3-3) allowed four runs and six hits in five innings.
Pepiot was tagged for seven runs and six hits in four innings.
BRAVES 12, REDS 11, 10 INNINGS
CINCINNATI (AP) — Marcel Ozuna drove in Matt Olson with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to give Atlanta a win over Cincinnati in a game that featured a total of 12 pitchers and 30 hits combined.
Ozzie Albies had four hits, scored two runs and drove in two to pace the Braves, who broke a 3-3 tie with eight runs in the eighth inning, only to give up eight runs in the bottom of the frame.
Pierce Johnson (2-3) pitched 1 1/3 innings and Raisel Iglesias got his 13th save.
Cincinnati’s Emilio Pagán (2-4) retired all three batters he faced but took the loss.
MARINERS 6, RANGERS 0
SEATTLE (AP) — Cal Raleigh homered again, rooke Cole Young also went deep and George Kirby pitched six strong innings as Seattle beat Texas.
Raleigh hit his major league-leading 42nd home run in the fifth inning, two batters after Young hit his third, to give Seattle a 3-0 lead.
Eguenio Suárez, back in the Mariners’ lineup for the first time she was acquired from Arizona on Wednesday night, doubled against Rangers starter Kumar Rocker in the fourth inning and scored on a wild pitch to get Seattle on the scoreboard. Suárez played for the Mariners from 2022-23.
J.P. Crawford singled in a run in the sixth, and Young followed with an RBI triple and scored on a passed ball.
Kirby (6-5) gave up three hits and walked two while striking out six.
Caleb Ferguson, a deadline acquisition from Pittsburgh, pitched a perfect seventh in his Mariners debut.
Trent Thornton pitched 1 2/3 innings before being carted off the field in the ninth with an apparent lower left leg injury. Casey Legumina got the last out to complete the four-hit shutout.
The Associated Press
