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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Heriberto Hernández and Javier Sanoja hit home runs late in the game to lift the Miami Marlins over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday afternoon.
Hernández hit his team-leading 18th home run of the season to make it 1-0 with two out in the eighth. Agustín Ramírez reached on a throwing error by Elly De La Cruz, Xavier Edwards singled, and Sanoja walked to load the bases.
Griffin Conine took ball four, which Reds catcher Jose Trevino challenged, but the call was confirmed and Ramírez scored from third.
Ramírez added a double in the ninth, which was followed by Sanoja’s three-run homer to make it 7-1.
Reliever Josh Ekness (1-1) pitched a 1-2-3 seventh. Eury Pérez pitched the first six innings and allowed two hits. He walked five and struck out five.
Pinch-hitter Tyler Stephenson hit his 12th home run of the year for Cincinnati.
Reds reliever Tejay Antone (2-2) gave up two hits and two runs, one earned. Starter Nick Lodolo pitched the first five innings, giving up three hits, striking out two and walking two.
Up next: Reds RHP Rhett Lowder (4-8, 5.15) starts Monday to kickoff a home series against St. Louis. The Cardinals haven’t announced their starter.
PIRATES 8, RED SOX 3
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Bryan Reynolds, Brandon Lowe, and Nick Yorke each had two RBIs to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Boston Red Sox 8-3 after a 2 1/2-hour rain delay on Sunday.
The tarp came out after the sixth inning at 3:35 p.m. local time, and play resumed at 6:05.
The Pirates won their franchise-best eighth consecutive home series against an AL opponent, a streak extending back to a three-game sweep of Detroit from July 21-23, 2025.
Reynolds got Pittsburgh on the board first with an RBI double in the first, and scored when Lowe added a single.
Reynolds singled in a run to spark the Pirates’ five-run third. Lowe added his second RBI single and Yorke hit a two-run single before Henry Davis hit a sacrifice fly that made it 7-0.
Lake Bachar worked three innings as the opener, surrendering two hits and fanning four. Kirby Yates (1-5) picked up his first win after striking out two in a scoreless seventh.
Patrick Sandoval (1-2) had six strikeout in the loss. He allowed seven runs and nine hits across four innings.
The Red Sox started a rally in the fifth on Connor Wong’s three-run homer, but the delay halted any momentum towards a 29th comeback win.
WHITE SOX 7, TIGERS 5
DETROIT (AP) -- Munetaka Murakami hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning and the Chicago White Sox rallied for a 7-5 win over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Chicago trailed 3-0 and 4-1, but scored twice in the fifth and once in the sixth to tie the game.
Tyler Holton (1-5) walked Sam Antonacci to start the seventh and Murakami followed with his 28th homer of the season to put the White Sox up 6-4.
The White Sox now lead Detroit by 5 1/2 games in the AL Central. Hagen Smith (2-0) went 1 2/3 innings for the win and Sean Newcomb pitched the final two innings for his fourth save.
Detroit left fielder Brett Callahan, making his major league debut, tripled and drove in two runs on the first pitch of his career. He’s the first Tigers hitter to triple in his first at-bat since Bill Irwin did it on May 18, 1912 against the Philadelphia Athletics.
Irwin, one of the emergency players when the team went on strike to protest Ty Cobb’s suspension, was playing his only MLB game.
The triple helped Detroit take a 3-0 lead in the second. Fellow rookie Max Clark also had an RBI single in the inning.
Antonacci’s RBI groundout made it 3-1 in the third, but Colt Keith led off the bottom of the inning with a homer.
Drew Romo’s two-run homer pulled the White Sox within 4-3 in the fifth, and Colson Montgomery’s RBI single tied it in the sixth.
Detroit’s Dillon Dingler snapped a 0-for-28 streak with an RBI double to make it 6-5 in the seventh. Miguel Vargas homered in the ninth.
YANKEES 4, BLUE JAYS 3
TORONTO (AP) -- Ben Rice hit a tiebreaking home run in the 10th inning and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.
New York’s four runs were twice as many as they had scored in the previous three games, all losses.
Rice’s first hit of the series was a two-run homer, his33rd this season, off Braydon Fisher (3-4).
Tim Hill gave up an RBI single to Andrés Giménez in the bottom of the 10th but held on for his second save in six chances.
Toronto erased a 2-1 deficit in the bottom of the ninth but David Bednar (6-3) stranded the winning run at second base.
Josh Smith reached on Rice’s fielding error to begin the ninth and Alejandro Kirk walked to put the tying run in scoring position. Brandon Valenzuela ran for Kirk and, one out later, both runners moved up on a wild pitch before Ernie Clement tied it with a sacrifice fly.
Bednar sent it to extras by retiring Kazuma Okamoto on a grounder. The blown save was Bednar’s third.
Yankees left-hander Ryan Weathers allowed one run and six hits in 7 1/3 innings, retiring the first 10 batters in order. He walked one and struck out four.
Toronto’s Dylan Cease allowed two runs and three hits in 6 1/3 innings.
Cease struck out 10, reaching double digits for the ninth time in 23 starts and boosting his AL-leading total to 201. Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski leads the majors with 210.
Cease has fanned 200 or more in each of the past six seasons.
ROYALS 3, ANGELS 0
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Noah Cameron pitched a one hitter, Michael Massey and Bobby Witt Jr. hit home runs, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-0 on Sunday.
Cameron (7-8) struck out eight and walked one, throwing 115 pitches in nine innings. He gave up his only hit in the seventh, when Angels first baseman Vaughn Grissom singled high over the head of Witt.
Cameron retired his first 15 batters before issuing a leadoff walk to Oswald Peraza in the sixth. Peraza advanced on Travis d’Arnaud’s groundout before Josh Lowe struck out swinging and Zach Neto bounced to second.
He struck out Mike Trout leading off the seventh before Grissom’s single.
Massey hit a solo home run in the fourth inning for the Royals, followed by Witt’s home run in the fifth to make it 2-0. Carter Jensen hit an RBI single in the seventh.
Ryan Johnson (2-7) pitched 5 1/3 innings for the Angels, giving up five hits. He struck out four, walked two and finished with two earned runs.
CARDINALS 11, CUBS 4
CHICAGO (AP) -- Alec Burleson and Jordan Walker both homered and finished with three hits and four RBIs, and the St. Louis Cardinals pounded the Chicago Cubs 11-4 on Sunday for a second straight win at Wrigley Field.
Burleson has homered in consecutive games, boosting his total to 21 to tie his career high. Walker’s drive, his 24th, was just the second in 30 games for the All-Star right fielder and capped the Cardinals’ six-run fourth inning.
Walker doubled twice and Burleson once to help St. Louis cruise to its fifth win in seven games.
Joshua Báez, who became the first player to hit three home runs in his first three at-bats in the major leagues on Saturday, went 0 for 5 with three strikeouts.
Pete Crow-Armstrong cracked his 28th home run, a two-run shot. Miguel Amaya added a solo drive in the ninth as Chicago lost for the third time in four.
Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson left the game after hurting himself when he swung and missed on the first pitch from Cardinals starter Hunter Dobbins in the third. The Cubs said the two-time Gold Glove winner had discomfort in his left side.
Dobbins (3-3) allowed two runs on two hits through five innings, striking out seven and walking four. Three relievers followed.
Cubs starter Edward Cabrera (5-5) struggled after coming off the injured list for his first start since June 23, when he suffered a left hamstring/adductor strain against the Mets in New York. To make room on the roster, the Cubs optioned right-hander Javier Assad to Triple-A Iowa.
Cabrera was rocked for seven runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings. He walked three -- all in the fourth -- and all scored in the Cardinals’ six-run rally.
Burleson launched a sinker deep into the right-field bleachers for a 2-0 St. Louis lead in the first. The Cardinals upped it to 3-0 in the second, then blew it open in the fourth.
Burleson had a two-run single and Walker a two-run shot to center in the rally.
BRAVES 5, DIAMONDBACKS 3
ATLANTA (AP) -- Matt Olson hit a three-run homer to back six strong innings from Bryce Elder, leading the Atlanta Braves past the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.
After Ildemaro Vargas homered in the seventh off Didier Fuentes (5-1) to tie the game at 2, Olson hit a 3-0 pitch from Brandyn Garcia over the center-field wall with two outs and a pair of runners aboard in the bottom half. The 437-foot shot was Olson’s 36th homer of the season.
Elder bounced back from one of his worst starts of the season by allowing just four hits, including Gabriel Moreno’s homer leading off the fourth that evened the score at 1. Elder surrendered seven runs and 10 hits in a loss to the New York Mets in his previous appearance.
Ronald Acuña Jr. put the Braves up 2-1 with a run-scoring double in the fifth, but he struck out against Garcia with runners at first and third in the seventh. Olson followed with the game-winning homer as the first-place Braves salvaged the series finale after dropping the first two games.
Raisel Iglesias surrendered a run in the ninth but still claimed his 25th save.
San Diego remains the lone team to sweep a three-game set from Atlanta this season.
Arizona came into the game in a three-way tie with San Diego and Philadelphia for the NL’s final two wild-card slots.
After hitting two homers in a blowout win Saturday, Diamondbacks third baseman Nolan Arenado left Sunday’s game with what was described as left trunk discomfort. He slowed up noticeably while running to first in the fourth inning, decided to leave the game and was replaced by Vargas. Nolan, who will have as MRI, said after the game that he was worried because he’s never felt such pain.
Michael Soroka went 5 2/3 innings against his former team, surrendering six hits and two runs. Taylor Clarke (2-3) took the loss.
PHILLIES 7, TWINS 5
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Bryan De La Cruz hit a two-run single in the eighth inning and the Philadelphia Philles overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Minnesota Twins 7-5 on Sunday and sweep the three-game series.
Alec Bohm hit a three-run home run as Philadelphia won for the fifth time in seven games.
Brooks Lee hit a grand slam, and Kody Clemens also homered for Minnesota, which fell to 4-10 in August.
Down 5-0, Bohm hit a three-run home run as part of a four-run sixth inning.
A bloop RBI single by Bohm made it 5-all in the eighth before a roller by De La Cruz snuck between first baseman Royce Lewis and the bag to plate two more runs.
Andrew Morris (4-4) allowed all three eighth-inning runs. He’d allowed two earned runs in 28 1/3 innings over his previous 27 appearances since June 12.
Orion Kerkering (7-1) tossed a 1-2-3 seventh inning for the win. Jhoan Duran earned his 26th save with a scoreless ninth.
Philadelphia won the first two games of this series 7-1 and 9-1, but Andrew Painter’s control issues quickly put the Phillies in a hole.
With two outs and nobody on in the first, Painter allowed two singles and walked a batter. Lee followed with a grand slam to right field, one pitch after he pulled a would-be grand slam just foul.
Clemens homered in the third to make it 5-0.
Phillies shortstop Trea Turner was available but did not play. He left Saturday’s game after fouling a ball off his right knee.
METS 4, NATIONALS 3
NEW YORK (AP) -- Christian Scott pitched into the seventh inning for the first time since undergoing Tommy John surgery and Luis Torrens hit a two-run homer Sunday, helping the surging New York Mets to a 4-3 win over the Washington Nationals and a three-game series sweep.
Scott (4-3) gave up three runs and struck out seven, one shy of his career high, over 6 1/3 innings -- his longest outing since his big league debut on May 4, 2024, when went 6 2/3 innings against the Tampa Bay Rays. The right-hander made eight more starts before having the reconstructive elbow surgery three months later.
Kodai Senga earned his third save by striking out two in the ninth.
Torrens’ 407-foot homer to straightaway center off Jake Irvin (2-7) put the Mets ahead for good in the fourth and was his fourth round-tripper in his last six starts. He had two homers in his first 67 games through Aug. 1.
Jorge Polanco had an RBI groundout and Jared Young delivered a run-scoring double as the Mets swept a series for the second time in four tries since the trade deadline. New York, which is 9-5 in August, swept just two series prior to this month.
Bo Bichette reached base in all four plate appearances via a triple, two singles and a walk. He is batting .315 since June 2.
Keibert Ruiz had a pair of RBI singles and Abimelec Ortiz homered for the Nationals, who have lost 13 of 18.
Irvin allowed four runs and struck out six in six innings.