{"id":196763,"date":"2021-10-16T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=196763"},"modified":"2021-10-16T17:43:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T17:43:16","slug":"mlb-roundup-rays-wrap-up-playoff-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=196763","title":{"rendered":"MLB roundup: Rays wrap up playoff berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Austin Meadows&#8217; three-run homer highlighted Tampa Bay&#8217;s six-run third inning Wednesday afternoon, securing a playoff berth for the Rays in a 7-1 drubbing of the Toronto Blue Jays in St.<\/p>\n<p>Petersburg, Fla.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After losing Tuesday despite being issued 11 walks and a hit batter, the Rays erupted by batting around against Toronto for the third time this season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Meadows struck the big blow. Yandy Diaz (sacrifice fly) and Taylor Walls (two-run single) brought home tallies as Tampa Bay sent 10 men to the plate, setting the groundwork for  <a href=\"http:\/\/dewadmino.site\">alternatif dewadominoqq<\/a> the Rays&#8217; 11th win in 19 games against their Canadian rival.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The victory sent the American League East-leading Rays to their third consecutive postseason &#8212; seventh in club history &#8212; and improved their major-league-best record in day games to 39-19.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals 10, Brewers 2<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tyler O&#8217;Neill and Paul Goldschmidt hit two-run homers as St.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Louis pounded host Milwaukee for its 11th consecutive victory, extending its lead in the National League wild-card chase.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals moved 4 1\/2 games in front of Cincinnati and Philadelphia for the second NL wild card. St. Louis is within 8 1\/2 games of NL Central-leading Milwaukee, which has lost four straight and six of its past eight.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Miles Mikolas (2-2) threw seven innings of two-run ball for the win. Brewers starter Brett Anderson (4-9) came off the injured list and took the loss, yielding six runs, just two earned, on six hits in 1 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Yankees 7, Rangers 3<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gleyber Torres hit a tiebreaking double with two outs in the eighth, Gary Sanchez hit a long two-run homer later in the inning and New York moved back into the American League&#8217;s second wild-card spot with a victory over visiting Texas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees won their third straight after losing 15 of 22 and moved a half-game ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays for the second wild card.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gio Urshela and Kyle Higashioka each had a pair of hits for New York.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Willie Calhoun, Brock Holt and Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit RBI singles off New York&#8217;s Corey Kluber but Texas lost for the eighth time in 10 games. Kluber, who no-hit the Rangers May 19 in Texas, allowed three runs on eight hits in 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Red Sox 12, Mets 5<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Schwarber smacked a pair of home runs and drove in four runs as Boston completed a two-game sweep of visiting New York and earned its seventh consecutive victory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Chris Sale (5-0) tossed five innings of two-run, six-hit ball with two walks and eight strikeouts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Alex Verdugo and Jose Iglesias each had a pair of RBIs for the Red Sox, who remained two games ahead of Yankees for the top American League wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pete Alonso hit a solo home run for the Mets, who lost for the seventh time in eight games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Phillies 4, Orioles 3<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Andrew McCutchen homered and Jean Segura delivered a go-ahead sacrifice fly to lift host Philadelphia past Baltimore.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Segura and Matt Vierling each had two hits for the Phillies, who won their second in a row.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Zack Wheeler tossed six solid innings and gave up four hits and one run with nine strikeouts and two walks in a no-decision.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pat Valaika led the Orioles with two hits. Baltimore starter Keegan Akin, who entered the game with a 6.93 ERA, allowed just five hits and one run in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Twins 5, Cubs 4<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Max Kepler went 3-for-4 with two home runs and three RBIs and Joe Ryan pitched five strong innings as visiting Minnesota edged Chicago to sweep a two-game series.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota&#8217;s Juan Minaya, Tyler Duffey and Jorge Alcala each logged a scoreless inning before Alex Colome worked around Ian Happ&#8217;s RBI single and three Cubs stolen bases in a two-run ninth to earn his 15th save.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ryan struck out 11 while yielding two runs on three hits and a walk.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nico Hoerner hit a two-run single for the Cubs, who have lost nine of 11.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nationals 7, Marlins 5<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Juan Soto clubbed one of three Washington homers and Josiah Gray earned his first major league victory as the Nationals prevailed at Miami.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins threatened to win the game in the bottom of the ninth as Nick Fortes (two-run blast) and Sandy Leon (solo shot) each homered off reliever Ryne Harper.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hometalk.com\/search\/posts?filter=Tanner%20Rainey\">Tanner Rainey<\/a> got the last two outs for the second save of his career.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Yadiel Hernandez and Luis Garcia also went deep for the Nationals. Soto went 3-for-3 with a double, a single, two walks and his 387-foot dinger. Gray (1-2) struck out eight in six innings, allowing six hits, one walk and two runs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Meadows&#8217; three-run homer highlighted Tampa Bay&#8217;s six-run third inni\u2026","protected":false},"author":8170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196773,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196763\/revisions\/196773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}