CLEVELAND-Trevor Bauer struck out a season-high 12 in 6 2/3 innings, and the Cleveland Indians beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3 on Wednesday.
Bauer (6-6) had the 23rd double-figure strikeout game of his career and his fourth this season. The right-hander gave up one run and didn't allow a hit until rookie Humberto Arteaga singled with two outs in the fifth.
Bauer matched a career high by throwing 127 pitches and held the Royals to three hits. He got a standing ovation and tipped his cap on the way to the dugout after being removed with two on in the seventh.
Jake Bauers and Tyler Naquin homered off Jakob Junis in the fourth. Bauers had gone 15 at-bats without a hit before his leadoff blast.
Jason Kipnis, Oscar Mercado and Jordan Luplow also drove in runs for Cleveland. Francisco Lindor was 3 for 4 and scored two runs.
Junis (4-7) allowed four runs in six innings and hasn't won since May 30.
Lucas Duda homered in the ninth for Kansas City off Nick Wittgren. Pinch-hitter Alex Gordon singled in a run before Wittrgren struck our Billy Hamilton and Whit Merrfield to end the game. The Royals struck out 16 times.
Hunter Dozier, whose ninth-inning grand slam off closer Brad Hand gave the Royals an 8-6 win on Tuesday night, struck out in all four at-bats.
Bauer hit Cam Gallagher with a 3-2 breaking pitch with one out in the third. Bauer also hit Jorge Soler in the left shoulder to lead off the seventh, prompting the Royals right fielder to stare at the pitcher before he slowly walked to first
Bauer was removed after Gallagher drew a two-out walk, but Nick Goody retired Billy Hamilton on a popup.
Arteaga hit a sharp ground ball under the glove of first baseman Bobby Bradley, who made a diving attempt in the fifth. After Gallagher singled to right, Hamilton's bloop double scored Arteaga.
White Sox 8, Red Sox 7
BOSTON-José Abreu hit a two-run homer over the Green Monster and out of Fenway Park in the ninth inning on Wednesday as the Chicago White Sox recovered after blowing the lead in the eighth to beat the Boston Red Sox 8-7.
Chicago had leads of 3-0, 5-2 and 6-4 before the Red Sox scored three in the eighth to take a 7-6 lead and hand White Sox closer Alex Colomé (3-1) his first blown save in 17 opportunities. But Matt Barnes (3-3) gave up three straight hits in the top of the ninth-Leury Garca was caught stealing-including Abreu's 19th homer of the season.
Abreu had three hits and four RBIs, and Garca also had three hits for Chicago. James McCann had an RBI single and added a solo home run against Chris Sale as Chicago pounced on the Boston starter for five runs in the first three innings.
Sale, who allowed six of the first seven batters to reach safely, retired the last 10 he faced, striking out the side in the sixth. He avoided the loss when Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run single in a three-run eighth inning to make it 7-6-Boston's only lead of the game.
Rafael Devers, who went 4-for-4 on Tuesday night, had three more hits and scored three times for Boston. J.D. Martinez hit a two-run homer and also had an RBI double for the Red Sox.
The Red Sox were scheduled to leave for London after the game to play the New York Yankees.
Padres 10, Orioles 5
BALTIMORE-Franmil Reyes hit two of San Diego's five homers, Eric Hosmer drove in four runs and the Padres pounded the skidding Baltimore Orioles 10-5 on Wednesday for a two-game sweep.
Greg Garcia got the long ball barrage started with a two-run drive in the second inning off Dylan Bundy (3-10). After Reyes hit a solo shot in the third and a two-run drive in the fifth to make it 6-3, Hosmer went deep with a runner on in the sixth and Hunter Renfroe connected leading off the seventh.
After dropping three straight in Pittsburgh, the Padres salvaged the road trip by hitting nine home runs and outscoring the Orioles 18-8. San Diego hadn't homered four times in successive games since Aug. 24-25, 2007, against Philadelphia.
It marked the 10th time this season that Baltimore yielded at least five home runs. Bundy gave up two of them and now has allowed 19 homers in 16 starts.
Jonathan Villar and Pedro Severino homered for the Orioles, who have lost 13 of 14. Baltimore owns the worst record in the majors (22-58) and the worst at home (9-30).
Wrapping up his brief return to Camden Yards, Padres third baseman Manny Machado went 1 for 4 with a walk to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. But his career-best run of eight straight games with an RBI ended.
Machado spent the first seven years of his big league career with the Orioles, who traded him last July in a cost-cutting move. He signed a $300 million, 10-year contract with San Diego in February.
San Diego starter Matt Strahm (3-6) pitched six innings, allowing four runs and five hits with nine strikeouts and no walks. The lefty was 0-3 with a 9.64 ERA in his previous four starts.
Craig Stammen got the last four outs for his fourth save.
The Padres climbed back to .500 (40-40) after its first road sweep since taking two in Seattle on Sept. 11-12 last season.
Baltimore has been swept in eight series this season.
Diamondbacks 8, Dodgers 2
PHOENIX-Eduardo Escobar's three-run home gave Arizona a four-run lead before Los Angeles recorded an out, and the Diamondbacks cruised to an 8-2 victory over the National League West-leading Dodgers on Wednesday.
The Dodgers, with the best record in the majors at 55-27, lost for just the second time-both to Arizona in the three-game series-in nine games, while Arizona finished a nine-game homestand 3-6.
Jarrod Dyson had three hits, an RBI and swiped two bases to raise his NL-leading total to 19. He also had a home run-stealing catch over the right-center field fence.
Ildemaro Vargas hit a two-run double, and pitcher Taylor Clarke (2-3) allowed two runs on three hits in five innings.
The Dodgers' Cody Bellinger hit his 26th home run of the season, tying him for for fourth-most before the All-Star break in franchise history. Los Angeles was charged with three errors, two by first baseman Joc Pederson.
The Diamondbacks roughed up Tony Gonsolin (0-1) right away in his major league debut. Dyson led off with a bunt base hit against the shift, stole second base and took third when Gonsolin didn't arrive at first base in time to get Tim Locastro out on a grounder to the right side.
Locastro stole second, then Pederson booted a ground ball from David Peralta for the Diamondbacks' first run. Escobar followed by lining a 2-2 pitch off the top of the right-field fence and into the seats for a 4-0 lead.
Gonsolin, called up from Triple-A Oklahoma City for the start, was the Dodgers' minor-league pitcher of the year last season and had a 2.77 earned-run average in eight starts in the minors this season. He went four innings, allowing four earned runs on six hits.
Gonsolin got his first major league hit in his first career at-bat in the third, and the Dodgers made it 5-2 on Bellinger's solo shot into the camera cutout high up the center-field wall.
The Diamondbacks built the lead to 8-2 on Vargas' double in the fifth off Caleb Ferguson. Dyson avoided a jarring collision with Locastro as the two leaped for Pederson's fly ball in the seventh, which Dyson came down with.
Catcher Russell Martin Jr. pitched a scoreless eighth, including a strikeout, for the Dodgers.
Rockies 6, Giants 3
SAN FRANCISCO-David Dahl hit a go-ahead grand slam in the third and drove in a career-high five runs, leading the Colorado Rockies past the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Wednesday.
Dahl connected off Jeff Samardzija for his second career grand slam, with the other coming last Sept. 10 against Arizona. It marked the first grand slam ever hit by a Rockies player in San Francisco.
Dahl added an RBI single in the seventh. He had a two-run shot in the series opener.
The big swing in the series finale backed German Mrquez (8-3), who immediately surrendered Pablo Sandoval's homer the next inning but won his second straight decision.
Mrquez, who tossed a one-hitter at San Francisco on April 14, allowed three runs and seven hits, struck out two and walked two over five innings. Wade Davis finished for his 11th save in 13 opportunities.
Colorado loaded the bases in the third after Tony Wolters drew a leadoff walk, Mrquez advanced him with a sacrifice, Garrett Hampson singled then Charlie Blackmon walked to bring up Dahl.
Wolters added a sacrifice fly in the fourth for a key insurance run.
Samardzija (4-7), who pitched seven scoreless innings at home against the Rockies in April, was tagged for five runs and three hits in five innings.
He struck out six after lefties Drew Pomeranz and Madison Bumgarner each struck out 11 batters the previous two games.
The Giants went ahead in the bottom of the first-just San Francisco's 20th and 21st runs in the initial inning all year-on Sandoval's double. It came after Mike Yastrzemski reached on an error by Mrquez when the pitcher missed the catch covering first base.
San Francisco hadn't scored more than one run in the first inning since June 1 against the Orioles.