Patrick Wisdom homered and doubled and Frank Schwindel drove in the winning run in the ninth inning with a single as the Chicago Cubs defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 in the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon in Phoenix.

Rafael Ortega also homered for Chicago, which won its second straight series and finished 4-2 on its six-game Western road trip.

Scott Effross (1-1) picked up the win with an inning of scoreless relief while Rowan Wick earned his fourth save. Left-hander Justin Steele started for the Cubs and allowed one earned run on three hits over six innings. He walked two and struck out a career-high 10.

Christian Walker had two hits and a run scored and Cooper Hummel tripled for Arizona, which lost its second straight game. Ian Kennedy (2-2) suffered the loss.

Chicago needed just two pitches to take a 1-0 lead when Ortega, celebrating his 31st birthday, smashed a 428-foot homer into the bleachers down the right field line off Arizona starter Humberto Castellanos, his first home run of the season.

Wisdom made it 2-0 when he led off the second inning with his sixth homer of the season, a 414-foot line drive to left.

Arizona sent eight batters to the plate in the fourth and pushed across two runs to tie it, 2-2. Jordan Luplow led off with a walk and advanced to second one out later on a single by Walker. After Pavin Smith struck out, Daulton Varsho singled to right to drive in Luplow with Walker advancing to third. Walker then scored on a fielding error by shortstop Ildemaro Vargas.

Chicago then took a 3-2 lead in the ninth off Kennedy. Wisdom led off with a line double that one-hopped the fence in left-center and came around to score on Schwindel’s soft liner down the right field line.

Walker led off the bottom of the ninth with a line single to left. After Wick replaced Effross, Smith blooped a single to left. Varsho popped out to third and David Peralta, pinch-hitting for Nick Ahmed, then grounded into a game-ending double play.

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Salvador Perez had a two-run single in the ninth inning to help the Kansas City Royals rally for an 8-7 win against the Colorado Rockies in the rubber contest of their three-game series on Sunday in Denver, Colo.

Emmanuel Rivera doubled, homered and drove in three runs, and Whit Merrifield and Bobby Witt Jr. also homered for the Royals, who let a six-run lead slip away before rallying for the win.

Royals starter Daniel Lynch did not allow a run in 5 1/3 innings. The second-year left-hander allowed three hits, struck out four and walked four.

Josh Staumont (1-0) pitched a scoreless eighth inning for Kansas City, and Scott Barlow worked the ninth for his fourth save. The Royals won two of the three games in the series.

Rockies starter Austin Gomber allowed three runs and four hits in six innings. He struck out three and walked three.

Daniel Bard (0-2) was trying for his 10th save, but the Royals loaded the bases with one out before Perez came through with his two-run single to the opposite field in right.

Yonathan Daza and Randal Grichuk each had two-run singles in a seven-run seventh inning to help the Rockies overcome the 6-0 deficit.

The Rockies were trailing 6-0 with one out in the seventh inning when Daza came through with a two-run single. C.J. Cron followed with an RBI single to make it 6-3.

After a throwing error scored another run, Grichuk drove in two more runs with a single to tie the score 6-6, the seventh straight batter to reach base for Colorado.

Elias Diaz followed with a sacrifice fly to move the Rockies ahead 7-6.

Daza and Brendan Rodgers had two hits each for the Rockies.

Rivera gave the Royals a 2-0 lead when he blasted a 441-foot homer to left-center field in the fifth inning for a 2-0 lead.

Merrifield homered to lead off the sixth, and Witt went deep to start the seventh and make it 4-0.

Rivera added an RBI double and later come home on a sacrifice fly by Merrifield to make it 6-0.

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Adolis Garcia ripped two home runs, a three-run shot in the sixth inning and two-run blast in the eighth, and Kole Calhoun had two solo homers as the Texas Rangers used their power bats to beat the visiting Boston Red Sox 7-1 on Sunday afternoon in Arlington, Texas.

The Rangers salvaged the finale of a three-game series between the teams and snapped a two-game losing streak. Texas had managed just four runs in the first two contests in the series.

Martin Perez (2-2) earned the win, allowing one run on five hits and two walks with seven strikeouts in six innings.

Perez, who pitched for Boston the past two seasons before returning to the Rangers as a free agent in the offseason, has surrendered just three earned runs in 32 1/3 innings over his past five starts after dropping his first two outings.

Texas had just six hits in the win but did its damage with the long ball after amassing seven hits on Saturday, five of them singles.

Boston had just seven hits, with Rafael Devers going 3-for-4. J.D. Martinez had a single in the first inning to expand his hitting streak to 16 games; Martinez has reached base in 32 consecutive contests.

Garcia’s first homer was to right-center off Ryan Brasier (0-2), the third Red Sox pitcher, and drove home Marcus Semien, who had doubled, and Corey Seager, who had walked. Calhoun followed with his second solo home run of the game; both were opposite-field shots over the left-center-field fence.

Garcia added his two-run shot in the eighth off Tyler Danish, driving in Seager, who had singled.

Boston struck first as Devers’ double in the fifth drove home Enrique Hernandez.

The Rangers’ first hit of the game, a solo home run by Calhoun to lead off the fifth off Tanner Houck, the second Boston pitcher, tied the score at 1-1.

The Red Sox head home to face the red-hot Houston Astros on Monday while Texas opens a three-game set with the Los Angeles Angels.

–Field Level Media

Gio Urshela and Byron Buxton each hit home runs, and the Minnesota Twins held on for a 3-1 win over the visiting Cleveland Guardians on Sunday afternoon at Minneapolis.

Max Kepler added an RBI for the Twins, who for the second time in the just-completed three-game series despite tallying only four hits.

Jose Ramirez homered for the Guardians. Richie Palacios went 2-for-3 for Cleveland, which has lost three of four.

Twins right-hander Joe Ryan (4-2) collected his first victory since April 27. He limited the Guardians to one run on four hits in six innings. He walked none and struck out five.

Guardians right-hander Triston McKenzie (2-3) took the loss despite recording a quality start. He allowed three runs on three hits in seven innings with two walks and four strikeouts

Minnesota’s bullpen preserved the narrow lead to secure the victory. Right-hander Cody Stashak pitched a scoreless seventh, while right-hander Joe Smith and left-hander Caleb Thielbar combined for a scoreless eighth.

In the ninth, Twins right-hander Emilio Pagan pitched around a two-out double to earn his fifth save.

The Twins opened the scoring in the bottom of the first. Luis Arraez drew a one-out walk, stole second base and scored on a single to right field by Kepler.

Cleveland evened the score at 1-1 on Ramirez’s home run in the fourth. He pulled an 84 mph changeup over the wall in left field for his eighth homer of the season and his first since April 29, snapping a 12-game drought.

Minnesota regained a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the fourth. Urshela went deep for the second time in as many days to notch his third home run of the season.

Another Twins homer, this time by Buxton, made it 3-1 in the fifth. Buxton turned on a 91-mph fastball for his team-leading 11th homer in 23 games.

The Twins and Guardians will not meet again until June 21-23, when they are scheduled to reconvene in Minnesota. They are set to play each other 19 times this season, with three games down and 16 remaining.

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Nestor Cortes followed up his near no-hit bid by pitching a career-high eight dominant innings and the visiting New York Yankees made the most of two hits in a 5-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon.

Six days after coming within five outs of a no-hitter on Monday against the Texas Rangers, Cortes (2-1) shone again. He took a shutout into the eighth and allowed one run on three hits to lower his ERA to 1.35 — the lowest in the American League among pitchers with at least 30 innings.

Cortes struck out seven and walked none. It marked the left-hander’s 16th straight outing of allowing three runs or less. He is tied with teammate Luis Severino for the second-longest such streak in Yankee history.

Cortes lost his shutout bid on his 94th pitch when Adam Engel lined a 1-1 slider a few inches fair down the left field line for his first home run of the year. After Engel connected, Cortes retired pinch hitter Yasmani Grandal on a fly ball to the warning track in right and got Josh Harrison on a groundout to third.

The Yankees won for the 20th time in 24 games despite getting two hits against Chicago starter Michael Kopech (0-1) and three relievers (Ryan Burr, Reynaldo Lopez and Jose Ruiz). Their first hit was a two-out single in the second by Isiah Kiner-Falefa as Kopech struggled to find the strike zone.

New York scored its first two runs on bases-loaded walks by Aaron Hicks and DJ LeMahieu. The Yankees made it 3-0 when Jose Trevino scored on a wild pitch during an at-bat to Aaron Judge.

Chicago retired 21 straight hitters before Josh Donaldson drew a two-out walk in the ninth. Joey Gallo — whose two-strike walk started the rally in the second — followed with a two-run homer to right.

According to Baseball Reference, it was the 21st time the Yankees won a game when getting two hits or fewer. It was the first time they scored at least five runs on two hits or less since June 8, 1952 against the St. Louis Browns.

After Gallo hit his fifth homer of the season, Clay Holmes pitched a scoreless ninth in a non-save situation.

Kopech allowed three runs and one hit in six innings. He struck out three, tied a career high with four walks and threw 42 of his 91 pitches in the second.

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Cincinnati rookie right-hander Hunter Greene tossed 7 1/3 no-hit innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday afternoon but the visiting Reds lost 1-0 despite tossing a combined no-hitter.

It was the sixth time in major league history that a team lost while not allowing a hit in a game.

Greene, 22, struck out nine and walked five and threw 118 pitches before manager David Bell removed him with two runners on in the eighth inning.

“I’m not focused on (personal) wins and losses this year; that’s not my focus,” Greene said afterward. “It is what it is, but I felt good with where all my pitches were. I’m very confident in myself. It’s hard on the mental side to not let your mind drift to that (no-hit) accolade but I think you have to embrace all the thoughts and emotions in that moment and go out there and have fun.”

The second overall pick in the 2017 draft, Greene was making his seventh career start. He was sent back out for the eighth inning after throwing 103 pitches through seven. He was the first Reds pitcher to go at least seven innings this season.

Greene induced Jack Suwinski to bounce out to first to start the eighth before walking both Rodolfo Castro and Michael Perez on full-count pitches.

Right-hander Art Warren entered and walked Ben Gamel on four pitches to load the bases. Ke’Bryan Hayes bounced into a fielder’s choice to score Castro.

“To not even get a hit in a game and to get a win, I’m sure that hasn’t happened a lot since baseball has been going on,” Hayes said afterward. “So just glad we were able to get that win.”

Greene entered the game with a 1-5 record and a 7.62 ERA.

Cincinnati had just four hits.

This was the second time a National League team lost a game without giving up a hit. Ken Johnson of the Houston Colts .45s fell 1-0 to the Reds in 1964 while accomplishing the feat.

It also has happened four times in American League Games.

Steve Barber and Stu Miller of the Baltimore Orioles lost 2-1 to the Detroit Tigers in 1967, Andy Hawkins of the New York Yankees lost 4-0 to the Chicago White Sox in 1990, Matt Young of the Boston Red Sox lost 2-1 to the Cleveland Indians in 1992 and Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo of the Los Angeles Angels fell 1-0 to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2008.

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A throwing error by Toronto third baseman Matt Chapman opened the door for a three-run sixth inning by Tampa Bay, and five pitchers combined for a shutout as the Rays defeated the Blue Jays 3-0 on Sunday afternoon at St. Petersburg, Fla.

Tampa Bay starter Jeffrey Springs allowed four hits in 4 2/3 innings. Relievers Matt Wisler (2-1), J.P. Feyereisen, Colin Poche and Andrew Kittredge combined to allow only two Toronto players to reach base. Feyereisen walked a batter and Kittredge allowed a ninth-inning single.

Wisler picked up the win and Kittredge got the save as the Rays picked up their second win in the finale of a three-game series.

Tampa Bay’s big inning started when Brandon Lowe singled and Wander Franco ended an 0-for-18 slump with an opposite-field single.

Harold Ramirez followed with a chopper to Chapman. But the two-time Platinum Glove and three-time Gold Glove winner tried to force Franco out at second. His throw went wild into right field and Lowe scored the game’s first run.

Franco then scored on a wild pitch by Alek Manoah (4-1) and Ramirez scored the third run on an RBI single by Ji-Man Choi.

That outburst ended what had been a pitcher’s duel and put a rare blemish on Manoah’s history against Tampa Bay. As a rookie last season, Manoah was 3-1 with a 1.46 ERA against the Rays.

Manoah went six innings, allowing one earned run on five hits. He also struck out four in an 82-pitch outing.

Springs, making only his third start since being elevated into the rotation, gave the Rays a strong outing. He struck out two without walking a batter.

Tampa Bay was without its top offensive player. Manuel Margot, who has 14 RBIs in the month of May, was placed on the 10-day injured list prior to the game with a hamstring strain.

–Field Level Media