Tylor Megill continued his strong start to the season Sunday afternoon, earning the win by allowing two runs over 6 2/3 innings, as the New York Mets earned another series win by beating the host Arizona Diamondbacks 6-2 in the finale of a three-game set.

Starling Marte built the go-ahead run in the sixth for the Mets, who have won their first five series — tying the franchise record for most consecutive series wins to start a season, set in 2018.

The Diamondbacks are still seeking their first series win, though they have earned two splits.

Megill (3-0) gave up five hits and one walk while striking out seven. He retired the first eight batters he faced and came within one out of matching his career-long outing, set against the New York Yankees last Sept. 10.

Seth Lugo got four outs and Joely Rodriguez struck out two in a perfect ninth inning.

Mark Canha scored the Mets’ first run when he led off the game with an infield single, went to second on Sergio Alcantara’s throwing error and scored on Francisco Lindor’s one-out single. Christian Walker tied the game by homering off Megill in the fourth.

Marte put the Mets ahead when he doubled with one out in the sixth off J.B. Wendelken (0-1), stole third and scored when catcher Jose Herrera’s throw sailed into left field. The stolen base was the 300th of Marte’s career.

New York extended the lead to 4-1 in the seventh with the benefit of just one base hit — a one-out single by Luis Guillorme — when Travis Jankowski drew a bases-loaded walk and Marte was plunked by a pitch with the bases still loaded.

Nick Ahmed chased Megill with an RBI single before the Mets added a pair of two-out insurance runs in the eighth, when J.D. Davis homered and Guillorme doubled and scored after Alcantara misplayed James McCann’s grounder.

Davis and Lindor had two hits apiece for the Mets. Ahmed had two hits for Arizona.

Diamondbacks starter Madison Bumgarner allowed an unearned run on four hits and no walks while striking out four over five innings.

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Stephen Piscotty’s two-run home run was all Oakland needed as the Athletics outlasted the visiting Texas Rangers 2-0 on Sunday in the finale of a three-game American League West series.

Cole Irvin (2-1), the first of four Oakland pitchers, allowed just one hit and walked two in five innings of work to earn the win. Irvin struck out four in his 87-pitch stint and allowed the Athletics to salvage the final game of the series.

Dany Jimenez worked out of a two-on, two-out jam in the ninth inning to earn his third save. Jimenez has not allowed a run in seven appearances this season.

Piscotty’s homer with one out in the bottom of the fourth off Spencer Howard plated Sean Murphy and produced more runs than the Athletics had scored in the first two games of the series combined. Oakland managed just five hits in the win — and 10 in the three games in this series — and squandered seven base runners on Sunday.

Oakland loaded the bases with one out in the fifth but could not extend the lead when Brett Martin struck out Murphy and Christian Bethancourt to end the threat.

Texas came into the game on a season-best three-game winning streak but was limited to just four hits and didn’t get a runner to second base until Marcus Semien’s two-out double in the eighth. Semien is a former Oakland player who finished third in American League voting for the Toronto Blue Jays last season and was signed by the Rangers in the offseason.

Semien also singled to start the game.

Nathaniel Lowe and Johan Heim singled in the ninth but were stranded when Willie Calhoun grounded out to end the contest.

Garrett Richards was the opening pitcher for the Rangers, leaving after two innings for Howard (0-1). Howard was followed to the mound by Albert Abreu, Martin, Dennis Santana, and Kolby Allard.

Texas heads home to begin a four-game series against Houston on Monday while the Athletics have an off day on Monday before hosting the San Francisco Giants for the two-game, interleague, Bay Area series.

–Field Level Media

Kevin Newman had two hits, including an RBI double, and David Bednar struck out Frank Schwindel with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth to lead the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday afternoon.

Ke’Bryan Hayes also had an RBI double for Pittsburgh, which bounced back from a 21-0 loss on Saturday afternoon, the most lopsided loss in franchise history, to win the series with its third win in four games.

Dillon Peters (3-0) allowed one hit over 2 2/3 inning of relief to pick up the win. Bednar, despite allowing back-to-back doubles with one out in the ninth, bounced back to garner his second save of the season.

Ian Happ homered, Rafeal Ortega doubled twice and Schwindel went 2-for-5 with an RBI to lead Chicago, which lost for the fifth time in six games. The Cubs, who had 23 hits in the largest shutout win in franchise history on Saturday, finished with 10 hits.

Justin Steele (1-2) took the loss, allowing three runs on four hits over three innings. He walked four and struck out two.

Chicago took a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Ortega led off with a double to right and scored one out later when Hayes misplayed Willson Contreras’ high-hop grounder for an error. After Happ walked, Schwindel singled down the right field line to drive in Contreras.

Pittsburgh cut it to 2-1 in the second on a two-out RBI single by Ben Gamel, driving in Yoshi Tsutsugo who had singled.

The Pirates took a 3-2 lead in the third on a sacrifice fly by Tsutsugo, driving in Bryan Reynolds, who had led off with a walk and advanced to third on a double by Hayes. Newman then drove in Hayes with a double to center.

Pittsburgh extended its lead to 4-2 in the fourth with an unearned run. Diego Castillo singled with one out, stole second and scored one out later when Jonathan Villar threw wildly to first on Hayes’ routine grounder for his fourth error of the season.

Chicago cut it to 4-3 in the eighth on Happ’s first homer of the season, a 393-foot opposite field drive to left-center off reliever Heath Hembree.

The Cubs had a chance to win it in the bottom of the ninth. Ortega doubled off the wall down the right-field line with one out and then advanced to third on a bloop double to shallow right by Seiya Suzuki. Contreras then struck out and Happ was then walked intentionally to load the bases. Schwindel then struck out on three straight fastballs to end the game.

–Field Level Media

Byron Buxton homered twice, including a walk-off, three-run blast to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 6-4 win in 10 innings over the visiting Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis.

Buxton’s 469-foot blast sealed the Twins’ fourth win in a row and completed a three-game sweep over Chicago. Buxton finished with five RBIs while Gio Urshela drove in Minnesota’s other run.

Tim Anderson and Danny Mendick each homered for the White Sox, who lost their seventh in a row.

Twins right-hander Joe Smith (1-0) earned the win after allowing one unearned run in one inning.

White Sox right-hander Liam Hendriks (0-2) gave up three runs (two earned) on three hits in 1 1/3 innings.

Chicago pulled ahead 4-3 in the top of the 10th when Yasmani Grandal singled to deep right field to score Mendick.

Hendricks could not preserve the lead. He had runners on second and third when Buxton crushed his 96 mph fastball over the heart of the plate.

The White Sox grabbed a 1-0 lead on the first pitch of the game. Anderson drove it 395 feet over the wall in left-center field for his second homer of the season.

Two innings later, Anderson helped the White Sox increase their lead to 2-0. He led off the third with a single, stole second base, advanced to third base after a pair of walks and came home to score on a single by Andrew Vaughn.

The Twins cut the deficit to 2-1 in the bottom of the third. Minnesota loaded the bases with nobody out for Urshela, who hit a sacrifice fly to center field to drive in Luis Arraez.

Giolito prevented further damage as he struck out Trevor Larnach and Nick Gordon to end the inning.

Chicago regained a two-run lead in the seventh when Mendick hit a leadoff home run to left field. The 406-foot blast was his first homer of the season.

Buxton tied it at 3-3 with a two-run blast in the bottom of the seventh. White Sox left-hander Aaron Bummer issued a leadoff walk to No. 9 hitter Jose Godoy, and Buxton made him pay for it moments later with an opposite-field rocket.

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Rookie shortstop Jeremy Pena crushed a two-run, walk-off home run to straightaway center field in the bottom of the 10th inning as the Houston Astros averted a series sweep with an 8-7 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.

Pena drilled a 96.6 mph fastball from Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano (0-1), who had converted 31 consecutive saves and led the majors with eight this season. Pena drove home Kyle Tucker, the automatic runner, with his third home run this season to counter the run-scoring double Lourdes Gurriel Jr. stroked in the top of the 10th that gave the Blue Jays a 7-6 lead.

Gurriel drove home Bo Bichette, the automatic runner, with one out in the 10th inning. He produced a pair of extra-base hits and two RBIs.

Houston received production from the bottom third of their batting order. Aledmys Diaz (walk) and Pena (error) reached and scored in the Astros’ two-run second inning and Diaz produced an RBI single that scored Yuli Gurriel and tied the game at 6-6 in the seventh.

Astros starter Luis Garcia was exceptional early, facing the minimum through three innings before the Blue Jays started to apply pressure on him the second time through the order.

George Springer keyed the shift in momentum with a leadoff double in the fourth and scored two batters later on a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. sacrifice fly, sliding under the tag of Astros catcher Martin Maldonado after the throw from right fielder Tucker took Maldonado up the third-base line.

Toronto halved the two-run deficit when Springer scored, but trailed 4-1 entering the fifth after Astros left fielder Michael Brantley cranked a two-out, two-run homer to right off Toronto left-hander Yusei Kikuchi, punishing Kikuchi for issuing a walk to the nine-hole hitter Maldonado.

But Lourdes Gurriel Jr. got one of those runs back for the Blue Jays with his first-pitch home run leading off the fifth, his first of the year. Toronto struck an even bigger blow with two outs in the sixth when catcher Zack Collins bashed a 3-0 fastball from Garcia into the right-field seats, driving in Springer and Guerrero and erasing what was a 5-2 deficit. It was Collins’ third home run.

Blake Taylor (1-1) earned the win on just three pitches and one out in the 10th. Garcia allowed five runs on five hits in six innings, striking out six. Kikuchi lasted 3 2/3 innings for Toronto and allowed four runs (two earned) on three hits, with five walks and four strikeouts.

–Field Level Media

Rookie left-hander Nick Lodolo allowed one run on five hits over 5 2/3 innings and Colin Moran drove in two runs as the Cincinnati Reds ended an 11-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the visiting St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday.

Lodolo (1-2) had seven strikeouts and no walks in earning his first major-league victory. The Reds scored three runs in the first two innings against Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright (2-2).

The Reds ended their longest losing streak since they dropped 11 straight from May 16-27, 2016.

Cincinnati took a 2-0 lead in its first at-bat. Moran opened the scoring when his sacrifice fly scored Tyler Naquin, who had led off with a double. Nick Senzel followed by singling home Tommy Pham, who had reached on a walk, advanced to second on a walk, and reached third on Moran’s sacrifice fly.

The Reds extended their lead to 3-0 in the second when Alejo Lopez scored on Naquin’s groundout to shortstop.

After the Cardinals cut the lead to 3-1 in the sixth when Tyler O’Neill’s double to left-center field scored Paul Goldschmidt, the Reds countered in their half of the inning.

After Pham doubled to left and advanced to third on Wainwright’s wild pitch, Joey Votto walked. Moran followed with a single to right that scored Pham for a 4-1 lead that bright Wainwright’s outing to a close.

Wainwright allowed four runs on eight hits with three strikeouts and three walks in five innings.

He threw 94 pitches but just 58 strikes before he was relieved by T.J. McFarland, who kept the Reds scoreless for the next two innings.

While Wainwright struggled to find the strike zone, Lodolo had no issues, as 57 of his 79 pitches were strikes.

Relievers Tony Santillan and Art Warren kept the Cardinals scoreless for the next 2 1/3 innings before Lucas Sims retired the side in order in the ninth for his first save of the year.

Pham and Senzel each had two hits for the Reds, while Goldschmidt and Harrison Bader had two hits apiece for St. Louis.

–Field Level Media

Joc Pederson went 3-for-3 with two homers and three RBIs as the visiting San Francisco Giants completed a three-game sweep of the Washington Nationals with a 12-3 victory on Sunday.

Wilmer Flores had three hits and drove in three runs for San Francisco, which broke the game open with six runs in the ninth inning and improved to 7-3 on its 11-game road trip.

Logan Webb (2-1) allowed three runs on seven hits over 6 2/3 innings. He walked one and struck out six.

Yadiel Hernandez homered and drove in three runs for Washington, which lost its fifth straight and scored a total of six runs in the series.

Pederson greeted Nationals starter Joan Adon (1-3) with a leadoff homer to begin the game, a 441-foot blast to right field.

The Giants added another run in the inning when Brandon Crawford doubled with two outs and scored on Flores’ single.

Washington answered with a run in the bottom of the first on Hernandez’s run-scoring single with two outs.

San Francisco extended its lead to 4-1 with two runs in the second. Thairo Estrada scored on Peterson’s sacrifice fly before Brandon Belt tripled to center field, allowing Joey Bart to score easily from third.

After Webb retired the first two batters in the third, Keibert Ruiz doubled and Hernandez homered to left field. The home run was the first allowed by Webb in 59 1/3 innings.

Adon yielded five runs on six hits over four innings. He walked one and struck out three.

The Giants moved ahead 5-3 on Flores’ run-scoring single in the fifth and added to their lead on Peterson’s leadoff homer in the seventh off Austin Voth.

The Giants pulled away with a big ninth inning, when they sent 12 batters to the plate and scored six runs. Luis Gonzalez and Austin Slater each drove in two runs during the rally.

Juan Soto went 0-for-4 and has four hits in his last 27 at-bats for Washington, which used seven relievers and only had three baserunners after Hernandez’s fifth-inning homer.

–Field Level Media

Gerrit Cole pitched 6 2/3 stellar innings, DJ LeMahieu fell a triple shy of the cycle and the New York Yankees rolled to a 10-2 victory over the visiting Cleveland Guardians Sunday afternoon to complete their first series sweep of the season.

Coming of a career-low 1 2/3 innings Tuesday in Detroit, Cole (1-0) allowed four hits and turned in his first scoreless outing since Aug. 27 at Oakland. Cole struck out nine and walked one in a 92-pitch outing as his 47 four-seam fastballs averaged 97.2 mph.

Cole produced New York’s longest outing by a starter this year, did not allow a runner to reach scoring position and lowered his ERA from 6.35 to 4.00.

LeMahieu extended his hitting streak to 11 games. He hit an RBI double in the second inning and then added a two-run homer in the sixth.

Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run homer and slumping Joey Gallo added an RBI double — his first RBI and extra-base hit of the season. Pinch hitter Tim LoCastro added a two-run homer in the eighth.

Aaron Hicks and Isiah Kiner-Falefa also drove in runs as the Yankees scored double-digit runs for the first time since Aug. 20 and won for the fifth time in six games.

Andres Gimenez hit a two-run triple in the ninth for Cleveland, which saw Jose Ramirez go 1-for-11 in the series, dropping his average from .426 to .362.

The Guardians also lost rookie left fielder Steven Kwan to right hamstring tightness, a day after he crashed into the fence in the ninth inning.

Cleveland’s Aaron Civale (0-2) allowed six runs on seven hits in three innings.

The Yankees opened a 2-0 lead in the first inning when Rizzo lined a 1-2 curveball over the short porch in right field for his fifth homer.

LeMahieu made it 3-0 when he ripped a double over right fielder Oscar Mercado’s glove in the second and the Yankees added three in the third.

The Yankees had the bases loaded when Hicks hit a pop-up that fell in front of center fielder Myles Straw and scored Rizzo. Gallo followed with a double to right and Hicks scored on Kiner-Falefa’s fly ball to left.

LeMahieu made it 8-0 when he blasted a fastball from rookie Kirk McCarty into the left-field seats for his second homer of the season.

–Field Level Media

Jesus Luzardo pitched five strong innings and Garrett Cooper drove in a pair of runs to help the visiting Miami Marlins defeat the Atlanta Braves 5-4 on Sunday and win the rubber game of a three-game series.

Luzardo (1-1) allowed one run on two hits, four walks and eight strikeouts to record his first career win against Atlanta.

The bullpen supported Luzardo with three scoreless innings — Cody Poteet (one inning), Richard Bleier (1/3 inning) and Anthony Bass (1 2/3 innings). An important moment came in the seventh when Bass entered with the bases loaded and one out and got Austin Riley to hit into an inning-ending double play.

But Tanner Scott got in trouble in the ninth. He allowed a sacrifice fly to Matt Olson and a two-run homer to Riley, his fourth, and Atlanta cut the lead to 5-4. With closer Anthony Bender unavailable, Louis Head entered and allowed a double to Marcell Ozuna before striking out Adam Duvall and Eddie Rosario to end the game and earn his first career save.

Cooper was 3-for-4 with a double, a walk, two RBIs and one run scored. Joey Wendle and Jon Berti both added two hits and the last four hitters in the Miami order went 8-for-14 with four walks and four RBIs.

Atlanta starter Bryce Elder (1-2) allowed two runs on five hits, six walks and four strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings. He left after allowing and RBI double to Avisail Garcia and a run-scoring single to Cooper.

The Braves cut the lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the fifth when they scored their lone run against Luzardo. Atlanta loaded the bases and scored on Olson’s infield grounder, but failed to add more when Riley struck out swinging.

Miami got the run back in the sixth against reliever Darren O’Day when Berti tripled and scored on Jacob Stallings’ sacrifice fly to left field.

The Marlins scored twice against reliever A.J. Minter in the seventh on back-to-back run-scoring doubles by Cooper and Wendle.

–Field Level Media

Randal Grichuk homered and Charlie Blackmon went 4-for-5 with two RBIs Sunday as the Colorado Rockies stopped the Detroit Tigers 6-2 in the rubber game of their weekend series in Detroit.

Chad Kuhl (2-0) delivered his second straight quality start, checking the Tigers on four hits and a run over six innings, with two walks and four strikeouts. The former Pittsburgh Pirate has permitted just two runs on eight hits in his first 16 1/3 innings with Colorado and sports a 1.10 ERA.

Tyler Alexander (0-2) was roughed up for eight hits and five runs over 3 2/3 innings in absorbing the loss. Alexander, who walked one and struck out two, has lasted just 10 innings in his first three starts.

Grichuk hit a two-run homer to left-center off a hanging off-speed pitch in the top of the third, his first homer with the Rockies. He was acquired in a trade with Toronto just before the season started. Grichuk went 3-for-4 and scored two runs Sunday.

Blackmon’s key hit was a two-run single in the fourth that chased Alexander and increased Colorado’s advantage to 5-1. The two-out hit scored Jose Iglesias and Connor Joe, who had kept the inning going with a double.

Kuhl kept Detroit at bay, relying on a sinker and slider for most of his outing. The Tigers’ only damage against him came in the third when Austin Meadows lined a two-out single to right that scored Tucker Barnhart.

Detroit’s only other run happened in the seventh when Robbie Grossman delivered a single to right that scored Barnhart. Grossman and Barnhart each had two hits for the Tigers, who were held to seven hits by Kuhl and three relievers.

C.J. Cron supplied a 1-0 lead in the first for the Rockies with a two-out RBI single, and Ryan McMahon added their last run in the fifth with a two-out single that scored Grichuk.

Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera, who reached the 3,000-hit mark for his career with a single on Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader, didn’t play Sunday.

–Field Level Media