Ty France’s walk-off single to left in the 10th inning delivered Seattle a 2-1 win over the visiting Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday afternoon, breaking the Mariners’ six-game losing streak.

After Abraham Toro’s one-out home run in the ninth off closer Andrew Kittredge tied the series’ fourth matchup, France ripped a 1-1 slider from Matt Wisler (1-1) deep to left with one out to send home Jarred Kelenic with the game-winning tally.

Toro went 2-for-4 as Seattle claimed the final game in the series and improved to 2-0 in extra innings.

In his major league debut, Seattle starter George Kirby displayed the talent and command that made him one of the organization’s top prospects and the best pitcher in its minor league system.

Striking out seven and getting 15 swings-and-misses, the right-hander fired six scoreless frames and allowed four hits. A control specialist, Kirby didn’t issue a walk in his 81-pitch debut.

Paul Sewald (1-1) pitched a scoreless 10th as five Seattle pitchers fanned 14 Tampa Bay hitters.

Manuel Margot was 2-for-3 with a solo homer and stolen base for the Rays, who won three of four in the series but lost for the first time in four extra-inning games.

Tampa Bay had its six-game winning streak snapped in the defeat and lost for just the fifth time in the past 18 games.

In his second start, Ryan Yarbrough matched Kirby through five scoreless innings. The left-hander yielded four hits and one walk while striking out four over 68 pitches.

Kirby opened his major league career by fanning left-handed hitter Brandon Lowe — who slugged two homers Saturday night. After yielding a base hit, he finished the frame by whiffing Randy Arozarena and Ji-Man Choi.

While Kirby was overpowering the Rays with seven strikeouts over the first five innings, Yarbrough retired seven straight batters at one point, getting six flyouts. Margot made a terrific sliding grab near the right-field foul line to deny Adam Frazier an extra-base hit to end the fifth.

After homering in the late innings on Friday and Saturday, Margot belted a 1-1 slider from Erik Swanson as the first batter the right-hander faced in the top of the eighth. The long shot was Margot’s third this season.

–Field Level Media

Pinch hitter Jorge Alfaro hit a two-out, three-run home run in the ninth inning Sunday afternoon to give the San Diego Padres a 3-2 walk-off victory over the Miami Marlins.

Miami pitchers had shut out the Padres for 20 straight innings and had retired 11 straight batters when the Padres launched a game-winning rally against closer Cole Sulser. Jurickson Profar singled with one out in the ninth, which was only the Padres’ sixth hit of the game.

Then followed an unusual play. Left-handed hitter Trent Grisham grounded sharply to third baseman Joey Wendle, who was playing on the right side of the infield in the shift. But Wendle’s throw to second in an attempt to get a forceout was wide of the bag. With no one covering third in the shift, Profar headed to third, only to be tagged out by Sulser on a throw from Rojas.

Rookie C.J. Abrams then singled to left, bringing up Alfaro, the last player on the Padres’ bench, as a pinch-hitter. He hit the first pitch from Sulser into the left field seats for his second homer of the season.

Right-hander Robert Suarez (2-1) pitched two perfect innings in relief of Joe Musgrove, who allowed two runs on five hits and a walk with eight strikeouts in seven innings.

Sulser (0-1) took the loss after Marlins left-handed starter Trevor Rogers and three relievers extended the Padres’ scoreless innings streak to 20.

The Marlins scored their first run in the fourth. Jesus Aguilar doubled to lead off the inning when Padres center fielder Grisham failed on a diving catch in left center. After Musgrove struck out Jorge Soler, Wendle singled to right and Garrett Cooper hit a sacrifice fly to break the scoreless tie.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. made it 2-0 with his fifth homer of the season in the sixth inning — a drive into the Padres’ bullpen in left center.

Rogers pitched his way out of two-on jams in the first, third and fifth innings. He got out of all three by inducing two-out, infield pop outs.

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Zac Gallen pitched seven shutout innings, lowering his ERA to 0.95 in five starts this season, to help the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies 4-0 on Sunday in Phoenix.

Gallen (2-0) allowed five hits with seven strikeouts and no walks. He retired the last eight batters he faced and did not allow a runner past second base after the first inning.

Relievers Noe Ramirez and Joe Mantiply did not allow a hit or walk in the last two innings. Ramirez struck out the first batter in the ninth, and Mantiply struck out the last two batters.

Arizona, victorious in nine of its past 12 games, won two of three against the Rockies behind starting pitchers Merrill Kelly, Zach Davies and Gallen. They combined to allow only one earned run in 22 innings, with 15 hits allowed, four walks and 21 strikeouts.

Gallen has issued only four walks in 28 1/3 innings this season while posting 26 strikeouts.

The Diamondbacks’ No. 1 prospect, center fielder Alek Thomas, made his major-league debut and got his first career hit in the fifth inning. He doubled to lead off the inning and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by fellow rookie Jose Herrera, a catcher.

After designated hitter Cooper Hummel — another rookie — reached on a walk, Colorado starter German Marquez (0-3) tried to pick Hummel off at first base but committed a throwing error.

Thomas ran home to put Arizona ahead 4-0.

Colorado had its lone scoring threat against Gallen in the first inning after Yonathan Daza singled and Charlie Blackmon doubled with one out. They were left stranded after Gallen struck out C.J. Cron and got Ryan McMahon to ground out.

After Arizona was retired in order in the first inning, the Diamondbacks rallied for three runs in the second after Ketel Marte doubled off Marquez.

Geraldo Perdomo then walked, and Nick Ahmed followed with a single that scored Marte and moved Perdomo to second.

With two outs, Herrera recorded his first career RBIs with a double that brought home Perdomo and Ahmed to put Arizona ahead 3-0.

Marte went 3 for 4 with a run to improve his batting average to .206.

–Field Level Media

Mike Yastrzemski broke a sixth-inning tie with a solo home run, John Brebbia pitched out of a jam in the eighth, and the San Francisco Giants outlasted the visiting St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 Sunday for a second straight win and a split of their four-game series.

LaMonte Wade Jr. also homered for the Giants, who got five sharp innings from right-hander Jakob Junis in his first start for the team after he played the previous five seasons for the Kansas City Royals.

Juan Yepez hit his first big-league home run for the Cardinals, who completed a 3-3 trip and will get a rematch with the Giants at home next weekend.

Yastrzemski’s homer, his second of the season, came after the Cardinals had tied the score at 3 in the top of the sixth on a Harrison Bader infield out. Dylan Carlson’s ground-rule double set up the score.

Genesis Cabrera (1-1) got the first two Giants out in the sixth before Yastrzemski hit his blast to right field to account for the game’s final run.

The Cardinals threatened in the eighth when Carlson singled with two outs and Bader walked. But Brebbia, a former Cardinal, struck out Andrew Knizner with the potential tying run at second base to retain the one-run advantage.

Giants closer Camilo Doval then struck out Nolan Arenado with Paul Goldschmidt on second to end the ninth and register his fifth save.

Dominic Leone (2-0), who allowed the Cardinals’ game-tying run in the sixth in his only inning, was credited with the win.

A majority of the game’s scoring came in the second, when the Cardinals went up 2-0 on Yepez’s homer, only to see the Giants bounce back with three runs in their half of the inning.

Yepez, promoted for the first time earlier in the week, hit his homer in his 17th career at-bat. It came off Junis, who worked five innings, allowing just the two runs and three hits. He walked two and struck out five.

The Giants drew even at 2 almost immediately, when Wade hit his first homer of the season after Darin Ruf had walked to lead off the bottom of the second against Cardinals starter Daniel Hudson.

Singles by Mauricio Dubon and Curt Casali set up a Yastrzemski sacrifice fly one out later to give the Giants their first lead.

Hudson went 4 2/3 innings, charged with three runs on five hits. He walked four and did not record a strikeout.

Yastrzemski and Wade had two RBIs apiece, and Ruf collected two singles for the Giants, who outhit the visitors 7-6.

Yepez finished with two hits, two RBIs and two runs scored for the Cardinals. Carlson and Goldschmidt also had two hits apiece.

–Field Level Media

Pete Alonso hit two home runs with a single and drove in five runs as the New York Mets salvaged a doubleheader split with a 6-1 victory over the host Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.

The Phillies captured the doubleheader opener 3-2.

Tomas Nido added two hits for the Mets, while starter Chris Bassitt (4-2) gave up five hits and one run in 5 2/3 innings with one walk and four strikeouts.

Jean Segura hit a home run with a single and a walk for the Phillies. Philadelphia managed only six hits, four of them singles.

Phillies starter Christopher Sanchez tossed only 2 1/3 innings and allowed two hits and two runs with two strikeouts and one walk. Sanchez (0-1) was an emergency starter after Zach Eflin was placed on the COVID-19 injured list.

Alonso launched a two-run home run to left field for a 2-0 Mets lead in the first inning. The Phillies closed within 2-1 in second inning when Segura lined a solo homer to right, the 100th of his career.

The Mets placed runners at first and second with one out in the fifth before Francisco Lindor popped out to second. Alonso then responded with a mammoth 426-foot three-run homer off Nick Nelson to left for a 5-1 lead.

New York went ahead 6-1 in the sixth when J.D. Davis scored from third on a wild pitch by Andrew Bellatti.

Philadelphia’s Rhys Hoskins doubled with two outs in the sixth and Segura walked. Bassitt was replaced with Chasen Shreve who struck out Bryson Stott to end the threat.

The Mets loaded the bases without a hit in the seventh yet failed to score.

In the ninth, Hoskins lined out to shortstop and Segura followed with a single. Stott grounded into a fielder’s choice and reached second on defensive indifference. Garrett Stubbs struck out looking to end the game.

–Field Level Media