Wilmer Flores hit a grand slam and drove in six runs as the San Francisco Giants snapped their five-game losing streak with a 13-7 victory Saturday over the visiting St. Louis Cardinals.

Mauricio Dubon and Darin Ruf hit two-run homers for the Giants, who had scored just five runs in their previous four games.

Giants starter Logan Webb (4-1) allowed four runs on eight hits in five innings. He struck out seven batters and walked two.

San Francisco first baseman Brandon Belt suffered an injury swinging his bat in the eighth inning and exited the game.

Cardinals starter Steven Matz (3-2) lasted just two innings while allowing eight runs on five hits (including three homers) and three walks. He struck out three.

Dylan Carlson hit a three-run homer and Paul DeJong drove in two runs with two hits to pace the Cardinals’ offense.

Yadier Molina extended his hitting streak to eight games and got his 1,000th career RBI. He became the eighth primary big league catcher with 2,000 hits and 1,000 RBIs.

The Cardinals took a 1-0 first-inning lead on Nolan Arenado’s RBI single. In the bottom of the inning Flores hit his grand slam to put the Giants up 4-1.

St. Louis cut the lead to 4-3 in the second inning on RBI singles by Molina and DeJong. But in the bottom of the inning Dubon and Ruf hit two-run homers to make it 8-3.

The Cardinals got one run back in the fourth inning on DeJong’s second RBI single.

Errors helped the Giants push their lead to 9-4 in the bottom of the inning. Ruf hit a potential double-play grounder to shortstop that DeJong muffed, then Molina dropped a foul pop-up that led to Flores’ sacrifice fly.

The Cardinals cut the lead to 9-7 in the seventh inning on Carlson’s three-run homer. But the Giants responded in the bottom of the inning with Thairo Estrada’s RBI double.

The Giants pushed their lead to 13-7 in the eighth inning with four walks, a hit batter and Estrada’s sacrifice fly.

–Field Level Media

Franmil Reyes continued his hot hitting with a home run to support a strong outing by winning pitcher Triston McKenzie in the Cleveland Guardians’ 8-2 victory over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of a doubleheader on Saturday.

The Blue Jays won the first game of the doubleheader, 8-3.

Cleveland has won six of its last eight games.

McKenzie (2-2) allowed hits to the each of the first three batters of the game and then settled in. He retired the final 11 hitters he faced.

The 6-5, 165-pound right-hander pitched six innings and allowed four hits, two runs and two walks. He struck out six batters.

He threw a season-high 102 pitches, 68 for strikes.

The Blue Jays had visions of a sweep when their first three batters reached safely. George Springer singled and came home on a double by Bo Bichette. Vladimir Guerrero then singled to center, moving Bichette to third.

Things could have been a lot worse if not for some good defense by the Guardians. Catcher Luke Maile picked off Guerrero at first base for the first out.

Second baseman Andres Gimenez ended the inning when he stabbed a one-hop liner from Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and threw him out at first from his knees.

The Guardians jumped on Toronto starter Ross Stripling (0-1) for three runs in the first. Amed Rosario singled and went to third on a double over the head of Teoscar Hernandez in right field by Jose Ramirez. Both runners scored on a double by Owen Miller and he came home on Gimenez’s two-out single.

Toronto got one back in the second when Matt Chapman led off with a walk, moved to second on a wild pitch, advanced to third on a groundout by Alejandro Kirk, then scored on an RBI double by Santiago Espinal — who was out at third trying to stretch it into a triple.

Cleveland extended its lead to 4-2 in the third when Reyes turned on a Striping fastball and drove it over the wall in left field. It was his third home run of the season and it traveled an estimated 391 feet.

After Toronto went to the bullpen, reliever David Phelps walked Rosario and Miller in the fifth. Reyes, working himself out of an early-season hitting slump, followed with a run-scoring single for a 5-2 advantage.

Oscar Mercado walked to lead off the sixth and came home on a double by Maile into the left-field corner, as the Guardians stretched their lead to 6-2. Maile was sacrificed to third and scored on Steven Kwan’s single up the middle.

A sacrifice fly by Mercado drove in Miller with the Guardians’ eighth run in the seventh inning.

Stripling pitched four innings and allowed five hits, four runs and one walk. He struck out three.

–Field Level Media

Jose Abreu and Luis Robert logged back-to-back RBI hits in the 10th inning as the Chicago White Sox came from behind for a 3-1 win over the host Boston Red Sox on Saturday.

Leury Garcia’s sacrifice fly erased the 1-0 lead that Boston held from the fifth inning on, and the White Sox went on to win their fifth consecutive game.

The Red Sox had a chance to walk off in the ninth after Jackie Bradley Jr. lined a one-out single to left and Christian Vazquez’s double into the left-center gap. Both, however, were stranded as Bobby Dalbec struck out looking and Trevor Story popped up.

Chicago wasted no time taking the lead in the 10th as Abreu ripped an RBI double to center and scored on Robert’s single.

Tim Anderson, Abreu, Robert and Garcia all had two hits each for Chicago. Reynaldo Lopez (4-0) won in relief and Liam Hendriks logged his ninth save.

Nick Pivetta turned in his best performance of the season for the Red Sox, striking out eight over six innings of five-hit, shutout ball.

Reliever Hansel Robles issued a costly leadoff walk to Jake Burger in the ninth. After Adam Engel doubled, Garcia hit a sacrifice fly that brought home Burger.

Matt Barnes (0-3) took the loss as Boston fell to 0-6 in extra innings.

Rafael Devers went 2-for-4 with the lone Boston RBI.

The Red Sox were held to two hits over the first four innings — both in the first — against Chicago starter Dylan Cease before doubling that total and scoring first in the fifth inning.

Devers delivered an opposite-field double off the Green Monster that scored Franchy Cordero, who hit a one-out single to left and moved ahead on Story’s walk.

Boston worked Cease’s pitch count to 101 pitches in five innings. The righty struck out eight and exited after allowing the single run on four hits and three walks.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora was ejected for arguing a called third strike on Story in the third inning. The second baseman was called out after watching a borderline pitch from Cease at the top of the strike zone.

–Field Level Media

The Minnesota Twins will try to complete a three-game sweep Sunday afternoon when they host the Oakland Athletics in Minneapolis.

Minnesota is coming off a 1-0 win over Oakland on Saturday, which followed a 2-1 victory in the Friday series opener. The Twins have won 13 of their past 16 games to take early control of the AL Central.

Jorge Polanco will try to stay hot at the plate for the Twins. He finished a triple shy of the cycle on Saturday, and his 451-foot home run to center field marked the difference in the game.

As Minnesota surges, Oakland is heading in the opposite direction. The Athletics have lost eight games in a row and are seeking their first win since April 27 against the San Francisco Giants.

Twins right-hander Chris Paddack (1-2, 3.15 ERA) is scheduled to make his fifth start of the season.

Paddack is looking for back-to-back victories after a strong performance Monday in which he allowed one run on four hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked one and struck out three.

In his first season with the Twins after being acquired from the San Diego Padres, Paddack credited his new pitching coach, Wes Johnson.

“The past few years I’ve been searching with a little doubt on the mound, not having that conviction and confidence every single pitch,” Paddack said. “Getting hit around a little bit, you can search up there on the mound.

“(Johnson) was like, ‘Look at what you did in ’19 before you had a curveball and a slider.’ He said, ‘You’re a better pitcher than you were in ’19.’ Our goal is to put it all together now.”

This will be Paddack’s third career start against Oakland. He is 1-1 with a 5.91 ERA, walking two and striking out 12 in 10 2/3 innings.

Athletics right-hander Daulton Jefferies (1-4, 4.81 ERA) is set to make his sixth start of the season and the eighth start of his career. The 26-year-old California native, making his first appearance against the Twins, already has set a career high with 24 1/3 innings pitched this season.

Jefferies earned a victory in his season debut April 10 against the Philadelphia Phillies but has been tagged with four losses in a row since then. In his most recent outing, he gave up six runs (all earned) on 11 hits in five innings against the Tampa Bay Rays when he walked none and struck out four.

“I actually felt pretty good,” Jefferies said. “I felt like I was attacking and staying competitive in the zone. But when I got ahead, I tried to make it even more nasty instead of just focusing on executing the pitch and being smooth. That’s what I need to work on.

“I’ve got to learn from the good performances and the bad ones. I try to take positives from every outing. I’m just trying to learn through every outing and make consistent starts for the ballclub.”

–Field Level Media

After the New York Mets poured in ninth-inning runs Thursday, the skies opened in Philadelphia, giving them 48 extra hours to celebrate one of their most improbable victories in franchise history.

Both Friday and Saturday games against the host Philadelphia Phillies were rained out, with one of the games rescheduled for Sunday as part of a single-admission doubleheader (starting at 12:35 p.m. ET). The other game will be made up Aug. 20 as part of a split-admission doubleheader.

The Mets won 8-7 in spectacular fashion on Thursday after scoring seven runs in the ninth inning. Over the past 25 seasons, they had trailed by at least six runs entering the ninth 330 times without a successful rally.

“I’m an optimist and I just keep going until they blow the whistle,” said Brandon Nimmo, who tied the game at 7 with a two-run single. “When it’s my turn, I give everything I got. It seems every guy on this team has the same mentality.”

Francisco Lindor said that the Mets simply refused to give up.

“I don’t think it was shock, I think it was just happiness,” Lindor said. “It’s like, ‘Yes, we’re doing it!’ We all believed it, but it’s just like, ‘It’s happening, it’s happening.’ You don’t have too many nights like that.”

The Mets are expected to send Max Scherzer and Chris Bassitt to the mound for Sunday’s two games.

Scherzer (4-0, 2.61 ERA) is 16-4 with a 2.60 ERA in 27 career starts against the Phillies. In Scherzer’s most recent outing against the Phillies last Sunday, he gave up five hits and four runs in six innings, yet he and the Mets still won the game, 10-6.

He’s won 15 consecutive decisions, and that marked the 18th consecutive time he has taken the ball for a regular-season game (with three different teams) and his team has won, dating back to July 8 last season when he was with the Nationals.

Bassitt (3-2, 2.61 ERA) has never faced the Phillies.

The Phillies will attempt to erase the memory of Thursday’s maddening loss, which extended their current losing streak to four games. Philadelphia lost on the road to the Mets last Sunday and were swept in a two-game series by the Texas Rangers.

“You gotta bounce back,” Phillies manager Joe Girardi said. “This is as tough as it gets. You’re going to have these during the course of the year. And you’ve got to find a way to turn it around.”

After rallying to reach .500, the four consecutive losses have dropped the Phillies to 11-15.

“There’s a lot of fight in that room,” Girardi said. “They’ll come out fighting.”

There’s no time to pout in a 162-game regular season … unless perhaps you get a couple of rainouts to let it stew a bit.

“It sucks,” Kyle Schwarber said after the loss. “But what are you going to do? It’s over with. Move on tomorrow. You want to win a game, right? You always want to win a game every single day. Like, when we got no-hit, it’s just a loss. Tonight’s a loss. You’ve got to move onto the next day.”

The Phillies are expected to send Kyle Gibson and Zach Eflin to the mound.

Gibson (2-1, 2.93 ERA) is 1-3 with a 4.15 ERA in six career starts against the Mets. Eflin (1-2, 4.50 ERA) holds a 3-5 record with a 5.03 ERA in 14 career starts against the Mets.

Nick Castellanos is likely to play in at least one of the games after being hit by Adonis Medina on the hand in the sixth inning Thursday.

“X-ray’s were clean,” Castellanos said. “I just wanted to see a clean X-ray. It’s the wrist I broke last year, so I’m not a stranger to getting hit in the hand area.”

Didi Gregorius, however, was placed on the 10-day Injured List with a sprained left knee; Bryson Stott was recalled.

–Field Level Media