Andy Pages hit two homers and drove in four runs, Emmet Sheehan tied his career high with 10 strikeouts and the Los Angeles Dodgers earned a 7-0 victory over the visiting Cincinnati Reds on Monday in the opener of a three-game series.

Sheehan (5-2) did not allow a run over a career-best seven innings. He permitted two hits and one walk. Jack Dreyer and Anthony Banda each threw an inning to complete a three-hit shutout.

Mookie Betts added a home run for the Dodgers, who returned from a 3-4 road trip to Colorado and San Diego and used the victory to move back into sole possession of first place in the National League West.

Hunter Greene (5-4) gave up five runs (three earned) over five-plus innings for the Reds, who are 3-4 on a nine-game three-city road trip that ends Wednesday. The Los Angeles native issued two walks and struck out three.

The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead in the third inning when Pages hit a home run off Greene into the home bullpen in left field.

Pages followed a Michael Conforto double in the fifth inning with his second home run of the game and 23rd of the season, also to left.

Los Angeles padded its lead in the sixth. With the bases loaded and two outs, Pages hit what appeared to be an inning-ending grounder to shortstop. However, the ball went between the legs of the Reds’ Elly De La Cruz to score two runs for a 5-0 lead.

Sheehan’s 10th strikeout came against Spencer Steer for the second out of the seventh inning. Betts then made a diving stop in the hole at shortstop, and his throw to first completed seven innings for the right-hander.

Betts celebrated with a solo home run in the bottom of the seventh, his 14th of the season and third in 16 games. Pages drove in another run in the eighth on a sacrifice fly.

The Reds’ Gavin Lux, who helped the Dodgers win the World Series last year and played five seasons in Los Angeles, received his championship ring in a pregame ceremony. Lux doubled for one of Cincinnati’s three hits.

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A day after standing alone in the record books, the Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh took his place alongside one of the all-time greats on Monday night.

With one out and the bases empty in the first inning, Raleigh hit a solo home run off San Diego Padres starter JP Sears, his 50th long ball of the season.

Raleigh became the second switch hitter in major league history to hit 50 home runs in a season, joining New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle. The blast also extends Raliegh’s record for home runs in a season by a player whose primary position is catcher — a mark the Mariners slugger broke on Sunday when he passed Kansas City Royals star Salvador Perez’s record of 48 set in 2021.

Raleigh, serving as a designated hitter in the Monday game at Seattle, finished 1-for-4 in the Mariners’ 9-6 win.

According to ESPN, Raleigh, 28, is also the first player in history to hit at least 20 home runs from each side of the plate.

Raleigh now leads Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies and the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani — the next-closest players on the homer leaderboard — by five home runs.

–Field Level Media

Zach Neto led off the game with a homer and Jose Soriano combined with four relievers on a shutout as the Los Angeles Angels blanked the Texas Rangers 4-0 on Monday in the opener of a three-game series at Arlington, Texas.

The Angels snapped a three-game losing streak and won for just the second time in their past seven contests. Texas, meanwhile, had a three-game winning streak snapped.

Soriano (9-9) pitched for his first time in eight days, having returned to the team from extended paternity leave. He outdueled Rangers ace Jacob deGrom by hurling 5 2/3 innings and allowing four hits and a walk while striking out six.

Los Angeles’ Logan O’Hoppe also homered, and Travis d’Arnaud had a pair of run-scoring hits.

deGrom (10-6), coming off a season-high nine days of rest, lasted five frames, surrendering two runs on three hits and two walks. He fanned seven. He is winless in five starts since July 28 and dropped his fourth straight decision.

The Angels got on the board immediately as Neto took deGrom’s first pitch of the game just over the left-center-field fence.

Los Angeles added to its lead in the fourth when Taylor Ward walked with one out, went to second on a two-out single by Luis Rengifo and scored on a single by d’Arnaud.

d’Arnaud drove in the Angels’ third run with a double in the sixth, again plating Ward — this time from first base after Ward drew a walk from Texas reliever Luis Curvelo.

The Rangers threatened in the bottom of the sixth as a walk to Josh Smith and a single by Wyatt Langford with two outs chased Soriano. Los Angeles reliever Reid Detmers entered and struck out Corey Seager to stunt the rally.

O’Hoppe added a round-tripper in the ninth off Jacob Webb.

Kenley Jensen, the fifth Los Angels pitcher, finished off the game with a perfect bottom of the ninth.

The Rangers announced before Monday’s game that second baseman Marcus Semien would miss the rest of the regular season with a broken bone in his left foot.

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Alec Burleson hit a walk-off solo homer with two outs in the ninth to lift the St. Louis Cardinals past the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6 Monday night.

Burleson was 4-for-5 with two runs scored for the Cardinals. Willson Contreras drove in two runs before home plate umpire Derek Thomas ejected him in the seventh inning for protesting a called third strike.

After teammates pulled an enraged Contreras off the field, Thomas also ejected Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol. Along the way a bucket of chewing gum was tossed onto the field from the Cardinals dugout.

St. Louis starter Michael McGreevy allowed four runs on six hits in six innings while striking out seven and walking two. Reliever Riley O’Brien (2-0) earned the victory after blowing the save in the top of the ninth.

Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer and Spencer Horwitz had a homer and two RBIs for the Pirates, whose four-game winning streak ended.

Pittsburgh starter Johan Oviedo held the Cardinals to one run on three hits in four innings. He struck out five and walked one.

Reliever Dennis Santana (4-5) took the loss by allowing Burleson’s 409-foot blast.

The Pirates moved ahead 1-0 in the first on Ronny Simon’s single, Reynolds’ ground-rule double, and Horwitz’s RBI groundout.

The Cardinals tied the game 1-1 in the bottom of the inning as Nolan Gorman walked, Thomas Saggese and Jordan Walker followed with singles and Nathan Church hit a sacrifice fly.

Pittsburgh took a 4-1 lead in the third on a single by Nick Gonzales, Reynolds’ two-run homer and Horwitz’s solo blast.

The Cardinals rallied for five with two outs in the fifth to seize a 6-4 lead. Church hit a single and eventually scored on Masyn Winn’s single. After Burleson hit a ground-rule double, Contreras’ two-run single, Gorman’s RBI double and Saggese’s run-scoring single pushed St. Louis ahead.

Pittsburgh cut its deficit to 6-5 in the seventh on a walk to Jack Suwinski, Joey Bart’s single, and Gonzales’ sacrifice fly.

The Pirates tied the game 6-6 in the ninth. After Liover Peguero was hit by a pitch, he stole second base and scored on Simon’s double.

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Andruw Monasterio and Caleb Durbin homered as the Milwaukee Brewers held off the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks 7-5 on Monday night in the opener of a three-game series.

Monasterio’s third homer, a one-out solo shot in the fourth, put the Brewers up 6-0. Arizona rallied within 6-5, but Durbin opened the eighth inning with his ninth home run, sending a 1-2 pitch from reliever Bryce Jarvis 378 feet to left to make it 7-5.

Brandon Woodruff (5-1) allowed five runs, all in the sixth inning, and five hits over 5 2/3 innings while striking out eight and walking one.

Aaron Ashby followed with 1 2/3 scoreless innings, striking out five, and Nick Mears retired the only two batters he faced. Abner Uribe finished with a perfect ninth for his third save.

Milwaukee increased its lead in the NL Central to 4 1/2 games over the Chicago Cubs, who were idle. The Brewers are 4-6 since amassing their franchise-record 14-game winning streak.

The Diamondbacks trailed 6-0 early, but rallied in the sixth against Woodruff, who allowed only one hit through the first five innings.

Alek Thomas singled to open the inning and Geraldo Perdomo was hit by a pitch. Ketel Marte and Corbin Carroll followed with RBI singles to make it 6-2. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. then jumped on the first pitch for a three-run homer, his 19th, to cut the lead to 6-5.

The Brewers scored five runs in the third, opening the inning with six consecutive hits. Isaac Collins doubled and moved to third when Blake Perkins singled to snap an 0-for-16 skid. Monasterio and Brice Turang followed with RBI singles to put Milwaukee up 2-0.

Christian Yelich’s two-run bases-loaded single extended the lead to 4-0. Sal Frelick’s RBI groundout made it 5-0 and chased starter Eduardo Rodriguez (5-8), who surrendered six hits and five runs in 2 1/3 innings with one strikeout and one walk.

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Mark Vientos continued his recent resurgence by hitting a tiebreaking RBI double with one out in the fifth inning as the host New York Mets inched closer to first place in the National League East with a 13-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night.

Vientos helped the Mets win for the sixth time in nine games following a 1-10 skid from Aug. 3-15. The Mets moved back within six of the division-leading Phillies thanks to in part Vientos, who is 12-for-31 (.387) in his past eight games.

Vientos keyed a three-run rally in the fourth with a double off Philadelphia’s Cristopher Sanchez (11-5) that scored Pete Alonso to help erase a three-run deficit. He reached base three times and was lifted in the seventh after getting hit by a pitch in the back by Jordan Romano.

An inning later, with the game tied at 3-3 and New York sporting runners at first and second following walks by Starling Marte and Juan Soto, Vientos snapped the tie by lacing a 2-1 changeup down the right field line to score Soto.

Luis Torrens helped the Mets surge further ahead in the seventh with a three-run homer off Romano that gave them a 10-3 lead. Torrens also had an RBI double in the sixth that knocked out Sanchez and a run-scoring single in the eighth as part of his second career five-RBI showing.

He also drove in five on Aug. 14, 2021, for the Seattle Mariners.

Jeff McNeil drove in three runs with a pair of RBI singles and a sacrifice fly as the Mets collected 14 hits and were 11-for-19 with runners in scoring position.

Tyrone Taylor added three hits in the win.

Trea Turner opened the game with a triple and scored on a grounder by Kyle Schwarber. Alec Bohm also had a two-run single in the third but grounded into a double play in the fifth against Jose Castillo, who had just come on for starter Kodai Senga with one on and none out.

After the double-play grounder, Bohm complained to umpires about the glare from a parabolic television microphone in center field and the device was removed after a brief delay. Castillo (1-2) then retired Brandon Marsh after the delay before the Mets went ahead.

After Senga allowed three runs on six hits in four-plus innings, five relievers combined to hurl five scoreless innings.

Sanchez allowed a season-worst six runs (five earned) and tied a season high by permitting eight hits in 5 1/3 innings. The left-hander struck out four and walked three in his shortest outing since May 24.

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Shane Smith and Tyler Gilbert combined on a two-hit shutout and Korey Lee and Brooks Baldwin smacked back-to-back home runs as the host Chicago White Sox blanked the Kansas City Royals 7-0 on Monday.

Chicago collected seven extra-base hits while securing its third winning streak of at least three games since the All-Star break.

An early barrage boosted the White Sox to just their third win against the Royals in 11 tries. Edgar Quero, Lenyn Sosa and Curtis Mead delivered RBI doubles in a four-hitter span to stake Chicago to a 3-0 lead in the first inning.

Smith (4-7) seized the support to win for the first time since June 10. The rookie right-hander pitched a career-best seven innings in his 24th start, allowing one hit with one walk and three strikeouts.

Smith retired the first eight Royals he faced before Kyle Isbel reached on a fielding error. Mike Yastrzemski followed with a ground-rule double, but Smith escaped trouble by getting Bobby Witt Jr. to ground out to third to end the third.

Gilbert set down six of seven over the last two innings. Witt Jr.’s two-out double in the ninth was Kansas City’s only other hit.

Royals starter Noah Cameron (7-6) matched a career worst by allowing six earned runs and set a career high by yielding eight hits. The rookie lefty did not record a walk or strikeout.

Lee blasted a two-run home run with two outs in the fourth to extend Chicago’s lead to 5-0. Baldwin followed with a solo shot as the White Sox’s 8-9 hitters victimized Cameron. Recalled Friday from Triple-A Charlotte, Lee went 2-for-3 with a walk. Sosa had two hits and two RBIs, Mead also had two hits and Miguel Vargas doubled twice.

Kansas City left fielder Michael Massey went 0-for-2 in his return to the lineup. Massey missed 65 games with various injuries, including those to his left ankle, right wrist, and back. He hadn’t played since a June 7 road game against the White Sox.

Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino’s team record-tying streak of seven games with an extra-base hit ended as he went 0-for-4.

–Field Level Media