Baseball-Highlights of Friday's MLB games

April 28 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Friday's Major League Baseball games: Yankees 14, Orioles 11 (10 innings) Matt Holliday hit a three-run homer with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning as the New York Yankees completed a stunning comeback from an eight-run deficit and pulled out a wild 14-11 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night. After Aaron Hicks and Kyle Higashioka drew walks against Jayson Aquino (1-1), Chase Headley struck out. On the next pitch, Holliday drove a breaking ball over the center-field wall to give the Yankees their 13th win in the last 16 games. Mets 7, Nationals 5 Travis d'Arnaud hit two homers and drove in a career-high five runs and Jacob deGrom fanned 12 batters in seven innings as New York beat Washington. The Mets snapped a six-game losing streak and cooled off the first-place Nationals, who had won 10 of their previous 11 games. The win spoiled a two-homer night for Washington's Ryan Zimmerman, who had three RBIs. A right-hander from Florida, deGrom (1-1) allowed three runs and six hits while fanning at least 10 batters for the 13th time in his career. He struck out 10 Washington batters on April 22. Red Sox 5, Cubs 4 Slumbering Boston erupted for five runs off Jake Arrieta in the first inning and held on for an interleague victory over the Chicago Cubs. On a night that featured the return to Boston of Chicago general manager Theo Epstein and former Red Sox pitchers Jon Lester, John Lackey and Koji Uehara, rookie Andrew Benintendi homered to start the five-run assault against Arrieta. The right-hander lasted 4 1/3 innings and saw his 10-game April winning streak snapped. White Sox 7, Tigers 3 Geovany Soto smacked a go-ahead, two-run single in the eighth inning and Chicago, aided by Detroit third baseman Nick Castellanos' three errors, won its fifth straight. Soto's two-out hit made a winner of Anthony Swarzak, who tossed two innings of scoreless relief. Todd Frazier, Avisail Garcia and Tim Anderson homered for the White Sox. Garcia, the American League's leading hitter, had three hits, two runs and two RBIs. Mariners 3, Indians 1 Robinson Cano and Ben Gamel each homered and Ariel Miranda gave up one run and two hits in 5 1/3 innings as Seattle beat Cleveland. Miranda struck out seven and walked two in his first career appearance against Cleveland. The only run he gave up came on a home run by Jose Ramirez in the fourth inning. Indians starter Carlos Carrasco pitched eight innings, allowing three runs and six hits with seven strikeouts. The three runs he gave up came on the two Seattle home runs. Pirates 12, Marlins 2 Pittsburgh produced an eight-run second inning to rout Miami at Marlins Park. Francisco Cervelli provided the biggest blow of the inning with a three-run, line-drive triple that went under the glove of sliding left fielder Marcell Ozuna. It was just the 11th triple of Cervelli's 10-year big-league career. Rays 7, Blue Jays 4 Tampa Bay hit three home runs in a four-run eighth inning, capped by a two-run blast by Logan Morrison to defeat Toronto. Corey Dickerson and Evan Longoria also homered for Tampa Bay in the eighth and Derek Norris added a homer in the ninth. Jason Grilli (1-3) replaced Blue Jays starter Stroman with one out in the eighth and gave up Longoria's fourth homer to tie the game at 3. After Brad Miller walked, Dominic Leone replaced Grilli with two out and gave up Morrison's fifth homer. Astros 9, Athletics 4 Houston right-hander Charlie Morton delivered a career-best strikeout performance and rode the support of multi-hit games from Yuli Gurriel and Evan Gattis to a victory over Oakland at Minute Maid Park. Morton (2-2) worked a season-high seven innings and recorded a career-high 12 strikeouts. He allowed five hits and four runs, all coming via two home runs from Athletics left fielder Khris Davis, who posted his 13th career multi-homer game. Gurriel and Gattis both finished 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Gurriel, who clubbed his second homer in the seventh inning, also scored twice and finished a triple shy of the cycle. Houston finished 7-for-14 with runners in scoring position. Jharel Cotton (2-3) allowed six runs (three earned) on 10 hits and one walk over 4 1/3 innings. Twins 6, Royals 4 Miguel Sano homered, doubled and drove in four runs as Minnesota rallied to beat Kansas City. The Royals have lost eight straight games. The last time they had a longer losing streak was April 2012 when they lost 12 in a row. Sano's two-run double off Joakim Soria (0-1) tied it in the ninth. Joe Mauer followed with a two-run double to put the Twins up. The inning included an Eddie Rosario single, extending his hitting streak to 11 games. Braves 10, Brewers 8 Freddie Freeman hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning in Atlanta's victory over Milwaukee at Miller Park. Ryan Braun, Orlando Arcia and Domingo Santana all homered for Milwaukee, but the Brewers blew a pair of four-run leads. Chase Anderson gave up a season-high four runs on four hits and three walks with two strikeouts over seven innings for the Brewers, who had won three straight. Cardinals 7, Reds 5 For the first time since Opening Night, St. Louis owns a winning record. Six different players knocked in runs and Lance Lynn worked six solid innings to win his third straight start the Cardinals held off Cincinnati at Busch Stadium. Lynn (3-1) allowed six hits and a run, walking two and striking out five in his 101-pitch effort. His last pitch walked Devin Mesoraco to fill the bases, but Yadier Molina bailed Lynn out of the jam with a pickoff of Eugenio Suarez at third as Suarez apparently thought time was called and was a step off the bag when tagged by Jedd Gyorko. Angels 6, Rangers 3 Albert Pujols knocked in the winning runs in Los Angeles victory over Texas at Globe Life Park with a no-doubt three-run homer off reliever Jeremy Jeffress in the eighth inning. It was Pujols' third homer of the season and the three RBIs vaulted him past Rafael Palmeiro and Ken Griffey Jr. into 15th on the major league career RBI list. Rockies 3, Diamondbacks 1 Kyle Freeland shut down Arizona's potent attack as Colorado edged the Diamondbacks. Freeland gave up just one run and six hits in six innings. He walked two and struck out two. By winning, the Rockies (15-9) moved back into first place in the NL West, a half-game ahead of the D-backs (15-10). Giants 4, Padres 3 Rookie shortstop Christian Arroyo hit reliever Ryan Buchter's second pitch for a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning Friday night, lifting San Francisco to a 4-3 victory over San Diego in the opener of a three-game series. Right-hander Jeff Samardzija and two relievers combined on a five-hitter, delivering the Giants their third one-run win in five games on their current homestand. Dodgers 5, Phillies 3 Justin Turner drove in two runs and Los Angeles ended Philadelphia's six-game winning streak at Dodger Stadium. Turner's two-run double in the sixth helped the Dodgers (12-12) defeat the Phillies for the 10th time in their past 14 meetings. Turner extended his hitting streak to a career-high 14 games with a first-inning single. It is the longest active streak in the major leagues. (Compiled by Amlan Chakraborty)