The Yankees opened their series with the Brewers on a low-note, getting shutout by Jacob Misiorowski for six innings while Max Fried dropped his worst start of the season on the other side. Unfortunately, Spencer Jones’ MLB debut was overshadowed by the team at large struggling on Friday, collecting just three hits on the night. New York’s misfortune is the rest of the league’s opportunity though, so let’s see how the field fared.
Boston Red Sox (17-22) 2, Tampa Bay Rays (25-13) 0
The Rays were set up to capitalize and claim first place in the division
back, but the Red Sox had other ideas. Connelly Early tossed seven innings without allowing a run, striking out eight batters and walking one with just four hits on the day. The Rays did get one chance in the third inning to strike, loading the bases with no outs on a pair of singles and a walk. Early got Ryan Vilade to strike out for the first out, and induced a 5-4-3 double play out of Junior Caminero to escape the jam.
Wilyer Abreu made the missed opportunity sting even more in the bottom half, hitting a solo home run to right field to put Boston on the board. Ceddanne Rafaela followed suit in the fourth, hitting one out to left to make it 2-0. No other Boston batter made it past second base, but they hardly needed to with Early dealing. Garrett Whitlock and Aroldis Chapman combined to make the eighth and ninth innings seamless, securing the win.
Toronto Blue Jays (17-21) 2, Los Angeles Angels (15-24) 0
The Jays got an ace performance of their own on Friday, riding Dylan Cease to seven scoreless as well. Cease one-upped Early, striking out 10 with no walks, though he did allow one more hit. The same couldn’t be said for Reid Detmers, who lasted only 3.2 innings for the Angels and coughed up the lead in the third. A leadoff single and a one-out walk came to bite him as Kazuma Okamoto singled home one run, and then Ernie Clement lifted a sacrifice fly to bring home the second run. The Angels bullpen did yeoman’s work covering 4.1 innings without incident, with just one hit allowed over that span, but there was no hope of cracking the Jays’ pitching staff this time around.
Other Games
Cleveland Guardians (21-19) 6, Minnesota Twins (16-23) 4: The Guardians put up a four-spot in the first inning to take a commanding lead, benefitting off of an error to score their first run before a sacrifice fly brought in a second and Travis Bazzana hit his first MLB homer to double the lead to 4-0. The game stayed quiet after that for a while until the Twins started a rally, getting on the board in the sixth with a Ryan Jeffers RBI single before scoring two in the seventh on a Byron Buxton two-run homer. Cleveland got some breathing room with runs in the seventh and eighth. The Twins got back-to-back hits to start the ninth, but a double-play cut the rally short despite scoring a run, Josh Bell striking out to end it right after.
Kansas City Royals (18-21) 4, Detroit Tigers (18-21) 3: The Tigers and Royals traded a run each in the second inning, but Detroit jumped ahead with a two-run sixth inning. A leadoff walk was nearly wasted after the next two Tigers made outs, but Wenceel Pérez doubled to center to drive them in and Spencer Torkelson doubled him in right after. Kansas City tied things up in the eighth thanks to a pair of RBI singles from Kyle Isbel and Maikel Garcia, and Isbel walked it off in the ninth with a single to left.
Seattle Mariners (19-20) 12, Chicago White Sox (17-21) 8: A back-and-forth affair saw the Mariners break away late. Munataka Murakami tied Aaron Judge with his 15th home run of the season to start the scoring, but a bases-loaded hit by pitch tied the game in the second inning. Luke Raley put Seattle up with a grand slam in the third, only for Chicago to tie it back up in the bottom of the third with a bases-clearing double from Colson Montgomery doing the heavy lifting.
Julio Rodríguez got the Mariners back on top with a solo shot in the fifth, but it was the seventh inning where they started to pull away as Raley launched another homer, this time a three-run shot. The eighth saw Josh Naylor get in on the action with a three-run blast of his own, making it 12-5, but Chicago got two back in the bottom half on a single from Jarred Kelenic and an RBI double from Tristan Peters before former Yankee Randal Grichuk led off the ninth with a homer. The rest of the White Sox went down in order to end the threat, but it was topsy-turvy from the get-go.
Chicago Cubs (27-12) 7, Texas Rangers (17-21) 1: Ben Brown has been in the bullpen all of 2026 up until he started on Friday, but he made a case to get more starts in the future as he pitched four no-hit innings. Kumar Rocker’s night began with a delay as he had to go change his undershirt thanks to the white sleeves he was showing, and the Cubs made him pay for the delay striking for a run in the first inning before adding two more in the fourth on a Seiya Suzuki homer. The Rangers got their lone run in the fifth on a Justin Foscue single, but the Cubs kept going adding an RBI ground-rule double from Pete Crow-Armstrong in the sixth before Michael Busch lined a bases-clearing double that made it a laugher.
