Red Sox down Yankees

BOSTON — Hanley Ramirez and Jackie Bradley Jr. homered, Clay Buchholz tossed six innings of two-run ball and the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 7-4 at Fenway Park Friday. Ramirez’s homer was his 26th of the season and Bradley blasted his 25th, giving the Red Sox four players with 25 or more long balls in 2016 (also David Ortiz and Mookie Betts). Ramirez drove in two runs total while Ortiz, Travis Shaw and Sandy Leon each had an RBI for the Red Sox. Buchholz allowed seven hits and two walks while striking out a pair and Craig Kimbrel converted a two-out save for his 26th of the year. Mets 3, Twins 0: Ageless right-hander Bartolo Colon picked up a win by throwing seven scoreless innings and Jose Reyes and Asdrubal Cabrera provided all the offense he needed with back-to-back homers in the third inning of New York’s victory over Minnesota. The Twins have lost eight of 12 and need to go 8-6 the rest of the way to avoid the franchise’s first 100-loss season since 1982. Orioles 5, Rays 4: Michael Bourn hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth inning that capped a late rally from an early four-run deficit and gave Baltimore a victory over Tampa Bay. The Rays used a pair of two-run homers for a 4-0 lead in the second inning but the Orioles bounced back thanks to homers from Pedro Alvarez and Chris Davis. Cubs 5, Brewers 4 (10 innings): Miguel Montero launched a walk-off solo home run in the 10th inning as Chicago rallied for a victory over Milwaukee. Montero’s blast to left came off Brewers reliever Blaine Boyer for his third career walk-off home run and gave the National League Central champions their seventh walk-off win of the season. Indians 11, Tigers 4: Mike Napoli had a single, double, home run and four RBIs and Corey Kluber won his 17th game as Cleveland beat Detroit. In the first game of a three-game series between the top two teams in the American League’s Central Division, the Indians improved their season record vs. Detroit to 12-1, outscoring the Tigers 90-40. The first place Indians also extended their division lead over the second place Tigers to seven games. Rangers 7, Athletics 6: Jonathan Lucroy’s two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth lifted Texas over Oakland. The win dropped the magic number for the Rangers to clinch the American League West title to seven games. White Sox 7, Royals 4: Chris Sale picked up his 16th victory with a complete game and Carlos Sanchez homered for the first time in nearly a year as Chicago beat reeling Kansas City. Sanchez hit a three-run homer — his first in 141 at-bats since Sept. 21, 2015 — in a four-run eighth inning to rally Chicago. Nationals 7, Braves 2: Washington’s Max Scherzer beat Atlanta for the fourth time this season, and rookie Trea Turner had four hits, including a two-run homer. Scherzer allowed seven hits and two runs over seven innings, keeping his ERA at 2.78. The right-hander struck out eight and walked two, leaving after 104 pitches. His 259 strikeouts lead the majors. Pirates 9, Reds 7 (10 innings): Jordy Mercer singled with the bases loaded to drive home the go-ahead run in the 10th inning, and Jung Ho Kang hit a game-tying two-run homer in the seventh, lifting Pittsburgh to a victory over Cincinnati. Gregory Polanco also homered for Pittsburgh, which has won three of four after losing 12 of 14 to drop out of serious postseason contention. Phillies 4, Marlins 3 (13 innings): In Philadelphia’s longest game this season, pinch-hitter Jimmy Paredes played hero in the 13th inning with an RBI single to deliver a win over Miami. Miami’s Derek Dietrich played spoiler for the home crowd, tying the score at 3 in the top of the eighth with his first career pinch-homer, a shot to right field off Phillies reliever Edubray Ramos. That undid the sixth-inning momentum of the Phillies, who had gotten some much-needed juice from slugging first baseman Ryan Howard’s 22nd home run. Other results: Blue Jays 5, Angels 0; Giants 8, Cardinals 2; Astros 6, Mariners 0; Dodgers 3, Diamondbacks 2; Rockies 8, Padres 7. — Agencies