Chase Meidroth and Andrew Benintendi hit run-scoring singles in the ninth inning as the Chicago White Sox rallied for a 2-1 victory against the host Seattle Mariners on Tuesday.

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Four pitchers combined on a one-hitter as the White Sox evened the series at one win apiece. Reliever Bryan Hudson (2-1) got the victory, and Grant Taylor struck out pinch hitters J.P. Crawford, Luke Raley and Dominic Canzone for his first save of the season.

Seattle’s Luis Castillo (1-5), making his first regular-season relief appearance after 252 career starts, took the loss.

Castillo, serving in a “piggyback” role with starter Bryce Miller, struck out the side in the seventh and got out of a jam in the eighth.

Instead of bringing in closer Andres Munoz, the Mariners sent Castillo back to the mound in the ninth. He walked Munetaka Murakami and hit Miguel Vargas with a pitch. Castillo struck out Colson Montgomery before Munoz entered.

A double steal put runners at second and third, and Meidroth hit a chopper past drawn-in first baseman Josh Naylor to tie the score. Benintendi followed with an infield single off Naylor’s glove, allowing the go-ahead run to score.

The Mariners tallied their lone run in the bottom of the first. With one out, Julio Rodriguez lined a single to center, Randy Arozarena was hit by a pitch and Naylor walked to load the bases. Patrick Wisdom grounded into a forceout to shortstop Montgomery, with Rodriguez scoring on the play as Wisdom beat the throw to first in the White Sox’s attempt for an inning-ending double play.

Miller didn’t allow a hit until Tristan Peters doubled leading off the sixth inning. Miller went 5 2/3 scoreless innings, gave up just the one hit, walked one and struck out seven.

White Sox starter Anthony Kay nearly matched Miller, giving up one run on one hit over 5 1/3 innings. The left-hander walked three and fanned five.

Mariners rookie Colt Emerson got his first start as a shortstop because Crawford, hit in the right triceps by a pitch on Sunday, was rested until coming off the bench in the ninth. Emerson, who started his prior two games at third base, went 0-for-2 and was struck by a pitch.

Nick Kurtz drives
in 5 as Athletics blow out Angels

Nick Kurtz had three hits and drove in five runs for the Athletics in a 14-6 win against the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night in Anaheim, Calif.

Zack Gelof also had three hits, including a home run, and three RBIs as the visitors leveled the four-game series at one victory apiece. Brent Rooker homered and knocked in three runs for the A’s, who ended a three-game skid.

A’s left-hander Jacob Lopez was staked to a 6-0 lead but couldn’t get last long enough for the win. He was finished after 3 2/3 innings, having allowed four runs and seven hits while striking out two and walking three.

Justin Sterner (2-3) retired the only batter he faced to close the fourth.

Angels starter Reid Detmers (1-5) allowed a career-high eight runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. The left-hander struck out eight and walked two.

Mike Trout homered for the Angels, who had scored two runs or fewer in each of the previous seven games, losing six of those. Trout, Vaughn Grissom and Josh Lowe drove in two runs apiece.

Detmers struck out five of the first six A’s batters but gave up six runs with two outs in the third.

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Kurtz had an RBI single up the middle for a 1-0 lead. Colby Thomas then dropped a two-run double into right-center field. Rooker followed with an RBI single, and Gelof finished off the scoring with a two-run bloop single to center to make it 6-0.

Trout led off the third with a home run to center to cut it to 6-1. He then walked with the bases loaded and two outs in the fourth to force in a run. Grissom followed with a two-strike single to left to score two runs and slice the deficit to 6-4, ending the night for Lopez.

The A’s struck again with two outs in the sixth.

Jose Fermin replaced Detmers with runners on first and second and walked the first batter he faced, bringing up Kurtz, who singled up the middle to score two runs and make it 8-4.

Gelof blasted a solo homer into the right field seats in the seventh to make it 9-4. Kurtz smashed a two-run double in the eighth, and Rooker followed with a two-run blast to left-center for a 13-4 lead.

Lowe answered with a two-run double in the bottom of the eighth.

Gelof singled in the ninth and scored on a base hit by Darell Hernaiz.

Dodgers sneak
past Padres in 9th, move atop NL West

Andy Pages’ sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning Tuesday night lifted the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-4 win over the San Diego Padres.

Max Muncy started the winning rally by drawing a one-out walk from Mason Miller (1-1). Pinch runner Alex Call moved up to third when Miller’s pickoff throw glanced off the glove of first baseman Ty France for a two-base error.

Pages then lofted a 2-2 fastball to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Call slid home safely on a close play, enabling Los Angeles to snap San Diego’s four-game winning streak and regain first place in the National League West by a half-game.

Dodgers reliever Tanner Scott (1-1) pitched 1 1/3 hitless innings. Will Klein handled the bottom of the ninth for his first career save.

Freddie Freeman homered twice as Los Angeles won for the sixth time in seven games.

After San Diego prevailed 1-0 on Monday in a series opener defined by power pitching, the stars came out in the first inning on Tuesday. After Shohei Ohtani led off with a double, Freeman cracked a one-out, two-run shot to left field that traveled an estimated 356 feet.

Manny Machado answered in the bottom of the inning, rifling Emmet Sheehan’s fastball an estimated 404 feet over the center field wall with Gavin Sheets aboard after a two-out walk. It was Machado’s seventh homer.

Miguel Andujar gave the Padres a 4-2 lead in the third when he belted a two-run homer into the left field seats after Tatis legged out an infield hit. It was Andujar’s fifth homer of the year and his second in as many nights.

Los Angeles chipped away at the lead in the fifth, drawing within a run when Teoscar Hernandez led off with a double and scored on infield outs by Hyeseong Kim and Ohtani. The Dodgers tied it when Freeman led off the sixth with his second homer of the night and sixth of the season.

That shot left both started with no-decisions. Sheehan allowed four runs on five hits and a walk in four innings, fanning two. San Diego’s Griffin Canning lasted five innings, yielding four hits and three runs while walking one and whiffing five.

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