Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s no-hit and shutout bids were broken up by Tristan Peters’ homer leading off the bottom of the ninth, but the Los Angeles Dodgers cruised past the host Chicago White Sox 7-1 on Saturday.

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Yamamoto (7-4) only allowed the home run, did not walk a batter and struck out seven in 8 1/3 innings. He retired the first 23 White Sox batters.

Last season, Yamamoto had a no-hitter with two outs in the ninth inning against the Baltimore Orioles on Sept. 6., before serving up a homer to Jackson Holliday. Baltimore scored four runs in the inning for a 4-3 victory.

His first disappointment of the game was when the perfect game chase was foiled as shortstop Mookie Betts booted Chase Meidroth’s grounder for an error with two outs in the eighth. Yamamoto recovered by retiring Jacob Gonzalez on a groundout.

Max Muncy hit two two-run homers, was 3-for-3 and walked twice to lead the onslaught. Shohei Ohtani homered, scored two runs and walked three times while Kyle Tucker drove in two runs for the Dodgers, who evened the three-game series.

Betts went 3-for-5 and scored three times.

Chicago had its eight-game home winning streak snapped.

Peters’ home run, his third, came on Yamamoto’s 1-0 four-seam fastball.

Chicago starter Sean Burke (3-4) gave up four runs on six hits in four innings with five walks and six strikeouts.

The Dodgers took a 3-0 lead in the first on Ohtani’s and Muncy’s home runs.

Ohtani, back in the lineup after missing Friday night’s game with left knee inflammation, hit the game’s second pitch — a 1-0 four-seamer from Burke — into the right-field stands an estimated 409 feet for his 14th home run.

With two outs and a runner on first, Muncy drove Burke’s 3-0 fastball into the right-field seats for his first two-run homer. The estimated distance of the drive was 415 feet.

Kyle Tucker’s RBI single in the third made it 4-0. Los Angeles loaded the bases with one out later in the inning but Burke got Dalton Rushing looking and Alex Freeland on a groundout.

Tucker’s bases-loaded walk in the sixth ran the score to 5-0.

Muncy’s second two-run homer of the game, deep into the right-centerfield stands, in the eighth made it 7-0. It was his 16th home run of the campaign.

Athletic win over scuffling Rockies

Zack Gelof homered and singled to extend his hitting streak to 17 games and the surging Athletics beat the Colorado Rockies 7-5 in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

Alika Williams had three hits, Henry Bolte had two hits and Jose Suarez (1-2) tossed 1 2/3 innings of relief for the A’s, who have won four straight in their first homestand at their future home city.

Elvis Alvarado got the final three outs for his second save.

Brett Sullivan homered and TJ Rumfield and Troy Johnston had two hits each for Colorado, which has lost three in a row and seven of nine.

The A’s went ahead in the first against Colorado starter Kyle Freeland. Nick Kurtz reached on a one-out single and went to third on Shea Langeliers’ double to left. One out later, Jacob Wilson drove in both with a single.

Sullivan cut the deficit in half when he led off the third with his fourth home run, and the Rockies tied it in the fourth.

Rumfield led off with a double and scored on Johnston’s single to right. The A’s answered in the bottom of the inning when Bolte hit a leadoff single and Gelof homered to left-center field, his ninth of the season, to make it 4-2.

Colorado rallied once more in the fifth inning. Kyle Karros led off with a triple and scored on Sullivan’s sacrifice fly. Sterlin Thompson followed with a double to chase Athletics starter Joey Estes, who gave up four runs on five hits in 4 1/3 innings

Edouard Julien greeted Suarez with a single to put runners on the corners, Thompson scored the tying run on a wild pitch before Willi Castro walked and Rumfield’s double made it 5-4.

Freeland couldn’t hold the lead in the sixth. With two outs and Gelof on second, Williams blooped an RBI single to center to end Freeland’s night. Jaden Hill gave up a go-ahead pinch-hit RBI double to Tyler Soderstrom, Kurtz was intentionally walked and Langeliers walked to load the bases.

Hill hit Carlos Cortes to bring home another run for the A’s, making it 7-5.

Freeland (1-7) allowed six runs on 10 hits over 5 2/3 innings.

Cubs score early, often to take
down Giants

Pete Crow-Armstrong hit the first pitch of the game for a home run, Ben Brown beefed up his All-Star credentials with five solid innings and the visiting Chicago Cubs thumped the San Francisco Giants 6-1 on Saturday night for a second straight win in their three-game series.

Rookie Pedro Ramirez smacked his first career homer and Ian Happ added a third for the Cubs, who followed up a 5-1 win in the series opener with another front-running effort.

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Crow-Armstrong also had a double and a single on a night that began when he took a Trevor McDonald slider over the fence in left-center field for his 12th homer of the season.

Crow-Armstrong’s double triggered a two-run third. He scored the inning’s first run on a Seiya Suzuki single. Michael Busch later made it 3-0 when he stole home on the front end of a double steal with Happ.

McDonald (2-4) was pulled with the bases loaded and two outs in the fourth. Busch then drew a walk from Reiver Sanmartin to increase the lead to 4-0.

McDonald was charged with four runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings. The right-hander walked three and struck out four.

The homers by Happ, his 16th of the season, and Ramirez, in the 29th plate appearance of his first campaign, completed Chicago’s scoring in the fifth.

Brown (3-2), meanwhile, pitched into and out of trouble for 15 outs, limiting the Giants to one run despite serving up seven hits and three walks. He struck out three.

The right-hander has now allowed one or fewer runs in six of his seven starts. He left the game with the same ERA with which he started it, 1.74.

San Francisco’s only run came in the third when Drew Gilbert walked and came around on a Luis Arraez triple.

The Giants went 0-for-7 in the game with runners in scoring position, all while Brown was on the mound.

Ramirez added a double to his homer for the Cubs, who collected four doubles and three homers among their 11 hits.

Rafael Devers had a double and a single while Gilbert walked three times for the Giants, who dropped to 1-4 on their six-game homestand.

Jo Adell,
Angels beat up on Rays in shutout

Jo Adell went 4-for-5 with a double and three runs scored, and Jose Siri hit a two-run homer as the Los Angeles Angels pounded out 15 hits in an 8-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif.

Denzer Guzman went 2-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored, and Donovan Walton had a double and three hits with two RBIs. Nolan Schanuel also had two hits and two runs scored for Los Angeles, which won its fourth straight and for the fifth time in six games.

The victory clinched the second straight home series win for the Angels, the first time that has happened since June 5-11, 2025, against Seattle and the Athletics.

Jose Soriano (8-4), despite getting hit in the chest with a hard comebacker by Jonathan Aranda in the first inning, picked up the win with five shutout innings. The right-hander allowed three hits, walked two and struck out five.

Left-hander Samy Natera Jr. followed Soriano and struck out two over two hitless innings, while Brent Suter and Kirby Yates each tossed a scoreless inning of relief to finish up.

Tampa Bay starter Griffin Jax (1-5) suffered the loss despite allowing just one unearned run on five hits over five innings while striking out five without a walk.

Los Angeles took a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning when Adell lined a double off the bottom of the left field fence and then scored when Schanuel’s hard grounder went off the glove of shortstop Taylor Walls for an error.

The Angels extended the lead to 4-0 in the sixth inning on Guzman’s two-run bloop single to center followed by Walton’s RBI double to right.

Los Angeles then broke the game open with a four-run seventh against reliever Cole Sulser. Siri made it 6-0 with a 431-foot, two-run homer to center, and Guzman and Walton each added RBI singles.

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