Overview
- Cleveland completed a three-game sweep in Detroit with a 3-1 win on José Ramírez’s seventh-inning two-run homer, pulling within 3½ games after seven straight wins and 12 of 13.
- Tarik Skubal returned from a left-side scare to allow one run with nine strikeouts over six innings, but Detroit’s lead shrank as its magic number to clinch stayed at seven with six losses in seven games.
- Max Fried struck out 13 over seven scoreless innings in the Yankees’ 7-0 win in Baltimore, earning his MLB-leading 18th victory as New York moved within three games of Toronto with nine to play.
- The Mets placed Sean Manaea on the paternity list, put Reed Garrett on the 15-day IL, DFA’d Dom Hamel, and added Wander Suero, Chris Devenski and Huascar Brazobán, then beat the Padres 6-1 to push their NL Wild Card lead to two games.
- Boston fell 5-3 to Oakland and slipped to the third AL Wild Card slot, with the surging Guardians just 1½ games back though the Red Sox hold the head-to-head tiebreaker.