Overview

• Cleveland blanked Minnesota in a day-night sweep, hitting five homers in a 6-0 opener and rolling 8-0 in the nightcap to pull within one game of Detroit with three head-to-head games next week.
• Detroit’s 6-5 loss to Atlanta marked a fifth straight defeat and eight in nine, as Nacho Alvarez Jr. homered twice and delivered a ninth-inning game-tying single for the Braves’ seventh win in a row.
• The Astros lost 6-4 to the Mariners, placing them outside the AL playoff field despite a tie for the final wild-card spot with Cleveland, with Seattle owning the season series tiebreaker over Houston.
• Texas fell 4-3 to Miami as Tyler Mahle returned on a 75-pitch limit, extending the Rangers’ skid to six, eliminating them from the AL West race and leaving them five games back in the wild-card chase.
• The Mets were beaten 5-3 in 11 innings on Daylen Lile’s inside-the-park homer, and Cincinnati later gained ground in the NL wild-card race and holds the tiebreaker over New York.