Overview
- Tarik Skubal fired seven scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts to become MLB's first 200‑strikeout pitcher of 2025 in a duel with Houston's Hunter Brown, who logged six scoreless frames.
- Gleyber Torres drew a bases-loaded walk in the 10th to bring home automatic runner Wenceel Pérez for Detroit's 1-0 win, with Will Vest retiring all six batters he faced for the victory.
- Houston's offense was blanked for a third straight game and has gone 28 consecutive innings without scoring, its longest such stretch since 1985.
- The Yankees crushed nine home runs in a 13-3 win over the Rays, tying a franchise single-game record after Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton went back-to-back-to-back in the first, with Judge recording his 40th of the season.
- The results tightened the American League Wild Card picture, with the Yankees gaining position at the top spot and the Rangers slipping below .500 and further from a postseason berth.