Braves load up on extra-base hits in win over Marlins

ATLANTA (AP) – Marcell Ozuna hit two home runs as part of the Atlanta Braves’ barrage of extra-base hits in their 6-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Sunday, giving the Braves their first winning homestand of the season. Of the Braves’ 11 hits, nine were for extra bases, including six doubles. Ozuna’s second homer of the game, his 10th of the season, traveled 458 feet into the upper left-field seats in the third. Austin Riley had two hits and drove in two runs for Atlanta. Ozuna and Riley hit back-to-back homers off Elieser Hernández in the first inning. Ozzie Albies and William Contreras hit back-to-back doubles to produce a run in the second. Riley and Matt Olson delivered run-scoring doubles in consecutive at-bats in the fifth. Miami’s Jorge Soler provided all of the team’s runs by hitting two homers. Max Fried (5-2) gave up the first of those in the first inning before posting five consecutive scoreless innings. The lefty gave up six hits with three walks and five strikeouts in six innings. Kenley Jansen had two strikeouts in the ninth for his 12th save with Atlanta. Hernández (2-5) allowed four runs in four innings. He gave up three homers, raising his season total to 14 in 43 2/3 innings. WHITE SOX 5, CUBS 4, 12 INNINGS CHICAGO (AP) – Jake Burger atoned for a costly error with a game-ending RBI single in the 12th inning, and the banged-up Chicago White Sox topped the Chicago Cubs in a wild finale to the season series between the crosstown rivals. Danny Mendick opened the White Sox’s 12th as the automatic runner andadvanced on Andrew Vaughn’s grounder to second against Robert Gsellman (0-2). Burger then drove Gsellman’s next pitch into left for the winning hit. Matt Foster (1-0) worked a scoreless 12th, helping the White Sox to a sorely needed victory after they lost shortstop Tim Anderson to a right groin strain in the fifth. The White Sox looked as if they had won the game in the 11th after pinch-hitter Leury García attempted a sacrifice, and Gsellman’s throw got away from first baseman Alfonso Rivas. But García was called out for interference and Adam Engel was sent back to second. The Cubs opened a 3-1 lead with two runs in the 10th, and the White Sox responded with two runs in the bottom half of the 10th. The Cubs scored again in the 11th, but the White Sox tied it back up. The Cubs wasted a terrific start by Marcus Stroman, who pitched seven innings of three-hit ball. Dylan Cease had two hits, five strikeouts and four walks in seven innings for the White Sox. RED SOX 12, ORIOLES 2 BOSTON (AP) – Bobby Dalbec hit a two-run homer, one of Boston’s season-high five longballs, and the Red Sox coasted over Baltimore. Rafael Devers, Kiké Hernández, Franchy Cordero and Christian Arroyo each hit a solo drive for the Red Sox, who posted their ninth win in 12 games. All five Boston home runs came in four innings against Bruce Zimmermann (2-3), who was tagged for six runs and eight hits. He allowed a previous career-high four homers in his last start Tuesday at Yankee Stadium. Jake Pivetta (4-4) gave up one run on five hits in six innings, improving to 4-0 with a 1.59 ERA in his last five starts. Trey Mancini had three hits for the Orioles, who have lost four of six. TWINS 7, ROYALS 3 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Sonny Gray cruised before leaving in the seventh inning because of right pectoral soreness, and Minnesota beat Kansas City behind Gio Urshela’s three-run homer. Gray (3-1) allowed two hits and retired 14 in a row before Andrew Benintendi’s single leading off the seventh.