Randy Arozarena hit the second pitch of the 10th inning for a two-run home run and the Seattle Mariners held on to defeat the host Baltimore Orioles 6-5 on Tuesday night.

It was Arozarena’s third hit of the game and seventh homer of the season. Seattle’s Mitch Garver hit a three-run home run in the fourth inning and Logan Gilbert pitched six strong innings.

The Orioles scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to extend the game.

The Mariners won for the second night in a row to assure no worse than a split in the four-game series. The Orioles have lost four straight.

Seattle’s Victor Robles, who had two singles, joined Arozarena as the game’s only players with more than one hit. Arozarena also drove in a run in the seventh with a two-out single.

Gilbert recorded outs on 14 consecutive Baltimore batters to cap his outing, which concluded after 105 pitches. He gave up one run on three hits with two walks and five strikeouts.

Mariners reliever Jose Ferrer threw 42 pitches in the ninth as he blew the save, but he wriggled out of a bases-loaded, one-out situation with the winning run on third. Gunnar Henderson and Pete Alonso did not deliver, so the game went into extras and Ferrer (1-1) ended up with the win. Rookie Nick Davila notched his first career save.

Baltimore’s Coby Mayo homered with one out in the bottom of the ninth on a Ferrer full-count pitch. Jeremiah Jackson followed with a pinch-hit single and Tyler O’Neill laced a double after fouling off three two-strike pitches. Samuel Basallo hit into a fielder’s choice to tie the score, then Taylor Ward walked to load the bases.

Baltimore pulled within 6-5 in the 10th on Leody Taveras’ RBI single, but the Orioles didn’t score again despite having runners at the corners with no outs.

Orioles starter Trevor Rogers went 5 2/3 innings. He was charged with three runs on six hits with one walk and three strikeouts. Rico Garcia (3-1) was charged with the loss.

Garver had only seven RBIs this season coming into the game. His third home run of the season, coming with two outs in the fourth, boosted that total into double figures. Arozarena and Rob Refsnyder reached on singles to set up Garver.

Baltimore began the scoring in the first inning when Ward led off with a single and scored on Taveras’ sacrifice fly with the bases loaded.

The Orioles threatened in the second with O’Neill’s one-out walk followed by Sam Huff’s ground-rule double. But O’Neill was out at the plate on Ward’s grounder before Henderson struck out.

The Orioles didn’t have another base runner until Mayo reached on an error to begin the bottom of the seventh. That was followed by Jackson Holliday’s infield single and O’Neill’s double-play grounder. Mayo scored on Alex Hoppe’s two-out wild pitch to make it 4-2.

–Field Level Media

Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a go-ahead solo homer in the eighth inning off Tim Herrin, lifting the visiting New York Yankees to a 3-2 win over the American League Central Division-leading Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday night.

Chisholm led off the eighth with a towering, 360-foot drive to right field that landed deep in the lower bowl, delighting the sizable contingent of Yankees fans who were seated throughout the ballpark.

Camilo Doval (2-0) tossed the seventh for the victory and Fernando Cruz earned his first save of the season with 1 2/3 scoreless innings, making New York the first AL team to 40 wins.

Herrin (0-2) gave up one run in 1 1/3 innings for Cleveland, which lost for the fifth time in its last six games and dropped to 17-16 at home. The Guardians put two runners on with two outs in the eighth before Cruz induced a fly out by Jose Ramirez.

The Guardians scored twice in the third off Yankees starter Gerrit Cole to tie the game at 2, putting five straight on base with two outs. Chase DeLauter singled in Ramirez, then came home when Angel Martinez beat out a high chopper toward first.

DeLauter’s hit was Cleveland’s first with a runner in scoring position in three games.

Spencer Jones belted his first major league homer off Slade Cecconi in the second, scoring Chisholm to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead. The 25th overall draft pick in 2022 made his debut on May 8.

Jones’ 443-foot drive to straight-away center occurred in his 14th game since being called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The two Yankees homers were the only extra-base hits in the game for either team.

Jones, Paul Goldschmidt and Ryan McMahon led the Yankees with two hits apiece.

Ramirez, Martinez and Kyle Manzardo each provided two knocks for Cleveland.

Cole exited after 83 pitches over four innings, giving up two runs on five hits and two walks, striking out four.

Cecconi worked five innings, allowing two runs on six hits in his second no-decision against New York in a six-day span. The righty tied his season high with seven strikeouts and walked two.

–Field Level Media

Brandon Valenzuela capped a two-run ninth inning with a walk-off single as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 on Tuesday.

Bryson Stott’s RBI double against Louis Varland (3-1) gave the Phillies a 2-1 lead in the top of the ninth, but in the bottom of the inning, Jhoan Duran (1-3) blew a save for the first time in 17 opportunities this year.

Sanchez led off the frame with an infield single, his third hit of the game. Pinch runner Myles Straw replaced Sanchez, and he went to third on Yohendrick Pinango’s single to right. Daulton Varsho pinch-ran for Pinango and stole second. Straw scored on a wild pitch to tie the game, and Valenzuela lined a game-ending single to left.

The teams have split the first two matchups of a three-game series.

Sanchez earlier hit a solo homer and a double. Pinango added two hits for the Blue Jays, who have won three of their past four games.

Stott went 2-for-4 for the Phillies, who had won six of their previous seven contests.

The Phillies scored a first-inning run against Dylan Cease, who had not pitched since May 24 because of a left hamstring strain.

Trea Turner broke his bat on a looping double down the right field line. He took third on a wild pitch and trotted home when Brandon Marsh lashed a two-out double to the right field corner.

Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. batted first for the second time in his career and broke an 0-for-15 drought with an infield hit in the third inning.

The Blue Jays had runners in scoring position against Zack Wheeler in the second and third innings but failed to score.

After Marsh’s first-inning double, Cease retired 15 of 16 batters before Bryce Harper walked with two outs in the sixth. Harper singled in the fourth.

Cease struck out 11 while allowing one run, three hits and one walk in six innings.

Wheeler retired eight in a row before Sanchez homered to right on an elevated 0-1 cutter with one out in the sixth, tying the game 1-1.

Wheeler finished six innings, giving up one run, six hits and no walks with five strikeouts.

Former Phillies right-hander Jeff Hoffman pitched around an infield single and a wild pitch in the seventh, striking out two.

Varland walked Harper on four pitches to start the ninth. Two outs later, Stott lined an RBI double into the left field corner.

–Field Level Media