Luca Van Assche of France secured his first ATP title when he posted a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 victory over Belgium’s Alexander Blockx on Sunday in the Estoril Open final in Portugal.

Van Assche, 22, converted 8 of 13 break points and overcame eight double faults to win in two hours and 24 minutes on the clay surface. He is the ATP’s 10th first-time winner this year.

Blockx, 21, had seven aces and seven double faults while playing in his first title match. He rallied from a 3-0 hole in the third set to tie it 5-5 before Van Assche closed it out by winning two straight games.

The championship match was the first between players born in 2004 or later.

–Field Level Media

Manny Machado and Jackson Merrill homered in the four-run eighth inning to help the visiting San Diego Padres rally for a 5-3 win on Sunday afternoon and extend the Miami Marlins’ losing streak to a franchise-record 12 straight games.

Machado also had an RBI double in the fifth that sparked the comeback after being down 3-0.

Jake Cronenworth contributed three hits and scored twice, and Ty France, Luis Rengifo and Merrill had two hits each for San Diego, which swept the three-game series.

Padres starter Walker Buehler surrendered three runs (two earned) and four hits in 5 1/3 innings. The veteran right-hander struck out seven and walked two.

San Diego relievers Yuki Matsui, Wandy Peralta (2-2) and Adrian Morejon combined to keep Miami scoreless for 2 2/3 innings before Mason Miller pitched the ninth for his 27th save.

Kyle Stowers doubled and homered for the Marlins, who had lost 11 in a row three other times in team history, most recently in June of 2011.

Miami starter Janson Junk went 4 2/3 innings, allowing one run and scattering seven hits. The right-hander struck out six and didn’t walk a batter.

Lake Bachar (1-2) came out for the eighth trying to protect a two-run lead, but gave up a leadoff single to Cronenworth. Machado then lined a 3-2 fastball over the fence in center to tie it 3-3.

One out later, Bachar left a sweeper over the middle of the plate and Merrill pulled it over the fence in right for a 4-3 lead.

The inning would continue with a double by Rengifo and an RBI single by Luis Campusano that made it 5-3.

Buehler walked Liam Hicks and Griffin Conine to start the second inning. Hicks broke for third with Rengifo charging on a bunt attempt by Esteury Ruiz, who pulled his bat back as Padres shortstop Sung-Mun Song was trying to beat Hicks to third.

Campusano’s throw went into left field, allowing Hicks to score on the throwing error for a 1-0 lead.

Ruiz then sacrificed Conine to third and he scored on a line drive over the drawn-in infield by Graham Pauley for a 2-0 lead.

Stowers led off the third by pulling a changeup into the seats high above the right-field fence to make it 3-0.

Junk was one out from being eligible for the win, but Cronenworth singled with two outs in the fifth and then scored from first on a double down the left-field line by Machado to cut it to 3-1 and end Junk’s afternoon.

–Field Level Media

CJ Abrams and James Wood each homered twice as the Washington Nationals beat the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks 10-7 on Sunday to take the rubber game in the series between NL wild card contenders.

Abrams finished 3-for-5 with three RBIs to boost his numbers to seven homers and 14 RBIs in his last seven games. Wood became the fifth MLB player to reach the 30-homer mark this season.

Dylan Crews added three hits and Riley Cornelio (2-1) pitched two innings for the win. Brady House, recalled Sunday after the Nationals traded Curtis Mead to the Boston Red Sox for pitcher Connelly Early on Saturday, had two doubles and drove in a run.

Geraldo Perdomo and Ketel Marte homered for the D-backs and Gabriel Moreno had two doubles and a sacrifice fly.

The D-backs took a 1-0 lead in the first. Perdomo walked and came around when Moreno doubled down the left field line.

In the Washington second, House doubled and Jacob Young tied it with an RBI single.

Perdomo smacked an 0-1 pitch into the Nationals bullpen in right to make it 2-1 in the third.

Abrams tied it with a homer to center in the third, setting a record for homers by a Nationals shortstop with his 26th of the season.

Marte homered leading off the fourth and Arizona led 3-2.

Corbin Carroll doubled leading off the fifth and scored on a Moreno sacrifice fly.

Nunez walked leading off the bottom half and Wood ended starter Kohl Drake’s afternoon with a two-run bomb to straightaway center. Daylen Lile greeted Jonathan Loaisiga (2-3) with a single and, one out later, Abrams connected for his second homer of the game to make it 6-4.

House and Young added RBI doubles to make it 8-4 in the seventh, then another run scored on pitcher Brandyn Garcia’s throwing error.

Arizona’s Ildemaro Vargas hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth to make it 9-5, but Wood answered with a solo homer.

The Diamondbacks loaded the bases on walks with no outs in the ninth and got runs on a Ryan Waldschmidt’s single and Nolan Arenado’s groundout. With the bases loaded and the go-ahead run at the plate, Clayton Beeter retired Tyler Locklear on a grounder to second to pick up his 10th save.

Washington starter Miles Mikolas gave up three runs over four innings. Drake allowed four runs in four-plus innings in his second major league start.

–Field Level Media