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.

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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.

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Olivia Miles scored 24 points, grabbed seven rebounds and dished six assists, and the Minnesota Lynx cruised to a 100-76 win over the Dallas Wings in a Commissioner’s Cup matchup on Tuesday night in Minneapolis.

Kayla McBride finished with 22 points for Minnesota (10-2), which won its eighth game in a row and improved to 4-0 in Commissioner’s Cup play. Natasha Howard scored 21 points on 8-for-10 shooting, and Courtney Williams finished with 16 points and eight rebounds.

Paige Bueckers scored 23 points on 9-for-16 shooting to lead Dallas (7-4), which dropped to 2-1 during the in-season tourney. Arike Ogunbowale scored 16 points and added six assists, and former Lynx forward Jessica Shepard finished with 12 points and nine rebounds.

Wings rookie Azzi Fudd struggled badly in her matchup against Miles, who was selected one spot after Fudd at No. 2 overall in the draft in April. Fudd finished with six points on 2-for-12 shooting, and she had zero assists and two turnovers in 30 minutes.

The Lynx sprinted to a 30-18 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Ogunbowale pulled Dallas within 12-11 when she sank a 3-pointer with 5:41 remaining in the first quarter.

Minnesota responded with a 11-0 run to seize a 23-11 advantage. Howard started the scoring binge when she made a layup off a feed from Miles, and Williams added six straight points on a trio of baskets. Miles punctuated the run with a 3-pointer from 25 feet.

The Wings fell further behind in the second quarter as the Lynx built a 58-38 halftime lead.

Minnesota led by as many as 27 points before the break. Anastasiia Olairi Kosu made a layup to give the Lynx a 56-29 lead with 1:24 left in the half.

The Wings responded with a 9-2 run to cut the deficit to 20. Bueckers scored all nine of Dallas’ points with three 3-pointers during the run, including one with 0.9 seconds remaining before the buzzer.

Minnesota led comfortably the rest of the way. Williams put the Lynx at the 100-point mark with a pull-up jumper in the final minute.

–Field Level Media