Austin Riley and Mike Yastrzemski each hit home runs to lead the Atlanta Braves to an 8-1 victory over the visiting Boston Red Sox on Sunday afternoon.

Atlanta scored in four of the first five innings and cruised to the series-clinching victory, as Grant Holmes pitched six innings, while Reynaldo Lopez and Tyler Kinley combined to worked three innings in relief.

Holmes (3-1) scattered five hits, walked one and struck out four. Lopez followed with two scoreless innings.

Drake Baldwin also drove in two runs for the Braves, who logged eight hits to nine for the Red Sox.

Nick Sogard brought in Boston’s lone run with a ninth-inning double. Jarren Duran went 2-for-5 with a double for the Red Sox, while starter Brayan Bello allowed seven runs on eight hits across five innings.

Atlanta worked a 30-pitch first inning from Bello, while getting a three-run homer from Riley to left-center field.

Four Braves hitters reached base before Bello recorded the first out of the second. Jorge Mateo doubled, Yastrzemski singled and Jose Azocar walked to load the bases. Drake Baldwin walked in a run and Matt Olson brought home a run on a ground out for 5-0 lead.

Holmes stranded baserunners in five of his six innings, including a two-on, one-out jam in the fourth after Willson Contreras doubled and Ceddanne Rafaela walked.

Yastrzemski launched a leadoff homer into the right-field corner in the fourth and Dominic Smith had an RBI single in the fifth.

Back-to-back walks off reliever Red Sox Ryan Watson led to a Baldwin sacrifice fly, extending the Atlanta lead to 8-0 in the eighth.

The Braves were one out away from their fifth shutout of the season, but Connor Wong singled and scored on Sogard’s double into the right-field corner. Sogard was recalled from Triple-A Worcester on Saturday to take the place of injured infielder Trevor Story.

The game entered a 33-minute rain delay in the middle of the sixth inning. Red Sox catcher Carlos Narvaez did not return after the delay after he was diagnosed with finger pain. Wong came in as his replacement.

–Field Level Media

Carson Benge drove in the game-ending run in the 10th inning for the second time in a week as the New York Mets stormed back from a four-run deficit to stun the visiting New York Yankees 7-6 on Sunday in the deciding game of this season’s first Subway Series.

The Mets’ Luis Torrens began the comeback from a 6-1 deficit with a two-run pinch-hit double in the sixth and Tyrone Taylor forced extra innings with a three-run homer in the ninth off David Bednar.

The Mets won a game in which they trailed after eight innings for the first time since 2024.

Rookie A.J. Ewing opened the 10th by laying down a sacrifice bunt against Tim Hill (0-1) to move automatic runner Marcus Semien to third. Hill then hit Torrens with a pitch.

Benge, who had a game-ending single in Wednesday’s 3-2 win over the Detroit Tigers, followed with a grounder to the middle against a drawn-in infield. Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. and shortstop Anthony Volpe collided as Semien raced home.

Devin Williams (3-1) issued a one-out walk in the 10th but stranded automatic runner Ryan McMahon at third by getting Austin Wells to hit into an inning-ending 3-6-3 double play.

Semien had an RBI double for the Mets, who went 5-1 on their homestand and improved to 10-5 this month. Mark Vientos recorded two hits while rookie A.J. Ewing reached base in all four plate appearances with a single and three walks.

Volpe had a tie-breaking two-run single in the sixth and finished with three RBIs for the Yankees, who went 2-7 on a nine-game road trip.

Ben Rice homered in the third for his 15th of the season that is one shy of teammate Aaron Judge for the American League lead. Amed Rosario had a pinch-hit sacrifice fly for the Yankees.

The Mets’ ninth-inning rally spared inefficient starter Freddy Peralta the loss. Peralta surrendered three runs on two hits and six walks in five innings while striking out four. The six walks tied a career-high set most recently on May 5, 2024.

The Yankees’ Elmer Rodriguez gave up one run on five hits and one walk while striking out one over 4 1/3 innings in his third career start.

–Field Level Media

Stephen Kolek allowed four hits while pitching into the seventh inning, and Salvador Perez drove in both runs, highlighted by a solo homer, as the visiting Kansas City Royals snapped their six-game losing streak with Sunday’s 2-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

Kolek (2-0) walked just one batter and struck out three over 6 1/3 strong innings to help the Royals end their extended slide and finish the 1-5 road trip on a needed positive note. Perez, meanwhile, had two of Kansas City’s nine hits and provided the only offense needed by the visitors.

Royals relievers Daniel Lynch IV and Lucas Erceg (11 saves) combined to allow one hit and a walk over 2 2/3 innings.

St. Louis’ Andre Pallante (4-4) was also solid while allowing eight hits, but only the two runs, one earned, and striking out seven in 6 2/3 innings. The Cardinals, who entered on a three-game winning streak, were limited to five singles and did not bat with a runner in scoring position until the ninth.

Kansas City wasted no time opening the scoring. Maikel Garcia led off the game with a single up the middle, made it to third on Vinnie Pasquantino’s single coupled with right-fielder Victor Scott III’s throwing error and eventually came home via Perez’s fly out to left.

Perez put the Royals up by two in the fourth, when he led off the frame by sending Pallante’s knuckle-curve ball over the left-field fence.

Kansas City had an opportunity to add on when it loaded the bases with nobody out in the top of the ninth. Then, Kyle Isbel, who recorded a pair of hits, struck out and Garcia bounced into a 5-3 double play to end the threat.

Erceg, though, stranded a runner on second when he got Nathan Church to end the contest on a ground out.

St. Louis shortstop Masyn Winn exited in the seventh inning with an apparent injury after beating out a potential double-play grounder.

–Field Level Media