Manny Machado’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning Sunday capped a San Diego Padres’ comeback that gave them a 3-2 win over the visiting St. Louis Cardinals.

Ramon Laureano was placed on second base to start the bottom of the 10th and Jackson Merrill was intentionally walked. But Gordon Graceffo (2-1) unintentionally walked Fernando Tatis Jr. to fill the bases, setting the stage for Machado to win the game as the Padres split the four-game set.

Adrian Morejon (3-1) recorded the win by throwing just one pitch, retiring pinch hitter Jose Fermin on a popup to first that stranded two runners in the Cardinals’ half of the 10th.

San Diego forced extra innings when Nick Castellanos, on a 3-2 pitch, belted a two-run homer to left-center off closer Riley O’Brien in the bottom of the ninth that scored Xander Bogaerts. He singled to start the inning, went to second on defensive indifference and reached third on a wild pitch.

It was the second homer of the year for Castellanos and gave O’Brien his third blown save in 14 chances.

The dramatic long ball no-decisioned both starters after good outings. St. Louis’ Kyle Leahy worked five scoreless innings, permitting only two hits and walking four while fanning five. Padres right-hander Walker Buehler gave up just three hits and two runs in six innings with no walks and two strikeouts.

Buehler mowed down the first 11 hitters he faced before finding two-out trouble in the fourth. Alec Burleson singled and stole second before Buehler hung a 1-2 knuckle-curve to Jordan Walker.

He slugged it an estimated 425 feet into the third deck of the Western Metal Supply building behind the left field wall for his 11th homer of the year.

San Diego, which managed just 14 hits in the four-game series, missed on a chance to take an immediate lead. Bogaerts’ flyout to left stranded Merrill and Gavin Sheets after they drew walks in the first.

The Padres also left Bogaerts at third in the fourth and stranded men at second and third in the fifth on Machado’s comebacker to Leahy.

–Field Level Media

Cole Caufield broke a five-game scoring drought with a tiebreaking power-play goal as the Montreal Canadiens throttled the visiting Buffalo Sabres 6-2 in Game 3, taking a 2-1 best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series lead on Sunday night.

A 51-goal scorer in the regular season, Caufield, who also posted an assist, had not found the net since Game 5 of the first round against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Alex Newhook tallied twice and Juraj Slafkovsky notched his fourth postseason power-play goal. Zachary Bolduc and Kirby Dach also scored, Lane Hutson had two helpers and Jakub Dobes made 26 saves.

The Sabres’ Tage Thompson and Rasmus Dahlin produced a goal and an assist apiece. Alex Lyon stopped 31 shots.

Referring to his Game 2 performance as an “absolute disaster,” Thompson quieted the crowd in the NHL’s largest arena when Dobes moved far out to meet Dahlin’s blast, which went wide and clanged off the end boards.

Thompson corralled the puck on the hard rebound and potted an easy marker through the vacated crease just 53 seconds in.

Newhook, who registered the Game 7 series-winner in Tampa, cashed in by bouncing one off Buffalo defenseman Conor Timmins at 15:31 to square the contest.

Caufield missed a tap-in during an early second-period power play, but he found redemption after Hutson drove through the left circle on a power play and put the puck on Caufield’s stick for a 2-1 lead at 6:05.

The home side’s fourth line made it 3-1 when Joe Veleno fed a pass back to a trailing Bolduc, who beat Lyon at 10:43.

After Buffalo’s Beck Malenstyn went off for a hard interference collision with Dobes, Hutson slipped a pass through the slot that clipped Slafkovsky for a second power-play goal at 12:17 to make it 4-1.

Dahlin answered with his own man-advantage marker 16 seconds after Dach was penalized for holding Josh Doan’s stick at 14:30.

The Sabres put together a furious push on a power play and followed it up in the third, but a Montreal 2-on-1 rush ended with Dach finding the puck and firing in his fourth goal of the playoffs for a 5-2 lead at 8:46.

Newhook put the match away with his fifth postseason marker when he was awarded one after being fouled on a breakaway toward an empty net at 15:14.

–Field Level Media

Gage Workman hit his first major league home run, a tiebreaking, pinch-hit, two-run shot in his Tigers debut, and visiting Detroit snapped a five-game losing streak with a 6-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday night.

Workman was called up from Triple-A Toledo on Sunday after Kerry Carpenter was placed on the injured list with a left shoulder sprain.

Matt Vierling drove in two runs and Hao-Yu Lee and Wenceel Perez drove in one run apiece. Riley Greene reached base four times and scored a run.

Enmanuel De Jesus (2-0) tossed 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. Kenley Jansen got the last three outs for his seventh save.

Maikel Garcia had three hits, a run and an RBI to lead the Royals. Vinnie Pasquantino added two hits and drove in a run and Bobby Witt Jr. had two hits and scored a run.

Greene led off the second inning with a single and Perez hit into a fielder’s choice. Spencer Torkelson struck out but Lee hit an opposite-field triple to bring Perez. Zack Short drew a walk before Vierling doubled off the left-center-field wall, bringing home both runners.

Detroit also had two baserunners with no outs in the third but Noah Cameron retired the next three batters. Kansas City then chipped away in the bottom of the inning.

Garcia smacked a double to right and Witt reached on an infield hit. Pasquantino slapped an opposite-field single to knock in Garcia and Carter Jensen hit a sacrifice fly to score Witt.

The Royals knotted the score in the fourth. Jac Caglianone led off with a double. Drew Anderson struck out the next two but Garcia singled to center to knock in Caglianone and make it a 3-all game.

The Tigers left two more runners on in the fifth but took a 5-3 lead in the sixth. Torkelson singled off Nick Mears (2-2). One out later, Workman pinch hit for Short and drilled a slider over the right field wall.

Detroit made it 6-3 in the seventh. Greene doubled to right with one out and scored on Perez’s single to center.

–Field Level Media