Willson Contreras crushed a go-ahead, two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning, lifting the visiting Boston Red Sox to a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night.

After Wilyer Abreu knocked a two-out double deep into the left-field corner, Contreras flipped the score in Boston’s favor when he crushed the low ball deep into the left-center field stands.

Contreras and Abreu both went 2-for-4. Masataka Yoshida had the other Boston RBI.

Contreras’ big swing made a winner out of Peyton Tolle (2-2), who tossed a career-high eight innings in the victory. The Red Sox left-hander allowed just two runs on four hits and one walk while striking out three.

After Tolle pitched three 1-2-3 innings to conclude his outing, Aroldis Chapman stranded the bases loaded – after a two-out fielding error and back-to-back walks – in Atlanta’s ninth to record his 10th save of the season. Ha-Seong Kim grounded back to the pitcher to end the game, forcing a rubber game in the three-game series on Sunday.

Drake Baldwin (home run) and Jose Azocar (two doubles) both went 2-for-3 for the Braves, combining for all four of the team’s hits. Bryce Elder (4-2) was a tough-luck loser, allowing three runs on seven hits through eight innings.

Baldwin wasted no time putting the Braves in front for a 1-0 lead, hitting his second first-inning home run in as many games. This time coming up as the leadoff batter against Tolle, the designated hitter crushed a solo shot to deep center.

Tolle quickly settled in after allowing the early run, retiring the next seven batters he faced and allowing just one additional hit through the first four innings.

The Red Sox wasted Jarren Duran’s leadoff double in the first and did not record another hit until Mickey Gasper’s base knock to begin the fourth. After an Abreu single and Contreras’ fielder’s choice loaded the bases, Gasper slid into the plate with the game-tying run on a sacrifice fly by Yoshida.

In the fifth, the hosts grabbed a 2-1 lead again. Azocar knocked his second straight double inside the third-base line before scoring on Baldwin’s single to right.

–Field Level Media

Jackson Chourio doubled and hit a go-ahead solo shot for his first home run of the season, and the Milwaukee Brewers held on for a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday evening in Minneapolis.

Chourio had the only extra-base hits for Milwaukee, but it was all the team needed to win for the third straight game and the eighth time in their past nine games. The Brewers will look to finish off a three-game sweep over the Twins on Sunday afternoon.

Trevor Larnach hit a solo home run for Minnesota. Kody Clemens finished 2-for-4 with a double, and James Outman hit his first triple of the season.

Brewers right-hander Logan Henderson (1-1) allowed one run on six hits in five innings. He walked one and struck out seven.

Twins left-hander Connor Prielipp (1-2) took the hard-luck loss despite limiting the Brewers to two runs (one earned) on three hits in six innings. The rookie from Tomah, Wis., walked two and fanned eight against the team from his home state.

Brewers reliever Chad Patrick earned his first career save. He replaced Henderson and fired four scoreless innings, walking none and striking out three.

The Twins opened the scoring in the bottom of the third. Larnach stepped to the plate with two outs and ripped a line-drive home run over the wall in right field to make it 1-0.

Teammates pumped their fists from the dugout as Larnach circled the bases. It was Larnach’s first game in four days after he sat out because of tightness in his upper back.

The Brewers evened the score at 1-all in the top of the fourth. Brice Turang knocked a leadoff single and later came home to score on a fielding error by Twins third baseman Royce Lewis.

Milwaukee grabbed the lead in the top of the sixth. Chourio belted the first pitch he saw 400 feet to left-center field to put the Brewers on top 2-1.

The solo shot marked Chourio’s first home run in 10 games this season after he started the year on the injured list. Chourio hit 21 homers in each of his previous two seasons.

-Field Level Media

Munetaka Murakami hit two home runs to lead a five-homer barrage and right-hander Davis Martin delivered six strong innings as the host Chicago White Sox defeated the Chicago Cubs 8-3 on Saturday.

The White Sox regrouped from Friday’s 10-5 loss to even the crosstown series at one game apiece while improving to 6-2 on a nine-game homestand.

Murakami, in his first major league season, highlighted the power display with his first career multi-homer game. Miguel Vargas and Colson Montgomery each went deep for the second straight night while Andrew Benintendi contributed his first round-tripper since April 23.

Miguel Amaya had two hits for the Cubs, including a solo homer. Pete Crow-Armstrong capped the scoring with a two-run blast in the ninth.

Vargas vaulted the White Sox to an early lead with a three-run shot in the first, jumping on a 1-1 pitch from Cubs starter Jameson Taillon.

Murakami drilled a solo shot to center with one out in the third. Montgomery followed with a solo home run two batters later.

Murakami stretched the advantage to 7-0 with a two-run blast in the fifth, his American League-leading 17th home run of the season. Benintendi chased Taillon from the game with a solo shot to open the sixth.

Martin (6-1) retired the first nine Cubs before Nico Hoerner singled to lead off the fourth. Amaya led off the sixth with a solo shot and the Cubs put two men in scoring position with one out before Martin escaped further trouble with strikeouts of Ian Happ and Seiya Suzuki.

Martin spaced one run and five hits in six innings with zero walks and seven strikeouts.

Taillon fell to 2-3 after allowing a career-high five homers. He yielded eight runs on eight hits in five innings with one walk and two strikeouts.

Alex Bregman and Amaya both had two hits for the Cubs, who left seven men on base.

Sam Antonacci, Murakami and Benintendi had two hits each for the White Sox.

The game was delayed 13 minutes in the bottom of the fourth after home-plate umpire Brian O’Nora took a Jarred Kelenic foul ball off the mask near his jaw. O’Nora left the game to undergo further testing. Erich Bacchus took his place behind the plate.

–Field Level Media