The Cincinnati Reds played home run derby Wednesday night in an 11-5 win over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies.

The Reds powered five long balls — including two from Sal Stewart — while All-Star Chase Burns labored through five innings on a humid night to post his National League-leading 11th win.

The five homers accounted for the first seven runs on the night for Cincinnati, which won for just the third time in 10 games and the fifth time in 15. Philadelphia was tagged for double-digit runs for the second time in three games while taking its third loss in four contests.

The highlight of the night for the Reds was a five-run fourth in which they belted four home runs, including three straight from Elly De La Cruz, Stewart and JJ Bleday against reliever Tanner Banks. It was the first time Cincinnati hit back-to-back-to-back homers since July 22, 2023, against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Beginning the decisive frame, Noelvi Marte led off with a homer against Phillies starter Alan Rangel (0-2) to give Cincinnati a 3-2 lead. The other three long balls in the inning came against Tanner Banks.

It was Cincinnati’s first four-homer inning since July 4, 2010, vs. the Chicago Cubs.

Marte added a three-run double in the sixth to blow the game open.

Rangel, making his second major league start after a four-inning scoreless outing against the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 2, was staked to a 2-0 lead thanks to an RBI triple from Justin Crawford and a run-scoring wild pitch by Burns in the second.

Burns allowed three runs on three hits, walking a season-high six and striking out two. He needed 106 pitches to get through five innings and qualify for the win.

Stewart tied the game in the third against Rangel with a towering two-run opposite-field homer to right that landed on the netting atop the visitors’ bullpen.

Philadelphia’s J.T. Realmuto homered off reliever Brock Burke to cut the deficit to 7-4 in the sixth. In the bottom of the inning, Cincinnati got an RBI single from Bleday ahead of Marte’s two-run double.

Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber unloaded his major-league-leading 32nd home run in the ninth, a solo shot to the seats in right against Rhett Lowder.

–Field Level Media

Jake Bennett and two relievers combined on a four-hit shutout and Tsung-Che Cheng had a pair of RBI singles as the visiting Boston Red Sox earned a 5-0 victory against the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday.

Boston won for the 10th time in 12 games while improving to 5-0 on a nine-game road trip entering the All-Star break.

Bennett, a rookie left-hander, stymied skidding Chicago, which has lost five of seven. Luisangel Acuna singled twice against Bennett (4-3), who held the rest of the White Sox lineup to just two base hits while spacing one walk and four strikeouts in seven innings.

Chicago went 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position as Bennett threw 53 of his 81 pitches for strikes.

Boston pitching retired the last 13 Chicago batters in a row. Greg Weissert and Jovani Moran followed Bennett with separate perfect innings.

White Sox ace Davis Martin remained winless since June 10, struggling to complete four innings after a strong beginning.

Martin needed just 21 pitches to retire the first six Red Sox but slumped from there while falling to 9-4.

Boston rolled to three runs in the third inning despite losing two infielders to injury. Second baseman Anthony Seigler (right trap contusion) and first baseman Willson Contreras (left foot contusion) were banged up in short succession.

Seigler collided with Chicago catcher Kyle Teel while scoring on a Martin wild pitch to make it 3-0 with Contreras at bat. Moments later, Contreras fouled a ball off his foot before flying to center. He left the game in the bottom of the inning.

Cheng lined an RBI single to open the scoring and came around on a Ceddanne Rafaela double.

Carlos Narvaez and Cheng delivered successive run-scoring singles in the fourth to stretch the advantage to 5-0.

Martin yielded five runs and six hits with two walks and two strikeouts.

Caleb Durbin and Rafaela had two hits apiece for the Red Sox.

Four Chicago pitchers notched nine strikeouts in five innings of shutout relief. Trevor Richards had four strikeouts over two innings.

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Dylan Cease came within three outs of becoming the first Toronto Blue Jay in 36 years to throw a no-hitter Wednesday afternoon, striking out 11 in a 10-0 road victory over the San Francisco Giants.

Kazuma Okamoto capped a five-run first inning with a grand slam and center fielder Daulton Varsho prevented an extra-base hit by the Giants’ Bryce Eldridge with a leaping catch on the center-field warning track in the eighth, each helping Cease’s cause.

The All-Star right-hander retired the first 14 Giants he faced until losing his perfect game by walking Willy Adames with two outs in the fifth.

Cease (6-4) also walked Drew Gilbert leading off the sixth and Rafael Devers with one out in the seventh, but breezed through a 1-2-3 eighth with Tyler Rogers warming up, earning a shot at the ninth despite having thrown 115 pitches.

Home runs by Vlad Guerrero Jr., his fifth, and George Springer, his ninth, added three runs to the Toronto total in the top of the ninth, giving Cease a long rest before continuing his quest.

Attempting to match the feat of Dave Stieb in September of 1990, the only previous no-hitter in Blue Jays history, Cease went 1-1 on Heliot Ramos before the Giants outfielder lined a fastball up the middle. Ramos had struck out his previous three times.

Cease was pulled at that point, having walked three and recorded his sixth double-digit strikeout performance of the season.

No opponent has ever pitched a no-hitter in the 27-year history of Oracle Park.

Rogers retired all three men he faced after taking over for Cease, wrapping up Toronto’s sixth shutout of the season.

The first six Blue Jays hitters gave their pitcher all the support he would need against Giants starter Logan Webb (5-7).

Singles by Ernie Clement and Nathan Lukes, and a one-out walk to Springer, loaded the bases for Varsho, who blooped an RBI single into right field.

Okamoto then took Webb high and deep the opposite way, landing his 21st home run atop the 20-foot-high wall in right field at Oracle Park. The hit was reviewed and Okamoto, who had stopped at first base, was sent the remaining 270 feet for a grand slam and a 5-0 lead.

Lukes, Varsho and Okamoto each had two hits and scored twice for the Blue Jays, who improved to 3-3 on their nine-game Western swing.

Webb rebounded from his rough start to serve up just one more hit through the seventh inning, finishing with five runs and five hits allowed. He walked two and struck out two.

–Field Level Media