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WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin Pillar hit two home runs off Max Scherzer, including a go-ahead three-run drive, as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Washington Nationals 7-3 Tuesday night to earn a split of a day-night doubleheader.

Jordan Zimmermann pitched six-hit ball for eight innings in the opener, a 2-0 victory that ended a three-game losing streak.

Bryce Harper had a go-ahead single off R.A. Dickey, then he thrilled a fan before the nightcap by taking a selfie in right field with her phone.

Scherzer (6-4) had won each of his previous five starts and appeared poised for another with a 3-1 lead.

Pillar had other ideas, though. He drove a pitch over the wall in left in the sixth for his second homer and fourth on the season for a 4-3 lead.

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Marco Estrada (2-3) pitched six innings in the second game for Toronto, allowing three runs ”“ two earned ”“ and six hits.

Zimmermann (5-2) struck out four and walked one to win for the third time in four starts.

ASTROS 6, ORIOLES 4

HOUSTON (AP) — Evan Gattis hit a three-run homer and Luis Valbuena added a go-ahead solo shot in a five-run third inning for AL-leading Houston.

The Astros were in a big hole early after a four-run second inning by the Orioles, but bounced back an inning later for their major league-leading 17th comeback victory this year.

Houston trailed by 3 when the homer by Gattis made it 4-all and the Astros went back to back when Valbuena homered to right field to put Houston on top. The Astros added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

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Houston starter Collin McHugh (6-2) settled down after giving up four runs in the second, and the last out of that inning was the first of eight straight and 15 of 16 he retired before being replaced by Pat Neshek for the eighth inning.

Baltimore rookie Mike Wright (2-1) yielded eight hits and five runs in five innings.

YANKEES 5, MARINERS 3

SEATTLE (AP) — Garrett Jones hit a three-run homer in the top of the 11th inning to give the Yankees the lead and Andrew Miller preserved the win in the bottom half by striking out Nelson Cruz with two on.

Stephen Drew tied it in the ninth with an RBI double off Seattle closer Fernando Rodney as New York took the first two games of this three-game series.

With two outs, Jones drilled a fastball over the wall in center off reliever Joe Beimel, who relieved Tom Wilhelmsen (1-1) after he allowed two-out hits to Drew and Brett Gardner.

Justin Wilson (2-0) pitched a clean 10th for the win. Miller gave up an RBI single to Robinson Cano in the 11th. Then with Cano and Austin Jackson, who was hit by a pitch from the Yankees closer to reach base for the sixth time, aboard, Miller struck out Cruz for his 16th save.



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