NEW YORK — Gleyber Torres became the youngest Yankees player to hit a walkoff homer, a three-run shot in the ninth inning Sunday that gave New York a 7-4 victory against the Cleveland Indians for its 15th victory in 16 games.
At 21 years and 144 days, Torres bettered Mickey Mantle, who was 21 years and 185 days when he hit a three-run, ninth-inning drive off Ellis Kinder of Boston in a 6-3 victory on April 23, 1953.
“He’s been special,” Manager Aaron Boone said about Torres.
Domingo German pitched six hitless innings in his first major league start for the Yankees, who nonetheless fell behind 4-0 when Cleveland broke through against relievers Dellin Betances and Jonathan Holder. Yonder Alonso’s leadoff single against Betances in the eighth was the first hit for the Indians.
BLUE JAYS 2, RAYS 1: Kevin Pillar scored the tiebreaking run on Alex Colome’s wild pitch in the ninth inning, and Toronto won at St. Petersburg, Florida, to stop a three-game losing streak.
Blue Jays shortstop Aledmys Diaz was carted off the field in the fifth inning after spraining his left ankle. Diaz drove in a run with an infield single to first baseman Brad Miller and hit the side of the base while trying to avoid a collision with pitcher Chris Archer, who was covering.
TWINS 5, WHITE SOX 3: James Shields of Chicago pitched a no-hitter into the seventh inning before visiting Minnesota rallied late.
ROYALS 4, TIGERS 2: Kansas City, at home, won a series for the first time in 11 tries this season, as Mike Moustakas drove in three runs with a double and sacrifice fly.
ATHLETICS 2, ORIOLES 1: Andrew Triggs allowed two hits over seven innings, Khris Davis and Matt Olson drove in runs and Oakland rallied at home to extend Baltimore’s losing streak to six games.
ANGELS 8, MARINERS 2: Shohei Ohtani returned from a sprained ankle and took a shutout into the seventh inning while outpitching Felix Hernandez, Mike Trout hit his 12th home run and Los Angeles won at Seattle.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
ROCKIES 3, METS 2: Ian Desmond hit a pair of solo homers, including a tiebreaking drive in the eighth inning at New York that sent Colorado to its season-high fifth straight win.
GIANTS 4, BRAVES 3: Andrew Suarez outpitched Mike Soroka in a rookie matchup, and visiting San Francisco survived a ninth-inning rally for its first series sweep of Atlanta in four years.
NATIONALS 5, PHILLIES 4: Max Scherzer struck out 15 in 61/3 innings, and Washington rallied for two runs in the ninth at home.
PIRATES 9, BREWERS 0: Chad Kuhl and Richard Rodriguez combined on a two-hitter, leading Pittsburgh at Milwaukee.
PADRES 3, DODGERS 0: Eric Hosmer hit a go-ahead, two-run homer for the second straight day, rookie Eric Lauer got his first major league win and San Diego, at Monterrey, took 2 of 3 in the majors’ first regular-season series in Mexico since 1999.
MARLINS 8, REDS 5: Starlin Castro drove in three runs for the second straight game, Cameron Maybin added two hits and two RBI, and Miami won at Cincinnati to capture its their fourth straight series.
INTERLEAGUE
DIAMONDBACKS 3, ASTROS 1: Matt Koch allowed a run and six hits in 61/3 innings in Phoenix for Arizona, which has yet to lose a series this season.
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