>>Cardinals Hammer Royals
Michael Wacha sparkled again to become the first seven-game winner in the National League and the Cardinals beat the Royals 6-1 on Sunday to avoid being swept in a three-game series.
Wacha (7-0) struck out four and allowed one unearned run, five hits and two walks in seven innings, beating Kansas City for the first time in three tries.
The NL Central-leading Cardinals have won each of the right-hander's last 11 regular-season starts, including all seven this season.
Matt Carpenter hit a two-run homer for St. Louis, which snapped a three-game skid to finish 3-4 on their road trip.
The AL Central-leading Royals, who won Saturday's rain-shortened game in six innings, had a five-game winning streak snapped.
Yordano Ventura (3-4) took the loss, giving up four runs on five hits and two walks in seven innings.
>>Goldschmidt Leads Dbacks Past Cubs
Paul Goldschmidt went 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBI to power the Arizona Diamondbacks past the Chicago Cubs 4-3 in the rubber game of a three-game series.
Goldschmidt's efforts backed a quality start from Jeremy Hellickson (2-3), who pitched into the seventh and scattered three runs on four hits.
Chris Coghlan hit a two-run homer for the Cubs, and Miguel Montero, who spent the first nine years of his career in Arizona, cranked a solo shot in the second inning.
Goldschmidt singled in a run in the first inning and hammered a Jason Hammel (3-2) offering to straightaway center in the third.
Hammel, after allowing three earned runs over his previous three starts, was charged with four runs on five hits over seven frames. He struck out nine and walked one.
National League Scoreboard
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Washington 4, Philadelphia 1
Pittsburgh 9, New York 1
Atlanta 2, Milwaukee 1
Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 2
Miami 5, Baltimore 2
San Diego 11, Los Angeles 3
Colorado 11, San Francisco 2
>>Sox Fall To Twins
Brian Dozier hit two home runs, and Kyle Gibson tossed eight strong innings in the Minnesota Twins' 8-1 win over the Chicago White Sox.
Gibson (4-3) allowed just one run on four hits with no walks and eight strikeouts, which tied a career high. Dozier drove in four runs, and Eddie Rosario plated two in his two-hit game to help the Twins win the rubber game of this three-game set.
Jose Quintana (2-5) was hammered for seven runs -- six earned -- on seven hits in six-plus innings. Chicago's only run came on Jose Abreu's home run in the fourth.
Dozier set the tone for the rest of the game by hitting Quintana's second pitch of the game into the seats, and Gibson shut down the White Sox early despite allowing a couple of hits in the second inning.
American League Scoreboard
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Toronto 8, Seattle 2
Houston 10, Detroit 8
Oakland 7, Tampa Bay 2
Boston 6, LA Angels of Anaheim 1
Texas 5, New York 2
