Baseball-Highlights of Saturday's Major League Baseball games

(Adds late games) Sept 20 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Saturday's Major League Baseball games. - - - Tigers 3, Royals 2 Pinch hitter Tyler Collins and center fielder Rajai Davis stroked RBI singles with two outs in the seventh as Detroit edged Kansas City. Max Scherzer (17-5), the 2013 American League Cy Young Award winner, earned the victory, holding the Royals to one run and seven hits over seven innings. The Royals have lost 13 of 18 to the Tigers and dropped 2 1/2 games behind the defending American League Central champions. - - - Cubs 8, Dodgers 7 Left fielder Chris Coghlan went 4-for-4 and hit a pair of home runs to lift Chicago to a comeback win over Los Angeles. Coghlan reached base five times for the Cubs, who scored four runs in the seventh and two in the eighth to erase a five-run deficit against the Dodgers. - - - Padres 3, Giants 2 San Diego handed San Francisco a second straight loss. Andrew Cashner came within one inning of a second straight complete-game shutout for the Padres, before the Giants scored twice in the ninth. The loss keeps San Francisco 3 1/2 games behind the Dodgers in the National League West, although the Giants remain a game ahead of the Pirates in the race for the National League's top wild-card berth. - - - Phillies 3, A's 0 Jerome Williams pitched seven shutout innings and made history as Philadelphia beat Oakland, dealing a blow to the A's wild-card playoff hopes. Williams improved to 3-0 against the A's this year, becoming the first pitcher to beat the same team three times in a season while pitching for three different teams. He made three relief appearances with Houston against the A's, and picked up the victory on April 26 in an Astros win. Then in a start against Oakland for the Texas Rangers on July 25, he gave up one run in six innings of a victory. - - - Astros 10, Mariners 1 Dallas Keuchel pitched eight strong innings and Houston walloped Seattle. Keuchel (12-9) reached 200 innings pitched on the season, becoming the first Houston left-hander to hit that plateau since Wandy Rodriguez logged 205 2/3 innings in 2009. The Astros (68-87) snapped their four-game skid by matching their season high of five home runs, while Seattle (83-71) picked an opportune time to lose, doing so without ceding any ground in the American League wild-card chase. With Oakland and Kansas City also losing their respective games, the Mariners remain a half-game behind the Royals for the second wild-card spot. - - - Cardinals 8, Reds 4 St. Louis slugged three home runs and beat Cincinnati to increase their lead to 3 ½ games in the National League Central. The Cardinals rapped out 10 hits and scored in five different innings in their highest-scoring game since Sept 7. - - - Brewers 1, Pirates 0 Milwaukee kept their playoff hopes alive by beating Pittsburgh in a game where the two teams combined to leave 19 men on base. Milwaukee finally broke the deadlock with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly from pinch-hitter Logan Schafer in the ninth inning. The Brewers (80-75) trail the Pirates (83-71) by 3-1/2 games for the National League's second wild-card spot. - - - Orioles 7, Red Sox 2 Adam Jones hit a pair of two-run homers, and Chris Tillman won his sixth consecutive game as Baltimore scored a big victory over Boston. Jones, the center fielder, hit a two-run homer in the third that tied the game and did the same thing two innings later to give the Orioles (93-61) a four-run lead. - - - Angels 8, Rangers 5 Right-hander Jered Weaver won his 18th game as Los Angeles defeated Texas. Weaver (18-8), who leads the American League in victories, allowed just two hits in his first six innings and retired 14 consecutive batters between the second and the seventh. - - - Nationals 3, Marlins 2 Ryan Zimmerman went 2-for-3 with a run-scoring triple in a three-run seventh as Washington edged Miami. Washington (90-64) has won seven of its last eight. The loss eliminated Miami (74-80) from the wild-card playoff race. - - - Mets 4, Braves 2 New York delivered two home runs to support a fine effort from left-hander Jonathon Niese and beat Atlanta, sending the Braves to their seventh loss in their past eight games. - - - Rays 3, White Sox 1 Chris Archer scattered two hits in 6 1/3 shutout innings to lead Tampa Bay to victory over Chicago. - - - Indians 7, Twins 3 Designated hitter Yan Gomes had three hits and four runs batted in, leading Cleveland to victory over Minnesota. - - - Rockies 5, Diamondbacks 1 Eddie Butler made his second major league start for Colorado and came away with his first victory as the Rockies beat Arizona. The Rockies won their fifth straight, matching their season-high, while the Diamondbacks dropped their fifth in a row. - - - Blue Jays 6, Yankees 3 Jose Bautista homered and scored four times and Marcus Stroman pitched through six gutty innings as Toronto halted a season-high six-game losing streak with a victory over New York. (Editing by Andrew Both)