Aaron Judge hit his major league-best 48th homer as the host New York Yankees recorded a 6-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday afternoon. Judge homered for the third straight game when he lifted a 2-1 changeup into the right field seats off Guardians starter Gavin Williams (2-6) to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead in the fourth. It was Judge's sixth homer in his past seven games along with his 13th in his past 24 contests.
The Yankees' Gerrit Cole (5-2) allowed one hit in six innings and survived tying a career-worst five walks to become the fourth active pitcher to reach 150 career wins. Cole, who allowed a single to Steven Kwan on the game's second pitch, joined Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw on the active pitcher list. Williams allowed three runs on four hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Williams struck out five, walked four and was lifted after Juan Soto hit into a forceout ahead of Giancarlo Stanton's 21st homer of the season. Nationals 8, Rockies 3 Patrick Corbin recorded a season-high eight strikeouts across six strong innings as host Washington topped Colorado in the rubber match of a three-game series. Corbin (3-12) allowed just one run on four hits while walking one to earn his 100th career win and first since July 19.
He had gone 0-3 with an 8.51 ERA over his previous five starts. Brenton Doyle spoiled Corbin's shutout bid with a two-out solo shot in the top of the sixth to pull the Rockies within 2-1.
Cardinals 3, Brewers 0 Miles Mikolas and thr.