NEW YORK — The Toronto Blue Jays continued their high-scoring ways, hitting three home runs in an 8-5 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in American League Monday night at Tropicana Field. Toronto broke open a close game with four runs in the sixth. Tampa Bay, coming home from an 8-2 road trip, came through for 15 hits but stranded a season-high 14 runners on base and struck out a season-high 15 times. The score was 3-3 before the Blue Jays' sixth-inning rally. Designated hitter Jose Bautista got it started with a solo home run, his 15th of the season and the Jays' third solo shot of the game. Reliever Ronald Belisario replaced Tampa Bay starter Matt Andriese and struggled, giving up three hits in the inning. Tigers 8, Indians 5: Yoenis Cespedes had a double, a home run and three RBIs as Detroit continued its mastery over Cleveland, beating the Indians 8-5 at Progressive Field. The Tigers jumped out to a 7-3 lead through four innings, led by Cespedes, who had an RBI double in the first inning, a solo home run in the third and a sacrifice fly in the fourth. Twins 13, White Sox 2: Minnesota busted out of its offensive slump in a big way, posting a pair of five-run innings in 13-2 a win over Chicago at Target Field. Royals 4, Mariners 1: Kansas City veteran Joe Blanton won his second consecutive start, holding Seattle to two hits over six innings in the Royals' 4-1 victory. National League Cubs 4, Dodgers 2: Kris Bryant clubbed a pair of home runs for his first career multi-homer game as Chicago beat Los Angeles 4-2. Bryant collected three RBIs, including a pair with his two-run homer in the third off Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw, who took the loss in the opener of a four-game series. Inter-League Phillies 11, Yankees 8: Rookie Maikel Franco homered twice and had a career-high four RBIs as Philadelphia snapped a 12-game road losing streak with an 11-8 victory over New York. Franco had hits in his first four at-bats. He hit a solo home run in the first, an infield single in the third and a two-run single in the fourth. He recorded his first career two home-run game and first four-hit game with a long two-run home run off New York left-hander Chris Capuano with two outs in the sixth. ‘Rose bet as a player' Pete Rose, despite longstanding denials, bet on baseball during his playing days, according to an ESPN report Monday that could hurt his bid to overturn a lifetime ban imposed on him in 1989 for gambling as a manager. Copies of a notebook seized from the home of a former Rose associate show Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader bet on at least one MLB team on 30 different days, according to ESPN's Outside the Lines. The report also states that on 21 of those days, Rose bet on baseball and on the Cincinnati Reds, including on games in which he played. The documents do not show that Rose bet against his team. The evidence was obtained from the home of Michael Bertolini during a raid by the US Postal Inspection Service in 1989 that was part of a mail fraud probe and unrelated to sports betting, ESPN said. — Agencies
