Seager, Utley lead Dodgers past O’s 7-5 for 5th straight win

In the process, he has already thrown 771/3 innings in the majors and Triple-A this season, about 10 short of the most he has ever thrown in a full season (two years ago with Class-A Rancho Cucamonga). Everyone is pretty spent usually.

Schoop drove in Manny Machado and Chris Davis, who had consecutive singles, when center fielder Trayce Thompson tried to a backhanded diving catch and the ball rolled well out of his reach. It was Schoop’s lone hit.

“When I’m getting good pitches to hit, I’m hitting them hard”, he said.

TIGERS 12, INDIANS 2 (at Cleveland) – Nick Castellanos had three hits, including a three-run homer, and tied his career high with five RBI to lead Detroit and stop the Indians’ home winning streak at 13. However Wieters (who was previously at first) had trouble picking the ball up, and he was thrown out at second.

I suspect that had the losing streak gone on guys would have started to push more and more, and at the end of the day they probably would have made more mistakes.

Pedro Baez and Brandon McCarthy were the only two Dodgers on the active roster who didn’t play in Wednesday’s game. Troy Tulowitzki had two hits as the Blue Jays won a rematch of last year’s AL Championship Series, which Kansas City took in six games.

Tillman, a right-hander from Anaheim, California, had his career-high nine-game winning streak snapped last week, and wasn’t selected for next week’s All-Star Game in San Diego.

The pitching staffs combined for 36 strikeouts, breaking a 20-year-old stadium record.

Despite the loss, the Dodgers’ locker room was upbeat as their recent success at home has placed them into postseason contention. Offensively, the Dodgers were unable to break the tie in the bottom half. He scored on Gonzalez’s single, giving the Dodgers a 1-0 lead. Mookie Betts hit a two-run homer, and Travis Shaw and Dustin Pedroia each added a solo shot as the Red Sox banged out 13 extra-base hits. The most pivotal at-bat was J.J. Hardy’s with one out and runners at second and third.

In the second, Turner and Corey Seager had issues with a pop fly and it dropped in, giving Mark Trumbo a double.

Orioles: Chris Tillman (10-2, 3.71 ERA) already has twice as many wins as any other Baltimore starter.

Norris was 3-7 with a 4.22 ERA with the last-place Braves, but he posted a 2.15 ERA in five starts since returning to the Atlanta rotation and held Colorado to two hits over six scoreless innings in his Dodgers debut on Friday. He gave up a monstrous three-run home run in the fifth inning to Manny Machado that almost reached the back row of the left-field pavilion. Norris, who went through a long bout with bronchitis, went 2-9 with a 7.06 ERA in 18 appearances before the Orioles cut bait after a demotion to the bullpen that didn’t work out.

“Not to take away from anybody else on the club”, Roberts said, “but with what he does on the offensive and defensive side, yeah, he’s our best player”. Napoli hit an 0-1 pitch from Bruce Rondon (2-1) into the left-field bleachers, helping the Indians to their 12th straight win at home. LHP Brett Anderson, on the DL with a bulging disk in his back, could be back by mid-August.

Norris, a 15-game victor for the Orioles’ division champion team in 2014, struggled mightily a year ago and was designated for assignment at the trade deadline when the team simply could no longer keep him on the roster.

Orioles: After a day off Thursday, the O’s open a three-game series at home against the Los Angeles Angels.

Dodgers LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu will make his first start in almost two years Thursday night against the San Diego Padres.