Rough day for Greinke in Arizona’s 16-2 loss to Red Sox

Steven Wright will spend time on the disabled list after jamming his shoulder pinch-running in the Red Sox game against the Dodgers last Sunday.

Mookie Betts hit three home runs and drove in a career-best eight runs, joining Hall of Famer Ted Williams as the only Red Sox players in over 100 years with a pair of three-homer games in a season and powering Boston over the Arizona Diamondbacks 16-2 on Sunday.

Boston starter Rick Porcello meanwhile improved to 16-3, tying Toronto’s J.A. Happ for the most wins in the majors. He’s 8-0 with a 2.47 ERA in his last 10 starts. The bullpen did keep Boston off the board in the final three innings, though you wonder how much they were trying, being 15 up after five.

Michael Bourn had a solo homer and RBI single for the Diamondbacks.

Betts laced a 3-run bomb into the first row of the Monster to suddenly put the Sox up 7-0 with just one out in the second.

This now brings us to David Price (10-8, 4.29 ERA) who perhaps has been the most inconsistent of them all. Sale is 0-3 in his past five games and hasn’t won since his suspension for cutting up the team’s throwback jerseys on July 23.

MARINERS 8, ATHLETICS 4: At Oakland, Kyle Seager doubled twice and drove in four runs to help Seattle beat the Athletics for its eighth victory in nine games.

Trailing 3-1, the Red Sox charged ahead with the runs that were keyed by Brito charging for the flyball and letting it drop next to him.

Pedroia led off the first inning with a single.

Ten pitches and three strikeouts later, he walked back to the dugout with a three-run lead intact. The New Jersey native held the New York Yankees to two runs and seven hits in eight innings to earn a win on Tuesday – the third straight start in which he completed at least eight frames.

The Red Sox continued to pressure the Diamondbacks’ pitching, scoring two more runs after Betts’ fifth-inning home run.

Ziegler, acquired last month from Arizona, saved what could have been a rough inning after Matt Barnes walked three straight batters.

Big Papi smiled and replied: “You want to learn how to hit home runs every time?” Baltimore trailed 7-1 after six innings, but got two runs in each of the seventh and eighth innings. Instead, righty Tom Koehler will start against White Sox left-hander Chris Sale (14-5, 3.16).

There would be neither a fifth hit nor a fourth homer.

Betts entered Sunday’s action batting.309/.349/.541 with 23 home runs, 76 RBI, 87 runs scored, and 18 stolen bases in 524 plate appearances.

Jimmy Paredes was a triple away from the cycle as the Philadelphia Phillies hung on for a 7-6 win over the Colorado Rockies, who scored twice in the ninth before Jeanmar Gomez escaped with his 31st save of the season. Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve is again leading the league in hitting (.362) and has a career-high 19 homers.

In the first inning, Betts cleared the wall, the Monster seats, the billboards and everything else with a shot that was measured at 423 feet by ESPN Home Run Tracker. Orlando is hitting.368 (39 for 106) since the All-Star break.