Iglesias, Altuve and Candelario liven up the Latin party in the Major Leagues

Sports Desk, Jul 12 (EFE).- José Iglesias’s cops, Jose Altuve and Jeimer Candelario were in charge of attacking their rivals to be the offensive reference among Latinos this Friday in the Major Leagues.

METS 7-6 ROCKIES
Cuban José Iglesias and Harrison Bader hit two home runs and Mark Vientos added a homer to give the New York Mets a narrow victory over the Colorado Rockies, earning their fourth straight win.

The Venezuelan Francisco Alvarez He scored one run for the Mets, while Puerto Rican Edwin Díaz (10) pitched a scoreless ninth to get the save.

Charlie Blackmon, Brenton Doyle, Michael Toglia and Brendan Rodgers homered for the Rockies.

ASTROS 6-3 RANGERS
Jose Altuve hit a three-run homerwhile Jake Meyers and Alex Bregman added a solo home run to lead the Houston Astros’ offense, who added their fourth consecutive victory by defeating the Texas Rangers.

Honduran Mauricio Dubón scored twice for the Astros and Cuban Yordan Álvarez added an RBI.
Corey Seager homered and drove in all three of the Rangers’ runs in the game.

ORIOLES 1-4 YANKEES
Aaron Judge hit his 33rd homer of the season, Jose Trevino scored and drove in a run and Juan Soto added an RBI as the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles.

Gerrit Cole (2-1) pitched six innings of one-run ball and struck out seven for the Yankees.

Mexican Ramón Urías drove in the Orioles’ only run in the game.

REDS 7-4 MARLINS
Rece Hinds hit a grand slam, Dominican Jeimer Candelario deposited the ball behind the wall and scored twice and Jonathan India also sent the ball into the stands as the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Miami Marlins.

Dominican Noelvi Marte scored one run and Puerto Rican Alexis Días allowed one run in one inning on the mound.
Jesus Sanchez hit a three-run homer, and fellow countryman Bryan de la Cruz drove in a run for the Marlins.

RED SOX 1-6 ROYALS
MJ Melendez hit a home run and scored twice, Bobby Witt Jr. contributed a homer and the Venezuelan Salvador Perez It took two runs to help the Kansas City Royals beat the Red Sox in their visit to Boston.

Ceddanne Rafaela drove in the Red Sox’s only run.

PHILLIES 2-6 ATHLETICS
Lawrence Butler hit a two-run homer, Shea Langeliers drove in two runs and Miguel Andujar scored and drove in a run as the Oakland Athletics held off the Philadelphia Phillies, who were coming off a three-game sweep of the Dodgers.

Reliever Osvaldo Bido (1-1) pitched three scoreless innings, with two strikeouts, as the Athletics got off to a grand slam.

Panamanian Edmundo Sosa and Dominican Cristian Pache drove in one run each, but it was not enough to rescue the Venezuelan Ranger Suarez (10-6), who allowed four runs in six innings, in which he struck out six batters.

TIGERS 3-4 DODGERS
Freddie Freeman homered, Dominican Teoscar Hernández scored and drove in a run and Japanese Shohei Ohtani produced a run to break the tie in the ninth, so that the Los Angeles Dodgers shook off and left behind a chain of four consecutive losses by beating the Detroit Tigers.

Riley Greene, with two RBIs, was the most outstanding for the Tigers.

RAYS 2-0 GUARDIANS
The Venezuelan Carlos Carrasco (3-7) pitched five innings, in which he scored two runs, only one of them clean, but the Cleveland Guardians’ offense did not support him and he ended up falling with the defeat in the game once morest the Tampa Bay Rays.

Riley Greene scored twice and Yandy Diaz drove in a run to lead the Rays.