New York: J.D. Martinez hit three homers and had six RBIs as the Detroit Tigers trounced the New York Yankees 12-4 Sunday to end a four-game skid on Sunday.
Martinez connected off Masahiro Tanaka (4-3) in the first. He struck out looking in the third and led off the fifth with another homer against the Japanese right-hander, who allowed three long balls for the first time in his big league career.
Martinez then went deep off Danny Burawa with two on in the sixth. With a chance to tie the major league record for homers in a game, Martinez flied out to right in the eighth.
Victor Martinez homered and drove in four runs for the Tigers.
Anibal Sanchez (6-7) lost his scoreless streak at 21 2-3 innings when Brian McCann homered.
Stephen Drew hit two home runs for the Yankees, who had won four in a row.
Bryce Harper and Yunel Escobar homered during a nine-run burst in the first inning, leading Washington over Pittsburgh. Gio Gonzalez (5-4) pitched seven shutout innings as the Nationals completed a three-game sweep.
Pittsburgh arrived at Nationals Park this weekend with an eight-game winning streak. Max Scherzer came within one strike of a perfect game while throwing a no-hitter Saturday, and rookie Joe Ross struck out 11 in the series opener.
Charlie Morton (5-1) had won all five of his starts this season before the Nationals erupted for the biggest first inning in their history.
In Kansas City, Missouri, David Ortiz passed two Hall of Famers with his 476th home run as Boston banged out 13 extra-base hits against Kansas City. Hanley Ramirez hit his team-best 15th homer and Mookie Betts also went deep for the Red Sox, who set a season high for runs. Xander Bogaerts had three doubles, and Wade Miley (7-6) pitched six scoreless innings.
Ortiz homered leading off the fourth to move past Stan Musial and Willie Stargell into 28th place on the career home run list.
Chris Young (6-3) gave up seven runs on three homers, four doubles and three walks in 4 2-3 innings.
