— Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani homered, Eric Young Jr. drove in the go-ahead run during a five-run eighth inning and the Los Angeles Angels blew a three-run lead before rallying to snap their six-game skid with a 10-7 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night. After DJ LeMahieu’s first career grand slam put the Rockies up 7-5 in the eighth, the struggling Angels improbably mounted a five-run rally in the bottom of the inning. Colorado is a game back of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West.
–Alex Bregman and Tyler White homered and drove in four runs each, and the Houston Astros rallied for an 11-4 win over the Oakland Athletics. It was the sixth straight win for the first-place Astros, who moved to 2 1/2 games ahead of Oakland in the AL West standings. George Springer and Jose Altuve helped in the victory, driving in a run each during a five-run third inning that erased an early 4-0 deficit. This was the first game Springer, Altuve and Carlos Correa were in the lineup together since June 25. Springer, who pinch-hit Sunday, missed the previous five games with a quadriceps injury.
— Chris Stratton threw a career-high eight innings to outpitch Patrick Corbin, and the San Francisco Giants blanked the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-0 Monday night on a two-run homer by Steven Duggar. Duggar’s second home run of the season helped the Giants gain ground on the NL West-leading Diamondbacks. San Francisco pulled within seven games of first place and 7½ of the second wild card. Arizona’s lead dropped to a half-game over the idle Los Angeles Dodgers.
— Kendrys Morales home run streak is over, snapped at seven games by the Orioles. Baltimore ended an eight-game losing streak by defeating Morales’ Blue Jays, 7-0. Striving to tie the major league record of homering in eight consecutive games, Morales went 0 for 3 with a walk and did not hit the ball out of the infield. In his final chance, the Toronto slugger swung through a slider from Paul Fry to strike out in the eighth inning.
— Carlos Rodon pitched two-hit ball over seven innings, Yoan Moncada doubled in two as the surging Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 6-2 for their fourth straight win. Rodon allowed a two-run shot to Gleyber Torres but was strong otherwise, and Chicago’s bullpen closed out a three-hitter. The White Sox have won 10 of 13 and clinched their first winning month of the season by improving to 15-10 in August.
—Jon Lester pitched six innings, drove in two runs with a timely single off Noah Syndergaard and made two nice plays in the field, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the New York Mets 7-4 for their sixth consecutive victory. Anthony Rizzo homered and Daniel Murphy reached three more times from the leadoff spot as NL-leading Chicago moved a season-high 24 games over .500 by improving to 5-0 against New York this year.
— Stephen Strasburg threw six effective innings, Matt Wieters hit a solo homer and the Washington Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3. The Phillies fell 3 1/2 games behind Atlanta in the NL East after losing the opener for the seventh straight series. They’re 6-12 since Aug. 8 and have dropped five games in the standings in that span.