Lucroy, Brewers sweep Dodgers; Peralta earns 15th win of season.

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Brewers 7, Dodgers 2: Jonathan Lucroy tied a season high with five RBIs, including his first home run in more than three weeks, and visiting Milwaukee completed a three-game sweep of Los Angeles.

Wily Peralta (15-7) tied Johnny Cueto and Adam Wainwright for the major league lead in victories, allowing five hits in six scoreless innings. The right-hander is 6-1 with a 1.79 ERA in his last seven starts.

Carlos Gomez hit his 20th homer, helping the Brewers maintain their three-game lead over St. Louis in the NL Central. They also became the first team to sweep the NL West-leading Dodgers in a series of three or more games this season.

Dodgers right-hander Dan Haren (10-10) gave up six runs and five hits over three innings in his shortest outing of the season.

Yankees 4, Rays 2: Hiroki Kuroda pitched neatly into the seventh inning and Brett Gardner drove in two runs to lead the Yankees to the road win.

Kuroda (8-8) retired 17 straight batters after allowing consecutive one-out singles to Ben Zobrist and Matt Joyce in the first. He gave up two runs and four hits in 6⅔ innings.

After Shawn Kelley and Dellin Betances combined for 1⅓ scoreless innings, David Robertson closed for his 33rd save.

Tampa Bay's Jeremy Hellickson (1-2) gave up three runs and four hits in five innings. Evan Longoria had two RBIs for the Rays.

Mark Teixeira reached 20 homers for the 11th time in his career with a solo shot in the Yankees eighth.

Royals 12, Twins 6: Alex Gordon, Salvador Perez and Josh Willingham homered, and the visiting Royals won for the 20th time in their last 25 games.

Kansas City sent 11 batters to the plate and scored seven times in the second, keyed by two-run singles for Alcides Escobar and Nori Aoki. The Royals also increased their AL Central lead to 11/2 games over Detroit, which lost 8-1 to Seattle.

Kansas City's Jeremy Guthrie (9-10) returned to the mound after a 54-minute rain delay in the fourth and lasted seven innings.

Joe Mauer, Kennys Vargas and Oswaldo Arcia homered for Minnesota. Tommy Milone (6-4) allowed seven runs in a career-low 1 1-3 innings.

Nationals 6, Pirates 5: Pinch-hitter Scott Hairston drove in Jayson Werth with a game-ending sacrifice fly, sending Washington to a three-game sweep.

Werth, who had missed the last five games with a bothersome shoulder, entered as a pinch hitter in the ninth and doubled leading off the 11th against Brandon Cumpton (3-4).

Werth went to third on Denard Span's grounder to first. Hairston then sent...