Baseball-Highlights of Thursday's MLB games

Sept 4 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Thursday's Major League Baseball games: - - - Brewers 5, Pirates 3 Taylor Jungmann allowed just one run over six innings and Domingo Santana hit a late home run as the Milwaukee Brewers finished a three-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 5-3 victory at Miller Park on Thursday. Jungmann won for the third time in his last four starts, holding the Pirates to three hits and two walks with three strikeouts. Jordy Mercer had two doubles, walked and scored twice but the Pirates went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position. - - - White Sox 6, Twins 4 J.B. Shuck's pinch-hit, two-run triple in the top of the seventh inning proved to be the difference as the Chicago White Sox beat Minnesota 6-4. With two on and the Sox trailing by a run, Shuck pinch-hit for Tyler Saladino and ripped a 1-1 offering from Twins reliever Casey Fien into the left-center-field gap, scoring Alexei Ramirez and Geovany Soto. - - - Nationals 15, Braves 1 Hot-hitting Ryan Zimmerman had three hits, including two doubles, and drove in four runs and every starter either had a hit or drove in a run as Washington crushed Atlanta in the first of a four-game series. Zimmerman now has six hits and seven RBIs in his last two games, with two homers and three doubles. He has 37 RBIs since coming off the disabled list July 28. - - - Rockies 11, Giants 3 Carlos Gonzalez continued his home run barrage as Colorado beat the fading San Francisco Giants. Gonzalez hit a two-run homer in the Rockies' four-run first and belted another two-run shot in the four-run fourth as Colorado strafed starter Ryan Vogelsong. - - - Royals 15, Tigers 7 Kendrys Morales stroked four hits and drove in four runs and Lorenzo Cain hit a three-run homer as Kansas City outslugged Detroit. Morales, who hit a two-run double in a six-run seventh to break the game open, upped his RBI total to 98, which ranks second in the American League. - - - Padres 10, Dodgers 7 Jedd Gyorko hit a two-run homer off right-handed reliever Jim Johnson in the bottom of the eighth to power the San Diego Padres to a come-from behind 10-7 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Petco Park. (Editing by John O'Brien)