Nationals No. 5 prospect Reynaldo Lopez is among the top prospect performers in the Minors on Sunday.

4-1-5 may be the most prominent area code in San Francisco, but it was the Yankees who used those numbers to answer the call and disconnect a budding Giants rally in their 5-2 victory on Sunday at Yankee Stadium.

The week ahead in baseball takes us to the final day of July, and as the schedules of the contending clubs of the Major Leagues are undoubtedly heating up, well, so is that stove.

Billy Butler’s solo home run in the eighth proved to be the difference in the A’s 3-2 win over the Rays Sunday at the Oakland Coliseum.

Rookie Adam Frazier couldn’t have picked a better time to knock his first Major League home run that nearly reached the Allegheny River. His pinch-hit solo shot to the top of the right-field bleachers broke a tie in the bottom of the seventh inning, leading the Pirates to a 5-4 series win over the Phillies on Sunday at PNC Park.

The Rockies will promote their No. 2 prospect, outfielder David Dahl, to the big leagues. Dahl, 22, was hitting a combined .314 with 18 home runs and 61 RBIs between two Minor League stops.

Carlos Beltran and Mark Teixeira homered to support Nathan Eovaldi, who threw a season-high 118 pitches to lead the Yankees to a 5-2 victory over the Giants on Sunday at Yankee Stadium, securing a winning homestand for the club as it attempts to block out swirling trade speculation.

The Nationals and Padres found themselves in a slugfest on Sunday afternoon at Nationals Park. When it was over, the Padres outslugged the Nationals, 10-6.

The Astros rolled to another sweep of the Angels on Sunday afternoon behind the little man making a big run for the American League Most Valuable Player award.

All the Cubs want to do is win series, and they did just that on Sunday, rallying from a four-run deficit to beat the Brewers, 6-5, in front of a sellout crowd of 43,310 at Miller Park

“C’mon, man” – Jayson Werth, probably.

That’s how you do it.

Normally, Friday night is reserved for fireworks at Great American Ball Park. But the D-backs brought their own on Sunday. With a four-homer performance, Arizona salvaged the third game of the series by topping the Reds, 9-8, and ending a four-game losing streak.

When Freddie Freeman produced his impressive offensive tear during June’s final two weeks, he was not taking batting practice because of the discomfort caused by what was essentially a cracked left rib.

The Angels announced Sunday that Tyler Skaggs will start Tuesday’s game from Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, five days before the two-year anniversary of his last Major League game.

The Orioles are rolling again. Baltimore, which endured a four-game losing streak last week, watched Nolan Reimold’s two-out walk-off homer lift the O’s to a 5-3 sweep-clinching win over the Indians on Sunday afternoon. Now winners of four straight, the Orioles remain the American League East leaders with Reimold’s big blast.

The only father who has ever hit back-to-back home runs in a Major League game with his son watched with pride Sunday as Ken Griffey Jr. was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.