Red Sox left fielder Andrew Benintendi will get roughly six at-bats in a sim game at Fenway Park on Tuesday against Henry Owens and some other teammates, which could be his final step before being activated.

When Giants manager Bruce Bochy said before Friday night’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks that situations, not roles, would dictate how he would mix and match his use of relievers, he meant it.

Hunter Pence’s four hits led the bottom half of the Giants’ lineup, which posted 10 of San Francisco’s 12 hits in a win over the D-backs.

Pinch-hitter Kelby Tomlinson’s single broke a 12th-inning tie Friday night and enabled the San Francisco Giants to outlast the Arizona Diamondbacks, 7-6. The outcome kept the Giants a half-game ahead of the Mets for the National League’s first Wild Card spot. St. Louis trails the Giants by a game. San Francisco stands four games behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West.

D-backs center fielder A.J. Pollock and catcher/outfielder Chris Herrmann both exited Friday’s 7-6 loss to the Giants with injuries. Pollock suffered a strained left groin and Herrmann broke two bones in his left hand, ending his season.

After a shaky start against Houston five days earlier, Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish made some mechanical adjustments in order to better establish his most effective out pitch. The result was three hits, one earned run and nine strikeouts in the Rangers’ 2-1 win over the Angels on Friday night at Angel Stadium.

Tyler Chatwood allowed one run over 6 2/3 innings and had a two-run triple as the Rockies topped the Padres. Charlie Blackmon added a two-run home run for Colorado. Alex Dickerson had a home run, but rookie Luis Perdomo allowed four runs in 6 2/3 innings.

Now fully in control of their own destiny in the National League Wild Card race, the Mets parlayed three walks, a hit batsman and a fielding error into a four-run rally in the eighth inning Friday, stealing their sixth straight win, a 6-4 victory over the Braves at Turner Field.

In a matchup of pitchers in their first seasons back from Tommy John surgery, Yu Darvish and Tyler Skaggs dueled for six scoreless innings, but it was Adrian Beltre’s home run in the eighth that proved to be the difference as the first-place Rangers defeated the Angels, 2-1, in the opener of a three-game series at Angel Stadium.

Mark Teixeira hit his 11th career grand slam as the Yankees outlasted both the Rays and three rain delays to post their sixth straight win on Friday, a 7-5 victory at Yankee Stadium that moved them just one game off the pace for a postseason berth.

The Mariners kept pace in a crowded American League Wild Card race Friday night, pulling within 3 1/2 games of a postseason spot thanks to a 3-2, series-opening victory over the A’s behind right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma at the Coliseum.

As the Yankees watched the rain pelt the tarp in the ninth inning on Friday, needing two outs to move oh-so-close to postseason position, Dellin Betances gripped the ball tightly in his right hand. He wasn’t about to give it up.

The Indians were tested again on Friday night, when starter Danny Salazar exited with injury, but a booming home run from Mike Napoli helped push the Tribe to a 5-4 victory over the Twins.

Trea Turner clubbed a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth to lead the Nationals over the Phillies, 5-4, at Nationals Park on Friday night. Washington’s magic number dwindles to 14 to win the National League East. The second-place Mets defeated the Braves, 6-4.

The Royals, desperately needing a winning road trip, lost their second straight by dropping a 7-2 decision to the White Sox on Friday night at U.S. Cellular Field.

Mark Teixeira, the final season of his career drawing ever closer to its end, delivered the Yankee Stadium crowd one more huge swing Friday night in the Yankees’ 7-5 win over the Rays.

Jorge Alfaro and Rhys Hoskins powered Double-A Reading to a 13-6 win over Trenton on Friday night to stave off elimination from the Eastern League semifinals.