Billy Butler delivered a walk-off RBI double in the 10th, scoring Mark Canha and propelling the A’s to a 5-4 win over the Dodgers in the first game of a two-game set at the Coliseum.

J.D. Martinez smacked a two-run homer in the first inning and a tie-breaking sacrifice fly in the eighth to power the Tigers to a 10-8 Interleague victory Tuesday night over the Cubs, who lost for the second time in the last 11 games.

Tuesday night’s rain delay was two hours and 17 minutes, and long enough for Cubs pitcher Jason Hammel to look at video and see what’s wrong.

Three young Cardinals prospects showed off their talent on Tuesday. No. 3 prospect Jack Flaherty was on the hill for Class A Peoria during a 6-0 win and he overpowered Beloit hitters for nine strikeouts in six scoreless innings.

Not only did Mark Canha have a career-high four hits in the A’s 5-4 walk-off win over the Dodgers on Tuesday, but he scored three runs including the game winner in the 10th.

Garrett Richards held the White Sox to three runs in seven-plus innings and the Angels rode another pair of home runs to a 5-3 win on Tuesday night, their second straight to open the four-game series at Angel Stadium. With the Orioles’ loss to the Mets, the Angels moved back into the second American League Wild Card spot, taking a half-game lead on the O’s.

Michael Taylor delivered a go-ahead single in the seventh, and Washington tacked on plenty of insurance late, propelling the Nationals to a 15-6 win over Colorado in Tuesday’s series opener at Coors Field to end a six-game slide.

The performance of the St. Louis Cardinals’ pitching staff has been historically good. The Cardinals have a team earned run average of 2.58. The earned run average for all of Major League Baseball is 3.87.

The D-backs rallied for five late runs against the Pirates’ typically shutdown bullpen to tie the game in the ninth, but Pedro Florimon knocked a walk-off triple off the Clemente Wall in right field with two outs in the 15th inning, driving in Francisco Cervelli and sending Pittsburgh to a 9-8 win on Tuesday night at PNC Park.

Marwin Gonzalez crushed a walk-off home run to right field to lead off the 10th inning off Brad Boxberger to give the Astros a 3-2 win over the Rays on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park.

Brandon Crawford, whose errant throw aided the Cardinals in their series-opening win, broke a scoreless tie with a sixth-inning RBI groundout that pushed the Giants toward a 2-0 win over St. Louis at Busch Stadium on Tuesday.

Toronto third baseman Josh Donaldson led the way with two homers and four RBIs, the second coming in a five-run sixth inning as the Blue Jays came back to beat the Phillies, 8-5, on Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park.

With Hunter Pence (left oblique) unavailable, leaving the Giants with a short bench, manager Bruce Bochy sent Madison Bumgarner up as a pinch-hitter with two outs in the sixth during Tuesday’s game against the Cardinals. Bumgarner rewarded his manager’s confidence in him with a single that ignited a rally to give the Giants an insurance run in a 2-0 win.

Tack on four more hits to Ichiro Suzuki’s total in the Major Leagues. The 41-year-old outfielder looked like his vintage self in Tuesday’s 9-6 win over the Brewers, picking up his first four-hit game in a Marlins uniform.

To Starling Marte, it felt like a month since his last home run. In reality, the drought was more than a month-and-a-half long. A total of 118 at-bats passed by since he went deep on July 1, but at-bat No. 119 provided what Marte and Pirates fans alike have been looking for.

Although the Red Sox struggled mightily in the late stages of Ben Cherington’s term as general manager, the 2013 World Series championship banner that hangs at Fenway Park will serve as a constant reminder of what he accomplished.

Ben Zobrist has come up with some clutch at-bats since putting on a Royals’ uniform and that continued on Tuesday night when he hit the game-tying home run that led to a 3-1 victory in 13 innings over the Reds.