Baseball-Highlights of Monday's Major League Baseball games

(Adds late games) June 29 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Monday's Major League Baseball games: - - - - Astros 6, Royals 1 Rookie right-hander Lance McCullers capped a stellar month with seven strong innings and the Houston Astros defeated the Kansas City Royals. McCullers (4-2) allowed a solo home run to Royals catcher Salvador Perez in the seventh for his only blemish, and capped closed June with a 2.11 ERA. Jose Altuve and Chris Carter clubbed home runs for the Astros (45-34) who are on top of the American League West. The Royals, atop the AL Central, fell to 44-29. - - Rangers 8, Orioles 1 Texas first baseman Mitch Moreland hit two of his team's four home runs and the Rangers cooled down the Baltimore Orioles. Catcher Carlos Corporan and right fielder Shin-Soo Choo also went deep for Texas, which tied a season high for homers in a game. The Rangers (39-38) snapped Baltimore's (41-35) four-game winning streak. Staked with an early lead, Wandy Rodriguez (5-3) kept the Orioles lineup off-balance for most of his outing. The left-hander allowed one run on eight hits with two walks and seven strikeouts over five-plus innings. - - Red Sox 3, Blue Jays 1 Clay Buchholz pitched eight strong innings and shortstop Xander Bogaerts drove in two runs as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Toronto Blue Jays. Buchholz (6-6) allowed five hits, no walks and one run while striking out five to earn his fourth win in a row over six starts. The Red Sox (35-43) built a 3-0 lead against Dickey with two runs in the third and another in the fifth. The Blue Jays (41-37) scored a run in the sixth to cut the lead to 3-1. - - Indians 7, Rays 1 Cleveland rookie right-hander Cody Anderson took a perfect game into the seventh inning, and the Indians beat the Tampa Bay Rays. Anderson (1-0) earned his first Major League victory by throwing eight innings of two-hit, one-run ball. Cleveland (34-41) ended a three-game losing streak, while Tampa Bay (42-36) lost for the fourth time in five games. - - Brewers 7, Phillies 4 In a clash of the two teams with the worst records in the Major Leagues, the Milwaukee Brewers beat Philadelphia. Jonathan Lucroy led the Milwaukee (30-48) surge, going 4-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs. The Phillies (27-51) scored early but went silent to slip 24 games below .500, tying their season-worst mark. - - Reds 11, Twins 7 Billy Hamilton reached base four times, recorded four steals to reach 40 for the season, and scored three times, sparking the Cincinnati Reds to a victory over the Minnesota Twins. Second baseman Brian Dozier homered for Minnesota (40-36), which trailed 9-1 after three innings but scored six times in the fourth to get within two. Catcher Tucker Barnhart had a career-high four hits and two RBIs for Cincinnati (35-40) to snap a three-game losing streak. - - Angels 4, Yankees 1 Mike Trout homered, stole a base and made a couple of highlight-reel catches in center field to lead the Los Angeles Angels to a win over the New York Yankees. Angels starter C.J. Wilson (6-6) went six strong innings to get the win for the Angels (40-37). Yankees starter C.C. Sabathia (3-8 went 7 1/3 innings, giving up four runs and six hits to get the loss for the Yankees (41-36). - - - A's 7, Rockies 1 Josh Reddick, Ike Davis and Billy Butler homered, and rookie Kendall Graveman threw seven shutout innings, leading the Oakland A's to a victory against the Colorado Rockies. The A's (35-44) were homerless in their previous four games before erupting for three home runs against Colorado (33-43) and ending their three-game losing streak. Oakland starter Kendall Graveman tossed seven scoreless innings and allowed just five hits. - - - Diamondbacks 10, Dodgers 6 Welington Castillo doubled home the tiebreaking run, and Paul Goldschmidt added a two-run single in a four-run eighth inning as the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers. Shortstop Nick Ahmed and right fielder Yasmany Tomas hit two-run homers for the Diamondbacks, who scored 10 runs in the final four innings to overcome a 4-0 deficit. Los Angeles (43-35) used six relievers who combined to give up 10 runs in four innings. (Editing by Jahmal Corner/Sudipto Ganguly)