NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge tied Mark McGwire's rookie record for homers in the third inning and broke the mark in the seventh as the New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 11-3 during a makeup game Monday afternoon.Judge tied McGwire by hitting a full-count fastball from Jakob Junis (8-3) into the back rows of the lower portion of the right-center-field seats just below the bleachers with one out in the third.Judge reached 49 in his 150th game and 525th at-bat. McGwire did it in 151 games and 547 at-bats for the Oakland A's in 1987. In his second attempt at getting the 50th homer, Judge emphatically broke McGwire's mark, hitting a 2-1 breaking ball from Trevor Cahill into the left-center-field seats beyond the Royals bullpen, giving New York a 7-3 lead and becoming the fifth Yankee to reach 50 homers.Greg Bird hit a two-run homer and Gary Sanchez followed Judge's record-breaking homer with his 33rd of the season as the Yankees lowered their magic number for clinching home field in next Tuesday's wild-card game to two. New York won for the 17th time in 24 games.Blue Jays 6, Red Sox 4BOSTON -- Drew Pomeranz lasted just two-plus innings as Boston lost to Toronto in the opener of a three-game series.The Red Sox's lead in the American League East was reduced to four games over the Yankees. The loss was extra painful for Boston as both Eduardo Nunez (knee) and Mookie Betts (wrist) left the game with injuries.Pomeranz allowed a homer to Josh Donaldson (No. 31, an AL-leading 22 since the All-Star break) in the first inning. Then he gave two-out, two-run doubles to Teoscar Hernandez and Donaldson in the second.Dodgers 9, Padres 3LOS ANGELES -- Yu Darvish threw seven sharp innings, and Logan Forsythe and Austin Barnes delivered offensively as the National League West champion Los Angeles Dodgers won their 100th game of the year, beating the San Diego Padres 9-3 on Monday.The Dodgers (100-57) have their first 100-win season since they went 102-60 in 1974. With five games left to play, Los Angeles leads the Washington Nationals (95-61) by 4 1/2 games in the race to secure home-field advantage throughout the NL playoffs.Darvish (10-12, 4-3 since joining the Dodgers) allowed just one run on two hits, one a bloop single, while striking out nine and walking none.Braves 9, Mets 2 (Game 1)NEW YORK -- Rookie Lucas Sims had a day to remember on the mound and at the plate, leading Atlanta over New York in the opener of a doubleheader.Sims tossed 6 2/3 strong innings and collected his first major league hit to start a three-run sixth. The Braves have won four of five while the Mets have lost three straight and 11 of 14. The 90-loss season is the first for New York since 2009.The 6 2/3 innings were a career high for Sims (3-5), who allowed two runs on five hits and two walks while striking out six in his first start since Sept. 2. He carried a four-hit shutout into the seventh and was lifted with two on and two outs before Dan Winkler gave up a two-run double to Tomas Nido.Mets 3, Braves 2 (Game 2)NEW YORK -- Seth Lugo picked up the win by tossing six shutout innings, and Travis d'Arnaud homered and finished with two RBIs as New York got a split of the doubleheader.The win in the nightcap snapped a three-game losing streak for the Mets. The loss was the second in six games for the Braves.D'Arnaud's homer was the 219th of the season for the Mets, a team record.Nationals 3, Phillies 1PHILADELPHIA -- Behind a Michael Taylor home run and a strong all-around pitching effort led by A.J. Cole, Washington took care of Philadelphia.Washington has won six of its past eight games, while the Phillies dropped their fourth in five games. The Nationals, with six games left, are three wins from tying the franchise's single-season record.Taylor's home run, his 17th of the year, was a two-run shot. Cole allowed one run in 5 2/3 innings. The Phillies' Odubel Herrera hit a home run to end an 0-for-17 slump.White Sox 4, Angels 2CHICAGO -- James Shields worked seven efficient innings and claimed a third win in his past four starts as the Chicago damaged Los Angeles' dwindling playoff hopes.Shields (5-7) allowed two runs on four hits as he matched a season high in innings pitched while striking out eight and walking two. Nicky Delmonico went 2-for-4 with two RBIs for Chicago.Ricky Nolasco (6-15) took the loss as Los Angeles (77-79) fell for the seventh time in eight games and slipped five games behind the idle Minnesota Twins with six games to play.Cubs 10, Cardinals 2ST. LOUIS -- Jon Lester pitched six solid innings, and Kris Bryant and Javier Baez each bashed home runs as Chicago reduced its magic number for winning the National League Central to one.Lester (12-8) gave up a run on five hits and two walks. He fanned four. The Cubs ended a seven-game winning streak for Cardinals rookie Luke Weaver (7-2), who gave up eight runs on seven hits in three innings.The Cardinals lost All-Star catcher Yadier Molina in the seventh inning after he was struck with consecutive foul balls in the mask. The team announced that Molina was in the concussion protocol.Astros 11, Rangers 2ARLINGTON, Texas -- Houston took advantage of a mistake-riddled fourth inning to score eight runs, handing Texas its fourth straight loss.The Rangers fell six games behind Minnesota with six games to play in the race for the second wild-card berth. One loss by the Rangers or one Twins win eliminates Texas. American League West champion Houston (96-60) moved within two games of Cleveland (98-58) for the best record in the league.Marwin Gonzalez and Evan Gattis each had two hits and drove in two runs in the Astros' eight-run fourth inning. Two errors led to seven of those runs being unearned.Marlins 5, Rockies 4DENVER -- Odrisamer Despaigne stymied Colorado for six innings, and No. 8 hitter Miguel Rojas had a career-high four RBIs with two doubles, the first a three-run blow in Miami's four-run fourth.The Rockies lost for the sixth time in eight games. With five games remaining in the regular season, they are 1 1/2 games ahead of the Milwaukee Brewers and 2 1/2 games in front of the St. Louis Cardinals in the race for the second National League wild card.Rojas, Derek Dietrich and J.T. Realmuto each had two hits for Miami. Kyle Barraclough pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his first save.Mariners 7, A's 1OAKLAND, Calif. -- Felix Hernandez passed the 2,500-inning milestone with six innings of two-hit ball, pitching Seattle to a victory over Oakland.Mitch Haniger, Mike Zunino and Yonder Alonso, all of whom have ties to the San Francisco Bay Area, combined for four home runs in support of Hernandez (6-5) for the Mariners, who beat the A's for a seventh straight time. HernandezMarcus Semien accounted for the only run off Hernandez with a solo homer in the sixth inning for the A's, who saw a season-best, seven-game winning streak come to an end.Giants 9, Diamondbacks 2PHOENIX -- Nick Hundley and Hunter Pence homered, and Johnny Cueto won his sixth straight Chase Field start in San Francisco's victory over Arizona.Hundley hit a three-run homer and Pence added a solo homer in a five-run fifth inning to support Cueto (8-8), who gave up two runs in six innings.Arizona used a lot of backups the day after clinching the top NL wild-card spot. Second baseman Brandon Drury was the only regular who started, and he left in a double switch after the fifth inning.