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Orioles third baseman Manny Machado connected on his 15th home run of the season during Sunday's 4-0 win over the Indians.

Machado hit the solo shot off Trevor Bauer in the sixth inning. He finished the game 2 for 4 with one RBI.

Prior to his two-hit game Sunday, Machado was hitting .429 with one home run and seven RBI in his last eight games.

Josh Donaldson had another big day for the Blue Jays on Sunday, cracking his 18th homer of the season to power Toronto to a victory over the Rangers. 

Donaldson opened the scoring for the Jays with a fourth-inning home run to left field, which also gave him 48 RBIs on the season. Donaldson added another hit to raise his average back over the .300 mark at .301. 

The Blue Jays' slugger has hit safely in eight of his last 10 contests, but this was his first home run since June 10, a span of 14 games. 

Pirates first baseman Pedro Alvarez is not in the starting lineup for Sunday's game. 

Alvarez has started 61 games this year, including the last five and eight of the last nine. 

He'll be replaced in the lineup by Sean Rodriguez, who starts at first for the seventh time this year. 

Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado increased his current hitting streak to 14 games on Saturday. Arenado went 1 for 4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored in the 7-5 loss to the Giants.

Over the 14-game stretch, the star third-baseman is batting .370 with seven home runs and 18 RBI. 

The Braves scored four runs in a loss Saturday at Pittsburgh. Second baseman Jace Peterson was responsible for three of them with one swing of the bat.

Peterson cut the deficit from 6-1 to 6-4 with a bases-clearing double in the seventh inning to drive starter Charlie Morton from the game. He added a single in ending a hitless streak that had reached 17 at-bats and lowered his average from .284 to .264, its lowest point in three weeks.

He has certainly hit in the clutch. He entered Saturday hitting .321 with two home runs with runners in scoring position and is now 7-for-11 with the bases loaded. He has an explanation.

"You kind of put a little more grit into it," he told MLB.com. "When you've got runners out there, you want to get them in."

Hot-and-cold Pirates first baseman Pedro Alvarez is hot again. He ran his hitting streak to five games in a Saturday victory over Atlanta with two hits.

Alvarez doubled in two in a five-run first and added a single to give him seven hits in his last 10 at-bats. He has six RBI during that stretch after enduring a 2-for-17 slide.

Giants third baseman Matt Duffy stayed hot at the plate in Saturday's 7-5 win over the Rockies. Duffy filled up the boxscore by going 3 for 4 with a double, a solo home run, two RBI and three runs scored.

Duffy's home run, his seventh of the season, was a solo shot in the fifth inning to bring the Giants to within a run. They would tack on three more in the seventh to claim their seventh win in the last 11 contests.

Duffy has been right in the middle of the success in that 11-game stretch, as he is hitting .355 with two home runs and 10 RBI.

Rays third baseman Evan Longoria homered and doubled in Saturday's win over Boston. 

Longoria had two extra base hits in a game for the first time since May 26. He went 2 for 4 and extended his hitting streak to five games. He's hitting .400 over that span (8 for 20). 

Longoria hit his eighth home run and drove in his 34th run. He added his 15th double of the year. 

Left fielder Eduardo Escobar managed one of seven hits for the Twins on Saturday in Milwaukee, but it not only jump-started his team, it proved to be the difference in the game.

Escobar smashed a three-run homer in the fourth inning that turned a 1-0 deficit into a 3-1 lead in a three-run win. It was his fourth home run of the season and gave him 26 RBI this season.

Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado was an offensive terror on Friday night, as he went 2 for 4 with two home runs and four RBI in the 8-6 win over the Giants. 

Arenado blasted a three run shot in the sixth inning off Tim Hudson to give the Rockies a 4-1 lead. Then Arenado added a solo shot in the ninth inning to make the score 8-3.

The star third baseman is up to 22 home runs on the year now, and he has an astounding six home runs over his last five games.