In his return to the mound after serving a six-game suspension, Jered Weaver is roughed up by the Toronto Blue Jays. The Jays score 8 runs in 4 2/3 innings to raise Weaver’s ERA from 1.78 to 2.13. Edwin Encarnacion, Mark Teahen and Adam Lind, who hits a grand slam, all homer off the Angels ace as the Jays roll to an easy 11 – 2 win.

Back in the line-up after being benched for a week, Yankees DH Jorge Posada drives in 6 runs, including 4 on a 5th-inning grand slam, and the Yankees win, 9 – 2, over the Rays. Phil Hughes is the winner over Jeremy Hellickson while Curtis Granderson hits his 33rd homer, catching Jose Bautista of the Blue Jays atop the major league leader board.

The Reds pound the Padres, 13 – 1, thanks to seven home runs, five of them off starter Tim Stauffer. Miguel Cairo and Ryan Hanigan both hit two homers, and Jay Bruce, Joey Votto and Todd Frazier also go deep. For Cairo, it is a first multi-homer game in a 16-year career. The seven homers tie a Reds franchise record.

Dan Uggla extends his Atlanta-record hitting streak to 32 games as he belts a pair of solo homers off the Cubs’ Carlos Zambrano for a 10 – 4 Braves win. Zambrano gives up a career-high 5 home runs, as he is tagged for 8 runs in 4 1/3 innings. After giving up Uggla’s second homer and another by Freddie Freeman back-to-back, he throws two brushback pitches at Chipper Jones and is ejected by home plate umpire Tim Timmons. The long-time Cubs ace then cleans out his locker and leaves the ballpark, not informing manager Mike Quade or anyone else whether he is in fact retiring. The Cubs will place him on the disqualified list tomorrow. Before the game, the Braves officially retire uniform number 6, worn by long-time manager Bobby Cox who retired after last season.

CC Sabathia also gives up 5 home runs, facing the Tampa Bay Rays. Casey Kotchman, Kelly Shoppach, Johnny Damon, Elliot Johnson and Evan Longoria all hit solo homers off the Yankees ace, accounting for all of the Rays’ runs in a 5 – 1 win. David Price is the winner.

The Diamondbacks get a 9th-inning, two-out, two-run pinch homer from rookie 1B Paul Goldschmidt to tie their game with the Astros at 5 – 5, then win it, 8 – 5, on another homer, a walk-off three-run shot by Chris Young off Sergio Escalona in the 10th. The dramatic win allows Arizona to remain in first place in the NL West.

The Giants set an obscure record, but it is little consolation as they relent the NL West lead to the Diamondbacks. In the Giants’ 9 – 2 loss to the Pirates, Pablo Sandoval hits a solo homer off Jeff Karstens – the 19th consecutive solo shot by the team, tying a record set by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1914. The Giants’ last long ball with men on base was on July 6th. Meanwhile in Phoenix, the D-Backs set down the Astros, 6 – 3, as Henry Sosa is the loser in his major league debut, to go half a game up on the Giants. Josh Collmenter is the winner.

Curtis Granderson, otherwise having a tremendous season, is embarrassed when he falls for the “play that never works”, when the opposing pitcher fakes a throw to third base, then throws to first. Granderson is picked offby Jordan Walden of the Angels to end the Yankees’ 6 – 4 loss to the Halos. Yanks manager Joe Girardi is philosophical about the blunder though: “Our aggressiveness has won us a lot of ballgames; tonight it cost us”, adding that baserunners were 15 for 15 in steal attempts against the Angels’ closer this year.