The Mets freshman Jacob deGrom establishes a franchise mark for rookies when he throws 67.1 innings, a span of 10 games, without allowing a home run. The 26 year-old right-hander’s streak ends when Ian Desmond takes him deep in the second inning of the team’s 5-3 loss to Washington at Nationals Park.

Concerned over the health of starting pitcher Josh Beckett, the Dodgers acquire P Roberto Hernandez from the Phillies in return for future considerations.

The Rangers move into a tie for first place in the AL West when they beat the Angels, 10 – 3, for their 9th win their last 10 games. The Rangers steal seven bases as their two table-setters, Leonys Martin and Elvis Andrus, reach base a combined 8 times and rack up 6 steals between them. The Rangers stole 6 bases yesterday, making them the second team since 1917 to steal six or more bases in consecutive games.

CF Roger Bernadina makes one of the best catches of the year to preserve Washington’s 3 – 2 win at Houston. With two outs and two on in the bottom of the 12th, Brett Wallace hits a ball to deep center. On a full run, Bernadina leaps to grab the ball, disappearing momentarily behind one of the pillars protruding in front of the visitors’ bullpen at Minute Maid Park, and emerges with the ball in his glove. Washington now has the best record in the majors at 67-43, a feat the team has not accomplished this late in a season since its predecessors the Montreal Expos were leading the majors at the start of the 1994 strike.

The Red Sox win the rubber match of their three-game series against the Yankees, 3 – 2, to recapture first place by a game in front of New York in the AL East. Josh Reddick ends the game with a run-scoring single in the 10th inning, after the Sox rally against Mariano Rivera to tie the game in the 9th. The Yankees take a 2 – 1 lead on homers by Eduardo Nunez and Brett Gardner, but Marco Scutaro leads off the 9th with a double – his fourth hit of the game – then scores on a sacrifice fly to send the game into extra innings. Also of note, Jorge Posada is benched tonight amid talk that his job as the Yankees’ starting DH may be in jeopardy.

Dan Uggla extends his hitting streak to 28 games as the Braves defeat the Mets, 6 – 5. He has to wait until the 8th inning to deliver a single to keep the streak alive; his teammate Freddie Freeman is not so fortunate, as an 0-for-4 day ends his streak at 20 games. It is the first time a pair of teammates have had simultaneous 20-game streaks since Mickey Rivers and Al Oliver with the 1980 Texas Rangers. The real hero for the Braves, though, is the man Mets fans love to hate, Chipper Jones, who drives in the winning run with a 9th-inning single off Bobby Parnell.

For the first time since May, the major leagues’ all-time save leader, Trevor Hoffman, gets the ball in a save situation. He disposes of the Astros in order on 8 pitches to preserve a 5 – 2 Brewers win for his 597th career save. Hoffman blew 5 of his first 10 save opportunities this year to earn relegation to the outer reaches of the Brewers’ bullpen, while rookie John Axford has pitched extremely well since taking over as the team’s closer. Randy Wolf is the winner and Rickie Weeks hits an inside-the-park homer leading off the game for Milwaukee.

Two days after learning that starting 1B Kevin Youkilis is done for the season with a thumb injury, the Red Sox sign veteran Carlos Delgado, who has not played at all this year, to a minor league contract. He will be assigned to AAA Pawtucket but will fail in his bid to return to the big leagues.

Everth Cabrera of the Padres hits a 9th-inning walk-off grand slam off Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez for a 6 – 2 win.