Jason Kipnis hit a walk-off grand slam with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Cleveland Indians rallied for a 4-1 victory over the visiting Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night at Progressive Field.
It was the 17th homer of the season for Kipnis and his second career grand slam. It was also the 1,000th career hit for Kipnis and the 10th grand slam homer hit by the Indians this season. Josh Donaldson led off the ninth with an infield single off reliever Juan Minaya, and Rajai Davis entered as a pinch runner.
“Couldn’t draw it up much better than that one,” Kipnis said. “That felt good.”
Caleb Frare (0-1) then replaced Minaya and was greeted by a ground single to left by pinch hitter Yandy Diaz that sent Davis to second. After Melky Cabrera popped out to Frare trying to sacrifice, Ian Hamilton replaced Frare and hit Yan Gomes with his first pitch to load the bases.
Kipnis then worked the count to 3-2 and before drilling a changeup 399 feet into the bleachers in right field for his fourth career walk-off hit.
Oliver Perez (1-1) picked up the win in relief for Cleveland (85-66), which improved to 8-0 against the White Sox this season at Progressive Field. Daniel Palka hit a solo homer in the sixth inning for Chicago (59-92). The White Sox wasted an excellent starting performance by Dylan Covey, who held the Indians to two hits and three walks over six scoreless innings. He struck out five and retired the last 10 batters he faced. Thirteen of his outs were on ground balls.
Cleveland starter Carlos Carrasco allowed one run on four hits and one walk over 6 2/3 innings. He struck out 11. It also marked the 29th time this season that an Indians pitcher has struck out 10 batters in a game.
Carrasco and Covey had dueling two-hit shutouts heading into the sixth inning. Palka then clobbered his 26th homer of the season to dead centrer, with the ball travelling an estimated 412 feet to give the White Sox a 1-0 lead. It marked the third straight game that Palka homered in, and it also was his seventh homer over a stretch of 43 at-bats.
Carrasco has made three starts against the White Sox this season, compiling a 2-0 record while allowing just one earned run over 20 2/3 innings, striking out 31 and walking two. 


Buehler, Puig help Dodgers sweep Rockies
Walker Buehler struck out a career-high 12 batters, and Yasiel Puig hit a pinch-hit three-run home run in the seventh inning as the Dodgers widened their lead in the National League West with a 5-2 victory over the visiting Colorado Rockies.
The victory finished off the Dodgers’ three-game sweep of the Rockies after entering the series in second place, a half-game behind Colorado. 
They went 12-7 against the Rockies this season and now lead the division by 2 1/2 games, their largest advantage at any point this year. The Dodgers (85-68), who were nine games out of the division lead on May 9, have won seven of their past eight games. The Rockies (82-70) have lost five of their last six games and are 1 1/2 games out of the NL’s second wild-card spot.
Puig was not in the starting lineup for the second consecutive game because of his struggles against left-handed pitching and the Rockies going with lefty Tyler Anderson. But Puig came on as a pinch hitter in the seventh and crushed an 0-1 offering from right-hander Scott Oberg (7-1) with two aboard. It was his 22nd of the season.
Buehler had nine strikeouts three times over his previous five starts, including Friday at St. Louis when he went eight scoreless innings. The right-hander reached double digits for the first time in his career when he retired DJ LeMahieu looking in the fifth inning.
Buehler almost failed to make it out of the first inning, loading the bases three batters into the game. After he gave up a two-run single to Ian Desmond with two outs, Dodgers left-hander Zac Rosscup started warming up in the bullpen.
Buehler settled down to give up just one more hit the rest of the way. Both of his runs allowed were unearned, due to a throwing error by third baseman Justin Turner, and he gave up just one walk while throwing 101 pitches over six 
innings.