The Chicago White Sox have agreed to a $12 million, one-year contract with veteran slugger Edwin Encarnación. Encarnación is due $11 million in salary next season.
New York Yankees have declined their 2020 option for Edwin Encarnación, making the veteran slugger a free agent. Encarnación was due $25 million in 2020.
LeMahieu and Judge hit back-to-back homers to begin the bottom of the first inning, and New York held on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 Tuesday night.
Leake matched his season high with seven strikeouts in seven innings and Seattle rallied with four runs in the eighth inning to beat the Oakland Athletics 6-3.
Encarnación hit two homers to become the third active player with 400 homers, and Tom Murphy added two more homers in the Mariners' 9-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.
Rookie Myles Straw led off the 14th inning with a triple and scored on Yuli Gurriel's sacrifice fly, and the Astros outlasted the Mariners 8-7 Thursday night.
Edwin Encarnacion capped Seattle's sixth inning with a three-run homer, Mike Leake pitched his first complete game since 2015 and the Mariners routed Houston Astros 14-1.