ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Russell Martin drew a bases-loaded walk with two outs in the top of the ninth inning, giving the New York Yankees a 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night.

Robinson Cano, Mark Teixeira, Brett Gardner and Eduardo Nunez also drove in runs for the second-place Yankees, who rallied from a 4-1 deficit to remain 1½ games behind the Boston Red Sox in the AL East.

Rookie left-hander Alex Torres (0-1) yielded the winning run in his major league debut after New York loaded the bases on Curtis Granderson’s single, an intentional walk to Nick Swisher and another walk to Andruw Jones. Martin worked Torres to a full count, fouled off a pitch and then took ball four to push Granderson across the plate.

After going a combined 3 for 50 in Sunday’s extra-innings loss to the Red Sox, the Rays scored three times and matched their hit total from the 5-hour, 44-minute marathon in the first inning alone against Yankees starter A.J. Burnett. Evan Longoria drove in the first two with a double and Burnett’s throwing error permitted the third run to score.

WHITE SOX 5, ROYALS 2: Mark Buerhle lasted seven innings in another impressive start, and the White Sox capitalized on an error by young shortstop Alcides Escobar to win on the road. Buehrle hasn’t allowed more than three earned runs in his last 14 starts.

INDIANS SWEEP TWINS: Lou Marson hit a tie-breaking solo homer in the seventh inning and the Indians completed a doubleheader sweep with a 6-3 victory over the Twins at Target Field.

Asdrubal Cabrera hit a three-run homer to lift the Indians to a 5-2 win in the matinee and added an RBI single in the nightcap.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

CUBS 6, PHILLIES 1: Aramis Ramirez and Carlos Pena homered to back a dominant start by Rodrigo Lopez as the host Cubs beat Philadelphia on a night when Phillies ace Roy Halladay left the game because of the heat.

Halladay doubled over and was visited by a trainer after Starlin Castro led off the fifth inning with a single. Halladay was drenched in sweat on a humid night in which the game-time temperature was 91.

MARLINS 4, METS 1: Clay Hensley came off the disabled list to win his first major league start in three years, leading the resurgent Marlins past the host Mets.

NATIONALS 5, ASTROS 2: Michael Morse and Ryan Zimmerman homered and Zimmerman drove in the go-ahead run in the ninth inning to give the visiting Nationals a win. Laynce Nix added a pair of insurance runs with an RBI single after Zimmerman’s hit in the ninth.

BRAVES 7, ROCKIES 4: Freddie Freeman homered and drove in three runs and right-hander Derek Lowe handcuffed the Rockies over 61/3 innings to pick up a win in Denver.