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SPORTSSaturday 26 September
Royals Kansas City Royals celebrate after a baseball game against the without a walk. Hamels allowed four hits,
Seattle Mariners on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, in Kansas City, Mo. All-Star setup man Dellin walked three and struck
Continued from page 17 The Royals won 10-4 and clinched the AL Central. Betances entered in the out two.
seventh with two on and Josh Reddick singled and
Baltimore entered Thurs- Associated Press two outs. He walked Melky scored for Oakland, which
day four games out of the Cabrera and Thompson to has lost five straight and
second AL wild-card spot, season and third of the se- of idle Toronto in the AL force home a run before dropped 25 games under
while Washington began ries. East. New York cut its mag- striking out Adam LaRoche. .500 for the first time since
the day 6 1/2 games be- YANKEES 3, WHITE SOX 2 ic number to six for clinch- Andrew Miller pitched the 1997.
hind the NL East-leading NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos ing at least a wild-card slot. ninth for his 35th save. Chris Bassitt (1-7) gave up
New York Mets. Beltran hit a three-run hom- Beltran connected in the Sale (12-11) fell to 0-4 in his three runs and six hits in
This was a makeup of a er off White Sox ace Chris third inning for his 18th last six starts and the White three innings.
game postponed Monday Sale to lead New York in its homer. Michael Pineda Sox dropped their third INDIANS 6, TWINS 3
because of rain. push for a playoff spot. (12-8) gave up one run, straight. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jason
Manny Machado’s RBI sin- After a tribute before their Trayce Thompson’s homer, RANGERS 8, ATHLETICS 1 Kipnis hit a leadoff homer
gle in the first inning and first home game since Yogi in six innings. He improved OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — and Carlos Santana con-
Schoop’s two-run shot in Berra died, the Yankees the best strikeout-to-walk Cole Hamels pitched six nected for a three-run shot
the fourth gave the Orioles closed within three games ratio in the AL, fanning six innings to earn his fifth con- as Cleveland helped its slim
a 3-0 lead. secutive win and Prince playoff chances.
But Wilson Ramos’ homer Fielder hit his 22nd homer Francisco Lindor had three
and Yunel Escobar’s two as Texas completed a hits for Cleveland, which is
run-scoring hits helped the three-game sweep. four games behind Hous-
Nationals go up 4-3. The Rangers moved a sea- ton in the race for the sec-
Blake Treinen (2-4) came son-high 14 games over ond AL wild card with 11 to
on for the eighth as Wash- .500 and extended their play. But the Twins, Angels
ington’s fourth pitcher. lead to 3 1/2 games over and Orioles are between
Steve Pearce singled and the idle Houston Astros in the Indians and Astros in
Wieters followed with his the AL West. Adrian Beltre the standings.
seventh homer. drove in three runs, and The Twins and Angels are
Mike Wright (3-5) got two Delino DeShields had three 1 1/2 games behind Hous-
outs in the seventh for the hits and two RBIs for Texas. ton. Baltimore is 3 1/2 back.
victory. Brad Brach threw Hamels (11-8) gave up an Torii Hunter and Eddie Ro-
a scoreless eighth, and unearned run in the sec- sario homered for Minne-
Darren O’Day pitched the ond and improved to 5-1 in sota, which finished a 4-6
ninth for his sixth save of the 10 starts with the Rangers. homestand.q
