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SPORTS Thursday 7 sepTember 2017

Indians beat White Sox 9-4 for 13th straight win

By The Associated Press win.
CHICAGO (AP) — Jose RED SOX 3, BLUE JAYS 2, 19
Ramirez hit two more hom- INNINGS
ers and Austin Jackson also BOSTON (AP) — The Red
connected as the Cleve- Sox won their own version
land Indians beat the Chi- of a Boston marathon,
cago White Sox 9-4 on beating Toronto in the 19th
Tuesday night for their 13th inning on an RBI single by
straight victory, the lon- Hanley Ramirez in a game
gest run by a major league that took six hours.
team this season. Mookie Betts led off with
Danny Salazar got just two a double and Ramirez fol-
outs in his return from right lowed with a bloop single
elbow inflammation, but to end it at 1:11 a.m. The
Cleveland’s deep bullpen AL East leaders stopped a
took over from there. Sev- three-game losing streak
en relievers combined for 8 and increased their cush-
1/3 scoreless innings as the ion to 3 1/2 games over the
Indians moved within one second-place Yankees.
of their franchise-record 14- About 700 fans stayed un-
game win streak last year. til the end to see Boston
Jackson and Ramirez hit win the longest game in
back-to-back homers dur- the majors since July 2016,
ing a three-run first against when Cleveland beat To-
David Holmberg (2-4). ronto 2-1 in 19 innings. The
Ramirez added another Red Sox forced extra in- Cleveland Indians’ Jose Ramirez celebrates in the dugout after a home run during the second
inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, in Chicago.
solo shot in the second, nings by rallying for two Associated Press
and the AL Central lead- runs in the ninth to hand
ers went ahead to stay on Roberto Osuna his 10th picked up the win. Chris and hit his second home BALTIMORE (AP) — Manny
Greg Allen’s tiebreaking, blown save. Rowley (1-2) lost in his fourth run since joining the Astros Machado hit a two-run
two-run double in the third. Boston first baseman Mitch inning of relief. Red Sox to snap a 1-all tie. homer off Dellin Betances
Yan Gomes tacked on a Moreland was 31 years old center fielder Jackie Brad- Seattle starter Ariel Miranda with two outs in the bottom
three-run shot in the ninth. when his RBI grounder tied ley Jr. helped save it when threw 112 pitches over six of the ninth inning, capping
Ramirez has five homers in it at 2 — he turned 32 when he threw out Jose Bautista hitless innings that included a big comeback that lifted
his last three games. He is his birthday came at mid- at the plate to end the top six walks — three of which Baltimore over New York.
batting .500 (17 for 34) with night, and celebrated with of the 11th. led to Houston’s first run Betances (3-6) retired
seven homers and nine RBIs a win. ASTROS 3, MARINERS 1 in the third on Alex Breg- the first two batters in the
on Cleveland’s 11-game This was the second-lon- SEATTLE (AP) — Justin Ver- man’s sacrifice fly.James ninth before Tim Beckham
road trip. gest game ever at Fen- lander pitched six strong Pazos (4-5) relieved in the walked. Machado then
Matt Davidson hit a three- way Park, which opened innings and won his Astros seventh and walked Brian drove a hanging breaking
run drive for last-place Chi- in 1912. The Red Sox lost debut after Cameron May- McCann with one out. Pa- ball far over the center-
cago, which has dropped to Seattle 8-7 in 20 innings bin hit a two-run homer zos was replaced by Emilio field wall to provide the Ori-
six of eight. Top prospect in 1981 — that game was with one out in the seventh Pagan, who gave up May- oles an unlikely victory after
Yoan Moncada went 1 for suspended after 19 innings for Houston’s first hit against bin’s eighth homer on a 3-2 New York scored six runs in
5 in his return from a bruised past 1 a.m. because of an Seattle. pitch.Verlander (11-8), the the third to go ahead 6-1.
right shin. American League curfew With all the attention on 2011 AL MVP and a six-time It was Machado’s second
When the White Sox led 4-3 rule, and resumed about Verlander’s first game for All-Star, allowed six hits and homer of the game and
in the first, it was the first 18 hours later. a team other than the De- struck out seven. Joe Mus- team-high 32nd of the sea-
time the Indians had trailed Boston used 12 pitchers troit Tigers, it was another grove threw two innings son. Jonathan Schoop and
since they were down by against the Blue Jays, ty- deadline acquisition that of scoreless relief and Ken Mark Trumbo also went
one against the Yankees ing an American League sent Houston to its sixth Giles got his 29th save. deep for the Orioles, who
on Aug. 28. record set a day earlier by straight victory. Maybin Kyle Seager homered off closed within a half-game
Dan Otero (3-0) pitched the Angels. was claimed off waivers Verlander. of Minnesota for the sec-
two scoreless innings for the Hector Velazquez (3-1) from the Angels on Aug. 31 ORIOLES 7, YANKEES 6 ond AL wild card.q