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            Indians edge Red Sox in heavyweight battle of 1st-place teams


            By The Associated Press                                                                                             seventh  inning  for  the  fifth
            CLEVELAND  (AP)  —  Bran-                                                                                           straight  outing  to  earn  his
            don Guyer scored when first                                                                                         first  win  since  July  3.Juan
            baseman  Brock  Holt  threw                                                                                         Minaya  worked  a  perfect
            away Roberto Perez’s bunt                                                                                           ninth for his third save.
            in the ninth inning, lifting the                                                                                    Avisail Garcia had three hits
            Cleveland Indians over the                                                                                          and  two  RBIs  for  AL-worst
            Boston Red Sox 5-4 in Major                                                                                         Chicago.  Abreu  became
            League  Baseball  on  Mon-                                                                                          the first White Sox player to
            day night in a matchup of                                                                                           hit  25  or  more  home  runs
            first-place teams.                                                                                                  in each of his first four sea-
            After  Guyer’s  leadoff  dou-                                                                                       sons.
            ble against Brandon Work-                                                                                           Tim Melville (0-1) lasted just
            man (0-1), Holt fielded the                                                                                         3  1/3  innings  and  allowed
            bunted  ball  and  tried  to                                                                                        five runs in his Twins debut.
            throw  out  Guyer  at  third.                                                                                       RANGERS 5, ANGELS 3
            Guyer  slid  into  the  bag  as                                                                                     ANAHEIM, California (AP) —
            the throw skipped past third                                                                                        Adrian Beltre hit a three-run
            baseman  Rafael  Devers,                                                                                            homer  and  Cole  Hamels
            then  got  to  his  feet  and                                                                                       pitched seven effective in-
            raced  across  home  plate.                                                                                         nings  as  Texas  cooled  off
            Teammates  ran  onto  the                                                                                           Los Angeles.
            field and doused Perez with                                                                                         Hamels  (9-1)  allowed  two
            water and white powder.                                                                                             runs on three hits. Alex Clau-
            Perez also had a three-run                                                                                          dio got four outs to earn his
            homer in the second inning.                                                                                         seventh  save,  despite  giv-
            Cody  Allen  (1-6)  allowed                                                                                         ing up an RBI single to Mike
            Christian Vazquez’s leadoff   Cleveland  Indians’  Roberto  Perez  prepares  to  bunt  a  pitch  from  Boston  Red  Sox  relief  pitcher   Trout in the ninth.
            single  in  the  ninth,  but  re-  Brandon Workman during the ninth inning of a baseball game in Cleveland, Monday Aug. 21,   Tyler  Skaggs  (1-4)  was
                                         2017.
            tired  the  next  three  hitters.                                                                  Associated Press  charged with five runs, four
            The  inning  ended  when     with  four  hits  and  is  one  of six. They are a half-game  season  and  the  White  Sox   earned, in 5 1/3 innings. The
            shortstop  Francisco  Lindor   home  run  shy  of  reaching  ahead of the Angels for the  held  on.  Carlos  Rodon  (2-  Angels  had  won  nine  of
            ran  down  Mookie  Betts’    25 for the seventh consec-   second AL wild card.         4)  pitched  effectively  into   11.q
            popup  in  center  field  with   utive  season.  Zach  Britton  Dillon Gee (1-0) retired the
            his back to home plate.      got  the  final  out  with  two  first  12  White  Sox  batters
            Cleveland  relief  ace  An-  runners on for his 11th save  before rookie Nicky Delmo-
            drew  Miller  left  in  the  sev-  this season and his 60th in a  nico  homered  leading  off
            enth inning after aggravat-  row.                         the fifth. Gee allowed only
            ing the patellar tendinitis in   Baltimore  beat  Chris  Smith  two  hits  and  walked  none
            his right knee. Miller recent-  (0-3) for the second time in  through  six  innings.  Tyler
            ly  returned  after  over  two   12 days.                 Duffey  followed  with  three
            weeks  on  the  disabled  list   WHITE  SOX  7,  TWINS  6,  1ST  innings to earn his first save.
            with the knee injury.        GAME                         Polanco, who has five hom-
            ORIOLES 7, ATHLETICS 3       TWINS 10, WHITE SOX 2, 2ND  ers, hit a three-run shot off
            BALTIMORE  (AP)  —  Adam     GAME                         Derek Holland in the eighth
            Jones  hit  a  pair  of  home   CHICAGO (AP) — Jorge Po-  inning of the opener to cut
            runs and Jonathan Schoop     lanco hit his second three-  Minnesota’s  deficit  to  7-6.
            added  a  three-run  shot  to   run  homer  of  the  day  as  In homering for the first time
            help  Baltimore  beat  Oak-  Minnesota scored six times  in  back-to-back  games,
            land.                        in  the  second  inning  and  Polanco  did  it  in  consecu-
            Wade Miley (7-10) held the   routed  Chicago  to  split  a  tive at-bats.
            A’s to two runs, five hits and   doubleheader.            Fulmer  gave  up  six  runs
            four  walks  over  six-plus  in-  Brian Dozier added a three-  over 1 1/3 innings in his sea-
            nings to pick up his first win   run drive off Carson Fulmer  son debut.
            at  Camden  Yards  since     during the rally. Byron Bux-  In  the  first  game,  Yolmer
            June 17. Miley is 2-0 with a   ton and Jason Castro each  Sanchez    homered    and
            1.38  ERA  against  Oakland   added  a  solo  shot  for  the  drove  in  four  runs,  Jose
            this season.                 Twins,  who  have  won  five  Abreu  hit  his  25th  of  the
            Jones  tied  a  career  high
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