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SPORTS Saturday 30 September 2017

Judge 51st HR, Yankees miss

chance to move up, Rays win 9-6

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron lowed two runs and four warming up starter Sean
Judge hit his 51st home run hits in five innings, striking Manaea, out of view from
to give the Yankees a quick out two and walking one many fans and cameras.
lead, but New York missed for the AL West champion A small number of fans
a big chance to tighten the Astros. booed when Maxwell bat-
AL East race when Sonny INDIANS 5, TWINS 2 ted in the second inning.
Gray and the bullpen fell CLEVELAND (AP) — Car- Maxwell has been the only
apart in a loss to the Rays. los Carrasco struck out 14, major league baseball
The Yankees stayed three Jason Kipnis and Roberto player to take to a knee,
games behind division- Perez hit two-run homers mirroring protests by NFL
leading Boston, which and the Indians notched players against racial injus-
fell to Houston 12-2. Each their 100th win, 5-2 over the tice. This was Maxwell’s first
team has three games left understandably sluggish road game since he began
and both are assured play- Twins, who clinched a wild- his protest last weekend.
off spots — if they wind up card berth hours earlier. Manaea (12-10) gave up
even, the Yankees would Carrasco (18-6) dominated three hits and no earned
host the Red Sox in a tie- a Minnesota lineup loaded runs in 6 2/3 innings. Blake
breaker Monday. with reserves and Septem- Treinen pitched a scoreless
Brett Gardner, Greg Bird ber call-ups. He allowed six ninth for his 15th save in 20
and pinch-hitter Aaron hits — all singles — in 8 1-3 opportunities.
Hicks also homered for New innings and improved to Miguel Gonzalez (8-13)
York, which had won three 3-0 with a 0.92 ERA against took the loss.
in a row. Wilson Ramos the Twins. The right-hander WHITE SOX 5, ANGELS 4
homered during a seven- also moved into a tie for CHICAGO (AP) — Rob
run burst in the fifth inning the league lead in wins Brantly hit the game-tying
for the Rays, who had lost with teammate Corey Klu- home run in the eighth in-
three straight. ber and Kansas City’s Ja- ning and Tim Anderson
ASTROS 12, RED SOX 2 son Vargas. hustled home for the go- New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge follows through on a home run
BOSTON (AP) — Major Kipnis, who has moved ahead run as the White Sox during the first inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay
league batting leader Jose from second base to cen- rallied for a victory over the Rays on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, in New York.
Altuve had three of Hous- ter field, connected for a Angels. Associated Press
ton’s 17 hits, Carlos Correa two-run homer — his first Anderson scored from first
had four and the Astros since Aug. 18 — in the sixth base on a single by Ry- snapped a season-high nine straight Sept. 1-9, 2005.
chased Red Sox starter Ed- inning off Trevor Hilden- mer Liriano, as the throw nine-game losing streak by Nicholas Castellanos’ fifth-
uardo Rodriguez in the sec- berger (3-3) as the Indians from left fielder Ben Revere beating the Royals. inning double with the
ond inning to win and keep jumped to 31-4 since Aug. went to second base and Norris (5-8) gave up two hits bases loaded scored Alex
Boston from clinching the 24. Anderson alertly headed in five innings. He was 0-4 Presley, JaCoby Jones and
first back-to-back AL East This is just the third time home, scoring easily on re- in four starts and four relief Dixon Machado. Jones
championships in franchise Cleveland has won 100 liever Jesse Chavez (7-11). appearances since a June singled home Andrew Ro-
history. games in a season. The Carlos Perez homered for 16 triumph over Tampa mine with the first run of the
Despite the loss, the Red last team to do it was the Angels, who used sev- Bay.The Tigers had been inning.Royals left-hander
Sox were guaranteed no Cleveland’s powerful 1995 en pitchers and sat stars outscored 68-39 in their los- Danny Duffy (9-10) did
worse than a tie for the divi- squad, which lost to Atlan- Mike Trout and Justin Upton ing streak, which was their not make it through the
sion title when the Yankees ta in the World Series. one night after being elimi- longest since dropping inning.q
lost 9-6 to Tampa Bay. ATHLETICS 4, RANGERS 1 nated from playoff conten-
Boston needs one more ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — tion.
win or Yankees loss to win Ryon Healy hit a tiebreak- Gregory Infante (2-1)
the division; otherwise, the ing two-run single in the earned the win in re-
teams would meet in a sixth inning to help the Ath- lief, throwing a scoreless
one-game tie-breaker in letics beat the Rangers. eighth inning. Juan Minaya
New York on Monday to It was the fifth straight road earned his eighth save with
see who needs to play in win for the Athletics and a perfect ninth inning for
the wild-card game and seventh consecutive loss the White Sox, who won for
who advances to the AL for the Rangers. It’s Texas’ the 12th time in 19 games.
Division Series — likely fac- longest skid since an eight- TIGERS 4, ROYALS 1
ing the Astros. game slide in 2015. KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP)
Altuve had two singles and Bruce Maxwell took to a — Daniel Norris threw five
his 39th double to raise his knee in the Oakland bull- scoreless innings to pick up
batting average to .350. pen during the national his first victory in more than
Brad Peacock (13-2) al- anthem. The catcher was three months as the Tigers