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Verlander stars

as Astros clinch

AL West title

HOUSTON (AP) — Justin shutout of his professional
Verlander struck out 10 bat- career.
ters over seven innings in his Boyd (6-10) allowed only
first home start for Houston two runners — a walk to
while Derek Fisher and Mar- Rob Brantly in the third and
win Gonzalez homered in Anderson’s double to the
a big fifth inning as the As- gap in right-center field
tros clinched the American with two outs in the ninth.
League West with a 7-1 win He struck out five and
over the Seattle Mariners threw 121 pitches — his big
on Sunday for their first divi- league high.
sion title since 2001. Dylan Covey (0-6) allowed
George Springer and Car- five runs, seven hits and
los Correa also homered four walks in 3 2/3 innings. Houston Astros’ George Springer, right, and Jake Marisnick celebrate their win over the Seattle
for the Astros, who won Nick Castellanos, Mikie Mariners and the clinching of the AL West crown in a baseball game, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, in
their first division title since Mahtook and Jeimer Can- Houston.
2001 and seventh overall. delario homered. homer off Sonny Gray (9- sota overcame a 5-0 defi- double to center field in
The Astros become the RAYS 3, RED SOX 2 11), who allowed five runs cit with seven runs in the the first.
first team in Major League ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) in four innings during his second inning and six in the Miguel Gonzalez (8-11) al-
Baseball history to win titles — David Price pitched two shortest start this season. fifth. lowed one run and two hits
in three divisions after pre- hitless innings in his first big Didi Gregorius homered Minnesota reopened a in five innings, and Jake
viously winning the NL West league game since July 22 for the third straight day two-game lead over the Diekman got five outs for
and NL Central. after being sidelined by left as New York’s four-game Los Angeles Angels for the his first save this season.
Verlander (13-8) retired his elbow inflammation. The winning streak ended. The second AL wild card. INDIANS 3, ROYALS 2
first seven batters before 2012 AL Cy Young Award Yankees remained three Kyle Gibson (11-10) allowed CLEVELAND (AP) — A day
Ben Gamel homered into winner made his first relief games behind AL East- five runs, three hits and five after Cleveland clinched
the right-center bullpen in appearance since 2010. leading Boston and four walks in six innings. Joe Bi- the AL Central, Corey Klu-
the third. He allowed just Jake Odorizzi (9-8) gave up games ahead of Minneso- agini (3-11) gave up six runs ber (17-4) allowed three
two singles after that to im- one hit in six innings, a Jack- ta for the top AL wild card. — four earned — and five singles in seven innings. He
prove to 3-0 since he was ie Bradley Jr. home run. Je- Baltimore, which had lost hits in 1 1/3 innings. has not given up a run in 22
acquired from Detroit on sus Sucre hit a tiebreaking nine of 10, is 5½ games be- Josh Donaldson homered innings and has lost once
Aug. 31. solo home run off Eduardo hind the Twins. twice in the first two innings. since July 4.
Andrew Moore (1-4) al- Rodriguez (5-6) in the sixth. With two outs and a runner RANGERS 4, ANGELS 2 Edwin Encarnacion hit a
lowed three runs and sev- Alex Colome pitched the on third in the ninth, Zach ANAHEIM, California (AP) two-run homer in the fourth
en hits in 4 2/3 innings. ninth for his major league- Britton intentionally walked — Joey Gallo hit a home off Danny Duffy (8-9) as the
TIGERS 12, WHITE SOX 0 leading 45th save. Tampa Aaron Judge, then struck run off Garrett Richards (0- Indians improved to 33-5
DETROIT (AP) — Matthew Bay remained 5½ games out Gary Sanchez for his 2) that landed near the top since Aug. 11 despite get-
Boyd’s no-hit bid ended behind the Twins. 15th save. of the grass hill in center ting only three hits. Cody Al-
when Tim Anderson dou- ORIOLES 6, YANKEES 4 TWINS 13, BLUE JAYS 7 field in the second inning, a len worked out of a two-on
bled with two outs in the NEW YORK (AP) — Ubaldo MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ed- drive that would have trav- jam in the ninth for his 28th
ninth inning, and the De- Jimenez (6-1) struck out 10 die Rosario homered twice, eled 490 feet unimpeded, save. Kansas City dropped
troit left-hander closed in just five innings, and Tim Joe Mauer hit his first grand according to MLB Statcast. five games behind the
out a one-hitter for the first Beckham hit a three-run slam at home and Minne- Adrian Beltre ht a two-run Twins.q
Cowboys are world’s most

valuable team at $4.8 billion

By The Associated Press and San Francisco 49ers the highest increase in val-
The Dallas Cowboys not ($3.05 billion). ue, up 16 percent to more
only are the NFL’s most On average, an NFL fran- than $2.47 billion The team
valuable franchise for the chise is worth $2.52 billion, just moved into a $1.5 bil-
11th straight year, they are an increase of 8 percent lion stadium.Globally, ac-
the top-valued team in the since 2016. Much of that cording to Forbes’ rank-
world.According to Forbes can be attributed to rights ings of July, the Cowboys
magazine, their worth in- fees and new stadiums or are followed by baseball’s
creased 14 percent in the stadium renovations. New York Yankees at $3.7
last year, reaching $4.8 bil- Every team is worth at billion, a figure the Patri-
lion. That’s more than $1 bil- least a billion, with the Buf- ots have now tied. Next in
lion ahead of the New Eng- falo Bills last at $1.6 billion. those rankings are three
land Patriots ($3.7 billion). Forbes reported this year European soccer giants:
Rounding out the NFL’s top that the average Major Manchester United at $3.69
In this Sept. 8, 2013, file photo, fans watch at the start of an NFL
football game between the New York Giants and Dallas Cow- five are the New York Gi- League Baseball franchise billion, Barcelona at $3.64
boys, in Arlington, Texas. ants ($3.3 billion), Washing- is worth $1.54 billion. billion, and Real Madrid at
Associated Press ton Redskins ($3.1 billion) The Atlanta Falcons had $3.58 billion.q