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SPORTSWednesday 16 September
AL Capsules
Fielder homers, pushes Rangers past Astros 5-3
The Associated Press with a hot shot that took a Texas Rangers’ Prince Fielder (84) follows through on a two-run lead in the ninth.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — short-hop off first baseman home run swing off a pitch from Houston Astros reliever Will Har- Jose Abreu and Trayce
The Rangers moved within Richie Shaffer and went ris in the eighth inning of a baseball game Monday, Sept. 14, Thompson hit two-run hom-
a half-game of AL West into right field. 2015, in Arlington, Texas. The shot scored Adrian Beltre. ers off Sonny Gray in the
leading Houston, when Tampa Bay stopped a third.
Prince Fielder hit a tiebreak- 21-inning scoring drought Associated Press John Danks went seven in-
ing, two-run homer in the and took a 1-0 lead on nings and allowed three
eighth inning to lead Texas Logan Forsythe’s eighth- the AL’s second wild-card Cabrera drove in Geovany runs and three hits. In his
to a 5-3 win over the Astros inning RBI double. spot. Cleveland, which has Soto with two outs in the first start since throwing a
on Monday in the opener The Yankees rallied in the won 13 of 18, also got back 14th inning to give the Chi- complete game Sept. 4
of a pivotal four-game se- ninth. Down to their last to the .500 mark (71-71). cago White Sox a win over at Kansas City, Danks only
ries. out, Brett Gardner was Edinson Volquez (13-8) al- the Athletics. surrendered solo homers to
Mitch Moreland hit his walked by Brad Boxberger lowed four runs in five in- Cabrera singled off Arnold Jake Smolinski in the third,
team-leading 20th home (4-10) on four pitches and nings for Kansas City, which Leon (0-2) to end the sea- Brett Lawrie in the fourth
run for Texas, which has stole second. Then Rodri- has lost eight of 10, while son’s longest game for and Josh Reddick in the
won four straight against guez tied Craig Biggio for Gordon was 4 for 5. both teams. Dan Jennings seventh.
the Astros and leads the 21st place all-time with his WHITE SOX 8, ATHLETICS 7, (2-3) pitched two scoreless ORIOLES 2, RED SOX 0
season series 9-4. 3,060th hit. 14 innings innings in relief for Chicago, BALTIMORE (AP) — Kevin
Fielder’s homer came on Heathcott homered after CHICAGO (AP) — Melky which squandered a 7-3 Gausman pitched six in-
3-2 pitch from Will Harris Brian McCann was inten- nings of two-hit ball to earn
(5-4). He had two hits and tionally walked, setting off his first victory in six weeks
scored three times. a raucous celebration in and Adam Jones had two
Keone Kela (7-5) got the the New York dugout. RBIs as the Orioles beat the
win, retiring one of two bat- INDIANS 8, ROYALS 3 Red Sox for their fifth win in
ters, and Shawn Tolleson CLEVELAND (AP) — Car- six games.
earned his 32nd save in 34 los Carrasco overcame a Caleb Joseph had three
attempts. home run on his first pitch hits for the Orioles, who
The Astros’ Jose Altuve hit of the game to throw six moved two games ahead
Cole Hamels’ sixth pitch of strong innings, and Lonnie of the last-place Red Sox in
the game for his 12th hom- Chisenhall drove in three the AL East. Baltimore trails
er of the year. runs as the Indians beat the four teams in the hunt for
YANKEES 4, RAYS 1 Royals. the second AL wild-card
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida Carrasco (13-10) let Alex spot.
(AP) — Alex Rodriguez had Gordon hit his first pitch Gausman (3-6) struck out
a tying, two-out RBI dou- deep into the seats in right seven, walked four and al-
ble in the ninth and Slade field, but that was the only lowed only one runner past
Heathcott followed with a run he allowed. The right- second base. The right-
three-run homer, leading hander, who struck out hander was 0-4 in his previ-
the Yankees to a victory nine, was making his sec- ous seven starts.
over the Rays. ond start since coming off Brad Brach worked the sev-
The victory moved the Yan- the disabled list with a sore enth inning, Darren O’Day
kees within three-games of right shoulder. and Brian Matusz shared
AL East-leading Toronto. Lonnie Chisenhall drove in the eighth and Zach Britton
Erasmo Ramirez held the three runs for the Indians, got three straight outs to
Yankees hitless until Carlos who entered play trailing complete the three-hitter
Beltran led off the eighth Texas by 4 1/2 games for and earn his 33rd save.q
MLS In this Oct. 30, 2014, file photo, MLS commissioner Don Garber, vealed plans for a 22,000- suburban Carson, formally
second from right, and members of the ownership group, from seat, soccer-specific, pri- removed “Los Angeles”
Continued from page 17 left, Tom Penn, Peter Guber and Henry Nguyen, announce the vately funded stadium on from their official name a
launch of a new MLS soccer team in the Los Angeles area dur- the site of the Los Ange- few years ago, shortening it
The new club still hasn’t ing a news conference in Los Angeles. les Sports Arena, which will to the city’s familiar initials.
chosen its official colors, be demolished. Even with But LAFC intends to market
although its initial publicity Associated Press 2 1/2 years to go before itself to millennial fans in
materials have been red its debut, LAFC is position- soccer-loving Los Angeles,
and black. LAFC is launch- ing itself as the main rival particularly in its up-and-
ing a social media cam- to the Galaxy. The original coming downtown core,
paign to allow its fans to MLS club is the only five- an increasingly popular
play a role in the selection, time champion in league spot for young profession-
which should happen in history, and its list of former als and hip urbanites.
the next few months. or current players includes The club’s new stadium will
Although the club’s debut David Beckham, Landon be downtown in Exposition
has been pushed back Donovan, Robbie Ke- Park, next door to the Uni-
one year since its incep- ane, Steven Gerrard and versity of Southern Califor-
tion, the LAFC ownership Giovani Dos Santos. nia and the venerable Col-
group has the cash and The free-spending Galaxy, iseum, which has hosted
the ambition to make a whose stadium is south of two Olympics and the first
splash in Los Angeles. downtown Los Angeles in Super Bowl.q
The group already has re-
