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SPORTSThursday 17 September

AL Capsules

Astros for 1st in AL West with 6-5 win

The Associated Press Texas Rangers’ Hanser Alberto (68) and the rest of the team celebrate with Mitch Moreland, center, after Moreland hit an RBI sac-
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) rifice fly off Houston Astros relief pitcher Will Harris during the ninth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, in Arlington,
— The Rangers overtook Texas. The Rangers won 6-5.
the Houston Astros for first
place in the AL West, win- Associated Press
ning another tense Texas
showdown on Mitch Mo- ahead two-run homer in run in the ninth before fin- had been 0-3 with a 14.14 Boston used nine pitchers,
reland’s sacrifice fly in the the sixth inning and the ishing for his fifth save. ERA in his last five games in limiting the Orioles to one
bottom of the ninth inning. Rays beat the AL wild-card The Tigers (66-78) were of- the majors with an oppo- hit from the sixth inning
Adrian Beltre’s fourth hit leading Yankees. ficially eliminated in the AL nents’ batting average of through the 12th.
put the Rangers in position Hobbled Alex Rodriguez Central after winning the .439 before Tuesday.
to win a night after Prince and Greg Bird homered division title each of the last Melky Cabrera had a hom- ANGELS 4, MARINERS 3
Fielder pulled them within for the Yankees, who re- four years. er and three RBIs and Alexei SEATTLE (AP) — David Mur-
a half-game of the Astros main three games behind Rangers overtake Ramirez had a solo homer phy hit a three-run homer
with a tiebreaking two-run AL East-leading Toronto, Minnesota (75-69) is con- for the White Sox. and Mike Trout added a
home run in the eighth. which lost 3-2 at Atlanta. tending for an AL wild card, ORIOLES 6, RED SOX 5, 13 solo shot to power the An-
Houston had been in first Franklin, who entered when but Hughes (10-9) lasted innings gels to a victory over Felix
place since July 28. shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera just three innings in his re- BALTIMORE (AP) — Chris Hernandez and the Mari-
Fielder opened the ninth left after four innings with a turn from a month-long stint Davis singled in the winning ners.
with a single to left off Oli- left knee strain, put the Rays on the disabled list with a run in the 13th inning, and Murphy, hitting leadoff for
ver Perez (2-3), and pinch- up 4-3 on his homer off Nick back injury. the Orioles got home runs the first time this season, hit
runner Drew Stubbs went to Rumbelow (1-1). J.P. Aren- ATHLETICS 17, WHITE SOX 6 from Manny Machado and his ninth home run off the
third on Beltre’s third single. cibia made it 6-3 on a two- CHICAGO (AP) — Josh Steve Pearce in a victory top of the wall in right field
Moreland sent a 1-0 pitch run single in the eighth. Reddick homered and over the Red Sox on Tues- in the third inning. Hernan-
from Will Harris to Colby Ras- Rodriguez hit his 32nd hom- drove in four runs during a day night. dez (17-9) had hit David
mus in shallow center field, er this season and 686th of 10-run fourth inning to pow- The Orioles have won six of Freese to open the inning
but Rasmus’ throw was off his career off Jake Odorizzi er the Athletics to a rout of seven to keep alive their and Carlos Perez, who had
target and bounced, al- (8-8) in the first hours af- the White Sox. narrow shot of earning the three hits, reached on an
lowing Stubbs to score eas- ter the team learned he is Billy Butler had three hits second AL wild-card spot. infield single.
ily. playing with a bruised left and three runs batted in, Gerardo Parra led off the Trout connected for his 36th
Texas closer Shawn Tolleson knee. Rodriguez moved and Eric Sogard and Jake 13th by drawing a walk homer in the sixth on an 0-2
(6-3) pitched a scoreless past Craig Biggio into sole Smolinski each had a pair from rookie Jonathan Aro pitch from Hernandez, who
ninth as the Rangers (77-67) possession of 21st place all- of RBIs as the Athletics (0-1). Machado singled, went seven innings, allow-
moved into first place for time with his 3,061st hit. snapped a six-game losing advancing Parra to third, ing four runs and five hits,
the first time this year, at a TIGERS 5, TWINS 4 streak against Chicago. and Robbie Ross came in striking out five and walking
season-high 10 games over MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vic- Reddick had a two-run to face Davis. two.
.500. Houston (77-68) holds tor Martinez had three hits homer and a two-run single Davis lined a 2-1 pitch past Nick Tropeano (2-2), in his
the second AL wild card. and two RBIs, and the Tigers in the big inning. The 17 the drawn-in infield and fourth stint with the Angels
beat Phil Hughes and the runs were the most by the into right field to collect and making his fifth start this
ROYALS 2, INDIANS 0 Twins. A’s since they scored 18 on his 107th RBI and end the season, worked five innings
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kris James McCann also had Sept. 11, 2013, against the 4-hour, 20-minute mara- for the victory, allowing two
Medlen pitched five-hit three hits for Detroit, and Al- Minnesota Twins. thon. runs and four hits with five
ball over 6 1-3 innings and fredo Simon (13-9) pitched Aaron Brooks (2-3) allowed Chaz Roe (3-2), the seventh strikeouts and three walks.
Alex Rios hit a home run into the seventh inning. six runs on 10 hits in six-plus Baltimore pitcher, worked Joe Smith finished the ninth
that launched some unin- Bruce Rondon allowed a innings for the win. Brooks the 13th to get the win. for his third save.q
tentional fireworks, leading
the Royals to a win over the
Indians.
Medlen (4-1) stifled the Indi-
ans before Royals manager
Ned Yost turned things over
to his top-ranked bullpen.
Ryan Madson struck out
two in the seventh, Wade
Davis got through the
eighth and Greg Holland
worked around a two-on,
no-out mess he created in
the ninth for his 31st save.
Rios homered in the fifth in-
ning off Josh Tomlin (5-2) for
the Royals, who won for just
the third time in 11 games
as they close in on a prob-
able AL Central title.
The Indians, who pulled
back to .500 for just the sec-
ond time since April by win-
ning the series opener, fell
to 13-6 since Aug. 25.
RAYS 6, YANKEES 3
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)
— Nick Franklin hit a go-