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Tuesday 1 OcTOber 2019
Rangers close out ballpark 6-1 over AL East champ Yankees

By The Associated Press the season. Justin Dunn was
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — impressive in his two innings
Lance Lynn struck out 10, and Reggie McClain (1-1)
getting his career-high 16th got the victory. Anthony
win as Texas closed out Bass pitched the ninth for
the 26th and final season his fifth save.
at their ballpark with a win WHITE SOX 5, TIGERS 3
over the AL East champion CHICAGO (AP) — Tim An-
New York. derson became the third
After Aaron Judge's 27th Chicago player to win an
homer in the third inning American League batting
tied the game at 1-1, title, finishing at .335 after
Lynn (16-11) retired his last going 0 for 2 in a season-
14 batters while pitching ending win over Detroit.
against his former team. Anderson joined Luke Ap-
New York, plays Minnesota pling (1936 and 1943) and
in the Division Series starting Frank Thomas (1997) as
Friday, went 103-59. batting champions for the
Masahiro Tanaka (11-9) al- White Sox.
lowed two runs and five hits Detroit skidded to a 47-114
in three innings. mark from last year's 64-98
RED SOX 5, ORIOLES 4 and wound up with the
BOSTON (AP) — Eduardo second-most losses in fran-
Rodriguez missed out on a chise history.
20-win season when Bos- Chicago rallied with
ton's bullpen blew a late a four-run sixth inning.
lead, but the Red Sox beat Yoán Moncada hit an RBI
Baltimore on Mookie Betts' groundout, Eloy Jiménez
ninth-inning dash home. followed with a run-scoring
Betts scored from first on double against Spencer
a single by Rafael Devers Turnbull (3-17) and Weling-
with no outs. ton Castillo hit a two-run
Stevie Wilkerson chased homer off David McKay.
Jackie Bradley Jr.'s fly ball Jimmy Cordero (1-1) got
to the edge of the visitors' two outs for his second big
bullpen, leaped over the league win.
short wall and pulled back Miguel Cabrera and Ronny
Bradley's would-be homer Rodríguez homered for De-
while nearly tumbling into troit.
the seats. ROYALS 5, TWINS 4
Brandon Workman (10-1) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) —
pitched one inning and Jorge Soler locked up the
struck out three to pick up AL home run crown with
the victory. Dillion Tate (0- his 48th homer, Brett Phil-
2) got the loss for Baltimore Texas Rangers starting pitcher Lance Lynn (35) throws to the New York Yankees in the second in- lips drove a game-ending
(54-108), which was denied ning of a baseball game in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019. sacrifice fly in the ninth in-
its first sweep of the season. Associated Press ning and Kansas City beat
ASTROS 8, ANGELS 5 Minnesota in manager Ned
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — run over five innings and ing, and Tampa Bay was Clay Buchholz (2-5) al- Yost's final game.
Gerrit Cole earned his ca- struck out 10. He is the first beaten by Toronto in its last lowed one run and four Phillips' first career walk-off
reer-high 20th win, added pitcher in the majors to re- game before the wild card hits in five innings to win for RBI gave Yost a celebratory
to his major league-leading cord double-digit strikeouts playoff against the Oak- the first time since Aug. 31 send-off on the final day of
strikeout total and finished in nine consecutive games. land Athletics. against Houston. the regular season. Yost fin-
the best ERA in the AL in He also became the first to Tampa Bay finished 96-66, MARINERS 3, ATHLETICS 1 ished 746-839 over 10 sea-
Houston's win over Los An- reach 300 without throwing one win shy of the franchise SEATTLE (AP) — Kyle Sea- sons leading Kansas City.
geles. a complete game. record set the 2008 pen- ger hit a two-run homer in Soler connected in the first
Cole (20-5) posted his fran- The Angels finished at 72- nant-winning team that lost the first inning, promising inning and broke a tie with
chise-record 16th straight 90, their fourth consecutive to Philadelphia in the World prospect Kyle Lewis added Rafael Palmeiro for most
win as the Astros wound losing season. The Angels Series. The Rays headed to an RBI single and Seattle home runs in a season by
up with the top record in struggled through injuries to Oakland for Wednesday's closed out the season with a Cuban-born player. The
the majors at 107-55 and Mike Trout and others and matchup against the A's a win over playoff-bound 27-year-old Soler's previous
home-field advantage the death of teammate Ty- (97-65). Oakland. career high was 12.
throughout the postsea- ler Skaggs. Snell (6-8) allowed two runs Oakland finished 97-65 Ian Kennedy (3-2) pitched
son. They begin the play- Matt Thaiss homered twice, and three hits in 2 1/3 in- for the second straight a scoreless ninth before the
offs Friday at home against doubled and drove in four nings. year and rested most of Royals rallied against rookie
the winner of the wild-card runs for the Angels. Dillon Teoscar Hernández hom- its regular starters ahead Brusdar Graterol (1-1).
game between Tampa Bay Peters (4-4) gave up three ered for the third straight of Wednesday night's AL The AL Central-winning
and Oakland. home runs. game as the Blue Jays won wild-card game at home Twins scored three runs in
George Springer, Aledmys BLUE JAYS 8, RAYS 3 for the ninth time in their fi- against Tampa Bay. the first on back-to-back
Diaz and Yuli Gurriel all TORONTO (AP) — Blake nal 13 games. The A's had just three hits home runs by C.J. Cron —a
homered to boost Houston. Snell lost in a tuneup for a Breyvic Valera also hom- as Seattle used a variety two-run shot — and Jake
Cole allowed one earned potential postseason out- ered for Toronto. of young arms to close out Cave.q