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Sabathia ejected,

Yanks rout Rays, near

home field vs A's

By MARK DIDTLER going 103-59 en route to
Associated Press the 2009 World Series title
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — and moved two games
CC Sabathia protected his ahead of Oakland (96-63)
teammates, not his wallet. for hosting the Oct. 3 wild-
The 38-year-old left-hand- card game. The Yankees
er got his 246th win and hold the tiebreaker, which
moved the New York Yan- means one more Yankees
kees closer to hosting next win or Athletics loss ensures
week's AL wild-card game the winner-take-all game
but may have cost himself would be in the Bronx. The
a $500,000 bonus. wild-card winner advances
Sabathia was ejected from to a Division Series against
Thursday's 12-1 win over the AL East champion Boston.
Tampa Bay Rays in the sixth "We know what's at stake,
inning for hitting Jesus Sucre and we took a good step
on a leg in retaliation for toward it," Yankees slugger New York Yankees' CC Sabathia points at the Tampa Bay Rays dugout after he was ejected
Tampa Bay reliever Andrew Giancarlo Stanton said af- for hitting Tampa Bay Rays' Jesus Sucre with a pitch during the sixth inning of a baseball game
Kittredge throwing a pitch ter homering twice to raise Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
behind Austin Romine. his season total to 37. Associated Press
Making his final regular- Miguel Andujar and Luke Sabathia started out of "Obviously that was a high- million base salary in his
season start, Sabathia had Voit also went deep for the the Yankees dugout and and-tight pitch," Kittredge one-year contract.
thrown 55 pitches over five Yankees. New York's 260 had to be intercepted by said. "That's not a comfort- Luis Cessa and Jonathan
innings to raise his season in- homers tied the 2005 Texas Boone. able feeling for him. It is Loaisiga completed a two-
nings total to 153 — two shy Rangers for the second- "I think we all took excep- what it is, I guess." hitter, giving New York its
of a $500,000 performance most in major league his- tion to that, I think, anytime Sabathia stared and point- third straight series win.
bonus in his contract. tory, four behind the 1997 you feel a player's safety is ed toward the Tampa Bay Cessa gave up C.J Cron's
"I don't really make deci- Seattle Mariners. in jeopardy," Sabathia said. bench while walking to the homer in the seventh.
sions based on money, I With New York ahead 7-0, Romine turned to the Yankees dugout after be- Andujar hit a three-run
guess," Sabathia said. "I just Sabathia hit Jake Bauers catcher and asked Sucre, ing tossed. Relievers in both homer during a four-run first
felt like it was the right thing on the knuckles of his right "Why?" bullpens stood up but the off Jaime Schultz (2-2). Aar-
to do." hand with an 88 mph two- "You can't throw balls at other players remained in on Judge had a sacrifice fly
Yankees manager Aaron seam fastball with two outs people's head, plain and the dugouts. and Voit hit an RBI double
Boone didn't rule out Sa- in the fifth. simple," Romine said. "You don't throw at some- in a three-run fourth.
bathia (9-7) getting into a Kittredge threw a 93 mph After New York opened an one's head. He did what he New York's four-run sixth in-
game this weekend in Bos- fastball behind Romine's 11-0 lead, Sabathia hit Su- felt he needed to do," Stan- cluded back-to-back solo
ton. neck with his initial pitch in cre the lower left leg with ton said of Sabathia. homers by Voit and Stan-
"That's definitely above my the sixth, and plate umpire a 93 cutter on his first pitch Sabathia, likely the Yan- ton, who had his 32nd mul-
pay grade," Boone said Vic Carapazza issued a in the bottom half, caus- kees' fourth starter during tihomer game.
when asked whether New warning to both benches. ing Carapazza to eject the the postseason, allowed Tampa Bay's Tommy Pham
York should still pay the bo- "I think there's no question pitcher and Boone. one hit, lowered his season walked in the ninth to ex-
nus. there was intent. You throw Sucre declined to com- ERA to 3.65 and struck out tend his on-base streak to
New York (98-61) ensured one over the head, I hated ment, while Kittredge said five to increase his career 29 games, the longest ac-
its winningest season since it," Boone said. it's "just baseball." total to 2,986. He has a $10 tive run in the AL.q

Astudillo drives in career-high 4 as Twins top Tigers 9-3

By TYLER MASON gle drove in a pair of runs 2 1/3 innings due to lower
Associated Press to give the Twins the lead. back tightness. The former
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Wil- He also added a two-run Twin exited with the bases
lians Astudillo has quickly double in the fifth. loaded and wound up be-
become a fan favorite in "I'm just trying to go out ing charged with four runs.
Minnesota. Games like the there and try to swing at "He was having a hard time
one Astudillo had Thursday good pitches and it's work- breathing out there," man-
only help add to the repu- ing out for me so far," Astu- ager Ron Gardenhire said.
tation of the player affec- dillo said through a transla- "He was trying not to land
tionately known as "La Tor- tor. "Just swinging at good hard on his front foot, every
tuga." pitches, and thankfully I'm time he landed hard on his
Astudillo had a career- executing." front foot, he felt shooting
high four RBIs, Tyler Austin Minnesota took two of pain. Just got to get him
added three and the Twins three against Detroit in the out of the game."
beat the Detroit Tigers 9-3. final series between the It was Liriano's shortest start Minnesota Twins' Willians Astudillo watches his sacrifice fly to
Astudillo, playing in his 26th teams this year. The Twins since the last time he faced drive in a go-ahead run off Chicago White Sox pitcher Reynaldo
big league game, capped won the season series 12-7. the Twins back on Aug. 16, Lopez during the sixth inning in the first game of a baseball
Minnesota's five-run third Tigers starter Francisco when he went just 1 2/3 doubleheader Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, in Minneapolis.
inning when his two-out sin- Liriano (5-12) left after just innings.q Associated Press