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Thursday 18 april 2019

Yanks beat Red Sox 8-0 in matchup of struggling foes

By The Associated Press Twins’ C.J. Cron getting Yonder Alonso also hom-
NEW YORK (AP) — James thrown out at home plate. ered and went 4 for 4 as
Paxton struck out 12 in his Cron tried to score from first the White Sox won for the
first stab at baseball’s big- base on a double to left fourth time in five games.
gest rivalry, Red Sox ace field by Byron Buxton. Reynaldo Lopez (1-2) al-
Chris Sale found his fast- Eddie Rosario hit a three- lowed one run and five hits
ball but not better results, run home run and Jorge in six innings. Four relievers
and the New York Yan- Polanco and Marwin Gon- worked the final three in-
kees three-hit Boston 8-0 zalez also homered for the nings for Chicago.
on Tuesday night in the first Twins. Lucas Duda homered for
game this season between Aaron Sanchez (2-1) al- the Royals.
the struggling AL East foes. lowed four runs in six innings Kansas City starter Jorge
Paxton (2-2) pitched two- to earn the win for Toronto. Lopez (0-2) had a career-
hit ball for eight innings, Reliever Trevor May (1-1) high 10 strikeouts but gave
walking one and going to was charged with the loss up three homers and al-
just two three-ball counts for Minnesota. lowed four runs on eight hits
in a game that took only 2 RANGERS 5, ANGELS 0 in six innings.
hours, 23 minutes. ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — INDIANS 4, MARINERS 2
Mike Tauchman hit his first New York Yankees starting pitcher James Paxton delivers during Mike Minor threw a three- SEATTLE (AP) — Shane
major league homer and the first inning of the team’s baseball game against the Boston hitter for his first career shut- Bieber struck out five and
drove in four runs, and Clint Red Sox, Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in New York. out, backed by two-run combined with three re-
Frazier and Gleyber Tor- Associated Press homers by Joey Gallo and lievers to hold Seattle to six
res also went deep for the delario in the ninth, but Nick Garcia hit a two-run homer Asdrubal Cabrera, as Texas hits as Cleveland stretched
Yankees. New York had Kingham was able to close during a three-run fourth, beat Los Angeles. its winning streak to three
dropped five of six and is out the Tigers in the 10th for and added an RBI single in Minor (2-1) limited Los An- games.
7-9 a year after winning 100 his first career save. the eighth. Jose Alvarado geles to three singles while The Mariners extended
games. Pittsburgh starter Joe Mus- and Diego Castillo, who throwing 103 pitches with their major league record
Sale (0-4) reached 97.5 grove permitted his first two earned his second save, seven strikeouts and two home-run streak to start the
mph — a positive sign for earned runs of the season. each went a perfect in- walks. season to 20 games. Jay
Boston after his velocity He yielded six hits and a ning. Cabrera put Texas up Bruce hit his eighth home
sagged this spring — but walk while striking out six in The Orioles got an RBI from 3-0 when his deep fly ap- run, a solo shot to right-
still got hit around, allowing seven innings. both Rio Ruiz and Renato peared to ricochet of the center field in the eighth.
four runs and seven hits over Tigers starter Matthew Boyd Nunez, and Dylan Bundy (0- wrist of leaping right fielder Seattle now has 42 home
five innings. He struck out six struck out the side in the 2) gave up three runs and Kole Calhoun and go over runs, yet is mired in a five-
and walked one while the first but eventually allowed three hits over five innings. the 8-foot wall in the fourth game losing streak.
World Series champions three runs in seven innings. BLUE JAYS 6, TWINS 5 off Jaime Barria (1-1). Bieber (2-0) worked out
dropped to 6-12. RAYS 4, ORIOLES 2 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Teos- Gallo pulled a 439-foot shot of trouble several times to
PIRATES 5, TIGERS 3, 10 IN- ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) car Hernandez and Justin that landed on the con- keep the Mariners in check.
NINGS — Tyler Glasnow allowed Smoak hit two-run singles course beyond the lower- He allowed three walks,
DETROIT (AP) — Starling two runs over seven in- as Toronto rallied past Min- level seats to greet reliever and improved to 9-0 on
Marte hit a two-run homer nings in winning his fourth nesota. Dillon Peters in the sixth and the road in his career. His
in the 10th inning to lift Pitts- consecutive start to begin Hernandez singled off Twins make it 5-0. 13 straight road starts with-
burgh over Detroit. the season and Avisail Gar- reliever Trevor Hildenberger It was the sixth homer of the out a loss to start his career
Jung Ho Kang also went cia drove in three runs as in the top of the seventh season for both Gallo and is the third-longest streak
deep for Pittsburgh, which Tampa Bay beat Baltimore to give Toronto a 6-4 lead. Cabrera. in the major leagues since
blew a 3-0 lead but recov- for its seventh win in eight Hernandez had capital- WHITE SOX 5, ROYALS 1 2000.
ered to win when Marte hit games. ized against Minnesota’s CHICAGO (AP) — Yoan Mike Freeman had an RBI
a two-out drive off Shane Glasnow (4-0) allowed hits bullpen a day earlier, too, Moncada hit a pair of solo single and Leonys Martin
Greene (0-1). Detroit’s clos- to six of the first 13 batters, hitting a home run in the shots for his first multihomer an RBI double for the Indi-
er hadn’t allowed a run all but allowed one hit over his eighth inning that gave the game and Leury Garcia ans.
season. final 4 2/3 innings and end- Blue Jays a 5-3 win Mon- added a two-run drive to Mariners starter Mike Leake
Keone Kela (1-0) gave up a ed the outing by retiring 10 day. power Chicago past Kan- (2-1) was pulled after the
tying single by Jeimer Can- in a row. The game ended with the sas City. sixth.q