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                                                                                                       SPORTS Monday 9 SepteMber 2019
            Rangers beat Orioles 10-4 to complete 4-game sweep




            By DAVID GINSBURG                                                                                                   the  season  strong,”  Hyde
             AP Sports Writer                                                                                                   said.
            BALTIMORE (AP) — The Tex-                                                                                           NO COASTING ALLOWED
            as Rangers appear to have                                                                                           Woodward fully expects his
            their  offense  operating  at                                                                                       club to match the opposi-
            full  efficiency  again,  just                                                                                      tion’s  intensity  down  the
            in time for a closing three-                                                                                        stretch.
            week stretch against some                                                                                           “We’re  trying  to  win  every
            of  the  best  teams  in  the                                                                                       game. What a great expe-
            American League.                                                                                                    rience for our guys to finish
            Rookie Nick Solak had three                                                                                         the season on,” Woodward
            hits  and  four  RBIs,  Ronald                                                                                      said.  “I  want  our  guys  to
            Guzmán     and    Rougned                                                                                           fight to the end.”
            Odor  homered  and  the                                                                                             After going 67-95 last year,
            Rangers  beat  the  Orioles                                                                                         Texas can finish at .500 with
            10-4  Sunday  to  complete                                                                                          a 9-8 closing run.
            their first four-game sweep                                                                                         “That  tells  you  we’re  win-
            at Baltimore in 37 years.                                                                                           ning  series  against  good
            After scoring once in each                                                                                          teams,”  Woodward  said.
            of the final two games of a                                                                                         “That  would  be  more  im-
            series  at  Yankee  Stadium,                                                                                        portant to me than the ac-
            Texas scored 29 runs against                                                                                        tual .500 mark.”
            Baltimore — including 26 in                                                                                         TRAINER’S ROOM
            the last three games.        Texas Rangers starting pitcher Mike Minor delivers during the second inning of a baseball game   Rangers:   Texas   hasn’t
            “At the end of the day there   against the Baltimore Orioles, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, in Baltimore.                  abandoned  hope  of  get-
            is a guy with a ball and we                                                                        Associated Press  ting  back  Hunter  Pence,
            got a bat. It doesn’t matter  19th big league game.       in  each  of  the  first  four  in-  and Odor hit his team-lead-  who’s been on the IL since
            who we face,” said Delino  “It was phenomenal,” man-      nings  while  building  a  6-1  ing 24th home run leading  Aug. 24 with a lower back
            DeShields, who contributed  ager Chris Woodward said  lead and pulled away with  off the fourth.                    strain. “If he has a chance
            a pair of hits and an RBI.   of  Solak’s  performance.  a three-run sixth that made  It was the 25th time this sea-  to  play  one  game,  he’s
            After dispatching the lowly  “He’s  had  games  where  it  9-2.  “That’s  probably  son that Baltimore allowed  going to play one game,”
            Orioles,  the  Rangers  next  he  hit  the  ball  harder  but  the  best  we’ve  been  in  a  at least 10 runs. Texas out-  Woodward  said.  “I  think
            host Tampa Bay and Oak-      today  he  takes  what  they  long  time,”  manager  Chris  scored  Baltimore  29-15  in  he’ll be back.”
            land  before  playing  two  give him.” Solak has six RBIs  Woodward said. “When we  the series.                     UP NEXT
            games  in  Houston.  Texas  against  Baltimore  and  five  got pitches to hit we obvi-  Baltimore  has  lost  five  Rangers:  The  Rangers  call
            then  ends  the  season  with  against everyone else.     ously hit them pretty hard.”  straight for the fifth time this  upon   14-game   winner
            three  games  against  Oak-  Mike  Minor  (13-8)  allowed  It all added up to the Rang-  season and is just three de-  Lance  Lynn  (14-10)  in  the
            land, the defending cham-    two runs over eight innings  ers’  first  four-game  sweep  feats short of losing 100 for  opener  of  a  three-game
            pion Red Sox and Yankees.    and struck out three to raise  of  the  Orioles  since  July  the second year in a row.  set  against  visiting  Tampa
            “We  got  a  lot  of  kids  up  his season total to 183. The  2001  and  their  first  in  Balti-  Renato  Núñez  hit  his  29th  Bay on Tuesday. Lynn is 0-4
            here,  first  time  in  the  big  left-hander  has  eclipsed  more since July 1972, when  home  run  for  Baltimore,  in his last six starts.
            leagues,” DeShields noted.  his  previous  career  marks  the  Orioles  played  in  Me-  and  Hanser  Alberto  had  Orioles:  Also  off  Monday,
            “This  is  really  going  to  tell  for  wins  (12)  and  strikeouts  morial Stadium.  three hits to raise his batting  Baltimore resumes its penul-
            them  where  they  are  at,  (181),  set  with  Atlanta  in  Solak started the onslaught  average  to  .321,  including  timate homestand by send-
            competition wise.”           2013.                        with an RBI single in the first  .420 against lefties.    ing Ty Blach (1-2, 10.95 ERA)
            DeShields is referring to guys  Texas had 20 hits off Asher  inning and two-run single in  “We’re  really  impressed  to the mound to launch a
            like  Solak,  who  reached  Wojciechowski  (2-8)  and  the second. Guzmán add-         with  both  those  guys  this  three-game  series  against
            highs  in  hits  and  RBIs  in  his  six  relievers.  Texas  scored  ed  a  solo  shot  in  the  third  year  and  hope  they  finish  the Los Angeles Dodgers.q

                Kuss wins 15th Vuelta stage, Roglic keeps overall lead



                SANTUARIO  DEL  ACEBO,  “It’s  pretty  big  I  guess.  this race, it is an incredible  Tadej  Pogacar  lost  time  said.    “I  have  good  days
                Spain  (AP)  —  American  Honestly  it  hasn’t  quite  day  for  us  again,”  Roglic  and is third overall at 3:42  when  you  feel  their  en-
                rider  Sepp  Kuss  won  the  sunk in,” Kuss said. “It is an  said.                back. Miguel Ángel López  thusiasm, but on the bad
                mountainous  15th  stage  incredible day.”             “But  we  need  to  be  fo-  fell  to  3:59  back,  and  days when you’re 30 min-
                of  the  Spanish  Vuelta,  World    champion    Val-   cused until Madrid.”       Nairo  Quintana  lost  even  utes  behind  the  winner,
                while Jumbo-Visma team-    verde  launched  his  at-   With  one  week  of  racing  more  time  to  sit  5:09  off  they  are  there  to  cheer
                mate  Primoz  Roglic  with-  tack  midway  up  the  last  left,  the  Vuelta  looks  like  the pace.          you and give you a push,
                stood  a  sustained  attack  category-one  climb  and  Roglic’s  to  lose.  He  took  Kuss, who won the Tour of  that is what makes cycling
                by  Alejandro  Valverde  Roglic stuck to his wheel,  the  leader’s  red  jersey  Utah last year, crossed 39  special.”
                to  keep  the  overall  race  while  the  other  top  riders  with  a  dominant  perfor-  seconds  ahead  of  stage  Monday’s stage is anoth-
                lead on Sunday.            fell behind. Roglic finished  mance  on  the  time  trial  runner-up  Ruben  Guer-  er tough trek in the green
                Kuss pulled clear of a small  right  in  front  of  Valverde,  during Stage 10. Only Val-  reiro.             northern  mountains,  tak-
                breakaway group on the  the 2009 Vuelta winner.        verde, who at age 39 is 10  The 24-year-old Kuss cele-  ing  riders  more  than  144
                final of four climbs to claim  Roglic,  a  Slovenian  ex-ski  years  Roglic’s  senior,  has  brated by giving high fives  kilometers  (89  miles)  from
                the grueling 154.4-kilome-  jumper  who  is  aiming  for  been  able  to  match  his  with fans lining the barriers  Pravia  to  a  beyond-cat-
                ter  (96-mile)  stage  from  his first Grand Tour victory,  power and consistency in  before  the  finish  line.  “I  egory  summit  finish  atop
                Tineo to a summit finish at  leads Valverde by 2 min-  the mountains.             think  that  is  what  makes  the Alto de la Cubilla.
                Santuario del  Acebo in  4  utes, 25 seconds.          “The  grandpa  isn’t  fin-  the Vuelta so special, the  The three-week race ends
                hours, 19 minutes.         “We  (are)  all  celebrating  ished yet,” Valverde said.  passion of the fans,” Kuss  in Madrid on Sept. 15.q
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