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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