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Greinke gets 200th win, pitches Astros past A’s 4-1

By The Associated Press with three walks, with two
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — coming in the ninth off Jose
Zack Greinke threw seven Alvarado (1-5).
smooth innings for his 200th TWINS 6, RANGERS 3
win, helping the AL West- ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) —
leading Astros avoid a four- Jorge Polanco cleared the
game sweep. bases with a tiebreaking
Alex Bregman had a three- triple in the eighth inning,
run homer among his four helping Minnesota to its
hits to back Greinke (13-4), first-ever four-game sweep
who won his third straight of Texas.
start since coming over in a Polanco hit a two-out liner
July 31 trade with Arizona. to the gap in right-center
Roberto Osuna got three field off Emmanuel Clase (0-
outs for his 27th save as the 2). Minnesota maintained a
Astros stopped a five-game 2½-game lead over Cleve-
slide. land in the AL Central.
Marcus Semien homered Reliever Sam Dyson (5-1)
for Oakland, which had allowed Shin-Soo Choo’s
won four in a row. Brett An- tying homer in the seventh
derson (10-9) allowed four but escaped further dam-
runs in five innings. age. Taylor Rogers struck
METS 11, ROYALS 5 out Rougned Odor looking
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) as the potential tying run in
— Pete Alonso hit his 40th the ninth for his 19th save in
home run to break the Na- 25 chances.
tional League rookie re- MARINERS 7, BLUE JAYS 0
cord, capping a late out- TORONTO (AP) — Yusei Ki-
burst by New York against kuchi pitched his first shut-
Kansas City. out in the major leagues,
Michael Conforto launched throwing a two-hitter that
a long homer in the first in- led Seattle over Toronto.
ning and drove in four runs. Kikuchi (5-8) struck out
Amed Rosario put the Mets eight, walked one and re-
ahead 6-4 with a two-run tired the final 14 batters
single in the seventh, and in his first win since beat-
Alonso went deep in the Houston Astros pitcher Zack Greinke works against the Oakland Athletics in the first inning of a ing Baltimore on June 23.
ninth. He snapped a tie baseball game Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, in Oakland, Calif. Houston Astros pitcher Zack Greinke It was his 26th start for the
with Cody Bellinger, who hit works against the Oakland Athletics in the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, Mariners and first complete
39 home runs for the Dodg- in Oakland, Calif. game.
ers in 2017 on the way to Associated Press Tom Murphy hit a two-run
winning Rookie of the Year Cleveland tamed New BOSTON (AP) — Rafael RAYS 5, TIGERS 4 homer and the Mariners
honors. York for a four-game split Devers went 4 for 5 with a TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Ji- went deep four times. Kyle
Alonso also had an RBI dou- between AL pennant con- homer, two doubles and Man Choi’s two-run single Seager hit a leadoff homer
ble and scored three times tenders. four RBIs as Boston rallied in the bottom of the ninth against Toronto opener
during his second consecu- A day after manager Aar- from an early six-run deficit completed a rally from a Wilmer Font (2-1).
tive three-hit game. Rosario on Boone and two other to complete a three-game late three-run deficit, and ANGELS 9, WHITE SOX 2
had three hits and three Yankees were ejected for sweep of Baltimore. Tampa Bay kept itself in the ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
RBIs, and Joe Panik added again ranting against um- J.D. Martinez added three AL’s second wild-card spot Shohei Ohtani, Kole Cal-
three hits as the top four pires, it was a relatively qui- hits and two RBIs, and Sam and avoided a series loss to houn, Matt Thaiss and An-
batters in the Mets’ lineup et afternoon. Travis hit a solo homer for woeful Detroit. thony Bemboom all hom-
combined to go 11 for 18 Freeman hit a three-run the Red Sox, who won The Rays trailed 4-1 after ered to lead Los Angeles
with nine RBIs and seven homer and a pair of dou- their fifth straight as they seven before coming back over Chicago.
runs. bles. Oscar Mercado hom- try to climb out of a deep with two in the eighth and Ohtani hit his first home run
New York scored six times ered and drove in three hole for the second AL wild then the winning hit in the since July 27 and just his
in the seventh to turn a 4-3 runs, and Francisco Lindor card. Boston trails Tampa ninth. second since the All-Star
deficit into a 9-4 lead. J.D. also connected for the In- Bay by 6½ games. Travis d’Arnaud reached to break. He has a nine-game
Davis tied it with a pinch-hit dians. Clevinger (8-2) lim- In his last eight games, De- open the ninth against Joe hitting streak, the longest of
RBI single. ited the Yankees to three vers is 20 for 37 with 12 ex- Jimenez (3-7) on shortstop his young career.
Royals reliever Kevin Mc- hits and walked two. tra-base hits and 14 RBIs. He Gordon Beckham’s throw- Calhoun added his career-
Carthy (2-2) was charged CC Sabathia (5-7) came raised his season RBI total to ing error and went to sec- high 27th homer, a solo
with four runs in one-third of off the injured list after be- 101. ond when Willy Adames shot in the fourth inning.
an inning. ing out with knee tendini- Renato Núñez had a three- walked. The Rays loaded Thaiss hit a three-run hom-
Jeurys Familia (4-1) allowed tis, and his original team run homer and four RBIs for the bases on Mike Bros- er in the second inning off
one run in two innings. scored four times against last-place Baltimore, which seau’s one-out infield single White Sox starter Dylan
INDIANS 8, YANKEES 4 him in the second. Sa- dropped its seventh in a before Choi singled to cen- Cease (5-6).
NEW YORK (AP) — Mike bathia lasted three innings, row. ter. Angels rookie Griffin Can-
Clevinger struck out 10 in allowing four runs and four Marcus Walden (8-2), the Tampa Bay pitchers set a ning (5-6) pitched seven
five shutout innings to win hits. The veteran lefty is 0-3 fourth of six Red Sox reliev- three-game series team innings for just the second
his seventh straight deci- in his last five starts and ers, worked a scoreless in- record by recording 49 time. Eloy Jiménez hom-
sion, Mike Freeman had hasn’t won since June 24. ning. Paul Fry (1-5) took the strikeouts, including 12 on ered and tripled for the
three extra-base hits and RED SOX 13, ORIOLES 7 loss. Sunday. Detroit finished White Sox.q