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Morales' HR streak ends at 7 as O's beat Blue Jays 7-0

By The Associated Press hasn't lost since June 30.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Kendrys New York (83-48) missed an
Morales had his home run opportunity to gain ground
streak snapped at seven on the idle Red Sox, fall-
games by the Baltimore ing 6 1/2 games back of
Orioles, who ended an the AL East leaders. The
eight-game skid by defeat- Yankees were coming off
ing the Toronto Blue Jays four-game sweep in Balti-
7-0 on Monday night. more and had won eight of
Striving to tie the major nine, shaving 4½ games off
league record of homer- Boston's lead in a span of
ing in eight straight games, eight days. Yankees starter
Morales went 0 for 3 with a Masahiro Tanaka (9-5) per-
walk and did not hit the ball mitted four runs in seven in-
out of the infield. In his final nings. He gave up 10 hits,
chance, the Toronto slug- equaling a career high.
ger swung through a slider ANGELS 10, ROCKIES 7
from Paul Fry to strike out in ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
the eighth inning. Mike Trout and Shohei
Though he failed to match Ohtani homered, Eric
the mark shared by Dale Young Jr. drove in the go-
Long, Don Mattingly and ahead run during a five-run
Ken Griffey Jr., Morales eighth inning and Los An-
owns the big league record geles blew a three-run lead
for successive games with before rallying past Colora-
a home run by a switch-hit- do to snap a six-game skid.
ter. He also owns the fran- After DJ LeMahieu's first
chise record for consecu- career grand slam put
tive games with a long ball. the Rockies up 7-5 in the
Facing Baltimore rookie eighth, the struggling An-
David Hess, against whom gels improbably mounted
he homered last week, a five-run surge in the bot-
Morales struck out in the tom of the inning.
first inning, grounded out in Los Angeles loaded the
the fourth and drew a four- bases against Adam Ot-
pitch walk in the sixth. tavino (6-3) and got a run
Hess (3-8) tossed six innings on Andrelton Simmons'
of four-hit ball to earn his Toronto Blue Jays' Kendrys Morales walks off the field after striking out swinging in the eighth inning sacrifice fly before Young
first win since May 25. He of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, in Baltimore. capped an eight-pitch at-
was 0-7 in his previous 12 Associated Press bat with a two-out, bases-
starts, though he did pitch loaded single off Seungh-
very well against Toronto his showdown. The A's jumped on starter over seven innings, Yoan wan Oh. The Angels added
last time out. It was the sixth straight win Gerrit Cole (12-5) for four Moncada doubled in two two insurance runs on short-
The game was scoreless un- for the first-place Astros, runs behind a two-run hom- runs and the surging Chi- stop Trevor Story's throwing
til the Orioles broke through who moved to 2 1/2 games er by Marcus Semien in the cago White Sox beat New error.
in the sixth against Sam ahead of the Athletics. second and a two-run run York for their fourth straight Ohtani hit a three-run shot
Gaviglio (3-7). George Springer and Jose shot by Matt Chapman in win. and Trout added his first
Trey Mancini homered and Altuve each drove in a run the third. Rodon (6-3) allowed a two- homer since returning from
matched a career high during a five-run third in- Cole allowed four hits and run homer to Gleyber Torres injury for the Angels, who
with five RBIs as Baltimore ning that erased an early struck out eight to move but was strong otherwise, have won 11 of their last 12
improved to 2-12 against 4-0 deficit. This was the first ahead of teammate Justin and Chicago's bullpen meetings with Colorado.
Toronto with its first win game with Springer, Altuve Verlander (229) and into closed out a three-hitter. Noe Ramirez earned his first
since Aug. 18. and Carlos Correa in the first place in the AL with 234 The White Sox have won career save.
ASTROS 11, ATHLETICS 4 lineup together since June strikeouts. 10 of 13 and clinched their Tony Wolters hit an early
HOUSTON (AP) — Alex 25. Springer, who pinch-hit Brett Anderson (3-4) al- first winning month this sea- homer for the Rockies, but
Bregman and Tyler White Sunday, missed the pre- lowed five runs and seven son by improving to 15-10 in their bullpen wasted a
homered and drove in four vious five games with a hits in 2 2/3 innings. August. chance to pull even with
runs apiece as Houston ral- quadriceps injury. WHITE SOX 6, YANKEES 2 Rodon is 5-0 with a 1.84 Arizona atop the NL West.
lied to beat Oakland in the Bregman tied a career high NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos ERA in his past nine starts. Jim Johnson (5-3) was the
opener of their AL West with four hits. Rodon pitched two-hit ball The 25-year-old left-hander winner.q