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Paxton dominant, Encarnación

HR in return, Yanks rout Texas

By The Associated Press with Tampa Bay for the AL In the opener, Rio Ruiz and
NEW YORK (AP) — James wild-card lead. The White Anthony Santander hom-
Paxton pitched one-hit ball Sox ended a season-high ered and Mark Trumbo
for seven shutout innings, seven-game losing streak. drove in a run with a pinch-
striking out 12 and winning Carrasco (4-7) entered the hit double.
his seventh straight start as game after Roberto Pérez’s Ty Blach (1-2) went five in-
New York beat Texas. three-homer in the seventh nings in his fourth start for
Gary Sánchez hit two home gave Cleveland a 5-2 lead. Baltimore. Oliver Drake (3-
runs, Edwin Encarnación Evan Marshall (4-2) got 2) took the loss.
added a two-run drive in the win despite allowing Travis d’Arnaud’s 16th
his return from the injured Pérez’s home run. Alex Co- home run accounted for
list, and Didi Gregorius and lomé earned his 26th save. the two runs off Blach.
Brett Gardner also con- Francisco Lindor also hom- B Nelson Cruz and Miguel
nected. ered for Cleveland. Sanó connected in the fifth
Paxton (12-6) pitched ORIOLES 4, RAYS 2, 1ST inning to pad Minnesota’s
quickly and began with 4 GAME record home run total in a
2/3 hitless innings. He gave RAYS 2, ORIOLES 0, 2ND victory over Boston.
up one hit and walked one. GAME Rafael Devers and Andrew
Edinson Volquez (0-1) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Benintendi homered for
opened the game for Tex- Austin Meadows homered, the Red Sox, who struggled
as and allowed two runs on seven relievers combined against a parade of reliev-
one hit. on a five-hitter and playoff- ers and couldn’t rally all the Texas Rangers’ relief pitcher Rafael Montero, left, turns to the
Scott Heineman hit his first contending Tampa Bay way back after falling be- outfield as New York Yankees’ Edwin Encarnacion (30) runs the
bases after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning
career homer in the ninth blanked Baltimore to split a hind 6-0. of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, in New York.
off Jonathan Loaisiga for doubleheader. Six Twins pitchers combined Associated Press
Texas. The Rays, who began the on a six-hitter, with only four he saw from Zac Reininger ATHLETICS 7, ANGELS 5
WHITE SOX 6, INDIANS 5 day with a slight lead atop hits allowed before Benin- (0-1) in the ninth inning over OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) —
CLEVELAND (AP) — Car- the AL wild-card race, had tendi’s two-out homer in the fence in right field after Seth Brown hit his second
los Carrasco received a their five-game winning the eighth off Taylor Rogers. a seesaw final three innings. RBI triple of the game to
standing ovation in his first streak stopped with a loss in Lewis Thorpe (2-1) got the Tigers’ starter Daniel Norris break a sixth-inning tie,
appearance at Progres- the opener. win despite allowing three grooved Soler a 2-2 fastball Matt Chapman hit a three-
sive Field since being di- Diego Castillo (3-8), the runs and two hits in 3 1/3 in- in the third inning and the run homer, and Oakland
agnosed with leukemia, third pitcher in a bullpen nings. Rogers returned for Royals’ slugger didn’t miss. beat Los Angeles.
but gave up home runs to day, allowed one hit over the ninth and got his 23rd The three-run shot broke a Brown followed Mark
James McCann and Eloy two scoreless innings. save. tie with Mike Moustakas, Canha’s single in the sixth
Jiménez in the eighth in- Meadows hit his 26th hom- Rick Porcello (12-11) strug- who set the previous re- with the go-ahead hit off
ning that lifted Chicago er, a solo shot in the fourth. gled from the start. cord with 38 home runs in loser Noe Ramirez (4-3).
over Cleveland. The Rays went up 2-0 in ROYALS 6, TIGERS 5 2017. The home run also Albert Pujols hit his 654th
Carrasco entered the the seventh when Ji-Man KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — gave Soler 100 RBIs on the career home run leading
game with a 5-2 lead, but Choi’s hit to right bounced Jorge Soler broke the Kan- season, becoming the first off the fourth, moving the
gave up a three-run homer over Anthony Santander’s sas City home run record Royal to cross the century 39-year-old slugger within
to McCann, which was fol- head for a triple. with his 39th of the season mark since Eric Hosmer in six of Hall of Famer Willie
lowed by Jiménez’s second Avisail Garcia added an and Ryan O’Hearn hit a 2016. Mays (660) for fifth on the
homer of the game. RBI single off Gabriel Ynoa game-ending home run to Ian Kennedy (2-2) blew his all-time list.
Cleveland missed a chance (1-8), who gave up two runs beat Detroit. fourth save of the season, Mike Trout and Justin Upton
to move into a virtual tie and six hits in 6 1/3 innings. O’Hearn sent the first pitch but got the win. homered for the Angels.q

Stanton to increase batting practice ahead of return

NEW YORK (AP) — Yan- hopefully, really starting to RBIs. He took batting prac- day in his season debut.
kees outfielder Giancarlo ramp him up.” tice on Tuesday against re- Left-hander CC Sabathia,
Stanton will head to the The 29-year-old slugger liever Dellin Betances, who on the injured list for the
team’s minor league com- has been limited to nine hopes to return this month fourth time in his final sea-
plex in Tampa, Florida, this games with the Yankees from a lat injury that has son, tested his chronically
week for batting prac- this year. He strained his sidelined him since spring painful right knee by play-
tice, among the final steps left biceps on March 31 training. ing catch for the second
before returning for the in his third game, strained Betances and right-hand- straight day.
final weeks of an injury- a shoulder and calf dur- er Luis Severino were Left-hander Jordan Mont-
wrecked season. ing his rehabilitation and scheduled to pitch at gomery started for Trenton
“I feel like he’s really start- did not return until June Double-A Trenton on Fri- on Wednesday in his third New York Yankees’ Giancarlo
ing to build some mo- 18. Just a week later, he day rather than for Triple-A appearance since Tommy Stanton, who has been out
mentum and doing pretty strained the posterior cru- Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The John surgery on June 7 last the much of the season with
well,” Yankees manager ciate ligament in his right RailRiders are at Durham, year. injuries and is still on the IL,
Aaron Boone said before knee during an awkward which could have rain re- Boone said 20-year-old stands in the outfield after a
Wednesday’s homestand headfirst slide into third lated to Hurricane Dorian. right-hander Deivi Garcia workout before the team’s
finale against Texas. “He’ll base. Severino, also out with a will remain at Scranton for baseball game against the
Texas Rangers, Wednesday,
start getting regular at- Stanton is hitting .290 with lat injury, pitched one in- the rest of the Internation- Sept. 4, 2019, in New York.
bats this weekend and, one home run and seven ning for Scranton last Sun- al League playoffs. q Associated Press