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SPORTS Friday 28 September 2018
Olson's slam helps A's top

Mariners 9-3, close in on Yankees

By The Associated Press Tanaka's pitch in the first and six RBIs, including two
SEATTLE (AP) — Matt Ol- and left two innings later homers, and Mookie Betts
son hit a grand slam that with what X-rays deter- had two hits to raise his
capped a six-run fifth in- mined was a hairline frac- major league-best batting
ning, Khris Davis added his ture of the right foot. average to .346. Xander
major league-leading 47th Reliever Yonny Chirinos (5- Bogaerts and Blake Swihart
home run and Oakland 5) went four scoreless in- also homered for Boston.
closed in on the New York nings. Renato Nunez and Trey
Yankees for home-field ad- Neil Walker hit a three-run Mancini homered for Balti-
vantage in next week's AL homer for New York. more. Ryan Meisinger (2-1)
wild-card game. RED SOX 19, ORIOLES 3, 1ST was the loser.
Oakland (96-63) improved GAME ANGELS 3, RANGERS 2
to a big league-best 41-21 ORIOLES 10, RED SOX 3, ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
since the All-Star break and 2ND GAME Shohei Ohtani hit a tie-
trails the Yankees (97-61) by BOSTON (AP) — Boston's breaking homer in the
1½ games. New York holds Chris Sale struck out eight eighth inning, sending the
the tiebreaker to host the over 4 2/3 innings in his final Los Angeles Angels to a
Oct. 3 game; the wild-card tuneup for an expected three-game sweep.
winner advances to the Di- start in the AL Division Series Ohtani had an early RBI
vision Series against AL East opener before Baltimore single before he connect-
champion Boston. salvaged a split of the day- ed off Texas reliever Chris
With the score 3-all, Nick night doubleheader. Martin (1-5), his former
Martini hit an RBI single that In the opener, Boston hand- teammate in Japan with
chased Felix Hernandez ed the Orioles a franchise- the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Seattle Mariners right fielder Ben Gamel leaps at the wall as the
ball slips from the grasp of fans after a grand slam by Oakland
(8-14), who made his first record 112th loss. A major Fighters. The two-way rook- Athletics' Matt Olson during the fifth inning of a baseball game
appearance since gain- league-best 107-52, Boston ie went the opposite way Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in Seattle.
ing American citizenship opens the Division Series at for his 22nd homer of the Associated Press
this week. Marcus Semien home Oct. 5 against the season, bouncing it off the
added a run-scoring single New York Yankees or Oak- top of the left-field wall. tre and Jurickson Profar to the Angels left-hander's
against Chasen Bradford land. Ohtani has driven in runs in homered for the Rangers, first full season back from
before Olson's drive to Sale left after giving up three consecutive games who have lost four of five Tommy John surgery. Jose
right-center. Adam Jones' go-ahead, and has 59 RBIs in his rookie and eight of 10. Andrew Alvarez (6-4) pitched a per-
Ryan Buchter (6-0) pitched RBI double that made it season. Heaney struck out 10 and fect eighth and Jim John-
a hitless inning in relief of 3-2 in the fifth. He threw 92 Taylor Ward also homered yielded two runs over sev- son worked the ninth for his
Edwin Jackson, who gave pitches, allowing three runs for the Angels. Adrian Bel- en innings in a strong finish second save.q
up three runs and five hits in and four hits.
4 1/3 innings. Trey Mancini had a tie-
RAYS 8, YANKEES 7 breaking two-run single off
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Matt Barnes (6-4) in a three-
Masahiro Tanaka gave up run seventh and drove in
four runs and six hits over three runs. Tanner Scott (3-
four-plus innings in his final 2) worked 2 2/3 innings of
start before the playoffs in one-run relief, and Paul Fry
New York's loss to Tampa pitched three hitless innings
Bay. for his second save.
New York started play with In the opener, J.D. Marti-
a 2 1/2-game lead over nez had three of Boston's
Oakland to host the AL season-high 22 hits, includ-
wild-card game and has ing a three-run homer that
the tiebreaker. The Athlet- brought his major league-
ics played at Seattle later leading RBIs total to 127.
Wednesday night. Yankees The Orioles (46-112) broke
manager Aaron Boone the franchise loss mark set
hasn't decided if Tanaka, by the 1939 St. Louis Browns
JA Happ or Luis Severino went 43-111.
will start against Oakland. David Price (16-7) settled
A four-run, ninth-inning rally down after an early stum-
by the Yankees came up ble in his final tuneup be-
just short against Sergio fore the playoffs. He al-
Romo, who got the final lowed three runs — all in
four outs for his 24th save. the second inning — six hits
Tanaka (12-6) was coming and three walks, striking
off a four-inning start last out six before leaving with
Thursday in which he al- a 10-3 lead after five. Price
lowed five runs and eight is expected to start Game
hits as the Yankees lost 11-6 2 of the AL Division Series
to Boston. against the New York Yan-
Tampa Bay center fielder kees or Oakland.
Kevin Kiermaier was hit by Rafael Devers had four hits