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Tuesday 21 May 2019
Red Sox avoid series sweep, snap Astros' 10-game win streak

By The Associated Press loss.
BOSTON (AP) — Michael RANGERS 5, CARDINALS 4,
Chavis homered, Xander 10 INNINGS
Bogaerts hit a tiebreaking ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) —
double in the seventh in- Nomar Mazara hit a sac-
ning and the Boston Red rifice fly off reliever Carlos
Sox averted a series sweep Martinez to cap a two-run
against Houston with a rally in the 10th inning that
4-3 victory Sunday that lifted Texas over St. Louis.
snapped the Astros' 10- Both teams blew leads in
game winning streak. the late innings.
Mookie Betts scored three Dexter Fowler's solo homer
runs for Boston, which lost in the ninth off Rangers re-
the first two games in its liever Chris Martin made
first meeting with the Astros it 3-all. The Cardinals went
since beating them in the ahead in the 10th when
2018 AL Championship Se- Harrison Bader doubled off
ries. Jeanmar Gomez (1-0) and
Carlos Correa hit a two- scored on a sacrifice fly by
run homer off Chris Sale for Paul DeJong.
Houston, which is 13-4 in Rougned Odor opened
May. the Texas 10th with a single
Astros outfielder George off Jordan Hicks (1-2). Dan-
Springer, who began the ny Santana walked and
day leading the American pinch-hitter Willie Calhoun
League with 17 homers, had a tying single.
exited with lower back stiff- Shin-Soo Choo hit a lead-
ness after striking out three Boston Red Sox's Michael Chavis points skyward before crossing home plate after his home run off homer for the Rangers.
times against Sale. against the Houston Astros during the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 19, 2019, at Santana gave Texas a 3-2
Bogaerts' double to deep Fenway Park in Boston. lead in the eighth with a
left-center off Framber Associated Press pinch-hit home run.
Valdez (1-2) scored Betts DeJong drove in three runs
scored from first base. third, his third of the series, single in the first inning, then land in position for its 16th for the Cardinals.
Sale struck out 10 in 5 1/3 to make it 5-3. led off the third with his sev- straight victory over the Ti- ROYALS 5, ANGELS 1
innings, giving up three runs Adam Ottavino (2-1) struck enth home run. gers — but the A's will have ANAHEIM (AP) — Danny
and four hits with five walks. out Austin Meadows with Cleveland took three of to wait 3½ months before Duffy won his third straight
In his previous start, he be- the bases loaded to end four from the Orioles. Balti- trying to close it out. start and Kansas City beat
came the first major league the sixth and keep the more has lost nine of 11 and Mike Fiers allowed three Los Angeles to stop a four-
pitcher to strike out 17 bat- score tied at 5. Chance allowed a major league- runs in six innings for Oak- game skid.
ters in seven innings. Adams pitched three high 94 home runs. land. Fiers pitched for the Hunter Dozier hit a two-run
Marcus Walden (6-0) es- scoreless innings for his first Yefry Ramirez (0-2) strug- Tigers last season before he double and Duffy (3-1) al-
caped a bases-loaded, career save. gled in his first start of the was traded to the A's in Au- lowed five hits in six effec-
one-out jam and tossed 1 Gardner, who hit a two- season, giving up four gust. tive innings. The veteran
2/3 scoreless innings of re- run homer off Charlie Mor- earned runs in 3 1/3 innings. Detroit was trying to snap a left-hander from California
lief. Brandon Workman got ton in the second, started ATHLETICS 5, TIGERS 3, 7 IN- six-game losing streak. had about 40 friends and
three outs for his first career the Yankees sixth with an NINGS, SUSPENDED BLUE JAYS 5, WHITE SOX 2 family members in atten-
save. infield hit off the glove of DETROIT (AP) — The Oak- CHICAGO (AP) — Vladi- dance. He struck out five
YANKEES 13, RAYS 5 Diego Castillo (0-3). Pinch- land Athletics led Detroit in mir Guerrero Jr. hit another and walked three.
NEW YORK (AP) — Brett hitter Thairo Estrada deliv- the bottom of the seventh home run, Danny Jansen Tyler Skaggs (4-4) permitted
Gardner homered early, ered a three-run double off inning when the game was and Billy McKinney also four runs — three earned
then got two hits during a Casey Sadler, and Gardner suspended because of connected and Toronto — on 110 pitches in 5 2/3 in-
seven-run burst in the sixth capped the inning with an rain. beat Chicago. nings.
inning fueled by five walks RBI double. Oakland scored twice Guerrero has hit all four MARINERS 7, TWINS 4
that sent New York past INDIANS, 10, ORIOLES 0 in the top of the seventh of his homers in the last six SEATTLE (AP) — Edwin En-
Tampa Bay. CLEVELAND (AP) — Shane to take the lead, but the games. The highly touted carnacion made several
The Yankees took their sec- Bieber struck out a career- teams were unable to 20-year-old didn't homer in nice plays at first base
ond straight weekend series high 15 in his first major complete the inning be- his first 13 games after mak- early in the game, then hit
from the Rays and moved a league complete game fore it began to rain hard ing his major league debut a three-run homer in the
half-game in front atop the and Cleveland routed Bal- and the tarp was brought in late April. seventh inning to help Se-
AL East. Aaron Hicks hom- timore. onto the field. The game Guerrero's two-run drive attle snap Minnesota's five-
ered for the first time since A day after being held to will resume Sept. 6 before broke a 1-all tie in the game winning streak.
returning from a back injury one hit, the Orioles were the Tigers play a series in eighth inning. Jansen add- Mitch Haniger and Daniel
and DJ LeMahieu also con- overmatched against Oakland. ed a two-run homer in the Vogelbach hit back-to-
nected to help New York Bieber (3-2). It was the finale of a four- ninth. José Abreu drove in back homers off Kyle Gib-
win for the 10th time in 13 The 23-year-old right-hand- game series that marked two runs for the White Sox. son (4-2) as the Mariners
games. er gave up five hits, didn't Oakland's only scheduled Daniel Hudson (3-1) worked ended a three-game skid,
Kevin Kiermaier and Willy walk anyone and threw 107 trip to Detroit this season. a scoreless seventh. Ken one day after an 18-4 drub-
Adames homered on con- pitches. He bounced back Play was called after a de- Giles gave up an RBI dou- bing. Yusei Kikuchi (3-1)
secutive pitches in the from allowing four home lay of 1 hour, 41 minutes. ble to the first batter he gave up one earned run in
second to give the Rays a runs against the White Sox Stephen Piscotty hit a tie- faced, then got four outs six innings, striking out six.
2-1 lead. Brandon Lowe hit in his previous start. breaking, two-run double for his 10th save. Jorge Polanco had four hits
a three-run homer in the Carlos Santana hit an RBI in the seventh, putting Oak- Kelvin Herrera (1-3) took the for the Twins.q