Cleveland also edged toward sealing a division, as victory over Kansas City maintained the Indians’ seven-game lead in the AL Central.
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Trey Mancini homered in his major league debut with the Orioles, who began the day tied with Toronto for the two AL wild cards. “Those were maybe his best two innings of the season”.
The Orioles can move up in the wild-card race when they take on AL East-leading Boston at Camden Yards.
Boston went up 1-0 in the third when Betts singled and scored on a grounder by Hanley Ramirez.
In a ceremony before his final regular-season game in Baltimore, Ortiz was given the phone he smashed inside the visitor’s dugout during a tirade on July 27, 2013. Toronto is in second place, four games back following a 10-2 victory at Seattle. The outcome keeps the Giants, Cardinals and Mets tied for the two NL wild-card berths. Jackie Bradley Jr drew a walk to load the bases for Sandy Leon.
YANKEES 5, RAYS 3 Rookie slugger Gary Sanchez hit his 17th home run in 42 games this season, a three-run shot in a four-run seventh inning that sent visiting NY past Tampa Bay.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Matt Boyd breezed through eight innings, backed by home runs from James McCann and Miguel Cabrera as the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 8-1 on Tuesday night to step forward in the AL wild card race.
Sanchez gave the Yankees a 5-2 lead with his drive off Brad Boxberger. The rookie sprinted around the bases, taking about half the time Ortiz did during his home run trot in the seventh. In what is now viewed as the turning point in the season for the Sox (and possible the Yanks, just turning in a different direction), the moment when Ramirez went all, “Get on my back boys, we’re going for a ride”.
Think Eduardo Rodriguez locked up the No. 3 spot in the starting rotation with the playoffs just around the corner?
In the World Cup of hockey, Canada defeated Team Europe 4-1 last night to emerge victorious from Group A and they move on now to the semi-final knockout stage of play, where they’ll face off against Russian Federation either or North America on Saturday.
The outfielder singled for all of his hits. Guyer was the third pinch-hitter of the inning used by manager Terry Francona.
Texas cut its magic number to two over Houston to clinch the seventh division title in franchise history.
While Bundy’s five-inning outing September 19 was a slog from the get-go, Gausman pitched well September 20 until one fateful pitch in the seventh inning.
Lester (18-4) allowed one run on six hits while striking out five and walking none in a seven-inning outing.
Atlanta blunted the New York Mets’ wildcard bid with a 5-4 win as Julio Teheran continued his recent dominance of the Mets by pitching seven sparkling innings.
The Mets nicked the Braves’ bullpen for three runs in the eighth but couldn’t complete the comeback.
The Braves have the worst record in the NL, yet have won four straight.
Lester extended his scoreless streak to 21 innings before giving up a run in the fifth. He stayed in after Joey Votto’s comebacker in the sixth left him with a welt on the wrist of his glove hand.
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MILWAUKEE – Andrew McCutchen, Jody Mercer and Josh Bell each drove in two runs and Pittsburgh preserved its faint playoff hopes alive with a win over Milwaukee. They led heading into the ninth inning by a score of 5-2. The Birds were held to four hits and two walks with Adam Jones driving in Jonathan Schoop. Ortiz has six home runs in his past nine games at Camden Yards. Tillman comes off a 5-2 defeat to Tampa Bay with three runs allowed on four Hits in 5.2 frames.
