42 Friday Sports Friday, August 23, 2019 Tigers overcome former ace Verlander’s two-hitter game HOUSTON: John Hicks cranked a leadoff home A’S 6, YANKEES 4 in the ninth inning, and the visiting Detroit Mike Fiers ran his streak of consecutive Tigers overcame former ace ’s starts without a loss to 19, and Liam Hendriks two- complete game with a 2-1 win over the struck out Aaron Judge representing the po- on Wednesday. Hicks’ blast, his tential go-ahead run to end the eighth inning, ninth on the season, enabled the Tigers to snap lifting Oakland past visiting New York. Khris an eight-game losing skid against Houston and Davis, Marcus Semien and Stephen Piscotty a four-game losing streak overall. Verlander had homered for the A’s, who improved to 5-1 on pitched brilliantly, allowing just one baserunner their nine-game homestand by beating the through eight innings before Hicks drilled a 1- Yankees for the second straight night. The 0 fastball out to left field, snapping a 1-1 tie with Yankees out-hit the A’s 11-6 but left 10 runners his 412-foot shot. on base, including two in the eighth when trail- The only other hit Verlander (15-5) allowed ing 6-4. Fiers (12-3), who hasn’t lost since May was Ronny Rodriguez’s solo homer with two 1, held New York to two runs and six hits in 5 outs in the fifth. Verlander struck out 11, extend- 1/3 innings. ing his club record for -digit strikeout games to seven. Detroit capitalized on poor RANGERS 8, ANGELS 7 baserunning by Jose Altuve in the eighth inning Hunter Pence singled home the game-win- and by Robinson Chirinos in the ninth, gunning ning run in the ninth, and Texas beat Los Ange- both down at third. Chirinos, who had tied the les for its third walk-off win in the four-game game with a solo homer in the seventh, made series in Arlington, Texas. Elvis Andrus singled HOUSTON: Robinson Chirinos #28 of the Houston Astros is tagged out by Dawel Lugo #18 of the game’s final out trying to stretch a double off Trevor Cahill (3-8) to start the ninth. He took the while attempting to stretch a double in the ninth inning at Minute Maid into a triple. second and third on wild pitches before scoring Park on August 21. — AFP on Pence’s single through the left side. Only one CUBS 12, GIANTS 11 Rangers starter failed to get a hit. Andrus had Chicago overcame a trio of deficits, three hits and scored two runs, Pence had two summoned the 29-year-old right-hander from son-high nine. He improved to 3-0 with a 0.28 clubbed three home runs and tallied 14 hits in hits and three RBIs, Nick Solak had two dou- Triple-A Albuquerque to take the place of sched- ERA in 32 innings against the Marlins this year. a wild win over visiting San Francisco. bles and scored three times, Delino DeShields uled starter Jon Gray, who was placed on the 60- The Braves finished with just three hits, but all Nicholas Castellanos, Kyle Schwarber and had two hits and two RBIs, and Willie Calhoun day injured list Wednesday because of a drove in runs: Tyler Flowers’ second-inning Kris Bryant each homered for the Cubs, who added two hits — including a solo — season-ending stress fracture in his left foot. triple plus two-run homers from Adeiny won their fourth game in a row. Bryant pro- and two runs. Melville pitched seven innings, allowing one run Hechavarria in the second inning and Ronald vided the final turning point with a go-ahead, and two hits — including a line-drive homer by Acuna Jr. in the fifth. two-run blast in the eighth inning. Evan Lon- RAYS 7, MARINERS 6 Ketel Marte in the sixth. He struck out four and goria, Mike Yastrzemski, and Kevin Kiermaier homered to lead off the walked two. Melville also had his first major ORIOLES 8, ROYALS 1 Kevin Pillar went deep for the Giants, who ninth inning to tie the score, and the winning league hit and drove in two runs while making his Jonathan Villar, Anthony Santander, Renato have dropped three games in a row. San Fran- run came across on a bases-loaded wild pitch first appearance in the majors in almost two years. Nunez and Hanser Alberto homered as Balti- cisco erased deficits of 6-2, 7-4 and 10-9, as Tampa Bay salvaged the finale of a three- more defeated visiting Kansas City in the rub- while the Cubs overcame 2-0, 9-7 and 11-10 game series against Seattle in St Petersburg, NATIONALS 11, PIRATES 1 ber game of a three-game series. Baltimore has deficits. At least two runs were scored in every . Following Kiermaier’s homer, to Patrick Corbin pitched eight scoreless in- won two straight games after dropping eight in inning except the fourth and ninth. straightaway center field off Mariners right- nings, and Asdrubal Cabrera hit a three-run a row. Kansas City lost for the fourth time in five hander Matt Magill (3-1), a single, a double homer as visiting Washington stomped Pitts- games. The four home runs gave the Orioles METS 4, INDIANS 3 (10 INNINGS) and an intentional walk to load the bases, burgh. Corbin (10-5) gave up three hits, all sin- seven of their eight runs on the night. Baltimore JD Davis laced the game-winning hit to cap Magill threw a curveball in the dirt to Tommy gles and none after the fifth inning. He struck took an early 3-0 lead and never trailed despite a 10th-inning comeback by New York, which Pham. The ball bounced off catcher Omar out four and walked two. Tanner Rainey gave allowing its 258th homer of the season, tying a edged visiting Cleveland. The Mets have won Narvaez and toward the third base dugout, al- up an RBI double to Pittsburgh’s Josh Bell in the major league record set by the 2016 Cincinnati four in a row and are 20-5 since July 25. The lowing Adames to score the winning run. The ninth to blow the shutout. Yan Gomes had a Reds. Indians have lost six of eight. Carlos Santana Mariners, who saw their four-game winning two-run double, Anthony Rendon a two-run gave the Indians the lead with a two-out streak halted, scored three runs off Rays single, and Adam Eaton and Corbin each had an REDS 4, PADRES 2 homer in the top of the 10th against Luis Avi- closer Emilio Pagan (3-2) in the top of the RBI double for Washington. Every member of allowed one run over six in- lan (4-0). But the Mets rallied in the bottom of ninth to take a 6-5 lead. the Nationals’ starting lineup scored at least nings, and Cincinnati’s offense took advantage the inning against Brad Hand (6-4). After a one run. of an error and three walks to score fielder’s choice by Michael Conforto tied it, WHITE SOX 4, TWINS 0 three runs in the third to beat visiting San Davis fell into an 0-2 hole, worked the count Lucas Giolito allowed just three hits and PHILLIES 5, RED SOX 2 Diego. Jose Iglesias hit a fourth-inning homer full and fouled off three pitches before hitting struck out 12 while pitching his second com- hit a go-ahead, two-run home off Padres reliever Luis Perdomo to give the the winning single to left. plete-game shutout of the season as Chicago run in the fifth inning as Philadelphia com- Reds their final run in the rubber match of a blanked Minnesota in the rubber game of a pleted a two-game sweep at Boston. Harper’s three-game series. Castillo (12-5) permitted five DODGERS 2, BLUE JAYS 1 (10 INNINGS) three-game series in Minneapolis. Giolito (14- blast the opposite way over the Green Monster hits and struck out four. Raisel Iglesias pitched Max Muncy hit a game-ending home run 6) threw a season-high 115 pitches in cooling in left field helped the Phillies to their first full- a perfect ninth inning for his 26th save. deep into the seats in right-center field as Los off the hot-hitting Twins, who were shut out series sweep of the Red Sox since 2000. Angeles defeated visiting Toronto. It was the for just the third time this season. He didn’t Boston had owned a 36-18 edge in their BREWERS 5, CARDINALS 3 Dodgers’ 11th walk-off victory of the season walk a batter while registering double figures matchups since then prior to losing 3-2 Tues- (7 1/2 INNINGS) and improved the club to a baseball-best 50- in strikeouts for the third consecutive game. day. Reliever Jared Hughes (4-5) escaped a blasted a three-run homer 16 at home this season. Muncy’s game-ending Minnesota had rolled up 29 hits in the first two bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the fourth to lead Milwaukee to a rain-shortened victory shot came off Tim Mayza (1-3) and was his 33rd games of the series and had scored double- and earned the win. Hector Neris converted his at St Louis. The game, which was halted in the of the season. Muncy also tied a Dodgers digit runs in three of its previous six games, second save in two days and 23rd of the season middle of the eighth inning, brought Brewers record by hitting a home run in his fifth consec- winning five of them. with a perfect ninth. Craig Counsell relief on his 49th birth- utive game. The Dodgers were two outs away day. His team had lost six of its last eight games from victory in the ninth inning before Toronto’s ROCKIES 7, DIAMONDBACKS 2 BRAVES 5, MARLINS 0 overall and six straight to the Cardinals. Keston Rowdy Tellez hit a game-tying home run, his Tim Melville had the game of his life while Julio Teheran continued his season-long Hiura contributed a RBI single and a run-scor- 15th of the season, off struggling Dodgers making an emergency start, earning his first mastery of Miami, throwing seven scoreless in- ing double to support Brewers starter Adrian closer Kenley Jansen. Pedro Baez (7-2) pitched major league victory while leading Colorado to nings in Atlanta’s home win. Teheran (8-8) gave Houser (6-5), who allowed three runs (one a scoreless 10th inning to earn the victory. a victory over Arizona in Phoenix. The Rockies up five hits, walked three and struck out a sea- earned) in 5 1/3 innings. — Reuters