42 Friday Sports Friday, September 21, 2018 Indians walk off on Kipnis’ slam, rally for 4-1 victory

Buehler, Puig help Dodgers sweep Rockies CHICAGO: Jason Kipnis hit a walk-off grand slam Mariners 9, Astros 0 with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning as Kyle Seager, Mitch Haniger and Guillermo the Cleveland Indians rallied for a 4-1 victory over Heredia slugged solo home runs, and Seattle the visiting Chicago White Sox on Wednesday. It claimed the season series with a victory at Hous- was the 17th homer of the season for Kipnis and ton. The Mariners took the rubber match of the his second career grand slam. It was also the three-game and season series by jumping to a 3- 1,000th career hit for Kipnis and the 10th grand 0 lead on Astros left-hander Dallas Keuchel (11- slam homer hit by the Indians this season. Josh 11) in the first inning and never looking back. Donaldson led off the ninth with an infield single Houston won the season series from all four of its off reliever Juan Minaya, and Rajai Davis entered American League West rivals last season and as a pinch runner. Caleb Frare (0-1) replaced Mi- needed a win over Seattle to accomplish that feat naya and was greeted by a ground single to left by again. Instead, the Mariners won for the seventh pinch hitter Yandy Diaz that sent Davis to second. time in nine games in Houston, stalling the Astros’ After Melky Cabrera popped out to Frare trying postseason march. The Astros’ magic number to to sacrifice, Ian Hamilton replaced Frare and hit secure a postseason berth remained at two. Yan Gomes with his first pitch to load the bases. Kipnis then worked the count to 3-2 and before Rays 9, Rangers 3 drilling a changeup 399 feet into the bleachers in had three hits including a pair of right field for his fourth career walk-off hit. solo home runs as part of a 16-hit barrage as vis- iting Tampa Bay remained the hottest team in Yankees 10, Red Sox 1 with a win over Texas to sweep a three- Luke Voit went 4-for-4 with homers in con- game series. The victory was the fifth in a row for secutive at-bats off David Price, and New York the Rays and their 14th in their past 17 games, all beat Boston at Yankee Stadium, preventing the in September. Tampa Bay stayed 5 1/2 games be- Red Sox from clinching the American League hind Oakland for the second American League East title. Voit hit a solo homer to right to start the wild-card spot with 11 games left in the season. fourth inning and give the Yankees a 4-0 lead. In his next at-bat, the burly first baseman hit a two- A’s 10, Angels 0 run homer into the first row of the right field Brett Anderson combined with three relievers seats-in nearly the same spot as his first-for a 6- on a four-hit shutout, and Stephen Piscotty 1 edge. After replay confirmed that a fan did not matched a career-high with five RBIs, delivering SAN DIEGO: #30 of the scores ahead of the throw to Nick Hundley #5 interfere by reaching over, Voit’s second homer Oakland a victory over visiting Los Angeles. Jed of the San Francisco Giants during the second inning of a baseball game at PETCO Park on Sep- knocked out Price (15-7). New York’s Luis Sev- Lowrie and Ramon Laureano drove in two runs tember 19, 2018. —AFP erino (18-8) won for the first time in four starts by apiece for the A’s, who snapped a three-game los- pitching one-run ball for seven innings. The Red ing streak during which they allowed 21 runs. An- Sox maintained a magic number of two to clinch derson (4-5) retired the first eight batters he and is 9-for-17 with two homers during that span. Gonsalves pitched six strong relief innings, and their third straight division title and 10th overall. faced and took a three-hit shutout two outs into Minnesota completed a three-game sweep at De- the seventh inning before giving way to right- Phillies 4, Mets 0 troit. Gonsalves (1-2) allowed one hit, one walk Dodgers 5, Rockies 2 hander Ryan Dull. The veteran lefty struck out Zach Eflin struck out nine over five scoreless and struck out four to earn his first career major Walker Buehler struck out a career-high 12 three and did not walk a batter. innings, and Rhys Hoskins and Odubel Herrera league win. Robbie Grossman and Ehire Adrianza batters, and Yasiel Puig had a pinch-hit, three-run each homered as Philadelphia kept its flickering each had three hits and Tyler Austin added two in the seventh inning as Los Angeles Brewers 7, Reds 0 playoff hopes alive by beating visiting New York. hits and two RBIs for the Twins, who have won widened its lead in the National League West Gio Gonzalez pitched six shutout innings, and The second straight win by the Phillies kept them four in a row. The Twins have a 10-6 lead in the with a victory over visiting Colorado. The Jesus Aguilar drove in four runs, three on a third- 5 1/2 games behind the National League East- season series with the Tigers. Dodgers finished off a three-game sweep, boost- inning home run, lifting Milwaukee to a victory leading Braves heading into a four-game series ing their lead in the division to 2 1/2 games, their over visiting Cincinnati. Manny Pina also had a beginning Thursday at SunTrust Park. The Mets Pirates 2, Royals 1 largest advantage at any point this year. Los An- three-run homer for the Brewers, who moved (70-82) have lost four of five and are assured of Adam Frazier hit a go-ahead solo home run in geles went 12-7 against the Rockies this season. three games ahead of St Louis in the race for the their second straight losing season. the fifth inning to give Pittsburgh a win and a Los Angeles, which was nine games out of the di- first National League wild card. Starting for the three-game series sweep of visiting Kansas City. vision lead on May 9, has won seven of eight third time since joining the Brewers in a trade from Padres 8, Giants 4 The Pirates won each game in the series by one games. The Rockies have lost five of six and are 1 Washington in August, Gonzalez (9-11) allowed a Freddy Galvis had a homer and four RBIs, and run. They have won five straight games and six of 1/2 games out of the NL’s second wild-card spot. second-inning single to Phil Ervin and a fourth- capped a five-run second inning with seven in their quest to finish above .500. They also inning single to Scooter Gennett in his six innings. a tiebreaking, two-run homer to lead San Diego have an eight-game home winning streak. Adal- Diamondbacks 9, Cubs 0 He walked two and struck out five while improv- to a victory over visiting San Francisco. The win berto Mondesi hit a solo homer for Kansas City Christian Walker, Chris Owings and Jeff Mathis ing to 2-0 with a 1.65 ERA as a Brewer. snapped the Padres’ six-game losing streak to the (52-100), which reached 100 losses for the fifth homered, and threw six scoreless in- Giants and prevented San Francisco from sweep- time this century. The Royals have lost four nings as Arizona used an unorthodox lineup to Braves 7, Cardinals 3 ing back-to-back series at Petco Park for the first straight. break a four-game losing streak with a victory Freddie Freeman had three hits, one of them time since the ballpark opened in 2004. Eight of over visiting Chicago. Patrick Kivlehan tied a fran- his 23rd homer, to help Atlanta snap a four-game the game’s 12 runs were scored in the second, in- Orioles 2, Blue Jays 1 chise record with two triples, and Owings had losing streak and beat visiting St Louis. The win cluding five by the Padres, with Myers’ 414-foot DJ Stewart homered, doubled and scored three hits in a game in which manager Torey trimmed Atlanta’s magic number for clinching the drive into the San Diego bullpen being the deci- twice, and Cedric Mullins added an RBI single in Lovullo gave regulars Paul Goldschmidt, David National League East to six. The loss ended a sive blow. Padres starter Robbie Erlin (4-7) broke the seventh inning as host Baltimore defeated Peralta, A.J. Pollock and Eduardo Escobar the three-game winning streak for the Cardinals. a four-start losing streak by allowing three runs Toronto. Toronto saw its four-game winning night off. Ray (6-2) gave up only Addison Russell’s Freeman broke open the scoreless tie with a two- on five hits and two walks with three strikeouts streak end. Jimmy Yacabonis was a last-minute third-inning single while striking out eight and run homer to left-center in the fourth inning. He over five innings. starter for the Orioles. The right-hander went four walking four. The Cubs did not have another hit, added an RBI single in Atlanta’s three-run fifth in- shutout innings and gave up two hits. Mike Wright and they did not have more than one runner on ning and finished 3-for-3 with a walk, a run and Twins 8, Tigers 2 Jr. (4-2) then came on for two scoreless innings to base in any inning. three RBIs. Freeman has hit safely in four straight Willians Astudillo had three RBIs, Stephen get the win. — Reuters