The 40-year-old was traded back to Houston on Aug.
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Verlander helped the Astros to two World Series titles over four-plus seasons before signing with the New York Mets in December. Rojas ended up scoring Seattle's lone run on a sacrifice fly from Julio Rodriguez. The three-time AL Cy Young Award winner was then removed after 96 pitches. Verlander yielded just two hits and struck out eight until permitting a leadoff double to Josh Rojas to begin the bottom of the ninth. Justin Verlander took a shutout into the ninth inning in his best start since rejoining the Houston Astros, who increased their lead on the Seattle Mariners for the AL's third wild card with Monday's 5-1 win. Verlander dominates Mariners as Astros increase gap in AL wild card race The left-hander walked the first two hitters of the fourth prior to departing. Logan O'Hoppe finished 2 for 4 and accounted for Los Angeles' lone run with a solo homer in the second inning.Īngels starter Patrick Sandoval threw three scoreless innings before exiting with tightness in his right oblique. The right-hander had gone 0-3 with a 6.46 ERA during that stretch. Gray ended a seven-start winless drought by holding the Angels to one run on five hits while recording seven strikeouts. Texas had a season-high six homers in Sunday's 9-8 win over AL West rival Seattle and now has 227 for the season, surpassing the Angels' 225 for the most in the AL. Garcia, Garver and Lowe's back-to-back-to-back homers off Jimmy Herget erased a 1-0 deficit, and Semien belted his third homer in two games an inning later to increase the lead to 4-1. The Rangers maintained a 2 1/2-game lead over second-place Houston with less than a week remaining in the regular season. Marcus Semien added a solo homer in the seventh inning to help back six sharp innings from Jon Gray as Texas reduced its magic number to win the division to four. Miami was limited to five runs in the four-game series and dropped one-half game behind the final NL wild-card spot.Īdolis Garcia, Mitch Garver and Nathaniel Lowe hit consecutive solo home runs in the sixth inning to rally the Texas Rangers to a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday that extended the American League West leaders' winning streak to six games. The Brewers won three of four in the series and increased their NL Central lead to 4 ½ games over the Chicago Cubs.
The throw from right fielder Jesus Sanchez beat him to the plate, but Taylor managed to avoid the tag from catcher Jacob Stallings to score the eventual winning run. With the game tied at 2 in the fifth, Taylor attempted to score on Sal Frelick’s single. Tyrone Taylor had a pair of RBI doubles and a key slide in the fifth inning as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Miami Marlins, 4-2. Toronto dropped 1 ½ games behind idle Seattle for the final AL wild-card spot. hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the first, but the Blue Jays were outscored 35-9 in the four games. Seager homered off Kevin Gausman in the first inning and put the Rangers ahead for good with a two-run double in the second. Jonah Heim also went deep and Robbie Grossman reached base four times as Texas completed a four-game sweep to pull within one-half game of idle Houston in the AL West. The Texas Rangers rolled to their sixth straight victory, as Corey Seager homered and drove in three runs in a 9-2 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays. Surging Rangers complete sweep of Blue Jays The game turned in the fifth inning when Baltimore had bases loaded and no outs.Īfter Adam Frazier’s force play tied it at 3, Civale got Adley Rutschman to hit into an inning-ending double play. Raley’s home run with two outs in the seventh off starter Kyle Bradish snapped a 3-3 tie. Rays’ relievers haven’t allowed an earned run in 34 consecutive innings. Ryan O’Hearn and Gunnar Henderson homered for the Orioles, who have scored five runs during their first three-game losing streak since late June.Īaron Civale allowed three runs and four hits over five innings with eight strikeouts before turning it over to Tampa Bay’s bullpen.Ĭolin Poche, Shawn Armstrong, Robert Stephenson and Pete Fairbanks teamed up to retire 12 straight, with Fairbanks striking out the side in the ninth for his 24th save.
The Rays pulled within a game of AL East-leading Baltimore with their sixth win in seven games. Luke Raley hit a tiebreaking home run and Tampa Bay’s bullpen continued its stellar stretch to lead the Rays to a 4-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday in the opener of a key four-game series.
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