Show r!' t lunar Saturday August 29 4E$ CHICAGO - The Texas Rangers are beginning their dash to the 3ea$ 6 Chicago White Sox S 10 game Ocago White Sox 8 Texas 7 2nd l$f naneim Boston 7 6 Toronto 7 Minnesota 6 5 K af'sas ON 6 f Y Yankees K) Seattle 3 Today's dames (Tames MOT) u at Cleveland Oauand iHavnes 1105 am (Goooen Texas (Seie a’ Chtcagc Whi'e 15 am SoxiSrotKa at N Y Yankees Seattle (Ooude ?v Rangers’ playoff drive slowed by split American League Friday's resells ! s Standard-Examine- 998 1 ii httpctfwwwtanderdjwt v temJZ finish “The marathon is about to end and the sprint is on” Rangers manager Johnny Oates said after his team stumbled a little in the second game of Friday's doubleheader against the White Sox Mike Cameron Ray Durham and Mike Caruso each homered in the eighth inning for Chicago in an 7 victory to give the White Sox a 11 15am iPettme U-Tamoa Bav iSor’nger and Refcar 16) at Detroit t Thompson 1 and Grets-mg2 205 om at Toronto Minnesota Rade 205 om (Stieo at Boston Ararem (McDowell 305 pm (Martinez at Baltimore Kansas CN (Barber 505 P m (Mussma Sunday's dames Anaheirn at Boson 1105 am Tamoa Bav at Detroit 1105 am Oakland at Cleveland 1105 am Minnesota at Toronto 1105 a m Kansas Gtv at Baltimore 11:35 a m Seahie at N v Yankees 11 35 a m Texas at Chicago White Sox 1205 om hind AL 7-- Yankees who have the best record in the majors The Red Sox second best in the AL and in command of the five-ru- (11-1- tle New York won its third straight surpassed last game and at 97-3- 6 ht 6 Chuck year’s record of Knoblauch had four of the Yankees’ 12 hits and Scott Brosius hit a n homer into the upper deck Shane Monahan Russ Davis 96-6- 6-- eight runs in the 10th highlighted double by Mike Blowers’ two-ru- n ho- and Jason Giambi’s three-ru- n mer With the score tied at 6 the A’s loaded the bases off Cleveland re- 6 23 innings of four-h-it ball before being hit by a line drive as Kansas City extended Baltimore’s losing streak to five games was replaced in the Rapp seventh after a liner by B J Surhoff hit him below the right knee The injury was diagnosed as a bruised shin At New York Chili Davis doun bled to highlight a first inmade Hernandez and Orlando ning it stand up as New York beat Seat- ager Jerry Manuel who is dealing with 12 rookies on his roster not postseason plans “That was a huge win for us tonight” Will Clark homered in the 10th inning and was part of the Rangers’ homers in spurt of three-straigthe fourth for a 5 win over the White Sox in the first game The two teams tied an AL record by combining for 14 homers in the doubleheader It was also At Cleveland Oakland scored race dropped their At Baltimore Pat Rapp pitched Yankees 10 Mariners 3 man- liever Steve Reed Devil Rays 4 Tkjsrs 3 At Detroit Bubba Trammell’s homer in the ninth lifted Tara Bay pa past Detroit in a game be- - tween the AL’s worst teams Trammell selected from Detroit-in the expansion draft hit a in-- :" pitch off Brian Moehler (12-1to the lower deck in left for hltf ' 10th homer 7 Twins 6 At Toronto Shawn Green’s second homer of the game a two-ru- n shot in the seventh sent To- - two-ru- on two (2-- 2) walks and an infield hiL 1) Blue Jays ( Athletics 14 Indians 6 (10) Royals 6 Orioles 5 7-- from behind win wild-car- d second straight 2) “It was our come biggest New York against the in games 7-- Rangers Kational League At Boston Anaheim capitalized on Steve Avery’s wildness and Ken Hill’s return from the disabled list as it kept beating top AL teams holding on for a win over Boston That followed three wins in five Anaheim West-leadin- g Minnesota’s Paul Molitor who drove in four runs hit his 600th ca-reer double in fifth and joined Ty v Cobb and Honus Wagner as tbe “ only players in history with 3000 500 stolen and 600 doubles hits bases Green hit his first shot off one of the Skydome’s restaurant windows j in the fifth With the Blue Jajf‘ trailing 6--5 in the seventh he tut his 28th homer Angels 7 Red Sox 6 which beat Boston 6 Friday Between games Oates was asked if he was scoreboard watching In the second game' Cameron hit a two-ru-n homer off Danny Patterson in the eighth to close the gap to 6 Durham greeted Eric Gunderson (0-with his 16th home run and second of the day to tie it 7 and Caruso followed with his fifth homer the of the year ” said White Sox Mariners making them the first team to hit 200 home runs in three straight seasons American Li done on May 22 1930 when New York hit nine and Philadelphia hit five in a doubleheader Texas is now three games be- 8-- split with and Rob Ducey homered for the : - 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ANGELS 7 RED SOX 6 DiVU RAYS 4 TIGERS 3 homer At Phoenix Travis Lee hitting just 143 since coming off the disabled list Aug 9 drove in four runs with a double and two singles as Arizona beat Milwaukee to snap a e home losing streak Devon WTiite hit his 20th home run for the Diamondbacks Brian Anderson (10-1gave up a two-ru- n homer to Jeff Cirillo in the first RBI single in the 10th (3-ended St bases-loade- d 1) -7 T Fernandez 12) Greoeck LOB -- Minnesota 9 To(24) Jo Cruz (10) T FerGonzalez (1) SB MoMor (7) Ocnoa (5) 8'--T Diamondbacks 6 Brewers 3 Cardinals 5 Braves 4 (10) At St Louis Ron Gant's left-hand- er With the Padres trailing Greg Vaughn hit his 44th homer leading off the fourth and Mark- -: Sweeney followed with his second (4-5- ot ballgame" 0 big--ge- Marlins 8 10 Carlos Diego Hernandez’s two-ru- n single capped st fourth San Diego’s a nine-ru-n inning this year as the Padrfes ' deficit fbr'z" rallied from a seven-ru- n n their sixth straight victory At Cincinnati Bret Boone homered for the third time in two games and drove in four runs as Cincinnati remained perfect against Florida Scoit Sullivan allowed two ) runs over 2 23 innings - including Alex Gonzalez’s solo homer -to get the win after Jason Bere went only four innings At Denver Sammy Sosa hit his 53rd homer and Jose Hernandez and pitcher Steve Trachsel also homered as Chicago beat Colorado Sosa got the Cubs started in the first with a 414-foshot to right-centleaving him one behind St Louis’ Mark McGwire in the pursuit of Roger Maris’ single-seaso- n record of 61 Larry Walker homered for Colorado one” Johnson said “It's easier to (43J63) Reds Cubs 10 Rockies 5 Astros 1 was the most comfortable tne 5tr n I've pitched for the " Vf ROYALS 6 ORIOLES 5 oaf ter the all games left-hand- er Craig Biggio had fielder's choice grounders in the sixth and eighth innings to account for the game’s only runs Houston had just four hits for Adrian Brown went the Pirates Francisco Cordova (12-1took the loss nine-gam- in ( strikeouts in a game by a San At ground on Babe Ruth’s walk record free passes off with two Greg Maddux McGwire who also doubled in the third and struck out in the eighth and 10th has 140 walks in 135 games Ruth had 170 in 1923 full-cou- nt the Astros snapped Pittsburgh’s e winning streak Friday r o - k National League HOUSTON - Randy Johnson is getting comfortable in his new surroundings That’s making things uncomfortable for Houston's opponents Johnson struck out 16 for his third shutout - all in the Astrodome - since joining Houston as game was a win Padres 12 Expos 8 losing streak six-ga- Mark McGwire but did gain 8 8 8 8 8 8 (8(8 - a d - - a 1985 Don lavtar the New YotkClbn-kee- s tel an Amancan Lenexa record when ha-nn by e txten tor the Ndm lima n las career ‘ 193 George stae hts 2D0tn bss Kansas CIV nctory over M am wtha Mnvs and wank Aaron as me tttaH 208 Aksaeuv ptarers with 300) tsn XD nomea - a 8'n ad j |