Express skid hits seven in a row
Mitch Haniger homered as Seattle jumped on Justin Verlander for six runs in two innings, and the Mariners beat the Houston Astros 8-6 Thursday night.
Haniger, Denard Span and Jean Segura combined for 10 hits and seven RBIs with a homer each off the Astros’ ace, who was bidding for his 200th career victory.
Verlander (11-7) was ejected for arguing a balk call after setting a season high for runs allowed.
James Paxton (10-5) got the win, yielding seven hits and four runs in 5 2/3 innings to improve to 4-0 against the Astros this season. Edwin Diaz allowed a home run to Tyler White with two outs in the ninth before striking out Josh Reddick for his 43rd save.
Haniger had a season-high four hits with two RBIs, Span had three RBIs and finished a double shy of the cycle, and Segura added three hits and drove in two runs.
Haniger gave the Mariners theirfirst leadoff homer this season. Span followed with his second career triple off Verlander. Segura hit a ground-rule double, and Nelson Cruz added an RBI single to make it 3-0.
Verlander retired the next five before Haniger doubled with two outs in the second. He looked to have
The Texas soccer team tied for third in the Big 12 presea- son coaches poll, the league has announced.
West Virginia was picked this week to win the confer- ence, and Oklahoma State was selected to finish second. Baylor tied Texas for third.
The Cowgirls and Longhorns both received a single been picked off at second with Span batting, but Verlander was instead called for a balk.
He barked at plate umpire Nic Lentz and kept repeat- ing, “I did not,” before throw- ing his next pitch. Span and Segura then hit back-to-back homers to push the lead to 6-0. Verlander retired Cruz before getting tossed.
Verlander has been up and down in his last few starts and has allowed 10 hom- ers and 15 runs the last five- first-place vote.
UT junior forward Cyera Hintzen was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy watch list. Hintzen is one of five Big 12 players up for the award, given annually to the most outstanding soccer player of the year.
Hintzen and teammate Haley Berg earned spots on the preseason All-Big 12 team.
Women’s golf: Texas junior Emilee Hoffman fell to Kaylee times out, including a season-high four homers in a loss to Detroit on July 15.
The Astros cut the lead to 6-2 in the third inning when Marwin Gonzalez drove in two with a single.
An RBI single by Haniger and a sacrifice fly by Span extended Seattle’s advantage to 8-2 in the sixth.
Tony Kemp had three hits and drove in two runs with a single in the sixth, and White’s RBI double cut the lead to 8-5 in the seventh. Benton in the round of 16 match play at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship in Kingston Springs, Tenn., on Thursday.
Benton defeated Hoffman 3 and 2 to end the Longhorn’s run in the tournament.
Hoffman opened match play with a win over Libby Winans of Oklahoma in the round of 64 Wednesday. She bested her OU opponent on the 19th hole.
The Astros were forced to use five relievers to finish the game. Roberto Osuna, acquired in a trade with Toronto last week, made his home debut in the ninth, allowing one hit in a scoreless inning. Osuna made his first appearance since May 6 on Monday after serving a 75-game suspension for vio- lating Major League Base- ball’s domestic violence pol- icy.
The former Blue Jays closer was arrested and charged
The junior topped Isabella Fierro 1 up in the round of 32 early Thursday before falling to Benton.
Hoffman won the Women’s Western Amateur Champion- ship earlier this summer. She also finished in the top 10 of the Canadian Women’s Amateur last month.
Baseball: Jason and Justin McMinn, former athletes for Texas, and their wives, Heather and Kendall, have with assaulting his girlfriend May 8 in Toronto.
Yankees 7, Rangers 3 (late Thursday): Giancarlo St a nton hit the hardest homer ever measured by MLB’s Statcast system and Neil Walker hit two home runs as New York beat Texas.
Stanton’s 28th homer was measured at 121.7 mph, the fastest long ball tracked by Statcast since the system was introduced in 2015.
Miguel Andujar and Aaron Hicks also went deep, help- ing the Yankees win their fourth straight since a five- game skid that included a four-game sweep at Amer- ican League East-leading Boston.
J.A. Happ (12-6) pitched six effective innings in his return from hand, foot and mouth disease. Happ was acquired from Toronto last month and has won both his starts with New York. committed $1 million to the baseball program’s new indoor player-development facility.
Jason was a member of the baseball team in 19992000 and graduated from the McCombs School of Business before founding the McMinn Law Firm in Austin.
Justin was a Silver Spur and a member of the football team in 2000 and is a partner with Jason and Heather at the law firm.
Jonathan Dziedzic, Josh Staumont and Richard Lovelady combined for a shutout as the Omaha Storm Chasers beat the Round Rock Express 9-0 Thursday night at Dell Diamond.
The loss was the seventh straight for the Express.
Dziedzic (6-8) went six scoreless innings, allowing five hits while striking out two and walking one to pick up the win.
Chris Tillman (0-1) went 2⅓ innings, allowing two runs and two hits for the loss in the Pacific Coast League game. He also struck out one and walked four.
Omaha batted around in the third inning, sending 10 hitters to the plate and scoring five runs, including a two-run double by Jack Lopez, who went 2 for 4 with four RBIs.
The Storm Chasers added one run in the sixth, two in the seventh and one in the ninth to finish off the shutout.
Donnie Dewees singled four times, scoring two runs. Terrance Gore also scored twice.
Ramon Torres hit a home run.
The Express were blanked for the fourth time this season, and the Storm Chasers’ staff recorded its 11th shutout of the year.
Nick Torres and Franklin Rollin each had two hits for Round Rock.