McCann leads White Sox past Astros

CHICAGO (AP) — James McCann hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the eighth inning and the Chicago White Sox outlasted the Houston Astros 13-9 Wednesday to win the season series from the runaway AL West leaders.

Rookie Eloy Jiménez hit his 20th homer and doubled, and Tim Anderson doubled twice among four hits for the White Sox. Following a doubleheader split on Tuesday, Chicago (54-65) took two of three games from the Astros in a little over 24 hours and finished 4-3 against them this year. Houston has lost three of four following an eightgame winning streak.

McCann lined his 13th homer on an 0-2 pitch from Ryan Pressly (2-3) with two outs into the right field bullpen to end a 16-game drought. The All-Star catcher hadn't gone deep since July 22, but connected for his fourth career grand slam.

José Altuve hit a tworun homer off Evan Marshall in the Astros eighth to tie it at 9. Chicago also overcame a pair of solo shots by Yuli Gurriel and a four-hit day by Michael Brantley that included two doubles. Alex Bregman drove in three runs after missing Tuesday's twinbill with a sore shoulder.

José Abreu and Welington Castillo each had two RBIs for the White Sox.

Alex Colome (4-2), the fifth Chicago reliever, finished the game with 1 2/3 scoreless innings.

Houston starter Wade Miley allowed seven runs (three earned) on nine hits and hurt himself in the field. Two of Chicago's four unearned runs in the second inning scored on Yolmer Sanchez's suicide squeeze bunt when Miley tried to shovel the ball with his glove to Robinson Chirinos, but flung it over the catcher's head.

Chicago starter Ross Detwiler allowed four runs on six hits and two walks in 4 2/3 innings and left with a 7-4 lead.

The Astros jumped ahead 1-0 in the first on back-to-back doubles by Brantley and Bregman. Guriel lofted his first homer off the left-field foul pole in the second to make it 2-0.

The White Sox pounced on two Astros errors in the second and rallied for four unearned runs.

Gurriel lined his 25th homer of the season to center in the sixth. Abreu replied with an RBI single in the bottom half for an 8-5 lead. Jiménez's shot in the seventh made it 9-7.

RANGERS 7, BLUE JAYS 3

TORONTO (AP) — Kolby Allard pitched 5 2/3 innings to win for the first time with Texas, Elvis Andrus had four hits and two RBIs and the Rangers beat the Blue Jays to avoid a threegame sweep.

Nomara Mazara and Danny Santana hit solo home runs as the Rangers wrapped up a three-city trip by scoring more than five runs for the first time in that stretch of road games. The Rangers went 3-6 against Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Toronto, winning once against each opponent.

Texas came in with two hits in its previous 40 at-bats with runners in scoring position, then went 4 for 12 in such situations Wednesday.

Making his second start for the Rangers after being acquired from Atlanta last month, Allard (1-0) allowed three runs and four hits. The 21-yearold left-hander walked three and struck out five.

Delino DeShields opened the scoring with an RBI single in the second and the Rangers added on with a threerun fourth. Santana chased Blue Jays righthander Sean Reid-Foley with a two-run double and Andrus greeted lefthander Buddy Boshers with an RBI single.

Reid-Foley (2-3) allowed three runs and four hits in 3 1/3 innings.

Randal Grichuk tripled and scored on a grounder in the bottom half but Andrus made it 5-1 with an RBI double off Zack Godley in the sixth.

Allard left with runners at first and third and two outs in the bottom half. Teoscar Hernández scored when right-hander Emmanuel Clase's first pitch skipped to the backstop, and Danny Jansen cut it to 5-3 with an RBI single.

Mazara homered off right-hander Neil Ramirez to begin the seventh, his 17th, and Santana made it 7-3 with a two-out solo drive off Ramirez in the eighth, his 19th.

Clase got one out, Rafael Montero struck out four over two perfect innings and José Leclerc pitched around a walk to strike out the side in the ninth.

YANKEES 6, ORIOLES 5

NEW YORK (AP) — Gary Sanchez hit a three-run homer and the Yankees beat the Orioles for the 16th straight time this season, winning in their final meeting this year.

The Yankees went 17-2 against the O's, their most wins versus any opponent in a season since going 17-5 over the Kansas City Athletics in 1959. New York's winning streak is its longest against anyone in a season since a 21-game string over the St. Louis Browns in 1927.

Sanchez hit his 10th home run against the Orioles this year, capping a four-run burst in the first inning. He sent a 2-0 changeup from Dylan

Bundy (5-13) over the center field fence on top of the netting above Monument Park with two outs to give New York a 4-1 lead.

The Yankees hit 61 homers off Orioles pitching this season and outscored them 151-83.

Didi Gregorius hit an RBI single in the first and Mike Ford hit a two-run single in the sixth as the Yankees won their fifth straight.

Renato Nunez had five hits, including a two-run double in the seventh off Adam Ottavino, for Baltimore. Jonathan Villar drove in two runs for the last-place Orioles.

J.A. Happ (10-7) allowed two runs and six hits in five innings.

He struck out six, walked two and did not allow a homer for the first time in six starts.