JUDGE HAS MLB’S TOP SELLING JERSEY
NEW YORK >> Aaron Judge again has baseball’s most popular jersey.
MLB says the Yankee slugger’s No. 99 was the top seller for the second straight season. Judge beat out 2017 AL MVP Jose Altuve, who will be trying to repeat as a World Series champion with the Houston Astros next month. Judge and the Yankees will face Oakland in the AL wild-card game Wednesday. Teammate Giancarlo Stanton was ninth in jersey sales in his first season with New York. MVP candidates Javier Baez and Mookie Betts each jumped seven spots into the top five. Baez, an electrifying infielder with the Chicago Cubs, ranked third. Betts, the AL MVP favorite with the Boston Red Sox, was fifth. Clayton Kershaw was fourth on the list in what could be his final season with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Kershaw can opt out of the final two years of his deal at the end of the season. Bryce Harper ranked 13th in the last season of his contract with the Washington Nationals. Los Angeles Angels twoway sensation Shohei Ohtani ranked eighth. The Japanese rookie also had the most visited player page on the league’s website.
— The Associated Press N.Y. Yankees 12, Tampa Bay 1 Minnesota 9, Detroit 3
Kansas City 2, Cleveland 1, 10 innings Texas 2, Seattle 0
Friday’s games
Minnesota 2, Chicago White Sox 1, 1st Houston at Baltimore
N.Y. Yankees at Boston Toronto at Tampa Bay Chicago White Sox at Minnesota,2nd Detroit at Milwaukee Cleveland at Kansas City Oakland at L.A. Angels
Texas at Seattle
Saturday’s games
N.Y. Yankees (Lynn 9-10) at Boston (Eovaldi 6-7), 1:05 p.m.
Houston (Verlander 16-9) at Baltimore (Bundy 8-16), 4:05 p.m., 1st game Toronto (Borucki 4-5) at Tampa Bay (Snell 21-5), 6:10 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Rodon 6-7) at Minnesota (Gibson 9-13), 7:10 p.m. Detroit (Norris 0-5) at Milwaukee (Miley 5-2), 7:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Kluber 20-7) at Kansas City (Junis 8-12), 7:15 p.m.
Houston (Keuchel 12-11) at Baltimore (Ramirez 1-7), 7:35 p.m., 2nd game Oakland (Cahill 6-4) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs 8-9), 9:07 p.m.
Texas (Sampson 0-2) at Seattle (Paxton 11-6), 9:10 p.m. x-Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami z-Chicago z-Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Colorado 89 Los Angeles 88 Arizona 81 San Francisco 73 San Diego 64 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division
Thursday’s games
Colorado 5, Philadelphia 3 N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 1 Chicago Cubs 3, Pittsburgh 0
Friday’s games
Chicago Cubs 8, St. Louis 4 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati Atlanta at Philadelphia Miami at N.Y. Mets Detroit at Milwaukee Washington at Colorado Arizona at San Diego
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco
Saturday’s games
70 71 78 86 95 .560 .553 .509 .459 .403 _ 1 8 16 25 St. Louis (Mikolas 17-4) at Chicago Cubs (Hamels 9-11), 1:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 9-5) at San Francisco (Rodriguez 6-4), 4:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Taillon 14-9) at Cincinnati (Lorenzen 3-2), 4:10 p.m.
Atlanta (Sanchez 7-6) at Philadelphia (Nola 16-6), 7:05 p.m.
Detroit (Norris 0-5) at Milwaukee (Miley 5-2), 7:10 p.m.
Miami (Richards 4-9) at N.Y. Mets (Matz 5-11), 7:10 p.m.
Washington (Strasburg 9-7) at Colorado (Gray 12-8), 8:10 p.m.
Arizona (Godley 14-11) at San Diego (Nix 2-4), 8:40 p.m.