Bassitt of A’s hit in head by liner
Pitcher carted off field after struck by Goodwin’s hit
Once Chris Bassitt went down, the rest of the game became a secondary concern for the Oakland Athletics.
Bassitt was carted off the field Tuesday night after he was struck on the side of his head by a line drive, casting a shadow over the A’s 9-0 loss to Jose Abreu and the Chicago White Sox.
With two on and no outs in the second inning, Bassitt threw an 89.5 mph cut fastball that Brian Goodwin drove up the middle. Bassitt went down on the mound right after he was hit, holding his head, and his teammates quickly waved to the dugout for assistance.
As players on each side looked on, Bassitt was attended to by an Oakland trainer and other personnel before he was helped into a cart while holding a towel to his face. A’s center fielder Starling Marte had his hands on his head as the right-hander was driven by him.
“Bass is conscious. He was the entire time,” manager Bob Melvin said. “We don’t think the eye is a problem at this point. It felt like it was below it. He’s got some cuts. They had to do some stitches. He’s in a scan and we’ll know more about potential fractures or whatever tomorrow, or later tonight.”
Abreu and Jake Lamb each hit a three-run homer for the AL Centralleading White Sox, and Andrew Vaughn had two hits and two RBIS. Reynaldo Lopez (2-0) pitched five innings of one-hit ball for Chicago.
Rays 10, Orioles 0: Nelson Cruz homered twice, three pitchers combined on a fourhitter, and AL East-leading Tampa Bay extended Baltimore’s losing streak to 13 games with a 10-0 win Tuesday. Cruz moved past Dave Kingman into 42nd place on the all-time home runs list with 443. His three-run shot off John Means (5-5) during a five-run fifth inning made it 8-0, and he hit a tworun shot in the sixth against Tanner Scott. The slugger, acquired from Minnesota on July 22, has seven of his 26 homers this season with Tampa Bay and has 39 career multihomer games.
Nationals 12, Blue Jays 6:
Riley Adams homered and drove in three in his first game against his former team, Erick Fedde won for the first time in more than two months and Washington snapped a seasonhigh seven-game skid. Adams, acquired last month from Toronto for reliever Brad Hand, had three hits. He delivered a tworun double in the eighth to provide some insurance after the Blue Jays trimmed a sevenrun deficit to 8-6. The catcher also homered in the fourth.
Angels 8, Tigers 2: Jo Adell hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the ninth inning for his first homer this season and Kurt Suzuki followed with a solo blast, lifting the Halos. Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera, one home run away from No. 500, was 0for-2 with two walks.
Cubs 2, Reds 1: Kyle Hendricks became the first 14-game winner in the majors, Ian Happ homered and Chicago snapped a 12-game skid. Hendricks (14-5) gave up three hits in six innings — the only big one a two-out homer by Nick Castellanos in the sixth — as Chicago won for the first time since Aug. 4 in Colorado. The Cubs are 3-15 since selling off their biggest stars at the trade deadline.
Braves 2, Marlins 0: Jorge Soler snapped a scoreless tie with a two-out RBI single in the eighth inning for Atlanta.
Mariners 3, Rangers 1: Tyler Anderson allowed one run on three hits in six innings to earn his first win with Seattle.
Royals 3, Astros 1: Daniel Lynch allowed one run over seven crisp innings, and seldom-used Hanser Alberto gave the Kansas City the lead with a two-run double in the sixth.
Brewers 2, Cardinals 0: Corbin Burnes took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and Kolten Wong had three hits and was hit by a pitch against his former team to lift Milwaukee.
Indians 3, Twins 1: Eli Morgan threw six scoreless innings, and Daniel Johnson hit a two-run homer for Cleveland.
Notes: A woman seeking a five-year restraining order against Trevor Bauer testified Tuesday that her horror grew as bruises emerged and her pain surged the day after a sexual encounter in which she said the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher choked her into unconsciousness and punched her repeatedly. The 27-year-old said she sent Bauer a picture of herself after returning home to San Diego. “I could not believe what my face looked like,” she said under a second day of questioning from her attorney in Los Angeles Superior Court. “I wanted him to know what he’d done to me.” Bauer, who has said through representatives that everything that happened between the two was wholly consensual, replied in a text message, “damn girl, are you OK?” The woman said she was just as frightened of the social consequences as the physical ones, and was at first determined to tell no one else. But a visit with her best friend, who was “mortified’ by how she looked, convinced her to seek medical help. She would end up in a hospital emergency room, she said, which led to visits from a social worker, her parents and police, who are still investigating three months later . ... Major League Baseball has hired former Marriott International and Walt Disney Co. marketing leader Karin Timpone as executive vice president and chief marketing officer.