Oroville Mercury-Register

Trea Turner wins NL batting title, Dodgers beat the Brewers

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government coronaviru­s restrictio­ns caused the Blue Jays to play more than half their home games in Dunedin, Florida, and Buffalo, New York.

Hyun Jin Ryu (14-10) pitched five innings to win for the first time since Sept. 6. Bruce Zimmermann (45) faced seven batters and allowed three runs and five hits.

Cleveland closed its 107th and final season as the Indians with a win as Aaron Civale (12-5) allowed only three singles in innings and Yu Chang homered. The Indians (80-82), who will become the Guardians by next season, finished with their first losing season since 2012.

Rookie right-hander Dane Dunning (5-10) allowed four runs and five hits over three innings for Texas, which finished with 102 losses — its most since 1973 — and was shut out 15 times.

Daz Cameron homered off Reynaldo Lopez (4-4) leading off the ninth to spark a three-run inning.

Detroit closed itsr fifth straight losing season at 77-85 and in third place, 16 games behind the AL Central champion White Sox (93-69).

Joey Votto capped off a resurgent season by hitting his 36th home run, and Nick Castellano­s reached the 100-RBI plateau for the second time in his caree.

Rookie Reiver Sanmartin (2-0) beat the Pirates for the second time in as many starts as Cincinnati finished over .500 (83-29) over the course of a 162game season for the first time since 2013.

Josh VanMeter hit a tiebreakin­g homer off Carlos Estevez (3-5) with two outs in the ninth, a rare happy moment as Arizona finished 52-110 and tied with Baltimore for the worst in the majors. Colorado went 74-87.

J.B. Wendelken (4-3) pitched a scoreless ninth.

Austin Riley drove in two runs with two hits.

New York finished with three hits and ended at 77-85 after leading the division for 90 consecutiv­e days, leaving manager Luis Rojas unsure of his fate under new owner Steven Cohen.

Matt Duffy extended his hitting streak to a career-high 13 games with a pair of runscoring singles in a game shortened to seven innings by rain. St. Louis won 19 of its last 22 games.

Chicago lost 91 games, the most since it went 6696 in 2013, and used amajor league-record 69 players

Nick Fortes hit a tiebreakin­g two-run home run in the fourth off Hector Neris (4-7) and the Marlins at 6795 finished their 11th losing season in 12 years.

Bryce Harper doubled and walked before being replaced in the bottom of the third. A contender for NL MVP, he hit .309 with 35 homers, 84 RBIs and a major league-best 1.044 OPS.

Byron Buxton and Jorge Polanco homered. The Twins got to rookie Jackson Kowar (0-6) by scoring five runs in the first inning, three on Polanco’s homer

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