The Denver Post

MONDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS

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Ryan Goins hit a solo home run, Marco Estrada won his third straight decision and the Blue Jays beat the Orioles 4-3. Darwin Barney had two hits and an RBI as the Blue Jays won their third straight and handed the Orioles their fifth consecutiv­e defeat. Mark Trumbo hit a solo homer for Baltimore. The Orioles have scored eight total runs in their past five games. Estrada (8-8) allowed two runs and four hits in five innings. He walked none and struck out seven, giving him a career-best 166 punchouts. He struck out 165 last season. Dominic Leone pitched around a leadoff single in the ninth to earn his first career save. Ubaldo Jimenez (5-10) is winless in six starts. … Delino DeShields homered after taking a speedier trip around the bases for an earlier run as the Rangers beat the Mariners 5-3 in the opener of a four-game series matching teams still hoping to get one of the AL’s two wild cards. Cole Hamels (10-3) struck out seven in six innings to win for the first time in his last four starts. DeShields reached on a one-out bunt single in the second, when he was initially called out before a replay challenge overturned the call. DeShields then raced home from first on Shin-Soo Choo’s two-run double that made it 4-1, running through a stop sign from fill-in third-base coach Jason Wood and scoring on a nifty head-first slide. … Jose Abreu had four hits, Adam Engel hit a three-run homer and the White Sox pounded out an 11-3 victory over the Royals. Abreu, who hit for the cycle Saturday and had two home runs Sunday, drove in two and scored once while raising his average to .306. He was a homer shy of another cycle. Engel went deep off Brandon Maurer during a six-run sixth. Yolmer Sanchez, Yoan Moncada and Abreu, the first three White Sox hitters, combined to go 9 for 16 with six runs and four RBIs. Moncada had his first career three-hit game.

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