Rangers snap Blue Jays' win streak
ARLINGTON, Texas — Yovani Gallardo earned his 100th career victory, Delino DeShields had a part in all the Texas runs even without an RBI and the Rangers stopped the Toronto Blue Jays' five-game winning streak, 4-1. Thursday.
The AL East-leading Blue Jays lead the majors with 5.4 runs per game, and had outscored opponents 54-19 during their recent string.
With two runners on in the seventh, DeShields hit a single that rolled past charging right fielder Jose Bautista. The ball wound up on the warning track and DeShields circled the bases for a 4-0 lead.
Gallardo (11-9) threw 5 1/3 scoreless innings. He became the fourth native of Mexico to win 100 games, joining Fernando Valenzuela (173), Esteban Loaiza (126) and Ismael Valdez (104).
Royals 5
Orioles 3
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Yordano Ventura struck out a career-high 11 in just six innings, Paulo Orlando homered and Kansas City hung on to beat struggling Baltimore.
Ventura (9-7) allowed two hits and four walks to improve to 5-0 in his last seven starts.
Orioles outfielder Adam Jones left soon after crashing into the wall trying to track down a fly ball in the first. Jones lay on the warning track for a few minutes before standing up and finishing the inning. There was no word on the nature or severity of the injury.
Angels 2
Tigers 0
DETROIT — Matt Shoemaker pitched one-hit ball into the eighth inning in his hometown ballpark, Albert Pujols drove in one run and scored another and Los Angeles beat Detroit.
Shoemaker (6-9) went to high school about 30 minutes from Comerica Park and attended Eastern Michigan University, a school that has a large ad on the right field fence. He dominated the Tigers in his first game in Detroit, permitting just a single by Anthony Gose in the third.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Giants 9
Cubs 1
SAN FRANCISCO — Kelby Tomlinson hit a grand slam for his first career home run and Marlon Byrd added a three-run shot, leading Madison Bumgarner and San Francisco over Chicago.
The win moved the Giants within 5½ games of the Cubs for the second NL wild-card spot.
After the game, the Cubs acquired struggling reliever Fernando Rodney from the Seattle Mariners for cash.
The 38-year-old Rodney had been designated for assignment by Seattle last Sunday.
Rodney was 5-5 and had gone 16 for 22 in save chances this season. The right-hander had a 5.68 ERA in 54 games.
Dodgers 1
Reds 0
CINCINNATI — Zack Greinke and two relievers combined on a four-hitter and Los Angeles completed a three-game sweep of reeling Cincinnati.
Greinke (14-3) lowered his major league-best ERA to 1.61 and allowed four hits over seven innings while leading Los Angeles to its first sweep of a series in Cincinnati since a three-game set in July 2009. He finished with two walks and nine strikeouts.