The Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 Tuesday night. The Rangers extended their winning streak to four games and leapfrogged the Jays in the A-L wild-card standings. Texas moved into the second of three wild-card spots and also secured the tiebreaker advantage over Toronto should the teams finish with identical records. Seattle beat the Angels and tied Toronto for the third and final AL wild card spot.
Game 4 of the 22U Island Junior Baseball League Finals between the Capital District Junior Islanders and Stratford A’s has been rescheduled for Wednesday night at Memorial Field at 8:00pm. Stratford is leading the best of five series 2-1 and can clinch the title with a win.
Melody Maker and Dale Spence took Tuesday night’s $3400 feature at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway. The Greg MacInnis owned and trained Melody Maker won in 1:53.4 . It was one of four winning drives on the night for Spence. Live racing continues Thursday evening at 6 P.M. at Red Shores Charlottetown.
SCOREBOARD
Tuesday’s Scoreboard
MLB
American League
Texas 6 Toronto 3
Minnesota 3 Tampa Bay 2
Oakland 6 Houston 2
Seattle 8 L.A. Angels 0
New York Yankees 3 Boston 2, 1st game
New York Yankees 4 Boston 1, 2nd game
Chicago White Sox 6 Kansas City 2, 1st game
Kansas City 11 Chicago White Sox 10, 2nd game
National League
Atlanta 7 Philadelphia 6 (10 innings)
Pittsburgh 5 Washington 1
N.Y. Mets 7 Arizona 4
Milwaukee 3 Miami 1
Colorado 6 Chicago Cubs 4
L.A. Dodgers 11 San Diego 2
Interleague
St. Louis 5 Baltimore 2
Cleveland 3 San Francisco 1
Cincinnati 6 Detroit 5 (10 innings)
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Wednesday’s Games
(All times Eastern)
MLB
American League
Tampa Bay (Bradley 5-7) at Minnesota (Keuchel 1-1), 1:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels (TBD) at Seattle (Castillo 12-7), 4:10 p.m.
Texas (Montgomery 8-11) at Toronto (Kikuchi 9-5), 7:07 p.m.
Oakland (Blackburn 4-4) at Houston Brown 10-11), 7:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Schmidt 9-8) at Boston (Houck 4-9), 7:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Cruz 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Clevinger 7-7), 7:40 p.m.
National League
Chicago Cubs (Taillon 7-9) at Colorado (Blach 2-1), 3:10 p.m.
Washington (TBD) at Pittsburgh (TBD), 6:35 p.m.
Atlanta (Strider 16-5) at Philadelphia (Sanchez 2-3), 6:40 p.m.
Arizona (Gallen 15-7) at N.Y. Mets (Senga 10-7), 7:10 p.m.
Miami (Garrett 8-6) at Milwaukee (Rea 5-5), 7:40 p.m.
San Diego (Snell 13-9) at L.A. Dodgers (Pepiot 2-0), 10:10 p.m.
Interleague
Cleveland (Allen 7-7) at San Francisco (Harrison 1-1), 3:45 p.m.
Cincinnati (Phillips 0-0) at Detroit (Rodriguez 11-7), 6:40 p.m.
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(The Canadian Press)
