Jo Adell homered, Kenny Rosenberg outpitched Sonny Gray and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Minnesota Twins 1-0, a day after Minnesota clinched the AL Central title.
Starting in place of injured center fielder Mike Trout, Adell hit a 428-foot drive to center for his third homer this season. Adell also made a leaping catch in front of the wall to rob Michael A. Taylor in the sixth.
Los Angeles , assured of its eighth straight losing season. won for just the second time in nine games.clinched the AL Central for the third time in five seasons under manager Rocco Baldelli and likely will the No. 3 seed for the postseason. There is a small chance the Twins could catch the AL West leader for the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye, but Baldelli conceded before the game that scenario is unlikely.
Meanwhile, the Angels are on the outside of the postseason for the ninth straight season and playing out the season’s final games without injured stars Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout.Nolan Schanuel singled in the eighth inning off Josh Winder, extending his streak of reaching base at the start of his big league career to 26 games, Schanuel, the 11th overall pick in this year’s amateur draft, trails only Alvin Davis and Truck Hannah .
Twins: RHP Brock Stewart , who was a key piece of the bullpen in the middle part of the season, had another successful rehab outing with Triple-A St. Paul on Friday night. He struck out two in a scoreless inning and has pitched three scoreless innings in three rehab appearances.RHP Joe Ryan starts the series finale Sunday for Minnesota, with Los Angeles sending LHP Tyler Anderson to the mound.The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting.
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