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HOUSTON (AP) — in more than two months Alan Trammell Jersey , the Houston Astros put on an offensive show against the Oakland Athletics on Monday night.“When we’re healthy, we’re the best team in baseball,” third baseman Alex Bregman said.Bregman and Tyler White homered and drove in four runs each, and the Astros rallied for an 11-4 win over the Athletics. It was the sixth straight win for the first-place Astros, who moved to 2 1/2 games ahead of Oakland in the AL West.George Springer and Jose Altuve helped in the victory, driving in a run each during a five-run third inning that erased an early 4-0 deficit. This was the first game Springer, Altuve and Carlos Correa were in the lineup together since June 25. Springer, who pinch-hit Sunday, missed the previous five games with a quadriceps injury.“When we’re going well we have this extended lineup, this long lineup where it doesn’t matter where we are, we’re a threat. We showed that again tonight,” manager AJ Hinch said. “So it certainly felt good that the guys stepped up and put up crazy good at-bats.”The Astros led by 1 with two on and one out in the eighth inning when Bregman, who tied a career high with four hits http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-al-kaline-jersey , sent a pitch from Lou Trivino just over the short fence in left field to push the lead to 8-4. White made it 11-4 with two outs in the inning when he launched a fastball from Emilio Pagan onto the train tracks atop left field for another three-run shot.The Athletics jumped on starter Gerrit Cole (12-5) for four runs behind a two-run homer by Marcus Semien in the second and a two-run run shot by Matt Chapman in the third. The homer by Chapman was his 21st after he homered twice Sunday.Cole settled down after the tough early innings to throw three scoreless frames and collect his second straight win. He allowed four hits and struck out eight to move ahead of teammate Justin Verlander (229) and into first place in the AL with 234 strikeouts.Trailing 4-0, the Astros got a single from Martin Maldonado off Brett Anderson (3-4) with one out in the third inning before Springer cut the lead to 4-1 with a double to left field. Bregman followed with a double to send another run home. Altuve then knocked a third straight double into left field to score Bregman and get Houston within 4-3.An RBI single by Marwin Gonzalez, who finished with three hits, with two outs in the inning chased Anderson. Yusmeiro Petit was greeted with a single by White, which scored Gonzalez to put the Astros up 5-4.“The five-run inning gave them some momentum and we just couldn’t do anything offensively against them after that,” manager Bob Melvin said.Anderson was disappointed that he had another tough outing against the Astros after allowing 10 hits and nine runs — both season-highs — in three innings of a 16-2 loss to them on May 7.“They’re a good team with a good lineup and have everybody back at full strength,” he said. “I just couldn’t stop the bleeding. It’s unfortunate that I’ve had two really (bad) outings against the team that we’re chasing.”TRAINER’S ROOMAstros: C Brian McCann (knee surgery) will return to Houston on Tuesday after completing a rehabilitation assignment, and the team will decide whether to activate him in the next couple of days or wait until Saturday when the rosters expand. … RHP Chris Devenski (left hamstring tightness) will pitch in a rehabilitation game for Double-A Corpus Christi on Thursday.SEEING CLEARLYJust before his home run in the eighth inning, there was a delay during White’s at-bat because he was having a problem with one of his contacts.“Usually I can get it to clear up pretty quick and I couldn’t get it, so I got some rewetting drops to clear it up,” he said. “Then I had to take my glove off and like move it all the way across my eye to get it right.”After that, he was able to see clearly, and it showed when he connected on his ninth homer this season.WHAT A RELIEFDaniel Mengden Lance Parrish Jersey , who was recalled from Triple-A Nashville on Monday, allowed four hits in four scoreless innings to help Oakland’s taxed bullpen. It was his first relief appearance in the majors after 37 career starts and could be his only one for a while with Melvin saying there is a possibility he could rejoin the rotation after this series.UP NEXTHouston’s Charlie Morton (13-3, 3.05 ERA) opposes Oakland’s Edwin Jackson (4-3, 2.97) when the series continues on Tuesday night. Morton, who got his first win since July 31 in his last start, can tie a career high for victories. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Way up in the reserve seating level at Dodger Stadium, thousands of Boston Red Sox fans screamed, hugged and danced with just as much fervor as the World Series-winning players on the field below.Amid the gleeful chaos, a father in a Red Sox T-shirt and a Bruins cap held aloft his screaming 5-week-old daughter in the chilly Sunday night air, baptizing her in the sights and sounds of another Boston sports championship.The Red Sox had just capped one of the greatest seasons in baseball history with a 5-1 win and a five-game Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. While a hometown celebration will happen on the other coast in a few days, the fans who made it to Chavez Ravine seized every chance to celebrate the final step in their club’s fourth World Series title in 15 seasons.Boston players heard them from the opening pitch.“You look around and I’m like, I never knew there were so many Red Sox fans here,” slugger J.D. Martinez said. “But Boston runs deep. Red Sox blood runs deep in Boston. It’s fun. I appreciate everyone that came out here. I know this isn’t an easy place to rock your Red Sox gear.”That 5-week-old kid aside http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-omar-infante-jersey , most of the partying fans are old enough to remember when the Red Sox stood alongside the Chicago Cubs as the archetypes of long-suffering sports futility.But that was way back before the 2004 title breakthrough ended an 86-year drought, followed by another trophy in 2007 and a third in 2013 with a thoroughly revamped roster.The team changed significantly again over the past half-decade, but the current Sox share their championship predecessors’ big payrolls and even bigger hearts. They dominated the regular season and only picked up steam in October, winning 11 of their 14 postseason games with flair and persistence.“We’re one of the greatest in history, and now we have that bond for a lifetime,” reliever Joe Kelly said. “When we have some reunions 10, 15, 20 years from now, it’s going to be like a high school reunion.”Fans’ devotion is often the only constant in the ever-evolving world of pro sports, and the unshakable support the Red Sox receive is rooted in decades of disappointment. The nationwide fan base that once went generations without a championship now has a wealth of success to celebrate from a franchise staking a claim as the 21st century’s pre-eminent baseball powerhouse.These Red Sox were the best of all, according to owner John Henry. They roared to a 108-win regular season followed by three straight playoff demolitions of the 100-win New York Yankees, the 103-win Houston Astros and the two-time defending NL champion Dodgers.“I don’t know where we stand in history and all that,” said Dave Dombrowski http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-travis-wood-jersey , Boston’s president of baseball operations. “If somebody would say you’re going to win 119 games and lose 57, we’d never, ever fathom that.”The Dodgers will be thinking about it throughout another cold winter in Hollywood — and so will their fans, who watched an opponent celebrate a World Series victory on their field for the second straight season.While the Red Sox raged below, the upper-deck fans gathered in a circle and briefly formed a kick line. They sang the parts of “Sweet Caroline” to which they knew the words, and then they came up with a series of Boston-adjacent chants — everything from “Dun-kin Do-nuts!” to “Jay-son Ta-tum!”Once the players held aloft the trophy, kissed their families and left the field, the Red Sox partied so hard in the visitors’ clubhouse that the ceiling was literally dripping with champagne and beer.A sound system playing Semisonic’s “Closing Time” shorted out when it got wet. The speakers worked just fine when the Red Sox sang along to Frank Sinatra’s rendition of “New York, New York,” their archrivals’ iconic victory song, and Tupac’s “California Love,” which is synonymous in this Ravine with Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen.Visiting clubhouse manager Mitch Poole estimates he ordered 263 bottles of champagne for the Red Sox at a total cost of $18,000. Poole waited until the sixth inning Jordan Zimmermann Jersey , when he felt a Red Sox win was imminent, before unboxing the booze and waterproofing the clubhouse.“The visiting team always pays the bill,” he said.Families, friends and team employees stayed on the field at Dodger Stadium for a couple of hours after the final out, soaking in the afterglow.Given the talent level of the Boston roster and Dombrowski’s flexibility to improve it, the Red Sox should be in contention for another one of these celebrations one year from now. But this Hollywood night will linger for the players who made it happen and the fans who witnessed it.David Price, whose outstanding start of seven-plus innings put Boston in command of Game 5, even threw his cap over the protective netting behind the dugout and into the crowd of frenzied Sox fans when he left the field.“I don’t know why I did that,” Price said with a laugh. “I appreciate those fans sticking around, rooting us on, and I just wanted to give them a little piece of the night.”