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The A’s cap­tured their first AL West title since 2006 by crush­ing the Rangers, 12–5. Oak­land trailed Texas by 13 games on June 30th, but went an MLB-best 57-and-26 since. The A’s will face the Tigers in the ALDS, while the Rangers will host the Ori­oles in the AL Wild Card Game.

Tigers slug­ger Miguel Cabr­era became the first Triple Crown win­ner in 45 years last night. Cabr­era fin­ished the reg­u­lar sea­son with an Amer­i­can League-leading .330 bat­ting aver­age, 44 home runs and 139 runs bat­ted in.

MLB NL
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Los Ange­les Dodgers 5, San Fran­cisco Giants 1

(End of Reg­u­lar Season)

MLB AL
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Seat­tle Mariners 12, LA Angels of Ana­heim 0