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The red-hot Dodgers are on track for their 10th division title in 11 years, while the big-spending Padres have faltered in the NL West.

HOUSTON (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit his AL-leading 41st homer, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Houston Astros 2-1 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep. Ohtani’s first home run since Aug. 3 put the Angels up 2-0 in the sixth inning. Houston cut it to 2-1 in the bottom half, but the Angels […]

Shohei Ohtani hit his AL-leading 41st homer, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Houston Astros 2-1 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.

Los Angeles Angels manager Phil Nevin was adamant before Sunday's game that the arm fatigue that caused two-way star Shohei Ohtani to skip his next scheduled mound start would not affect him at the plate. Then Ohtani went out and made that clear. Ohtani hit his AL-leading 41st homer, and the Angels beat the Houston Astros 2-1 to avoid a three-game sweep.

Houston Astros first baseman Jon Singleton hadn’t homered in the majors in eight years and 13 days entering Friday night’s game against the Los Angeles Angels. Singleton, whose contract was selected from Triple-A Sugar Land on Tuesday, hit a soaring three-run shot to the second deck in right field off Reid Detmers to put Houston on top 3-1 in the second inning. There was one on and one out in the third when he connected off Detmers again to make it 7-3 and end the left-hander&#x2...

Houston's Jon Singleton joined his family, including 6-year-old daughter Maisyn, for a postgame fireworks display Friday night after hitting his first MLB home runs since 2015. “Baseball is kind of on the side," Singleton said. Before that display, Singleton provided plenty of his own fireworks on the field with his first first multi-homer game and a career-high five RBIs in an 11-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.

Detmers allows seven runs in 2⅓ innings in an 11-3 defeat in the series opener in Houston, lifting the 24-year-old left-hander’s ERA to 10.30 over his last six starts.

Detmers gave up seven runs in 2-1/3 innings, lifting his ERA to 10.30 in his last six starts.

Detmers gave up seven runs in 2-1/3 innings, lifting his ERA to 10.30 in his last six starts.

Jon Singleton announced his return to the Astros in emphatic fashion. Singleton, who was called up from Triple-A earlier this week, blasted his first home runs in eight years in Houston's 11-3 win over the Angels on Friday night.