Three teams ranked

Three area teams are ranked in the Associated Press state high school football poll released Tuesday.

East Palestine (4-0) is 16th in Div. VII, West Branch (3-1) is 17th in Div. IV and Crestview (4-0) is 26th in Div. VI.

The teams will play Friday with East Palestine traveling to Southern Local, West Branch hosting Howland and Crestview entertaining Ravenna Southeast.

Beaver girls top United

CALCUTTA — The Beaver Local girls golf team beat United, 186-192, Tuesday at Beaver Creek Meadoss.

Leading the Beavers were McKenzie Ash with a 45, Mya Anderson 46, Brenna Jones 47 and Julianna Johnston and Carlee Crabtree with 48s.

Both teams will play in the OVAC Tournament today at Oglebay’s Crispin Course.

Guardians keep fighting

DETROIT (AP) — Steven Kwan, Angel Martinez, José Ramírez and Kyle Manzardo combined to give Cleveland four extra-base hits an extra inning for the first time in 64 years, and the Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers 7-5 in the 10th on Tuesday night for their 10th win in 11 games.

Pinch-hitter Kerry Carpenter tied the score 3-3 with a two-out homer in the ninth against Cade Smith (7-5), who blew a save for the sixth time in 21 chances.

Cleveland extended a winning streak to five for the fifth time this season, matching its high, and improved to 11-6 in extra innings — the most extra-inning wins in the big leagues. The Guardians began the night three games behind Houston for the last AL wild card and closed within 5 1/2 games of the AL Central-leading Tigers.

The Guardians’ first our batters in the 10th had extra-base hits off Will Vest (6-4), when Kwan doubled, Martínez tripled, José Ramírez and Kyle Manzardo doubled. Gabriel Arias added a one-out RBI single for a 7-3 lead.

Spencer Torkelson hit a two-run homer in bottom of the 10th off Jakub Junis.

C.J. Kayfus hit an RBI single in the second and Gleyber Torres tied the game in the third with his 16th home run. Arias’ homer put Cleveland back ahead in the fourth and Bo Naylor’s RBI double in the sixth built a 3-1 lead.

Dillon Dingler drove in a run with a grounder in the bottom half, beating a throw to first to avoid an inning-ending double play.

Key moment

Cleveland had not had four extra-base hits in an extra inning since May 10, 1961, when Tito Francona, Chuck Essegian, Woodie Held and Bubba Phillips achieved the feat in the 11th inning during an 8-2 win at the Chicago White Sox.

Key stat

Several players wore No. 21 in honor of Roberto Clemente Day, but the Tiger who normally wears the number, rookie pitcher Jackson Jobe, is sidelined for the rest of the season with a flexor injury.

Skenes beaten

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Michael Busch greeted Paul Skenes with the fourth leadoff home run of his career and the Chicago Cubs moved to the brink of their first playoff berth in five years with a 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.

The Cubs winnowed their magic number to one by chasing Skenes (10-10) during a rare rocky outing for the NL Cy Young Award favorite. Busch led off with his 29th homer of the season, a shot to the final row of seats above the Clemente Wall in right field, and finished with three hits as Chicago won for the sixth time in seven games.

Nico Hoerner added three hits and Carson Kelly, Dansby Swanson and Mosies Ballesteros had two apiece for the Cubs in support of starter Cade Horton (11-4), who bolstered his NL Rookie of the Year credentinals by limiting the Pirates to one run over five innings. The 24-year-old right-hander is 8-1 with a 0.92 ERA since the All-Star break.

Brad Keller worked a perfect ninth for his fourth save.

Skenes is a near lock to become the first pitcher to win Rookie of the Year and follow it up by capturing a Cy Young the next season since former New York Mets star Dwight Gooden in 1984 and 1985. Yet the 23-year-old’s final start at PNC Park this season was a rare misstep at a place where he has dominated.

The towering right-hander gave up three runs on seven hits with three walks and six strikeouts and was pulled after 3 2/3 innings, the shortest start of his career outside of a brief two-inning stint at Yankee Stadium last fall in an appearance that was mostly ceremonial at the end of his breakout rookie season.

The last-place Pirates have dropped 10 of 11.

Key moment

Busch’s 385-foot shot on the game’s fourth pitch was a sign of things to come. Pete Crow-Armstrong singled home Ian Happ later in the first, just the second and third runs Skenes has allowed in the opening inning all season.

Key stat

Skenes has 209 strikeouts, one short of Mitch Keller’s single-season record for most by a right-handed pitcher in the franchise’s 137-year history.

Up next

The NL Central rivals meet for the final time this season Wednesday when Chicago’s Matthew Boyd (13-8, 3.05 ERA) starts against Johan Oviedo (2-0, 2.81).

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