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Two years after losing 121 games, the White Sox clinched a playoff spot in Kansas City. At almost the same minute, the Cubs clinched theirs at Wrigley. Chicago gets two Octobers.

Pete Crow-Armstrong walked in the first inning Thursday, stole second, and became the seventh player in major league history with 40 homers and 40 steals in one season.

Houston and Texas are both 79-80 with three games left. Whoever takes the AL West will finish with the worst record of any full-season division champion, or tie it.

Cam Schlittler's last regular-season start lasted three innings. It still counted: his 25th start this year allowing one earned run or fewer, tying Sandy Koufax for the most since 1920.

George Lombard Jr. doubled, scored by jumping over the catcher, then hit the tiebreaking homer as the Yankees came back from 4-0 to beat the AL East champion Rays.