For the first time in the 44 seasons that Texas has had two Major League Baseball teams, the two clubs will be playing huge, important September games against each other.

With reliable Angels closer Huston Street one strike away from completing a shutout and a three-game weekend sweep at Angel Stadium, the Astros unleashed what might have been the comeback of the season.

Zack Greinke continued his dominance of National League hitters as he tossed eight three-hit innings to lead the Dodgers over the D-backs, 4-3, on Sunday afternoon at Chase Field. With the win, the Dodgers captured the series and maintained an 8 1/2-game lead over the second-place Giants in the NL West.

Adrian Beltre hit two tape-measure home runs and drove in five runs to pace a powerful Rangers’ offense in their 12-4 victory over the A’s on Sunday afternoon. he Rangers hit a season-high-tying four homers and stayed within 1 1/2 games of the Astros in the American League West on the eve of the rivals’ crucial four-game series at Globe Life Park.

In the first inning of the Angels’ crushing 5-3 loss to the Astros on Sunday afternoon, Mike Trout hit a home run. That shouldn’t seem too unusual for the star center fielder — he’s hit 35 of them this season — but the circumstances were.

The Twins aren’t having any trouble manufacturing their own energy these days. Injuries seem less painful, days don’t seem nearly as long and the clubhouse seems as lively as it was early in the season. It’s been nearly five years since Minnesota last found itself in a playoff race in September, and that race is providing all the energy it needs — even with a long stretch of games remaining.

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Torii Hunter homered and drove in four runs, as the Twins once again gave White Sox ace Chris Sale trouble during Minnesota’s 7-0 victory over Chicago on Sunday afternoon at U.S. Cellular Field.

National League MVP frontrunner Bryce Harper exited Sunday’s 5-0 win against the Marlins in the first inning for precautionary reasons after experiencing dizziness on a collision with second baseman Derek Dietrich while rounding second base.

Added to the lineup as part of manager Mike Matheny’s efforts to find an offensive spark, outfielder Tommy Pham delivered a tiebreaking home run on Sunday that halted the Cardinals’ three-game losing streak and sent them off from Cincinnati with a 9-2 win over the Reds at Great American Ball Park.

The one call Mike Moustakas really wanted to make after his nine RBIs helped the Royals beat Baltimore on Saturday was to his mom.

The Mets pulled off another amazing September comeback on Sunday, using a huge two-out, three-run, score-tying home run from Daniel Murphy in the ninth, then tacking on three runs in the 10th for a 10-7 win over the Braves at Turner Field. It was the Mets’ seventh straight win and a franchise-record 12th consecutive loss at home for Atlanta.

Masahiro Tanaka knew what was on the line Sunday. He knew the Yankees desperately needed a win to avoid a sweep at the hands of the first-place Blue Jays, and he knew that his manager had essentially declared Sunday a must-win game for the sake of the American League

So close to robbing a pair of home runs earlier in this series, right fielder Jason Heyward finally brought one back on Sunday in the Cardinals’ 9-2 win over the Reds.

Rain threatened to slow the Indians’ recent momentum over the past few days, but the Tribe continued on undeterred on Sunday afternoon. In the first game of a traditional doubleheader, rookies Francisco Lindor and Cody Anderson came up big in a 7-2 victory over the Tigers.

Right-hander Max Scherzer tossed eight scoreless innings as the Nationals snapped a five-game losing skid in a 5-0 victory over the Marlins on Sunday afternoon at Marlins Park.

The Mets, even with a 9 1/2-game cushion in the National League East after Sunday’s 10-7 win over the Braves, still have some fine-tuning to do before the final days of the season, prepping for what they hope — and many should probably expect at this point — will be their first trip to the postseason since 2006.