Angels
Jered Weaver gave up a season-high six earned runs and walked four vs. the Orioles last week. The last time Weaver gave up six earned runs was against the Yankees on Aug. 14, 2013. “Fastball was up for most of the time and I couldn’t really figure out how to get it down,” he said. “Every time I left it up they put good swings on it. Any time you get the ball up in this park it’s not going to work out too well.”
Astros
RHP Mark Appel, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2013 amateur draft, was promoted to Double-A Corpus Christi from Class A Lancaster, where he was 2-5 with a 9.74 ERA in 12 starts. … OF George Springer, who has been on the DL since July 20 with a right quad strain, took batting practice. “It’s big to be out here and just to get some swings,” Springer said. … 2B Jose Altuve extended his hitting streak to 11 games with his RBI single in the fifth Tuesday. The hitting streak is Altuve’s second-longest of the season after a 12-game hitting streak from May 8-21.
Athletics
OF Craig Gentry was placed on the 15-day DL with a broken right hand. … From SI.com: “An MRI given to outfielder Coco Crisp showed that the player has some ‘chronic, degenerative changes’ in his neck that stem from when the outfielder collided with the outfield wall during a May 7 game, according to Comcast Sports Net Bay Area. A’s trainer Nick Paparesta said that Crisp has been dealing with ‘on-and-off symptoms’ since the collision.”
Mariners
From the Seattle Times: “The problem is so old now, so frustratingly persistent, that it’s beginning to feel permanent. The Mariners can’t hit. Couldn’t in 2010, couldn’t in 2012, can’t now. Not well enough to get them where they want to go, anyway. Once again, their offensive futility is proving oppressive, and is now threatening to undermine what had been a hopeful, overachieving season.” … The Mariners are 50-19 on the season when scoring three runs or more in a game. “We’ve been grinding out at-bats,” manager Lloyd McClendon said. “We’ve lost five one-run games. So when you don’t win them and you don’t look good, people are saying you are playing bad and that’s just not true. One hit in each of those five games and we’d have a really nice record coming out of the break.”
Rangers
J.P. Arencibia became the first Rangers player with four extra-base hits since Josh Hamilton’s four-homer game in 2012 vs. the Orioles. Arencibia drove in a career-high seven RBIs in the loss to the Yankees. The last player in the majors with at least seven RBIs in a loss was Jonathan Lucroy in 2012, when Milwaukee fell to the Cubs, STATS said. … Nick Tepesch pulled himself out of his start last Saturday because of left knee soreness, and Texas skipped his next turn in the rotation Friday as a precaution.
Compiled by Rick Crotts from wire reports.
