Adrian Beltre turned a one-run deficit into a one-run lead with a two-run homer in the fifth inning, and the Texas Rangers broke the game open with a six-run seventh en route to a 9-2 victory over the Angels on Sunday, clinching their sixth American League West championship and knocking the Angels out of the playoffs.
A crowd of 45,772 in Globe Life Park was on its feet for the ninth inning, as Rangers left-hander Cole Hamels, acquired in a July 31 trade with Philadelphia, finished off a complete game in which he gave up two runs and three hits, struck out eight and walked two.