Astros clinch AL West for 5th time in 6 years, beat Rays 4-0

clinched their fifth AL West title in six years, getting a leadoff home run from Jose Altuve in a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bays on Monday night.won for the eighth time in nine games and improved the AL's best record to 97-51.

Luis Garcia won his fifth straight decision, giving up two hits and four walks in five innings while striking out four. Hunter Brown pitched three innings and Héctor Neris finished the five-hitter, the Astros 16th shutout this season. Tampa Bay is in position for the second of three AL wild card berths, one game behind Toronto and a half-game ahead of Seattle .José Ramírez had three of the Rays' five hits.Drew Rasmussen gave up four runs and six hits in six innings. He has allowed four runs in consecutive starts and giving up three runs or fewer during 11 in a row.

Altuve’ hit his 25th homer on the fifth pitch of the game, his 11th leadoff homer this season and 32nd of his career. Altuve singled leading off the sixth, Jeremy Peña walked and Yordan Alvarez hit an RBI single. Alex Bregman followed with a broken-bat, two-run double.Rays: RHP Tyler Glasnow is to make his fourth rehab start Friday for Triple-A Durham. He retired all six batters he faced Sunday night and struck out four.All-Star LHP Shane McClanahan will pitch for the Rays on Tuesday night against RHP Cristian Javier , who has won three straight starts.

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