Odor homers again, Rangers beat Astros to pad AL West lead (Yahoo Sports)

Rougned Odor and the Texas Rangers are running away with the AL West, even though the Houston Astros keep trying to hang around. The fiery second baseman homered for the third straight game in a seven-run fourth inning, Carlos Gomez had two hits in his first game against his former team and the Rangers held on for a 10-8 victory over the Astros on Friday night. The Rangers nearly squandered a seven-run lead but won their sixth straight to push their AL West advantage to 9 1/2 games over the second-place Astros.