KIRK MCCARTY

Gerrit Cole cruised for most of the night, Harrison Bader and Anthony Rizzo homered and the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 in their AL Division Series opener.

Oscar Gonzalez’s two-run homer in the sixth broke a 1-all tie and gave Cleveland its fifth straight win. Cincinnati’s Joey Votto homered in seven straight last season from July 24-30. Morris, making his third major league start, allowed one run, walked five and struck out four in 2 2/3 innings. Angels infielder David Fletcher didn’t start for the third day in a row because of a bruised right hand. Quantrill is 12-0 in 40 career games at Progressive Field and has gone 32 straight home starts without a loss.

Angels star Mike Trout’s streak of consecutive games hitting a home run ended at seven, one shy of the major league record, and the AL Central-leading Cleveland Guardians beat Los Angeles 3-1.

Justin Verlander pitched six scoreless innings for his MLB-leading 15th victory, Chas McCormick and Martin Maldonado each homered and had three RBIs, and the AL West-leading Houston Astros beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-0.