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HOUSTON -- Rougned Odor put one leg up on a chair as he talked to a reporter, giving teammate Carlos Gomez the perfect pedestal to drape a replica WWE championship belt encrusted with dozens of plastic crystals across his knee.It was an appropriate gesture for the man who delivered the knockout blow to the Houston Astros in the 12th round on Monday night.Odor had three hits and three RBI, including a solo homer in the 12th inning that lifted the Texas Rangers to a 4-3 victory.I always like to play against the Astros, he said. I like to hit in this ballpark. I just like it. I feel really comfortable here.Odor launched his 31st homer over the short fence in right field off James Hoyt (1-1) to put Texas on top.Hes certainly hurt us a number of times over the last couple of years, Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. Hes a good hitter. Hes a hitter that does damage. Certainly, against us, he comes up big at the worst times.Odor, who finished a triple shy of the cycle, has six home runs, six doubles and 19 RBI in 16 games against Houston this season.When he sees a mistake he puts a great swing on it, manager Jeff Banister said. I think he did that tonight in three different at-bats.The Rangers, who have the best record in the American League at 86-59, improved to 14-3 against AL West rival Houston this season.Keone Kela (5-1) allowed one hit in two scoreless innings for the win and Jake Diekman pitched a perfect 12th for his fourth save.Evan Gattis hit a solo homer off Sam Dyson with one out in the ninth to tie it at 3. The towering shot, which landed on the train tracks atop the left field wall, was the 26th homer for Gattis this season.Marwin Gonzalez singled after that, but the inning ended when Colby Rasmus struck out and Gonzalez was caught trying to steal second base.Sometimes the bounces dont go your way, Hinch said. Theres a lot of frustrating parts of this game, but none more so than the final score.Odor drove in one run with a ground-rule double in the Rangers two-run first inning. His RBI single in the third made it 3-1.Texas starter Martin Perez yielded three hits and two runs with six strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings.Gonzalez had an RBI single for Houston in the second and Tony Kemps pinch-hit, ground-rule double got Houston within one in the seventh.Houston starter Doug Fister allowed six hits and three runs in five innings. Hes had a tough September, allowing 25 hits and 17 runs combined in three starts.Astros rookie Alex Bregman went 0 for 5 with three strikeouts to end a 10-game hitting streak and Carlos Correa was 0 for 3 with a pair of walks to snap his hitting streak of 13 games.TRAINERS ROOMAstros: LHP Dallas Keuchel, who hasnt pitched since Aug. 27 because of inflammation in his left shoulder, will be shut down until at least Wednesday. Keuchel said they will decide then what his next step will be. Keuchel has had a tough follow-up to a 2015 season where he won a career-high 20 games and was voted the AL Cy Young Winner. Houstons ace is 9-12 with a 4.55 ERA.ALL AL WESTMonday was the first of 19 straight games the Astros will play against teams in the AL West to end the season. They have seven games remaining against the Angels, six with the Mariners and three against the Athletics.WHAT A CATCHElvis Andrus robbed Houstons Max Stassi of a hit when he dived to grab a low liner for the first out of the 10th inning. Andrus sailed through the air to make the catch, hit the ground and rolled over before holding his glove up to display the ball.UP NEXTRangers: A.J. Griffin (7-4, 4.92) will start for Texas on Tuesday. Griffin looks to bounce back after giving up a career-high eight runs in four innings of an 8-3 loss to Seattle on Wednesday.Astros: Brad Peacock (0-0, 3.38) is scheduled to start his second game on Tuesday. 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The Cincinnati Reds remain perfect with their speedy rookie outfielder in the starting lineup.Every year there are one or two teams that come out of the gates in excellent form, surprising fans and pundits alike. Through the first three months of the season, that club was Tottenham Hotspur.The north London side opened their league campaign by going unbeaten in their first 12 matches, reaching as high as second place in the table. However, Mauricio Pochettinos club has hit a bit of a snag recently and will look to find its form against Hull City on Wednesday night at White Hart Lane.After Spurs opening winning streak was snapped Nov. 26, they got back to their winning ways the following week with a 5-0 thrashing of Swansea City. Tottenham (7-6-2) came back to earth again Sunday following a hard-fought 1-0 defeat at the hands of a resurgent Manchester United.Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the much-maligned summer signing from Borussia Dortmund, struck for the only goal in the 29th minute. Spurs best chance to equalise against United came in the 55th minute as Christian Eriksen teased a free-kick into the box. Victor Wanyama lost his marker but mistimed his header from six yards.It was a close game, they were more clinical than us in the boxes and its for that (reason) we lost the game, Pochettino said. Its always the case in football and when you play a team like Manchester United, its important to be clinical when you have the opportunities to score.Spurs must quickly put that result in the past be ready to face Hull City.We have to put that frustration and anger and use it in the right way, we cant change this, so we have to use it in the riight way and try to get three points at home on Wednesday night, defender Toby Alderweireld said.ddddddddddddHull City (3-3-9) come into the clash in need of points, riding a five-match winless streak in league play following Saturdays wild 3-3 stalemate against Crystal Palace.Defending was at a premium as Robert Snodgrass, Adama Diomande and Jake Livermore all found the net for the Tigers, but Christian Benteke and Wilfried Zaha scored for Palace before Fraizer Campbell netted the final equaliser with 89 minutes on the clock.While Diomande and his teammates were disappointed not to take three points, there were plenty of positives.I think we were all disappointed about the final result, but there are a lot of positives that we can take from the game, the Norwegian striker said. It was probably the best we have played at home this season and we were happy to see the combination between midfield and attack working well.Unfortunately we have missed the opportunity to take all of the points, but we havent lost in our last three league games at home now, and the real positive from Saturday was scoring three goals.Hull havent beaten Tottenham since their first Premier League game against them in October 2008, and have never scored more than once in their eight Premier League games versus Spurs.Hull City are on a run of five successive defeats away from home in the Premier League and havent scored in the last three. ' ' '