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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Cole Hamels kept getting two strikes. The Texas Rangers All-Star left-hander just couldnt finish off the Toronto hitters.The Blue Jays had five two-strike hits off Hamels, four of them in a five-run third on way to a 10-1 romp in the opener of their AL Division Series rematch on Thursday.When you give up the amount of runs that I did early in the game, it can kind of deflate anything and everything of what home-field advantage really is, Hamels said. It was a major letdown for what I was able to not do.The long three-run homer Jose Bautista hit off reliever Jake Diekman in the ninth inning, before gently tossing his bat to the ground, didnt really have much an impact on this game. Not like the sluggers emphatic bat flip after his tiebreaking homer in the ALDS Game 5 clincher last October.Marco Estrada took a shutout into the ninth inning for the wild-card Blue Jays. The All-Star right-hander with an impressive changeup, who won Game 3 in last years ALDS after Toronto lost the first two at home, struck out six without a walk.The last of the Rangers four hits off Estrada was Elvis Andrus leadoff triple in the ninth. Manager John Gibbons removed the right-hander when Shin-Soo Choo followed with an RBI grounder to end the shutout bid.When Josh Donaldson hit a hard liner toward four-time Gold Glove third baseman Adrian Beltre with two outs in the third, it appeared Hamels would get out of that inning without giving up a run. Instead, the liner ricocheted off Beltres glove and into left field for an RBI double.I saw it coming in, kind of got lost a little bit between the fans and I didnt get my glove quick enough there, Beltre said. I lost it in the fans or a white shirt, whatever. But I should have made it, anyways.Then Edwin Encarnacion hit a soft tailing liner on a two-strike pitch, and the ball went off Hamels outstretched glove for an infield single. Bautista followed with an RBI single on two-strike pitch before Russell Martin walked to load the bases.When youre trying to make pitches, sometimes you can try to be a little too fine, Hamels said. Sometimes when you overdo it youre going to miss your spots a little bit.Troy Tulowitzki followed with a triple , again with two strikes, to make it 5-0. The ball was deep into the right-center gap, and All-Star center fielder Ian Desmond might have lost when running out of the sun and into the shadows while getting close to the wall during the late afternoon.Wed be talking about how great a play it was if he made the catch, Texas manager Jeff Banister said.Game 2 in the best-of-five series is Friday.Hamels, the MVP of the 2008 World Series and NLCS for Philadelphia, threw 42 of his 82 pitches in the third. He allowed seven runs (six earned) with three walks in 3 1/3 innings, before Alex Claudio pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings.The AL West champion Rangers, who have home-field advantage this postseason, dropped to 1-10 in ALDS home games -- this is the seventh ALDS in their history.Bautista was booed heartily during pregame introductions and while he batted in the first inning. There also were chants of Rougie! Rougie! -- those were for Rougned Odor, the second baseman who punched Bautista and ignited a bench-clearing brawl in their last meeting May 15. Odor was suspended seven games.After Bautistas 425-foot blast in the ninth made it 10-0, a fan threw the ball almost back to the infield.I have a couple of home runs in my career and I think Ive only flipped it once, Bautista said. Just kind of been blown out of proportion because of the moment last year. So I dont think there was anything too special about laying it down the way I did, because thats the way that 99.9-plus percent of the time I do it.E6 AGAINMelvin Upton Jr. homered starting the Toronto fourth before Andrus one-out throwing error from shortstop led to an unearned run. When Texas had errors on three consecutive plays in that shaky seventh inning of Game 5 last October, leading up to Bautistas homer, Andrus had two of them (a fielding misplay and a dropped throw).TRAINERS ROOMRangers: RF Choo , who was 0 for 3, had four stints on the disabled list this season. He missed 39 games with a fractured left forearm before returning for the last three games of the regular season.UP NEXTBlue Jays: LHP J.A. Happ, a 20-game winner, allowed one run in seven innings in a win against the Rangers on May 5.Rangers: Yu Darvish starts only his second postseason game in his five seasons with Texas. 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Lucas, used as a center back by manager Juergen Klopp, inadvertently passed the ball across his own goal to unmarked Leiccester striker Jamie Vardy, who put the gift into the open goal.ddddddddddddThis gave Leicester a bit of momentum, but the champion was unable to draw level, and soon found itself further behind.Adam Lallana scored Liverpools third, a thunderbolt from close range that gave Kasper Schmeichel no chance in the Leicester goal.Firmino rounded off Liverpools fine performance in the 89th, staying calm to slot home after a Schmeichel misjudgment.Liverpool seems to be finding its feet, and Klopp will hope his team can put its past inconsistency behind it. ' ' '