Friday 37 Sports Friday, October 9, 2020 Dodgers, Braves take 2-0 leads Rays overpower Yankees, Dodgers hold on to beat Padres

NEW YORK: Cody Bellinger hit a home run game, lifting Atlanta to a win over Miami in two runs in two innings to take the loss. The and made a spectacular, over-the-wall catch Houston. The Braves grabbed a 2-0 lead in teams combined to hit seven home runs (the in the seventh inning as the Los Angeles their best-of-five National League Division A’s hit five) and have 18 combined in the se- Dodgers held on Wednesday and moved one Series. Darren O’Day, Tyler Matzek, Will ries on three consecutive day games, all with win away from the National League Champi- Smith and closer Mark Melancon did not allow a first-pitch temperature of 81 degrees or onship Series with a 6-5 victory over the San a hit over the final 3 1/3 innings to shut the higher. Diego Padres at Arlington, Texas. Clayton door on the sixth-seeded Marlins. Anderson Kershaw (2-0) gave up three runs on six hits (1-0), who started a 5-0 shutout win over Rays 8, Yankees 4 over six innings for the Dodgers, who lead the Cincinnati last week, was brilliant once again. Kevin Kiermaier hit a tiebreaking three-run best-of-five NL Division Series 2-0. He allowed a double by Brian Anderson and homer in the fourth inning and Kershaw struck out six and walked none to two singles while striking out eight and walk- pitched five solid innings as Tampa Bay de- win for the second time in two starts during ing one. Miami starter Pablo Lopez (0-1) gave feated New York in San Diego to take a two this year’s postseason. Corey Seager had a up two runs on three hits in five innings. He games to one lead in an American League Di- two-run double among his three hits for Los finished with no walks with seven . vision Series. Rays left fielder Randy Angeles, and Max Muncy added two hits and Arozarena homered, had three hits and two RBIs. Manny Machado and Eric Hosmer A’s 9, Astros 7 reached base four times. Arozarena, who did hit back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning Chad Pinder belted a game-tying, three- not make his 2020 debut until Aug. 30, joined for San Diego. The Padres rallied for two runs run home run in the seventh inning and Sean Evan Longoria (2008) and Kyle Schwarber in the ninth inning against Dodgers closer Murphy hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the (2015) as the third rookie to hit at least one Kenley Jansen, and they had the bases loaded eighth as Oakland kept its season alive by homer in three consecutive postseason games. against right-hander Joe Kelly before Eric rallying from a 7-4 deficit to beat Houston in He also joined Longoria and Carlos Pena Hosmer grounded out to end it. Game 3 of the American League Division Se- (2008) as the only Tampa Bay players to go ries in Los Angeles. Oakland closer Liam deep in three straight playoff contests. Lon- ARLINGTON: Jake Cronenworth #9 of the Braves 2, Marlins 0 Hendriks (1-0) pitched the final three innings goria’s streak reached four games. Yankees throws to first base during the seventh inning against the Rookie tossed 5 2/3 strong to earn the victory, giving up no runs and one designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton socked a Los Angeles Dodgers in Game Two of the National League Di- innings and and Travis d’Ar- hit. He struck out four without issuing a walk. two-run homer in the eighth, his sixth homer vision Series at Globe Life Field on October 07, 2020. —AFP naud homered for the second consecutive Houston reliever Brooks Raley (0-1) allowed of the postseason in five games.—Reuters

champion. “I won’t give up and we’ll keep pushing,” he said, mindful that Hamilton resumes Hamilton is expected to react to his testy defeat in Russia, since when the defending champion has kept a low profile, with a typically inspired display. Formula Two championship leader will not be the only Cheptegei smashes record trail on F1’s one of Ferrari’s junior drivers in action at the German circuit as his rival and colleague Briton Callum Ilott is due to drive for Haas on Friday morning. Schu- macher, 21, said it will be a special experience to make his debut on home track world record Nurburgring return German soil. He leads Ilott in the F2 title race and both will be vying to impress in the hope of landing an F1 seat next year. —AFP VALENCIA: Joshua Cheptegei broke the 10,000m NURBURGRING: Three names synonymous with glory and success will track world record on Wednesday in Valencia with a grab attention for contrasting reasons this weekend when the once-legendary time of 26mins 11.00 seconds. He lowered the previous Nurburgring hosts a race for the first time in seven years. Lewis mark of 26min 17.53sec set by Kenenisa Bekele in Hamilton will be seeking, at the second attempt, to equal Michael Schu- 2005 in Brussels. This was the 24-year-old 10,000m macher’s record of 91 wins while the seven-time champion German’s son world champion’s third world record this year and ce- Mick is set to make his F1 debut in Friday’s opening practice with . Alongside them, - the last winner at the historic venue in mented his standing as the new middle distance maes- 2013 - will be bidding to avoid any banana skins as he embarks on his closing tro. In February he claimed the world 5km road record chapter with Ferrari, having admitted on Wednesday that his spell with the in Monaco. Italian team has been a failure. All three men and the rest of the travelling F1 Then, after a period of coronavirus lockdown in his circus are expected to face severely cold conditions with rain and low tem- native Uganda, he returned to Monaco and, in his first peratures forecast for the weekend’s inaugural Eifel Grand Prix. race back, wiped almost two seconds off Bekele’s 16- For Hamilton, there is more at stake than a chance to claim another record year-old track world record time over the 5,000m as as he presses on in pursuit of equalling Schumacher’s haul of seven drivers’ he clocked 12min 35.35sec. Cheptegei served notice of championships. After his disappointment at the Russian Grand Prix, where his class when he took silver at the 2017 world champi- he was handed two controversial five-second penalties on his way to a fight- onships in London when he was still just 20. ing third and a subsequent outburst, in which he claimed there was a con- Last year he went one better, collecting gold in Doha. spiracy to slow him down, he will be seeking to reclaim his dominance and He had already won the world cross country champi- dignity. Like Vettel, he is a former winner at the track which, in a previous in- onship five months earlier. Up to Wednesday Cheptegei carnation as the feared ‘Nordschleife’, witnessed the birth of the ‘Silver Ar- only had the 18th quickest time over the distance with rows’ in 1934, when Manfred von Brauchitsch won the International Eifel a best in Doha of 26min 48.36secs, over half a minute Race. Hamilton triumphed in 2011 with McLaren, powered by a Mercedes KUWAIT: Chairman of the board of the bowling Club Sheikh Talal Al-Mohammad outside the record. But his performance in August engine, but he has not claimed victory in the Eifel mountains since joining the Al-Sabah congratulated - on behalf of the board of directors, workers-HH the boded well and he was assisted by some rapid pace- current Mercedes works team. Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on the naming of HH Sheikh makers, notably the Kenyan Nicholas Kimeli who was a Mercedes have registered only one F1 win at the venue - delivered on Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as Crown Prince. He said this auspicious world finalist over 5,000 metres. Another factor was his the daunting ‘old’ circuit by Juan-Manuel Fangio in 1954 - and may not find occasion makes athletes long for a better future, as we look for it with de- footware, Nike’s carbon-plated Nike Vaporfly worn by it easy this weekend despite their absolute dominance since the start of this termination to take the sports movement further and make achievements in Covid-19 affected season. Hamilton goes into the race with a 44-point lead Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey when she established a the name of Kuwait. Al-Mohammad wished HH the Amir and HH the crown in the drivers’ title race ahead of team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who won in Sochi prince all the best. new women’s 5,000m earlier. —AFP two weeks ago and remains determined to close the gap on the six-time