www.dailypostathenian.com FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021 | SPORTS DAILY POST-ATHENIAN | B3

JOHN BAZEMORE | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The ’ (18) scores on an Adam Fra- zier single during the seventh inning against the on Thursday in Atlanta. Newman, Frazier push Pirates past

MATT YORK | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Braves in 10 innings Corey Conners, of Canada, putts on the 18th hole during the first round of the PGA Championship on the Ocean Course on Thurs- day in Kiawah Island, South Carolina. BY GEORGE HENRY NATIONAL LEAGUE AP Sports Writer PIRATES 6, Braves 4, 10 inn. ATLANTA — a tiebreaking Freeman to leave the bases single in the 10th inning, loaded in the fourth. Adam Frazier had four hits KEEP RISING: Frazier and the Pittsburgh Pirates increased his NL lead in Making shore work beat the Atlanta Braves 6-4 hits to 58. on Thursday night. Frazier has hit .386 in 83 With the score 4-all at-bats with eight doubles and Ben Gamel starting in his last 20 games since Conners keeps it as stress-free as possible for PGA lead the 10th on second base April 28. under the pandemic extra- TRAINER’S ROOM: Pirates BY DOUG FERGUSON his brain than his ailing right knee. not his round. McIlroy made bogey innings rule, Frazier sin- — Manager Derek Shel- AP Golf Writer His opening tee shot on the 10th on three of the par 5s for a 75, his gled Gamel to third off ton had no update on RHP hole at Kiawah Island was struck worst start ever in a PGA Cham- (1-2) and New- , who left KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Amid the poorly and didn’t quite clear a waste pionship. man singled for a 5-4 lead. Wednesday’s start at St. wind and the havoc at Kiawah Island, area. Koepka tried to do too much Jordan Spieth, who needs a vic- added Louis in the second inning there was a semblance of simplicity from a soft lie in the sand and barely tory to complete the career Grand a sacrifice fly off Grant with a left calf injury. ... to the way Corey Conners navigated got it out. It led to a bogey, Slam, shot 73. Dayton. RHP (right his way around the Ocean Course and the toughest part of the Ocean The PGA of America moved up Atlanta, winner of the shoulder discomfort) for a 5-under 67 and a two-shot lead Course was still to come. tee boxes, as expected, to account last three NL East titles, allowed one hit and one Thursday in the PGA Championship. But this is a major, and this is Koep- for the wind. The course played to has lost seven of 10 and walk with five He birdied all the par 5s. He made ka, and that’s when he’s at his best. 7,660 yards — 178 yards shorter than dropped to fourth place as he threw 42 pitches in a couple of long putts for birdie. He He knuckled down from that mess the scorecard — though that didn’t at 20-24. three innings Wednes- dropped only one shot. The score- by running off six birdies the rest make it easy. Thomas, for one, still Richard Rodríguez day in his first rehab start card alone made it look like a walk of the way. hit 7-wood into the 214-yard 17th. (3-0) pitched two perfect with -A Indianapo- on the beach. “You can’t do that stuff if you John Daly was among 12 players innings, for Pittsburgh, lis. ... It just didn’t feel that way. want to win. You’ve just got to be who shot in the 80s. On the 30-year which is last in the NL Cen- RHP Jose Soriano “I’d say it’s impossible to be stress- more focused,” said Koepka, who anniversary of his PGA Champion- tral and stopped a three- (elbow), recovering from free around this golf course,” Con- has played only twice in the last ship victory at Crooked Stick, he game skid. Tommy John surgery, ners said. “You can’t fall asleep out three months because of surgery to shot 85. hit a two- allowed no runs and one there on any holes. It’s very chal- repair ligaments in his knee. “I don’t There were birdies to be had, and run homer in the first hit in three innings of a lenging. I was fortunate to have a know if that’s a lack of not playing mistakes to be made, and Martin against , who rehab assignment with good day. Made it as least stressful or what. It was just stupid. I was Laird was example of both. So wild gave up three runs and six Low-A Bradenton. as possible on myself.” able to recover, I guess.” was his round that he he made bogey hits in six innings. Smyly Braves — Manager Brian With a stiff wind into his face for So did 50-year-old Phil Mickel- on No. 12, ran off four straight bird- struck out Gamel in the Snitker said there was no his last five holes, the 29-year-old son, who had four bogeys through ies and then closed with two bogeys. third to strand the bases reason to worry that LHP Canadian played the tough closing six holes and nothing but birdies That added to a 70, not a bad day’s loaded. Max Fried left his last start stretch in 2 under, one of those bird- and pars the rest of the way to join work. ’ three- with cramping in his left ies a 55-foot putt from just short of the large group at 70 that included “I kind of went out with the mind- run homer put the Braves hand. the green. defending champion Collin Mori- set this week, even though it’s hard, ahead in the second, but Fried departed after He led by two shots over a half- kawa and former U.S. Open cham- don’t give the course too much Bryan Reynolds tied the allowing one run and five dozen players. That group includ- pion Gary Woodland. respect,” Laird said. “You still have score with a solo homer hits with two walks and ed Brooks Koepka, who started his More telling were those on the to take on shots when you have the in the sixth. eight strikeouts in six day with a double bogey and stayed other side of par, some of whom chance. When I had a spot where I , who innings Monday of a 3-1 largely out of trouble the rest of the will be scrambling to make it to the could go at the flag, I was making had three hits, homered loss to the . way; and Cameron Davis, who over- weekend. sure I kept doing it and hit a lot of off in the bot- “No, that was just an iso- came a triple bogey on the sixth hole. Dustin Johnson, the No. 1 player in really nice shots and managed to tom half for a 4-3 lead, and lated thing,” Snitker said. “I Keegan Bradley, Viktor Hovland, the world in the midst of his worst make some birdies. Frazier retied the score don’t know, maybe he was Aaron Wise and Sam Horsfield also stretch in nearly two years, took a “You’re going to hit bogeys on this with an RBI single in the dehydrated that particular were at 69. The seven players to double bogey from a wild tee shot golf course,” he said. “It’s nice when seventh. day, but he’s been throwing break 70 were the fewest for the on the front nine and a double bogey you can throw in a bunch of bird- Smyly, signed to an $11 and hitting. opening round of the PGA Cham- on the 18th for a 76. He’s in jeopardy ies, too.” million, one-year contract, “He’s fine.” pionship since there were five at of missing the cut in consecutive Finally heeled from a left knee went 0-2 with an 8.05 ERA UP NEXT: Braves RHP Ian Hazeltine in 2002. majors in the same year for the first injury, Koepka injured ligaments in four April starts. He has Anderson (3-1, 3.20 ERA) “I definitely knew in my prepara- time in his career. in his right knee in March and has allowed five runs — four faces Pirates LHP Tyler tion that it was possible to have a Justin Thomas took double bogey played only twice since then, the earned — in his last 18 Anderson (3-3, 3.50 ERA) decent round out here and shoot a on the 18th hole in the morning and Masters and last week in Dallas. innings. as the teams play the sec- 5-, 6-under par round,” Conners said. two holes later sent a sand shot over He began with a poor 3-wood on Smyly singled for his first ond of a four-game series. “So kind of started the day think- the green and just into a hazard for No. 10 that didn’t clear the waste big league hit in the fourth, Both will be making their ing, ‘Why not me?’ There’s birdies another 6 on the par-5 second. He area. ending an 0-for-33 slump. ninth start. to be had.” had a 75. Rory McIlroy, coming off a He took on too much with a soft Pirates starter Crowe has nev- No one needed them like Koepka, a victory at Quail Hollow two weeks lie in the sand and barely got it out, gave up four runs, seven er faced Pittsburgh. Tyler major presence when conditions are ago, sent his opening tee shot into leading to a double bogey. But he hits and three walks in five- Anderson will make his severe. One hole into this major, he a water hazard. didn’t flinch and had few complaints plus innings. third career start against had reason to be more worried about He salvaged a bogey, but certainly about his start. He struck out Freddie Atlanta. Germán, Urshela, Judge lift Yanks over Rangers

The Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Texas — Domingo Germán pitched seven scoreless innings, and delivered RBI singles as pinch-hitters in the seventh inning and the followed Corey KJuber’s no-hitter by beat- ing the 2-0 on Thursday. New York won its sixth straight series and at 25-19 moved a season-high six games over .500. Yankees TONY GUTIERREZ | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS have thrown seven New York Yankees’ (18) and Aaron Judge, center shutouts in the team’s first right, leap as they celebrate with others following their team’s 2-0 44 games for the first time win in a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, since 1967. Texas, Thursday, May 20, 2021. , left, , Germán (4-2), who bottom center, and Gio Urshela (29) join the celebration. allowed six hits with five strikeouts as New York fin- connected on his 250th struck out Danny Jansen Neoprene Full Color ished the four-game series homer. The two-out drive with a 98 mph full-count Cool-Apsible with 22 consecutive score- came off Rafael Dolis (1-1), fastball. Collapsible Coolie less innings. making his second appear- Boston (27-18) held onto Beverage Insulator pitched a ance since returning from the AL East lead $0.98 Best Coolie perfect eighth, and Arol- a right calf injury. RAYS 10, ORIOLES 1: Joey Wen- Includes Imprints on 2 sides $0.48 dis Chapman struck out Martinez shouted and dle homered twice, Rich Min. 250+ Full Color $0.48 Min. 250+ two in the ninth for his 11th repeatedly pumped his Hill (3-1) combined with Includes Imprints on 2 sides save. John King (4-3) was fists while rounding the his bullpen on a two-hitter Set Up Charge: $40 Min. 250+ Expires: May 31, 2021 the loser. bases. He stopped a 12-game and Tampa Bay extended RED SOX 8, BLUE JAYS 7: J.D. homerless drought Wednes- its winning streak to seven. Martinez hit a go-ahead, day. Tampa Bay outscored the two-run homer in a three- Phillips Valdez (2-1) went Orioles 32-14 during its first run ninth inning, and Red 1 1/3 scoreless innings and three-game sweep at Cam- Advertising Specialties Sox rallied to beat the Blue Matt Barnes worked the den Yards since May 17-19, A Division of The Daily Post-Athenian Jays. ninth to get his 10th save 2013. The Rays at 26-19 are lex Verdugo had an RBI in 11 chances. After walk- seven games over .500 for 206 W. Washington Ave., Athens grounder before Martinez ing Rowdy Tellez, Barnes the first time this year. 745-8077