ARAB TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2021 16 India’s Mohammed Siraj (right), celebrates after taking the wicket clean bowled of England’s James Anderson, with India winning the 2nd Test, during the fi fth day of the 2nd cricket Test between England and India at Lord’s cricket ground in London. (AP) — See Page 14 Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Reds hand Cubs 12th straight loss Cole sharp in return from COVID-19 CINCINNATI, Aug 17, fourth save. The bullpen had blown at least one lead in three of New York’s (AP): Jonathan India past six games. homered and drove in fi ve Royals 7 , Astros 6 runs, Wade Miley threw In Kansas City, Salvador Perez seven shutout innings and drove in the go-ahead runs with a two- the Cincinnati Reds beat out single in the eighth inning, helping the struggling Kansas City Royals to a Chicago 14-5 on Monday back-and-forth 7-6 victory over the AL night, handing the free- West-leading Houston Astros . falling Cubs their 12th Whit Merrifi eld and Nicky Lopez produced back-to-back two-out singles straight loss. off Astros reliever Yimi Garcia (3-8) Joey Votto, the 37-year-old Cin- before Perez came to the plate. The big cinnati fi rst baseman who has been catcher got just enough of a slider off on a tear since the All-Star break, the handle of the bat to drop it down got the 2,000th the right-fi eld line, allowing Merrifi eld hit of his career, and Lopez to score the go-ahead runs - a solid single and both would be important. in the seventh. Scott Barlow (5-3), who who un- Votto came up again later in BASEBALL the inning and drove in a run able to preserve the lead in the eighth with another when he allowed an inherited runner to base hit during score, also gave up a homer to Jason an eight-run Castro in the ninth. But he got a spec- tacular play from Lopez at second base Reds outburst. India Miley (10-4) to retire Jake Meyers, and Jose Altuve allowed four hits and struck out seven popped out to end the game along with as the second-place Reds won for the Kansas City’s four-game losing streak. ninth time in 13 games and moved Hunter Dozier homered and Ryan within 7 1/2 games of idle Milwaukee O’Hearn drove in a pair of runs as the in the NL Central. Royals beat Houston for the fi rst time Following a huge selloff at the trade in fi ve tries. Cincinnati Reds’ Joey Votto hits an RBI-single during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Cincinnati. (AP) deadline last month, the Cubs have Aledmys Diaz and Carlos Correa lost 12 in a row for the fi rst time since went deep for the Astros, whose bull- 2012. pen had put together a sterling 1.85 ‘Bayern struggling to fi nd new signings’ India’s two-out drive into the up- ERA since the trade deadline. But re- MLB Results/Standing per deck in the fourth scored Miley liever Ryne Stanek coughed up a run in and gave the Reds a 2-0 lead. Aris- a messy seventh inning that included tides Aquino and Tucker Barnhart also a walk, a single and a hit batter, and WASHINGTON, Aug 17, (AP): Results Minnesota 5 Cleveland (10 inns) 4 slammed two-run homers. Garcia allowed three straight hits in and standings from the MLB games on Wolfsburg thrown out of the eighth to take the loss. Atlanta 12 Miami 2 Cincinnati’s outburst in the seventh Monday. Cincinnati 14 Chicago Cubs 5 Both teams had plenty of trouble on NY Yankees 2 LA Angels 1 was highlighted by India’s bases-load- Colorado 6 San Diego 5 ed double, his third hit of the night. the base paths. Tampa Bay 9 Baltimore 2 Cubs right-hander Justin Steele (2- Rays 9, Orioles 2 Kansas City 7 Houston 6 LA Dodgers 2 Pittsburgh 1 Cup for using ‘extra’ sub 2), making his second major league In Tampa Bay, Brett Phillips had an Chi. W. Sox 5 Oakland 2 San Francisco 7 NY Mets 5 start, allowed fi ve hits and two runs inside-the-park homer, Brandon Lowe American League National League FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug 17, over four innings. went deep twice, and the AL East- East Division East Division (AP): Wolfsburg has been thrown Chicago scored fi ve runs off two leading Tampa Bay Rays handed the W L Pct GB W L Pct GB out of the German Cup for fi elding Reds relievers in the eighth, but Jeff Baltimore Orioles their 12th consecu- Tampa Bay 72 47 .605 _ Atlanta 63 56 .529 _ too many substitutes in their fi rst- Boston 69 51 .575 3-1/2 Philadelphia 61 57 .517 1-1/2 round win over Preussen Münster. Hoffman retired the side in order in the tive loss, 9-2. New York 66 52 .559 5-1/2 New York 59 59 .500 3-1/2 ninth. Baltimore has been outscored The German soccer federation Toronto 63 54 .538 8 Miami 51 68 .429 12 said Monday that its sports court Yankees 2, Angels 1 113-36 during the skid. The Orioles Baltimore 38 79 .325 33 Washington 50 68 .424 12-1/2 dropped 14 in a row from May 18-31. Central Division Central Division had decided to overturn Wolfs- In New York, Ten or so days ago, W L Pct GB W L Pct GB burg’s 3-1 win and award a 2-0 Gerrit Cole was playing catch with his Kevin Kiermaier and Mike Bros- seau also homered for the Rays, who Chicago 69 50 .580 Milwaukee 72 47 .605 _ victory to the fourth-division side. wife, Amy, hoping his body would Cleveland 57 60 .487 11 Cincinnati 65 55 .542 7-1/2 Wolfsburg used six substitutions bounce back from COVID-19 quickly are 12-1 against the Orioles this sea- son. Tampa Bay has outscored Balti- Detroit 58 62 .483 11-1/2 St Louis 61 56 .521 10 rather than the permitted fi ve in the enough for him to help the Yankees Minnesota 53 66 .445 16 Chicago 52 69 .430 21 game on Aug. 8. soon. more 103-51, and has had nine runs or Kansas City 50 67 .427 18 Pittsburgh 42 77 .353 30 more in eight of the games. “The clubs themselves are re- Unsure how much he had in the West Division West Division sponsible for substitutions. One of tank, Cole’s fi rst pitch Monday night Josh Fleming (10-6) followed open- W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Houston 70 48 .593 _ San Francisco 77 42 .647 _ their basic duties is to fi nd out about to Shohei Ohtani was 99 mph. The rest er Collin McHugh and gave up two runs and six hits over 5 2/3 innings. Oakland 68 51 .571 2-1/2 Los Angeles 73 46 .613 4 substitution options and to act ac- Moenchengladbach’s Joe Scal- were plenty good, too. Seattle 63 56 .529 7-1/2 San Diego 67 54 .554 11 cordingly,” Stephan Oberholz, dep- ly, (left), vies for the ball against Cole pitched two-hit ball into the McHugh struck out one over two perfect innings. He has not allowed Los Angeles 59 61 .492 12 Colorado 53 66 .445 24 uty chairman of the sports court said. Bayern’s Leroy Sane during sixth inning and struck out nine in his Texas 42 76 .356 28 Arizona 38 81 .319 39 an earned run in 16 consecutive ap- “Wolfsburg violated this duty and the German Bundesliga soccer return from the COVID-19 injured list, thus carelessly and avoidably com- match between Borussia Moe- and Joey Gallo hit a two-run homer as pearances, spanning a team-record 32 nchengladbach and Bayern straight innings. Touki Toussaint (2-2) limited the deep for the Rockies. mitted the central error by making New York beat the Los Angeles An- the illegal sixth substitution.” Munich in Moenchengladbach, gels 2-1. Phillips sent a leadoff drive in the Marlins to two runs and three hits in San Diego had tied it in the top of Germany. (AP) sixth off Paul Fry to the left-center 6 1/3 innings. He struck out seven and the ninth on Trent Grisham’s two-out, In his debut as Wolfsburg coach, New York has won 10 of 13 and Marc van Bommel made three sub- pulled within two games of Boston for fi eld wall that bounded past center walked two. Edgar Santana and Jacob three-run homer against Daniel Bard money we would like to spend,” fi elder Cedric Mullins and was re- Webb completed the four-hitter. (6-5). It was his 13th of the season stitutions in normal time against an AL wild-card spot. The Yankees Münster, then another three in ex- Nagelsmann said ahead of his open a three-game series against the trieved by left fi elder D.J.Stewart. The Albies had a two-run single in the Colorado starter Antonio Senza- team’s German Super Cup game speedster ended his dash around the sixth and Travis d’Arnaud drove in tela tossed seven strong innings, but tra time after his team equalized in rival Red Sox with a day-night double- the last minute for 1-1.