ARAB TIMES, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2021 SPORTS 15 A’s top Orioles, strech win streak to 12

Tatís hits 2 HRs as Padres earn 3rd straight victory over Dodgers

BALTIMORE, April 24, (AP): The Oakland Athletics won their 12th consecutive game - their longest winning streak in almost two decades - with a 3-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Oakland’s string is its longest since it won a franchise-record 20 in a row in 2002. It is the Athletics’ third-longest winning streak since moving to Oakland in 1968, and is the longest in the majors since Houston’s 12-game run from June 6-18, 2018. Ramón Laureano homered and Cole Irvin won consecutive starts for the first time in nearly two years as the A’s improved to 13-1 since dropping their first six games. Baltimore has lost seven of its eight home games. Irvin (2-2) had won back-to-back starts just once before, his first two career starts for Philadelphia in May 2019. Coming off six shutout innings against Detroit on Saturday, he sty- mied the Orioles for five innings. But Baltimore stitched together four sin- gles in the sixth, capped by Pedro Severino’s RBI single, to end Irvin’s night.

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Jake Diekman worked the ninth to earn his second in as many tries. Jorge López (1-3) was the loser. Padres 6, Dodgers 1 In Los Angeles, Fernando Tatís Jr. hit two homers at on the 22nd anniversary of his father hit- ting two grand slams in one inning at ’ Fernando Tatis Jr., (right), hits as catcher Austin Barnes watches during the first inning of a baseball game, on April 23, in Los Angeles. (AP) the same , and San Diego earned its third straight victory over Los Angeles. run lead and replaced by Tyler Duffey. Fenway Park and added an RBI single Tatís hit solo homers in the third The 38-year-old Happ (1-0) walked to help Boston beat Seattle. Stemming surging cases of coronavirus and fifth off (3-2), two batters, both in the second, and J.D. Martinez also homered for the and (2-1) pitched seven struck out three. He threw 95 pitches, Red Sox, who survived a late scare strong innings in the Padres’ second with 51 strikes, and lowered his ERA when Kyle Seager hit a three-run consecutive win at Chavez Ravine to after three starts to 1.69. homer in the ninth to pull Seattle with- Tokyo under emergency orders open this four-game series. San Diego Cubs 15, Brewers 2 in a run. also won the finale of the clubs’ first In Chicago, Jake Marisnick hom- One night after rallying with a four- with Olympics 3 months away series last weekend at . ered and matched a career high with run 10th inning for a 7-4 victory, Fernando Tatís Sr. famously hit two five RBIs and Chicago pounded Seattle couldn’t quite pull off another TOKYO, April 24, (AP): Only theme parks, as well as theaters grand slams for St. Louis off the Milwaukee for its fourth straight vic- comeback. Matt Barnes, who gave up three months before the postponed and museums. Even restaurants Dodgers’ Chan Ho Park in the third tory. Seager’s drive deep to right, got Evan Olympics are set to open, Tokyo that do not serve alcohol are being inning on April 23, 1999 - a feat that Anthony Rizzo, Javier Báez and White to line out to Bogaerts and end and Japan’s second largest metro- asked to close early, as well as had never been done before, and hasn’t Willson Contreras also homered for it. politan area of Osaka have been public transportation. Schools will been done since. Chicago, and Nico Hoerner had three Reliever Hirokazu Sawamura (1-0) placed under emergency orders stay open, but universities are Mets 6, Nationals 0 hits in his first start of the season. The struck out three over 1 1/3 innings. aimed at stemming surging cases asked to return to online classes. In New York, Jacob deGrom struck Cubs were coming off a three-game Yusei Kikuchi (0-1) allowed five of the coronavirus. “I hope that the situation is out a career-high 15, pitched a two- sweep of the . runs in 4 2/3 innings for Seattle, which The measures, which take place going be better as soon as possi- hitter and boosted the sagging Mets’ Kyle Hendricks (1-2) pitched six never recovered after Bogaerts’ drive during Japan’s “golden week” ble,” Seiko Hashimoto, the presi- offense with a go-ahead double from innings of two-run ball in his first win onto Landsdowne Street in the first put Oakland Athletics Jake holiday period, are meant to limit dent of the organizing committee, the No. 8 spot in the batting order, of the season. He struck out six and Boston up 2-1. Diekman delivers during the ninth travel and keep people out of pub- said Friday in a online briefing. walked one, bouncing back nicely Astros 5, Angels 4, 10 Innings inning of a baseball game against lic places. Japan has attributed about powering New York over Washington. the Baltimore Orioles on April 23, in DeGrom has struck out 43 in his last after a rough start against Atlanta. In Houston, rookie pinch-hitter 10,000 deaths to COVID-19, good Robel Garcia’s RBI single in Baltimore. (AP) three starts and 50 overall this season, Yankees 5, Indians 3 OLYMPICS by global standards but poor by breaking the major league record for In Cleveland, Giancarlo Stanton Houston’s three-run 10th inning lifted standards in Asia. It has vaccinat- most in a pitcher’s first four starts set busted out of his slump with two rock- the Astros past Los Angeles. beat Arizona. ed less than 1% of the population just last weekend by Cleveland ace eted home runs - one with the highest The Angels scored two runs in the Ynoa (1-1) allowed only two runs They are to end on May 11, just and has not enforced lockdowns Shane Bieber with 48. exit velocity this season - and New top of the 10th on RBI singles by on two hits in six innings. The right- ahead of a widely reported visit to with people becoming impatient Perennially plagued by a lack of run York connected four times, sending David Fletcher and Albert Pujols off hander led 3-0 before giving up a two- Hiroshima by International and less cooperative as cases have support, just like Mets star the Yankees past Cleveland. Ryan Pressly (2-0) to take a 4-2 lead. run homer to Carson Kelly in the fifth. Olympic Committee President again accelerated. decades earlier, deGrom lowered his Stanton hit a 429-foot solo shot in Kyle Tucker started the 10th on Ynoa’s night to remember also Thomas Bach. Hashimoto said several test the third inning off Logan Allen (1-3) second base and went to third on a fly included his first two career hits and his Bach said this week that the events would continue during the career ERA to 2.55 and overtook ball by Aledmys Díaz. Myles Straw Seaver (2.57) as New York’s franchise and another in the fifth for his first first RBI. The 22-year-old Ynoa, from visit, reported for May 17-18, is emergency period, but without multi-homer game since Sept. 27, singled off Raisel Iglesias (1-2) to the Dominican Republic, doubled to still in the “planning phase.” But fans. The Olympics open on July leader. score Tucker and cut the lead to 4-3. Twins 2, Pirates 0 2018. New York has won two straight left field off Luke Weaver (1-2) in the Bach’s presence was immediately 23. and three of four after a horrendous Jason Castro then hit a ground-rule third inning for his first hit and added a criticized by opposition lawmakers She was asked again if there were In Minneapolis, Minnesota left- double into the right-field corner to hander J.A. Happ lost his bid for a start. run-scoring single in the fourth. who say the Olympics are being any plans to cancel the Olympics. send Straw to third. Cardinals 5, Reds 4 prioritized ahead of public safety. The question had disappeared at no-hitter when Jacob Stallings dou- Rougned Odor added a two-run White Sox 9, Rangers 7 bled with one out in the eighth inning, homer and Aaron Hicks also went “Japan should decide its own briefings, but has surfaced again in In Chicago, rookie sensation In St. Louis, Yadier Molina hom- public health policies. There is no the last several weeks. and the Twins beat Pittsburgh. deep for New York. Yermín Mercedes added to his scorch- ered and doubled to help St. Louis Red Sox 6, Mariners 5 reason we should be told by Mr. “As the organizing committee, Happ, in his first season with the ing start with four more hits, including build a 5-0 lead, Alex Reyes pitched Bach what to do,” said Yuichiro we are not thinking about cancel- In Boston, Xander Bogaerts hit a Twins, was immediately removed by a tiebreaking double in the seventh out of a ninth-inning jam and the Tamaki, the head of the lation,” Hashimoto said. manager Rocco Baldelli with a two- two-run homer all the way out of inning, and Chicago held off Texas. Cardinals held on to beat Cincinnati. Democratic Party for the People. The IOC gets almost 75% of its Yoán Moncada had three hits and a Kwang-Hyun Kim (1-0) allowed Bach said the duration of the income from selling television . Liam Hendriks got the final one run on five hits with a career-high state of emergency had nothing to rights and has seen that cash flow five outs and the White Sox (10-9) eight to help St. Louis snap do with his planned visit to the stalled by the postponement. It moved above .500 for the first time a two-game skid. Three of Kim’s four city, where he would greet the needs the games to happen, which this season. They won for the fourth major league wins have come against Olympic torch relay. Hiroshima will be followed in six months by time in five games even though Texas’ Cincinnati. was destroyed in 1945 by the the boycott-threatened Beijing Adolis García hit two more homers. (0-1) allowed five runs American detonation of an atomic Winter Olympics. Codi Heuer (2-1) worked 1 1/3 on six hits and three walks in 3 2/3 bomb over the city, and is a favor- Tokyo is officially spending innings for the win. Hendriks came on innings in his second start after open- ite backdrop for visiting politi- $15.4 billion to organize the with one out in the eighth and runners ing the season on the 10-day injured cians and dignitaries. Olympics, with several govern- on first and second and struck out list with a strained back muscle. The “This (state of emergency) is ment audits suggesting the number Willie Calhoun and Isiah Kiner-Falefa Reds have lost five straight. absolutely in line with the overall is much larger. to end that threat. The gave up a Reyes got the final two outs for his policy of the government,” Bach The IOC and organizers are solo drive to García in the ninth before fourth save. said. “But it is not related to the hoping to muffle more cancella- striking out Nick Solak for his fourth Blue Jays 5, Rays 3 Olympic Games. It is related to the tion questions next week by roll- save in five chances. In St, Petersburg, Florida, Steven golden week.” ing out the second edition of the Kyle Cody (0-2) was the loser. Matz won his fourth consecutive start, Japan’s third state of emergency “Playbooks,” guides that are to Giants 5, Marlins 3 Marcus Semien hit a three-run homer is to include shutdown orders for explain how the Olympics can be In San Francisco, Alex Wood and Toronto beat Tampa Bay. bars, department stores, malls, held safely in a pandemic. pitched seven crisp innings after Matz (4-0), acquired from the New allowing a home run on the game’s York Mets in January, gave up three Chicago White Sox’s Luis Robert (88) steals second as ’ third pitch and San Francisco beat runs and five hits over five innings. Brock Holt is unable to catch the throw from Jose Trevino during the sev- Miami. enth inning of a baseball game, on April 23, in Chicago. (AP) The lefty went 0-5 with a 9.68 ERA Mike Yastrzemski homered as the with New York last year. Giants improved to 7-1 at home and Randal Grichuk also homered for celebrated Buster Posey becoming the Toronto. Rafael Dolis, the fourth MLB Results/Standings first player in franchise history to reliever, worked the ninth for his first catch 1,000 games. Brandon Belt save. walked three times and had an RBI single. Rockies 5, Phillies 4 WASHINGTON, April 24, (AP): Results and standings from the MLB games on Jazz Chisholm and Jesus Aguilar In Denver, Raimel Tapia hit a solo Friday. homered for the Marlins. home run with one out in the ninth Toronto 5 Tampa Bay 3 Chic. Cubs 15 Milwaukee 2 Oakland 3 Baltimore 1 NY Mets 6 Washington 0 Royals 6, Tigers 2 inning and Colorado rallied past Kansas City 6 Detroit 2 Atlanta 5 Arizona 4 Philadelphia for its third straight vic- Minnesota 2 Pittsburgh 0 St Louis 5 Cincinnati 4 In Detroit, held Detroit tory. NY Yankees 5 Cleveland 3 Colorado 5 Philadelphia 4 hitless until the fifth inning, and Boston 6 Seattle 5 San Francisco 5 Miami 3 Trevor Story, C.J. Cron and Garrett Andrew Benintendi and Ryan O’Hearn Hampson also homered for Colorado. Houston 5 LA Angels 4 San Diego 6 LA Dodgers 1 homered off Casey Mize to lift Kansas Chic. White Sox 9 Texas 7 The Rockies trailed by two runs City. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left), and President of American League Nationals League twice before Tapia ended it with a shot Robbie Grossman went deep for the Japan Community Health Care Organization Shigeru Omi East Division East Division over the scoreboard in right off closer W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Detroit in the fifth, but by then the attend a press conference on April 23, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) Boston 13 8 .619 _ New York 8 7 .533 _ Hector Neris (1-2). Tampa Bay 10 10 .500 2-1/2 Atlanta 9 10 .474 1 Tigers were trailing 6-0 after another Toronto 9 10 .474 3 Philadelphia 9 10 .474 1 rough start for Mize (1-2). He allowed Baltimore 8 11 .421 4 Miami 8 11 .421 2 six runs and seven hits in 4 2/3 innings. New York 8 11 .421 4 Washington 7 10 .412 2 Detroit has lost seven of eight. Central Division Central Division Japanese GP to remain at Suzuka through 2024 W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Minor (2-1) allowed two runs and Kansas City 11 7 .611 _ Milwaukee 11 8 .579 _ four hits in 5 2/3 innings with two SUZUKA, Japan, April 24, (AP): The world, and Suzuka has played host to The Japanese GP, scheduled this Chicago 10 9 .526 1-1/2 Chicago 10 9 .526 1 walks and nine strikeouts. Detroit Japanese Grand Prix will remain at many of the sport’s most legendary year for Oct. 10, “has always show- Cleveland 8 10 .444 3 Cincinnati 9 10 .474 2 didn’t have a hit until Jeimer Minnesota 7 11 .389 4 St Louis 9 10 .474 2 Suzuka Circuit until at least 2024, moments, with 11 Drivers’ titles being cased gripping, edge-of-your-seat Detroit 7 13 .350 5 Pittsburgh 9 11 .450 2-1/2 Candelario doubled to lead off the bot- Formula 1 announced on Saturday. drama,” Domenicali said in announc- West Division West Division tom of the fifth. Grossman hit a two- The track has been a regular fixture ing the extension with race promoter W L Pct GB W L Pct GB run shot later that inning. Oakland 13 7 .650 _ Los Angeles 14 6 .700 _ on the F1 calendar since 1987 and the MOTOR RACING Mobilityland. Seattle 12 8 .600 1 San Francisco13 7 .650 1 Braves 5, Diamondbacks 4 multi-year extension is part of an This season, 20-year-old Yuki Los Angeles 9 9 .500 3 San Diego 12 10 .545 3 Houston 9 10 .474 3-1/2 Arizona 9 11 .450 5 In Atlanta, Huascar Ynoa earned his effort to grow the sport in Asia. Tsunoda became the first Japanese Texas 9 11 .450 4 Colorado 7 12 .368 6-1/2 first career victory, Austin Riley and “Japan holds a special place in the decided there,” F1 chief executive driver on the F1 grid since 2014. He Ozzie Albies homered and Atlanta hearts and minds of F1 fans all over the Stefano Domenicali said in a statement. races for AlphaTauri.