Dodgers' Buehler Shuts Down Pirates
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ARAB TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2021 SPORTS 14 Ortiz sends Virginia Dodgers’ Buehler shuts down Pirates into super regionals COLUMBIA, S.C., June 9, (AP): Devin Ortiz pitched four scoreless innings and hit a walk- off homer in the 10th as Virginia earned the Astros end Red Sox’s 5-game win streak fi nal spot in the super regionals with a 4-3 vic- tory over Old Dominion. PITTSBURGH, June 9, (AP): over St. Louis, which has lost six straight. Ortiz had only pitched two innings all season St. Louis’ skid is its longest since a seven- due to a shoulder injury, but he got the start in Ke’Bryan Hayes hastily missed game slide in June 2017. Cleveland has won four the deciding game of the Columbia Regional. fi rst base and was called out af- of six. Ortiz struck out six while allowing just one hit ter hitting a fi rst-inning homer, Brewers 5, Reds 1 and two walks, and his eighth home run of the sending Walker Buehler on his In Cincinnati, Avisail Garcia homered and sin- gled home another run and streaking Milwaukee way to seven scoreless innings as beat Cincinnati for its fi fth straight win. BASEBALL the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the The NL Central-leading Brewers were coming Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3. off a four-game sweep of Arizona and have won 10 of their last 11. Adrian Houser (4-5) pitched season ended in a Gatorade shower at home The Pirates star rookie stung an opposite- 5 1/3 innings of one-run ball, and the Brewers plate. fi eld line drive in the fi rst inning against bullpen shut down Cincinnati the rest of the way. Virginia (33-24) won four straight elimina- tion games to get to its seventh super regional Buehler that narrowly cleared the right-fi eld Tigers 5, Mariners 3 wall, just inside the foul pole. Running hard in program history - the fi rst since 2015. The and with his eyes on the ball, Hayes missed In Detroit, Eric Haase hit a two-run homer in Cavaliers will face Dallas Baptist this weekend. touching fi rst base with his left foot by two or the fi rst inning and Detroit beat Seattle. The Cavaliers tied it at 3 in the eighth when Matthew Boyd (3-6) allowed an unearned run, Zack Gelof scored on a wild pitch. Closer Ste- three inches and kept on going. six hits and a walk over six innings. Daniel Nor- phen Schoch (4-1) threw 75 pitches in 3 1/3 Astros 7, Red Sox 1 ris inherited the bases loaded with no outs in the innings, allowing two runs, one earned, while In Boston, Carlos Correa and Yordan Alvarez eighth and limited Seattle to two runs. striking out fi ve. homered to back Framber Valdez, and Houston Marlins 6, Rockies 2 Old Dominion (44-16) was seeking its fi rst ended Boston’s fi ve-game winning streak. In Miami, Pablo Lopez took advantage of an appearance in a super regional. It was the Astros’ fourth win in fi ve games extra day of rest by allowing only two runs in a Old Dominion starter Hunter Gregory was against Boston this season after taking three of career-best eight innings, Corey Dickerson hit a perfect going into the sixth before Logan four last week in Houston. Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Walker Buehler delivers during the third inning of the two-run triple and Miami opened a homestand by Michaels doubled with one out. Jason Hartline Cubs 7, Padres 1 team’s baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, on June 8. (AP) beating Colorado. came in and got the fi nal two outs of the inning. In San Diego, Zach Davies allowed just one hit seventh inning and delivered a tiebreaking sac- East-leading Tampa Bay beat Washington for its rifi ce fl y in the eighth, helping Chicago beat To- 20th win in 24 games. MLB Standings/Results ronto. Ryan Thompson took over for J.P. Feyereisen BASEBALL Shut out by Robbie Ray for most of the game, when the Nationals loaded the bases with one out Chicago got on the board on Vaughn’s fi fth in the eighth and struck out Ryan Zimmerman homer and then broke it open with fi ve runs in and Josh Bell. WASHINGTON, June 9, (AP): Results and standings from the MLB games on Tuesday. in six scoreless innings, Anthony Rizzo homered the eighth. Garrett Crochet (2-2) got three outs Baltimore 10 NY Mets 3 Oakland 5 Arizona 2 and drove in four runs, and Patrick Wisdom went Giants 9, Rangers 4 Detroit 5 Seattle 3 LA Angels 8 Kansas City 1 for the win as the AL Central leaders moved a Tampa Bay 3 Washington 1 Miami 6 Colorado 2 deep again for Chicago. season-high 14 games over .500 at 37-23. In Arlington, Texas, Mike Tauchman hit a go- Houston 7 Boston 1 LA Dodgers 5 Pittsburgh 3 Willson Contreras also homered for the Cubs, ahead grand slam, Brandon Crawford homered Cleveland 10 St Louis 1 Milwaukee 5 Cincinnati 1 who have beaten the Padres four times in fi ve Athletics 5, Diamondbacks 2 twice while setting the Giants’ franchise record San Francisco 9 Texas 4 Atlanta 9 Philadelphia 5 games in a span of nine days. In Oakland, California, Chris Bassitt struck for most games as a shortstop and San Francisco NY Yankees 8 Minnesota 4 Chicago Cubs 7 San Diego 1 out six over seven strong innings to win his sixth beat slumping Texas. Chic. White Sox 6 Toronto 1 Orioles 10, Mets 3 American League National League consecutive decision, and Oakland sent Arizona San Francisco, whose 38-22 record is the best East Division East Division In Baltimore, Maikel Franco become the sixth to a franchise-record 18th straight road defeat. in baseball, loaded the bases in the eighth with W L Pct GB W L Pct GB player to hit a home run into the second deck at Bassitt (6-2) walked one and allowed two runs a hit and two walks off Joely Rodriguez (1-3). Tampa Bay 39 23 .629 _ New York 29 24 .547 _ Camden Yards, and Baltimore rolled to another on four hits. Christian Walker led off the second Tauchman pulled a 3-1 liner into the fi rst row of Boston 37 24 .607 1-1/2 Atlanta 29 29 .500 2-1/2 high-scoring victory. New York 32 29 .525 6-1/2 Philadelphia 28 31 .475 4 with a home run against the right-hander for a seats near the right fi eld corner. Toronto 30 28 .517 7 Miami 26 34 .433 6-1/2 Cedric Mullins hit two of Baltimore’s seven quick Arizona advantage. Yankees 8, Twins 4 Baltimore 22 38 .367 16 Washington 24 33 .421 7 doubles, and the Orioles have won fi ve of six af- Angels 8, Royals 1 Central Division Central Division ter a 14-game losing streak. In Minneapolis, Gary Sánchez and Miguel W L Pct GB W L Pct GB In Anaheim, California, Shohei Ohtani hit the Andújar homered, DJ LeMahieu had two hits and Chicago 37 23 .617 _ Milwaukee 34 26 .567 _ Braves 9, Phillies 5 longest homer of his major league career in the an RBI, and New York beat Minnesota to end a Cleveland 32 26 .552 4 Chicago 34 27 .557 -1/2 Kansas City 29 30 .492 7-1/2 St Louis 31 30 .508 3-1/2 In Philadelphia, Austin Riley, Ronald Acuña fi rst inning, and surging Los Angeles pounded four-game skid. Detroit 25 35 .417 12 Cincinnati 28 30 .483 5 Jr. and William Contreras each hit a solo homer, fi ve homers. Aaron Judge drove in two runs for New York, Minnesota 24 36 .400 13 Pittsburgh 23 36 .390 10-1/2 and Atlanta rallied to beat Philadelphia. Ohtani’s 17th homer of the season was a 470- which had lost eight of its previous 10 and won West Division West Division J.T. Realmuto and Bryce Harper hit solo homers foot shot deep into the outfi eld bleachers off Kan- despite going 2 for 15 with runners in scoring po- W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Oakland 36 26 .581 _ San Francisco 38 22 .633 _ for Philadelphia. Aaron Nola allowed four runs and sas City starter Kris Bubic (1-1). sition and stranding 11. Houston 34 26 .567 1 San Diego 37 26 .587 2-1/2 seven hits, striking out seven in fi ve innings. Rays 3, Nationals 1 Indians 10, Cardinals 1 Seattle 30 32 .484 6 Los Angeles 35 25 .583 3 Los Angeles 29 32 .475 6-1/2 Colorado 24 37 .393 14-1/2 White Sox 6, Blue Jays 1 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Tyler Glasnow (5-2) In St. Louis, José Ramírez homered and drove Texas 23 39 .371 13 Arizona 20 42 .323 19 In Chicago, Andrew Vaughn homered in the struck out 11 over seven strong innings and AL in four runs, leading Shane Bieber and Cleveland .