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Ohtani homers twice, scores winning run, Angels pip O’s 8-7 Dodgers surge past Nationals for 7th win in a row WASHINGTON, July 3, (AP): Mook- ejected, too, for arguing on his pitch- ie Betts hit a go-ahead single during er’s behalf. They stayed on the fi eld a nine-run rally in the seventh inning for a couple of minutes after they were after Washington ace Max Scherzer tossed to plead their case with umpires. departed, and the Los Angeles Dodgers Acuña advanced to third on Freddie surged past the Nationals 10-5 for their Freeman’s single and scored on a sacri- seventh straight win. fi ce fl y by , the NL leader The Nationals lost slugger Kyle with 59 RBIs. Schwarber in the second inning when Miami pitching coach Mel Stottle- he grabbed at his hamstring after a sin- myre Jr. was tossed by crew chief Dan gle. He hit a franchise-record 16 home Iassogna for arguing about López’s runs in June. ejection after Freeman’s hit. Julio Urías (10-3) allowed one Drew Smyly (6-3) won his career- earned run in six innings. best fourth straight start. Scherzer also allowed one earned converted a shaky 17th run in six innings and struck out eight. save in 19 chances. The bases were Left-handed reliever Sam Clay (0-1) loaded when Jon Berti popped up and found trouble when he replaced Scher- pinch-hitter Sandy León fl ied out to zer. Chris Taylor hit a leadoff double, end it. a dribbler by pinch-hitter Albert Pujols Red Sox 3, Athletics 2, 10 Innings scored him, and Austin Barnes was hit In Oakland, California, Kiké by a pitch. Hernández drove in the go-ahead run Angels 8, Orioles 7 with a broken-bat single in the 10th In Anaheim, California, Shohei inning and then made a tremendous Ohtani went deep twice to reach 30 defensive play to throw out a runner at homers this season and then scored the home plate from center fi eld as Boston winning run on Jared Walsh’s two-out held off Oakland for its eighth straight single in the ninth inning that lifted Los win. Angeles over Baltimore. Hernández got the decisive hit off Ohtani drew a walk from Paul Fry Lou Trivino (3-3). The A’s had run- (2-3) with one out and swiped second ners at the corners with no outs in the for his 12th stolen base of the year. bottom of the 10th against Adam Ot- The two-way sensation is the fi rst tavino when Hernández charged in for player in AL history to reach 30 hom- a running catch of Sean Murphy’s fl y to ers and 10 steals in his team’s fi rst shallow center and fi red a strong throw 81 games of a season, according to to get Seth Brown sliding into home. STATS. The only NL players to do it Ottavino fi nished it off for his sixth are slugger Sammy Sosa save. (1998) and St. Louis star Albert Pujols The Red Sox won after closer Matt (2009). Barnes (4-2) allowed Elvis Andrus’ ty- ing home run leading off the ninth, his designated hitter Shohei Ohtani (17) slides in to home to score ahead of a tag by Baltimore Orioles catcher Pedro Severino (28) during fourth blown save in 21 chances. Jed Lowrie homered for the A’s, the ninth inning of a baseball game, on July 2, in Anaheim, California. (AP) who have lost three of four. Ohtani, elected to the All-Star Game Phillies 4, Padres 3, 10 Innings for the fi rst time Thursday and selected In Philadelphia, Brad Miller doubled AL Player of the Month for June earlier with one out in the 10th inning to lift Friday, leads the majors in home runs. Philadelphia over San Diego. He has 13 in the past 15 games. The Phillies blew a 3-0 lead in the Ohtani also set an Angels record for ninth inning - their 22nd blown save of Lightning rout Canadiens, most homers by the All-Star break and the season and eighth in nine games. surpassed Babe Ruth’s 1919 mark of Jose Alvarado got the fi nal out of the most round trippers by a player with at eighth in relief of Zack Wheeler but al- least 10 games pitched in a season. lowed three of the fi rst four batters to Anthony Rendon had three hits and reach in the ninth, including an RBI José Iglesias homered and drove in two double by Fernando Tatis Jr. Ranger runs for the Angels, who have won four Suarez (4-2) allowed a two-run double take 3-0 lead in Cup Final of fi ve. Raisel Iglesias (5-3) pitched 1 to Jurickson Profar. 2/3 innings and helped anchor a Los Suarez was better in the 10th, retir- Angeles bullpen that allowed only one ing all three batters. That set up Miller, run in 6 1/3 innings after starter Griffi n who drove a slider from Austin Adams Johnson scores twice, Vasilevskiy stops 32 shots Canning struggled. (2-2) deep to right-center to score An- Trey Mancini and Domingo Leyba drew McCutchen. MONTREAL, July 3, (AP): off the momentum it generated in a 3-1 homered for the Orioles, who had won Wheeler pitched 7 2/3 scoreless in- loss in Game 2, in which Tampa Bay three in a row. Anthony Santander nings. Victor Hedman wants noth- won despite being outshot 43-23, the drove in three runs. Brewers 7, Pirates 2 ing to do with talk about Lightning took it to the Canadiens. Braves 1, Marlins 0 In Pittsburgh, Adrian Houser scat- how the Tampa Bay Light- Tampa Bay has scored the opening In Atlanta, Miami starter Pablo tered four hits over 6 2/3 innings and goal in all three games and has yet to López was ejected after plunking Ron- Milwaukee extended its win streak to ning can secure their place trail in the series. ald Acuña Jr. with his fi rst pitch, lead- 10 games. in NHL playoff lore by be- “We didn’t want to sit back, espe- ing to the only run in Atlanta’s victory. Houser (5-5) allowed one run, struck coming the second team in cially in the neutral zone,” Johnson The Braves got just two hits and still out fi ve and walked two in his longest said. “I think a lot of it is just our team won their third in a row. outing since last August. 22 years to repeat as Stan- The Marlins have a history of hit- had three hits for the wanting to be on the attack, and kind ley Cup champions. of being close. We’re just trying to go ting Acuña. Miami José Ureña Brewers, and his 13th home run of the Putting last season’s title in the was tossed after nailing the star slugger season in the fi rst inning off JT Brubak- for it.” with his fi rst pitch in 2018, and López er (4-8) gave Milwaukee a lead it never past, Hedman and the Lightning are Hedman and Nikita Kurcherov each didn’t last any longer. came close to relinquishing. focused solely on fi nishing the job had a goal and assist. Jan Rutta and López (4-5) was ejected for hitting Pittsburgh has dropped fi ve straight, this year. Blake Coleman, with an empty-netter, Acuña in the back of the left arm and scoring all of six runs in the process. also scored for the Lightning, who also manager Don Mattingly soon was Blue Jays 11, Rays 1 won the Cup in 2004. Andrei Vasilevs- In Buffalo, N.Y., Alek Manoah, ICE HOCKEY kiy stopped 32 shots back from a fi ve-game suspension, The Canadiens face elimination for struck out a career-high 10 over seven “Obviously, what we did in the bub- the second time this postseason after innings of three-hit ball for Toronto. ble last year was very special, and you rallying from a 3-1 fi rst-round series , Marcus Semien want to relive that moment,” Hedman defi cit to beat Toronto. and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered for said, referring to the Lightning beating A 3-0 hole is even more daunting. In Toronto, which has won nine of 12. Dallas in six games in the fi nal played NHL playoff history, only four teams Manoah (2-0) allowed only Fran- in Edmonton, Alberta. “But at the end Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Ryan McDonagh (27) takes down Mon- have rallied to win a series after losing cisco Mejía’s bloop double with one of the day, we’re not there yet. We need treal Canadiens center Nick Suzuki during the second period of Game 3 of the the fi rst three games, with Toronto out in the sixth and then clean singles to win one more game. ... And we’re the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final, on July 2, in Montreal. (AP) the only one to do so in the fi nal in beat- by Wander Franco and Joey Wendle in not satisfi ed until that’s done.” ing Detroit to win the Cup in 1942. The the seventh. The quick-strike Lightning took to take a 3-0 series lead. Game 4 is In showing how much depth the Los Angeles Kings were the last team to Tampa Bay starter Luis Patiño (1-2) one major step closer with a resound- Monday night in Montreal. Lightning have, Tyler Johnson led the overcome a 3-0 series defi cit by beating was tagged for six runs in the fi rst two ing 6-3 rout of the Montreal Canadiens Tampa Bay is in position to join way by scoring twice in his second San Jose in a 2014 fi rst-round series. innings. The Rays dropped their fourth in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. Pittsburgh (2016 and ’17) and also has game since moving up from the fourth Phillip Danault and Corey Perry also straight. Tampa Bay caught the Canadiens fl at- an opportunity to complete the fi rst to the second line to fi ll in for injured scored for a Montreal team that felt dis- Reds 2, Cubs 1 footed by scoring twice in the opening sweep in the fi nal since Detroit beat forward Alex Killorn. respected in making its deepest playoff In Cincinnati, Joey Votto hit a two- minutes of each of the fi rst two periods Washington in 1998. Rather than allow Montreal to build run since winning its 24th Cup. run double in the sixth inning and Cincinnati handed Chicago its seventh The Cubs wasted a solid start by The Indians, who have lost six shortly before the game because of a went deep hours after being selected straight loss. Alec Mills (3-2), who breezed through of seven, added third baseman José sore left elbow. for the All-Star Home Run Derby, and The Reds’ Sonny Gray struck out the fi rst fi ve innings. Ramírez to their injury list that gets Royals 7, Twins 4 Hanser Alberto added a tiebreaking Los Angeles Dodgers’ Justin Turn- eight in fi ve innings in his fi rst big White Sox 8, Tigers 2 longer each day. He was scratched In Kansas City, Mo., Salvador Perez two-run shot for Kansas City against er connects for a single off Wash- league start since June 8. He had been In Detroit, Andrew Vaughn homered Minnesota. ington Nationals relief pitcher Aus- sidelined by a strained right groin. and made two key defensive plays in The Royals bullpen took over for tin Voth during the seventh inning Josh Osich (1-0) got one out for the left fi eld as Chicago defeated Detroit Brady Singer after three innings and of a baseball game, on July 2, in win, and Heath Hembree worked the allowed one run the rest of the way Washington. (AP) ninth for his second save. for its fi fth straight victory. Lance Lynn (8-3) allowed one run in ending a nine-game skid. Rich- on four hits and fi ve walks in six in- ard Lovelady (1-0) got his fi rst major Wings pull away late to beat Sky nings, striking out nine. league win with two scoreless innings, Chicago, which leads the AL Cen- and Scott Barlow handled the ninth for tral, has won nine of 11 against the his third save before a crowd of 31,824, Tigers this season - including fi ve in a the largest of the season at Kauffman row. Stadium. Storm, Aces keep pace Astros 6, Indians 3 Cardinals 9, Rockies 3, 10 Innings In Cleveland, Carlos Correa In Denver, Harrison Bader hit his sparked a four-run third inning with fi rst career grand slam to cap a six-run atop ‘WNBA’ standings an RBI double and Houston beat in- 10th inning and St. Louis rallied past jury-riddled Cleveland for the second Colorado. EVERETT, Washington, July 3, (AP): straight night. Pinch-hitter José Rondón lined a ty- Sue Bird had 15 points, Jewell Loyd The Astros came to town having ing single with two outs in the ninth for scored four of her 10 points in the fi nal lost fi ve of six but have looked like the the Cardinals, and Yadier Molina hit a 38 seconds and the Seattle Storm beat team that won 11 in a row before that pitcher Drew Smyly works against the in the go-ahead single in the 10th. the Atlanta Dream 91-88. rough patch. fi rst inning of a baseball game, on July 2, in Atlanta. (AP) Elías Díaz homered in his fourth Loyd’s tip shot with 37.7 seconds consecutive game for the Rockies, left gave the Storm (13-4) an 89-86 whose four-game winning streak was snapped. lead and her driving layup with 6.1 MLB Results/Standings Giants 11, Diamondbacks 4 seconds left capped the scoring. In Phoenix, Alex Dickerson and Courtney Williams made a 3 to cut LaMonte Wade Jr. homered, and San putt to Dream to 87-86 and closed Francisco stopped a four-game slide by it back to one with a jumper with WASHINGTON, July 3, (AP): Results and standings from the MLB games on Friday. pounding Arizona. 29.2 seconds. But Williams missed a Toronto 11 Tampa Bay 1 Philadelphia 4 San Diego (10 inn) 3 The Giants broke it open with Thai- 3-point attempt that would have tied it Houston 6 Cleveland 3 Milwaukee 7 Pittsburgh 2 Chicago White Sox 8 Detroit 2 LA Dodgers 10 Washington 5 ro Estrada’s two-out grand slam in the with two seconds left. Kansas City 7 Minnesota 4 Cincinnati 2 Chicago Cubs 1 ninth inning against J.B. Bukauskas. Boston 3 Oakland (10 inn) 2 Atlanta 1 Miami 0 Estrada also had an RBI double in the LA Angels 8 Baltimore 7 St. Louis 9 Colorado (10 inn) 3 BASKETBALL Seattle 5 Texas (10 innings) 4 San Francisco 11 Arizona 4 fi fth. American League National League Halfway through its schedule, sur- East Division East Division prising San Francisco has baseball’s Seattle remained tied with the Las W L Pct GB W L Pct GB best record at 51-30. The Giants lead Vegas Aces atop the WNBA standings. Boston 52 31 .627 _ New York 41 36 .532 _ the Los Angeles Dodgers by a half- Williams had 20 points for the Tampa Bay 47 35 .573 4-1/2 Washington 40 40 .500 2-1/2 Toronto 42 38 .525 8-1/2 Atlanta 40 41 .494 3 game in the NL West. Dream (6-10). Crystal Bradford added Los Angeles Sparks guard Arella New York 41 39 .513 9-1/2 Philadelphia 38 41 .481 4 Mariners 5, Rangers 4, 10 Innings 17 points. Guirantes, (below), and Las Vegas Baltimore 27 55 .329 24-1/2 Miami 34 46 .425 8-1/2 In Seattle, Jake Fraley’s one-out sin- Aces 66, Sparks 58 Aces guard Kelsey Plum battle for Central Division Central Division W L Pct GB W L Pct GB gle in the 10th inning scored Jake Bau- In Los Angeles, A’ja Wilson had 20 a loose ball during the first half of a Chicago 49 32 .605 _ Milwaukee 50 33 .602 _ ers with the winning run, and Seattle points and 10 rebounds and Las Vegas WNBA basketball game, on July 2, in Cleveland 42 37 .532 6 Chicago 42 40 .512 7-1/2 improved to 10-1 in extra innings by closed on a 12-2 run to beat Los An- Los Angeles. (AP) Detroit 36 46 .439 13-1/2 Cincinnati 41 40 .506 8 beating Texas. geles. Kansas City 34 47 .420 15 St Louis 41 42 .494 9 Nearly 4 1/2 hours after the fi rst tied a career high with 28 points and Minnesota 33 47 .413 15-1/2 Pittsburgh 29 52 .358 20 Chelsea Gray added 14 points and Liz West Division West Division pitch, Fraley chopped a grounder off Cambage had 10 for the Aces (13-4). Dallas pulled away late to beat Chicago. W L Pct GB W L Pct GB reliever Taylor Hearn (2-3) into right Erica Wheeler scored 15 points for Arike Ogunbowale added 18 points Houston 50 33 .602 _ San Francisco 51 30 .630 _ fi eld and set off another celebration and Allisha Gray had 17 for Dallas (9- Oakland 48 36 .571 2-1/2 Los Angeles 51 31 .622 -1/2 the Sparks (6-10). Amanda Zahui B. Seattle 44 39 .530 6 San Diego 49 35 .583 3-1/2 for the Mariners. Seattle improved to had 14 points and 12 rebounds. 9. Candace Parker had 22 points and Los Angeles 40 41 .494 9 Colorado 35 48 .422 17 19-7 in one-run games and has won Wings 100, Sky 91 Diamond DeShields added 16 points Texas 32 50 .390 17-1/2 Arizona 23 61 .274 29-1/2 13 straight overall at home against the In Arlington, Texas, Marina Mabrey for the Sky (10-9). Rangers.