ARAB TIMES, SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2021 SPORTS 14 Strasburg pitches into 6th as Nats top O’s

Dodgers pip Giants Bernal extends Giro lead WASHINGTON, May 22, (AP): Italy’s Fortunato wins atop pitched into the sixth in- ning in his return from the injured list, allowing just fearsome Monte Zoncolan one as the Washington MONTE ZONCOLAN, Italy, May 22, Nationals defeated the Bal- (AP): Italian rider Lorenzo Fortunato soloed to victory atop the fearsome timore Orioles 4-2. Monte Zoncolan as Egan Bernal ex- Strasburg (1-1) started for the tended his overall lead to more than a fi rst time since April 13. He had minute after the 14th stage of the Giro been sidelined with right shoulder d’Italia on Saturday. infl ammation. He picked up his Fortunato, who rides for Eolo-Ko- fi rst win in a regular-season game meta, attacked with around 2 kilom- since Sept 26, 2019. eters remaining of the 205-kilometer Strasburg allowed only Anthony (127-mile) route from Cittadella to Santander’s leadoff single in the sec- claim a debut professional win in his ond. He walked four and struck out fi rst Grand Tour, at the top of one of four in 5-1/3 scoreless innings. the Giro’s most prestigious climbs. Washington scored two runs against It was Fortunato’s fi rst victory in Jorge López (1-5) in the fi fth. López more than eight years, having last won allowed four straight hits, including as a junior. back-to-back doubles by Josh Bell (3 hits) and and a - CYCLING Italy’s Lorenzo Fortunato crosses the fi nish line to win the 14th stage of BASEBALL ’ (top right), hits a single during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Jan Tratnik was second, 26 seconds the Giro D’Italia tour of Italy cycling Chicago White Sox, on May 21, in New York. (AP) behind Fortunato. The duo had escaped race, from Cittadella to Monte Zon- scoring single by . from the remains of the breakaway colan, Italy, on May 22. (AP) Freddy Galvis hit a two-run home single for his fi fth career walkoff hit. cording to STATS. shortly after the start of the ascent of the run with two outs in the ninth against Padres 16, Mariners 1 Acuña had fi ve RBIs and his 14th Zoncolan, which was covered in snow. Damiano Caruso . Trey Mancini had two hits In San Diego, Fernando Tatis Jr be- homer tied the Los Angeles Angels’ Alessandro Covi was third, 59 sec- This year’s Giro saw the riders climb for the Orioles, who have lost 11 of 13 came the fastest in history Shohei Ohtani for the major league onds behind Fortunato. the Zoncolan from the easier side. It since John Means threw a no-hitter on to hit 50 home runs and made another lead. Bernal attacked from the peloton was still nevertheless one of the most May 5. spectacular defensive play for San Die- Reds 9, Brewers 4 in the fog at the summit and fi nished arduous ascents of the race. The last 3 Dodgers 2, Giants 1 go, which routed Seattle for its seventh In Cincinnati, Jesse Winker hit three fourth to extend his overall lead to 1 kilometers had gradients often exceed- In San Francisco, straight win. solo home runs while going 4 for 4, minute, 33 seconds ahead of Simon ing 20% and topping out at 27% along struck out 11 in his fi rst career start homered, dou- leading Cincinnati over Milwaukee. Yates, who moved into second. the hairpins in the fi nal kilometer. against San Francisco, Chris Taylor hit bled and drove in fi ve runs, and Chris Tyler Naquin added a three-run Bernal, the 2019 Tour de France The Giro fi nishes on May 30 in Mi- a two-run homer and Los Angeles ex- Paddack (2-3) threw six strong innings homer. He got things started with his winner, is 1:51 ahead of third-place lan with an individual time trial. tended its winning streak to fi ve. for the Padres, who have won 10 of 10th homer, a drive in the fi rst inning With the Dodgers down to only four 11 overall. Paddack and two relievers off Adrian Houser (3-5). available relievers, Bauer (5-2) held the combined on a four-hitter against the Winker connected for leadoff hom- Giants to two hits over 6-1/3 innings Mariners. ers in the third and fi fth off Houser. He MLB Results/Standings and threw a season-high 126 pitches. Tatis, playing in his 171st career hit his 11th homer of the season in the With Kenley Jansen unavailable, Blake game, tied for the fi fth- eighth, another leadoff drive against Treinen handled the ninth for Los An- fastest player overall to reach 50 hom- Josh Lindblom. It was Winker’s fi rst WASHINGTON, May 22, (AP): Results and standings from the MLB games on geles and got his second . ers. Tatis fi nished with four RBIs. He starting three-homer game; he also singled and Friday. Coming off an 8-1 homestand, Los also made a spectacular play in the fi fth Stephen Strasburg delivers walked. He has four multihomer games NY Yankees 2 Chic. White Sox 1 San Diego 16 Seattle 1 Angeles pulled within one game of when he avoided a collision with Jorge during the sixth inning of a baseball in his career, two this year. Washington 4 Baltimore 2 Atlanta 20 Pittsburgh 1 fi rst-place San Francisco. Mateo in shallow center to catch Jarred game against the Baltimore Orioles, Rockies 7, Diamondbacks 1 Minnesota 10 Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 9 Milwaukee 4 Boston 11 Philadelphia 3 Colorado 7 Arizona 1 A day after scoring 19 runs at Cin- Kelenic’s popup and then doubled Eric on May 21, in Washington. (AP) In Denver, German Marquez scat- Campbell off fi rst to end the inning. tered four hits over seven scoreless in- Detroit 7 Kansas City 5 Chicago Cubs12 St Louis 3 cinnati, the Giants went 0 for 4 with Tampa Bay 9 Toronto (12 Inns) 7 NY Mets 6 Miami (12 Inns) 5 runners in scoring position and had Athletics 8, Angels 4 days of cross-country travel by pound- nings, Ryan McMahon homered twice Texas 7 Houston (10 Inns) 5 LA Dodgers 2 San Francisco 1 their fi ve-game winning streak stopped. In Anaheim, , Ramón Lau- ing Cleveland. and drove in three runs, and Colorado Oakland 8 LA Angels 4 Yankees 2, White Sox 1 reano homered among his four hits and The Twins didn’t arrive in Cleveland beat Arizona to snap a fi ve-game los- American League In New York, Gleyber Torres made a leaping catch above the center- until 4:30 am after fl ying back from ing streak. East Division East Division W L Pct GB W L Pct GB homered and singled home the winning fi eld wall, Chad Pinder hit a go-ahead California following a doubleheader in Raimel Tapia also homered and Boston 28 18 .609 _ New York 21 17 .553 _ run in the ninth inning as New York – drive in the seventh inning and Oak- Anaheim on Thursday. C.J. Cron had two hits and two RBIs Tampa Bay 27 19 .587 1 Philadelphia 22 23 .489 2-1/2 moments after a turning a clutch land beat Los Angeles. Randy Dobnak (1-3) was the ben- for the Rockies. Marquez (3-4) struck New York 26 19 .578 1-1/2 Atlanta 21 24 .467 3-1/2 play – beat Chicago. Laureano hit a solo homer in the efi ciary of the Twins’ biggest inning out eight and walked three in putting Toronto 23 20 .535 3-1/2 Miami 20 24 .455 4 Baltimore 17 27 .386 10 Washington 18 23 .439 4-1/2 Chicago put two runners on to open ninth for insurance and the third four- this season and won his fi rst start after together consecutive wins for the fi rst Central Division Central Division the ninth against Aroldis Chap- hit game of his career. being recalled from Triple-A St. Paul. time this season after losing three in a W L Pct GB W L Pct GB man (3-0). Rookie Andrew Vaughn Pinder, who had three hits, drove Dobnak allowed just three hits in six row. Chicago 26 17 .605 _ St Louis 25 19 .568 _ hit a sharp grounder toward third, a fastball from Mike Mayers (1-3) innings. Josh Rojas’ sacrifi ce fl y in the eighth Cleveland 23 19 .548 2-1/2 Chicago 23 21 .523 2 Kansas City 20 23 .465 6 Milwaukee 21 23 .477 4 where Gio Urshela stepped on the into right-center. Mark Canha and Jed Rob Refsnyder homered for Minne- inning off reliever Jordan Sheffi eld led Detroit 18 26 .409 8-1/2 Cincinnati 20 23 .465 4-1/2 bag and went around the horn to nip Lowrie also went deep for the Athlet- sota’s fi rst run. to Arizona’s lone run. Minnesota 16 28 .364 10-1/2 Pittsburgh 18 26 .409 7 Vaughn and suddenly end the inning as ics. Yusmeiro Petit (6-0), the second Red Sox 11, Phillies 3 Cubs 12, Cardinals 3 West Division West Division fi rst baseman Luke Voit make a long of four Oakland , allowed two In Philadelphia, and In St Louis, Joc Pederson homered W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Oakland 27 19 .587 _ S. Francisco 28 17 .622 _ stretch. runs in one inning but got the win. Danny Santana hit homers to back on the fi rst pitch of the game, Houston 26 19 .578 -1/2 San Diego 27 17 .614 -1/2 Aaron Judge singled leading off the Twins 10, Indians 0 Martin Perez, and Boston beat Phila- got two hits during an eight-run burst Seattle 21 23 .477 5 Los Angeles 27 18 .600 1 bottom half of the ninth against Evan In Cleveland, and rookie delphia. in the eighth inning and Chicago halted Texas 20 27 .426 7-1/2 Arizona 18 28 .391 10-1/2 Marshall (0-2). He went to second on Alex Kirilloff drove in two runs apiece Perez (2-2) allowed three runs and St. Louis’ fi ve-game home winning Los Angeles 19 26 .422 7-1/2 Colorado 16 29 .356 12 Urshela’s single and slid safely across in Minnesota’s nine-run fourth inning fi ve hits, striking out seven in six in- streak. the plate after Torres ripped a sharp and the Twins shook off a couple long nings. (4-4) pitched into The AL East-leading Red Sox have the seventh inning as the Cubs won in park homer. the bases, Mejía drove the next pitch won three in a row. The Phillies lost for the fi rst of 19 games between the NL Miami’s Garrett Cooper tied the over the right-fi eld wall. the sixth time in eight games to fall one Central rivals this season. game with a two-run homer in the sev- Diego Castillo (1-2), who worked game under .500. had two hits and enth, his fourth. 1-1/3 innings, allowed Vladimir Guer- Phillies starter (3-4) scored three times for Chicago. Peder- Tigers 7, Royals 5 rero Jr second homer of the game, a gave up fi ve runs – four earned – and son, who hit his 22nd career leadoff In Kansas City, Mo., two-run shot in the 12th. seven hits, striking out nine in fi ve in- homer, , hit a solo homer and a , dou- Rangers 7, Astros 5, 10 Innings nings. and David Bote each drove in two runs. bling his season total to four home runs In Arlington, Texas, Adolis García hit Philadelphia’s crushed a Hendricks (4-4) allowed one earned and leading Detroit over Kansas City. a three-run homer in the bottom of the two-run homer in the third. run and seven hits in 6-2/3 innings. Re- The 38-year-old homered in the sec- 10th inning, giving Texas a victory over Braves 20, Pirates 1 liever Ryan Helsley (3-2) took the loss. ond off Mike Minor for the game’s fi rst Houston after Astros starter Tyler Ivey In Atlanta, Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a Mets 6, Marlins 5, 12 Innings run, then overcame a 5-3 defi cit in the was spared a loss in his major league de- grand slam in the second inning off Ty- In Miami, Rookie hit a seventh against Greg Holland with his but against his hometown team. ler Anderson, pinch-hitter Ehire Adri- tiebreaking RBI double in the 12th in- sixth slam, the 491th of his García’s opposite-fi eld shot to right anza added another slam in the eighth ning for his fi rst major league hit after big league career. came with two outs after the Astros had against position player Wilmer Difo in his fi rst eight at-bats – a José Ureña (2-4) allowed fi ve runs rallied with a three-run eighth and gone and Atlanta homered seven times in a major league record – and New York and 10 hits in six innings. Tyler Zuber ahead in the top of the 10th on Texas rout of Pittsburgh. beat Miami, despite totaling only eight (0-1) took the loss. Brock Holt’s second er- Austin Riley homered twice for his hits against 10 Marlins pitchers. Rays 9, Blue Jays 7, 12 Innings ror of the game. fi rst multihomer game, and Ozzie Al- Jake Hager’s leadoff single in the In Dunedin, Florida, Francisco Me- It was the Rangers’ second win in 11 bies, and Dansby Swan- Mets 12th off (0-1) ad- jía hit a grand slam in the 12th inning games. son also went deep for the Braves, who vanced the automatic runner to third. and Tampa Bay won its eighth consec- Left-hander Taylor Hearn (2-1) Donovan Solano (7) puts the tag on became the fi rst team in major league After Lee’s hit, Johneshwy Fargas hit utive game by beating Toronto. earned the win. Bryan Abreu (2-3), ’ Matt Beaty (45) on an attempted steal of second base history to have seven or more homers a two-run triple but was thrown out try- After Jeremy Beasley (0-1) inten- who was an out away from his fi rst ca- during the ninth inning of a baseball game, on May 21, in San Francisco. (AP) in a game that included two slams, ac- ing to stretch his hit into an inside-the- tionally walked Joey Wendle to load reer save, took the loss.