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Cole outduels Bieber in ace matchup, Yankees edge Indians Emanuel works 8 2/3 in relief debut, Astros pound Angels HOUSTON, April 25, (AP): Kent tionally walked before Madrigal deliv- Emanuel worked 8 2/3 innings in relief ered the winning hit to right field off in his major league debut, saving John King (2-1) with two outs. Houston’s bullpen after Jake Odorizzi Willie Calhoun hit his first homer of left early with an injury, and the Astros the season off Hendriks (1-0) to right- pounded the Los Angeles Angels 16-2. center to tie the game. Emanuel (1-0) allowed five hits and Nationals 7, Mets 1 two runs. The 28-year-old became the In New York, Joe Ross tossed six fourth pitcher in the modern era to solid innings and helped himself with have a relief outing of 8 2/3 innings or an RBI single as Washington beat more in his debut. New York. Alex Bregman hit a three-run Yadiel Hernandez, a 33-year-old homer, Yordan Alvarez had a season- rookie who entered with six hits in 36 high four RBIs and Carlos Correa had career at-bats, had two hits and two three hits including a homer for RBIs for the Nationals. Houston. The Astros had season highs Michael Conforto homered in the in runs and hits (18) to win their third fourth for the Mets. straight following a three-game skid. Cardinals 2, Reds 0 Odorizzi exited with tightness in his In St. Louis, John Gant earned his right forearm after retiring leadoff bat- first victory as a starter since 2018 by ter David Fletcher on five pitches. throwing six strong innings and St. Yankees 2, Indians 1 Louis sent Cincinnati to its sixth In Cleveland, Gerrit Cole was one straight loss. pitch better than Shane Bieber in a Andrew Knizner, subbing for heavyweight matchup of aces as injured catcher Yadier Molina, and Rougned Odor and Aaron Hicks hom- Nolan Arenado each drove in a run. ered for New York off Cleveland’s Cy Dylan Carlson added three singles as Young winner in the fifth inning. St. Louis won a series for just the sec- Cole (3-1) struck out 11 and allowed ond time this season. three hits in seven innings to beat After waiting out a rain delay of 2 Bieber (2-2) in a rematch of their hours, 20 minutes before throwing his meeting in last year’s . Cole’s first pitch, Gant (1-2) allowed just 50 strikeouts in his first five starts are three hits. It was Gant’s first win as a the most for any pitcher in New York’s starting pitcher since Sept. 9, 2018. storied history. Mariners 8, Red Sox 2 Bieber fanned nine - the first time In Boston, Kyle Seager, Sam he hasn’t reached double digits in five Haggerty and Ty France each had starts - and tied Hall of Famer Randy three hits, leading Chris Flexen and Houston Astros’ Kyle Tucker (30) slides just before he was forced out by Los Angeles Angels shortstop Jose Iglesias during the sixth inning of a baseball Johnson’s record with his 17th straight Seattle past Boston. game, on April 24, in Houston. Robel Garcia was safe at first. (AP) start of at least eight strikeouts. Seager singled in a run in the first Athletics 7, Orioles 2 inning, tripled home two more in the In Baltimore, Jed Lowrie hit a three- second and doubled with the bases run homer and Oakland won its 13th empty in the fifth. France scored three straight game, building a big lead early times, and Haggerty drove in two runs. and beating Baltimore. Flexen (2-1) permitted one run and This is the third-longest winning four hits in seven innings. It was the streak in Oakland history. The A’s third time in his four starts this season Crosby scores 20th won 14 straight in 1988, then set an American League record with 20 con- secutive victories in 2002. BASEBALL Matt Olson and Mark Canha had two hits and two RBIs apiece for Oakland, which has won nine in row that he has allowed one or fewer runs. against the Orioles dating to 2019. Royals 2, Tigers 1 Dodgers 5, Padres 4 In Detroit, Brady Singer pitched as Penguins beat Devils In Los Angeles, Corey Seager’s two- seven impressive innings, and Kansas run single in the sixth inning provided City took advantage of some defensive the go-ahead runs and Los Angeles over- sloppiness by Detroit. came another two-homer game from Willi Castro homered for Detroit in O’Reilly’s hat trick leads Blues past Avalanche 5-3 Fernando Tatis Jr. to defeat San Diego. the fifth, but that wasn’t enough to The Padres threatened in the ninth, overcome Kansas City’s two runs in putting the potential tying run in scoring the top of that inning. Singer (1-2) PITTSBURGH, April 25, four playoff teams in the West Division allowed three hits and struck out eight. position with one out, but Kenley Jansen following their sixth straight win. Scott Barlow worked the eighth, and (AP): Sidney Crosby and Kevin Fiala and Nick Bonino also retired Tatis on a grounder and struck Josh Staumont pitched a perfect ninth out Trent Grisham for his fifth save. Bryan Rust each scored scored for Minnesota and Kaapo for his first career save. The game was their 20th goal of the sea- Kahkonen made 27 saves. The NL West rivals have split six finished in 2 hours, 10 minutes. meetings this season, with the Padres Logan Couture, Evander Kane and Brewers 4, Cubs 3 son, and the Pittsburgh Joachim Blichfeld scored in the third winning the previous three. In Chicago, pinch-hitter Manny White Sox 2, Rangers 1 Penguins beat the New period for the Sharks, who lost their Piña connected for a tiebreaking two- Jersey Devils 4-2. eighth straight. Martin Jones allowed In Chicago, Nick Madrigal doubled run homer in the seventh inning, and home the winning run in the ninth Crosby got an empty-netter with three goals on eight shots in the first the Brewers held off the Cubs. period before getting pulled for the inning after Liam Hendriks allowed a Brent Suter (2-1) worked two score- 0.1 seconds to play. His goal came eighth time in 32 starts this season. tying homer in the top half, and less innings in relief of Freddy Peralta, following a tense net-mouth Golden Knights 5, Ducks 1 Chicago recovered to beat Texas. helping Milwaukee to its fourth win in scramble in which the Devils near- In Anaheim, California, Chandler Luis Robert led off the White Sox five games. Josh Hader got three outs ly tied the game. Stephenson scored two goals in the ninth with an infield single. Rookie for his fourth save in four opportunities. Crosby surpassed Evgeni Malkin first period and Vegas cruised to its phenom Yermín Mercedes was inten- Pirates 6, Twins 2 and Mario Lemieux for the most franchise-record ninth consecutive In Minneapolis, Michael Perez had 20-plus goal seasons in franchise his- victory. three hits and three RBIs, sending tory. Stephenson had the first three-point Trevor Cahill and the Pirates to the Jeff Carter and Jared McCann also night of his career, while Shea victory. scored for the Penguins, who com- Theodore and William Karlsson got Cahill (1-2) permitted one run and pleted a three-game series sweep of ’ Jeff Carter (77) gets tangled with Devils’ goals against their former team as the two hits in six innings. It was his lon- the Devils. Casey DeSmith stopped 34 Pavel Zacha during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Knights rolled toward their fourth gest outing since he also worked six shots. on April 24. (AP) straight playoff appearance. William innings for the Angels at Baltimore on New Jersey dropped its ninth Carrier also scored for Vegas, which May 10, 2019. straight game. Miles Wood and Jack with 24 saves. Alexander Kerfoot also scored for completed the season series with seven Minnesota lost for the 10th time in Hughes scored for the Devils, and Panthers 4, Hurricanes 3, OT , and Jack Campbell made 25 wins over Anaheim in eight meetings. 12 games. Michael Pineda (1-1) Mackenzie Blackwood made 36 saves. In Sunrise, Florida, Aleksander saves. The Maple Leafs stretched their Robin Lehner made 23 saves in his allowed five runs, four earned, and six Blues 5, Avalanche 3 Barkov scored 24 seconds into over- North Division lead to eight points second win at Honda Center in nine hits in 4 1/3 innings. Jake Cave had In St. Louis, Ryan O’Reilly had time to help Florida tighten up the over the second-place Jets. days. two of the Twins’ three hits. three goals and an assist, and St. Louis Central Division standings. Thornton, at 41 years, 296 days, Canucks 4, Senators 2 Rays 5, Blues 3 stopped a three-game slide. After a turnover in the Panthers’ became the oldest player in Toronto In Vancouver, British Columbia, In St. Petersburg, Florida, Tampa Mike Hoffman and Ivan Barbashev end, Barkov raced the length of the ice franchise history to score. He broke and J.T. Miller scored Bay broke an eighth-inning tie when also scored for the Blues, and Jordan and fired a that trundled in for his the record set by Allan Stanley at 41 late in the third period and Vancouver Toronto third baseman Cavan Biggio Binnington made 28 saves. 22nd goal. years, 252 days on Nov. 8, 1967. beat Ottawa. let a grounder go between his legs and St. Louis had lost five straight In winning for just the second time Coyotes 4, Kings 0 Nate Schmidt and Brock Boeser New York Yankees starting pitcher went on to win. against the Avalanche since winning at (2-4-2) against Carolina, the Panthers In Los Angeles, Phil Kessel had a also scored for Vancouver, and Bo Gerrit Cole delivers in the first Jordan Romano (1-1) walked Colorado on Jan. 13 in the season pulled within one point of the goal and an assist, Darcy Kuemper Horvat had two assists. Braden Holtby inning of a baseball game against Brandon Lowe and Mike Brosseau to opener for both teams. Hurricanes. Florida has seven games made 26 saves for his second shutout had 26 saves, including a shot. the Cleveland Indians, on April 24, start the eighth. Manuel Margot hit a Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar left in the regular season, Carolina of the season, and Arizona beat Los Evgenii Dadonov had a goal and an in Cleveland. (AP) grounder that got past Biggio for an each had a goal and two assists for nine. Angeles. assist, and Colin White also scored for error, allowing Lowe to score and put Colorado, which had won five in a Stars 2, Red Wings 1, OT the Senators, who snapped a three- the Rays ahead 4-3. Margot later scored row. Gabriel Landeskog also scored In Detroit, Jamie Benn scored 32 game winning streak. MLB Results/Standings on Kevin Kiermaier’s grounder. and Devan Dubnyk made 25 saves. seconds into , lifting Dallas Flames 5, Canadiens 2 Phillies 7, Rockies 5 Capitals 6, Islanders 3 past Detroit. In Calgary, Alberta, Johnny In Denver, Rhys Hoskins homered In Uniondale, N.Y., Daniel Sprong Dallas outshot Detroit by more than John Hayden, Lawson Crouse and Gaudreau scored twice and Calgary twice and drove in five runs to back scored twice in injured Alex three times and had the puck for much Jakob Chychrun also scored, helping beat Montreal for the second straight WASHINGTON, April 25, (AP): Ovechkin’s place on Washington’s top the Coyotes remain fourth in the West Results and standings from the seven solid innings from Aaron Nola, of the game, but trailed after Dennis night. MLB games on Saturday. sending past Colorado. line, Ilya Samsonov made 21 saves Cholowski scored late in the first peri- Division. Arizona is one point ahead Milan Lucic, Brett Ritchie and Kansas City 2 Detroit 1 Nola (2-1) allowed four runs and six and the Capitals beat New York for the od until Mark Pysyk made it 1-all of St. Louis, which beat Colorado 5-3 Rasmus Andersson also scored and Seattle 8 Boston 2 hits but settled down after the fifth. He second time in three nights. early in the third. earlier in the day, for the final playoff Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves to Pittsburgh 6 Minnesota 2 Houston 16 LA Angels 2 retired his last seven batters, added a Evgeny Kutznetsov had a goal and Benn took advantage of a turnover spot. improve to 6-1 against Montreal this NY Yankees 2 Cleveland 1 single at the plate and was on base for two assists, and Nic Dowd, Garnet by Detroit in the extra period, carried It was Kuemper’s 20th career shut- season. The Flames opened the three- Tampa Bay 5 Toronto 3 both of Hoskins’ homers. Hathaway and T.J. Oshie also scored the puck into the left circle and lifted a out. game set Friday with a 3-2 victory. Chic.White Sox 2 Texas 1 Wild 6, Sharks 3 Oakland 7 Baltimore 2 Marlins 5, Giants 2 for the Capitals. Washington remained shot over Jonathan Bernier’s blocker. and Nick Suzuki St Louis 2 Cincinnati 0 In San Francisco, Jesus Aguilar in first place in the tight East Division, Anton Khudobin stopped 16 shots In San Jose, California, Ryan Suter scored for the Canadiens. They hold Milwaukee 4 Chicago Cubs 3 snapped a tie with a two-run homer to one point ahead of second-place for the Stars and Bernier had a season- scored 19 seconds in, Kirill Kaprizov the fourth and final playoff spot in the Washington 7 NY Mets 1 spark a four-run ninth inning and Pittsburgh. The Islanders are in third, high 50 saves. scored for the fifth straight game and North Division, four points ahead of Philadelphia 7 Colorado 5 Miami 5 San Francisco 2 Miami beat San Francisco. two points behind the Penguins, and Maple Leafs 4, Jets 1 Minnesota clinched a playoff spot. Calgary with a game in hand. LA Dodgers 5 San Diego 4 Aguilar lined an 0-1 pitch from three ahead of Boston. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mitch Marcus Foligno and Jared Spurgeon made 29 saves in American League Gregory Santos (0-1) into the left- Anthony Beauvillier, Adam Pelech Marner scored his 100th NHL goals to also scored in the first period as the his season debut and third career start East Division Wild jumped on top early to join W L Pct GB center stands after Magneuris Sierra’s and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored for help Toronto beat Winnipeg. for Montreal. He’s the son of former Boston 13 9 .591 _ leadoff walk to give Miami a 3-1 lead. the Islanders. Ilya Sorokin finished , Joe Thornton and Vegas and Colorado as three of the NHL player Keith Primeau. Tampa Bay 11 10 .524 1-1/2 New York 9 11 .450 3 Toronto 9 11 .450 3 Baltimore 8 12 .400 4 NHL Results/Standings Central Division W L Pct GB Kentucky wins first volleyball title Kansas City 12 7 .632 _ Chicago 11 9 .550 1-1/2 OMAHA, Nebraska, April 25, (AP): ball championship match and had a Of course, Skinner was. So was Cleveland 8 11 .421 4 WASHINGTON, April 25, (AP): Results and standings from the NHL games on Minnesota 7 12 .368 5 Kentucky’s Alli Stumler bumped into question for him. Stumler. The All-American had a sea- Saturday. Detroit 7 14 .333 6 coach Craig Skinner at the team hotel “You ready to win a natty?” she said son-high 26 kills, the biggest coming Pittsburgh 4 New Jersey 2 Calgary 5 Montreal 2 West Division St Louis 5 Colorado 3 W L Pct GB a few hours before the NCAA volley- she asked him. on the final point of the match, as Vegas 5 Anaheim 1 Washington 6 NY Islanders 3 Minnesota 6 San Jose 3 Oakland 14 7 .667 _ Kentucky won its first national cham- Dallas 2 Detroit OT 1 Seattle 13 8 .619 1 pionship in women’s volleyball with a Toronto 4 Winnipeg 1 Arizona 4 Los Angeles 0 Houston 10 10 .500 3-1/2 Florida 4 Carolina OT 3 Vancouver 4 Ottawa 2 Los Angeles 9 10 .474 4 four-set victory over Texas on Saturday night. East Division West Division Texas 9 12 .429 5 GP W L OT Pts GF GA GP W L OT Pts GF GA National League Washington 48 31 13 4 66 170 144 x-Vegas 47 34 11 2 70 160 103 East Division Pittsburgh 48 31 14 3 65 168 135 W L Pct GB x-Colorado 45 31 10 4 66 161 108 VOLLEYBALL NY Islanders 48 29 14 5 63 136 113 x-Minnesota 47 31 13 3 65 151 123 Philadelphia 10 10 .500 _ Boston 46 27 13 6 60 136 117 New York 8 8 .500 _ Arizona 48 21 22 5 47 128 150 NY Rangers 48 24 18 6 54 158 128 St Louis 45 20 19 6 46 131 142 Atlanta 9 10 .474 -1/2 Philadelphia 47 21 19 7 49 132 168 Miami 9 11 .450 1 San Jose 47 18 24 5 41 125 163 “The moment we woke up, we knew New Jersey 47 14 27 6 34 118 166 Los Angeles 45 17 22 6 40 120 136 Washington 8 10 .444 1 Buffalo 48 13 28 7 33 118 165 we were going to win this thing,” Anaheim 48 14 27 7 35 105 156 Central Division Central Division W L Pct GB Stumler said. “The moment we stepped GP W L OT Pts GF GA North Division Milwaukee 12 8 .600 _ off the plane in Omaha, we said we GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 10 10 .500 2 Carolina 47 31 10 6 68 153 114 Florida 49 31 13 5 67 158 133 Toronto 48 30 13 5 65 159 130 St Louis 10 10 .500 2 were going to win this thing. There Winnipeg 47 27 17 3 57 148 129 Pittsburgh 10 11 .476 2-1/2 Tampa Bay 47 31 14 2 64 156 122 was never a doubt there was any team Nashville 49 26 21 2 54 133 138 Edmonton 45 27 16 2 56 144 125 Cincinnati 9 11 .450 3 better than us.” Montreal 46 20 17 9 49 134 135 West Division Dallas 47 20 15 12 52 135 121 The Wildcats had the nation’s most Chicago 48 22 21 5 49 135 151 Calgary 47 21 23 3 45 127 137 W L Pct GB Vancouver 41 19 19 3 41 113 130 Los Angeles 15 6 .714 _ efficient offense this season and, with the Detroit 50 17 25 8 42 115 158 San Francisco 13 8 .619 2 exception of a few hiccups early in the Columbus 49 15 25 9 39 118 166 Ottawa 48 17 27 4 38 131 170 San Diego 12 11 .522 4 Kentucky players hold the trophy after a win against Texas in the final of Note: Two points for a win one point for overtime loss. The top four teams in each Arizona 9 11 .450 5-1/2 first set and the start of the fourth, they division will qualify for playoffs under this season’s temporary realignment. Colorado 7 13 .350 7-1/2 the NCAA women’s volleyball championships, on April 24, in Omaha, were in top form with Stumler and sisters x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Nebraska. (AP) Madi and Avery Skinner leading the way.