WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014 SPORTS

Rosberg expects his ties Marussia success puts England Wilshere with Hamilton to improve pressure on Sauber ‘fit for World Cup’ ST MARTIN: Formula One leader Nico Rosberg expects his rocky relationship LONDON: Marussia’s stunning Monaco Grand Prix weekend has put LONDON: Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere, who missed the last two months with Mercedes’ team mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton to improve despite pressure on rivals Sauber — but the Swiss team remain confident they of the season after fracturing his foot, says he will be fit to play for England at the rift between them after last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. will soon be back in front. Sauber principal Monisha Kaltenborn told the World Cup. Rosberg won the showcase race on Sunday to retake the championship Reuters after the team again failed to score their first point of the sea- The 22-year-old, who has won 15 caps, told Sky Sports that he had been lead from Hamilton, who suggested the German had used underhand tactics son that they had just been unlucky. training for the last six weeks and was over the injury he sustained playing to secure pole position in Saturday qualifying. Visiting the German soccer team “You could see the cars were in the race, the car was showing good for Arsenal against Stoke City on March 1. performance,” she said after Germany’s Adrian Sutil and Mexican at their World Cup preparations in Italy yesterday, Rosberg said such disputes Asked if he was close to peak fitness, he replied: “I am... I have been train- between drivers of the same team were nothing new. Esteban Gutierrez both crashed out. ing for a long time. I am yet to play a game, but I have been train- “In our sport we can only have success as a team,” Rosberg “To lose, or not make use of the chances of actually such sure points told a news conference. “Nothing can happen alone. I make in this way, and through such mistakes, is very unfortunate.” Sutil lost ing for six weeks and I probably need a few games, but I am feel- an effort for teamwork and for the atmosphere in the team. control under braking as he exited the tunnel on lap 24, smashing into ing good. “It is a bit more difficult internally at the moment. But it has the barriers, while Gutierrez was running in the top 10 when he hit the “I am lucky we’ve got quite a few warm-up games. Some happened in the past as well in our sport.” Mercedes bosses guardrail and spun at Rascasse, 18 laps from the end. The Mexican said nations are not playing as many, so hopefully I will be able to have warned both drivers that they must not overstep the afterwards it was “probably the most painful mistake in my career”. With get some minutes under my belt before the big kickoff.” mark in an increasingly intense fight for the Formula One title them out of the way, Marussia’s Jules Bianchi came through from the England, who spent last week training in Portugal, are contin- between the pair, with the team having won every race so far last row of the grid, and despite two stop/go penalties, took two points uing their preparations back at home this week before play- this year.—Reuters - his team’s first in more than four years of trying.—Reuters ing Peru at Wembley on Friday.—Reuters Blue Jays pound Rays

TORONTO: Edwin Encarnacion hit his 13th home run in May and Dioner Navarro and Steve Tolleson added back-to-back shots as the won their seventh straight game Monday, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 10-5. Melky Cabrera had three hits and three RBIs as the AL East-leading Blue Jays won for the 12th time in 14 games. Toronto has hit at least one home run in nine straight games and leads the majors with 73 this season, including an ML-best 41 in May. David DeJesus, Desmond Jennings and James Loney all hit solo homers for the Rays, whose season-high four-game winning streak was snapped. Drew Hutchison wasn’t at his best, but benefited from strong run support to win his career-best third straight start. Hutchison (4-3) ATLANTA: Jason Heyward No. 22 of the is tagged out after over-running allowed five runs and seven hits in five innings, second base by Dustin Pedroia No. 15 of the during the 8th inning at matched a season-worst with four walks and Turner Field. —AFP struck out none. ATHLETICS 10, TIGERS 0 Red Sox end losing streak Kyle Blanks homered in his home debut at the Coliseum and capped Oakland’s ATLANTA: David Ortiz homered and drove in They also cut reliever Jose Valverde, who gave five-homer day with a grand slam as the TORONTO: Blue Jays Brett Lawrie, bottom, slides safe into second base past Tampa Bay Rays short- four runs as the Boston Red Sox ended their up Sanchez’s go-ahead hit. Athletics ended a four-game losing streak with a stop Yunel Escobar (top) after Lawrie hit a double during the fifth inning of a baseball game. —AP 10-game losing streak, rallying from a five- Sanchez upped his average against the win over Detroit. run deficit to defeat the Atlanta Braves 8-6 Mets to .324 and has 34 RBIs against New Yoenis Cespedes, Brandon Moss and Josh the Los Angeles Angels. Young (4-2) kept the 26, 2012, against the Indians. Monday. The defending World Series champi- York, his best totals against any NL team. He Donaldson also homered. Tommy Milone (3-3) Angels hitless until Kole Calhoun singled with Viciedo connected in the third inning against ons trailed 6-1 after the fourth inning of the homered off Scott Rice while hitting for Ike allowed four hits in 6 2-3 scoreless innings. He is one out in the sixth. Josh Tomlin (3-2). Jose Quintana (3-4) pitched six interleague matchup, with starter Clay Davis, who was making his return to Citi Field 3-0 with a 1.03 ERA in his past four starts. An inning later, Pujols hit his 506th career effective innings. Scott Downs got four outs for Buchholz walking a career-high eight in only after being traded to the Pirates in mid-April. The A’s got four solo homers against Drew home run, pulling within three of Gary Sheffield his first save. three-plus innings. Valverde (1-1) was booed off the field after Smyly (2-3) to win the first meeting of the sea- for 24th on baseball’s all-time homer list. The But Ortiz tied it by hitting a three-run allowing pinch-hitter Jose Tabata’s tying sin- son against the team that eliminated them in Mariners scored five times in the first two RANGERS 7, TWINS 2 homer off Ervin Santana in the fifth. With Red gle in the eighth. Valverde returned for the Game 5 of the division series the past two post- innings off Tyler Skaggs (4-2). Three of the runs Nick Tepesch won his second consecutive Sox fans at Turner Field chanting “Papi! Papi!” ninth and was even worse. Tony Watson (5-0) seasons. were unearned runs. start, Elvis Andrus and Chris Gimenez each had the World Series MVP then gave Boston the pitched an inning for the win. Mark Melancon two RBIs, and the Texas Rangers beat Minnesota. lead with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly off Ian got his 10th save. ASTROS 9, ROYALS 2 WHITE SOX 6, INDIANS 2 Tepesch (2-0) allowed two runs in 6 2-3 Thomas (1-2) in the seventh. homered in his fourth Conor Gillaspie hit three doubles while going innings, striking out four to win consecutive Following pregame declarations of confi- MARLINS 3, NATIONALS 2 straight game and went 4 for 4 with three RBIs 4 for 4 and Dayan Viciedo had a three-run homer starts for the first time in his career. Alex Rios dence from manager John Farrell and general Giancarlo Stanton hit his NL-leading 15th and scored five runs in Houston’s victory over as the Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland. added two more hits and now has six straight manager Ben Cherington, the Red Sox came home run and also doubled and singled in his Kansas City. Gillaspie scored twice and drove in a run. He multihit games. Trevor Plouffe homered for the back to end their worst skid since an 11-game latest power performance for Miami at The Astros have won three straight, matching became the first White Sox player with three Twins, who have lost four in a row. Kevin Correia slide in 1994. Nationals Park. Stanton doubled and scored their longest winning streak this season, and doubles in a game since Paul Konerko on May (2-6) took the loss. —AP in the first inning, then launched a long two- snapped a six-game losing streak to the Royals. YANKEES 6, CARDINALS 4 run homer in the third. Stanton is hitting .333 Springer led off the eighth with a home run Brian Roberts hit a tiebreaking single in a (43 for 129) with 14 home runs and 27 RBIs in off Louis Coleman, his fifth homer in four games. MLB results/standings three-run 12th inning after Brett Gardner’s Washington since his career began in 2010. He is the first Houston rookie to homer in four leaping catch at the left-field fence kept New He has homered at Nationals Park more than straight games. Lance Berkman was the last Boston 8, Atlanta 6; Pittsburgh 5, NY Mets 3; Miami 3, Washington 2; Chicago White Sox 6, Cleveland 2; Baltimore 7, York alive in the 11th. Pinch-hitter Alfonso any other visiting player during that time. Astro to homer in four straight games, July 4-8, Milwaukee 6 (10 Innings); Texas 7, Minnesota 2; Oakland 10, Detroit 0; Chicago Cubs 8, San Francisco 4; Seattle 5, LA Soriano and Brendan Ryan each added an RBI The Marlins improved to 7-17 on the road; 2010. Springer also had two doubles and Angels 1; NY Yankees 6, St. Louis 4 (12 Innings); Philadelphia 9, Colorado 0; Toronto 10, Tampa Bay 5; Houston 9, Kansas for the Yankees, who took the opener of a they’re 20-8 at home. Nathan Eovaldi (4-2) became the first Astro to score five runs in a City 2; LA Dodgers 4, Cincinnati 3; Arizona 7, San Diego 5. three-game interleague series for their third pitched 6 1-3 innings, giving up two runs and game since Cody Ransom on Sept. 24, 2007, American League National League straight win. Alfredo Aceves (1-2) worked two three hits. Steve Cishek worked the ninth for against St. Louis. Springer extended his hitting Eastern Division Eastern Division scoreless innings and David Robertson his 11th save. Adam LaRoche homered for the streak to eight games, and is 8 for 16 with 11 W L PCT GB Atlanta 28 22 .560 - earned his 11th save in 12 chances. Nationals, who had won 12 of their last 13 RBIs and 10 runs in the past five games. Toronto 30 22 .577 - Miami 27 25 .519 2 NY Yankees 27 23 .540 2 Jon Jay had an RBI double in the 12th for against Miami at home. Tanner Roark (3-3) Scott Feldman (3-2) held the Royals to two Washington 25 26 .490 3.5 the Cardinals, who lost for the third time in 12 went seven innings. Baltimore 26 23 .531 2.5 Philadelphia 22 26 .458 5 runs and eight hits over six innings. Royals rook- Tampa Bay 23 29 .442 7 games. A standing-room crowd of 47,311, the ie starter Yordano Ventura was led off the field NY Mets 22 28 .440 6 Boston 21 29 .420 8 Central Division third-largest at 9-year-old Busch Stadium, PHILLIES 9, ROCKIES 0 by a trainer in the third inning after experiencing Central Division Milwaukee 30 22 .577 - showed up to see an opponent making only Ryan Howard had five RBIs and Kyle discomfort in his elbow. The hard-throwing Detroit 28 19 .596 - St. Louis 28 23 .549 1.5 its second appearance in St. Louis since losing Kendrick pitched into the seventh inning to Chicago White Sox 26 27 .491 5 right-hander is scheduled for a MRI late yester- Pittsburgh 23 27 .460 6 to the Cardinals in the 1964 World Series. snap his 10-game losing streak for Kansas City 24 26 .480 5.5 day. Ventura (2-5) went 2 2-3 innings, allowing Cincinnati 22 27 .449 6.5 Cardinals retired 20 of 21 batters Philadelphia. A day after Dodgers right-han- five runs and seven hits and three walks. Minnesota 23 25 .479 5.5 before the 12th, when Randy Choate (0-2) der Josh Beckett threw a no-hitter against the Cleveland 24 28 .462 6.5 Chicago Cubs 19 30 .388 9.5 Western Division faced five batters and four reached safely. Phillies, leadoff man Ben Revere started with Western Division MARINERS 5, ANGELS 1 Oakland 31 20 .608 - San Francisco 32 19 .627 - a single for the first of Philadelphia’s 12 hits. Chris Young pitched shutout ball until Albert LA Dodgers 28 24 .538 4.5 CUBS 8, GIANTS 4 Kendrick (1-5) allowed six hits over 6 2-3 LA Angels 28 22 .560 2.5 Pujols homered in the seventh inning, Robinson Texas 26 25 .510 5 Colorado 27 24 .529 5 Jeff Samardzija struck out a season-high innings to earn his first win since last Aug. 6, a Cano had three hits and two RBIs to raise his Seattle 25 25 .500 5.5 San Diego 23 29 .442 9.5 10 for his first win since last August, snapping span of 16 winless starts. His best perform- average to .332, and the beat Houston 20 32 .385 11.5 Arizona 21 32 .396 12 a 16-start winless streak for Chicago. ance in a while came against the top offense Samardzija (1-4) allowed six hits and walked in the majors. The Rockies are first in runs none in seven-plus innings. He also had an (262) and batting average (.291). RBI double during a three-run fourth. Jhoulys Chacin (0-4) gave up four runs and The right-hander entered with six no-deci- seven hits in five-plus innings. He has lost five Al-Zayani: Maserati runs historic lap sions in his first 10 outings this year despite straight decisions dating to last season. leading the majors with a 1.46 ERA. Nate of Indianapolis 500 two-time victory Schierholtz hit his first home run of the sea- ORIOLES 7, BREWERS 6 son, and Darwin Barney drove in two runs to Jonathan Schoop hit two home runs and INDIANAPOLIS: Reminiscent of its renowned remarkable reliability; traits which we still attrib- “Witnessing the vintage Maserati 8CTF run help the Cubs come back from a 3-1 deficit. newly acquired Nick Hundley singled in the win at the very same track, the Maserati 8CTF ute to Maserati to date. with such rich automotive context of the Pablo Sandoval homered and drove in go-ahead run in the 10th inning to lift “Boyle Special” 8CTF (serial number 3032) relived The 8CTF was Maserati’s answer to the domi- Indianapolis 500 during its milestone anniver- three runs for the Giants, who had won four Baltimore to victory in the interleague con- its final victory lap around the Indianapolis nance of other European manufacturers on the sary is remarkable,” says Peter Grady, President in a row. Yusmeiro Petit (3-2) gave up four test. Down 6-4 with two outs in the ninth, the Motor Speedway exactly 75 years later. race circuit of the 30’s era. The fact that only a and CEO of Maserati North America, Inc. At the runs and six hits in five innings while filling in Orioles rallied off Milwaukee closer Francisco On the brink of Maserati’s 100th anniversary, few years later, a triumphant Maserati captured century mark, Maserati is in the strongest posi- for injured starter Matt Cain. Rodriguez. Schoop’s second homer cut it to the 8CTF was honored at the Indy 500 in com- back-to-back victories in ‘The World’s Most tion of its lifetime with two brand new sport- one. After pinch-hitter Delmon Young sin- memoration of its declared win in 1939. Behind Famous Race,’ remains at the heart of Maserati’s sedans, all-time high sales record and an excit- PIRATES 5, METS 3 gled, Nick Markakis hit a game-tying double. the wheel of the vintage automobile was Johnny legend today. ing industrial plan. Gaby Sanchez tagged the Mets again, hit- With two outs in the 10th, J.J. Hardy dou- Rutherford, three-time Indy 500 winner, much ting a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning bled off Rob Wooten (1-2) and scored on like the celebrated Wilbur Shaw that historically and a pinch-hit homer in the eighth that Hundley’s single. Darren O’Day (2-0) pitched a claimed his two-time victory for Maserati in 1939 sparked Pittsburgh’s come-from-behind vic- scoreless inning of relief to get the win. Zach and 1940 respectively. tory. The Mets announced after the game that Britton pitched out of trouble in the 10th, to The legendary Maserati 8CTF was immortal- they had fired hitting coach . record his third save in three opportunities.—AP ized by the Historical Vehicle Association (HVA) today as the first foreign manufactured automo- bile to be permanently archived into the United States Library of Congress, a new effort to authenticate historically significant automobiles. Recorded under the US Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Heritage Documentation, the documentation will remain part of the HVA National Historic Vehicle Register and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). “As we are celebrating our first 100 years, Maserati is proudly charting its course for the next century” states Harald Wester, Chief Executive Officer of Maserati S.p.A. “We are deeply appreciative of this act that demon- strates the long significant bond between Maserati and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, furthering the link between our brand and the United States.” The fateful 8CTF project was conceived by Ernesto Maserati at the beginning of 1938 with the strong support of the Italian industrialist Orsi KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait rewarded clients Abdullatif Ibrahim, family behind it. Characterized by its fixed head Mohammad Al-Qatan and Hussein Ali, who won tickets to attend a quarter finals and 8-cylinder engine, the “Boyle Special” match during the 2014 World Cup in Salvador, Brazil. allowed for powerful, faster acceleration and