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HOUSTON: Derek Fisher #21 of the slides in to home plate scoring the game winning run during the tenth inning against Austin Barnes #15 of the Los Angeles Dodgers in game five of the 2017 at Minute Maid Park yesterday.—AFP Astros edge Dodgers in thriller

Second-highest score for a losing team in history

HOUSTON: singled home Derek Fisher with 113 editions being Toronto’s 15-14 game-four win at ing position but flew out to force extra after Astros relief pitcher Collin McHugh walked Seager the winning run in the 10th inning and the Houston Astros Philadelphia in 1993. The Astros led 12-9 in the ninth and innings. and Justin Turner then surrendered a three-run homer to reached the brink of their first World Series title Sunday by were one strike from victory before the Dodgers equalized. Bellinger, who was batting only 2-for-17 with 10 strikeouts outlasting the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-12 in a tension- Yasiel Puig smashed a two-run homer into the left-field SPRINGER MAKES UP FOR MISS in the World Series. packed thriller. stands off Houston relief Cody Bellinger tripled But the Astros equalized in the bottom of the fifth on The Astros seized a 3-2 lead in ’s pitcher in Enrique Hernandez in Altuve’s three-run homer over the left-field wall. best-of-seven final and can claim the crown by winning with one out to pull the the seventh after Astros game six on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The Dodgers, seeking Dodgers within 12-11. It centerfielder George DODGERS SQUANDER BIG LEAD a seventh championship and their first since 1988, must win was the 22nd homer of Springer missed a diving Dodgers star left-hander Clayton Kershaw, 3-0 in the to force a winner-take-all seventh game on Wednesday. In this World Series, break- Springer misses catch attempt to give the playoffs, allowed four runs in the fourth inning as the Astros an epic game that mirrored the momentum swings a dra- ing the total homers mark Dodgers an 8-7 edge. pulled level, the first time this year Los Angeles squandered ma-filled series has produced, the outcome was decided of 21 set in 2002, and the a diving Houston’s Bregman then a four-run edge. after five hours and 17 minutes by standouts for each club. game’s seventh combined singled and scored on Jose Gurriel, whose controversial racist gesture in game three Astros catcher Brian McCann started the decisive rally homer for both teams, catch attempt Altuve’s double, and Carlos aimed at Dodgers’ Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish did not by taking first base when struck in the right arm by a pitch matching a Series record Correa followed with a result in a World Series ban, smashed a three-run homer from Dodgers closing pitcher Kenley Jansen, who then from 1989. two-run homer that gave after a run-scoring Correa double. Gurriel was suspended walked to put the winning run on second Austin Barnes followed the Astros an 11-8 lead. for the first five games of the 2018 campaign for his game base. The Astros inserted pinch-runner Fisher and Bregman with a double and took The Dodgers answered in three actions. Astros left-hander , game followed with a single to left field that sent Fisher racing third on Joc Pederson’s the eighth, Pederson blast- one’s losing pitcher, surrendered four runs off five hits and across the plate ahead of a desperate throw that was too ground out to shortstop. Dodgers leadoff batter Chris ing a double off the left-field wall and scoring on Corey an error over 3 2/3 innings in the shortest playoff outing by late to prevent the deciding run and an emotional celebra- Taylor was down to his last strike before ripping a single Seager’s double. But Brian McCann smacked a solo homer a Houston starter. The Dodgers jumped ahead 4-0 as tion by the Astros and their fans. up the middle to score Barnes and level the game. to boost the Astros’ edge to 12-9, setting up the ninth- Logan Forsythe hit a two-run single, Hernandez scored It was the second-highest score for a losing team in Houston’s smacked a two-out, two-run double inning drama. from third on an errant throw by Gurriel and Forsythe World Series history, the only similar slugfest in the event’s in the Astros’ half of the ninth to put a winning run in scor- The Dodgers seized a 7-4 advantage in the fifth inning scored on a Barnes single. — AFP

accommodate families from early 2018,” the expressing surprise over the accelerating pace General Sports Authority said on Twitter. of reforms. In a rare public appearance last Restaurants, cafes and video screens would be week Prince Mohammed pledged a “moderate” Saudi women to set up inside the venues, the authority added. Saudi Arabia, long seen as an exporter of a Last month hundreds of women were allowed brand of puritanical Islam espoused by jihadists be allowed into to enter a sports stadium in Riyadh, used mostly worldwide. MBS, as he is well known, promised for football matches, in a one-off event to cele- his kingdom will return to “what we were brate Saudi Arabia’s national day. Sunday’s before-a country of moderate Islam that is tol- sports stadiums announcement implies that women in Saudi erant of all religions and to the world”. Arabia will be allowed for the first time to attend His comment, while unveiling plans for a RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will allow women into sporting events inside stadiums alongside men. $500-billion development zone, chimes with his sports stadiums for the first time from next year, Under the country’s guardianship system, a public image of a bold liberal reformer in a con- authorities said Sunday, in a landmark move male family member-normally the father, hus- servative country where more than half the pop- opening up three previously male-only venues band or brother-must grant permission for a ulation is under 25. But his vision for a new Saudi to families. The ultra-conservative kingdom, woman’s study, travel and other activities. Arabia is fraught with risks and could trigger a which has some of the world’s tightest restric- But the kingdom appears to be relaxing some backlash from conservatives, analysts warn. tions on women, has long barred women from norms as part of its sweeping “Vision 2030” “Despite the bold statements, it is important to sports arenas by strict rules on segregation of plan for economic and social reforms as it pre- remember that the dominance of conservative the sexes in public. pares for a post-oil era. Last month a royal thought since the late 1970’s cannot be quickly The announcement is in line with powerful decree said women would be allowed to drive. reversed,” said analysis firm Eurasia Group. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambi- The kingdom is also expected to lift a public “Ultraconservative and radical elements con- tious reforms shaking up the kingdom, including ban on cinemas and has encouraged mixed- tinue to pose risks.” The government appears to the historic decision to allow women to drive gender celebrations-something unseen before. have clipped the wings of the once-feared reli- from next June. “First women driving, now stadiums. What’s gious police-long accused of harassing the pub- RIYADH: In this Sept 23, 2017 file photo released by Saudi Press “Starting the preparation of three stadiums in next? Night clubs?” said one Saudi Twitter user, lic with rigid Islamic mores-who have all but Agency, SPA, Saudi men and women attend national day cere- Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam to be ready to echoing a deluge of social media comments disappeared from big cities.—AFP monies at the King Fahd stadium in Riyadh. — AP