ARAB TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2021 SPORTS 15 Collins clinches 2nd title at Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic Sinner outlasts McDonald in fi nal set to win in Washington WASHINGTON, Aug 9, (AP): It felt like Jannik Sinner had the upper MLB Results/Standings hand through almost his entire match against Mackie McDonald. Finally, after nearly three hours, WASHINGTON, Aug 9, (AP): Results Wheeler throws ‘two-hitter’ as Sinner could celebrate a victory and and standings from the MLB games a tournament championship. on Sunday. “When you’re up always with Cleveland 7 Detroit 5 the score and then you cannot close Tampa Bay 9 Baltimore 6 Seattle 2 NY Yankees 0 it out, it’s not easy,” Sinner said. “I Toronto 9 Boston 8 tried to somehow stay calm and work Kansas City 6 St Louis 5 fi rst-place Phillies blank Mets for my chances.” Minnesota 7 Houston 5 Oakland 6 Texas 3 Sinner became the fi rst teenager LA Dodgers 8 LA Angels 2 to win an ATP 500 event, beating Chic. W. Sox 9 Chicago Cubs 3 McDonald 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 to take the Philadelphia 3 NY Mets 0 Atlanta 5 Washington 4 Citi Open title. It was a struggle for Cincinnati 3 Pittsburgh 2 the fi fth-seeded Sinner. McDonald San Francisco 5 Milwaukee 4 fought off 10 set points before losing Colorado 13 Miami 8 the fi rst set, and Sinner failed to con- San Diego 2 Arizona 0 vert two match points while up 5-2 in American League East Division the third. W L Pct GB McDonald Tampa Bay 68 44 .607 _ rallied to make Boston 65 49 .570 4 New York 61 50 .550 6-1/2 it 5-all in the Toronto 60 50 .545 7 fi nal set, but Baltimore 38 72 .345 29 he ultimately Central Division W L Pct GB fell short. Sin- Chicago 66 46 .589 _ ner fi nally won Cleveland 54 55 .495 10-1/2 when McDon- Detroit 54 60 .474 13 Kansas City 48 62 .436 17 ald’s backhand Minnesota 48 64 .429 18 went into the West Division net, and he W L Pct GB Collins Houston 66 46 .589 _ celebrated by Oakland 64 48 .571 2 holding up his racquet with one hand Seattle 59 54 .522 7-1/2 and a No. 1 sign with the other. Los Angeles 56 56 .500 10 “I dug as deep as I could,” McDon- Texas 39 73 .348 27 National League ald said during the on-court ceremo- East Division ny afterward. “Obviously, Jannik is a W L Pct GB great young player and he pushed me Philadelphia 59 53 .527 _ Atlanta 57 55 .509 2 really hard today, and I think I left it New York 56 55 .505 2-1/2 all out there.” Washington 50 62 .446 9 Miami 47 65 .420 12 Central Division W L Pct GB TENNIS Milwaukee 66 46 .589 _ Cincinnati 61 51 .545 5 St Louis 55 56 .495 10-1/2 Sinner, who turns 20 on Aug. 16, Chicago 52 61 .460 14-1/2 won his third ATP title and second Pittsburgh 41 71 .366 25 this year. He was the fi rst Italian fi - West Division W L Pct GB nalist in this tournament’s 52-year San Francisco 71 41 .634 _ history, and he became the event’s Los Angeles 67 45 .598 4 third-youngest champion, behind San Diego 64 49 .566 7-1/2 Colorado 51 61 .455 20 18-year-old Andy Roddick in 2001 Arizona 35 78 .310 36-1/2 and 19-year-old Juan Martin del Potro in 2008. Teenagers had been 0-5 in ATP In San Jose, Calif., American Dan- Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Zack Wheeler throws during the fi rst inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, on Aug 8, in Philadelphia. (AP) 500 fi nals since the category was cre- ielle Collins won her second career ated in 2009. title in just a two-week span, hold- “When you see somebody is the ing off No. 4 seed Daria Kasatkina Dodgers rout Angels; M’s down Yanks to avoid 4-game sweep youngest or whatever, I don’t put of Russia 6-3, 6-7 (10), 6-1 after a much weight on that,” Sinner said. thrilling second-set tiebreaker in the “You know, there are a lot of play- Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. the season. Brad Boxberger (4-3) was Indians 7, Tigers 5 ers who have done much, much bet- Collins, seeded seventh, won her 9, (AP): Zack Wheeler the loser. In Cleveland, Miguel Cabrera got ter than me. It’s not about who is the fi rst championship at Palermo on July Reds 3, Pirates 2 a planned day off in pursuit of his youngest or whatever. 25 in Italy. The 27-year-old Collins pitched a two-hitter and In Cincinnati, Tyler Mahle struck 500th career home run, and Cleve- “I just want to improve, working dropped just two games in her semifi - struck out 11, Bryce Harp- out 10, Kyle Farmer had another key land, sparked by Bradley Zimmer’s hard.” nal rout of Croatian Ana Konjuh. er homered and the fi rst- hit and Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh for a tie-breaking home run in the seventh, McDonald, a 26-year-old Ameri- On Sunday, she reminded herself four-game sweep. beat Detroi. can playing in his fi rst ATP fi nal, place Philadelphia Phillies Nick Castellanos added a double Cabrera, who has 498 homers, didn’t she would have to be patient to out- and scored as playoff-chasing Cincin- play as part of Detroit manager A.J. made Sinner work. The second set last Kasatkina - and there would be fi nished off a three-game was the fi rst that Sinner dropped in nati continued its dominance of the Hinch’s plan to help his slugger get some mistakes. sweep for their eighth Pirates, improving to 9-1 against them through the season. The Tigers are off this tournament, and after the Ital- “I got off to a pretty good start in straight victory, 3-0 over this season. Dating to last season, the Monday and Cabrera will return to the ian went up a break early in the third, the fi rst set and played some solid the fading New York Mets. Reds have won 13 of 14 games from lineup Tuesday in Baltimore. McDonald battled back. tennis. I don’t think Daria was play- Pittsburgh. Derek Hill’s fi rst major league home Sinner broke McDonald’s serve ing her best in the fi rst set. In the sec- Jean Segura and J.T. Realmuto also homered to help the Phillies Cincinnati is a season-high 10 games run in the second inning helped Detroit again to end the match. ond set she really stepped her game over .500. build a 5-2 lead, but Cleveland rallied Although Sinner took the fi rst set, up at 5-3 when I was up,” Collins move 2 1/2 games ahead of the Mahle (9-3) allowed six hits without and went ahead on Zimmer’s two-run McDonald set the tone for the match said. “Today I executed my game Mets in the NL East. The streak is walk in seven innings. Mychal Givens homer off Erasmo Ramírez (1-1). Owen by fi ghting off all those set points. He plan well. It’s tough when you go Philadelphia’s longest since win- earned his second save of the season. Miller also homered for the Indians. withstood six of them with Sinner up against an opponent who runs down ning eight straight in July 2010. Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh hits a Bryse Wilson (2-5) was the loser. White Sox 9, Cubs 3 5-4, and the other four were at 6-5. so many balls, anticipates so well, be- The Mets got a pregame pep talk in single against the New York Yankees Rays 9, Orioles 6 In Chicago, Eloy Jiménez drove in McDonald had his serve broken three cause a lot of times you’re having to the clubhouse from owner Steve Co- during the eighth inning of a baseball In Baltimore, Brett Phillips capped fi ve runs with two homers and a dou- times in the set, and Sinner had his win the point six, seven, eight times.” hen before losing for the seventh time game, on Aug 8, in New York. (AP) his fi rst career two-homer game with ble and the Chicago White Sox beat the broken twice. The 24-year-old Kasatkina beat in eight tries. New York arrived at Cit- Dodger Stadium in the Freeway Series. a tiebreaking grand slam in the eighth crosstown Cubs for their fi rst sweep of In the doubles fi nal, Raven Klaasen No. 1 seed Elise Mertens of Belgium izens Bank Park this weekend leading Trea Turner, making his second start inning and Tampa Bay beat Baltimore a three-game series at Wrigley Field of South Africa and Ben McLachlan 6-3, 6-2 in Saturday’s semifi nals to the division. as the leadoff batter for the Dodgers for a three-game sweep. since May 2012. of Japan beat Neal Skupski of Britain reach her fourth championship match Following an emotional ceremony since being acquired with Max Scher- Jiménez and Andrew Vaughn hit to retire the jersey of Roy Halladay, and Michael Venus of New Zealand of the season but missed out on her zer in a trade with Washington, scored BASEBALL two-run shots after Tim Anderson led 7-6 (4), 6-4.