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SPORTS Wednesday 7 June 2017
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Astros beat Royals for 11th straight win

The Associated Press nedy (0-6) gave up four
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) runs and six hits over five in-
— Yuli Gurriel hit a three- nings. Kennedy, in the sec-
run homer, Brian McCann ond season of a five-year,
had a two-run shot and the $70 million contract, is win-
Houston Astros beat the less in 14 starts since a Sept.
Kansas City Royals 7-3 in 11 victory.
Major League baseball on Whit Merrifield went 0 for 5
Monday night for their 11th to snap his 19-game hitting
consecutive win. streak, longest in the majors
It’s the longest winning this season.
streak in the majors this ATHLETICS 5, BLUE JAYS 3
season and one shy of the OAKLAND, California (AP)
Astros’ record. They won 12 — Ryon Healy homered
straight in 1999 and 2004. twice to drive in a ca-
Houston, with the best re-
cord in the majors at 42- reer-high five runs, single-
16, has also won 11 road handedly backing Sean
games in a row — a fran- Manaea’s fourth straight
chise record. winning start as Oakland
Gurriel homered in the ninth defeated Toronto.
inning. He has gone deep Healy hit a three-run homer
in back-to-back games in the second inning and a Houston Astros left fielder Norichika Aoki holds up the ball after fielding a single by Kansas City
and has 10 RBIs during a six- two-run drive in the fourth Royals’ Eric Hosmer during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Monday, June 5, 2017, in Kansas
game hitting streak. for his second career multi- City, Mo.
Astros starter Mike Fiers (3-2) homer game — both in the Associated Press
was charged with two runs past three days. hits. He extended the lon- Jays couldn’t do enough starts against the A’s. He
in five-plus innings. He is 6-0 He has 13 home runs this gest winning streak of his to support J.A. Happ (0- was tagged for five runs in
in his past 10 road starts season. career. 4). Making his second start 5 1/3 innings.
dating to Aug. 20. Manaea (5-3) struck out Justin Smoak hit his 15th since coming off the dis- Santiago Casilla finished
Jorge Bonifacio homered seven over six innings, al- home run in the eighth off abled list, the left-hander for his ninth save in 11
for the Royals, but Ian Ken- lowing two runs and four Liam Hendriks, but the Blue lost for the first time in eight chances.q

Deal for Beckham’s Miami soccer stadium land gets approval

TIM REYNOLDS for the English soccer icon ham group’s plan to build
AP Sports Writer and his plans for Miami. MLS a stadium with no on-site
MIAMI (AP) — David Beck- has not officially awarded parking, with plans instead
ham is a big step closer Miami an expansion fran- to rely on shuttles, walking
to bringing Major League chise, because of the lack and public transportation.
Soccer back to Miami. of a land and stadium deal. “As far as sports deals go
More than four years after A contract he signed in with the county, this one
he started scouting po- 2007 with the Los Angeles isn’t so bad,” Commissioner
tential homes for a team, Galaxy gave Beckham the Joe Martinez said.
Beckham will soon have right to start an expansion Beckham is not the only
the piece of land he needs. franchise for $25 million, huge global soccer name
Miami-Dade County Com- and in 2013 he picked Mi- pursuing MLS expansion
missioners approved a deal ami as where he would these days; Landon Dono-
Tuesday to sell three acres want to put a team. The van has joined the owner-
of county land to Beck- plan has changed many
ham’s group, the last part times along the way, most In this Feb. 5, 2014, file photo, former English soccer star Da- ship group that is hoping to
of what is a nine-acre plot notably because he was vid Beckham, third from left, poses with MLS Commissioner Don bring a team to San Diego.
on which a 25,000-seat sta- unable to get waterfront Garber, left, Miami-Dade County mayor Carlos Gimenez, right, It has not been easy going
dium is planned. land that his group first cov- and soccer fans with the Southern Legion at a news conference for either.
Beckham’s group will pay eted for a stadium site. where he announced he will exercise his option to purchase a The victory for Beckham
Major League Soccer expansion team, in Miami.
just over $9 million for the “I will tell you this is prob- Associated Press came just one day after
last piece of land. It has al- ably the best site we have bers of the community urg- Audrey Edmonson, who San Diego’s City Council
ready paid $19 million for found, for many respects,” ing commissioners to vote represents the neighbor- decided not to finance
the other six acres needed. Beckham group attorney no, mostly citing noise and hood where the stadium is a special election that
Beckham’s group says the Neisen Kasdin said, before traffic concerns. A few sup- planned. would have brought plans
planned stadium would be listing reasons that include porters spoke as well, and The deal that allowed the of building a new soccer
privately funded, and the the site’s proximity to sev- after three hours of discus- Miami Marlins to get a new complex there to a vote. In
stadium would also be sub- eral modes of public trans- sion commissioners ap- taxpayer-built ballpark on a pair of tweets, Donovan
ject to county property tax. portation and the Miami proved the deal 9-4. the former Orange Bowl site wrote that “we have to
It’s a major development River. “This land has been an eye- is still the source of major respect the process” and
in what has been at times The vote in Miami on Beck- sore for years. ... Something contention for the city and that “just because we’re
an arduously slow — and ham’s land deal was pre- needs to be done with it, the county. There’s also down at halftime doesn’t
often frustrating — process ceded by several mem- now,” said Commissioner skepticism about the Beck- mean we stop trying.”q