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Monday 15 august 2022

Drew Rasmussen pitches Rays past Orioles 4-1

By The Associated Press er (11-6) allowed six runs in
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) six innings.
— Drew Rasmussen took a GUARDIANS 7, BLUE JAYS 2
perfect game into the ninth TORONTO (AP) — Cleve-
inning, and the Tampa Bay land ace Shane Bieber
Rays expanded their lead pitched seven innings to
over Baltimore for the final win his fourth straight start,
AL wild card to 1 1/2 games matching the longest win-
with a 4-1 victory over the ning streak of his career.
Orioles on Sunday. Amed Rosario homered
Rasmussen (7-4) allowed his and scored three times as
first baserunner when Jorge the AL Central leaders won
Mateo doubled down the for the seventh time in eight
left-field line on the first games. Austin Hedges had
pitch of the ninth. Mateo two hits and two RBIs.
later scored on a Rasmus- Bieber (8-6) allowed two
sen wild pitch. runs and eight hits, equal-
Jason Adam got two outs ing a four-game winning
for his sixth save, finishing a streak from June 17 to July
one-hitter. 3, 2018.
There hasn’t been a per- Blue Jays right-hander Kev-
fect game in the majors in Gausman (8-9) allowed
since Seattle’s Felix Hernan- five runs and nine hits in 4
dez accomplished the feat Tampa Bay Rays starter Drew Rasmussen, right, three outs from a perfect baseball game, greets 2/3 innings.
at home against the Rays teammates in the dugout after he left during the ninth inning against the Baltimore Orioles, Sunday, BRAVES 3, MARLINS 1
Aug. 14, 2022, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
on Aug. 15, 2012. Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Rookie Mi-
Randy Arozarena hit a chael Harris II hit a tying
three-run homer off Jordan homer in the ninth and Wil-
Lyles (9-9) with two out in ered among his three hits against Taylor Rogers (1-6) Daniel Vogelbach hom- liam Contreras had a go-
the third. Arozarena has 15 and drove in two runs. in the eighth. ered and Mark Canha had ahead single, helping At-
homers and 38 RBIs in 37 Tyler Anderson (12-2) gave Hunter Renfroe and Rowdy two hits for New York, which lanta finish a sweep of the
games against Baltimore. up three runs in six innings. Tellez homered for Milwau- moved 35 games over .500 four-game series.
ROYALS 4, DODGERS 0 CARDINALS 6, BREWERS 3 kee, which beat St. Louis for the first time since the The Braves won their sixth
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — ST. LOUIS (AP) — Albert Pu- 3-2 in 10 innings on Satur- end of the 1988 season. straight after losing four of
Brady Singer pitched six jols homered twice and day night. The Mets posted their sec- five against the NL East-
dominant innings, and the Miles Mikolas tossed eight Pujols hit a solo shot in the ond straight shutout and leading Mets.
Royals ended the Dodgers’ effective innings, leading second and a three-run kept 5 1/2 games ahead Harris’ leadoff shot in the
12-game winning streak. the Cardinals to the win. drive in the eighth to give of Atlanta atop the NL East. ninth tied it at 1. He drove
A day after hitting six home Dylan Carlson and Tyler him 689 career homers. The Mets and Braves open the first pitch from Tanner
runs in a romp, the Dodgers O’Neill also connected for Mikolas (9-9) permitted two a four-game series in Atlan- Scott (4-5) over the wall in
were held to just two hits. St. Louis, which pushed its runs and four hits. ta beginning Monday. left center for his 12th hom-
Singer (6-4) pitched one-hit NL Central lead over sec- METS 6, PHILLIES 0 The Phillies have dropped er.
ball against the team with ond-place Milwaukee to 1 NEW YORK (AP) — Chris three of four after winning Contreras drove in Vaughn
the best record in the ma- 1/2 games. Bassitt pitched five innings seven straight. Grissom with a hard
jors. Scott Barlow got four Carlson broke a 2-all tie of four-hit ball, and the Bassitt (10-7) struck out five grounder later in the inning,
outs for his 19th save. with his eighth homer of Mets beat the Phillies for and walked two. and Matt Olson scored on
Vinnie Pasquantino hom- the season, a drive to left their 17th win in 20 games. Philadelphia’s Zack Wheel- a wild pitch by Scott.q

Aces wrap up No. 1 playoff seed with

109-100 win over Storm

Sunday. scored 11 points. Gray cago and Seattle in con-
Kelsey Plum, who had 23 was 10-for-15 from the field secutive games to clinch
points for the Aces, scored and 11-for-11 from the free the top playoff spot, hav-
seven points in the final throw line where the Aces ing defeated the defend-
minute. Her 3-pointer with made 20 of 24 as a team. ing champion Sky 89-78 on
58 seconds left put Las Ve- Seattle was 6-for-7 from the Thursday.
gas up by six and she add- line. Seattle was already as-
ed two more field goals as Breanna Stewart had 21 sured of the No. 4 seed and
the Aces (26-10) clinched points and 15 rebounds for will open the playoffs at
the top seed in the playoffs. the Storm and Gabby Wil- home against No. 5 Wash-
Seattle’s Jewell Loyd liams added 11 points. ington on Thursday.
Las Vegas Aces guard Sydney Colson, left, autographs a stuffed scored a career-high 38 Briann January’s 3-pointer The Aces’ opening-round
animal for Calvin Heuer, center, as his mother Megan Heuer,
upper right, looks on before a WNBA basketball game against points that included 8 of with about two minutes left opponent will be either
the Seattle Storm, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, in Las Vegas. 14 from 3-point distance. in the third quarter put the New York or Phoenix, pend-
Associated Press The Storm (22-14) made 18 Storm up by 10 before Las ing the outcome of the
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chelsea up the best regular-season 3-pointers. Vegas closed the period Mercury’s game against
Gray had 33 points, seven record in the WNBA, de- A’Ja Wilson had 25 points with a 12-0 to lead 78-76 Chicago later on Sunday.q
rebounds and nine assists feating Seattle 109-100 in and 10 rebounds for the heading to the fourth.
and Las Vegas wrapped a regular-season finale on Aces and Riquna Williams Las Vegas defeated Chi-