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sports Diamars 6 september 2022

Judge connects again, hits MLB-best 54th Tiafoe ends Nadal's

HR, Yanks top Twins 22-match Slam streak in

NEW YORK (AP) — US Open 4th Rd
Aaron Judge kept up his
bruising pace and hit his
major league-leading 54th
home run, connecting for
the third straight day and
sending the New York
Yankees over the Minne-
sota Twins 5-2 on Monday.

Judge has homered in five of
his last seven games for the
AL East leaders. He snapped
a 2-2 tie in the sixth inning
when he hit a 3-1 slider from
Trevor Megill (3-2) into the
second deck in left. field bleachers off Jameson ror in the sixth and was re-
The All-Star slugger reached Taillon in the fifth that tied placed by Wandy Peralta after
54 homers in his 131st game. it at 2. Sánchez tied the game walking two in the seventh.
He is on pace to hit 65 hom- by hitting a 1-0 sinker for his
ers, four more than Roger 14th homer since the Yan- Peralta quickly finished the
Maris' AL record in 1961. kees traded him along with seventh by getting Jose Mi-
Judge reached 54 homers Gio Urshela to Minnesota randa to hit into a double
in New York's 135th game; for Donaldson, Isiah Kiner- play, with Gonzalez making a
Maris hit his 54th when he Falefa and Ben Rortvedt on nice scoop at first of Donald-
connected off Washington's March 13. son's throw, and then fanned
Tom Cheney in New York's After connecting, Sánchez two in the eighth. NEW YORK (AP) — Frances Tiafoe ended Rafael
139th game on Sept. 6, 1961. watched the ball soar into the Nadal's 22-match winning streak at Grand Slam
stands, dropped his bat and Clay Holmes pitched a 1-2-3 tournaments by beating the 22-time major champi-
Judge, who also doubled, has ran around the bases as some ninth for his 19th save. on 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the U.S. Open's fourth round
scored five of New York's last of his teammates pounded on on Monday.
eight runs. He hit solo hom- the dugout rail. Judge scored when he dou-
ers in the final two games at bled and scored on Donald- Tiafoe is a 24-year-old from Maryland who is seeded
Tampa Bay, scored on a sac- Marwin Gonzalez also hom- son's single off the base of the 22nd at Flushing Meadows and reached the second ma-
rifice fly by rookie Oswal- ered for the Yankees, ending left field wall. Judge scored jor quarterfinal of his career.
do Cabrera on Sunday and a 0-for-29 skid with his first just before Donaldson was
scored on a single by Josh hit since July 6. Kiner-Falefa tagged out at second after ap- He is the youngest American man to get that far at the
Donaldson in the first on added his second homer this pearing to think he had hom- U.S. Open since Andy Roddick in 2006, but this was not
Monday. year in the seventh. ered. a case of a one-sided crowd backing one of its own. Nadal
Greg Weissert (2-0) pitched is about as popular as it gets in tennis and heard plenty
Judge's latest drive came after 1 1/3 innings for his second New York went up 2-0 when of support in Arthur Ashe Stadium as the volume raised
Gary Sánchez hit a 473-foot, career win. The Long Island Gonzalez hit a slider into the after the retractable roof was shut in the fourth set.
two-run homer into the left native worked around an er- right field seats in the third.
Here's what happened: Tiafoe served better than No. 2
Swiatek tops Niemeier for 1st NY quarter seed Nadal. More surprisingly, he returned better, too.
And he kept his cool, remained in the moment and never
let the stakes or the opponent get to him. Nadal had won

NEW YORK (AP) — No. 1 seed Iga Swi- both of their previous matches, and every set they played,
atek survived a slow start to knock off too.
unseeded Jule Niemeier 2-6, 6-4, 6-0 to
reach the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open This surprise came a day after one of Tiafoe's pals, Nick
for the first time. Kyrgios, eliminated No. 1 seed and defending champion
Daniil Medvedev.
Swiatek, a two-time French Open champion,
will play Jessica Pegula next. Pegula elimi- There were signs of trouble for Nadal earlier in the tour-
nated two-time Wimbledon champion Pe- nament. He lost the first set of his first-round match. Did
tra Kvitova 6-3, 6-2 to get to her third major the same in the second round, when he also accidentally
quarterfinal of 2022. cut the bridge of his nose and made himself dizzy when
the edge of his racket frame bounced off the court and
Swiatek came into the U.S. Open just 4-4 caught him in the face on a backhand follow-through.
in her last eight matches after winning 37
straight, but she hadn't lost a set at Flushing In the fourth round Monday, the next-to-last break came
Meadows until Monday. Niemeier got the for a 4-3 edge in the fourth set, when Nadal put a back-
early jump — as she exhorted the crowd to hand into the net, and Tiafoe skipped backward toward
get louder — and gamely tried for another the sideline for the ensuing changeover, his fist raised.
Grand Slam upset. She knocked out No. 2 Fifteen minutes later, Tiafoe broke again, and it was over.
seed Anett Kontaveit in Wimbledon.
When one last backhand by Nadal found the net, Tiafoe
Swiatek steadied herself in the second set and put his hands on his head. When he sat in his sideline
hit 10 winners, and she turned the third set chair, he buried his face in a towel.
into a rout. Swiatek became the first Polish
woman to reach the quarterfinals at the U.S. This represents the latest significant step forward for Tia-
Open and is trying to become the first top- foe, whose only previous trip to a Grand Slam quarterfi-
seeded woman to win it since Serena Wil- nal came at the 2019 Autralian Open — and ended with
liams in 2014. a loss to Nadal.