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Raleigh hits go-ahead homer, Hancock shines in MLB debut as

Mariners beat Padres 6-1

By Shane Lantz rifice fly to right field against
Associated Press Yu Darvish, who allowed
SEATTLE (AP) — Cal Raleigh one unearned run on six hits
put Seattle ahead with a over six innings.
two-run home run in the Crawford crumpled to the
bottom of the eighth in- infield dirt after colliding
ning, Emerson Hancock al- with third baseman Eu-
lowed just two hits in his ma- genio Suarez in the fourth
jor league debut, and the inning, and stayed down
Mariners beat the San Di- for awhile before being
ego Padres 6-1 on Wednes- helped to his feet.
day night for their seventh He stayed in the game, but
straight win. was replaced by pinch-
Raleigh’s 450-foot homer hitter Dylan Moore in the
came against Padres re- eighth inning. Afterward,
liever Steven Wilson (1-1), Servais said that Crawford
and started a five-run in- is being evaluated for a
ning for the Mariners. The concussion, but the Mari-
homer looked nearly iden- ners won’t know the results
tical to the walk-off blast until Thursday.
Raleigh hit last Sept. 30 “He just felt it wasn’t right,”
against Oakland A’s pitch- Servais said. “Talking to our
er Domingo Acevedo, trainers an inning or two lat-
which broke Seattle’s 21- Seattle Mariners’ Ty France hits an RBI double against the San Diego Padres during the eighth er, the best thing was to get
year playoff drought. inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Seattle. him out of the game. We’ll
“It was a no-doubter,” Mar- (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) check him out tonight. To-
iners manager Scott Servais double, and later scored grounder by Juan Soto. Kim of just sticking to what we morrow, we’ll see how he
said. “He hits it, the finish on a bloop single by Cade also singled in the third to talked about, and slow- feels and see where it goes
is up high, he looks at the Marlowe. extend his career-best hit- ing me down, and mak- from there.”
dugout. Like I said, we’ve Hancock allowed just one ting streak to 15 games. ing pitches that we had Moore drove in a run in the
seen that before. He’s go- run in five innings, combin- “The first inning was kind of to. Once we got to prob- eighth for Seattle with a sin-
ing really good right now, ing with five relievers on a tough to settle in, for sure,” ably about the third inning, gle against Tom Cosgrove.
we’re seeing him hit the four-hitter. Hancock said. “Just trying that’s when it just felt like Matt Brash (8-3) pitched a
long ball, and the quality of Ha-Seong Kim walked to to slow things down, trying pitching again.” scoreless eighth inning to
at-bat is really good.” lead off the game against to find a rhythm, trying to Seattle tied it 1-1 in the third pick up the win, and Isaiah
Ty France drove in another Hancock, stole second and get things going, and (Ra- inning, when J.P. Crawford Campbell got the last three
run in the inning with an RBI third, and scored on a soft leigh) did such a good job drove in Marlowe on a sac- outs.q

Neymar heading toward exit from Paris Saint-Germain, AP source

says

By Graham Dunbar celona, which he left for a also dealing with uncertain- dress the media Friday the final season of his con-
Associated Press world-record fee of 222 mil- ty over Kylian Mbappé’s fu- ahead of the team’s sea- tract and join Real Madrid
GENEVA (AP) — Neymar lion euros ($244 million) six ture at his hometown club. son opener against Lorient as a free agent next year.
is headed for an exit from years ago. New PSG coach Luis En- on Saturday. PSG has said it cannot let
Paris Saint-Germain to fol- The Qatar-owned club is rique is expected to ad- Luis Enrique coached Ney- Mbappé leave for free and
low his former teammate mar for some of the Brazil- wants to sell him now if he
Lionel Messi away from the ian’s peak years at Barce- will not extend his contract.
French champion in its tur- lona. Though PSG accepted a
bulent summer. A storied forward line of world-record bid of 300
A person familiar with the Messi, Neymar and Luis million euros ($330 million)
situation told The Associ- Suárez fired Barcelona to for Mbappé from Al Hilal,
ated Press talks are moving a treble-winning season the France star declined
toward Neymar leaving the of Champions League, La to meet the Saudi Arabian
club this month. The person Liga and Spanish Cup in club’s officials in Paris.
spoke Thursday on condi- 2014-15. The Saudi Pro League is also
tion of anonymity to discuss Eight years later, it is unclear a possible destination for
confidential negotiations. Luis Enrique sees Neymar Neymar with state-backed
The 31-year-old Brazil inter- as key to his plans in Paris clubs easily able to afford
national was widely report- despite Messi’s summer de- the transfer fee and salary
ed to have told PSG this parture to Inter Miami and he would command.
week he wants to leave, doubts about Mbappé. Barcelona used close to
just days before the team PSG’s Neymar celebrates after scoring the first goal during Mbappé has been ban- half of the sum it received
a friendly soccer match against Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in
begins its French title de- Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. ished from first-team train- for Neymar in 2017 to buy
fense. His expected pref- (Yoon Dong-jin/Yonhap via AP) ing in an open dispute with Ousmane Dembélé from
erence is a return to Bar- PSG over his wish to play out Borussia Dortmund.q