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Tuesday 24 april 2018
Red Sox lose consecutive games for 1st time this year

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — innings. The Blue Jays (13-8) seven-plus innings.
Khris Davis hit a tiebreaking, lost consecutive games for Manny Machado hit two
three-run homer off David the first time since opening solo homers for Baltimore,
Price with two outs in the the season with two home his third multihomer game
eighth inning and the Oak- losses to the Yankees. this season. Baltimore (6-16)
land Athletics beat Boston GIANTS 4, ANGELS 2 has lost ninth of 10.
4-1 on Sunday, to deal the ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Andrew Cashner (1-3)
Red Sox consecutive losses Brandon Belt hung in for a gave up four runs and eight
for the first time under new 21-pitch, 12-minute, 45-sec- hits in six innings.
manager Alex Cora. ond at-bat before flying ROYALS 8, TIGERS 5
Boston had won its first six out and later homered. DETROIT (AP) — Mike
series before losing two Belt fouled off 11 straight Moustakas hit a tiebreak-
of three at the Coliseum, pitches and 16 in all from ing, three-run homer in the
where they were no-hit Sat- rookie right-hander Jaime seventh off Buck Farmer
urday by Sean Manaea. Barria (1-1) in the first in- after Drew VerHagen (0-
They still have the best re- ning in the majors’ longest 1) walked two batters. The
cord in the majors at 17-4. at-bat since records be- Royals won for only the sec-
Davis drove in all four runs gan in 1988. Belt singled ond time in 12 games, and
for the A’s, and Blake Trein- and scored in the third and Moustakas extended his
en (1-1) retired five batters launched a leadoff homer hitting streak to 14.
to win. Price (2-2) allowed against Blake Parker in the Abraham Almonte’s sixth-
four runs and nine hits in 7 fifth. Belt saw 38 pitches in inning grand slam gave the
2/3 innings. his first three at-bats, then Royals a 5-2 lead, but De-
YANKEES 5, BLUE JAYS 1 hit the first pitch his last two troit tied it with three runs in
Gleyber Torres went 0 for times up. the bottom half.
4 with a strikeout, double- Johnny Cueto (2-0) al- Kevin McCarthy (1-0) be-
play grounder, popup and lowed two hits in six shutout came the first Kansas City
flyout in his big league de- innings. Hunter Strickland reliever to win this season.
but, and the youthful Yan- got his third save when Ian Kelvin Herrera pitched a
kees beat the Toronto Blue Kinsler flied out with runners perfect ninth for his fourth
Jays 5-1 on Sunday when Boston Red Sox pitcher David Price (24) walks back to the on the corners. save.
New York used a starting mound as he waits for Oakland Athletics’ Khris Davis to run the Shohei Ohtani batted RAYS 8, TWINS 6
lineup that didn’t include bases after hitting a three run home run in the eighth inning of a cleanup for the first time ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) —
a player 30 or older for the baseball game Sunday, April 22, 2018, in Oakland, Calif. and went 1 for 4. Carlos Gomez, in a 2-for-38
first time since Sept. 29, Associated Press INDIANS 7, ORIOLES 3 slide, hit a two-run homer
1989. hitter. with a career-high four hits, BALTIMORE (AP) — Jose off Addison Reed (0-1) in
Luis Severino (4-1) allowed Didi Gregorius homered, including an RBI double, Ramirez homered twice the ninth.
three hits and struck out six No. 9 batter Austin Romine to help the Yankees take and drove in three runs, Daniel Robertson had a ca-
in seven innings, and Da- laced a two-run double three of four in the series. and Corey Kluber (3-1) won reer-high four hits for Tam-
vid Robertson and Aroldis and rookie Miguel Andujar Jaime Garcia (2-1) gave up his third straight start, allow- pa Bay, which has gone 7-5
Chapman finished the four- raised his average to .308 four runs and six hits in 5 1/3 ing three runs and six hits in after a 1-8 start.q

Jack Johnson “Johnson’s imprisonment John L. Sullivan, in the after- uncle. “They were led to

forced him into the shad- math of what was called believe that he did some-
Continued from Page 17 former Senate Majority ows of bigotry and preju- “the fight of the century.” thing wrong. They were so
Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., dice, and continues to But Johnson also refused to ashamed after being so
Most famously, his story was have been pushing John- stand as a stain on our na- adhere to societal norms, proud of him.”
fictionalized for the play son’s case for years. tional honor,” McCain said living lavishly and brazenly Haywood said she didn’t
“The Great White Hope,” The tweet came a week af- earlier this month. and dating outside of his find out she was related to
starring James Earl Jones, ter Trump pardoned I. Lewis In Jim Crow America, John- race in a time when whites Johnson until she was 12.
which won the Pulitzer Prize “Scooter” Libby, who had son was one of the most often killed African-Amer- She remembers learning
for drama and the Tony been a top aide to Vice despised African-Ameri- icans without fear of legal about Johnson when she
Award for best play in 1969. President Dick Cheney, ar- can of his generation, hu- repercussions. was in sixth grade during
A film version with Jones guing that Libby had been miliating white fighters and After seven years as a fu- Black History Month, and
was released in 1970. More “treated unfairly” by a spe- flaunting his affection for gitive following his convic- only learned later that he
recently, the documentary cial counsel. white women. tion, Johnson eventually was kin. Posthumous par-
“Unforgivable Blackness: Stallone, who starred in the The son of former slaves, returned to the U.S. and dons are rare, but not un-
The Rise and Fall of Jack 1976 boxing film “Rocky” he defeated Tommy Burns turned himself in. He served precedented. President Bill
Johnson,” directed by Ken and several sequels, is a for the heavyweight title in about a year in federal Clinton pardoned Henry
Burns, was aired on PBS in supporter of the president 1908 at a time when blacks prison and was released O. Flipper, the first African-
2004. Johnson was convict- and attended Trump’s and whites rarely entered in 1921. He died in 1946 in American officer to lead
ed in 1913 for violating the New Years’ Eve party at the same ring. He then an auto crash. The stain the Buffalo Soldiers of the
Mann Act, which made it Mar-a-Lago in 2016. mowed down a series of on Johnson’s reputation 10th Cavalry Regiment dur-
illegal to transport women McCain previously told The “great white hopes,” cul- forced some family mem- ing the Civil War; he was
across state lines for “im- Associated Press that John- minating in 1910 with the bers to live in shame of his framed for embezzlement.
moral” purposes. son “was a boxing legend undefeated former cham- legacy. The family “didn’t Bush pardoned Charles
The boxer died in 1946. and pioneer whose career pion, James J. Jeffries. talk about it because they Winters in 2008, an Ameri-
His great-great niece has and reputation were ru- “He is one of the craftiest, were ashamed of him, can volunteer in the Arab-
pressed Trump for a post- ined by a racially charged cunningest boxers that that he went to prison,” Israeli War convicted of
humous pardon, and Sen. conviction more than a ever stepped into the ring,” Linda E. Haywood, 61, has violating the U.S. Neutrality
John McCain, R-Ariz., and century ago.” said the legendary boxer said of her great-great Acts in 1949. q