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sports Dialuna 12 aPRil 2021

Last-place Schalke beats Augsburg for 2nd win of season

(AP) — Schalke won wicz for his first league goal and only brought them on in
a Bundesliga game for since January 2020. the 74th and 78th minutes,
only the second time in respectively. Schalke's only
15 months as Suat Serdar Schalke goalkeeper Ralf other win in the Bundesliga
scored the only goal in a Fährmann kept his team in this season was an unlikely
1-0 win over Augsburg on the game with key saves, 4-0 victory over Hoffenheim
Sunday to delay the last- blocking Ruben Vargas' at- under then-coach Christian
place club's seemingly in- tempt after a defensive er- Gross in January. Augsburg
evitable relegation. ror gave Augsburg's Swiss is 11th.
winger the ball, and punch-
A goalkeeping blunder hand- ing away an audacious bicycle Schalke must still win at least
ed Schalke the lead when kick from Marco Richter. four of its last six games to
Augsburg's Rafal Gikiewicz have any chance of avoiding
dropped a none-too-threat- It marked the first win for relegation. It has been a fix-
ening cross from Klaas-Jan Schalke under coach Dimi- ture in the top tier of German
Huntelaar at Serdar's feet. trios Grammozis, who start- soccer since 1991 and was in
The midfielder marked his ed with on-loan Arsenal play- the Champions League as re-
24th birthday by knocking ers Sead Kolasinac and Shko- cently as 2018-19. The club is life in the second tier while losses.
the ball past the prone Gikie- dran Mustafi on the bench already focusing on plans for trying to stem heavy financial

Tigers put Miguel Cabrera on IL with biceps strain

(AP) — Miguel Cabrera's base in Saturday's 11-3 loss to pretty early,” me over the edge last night to about the injury.
sweet, powerful swing the Indians. He went 0 for 3 have him not battle through
hasn't been the same this at the plate, and manager A.J. Hinch said. soreness. He wasn’t in a tre- “You never want to see any-
season. Hinch said Cabrera felt his The two-time AL MVP will mendous amount of pain, body injured,” Francona said.
biceps “grab” during an at- undergo further evaluation but we’ve got to find some “Hopefully it’s not some-
Now it's clear why. bat in the seventh inning. and tests Sunday in Cleve- answers to why it was hin- thing that keeps him out for
Cabrera has been dealing land. The Tigers will consult dering his confidence and his a while. Because I looked up
with soreness in his left bi- Hinch could tell Cabrera was with their doctors in Detroit. comfort.” at the board at some of those
ceps, and the Detroit Tigers altering his swing — he isn't At this point, Hinch said the names he’s tracking down,
decided to put the All-Star releasing one hand on his plan is for Cabrera to remain "I’m concerned when you put they’re pretty good names.
slugger on the 10-day dis- follow-through — and felt it with the team on the road a guy on the injured list like When you start putting Babe
abled list Sunday to undergo was time to shut him down and travel to Houston. this, but I don’t know how to Ruth and names like that,
testing and find out exactly before the injury worsened. diagnose it other than to give that’s pretty impressive.”
what's wrong with one of A four-time batting champi- him some rest opportunities
baseball's best hitters. “I told him after the game I on, the 37-year-old Cabrera and then have our doctors To replace Cabrera, the Ti-
don’t want him to keep fight- is off to a slow start in 2021. tell me what they think after gers selected the contract of
Cabrera, who is closing in ing it and get it checked out He is batting just .125 (3 for a further and deeper evalua- infielder Renato Nunez.
on 500 career home runs and and put him on the injured 24) with one homer and three tion.”
other milestones, played first list to make sure we nip this RBIs in seven games. Cabrera's injury is the sec-
Cabrera has 2,869 career hits ond significant one for the
Hinch is understandably and needs four more to tie Tigers this weekend. On Sat-
Nets sign Alize Johnson to concerned about Cabrera's Babe Ruth for 45th place on urday, starter Julio Teheran
injury, but he's not going to the career list. He's likely to was placed on the injured
multiyear contract overreact until the team gets climb up other lists before list with a shoulder strain
that could sideline him for
he's done playing.
more information.
months. Detroit moved him
(AP) — The Brooklyn deal on March 22 and two “I don’t like that he altered While his pitchers won't have to the 60-day injured list
Nets signed Alize Johnson nights later had team highs his swing in order to com- to face the dangerous Ca- Sunday, partly due to learn-
to a multiyear contract of 23 points and 15 rebounds pensate for it," Hinch said. brera, Indians manager Terry ing more about the injury in
Sunday after the forward's off the bench in a loss at “That bothered me and got Francona was sorry to hear the past 24 hours.
solid play during his two Utah.
10-day contracts.
Johnson played for the Rap-
Johnson has appeared in six tors 905 of the NBA G
games, averaging 7.8 points League this season before
and 5.8 rebounds in about 13 joining the Nets, averag-
minutes per game and shoot- ing 16.6 points and 13.3 re-
ing 65.7% from the field. bounds in 15 games.
He signed his first 10-day