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Yastrzemski, Giants win 3-2 over Padres; Tatis injured

(AP) — Pinch-hitter Mike right leading off the fourth,
Yastrzemski launched a his third. Both were off start-
go-ahead homer in the er Adrian Morejon.
seventh inning and Darin Caleb Baragar (1-0) got the
Ruf and Evan Longoria last out of the sixth and Jake
also connected to lead the McGee pitched the ninth for
San Francisco Giants to a his second save. McGee put
3-2 victory Monday night two runners on with two outs
against the San Diego Pa- before getting Tommy Pham
dres, who lost star short- to fly out to center field to
stop Fernando Tatis Jr. to end it.
a partially dislocated left
shoulder. Victor Caratini drove in both
of San Diego’s runs, on a sin-
Tatis was injured taking a hard gle in the second and a sacri-
swing for strike three in the fice fly in the sixth.
third inning. He winced in Anthony DeSclafani made
pain as he fell to the ground his Giants debut after spend-
and cradled his left arm. Pa- ing five seasons with the Cin-
dres manager Jayce Tingler cinnati Reds. He held San
and a trainer held Tatis’ left Diego to one run and four
arm against his body as he hits in five innings, struck
walked off the field. out four and walked three.
Tatis signed a 14-year, $340 Morejon allowed two runs
million contract on Feb. 22, and five hits in four innings.
the longest deal in big league The 22-year-old Tatis left a ing headfirst into home and for good news and kind of see Tatis has struggled through
history. game late in spring training missed several games. where it goes from there.” the first five games, hitting
Tingler said he believes Ta- with left shoulder discomfort Tatis will be re-evaluated on just .167 and committing five
tis’ shoulder popped out on after making a backhand play Tuesday and most likely will Yastrzemski was scratched errors, although he hit a 465-
the field and was put back in but was back two days later. have an MRI, Tingler said. from the starting lineup with foot home run Sunday in a
place in the training room. Tingler said then that Tatis “Of course it’s concern- a sore left hand but batted in loss to Arizona.
“It comes out, it comes back had been dealing with left ing,” Tingler said. “You don’t the pitcher’s spot and hom- He was limited to 84 games
in, so he’s been dealing with shoulder discomfort since his want to see him have to play ered to center field off Craig as a rookie in 2019 after miss-
that,” Tingler said. “Obvi- minor league days. Tatis later through injury, pain, any Stammen (0-1) with one out ing a month early in the sea-
ously tonight was the first said he’d had it since rookie of those things, or lack of in the seventh, his first. son with a hamstring injury
time we’ve seen it in game ball. strength or range of motion. Ruf homered to center lead- and then the last six weeks
action from swinging or any- Earlier in the spring, Tatis Again, we don’t want to jump ing off the second, his first, with a stress reaction in his
thing like that.” was shaken up while slid- the gun on anything; hoping and Longoria homered to lower back.

Booker scores 36 as Suns beat Rockets for 6th straight win

(AP) — Devin Booker scored it to be, but at the end of the day, we
18 of his 36 points in the fourth beat a team that’s playing a lot better
quarter, and the Phoenix Suns on the road, and it’s a big win for us,”
beat the Houston Rockets 133-130 Suns coach Monty Williams said.
on Monday night for their sixth Phoenix has now won three straight
straight win. against Houston following a 13-game
skid in the series.
Deandre Ayton matched a season
high with 27 points as Phoenix won Ayton added 11 rebounds for his 25th
for the ninth time in 10 games over- double-double of the season.
all. Mikal Bridges had 20 points, and “He just dominated in the paint,”
Chris Paul finished with 19 points Williams said. “That’s the way that
and 11 assists. he can play. We were trying to go to
him tonight. I thought he had a pret-
“I was just taking what the defense ty dominant night, scoring the ball. I
gave me,” Booker said. “I got a couple thought his poise was at a high level
of quick easy 3s and was just trying to when he got the ball in the post.”
win the game. That’s a hard-fighting Wood scored 23 points and Olynyk
team over there. A couple of times, finished with 21. Kevin Porter Jr. had
we had the opportunity to put them 20 points in the Rockets’ fifth con-
away, but they didn’t go anywhere. secutive loss.
We wanted to get this one bad.”
Phoenix led 101-92 after three quar- “They made a bunch of tough shots,
ters, but Houston opened the fourth but we felt like we were getting great
with a 9-0 run. Houston trailed by shots on the offensive end,” Olynyk
nine again with a minute left, but said. “Guys really stepped up and
Jae’Sean Tate and Kelly Olynyk made plays on both ends of the floor
made back-to-back 3-pointers for the to give us new life. We just couldn’t
Rockets. quite close it out in the end.”
Christian Wood made two free Rockets point guard John Wall missed
throws to cut the Suns’ lead to one a fourth straight game with a left knee
with 3.5 seconds remaining. Booker injury.
hit two free throws, and Houston’s Phoenix led 70-60 at halftime, hitting
inbounds pass was deflected to end 12 of 23 3-pointers in the first half.
the game. The Suns finished 18 of 37 from 3 in
“It wasn’t as pretty as you would like the game.