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sports Diahuebs 28 Juli 2022

Mets top Yanks 6-3 in Subway Series matchup of leaders

(AP) — Eduardo Esco- hat. es for seven outs, and when
bar crossed the plate and The Mets held on for a vic- Boone came to the mound to
skipped joyfully back to tory before just their third remove him, he stared at his
the Mets dugout after home sellout this year, what manager and said: "Why?"
his tiebreaking, two-run they hoped is a World Series
homer capped a four-run, rehearsal. Both teams had The Yankees went 0 for 6
first-inning rally — a drive been in first place when they with runners in scoring po-
a fan behind the left field met in only one previous sea- sition and hurt themselves
fence caught one-handed son, a three-game series from when Isiah Kiner-Falefa was
with a leap. April 24-26, 2015, according picked off in the third and
to the Elias Sports Bureau. Rizzo was caught at second
Most of Citi Field was danc- on an attempted double steal
ing by the time Edwin Díaz Two of baseball's big boppers in the seventh.
struck out Gleyber Tor- went head to head. Judge's
res with two on, ending the major league-high 38th After former Met and Yan-
Mets' 6-3 win over the Yan- home run gave him 82 RBIs, kee Darryl Strawberry threw
kees in Tuesday night's rare tying for the big league lead. out a ceremonial first pitch,
Subway Series matchup of Alonso surged back ahead Judge and Rizzo combined
first-place teams. with his 83rd in the bottom for the Yankees' 14th back-to-
half and went 3 for 3 with a back homers. They tied the
Aaron Judge and Anthony walk. team record set in 2009, and
Rizzo quieted many of the Rizzo ended a 14-game ho-
42,364 fans with opposite- The Yankees arrived a big merless streak with his 23rd
field home runs on consecu- league-best 66-31 with a 12 this season.
tive first-inning pitches from 1/2-game AL East lead. The
Taijuan Walker (8-2). Mets had the second-best Walker had not previously
National League mark at 59- allowed a home run at Citi Rizzo stranded the bases Blasterjaxx & Timmy Trum-
But the Mets stormed right 37 and a two-game NL East Field this year loaded with a flyout to to pet's "Narco" — Mr. Met
back in the bottom half when edge over Atlanta. Brandon Nimmo a step in played a trumpet and many
Starling Marte homered The Mets opened a 5-2 lead front of the center-field wall. fans mimicked a horn with
with one out against Jordan Walker improved to 5-0 in in the third when third base- their water bottles.
Montgomery (3-3). Fran- his last eight starts, allowing man Josh Donaldson hit Lin- Jeff McNeil ended an 0-for-
cisco Lindor and Pete Alonso three runs and seven hits in dor with a throw near first 19 rut with a run-scoring Díaz struck out out pinch-
followed with back-to-back six innings. base, and the ball caromed single off Albert Abreu in the hitter Joey Gallo to strand a
doubles, and Escobar's two- into right field as Marte eighth. runner in the eighth, then
run, two-out homer put the Montgomery, 0-2 in his last scored from second. fanned LeMahieu, Rizzo and
Mets ahead 4-2. The ball was seven starts, allowed five After Adam Ottavino got five Torres around a hit and an
caught barehanded by a fan runs — four earned — and DJ LeMahieu had an RBI outs, Díaz set off the crowd error in the ninth, getting his
in a Mets jersey and Yankees five hits. He needed 71 pitch- grounder in the fourth, when with his entrance music of 22nd save in 25 chances.

WNBA's Griner says poor translation clouded arrest in Russia

(AP) — American basket- vape cartridges containing she had a doctor's recom- her first appearance as a wit- painkillers
ball star Brittney Griner cannabis oil in her luggage mendation for it and had ness. The court outside Mos- The slow-moving trial and
testified Wednesday at her when she arrived in Rus- packed in haste. cow held five previous ses- Griner's five months of de-
drug trial in Russia that sia but contends she had no sions that were short, some tention have raised strong
a language interpreter criminal intent and packed She recalled getting pulled lasting only about an hour. criticism among teammates
translated only a fraction the cartridges inadvertently. aside at the airport on Feb. and supporters in the United
of what was said during 17 after inspectors found the It is unclear how long the States, which has formally
her questioning and offi- During her testimony, the cartridges. trial will last, but a court has declared her to be "wrong-
cials instructed her to sign Phoenix Mercury standout authorized Griner's deten- fully detained," a designation
documents without pro- described making a grueling Along with the interpreter tion until Dec. 20. She went sharply rejected by Russian
viding an explanation. 13-hour flight to Moscow who provided an incomplete to Russia to play for a Rus- officials.
from Arizona while recover- translation, Griner said she sian team in the WNBA's off-
Griner was arrested at a Mos- ing from COVID-19. Griner received neither an explana- season. Griner was arrested in Febru-
cow airport in February. She said she still does not know tion of her rights nor access ary amid high U.S.-Moscow
acknowledged in court ear- how the cannabis oil ended to a lawyer and was instruct- During Tuesday's court ses- tensions ahead of Russia
lier this month that she had up in her bag but explained ed to sign documents with- sion of about 90 minutes, a sending troops into Ukraine
out an explanation of what Russian neuropsychologist later that month. Some sup-
they implied. testified about worldwide use porters contend she is being
of medicinal cannabis, which held in Russia as a pawn, pos-
After hours of proceedings remains illegal in Russia. Gri- sibly for a prisoner swap.
she did not understand, she ner's defense team has sub-
was allowed to hand over her mitted a U.S. doctor's letter Russian media have specu-
personal belongings to a law- recommending the basket- lated that Griner could be
yer before being led away in ball player use medical can- exchanged for prominent
handcuffs, Griner said. She nabis to treat pain. Russian arms trader Viktor
said she received only a cur- Bout, who is imprisoned in
sory translation of the allega- Griner testified Wednesday the United States, and that
tions during a Feb. 19 hearing that she was suffering from Paul Whelan, an American
where a court sanctioned her pain from injuries sustained imprisoned in Russia for es-
arrest. during her basketball career. pionage, may also figure in an
She emphasized that canna- exchange.
Griner faces up to 10 years in bis oil is widely used in the
prison if convicted of trans- United States for medicinal U.S. officials have not com-
porting drugs. Her trial start- purposes and has less nega- mented on the prospects for
ed July 1, and Wednesday was tive effects than some other such a trade.