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SPORTS Tuesday 10 april 2018

ShoTime!: Ohtani hurls 7 superb

innings, Angels beat A's 6-1

Shohei Ohtani retired the including 5-0 in one-run the ninth for the win.
Oakland Athletics’ first 19 games. Tampa Bay has Tigers 1, White Sox 0
batters and yielded one hit dropped eight straight Mike Fiers combined with
over seven shutout innings since its win on opening four relievers on a three-
in his home pitching debut, day. hitter that completed a
leading Los Angeles past Carson Smith (1-1) pitched three-game road sweep
Oakland in Anaheim, Cali- a scoreless inning, and for Detroit.
fornia. Craig Kimbrel got three On an afternoon with a
Marcus Semien’s clean outs for his third save. Alex first-pitch temperature of
one-out single to left broke Colome (0-1) was the loser. 36 degrees and a 10 mph
up Ohtani’s bid for a per- Tampa Bay had a season- wind blowing straight in,
fect game, high 11 hits and left 10 run- the teams combined for
Ohtani (2-0) struck out the ners on base. just five hits – all singles –
side twice and finished with Orioles 8, Yankees 7 and none after the third in-
12 strikeouts in all. He won Brad Brach escaped his ning.
his pitching debut in Oak- own bases-loaded, no-out Fiers (1-0) made his sea-
land last weekend with six jam in the 12th inning, get- son debut after recovering
strong innings, then hom- ting his second save when from a lumbar strain and
ered in three consecutive Aaron Judge grounded into allowed three hits in six in-
games in Anaheim be- a rare pitcher-to-catcher- nings. and Shane Greene
tween starts in his attempt to-third double play and got three outs for his sec-
to become the first regu- striking out Giancarlo Stan- ond save.
lar two-way player in de- ton. Leonys Martin blooped a
cades. Baltimore overcame a 5-0, single off Reynaldo Lopez
AL CAPSULES: Mike Trout first-inning deficit to take (0-1) starting the game,
and Ryan Schimpf hom- three of four in New York stole second, advanced on
ered, and Albert Pujols had following a five-game los- Welington Castillo’s passed
an RBI double in the An- ing streak. ball and came home on
gels’ seventh win in nine Stanton went 0 for 7, strand- Miguel Cabrera’s sacrifice
games. Kendall Graveman ed nine runners and fanned fly.
(0-2) gave up five hits and five times for the second Blue Jays 7, Rangers 4
four walks while failing to time in a week. He is hitting Steve Pearce homered on
get out of the fourth inning .167 and has 20 strikeouts in the first pitch of the game
for the A’s, who have lost 42 at-bats in his first season from Cole Hamels (1-2),
seven of 10. with the Yankees. and Kendrys Morales add-
Red Sox 8, Rays 7 Craig Gentry hit an RBI sin- ed a three-run shot in the
Boston’s Xander Bogaerts gle in the 12th off Adam first inning as visiting Toronto
left with a left ankle injury Warren (0-1). defeated Texas.
in the seventh inning. The Indians 3, Royals 1 Jaime Garcia (1-0) won
shortstop got hurt while slid- Yan Gomes hit a tiebreak- while facing Texas for the
ing down into the Tampa ing two-run homer off Bran- first time in 176 big league
Bay dugout and will have don Maurer (0-2) in the starts, allowing three runs
tests Monday. ninth inning and the Indians and five hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Andrew Benintendi hit a tie- defeated Kansas City in Hamels (1-2) let four of his
breaking RBI double in Bos- Cleveland. first five hitters reach and
ton’s wild six-run eighth in- The game-time tempera- gave up seven runs – five
ning, and the Red Sox won ture was 32 degrees, the earned – and eight hits in 5 Boston Red Sox's Xander Bogaerts, left, is assisted as he leaves
their eighth straight, de- lowest in the 25-year history 1/3 innings. the field in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the
feating the Rays in Boston. of the ballpark. Robert Osuna retired four Tampa Bay Rays, Sunday, April 8, 2018, in Boston.
Boston improved to 8-1, Cody Allen (1-0) worked straight for his fourth save.q Associated Press