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Suzuki’s homer not enough as Miami loses to Seattle

The Associated Press lowing eight runs, 10 hits
SEATTLE (AP) — Miami’s Ich- and three homers over five
iro Suzuki hit his first home innings.
run on the road in nearly BLUE JAYS 3, RED SOX 0
four years but it came in TORONTO (AP) — Fran-
a 10-5 loss to the Mariners. cisco Liriano (1-1) allowed
The 43-year-old Suzuki hom- four hits in 5 1/3 innings and
ered off Evan Marshall in combined with three re-
possibly his final at-bat at lievers combined on a six-
Safeco Field, where he an- hitter. Kevin Pillar had three
chored right field and the hits for the second straight
top of Seattle’s batting or- game and stole two bases
der for 11½ seasons. as the Blue Jays won for the
Rookie Mitch Haniger ex- third time this season and
tended his hitting streak to improved to 2-6 on their
13 games with three hits homestand.
and four RBIs to help Seat- Toronto scored three un-
tle win for the fifth time in six earned runs in the sec-
games. A night after break- Seattle Mariners catcher Mike Zunino, right, tags out Miami Marlins’ J.T. Realmuto at home to end ond against AL Cy Young
ing up a potential no-hitter the top of the fifth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Seattle. Award winner Rick Porcello
with a ninth-inning double, Associated Press (1-2) after errors by third
Haniger scored in the first and no walks, and Kansas Salvador Perez added an YANKEES 9, WHITE SOX 1 baseman Pablo Sandoval
inning, had a two-run single City finally scored off Madi- RBI single off George Kon- NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron and first baseman Mitch
in the second and clanged son Bumgarner. tos in the eighth. Judge hit a 448-foot hom- Moreland. Darwin Barney
a two-run double off the Joakim Soria pitched a ATHLETICS 9, RANGERS 1 er, Masahiro Tanaka (2-1) hit a two-run single and
wall in deep center field in perfect eighth in relief of OAKLAND, California (AP) pitched seven innings of scored on Ezequiel Carre-
the fourth. Kyle Seager also Vargas, and Kelvin Herrera — Khris Davis hit his seventh one-run ball and New York ra’s single.
drove in four runs and was worked around a leadoff home run of the season, completed its first stretch at Roberto Osuna finished for
on base four times as the walk in the ninth for his third Yonder Alonso and Chad Yankee Stadium this season his first save.
Mariners went 6-3 on their save. Pinder also went deep. 8-1, its most wins in a home- ASTROS 5, ANGELS 1
only homestand of April. Bumgarner (0-3) matched Josh Phegley hit a two-run stand since going 9-1 from HOUSTON (AP) — Dallas
Felix Hernandez (2-1) al- Vargas pitch for pitch until double in a four-run first July 17-26, 2009. Keuchel threw seven solid
lowed four runs and 12 hits the fifth, when Paulo Orlan- that gave a quick lead to Judge followed Starlin Cas- innings, Josh Reddick fin-
in 6 1/3 innings. Miami’s do managed a one-out sin- Jesse Hahn (1-1), who al- tro’s three-run shot in the ished a single shy of the
Edinson Volquez (0-2) bare- gle. Orlando stole second, lowed one run and two hits fifth for the Yankees’ first cycle and the Astros beat
ly made it through three in- took third on a ground- over six innings, struck out back-to-back homers of the Angels.
nings, giving up four runs, out and went home when four and walked four. the season. Chase Headley Keuchel (3-0) allowed one
five hits and four walks. Mike Moustakas delivered Davis hit a two-run homer in and Aaron Hicks also went run on eight hits with seven
ROYALS 2, GIANTS 0 a base hit. That ended the fifth, his third home run deep to give New York a strikeouts. The left-hander
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) Bumgarner’s streak of 18 in six games. season high four home runs. has allowed one run or few-
— Jason Vargas (3-0) scat- scoreless innings against Martin Perez (1-2) gave up Dylan Covey (0-1) got er in all four of his starts, go-
tered four hits over seven the Royals, dating to the four runs and seven hits in 3 knocked around in his sec- ing seven innings in each
innings with nine strikeouts 2014 World Series opener. 2/3 innings. ond major league start, al- outing.q

AP source: Jeter, Bush join

forces in bid to buy Marlins

Wednesday. from 1989 to 1998. team in 2002 for $158.5 mil-
The person confirmed the Last week, Marlins president lion. Spokesmen for Jeter
partnership to The Associ- David Samson said talks and Bush didn’t respond to
ated Press on condition of with multiple parties inter- requests for comment.
anonymity because Jeter ested in buying the team Jeter retired in 2014 after 20
and Bush have not com- were in the “fourth inning.” seasons with the Yankees.
mented. They initially had He said owner Jeffrey Lo- His final manager, Joe Gi-
competing interests in ef- ria, 76, might sell before the rardi, recently predicted
forts to buy the team. end of the season — or not Jeter would make a great
In this Sept. 28, 2014, file photo, New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter The person said Quogue at all. owner — even if it’s in a city
speaks to the media after the last baseball game of his career,
against the Boston Red Sox, at Fenway Park in Boston. Capital investment fund Price and financing could other than New York.
Associated Press founder Wayne Rothbaum be major hurdles. Joshua “That will be strange. In
also is interested in buying Kushner, whose older broth- my mind he’ll always be a
STEVEN WINE The former New York Yan- the Marlins. er is an adviser to President Yankee,” Girardi said. “But
AP Sports Writer kees star and former Flor- Jeter has long talked about Donald Trump, had a pre- there is life after baseball,
MIAMI (AP) — Derek Jeter ida governor have joined owning a franchise. Bush’s liminary agreement to buy and sometimes the oppor-
and Jeb Bush have formed forces in their pursuit of the brother, former President the Marlins for $1.6 billion tunity that presents itself
a team in their attempt to Miami Marlins, a person fa- George W. Bush, was part- before breaking off nego- is not always necessarily
buy a team. miliar with the situation said owner of the Texas Rangers tiations. Loria bought the where you played.”q