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Andy Murray of Britain, left, celebrates with Feliciano Lopez of Spain after winning their men's Los Angeles Dodgers' Chris Taylor, right, hits a three-run home
run as Colorado Rockies catcher Tony Wolters, left, watches
doubles final tennis match against Joe Salisbury of Britain and the Rajeev Ram of the United States along with home plate umpire Paul Emmel, center, during the
at the Queens Club tennis tournament in London, Sunday June 23, 2019. seventh inning of a baseball game Sunday, June 23, 2019, in
Associated Press Los Angeles.
Murray completes fairytale Continued from Page 18 fend her off, and security
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return, Lopez claims 2 titles Kenley Jansen (3-2) pitched personnel tackled her as
she tried hug Bellinger.
one inning.
The Dodgers, with the best The Dodgers managed just
record in the majors, swept three hits off Rockies starter
LONDON (AP) — Andy Mur- Wimbledon, which starts est winner at age 37 with the three-game series and Antonio Senzatela before
ray completed a fairytale July 1, full of confidence the singles title. finished a 9-2 homestand. breaking through in the
return from hip surgery by after playing freely and The veteran Spaniard was In first inning, Dodgers star seventh. Pinch-hitter Chris
winning the Queen's Club without pain as he secured already its oldest winner Cody Bellinger hit a foul Taylor greeted reliever
doubles title with Feliciano his first doubles title since when he took the title in ball that struck a young Chad Bettis with a three-
Lopez, who ended Sunday winning with his brother 2017. Lopez was playing woman in the head. She run homer for a 3-2 lead.
with two titles after earlier Jamie Murray in Tokyo in his first final since defeating was taken to a hospital for Colorado tied it in the
winning the singles title as 2011. Murray won't play Marin Cilic in the decider precautionary tests. eighth when Daniel Mur-
well. singles at Wimbledon but two years ago and was The woman was sitting four phy scored from first on
The Spaniard is the first man has already confirmed that made to work hard by the rows from the field down Tony Wolters' double into
to win both titles at the Frenchman Pierre-Hugues 34-year-old Simon. the first base line, just be- the right-field corner. It ap-
grass-court tournament in Herbert will partner him in Lopez saved all but one of yond protective netting peared as if the play at
London since Mark Philip- the men's doubles. the break points he faced that extends to the end the plate was going to be
poussis in 1997. Murray and Lopez hadn't and converted three of his of the visiting dugout. Bell- close, but Martin was not
Murray spent five months played together in a tour- 13 opportunities to prevail inger checked on her be- able to cleanly catch Bell-
away from the sport until nament before beating in 2 hours, 49 minutes. Lo- tween innings — she at first inger's throw.
this week. He and Lopez top-seeded Juan Sebastian pez had won five of their stayed in her seat and was Dahl hit a solo homer off
defeated Rajeev Ram and Cabal and Robert Farah previous seven meetings given an ice pack, but left Dodgers starter Kenta
Joe Salisbury 7-6 (6), 5-7, on Thursday. They complet- and all four on grass. about 15 minutes later for Maeda.
10-5 in the doubles final — ed their darkness-delayed Lopez is the first wild card further attention. ROCKIES MOVE
not long after Lopez out- quarterfinal win over British to claim the title since Pete A woman died last Au- Colorado optioned pitcher
lasted Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-7 duo Daniel Evans and Ken Sampras defeated Tim gust after being struck in Jeff Hoffman to Triple-A Al-
(4), 7-6 (2) in the singles. Skupski on Saturday, right Henman to win in 1999. He the head by a foul ball at buquerque to make room
Murray capped a remark- before their semifinal win would have been the old- Dodger Stadium. All 30 for OF Garrett Hampson.
able week 146 days after over Henri Kontinen and est player to win a tour- major league stadiums ex- Hampson played center
undergoing what he hopes John Peers. level title since the 43-year- panded protective netting field and batted second,
was career-saving hip sur- Lopez, who had been old Ken Rosewall won the to at least the far ends of going 2 for 5.
gery. In January he had forced to play in three Hong Kong Grand Prix final the dugouts at the start of TRAINER'S ROOM
said he was planning to matches on Saturday in- in 1977, but Roger Federer the 2018 season after sev- UP NEXT
retire after Wimbledon be- cluding his singles semifinal, beat him to that accolade eral fans were injured by Colorado: RHP Jon Gray
cause of the severe pain played almost 5 hours of after winning his 10th Halle foul balls two years ago. (7-5, 4.18 ERA) gets the call
he felt on a daily basis. tennis altogether on Sun- Open title earlier Sunday. Fan safety has received fur- Monday for the start of a
The three-time Grand Slam day. He reaffirmed his sta- Federer is a month older ther scrutiny after fans were three-game series in San
champion is approaching tus as the tournament's old- than Lopez.q hit by fouls in the last month Francisco. Gray leads the
at Houston and at a Chica- team with eight quality
go White Sox game — the starts.
White Sox and Nationals Dodgers: LHP Clayton
recently announced that Kershaw (7-1, 2.85 ERA)
they will extend their net- starts the first of a three-
ting to the foul poles. game set Monday at Ari-
In the ninth inning, a female zona. Kershaw is 16-9 in
/arubatoday/ fan ran toward Bellinger in 31 career starts vs. the
right field. He was trying to Diamondbacks.q