Новости за 28.05.2017

BOSTON — Christian Bergman’s emotions shifted from frustration and anxiety to trying to block out his previous start. When he got back on the mound, he certainly pitched relaxed. Bergman rebounded from a rough outing with seven shutout innings and the Seattle Mariners halted Boston’s season-high six-game winning streak with a 5-0 victory over the

A quick look at the French Open: SUNDAY’S WEATHER Partly cloudy, brief rain. High of 90 degrees (32 Celsius). SUNDAY’S WINNERS Seeded winners in the men’s first round: No. 6 Dominic Thiem, No. 11 Grigor Dimitrov, No. 19 Albert Ramos-Vinolas, No. 20 Pablo Carreno Busta, No. 23 Ivo Karlovic. Seeded winners in the women’s first

MIAMI — Mike Trout stood at his locker and frowned as he looked down at his left thumb, which was puffy and red and sending a clear signal. He’s out. Trout sprained his thumb stealing second base and left Sunday’s game in the sixth inning , and for the Los Angeles Angels, their 9-2 loss

NEW YORK — Just a little bit farther and Aaron Judge’s grand slam would have landed right in that mock jury box. Judge sent his first career slam screaming toward his own rooting section, and the New York Yankees took full advantage of Oakland’s shoddy defense Sunday in a 9-5 victory over the Athletics. “It

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Greg Byrne has had an eventful first three months as Alabama’s athletic director. Byrne made a seemingly tough decision in firing a baseball coach after one season and a no-brainer, too: striking a new deal with football coach Nick Saban. In between, he has attended plenty of ‘Bama sporting events — and

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Iowa achieved another milestone in the baseball rebuilding project Rick Heller started four years ago. Drake Robison held Northwestern to one run in seven innings, Jake Adams homered twice, and the Hawkeyes won the Big Ten Tournament for the first time with a 13-4 victory over upstart Northwestern on Sunday. The fifth-seeded

INDIANAPOLIS — Helio Castroneves insisted all week he had a car that could win the Indianapolis 500. He almost got it right. The three-time race winner charged through the pack from the No. 19 starting spot Sunday, barely avoided two crashes, overcame a broken winglet and a drive-thru penalty, only to back off one last

PHILADELPHIA — Patrick Kivlehan had the game of his life in front of a large cheering section not far from home. Kivlehan hit two solo homers, Adam Duvall hit a pair of two-run shots and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-4 on Sunday. Scott Schebler also homered for the Reds and Scott Feldman

INDIANAPOLIS — At the end of 500 miles around Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it was a former Formula One driver who took the checkered flag. He even drove for Andretti Autosport. It just wasn’t Fernando Alonso. Takuma Sato became the first Japanese winner of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday when he denied Helio Castroneves a record-tying

Two-time defending champion Oracle Team USA won’t go undefeated in this America’s Cup regatta and Groupama Team France won’t go winless. On an afternoon of light, shifty winds on the turquoise waters of Bermuda’s Great Sound, Oracle won two of three races to take a two-point lead in the America’s Cup qualifiers. Groupama Team France

LOS ANGELES — More than 150 firefighters battled a 30-acre brush fire on a Los Angeles hillside on Sunday that investigators said was sparked by a weed whacker. The fire, which triggered the evacuation of five homes, broke out on a steep chaparral-covered hillside of Mandeville Canyon above Brentwood and sent up a plume of

TORONTO — After going more than a full season without a road win, Andrew Cashner gave the struggling Texas Rangers a vital victory away from home. Cashner pitched seven strong innings and Joey Gallo hit his 15th home run as the Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 Sunday, snapping their longest losing streak of

CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox right-hander Miguel Gonzalez has lost his bid for a perfect game against the Detroit Tigers. Gonzalez retired his first 18 batters Sunday before Andrew Romine and Alex Avila opened the seventh with singles. Romine’s hard smash to shortstop Tim Anderson was originally ruled an error, and then changed to a

YEREVAN, Armenia — An American doctor who has spent years working in a fighting-ravaged region of Sudan has been awarded the $1.1-million Aurora Prize for exceptional humanitarianism. Dr. Tom Catena was presented the prize Sunday in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan. The prize was established in remembrance of the Armenian survivors of a mass killing by Ottoman

CLEVELAND — Indians manager Terry Francona admitted his team was frustrated after losing the first two games of their series against the Kansas City Royals. Perhaps the defending AL champions play better that way. Jason Kipnis went 4 for 4 with a home run and two RBIs, Josh Tomlin pitched his first complete game in

INDIANAPOLIS — Sebastien Bourdais returned to Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, eight days after a scary crash that left the Frenchman with a fractured pelvis, hip and two ribs. Bourdais used crutches to get around the famed speedway before the Indy 500. He nearly fell trying to step onto a dais because he couldn’t put

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Cheered up by Florida State teammates after an error-prone moment, first baseman Drew Mendoza repaid his team with two bigger moments that helped the Seminoles hoist another championship trophy. Mendoza followed Cal Raleigh’s go-ahead RBI hit with his second homer of the game during a five-run eighth inning that rallied Florida State

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The family of a northeastern Indiana man who died after he was struck by a car while bicycling say they’re devastated the motorist received no jail time in the hit-and-run death. An Allen County judge sentenced 19-year-old Aaron Moser of Decatur to three years of house arrest and three years of

Coach Bruce Arena has called in a mixture of veterans and young players for the U.S. team’s training camp in Denver heading into a tuneup match against Venezuela and two World Cup qualifiers. Missing from the 27-man roster is Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Jermaine Jones, often a regular in international games. Jones, bothered by a

St. Tammany Parish, La. — A Louisiana skydiving instructor died Sunday, and his trainee injured, after he lost consciousness during a skydiving jump. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office says the instructor and trainee were performing a tandem jump on the Royal Golf Course in Slidell, Louisiana, shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday when the instructor

MIAMI — Mike Trout has left the Los Angeles Angels’ game at Miami after jamming his left hand while stealing second base. Trout yelled in pain as he rose after sliding headfirst in the fifth inning Sunday. He was examined by a trainer, stayed in the game and took the field in the bottom of

NEW YORK — Preakness winner Cloud Computing won’t run in the Belmont Stakes, leaving the final leg of the Triple Crown without the winners of the first two races. Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming also won’t run in the 1½-mile Belmont on June 10 in New York. Trainer Chad Brown confirmed Sunday that Cloud Computing

TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s Health Ministry reports that scores of people from an opposition party rally sought medical attention after complaining of feeling ill. A ministry statement said that 76 people who attended a campaign rally for the main opposition Democratic Party went to the hospital early Sunday “with red and burning eyes, irritation of

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas athletic director Sheahon Zenger has gotten a contract extension that runs through June 2021. Zenger’s base pay will increase from $619,000 to $700,000 as part of the deal announced Sunday. Zenger has been at Kansas since 2011. He says in a statement: “This is home for me, and I truly believe

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group has been the largest and the longest operation against the extremists in the nearly three years since they overran a third of the country. Mosul is Iraq’s second-largest city after the capital Baghdad and was a key logistical and economic hub for IS