SPORTS DIGEST

BASEBALL

The Los Angeles Dodgers got back to winning ways thanks to a 12th inning home run from Yasiel Puig. Puig cleared the fence in the third additional inning to earn a 6-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates after Curtis Granderson had earlier hit a grand slam, ensuring the MLB leaders won for the 88th time this season. Brock Holt’s error gave the AL Central leaders Cleveland Indians a 5-4 win over the Boston Red Sox. Holt’s wild throw to first base from Roberto Perez’s bunt allowed Brandon Guyer to score the decisive run in the bottom of the ninth. AJ Pollock’s two-run homer in the 10th earned the Arizona Diamondbacks a 3-2 win over the New York Mets, a four-run fifth inning helped the Baltimore Orioles to a 7-3 success against the Oakland Athletics and the Seattle Mariners beat the Atlanta Braves 6-5. The Minnesota Twins hit six runs in the second inning to down the Chicago White Sox 10-2, two runs in the fourth inning were enough to give the San Francisco Giants a 2-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers while the Texas Rangers hung on for to a 5-3 win against the Los Angeles Angels. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Atlanta Braves 5 Seattle Mariners 6, Baltimore Orioles 7 Oakland Athletics 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Minnesota Twins 10, Cleveland Indians 5 Boston Red Sox 4, New York Mets 2 Arizona Diamondbacks 3 (10 innings), Pittsburgh Pirates 5 Los Angeles Dodgers 6 (12 innings), San Francisco Giants 2 Milwaukee Brewers 0, LA Angels 3 Texas Rangers 5.

BOXING

Great Britain are sending 10 fighters to the 2017 AIBA World Boxing Championships which begin in Hamburg next week. Lee Mcgregor is Scotland’s only representative. England’s Galal Yafai, the Mccormack twins Luke and Pat, Calum French, Peter Mcgrail, Niall Farrell, Ben Whittaker, Tom Whittaker-hart and Cheavon Clarke make up the team. The fighters qualified through their performances in June’s European Championships. Promising super-heavyweight Frazer Clarke misses the competition scheduled for 25 August to 2 September, having been operated on to correct a torn hamstring. GB Boxing’s performance director and Anthony Joshua’s trainer Rob Mccracken said: “This is a very talented but still relatively inexperienced group so to have qualified 10 of them for the World Championships is an achievement in itself. “The European Championships in June were a first major tournament for eight of these boxers (Yafai and Pat Mccormack had competed at the Olympics in Rio) so for all of them to qualify for Hamburg and five of them to win a medal (at the European Championships) was a tremendous performance. “It is still early days in the Tokyo cycle and the World Championships is a very tough event, so this a good opportunity for all of the boxers to show they possess what it takes to compete at this level and have the capability to go on and win medals as we progress towards the 2020 Olympics.

SNOOKER

CHINA CHAMPIONSHIP (Guangzhou) Final: Luca Brecel (Bel) bt Shaun Murphy (Eng) 10-5.

SPEEDWAY

FIXTURES (7:30pm unless stated) Tonight SGB Premiership: King’s Lynn v Wolverhampton, King’s Lynn v Wolverhampton (follows previous fixture), Rye House v Somerset. Travel Plus National League: Birmingham v Belle Vue. Tomorrow SGB Premiership: Swindon v Somerset. SGB Championship: Ipswich v Peterborough, Redcar v Edinburgh, Sheffield v Scunthorpe.