SCOREBOARD
12:05 p.m.
Seattle (Kikuchi 4-6) at L.A. Angels (Suarez 2-1), 1:07 p.m.
Washington (Sanchez 5-6) at Philadelphia (Arrieta 8-7), 10:05 a.m.
N.Y. Mets (degrom 4-7) at Miami (Alcantara 4-8), 10:10 a.m.
Arizona (Greinke 10-3) at St. Louis (Wainwright 5-7), 11:15 a.m.
Pittsburgh (Williams 3-2) at Chicago Cubs (Quintana 6-7), 11:20 a.m.
Cincinnati (Mahle 2-9) at Colorado (Senzatela 7-6), 12:10 p.m.
Atlanta (Soroka 9-1) at San Diego (Quantrill 2-2), 1:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 10-2) at Boston (Price 7-2), 4:00 p.m. Moronta P Posey C Sandoval 1B Longoria 3B Yastrzemski LF Pillar CF Crawford SS Panik 2B Solano PH-2B Bumgarner P Gott P Slater PH-RF Cain CF Yelich RF Braun LF Moustakas 3B Aguilar 1B Hiura 2B Pina C 0 5 4 2 3 4 3 1 2 1 0 2 5 5 4 5 5 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1
Bumgarner 5.0 7 Gott 1.0 1 Watson (H, 19) 1.0 2 Dyson (B, 1) 0.0 4 Holland 1.0 0 Moronta (L, 3-5) 0.2 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2
1 0 0 3 0 1 3 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 the second round, and world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty was eliminated in the fourth.
Local favorite Johanna Konta, the British No. 1, suffered a surprising defeat to the unseeded Barbora Strycova, a player on the verge of retirement.
In the news conference that followed, Konta got testy with reporters, saying: “Please don’t patronize me. No, no, you are. In the way you’re asking your question, you’re being quite disrespectful and you’re patronizing me.
“I’m a professional competitor who did her best today, and that’s all there is to that.”
Then, there was the resurfacing of Williams, who came into Wimbledon having played just 12 matches this year because of injuries and illness. In her last four Grand Slam events she showed a repeated inability to finish strong.
Williams was brushed aside by Kerber in last year’s Wimbledon final, then melted down in the U.S. Open final against 20-year-old Naomi Osaka, drawing penalties for a coaching violation, smashing her racket in frustration, and calling the chair umpire “a thief.”
In the quarterfinals of the Australian Open in February, she had a 5-1 lead in the third set against Karolina Pliskova 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 .256 .280 .239 .236 .243 .225 .227 .294 .135 .000 .450
c-singled to shallow center for Holland in the 9th a-singled to left for Panik in the 7th b-doubled to left center for Gott in the 7th
2B – Slater (3, Claudio) RBI – Vogt (14), Yastrzemski (17), Slater (12)
6 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .328 .274 .264 .237 .284 .171 3.86 4.10 3.19 2.86 5.74 2.83 Davies 6.0 Guerra 0.2 Claudio 0.1 Peralta 1.0 Jeffress (W, 3-2, B, 2) 1.0 2 1 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 5 2 1 3 2 and was serving on match point. Not only did Williams lose that point, but she didn’t win another game and lost the match.
Finally, in last month’s French Open, she was eliminated in the third round by unseeded American Sofia Kenin, and wound up staying in France after the tournament for medical 0 0 0 0 0 2.89 4.31 4.19 5.20 3.96 treatment on her knee.
“I just have to figure out a way to win a final,” Williams said. “Maybe it is playing other finals outside of Grand Slams would be really helpful just to kind of get in the groove, so by the time I get to a Grand Slam final, I’m kind of used to what to do and how to play.”