YANKEES’ FRAZIER HITS INTO RUN-SCORING TRIPLE PLAY
Todd Frazier hoped to do something special in his home debut for the New York Yankees. Frazier definitely did that Tuesday — he grounded into a triple play. The stage was set for him, too, when he came up for the first time at Yankee Stadium: bases loaded and no outs in the second inning against the Cincinnati Reds. Frazier, traded last week from the Chicago White Sox to the Yankees, hit a hard grounder up the middle. Reds shortstop
Jose Peraza fielded it, stepped on second and threw to first. Didi
Gregorius, who had been on second base, held up when the ball was hit in case it was caught. He was late to advance, and first baseman Joey Votto’s throw across the diamond caught him in a rundown. Gregorius was called out for running wide of baseline trying to avoid a tag. There was some consolation — a run scored, rarely seen on a triple play, because Matt Holliday scampered home before Gregorius was trapped. It was the Reds’ first triple play since 1995 and the first against the Yankees since 2011. KING, LEDECKY WIN GOLD U.S. swimmers Lilly King and
Katie Ledecky won gold medals Tuesday in the world championships in Budapest, Hungary. Olympic gold medalist King eclipsed the 4-year-old world mark in the 100-meter breaststroke, again beating Russian rival Yulia Efimova with a time of 1 minute, 4.13 seconds. The previous record of 1:04.35 was set by Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte. Ledecky breezed to her third gold medal of the meet, capturing the 1,500 freestyle by more than half the length of the pool. She touched in 15 minutes, 31.82 seconds, more than six seconds off her world-record pace from the championships two years ago.