Cubs fall to Bumgarner-led Giants

Dodgers snap 4-game losing streak; Red Sox outclass Indians 5-2

SAN FRANCISCO, May 23, (AP): Madison Bumgarner pitched 7 2/3 dominant innings and doubled in a run in the fifth to lift the San Francisco Giants over the Chicago Cubs 1-0.

The Giants won for the 11th time in 12 games and took two of three from a Cubs team with the best record in baseball.

Bumgarner (6-2) struck out six and allowed three hits and two walks while winning his fifth straight decision. The Giants have won each of the left-hander’s last six starts.

The Giants won despite a persistent problem hitting with runners in scoring position. They were 0 for 7 in that department and have 16 hits in their last 98 at-bats with runners in scoring position.

Bumgarner’s run-scoring double to left off Kyle Hendricks (2-4) followed Gregor Blanco’s leadoff walk.

Giants closer Santiago Casilla pitched a scoreless ninth for his 12th save.

In San Diego, Yasiel Puig hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with the bases loaded and one out in the 17th inning and Los Angeles beat San Diego to snap a four-game losing streak.

The game started in afternoon sunshine and ended at dusk, taking 5 hours, 47 minutes.

The Dodgers started the four-run rally off rookie Luis Perdomo when Howie Kendrick hit a leadoff double that bounced over the wall in right-center field. Adrian Gonzalez was intentionally walked and reliever Ross Stripling advanced them with a groundout. Joc Pederson was intentionally walked to load the bases, and then Puig singled up the middle. Pederson scored on a wild pitch and Carl Crawford hit an RBI grounder.

In Boston, David Ortiz went 4 for 4 with a solo home run and a double that sent a fan flying, Jackie Bradley Jr. extended his hitting streak to 27 games and Boston beat Cleveland for its 10th win in 14 games.

Bradley singled in the fifth inning and has the longest hitting streak in the majors since a 28-gamer by Colorado’s Nolan Arenado in 2014.

Ortiz drove in three runs. His RBI double in the second put the Red Sox ahead 3-2, and when the ball bounced Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager (5) waits for the throw as San Diego Padres’ Alexi Amarista safely steals second base during the seventh inning

of a baseball game on May 22, in San Diego. (AP)

Boston Red Sox’s Jackie Bradley Jr (right), singles as Cleveland Indians’ Yan Gomes (left), looks on in the fifth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park on

May 22, in Boston. (AP)

over Boston’s bullpen, a fan came charging from his seat and fell into a fence trying to retrieve the souvenir. Ortiz was a triple short of a cycle when another ground-rule double bounced into the bullpen near the center-field triangle.

In Detroit, Jordan Zimmermann (7-2) left with a strained right groin after allowing two runs and five hits in 5 2/3 innings.

Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez homered for Detroit, which has won six of seven. Cabrera also left early. with a left knee bruise after being hit by a pitch in the seventh.

Chris Archer (3-5) gave up six runs and eight hits in three innings. Blue Jays 3, Twins 1 In Minneapolis, Jose Bautista and Josh Donaldson started the game with back-to-back home runs in a three-run first inning against Phil Hughes (1-7), who leads in the major leagues in losses.

Marcus Stroman (5-1) allowed one run and three hits in 7 2/3 innings, one start after giving up career-highs of seven runs and 13 hits in a loss to Tampa Bay. Roberto Osuna got four straight outs for his ninth save.

In New York, Noah Syndergaard (52) struck out 11 in seven overpowering innings, allowing an unearned run and six hits.

Michael Conforto homered in the third off Chase Anderson (2-6) as New York completed a three-game sweep.

Asdrubal Cabrera broke a fourth-inning tie with a two-run single that sent the Mets to their 12th victory in the last 16 home games.

Alex Presley grounded into a gameending double play against Jeurys Familia, who pitched for the third day in a row and earned his 15th save.

In Miami, Max Scherzer (5-3) struck out eight while giving up two runs and six hits in eight innings with no walks. He has 38 strikeouts in his past three starts, including a record-tying 20 against Detroit.

Justin Bour ended Scherzer’s shutout bid with a two-run homer in the seventh.

Washington won the three-game series and took a 7-6 edge in the season series. The NL East foes don’t meet again until Sept 19.

In Cincinnati, Leonys Martin got four hits, Robinson Cano drove in two runs and Seattle completed a three-game sweep that extended Cincinnati’s losing streak to seven.

Wade Miley (5-2) shook off a rocky first to allowed four runs and eight hits in six innings. He is 5-0 over his last six starts, all Seattle victories. Steve Cishek pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save.

Alfredo Simon (1-5) gave up five runs and nine hits in five innings.

In Philadelphia, Jerad Eickhoff (2-6) pitched five-hit ball over seven innings for his first win since April 13, and Philadelphia avoided a three-game sweep. He had lost his previous five decisions.

Cameron Rupp homered for the Phillies, and Maikel Franco had two RBIs.

Casey Kelly (0-1) allowed three runs over five innings in his first start this season for Atlanta, an NL-worst 12-31.

In Chicago, Todd Frazier tied for the AL lead with his 13th home run, Melky Cabrera drove in two runs and Chicago avoided what would have been the first sweep against the White Sox this season.

Carlos Rodon (2-4) allowed two runs and eight hits in six-plus innings for his first victory since April 13. David Robertson got three outs for his 11th save, helping the AL Central leaders win for just the third time in 11 games.

Lorenzo Cain and Paulo Orlando had two hits apiece for the World Series champions, who had won six of their previous eight.

Yordano Ventura (4-3) gave up three runs and six hits in six innings.

In Houston, Cole Hamels (5-0) won his career-best 12th straight decision. He fanned a season-high 11 in eight innings, allowing two runs one earned and five hits as the Rangers completed a three-game sweep.

Texas has won six straight from Houston and 14 of 16. The Astros have lost four straight overall.

Dallas Keuchel (2-6) gave up seven runs and nine hits in six innings, losing his fifth straight decision.

In St Louis, Zack Greinke (5-3) won for the fifth time in six starts, allowing one run and five hits in eight innings.

Paul Goldschmidt drove in a pair of runs and Michael Bourn had three hits as Arizona won a series in St Louis for the first time since April 18-20, 2003.

Jaime Garcia (3-4) gave up five runs and 10 hits in 2 1/3 innings.

In Anaheim, California, Jered Weaver (4-3) took a shutout into the seventh inning to win for the first time since April 26, and Carlos Perez homered, had three hits and drove in a career-high five runs.

Weaver allowed five hits in seven innings and struck out a season-high six, giving up Jonathan Schoop’s two-run homer in the seventh.

Ubaldo Jimenez (2-5) gave up six runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings.

In Oakland, California, Michael Pineda (2-5) allowed three runs and six hits in six innings to win for the first time since his opening start this season, Starlin Castro hit a tiebreaking, two-out single in the sixth off Jesse Hahn (1-2) and New York extended a winning streak to five for the first time since winning seven straight from last June 1-9.

Brian McCann and Jacoby Ellsbury homered for the Yankees (21-22), who swept the four-game series.

Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman pitched an inning each to complete a six-hitter, with Chapman getting three straight outs for his sixth save.

“Trying to win every tournament takes so much out of you,” the 25-year-old Alexandrian said. “I play more matches than any other player and that is tough.”

Elshorbagy also revealed that during his British Open title defence in March “every night before I slept my body was shaking, and I thought I had a temperature.”

But he didn’t. “It was just that my body was tired. It shows how much the sport takes out of you physically and mentally. I am most fragile when I’ve had too many matches, and to keep pushing is not easy,” he admitted. Three weeks ago he was “really stressed”, he says, from the pressure of trying to win the El Gouna Open final in his home country.

“I saw everyone coming to support me, and it really affected me. I remember when I finished warming up I told my mother I was really nervous, I was shaking.”

Elshorbagy overcame his physical difficulties at the British Open by improving his ability to vary the pace of his high-speed game, and his emotional crisis at El Gouna by a determination to fight to whatever last ounces of strength might remain.

The outcomes were a first ever victory over the brilliant Ramy Ashour in a best-of-five game match to win the British final, and a comeback from two games down to pip Greg Gaultier, the world champion from France, in a thrilling Red Sea showdown.