SPORTS DIGEST
BASEBALL
The New York Yankees edged back to the top of the American League East as a monster sixth-inning powered them to victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. With the game tied at 5-5, the Yankees punished the struggles of Rays pitchers Diego Castillo and Ryne Stanek to score seven runs in the sixth on four hits and five walks. Every Yankees batter came to the plate at least once in the inning, with DJ Lemahieu the only one not to reach base. It helped the Yankees to a 13-5 win which puts them a half game ahead of the Rays at the top of the division..
MLB results Arizona Diamondbacks 3 San Francisco Giants 5 (10 Innings), Atlanta Braves 5 Milwaukee Brewers 9 (10 Innings), Boston Red Sox 4 Houston Astros 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Toronto Blue Jays 5, Cincinnati Reds 3 Los Angeles Dodgers 8, Cleveland Indians 10 Baltimore Orioles 0, LA Angels 1 Kansas City Royals 5, Miami Marlins 3 New York Mets 0, New York Yankees 13 Tampa Bay Rays 5, Philadelphia Phillies 7 Colorado Rockies 5, San Diego Padres 4 Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Seattle Mariners 7 Minnesota Twins 4, Texas Rangers 5 St Louis Cardinals 4 (10 Innings), Washington Nationals 5 Chicago Cubs 6.
BASKETBALL
The Toronto Raptors beat the Milwaukee Bucks 118-112 in double overtime to take the third game of the Eastern Conference finals. Kawhi Leonard top-scored with 36 points as the Raptors grabbed their first win in the conference finals and narrowed the Bucks’ best-of-seven series lead to 2-1. Leonard also grabbed nine rebounds, with five assists and two steals, while four of his team-mates also reached doubledigits - Pascal Siakam scored 25, Norman Powell came off the bench for 19, Marc Gasol added 16 and Kyle Lowry had 11 points. Game four of the series returns to the Scotiabank Arena this evening.
CYCLING
Sir Bradley Wiggins has admitted he is “baffled” by Simon Yates’ time-trial nightmare which has dramatically reduced his chances of winning this year’s Giro d’italia. The Michelton-scott rider is now 5:26 minutes behind race leader Valerio Conti and more than three-and-a-half off favourite Primo Roglic after Sunday’s stage to San Marino which Yates described as “a bit of a stinker”. Yates had high hopes of a second grand tour success to add to his overall victory in last year’s Vuelta a Espana, and Wiggins said he believed something must be seriously amiss. “I’m not having Yates’ performance [on Sunday],” he said. “It was a dreadful performance. He’s either sick, knee trouble, I don’t know.” However, prior to the resumption of the race today, Wiggins said Yates still has a shot of another major title. He added: “It’s kind of all messed up and the odd socks are all over the place, but if you read between the lines, there is a GC battle forming amongst the people we expected to see. It will kick off very soon I think, when we hit the mountains. It’s Roglic, [Vincenzo] Nibali, [Bauke] Mollema, and obviously Simon Yates, who has lost a bit of time.”
GOLF
Official World ranking: 1 Brooks Koepka (USA) 11.00pts, 2 Dustin Johnson (USA) 10.93, 3 Justin Rose (Eng) 8.75, 4 Rory Mcilroy (Nirl) 8.12, 5 Justin Thomas (USA) 7.42, 6 Tiger Woods (USA) 7.39, 7 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 6.98, 8 Bryson Dechambeau (USA) 6.71, 9 Xander Schauffele (USA) 6.17, 10 Rickie Fowler (USA) 5.67, 11 Jon Rahm (Spa) 5.52, 12 Matt Kuchar (USA) 5.42, 13 Paul Casey (Eng) 5.34, 14 Patrick Cantlay (USA) 5.11, 15 Jason Day (Aus) 4.94, 16 Tony Finau (USA) 4.78, 17 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng) 4.70, 18 Bubba Watson (USA) 4.33, 19 Webb Simpson (USA) 4.02, 20 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 4.01.
TENNIS
ATP Champions Rankings 2019: 1 Novak Djokovic (Ser) 12355pts, 2 Rafael Nadal (Spa) 7945, 3 Roger Federer (Swi) 5950, 4 Dominic Thiem (Aut) 4845, 5 Alexander Zverev (Ger) 4155, 6 Stefanos Tsitsipas (Gre) 4080, 7 Kei Nishikori (Jpn) 3860, 8 Kevin Anderson (Rsa) 3745, 9 Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) 3235, 10 John Isner (USA) 2940, 11 Fabio Fognini (Ita) 2830, 12 Karen Khachanov (Rus) 2800, 13 Marin Cilic (Cro) 2710, 14 Daniil Medvedev (Rus) 2625, 15 Borna Coric (Cro) 2525.
WTA Rankings: 1 Naomi Osaka (Jpn) 6486pts, 2 Karolina Pliskova (Cze) 5685, 3 Simona Halep (Rom) 5533, 4 Kiki Bertens (Ned) 5405, 5 Angelique Kerber (Ger) 5095, 6 Petra Kvitova (Cze) 5055, 7 Sloane Stephens (USA) 4552, 8 Ashleigh Barty (Aus) 4430, 9 Elina Svitolina (Ukr) 3967, 10 Serena Williams (USA) 3521, 11 Aryna Sabalenka (Blr) 3500, 12 Anastasija Sevastova (Lat) 3136, 13 Caroline Wozniacki (Den) 3063, 14 Madison Keys (USA) 2965, 15 Belinda Bencic (Swi) 2893.