Новости за 16.04.2017

TORONTO — Don’t be surprised if all the Baltimore Orioles are soon swinging the same style of bat used by rookie Trey Mancini. Mancini hit two home runs, Dylan Bundy pitched six shutout innings and the Orioles beat the struggling Toronto Blue Jays 11-4 on Sunday. Mancini connected twice for the second time in three

CLEVELAND — Francisco Rodriguez thought the Detroit Tigers proved a point to their biggest rival. Matthew Boyd allowed one run in six innings, Alex Avila hit a two-run homer and Detroit defeated the Cleveland Indians 4-1 on Sunday to take two of three from the AL champions. Cleveland went 14-4 against Detroit last year as

MIAMI — Rookie J.T. Riddle launched a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning and the Miami Marlins, after coming close to holding the New York Mets without a hit, bounced back for a 4-2 win Sunday. The Marlins won the final three of a four-game series. Marlins starter Dan Straily and three

BOSTON — Red Sox DH Hanley Ramirez has left the game favoring his left leg after rounding second base on Mitch Moreland’s go-ahead single in the seventh inning against Tampa Bay on Sunday. Ramirez reached on a walk and ran hard to second, taking the turn before he came up limping. He grabbed the back

CINCINNATI — Ryan Braun hit a go-ahead, two-run homer, Eric Thames added a solo shot for his fifth home run of the series and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-2 Sunday for their fifth win in six games. Thames reached on a fielding error by Arismendy Alcantara in the third inning — the

ATLANTA — Bartolo Colon allowed only hit in seven dominant innings, Brandon Phillips drove in three runs with three hits and the Atlanta Braves beat the San Diego Padres 9-2 on Sunday for their fourth straight win. Colon (1-1) overpowered the Padres in his home debut with the Braves. He signed a $12.5 million, one-year

NEW YORK — Fifth Avenue came alive on Easter Sunday with outlandish costumes mingling with elegant bonnets fit for St. Patrick’s Cathedral and nearby churches. The secular spectacle was a takeoff on a New York tradition from the 1800s, when the city’s elite paraded their Sunday best to mark the holiday. New York’s Easter parade

HONOLULU — A man who witnessed a Hawaii shark attack says the victim is a French surfer who had part of a leg amputated but is in remarkably good spirits. Mac Pigott tells KHON-TV (http://bit.ly/2oNEi6y ) he visited the victim on Saturday in a hospital on the island of Kauai following the attack at Davidson’s

Angel McCoughtry scored 20 points, Nneka Ogwumike added 19, and Dynamo Kursk beat Fenerbahce 77-63 to win the EuroLeague women championship on Sunday. Trailing 10-0, Kursk scored 31 of the next 42 points to take command. After trailing by 18, Fenerbahce got within 62-60 with 7:27 left, but Sandrine Gruda missed a shot that would

WASHINGTON — John Wall scored a playoff career-high 32 points and Markieff Morris added 21 in his NBA playoff debut as the Washington Wizards beat the Atlanta Hawks 114-107 Sunday in Game 1 of their first-round series. Wall scored 15 points in the third quarter and finished with 14 assists in the best playoff performance

SAKHIR, Bahrain — Spanish driver Carlos Sainz Jr. has been given a three-place grid penalty for the next race in Russia after stewards ruled that he crashed into Canadian Lance Stroll during Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Sainz was emerging from the pitstop and his Toro Rosso car hit Stroll’s Williams car from the side on

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. — The Latest on a male calf born to April the giraffe at a New York zoo (all times local): 3:30 p.m. The male calf born to April the giraffe is nursing well and has had his first vet checkup. Animal Adventure Park posted on its Facebook page Sunday that the calf weighs

He’s played Luke Skywalker and the Joker, but Mark Hamill has one role he’d like to add to his resume: That of “Star Wars” creator George Lucas. The actor said Sunday that he would love to play Lucas in a movie about his life when a fan at the Star Wars Celebration event in Orlando,

HOUSTON — A couple flying to Costa Rica for their wedding later this week were removed from a United Airlines flight in Houston for not following crew instructions. Passenger Michael Hohl tells Houston television station KHOU (http://bit.ly/2pqIeIa) he and his fiancé moved to empty seats because another passenger was asleep Saturday in their ticketed seats.

LOS ANGELES — Bruce Langhorne, an influential session guitarist who often collaborated with Bob Dylan and inspired his song “Mr. Tambourine Man,” has died. He was 78. Family friend Cynthia Riddle said Sunday that Langhorne died Friday at his home in Venice, California, of kidney failure. The musical prodigy was born in Tallahassee, Florida, but

MIAMI — Neil Walker ended the Miami Marlins’ no-hit bid against the New York Mets on Sunday when he singled up the middle off reliever Brad Ziegler with two outs in the eighth inning. Dan Straily, Jarlin Garcia and Kyle Barraclough had kept the Mets hitless through seven innings. Straily, who entered with a 7.56

BOULDER, Colo. — A home in the foothills northwest of Denver where three people were found slain was specifically targeted, investigators said Sunday. Deputies conducting a welfare check at the request of a worried acquaintance found two men and a woman dead in the house Saturday, and investigators quickly ruled out murder-suicide as a possibility.

CINCINNATI — Left-hander Brandon Finnegan became the fourth Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher to go on the disabled list and is expected to miss at least a month because of a strained left shoulder. Finnegan lasted just one inning of the Reds’ 7-5 win over the Brewers on Saturday and joined right-hander Rookie Davis on the

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Houston Astros and Athletics have been postponed because of rain, Oakland’s first home rainout since April 2014. Rain began early in the morning and was expected to continue throughout Sunday. The postponed was announced two hours before the scheduled first pitch. No makeup date has been announced. “You always try to

BOSTON — Right-hander Jake Odorizzi has been put on the 10-day disabled list by the Tampa Bay Rays because of a strained left hamstring. Odorizzi left his start Saturday after throwing the first pitch of the second inning during Boston’s 2-1 win over the Rays. Manager Kevin Cash said after the game that “we anticipate

MANCHESTER, England — A tactical masterclass from Jose Mourinho ensured the path to the English Premier League title will no longer be a procession for his former club, Chelsea. Only four points separate Chelsea and second-placed Tottenham with six games left after Manchester United’s 2-0 win over the lackluster leaders opened up the title race

OAKLAND, Calif. — Portland center Jusuf Nurkic is out for Game 1 of the Trail Blazers’ playoff series at Golden State after missing the last seven games of the regular season with a nondisplaced fracture in his right leg. Nurkic arrived at Oracle Arena on Sunday and made his way directly to the Blazers’ locker

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Guatemalan man and two of his former co-workers have filed a federal lawsuit against a Tennessee landscaping company, accusing the firm of trafficking immigrants for forced labor. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2pmAfi1) that Mynor Chox said he was treated like a servant and threatened with deportation if he complained about working conditions

AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s foreign minister has assured his Iraqi counterpart that the kingdom seeks to maintain good relations, after Jordanian protesters burned pictures of Shiite Muslim leaders, including a former Iraqi prime minister. The official news agency Petra says Ayman Safadi told Iraq’s Ibrahim al-Jaafari that those involved were detained and would face trial.

ST. ALBANS, Vt. — U.S dairy farmers already struggling with low milk prices worry President Donald Trump’s talk of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement could harm trade to Mexico, its biggest export market. About 15 percent of dairy production in the United States is exported with one-third valued at $1.2 billion going to