Update on the latest sports
APMLB-SCHEDULE
Cabrera tries for 500th homer vs Ohtani
UNDATED (AP) — Miguel Cabrera’s next attempt to reach 500 career home runs comes against Los Angeles Angels two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani (SHOH’-hay oh-TAH’-nee) — who is 7-1 with a 2.93 ERA on the mound and leads the majors with 39 homers this season.
Cabrera, stuck on 499, went 0 for 2 in Detroit’s 8-2 loss to the Angels Tuesday night.
Although Ohtani’s home run pace has slowed in the second half of the season, his pitching is on the upswing. He has won three consecutive mound starts and will try to extend that streak in Detroit. In five pitching starts since July 6, the right-hander is 4-0 with a 1.69 ERA. At the plate, he has just two homers in August and six since the All-Star Game at Coors Field, where he made history by batting leadoff and starting on the mound.
In other highlights of Wednesday’s schedule:
— Jake Arrieta (ehr-ee-ET’-uh) makes his first start for San Diego since signing with the Padres on Monday following his release by the Chicago Cubs. He’ll face Charlie Blackmon and the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The 2015 NL Cy Young Award winner was 5-11 with a 6.88 ERA for the Cubs this season. San Diego holds a 1 1/2-game lead over Cincinnati for the second NL wild card.
— Giancarlo Stanton and the New York Yankees go for a three-game sweep of Boston after winning both games of a day-night doubleheader to move percentage points ahead of the rival Red Sox for an AL wild-card spot. The Yankees have won five straight and 12 of 15 to narrowly overtake Boston for second place in the AL East. The Yankees were 10 1/2 games behind first-place Boston on July 5 but have gone 26-11 since. Nick Pivetta pitches for the Red Sox against Andrew Heaney in the series finale at Yankee Stadium.
— Baltimore has dropped 13 in a row heading into another game at first-place Tampa Bay, which routed the Orioles 10-0 on Tuesday night. Baltimore has been outscored 123-36 during the skid and is in danger of falling below Arizona as the worst team in the majors. The Orioles lost 14 in a row from May 18-31. Mike Zunino has homered in five straight games for the Rays, who are 13-1 against Baltimore this season. Rays left-hander Ryan Yarbrough is set to come off the COVID-19 IL and pitch against Baltimore right-hander Spenser Watkins. Tampa Bay holds a season-high five-game lead in the AL East over Boston and the Yankees.
TENNIS-THIEM OUT
Defending champion Thiem to miss US Open with wrist injury
NEW YORK (AP) — Defending champion Dominic Thiem (teem) has pulled out of the U.S. Open, saying he will miss the rest of the year because of a right wrist injury.
The No. 6-ranked Thiem made the announcement Wednesday in a social media post. A statement from his management company described the injury as a detachment of the posterior sheath of the ulnar side of the right wrist.
Thiem was hurt in June while playing in the Mallorca (mah-YOHR’-kah) Open and said the pain returned last week after he hit a ball during training. Doctors recommended he wear a wrist splint for another six weeks before resuming training.
The 27-year-old from Austria won his first major title last year at Flushing Meadows. He beat Alexander Zverev by becoming the first player to come from two sets down in the U.S. Open final since Pancho Gonzales in 1949.
NYC MARATHON-SEIDEL
Olympic bronze medalist Seidel to run NYC Marathon
NEW YORK (AP) — Olympic bronze medalist Molly Seidel is one of several standout American women planning to run the New York City Marathon on Nov. 7.
Fellow U.S. Olympians Aliphine Tuliamuk, Sally Kipyego and Emily Sisson also are in the women’s field announced Wednesday. So is 2018 Boston Marathon winner Des Linden. Four-time champion Mary Keitany of Kenya won’t participate for the first time since 2013.
Seidel stunned even herself with a third-place finish in Tokyo in just the third 26.2-mile race of her career. An NCAA Division I champion at Notre Dame in the 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000-meter events, she’s now the headliner for the NYC Marathon’s 50th running in her five-borough debut.
The men’s professional field hasn’t yet been announced.
F1-JAPANESE GP CANCELED
Japanese GP canceled because of coronavirus pandemic
TOKYO (AP) — This year’s Japanese Grand Prix has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The race in Suzuka had been scheduled for Oct. 10.
The decision creates another dent in Formula One′s calendar of Asia-based races following the cancellation of the Australian and Singapore GPs and the indefinite postponement of the Chinese GP in Shanghai. Organizers say the Japanese government made the decision following discussions with the race promoter.
Formula One says it is working on the details of a revised calendar.
