MAJOR LEAGUES
David Ortiz hit a pair of two-run homers — including his 400th in a Red Sox uniform — and drove in a career high-equaling six runs to power Boston past the Houston Astros 10-7 in their American League game.
Ortiz joined Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski as the only players to hit 400 homers while playing with the Red Sox.
Williams hit 521 homers and Yaz had 452 — both spent their entire careers with the Boston club.
Alex Wilson (1-0) earned the victory with 2-1/3 hitless innings of relief.
In Detroit, the Tigers downed Seattle 4-2 after David Price allowed just one run over eight innings to end the Mariners’ five-game winning streak.
Price (12-8) allowed three hits, struck out seven and walked three in his first game at Comerica Park since he was acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay last month. Joe Nathan worked the ninth for his 25th save, yielding Endy Chavez’s RBI single.
Also in the American League on Saturday, the New York Yankees ended a five-game losing streak after Derek Jeter hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning to seal a 3-2 victory for his side over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Brett Gardner opened the ninth with an infield single off Jake McGee (3-1) and advanced to second on a throwing error by second baseman Logan Forsythe. After failing to lay down a sacrifice bunt, Jeter put New York ahead with a single to right-center on a 2-2 pitch.
In other American League games, Albert Pujols and Howie Kendrick homered to power the Los Angeles Angels over the Texas Rangers 5-4, the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox 6-3, the Cleveland Indians shut out the Baltimore Orioles 6-0 and the Minnesota Twins had a 4-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
In the National League, Brewers pitcher Yovani Gallardo stayed in for eight innings, while Ryan Braun and Carlos Gomez homered as Milwaukee ended Clayton Kershaw’s streak of 11 straight victories by beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2.
Gallardo (8-6) allowed a run and six hits. The right-hander has won back-to-back starts for the first time since his first two outings of the season.
Elsewhere in the National League, the Washington Nationals edged the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3, the San Diego Padres defeated the St Louis Cardinals 9-5, the New York Mets downed the Chicago Cubs 7-3, the Miami Marlins beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-1 and the San Francisco Giants were 6-5 winners over the Philadelphia Phillies.
The game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Colorado Rockies was postponed.
In Atlanta, Chris Johnson drove in two runs with three hits and Julio Teheran threw six strong innings as the Braves edged the suddenly struggling Oakland Athletics 4-3 in their interleague clash.
The A’s, who began the day with the best record in the majors, matched their worst losing streak of the season by losing four in a row, having dropped six of seven overall.
Hong Kong-based cricket team Hung See this weekend found success in their matches in Taiwan, even if none of the results went their way. Hung See played the Chairman’s XI on Saturday morning, the Daredevils that afternoon and PCCT yesterday, with all three home teams winning. The team for Chinese players at the Happy Valley-based Craigengower Cricket Club sends teams on tour to “spread the game of cricket.” This weekend was Hung See’s second trip to Taiwan after visiting Tainan in 2016. “The club has been traveling to all parts of the world since 1982 and the annual tradition continues [with the Taiwan
Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei yesterday advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s doubles at the Australian Open, while Coco Gauff’s dreams of a first women’s singles title in Melbourne were crushed in the quarter-finals by Paula Badosa. World No. 2 Alexander Zverev was ruffled by a stray feather in his men’s singles quarter-final, but he refocused to beat 12th seed Tommy Paul and reach the semi-finals. Third seeds Hsieh and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia defeated Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania and Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 in 2 hours, 20 minutes to advance the semi-finals. Hsieh and Ostapenko converted eight of 14 break
The San Francisco Giants signed 18-year-old Taiwanese pitcher Yang Nien-hsi (陽念希) to a contract worth a total of US$500,000 (NT $16.39 million). At a press event in Taipei on Wednesday, Jan. 22, the Giants’ Pacific Rim Area scout Evan Hsueh (薛奕煌) presented Yang with a Giants jersey to celebrate the signing. The deal consisted of a contract worth US$450,000 plus a US$50,000 scholarship bonus. Yang, who stands at 188 centimeters tall and weighs 85 kilograms, is of Indigenous Amis descent. With his fastest pitch clocking in at 150 kilometers per hour, Yang had been on Hsueh’s radar since playing in the HuaNan Cup
HARD TO SAY GOODBYE: After Coco Gauff dispatched Belinda Bencic in the fourth round, she wrote ‘RIP TikTok USA’ and drew a broken heart on a television camera lens Defending champion Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan yesterday advanced to the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles at the Australian Open, while compatriot Chan Hao-ching on Saturday dominated her opponents in the second round, as world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka swept into the quarter-finals. Third seeds Hsieh and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia toppled Hungary’s Timea Babos and Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the US 6-4, 6-3, hitting 24 winners and converting three of seven break points in 1 hour, 18 minutes at 1573 Arena. Although rivals at last year’s Australian Open — where Hsieh and Belgium’s Elise Mertens beat Ostapenko and Ukraine’s Lyudmyla Kichenok 6-1, 7-5
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