Sykes leads Sea Dogs to 5th straight win

baseball

Phillip Sykes was 3-for-4 with 3 RBIs and Alex Vinellas drove in two runs in the second inning chasing four runs, and the Portland Sea Dogs won 8-5 against the New Hampshire Fisher-Cats on Sunday for their fifth straight win. Decorated. At Hadlock Field.

Portland had 11 hits, including five doubles. Sykes hit an RBI double and also hit a home run double.

Bikelman Gonzalez, in relief from Angel Bastardo, won the game with three scoreless innings, allowing only one hit and one walk, with four strikeouts. Ryan Zefferjahn had five strikeouts in the final two innings and earned his second save.

The Sea Dogs (9-4), ranked No. 1 in the Northeast Division, begin a six-game road series against No. 2 Hartford on Tuesday.

car racing

Formula One: Red Bull's Max Verstappen won the Chinese Grand Prix from pole position, his fourth win out of five races this season and 23rd win out of the last 27 races up to last season.

McLaren's Lando Norris finished second, around 14 seconds behind Verstappen, the eighth time in his career and still aiming for his first win. Verstappen's Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez finished third.

Indy car: Scott Dixon earned his 57th career victory in downtown Long Beach, Calif., moving him closer to joining AJ Foyt on the list of all-time IndyCar winners.

Foyt is IndyCar's winningest driver with 67 wins.

Dixon used a clever fuel-saving strategy and was chased for the final 20 laps by Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden, who seemed to have the speed to keep Dixon close. But the race changed completely when Colton Herta ran into the back of Newgarden as he went through a hairpin with traffic ahead and everyone slowed down. Herta and Alex Palou both passed Newgarden, with Herta finishing 0.9798 seconds behind Dixon.

tennis

Barcelona Open: A week after losing to Tsitsipas in the Monte Carlo Masters final, Casper Ruud got revenge on Stefanos Tsitsipas by winning the final 7-5, 6-3 in straight sets to claim the biggest title of his career.

BMW Open: Jan-Leonard Struff won his first ATP title at the age of 33 with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Taylor Fritz in Munich.

Porsche Grand Prix: Elena Rybakina won her third title of the season with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk in Stuttgart, Germany.

hockey

NHL: Carter Verhaeghe took the lead 58 seconds into the third period off a pinpoint pass from Aleksander Barkov, and Matthew Tkachuk added a goal and an assist for the visiting Florida Panthers in Game 1 of the first round. defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2. playoff series.

• Jimmy Vesey had a goal and an assist, Artemi Panarin also scored, and the New York Rangers defeated the Washington Capitals 4-1 in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.

soccer

England: Second-tier side Coventry almost pulled off the most unexpected comeback in FA Cup history, rallying from a three-goal deficit against Manchester United to force extra time after a 3-3 draw, but United won. They advanced to the final against rivals Manchester City. Shootout, 4-2.

• Trent Alexander-Arnold's superb free-kick earned Liverpool a 3-1 victory over a brilliant Fulham, moving them level on points with leaders Arsenal in the race for the Premier League title.

Arsenal and Liverpool both lead by one point over Manchester City, who both have a game in hand.

• Aston Villa further strengthened their bid to qualify for the Champions League with a 3-1 come-from-behind victory over Bournemouth at home.

The result further cemented Villa's place in fourth place, qualifying for the final Champions League spot. Villa are six points behind Tottenham with two games in hand.

Spain: Real Madrid took a big step toward winning the Spanish league with a 3-2 victory over visiting Barcelona thanks to a stoppage-time goal from Jude Bellingham.

Madrid are currently 11 points ahead of Barcelona going into the final six matches.

Road race

London Marathon: Kenya's Perez Jepchirchir has set a world record for women-only marathons, beating world record holder Tigst Assefa and two other rivals to win the London Marathon.

She finished in 2 hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds, with Assefa in second and Joycilin Jepkosgei in third.

This was more than four minutes slower than Assefa's women's all-around world record in Berlin last year, but it was the fastest women's marathon time ever, beating Mary Keitany's 2:17:01 set in London in 2017. Ta. The elite women's race in London will start approximately 30 minutes earlier than the elite men's race.

Kenya's Alexander Mutiso Munyao won the men's race in 2 hours 4 minutes 01 seconds.