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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Wednesday, August 10, 2016 Olympics Phelps swims to two more golds, Ledecky adds one By GENARO C. ARMAS Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Good old Michael Phelps, golden again. For teenagers Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles, their star turns in the Summer Olympics might be just beginning. From the pool to the gymnastics loor, Team USA had nice day at the Rio de Janeiro Games. Not all the American stars were winners Tuesday, though. Serena Williams lost on the tennis court and the U.S. women’s soccer team gave up a late goal and ended up in a draw with Colombia. But a new generation of U.S. athletes is ready to take up the banner of Olympic standard-bearer from Phelps, a grizzled veteran at 31. Phelps earned his 20th career gold medal after taking the 200-meter butterly. He erased the bad memories from his loss in the same race in London to South African Chad le Clos. Phelps got off to a rousing start at the Rio Games by AP Photo/Martin Meissner South Africa’s Chad Le Clos, top, looks to United States’ gold medal winner Michael Phelps in the men’s 200-meter butterly inal during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. leading his 4x100 freestyle team to the gold medal on Sunday. On Tuesday, Phelps’ face bared a familiar scowl as he walked out on to the deck. He held off Japan’s Masato Sakai by four-hundredths of a second, with Hungary’s Tamas Kenderesi taking the bronze. His 21st gold came later Tuesday night after swim- ming the anchor leg on the 4x200-meter relay. Ledecky strode atop the medal podium again with a bright smile after taking gold for winning the 200-meter freestyle. Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden claimed the silver and Emma McKeon of Australia took the bronze. Ledecky, just 19, won her second gold. At this pace, she could challenge Phelps’ medal haul someday. Other highlights from Day 4 at the Rio Games: SOUR SERENA : Williams shanked shots all over the court in getting upset by Elina Svitolina of Ukraine. The top-ranked American won’t get a chance to defend the gold she won in London. Williams looked out of sorts and irritated, accu- mulating 37 unforced errors. She had ive double-faults in one game alone in the 6-4, 6-3 loss to the 20th-ranked Svitolina. Williams wiped her forehead, picked up her rackets and headed back quickly to the locker room. Svitolina, who had never before played in an Olympics, smiled and stuck her arms out in front of her, palms up, as if waking up from a dream. ON THE PITCH : Catalina Usme beat U.S. goalie Hope Solo on a pair of free kicks to draw Colombia to a 2-2 tie with the United States. The irst, in the 26th minute, was Colombia’s irst ever Olympic goal, and irst ever goal against the United States. Team USA still emerged at the top of Group G of the women’s soccer tournament and will play in the quarterinals. Host country Brazil played to a 0-0 draw with South Africa. The Brazilians had already secured a spot in the women’s soccer quar- terinals before their match. The team and star Marta have drawn more attention while Brazil’s men have struggled at the Olympics. The women’s team will face Australia in a quarterinal match on Friday. RUGBY STUNNER : Sonny Bill Williams was helped off with an ankle injury during New Zealand’s shocking 14-12 loss to Japan in its irst game of rugby sevens. New Zealand is a 12-time world series champion and one of the top contenders for the irst rugby medals awarded at an Olympics in 92 years. PELE IMPROVING: Pele tweeted that he hopes to appear at the closing ceremony after missing the opening because of his health. The soccer great was the organizers’ preferred choice to light the cauldron, but irst cited sponsorship commitments and later health concerns for staying away. GYMNASTICS: United States goes mistake-free in road to gold POOL WATER: Cause behind sudden color change still unknown Continued from 1B 73-year-old is stepping down after the games. Watching from the front row of the Rio Olympic Arena in a red jumpsuit, Karolyi watched perhaps her greatest team seem totally immune to the pressure. Maybe that’s because for Hernandez, Biles, Gabby Douglas, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman, the meets are the fun part of their jobs. The toughest compe- titions happen in quiet at the regular training camps Karolyi carefully oversees. When the lights come on, it’s time to let loose. Biles admitted there were nerves before Sunday’s preliminaries, though it hardly looked like it while the Americans posted the highest score by more than nine points. The only moment of tension on Tuesday came early. When Hernandez was introduced to the crowd, Raisman nudged her and told her to wave, which the 16-year-old did with a toothy smile. Barely ive minutes later, the youngest member of Team USA was all busi- ness. Her double-twisting Yurchenko — basically a roundoff into a pair of twists — put the machine in motion. Raisman, who won three medals in London four years ago and seemed to be on the outside looking in as recently as this spring, followed with perhaps the inest vault of her long career. When Biles drilled her Amanar and put up a 15.933 — the highest of the night — the U.S. was already on top of the lead- erboard. Yet it’s not just enough for Karolyi for her team to win. She stopped measuring the Americans against everyone else long ago. Karolyi wants there to be no doubt. And there wasn’t. The U.S. went through 28 rotations over two days, just like the other seven teams that made the team inal. Unlike the other seven, the Americans didn’t slip off uneven bars. They didn’t hop off balance beams. It’s that ability to avoid mistakes when it counts that’s as much a testament to Karolyi’s meticulous prepa- ration as their dynamic and unparalleled gymnastics. While the gold was never in doubt, you wouldn’t have known about it by watching Karolyi. She clutched the white railing in front of her during Biles’ loor routine, nodding with approval with each gravity-escaping tumbling pass. Russia, which wasn’t sure it would even be included in the games until just days before the opening ceremonies as the IOC and sport federations sorted out punishments for a national doping scandal, won silver. China took bronze. Continued from 1B Olympics France 3, New Zealand 0 South Africa 0, Brazil 0 China 0, Sweden 0 ——— SWIMMING Men 200m Butterly Final 1. Michael Phelps, United States, 1:53.36. 2. Masato Sakai, Japan, 1:53.40. 3. Tamas Kenderesi, Hungary, 1:53.62. 4x200m Freestyle Relay Final 1. United States (Ryan Lochte; Francis Haas; Conor Dwyer; Michael Phelps), 7:00.66. 2. Britain (Stephen Milne; Duncan Scott; Dan Wallace; James Guy), 7:03.13. 3. Japan (Kosuke Hagino; Yuki Kobori; Naito Ehara; Takeshi Matsuda), 7:03.50. Women 200m Freestyle Final 1. Kathleen Ledecky, United States, 1:53.73. 2. Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden, 1:54.08. 3. Emma McKeon, Australia, 1:54.92. 200m Individual Medley Final 1. Katinka Hosszu, Hungary, 2:06.58. 2. Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Britain, 2:06.88. 3. Madeline Dirado, United States, 2:08.79. 4. Melanie Margalis, United States, 2:09.21. ——— DIVING Women’s Synchronized 10m Platform Final 1. China (Huixia Liu; Ruolin Chen), 354.00. 2. Malaysia (Jun Hoong Cheong; Pandele- la Rinong Pamg), 344.34. 3. Canada (Meaghan Benfeito; Roseline Filion), 336.18. 7. United States (Amelia Cozad; Jessica Parratto), 301.02. ——— WATER POLO Women Hungary 13, China 11 Italy 9, Brazil 3 United States 11, Spain 4 Australia 14, Russia 4 ——— GYMNASTICS Women’s Team Final 1. United States (Simone Biles; Lauren Hernandez; Alexandra Raisman; Gabrielle Douglas; Madison Kocian), 184.897. 2. Russia (Angelina Melnikova; Maria Paseka; Seda Tutkhalian; Aliya Mustaina; Daria Spiridonova), 176.688. 3. China (Yilin Fan; Chunsong Shang; Yan Wang; Yi Mao; Jiaxin Tan), 176.003. ——— VOLLEYBALL Men Argentina 3, Russia 1 (25-18, 18-25, 25-18, 25-21) France 3, Mexico 0 (25-18, 25-12, 25-22) Italy 3, United States 1 (28-26, 20-25, 25-23, 25-23) Poland 3, Iran 2 (25-17, 25-23, 23-25, 20-25, 18-16) Egypt 3, Cuba 0 (25-22, 25-15, 25-22) Brazil 3, Canada 1 (24-26, 25-18, 25-22, 25-17) ——— BEACH VOLLEYBALL Men Pool C Phil Dalhausser and Nicholas Lucena, United States, def. Rodolfo Lombardo Ontiveros Gomez and Juan Ramon Virgen Pulido, Mexico, 21-14, 21-17. Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo, Italy, def. Choaib Belhaj Salah and Mohamed Arafat Naceur, Tunisia, 21-17, 21-13. Pool D Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk, Canada, def. Evandro Goncalves Oliveira Junior and Pedro Solberg, Brazil, 17-21, 21-18, 16-14. Nivaldo Nadhir Diaz Gomez and Sergio Reynaldo Gonzalez Bayard, Cuba, def. Janis Smedins and Aleksandrs Samoilovs, Latvia, 23-21, 19-21, 15-9. Pool E Reinder Nummerdor and Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands, def. Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel, Poland, 21-17, 19-21, 15-9. Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Konstantin Semenov, Russia, def. Marco Grimalt and Esteban Grimalt, Chile, 21-17, 21-14. Women Pool A Monika Brzostek and Kinga Kolosinska, Poland, def. Evgenia Ukolova and Ekaterina Birlova, Russia, 21-19, 21-18. Larissa Franca Maestrini and Talita Rocha, Brazil, def. Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweat, United States, 21-16, 21-13. Pool D Marta Menegatti and Laura Giombini, Italy, def. Doaa Elghobashy and Nada Meawad, Egypt, 21-10, 21-13. Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst, Ger- many, def. Jamie Lynn Broder and Kristina Valjas, Canada, 21-17, 21-11. Pool E Karla Borger and Britta Buthe, Germany, def. Sophie van Gestel and Jantine van der Vlist, Netherlands, 21-19, 21-14. Heather Bansley and Sarah Pavan, Canada, def. Joana Heidrich and Nadine Zumkehr, Switzerland, 21-18, 21-18. ——— EQUESTRIAN Eventing Individual Final 1. Michael Jung (SAM FBW), Germany, 40.90 2. Astier Nicolas (PIAF DE B’NEVILLE), France, 42.00 3. Phillip Dutton (MIGHTY NICE), United States, 43.60 Other Americans 16. Boyd Martin (BLACKFOOT MYSTERY), United States, 47.70 49. Clark Montgomery (LOUGHAN GLEN), United States, 46.60 59. Lauren Kieffer (VERONICA), United States, 47.30 Eventing Team Final 1. France, 169.00 (Karim Laghouag, EN- TEBBE; Thibaut Vallette, QING DU BRIOT; Mathieu Lemoine, BART L; Astier Nicolas, PIAF DE B’NEVILLE) 2. Germany, 172.80 (Julia Krajewski, SAMOURAI DU THOT; Sandra Auffarth, OPGUN LOUVO; Ingrid Klimke, HALE-BOB OLD; Michael Jung, SAM FBW) 3. Australia, 175.30 (Shane Rose, CP QUALIFIED; Stuart Tinney, PLUTO MIO; Sam Grifiths, PAULANK BROCKAGH; Christopher Burton, SANTANO II) 12. United States, 1106.70 (Clark Mont- gomery, LOUGHAN GLEN; Lauren Kieffer, VERONICA; Boyd Martin, BLACKFOOT MYSTERY; Phillip Dutton, MIGHTY NICE) ——— SHOOTING Women’s 25m Pistol Bronze Medal Heidi Diethelm Gerber, Switzerland, def. Jingjing Zhang, China, 8-4. Gold Medal Anna Korakaki, Greece, def. Monika Karsch, Germany, 8-6. ——— JUDO Men -81 kg Bronze Medal A Sergiu Toma, United Arab Emirates, def. Matteo Marconcini, Italy, Ippon, Sumi-gaeshi, 2:16. Bronze Medal B Takanori Nagase, Japan, def. Avtandili Tchrikishvili, Georgia, Yuko, Uchi-mata, 5:00. Gold Medal Khasan Khalmurzaev, Russia, def. Travis Stevens, United States, Ippon, Uchi-mata, 2:42. Women -63 kg Bronze Medal A Yarden Gerbi, Israel, def. Miku Tashiro, Japan, Wazari, Ouchi-gaeshi, 4:00. Bronze Medal B Anicka van Emden, Netherlands, def. lagoons, not the pools. A statement from Olympic organizers said water tests were conducted and there was no risk to athletes. They couldn’t explain the color change, but said it’s being investigated. “We don’t know exactly what happened,” organizing committee spokesman Mario Andrada said. “And we don’t know yet why the pool changed colors. “If it were green and yellow, we would know it was a patriotic thing,” Andrada joked, referring to Brazil’s national colors. “We did test the water using the same parameters we do every day, and the results were the same as we got when the pool was blue.” Canada team leader Mitch Geller suspected the cause was algae that multi- plied quickly in the day’s warm and sunny conditions. “Everybody was scratching their heads going, ‘What’s going on?”’ he said. “I think that the ilter is busted, but I’m not sure. It’s not really dangerous. It’s not like it’s toxic or dirty or any of that. It seemed to get worse over the course of the competition.” The kale-colored water wasn’t just a cosmetic nuisance; it was so dark that divers couldn’t see the bottom of the pool. Chen Ruolin, who teamed to win gold with Liu Huixia, said it didn’t affect them. Paola Espinosa of Mexico, competing in her fourth Olympics, noticed the pool getting increas- ingly darker throughout the six-round competition. But she said the water didn’t smell or affect her skin. “I haven’t seen anything like it before,” Espinosa said. “But it’s Brazil and everything is green down here, so maybe it was a decoration to make it look pretty.” American Jessica Parratto wears contacts and said the water didn’t burn her eyes. Bronze medalists Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion of Canada tried not to laugh as they gazed at the water from atop the 33-foot tower. They liked that the dark green color offered a helpful contrast with the blue sky. “The only thing we said is don’t open your mouth in the water, just in case,” Benfeito said. Geller said a Canadian pool expert was coming in Wednesday and he would offer to help Rio organizers chemically treat the water if there’s a problem with the ilter. “I don’t know what it’s going to look like tomorrow,” he said. “I hope it’s not a swamp.” SCOREBOARD ON TELEVISION TODAY NBC — Men’s Beach Volleyball - Gibb/ Patterson (U.S.) vs. Herrera/Gavira (Spain) (LIVE); Men’s Water Polo - U.S. vs. France (LIVE); Swimming - Qualifying Heats (LIVE); Women’s Volleyball - U.S. vs. Serbia (LIVE); Women’s Cycling - Road Race Time Trial; Canoe/Kayak - Whitewater Gold Medal Final; Rowing - Gold Medal Finals, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Women’s Beach Volleyball - Walsh Jennings/Ross (U.S.) vs. Forrer/Verge-De- pre (Switzerland) (LIVE); Swimming (LIVE): Men’s 200m Breaststroke - Gold Medal Final, Women’s 100m Freestyle - Semiinals, Men’s 200m Backstroke - Semiinals, Women’s 200m Butterly - Gold Medal Final, Men’s 100m Freestyle - Gold Medal Final, Women’s 200m Breast- stroke - Semiinals, Men’s 200m Individual Medley - Semiinals, Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay - Gold Medal Final; Men’s Gymnastics - Individual All-Around Gold Medal Final, 8 p.m.-Midnight. Men’s Diving - Springboard Synchronized Gold Medal Final, 12:35-1:35 a.m. NBCSN — Women’s Cycling - Road Race Time Trial (LIVE); Men’s Cycling - Road Race Time Trial (LIVE); Men’s Soccer - Argentina vs. Honduras (LIVE); Men’s Fencing - Individual Sabre Qualifying; Women’s Basketball - U.S. vs. Serbia (LIVE); Women’s Field Hockey - U.S. vs. Japan (LIVE); Women’s Table Tennis - Singles Semiinals; Men’s Basketball - U.S. vs. Australia (LIVE); Boxing - Elimination Matches; Men’s Fencing - Individual Sabre Gold Medal Final; Men’s Soccer - Denmark vs. Brazil (LIVE); Women’s Table Tennis - Singles Final, 7:30 a.m.-Midnight USA — Beach Volleyball - Preliminary Round; Women’s Handball - Brazil vs. Spain; Archery - Individual Eliminations (LIVE); Men’s Rugby - Preliminary Round (LIVE); Men’s Basketball - Serbia vs. France (LIVE); Beach Volleyball - Preliminary Round (LIVE); Men’s Shooting - Double Trap Gold Medal Finals; Men’s Rugby - Quarterinals (LIVE), 9 a.m.-5 p.m. MSNBC — Beach Volleyball - Preliminary Round (LIVE); Men’s Water Polo - Montene- gro vs. Italy; Women’s Table Tennis - Singles Semiinal; Men’s Soccer - South Korea vs. Mexico (LIVE), Noon-5 p.m. CNBC — Men’s Rugby - Quarterinals (LIVE); Archery - Individual Eliminations; Women’s Fencing - Individual Foil Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Sailing, 5-8 p.m. GOLF CHANNEL — Golf Central Live From the Olympics, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. & 6-8 p.m. BRAVO — Tennis (LIVE), 9:30 a.m.-10 p.m. NBC BASKETBALL CHANNEL — Men’s Basketball - Serbia vs. France, Australia vs. U.S. (LIVE), Venezuela vs. China (LIVE); Women’s Basketball - China vs. Spain (LIVE), China vs. Spain encore, U.S. vs. Serbia (LIVE), Senegal vs. Canada, 11:15 a.m.-11:15 p.m. NBC SOCCER CHANNEL — Men’s Soccer - Argentina vs. Honduras (LIVE), Al- geria vs. Portugal, South Korea vs. Mexico (LIVE), Germany vs. Fiji, Japan vs. Sweden (LIVE), Colombia vs. Nigeria, Denmark vs. Brazil (LIVE), Algeria vs. Portugal encore, Germany vs. Fiji encore, Colombia vs. Nige- ria encore, Russia vs. Iraq, Noon-5 a.m. TELEMUNDO — News Recap; Men’s Soccer - Argentina vs. Honduras; Boxing -Elimination Matches; Men’s Soccer - South Korea vs. Mexico (LIVE), 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. NBC UNIVERSO — Men’s Soccer - South Korea vs. Mexico (LIVE); Boxing - Elimina- tion Matches; Men’s Soccer - Colombia vs. Nigeria, Denmark vs. Brazil, 2:30-11 p.m. Tuesday’s scores and results SOCCER Women Australia 6, Zimbabwe 1 Canada 2, Germany 1 Colombia 2, United States 2 Mariana Silva, Brazil, Yuko, Ippon-seoi-nage, 4:00. Gold Medal Tina Trstenjak, Slovenia, def. Clarisse Agbegnenou, France, Ippon, Kuzure-ka- mi-shiho-gatame, 1:45. ——— ARCHERY Men’s Individual 1/16 Eliminations Atanu Das, India, def. Adrian Andres Puentes Perez, Cuba, 6-4. Seungyun Lee, South Korea, def. Miguel Alvarino Garcia, Spain, 7-1. Ricardo Soto, Chile, def. Bernardo Olivei- ra, Brazil, 7-1. Taylor Worth, Australia, def. Elias Malave, Venezuela, 6-4. Brady Ellison, United States, def. Jake Kaminski, United States, 6-2. Women’s Individual 1/16 Eliminations Inna Stepanova, Russia, def. Ksenia Perova, Russia, 7-3. Hui Cao, China, def. Tuiana Dashidorzhie- va, Russia, 6-4. Naomi Folkard, Britain, def. Kaori Kawana- ka, Japan, 6-0. Un Ju Kang, North Korea, def. Christine Bjerendal, Sweden, 6-2. Hyejin Chang, South Korea, def. Lidiia Sichenikova, Ukraine, 6-2. ——— FENCING Men’s Eppe Bronze Medal Gauthier Grumier, France, def. Benjamin Steffen, Switzerland, 15-11. Gold Medal Sangyoung Park, South Korea, def. Geza Imre, Hungary, 15-14. ——— CANOEING Canoe Single (C1) Men Final 1. Denis Gargaud Chanut, France, 94.17. 2. Matej Benus, Slovakia, 95.02. 3. Takuya Haneda, Japan, 97.44. 7. Casey Eichfeld, United States, 99.69. ——— BOXING Men’s Light (60kg) Round of 16 Carlos Zenon Balderas Jr., United States, def. Daisuke Narimatsu, Japan, 3-0. Men’s Middle (75kg) Round of 32 Krishan Vikas, India, def. Charles Albert Shone Conwell, United States, 3-0. ——— TABLE TENNIS Men’s Singles Quarterinals Jun Mizutani, Japan, def. Marcos Freitas, Portugal, 11-4, 9-11, 11-3, 11-8, 10-12, 11-2. Vladimir Samsonov, Belarus, def. Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Germany, 8-11, 11-7, 19-17, 4-11, 11-2, 14-12. Jike Zhang, China, def. Koki Niwa, Japan, 5-11, 11-4, 11-7, 11-7, 11-4. Long Ma, China, def. Aruna Quadri, Nigeria, 11-4, 11-2, 11-6, 11-7. Women’s Singles Quarterinals Ning Ding, China, def. Ying Han, Germany, 11-8, 11-5, 11-3, 11-7. Song I Kim, North Korea, def. Mengyu Yu, Singapore, 11-8, 6-11, 11-5, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6. Xiaoxia Li, China, def. I-Ching Cheng, Taiwan, 11-5, 11-5, 11-6, 11-6. Ai Fukuhara, Japan, def. Tianwei Feng, Singapore, 14-12, 11-8, 11-7, 11-5. ——— TENNIS Singles Men Second Round Evgeny Donskoy, Russia, def. David Ferrer (7), Spain, 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5. Gilles Simon (15), France, def. Yuichi Sugita, Japan, 7-6 (3), 6-2. Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Juan Mona- co, Argentina, 6-3, 6-1. Steve Johnson (12), United States, def. Gastao Elias, Portugal, 6-3, 6-4. Rafael Nadal (3), Spain, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-3, 6-3. David Gofin (8), Belgium, def. Dudi Sela, Israel, 6-3, 6-3. Fabio Fognini, Italy, def. Benoit Paire (16), France, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, def. Pablo Cuevas (11), Uruguay, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Women Third Round Madison Keys (7), United States, def. Car- la Suarez Navarro (9), Spain, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Petra Kvitova (11), Czech Republic, def. Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, def. Garbine Muguruza (3), Spain, 6-1, 6-1. Johanna Konta (10), Britain, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova (8), Russia, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5. Angelique Kerber (2), Germany, def. Sam Stosur (13), Australia, 6-0, 7-5. Elina Svitolina (15), Ukraine, def. Serena Williams (1), United States, 6-4, 6-3. Doubles Men Quarterinals Steve Johnson and Jack Sock, United States, def. Roberto Bautista Agut and David Ferrer (8), Spain, 6-4, 6-2. Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau (5), Roma- nia, def. Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares (3), Brazil, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2. Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil (7), Canada, def. Fabio Fognini and Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-3, 6-1. Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal (6), Spain, def. Oliver Marach and Alexander Peya, Austria, 6-3, 6-1. Women Second Round Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka (6), Czech Republic, def. Peng Shuai and Zhang Shuai, China, 6-4, 6-4. Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Eugenie Bouchard and Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4. Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (7), Russia, def. Andreea Mitu and Raluca Olaru, Romania, 6-1, 6-4. Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci (8), Italy, def. Xu Yifan and Zheng Saisai, China, 6-2, 6-3. Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro (4), Spain, def. Kirsten Flipkens and Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2. ——— RUGBY Men France 31, Australia 14 South Africa 24, Spain 0 Britain 31, Kenya 7 Japan 14, New Zealand 12 Argentina 17, United States 14 Fiji 40, Brazil 12 Australia 26, Spain 12 South Africa 26, France 0 Britain 21, Japan 19 New Zealand 28, Kenya 5 United States 26, Brazil 0 Fiji 21, Argentina 14 ——— BASKETBALL Men Brazil 66, Spain 65 Women Australia 89, France 71 Belarus 65, Brazil 63 ——— FIELD HOCKEY Men Spain 3, New Zealand 2 India 2, Argentina 1 Germany 3, Ireland 2 Netherlands 7, Canada 0 Baseball MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Baltimore 63 49 Toronto 64 50 Boston 61 50 New York 56 56 Tampa Bay 46 66 Central Division W L Cleveland 63 47 Detroit 61 51 Pct GB .563 — .561 — .550 1½ .500 7 .411 17 Pct GB .573 — .545 3 Chicago Kansas City Minnesota West Division 54 53 46 58 .482 10 59 .473 11 67 .407 18½ W L Pct GB Texas 67 47 .588 — Seattle 58 53 .523 7½ Houston 58 55 .513 8½ Oakland 50 63 .442 16½ Los Angeles 49 63 .438 17 ——— Tuesday’s Games Texas 7, Colorado 5 Cleveland 3, Washington 1 Tampa Bay 9, Toronto 2 Boston 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Chicago Cubs 5, L.A. Angels 1 Houston 7, Minnesota 5 Chicago White Sox 7, Kansas City 5, 10 innings Oakland 2, Baltimore 1 Detroit at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Cleveland (Tomlin 11-4) at Washington (Gonzalez 7-9), 1:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Snell 3-4) at Toronto (Happ 15-3), 4:07 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 9-8) at Boston (Pomeranz 8-9), 4:10 p.m. Colorado (De La Rosa 7-7) at Texas (Perez 7-8), 5:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Nolasco 4-8) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 11-5), 5:05 p.m. Houston (Keuchel 7-11) at Minnesota (Santana 5-9), 5:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Quintana 9-8) at Kansas City (Kennedy 6-9), 5:15 p.m. Baltimore (Gallardo 4-3) at Oakland (Detwiler 0-0), 7:05 p.m. Detroit (Verlander 12-6) at Seattle (Her- nandez 6-4), 7:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB Washington 66 46 .589 — Miami 60 53 .531 6½ New York 57 55 .509 9 Philadelphia 52 63 .452 15½ Atlanta 43 70 .381 23½ Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 70 41 .631 — St. Louis 59 54 .522 12 Pittsburgh 56 54 .509 13½ Milwaukee 49 62 .441 21 Cincinnati 46 66 .411 24½ West Division W L Pct GB San Francisco 64 49 .566 — Los Angeles 64 49 .566 — Colorado 55 58 .487 9 San Diego 48 64 .429 15½ Arizona 46 66 .411 17½ ——— Tuesday’s Games Texas 7, Colorado 5 Cleveland 3, Washington 1 Pittsburgh 6, San Diego 4 Arizona 5, N.Y. Mets 3 Miami 2, San Francisco 0 Chicago Cubs 5, L.A. Angels 1 Atlanta 2, Milwaukee 1 Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 4 L.A. Dodgers 9, Philadelphia 3 Wednesday’s Games San Francisco (Samardzija 9-8) at Miami (Phelps 5-5), 9:10 a.m. Philadelphia (Hellickson 9-7) at L.A. Dodg- ers (Kazmir 9-5), 12:10 p.m. Cleveland (Tomlin 11-4) at Washington (Gonzalez 7-9), 1:05 p.m. San Diego (Jackson 2-2) at Pittsburgh (Vogelsong 1-1), 4:05 p.m. Arizona (Ray 5-11) at N.Y. Mets (Colon 10-6), 4:10 p.m. Cincinnati (DeSclafani 6-0) at St. Louis (Garcia 8-8), 4:15 p.m. Colorado (De La Rosa 7-7) at Texas (Perez 7-8), 5:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Nolasco 4-8) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 11-5), 5:05 p.m. Atlanta (De La Cruz 0-4) at Milwaukee (Anderson 6-10), 5:10 p.m. MiLB
