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In sports, a team’s demise can be contagious, as Hideo Nomo of the flailing Boston Red Sox showed against the woeful Detroit Tigers. Nomo, who leads the American League in strikeouts, dropped his record to 12-9 after he surrendered eight earned runs in three innings, bloating his ERA to 4.13. Despite being virtually neck and neck with the New York Yankees in the American League East at the All-Star break, the Red Sox are double-digit games behind the front-running Yankees and struggling to finish the season with a winning record … Ichiro Suzuki, who continues to lead the American League in hitting with a batting average near .350, slashed two hits and stole two bases, which gave him 50 for the season, as the Seattle Mariners set the American League record for road wins with 56, breaking the mark set by the 1971 Oakland Athletics. The 1906 Chicago Cubs owns the major league record with 60 road victories. But all didn’t go so well earlier in the week. The Mariners, who were on the verge of becoming the only team in major league history to not lose three consecutive games, were swept by the Athletics in a three-game weekend series at Oakland … Mariner closer Kazuhiro Sasaki has 41 saves this year, but lately, the 2000 American League Rookie of the Year winner has struggled to add to that total. The Mariners haven’t been in a game with a save situation since Sept. 4. Sasaki registered his last save on Sept. 2, when he closed out a 1-0 win against the Baltimore Orioles … 2001 second-round draft pick, Bronson Sardinha completed his first year of professional ball for the Yankees Gulf Coast League, and hit .303 with four home runs in 55 games as the team’s everyday shortstop … South Korean World Cup organizers were concerned with terrorism and agreed to work closely with security organizations, including the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The soccer tournament will be held in South Korea and Japan next year … Fearing military attacks by the United States, Pakistan postponed South Asia’s biggest sports event, the ninth biannual South Asian Federation Games, in which seven nations were scheduled to participate. The event would have taken place Oct. 9-15 in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan.
Reach Ethen Lieser at elieser@asianweek.com.
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