Niculescu of Romania 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in another second-round

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Cole Hamels gets to go home for the All-Star Game, a much-deserved honor for the Texas Rangers left-hander despite his struggles in consecutive games against the Minnesota Twins.Hamels matched a career high with six walks while throwing 109 pitches in 4 1/3 innings, but Rougned Odor and Elvis Andrus had RBI triples as the Rangers rallied for a 6-5 victory Friday night.When you walk the amount of guys that I walked today, its nothing that I take very lightly, its something thats very frustrating, said Hamels, who was trailing when he left the game but had a no-decision. I just wasnt really getting ahead of hitters early and making them uncomfortable.Still, Hamels and center fielder Ian Desmond will represent the Rangers in the All-Star Game in San Diego next week.Hamels, who lost with just four innings of work last Sunday at Minnesota, isnt the only Texas starter to struggle lately. The Rangers extended their club record to seven straight games when their starter didnt pitch at least five innings.Coles a great pitcher. There are stretches in any one season that for any starter, they go through things like this. Coles going to be able to work through it, manager Jeff Banister said. Hell find the rhythm, find the release point, and hell be back to the Cole Hamels that we know that he is.Texas twice blew two-run leads before finally going ahead for good in the sixth. Nomar Mazara had a leadoff double against reliever Ryan Pressly (2-5) before Andrus tripled and scored the go-ahead run on Bobby Wilsons sacrifice fly.Tony Barnette (6-3) threw 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief of Hamels. Sam Dyson worked a perfect ninth for his 18th save in 20 chances.Odor had an RBI triple in the first inning before Prince Fielders single made it 2-0. Odor, who leads the Rangers with 16 homers, had three hits and was only a long ball short of the cycle.Miguel Sano hit a three-run homer, his 14th, to put the Twins up 5-4 in the fifth. Hamels faced only three more batters after that, walking the last two.We made Hamels work. I dont think hell say he was as sharp as hes been the last couple starts, but you get a guy up that high in pitch count through five, you did a nice job, Twins manager Paul Molitor said.The Twins have the ALs worst record at 30-56. The Rangers are the ALs top team at 54-34 even after winning for only the third time in a 10-game stretch that included three straight losses to Minnesota.Minnesota got even at 2-all in the second when All-Star third baseman Eduardo Nunez was credited with an RBI infield single. Hamels came off the mound to field the high chopper, but when he turned to throw to first nobody was there after novice first baseman Jurickson Profar had also gone after the ball.Shin-Soo Choo and Desmond had consecutive two-out RBI singles in the fourth to make it 4-2.SHORT HOPSTwins starter Kyle Gibson struck out six but allowed four runs in five innings, his shortest outing in his last six starts. ... Hamels had six walks for the third time in his career. The last had been in April 2013. ... Texas optioned Chi Chi Gonzalez to Triple-A Round Rock a day after he threw 124 pitches in 4 2/3 innings against the Twins. Left-hander Alex Claudio was recalled from that Triple-A team.TRAINERS ROOMTwins: CF Byron Buxton left the game with a bruised right knee after crashing into the outfield wall in the first inning when going after Odors triple. Buxton was taken off the field on a motorized cart. The Twins said hes day-to-day. ... SS Eduardo Escobar hasnt started since last Saturday because of a sore left hamstring. Manager Paul Molitor wants to get him in a game this weekend before the All-Star break.Rangers: RHP Yu Darvish (right shoulder) will make his next rehab start Sunday night for Double-A Frisco. ... RHP Keone Kela (right elbow) is scheduled to pitch in consecutive games for Frisco on Sunday and Monday. He hopes to rejoin the Rangers after the All-Star break.UP NEXTTwins: RHP Ricky Nolasco (3-7) makes his team-leading 18th start.Rangers: Kyle Lohse, a 37-year-old right-hander who signed a minor league deal with the Rangers on May 14, will be called up from Triple-A Round Rock to start. The Rangers announced after Friday nights game that Nick Martinez (1-2) had been optioned to Double-A Frisco and will start for the RoughRiders instead Saturday night. Cheap Ecco Shoes Uk . 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LONDON -- The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local):---10 p.m.Novak Djokovic says he will not play in the Davis Cup quarterfinals against Britain this month.Djokovic says he wasnt 100 percent healthy while losing to Sam Querrey in the third round at Wimbledon on Saturday, but wouldnt say what was wrong.When asked if he would play against Britain from July 15-17 in the best-of-five series, Djokovic said: No, Im not going to play Davis Cup.Serbia won the Davis Cup in 2010.---9:40 p.m.Play is done for the day at Wimbledon, with four mens third-round matches suspended in progress Saturday night.That includes No. 7 Richard Gasquet leading Albert Ramos-Vinolas, No. 18 John Isner leading No. 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and No. 32 Lucas Pouille leading 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro -- all by two sets to one.No. 15 Nick Kyrgios and No. 22 Feliciano Lopez are even at a set apiece.Action will resume Sunday -- only the fourth time in 139 years that Wimbledon has scheduled matches on the middle Sunday because of rain during the first week.---7:35 p.m.Lleyton Hewitts delayed retirement just got delayed a little bit more.The 2002 singles champion at Wimbledon teamed up with Jordan Thompson to beat Nicolas Almagro and David Marrero of Spain 6-7 (6), 6-4, 19-17 in doubles.The match lasted nearly four hours and finally ended with Hewitt holding serve.Hewitt finished his singles career at the Australian Open, but then accepted a wild-card entry into the mens doubles tournament at Wimbledon.---7:25 p.m.Ninth-seeded Madison Keys advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon by beating Alize Cornet 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 on No. 1 Court.The American player, who reached the quarterfinals at the All England Club in 2015, last week became the first American woman to make her debut in the top 10 since Serena Williams in 1999.Keys came into Wimbledon after winning a grass-court title in Birmingham.---6:05 p.m.Andy Murray made his way into the fourth round at Wimbledon by beating John Millman of Australia 6-3, 7-5, 6-2.Murray, the 2013 champion at the All England Club, played his match on Centre Court, starting with the roof open but finishing with it closed after a rain delay.Murray has lost to Novak Djokovic in the finals of both the Australian Open and French Open this year. With Djokovic losing Saturday, the second-seeded Murray could face seven-time champion Roger Federer in the final.---5:35 p.m.Former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova lost Saturday at the All England Club.The 10th-seeded Czech player lost to Ekaterina Makarova of Russia 7-5, 7-6 (5) in the final second-round match of the tournament.Kvitova and Makarova started the match on Friday, but rain suspended play. After several delays on Saturday, Makarova was finally able to close out the match and the second round.Kvitova won the Wimbledon title in 2011 and `14. Makarovas best showing at Wimbledon was a quarterfinal appearance in 2014.---5:05 p.m.Novak Djokovics 30-match Grand Slam winning streak is over after a stunning 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (5) loss to 41st-ranked Sam Querrey in Wimbledons third round.Djokovic had won the past four major titles in a row -- and was halfway to the first calendar-year Grand Slam for a man since Rod Lavers in 1969.The match ended Saturday, when it was interrupted by three rain delays.They began playing Friday, when Querrey grabbed a two-set lead before play was suspended by showers.When they resumed Saturday, two-time defending Wimbledon champion Djokovic quickly took a 5-0 lead en route to winning the third set, and then he served for the fourth at 5-4. But he was broken there, and they headed to a tiebreaker. The match closed on a forehand error by Djokovic.---4:50 p.m.Novak Djokovic and Sam Querrey are back out on court after their third rain delay of the day.They resume with two-time defending Wimbledon champion Djokovic serving to stay in the third-round match, trailing 6-5 in the fourth set and down two sets to one.The match began Friday night, when play was halted because of rain after Querrey took the opening two sets.---4:40 p.m.The All England Club says all 22,000 tickets for the middle Sunday at Wimbledon sold out in 27 minutes.Organizers decided to play on Sunday for only the fourth time in the tournaments 139-year history after severe delays because of rain.---4 p.m.Kei Nishikori has reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and equaled his best performance at the All England Club.Nishikori beat Andrey Kuznetsov of Russia 7-5, 6-3, 7-5 in less than two hours. He made only 14 unforced errors.That set up Nishikori against Marin Cilic, who beat the Japanese star in the 2014 U.S. Open final.Since then, Nishikori has won both of his matches with the Croat, both last year on outdoor hard courts. Their fourth-round match will be their first on grass.---3:50 p.m.With Novak Djokovic one game from a stunning loss to Sam Querrey, rain is again delaying play at Wimbledon.Djokovic, who has a 30-match Grand Slam winning streak, was about to serve while trailing 6-5 in the fourth set Saturday, and down two sets to one.Querrey won the first two sets of their third-round match before play was stopped because of rain Friday evening. Djokovic then took the thirdd set Saturday.dddddddddddd.---3:15 p.m.Alexander Zverev finished off his match on Saturday, and finally completed the mens second round at Wimbledon.The 24th-seeded German beat Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-4, 3-6, 6-0, 4-6, 6-2.There is one more second-round match still to be completed, between two-time champion Petra Kvitova and Ekaterina Makarova.Because of the rain at Wimbledon this week, organizers have decided to play on the middle Sunday for only the fourth time in the tournaments 139-year history.---2:56 p.m.After a quick break for a short rain delay, Novak Djokovic and Sam Querrey are back on court at Wimbledon.Because the rain delay was so brief, only about 10 minutes, the players resumed the match immediately, skipping the usual warm-up period.---2:50 p.m.Play has again been suspended by rain at Wimbledon.Novak Djokovic won the third set of his match against Sam Querrey, but the rain returned after each held serve in the fourth set.Play on Centre Court, which has a retractable roof, has not been disrupted.---2:35 p.m.Novak Djokovic isnt out yet.The top-seeded Djokovic, a three-time Wimbledon champion, won the third set of his match against Sam Querrey 6-3.Djokovic lost the first two sets 7-6 (6), 6-1 on Friday before rain suspended play on No. 1 Court. When they resumed on Saturday morning, Djokovic won the first five games. But Querrey won the next three before Djokovic held serve to take the set.---2:25 p.m.Play has resumed on the outside courts at Wimbledon after a rain delay of nearly two hours.Novak Djokovic, whose match was stopped by rain on Friday after he lost the opening two sets, was leading Sam Querrey 4-0 in the third set when the rain returned.---1:30 p.m.Serena Williams and Viktor Troicki each have been fined $10,000 at Wimbledon for unsportsmanlike conduct.The penalties were announced on Saturday at the Grand Slam tournament, where the biggest amount deducted from a players paycheck so far is the $12,000 for Britains Heather Watson, also for unsportsmanlike conduct.The No. 1-seeded Williams fine was from her second-round victory on Friday. She smashed her racket repeatedly against the turf while sitting in her sideline chair after dropping the first set against Christina McHale, then flung the piece of equipment so far behind her that it landed in the lap of a TV cameraman.Troicki, a Serb seeded 25th, was punished for his tirade against the chair umpire at the end of a five-set loss on Thursday.---1:20 p.m.Wimbledon organizers say they will sell 10,000 unreserved tickets for Sundays play on Centre Court at the All England Club, and 8,000 for No. 1 Court.There will be matches at Wimbledon on the middle Sunday for only the fourth time in the tournaments 139-year history because of rain delays all week.Wimbledon says all tickets will be available only online. Centre Court tickets will cost 70 pounds ($93), while No. 1 Court tickets will be 40 pounds ($53) and grounds passes will be 20 pounds ($27).The only other times that tournament organizers opted to have play on the middle Sunday were 1991, 1997 and 2004. Each time, the occasion -- dubbed Peoples Sunday -- created a carnival-like atmosphere, with the normally staid grounds filled with rowdy fans who snapped up tickets they rarely get the opportunity to buy.---12:25 p.m.Play was again suspended by rain at Wimbledon.Novak Djokovic, whose match on No. 1 Court was stopped by rain on Friday after he lost the opening two sets, was leading Sam Querrey 4-0 in the third set when the rain returned.Play on Centre Court, which has a retractable roof, has not yet started.---11:50 a.m.A day after saving a match point, Sloane Stephens quickly completed her match at Wimbledon and advanced to third round. She beat Mandy Minella of Luxembourg 3-6, 7-6 (6), 8-6.The 18th-seeded American saved a match point in the second-set tiebreaker on Friday, but the match was then suspended by rain with the score tied at 3-3 in the third set.Also, 11th-seeded Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland beat Monica Niculescu of Romania 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in another second-round match that was suspended by rain. Bacsinszky had been trailing 1-0 in the third set, but won all six games played on Saturday.In the mens tournament, ninth-seeded Marin Cilic of Croatia completed his match by beating Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. Cilic was trailing 1-0 in the third set when the match resumed on Saturday.---11:10 a.m.High noon comes for Novak Djokovic when he resumes his third-round match at Wimbledon two sets down against Sam Querrey of the United States on Saturday.Querrey leads 7-6 (6), 6-1 after their match was one of eight suspended overnight because of rain.He threatens to end Djokovics bid for a true Grand Slam. Djokovic has won the past four major titles, but no man has won them all in the same year since Rod Laver in 1969.Also in action Saturday is 2013 Wimbledon champion Andy Murray, who will try to join Roger Federer in the fourth round.There are also three Wimbledon womens runners-up on the schedule: Agnieszka Radwanska, Sabine Lisicki, and Eugenie Bouchard. ' ' '