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S tung THE LEADING INDEPENDENT DAILY IN THE ARABIAN GULF ESTABLISHED 1961 Founder and Publisher YOUSUF S. AL-ALYAN Editor-in-Chief ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-ALYAN EDITORIAL : 24833199-24833358-24833432 ADVERTISING : 24835616/7 FAX : 24835620/1 CIRCULATION : 24833199 Extn. 163 ACCOUNTS : 24835619 COMMERCIAL : 24835618 P.O.Box 1301 Safat,13014 Kuwait. E MAIL :info@kuwaittimes.net Website: www.kuwaittimes.net Issues Big Pharma down, not out, after India patent blow By Ben Hirschler and Kaustubh Kulkarni by a landmark patent defeat, Western drugmakers will be wary about launching new products in India, but they cannot afford to quit a country tipped to be the world’s eighth largest market for medicines by 2016. Makers of patented drugs will in future have to get more creative about doing business in India, including striking deals with local firms to sell cheaper versions of their drugs, industry experts believe. The decision by India’s Supreme Court on Monday not to allow a patent on Novartis AG’s cancer drug Glivec angered but did not surprise US and European drug companies, given past intellectual property (IP) setbacks. And it is unlikely to send them rushing for the exit. “India is too big to ignore,” said Amit Backliwal, who heads South Asian operations for leading healthcare information provider IMS Health. “Companies will definitely get cautious, and it definitely means a change in their business model, but I don’t think they will pull out.” On paper, there is huge potential in India’s rapidly growing $13 billion-a-year drugs market, which is driven these days by chronic diseases such as diabetes as well as infections. So far, though, it has failed to become a moneyspinner for the world’s top pharmaceutical companies, despite a new law in 2005 allowing drug patents for the first time. Innovative patented drugs make up no more than 5 percent of sales, according to IMS, and they have been under siege after a series of rulings allowing generics firms to over-ride patents for cancer drugs like Bayer AG’s Nexavar. New Delhi has pulled no punches in its fight with Big Pharma, both by raising the bar for patents and being ready to issue so-called compulsory licences that open the door for cheap generics when patented drugs are deemed unaffordable. In the face of such hurdles, some companies are already building new business models. Roche Holding, for example, plans to offer cut-price versions of two blockbuster cancer drugs Herceptin and MabThera under an alliance with Indian generics firm Emcure Pharmaceuticals. It is a scheme that Ajay Kumar Sharma, associate director of the pharmaceutical and biotech practice at business consultancy Frost & Sullivan, believes other drugmakers could now emulate. India’s stance on IP has long been a thorn in the side of Western business, prompting calls by Pfizer Inc and other US firms last month for more pressure on the country to reform policies that can block US exports. The argument cuts little ice in India, where officials see differential pricing - steep discounts for less well-off markets - as an obvious option for Western companies. “It is up to them to decide on India. Don’t forget, India is a large market, a country of 1.2 billion,” said Raghunath Mashelkar, former director general of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and an architect of India’s IP policies. With differential pricing common in industries from autos to mobile phones, he argues pharmaceutical firms must find new ways to make products affordable for lower-income groups. “Drugmakers will have to work out strategies for the lower sections, to give affordable access to medicines and make money by large volumes and smaller margins,” he told Reuters. “And then they will look at the middle and the upper sections and make money through smaller volumes but higher margins.” It is a calculated risk, yet a number of drugmakers are already coming around to the view that trading volume for price is the way forward. One of those is GlaxoSmithKline Plc, which has a large footprint in India and has just invested $900 million to raise its stake in its consumer healthcare subsidiary. GSK’s diversified approach to healthcare is shared by a number of rivals, including Novartis, that also have big interests in over-thecounter (OTC) remedies and branded generics, in addition to innovative medicines. It is this non-prescription sector that is set to dominate in India, driving double-digit percentage growth in a market that IMS has forecast will reach $24-34 billion by 2016, vaulting the country to eighth from 14th in the global league table. PricewaterhouseCoopers puts sales by 2020 at $49 billion. Much of the new business will still come from cheap generics made by local companies, but Western firms are also seeking to put their brands on unpatented medicines, prompting the likes of Abbott Laboratories and Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd to buy up Indian companies. With sales of patented drugs in Western countries slowing, emerging markets are a vital growth driver for drugmakers. India cannot be ignored, but there are clearly better bets elsewhere. — Reuters All articles appearing on these pages are the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait Times takes no responsibility for views expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites readers to voice their opinions. Please send submissions via email to: opinion@kuwaittimes.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right to edit any submission as necessary. By Elena Becatoros B arbed wire-topped walls stretch across the narrow, twisted streets of Nicosia’s walled medieval city, where abandoned buildings extend across a no-man’s land. On the other side, Turkish Cypriots have been watching with fascination - and consternation - as the economy of their long prosperous southern neighbors implodes. Separated by a militarized border, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots had no contact for the best part of 30 years from the mid-1970s onwards; they have only been able to cross from one side to the other for the last decade. Torn apart by inter-ethnic strife that climaxed in a 1974 Turkish invasion, the two sides have much to be bitter about. But bitterness is not the dominant sentiment in northern Nicosia, as the southern side that once proudly trumpeted its membership in the euro currency goes into meltdown. “I am very sorry about it,” said Selcuk Ekendal, a soft-spoken Turkish Cypriot pensioner watching friends play cards in a coffee shop, not far from the barricades dividing north from south. This is not just a southern affair, he insists: “The crisis is everywhere.” But the truth is, the crisis doesn’t directly affect Turkish Cypriots. Without any financial ties to the south, and outside of the eurozone, the north has not been touched by the Greek Cypriot economic disintegration. Unrecognized by any country apart from Turkey, the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state has no direct trade partners apart from Turkey - making it almost entirely dependent on the large emerging power. That was once a curse but these days it’s looking increasingly like, if not a blessing, at least a safety net. To be sure, the north has long languished as an economic backwater, while the Greek Cypriots in the south enjoyed a post-invasion financial boom that many dubbed an ‘economic miracle’ and led to decades of sustained growth, eventually allowing them to clinch coveted EU membership. For Greek Cypriots, being part of the euro club now seems in many ways a shackle - because of the harsh conditions imposed on staying inside, and the even more frightening consequences of leaving. The Turkish Cypriot economy is so dependent on Turkey that it even uses the Turkish lira as its de facto currency. But these days, there’s an element of relief, although remarkably little gloating, in being able to watch the euro turmoil as a spectator. It’s a remarkable reversal of fortune. Although the 1974 invasion left northern Cyprus with most of the country’s fertile agricultural land and rapidly growing tourist sites, the breakaway state’s political isolation came with a huge economic cost. Hundreds of thousands of Turkish settlers flowed into the island. Ankara spent billions sustaining them, and the newly formed government. It quickly became clear that the statelet 14 ANALYSIS depended for its survival on Ankara, both economically and politically. To the south of the dividing line, the Greek Cypriot economy recovered fast from the invasion, eventually turning its part of the island into an off-shore banking hub that grew to dwarf the island’s gross domestic product by eight times - something economists had long warned was unsustainable. And unsustainable it was: Greek Cypriot banks tottered as they became overexposed to Greek debt that became toxic when that country’s economy crumbled over the last few years. Their collapse would have dragged down the entire economy and raised fears that Cyprus could end up becoming the first country to leave the 17-nation eurozone. European officials rushed to patch together some kind of rescue, but insisted that ordinary Greek Cypriot savers had to contribute, too. While politicians tried to work out what would work, banks in the south were shut down for nearly two weeks to prevent people draining their accounts. A new last-minute bailout agreement sparing ordinary savers averted disaster - but for Greek Cypriots, the economic pain is probably just beginning. Turkish Cypriots, on the other hand, have slowly seen their tourism industry blossom. But Turkish Cypriots said they knew exactly how the WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 Reelection may better Hamas ties with West By Adel Zaanoun K haled Meshaal’s reelection as leader of Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, provides a chance for the Islamist group to improve ties with the international community, analysts say. The veteran leader was chosen Monday to serve another four-year term despite indications he might be forced aside by the movement’s powerful and more radical leadership in Gaza. Based in exile, the pragmatic politician’s more moderate line on Israel and inter-Palestinian reconciliation has given him wide-ranging support in the Arab world and some sympathy in the West. “Meshaal’s differences with Hamas’s more radical leadership, and flexibility on issues like reconciliation and peace, presents him to the world as a rational leader whom it is possible to deal with,” said Walid Al- Mudallal, a politics professor at Gaza’s Islamic University. “He excels in... relations with the Arab world,” and his reelection “will give a big enough chance to improve Hamas’s ties with the West and to market it as a movement that isn’t hostile,” he said. Meshaal’s comments last year that he was willing to “give a chance” to talks with Israel may make him more palatable to the international community, but it sat uncomfortably within a movement whose charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. Late last year, Meshaal said he would not seek another term as Hamas chief, but the ongoing upheaval in the Middle East changes in the region forced a rethink. “Arab and regional changes were the fundamental reason for Meshaal changing his mind about candidacy, and for his victory,” said Mukhaimer Abu Saada, a politics professor at Al-Azhar University in Gaza. “No one has his political experience,” he added, saying his candidacy was supported by Hamas leaders across the territories as well as externally. “Hamas faces the challenges of Palestinian reconciliation, confronting Israel, and relations with Egypt. Meshaal is able with his experience to bring Hamas through its difficult challenges.” Hamas has a long and bitter history of rivalry with the Fatah movement of president Mahmoud Abbas which governs the West Bank, is viewed as a terrorist organisation by Israel, and has strained ties with Cairo which suspects Gazan involvement in a deadly attack on troops in Sinai last year. But with Meshaal at the helm, things could well change, Abu Saada said. “Two years ago, the international community saw political Islam as a danger and wouldn’t deal with Meshaal. But the Arab revolutions and victory of political Islam mean the US and Europe want to re-examine their thoughts on this. Through Egypt and Qatar, Hamas has a plat- form to improve relations with Europe and the United States, he said. Salah Jumaa, a specialist on Palestinians for Egypt’s MENA news agency, said that “support from Cairo is a gateway to the world” for Hamas. “The Muslim Brotherhood played a role in Meshaal’s importance to the movement,” he said, referring to Egypt’s ruling Islamist party, from which Hamas stemmed. “Cairo hosting the Hamas meeting to elect Meshaal is proof that Egypt will support the movement in opening it up to the West.” Egypt played a central role in brokering reconciliation efforts between Hamas and Fatah which led to the signing of a deal in April 2011, although it has yet to be implemented. And Qatar has also proposed a mini Arab summit aimed at reconciliation which has been welcomed by both rival movements. Even for Israel, said Saada, “they will prefer someone they know” in charge of Hamas - even if it is a sworn enemy. In Sept 1997, agents of Israel’s Mossad secret service disguised as Canadian tourists bungled an attempt to assassinate him on a street in Amman by injecting him with poison. But the avowed radical has gradually come around to an implicit acceptance of the notion of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, although the Jewish state has so far reserved judgement. — AFP Turkish Cypriots: Solidarity tinged with relief people of the south were feeling in their crisis. “We have experienced what Greek Cypriots have experienced a long time ago, about 12 years ago, when a lot of banks went bankrupt and people lost a lot of money,” said Hassan Chirakli, an affable Turkish Cypriot who runs a shop selling traditional Turkish sweets. Turkey suffered a deep financial crisis in 2001 that forced the country to overhaul its banking system by restructuring and recapitalizing failed banks. Turkish authorities took over more than a dozen struggling banks - and with the Turkish Cypriot economy so closely linked to that of its protector nation, the effects in impoverished northern Cyprus were brutal. In this photo taken March 24, 2013, Selcuk Ekendal, 72, speaks to AP inside a coffee shop in the Turkish Cypriot part of the divided capital Nicosia. — AP The closest the two sides have come to resolving the island’s division came a few years later, in 2004, with a peace plan brokered by then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. With hopes high, the deal was put to separate votes in the north and the south. The Turkish Cypriots accepted the plan, but the Greek Cypriots rejected it. Chirakli says the answer to the financial woes on either side lies with reunifying the island. “If the Greek Cypriots had said yes to the Annan plan, it would have been completely different,” he said. “This is what I wanted all the way, and I still want it. Some sort of a solution to this country.” — AP
Athletes get two-year ban MOSCOW: Former world and Olympic champions Svetlana Krivelyova and Olga Kuzenkova have been banned for two years each for failing drugs tests after their samples were re-examined, the Russian athletics federation (VFLA) said yesterday. The 42-year-old Kuzenkova, 2004 Olympic champion in the women’s hammer, tested positive at the 2005 world championships in Helsinki, where she also finished first. “Kuzenkova has been banned for two years starting from March 27, 2013,” the VFLA said on its website (www.rusathletics.com). The VFLA annulled all her results from Aug. 12, 2005 to Aug. 11, 2007, meaning she will lose her 2005 world title. Cuba’s Yipsi Moreno, who finished second in Helsinki, will now get the gold medal. Krivelyova, 43, who won the women’s shot put gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 2003 world championships in Paris, failed a test at the 2004 Athens Games. Krivelyova had already been stripped of the 2004 bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after her sample was re-tested. She finished fourth in Athens but was promoted to third after her Russian team mate Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of gold after failing a drugs test for the anabolic steroid stanozolol.—Reuters Tigers get past Twins MINNEAPOLIS: Justin Verlander won on opening day for the first time in six attempts, pitching five shutout innings at frosty Target Field to send the defending American League champion Detroit Tigers past the Minnesota Twins 4-2 on Monday. Verlander (1-0) had been 0-1 in his previous five openers. Phil Coke got the last two outs for the first save by the Tigers’ closer committee. Prince Fielder, wearing a black ski covering on his head, had two hits and an RBI to help spoil the first Twins start by Vance Worley (0-1). RED SOX 8, YANKEES 2 In New York, Jon Lester and the Boston Red Sox got off to a quick start after a dreadful 2012 season, giving new manager John Farrell an opening day win over the depleted New York Yankees. Newcomer Shane Victorino led a revamped Red Sox lineup with three RBIs and rookie Jackie Bradley Jr. walked three times and scored twice in his big league debut. Boston’s big day against CC Sabathia (0-1) came a year after it lost its first three games under Bobby Valentine and went on to a 69-93 finish. Facing a Yankees lineup minus injured Derek Jeter for the first time since 2001 and just three starters from opening day a year ago, Lester (1-0) gave up five hits and two runs in five sharp innings against the defending AL East champions. WHITE SOX 1, ROYALS 0 In Chicago, Chris Sale outpitched James Shields, Tyler Flowers homered and the Chicago White Sox beat Kansas City in their season opener. Sale (1-0) showed the form that made him a 17-game winner and an All-Star in his first season as a starter. On a chilly day when the gametime temperature was 44, he allowed seven hits and struck out seven in 7 2-3 innings. Addison Reed worked the ninth for the save. Shields (0-1) was a tough-luck loser in his first start since the Royals acquired him from Tampa Bay in the offseason. Flowers homered leading off the fifth. MARINERS 2, ATHLETICS 0 In Oakland, Felix Hernandez struck out eight on opening day in his first start since signing a $175 million, seven-year contract in February, and the Mariners beat the reigning AL West champion Oakland Athletics. King Felix surrendered one walk while pitching 7 2-3 scoreless innings. He didn’t allow a hit until John Jaso doubled to left-center with one out in the fourth, only a couple of hours after the pitcher gifted his former backstop with a Rolex watch for catching his perfect game in August against the Rays. Hernandez (1-0) outdueled Brett Anderson while making his sixth career opening day start and fifth in a row, retiring the first 10 batters of the game in order. Franklin Gutierrez hit a two-run single in the fifth to break a scoreless tie, and it held up for Hernandez.—AP MINNEAPOLIS: Justin Morneau No. 33 of the Minnesota Twins slides into second base with a double as Jhonny Peralta No. 27 of the Detroit Tigers and umpire Jim Wolf No. 28 look on during the fourth inning. —AFP World Freestyle Football Champion ‘Tokura’ to judge Red Bull Wanna Panna in Kuwait KUWAIT: The second Red Bull Wanna Panna football event in Kuwait will take place at the Marina Crescent on Thursday April 4 at 7:00pm. The best 16 participants will play head to head and the winner will be the person who scores 3 goals or 1 panna. The competition will be held in a 6x6 meters cage with no time limit. Kotaro Tokuda aka “Tokura”, winner of the 2012 Red Bull Street Style World Championship will be in Kuwait to judge the final matches and will be performing a freestyle show. “I’m happy to be in Kuwait especially to meet the Panna and Freestyle players. I will try to help all the 16 finalists by giving them some tips that might help them in this competition or in their practice in the future.” said Tokura. Panna, Gate in Surinamese, is a type of street football in which fine dribbling counts However, Panna is more than just a Tokura World Champion in 2012 football game; it is a lifestyle, completed with urban clothing and street slang. The trick is to impose yourself on your opponents through the nutmeg skill. Scoring a Panna is considered as the ultimate embarrassment to your rival, earning you respect and making you hero of the street. Competitors train for days, weeks and months to master the ultimate trick to knock their opponents. Panna is an exciting new variation of football, it teaches the importance of control and individual skills. Modern football relies on speed and skills and mastering Panna will help you achieve that goal. In recent years Panna football has taken on a new meaning; it is part today of a growing street football scene that includes freestylers. For any more info, please visit www.redbullmea.com or follow @redbullkuwait. SPORTS UCI blames team errors for Rasmussen decision PARIS: Alex Rasmussen’s removal from the Circuit de la Sarthe was due to administrative errors from the Danish rider’s Garmin-Sharp team, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said yesterday. The UCI said Rasmussen was not eligible to race after “documents he was required to provide to Ernst & Young to allow registration were not provided in time”. The governing body did not elaborate. Rasmussen wrote on his Twitter feed on Tuesday from western France: “Just got taken out of La Sarthe by the evil and powerful UCI. Lifetime ban in effect by the UCI apparently.” Rasmussen’s tweet led to some confusion with the UCI and pundits alike mentioning a possible mix-up with fellow Dane Michael Rasmussen, who this year confessed to doping over a 12-year period. Alex Rasmussen was initially cleared by the Danish Olympic Committee after he missed two tests and failed to provide his whereabouts once in an 18-month period, but the UCI appealed against the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which imposed the ban on him. There is no lifetime ban on Alex Rasmussen whose suspension ended on Monday.—Reuters WASHINGTON: Bryce Harper homered in his first two at-bats and Stephen Strasburg retired 19 batters in a row at one stretch as the defending NL East champion Washington Nationals opened the season with a 2-0 victory over the Miami Marlins on Monday. For Strasburg, this marked the start of what should be his first full season in the majors, with zero pitch or inning limits. The All-Star ace was dominant against a trade-depleted Marlins lineup that features Giancarlo Stanton and little else. The righthander went seven innings, matching his career high, and allowed three hits. Reigning NL Rookie of the Year Harper, a 20-year-old outfielder, hit solo shots over the out-of-town scoreboard in rightcenter field off Ricky Nolasco in the first and fourth innings. New closer Rafael Soriano got the save. DODGERS 4, GIANTS 0 In Los Angeles, Clayton Kershaw launched his first career home run to break a scoreless tie in the eighth inning, then finished off a four-hitter that led the Los Angeles Dodgers past the San Francisco Giants. Kershaw became the first pitcher to throw a shutout and hit a home run in an opener since Bob Lemon for Cleveland in 1953, STATS said. Kershaw struck out seven, walked none and retired World Series MVP Pablo Sandoval on a grounder to end it. Matt Cain made his first career opening day start for the Giants in the loss. He allowed four hits in six scoreless innings, struck out eight and walked one. METS 11, PADRES 2 In New York, Jonathon Niese stepped nicely into his new role as No. 1 starter for the Mets, and Collin Cowgill capped a successful New York debut with a grand slam in a rout of the San Diego Padres. Handed the opening day assignment in place of injured Johan Santana, Niese enjoyed a big afternoon with both his arm and bat. He breezed into the seventh inning against a Padres lineup missing slugger Chase Headley (broken thumb) and catcher Yasmani Grandal, suspended for the first 50 games after testing positive for testosterone. Marlon Byrd had a pair of RBI singles and fellow Mets newcomer John Buck was in the middle of three rallies as New York improved baseball’s best opening day record to 34-18 despite dropping its first eight openers. CUBS 3, PIRATES 1 In Pittsburgh, Jeff Samardzija struck out nine in eight nearly flawless innings and the Chicago Cubs held on for a victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The right-hander allowed just two hits and walked one as the Chicago won on opening day for the first time since 2009. Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run homer and Wellington Castillo added an RBI double for the Cubs. Kyuji Fujikawa got a save in his major league debut after closer Carlos Marmol struggled. AJ Burnett, making the first opening day start of his lengthy career, gave up three runs on six hits in 5 2-3 innings, striking out 10. BREWERS 5, ROCKIES 4 In Milwaukee, Jonathan Lucroy hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to give the Milwaukee Brewers a victory over Colorado, ruining the first game for new Rockies manager Walt Weiss. Rickie Weeks sparked the winning rally when he stole second after he was hit by a pitch with one out. Adam Ottavino then issued an intentional walk to Ryan Braun and lost Aramis Ramirez to another walk before Lucroy ended the game with a fly ball to center field. A big “Luuuuuuc” thundered down from the Miller Park crowd of 45,781 as Weeks came home with the winning run and Lucroy was mobbed by his jubilant teammates. Ramirez also had a two-run double in Milwaukee’s three-run eighth inning as the Brewers won on opening day for the first time since 2008. BRAVES 7, PHILLIES 5 In Atlanta, Freddie Freeman drove in three runs with three hits, including the first of three Atlanta home runs, and the Braves beat Cole Hamels and the Philadelphia Phillies. Dan Uggla and Justin Upton, making his Braves debut, also homered for Atlanta, which led National League teams with 49 in spring training. Hamels (0-1) struggled in his Sun back on track WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 BEIJING: China’s double Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang has mended fences with his coach and laid down a marker ahead of this year’s World Championships by winning the 400m freestyle at the National Swimming Championships, local media reported. Sun’s relationship with coach Zhu Zhigen had reportedly soured amid concerns the 21-year-old swimmer’s private life was affecting his training. He was also suspended from all commercial activities in February for breaching a “series of team rules” and had one month’s training allowance withheld. Sun finished nearly four seconds ahead of his nearest rival at the meet on Monday and will look to improve steadily ahead of the July 19-Aug. 4 World Championship in Barcelona. “I am just 70 to 80 percent of my best level,” Sun was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency. “My coach knows me better and I hope I can do better in the World Championships,” said the Olympic 400m and 1,500m freestyle champion, who returned to normal training last month.—Reuters WASHINGTON: Pitcher Stephen Strasburg No. 37 of the Washington Nationals throws to a Miami Marlins batter during the first inning of their opening day game at Nationals Park.—AFP Nationals blank Marlins first opening day start. He gave up five runs on seven hits, including the three homers, with five strikeouts and one walk in five innings. The three homers allowed matched his high from last season. DIAMONDBACKS 6, CARDINALS 2 In Phoenix, Ian Kennedy struck out eight in seven strong innings and the Arizona Diamondbacks used 15 hits to beat the St. Louis Cardinals. Kennedy (1-0) allowed two runs on five hits with one walk. St. Louis’ Adam Wainwright (0-1) went six innings, giving up four runs, three earned, on 11 hits. He struck out six with no walks. Arizona’s Gerardo Parra matched his career best with four hits, three of them doubles. Rookie A.J. Pollock was 3 for 4, including a two-run double, and Martin Prado doubled twice with an RBI and two runs scored for the Diamondbacks. Interleague ANGELS 3, REDS 1, 13 innings In Cincinnati, Chris Iannetta hit a solo homer early in the game and a bases-loaded single in the 13th inning, powering the Los Angeles Angels past the Cincinnati Reds in the majors’ first interleague season opener. The Angels loaded the bases with two outs in the 13th off J.J. Hoover, who walked two and hit Hank Conger, the Angels’ final position player. Iannetta worked the count full, fouled off a pair of pitches, then singled to left. Ernesto Frieri, the Angels’ seventh pitcher, finished off the Reds’ longest opening game since 1975, when they beat the Dodgers 2-1 in 14 innings.—AP MLB results/standings Boston 8, NY Yankees 2; Washington 2, Miami 0; NY Mets 11, San Diego 2; Chicago Cubs 3, Pittsburgh 1; Milwaukee 5, Colorado 4 (10 Innings); Chicago White Sox 1, Kansas City 0; Detroit 4, Minnesota 2; LA Angels 3, Cincinnati 1 (13 Innings); LA Dodgers 4, San Francisco 0; Atlanta 7, Philadelphia 5; Seattle 2, Oakland 0; Arizona 6, St. Louis 2. American League Eastern Division W L PCT GB Boston 1 0 1.000 - Baltimore 0 0 0 0.5 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0.5 Toronto 0 0 0 0.5 NY Yankees 0 1 0 1 Central Division Chicago White Sox 1 0 1.000 - Detroit 1 0 1.000 - Cleveland 0 0 0 0.5 Kansas City 0 1 0 1 Minnesota 0 1 0 1 Western Division Houston 1 0 1.000 - LA Angels 1 0 1.000 - Seattle 1 0 1.000 - Oakland 0 1 0 1 Texas 0 1 0 1 National League Eastern Division Atlanta 1 0 1.000 - NY Mets 1 0 1.000 - Washington 1 0 1.000 - Miami 0 1 0 1 Philadelphia 0 1 0 1 Central Division Chicago Cubs 1 0 1.000 - Milwaukee 1 0 1.000 - Cincinnati 0 1 0 1 Pittsburgh 0 1 0 1 St. Louis 0 1 0 1 Western Division Arizona 1 0 1.000 - LA Dodgers 1 0 1.000 - Colorado 0 1 0 1 San Diego 0 1 0 1 San Francisco 0 1 0 1
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