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MLB: Royals sweep Bosox

Lorenzo Cain walked with two outs and the bases loaded in the 10th inning to give the Royals a 5-4 victory over the Red Sox to complete a sweep of a day-night doubleheader in Boston. Ervin Santana got the win in the opener, a 4-2 victory.

Mark Trumbo homered leading off the 13th inning as the Angels completed a four-game sweep of the Tigers with a 4-3 victory in Anaheim.

TENNIS: Djokovic tops Nadal

Novak Djokovic ended Rafael Nadal’s winning streak at the Monte Carlo Masters, beating the eight-time defending champion 6-2, 7-6 (1) in the final. Djokovic faced Nadal for the 16th time in a final, and they are now 8-8 in such matches. Nadal had won the previous three, including the French Open final last year.

Venus Williams beat Johanna Larsson 6-3, 7-5 to give the U.S. an insurmountable 3-1 lead against Sweden in the Fed Cup World Group matches in Delray Beach, Fla. Earlier, top-ranked Serena Williams boosted the U.S. to a 2-1 lead when she posted a 6-2, 6-1 win over 54th-ranked Sofia Arvidsson.

SOCCER: Suarez bites foe

Uruguayan star Luis Suarez bit the arm of Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic during Liverpool’s 2-2 draw in the Premier League and apologized a few hours later. In November 2010, Suarez was banned for seven matches for biting PSV Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal while playing in the Dutch league, earning him the nickname “Cannibal of Ajax.”

American midfielder Clint Dempsey tied the game in the 75th minute with the first of three Tottenham goals in a seven-minute span, and Spurs rallied past Manchester City 3-1 to move the defending Premier League champions to the brink of elimination. Manchester United (26-4-3) can clinch a record 20th English league title when it hosts Aston Villa tonight.

Barcelona has yet to clear Lionel Messi (leg injury) to play but has included him on its squad for tomorrow’s Champions League first-leg semifinal at Bayern Munich.

GOLF: Jacquelin wins playoff

Raphael Jacquelin of France won a record-tying playoff at the Spanish Open in Valencia, Spain, edging Germany’s Maximilian Kieffer on their ninth try at the 18th hole.

Bernhard Langer shot a 67 to win the inaugural Greater Gwinnett Championship in Duluth, Ga., by three strokes over Tom Lehman and Tom Pernice Jr.

AUTOS: Sato wins Long Beach

Takuma Sato became the first Japanese driver to win an IndyCar race in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (Calif.). Graham Rahal finished second.

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won his second straight Bahrain Grand Prix, easily beating Lotus drivers Kimi Raikkonen by nine seconds and Romain Grosjean by 20 seconds.