NEW YORK -- Gerrit Cole wagged a finger 15 times at Mariners manager Scott Servais and threw a pitch to Jose Caballero that landed high up on the backstop.

Cole's message was clear: Don't mess with me.

"Sometimes a high fastball can be a really effective pitch. Got to change eye level," the New York Yankees ace deadpanned after a 3-1 win over Seattle on Tuesday night that stopped a four-game losing streak.

Boosted by Anthony Rizzo's RBI double in the first inning and Billy McKinney's two-run homer in the second, New York improved to 7-0 when Cole pitches after a Yankees loss. Cole is 4-0 with a 1.87 ERA in those starts.

His 0-2 pitch to Caballero was as clear as an all-uppercase tweet.

"I think that raised their antenna," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.

Caballero stepped out repeatedly during his first two at-bats until the pitch clock was down to the 8-second requirement to be in the batter's box and alert. Caballero walked to the edge of the circle after taking a called strike with two outs in the seventh, fouled off the next pitch and walked to the edge again, then returned and called his one allowed timeout.

Cole responded with a 97 mph fastball 10-15 feet above the batter's head.

"He didn't like the way I was manipulating the pitch clock, but he just got excited, so that's good," Caballero said. "The rules are there for all of us, and I just had to be ready at 8 seconds."

Caballero swung past a full-count fastball, and Cole stared at him as he walked off the mound. Cole turned to the Mariners' dugout and wagged his right index finger over and over.

"Their manager had some choice words for me coming off the field and he was wagging his finger at me, so I wagged my finger at him," Cole said.

Plate umpire Dan Bellino walked toward the New York dugout and had an intense discussion with Boone.

"I don't remember it because, obviously, there was yelling, some back-and-forth at the dugouts," Boone said. "I was like, 'Why are you yelling at us?' It felt like they started yelling at us right away."

Servais finished his postgame interview before Cole spoke.

"Cabby plays the game the right way," Servais said. "He plays by the rules. He gets in there. Obviously others didn't think it was right, but Cabby's done that since he's been in the big leagues. He's not going to change how he plays."

Cole (8-1) allowed one run and four hits in 7 1/3 innings with eight strikeouts and a walk, giving up an opposite-field RBI double to Jarred Kelenic off the left-field wall in the sixth. Cole received a standing ovation when he was replaced by Clay Holmes, then raised his right index finger and thumb to tip his cap to the crowd of 43,130 as he walked to the dugout.

Holmes recorded five straight outs for his ninth save in 11 chances, ending a game that took just 2 hours, 9 minutes. The Cole-Caballero confrontation was the lasting memory.

"New age," Boone said. "Pitch-clock age."

The win came in the Yankees' first home game since returning from a three-game sweep at the hands of the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park.

Mariners right-hander Luis Castillo (4-5, 2.73 ERA), a pitcher whom the Yankee coveted last year around the trading deadline, will take the mound Wednesday night having lost three straight starts for the first time since Aug. 25 to Sept. 5, 2021. He will be opposed by right-hander Jhony Brito (3-3, 5.58), who will be recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to make his first big league start since May 20.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Angels are highly unlikely to trade Shohei Ohtani if they remain in playoff contention this summer, general manager Perry Minasian said Tuesday.

Minasian didn't unequivocally vow he won't trade Ohtani, who is scheduled to enter unrestricted free agency after the season. But the GM underlined his season-long stance on the issue while strongly indicating he still intends to do everything possible to end the Angels' eight-year playoff drought -- and that includes taking the massive risk of losing their two-way superstar in free agency.

"It's pretty self-explanatory with where we're at (in the standings)," Minasian said while speaking to reporters before the Angels opened a two-game Freeway Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, who are likely to be one of the top contenders for Ohtani's services in free agency.

The second-place Angels are 41-33 entering Tuesday's games, holding one of the American League's wild-card playoff spots and trailing AL West-leading Texas by five games after being nine back only two weeks ago. The Halos took three of four from the Rangers in Arlington last week as part of an 11-3 surge that has boosted their chances of making the playoffs for the first time in Ohtani's career.

Ohtani, who turns 29 next month, is the cornerstone of the Angels' current success during an increasingly spectacular season in which he leads the major leagues in homers, RBI, slugging percentage -- and opponents' batting average.

Ohtani is hitting .300 with a 1.016 OPS, 24 homers and 58 RBIs. On the mound, the 2021 AL MVP and 2022 runner-up is 6-2 with a 3.29 ERA, and his 105 strikeouts are the fifth-most in the majors while his opponents' .178 average is the best mark in the majors.

After contributing an extra-base hit in every game last week during the Halos' 5-2 road trip, Ohtani was named the AL Player of the Week for the fifth time in his career. He went 10 for 23 (.435) with six homers, 12 RBI, 10 walks and a 1.893 OPS. He also pitched six innings of two-run ball to beat Texas in his only mound start.

Ohtani is all but guaranteed to make his third consecutive All-Star Game start next month. He is the AL's current leading vote-getter with nearly 1.4 million more votes than his closest competitor at designated hitter.

Ohtani is making $30 million this season in his final year of Angels team control. He has been in Anaheim for six seasons since he chose the club for his move from Japan in late 2017, but the Angels have yet to make the postseason or even post a winning record during his tenure alongside Mike Trout.

The MLB trade deadline is Aug. 1. If the Angels don't move Ohtani, they could get only a compensatory draft pick if he signs with another team as a free agent.

Ohtani will be coveted by every team in the majors this winter, and aggressive clubs such as the Dodgers, Mets, Giants and Padres are expected to compete with the fairly deep-pocketed Angels for his services if he reaches free agency. Ohtani's agent, Nez Balelo, indicated in February that Ohtani probably will go into free agency to determine his future, rather than signing an extension in 2023.

Defending champion Elena Rybakina and world number two Aryna Sabalenka began their Wimbledon preparations with wins as the grass-court season continues.

Sabalenka also began strongly with a 6-3 6-2 win over Russia's Vera Zvonareva.

Meanwhile, last year's winner Ons Jabeur started her grass-court season with a 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 defeat by German qualifier Jule Niemeier.

The Tunisian fourth seed, who was runner-up at Wimbledon last year, has struggled with injury since the start of the year and squandered two set points in the opening set to fall at the first hurdle of her title defence.

Ranked 120th in the world, Niemeier made the quarter-finals of Wimbledon last year and will face 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu or 2019 Roland Garros runner-up Marketa Vondrousova in the next round.

Kazakhstan's Rybakina pulled out of the French Open through illness but looked in fine form in her first grass-court tournament to set up a last-16 tie against Croatia's Donna Vekic as she warms up for her Wimbledon title defence with the tournament beginning on 3 July.

Australian Open champion Sabalenka did not compete at last year's Wimbledon following the All England Club's ban on Russian and Belarusian players competing because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

She was critical of that decision, saying it achieved "nothing", but added that "no-one supports war" and said she did not watch the Championships last year.

However, the 25-year-old top seed secured a comprehensive win over veteran Zvonareva in just 66 minutes and will face Russian Veronika Kudermetova or China's Zheng Qinwen in the next round.

American fifth seed Coco Gauff also secured a 6-3 6-4 win over the Czech Republic's Katerina Siniakova, and should she and Sabalenka progress they will meet in the quarter-finals.

Zverev beats Thiem in Halle

At the Halle Open, German world number 22 Alexander Zverev beat Dominic Thiem in a rematch of the 2020 US Open final, which Thiem won in dramatic fashion.

It was both men's first grass-court match since 2021 and, following a third consecutive semi-final appearance at the French Open, Zverev beat the Austrian 6-3 6-4 in front of a home crowd and will face Canadian Denis Shapovalov in the next round.

Thiem, ranked 89 in the world, has been knocked out in the first round of three of his past four tournaments.

Elsewhere, Italy's Jannik Sinner, a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon last year, beat France's Richard Gasquet 6-3 5-7 6-2 to progress.

Russian third seed Andrey Rublev beat China's Wu Yibing 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 and will face German wildcard Yannick Hanfmann next.

No-one was allowed to leave the room until everyone in there changed women's tennis forever.

The knock-on effects of that meeting at the Gloucester Hotel in London 50 years ago, which led to the formation of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), are everywhere to see today.

In the past decade, only four women have ranked in the top 50 of the Forbes list of the highest-paid athletes. All of them were tennis players.

It is a far cry from where the women were on 21 June 1973, as, led by Billie Jean King, they gathered just before Wimbledon to unite groups of players from rival tours into a single organisation that eventually became the first truly global women's professional sports tour.

"It was a pivotal moment in women's tennis," another of the main protagonists, Rosie Casals - King's doubles partner and fellow member of the 'Original Nine' who formed a breakaway tour in 1970 - told BBC Sport.

But it is one, she feels, that today's generation may not fully appreciate at times.

"We show them the movies and the videos and Billie Jean up there fighting. But they really need to understand it - not just look at it, but grasp that they have had the greatest ride in the world," the American nine-time Grand Slam women's doubles champion said.

"There is no other women's sport to be so successful and entitled the way these women have been.

"It's not just showing up to play tennis and collecting the cheque. They don't even collect the cheque, that cheque goes to their agents, I don't think they've ever put their hands on a cheque.

"I want to see them give more back to the sport and help the sponsors and promoters when they are needed to show up for something.

"I know things are easier, and it's the different times in a different game. It's just like your parents trying to tell you about the Depression. What do you know? They're sitting in probably the best place ever."

'Most of the time you're talking to their agent'

The creation of the WTA did not just happen during the course of those few hours in the conference room.

Casals said she and the others had spent the previous year talking to the players on the rival tour - those like Britain's Virginia Wade and Australian Margaret Court - to persuade them of the merits of joining forces, using the evidence from their breakaway Virginia Slims circuit to illustrate it would be a worthwhile move.

The 'Original Nine' had taken a risk in 1970 by forming their own women's circuit that resulted in them being banned from Grand Slams tournaments, signing a symbolic $1 contract that then paid off as they started to earn good money and play in big arenas.

That success was born from the close relationship the players had with sponsors and their tour and it is this that Casals feels is missing among today's players.

"Without them [sponsors and promoters] there are no tournaments, and they're taking all the risks," the 74-year-old said. "I feel the women have to continue establishing themselves, yes, but also giving more.

"It's easy to take it for granted. I'm not saying all of them are blase about it, and I'm sure the WTA talks to them about what's important and what they need ... but most of the time you're talking to their agent.

"There's not enough closeness or relationship."

'There would be no women's game without the WTA'

By the time the players left the London hotel, they had installed King as president of their new organisation and her quest for equality gathered momentum, including the pursuit of equal prize money for women at Grand Slams.

"In my lifetime that could have been the most exciting year of my life," King told the Today programme's Karthi Gnanasegaram. "It was such a joyous moment that we know we were really together.

"We are the example [for other women's sports]. We showed them we could do it. If you can see it, you can be it."

The US Open became the first of the four Grand Slam tournaments to pay equal prize money to men and women in 1973, with Wimbledon the last in 2007.

Former British number one Laura Robson says the women's game would not have survived without the formation of the WTA.

"The Original Nine who kicked it off have given us all a chance to even have a job in the first place, a chance to work and earn money doing what we love - and that's playing tennis," she told BBC Sport.

"There would be no women's game without the WTA.

"You listen to Billie Jean King and the idea is to always keep pushing. We all realise what areas can continue to improve and get better and I'm sure the WTA is looking at the next 50 years and the next big plan because the game grows all the time."

In an open letter to the Original Nine to mark their 50 years in 2020, 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu wrote: "I'd like to think that maybe other women along the way would have done the same thing, but the point is, you took the biggest leap, you did it first, and your generation has inspired mine to continue fighting and striving for change."

British number one Katie Boulter suffered a first-round defeat at the Birmingham Classic, two days after winning her first WTA Tour title.

Harriet Dart later came out on top in an all-British match against Nottingham runner-up Jodie Burrage.

Dart beat Burrage, who was bidding to replace Boulter as British number one, 4-6 6-2 7-5.

Burrage could have replaced Boulter at the top of the rankings had she reached the final, but appeared to struggle with cramp in the final stages of the third set.

Birmingham is one of a number of British grass-court events held before Wimbledon, which begins on 3 July.

Boulter did not drop a set in her Nottingham triumph but had a quick turnaround to play in Birmingham, where she reached the quarter-finals last year.

"I knew coming here that I would be on the back foot body-wise, which is a place I actually want to be because it means I'm pushing myself having played a lot of matches," she said.

"I didn't want to skip a week and I'm proud of myself for going out there and I gave it absolutely everything I had.

"Unfortunately I was on the losing side today but I pick myself up and we get ready for the next few events."

There were no British women in the top 100 at the cut-off point for this year's Wimbledon, with the players relying on wildcards or having to come through three rounds of qualifying to reach the main draw.

Earlier, second seed Jelena Ostapenko survived a scare to beat the Czech Republic's Linda Noskova 6-2 5-7 6-1, ranked 49 in the world.

The Latvian will face Venus Williams in the next round with the American having secured an emotional three-set win against Italy's Camila Giorgi on Monday.

Romania's Sorana Cirstea also advanced with a 6-4 2-6 6-3 win over compatriot Ana Bogdan.

Andy Murray says there is no need to "overreact" after his return to Queen's fell flat when a 10-match winning streak on the British grass courts was ended by Australia's Alex de Minaur.

"I don't want to overanalyse," said 36-year-old Murray, who won titles in Surbiton and Nottingham before Queen's.

"It's easy to overreact. I lost to a good player."

Murray said he knows there are things he can do better but he can also take positives from his good grass-court form in the past few weeks.

"It's obviously not the same level of opponents, but I won Nottingham last week without dropping a set. I only lost one set in Surbiton," he said.

"I was holding serve very comfortably, moving well, hitting the ball good. There are a lot of positive signs there."

Earlier on Tuesday, Spanish top seed Carlos Alcaraz earlier came through a tricky test to win on his debut at the Cinch Championships.

Alcaraz, 20, recovered against French lucky loser Arthur Rinderknech to win 4-6 7-5 7-6 (7-3) in the first round.

British number five Liam Broady, ranked 143rd, lost 1-6 6-4 6-3 to France's world number 46 Adrian Mannarino.

Broady looked on course for his best win by ranking of the season before the experienced Mannarino fought back.

In contrast to Alcaraz, Danish second seed Holger Rune had a smoother start to his grass-court season with a 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3) win over American world number 42 Maxime Cressy.

Rune, 20, will face British wildcard Ryan Peniston, who beat the Dane at Eastbourne last year, next.

Flat performance sees Murray lose hope of Wimbledon seeding

Fresh from winning the back-to-back ATP Challenger titles in Surbiton and Nottingham, Murray was aiming for another run at the place where he is a record five-time singles champion.

More significantly, the Scot was looking to reach at least the quarter-finals and boost his chances of being seeded at Wimbledon, which starts on 3 July.

Being ranked among the top 32 players at a Grand Slam - and in theory avoiding tougher opponents until the third round - has been one of Murray's key targets this year.

But this defeat means the three-time major champion will remain unseeded at the All England Club, barring the unlikely event of a host of withdrawals from rivals above him in the rankings, and now faces the prospect of meeting a higher-ranked player early on.

On whether the issue played on his mind before facing De Minaur, Murray said: "I have been thinking about for the last few weeks.

"It was not any different today, I knew what the situation was going into the grass season.

"I dealt with it fine the last two weeks. I don't think it had any bearing on how I played today."

Playing seventh seed De Minaur at Queen's - a Tour-level tournament with a higher quality field - was always going to be a considerable step up in class for the world number 38.

Murray, looking laboured and showing his exasperation from midway through the opening set, struggled against an opponent who uses the pace of the grass court and sharp movement to good effect.

After threatening an early break in a confident start, Murray quickly lost his way. He lost serve twice as the first set swung away from him, with the mood of the Briton and the crowd turning flat.

Murray could not revive the atmosphere or regain his level, and the aggressive De Minaur used the momentum to win the final five games of the match.

I'll keep improving on grass, warns Alcaraz

While Alcaraz has already won a Grand Slam title, topped the world rankings and been one of the dominant players on the ATP Tour this year, the Spaniard is still inexperienced on grass courts.

The US Open champion and recent French Open semi-finalist is playing only the third grass-court event of his senior career.

He had only ever played at Wimbledon in 2021 and 2022 before facing Rinderknech, who was a late replacement for the injured Arthur Fils.

Before his opening match at Queen's Alcaraz spoke about needing to improve his movement on the surface, but also believed his all-round game - aggression from the baseline, complemented by deft hand skills at the net - could lead to success in London this summer.

Initially Alcaraz struggled for fluency as Rinderknech's powerful serve and groundstrokes caused him issues.

But his movement improved as the match wore on, allowing him to show flashes of his undoubted shot-making ability.

"It was really difficult for me at the beginning to adapt my tennis and my game to the grass," said Alcaraz, who will play Jiri Lehecka in the second round after the Czech beat Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 7-6 (7-4) 6-3.

"It has been a good start for me. I feel really good but I will be better in the next round."

PGA Tour officials intend to tackle a growing narrative that the “framework” agreement the circuit signed with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia two weeks ago is not a takeover of professional golf.

According to a source familiar with the agreement, who requested anonymity, the deal has built-in safeguards that will ensure the Tour maintains leadership of both the new entity – which will be for-profit and is tentatively called NewCo in the agreement – as well as the PGA Tour.

The agreement calls for the for-profit assets of the Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf, which is owned by the PIF, to be bundled into NewCo, with the PIF making a minority investment based on the evaluation of the new entity. Under the agreement, the Tour has the right to decline subsequent investments.

For the Tour, those for-profit assets would include any media rights, sponsorships, the TPC network and any licensing agreements. The board of directors of NewCo will include an executive committee of Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Jimmy Dunne and Ed Herlihy, who are members of the Tour’s policy board and forged the framework agreement with the PIF. The tax-exemption arm of the Tour, including anything “inside the ropes,” will remain autonomous.

With Monahan still recovering from a “medical situation,” Tuesday’s player meeting at TPC River Highlands will be run by executive vice president Tyler Dennis, who,  along with chief operating officer Ron Price, is handling the day-to-day operations of the Tour while Monahan recovers.

Feedback at a player meeting the day the agreement was announced was universally negative and officials are expected to outline the safeguards built into the deal and attempt to win back the trust of players, who have been widely critical of the deal and the secrecy that surrounded the negotiations.

Five-time PGA Tour policy board member Davis Love III sent a letter to the circuit’s commissioner and its membership prior to Tuesday’s player meeting calling for patience in the wake of the “framework” agreement between the Tour and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia.

Love served as a player director on the Tour’s policy board during the transition from commissioner Deane Beman to Tim Finchem and again two decades later when Jay Monahan followed Finchem as commissioner.

“Our three commissioners have one critical, common trait: the unwavering goal of basing all decisions on what’s best for the players, sponsors, loyal fans, and the game, as well as generating millions of dollars for charity,” Love wrote.

Players pushed back two weeks ago when the agreement with the PIF was announced and Tuesday’s player meeting at TPC River Highlands was likely going to feature similar criticism. Specifically, players have questioned the secrecy of the framework agreement and the lack of player input into a groundbreaking deal.

“I am confident and trust that any decisions – in the future as in the past – will have the same due process and player input. Jay, as you have said, Rules made by the Players, for the Players. If we are patient and work together, we will achieve the best result for our Tour, and our partners and fans,” Love wrote. “As always, you, the players and the Policy Board have my full support.”

Open letter to PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan, Players, Sponsors and Tour Staff

Dear Jay,

Robin and I continue to pray for your health and well-being, and your family.   I have been fortunate in my career to be a Player Director for five terms and work in the board room with you, Deane Beman and Tim Finchem, and I’ve watched the incredible growth of the PGA TOUR throughout my career.

Our three commissioners have one critical, common trait: the unwavering goal of basing all decisions on what’s best for the players, sponsors, loyal fans, and the game, as well as generating millions of dollars for charity. This growth has only been possible because our commissioners and the Independent Board Directors have always guided us to sound business decisions, and player input has been central to those decision, as the Player Directors have an equal voice and votes, to approve or deny our path forward.

I am confident and trust that any decisions – in the future as in the past – will have the same due process and player input. Jay, as you have said, Rules made by the Players, for the Players. If we are patient and work together we will achieve the best result for our Tour, and our partners and fans. As always, you, the players and the Policy Board have my full support.

Sincerely,

Davis Love III

A proposal for around-the-clock hours for bars and restaurants in Washington, D.C., during the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was granted approval by the city council.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has until June 29 to sign off on the measure, which was unanimously approved by the 13-person council.

Bars and restaurants wishing to extend hours would pay a $100 fee but are then granted permission to serve alcohol for 22 hours -- the exception being 4 a.m. to 6 a.m. -- to allow patrons to indulge in live coverage of matches in Australia and New Zealand. The World Cup begins July 20 and ends Aug. 20.

The opening Group A match between New Zealand and Norway on July 20 is scheduled to air on FOX at 3 a.m. ET.

The first match involving the United States is Friday, July 21 at 9 p.m. ET, but a match scheduled for Aug. 1 against Portugal has a 3 a.m. ET start time.

There is a time difference of 14 to 16 hours between the hosts of the event and Washington, D.C. The same proposal was approved for local establishments to offer extended hours and services during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Councilman Kenyan McDuffie said in proposing the extended service hours that the World Cup resonates on the same level as the Super Bowl for soccer fans.

"This event takes place every four years and is a Super Bowl-type sporting event for soccer fans. Local soccer fans are expected to watch the 2023 Women's World Cup tournament regardless of the hour," he said.

Cristiano Ronaldo became the first men's footballer to play 200 international matches during Portugal's European Championship qualifying win over Iceland on Tuesday.

The Portugal captain, who made his international debut in 2003, achieved the milestone at Reykjavik's Laugardalsvollur stadium and scored the winning goal in a 1-0 victory.

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Prior to Tuesday's game, Ronaldo said: "Two hundred games played proves the love I have for my country. For me it is an extremely important milestone. It means a lot. [Two hundred] is a beautiful number that [no men's player] has. I'm very proud because this is something I never thought I could reach. And I'm continuing to set records."

Ronaldo, 38, is the leading scorer in men's international football with 122 goals. The Al Nassr forward is also the only man ever to have played in five different European Championship tournaments.

At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Ronaldo became the first male football player to score in five different World Cups.

A five-time Ballon d'Or winner, Ronaldo has two major honours with Portugal -- he led his country to success at Euro 2016 and the inaugural UEFA Nations League three years later.

While Ronaldo is the record holder when it comes to men's internationals, the overall record is held by former USWNT player and 2015 U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame inductee Kristine Lilly with 354 international appearances.