ATLANTA -- Zack Wheeler lived up the hype in his major league debut, pitching
six scoreless innings to lead the New York Mets to a 6-1 victory over the
first-place Atlanta Braves and a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday.
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China . Wheeler gave up only four hits and struck out seven while
consistently reaching the upper 90s on the radar gun. He struggled a bit with
his control, walking five, but got out of every jam. It was a long day that gave
New Yorks long-suffering NL fans hope for a brighter future, led by two of
baseballs most dynamic young pitchers. In Game 1 of the doubleheader,
24-year-old Matt Harvey (6-1) struck out a career-high 13 to lead the Mets past
the Braves 4-3. Wheelers performance was especially sweet since it came not far
from where he grew up and came to prominence as a high school star at East
Paulding High School in Atlantas northwest suburbs before going in the first
round of the 2009 amateur draft. He was cheered on by dozens of family and
friends, who roared loudly from their seats behind the Mets dugout. Also
watching from a second-row seat behind home plate was former Braves star Chipper
Jones, who has the same agent as Wheeler and tweeted him a good luck message
before his first start. Wheeler was shaky in the first, walking two while
throwing 23 pitches -- only eight for strikes. Catcher Anthony Recker strolled
to the mound to offer encouragement, and pitching coach Dan Warthen trotted out
when Wheeler overthrew a pitch to B.J. Upton, the ball sailing far out of the
strike zone. But Upton grounded out to end the threat, and the 23-year-old
right-hander -- the first child of the 1990s to play for the Mets -- steadied
himself by striking out the side the next inning. Recker, hitting just .158
coming into the game, broke up the scoreless duel between Wheeler and Paul
Maholm (7-6) in the seventh, crushing his second homer of the season over the
centre-field wall to put the Mets ahead 2-0. The Braves responded with a run of
their own in the bottom half on Justin Uptons sacrifice fly against Brandon
Lyon. But New York broke it open with a four-run eighth against Anthony Varvaro,
taking advantage of some shaky defence. The Braves made two errors on one play
when Varvaros pickoff throw to second base was low, skidding into centre field,
and B.J. Upton let it slide under his glove while racing into back up the play.
Marlon Byrd came all the way around to score by the time Upton retrieved the
ball. Juan Lagares added an RBI single and Omar Quintanilla finished off the
Braves with a two-run hit. It was a tough day for Upton. In the fifth, he
collided with younger brother Justin after catching a fly ball to left-centre.
Both were knocked to the ground but werent hurt. B.J. gave his sibling a playful
shove on their way back to the dugout. In the opener, Harvey fanned six in a row
at one point and didnt allow a hit until Jason Heywards fluke infield single
leading off the seventh. The right-hander tired in the eighth as the Braves
tried to rally for the second straight game. Trailing 4-0, Atlanta scored three
runs and had the bases loaded before Bobby Parnell, the fourth Mets pitcher of
the inning, fanned Chris Johnson to end the threat. Parnell earned his 10th save
with a scoreless ninth. John Buck homered for the Mets. "Certain days you wake
up and you feel good and you can let it go," Harvey said. "Today was one of
those days." The Mets had scored only 18 runs in Harveys previous 10 starts
while he was in the game. Largely because of that, he had eight no-decisions in
a stretch of nine appearances before a hard-luck 2-1 loss to the St. Louis
Cardinals in his last outing, snapping a stretch of 14 consecutive starts
without a loss dating to his final appearance of 2012. "He has electric stuff,"
Atlantas Dan Uggla said. "He was throwing everything for strikes on both sides
of the plate." Atlanta opened the five-game series with its 21st comeback win of
the season, a rain-delayed 2-1 victory that ended at 1:22 a.m. -- less than 12
hours before the start of the start of the day-night doubleheader. Dillon Gee
took a 1-0 lead to the ninth, but Freddie Freeman won it for the Braves with a
two-run homer. Only Kansas City has more come-from-behind victories than the
Braves. But the Mets erased the memory of that stunning loss behind their two
young guns. The Braves didnt come close to a hit off Harvey through six innings,
their only baserunners on a pair of walks in the third. Finally, Heyward reached
safely on perhaps the weakest ball hit off the New York starter all day -- a
slow dribbler up the first-base line. Harvey came off the mound to field it and
flipped to first base, but there was no one there to catch it. Lucas Duda,
making just his second start of the season at first, charged in and left the bag
uncovered. New York padded its lead with two runs in the eighth, just enough to
hold off the Braves. In the bottom half, Gerald Laird walked, Uggla reached on a
bad-hop single and Andrelton Simmons knocked out Harvey with Atlantas first
clean hit, a sharp single between shortstop and third base. Jordan Schafer
singled off LaTroy Hawkins to bring in two runs, and Heywards run-scoring double
off Scott Rice made it 4-3. After Rice intentionally walked Freeman to load the
bases, Parnell came on to strike out Johnson. The Braves fanned 16 times in Game
1. Atlanta rookie Alex Wood (0-1) lost in his first career start, lasting only
three innings and struggling with his control. NOTES: Harvey eclipsed his
previous career high of 12 strikeouts in a May 7 game against the Chicago White
Sox. ... Quintanilla snapped an 0-for-22 slump with a seventh-inning single in
Game 1. ... New York RHP Scott Atchison, just off the DL, was supposed to take
over for Wheeler in Game 2. But the reliever injured his right groin while
warming up and left the game without throwing an actual pitch. ... The Mets
swept the Braves in a doubleheader for the first time since Sept. 6, 2006, at
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The young athlete, now competing at the Rio Games, always considered herself to
be a girl just like the others, a girl who loved to run. Then the governing body
of track and field told her she was different, so different that her track
career could be over.Marked confidential and signed best sporting regards, the
letter outlined a choice for the athlete: Open herself up to a panel of medical
experts who could recommend surgery or chemical treatment to reduce her
testosterone levels, or stop competing.She had fallen foul of the International
Association of Athletics Federations rules aimed at providing a fair playing
field for women by keeping out athletes with high testosterone, a naturally
occurring strength-building hormone.Writing to the man who ran track and field
in the athletes country, the IAAFs medical director at the time explained that
blood and urine tests detected testosterone levels that were abnormally high for
a woman. The suspected cause, wrote Dr. Gabriel Dolle, wasnt doping but another
hot-button issue in athletics that is likely to flare in this final week of the
Rio de Janeiro Olympics: hyperandrogenism.Had the athlete not been a runner, she
might never have known of her condition. It was flagged by the IAAFs tests that
look for banned drugs. She was stunned and uncomprehending when told that her
testosterone pointed to hyperandrogenism, her then-coach told The Associated
Press.She couldnt understand. It was shock, the coach said. I said, `Youre not
alone. There are others.Thus started a months-long process of medical scrutiny,
trips to foreign clinics for batteries of tests, and potentially life-changing
choices shrouded in medical secrecy that makes it hard to investigate the IAAFs
treatment of hyperandrogenic women.The AP will not name the athlete, the country
she is competing for or give details, including racing achievements, that could
help identify her. In messages with the AP, she said she is focusing on
competition and that her story is personal and private.The unwilling face of
this complex and excruciatingly sensitive issue, Caster Semenya, will race in
Rio and likely win gold in the 800 meters. Believed to be hyperandrogenic, outed
as physiologically different without her consent when she won the world
championship 800 in 2009, the South Africans dominance has again pushed to the
fore divisive questions about whether allowing women to compete with
testosterone levels far above the female norm is fair and whether the hormones
attributed performance-enhancing effects are significantly greater than other
natural gifts, like height for basketball players or big feet for
swimmers.Semenya first races Wednesday. The IAAF letter and the exclusive AP
interview with her former coach, who was intimately involved in her eventual
decision to agree to testosterone-curbing treatment, shed unprecedented light on
the inner workings of the IAAF process that at least 14 women have gone
through.It is not publicly known how many hyperandrogenic women are competing in
Rio. But a study published in 2014 by Dolle and other medical experts calculated
that seven out of 1,000 elite female athletes may be hyperandrogenic, 140 times
higher than expected among the general population. Hyperandrogenism is a medical
condition which causes a person to produce high levels of hormones and can be
caused by differences in sexual development.Having not withstood a legal
challenge brought by another female athlete at the Court of Arbitration for
Sport, the IAAF regulations are now on hold, suspended by the CAS since July
2015. That means hyperandrogenic women can compete in Rio without having to
artificially control their testosterone levels.The CAS case was brought by Dutee
Chand, an Indian sprinter who challenged the rules after she was suspended, and
who, like Semenya, saw intimate medical details become fodder for public
debate.God wanted to bring a change (in the rules) through me, Chand told AP
before competing in 100-meter qualifying on Friday. Speaking as fast as she
runs, her nails painted red and black studs in her ears, the petite sprinter
said she has put her ordeal behind her, is relishing the Olympic experience and
longs to meet Usain Bolt.By the time I came to know about my problems, the issue
already was out in the open, the 20-year-old said. Everyone supported me. I dont
worry about what has happened in the past.The coach who spoke to AP praised
Chands resistance against the IAAF rules, saying: Thank goodness that there were
courageous people who protested.The AP will not identify the coach to avoid
identifying the athlete. As her confidant during the process, the coach was
involved in her decision-making, including choosing hormone therapy instead of
surgery to lower her testosterone. The IAAF letter says the coach was present
during a meeting with a federation representative when a follow-up sample waas
taken from the athlete to confirm the diagnosis of hyperandrogenism.
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athlete was provided to AP by a former federation representative who was
involved in the implementation of the hyperandrogenism regulations. The
governing body introduced them in 2011 after the furor that followed Semenyas
world title in Berlin. There was widespread criticism of track officials
handling of her case, including leaking without her consent that she had
undergone sex testing. I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive
scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being, Semenya
subsequently complained.The APs source said the IAAF regulations were ensnaring
athletes from developing countries with little education or the financial means
to contest the rules, and forcing them to either accept medical treatment or
stop competing. The AP is not naming the former federation official because he
wasnt authorized to release the letter.During the IAAF process, the athlete
could not compete. The coach explained her absence by lying that she was
injured.The first IAAF-requested tests to determine the exact nature of her
condition required a trip to another nations capital, where she was met by
Dolle. That was followed by two trips to a clinic in Nice, France, all paid for
by the IAAF, the coach said.The first Nice trip was accompanied but the second,
lasting over a week, was not because the IAAF did not want to pay for someone to
go with her, said the coach.I didnt want her to go alone. She didnt speak French
very well. I was afraid she wouldnt understand, the coach said. I said, `Before
you take any medicine, call me. Dont take anything. The doctors say, `Its for
her good. And I thought to myself, `Shes fine as she is....They said, `Were
doing tests to help you. Maybe they gave her details but she didnt understand.
She just knew that they were saying she had to have the tests to come back to
track and she accepted because that is what they wanted.After the second Nice
trip, subsequent correspondence from Dolle offered the athlete two choices:
surgery or medicinal treatment, said the coach. The coach urged her not to go
under the surgeons knife, fearing the irreversible effects.I said to her, `We
cant take this risk; cut things off that God gave you, the coach said. When
things are cut off, its forever. You cant get those parts back.Other athletes
consented to surgery. Doctors in Nice reported in 2013 that they operated on
four hyperandrogenic women, aged 18 to 21 and from rural or mountainous regions
of developing countries, cutting out gonads and partially removing their
clitoris. The athletes were told that surgery would most likely dent their
athletic performances but allow them to continue competing, the doctors
reported. They said the women were allowed to resume competition one year
later.The coach feels the rules discriminated against women because there arent
equivalent rules for men.It punishes women because there is no law that bans
some men because they are more manly than others, the coach said.The coach
lamented a lack of detailed information from the IAAF about the surgery or
medicinal therapy; youre told just that it is bringing your level down to the
level of other women.She said, `Since I love this sport, Ill take the medicine,
the coach said.The athlete continued to train while suspended.She was desperate
to run. She kept saying, `Im taking the medicine. Why cant I run?The treatment
caused weight-gain and the unpleasant side-effect of making the athlete smell
awful, sweaty and dirty, even though she stayed clean and wore deodorant and
perfume, the coach said. The smell vanished when she came off the treatment, the
coach added.The treatment was administered by a doctor in her country who
reported back to the IAAF. The treatment did not lead to a huge dip in her
running performances.When the IAAF eventually gave the athlete the green light
to resume competing, she was delighted, the coach said. But the CAS only
suspended the regulations, rather than overturned them entirely, giving the IAAF
until July 2017 to produce evidence that high testosterone gives hyperandrogenic
women a significant performance advantage.She is free but she is scared that
from one day to the next they could stop her from running again, the coach said.
Shes in limbo, waiting for something bad to happen. She asks, `Are they going to
stop me again? Are they going to make me take more medicine?---John Leicester is
an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at
jleicester(at)ap.org or follow him at http://twitter.com/johnleicester . See his
work at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/john-leicester---Ashok Sharma in New
Delhi contributed.
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