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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff insists Lewis Hamilton performs at his best when the pressure is on, and is expecting the title race to go down to the wire. Hamiltons championship hopes have taken two devastating blows in the last week, retiring with an engine failure in Malaysia before finishing third in Japan to allow team-mate Nico Rosberg to stretch his lead to 33 points.The Martin Brundle column: Finding the real Lewis Hamilton But Wolff was quick to point out the many changes of momentum so far this season, and claims the Brit has proved in the past that he can recover when his back is against the wall.Lewis is going to regroup, hes very strong, said Wolff. He needs the enemy, sometimes more than one, thats just how he functions. Hes at his best when hes under pressure, when he has a target.I have no doubt that this is going to be an intense fight until the end. The world champion may be able to take solace from his previous comebacks in 2016. Rosberg held a 43-point advantage following the Russian and Spanish grands prix before Hamilton won six of the next seven races to take the title lead into the summer break.But with victories in all of the remaining four races of the season still not necessarily enough for Hamilton, the Brit realistically needs his team-mate to encounter mechanical problems at least once.Nico is doing everything right at the moment, admitted Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda. If everything is going normal, the championship could be decided in the next few races, and Lewis wont be able to catch Nico any more.This is perfectly clear to me. If nothing happens to either car, I dont think Lewis will be able to turn it around again. Lewis Hamiltons dad insists disappointments on the track and distractions off it wont distract the Formula One world champions bid to retain the title Hamilton flew back to Europe from Japan with Wolff and Lauda on Sunday night, but the Mercedes team boss said they would not be dissecting the events of Suzuka with Hamilton straight away. Problems both on and off the track, namely another disastrous start and a media row, marred the Brits Japanese GP weekend.We need to calm down and find out what happened, regroup, added Wolff. In my learning from the last couple of years, 24 hours later things look completely different than they appear an hour after the race. So our main emphasis will be on building him up and just enjoying the ride home [from Japan].We have 10 days, its not such a rush like last week. 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McCutchen hit his first home run in over a month, doubled twice and scored two runs to help the Pirates beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 on Sunday and take three of four from the defending NL West champions. David Luiz Jersey . It was a day that saw England slump off a World Cup field once again battered and bruised. This time there was no red card to wonder about, no goalkeeping error or individual mistake. They were thoroughly beaten by something they have nothing of – genuine world class ability.OAKLAND – The Blue Jays entered Fridays action the American League club most reliant on the long ball to score runs. It should come as no surprise, then, that the club struggled offensively during the Fourth of July matinee, a 1-0, 12-inning shutout loss to Oakland during which they had nine hits, including a double and eight singles. It should come as no surprise, then, that the club struggled offensively (five hits) in a series opening 4-1 loss to ace right-hander Sonny Gray and two Athletics relievers on Thursday. Fielding a lineup that included, among the bottom four, Triple-A call ups Brad Glenn, Darin Mastroianni and Munenori Kawasaki, the Blue Jays were shut out for six innings by Oakland left-hander Tommy Milone. Milone allowed only four hits, one of which was a sun-aided popup double by Steve Tolleson in the fifth inning. The Jays, with 404, ranked third in the American League in runs scored on Friday morning. A full 45-percent, or 182 of those runs, have been scored via the home run. If the blot that is Mount Davis in centerfield or the sewage backups that twice have rendered the visitors clubhouse a wasteland of human sewage arent enough to make O.co Coliseum an unappealing place, its well-earned reputation as a stadium where home runs go to die should be enough to turn Blue Jays stomachs. There are only two other teams in the American League that rely on the home run to score more than 40-percent of their runs. The Baltimore Orioles are percentage points behind the Blue Jays (166 of 369 runs, rounded up to 45-percent) and the Houston Astros are third (138 of 322 runs, 42.9-percent). By point of comparison, nine AL teams account for between 30 and 38.dddddddddddd.9-percent of their runs via the home run. Three teams (Minnesota, 26.2-percent; Texas, 25-percent; Kansas City, 24.8-percent) bring up the rear. LAWRIE MISSED Brett Lawries critics like to point to his .299 on-base percentage as the main reason for their displeasure with the 24-year-olds season. Yet, Lawries the man who drove the bus on manager John Gibbons platoons that worked so well in May. Moreover, his right-handed bat is missed as the Jays faced a raft of left-handed pitching last weekend against the White Sox and this weekend against Oakland. The Angels are scheduled to throw two southpaws next week and the Jays expect to see at least one in Tampa Bay next weekend. "We miss Brett right now," said manager John Gibbons. "Bretts a key guy. He really is. Like I said, I think when he first went down, he adds energy to that room and on the field. Our personalities arent, we dont have a lot of that. Of course his play on the field makes a huge difference." Lawrie is out with a fractured right index finger, suffered when he was hit on the hand by a Johnny Cueto pitch on June 22 in Cincinnati. General manager Alex Anthopoulos suggested last week Lawrie could be out through July. The timeframe fits; the injury has a three-to-six week healing period. ROSTER MOVE Prior to Fridays game, the Blue Jays activated reliever Brett Cecil from the disabled list. Outfielder Anthony Gose was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo. Cecil pitched to two hitters in the 10th inning, setting down Nick Punto and walking Coco Crisp. 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