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Aurora advance in lower bracket at DreamLeague Season 29
Aurora Gaming trounced Tundra Esports 2-0 on Friday to reach the lower-bracket semifinals at the $1 million DreamLeague Season 29 online event.,The day's action began with the lower-bracket second round in which Tundra Esports edged Xtreme Gaming 2-1 while PlayTime rallied past BetBoom Team 2-1.,Six...
MLB roundup: Rays top rival Yankees to spoil Gerrit Cole's return
Gerrit Cole pitched six strong innings during his return from reconstructive elbow surgery, but the Tampa Bay Rays scored four times in the eighth inning by capitalizing on shaky infield defense and closed out a 4-2 victory over the host New York Yankees on Friday night.,The Rays scored four times i...
Report: Out-of-form Gio Reyna makes U.S. World Cup roster
The biggest question leading up to the announcement of the United States' World Cup roster apparently was answered on Friday when The Athletic reported that Gio Reyna made the squad.,Reyna, 23, is a skillful playmaker, but his extensive injury history, lack of form at the club level and past attitud...
White Sox ride 9-run fourth to win over stumbling Giants
Munetaka Murakami highlighted a nine-run fourth inning with a bases-clearing double, Davis Martin coasted to his fifth straight win and the Chicago White Sox opened a three-game road series with a 9-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night.,Andrew Benintendi had a two-run double and m...
Rockies rally past Diamondbacks on ninth-inning RBI hit
Chad Stevens delivered the tiebreaking single with one out in the top of the ninth to help the Colorado Rockies notch a 3-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night at Phoenix.,Stevens' first hit of the season and third of his career plated Sterlin Thompson with the decisive run as Colo...
Zach Neto (2 HRs), Angels tee off on Jacob deGrom, Rangers
Zach Neto hit two home runs and Anaheim native Wade Meckler hit a three-run home run in his first career Angels at-bat to lead Los Angeles to a 9-6 victory over the Texas Rangers in the opener of a three-game series on Friday night in Anaheim, Calif., ,It was the fourth multi-home run game of Neto's...
Zia Cooke scores 25 to propel Storm past Sun
Zia Cooke scored a career-high 25 points as the Seattle Storm defeated the visiting Connecticut Sun 77-59 Friday night.,Rookie Flau'jae Johnson, a first-round pick out of LSU who was benched for the fourth quarter of Wednesday's 80-78 loss to the Sun, added 17 points, seven rebounds, five assists an...
Ramon Laureano swats tiebreaking HR as Padres down A's
Ramon Laureano snapped a tie with a home run in the bottom of the seventh inning Friday night as the San Diego Padres stopped the visiting Athletics 7-3 in the opener of a three-game series.,Laureano worked a full count against Jeffrey Springs (3-5) and then hammered a changeup an estimated 401 feet...
Behind big bench contributions, Thunder overtake Spurs in Game 3
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 26 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder once again dominated with their bench, overcoming a sluggish start to beat the host San Antonio Spurs 123-108 in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals on Friday.,The Thunder lead the best-of-seven series 2-1 going into Game 4 i...
Dynamo, Galaxy on upswing, ready to face off before World Cup break
The Houston Dynamo and LA Galaxy have played some of their best soccer of the season in advance of their clash on Saturday in Carson, Calif. Now the goal is to carry that momentum into this meeting and through the upcoming lengthy break that's on the immediate horizon.,It's the final game for both t...
Earthquakes tasked with trying to beat Timbers for first time in Portland
After a stellar start to the season in which they lost just once in their first 12 MLS matches, the San Jose Earthquakes have hit a rough patch.,The Earthquakes (9-3-2, 29 points), who are still tied in points with Vancouver atop the Western Conference, will look to snap out of a four-match winless ...
Dodgers 3B Max Muncy (wrist) out for 'couple days'
Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy is expected to miss a few games after being hit on the right wrist with a pitch in the eighth inning of Friday night's 5-1 loss against the host Milwaukee Brewers.,Muncy, 35, who was hitless in his first three at-bats, was hit with a 95.5 mph slider from r...
San Diego riding Marcus Ingvartsen's hot streak into game with Whitecaps
Marcus Ingvartsen has the hottest boot in MLS at the moment.,Heading into San Diego FC's home match Saturday night against the Vancouver Whitecaps, Ingvartsen has scored six goals in the last four matches. That includes a brace on May 16 in his team's 3-3 draw with FC Cincinnati.,On the year, Ingvar...
Aces hope return matchup with Sparks proves just as beneficial
The Las Vegas Aces return home in search of a fifth straight win following an unbeaten four-game road trip, taking on a Los Angeles Sparks team that has had a more turbulent start to the season than expected.,The Aces' trip began with a 27-point win over the Sparks on May 10 and was punctuated by Ch...
RCR sets aside No. 8 for future use by Kyle Busch's son
Richard Childress Racing parked the No. 8 Chevrolet indefinitely on Friday, the day after driver Kyle Busch died at age 41 following a severe illness.,The car number could return to the NASCAR in the future, though, driven by Brexton Busch, Kyle Busch's son who is currently 11 years old.,RCR wrote i...
Golden Knights put Avalanche in 0-2 hole with third-period rally
DENVER -- Jack Eichel and Ivan Barbashev scored goals 2:07 apart in the third period, Barbashev added an empty-netter, and the Vegas Golden Knights rallied to beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-1 in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals on Friday night.,Eichel and Barbashev each added an assist and Car...
Mitch Garver, Logan Gilbert help Mariners sneak by slumping Royals
Mitch Garver clubbed a two-run homer in the seventh inning, after Logan Gilbert was solid while pitching into the sixth, and the visiting Seattle Mariners edged the scuffling Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Friday night.,Gilbert allowed two hits and two walks while striking out six and never faced any rea...
William Contreras, Brewers jump all over Dodgers
William Contreras set the tone with an early three-run homer and Logan Henderson tossed five innings of two-hit ball to pace the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-1 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday in the opener of the series between division leaders.,Milwaukee, coming off a sweep of t...
Chadwick Tromp's walk-off hit propels Braves past Nats in 11
Chadwick Tromp laced a walk-off RBI single in the 11th inning on Friday to propel the Atlanta Braves to a 5-4 victory over the visiting Washington Nationals.,After Washington reliever Paxton Schultz (0-2) retired the first two batters of the 11th, Tromp drove in his second run for the Braves, who wo...
Jackson Holliday's HR helps O's extend Tigers' skid to 7
Jackson Holliday's first hit in three games since making his season debut this week was a two-run go-ahead home run in the fourth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles went on to beat the visiting Detroit Tigers 7-4 in the first game of a three-game series Friday night.,Pete Alonso smashed a three-run h...