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Katie Ledecky locks up fourth title at U.S. Olympic Team Trials
Katie Ledecky made history on Saturday, becoming the first woman to win four titles at a single U.S. Olympic Team Trials thanks to her women's 800-meter freestyle victory in Indianapolis. ,Ledecky finished in 8:14.12, easily topping Paige Madden's second-place mark of 8:20.71. She will now be compet...
Wyatt Langford, Jon Gray lead Rangers over Royals
Wyatt Langford hit a grand slam and Jon Gray allowed two hits over six innings to lead the Texas Rangers to a 6-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday afternoon in Arlington, Tex.,Josh Smith also homered and had two hits for Texas, which won its third straight game.,Gray (3-3) allowed jus...
Cardinals 3B Nolan Arenado (forearm) exits vs. Giants
Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado departed St. Louis' 9-4 victory Saturday over the visiting San Francisco Giants in the top of the eighth inning due to left forearm discomfort.,Arenado went 0-for-3 with a walk before exiting. Jose Fermin finished the game at third base.,The contest was Arenado'...
Alec Burleson blasts two homers as Cardinals beat Giants
Alec Burleson hit two homers and drove in five runs to propel the St. Louis Cardinals past the visiting San Francisco Giants 9-4 Saturday.,Paul Goldschmidt hit his 350th career homer, a two-run shot, and Brendan Donovan hit a solo homer as the Cardinals won for the seventh time in 10 games.,Cardinal...
Cards put C Ivan Herrera (back) on IL
The St. Louis Cardinals placed Ivan Herrera on the 10-day injured list with lower back tightness on Saturday and recalled fellow catcher Nick Raposo from Triple-A Memphis.,The move for Herrera is retroactive to Wednesday, one day after the last game in which he played.,Herrera, 24, is batting .279 w...
Nationals look to stay hot in rematch vs. Rockies
The Washington Nationals are teeming with youth but they aren't playing like a young team. ,Washington improved to 10-3 since June 7 after opening a nine-game road trip with an 11-5 win over the Colorado Rockies on Friday night in Denver.,The Nationals will have a chance to win the three-game series...
Rangers' Jon Gray, not Max Scherzer, draws start vs. Royals
The Rangers will have a hard-throwing right-hander on the mound Saturday afternoon as they go for the series win against the visiting Kansas City Royals. Only it won't be the one many Texas fans hoped for.,Multiple media outlets reported earlier this week that three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Sc...
Nationals explode for 19 hits, beat Rockies 11-5
Drew Millas homered and finished with three hits, Luis Garcia also went deep, and the Washington Nationals beat the Colorado Rockies 11-5 in Denver on Friday night.,Lane Thomas had three hits, four RBIs and finished a home run shy of hitting for the cycle, and Jacob Young and CJ Abrams also had thre...
Five-run inning powers Rangers past Royals
Marcus Semien drove in three runs with a bases-loaded double to highlight a five-run sixth inning and help lead the Texas Rangers to a 6-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night in Arlington, Texas.,Nathaniel Lowe doubled and had three hits and a run scored, Wyatt Langford went 2-for-4 ...
Braces from Barbra Banda, Marta lift Pride past Royals
Barbra Banda and Marta each scored twice to lead the Orlando Pride to a 6-0 victory over the visiting Utah Royals on Friday night.,Summer Yates and Ally Watt each added a goal for the Pride. Banda assisted on two goals.,NWSL-leading Orlando (9-0-5, 32 points) is unbeaten through 14 games after earni...
Gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz (hamstring) out of Olympic trials
Matthew Centrowitz, who won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympics, pulled out of the 1,500-meter competition at the U.S. Olympic trials on Friday due to a hamstring injury, just hours before racing was set to begin in Eugene, Ore.,Centrowitz ended a 108-year drought for U.S. men's Olympians in the 1,5...
Cardinals face familiar foe in Giants RHP Jordan Hicks
Jordan Hicks spent parts of five productive seasons pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals, primarily in relief.,Hicks converted back to a starter after signing with the San Francisco Giants as a free agent during the offseason. He will be back in St. Louis to face the Cardinals on Saturday afternoon ...
Florida Panthers Need To Contain Connor McDavid To Win Stanley Cup Finals
The Florida Panthers need to stop Connor McDavid in order to finish this series against the Edmonton Oilers....
Swimmer Lilly King gets a pre-Olympics ring
Lilly King won't soon forget her night at the U.S. Olympic Trials.,King became the first American swimmer to qualify for both the 100- and 200-meter breaststrokes in three successive Olympics on Thursday in Indianapolis. And seconds after she stepped out of the pool following her second-place finish...
Nationals hope latest young arm up to task vs. Rockies
The Stephen Strasburg era in Washington ended at the beginning of this season, but now the Nationals have another young pitcher to take his place.,And he looks like he's ready for the role after just three major league starts.,DJ Herz struck out 13 Miami batters to earn his first win on Saturday and...
Rangers, Royals open series eager to end June swoons
Two teams that have done their share of swooning in June face off Friday night when the Kansas City Royals open a three-game series against the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas.,Both teams have sputtered to 7-10 records so far this month. The Rangers, who have lost f...
Cardinals edge Giants in Negro Leagues tribute game
Brendan Donovan hit a two-run homer and an RBI single to propel the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Thursday in Birmingham, Ala., as Major League Baseball paid tribute to the Negro Leagues.,The contest, played at historic Rickwood Field, wound up serving as memo...
Freddy Fermin, Bobby Witt Jr. go yard as Royals edge A's
Freddy Fermin hit two early home runs, Bobby Witt Jr. broke an eighth-inning tie with one of his own and the Kansas City Royals avoided a three-game sweep at the hands of the host Oakland Athletics with a 3-2 win Thursday afternoon.,Fermin, serving at the team's designated hitter, had three of the R...
Diamondbacks take rubber game from Nationals
Christian Walker hit his 17th home run of the year, Ryne Nelson pitched seven strong innings and the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Washington Nationals 5-2 on Thursday.,Jake McCarthy had three hits, stole two bases and scored twice, and Randal Grichuk had a two-run double among his two hits...
Royals place RHP Dan Altavilla (oblique) on injured list
The Kansas City Royals put right-hander Dan Altavilla on the 15-day injured list Thursday with a right oblique strain.,Altavilla, 31, is 0-1 with a 14.73 ERA in five appearances (one start) in his first season with the Royals.,On Sunday, Altavilla's 98-mph fastball fractured the left wrist of Los An...