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Will Power cruises at Portland, tightens points race
Will Power of Australia cruised to a nearly 10-second victory on Sunday at Portland International Raceway in Oregon, earning his third win of the season to remain in the hunt for the IndyCar championship.,Starting second behind polesitter Santino Ferrucci, Power passed him entering the first turn en...
Padres rally, edge Mets on Jackson Merrill's walk-off HR
Jackson Merrill cracked a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday, lifting the San Diego Padres to a 3-2 comeback win over the visiting New York Mets and a split of the teams' four-game series.,Merrill got a 2-0 count against reliever Edwin Diaz (5-2) and lined a hanging slider an estima...
Bryan Woo sharp as Mariners win series against Giants
Bryan Woo pitched seven strong innings as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting San Francisco Giants 4-3 Sunday afternoon to take two of three games in the interleague series.,Woo (6-2), who grew up as a Giants fan in the Bay Area, allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits. The right-hander di...
Athletics use four-run inning to knock off Brewers
Daz Cameron and Zack Gelof capped a four-run fourth inning with consecutive sacrifice flies, Mason Miller retired all four batters he faced for his 21st save and the Oakland Athletics snapped the visiting Milwaukee Brewers' interleague winning streak at 12 with a 4-3 victory Sunday afternoon.,The lo...
Down by 22, Wings roar back to upend Sparks 113-110
Teaira McCowan's third-chance layup with 7.4 seconds to play put Dallas in front after a furious comeback, lifting the Wings to an unlikely 113-110 win over the Los Angeles Sparks on Sunday afternoon in Arlington, Texas.,Natasha Howard canned two free throws with 2.5 seconds left to seal the victory...
Mookie Betts' late HR powers Dodgers past Rays
Mookie Betts hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the eighth inning and the host Los Angeles Dodgers pulled out a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday to win for the sixth time in their last seven games.,Gavin Stone went seven strong innings and Enrique Hernandez also hit a home run as the Do...
Keegan Bradley captures BMW, leaps to fourth in FedEx Cup race
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. -- Keegan Bradley rode patriotic cheers to victory at the BMW Championship as he shot even-par 72 in the final round Sunday for a 12-under-par 276 at Castle Pines Golf Club.,It capped a dramatic resurgence for Bradley, who was named the 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup captain last month and w...
Stewart Cink wins Ally to clinch first PGA Tour Champions title
Stewart Cink shot a 6-under-par 66 and ran away with the Ally Challenge for his first win on the PGA Tour Champions on Sunday in Grand Blanc, Mich.,The highlights of Cink's bogey-free round included a lengthy downhill birdie putt at No. 5 and three short birdie putts on the back nine (Nos. 11, 13 an...
Hot-hitting Tigers hand White Sox 100th loss of season
The Detroit Tigers took the lead with three runs in the fifth inning and kept adding on in a 9-4 victory over the host Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon.,The White Sox scored two runs in the first inning but could not avert their second consecutive 100-loss season. They have lost seven of their ...
Phillies' 16-hit attack overpowers Royals, clinches series win
Garrett Stubbs went 4-for-4 with three runs and an RBI to help the visiting Philadelphia Phillies pound the Kansas City Royals 11-3 in the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon.,Kyle Schwarber and Alec Bohm each had two hits and three RBIs, Brandon Marsh had two hits and scored ...
Lars Nootbaar helps Cardinals complete comeback over Twins
Lars Nootbaar ripped a go-ahead, two-run single during the top of the ninth inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals held on for a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis.,Victor Scott II added a solo homer for St. Louis, which won the rubber match of the three-game series. Sc...
Aaron Judge swats 50th, 51st homers as Yanks rout Rockies
Aaron Judge hit his 50th and 51st homers to lead the New York Yankees to a 10-3 victory over the visiting Colorado Rockies on Sunday afternoon.,Judge joined Hall of Famer Babe Ruth along with Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Alex Rodriguez as the fifth player to reach 50 homers at least three times. Rut...
Yasmani Grandal hits walk-off HR as Pirates top Reds
Yasmani Grandal hit a walk-off two-run home run to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-3 win and claim the series against the visiting Cincinnati Reds on Sunday.,With Bryan De La Cruz on and one out in the ninth, Grandal knocked a fastball into the seats in right-center field against Cincinnati close...
Kevin Gausman, Jays sweep season series from Angels
Kevin Gausman struck out a season-high-tying 10 over seven innings and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Los Angeles Angels 8-2 Sunday afternoon.,Addison Barger and Alejandro Kirk hit two-run home runs for the Blue Jays, who swept the four-game series and the seven-game season series again...
Marlins power past Cubs, stop 5-game skid
Connor Norby and Jesus Sanchez each homered Sunday as the host Miami Marlins snapped a five-game losing streak with a 7-2 win over the Chicago Cubs.,Norby went 3-for-4 with three runs scored, and Sanchez had a game-high two RBIs. ,Miami right-hander Adam Oller (1-1) allowed one run on four hits and ...
Diamondbacks win sixth straight by rallying past Red Sox
Eugenio Suarez hit a three-run home run to help the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks complete a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with a 7-5 victory Sunday.,The Diamondbacks trailed 4-3 until Suarez hit his 20th home run of the season in the sixth inning against Boston starter Tanner Houck. Suarez...
Matthew Boyd, Guardians handle Rangers in rubber game
Matthew Boyd allowed one run over six strong innings and Jhonkensy Noel and David Fry homered as the Cleveland Guardians beat the visiting Texas Rangers 4-2 on Sunday. ,In his third start since debuting with Cleveland after elbow surgery, the 33-year-old Boyd (1-0) lowered his ERA to 2.70, yielding ...
Diamondbacks finish 6-0 road trip by rallying past Red Sox
Eugenio Suarez hit a three-run home run to help the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks complete a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with a 7-5 victory Sunday.,The Diamondbacks trailed 4-3 until Suarez hit his 20th home run of the season in the sixth inning against Boston starter Tanner Houck. Suarez...
Soniqs slips by Petrichor Road to win PUBG Esports World Cup
Soniqs rallied past Petrichor Road in the grand finals of the PUBG Esports World Cup 2024 on Sunday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Soniqs closed the five-day tournament with 113 points (53 placement points and 60 kill points), just enough to beat out Petrichor Road (109 points), which was the last of 16 t...
Lydia Ko makes pressure putt at 18 to win Womens Open
Lydia Ko birdied the final hole to finish with a 3-under-par 69 and win the AIG Women's Open at the Old Course at St Andrews on Sunday.,Ko, who won the gold medal at the Paris Olympics earlier this month, finished with a 7-under 281 at the historic course in Fife, Scotland.,It was her first win in a...