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Zach Elfin remains unbeaten for O's with win over Red Sox
Gunnar Henderson and Cedric Mullins homered and Zach Eflin continued his splendid work on the mound as the Baltimore Orioles beat the visiting Boston Red Sox 5-1 to open a four-game series Thursday night.,Colton Cowser and Henderson each had two hits for the Orioles, who won their second game in a r...
LLWS roundup: Japan blasts Puerto Rico 11-0
Kanta Iwashita hit a two-run home run and Sho Tanaka had two hits and two runs as Japan earned an 11-0 victory over Puerto Rico in four innings to open their Little League World Series on Thursday in Williamsport, Pa.,Iwashita also pitched four strong innings for Japan, giving up just one hit and st...
Logan Webb deals, Giants avoid four-game sweep vs. Braves
Logan Webb won his fourth consecutive start with 7 2/3 shutout innings, Grant McCray recorded his first two big-league hits, including a home run, and the San Francisco Giants salvaged one win in their four-game home series against the Atlanta Braves with a 6-0 victory Thursday afternoon.,Casey Schm...
Athletics overcome 5-0 deficit, top Mets
Seth Brown laced the tie-breaking RBI single in the sixth inning Thursday afternoon for the visiting Oakland Athletics, who overcame a five-run deficit to edge the New York Mets 7-6 in the rubber match of a three-game interleague set.,JJ Bleday began the comeback in the fourth inning by hitting a gr...
Brewers fight back to beat Dodgers, split four-game series
Tyler Black drove in the go-ahead run with an eighth-inning groundout as the host Milwaukee Brewers rallied for a 6-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday afternoon.,Enrique Hernandez put Los Angeles up 4-3 with an RBI single in the sixth, but everything fell apart for the Dodgers two in...
Minjee Lee on top at wet and windy Women's Scottish Open
Minjee Lee of Australia carded a bogey-free, 5-under-par 67 to rise to the top of the first-round leaderboard at the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open on Thursday in Ayrshire, Scotland.,After wet weather led to multiple delays to the proceedings at Dundonald Links, 42 golfers were still on the course...
Javier Baez powers Tigers to sweep of Mariners
Javier Baez hit a two-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning and the host Detroit Tigers completed a three-game sweep of the Seattle Mariners with a 2-1 victory on Thursday afternoon.,His sixth homer of the season was just Detroit's third hit of the game and second by Baez. A quartet of Tigers...
Chris Kirk aces 14, grabs early lead in Memphis
Chris Kirk aced the 14th, shot 6-under-par 64 and entered the clubhouse with the early lead at the St. Jude FedEx Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis on Thursday.,Kirk took his first bogey of the round on the last hole, scratching a 5 on the 449-yard par-4 to close with five birdies, one bogey ...
Michael Harris II hits grand slam in return as Braves crush Giants
Michael Harris II hit a first-inning grand slam in his first game back from the injured list, Matt Olson, Austin Riley and Sean Murphy added home runs and the visiting Atlanta Braves made it three in a row over the San Francisco Giants with a 13-2 victory Wednesday night.,Grant Holmes (1-0) went a s...
Jose Berrios guides Blue Jays to sweep of Angels
Jose Berrios yielded one run in seven innings, Ernie Clement, Daulton Varsho and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. each homered and the Toronto Blue Jays completed a three-game sweep of the Los Angeles Angels with a 9-2 victory Wednesday night in Anaheim, Calif.,Berrios' performance mimicked those of fellow sta...
Jiri Lehecka KOs Daniil Medvedev at Cincinnati Open
Jiri Lehecka, two matches into his return from a back injury, is already showing top form.,The Czech player upset fourth-seeded Daniil Medvedev of Russia 7-6 (2), 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the third round at the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio.,Lehecka had been out for three months due to a back inju...
Brewers take advantage of Dodgers' sloppy fielding in win
The Milwaukee Brewers capitalized on sloppy fielding for four unearned runs en route to a 5-4 comeback victory over the visiting Dodgers on Wednesday night, snapping Los Angeles' five-game winning streak., ,Milwaukee, which had just four hits, went in front 5-4 in the seventh when Joey Ortiz was hit...
Aaron Judge's 300th homer leads Yankees past White Sox
Aaron Judge hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning to become the fastest player in baseball history to reach 300 career homers, helping the New York Yankees pull away for a 10-2 victory over the host Chicago White Sox on Wednesday.,Judge reached the milestone in his 955th regular-season game, on...
Mirra Andreeva stuns Emma Navarro at Cincinnati Open
Russian Mirra Andreeva upset No. 11 seed Emma Navarro of the United States with ease, taking just 65 minutes to earn a 6-2, 6-2 victory on Wednesday in the first round of the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio.,Andreeva won 23 of 28 first-serve points and converted 4 of 8 break points in her first match...
Mets pile it on vs. A's behind Pete Alonso
Left-hander David Peterson and three relievers combined to allow only six hits on Wednesday night for the host New York Mets, who cruised to a 9-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics in the middle game of a three-game interleague series.,Pete Alonso was 4-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs for the Met...
Tigers top Mariners in 10th for third straight win
Pinch hitter Akil Baddoo hit a walk-off double in the 10th inning as the host Detroit Tigers rallied for a 3-2 win over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday.,Baddoo drove in automatic runner Parker Meadows with one out against Collin Snider (2-2). Kerry Carpenter hit a game-tying two-run homer in the e...
Astros need 10 innings but complete sweep of Rays
Mauricio Dubon lined a go-ahead, two-out single in the 10th inning as the Houston Astros won their eighth straight game Wednesday night, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 to sweep a three-game series in St. Petersburg, Fla.,In an eight-pitch at-bat against Garrett Cleavinger (7-3), Dubon ripped a 3-2 c...
Phils rally past Marlins for 9-5 win
Kyle Schwarber belted his seventh career grand slam in the fourth inning as the host Philadelphia Phillies rallied for a 9-5 victory over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday.,Philadelphia erased a three-run deficit after loading the bases in the fourth inning. Schwarber stepped up to the plate and deposi...
Jonah Heim, Rangers rally for 10-inning win over Red Sox
Jonah Heim began the 10th inning with a two-run homer as the visiting Texas Rangers rallied for seven runs from the eighth inning on en route to a 9-7 win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday.,Texas homered four times and totaled 15 hits while salvaging the finale of a three-game series.,Wyatt Langf...
Guardians top Cubs, complete 3-game sweep
Alex Cobb allowed one run in 5 2/3 innings and Andres Gimenez had three hits and three RBIs as the Cleveland Guardians completed a three-game series sweep of the visiting Chicago Cubs with Wednesday night's 6-1 victory.,The 36-year-old Cobb (1-1), who yielded five runs (four earned) and nine hits in...