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Logan Webb continues winning ways as Giants beat Tigers
Logan Webb won his third consecutive start, new closer Ryan Walker converted his first save opportunity of the season and the San Francisco Giants made it two in a row over the visiting Detroit Tigers with a 3-1 victory Saturday afternoon.,Brett Wisely drove in two and scored a third in a three-run ...
Brent Rooker, Osvaldo Bido help A's beat Blue Jays
Brent Rooker hit a home run, Osvaldo Bido allowed two hits in six innings and the visiting Oakland Athletics defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 on Saturday afternoon.,Bido (3-3) allowed one walk with five strikeouts and one hit batter.,Shea Langeliers had four hits for the Athletics, who gained a sp...
Team USA downs France, secures 5th straight gold medal
Stephen Curry poured in 24 points as the United States grabbed the gold medal in the men's basketball tournament at the Paris Olympics with a 98-87 victory over France on Saturday., ,The Americans also downed the French in the final at the 2020 Tokyo Games, which were held in 2021 because of the COV...
U.S. women turn in dominant 4x400 relay performance
PARIS -- The United States blazed to the gold medal in the Olympic women's 4x400 meters relay on Saturday, clocking the second-quickest time in history and stretching the country's remarkable victory streak in the event to eight in a row.,Fielding a star-studded foursome featuring Olympic champions ...
Austin Wells leads Yankees to dominant win over Rangers
Aaron Judge collected three hits and reached base four times, Austin Wells tied a career high with four RBIs and the host New York Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 8-0 Saturday afternoon in the first game of a doubleheader.,The Yankees won for the ninth time in 12 games following their 10-23 slide fro...
U.S. men win 4x400 relay thriller in Olympic-record time
PARIS -- The United States continued its dominance of the Olympic 4x400 meters relay on Saturday as Rai Benjamin held off Botswana's Letsile Tebogo in a thrilling last-leg battle between two individual gold medalists.,The U.S. as expected, dropped Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who struggled badly i...
France celebrates men's volleyball gold, Brazil women win bronze
PARIS -- France beat world No. 1-ranked Poland 3-0 to win the Olympic men's volleyball gold medal on Saturday, defending its title from the Tokyo Games but this time on home soil inside a rocking South Paris Arena 1.,France is only the third country to win back-to-back golds in men's volleyball afte...
U.S. women's soccer shuts out Brazil, wins first Olympic gold since 2012
Mallory Swanson scored in the 57th minute and Alyssa Naeher made four saves to lead the U.S. women's national team to its fifth Olympics gold medal with a 1-0 victory against Brazil in Paris on Saturday.,While the gold medal was its first since 2012, the U.S. also has a silver and a bronze in the ei...
Lydia Ko birdies 18, holds on to win Olympic gold medal
GUYANCOURT, France -- New Zealand's Lydia Ko won gold in the women's Olympic golf competition with a final score of 10-under par Saturday, completing her medal set after winning silver in Rio and bronze in Tokyo.,In a tense finish at Le Golf National south of Paris, Ko (71 on Saturday) held off a la...
Spain wins women's water polo gold; U.S. shut out of medals
PARIS -- Spain celebrated its first gold medal in Olympic women's water polo Saturday by fending off Australia 11-9 to erase defeats in the finals at the 2020 Tokyo and 2012 London Games.,Maica Godoy put the Spaniards 11-7 up with a goal late in the fourth quarter and though Australia clawed back to...
France celebrates men's volleyball gold over top-ranked Poland
PARIS -- France beat world No. 1-ranked Poland 3-0 to win the Olympic men's volleyball gold medal on Saturday, defending its title from the Tokyo Games but this time on home soil inside a rocking South Paris Arena 1.,France is only the third country to win back-to-back golds in men's volleyball afte...
Serbia defeats Germany for men's basketball bronze
PARIS -- Serbia cruised to men's basketball bronze by defeating Germany 93-83 at the Olympics on Saturday.,The bronze medal is the consolation after Serbia missed a chance to play for gold when they lost by four points to a high-octane U.S. team in the final minutes of their semifinal game two days ...
Ethiopian Tamirat Tola wins men's marathon in Paris
PARIS -- Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola won gold in the men's marathon at the Olympics on Saturday while Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, who had been bidding for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic crown, failed to finish.,Belgium's Bashir Abdi took silver, improving on his bronze from Tokyo, and Kenya's Ben...
Stunned U.S. women leave Paris without medal in water polo
PARIS -- Sabrina van der Sloot scored with less than a second on the clock as the Netherlands stunned the United States 11-10 for the bronze medal in women's water polo on Saturday, denying the Americans a medal for the first time at the Olympics.,The game-winner capped an incredible comeback by the...
Mark Canha's sac fly in 9th lifts Giants past Tigers
Mark Canha beat his old team with a walk-off sacrifice fly in the ninth inning as the San Francisco Giants, held hitless for six innings, rallied for a 3-2 victory over the visiting Detroit Tigers on Friday night.,After scoring single runs in the seventh and eighth to draw even, the Giants got a gif...
Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers back Jack Flaherty in win vs. Pirates
Right-hander Jack Flaherty had 10 strikeouts in his home debut and was backed by three home runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers earned a 9-5 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday in the opener of a three-game series.,In his second start since he was traded from the Detroit Tigers to his...
Bryce Miller, Mariners shut down Mets 6-0
Bryce Miller pitched six scoreless innings as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting New York Mets 6-0 on Friday night in the opener of a three-game interleague series.,Ryan Bliss, recalled from Triple-A Tacoma on Wednesday, hit a two-run homer as the Mariners remained tied with Houston atop the...
D-backs top Phils on Adrian Del Castillo's walk-off HR
Adrian Del Castillo belted the first pitch of the bottom of the ninth inning over the wall in right to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night in Phoenix.,Del Castillo had three hits and two RBIs in his second major league game, including t...
Olympic breaking: Refugee DQ'd, Japan's Ami wins gold
PARIS -- Afghan-born Manizha Talash, a member of the refugee Olympic team at the Paris Games, was disqualified after displaying the words "Free Afghan Women" on her cape during her breaking routine in the competition's pre-qualifiers on Friday.,Talash, a 21-year-old who lives in Spain, wore a light ...
Rockies hand Braves sixth straight setback
Brenton Doyle homered among his two hits, Ryan McMahon and Charlie Blackmon also had two hits, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Atlanta Braves 6-5 in Denver on Friday night.,Jorge Soler, Marcell Ozuna and Ramon Laureano homered, Jarred Kelenic had three hits and Sean Murphy had two hits for the Bra...