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Jung Hoo Lee keeps hot start going as Giants down Yankees
Jung Hoo Lee hit two homers and drove in four runs as the visiting San Francisco Giants came back to earn a 5-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon.,Lee continued his hot start and helped the Giants win a series in New York against the Yankees for the first time in team history by ...
Blue Jays rally for extra-inning win over Orioles
Jeff Hoffman blanked the Baltimore Orioles in the ninth and 10th innings to help the visiting Toronto Blue Jays finish off their 7-6 comeback victory Sunday and earn a split of the rain-shortened two-game series.,Hoffman struck out back-to-back batters with the tying run on third base in the 10th in...
Hayden Wesneski's career-high 10 Ks guide Astros over Angels
Hayden Wesneski recorded his first double-digit strikeout game and Isaac Paredes homered for the third time in as many games as the Houston Astros claimed the rubber match of a three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels with a 7-3 victory on Sunday.,Wesneski (1-1) produced a quality start by a...
High-scoring Portland downs Sporting Kansas City
Kevin Kelsy scored his second and third goals and also created the sequence leading to an own goal in his side's favor as the visiting Portland Timbers defeated Sporting Kansas City 4-2 on Sunday.,David Ayala also scored and had an assist as Portland (4-2-2, 14 points) extended its unbeaten run to f...
Marlins pull away from Nationals, cool off MacKenzie Gore
Matt Mervis slugged a three-run, pinch-hit home run as the host Miami Marlins defeated the Washington Nationals 11-4 on Sunday afternoon.,Nationals starter MacKenzie Gore (1-2) entered the game leading the National League with 13.2 strikeouts per nine innings, and he had beaten the Dodgers and domin...
Willson Contreras, Jordan Walker helps Cardinals beat Phillies
Willson Contreras and Jordan Walker hit two-run homers to power the St. Louis Cardinals past the Philadelphia Phillies 7-0 Sunday.,Nolan Arenado scored twice and drove in two runs as the Cardinals won their first series against the Phillies since the 2017 season.,Matthew Liberatore (1-1) limited the...
Red Sox's Garrett Crochet brilliant vs. former team White Sox
Garrett Crochet allowed one run on one hit in 7 1/3 innings and Trevor Story homered and drove in three runs Sunday to help the visiting Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago White Sox, 3-1,Crochet (2-1) didn't surrender a hit until Chase Meidroth - one of four players the White Sox acquired when they t...
Joe Boyle, Junior Caminero help Rays take series from Braves
Junior Caminero went 2-for-4 with a three-run home run, Joe Boyle threw five no-hit innings and the Tampa Bay Rays posted an 8-3 victory over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Sunday.,Boyle (1-0) retired the first 13 Atlanta hitters of the game, and allowed two runs -- both unearned -- while striking o...
Byron Buxton's big bat sparks Twins past Tigers
Byron Buxton homered, doubled and scored twice as the Minnesota Twins salvaged the finale of a three-game series by topping the Detroit Tigers, 5-1, Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis.,Edouard Julien also hit a solo homer for the Twins while Ty France had two hits and an RBI.,Minnesota starter Simeon W...
Jung Hoo Lee keeps hot start going as Giants downs Yankees
Jung Hoo Lee hit two homers and drove in four runs as the visiting San Francisco Giants came back to earn a 5-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon.,Lee continued his hot start and helped the Giants win a series in New York against the Yankees for the first time in team history by ...
U.S. overcomes Slovakia to advance to Billie Jean King Cup finals
Hailey Baptiste and Bernarda Pera earned victories Sunday to propel the United States past Slovakia 2-1 in Bratislava, Slovakia, as the U.S. took the Group C championship at 2-0.,The Americans advance to the Billie Jean King Cup finals to be held in September. They'll be joined by Japan, who won Gro...
Pacers rally from 27 down to dispatch Cavaliers
Two-way player RayJ Dennis scored seven straight points in the second overtime as the fourth-place Indiana Pacers rallied from 27 down to beat the first place Cleveland Cavaliers 126-118 in a battle of Eastern Conference playoff teams Sunday in Cleveland., ,Rookie Johnny Furphy added six points in t...
Pat Connaughton's career day guides Bucks past Pistons
Pat Connaughton saved 10 of his career-high 43 points for overtime, Kyle Kuzma chipped in with 22 in just 12 minutes and the Milwaukee Bucks outlasted the visiting Detroit Pistons 140-133 on Sunday afternoon in a meaningless regular-season finale that took a back seat to Malik Beasley's pursuit of t...
Royals halt Guardians' winning streak at five
Cole Ragans struck out 10 batters over a career-best 7 2/3 innings and Salvador Perez hit a two-run homer as the visiting Kansas City Royals salvaged the finale of their three-game series against the Cleveland Guardians with a 4-2 victory on Sunday afternoon.,It was the third straight game that Raga...
Senators edge Flyers in overtime
Tim Stutzle's second goal of the game came with 3:20 remaining in overtime, and the Ottawa Senators stayed hot with a 4-3 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday.,After tying things twice on third-period goals from Fabian Zetterlund and Thomas Chabot, the Senators earned a 4-on-3 pow...
Hunter Greene sparkles again, Reds blank Pirates
Hunter Greene threw seven shutout innings and retired the final 17 batters he faced, while Santiago Espinal went 2-for-4 and broke a scoreless tie to lead the Cincinnati Reds to a 4-0 win and a three-game sweep of the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.,Following up his near-complete game shutout...
Ilya Sorokin stops all shots as Islanders edge Devils
Ilya Sorokin posted a shutout in his return from injury Sunday afternoon for the visiting New York Islanders, who edged the New Jersey Devils 1-0.,Sorokin, who missed the previous two games with a lower-body injury, made 25 saves as the surprise starter for the Islanders (35-33-12, 82 points), who w...
Knicks' reserves lead comeback win over Nets
Landry Shamet came off the bench to score 29 points, and the short-handed New York Knicks rode a 17-0 third-quarter run to hold off the host Brooklyn Nets 113-105 in the regular-season finale for both teams Sunday.,New York (51-31), already locked into the Eastern Conference's No. 3 seed for the pla...
Team Falcons blanks G2 to win PGL Bucharest title
Team Falcons thrashed G2 Esports 3-0 to win the grand final at the PGL Bucharest 2025 event on Sunday in Romania.,Falcons, who squeaked into the grand final with 2-1 victories in the quarterfinals and semifinals, defeated G2 13-5 on Mirage, 13-7 on Nuke and 13-8 on Ancient. That earned the team a fi...
Bub Carrington beats the buzzer, Wizards top Heat to finish season
Bub Carrington made a heavily contested floater at the buzzer to lead the visiting Washington Wizards over the short-handed Miami Heat 119-118 on Sunday.,Down seven with four minutes remaining, the Heat went on an 11-0 run featuring an alley-oop finish and a game-tying and-one from Keshad Johnson. T...