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Red Sox snap six-game slide with rout of Blue Jays
Wilyer Abreu hit a three-run home run and Lucas Giolito pitched seven strong innings as the Boston Red Sox ended a six-game losing streak by routing the visiting Toronto Blue Jays 15-1 Saturday.,Abreu's home run came against Toronto starting pitcher Chris Bassitt in the bottom of the first inning. I...

Cardinals rally from five-run deficit to outslug Guardians
Victor Scott II had a two-run double and Nolan Gorman singled in a run as the St. Louis Cardinals scored five times in the sixth inning, rallying for a 9-6 victory over the host Cleveland Guardians on Saturday afternoon.,Cleveland had taken a 6-1 lead in the fourth, when it ended a 21-inning scorele...

Rays take command, clamp down against Orioles
Jonathan Aranda smacked a two-run home run and Yandy Diaz had a three-run blast to support stellar pitching from Zack Littell in the Tampa Bay Rays' 11-3 romp past the host Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.,Littell (7-7) avenged a June 17 home loss to Baltimore, striking out five and limiting the Oriol...

Adrian Houser, White Sox shut down Giants
Andrew Benintendi hit a home run and Adrian Houser scattered four hits over seven innings to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 1-0 victory over the visiting San Francisco Giants on Saturday afternoon.,Houser walked one and struck out five before departing after throwing 88 pitches, 62 for strikes. Gra...

Aldrich Potgieter takes two-stroke advantage at Rocket Classic
Aldrich Potgieter birdied five holes in a row to break away from the pack and grabbed a two-stroke lead after the third round of the Rocket Classic on Saturday at Detroit Golf Club.,The 20-year-old from South Africa posted a 7-under-par 65, tied for the best round of the day, to get to 19-under 197....

Quinn Priester fans 11 as Brewers blank Rockies
Quinn Priester struck out a career-high 11 over seven innings of one-hit ball, Joey Ortiz homered, and the host Milwaukee Brewers beat the Colorado Rockies 5-0 on Saturday.,Brice Turang had three hits and drove in a pair of runs, while Jackson Chourio and Caleb Durbin contributed two hits apiece for...

Corey Heim nearly leads wire-to-wire in winning at Lime Rock Park
Corey Heim's victory in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series' debut at Lime Rock Park wasn't just a case of domination. It was an eyelash away from perfection., ,Heim led 99 of 100 laps at the 1.478-mile road course in bucolic Lakeville, Connecticut, to win the LiUNA! 150 -- his fifth victory of the se...

JP Sears shuts out former team as Athletics blank Yankees
JP Sears pitched 5 2/3 strong innings for his first win against his former team and the visiting Athletics earned a 7-0 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday.,Brent Rooker hit a solo homer and rookie Nick Kurtz hit a three-run homer off New York's Clarke Schmidt (4-4) as the A's beat the Yan...

Tigers hit four homers, take down Twins
Gleyber Torres hit one of Detroit's four homers -- a two-run shot -- as the Tigers slugged their way past Minnesota, 10-5, on Saturday afternoon.,Riley Greene, Kerry Carpenter and Zach McKinstry supplied solo blasts for Detroit. McKinstry had three hits, two runs scored and two RBIs, while Greene al...

Paulinho scores in 100th minute as Palmeiras eliminates Botafogo
Substitute Paulinho scored his second goal of the FIFA Club World Cup 10 minutes into extra time to lift Brazil's Palmeiras to a 1-0 victory over domestic rivals Botafogo in Saturday's second-round clash at Philadelphia.,Paulinho's low strike, which took a slight deflection off Botafogo defender Ale...

Gaimin Gladiators reach PGL Wallachia grand final
Gaimin Gladiators swept Team Liquid on Saturday to reach the grand final at the $1 million PGL Wallachia Season 5 event in Bucharest, Romania.,Liquid dropped into Sunday's lower-bracket final against BetBoom Team, with the winner advancing to face Gaimin Gladiators in Sunday's best-of-five title cla...

Caps sign newly acquired F Justin Sourdif to 2-year deal
The Washington Capitals signed recently acquired forward Justin Sourdif to a two-year, $1.65 million contract on Saturday.,The Capitals acquired Sourdif in a trade with the Florida Panthers on Thursday in exchange for a second-round draft pick in 2026 and a sixth-rounder in 2027.,The 23-year-old pla...

Attorney for BYU QB Jake Retzlaff denies rape allegations
An attorney representing BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff denied the sexual assault allegations against his client, calling the claims made in a lawsuit last month "ridiculous and bizarre.",A woman, identified as Jane Doe A.G., sued Retzlaff in May in Salt Lake County, Utah, alleging that he bit, raped...

G2, Bilibili open LoL MSI play-in with wins
G2 Esports and Bilibili Gaming recorded victories on Friday as the play-in stage of the League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational got underway in Vancouver.,The $2 million event features two teams from each League of Legends region -- China, Korea, Pacific, the Americas and Europe-Middle East-Africa...

OpTic, Breach reach CDL Championship winners-bracket final
Defending champion OpTic Texas routed the Toronto Ultra 3-0 on Friday to reach the winners-bracket final of the $2 million Call of Duty League Championship in Kitchener, Ontario.,The Boston Breach, seeded last among the eight playoff teams, continued their run by edging the Miami Heretics 3-2 in the...

Liquid, Gaimin Gladiators close in on PGL Wallachia final
Team Liquid pulled out a 2-1 win over BetBoom Team on Friday and advanced to the winners-bracket final of PGL Wallachia Season 5 in Bucharest, Romania.,Liquid's next foe will be Gaimin Gladiators, who earned a 2-0 victory over Xtreme Gaming on Friday.,In the day's two lower-bracket matches, Natus Vi...

Rookie Nick Sanchez scores first NASCAR Xfinity Series win
HAMPTON, Ga. -- Nick Sanchez charged to the front after a restart with seven laps left in the Focused Health 250 and held off fellow Sunoco rookie Carson Kvapil on Friday to secure his first NASCAR Xfinity Series victory.,Sanchez, who rallied from a spin through the frontstretch grass at EchoPark Sp...

Deontay Wilder beats Tyrrell Herndon with 7th-round TKO
Former world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder ended a losing streak by stopping Tyrrell Herndon in the seventh round on Friday in Wichita, Kan.,Wilder (44-4-1, 43 KOs) dominated en route to the technical knockout.,Fighting for the first time in more than a year, Wilder had lost each of his two mo...

Marlins hit 3 homers, edge D-backs for 5th straight win
Otto Lopez went 3-for-5 with a homer, Kyle Stowers homered for the second straight game and the Miami Marlins extended their season-best winning streak to five games with a 9-8 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix on Friday.,Heriberto Hernandez homered, Stowers and Connor Norby had two h...

Nats match franchise record in slugfest win vs. Angels
Brady House's tiebreaking RBI double in the seventh inning helped lift the Washington Nationals to a 15-9 comeback victory Friday over the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif., ,Each Nationals batter had at least one hit and drove in at least a run, with eight of them scoring at least once. Friday ...