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Lynx charge past Aces; to face Fever in Commissioner’s Cup final
Courtney Williams scored 20 points as the Minnesota Lynx rallied for a 76-62 victory over the Las Vegas Aces on Tuesday in Minneapolis to clinch a spot in the Commissioner's Cup final.,Williams scored 18 of her points in the second half while Diamond Miller and Natisha Hiedeman each chipped in 12 po...
Kyle Hendricks excels, Angels blank Yankees again
Kyle Hendricks stuck out nine and pitched six solid innings as the Los Angeles Angels earned their fourth straight win at Yankee Stadium with a 4-0 victory over the slumping New York Yankees Tuesday night.,The Yankees lost their season-high fifth straight game, were shut out for a third straight gam...
Rockies crack seven homers, hand Nationals 10th straight loss
The visiting Colorado Rockies tied a team record with seven home runs in a game -- including back-to-back homers twice in the seventh inning -- and held on for a 10-6 win against the sinking Washington Nationals on Tuesday night.,Michael Toglia had three hits and homered twice. Hunter Goodman went d...
Javier Baez hits two homers as Tigers knock off Pirates
Javier Baez hit a pair of solo home runs as the host Detroit Tigers downed the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 on Tuesday.,Baez's power display made a winner of Casey Mize (7-2), who allowed three runs (two earned) and five hits in six innings. He struck out four without walking a batter. Chase Lee, Tommy Ka...
Natasha Howard, Caitlin Clark help Fever rout Sun
Natasha Howard had a double-double, Caitlin Clark scored 20 points and the host Indiana Fever defeated the Connecticut Sun 88-71 on Tuesday night., ,Howard finished with 16 points and 12 rebounds, Kelsey Mitchell scored 17 and Damiris Dantas had 13 off the bench as the Fever (6-5) finished 4-1 in th...
Sabrina Ionescu (34), Breanna Stewart rally Liberty past Dream
Sabrina Ionescu matched a season high with 34 points and the New York Liberty rallied from 17 points down to beat the visiting Atlanta Dream 86-81 Tuesday night.,Ionescu has scored 34 points in each of the last two games for the Liberty (10-1). It is the first time she's had back-to-back 30-point ga...
With 13-hit attack, Marlins halt Phillies' win streak at 5
Eric Wagaman hit a two-run homer, Jesus Sanchez added a pinch-hit solo shot and the Miami Marlins ended the visiting Philadelphia Phillies' five-game winning streak with an 8-3 victory on Tuesday.,Xavier Edwards had three hits and drove in a run for Miami, which had 13 hits and won for the fourth ti...
With 13-hit attack, Marlins halt Phillies' win streak at 6
Eric Wagaman hit a two-run homer, Jesus Sanchez added a pinch-hit solo shot and the Miami Marlins ended the visiting Philadelphia Phillies' five-game winning streak with an 8-3 victory on Tuesday.,Xavier Edwards had three hits and drove in a run for Miami, which had 13 hits and won for the fourth ti...
Javier Baez hits two HRs as Tigers knock off Pirates
Javier Baez hit a pair of solo home runs and the host Detroit Tigers downed the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 on Tuesday.,Baez's power display made a winner of Casey Mize, who allowed three runs (two earned) and five hits in six innings. Chase Lee, Tommy Kahnle and Brenan Hanifee each pitched a scoreless i...
Club World Cup: Mamelodi Sundowns beat Ulsan for Group F lead
Iqraam Rayners scored in the 36th minute and Ronwen Williams made two saves to guide Mamelodi Sundowns to a 1-0 victory over Ulsan HD at the Club World Cup on Tuesday in Orlando, Fla.,A striker for the South African national team, Rayners had a pair of would-be goals disallowed for a handball and an...
MCWS: Louisville avoids late-inning scare, knocks out No. 8 Oregon State
OMAHA, Neb. -- Eddie King Jr.'s walk-off sacrifice fly kept Louisville's season alive as the Cardinals escaped with a 7-6 victory over No. 8 Oregon State in the Men's College World Series Tuesday in Omaha, Neb.,King's fly ball to straightaway center off freshman Zach Edwards was deep enough to allow...
River Plate score 3 headers, dominate Urawa in Club World Cup
River Plate netted a trio of headers to defeat Urawa Red Diamonds 3-1 on Tuesday in the teams' Group E opener of the Club World Cup in Seattle.,Facundo Colidio struck first for Argentina's River Plate (1-0-0, 3 points) with a header in the 12th minute assisted by a precise cross from Marcos Acuna. R...
LSU improves to 2-0, hands UCLA first loss at MCWS
No. 6 LSU continued where it left off, beating No. 15 UCLA 9-5 on Tuesday afternoon to complete a suspended game in the Men's College World Series in Omaha, Neb.,The Tigers (50-15) led 5-3 when the contest was stopped Monday night following a lengthy rain delay before the start of the fourth inning....
Fluminense, Borussia Dortmund open with scoreless draw
Fluminense and Borussia Dortmund played to a scoreless draw on Tuesday afternoon in their Group F opener of the Club World Cup in East Rutherford, N.J.,Borussia Dortmund had the advantage with 54.5 percent of possessions, but Brazil's Fluminense made the majority of shot attempts, 14-7, and put five...
Aryna Sabalenka apologizes to Coco Gauff for French Open remarks
Aryna Sabalenka said she apologized to Coco Gauff for her "unprofessional" comments following her loss in the final of the French Open.,Sabalenka, ranked No. 1 in the world, told reporters during her post-match news conference in Paris on June 7 that her mistakes -- rather than Gauff's play -- were ...
PGA Tour announces Brian Rolapp as successor to Jay Monahan
Former NFL executive vice president Brian Rolapp was named the CEO of the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Enterprises on Tuesday.,Rolapp, 53, spent 22 years with the NFL. He will take over the day-to-day operations of the PGA Tour later this summer in place of current commissioner Jay Monahan, who will step d...
Jalen Williams (40 points) leads Thunder to verge of title
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Jalen Williams wasn't in much of a reflective mood after his Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers 120-109 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday.,Williams batted down questions about his monster performance, which moved the Thunder within one game of the franchise's first ch...
Roman Anthony hits first homer as Red Sox blank Mariners
Prized prospect Roman Anthony hit his first major league home run and Lucas Giolito pitched six scoreless innings as the Boston Red Sox defeated the host Seattle Mariners 2-0 Monday night for their sixth consecutive victory.,Boston was playing its first game since trading Rafael Devers to the San Fr...
Shohei Ohtani pitches, but bat is key in Dodgers win over Padres
Shohei Ohtani pitched an inning for the first time in nearly two years and drove in two runs out of the leadoff spot as the Los Angeles Dodgers earned a 6-3 victory over the visiting San Diego Padres on Monday in the opener of a four-game series.,Ohtani, who is back to pitching after a second Tommy ...
Nick Kurtz's walk-off homer carries A's past Astros
Rookie Nick Kurtz walloped a two-run walk-off homer with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the Athletics a 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Monday night at West Sacramento, Calif.,Brent Rooker opened the ninth by drawing a walk against Bryan Abreu (1-3). Kurtz then jumped on a ...