ap Page 593 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Royals avoid sweep with 2-1 win over red-hot Cardinals
Maikel Garcia delivered a tiebreaking RBI single in the seventh inning, while Michael Wacha and four Kansas City relievers helped strand 13 St. Louis runners as the Royals avoided being swept by the visiting Cardinals with Sunday's 2-1 victory.,Kansas City left seven men on against St. Louis starter...
Will Benson homers twice as Reds sweep Guardians
Will Benson remained red-hot Sunday afternoon, when he homered twice to lead the host Cincinnati Reds to a 3-1 win over the Cleveland Guardians and a sweep of the three-game interleague series.,The Reds have won four straight overall following a 2-9 stretch and are back to .500 on the season (24-24)...
Spencer Torkelson drives in all three Tigers runs in win over Jays
Spencer Torkelson had a double, a single and three RBIs and the visiting Detroit Tigers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Sunday afternoon.,Torkelson's RBI single in the seventh broke a 2-2 tie. Dillon Dingler had three hits and Riley Greene added two for the Tigers in the rubber match of the th...
Braves collect 16 hits as they club Red Sox in rubber match
Marcell Ozuna hit a two-run home run and had three RBIs to lead the visiting Atlanta Braves to a 10-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.,The Braves had 16 hits and drew seven walks in the win. Alex Verdugo and Austin Riley each collected three hits for Atlanta, which broke a 4-4 tie by scori...
Nationals mash five home runs, sweep hapless Orioles
CJ Abrams hit the game's first pitch for the first of his two home runs and the visiting Washington Nationals went on to beat the staggering Baltimore Orioles 10-4 on Sunday afternoon.,Luis Garcia Jr., Dylan Crews and Josh Bell also homered for the Nationals, who've won three games in a row followin...
Otto Lopez's blast helps Marlins dispatch Rays
Otto Lopez belted a three-run homer in just his second at-bat off the injured list and Cal Quantrill pitched an immaculate inning as the host Miami Marlins defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 5-1 on Sunday afternoon.,Miami took two of three games in this in-state-rivalry series. It's the first time since 20...
Isaac Paredes' go-ahead homer lets Astros split series with Rangers
Isaac Paredes' three-run eighth-inning home run was the difference as the Houston Astros roared from behind to beat the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Sunday afternoon in the finale of a four-game series in Arlington, Texas.,The Astros rallied to earn a split of the series between the Lone Star State rivals, ...
Phillies' Mick Abel bests Pirates' Paul Skenes in pitcher's duel
Mick Abel tied a franchise record with nine strikeouts over six innings in his Major League debut as the host Philadelphia Phillies completed a three-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 1-0 victory on Sunday afternoon.,Abel (1-0), a first round pick in the 2020 MLB Draft out of Jesuit High S...
Brittany Sykes helps Mystics rally to stun Sun
Brittany Sykes recorded 27 points and seven assists and the Washington Mystics again used a late rally to produce a come-from-behind 90-85 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Sunday afternoon at Uncasville, Conn.,For the second time in two games, Mystics used a definitive second-half run to produce ...
Team Spirit captures title at PGA Astana
Team Spirit topped Astralis in four maps Sunday to win $200,000 and first place at PGL Astana 2025 in Kazakhstan.,Team Spirit jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five grand final with a 13-5 win on Dust II and a 13-10 triumph on Nuke. But Astralis came back to win 13-5 on Mirage and get on the b...
Carlos Alcaraz denies Jannik Sinner in Rome
World No. 1 Jannik Sinner was looking to become the first Italian to win the Internazionali BNL d'Italia since 1976 while simultaneously signaling his triumphant return from suspension on home soil.,Instead, newly elevated World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain downed Sinner 7-6 (5), 6-1, winning his 1...
Poland's Magda Linette upsets Barbora Krejcikova in France
Poland's Magda Linette upset seventh-seeded Barbora Krejcikova of Czech Republic 6-3, 6-3, to highlight Sunday's first-round action on the clay at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France.,Linette, whose serve was broken just once, advanced to face Slovakia's Rebecca Sramkova in Tuesday's play at ...
Max Verstappen uses bold move to win in Italy
Max Verstappen made a bold move to open the 2025 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, then held off challengers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri to capture the Formula One race on Sunday in Imola, Italy.,It was the second win of the season for Red Bull's Verstappen, a four-time world champion.,McLaren's Oscar P...
Miami Heretics unblemished in CDL Stage 4 Major qualifying
The Miami Heretics remained the only unbeaten team at 5-0 with a sweep of the Carolina Royal Ravens on Saturday in Call of Duty League's Stage 4 Major qualifying.,Other winners were Atlanta FaZe, the Los Angeles Thieves and the Vancouver Surge.,The Stage 4 Major qualifying round has the league's 12 ...
FlyQuest, Dignitas win play-in round matches at 2025 Split 2
FlyQuest and Dignitas won critical matches on Saturday, the first of two days of cross-group battles in the League of Leagues LTA North 2025 Split 2 in Los Angeles.,Eight teams advanced from the group phase last weekend to the play-in this weekend, which will determine the six teams that will advanc...
Team Liquid forge first-place tie at OWCS NA Stage 2
Team Liquid improved to 2-0 and moved into a tie for first place with a 3-0 sweep of Extinction on Saturday in the Overwatch Champions Series North America Stage 2. ,Team Liquid opened with a 2-0 win on Illios, followed that with a 144.86-8.12m victory on Runasapi and closed with a 3-1 triumph on Ne...
Revs draw with their former coach Bruce Arena's Earthquakes
Sporting a revamped lineup due its quick turnaround, San Jose was stout throughout to earn a point via an 0-0 road draw against the New England Revolution, in Earthquakes coach Bruce Arena's return to Foxborough, Mass., on Saturday night. ,Coming off Wednesday's 3-3 home draw against Inter Miami, Ar...
Angels spoil Clayton Kershaw's '25 debut, beat Dodgers
Logan O'Hoppe hit a home run with a career-high five RBIs as the Los Angeles Angels held on for an 11-9 victory over Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday.,Kershaw made his season debut following multiple offseason surgeries, giving up five runs on five hits in four innings. In his...
Goalies dominate as Sporting KC, San Diego in scoreless draw
John Pulskamp came up with three saves on Saturday night and Sporting Kansas City was able to salvage a 0-0 draw at San Diego FC, holding one of the MLS' most potent offenses off the scoresheet.,San Diego FC (7-4-3, 24 points) generated major advantages in possession time (61 to 39 percent) and shot...
Logan O'Hoppe drives in five as Angels outlast Dodgers, 11-9
Logan O'Hoppe hit a home run with a career-high five RBIs as the Los Angeles Angels held on for an 11-9 victory at Dodger Stadium Saturday.,Dodgers' left-hander Clayton Kershaw made his season debut following multiple offseason surgeries.,Taylor Ward and Matthew Lugo also hit home runs and Kenley Ja...