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Heretics come back, down Thieves at CDL Stage 4 Major qualifying
The Miami Heretics were down 2-1 before rallying to defeat the Los Angeles Thieves in five maps on Saturday in their opening match in the Call of Duty League's Stage 4 Major qualifying.,Other second-day winners on Saturday were OpTic Texas, the Carolina Royal Ravens and the Vegas Falcons.,The Stage ...

Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman homer as Dodgers rout Braves
Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman both hit home runs and rookie Roki Sasaki earned his first career win as the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 10-3 on Saturday and extended their winning streak to seven games.,The start was delayed 3 hours and 6 minutes because of heavy rain.,Th...

Team Liquid, FlyQuest unblemished in North 2025 Split 2 group phase
Team Liquid and FlyQuest remained unbeaten and atop their group phase standings on Saturday in the LTA North 2025 Split 2 of the League of Legends tournament in Los Angeles.,Group A leader FlyQuest (2-0) held off Shopify Rebellion (0-2), winning in 31 minutes on blue, dropping the second game and go...

Cory Sandhagen stops Deiveson Figueiredo in 2nd round
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Bantamweight Cory Sandhagen defeated Deiveson Figueiredo in unexpected fashion on Saturday night, forcing the former two-time flyweight champion to submit due to injury to his left knee after a leg lock gone wrong in Round 2.,Round 1 of the top-five main event at UFC Fight Night ...

Shohei Otani, Freddie Freeman homer as Dodgers rout Braves
Shohei Otani and Freddie Freeman both hit home runs and rookie Roki Sasaki earned his first career win as the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 10-3 on Saturday and extended their winning streak to seven games.,The start was delayed 3 hours and 6 minutes because of heavy rain.,The...

Cristian Espinoza scores twice as Earthquakes dump Timbers
Cristian Espinoza scored his third and fourth goals of the season for his first brace in nearly two years, and the San Jose Earthquakes defeated the visiting Portland Timbers 4-1 on Saturday night.,Espinoza also had an assist, while Cristian Arango scored his seventh goal, tied atop MLS, and assiste...

Cristian Espinoza scores twice as Earthquake dump Timbers
Cristian Espinoza scored his third and fourth goals of the season for his first brace in nearly two years, and the San Jose Earthquakes defeated the visiting Portland Timbers 4-1 on Saturday night.,Espinoza also had an assist, while Cristian Arango scored his seventh goal, tied atop MLS, and assiste...

Minus their leading scorer, hot Whitecaps slip past RSL
Despite missing key attacker Brian White (hamstring injury), the Vancouver Whitecaps defeated Real Salt Lake 2-1 to run their unbeaten streak to six matches. ,Jayden Nelson and Tristan Blackmon provided the goals for Vancouver (8-1-2, 26 points). Salt Lake (4-7-0, 12 points) has lost three of its la...

Sounders score 3 second-half goals in rout of slumping St. Louis City
Obed Vargas and Nouhou Tolo each had a goal and an assist as the Seattle Sounders defeated visiting St. Louis City 4-1 Saturday night in a Western Conference match.,Danny Musovski and Albert Rusnak also scored and substitute Ryan Kent had a pair of assists for the Sounders (4-3-4, 16 points), who ex...

LAFC extend Dynamo's road woes with 2-0 victory
Nathan Ordaz and Jeremy Ebobisse scored goals to lead Los Angeles FC to a solid 2-0 victory over the visiting Houston Dynamo on Saturday night.,Denis Bouanga set up the second goal on his highly active night for Los Angeles FC (5-4-2, 17 points), which stretched its MLS unbeaten streak to four match...

Minus their leading scorer, Whitecaps get past RSL
Despite missing a key player to injury, the Vancouver Whitecaps defeated Real Salt Lake 2-1 to run their unbeaten streak to six matches. ,Jayden Nelson and Tristan Blackmon provided the goals for Vancouver (8-1-2, 26 points). Salt Lake (4-7-0, 12 points) has lost three of its last four matches. Its ...

Courage cruise to 2-0 victory over Royals
Buoyed by Ashley Sanchez's second goal of the season, the North Carolina Courage claimed a 2-0 victory over the Utah Royals in Sandy, Utah, on Saturday night.,North Carolina (2-3-2, 8 points) won its second straight match after going winless through its first five contests. The Courage also earned t...

Kyle Hendricks, Angels top Tigers to end 7-game skid
Kyle Hendricks allowed only one run and four hits in 7/3 innings and the host Los Angeles Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2 on Saturday night.,Nolan Schanuel was 3-for-4 with a run scored and Travis d'Arnaud 2-for 3 with two runs scored and a walk for the Angels, who snapped a seven-game losing str...

Team Falcons, Team Vitality reach BLAST Rivals Spring grand final
Team Vitality and Team Falcons swept their way on Saturday to the BLAST Rivals Spring event's grand final on Sunday in Copenhagen, Denmark.,Team Falcons edged MOUZ 16-14 on Nuke before a 13-6 win on Dust II in one semifinal playoff.,Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov of Russia had 46 kills and a plus-21 kills-to-...

Rowdy Tellez's pinch single lifts M's over swooning Rangers
Rowdy Tellez's pinch-hit run-scoring single in the ninth inning lifted the Seattle Mariners over the slumping Texas Rangers 2-1 on Saturday in the second of a three-game American League West series in Arlington, Texas.,The Mariners have won six straight and nine of their last 10 and clinched their e...

San Diego FC hand FC Dallas their first road loss
Hirving Lozano recorded two goals and two assists in San Diego FC's 5-0 rout over visiting FC Dallas on Saturday.,San Diego (5-4-2, 17 points) decisively ended its three-match losing streak with the biggest margin of victory in its inaugural season. The previous high was a 3-0 win over the Seattle S...

Megan Fudge wins two golds at U.S. Open Pickleball Championships
Megan Fudge's quest to win three gold medals at the U.S. Open Pickleball Championships fell a little short, but Fudge did win two events Saturday in Naples, Fla.,A year after finishing second, Fudge beat Bobbi Oshiro 11-4, 11-7 in the women's pro singles final.,Fudge partnered with Jack Munro and wo...

Four Royals pitchers shut out Orioles
Kris Bubic threw five shutout innings and three relievers completed the six-hitter in the Royals' 4-0 victory against the host Baltimore Orioles on Saturday night.,Cavan Biggio, Kyle Isbel and Vinnie Pasquantino all hit solo home runs as the Royals won for the 10th time in 12 games. Maikel Garcia we...

Mikko Rantanen's third-period hat trick propels Stars past Avs in Game 7
Mikko Rantanen had a hat trick and an assist to help the Dallas Stars rally for a 4-2 win against the visiting Colorado Avalanche in Game 7 of their first-round series Saturday.,Dallas advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and will face the winner of the Winnipeg Jets-St. Louis Bl...

Four Royals pitchers shut down Orioles
Kris Bubic threw five shutout innings and three relievers completed the six-hitter in the Royals' 4-0 victory against the host Baltimore Orioles on Saturday night.,Cavan Biggio, Kyle Isbel and Vinnie Pasquantino all hit solo home runs as the Royals won for the 10th time in 12 games. Maikel Garci wen...