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UCLA belts 4 homers to rout Arkansas in WCWS
UCLA blasted four home runs en route to an 11-0, five-inning run rule victory over Arkansas in an elimination game in the Women's College World Series on Friday in Oklahoma City.,The Bruins blasted the game open with a nine-run second to quickly move into position for the run rule.,Three of their ho...
Rockies overtake Giants with 2 homers, 5 runs in bottom of ninth
Hunter Goodman and Ezequiel Tovar homered in a five-run ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies rallied to stun the San Francisco Giants 8-6 in Denver on Friday.,Willi Castro, Jake McCarthy, Tyler Freeman, Goodman and Tovar had two hits each and Juan Mejia (1-4) got the win for Colorado, which snappe...
Brice Turang's sac fly in 10th lifts Brewers past Astros
Brice Turang produced a sacrifice fly that scored Christian Yelich in the top of the 10th inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers rallied past the Houston Astros 5-4 on Friday in the opener of a three-game interleague series.,Yelich, who opened the 10th at second base, used speed to manufacture the winnin...
Hurricanes finish off Habs in Game 5, will face Vegas in Cup Final
Taylor Hall and Logan Stankoven each posted one-goal, two-assist performances to lead the Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Friday in Raleigh, N.C., that sends them to the Stanley Cup Final.,Jackson Blake and Seth Jarvis both scored once and added an assist while Er...
Resurgent Rangers rout struggling Royals
MacKenzie Gore allowed four hits over 6 1/3 scoreless innings, and Ezequel Duran's two-run single highlighted a four-run first, as the Texas Rangers sent the visiting Kansas City Royals to a fourth straight defeat with Friday night's 9-1 victory at Arlington, Texas.,Brandon Nimmo and Nicky Lopez eac...
Hurricanes finish off Canadiens in Game 5, will face Vegas in Stanley Cup Final
Taylor Hall and Logan Stankoven each posted one-goal, two-assist performances to lead the Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Friday in Raleigh, N.C., that sends them to the Stanley Cup Final.,Jackson Blake and Seth Jarvis both scored once and added an assist, while E...
Athletics RHP Luis Severino exits after 1 inning with sore arm
Right-hander Luis Severino exited the Athletics' Friday game against the New York Yankees in West Sacramento, Calif., before the top of the second inning due to right arm soreness.,Severino, 32, was warming up when he suddenly walked to the back of the mound and looked toward the dugout, prompting c...
Athletics RHP Luis Severino exits after 1 inning with injury
Right-hander Luis Severino exited the Athletics' Friday game against the New York Yankees in West Sacramento, Calif., before the top of the second inning due to an undisclosed injury.,Severino, 32, was warming up when he suddenly walked to the back of the mound and looked toward the dugout, promptin...
MJ Melendez, Mets walk off Marlins
MJ Melendez hit the first walk-off homer of his career Friday night, when the New York Mets squandered a trio of four-run leads before outlasting the Miami Marlins, 9-7, in the opener of a three-game series between the National League East foes.,Pete Fairbanks (2-3) retired Juan Soto on a fly out to...
Miguel Vargas cracks walk-off HR as White Sox stun Tigers in 10th
Miguel Vargas smacked a game-ending two-run home run against Drew Anderson in the 10th inning to propel the host Chicago White Sox to a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Friday.,Chicago, which lost slugging first baseman Munetaka Murakami to hamstring tightness in the third inning, has won thre...
Nneka Ogwumike's clutch trey carries Sparks past Mystics
Nneka Ogwumike hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 1:51 left as the visiting Los Angeles Sparks outlasted the Washington Mystics for an 92-87 victory on Friday.,After missing the Sparks' win over the Las Vegas Aces on May 23 due to a hand injury, Ogwumike returned to produce 20 points and 11 rebounds...
Rare Jackson Merrill homer rallies Padres past Nats
Jackson Merrill cracked a tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh and Fernando Tatis Jr. had three hits as the visiting San Diego Padres rallied for a 7-5 win on Friday night against the Washington Nationals.,Ty France added a game-tying solo homer in the sixth for the Padres, who snapped a four-ga...
Nelson Velazquez, Ivan Herrera homer to lift Cardinals past Cubs
Ivan Herrera belted a go-ahead solo homer in the fifth inning, fueling the host St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday.,St. Louis' Nelson Velazquez celebrated his call-up from Triple-A Memphis on Friday by launching a three-run homer in the first inning.,Thomas Saggese ...
Nick Martinez, big seventh inning rally Rays past Angels
Tampa Bay's Nick Martinez continued his amazing start with seven quality innings, and the Rays rallied with seven runs in the seventh inning to stop a season-long four-game losing streak in an 8-5 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.,Martinez (5-1) extended his str...
Bryan Reynolds' walk-off blast lifts Pirates past Twins
Bryan Reynolds' two-run walk-off home run lifted the host Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-5 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.,Reynolds' sixth home run of the season came with one out in the ninth off Twins reliever Taylor Rogers (1-2) and represented his second career walk-off home run and fou...
Rookie Pauline Astier leads Liberty past Mercury
Undrafted rookie Pauline Astier scored 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the field while also grabbing six rebounds and dishing out six assists as the New York Liberty held on for a 75-68 victory over the Phoenix Mercury Friday night in New York.,Astier's two free throws with nine seconds helped ice...
Blue Jays escape 5-run hole, pull out win over Orioles
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a go-ahead two-run double in the eighth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays wiped out a five-run deficit with late-game offense to stun the host Baltimore Orioles 6-5 on Friday.,Charles McAdoo homered in his major league debut and Kazuma Okamoto also went deep during the comeba...
Dodgers place Teoscar Hernandez on IL, option Hyeseong Kim
Two days after straining his left hamstring, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez landed on the 10-day injured list Friday, and the man who replaced him in left field was sent to the minors, too.,Hyeseong Kim had never played left field before Wednesday, when Hernandez got hurt running o...
Lynx blitz Sky in third quarter to trigger rout
Nia Coffey had 20 points and eight rebounds and Natasha Howard scored 14 as they triggered a third-quarter surge that sparked the visiting Minnesota Lynx to a 79-58 victory over the Chicago Sky on Friday night.,Olivia Miles added 17 points and six assists, Courtney Williams scored 10 points and Coff...
Four-run first inning propels Guardians past Red Sox
A four-run first inning carried the Cleveland Guardians to a 4-3 victory over the visiting Boston Red Sox on Friday in the opener of a three-game series.,Boston had the game-tying run on base when Isiah Kiner-Falefa singled to open the ninth, but Cleveland closer Cade Smith struck out the next three...