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Cubs hold on to lead for crosstown series win over White Sox
Pete Crow-Armstrong went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Ben Brown pitched five strong innings to lift the visiting Chicago Cubs to a 5-4 victory against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.,An early spurt staked the Cubs to a 2-1 lead before they held on to take two of three in the crosstown series.,Daniel P...

Noah Cameron continues hot start to career in Royals win against Guardians
Noah Cameron struck out six over five scoreless innings, while Maikel Garcia homered with two RBIs, as the host Kansas City Royals won 4-1 over the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday. ,Rookie Cameron (5-4) dodged some first-inning trouble to record another solid outing in his 14th career start. The left...

Dominant Paul Skenes leads Pirates past Diamondbacks
Paul Skenes pitched six shutout innings for the second consecutive start to lead the host Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday afternoon.,Skenes (6-8) gave up three hits, walked one and struck out nine on 99 pitches to lead the Pirates to the series victory and...

Fever and Sky meet without Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese
The latest clash between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky will not include Caitlin Clark or Angel Reese.,Clark will miss the game due to her right groin injury while Reese's back injury led the team to rule her out shortly before her Sky squad hosts the Fever on Sunday afternoon.,Reese missed Chica...

Royals place All-Star P Kris Bubic (rotator cuff) on IL
The Kansas City Royals placed All-Star left-hander Kris Bubic on the 15-day injured list Sunday due a left rotator cuff strain.,The Royals also sent rookie outfielder Jac Caglianone to the 10-day IL with a strained left hamstring.,Bubic, 27, complained of shoulder stiffness following Saturday's 6-4 ...

Atlanta United acquire Inter Miami F Leo Afonso
Atlanta United acquired forward Leo Afonso in a trade with Inter Miami, both teams announced on Sunday.,Atlanta also receives $225,000 in general allocation money from Miami in exchange for an international roster slot and $50,000 in conditional GAM.,Afonso, 24, recorded two goals in 14 MLS matches ...

Report: Dolphins, Minkah Fitzpatrick agree to reworked deal
The Miami Dolphins and All-Pro safety Minkah Fitzpatrick agreed to a reworked contract, ESPN reported on Sunday.,Fitzpatrick will receive a $16.435 million signing bonus and Miami will save $11 million against the 2025 salary cap, per the report.,The Dolphins acquired Fitzpatrick from Pittsburgh las...

Cubs seek series win against White Sox
After swapping one-sided victories in the first two games of their crosstown rivalry series, the host Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs will meet in the rubber match on Sunday afternoon.,Rekindling a potent attack ranks atop the White Sox's objectives, to be sure, although rookie right-hander Sean ...

Pirates star Paul Skenes vies for season milestone vs. D-backs
Pirates ace Paul Skenes will try secure pitching wins in back-to-back starts for the first time this season when he opposes Arizona Diamondbacks right-hander Zac Gallen on Sunday afternoon in the finale of a three-game series in Pittsburgh.,The Pirates dropped a 1-0 decision in 11 innings to the Dia...

Blue Jays' Max Scherzer on familiar ground with start vs. Tigers
Max Scherzer returns to the mound where the right-hander became a star in the finale of a four-game series between the Toronto Blue Jays and host Detroit Tigers on Sunday afternoon.,The American League East-leading Blue Jays have won four straight games and eight of nine since the All-Star break, wh...

FlyQuest starts strong with win at LTA North 2025 Split 3
FlyQuest opened Week 1 of the LTA North Split 3 with a 2-0 sweep of Disguised on Saturday in Los Angeles.,The wins came in 28 minutes on blue and 31 minutes on red. Fahad "Massu" Abdulmalek, who is Canadian and Iraqi, had a kill-death-assist ratio of 7-2-6 in Game 1 and 9-0-6 in Game 2 for FlyQuest,...

Team Vitality among winners as group stage opens at IEM Cologne
Team Vitality, GS Esports, Team Falcons, The MongolZ, Natus Vincere and Aurora Gaming won their upper-bracket quarterfinal matches on Saturday as the group stage began in the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne event in Germany.,All of the wins were 2-0 sweeps with the exception of Natus Vincere's 2-1 vic...

Yohei Takaoka, Whitecaps shut out Sporting Kansas City
Emmanuel Sabbi, J.C. Ngando and Mathias Laborda scored goals to help the Vancouver Whitecaps register a 3-0 victory over visiting Sporting Kansas City on Saturday night.,Yohei Takaoka made three saves while extending his MLS-leading shutout count to 11 for the Whitecaps.,Vancouver (13-5-6, 45 points...

Kelvin Yeboah makes 2 penalty shots, Minnesota United edge St. Louis
Kelvin Yeboah converted from the spot twice in the final 15 minutes, lifting visiting Minnesota United to a 2-1 win over St. Louis City SC on Saturday night.,The game-winner occurred after a video review detected a hand ball in the penalty area against St. Louis City's Jaziel Orozco. Yeboah stutter-...

Connor Zilisch fastest at Indy for third straight Xfinity Series win
INDIANAPOLIS -- As contrary as it might seem, there was ambivalence in Connor Zilisch's victory in Saturday's Pennzoil 250 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.,Yes, Zilisch won his third straight NASCAR Xfinity Series race and added to his inarguable credentials as a budding superstar. What's more, Zilis...

Austin FC discover offense in doubling up D.C. United
Myrto Uzuni, Owen Wolff, Osman Bukari and Robert Taylor scored goals to help Austin FC to a rare offensive splurge while recording a 4-2 victory over D.C. United on Saturday night at Washington, D.C.,Austin FC entered the match with an MLS-low 17 goals but notched a season-best total with the stella...

Atlanta United score late to earn draw with Seattle Sounders
Alexey Miranchuk scored the game-tying goal in the ninth minute of second-half extra time as Atlanta United notched a 2-2 draw against the visiting Seattle Sounders on Saturday.,Just minutes after Seattle's Osaze De Rosario scored the go-ahead goal in the fifth minute of extra time, Miranchuk netted...

Matt Shaw, Ian Happ go deep as Cubs cruise past White Sox in crosstown clash
Ian Happ and Matt Shaw homered to back 6 1/3 strong innings from Cade Horton as the visiting Chicago Cubs defeated the Chicago White Sox 6-1 on Saturday.,The Cubs out-hit the White Sox 10-6 to even the crosstown series at one game apiece. Dansby Swanson delivered a two-out, two-run single in the eig...

Sky aim for redemption against Fever without Caitlin Clark
The latest clash between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky may not include Caitlin Clark or Angel Reese.,Clark will miss the game due to her right groin injury while the health of Reese's back will determine whether she's on the floor when her Sky squad hosts the Fever on Sunday afternoon.,Reese mis...

UFC Fight Night: Reinier de Ridder defeats Robert Whittaker by split decision
Reinier de Ridder took home a split-decision victory Saturday over Robert Whittaker in the main event of UFC Fight Night at Abu Dhabi.,De Ridder (21-2-0 MMA) earned a 48-47 margin from two judges, Ben Cartlidge and David Lethaby, while Mike Bell was the lone judge to give the edge to Whittaker (27-9...