Recap Page 25 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Drew Gilbert homers as Giants shut down Diamondbacks
Drew Gilbert led off the bottom of the first inning with a home run, Landen Roupp combined with three relievers on a six-hitter and the host San Francisco Giants handed the playoff-contending Arizona Diamondbacks a 6-1 defeat in the opener of a four-game series Thursday night.,The loss dropped the D...
Georgia Amoore puts up career-best 25 as Mystics overtake Mercury
Georgia Amoore had career highs with 25 points and six 3-pointers and the Washington Mystics overcame a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the host Phoenix Mercury for the second time in three days, prevailing 80-73 on Thursday.,Amoore scored 16 points in the fourth quarter. She recorded eight ...
Top QBs sit out as Bills overtake Steelers in preseason finale
Ian Wheeler ran for a 2-yard touchdown with 1:06 remaining and Dante Pettis caught the subsequent two-point-conversion pass from Shane Buechele as the Buffalo Bills rallied for a 28-27 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday in Orchard Park, N.Y.,Buechele played the entire game in the preseason...
Cecilia Zandalasini, Valkyries stifle Liberty in road victory
Cecilia Zandalasini scored 20 points, Veronica Burton racked up a season-high 13 assists without a turnover and the Golden State Valkyries smothered the host New York Liberty 79-60 on Thursday.,Golden State (28-11) won its third game in a row and completed a back-to-back road sweep of Connecticut an...
Jacob Misiorowski's 6 sharp innings lift Brewers to series win vs. Mets
Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski won his third consecutive start, tossing six solid innings as the Brewers recorded an 8-2 victory over the New York Mets on Thursday in the decisive game of a three-game set.,Jackson Chourio went 4-for-5 with a pair of two-run homers and a stolen base for the Brewers,...
Jac Caglianone's career day helps Royals smash Blue Jays
Jac Caglianone homered and had career highs of five hits and six RBIs and the visiting Kansas City Royals defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 13-2 Thursday night.,Vinnie Pasquantino also homered and had three RBIs, and Carter Jensen added a homer in the rubber match of the three-game series.,George Sprin...
Christian Walker homers, drives in 2 as Astros take series from Yankees
Hayden Wesneski pitched five-plus effective innings, Christian Walker hit a two-run homer off Gerrit Cole as part of a three-hit display and the visiting Houston Astros earned a 5-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday night.,Drafted by the Yankees in 2019 and traded to the Cubs in a 2022 d...
Braves finish sweep of Dodgers behind Chris Sale's CG, 11 K's
Chris Sale struck out 11 on Thursday while throwing his first complete game in seven years, leading the Atlanta Braves to a 1-0 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers and a three-game sweep.,Sale (13-9) allowed just five hits and walked none while going the distance for the first time since J...
Sei Young Kim uses red-hot finish to set pace at TPC Boston
Sei Young Kim of South Korea went 6 under par over a six-hole stretch coming in to take the first-round lead at the FM Championship on Thursday at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass.,Kim played the back nine first and made the turn at 2 under. After birdies at Nos. 2 and 3, she went birdie-birdie-eagle from...
Min Woo Lee fires first-round 62 to lead Tour Championship
ATLANTA -- Min Woo Lee doesn't need to be sad anymore.,He is headed back in the right direction -- and in a big way., Lee turned in a bogey-free round of 8-under 62 to take a two-shot, first-round lead at the Tour Championship, the FedEx Cup playoffs finale, on Thursday. ,Lee, who tied his career lo...
Cards jump out in front, fend off O’s to halt 5-game skid
Rookie Blaze Jordan blasted a three-run home run before leaving with an injury, and right-hander Gordon Graceffo tossed three perfect innings in a spot start Thursday afternoon, helping the St. Louis Cardinals snap a five-game skid with a 7-5 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles.,Former Oriol...
Nationals walk past Rockies, 7-1
Daylen Lile had three hits including a solo home run, Keibert Ruiz hit a two-run homer and the Nationals defeated the Colorado Rockies 7-1 on Thursday to earn a split of the four-game series.,Jacob Young had a double, single, walk and two stolen bases for Washington and Brady House had two hits and ...
M80 overtake Natus Vincere as BLAST Open Fall begins
M80 downed Natus Vincere 2-1 in the lone comeback win of the day as the BLAST Open Fall tournament got underway on Wednesday in Copenhagen, Denmark.,The other three Group A upper-bracket quarterfinal matches all ended in 2-0 sweeps. Team Spirit took down DENDELE CS, G2 Esports handled Aurora Gaming,...
Clara Tauson tops Ekaterina Alexandrova in 2nd round at Monterrey
Denmark's Clara Tauson beat top-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3 on Wednesday in second-round action at the Abierto GNP Seguros in Monterrey, Mexico.,Alexandrova had two set points in the first set, one on Tauson's serve at 6-5, the other late in the tiebreaker, before Tauson...
Ryan Gusto keys shutout as Marlins salvage series vs. Red Sox
Single runs in the first two innings and Ryan Gusto's 5 2/3 shutout frames propelled the Miami Marlins to a 4-0 win over the visiting Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night.,The Marlins tagged Boston starter Sonny Gray (16-4) for two hits in each of the first two frames, but four Red Sox errors had a maj...
Flau'jae Johnson leads Storm past Tempo in battle of struggling sides
Rookie Flau'jae Johnson scored 20 points to lead a balanced attack as the host Seattle Storm defeated the Toronto Tempo 90-78 on Wednesday.,Dominique Malonga added 18 points and seven rebounds and Jade Melbourne had 16 points, seven assists and six boards for the last-place Storm (8-31), who snapped...
Czech duo captures U.S. Open mixed-doubles championship
Czech players Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik claimed their first Grand Slam championships on Wednesday, outlasting Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 1-6, 1-0 (6) to win the U.S. Open mixed-doubles championship in New York.,Neither of the winners regularly play doubles on tour. Muchova has a ...
Athletics rally from early deficit to beat Twins, take series
Lawrence Butler hit a solo homer and Alika Williams tripled home two runs during a four-run sixth inning as the Athletics rallied to beat the Minnesota Twins 7-4 in the decisive game of a three-game series on Wednesday in West Sacramento, Calif.,Tommy White had three hits for the A's, who trailed 4-...
Orioles outlast Cardinals after blowing early 7-run lead
Pete Alonso homered and Christian Encarnacion-Strand had four hits, including a tie-breaking RBI double in the top of the ninth inning, to lead the visiting Baltimore Orioles to an 8-7 victory against the St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday night.,The Orioles, who led 7-0 after Alonso's 32nd homer in the ...
Botic van de Zandschulp pulls off dominating upset in Winston-Salem
Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands dominated the highest-remaining seed, No. 2 Italian Luciano Darderi, in a 6-1, 6-0 demolition to coast into the quarterfinals of the Winston-Salem Open on Wednesday in North Carolina.,The No. 13 seed needed just 68 minutes to advance, winning the final 11 g...