Recap Page 28 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Aaliyah Edwards posts career high as Sun top Sky
Aaliyah Edwards scored a career-high 26 points in her return from a four-game absence due to an ankle injury to fuel the Connecticut Sun to an 87-81 victory over the Chicago Sky on Tuesday in Uncasville, Conn.,The third-year center made 11 of 16 shots to go along with a season-high 10 rebounds to se...
Serena Williams, Carlos Alcaraz fall in QFs of U.S. Open mixed doubles
Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz had a promising start to the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament when they won their first-round match, but the pair of former World No. 1s were then eliminated in straight sets in the quarterfinals.,Williams and Alcaraz defeated New Zealand's Erin Routliffe and Gre...
Nick Gonzales' 12th-inning RBI sends Pirates past Padres
Nick Gonzales' RBI single in the top of the 12th inning Monday night lifted the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates to a 3-2 win over the San Diego Padres.,Gonzales' bouncer up the middle scored Jared Triolo, the automatic runner at second. The hit made a winner of Kirby Yates (2-5), who escaped a one-out b...
Angel Reese grabs WNBA-record 26 rebounds; sets season mark, too
Angel Reese grabbed a WNBA-record 26 rebounds and the Atlanta Dream completed a perfect West Coast road trip with a 78-71 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks on Monday.,Earlier in the game, Reese broke the WNBA single-season rebound mark with her 452nd board of the campaign. She finished the night w...
Ann Li cruises through opening match in Monterrey
Fifth-seeded Ann Li needed just 65 minutes to trounce Colombia's Camila Osorio 6-1, 6-2 on Monday in the first round of the Abierto GNP Seguros event in Monterrey, Mexico.,Li took advantage of nine double faults from Osorio to convert half of her 12 break-point opportunities. Osorio, a 2022 finalist...
Twins tally 16 hits in series-opening win vs. Athletics
Ryan Kreidler homered and Zebby Matthews tossed seven innings of one-run ball as the Minnesota Twins opened a three-game series against the Athletics with a 9-6 win on Monday in West Sacramento, Calif.,Josh Bell drove in three runs, Luke Keaschall and Kody Clemens each had two RBIs and Kaelen Culpep...
Cal Raleigh hits historic trio of homers in Mariners' win over Phillies
Cal Raleigh became the first Seattle Mariners player to hit three home runs in a game at T-Mobile Park, giving the hosts a 9-2 victory against the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night.,The last Seattle player to hit three homers at home was Hall of Famer Edgar Martinez, who did so May 18, 1999, at ...
Kevin Gausman fires 7 sharp innings as Cubs shut out Diamondbacks
Michael Conforto and Carson Kelly hit back-to-back homers in a three-run sixth, Kevin Gausman threw seven scoreless innings, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-0 in Phoenix on Monday.,Conforto, who also doubled and singled, has homered in two straight games and in three of his past...
Rafael Devers' 3-run homer powers Giants past Reds
Rafael Devers blasted a three-run home run and five relievers took over after injured starter Carson Whisenhunt exited, completing a five-hitter as the San Francisco Giants opened a week-long homestand with a 5-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.,Drew Gilbert doubled twice and scored...
Austin Hedges, Parker Messick steer streaking Guardians past Angels
Austin Hedges slammed a two-run homer for the Cleveland Guardians in a 4-2 victory against the Los Angeles Angels on Monday in Anaheim, Calif.,Steven Kwan had two hits and scored a run in the opener of the three-game series for the Guardians, who have won five in a row.,Cleveland left-hander Parker ...
Angel Reese grabs WNBA-record 26 rebounds in Dream's win over Sparks
Angel Reese grabbed a WNBA-record 26 rebounds, Allisha Gray scored 20 points and the Atlanta Dream completed a perfect West Coast road trip with a 78-71 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks on Monday.,Rhyne Howard scored 18 points and Naz Hillmon had 12 for the Dream (25-13), who went 4-0 on their tr...
Rangers roll up season-high 11 runs in blowout of White Sox
Corey Seager went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Jake Burger and Wyatt Langford each homered while collecting two hits and two RBIs, boosting the visiting Texas Rangers to an 11-2 victory against the Chicago White Sox on Monday.,Kumar Rocker pitched effectively into the sixth inning as the Rangers romp...
Valkyries halt cold-shooting Lynx's 6-game winning streak
Cecilia Zandalasini scored 18 points against her former team, and the Golden State Valkyries relied on a second-half surge for an 80-66 win over the Minnesota Lynx on Monday night in Minneapolis.,Gabby Williams scored 15 points for Golden State (26-11), which ended a two-game skid. Veronica Burton f...
Nats' bats awaken in fifth en route to rout of Rockies
Daylen Lile had a three-run homer among his three hits and five RBIs, Cade Cavalli turned in six solid innings and the host Washington Nationals snapped a four-game losing streak with a 10-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday.,Jorbit Vivas had three hits and drove in two runs for the Nationals,...
Red Sox spoil Sandy Alcantara's strong start, beat Marlins
Anthony Seigler hit a go-ahead RBI triple in the top of the ninth inning as the Boston Red Sox rallied to defeat the Marlins 4-2 on Monday night in Miami.,In a game where "Let's Go Red Sox" chants could be heard into the ninth inning, Aroldis Chapman pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his 30th save.,...
Stefanos Tsitsipas, lucky losers get off to fine start in Winston-Salem
No. 7 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece worked his way past Jenson Brooksby 6-4, 7-6 (6) in the opening round of the Winston-Salem Open on Monday in North Carolina.,Tsitsipas fired seven aces and won 37 of his 50 first-service points (74%), but Brooksby managed to save three match points in the 10th...
Drew Rasmussen wins 7th straight start as Rays top Tigers
Jonathan Aranda drove in two runs, including a solo homer, and Drew Rasmussen pitched six strong innings as the visiting Tampa Bay Rays beat the Tigers 4-1 on Monday night, handing Detroit its sixth straight loss.,Rasmussen (14-5) won his seventh consecutive start, limiting the Tigers to one run and...
Kelsey Mitchell, Caitlin Clark spark Fever past Sky
Kelsey Mitchell and Caitlin Clark combined forces to shoot 7-for-9 from 3-point range in a third-quarter run that opened up a decisive lead in the Indiana Fever's 113-90 win over the host Chicago Sky on Sunday night. ,The Fever set a franchise mark for the game with 18 3-pointers made, shooting 54.5...
Paige Bueckers scores 32 points as Wings subdue Storm
Paige Bueckers scored 32 points, 23 of them in the first half, as the Dallas Wings parlayed a dominating opening 16 minutes of the game into a 92-70 win over the hapless Seattle Storm on Sunday afternoon in Arlington, Texas.,Dallas (22-16) led by 35 points six minutes into the second quarter and by ...
Titans rally from early deficit to beat Seahawks in preseason action
D'Ernest Johnson's fourth-quarter touchdown run capped off the Tennessee Titans' comeback in a 19-16 win over the Seattle Seahawks in the second preseason game for each team Sunday evening in Nashville, Tenn.,Johnson, a well-traveled running back who played last season for the New England Patriots, ...