Recap Page 31 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Angel Reese (31 points) helps Dream clinch playoff berth vs. Mercury
Angel Reese had a career-high 31 points with 14 rebounds and Rhyne Howard added 20 points and five assists in the Atlanta Dream's 99-89 victory Saturday night over the host Phoenix Mercury.,Atlanta (24-13) clinched a playoff berth with the victory. The Dream have won five of their last six games, in...
Whitecaps smash Dallas to move back atop Western Conference
Brian White's first-half brace propelled the Vancouver Whitecaps to a 5-0 victory over visiting FC Dallas on Saturday night., ,Emmanuel Sabbi and Edier Ocampo also scored first-half goals for the Whitecaps (12-4-4, 40 points), while Bruno Caicedo added a second-half goal for the hosts., ,Vancouver n...
Miyu Yamashita expands lead at CPKC Women’s Open
Japan's Miyu Yamashita moved closer to her fourth career win on Saturday in Edmonton, carding a 5-under-par 65 at the CPKC Women's Open.,Her day included six birdies and a solitary bogey at Royal Mayfair Golf Club.,That performance expanded her five-shot lead to six, as she improved to 19 under for ...
Early goals produce draw between Austin FC, Union
Early goals from Philadelphia's Cavan Sullivan and host Austin FC's Brendan Hines-Ike before the conditions took over accounted for all the scoring as the teams settled for a 1-1 draw on Saturday in just their second-ever meeting.,The start of the match was delayed an hour because of extreme heat in...
Rae Burrell scores 20, Sparks end losing streak by controlling Sun
Rae Burrell scored 20 points and the Los Angeles Sparks led the visiting Connecticut Sun nearly wire-to-wire en route to a 77-68, slump-ending win on Saturday.,Los Angeles (13-24) surrendered the game's first two points, which was the only time the Sparks trailed. A 12-2 run midway through the first...
Gregory Rodrigues overcomes Anthony Hernandez in UFC battle
Gregory Rodrigues relied on devastating leg attacks and suffocating takedown defense to defeat hometown favorite Anthony Hernandez via unanimous decision in the middleweight non-title main event of UFC Fight Night Saturday night at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif.,The Brazilian Rodrigues (2...
Padres dig out of early hole, surge past Twins
Ty France's RBI single capped a four-run rally in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday night that helped the San Diego Padres rally for a 7-5 win over the visiting Minnesota Twins.,The rally started with the Padres down 5-2 when Freddy Fermin reached by catcher's interference on Ryan Jeffers. F...
JJ Bleday hits for cycle, Reds pound Diamondbacks
JJ Bleday hit for the cycle and drove in three runs, Elly De La Cruz had four hits and was a triple short of the cycle, and the Cincinnati Reds evened the weekend series with an 11-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday night in Phoenix.,Bleday doubled in a run in the first, had an RBI ...
Nashville scores twice in stoppage time to stun Columbus
Reed Baker-Whiting and Andy Najar scored in second-half stoppage time to help Nashville SC rally and stun the visiting Columbus Crew 3-2 on Saturday.,Baker-Whiting made it 2-2 in the third minute of stoppage time when the veteran headed a corner kick by Hany Mukhtar into the net for his first MLS go...
Red Sox rally in 9th, score 3 runs to stun Giants
Eli White slid home with the winning run on Wilyer Abreu's fielder's choice, as the Boston Red Sox erased a 2-0, ninth-inning deficit and walked off with a 3-2 win over the visiting San Francisco Giants on Saturday night.,With the bases loaded, Giants first baseman Bryce Eldridge made a great diving...
Unbeaten for 11: St. Louis beats Houston to continue streak
Dante Polvara scored in the 85th minute to give St. Louis City a 2-1 victory over the visiting Houston Dynamo on Saturday, extending their franchise-high MLS unbeaten streak to 11 games.,Polvara scored for the first time this year with a left-footed blast from the middle of the box inside the left p...
Guardians get clutch hits, edge skidding Rockies
Jo Adell homered and singled, backing six solid innings from Tanner Bibee, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 on Saturday night in Denver.,Jose Ramirez singled to move into fifth place on the franchise's hits list with 1,752, according to the team.,Cleveland's victory, coupled...
Luis Robert Jr. homers twice against former team as Mets beat White Sox
Luis Robert Jr. haunted his former team by hitting two homers Saturday night as the visiting New York Mets outlasted the Chicago White Sox 10-5 in the middle game of a three-game interleague series.,Robert, who played his first six seasons with the White Sox before being traded to the Mets on Jan. 2...
Randy Arozarena comes up big as Mariners come back to edge Cubs
Randy Arozarena hit two home runs -- including a two-run shot with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning -- and robbed another as the Seattle Mariners rallied for a 5-4 victory against the visiting Chicago Cubs on Saturday.,With two outs in the ninth, Weston Wilson doubled to right-center field...
Tarik Skubal heats up, Dodgers rally past Pirates
Kyle Tucker hit a go-ahead two-run single in the fifth inning, Tarik Skubal had 11 strikeouts over seven innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for a 4-3 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday night.,Teoscar Hernandez and Alek Thomas each had RBI singles for the Dodgers, who e...
Dylan Beavers' pinch-hit double in 10th lifts Orioles past Rays
Pinch hitter Dylan Beavers doubled in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning as the Baltimore Orioles beat the visiting Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Saturday night.,Samuel Basallo drilled a two-run homer with one out in the eighth inning to pull the Orioles even at 2-2 and Baltimore's relievers w...
Antoine Griezmann brace pushes Orlando City past Real Salt Lake
Antoine Griezmann recorded his first Major League Soccer brace to help host Orlando City rally for a 2-1 victory over Real Salt Lake on Saturday night.,Orlando City (7-11-3, 24 points) picked up a needed three points and snapped a three-game winless streak in league play. Meanwhile, Real Salt Lake (...
Prince Owusu stays hot, Montreal, Galaxy play to draw
Prince Owusu extended his goal-scoring streak to four matches with a 79th-minute equalizer for host CF Montreal, which battled 10-man Los Angeles Galaxy to a 2-2 draw on Saturday night.,Owusu's goal came after Galaxy goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski was sent off in the 68th minute after his sliding tackle...
Lawrence Butler, Athletics rally past Astros to snap 5-game skid
Lawrence Butler laced a run-scoring single that highlighted a three-run eighth inning and helped carry the visiting Athletics to a 4-3 victory over the Houston Astros on Saturday.,The Athletics snapped a five-game losing skid by answering the Astros' two-run rally in the bottom of the seventh inning...
Charlotte rallies past D.C. United with second-half barrage
Will Cleary's first career MLS goal buoyed Charlotte's second-half comeback in a 3-1 defeat of visiting D.C. United on Saturday evening.,A sluggish first half that produced only two shots on target quickly turned into end-to-end soccer after halftime. Although D.C. (5-7-9, 24 points) outshot Charlot...