Recap Page 35 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Royals polish off four-game sweep of Athletics
Bobby Witt Jr. homered among his two hits and scored three times, while Salvador Perez and Michael Massey each had three hits to propel the Kansas City Royals to a four-game sweep of the visiting Athletics with a 6-2 victory on Thursday.,Nick Loftin added an RBI triple in the Royals' 12-hit attack.,...
Garrett Mitchell leads Brewers' bats in win over Mariners
Garrett Mitchell had two doubles, a home run and three RBIs for the Milwaukee Brewers in a 7-4 win against the visiting Seattle Mariners in the rubber game of their three-game series on Thursday afternoon.,Gary Sanchez drove in two runs and David Hamilton had two singles and an RBI for the Brewers, ...
Jessica Pegula outlasts Amanda Anisimova to reach Cincinnati semis
Jessica Pegula continued her dominance of fellow American Amanda Anisimova on Thursday, pulling out a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (4) win to improve to 6-0 all time in the series and advance to the semifinals of the WTA's Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio.,Third-seeded Pegula won by the narrowest of margins, claimin...
Grant Holmes, Braves baffle White Sox
Austin Riley had two hits and two RBIs and Grant Holmes pitched six-plus innings to spark a combined one-hitter as the visiting Atlanta Braves defeated the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on Thursday in a makeup game between the first-place clubs.,Holmes (8-5) shined against the White Sox in his second start ...
Gavin Williams (11 Ks), Guardians take rubber match vs. Giants
Gavin Williams fired 11 strikeouts and Patrick Bailey had two hits and an RBI against his former team, sparking the Cleveland Guardians to a 5-2 win over the visiting San Francisco Giants on Thursday afternoon.,Williams (12-7) went 5 2/3 innings, giving up two runs on four hits with three walks in t...
Blue Jays notch series win over Rays with homers, Shane Bieber's gem
Kazuma Okamoto led a three-home-run attack, Shane Bieber topped the Tampa Bay Rays for the second time this season, and the visiting Toronto Blue Jays claimed a series win in the first half of their six-game road trip with a 5-1 victory on Thursday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Fla.,Okamoto went 2-fo...
Ninth-inning error looms large as Cardinals rally past Reds
The St. Louis Cardinals overcame a grand slam with help from a crucial error in the top of the ninth inning, holding on for a 10-9 win over the host Cincinnati Reds on Thursday afternoon.,With St. Louis down to its final out trailing 5-4 in the ninth, JJ Wetherholt's routine fly ball to left-center ...
Spirit, Yandex sweep playoff openers at The International
Team Spirit, TEAM VISION, Team Yandex and Nigma Galaxy won their upper-bracket quarterfinal matches Thursday at The International 2026 in Shanghai.,Sixteen teams began the 15th annual Dota 2 tournament on Aug. 13. The crowd-funded prize pool has a base of $1.6 million and a current value of more tha...
Overwatch World Cup 2026 group stage underway
Teams from 16 countries began group stage play Thursday at Overwatch World Cup 2026 in Busan, South Korea.,Round-robin play in four groups will conclude Sunday, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the single-elimination playoffs, scheduled for Sept. 12-13 in Anaheim, Calif. All matches...
Joseph Paintsil's goal carries 10-man Galaxy past Quakes
Joseph Paintsil scored a goal in the 79th minute and Los Angeles Galaxy pulled off a 1-0 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes on Wednesday at Carson, Calif., despite playing a man down the entire second half.,JT Marcinkowski made five saves while facing his former team as the Galaxy (6-8-7, 25 poin...
Ran Binyamin scores late winner as FC Dallas top Real Salt Lake
Ran Binyamin ripped a shot from outside the box into the lower right corner of the net in the 90th minute for the game-winner in FC Dallas' wild 4-3 victory over Real Salt Lake on Wednesday in Sandy, Utah.,Binyamin, who entered the game as a substitute at the beginning of the second half, scored his...
Rapids edge Los Angeles FC thanks to first-half own goal
An own goal in the 22nd minute lifted the Colorado Rapids to a 1-0 victory over Los Angeles FC on Wednesday in Commerce City, Colo.,Youssef Maziz drove a ball into the box on a restart from 25 yards out on the near side following a Yevhen Cheberko yellow card.,As the ball entered the 6-yard box, Jer...
Tristan Muyumba nets go-ahead goal to lead Atlanta past Minnesota
Tristan Muyumba scored the go-ahead goal in the 78th minute and Lucas Hoyos made three saves to lead Atlanta United to a 2-1 victory over Minnesota United on Wednesday night in Saint Paul, Minn.,Defender Tomas Jacob also scored for Atlanta United (5-12-3, 18 points), which has won back-to-back MLS m...
Undermanned Toronto FC storm back for tie with Charlotte FC
Ten-man Toronto FC came back from two goals down to snag a 3-3 draw with visitors Charlotte FC on Wednesday night.,Newcomer Niklas Dorsch continued his hot start for Toronto (4-7-9, 21 points) with an inadvertent 90th-minute equalizer off a cross attempt.,Rodolfo Aloko of Charlotte (8-7-5, 29 points...
Noah Streit provides winner as CF Montreal reverse luck against Crew
Noah Streit scored his first MLS goal to break the deadlock as CF Montreal ended two long streaks with a 2-1 win over the host Columbus Crew on Wednesday.,Streit broke out of the defending third before unleashing a 30-yard strike to the upper right corner in the 78th minute for the first win for Mon...
Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts help Dodgers outlast Rockies in 10
Freddie Freeman hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, Mookie Betts added an RBI single and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 6-4 in Denver on Wednesday.,Betts finished with three hits, including a home run. Enrique Hernandez also went deep and singled, and Kyle Tucker f...
Sara Bejlek stuns top seed Aryna Sabalenka in 4th round at Cincinnati
Aryna Sabalenka is heading into her U.S. Open title defense riding a slump that continued Wednesday in Mason, Ohio.,The top seed was knocked out of the Cincinnati Open in the fourth round, falling 7-6 (7), 6-4 to the Czech Republic's Sara Bejlek.,Sabalenka, a 28-year-old Belarusian, has failed to re...
Dynamo blank Whitecaps, tie MLS mark with fifth straight shutout win
Franco Negri's 34th-minute blast gave Houston a 1-0 road win over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Wednesday as the Dynamo extended their streak of shutting out opponents to a record-tying level.,The Dynamo (12-6-2, 38 points) jumped past the Whitecaps (11-4-4, 37 points) into first place in the Western C...
Kristoffer Velde's goal, two assists guide Timbers past San Diego FC
Kristoffer Velde scored his fifth goal and added two assists to help the Portland Timbers to a 3-1 victory over visiting San Diego FC on Wednesday.,Ariel Lassiter put Portland ahead for good six minutes into the second half, giving new manager Marti Cifuentes a victory in his home MLS debut.,David D...
Joseph Paintsil's goal carries Galaxy past Quakes
Joseph Paintsil scored a goal in the 79th minute and Los Angeles Galaxy pulled off a 1-0 victory over the visiting San Jose Earthquakes on Wednesday at Carson, Calif., despite playing a man down the entire second half.,JT Marcinkowski made five saves while facing his former team as the Galaxy (6-8-7...