Recap Page 56 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Bryce Elder shuts down Marlins to lead Braves to 7th straight win
Bryce Elder allowed only one hit over seven innings to help the Atlanta Braves extend their winning streak to a season-long seven games with a 4-1 win over the visiting Miami Marlins on Wednesday.,Atlanta improved to 7-2 against Miami this season and have won five straight against the Marlins.,Elder...
Caty McNally upsets Wimbledon champ Linda Noskova in Toronto
In her first match since winning Wimbledon more than three weeks ago, sixth-seeded Czech Linda Noskova fell 7-6 (5), 6-1 to Caty McNally on Wednesday evening in the second round of the National Bank Open at Toronto.,McNally, ranked No. 70, trailed 5-1 in the first set before breaking Noskova twice t...
Rhyne Howard puts up 23 as Dream overpower Mercury
Rhyne Howard compiled 23 points, eight assists and six rebounds on Wednesday as the Atlanta Dream earned a 96-82 victory over the Phoenix Mercury in College Park, Ga.,Allisha Gray scored 20 points and Jordin Canada added 17 for Atlanta (19-11), which posted its sixth victory in seven games. Angel Re...
Breanna Stewart, Liberty hold off Storm to push losing streak to 10
Breanna Stewart scored 28 points and grabbed eight rebounds as the host New York Liberty defeated the Seattle Storm 92-86 on Wednesday night.,The Liberty (19-13) also got strong performances from Jonquel Jones (14 points, a game-high 15 rebounds), Sabrina Ionescu (13 of her 15 points in the second h...
Rhett Lowder, Reds send Athletics to another series defeat
Rhett Lowder allowed just two runs in six innings and Matt McLain homered, leading the host Cincinnati Reds to a 3-2 win over the Athletics on Wednesday.,Lowder (4-7) snapped a personal six-game losing streak and earned a win for the first time since April 20 at Tampa Bay, a span of 11 starts and th...
Orioles blast three homers and edge lowly Angels
Tyler O'Neill and Coby Mayo hit back-to-back home runs, Leody Taveras belted a pinch-hit homer, and Trevor Rogers put together a strong start from the mound as the Baltimore Orioles beat the visiting Los Angeles Angels 5-2 on Wednesday night.,Rogers (7-7) struck out a season-high nine without walkin...
Ernie Clement's 10th-inning HR helps Blue Jays top Astros
Ernie Clement hit a tiebreaking two-run home run in the 10th inning on Wednesday afternoon to help the visiting Toronto Blue Jays earn a 5-4 victory over the Houston Astros.,Bennett Sousa (0-1) allowed Clement's ninth homer, which drove in the automatic runner and gave Toronto a two-run edge.,Yordan...
Junior Caminero, Victor Mesa Jr., lead Rays past Rockies
Junior Caminero homered, Victor Mesa Jr. had two triples, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Colorado Rockies 4-0 in Denver on Wednesday.,Nick Martinez (11-3) had another strong outing for Tampa Bay, scattering six hits in 5 2/3 innings to tie his career high in victories. The Rays swept a series for t...
Ernie Clement's two-run HR helps Blue Jays top Astros
Ernie Clement hit a tiebreaking two-run home run in the 10th inning on Wednesday afternoon to help the visiting Toronto Blue Jays earn a 5-4 victory over the Houston Astros.,Bennett Sousa (0-1) allowed Clement's ninth homer, which drove in the automatic runner and gave Toronto a two-run edge. ,In th...
Rangers shut out Giants for consecutive wins after 6-game losing skid
Justin Foscue highlighted a four-run third inning with a two-RBI triple, Cody Bradford combined with four relievers on an eight-hitter and the Texas Rangers completed a series win over the San Francisco Giants with a 6-0 victory Wednesday afternoon in Arlington, Texas.,Brandon Nimmo had two hits, tw...
PlayTime sweep Games of the Future grand final
PlayTime swept Yakult Brothers in Wednesday's grand final to win the $350,000 top prize at the Games of the Future Dota 2 event in Astana, Kazakhstan.,PlayTime posted a 63-minute win on red, a 38-minute victory on green and a 44-minute triumph on red to wrap up the $1 million tournament that began w...
Manny Machado (3 hits, 4 RBIs) paces Padres to rout of Diamondbacks
Manny Machado had three hits and drove in four runs, Randy Vasquez pitched six scoreless innings, and the San Diego Padres beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-4 on Tuesday in the second game of a four-game series in Phoenix.,Jackson Merrill had three hits, two RBIs and two runs for the Padres, who jumpe...
Janelle Salaun scores 21 to carry Valkyries past Tempo
Janelle Salaun saved eight of her team-high 21 points for a key run bridging the third and fourth quarters Tuesday night and the Golden State Valkyries completed a season-series sweep of the Toronto Tempo with a 92-82 victory in San Francisco.,Kayla Thornton chipped in with 20 points for the Valkyri...
Tigers hit 3 homers as Troy Melton shuts down Mariners
Troy Melton pitched seven scoreless innings as the Detroit Tigers defeated the host Seattle Mariners 8-0 on Tuesday.,Riley Greene, Gleyber Torres and Dillon Dingler homered for the Tigers, who won their fourth game in a row and fifth out of six to move past Seattle in the American League wild-card c...
Liam Hicks belts slam in Rays debut to help sink Rockies
Liam Hicks hit a grand slam in his Tampa Bay debut and Ben Williamson scored the tiebreaking run on a wild pitch as the Rays beat the Colorado Rockies 9-7 in 11 innings in Denver on Tuesday night.,Junior Caminero drove in an insurance run in the 11th with his second hit of the game and Hicks, Yandy ...
Juncheng Shang saves 5 match points, stuns Andrey Rublev in Montreal
Juncheng Shang of China pulled off a stunning upset, saving five match points to upend No. 10 seed Andrey Rublev of Russia 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (5) in the second round of the National Bank Open on Tuesday in Montreal.,Shang, 21, is ranked 281st in the world.,Earning his fifth career Top-20 victory, Shang t...
Rangers halt 6-game slide in dramatic fashion vs. Giants
Ezequiel Duran capped a four-RBI outing with a deep run-scoring double to right with two outs in the ninth inning to give the Texas Rangers a 5-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night at Arlington, Texas.,Duran went 3-for-5 and won the game with an opposite-field drive over the head...
Reds score twice in eighth without a hit to top Athletics
Elly De La Cruz and Sal Stewart scored on a pair of wild pitches in the eighth inning to help the Cincinnati Reds rally past the visiting Athletics 5-4 on Tuesday night in the opener of a three-game series in Cincinnati.,The Athletics, who lost their sixth straight and their 22nd in 26 games, were n...
Bobby Witt Jr. returns to lead Royals past Twins
Bobby Witt Jr. returned from the injured list with three hits and two RBIs, and Randy Dobnak continued his Kansas City success by allowing one run over five innings, as the Royals beat the visiting Minnesota Twins 8-2 on Tuesday night.,Out since July 20 with low-back tightness, Witt didn't miss a be...
Taylor Trammell's homer powers Astros past Blue Jays
Taylor Trammell clubbed a three-run homer, Hayden Wesneski delivered a quality start and the Houston Astros evened their three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays with a 7-2 win on Tuesday.,The Astros were victorious for the 12th time in 14 games behind Wesneski (2-0) and a four-run fifth inni...