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MLB roundup: Alex Bregman hits 3 of Cubs' club-record 9 home runs
Alex Bregman hit three of the Cubs' franchise-record nine home runs in Chicago's 17-3 win against the visiting Milwaukee Brewers on Monday.,Tyrone Taylor, Nico Hoerner, Carson Kelly, Matt Shaw, Seiya Suzuki and Michael Conforto also homered for Chicago, which hit 62 home runs in August, the most by ...
MLB roundup: Yankees pound rival Red Sox 16-1 to take season series
Heliot Ramos delivered his biggest hit for his new team when his three-run homer capped a five-run fifth inning and helped the New York Yankees roll to a 16-1 victory over the visiting Boston Red Sox on Sunday afternoon.,The Yankees won for the 10th time in 14 games and moved four games ahead of the...
NFL roster cuts: Teams get down to 53 players
National Football League clubs have until 6 p.m. Sunday to trim their rosters to 53 players, with the cuts being announced throughout the day.,--The Colts released defensive tackle Colby Wooden and running back Ulysses Bentley IV, ESPN reported.,Wooden, 25, was acquired in a trade from the Green Bay...
MLB roundup: Pete Crow-Armstrong (3 HRs), Cubs overpower Reds
Pete Crow-Armstrong recorded his first three-homer game and drove in six runs to power the host Chicago Cubs to a 17-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday.,Crow-Armstrong increased his team-leading homer total to 36 with a solo shot in the first inning, a two-run blast in the second and a t...
MLB roundup: Dodgers prevail in Tarik Skubal's return to Detroit
Freddie Freeman drove in the go-ahead run during the eighth inning in Tarik Skubal's return to Detroit as the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the slumping Tigers 2-1 on Friday.,Skubal gave up one run on four hits while striking out seven in six innings. The two-time Cy Young Award winner was dealt by the ...
MLB roundup: Chris Sale fans 11 in complete game as Braves blank Dodgers
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 to complete a three-game sweep.,Sale (13-9) allowed just five hits and walked none on a season-high 109 pitches, going the dis...
NFL preseason roundup: Fernando Mendoza underwhelms in Raiders' loss
Las Vegas rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza struggled on Thursday as the Raiders dropped their preseason finale 18-12 to the visiting San Francisco 49ers.,Mendoza, the No. 1 overall selection in this year's draft, completed 7 of 14 passes for 57 yards. He threw one interception and was sacked twic...
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...
LLBWS roundup: Ohio rolls on, will meet Nevada in U.S. title game
Bob Frazier hit a bases-loaded triple to punctuate a four-run first inning, Walker Osborne tossed a complete game and Ohio sailed past Iowa 7-1 in the lower-bracket final Thursday to advance to the U.S. championship game of the Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport, Pa.,The squad...
MLB roundup: Reds score 7 in ninth to stun Giants, avoid sweep
Hector Rodriguez blasted a home run into the San Francisco Bay and Eugenio Suarez later followed with a grand slam as part of a seven-run ninth inning and the Cincinnati Reds stunned the host Giants 10-9 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep.,Tyler Stephenson capped the comeback with a go-ahead s...
LLBWS roundup: Nevada, Curacao remain unblemished, advance with big wins
Henderson, Nev., exploded for a 14-0 lead Wednesday and coasted to the finish line, blasting Davenport, Iowa, 14-6 at the Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport, Pa.,Leading 5-0 going into the sixth, Nevada (3-0) tacked on nine more runs in the frame, keyed by RBI singles from Hud...
MLB roundup: D-backs rally past Cubs on Ryan Waldschmidt's walk-off HR
Pinch hitter Ryan Waldschmidt hit a two-run walk-off homer with two outs in the ninth inning as the Arizona Diamondbacks overcame a four-run deficit to beat the Chicago Cubs 5-4 in Phoenix on Tuesday.,Tim Tawa drew a walk from Jacob Webb (6-4) with one out in the ninth. Pinch runner Jose Fernandez s...
LLBWS roundup: Ohio stops New Jersey to climb lower bracket
Ohio broke up a scoreless tie with five runs in the fourth to spark a 5-2 victory over New Jersey in elimination-round play on Tuesday night in South Williamsport, Pa.,Xander Kinkade's two-run double highlighted the big inning for the Great Lakes representatives from Hamilton, Ohio, who advanced to ...
LLBWS roundup: Japan ousts Mexico to climb lower bracket
Tensei Yazawa threw five innings of one-run ball and fanned seven, Ryosuke Takaoka had two RBIs and Japan won its third straight game in the International lower bracket of the Little League Baseball World Series, eliminating Mexico 3-1 on Tuesday in South Williamsport, Pa.,The team from Joto Little ...
MLB roundup: Cal Raleigh's 3 HRs help M's end Phils' 9-game win streak
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 ...
MLB roundup: Red Sox rally again, top Marlins for 4th straight win
Anthony Seigler hit a go-ahead RBI triple in the top of the ninth inning as the visiting Boston Red Sox rallied to defeat the Miami Marlins 4-2 on Monday night.,In a game in which "Let's Go Red Sox" chants could be heard into the ninth inning, Aroldis Chapman pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his 30...
LLBWS roundup: Brooks Cameron, Alabama walk off Pennsylvania
Brooks Cameron hit a walk-off single in the seventh inning and kept Alabama alive in the Little League Baseball World Series with a 6-5 comeback victory over Pennsylvania on Monday in South Williamsport, Pa.,The Southeast Region representatives from Phenix City, Ala., knocked out the Mid-Atlantic te...
LLBWS roundup: Canada eliminates Panama in extras
Connor Ross cracked an RBI single for his team's only hit of the game, and Canada did all its damage in the top of the seventh inning en route to a 3-2 win that eliminated Panama from the Little League Baseball World Series on Monday in South Williamsport, Pa.,Panama pitcher Obed Fuentes struck out ...
MLB roundup: Ian Happ, Pedro Ramirez slam Cubs past Mariners
Ian Happ and Pedro Ramirez hit grand slams as the Chicago Cubs poured it on late in a 19-2 shellacking of the host Seattle Mariners Sunday afternoon.,Pete Crow-Armstrong and Michael Conforto also homered and right-hander Aaron Civale (6-7) pitched four innings of scoreless relief as the Cubs snapped...
MLB roundup: Dylan Cease flirts with no-hitter, Blue Jays hold off Yanks
Dylan Cease took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, and the visiting Toronto Blue Jays recorded a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday afternoon.,Cease (8-5) carried a no-hit bid for 6 2/3 innings until Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled to right field. He then allowed an RBI single to Austin ...