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WTA roundup: Jessica Pegula charges into Washington quarterfinals
Top-seeded Jessica Pegula overcame a slow start and produced a 3-6, 6-3, 6-0 win over Poland's Magdalena Frech on Thursday in the second round of the Mubadala DC Open in Washington.,Pegula came through in the match's key moments, converting five break opportunities and saving 5 of 7 break points on ...
MLB roundup: O’s rally to ruin Tarik Skubal’s possible Detroit farewell
Jackson Holliday drove in three runs, Colton Cowser knocked in the winning run and visiting Baltimore rallied from a seven-run deficit for a 10-9, 12-inning win, spoiling what may have been Tarik Skubal's last start as a Detroit Tiger.,Cowser's two-out single off Drew Sommers (0-2) drove home Taylor...
WTA roundup: Alexandra Eala ousts defending champ Leylah Fernandez in DC
Alexandra Eala ousted the defending Mubadala DC Open champion, No. 7 seed Leylah Fernandez, with a 6-2, 7-6 (1) victory to advance to the quarterfinals in Washington.,The Filipina competitor dropped five straight games to fall into a 5-1 second-set hole before responding with five straight game wins...
MLB roundup: Gleyber Torres drives in 5 as Tigers pound Orioles
Gleyber Torres homered and drove in five runs and the host Detroit Tigers scored in every inning they batted in a 14-0 rout of the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday.,Eduardo Valencia, recalled from Triple-A Toledo earlier in the series, hit a pair of homers among four hits and drove in four runs as the T...
WTA roundup: Venus Williams makes first-round exit in DC
Venus Williams was ousted in the first round of the Mubadala DC Open on Tuesday, taking a 6-3, 6-3 loss against Austria's Anastasia Potapova in Washington.,Williams, the 46-year-old star whose last singles win came at this event last year, won 78.4% of her first-serve points but just 24.1% of her se...
MLB roundup: Marlins end 12-game skid by overtaking Phillies in ninth
Griffin Conine's walk-off single capped a three-run ninth inning for the Miami Marlins, who snapped a franchise-record 12-game losing streak with an 8-7 win over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies on Monday.,Heriberto Hernandez and Conine homered for Miami, which had not won since July 9. The Marlin...
MLB roundup: Marlins blow lead to Padres, lose club-record 12th straight
Manny Machado and Jackson Merrill homered in the four-run eighth inning to help the visiting San Diego Padres rally for a 5-3 win on Sunday and extend the Miami Marlins' losing streak to a franchise-record 12 straight games.,Machado also had an RBI double in the fifth that sparked the comeback after...
MLB roundup: Salvador Perez breaks Royals' all-time homers record
Nick Loftin hit a go-ahead homer in the ninth, Salvador Perez set the franchise home run record and the visiting Kansas City Royals squeaked by the Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Saturday.,Perez's seventh-inning blast was his 318th career homer, surpassing Hall of Famer George Brett on the franchise's all-ti...
ATP roundup: Quentin Halys blasts 17 aces, wins Generali Open for first crown
Frenchman Quentin Halys delivered 17 aces and earned his first career title with a solid 6-4, 7-6 (6) victory over defending champion Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in the Generali Open final at Kitzbuhel, Austria on Saturday.,Halys, 29, turned pro in 2012 and had played in just other ATP final -- l...
MLB roundup: Tarik Skubal fans 12 as trade deadline nears
Tarik Skubal struck out a season-high 12 in 7 1/3 innings as the host Detroit Tigers edged the Kansas City Royals 2-1 on Friday night, delivering arguably his best outing of the season in what could have been his final home start with Detroit.,Skubal, who is headed to free agency, has been the subje...
ATP roundup: Alexander Bublik, Quentin Halys set for Generali final
Quentin Halys continued his remarkable run through the Generali Open by beating Yannick Hanfmann 6-4, 7-6 (2) to reach the final in Kitzbuhel, Austria.,Halys, who knocked off No. 2 seed Valentin Vacherot early on in this event, advanced to his second tour-level final behind 11 aces against three dou...
WTA roundup: Mayar Sherif beats Paula Badosa in Hamburg
Mayar Sherif continued her recent strong play by saving 11 of 18 break points (61.1%) and posting a 7-6 (4), 6-7 (2), 6-4 victory over Spain's Paula Badosa on Friday to reach the semifinals of the MSC Hamburg Ladies Open in Germany.,Sherif defeated Badosa on Monday in the title match of the Iasi Ope...
MLB roundup: Twins score two runs in 12th to edge Guardians
Trevor Larnach and Luke Keaschall delivered back-to-back RBI singles off Erik Sabrowski with two outs in the 12th inning, giving the Minnesota Twins a 3-1 victory over the host Cleveland Guardians on Thursday afternoon to earn a split of the four-game series.,Larnach drove in automatic runner Ryan J...
WTA roundup: Barbora Krejcikova cruises to quarterfinals in Prague
Second-seeded Barbora Krejcikova scored an easy straight set victory over Lucie Havlickova 6-4, 6-2 to cruise to the quarterfinals at the Prague Open in the Czech Republic on Thursday.,Krejcikova won the tournament in 2021 but has yet to return to the semifinals. On Thursday, she was able to put the...
MLB roundup: Orioles halt Red Sox's team-record-tying 15-game win streak
A four-run first inning helped the visiting Baltimore Orioles earn a 5-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the second game of a doubleheader Wednesday, ending Boston's 15-game winning streak.,The winning streak was the longest in the majors since St. Louis won 17 in a row in 2021. Had Boston won, t...
WTA roundup: Marie Bouzkova stays on title defense path in Prague
Top-seeded and Prague native Marie Bouzkova moved into the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Carol Young Suh Lee on Wednesday at the Prague Open in the Czech Republic.,It was not easy for Bouzkova, who won one of her four WTA singles titles in Prague last year. She trailed 5-3 in the first ...
MLB roundup: Cubs erupt in 6-run first, crush Framber Valdez, Tigers
The host Chicago Cubs sent 12 batters to the plate in a six-run first inning as they rolled to a comfortable 11-2 win over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night.,Pete Crow-Armstrong was a perfect 2-for-2 with three walks and two RBIs for Chicago, which evened the series after the Tigers' 8-6 extra-inn...
WTA roundup: Barbora Krejcikova cruises to first-round win in Prague
Second-seeded Barbora Krejcikova converted 6 of 8 break points while sailing to a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Linda Fruhvirtova on Wednesday in a first-round all-Czech matchup in Prague.,Krejcikova won 73.1% of her first-serve points (19 of 26) in a match that took one hour and 18 minutes. Krejcikova won ...
MLB roundup: Red Sox edge Orioles for 14th straight win
Caleb Durbin hit a tiebreaking solo home run to break in the eighth inning as the Boston Red Sox extended their winning streak to 14 games by beating the visiting Baltimore Orioles, 6-5, Monday night.,The streak is the second longest in club history and one short of the franchise record set in 1946....
WTA roundup: Mayar Sherif wins Iasi title after Paula Badosa retires
Egypt's Mayar Sherif claimed her first title in nearly four years Monday after Spain's Paula Badosa retired in the final of the Iasi Open in Romania.,In a match moved back from Sunday due to rain, Sherif was up 6-4, 4-0 when Badosa was forced to bow out due to injury after 70 minutes.,Sherif, 30, to...