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MLB roundup: Framber Valdez fans 9 as Tigers win 5th straight
Framber Valdez threw seven innings of one-run ball to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 4-1 win over the visiting Athletics on Thursday night., ,Valdez (5-6) retired the first 11 hitters he faced and allowed just three hits, struck out nine and issued no walks in a dominant performance. Jake Rogers, Zach...
MLB roundup: Jays' Dylan Cease loses no-hit bid in 9th vs. Giants
Dylan Cease came within three outs of becoming the first Toronto Blue Jay in 36 years to throw a no-hitter, striking out 11 in a 10-0 road victory over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday.,Kazuma Okamoto capped a five-run first inning with a grand slam and center fielder Daulton Varsho prevented a...
MLB roundup: Royals' Tyler Tolbert equals record with 12 straight hits
Tyler Tolbert tied the major league record with hits in 12 consecutive plate appearances, helping the visiting Kansas City Royals storm back to beat the New York Mets 16-12 on Tuesday in the opener of a three-game interleague series.,Tolbert finished 5-for-6 with a two-run homer for the Royals, who ...
MLB roundup: Mets nip Braves in 11 to split 4-game series
Luis Torrens hit a tiebreaking two-out double in the 10th inning and the visiting New York Mets hung on to defeat the Atlanta Braves 7-6 on Monday and earn a split of their four-game series.,Torrens came through against Owen Murphy (0-1), who was making his major league debut, stroking a double just...
MLB roundup: Marlins ride Eury Perez's 7 perfect innings to wild win over A's
Eury Perez dominated with seven perfect innings and the Miami Marlins slugged four homers before holding on for a wild 9-8 victory over the Athletics to complete a three-game sweep Sunday at West Sacramento, Calif.,The Marlins immediately lost the perfect game and no-hitter in the eighth inning once...
MLB roundup: Rockies' Jake McCarthy socks leadoff homer, grand slam
Jake McCarthy hit the first pitch of the home half of the first inning for a home run and later added a grand slam, propelling the Colorado Rockies to a 15-3 shellacking of the San Francisco Giants in the opener of a three-game series Friday night in Denver.,McCarthy finished with four hits and a ca...
MLB roundup: Bryce Miller, Mariners blank Angels to complete sweep
Bryce Miller took a no-hitter into the seventh inning as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Los Angeles Angels 1-0 on Thursday to complete a three-game sweep of their American League West rivals.,Cal Raleigh drew a bases-loaded walk off Angels starter Walbert Urena (5-7) with two outs in the...
MLB roundup: Cubs belt 8 homers, pound Padres 23-3
Dansby Swanson hit three home runs and Michael Conforto hit two as the host Chicago Cubs hammered the San Diego Padres 23-3 on Wednesday.,The Cubs, who had not hit more than three homers in a game all season heading into the series, hit five on Tuesday in a 9-7 win and eight on Wednesday to sweep th...
MLB roundup: Dodgers' Dave Roberts becomes fastest to 1,000 wins
Tommy Edman had four hits, including a homer, and drove in four while manager Dave Roberts recorded his 1,000th career regular-season victory as the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Athletics 9-3 on Tuesday in West Sacramento, Calif.,Roberts, who is in his 11th season, became the fourth manager in Dod...
MLB roundup: Surging Cubs top Padres on Seiya Suzuki's walk-off single
Seiya Suzuki's two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning Monday night lifted the Chicago Cubs to a 3-2 win over the visiting San Diego Padres.,Dansby Swanson started the winning rally with an infield single against Jason Adam (2-2). ,Trent Thornton (3-2) worked around a one-out infield hi...
MLB roundup: Red Sox rally in 10th, complete 4-game sweep of Yanks
Jarren Duran's single to right drove in Masataka Yoshida with the game-winning run as the Boston Red Sox survived a comeback by their rivals and completed a four-game sweep of the visiting New York Yankees with a 5-4 victory on Sunday night.,Duran capped a three-run 10th inning that included an RBI ...
MLB roundup: Hunter Goodman socks 3 homers as Rockies top Twins
Hunter Goodman hit a career-best three home runs and tallied five RBIs, leading the Colorado Rockies to an 8-5 win over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday in Minneapolis.,Kyle Karros added a two-run homer and Jake McCarthy finished 2-for-5 with a triple and two runs for the Rockies, who have alternated...
ATP roundup: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina wins 1st title at Mallorca
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina claimed his first ATP Tour title with a 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory against Ethan Quinn on Saturday at the Mallorca Championships.,The second-seeded Spaniard became the first home champion in the grass-court tournament's six-year history. It was the 27-year-old Davidovich Fokina...
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina wins 1st title at Mallorca
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina claimed his first ATP Tour title with a 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory against Ethan Quinn on Saturday at the Mallorca Championships.,The second-seeded Spaniard became the first home champion in the grass-court tournament's six-year history. It was the 27-year-old Davidovich Fokina...
Madison Keys in rare company as 3-time Eastbourne champ
Madison Keys joined an exclusive club on Saturday by defeating Germany's Tatjana Maria 7-5, 6-4 to claim her third Eastbourne Open championship in the United Kingdom.,The second-seeded American, who won the grass-court title here in 2014 and 2023, joined legends Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova a...
MLB roundup: White Sox pound out 23 hits for 22 runs, crush Royals
Miguel Vargas and Jacob Gonzalez each hit three-run homers in an epic, 10-run third inning, Chicago's best this season, and the White Sox demolished the visiting Kansas City Royals 22-1 on Friday night.,Tristan Peters popped a grand slam and posted six RBIs, and Kyle Teel (three RBIs) and Andrew Ben...
WTA roundup: Naomi Osaka advances to Bad Homburg finals
No. 6 seed Naomi Osaka of Japan needed just 70 minutes to defeat China's Xinyu Wang 6-3, 6-3 Friday to advance to the finals of the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.,Osaka had eight aces and converted 23 of 29 first-serve points (79.3%). In the finals, Osaka will meet Czech No. 4 seed Karolina Muchova, w...
ATP roundup: Ugo Humbert celebrates birthday with semifinal win at Eastbourne
Sixth-seeded Ugo Humbert of France had five aces and saved all four break points he faced while posting a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Brit Jack Draper on Friday to reach the finals of the Lexus Eastbourne Open in England.,Humbert, who turned 28 on Friday, was serenaded with a rendition of "Happy Birthday"...
MLB roundup: Rays take no-no into 9th, Junior Caminero hits 3 HRs
Junior Caminero recorded his first career three-homer performance and the Tampa Bay Rays carried a no-hit bid into the ninth inning of a 13-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Thursday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Fla.,Ian Seymour (4-1) struck out seven batters and walked one over 6 2/3 innings...
WTA roundup: Emma Navarro knocks off Iga Swiatek at Bad Homburg
Emma Navarro controlled the final set on Wednesday to finish off a 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 victory over top-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland to reach the quarterfinals of the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.,Navarro won 18 of 23 (78.3%) first-serve points and saved all three break points in the third set to defeat Sw...