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MLB roundup: Tigers clinch wild card, White Sox set loss record
Matt Vierling and Riley Greene each drove in a run as the host Detroit Tigers clinched their first playoff berth in 10 seasons with a 4-1 win over the Chicago White Sox on Friday night.,The White Sox (39-121) set the modern-day record for most losses in a single season, surpassing the expansion 1962...
MLB roundup: Yankees, Dodgers clinch division titles
MLB roundup: Thursday,Behind the latest long ball from major league home run leader Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees wrapped up the American League East championship by blowing out the visiting Baltimore Orioles 10-1 on Thursday.,Judge socked his 58th homer of the year, extending his streak by home...
MLB roundup: A's say goodbye to Oakland with win
J.T. Ginn recorded his first major league win, Mason Miller threw the Athletics' final pitch in their Oakland Coliseum history, and the A's completed their home schedule with a 3-2 win over the Texas Rangers on Thursday afternoon.,On a celebrity-filled day in which Rickey Henderson and Dave Stewart ...
MLB roundup: Phillies top Cubs, clinch first-round bye
Brandon Marsh hit a three-run double, Nick Castellanos and Bryson Stott each collected three hits, and the Philadelphia Phillies topped the visiting Chicago Cubs 9-6 on Wednesday.,Castellanos, Trea Turner and Kody Clemens homered for Philadelphia (94-65), which clinched a first-round bye in the Nati...
MLB roundup: Triple play sends Padres to postseason
Jake Cronenworth hit a two-run home run and helped turn an around-the-horn triple play to end the game as the visiting San Diego Padres clinched a spot in the National League playoffs with a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday.,Cronenworth had two hits and three RBIs as the Padres se...
ATP roundup: Chinese teen Juncheng Shang prevails in Chengdu
Chinese 19-year-old Juncheng Shang downed No. 1 seed Lorenzo Musetti of Italy to complete a memorable run to his first ATP title at the Chengdu Open in his home country Tuesday.,Shang hit five aces without a double fault and had a 21-12 edge in winners while Musetti committed 31 double faults. Shang...
MLB roundup: Shohei Ohtani makes history as Dodgers clinch playoffs
Shohei Ohtani became the first player in MLB history to reach 50 home runs and 50 steals in the same season as his Los Angeles Dodgers clinched a playoff berth with a 20-4 beatdown of the host Miami Marlins on Thursday afternoon.,Ohtani went 6-for-6 with 10 RBIs, three homers, two doubles, two steal...
MLB roundup: Brewers win NL Central, then walk off Phillies
Jake Bauers lined a bases-loaded, walk-off single in the ninth inning, giving Milwaukee a 2-1 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies in the finale of a three-game series between division leaders after the Brewers clinched the National League Central earlier on Wednesday., ,Rookie Jackson Ch...
MLB roundup: Mets edge Nats in 10th for 11th walk-off win
Starling Marte hit a game-ending single with one out in the 10th inning as the New York Mets earned a 2-1 victory over the visiting Washington Nationals on Monday.,After Tyrone Taylor was intentionally walked leading off the inning, Francisco Alvarez hit a fly ball to the warning track in right fiel...
Sonay Kartal collects first WTA Tour title in Tunisia
Great British qualifier Sonay Kartal captured her first WTA Tour title on Sunday, defeating Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia 6-3, 7-5 at the Jasmin Open Tunisia in Monastir, Tunisia.,It was the first WTA singles final for both Kartal, ranked No. 151 in the world, and Sramkova, No. 136.,Each player conve...
Top 25 roundup: No. 1 Georgia avoids upset, nips Kentucky 13-12
Trevor Etienne ran for a team-high 79 yards on 19 carries, helping No. 1 Georgia eke out a 13-12 win over Kentucky on Saturday in Lexington, Ky.,Georgia (3-0, 1-0 SEC) won its 42nd straight regular-season game as Carson Beck completed 15 of 24 passes for 160 yards, while Dominic Lovett caught six pa...
WTA roundup: Rebecca Sramkova, Sonay Kartal in Tunisia final
Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia upset No. 7 seed Lucia Bronzetti of Italy 6-3, 6-4 to reach the final of the Jasmin Open Tunisia on Saturday in Monastir, Tunisia.,Sramkova, 27, will face Sonay Kartal of Great Britain, who advanced to Sunday's final when Eva Lys of Germany retired due to illness. The 22...
MLB roundup: Tigers come one out away from no-hitter
The Detroit Tigers came within one out of a combined no-hitter, then held on for a 1-0 win over the visiting Baltimore Orioles on Friday night.,Gunnar Henderson ended the no-hit bid with a triple off Tyler Holton. Kerry Carpenter's first-inning homer accounted for the game's lone run.,Beau Brieske a...
WTA roundup: Camila Osorio battles into Guadalajara semis
Camila Osorio of Colombia fought past Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova 7-6 (6), 6-2 on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Guadalajara Open Akron in Mexico.,The 22-year-old Osorio is the first Colombian player to reach the semis of a WTA 500 event. Rakhimova took a 6-5 lead in a back-and-forth firs...
WTA roundup: Canadian teen upsets top seed in Guadalajara
Top-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia squandered four match points and lost 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (0) to Marina Stakusic in the round of 16 at the Guadalajara Open Akron in Mexico on Thursday.,Ostapenko led 4-0 in the third set, then had a match point on Stakusic's serve while leading 5-4 and three more on ...
WTA roundup: Caroline Garcia reaches Guadalajara quarterfinals
French No. 4 seed Caroline Garcia got past Japan's Ena Shibahara 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Guadalajara Open Akron in Mexico.,Garcia ran out to a 4-1 lead in the first-set tiebreaker before finishing the job. Neither player broke serve in the second set, and Gar...
WTA roundup: France's Clara Burel, Diane Parry fall in Tunisia
Second-seeded Clara Burel and third-seeded Diane Parry, both of France, were the latest upset victims, falling in the second round of the Jasmin Open Tunisia on Wednesday in Monastir, Tunisia.,A day after fourth-seeded Nadia Podoroska and fifth-seeded Jaqueline Cristian were ousted in the first roun...
MLB roundup: Manny Machado becomes Padres' homer king
Manny Machado jumped atop the Padres' all-time home run list as San Diego defeated the host Seattle Mariners 7-3 on Tuesday.,Fernando Tatis Jr. also homered and Yu Darvish earned his first victory since May 19 for the Padres, who snapped a two-game skid. Darvish (5-3) tossed five innings of two-run ...
WTA roundup: Elise Mertens avoids day of upsets in Tunisia
Top seed Elise Mertens cruised to victory, but fourth-seeded Nadia Podoroska and fifth-seeded Jacqueline Cristian were not as fortunate in the first round of the Jasmin Open Tunisia on Tuesday in Monastir, Tunisia.,Belgium's Mertens, ranked No. 32 in the world, posted a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Anastas...
MLB roundup: Red Sox go back-to-back twice
Rob Refsnyder and Tyler O'Neill hit back-to-back home runs in the third inning and did the same in the eighth inning to help the Boston Red Sox defeat the visiting Baltimore Orioles 12-3 on Monday.,By going deep in the first inning off Baltimore starter Cade Povich and in the eighth against Cole Irv...