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As season dwindles, playoff positions at stake at Pocono
For the second straight week, the weekly stop on the NASCAR Cup Series tour produced a first-time winner in 2024, which has further muddled the makeup of the 10-race postseason lineup.,At the Chicago Street Race, hampered by persistent rain for the second straight year, NASCAR resorted to a time clo...
Immaculate or sloppy, White Sox just want another win
Immaculate, by definition, is a far cry from sloppy.,Not so for Chicago White Sox closer Michael Kopech, whose immaculate inning Wednesday was the club's first since Hollis "Sloppy" Thurston on Aug. 23, 1923.,Kopech delivered the majors' first immaculate inning of 2024 -- striking out three batters ...
Boston looks to pull away from KC before break
The Boston Red Sox look to go into the All-Star break on a high note as they begin a three-game home series against the Kansas City Royals on Friday.,A 7-0 win over Oakland on Thursday moved the Red Sox back to 10 games above the .500 mark, was their eighth win in their last 10 games, and secured th...
Tanner Houck, Red Sox win series with shutout of A's
Masataka Yoshida went 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs while Tanner Houck threw six dominant innings as the Boston Red Sox blew past the visiting Oakland Athletics 7-0 on Thursday.,Yoshida hit a two-run single in the first inning and a two-run homer in the sixth, helping Boston win the three-ga...
Lynx looking to continue to right ship against Storm
The Minnesota Lynx were riding high in June. In 11 games, the Lynx lost twice and picked up their first Commissioner's Cup Championship. The start of July was a different story.,After losing their first two games of the month, they travel west Friday night to try to turn what was a two-game losing s...
Veteran G Kyle Lowry back with 76ers one-year deal
Six-time All-Star guard Kyle Lowry is returning to play for his hometown Philadelphia 76ers, he said on Instagram Thursday.,Lowry's new deal with the Sixers is a one-year contract, according to ESPN.,Lowry, 38, signed with Philadelphia midseason after the Miami Heat traded him to the Charlotte Horne...
Mercury look to stay hot, catch Fever on a slide
In search of a season-best fourth straight victory, the Phoenix Mercury begin a three-city road trip on Friday against the Indiana Fever in Indianapolis.,Winners of three in a row, Phoenix (12-10) has matched its longest win streak from May 18-23. Most recently, the Mercury rallied from an early def...
Marcus Semien gets All-Star start in place of injured Jose Altuve
Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien will replace the injured Jose Altuve as a starter in the All-Star Game, while the Minnesota Twins' Willi Castro was added Thursday to the American League roster.,Altuve, the Houston Astros' nine-time All-Star, was elected by fans to start at second base. He...
Athletics on the upswing after snapping skid against Red Sox
The Oakland Athletics take aim at their second straight win and look to claim a series win versus the host Boston Red Sox in the rubber match of their three-game set on Thursday.,Oakland, which is 5-3 in its last eight games, snapped a two-game skid Wednesday with a 5-2 win over Boston. Lawrence But...
Athletics leverage strong third inning to defeat Red Sox
The visiting Oakland Athletics scored three runs in the third inning and added on in the late innings to beat the Boston Red Sox 5-2 on Wednesday.,Lawrence Butler and Max Schuemann each had two hits to lead Oakland, which had lost back-to-back games and three of four.,Butler hit a two-run double in ...
Adolis Garcia, Teoscar Hernandez complete Home Run Derby lineup
Texas Rangers outfielder Adolis Garcia will have home-field advantage when he competes in the Home Run Derby on Monday at Globe Life Field in Arlington.,Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that Garcia, 31, will participate in his second career and consecutive competition. He hit 17 home runs i...
Twins slip past White Sox for split of twin bill
Brooks Lee and Carlos Correa hit back-to-back solo homers in the sixth inning, and Ryan Jeffers drove in the go-head run in the seventh as the Minnesota Twins edged the host Chicago White Sox 3-2 to split a doubleheader on Wednesday.,Chicago took the first game 3-1 as the teams made up a rainout on ...
Rangers' Adolis Garcia enters Home Run Derby
Texas Rangers outfielder Adolis Garcia will have home-field advantage when he competes in the Home Run Derby on Monday at Globe Life Field in Arlington.,Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that Garcia, 31, will participate in his second career and consecutive competition. He hit 17 home runs i...
Luis Robert's two-run shot lifts White Sox over Twins in Game 1
Luis Robert smacked a two-run home run and Erick Fedde pitched five shutout innings to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 3-1 win against the visiting Minnesota Twins on Wednesday in the opener of a doubleheader.,Chicago made the most of four hits to stop a three-game losing streak and defeat Minnesota...
Sixers sign 16-year veteran G Eric Gordon
The Philadelphia 76ers announced the signing of 16-year veteran Eric Gordon on Wednesday.,Terms of the deal with the 35-year-old shooting guard were not disclosed.,Gordon averaged 11.0 points and shot 37.8 percent from 3-point range in 68 games (24 starts) for the Phoenix Suns in 2023-24.,"Eric is a...
Bubba Wallace fined $50K for hitting Alex Bowman after race
Bubba Wallace was fined $50,000 by NASCAR on Wednesday for an on-track infraction following Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at the Chicago Street Course.,He was fined for driving Alex Bowman into the wall during the cool-down lap. The post-race issue came on the heels of a Lap 25 incident in which B...
Novak Djokovic in Wimbledon semis after Alex de Minaur WDs
Novak Djokovic advanced into his record-tying 13th semifinal Wimbledon after Alex de Minaur of Australia withdrew due to a hip injury on Wednesday.,Scheduled to face Djokovic on the quarterfinals, de Minaur admitted that he injured his hip in the closing stages of his 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 win over Art...
Red Sox look to remain 'greedy' in rematch vs. Athletics
The Boston Red Sox will look to keep swinging hot bats when they continue a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday night.,In a 12-9 win Tuesday in the series opener, Boston finished with 13 hits and scored 11 runs over the first two innings. The 12-run outburst was punctuated b...
Hard-hitting Matt Wallner, Twins ready for twin bill vs. White Sox
Advanced metrics show that Minnesota Twins outfielder Matt Wallner smacked his team's two hardest-hit balls of the season over the past two games.,"He's a large man with a good swing," Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said of Wallner.,However, Mother Nature kept Wallner, his teammates and the host White...
Red Sox use eight-run 2nd to power past A's
Wilyer Abreu had four RBIs and Brayan Bello struck out a career-high 11 in 5 1/3 innings as the Boston Red Sox beat the visiting Oakland Athletics 12-9 on Tuesday to open a three-game series.,Abreu crushed a three-run home run before Dominic Smith followed with a solo shot to highlight Boston's eigh...