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(Originally Uploaded: May 25, 2023) On this episode, Christopher discusses some recent roster moves and injury updates before analyzing the performances of Chase Anderson, Karl Kauffmann, Nick Mears, Harold Castro, and Alan Trejo thus far in 2023. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thasecond/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thasecond/support
This week, Skyler and Evan discuss the Colorado Rockies agreeing to an extension with pitcher Germán Márquez that will keep him with the team through his Tommy John surgery recovery and through the 2025 season. What does it mean for both Germán and for the team? Meanwhile, Victor Vodnik has been called up to make his big league debut, Hunter Goodman has been impressive, and Elehuris Montero seems to finally be finding his way at the plate... but Harold Castro is still here despite Cole Tucker being called up at the cost of Coco Montes being exposed to waivers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this episode, Christopher discusses some recent roster moves and injury updates before analyzing the performances of Chase Anderson, Karl Kauffmann, Nick Mears, Harold Castro, and Alan Trejo thus far in 2023. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adjustingforaltitude/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adjustingforaltitude/support
Colorado Rockies add Mike Moustakas, Harold Castro and Ty Blach to the 40-man roster as Brendan Rodgers, Sean Bouchard and Ryan Rolison are officially moved to the 60-day IL. Elehuris Montero won an important award, but will Moose be starting at third base on Opening Day? Will Kyle Freeland be ready to pitch Game 2 in San Diego? And where is Jurickson Profar right now? The DNVR Rockies Podcast celebrates Minor League Monday with an explosive new alternate identity for the Eugene Emeralds and continues the Player Preview Series with Kris Bryant, Profar and Yonathan Daza. 8 Questions in need of answers for 2023 Colorado Rockies by Patrick Lyons WATCH YOUR FAVORITE TEAMS HERE: www.fubotv.com/dnvr BUY ROCKIES TICKETS HERE: https://gametime.hnyj8s.net/c/3442941... PARTY WITH US: http://bit.ly/3D9aqH1 ALL THINGS DNVR: https://linktr.ee/dnvrsports SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/DNVR_Sports Rotowire: Get your free trial and unlock all the best fantasy sports news and analysis at https://rotowire.com/dnvr Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. Just visit https://athleticgreens.com/rockies and enter promo code “Rockies” Use Code: DNVR for 50% off 2 or more pairs of polarized sunglasses at https://ShadyRays.com Visit https://jivehyve.com and get your order delivered today! Check out pinsandaces.com and use code DNVR to receive 15% off your first order and get free shipping. Roman: Go to https://ro.co/DNVR today to get 20% off your entire first order. Visit https://dkng.co/DNVR to sign up for DraftKings Sportsbook using the code “DNVR” Gambling Problem? Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (CO/IL/IN/LA/MD/MI/NJ/OH/PA/TN/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (KS/NH), 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), visit OPGR.org (OR), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/KS/LA(select parishes)/MD/MI /NJ/ NY/OH/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. VOID IN ONT. Eligibility restrictions apply. BONUS bets: Valid 1 per new customer. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 bet. $200 issued as bonus bets that expire 7 days (168 hours) after being awarded. See terms at sportsbook.draftkings.com/basketballlterms. When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Skyler and Evan are joined by Kenneth Weber to discuss the injuries of Brendan Rodgers and Lucas Gilbreath. The Colorado Rockies have signed Mike Moustakas to a minor league deal as they look to determine how to fill the gap left by Rodgers, and have signed LHP Brad Hand for the bullpen. Meanwhile, is the battle for the utility position between Cole Tucker and Harold Castro overlooking Alan Trejo? We also look at how key players Kris Bryant and Germán Márquez are doing so far in the desert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Colorado Rockies have the most explosive offense in Spring Training right thanks to the likes of Kris Bryant, Ryan McMahon, Zac Veen, Elias Díaz and Harold Castro. Manager Bud Black is pushing all the right buttons early and late in these Cactus League contests. The biggest question: what does this success mean for the NL West this year and for the future of the franchise? DNVR Rockies Podcast crew is welcomed by Kenneth Weber of Purple Row who shares his expertise on the new faces in camp at Salt River Fields. Banter From The Bench: Ryan McMahon is a crusty, old veteran at 28 years old by Patrick Lyons Minor League Season Preview: Fresno Grizzlies by Kenneth Weber BUY ROCKIES TICKETS HERE: https://gametime.hnyj8s.net/c/3442941... PARTY WITH US: http://bit.ly/3D9aqH1 ALL THINGS DNVR: https://linktr.ee/dnvrsports SUBSCRIBE: / dnvr_sports Breck Brew Ultimate Gameday Experience: https://thednvr.com/brecksweeps/ Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. Just visit https://athleticgreens.com/rockies and enter promo code “Rockies” Use Code: DNVR for 50% off 2 or more pairs at https://ShadyRays.com - Buy One, Get One Free. Visit https://jivehyve.com and get your order delivered today! Check out pinsandaces.com and use code DNVR to receive 15% off your first order and get free shipping. Roman: Go to https://ro.co/DNVR today to get 20% off your entire first order. Visit https://dkng.co/DNVR to sign up for DraftKings Sportsbook using the code “DNVR” Gambling Problem? Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (CO/IL/IN/LA/MD/MI/NJ/OH/PA/TN/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (KS/NH), 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), visit OPGR.org (OR), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/KS/LA(select parishes)/MD/MI /NJ/ NY/OH/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. VOID IN ONT. Eligibility restrictions apply. BONUS bets: Valid 1 per new customer. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 bet. $200 issued as bonus bets that expire 7 days (168 hours) after being awarded. See terms at sportsbook.draftkings.com/basketballlterms. When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In our Twitter Space recording, we cover all things minor leagues! International signings to BSB Top 35 preview. We discuss Jason Hinchmann, Connor Seabold, Phillips Valdez, Jordy Varags, Jaden Hill, Jordan Beck, Harold Castro, Warming Bernabel, Nolan Jones, Case Williams and more. Get your prospect fix here and join us next time! Use https://linktr.ee/blakestreetbanter to find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and listen to the Podcast on Apple iTunes --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blake-street-banter/message
En este episodio hablamos sobre la victoria de los leones del caracas sobre los tiburones de la guaira para quedar campeones de la #LVBP. Excelente trabajo de ambos equipos, pero al final Harold Castro con home run en el 11vo inning para dejar en el terreno a los tiburones. Isias Tejeda gana el premio Robert Pérez o MVP. Los Leones del Caracas logran su título número 21 y se dirigen a la serie del caribe a representar a Venezuela. Los equipos que participaran en la serie del caribe son los siguientes: Colombia: Vaqueros de Montería Cuba: Agricultores Curazao: WildCats KJ74 México: Cañeros de Los Mochis Panamá: Federales de Chiriquí Puerto Rico: Indios de Mayagüez República Dominicana: Tigres del Licey Venezuela: Leones del Caracas En otras noticias, los Leones del Caracas pudieran estar cambiando de casa y mudándose al estadio de la rinconada "Simón Bolívar" ¿qué debería hacer la guaira? Quedarse en la UCV, mudarse definitivamente a macuto o irse a la rinconada junto con el caracas. Escúchanos en Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/60xq1Kx... Escúchanos en Anchor: https://anchor.fm/to-the-show-podcast ¡Síguenos en nuestras redes! Instagram: totheshowpod Tik Tok: toteshowpod Twitter: totheshowpod #lvbp, leones del caracas, navegantes del magallanes, tiburones de la guaira, tigres de aragua, cardenales de lara #seriedelcaribe
Today we discuss the end of the Jeimer Candelario, Willi Castro, and Harold Castro era for the Detroit Tigers. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! SimpliSafe With Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnMLB to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today we discuss the end of the Jeimer Candelario, Willi Castro, and Harold Castro era for the Detroit Tigers.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!SimpliSafeWith Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnMLB to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today we discuss Willi and Harold Castro. We talk about where their value has been within the organization so far in their career's and what the odds are that they're a part of the Detroit Tigers going forward. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! SimpliSafe With Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnMLB to learn more. Rhone The Commuter Shirt can get you through any work day and straight into whatever comes next. Head to rhone.com/LOCKEDON and use promo code LOCKEDON to save 20% off your entire order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today we discuss Willi and Harold Castro. We talk about where their value has been within the organization so far in their career's and what the odds are that they're a part of the Detroit Tigers going forward.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!SimpliSafeWith Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnMLB to learn more.RhoneThe Commuter Shirt can get you through any work day and straight into whatever comes next. Head to rhone.com/LOCKEDON and use promo code LOCKEDON to save 20% off your entire order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Turning The Corner: A show about the Detroit Tigers with Cody Stavenhagen & Kieran Steckley
The 2022 Detroit Tigers season nears its end. The Athletic's Cody Stavenhagen and co-host Kieran Steckley recap the good, the bad and the ugly. Other topics include Harold Castro and Matt Manning. Follow on Twitter @CodyStavenhagen, @Kieran_Steckley and @TurnCornerPod. Please subscribe, rate and review.
On The Wire - Adam Howe and Kevin Hasting are joined by special guest Dennis Timko to break down the final FAAB run of the 2022 season. We hit on news of the week that may impact your FAAB considerations as well as looking talking to Dennis about his success in the On The Wire Listener Leagues this season. Players discussed: Tony Gonsolin, Joey Wendle, Avisaíl García, Jesús Sánchez, Matt Carpenter, Juan Yepez, Sam Huff, Harold Castro, Michael Lorenzen, Aaron Civale, Nathan Eovaldi, Rich Hill, Davis Martin, Dean Kremer, Manuel Rodríguez, Scott Effross, Francisco Álvarez Hosts: Adam Howe | Kevin Hasting Guest: Dennis Timko | SLARF (Earth) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | RSS Connect: Twitter | OnTheWirePod@gmail.com | Join PL+Get PL+ and join our community: https://www.pitcherlist.com/plus
On The Wire - Adam Howe and Kevin Hasting are joined by special guest Dennis Timko to break down the final FAAB run of the 2022 season. We hit on news of the week that may impact your FAAB considerations as well as looking talking to Dennis about his success in the On The Wire Listener Leagues this season. Players discussed: Tony Gonsolin, Joey Wendle, Avisaíl García, Jesús Sánchez, Matt Carpenter, Juan Yepez, Sam Huff, Harold Castro, Michael Lorenzen, Aaron Civale, Nathan Eovaldi, Rich Hill, Davis Martin, Dean Kremer, Manuel Rodríguez, Scott Effross, Francisco Álvarez Hosts: Adam Howe | Kevin Hasting Guest: Dennis Timko | SLARF (Earth) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | RSS Connect: Twitter | OnTheWirePod@gmail.com | Join PL+Get PL+ and join our Discord: https://pitcherlist.com/plus
On The Wire - Adam Howe and Kevin Hasting are joined by special guest Dennis Timko to break down the final FAAB run of the 2022 season. We hit on news of the week that may impact your FAAB considerations as well as looking talking to Dennis about his success in the On The Wire Listener Leagues this season. Players discussed: Tony Gonsolin, Joey Wendle, Avisaíl García, Jesús Sánchez, Matt Carpenter, Juan Yepez, Sam Huff, Harold Castro, Michael Lorenzen, Aaron Civale, Nathan Eovaldi, Rich Hill, Davis Martin, Dean Kremer, Manuel Rodríguez, Scott Effross, Francisco Álvarez Hosts: Adam Howe | Kevin Hasting Guest: Dennis Timko | SLARF (Earth) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | RSS Connect: Twitter | OnTheWirePod@gmail.com | Join PL+Get PL+ and join our Discord: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Join: PL+ | PL ProProud member of the Pitcher List Podcast Network
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 4, Kansas City Royals 3 – 10 Innings Minnesota Twins 4, Chicago White Sox 0 Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia Phillies 1 Tigers 4, Royals 3 – Castro has 2 late singles, Tigers beat Royals 4-3 in 10 Harold Castro singled in the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning after tying it with a two-run single in the eighth in the Detroit Tigers’ 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Tucker Barnhart bunted pinch-runner Ryan Kreidler to third and Anthony Misiewicz (3-2) intentionally walked pinch-hitter Eric Haase. Riley Greene struck out, and the Royals decided to walk Javy Báez to pitch to Castro with the bases loaded. He hit a soft grounder up the middle to win it. In the top of the 10th, Alex Lange (6-4) retired Salvador Perez before getting Vinnie Pasquatino to bounce into an inning-ending double play. Twins 4, White Sox 0 – Wallner, Ober highlight Twins’ 4-0 victory over White Sox Matt Wallner hit a two-run homer, Bailey Ober had a career-high 10 strikeouts and the Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 4-0 on Wednesday night. Ober (2-3) threw a career-high 7 1/3 innings, allowing just two hits. Wallner, the rookie outfielder from nearby Forest Lake, hit a towering homer in the sixth inning. It was his second homer in his 11th career game and first at home. Jose Miranda added three hits for Minnesota. Lance Lynn (7-7) gave up four runs on 10 hits in five-plus innings for Chicago. White Sox interim manager Miguel Cairo was ejected following Wallner’s homer. Cubs 2, Phillies 1 – Stroman, Gomes power Cubs past struggling Phillies 2-1 Marcus Stroman pitched seven innings of four-hit ball, and Yan Gomes hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning, lifting the Chicago Cubs to a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies’ magic number to clinch a National League playoff berth is stalled at eight after their third straight loss. The Cubs won for the sixth time in seven games. Stroman (5-7) struck out six and lowered his ERA to 2.50 over his last six starts and 2.74 over his last 15. Ian Happ led off the seventh with a single through the middle of the infield off Connor Brogdon. With two out, Gomes poked a double into the right field corner, scoring Happ. Tonight Kansas City (Lynch 4-11) at Detroit (Manning 2-3), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Chicago White Sox (Cueto 7-9) at Minnesota (Winder 4-5), 7:40 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 10-12) at Chicago Cubs (Wesneski 2-1), 7:40 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League – Preseason Last Night Detroit Red Wings 6, Pittsburgh Penguins 2 St. Louis Blues 4, Chicago Blackhawks 1 Tonight Chicago Blackhawks at Detroit Red Wings, 7:30 p.m. NBA – Bulls PG Ball says ahead of knee surgery he can’t run, jump Chicago Bulls point guard Lonzo Ball says he can’t run at full speed or jump and still experiences pain in his left knee walking up stairs. Ball spoke ahead of his scheduled surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The team said last week he would undergo an arthroscopic debridement and be re-evaluated in four to six weeks. Ball says doctors are “going in there to see” exactly what the extent of the injury is and fix it. He did not have a timeframe for his recovery, though he expects to play this season. The operation will be Ball’s second on the knee in less than a year and third since he entered the NBA with the Lakers in 2017. NFL – Bears place receiver Pringle on IR because of calf injury Chicago Bears receiver Byron Pringle will miss at least four games because of a calf injury after the team placed him on injured reserve on Tuesday. Pringle left in the first quarter of Sunday’s win over the Houston Texans, after catching one pass for 11 yards. He has two receptions for 33 yards after signing with Chicago in the offseason. Chicago visits the New York Giants this week. NCAAFB – CFP expansion talks head toward October after 7-hour meeting The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff have met for almost seven hours to work on expanding the postseason system from four to 12 teams as soon as the 2024 season. There is still much work to be done. CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock says “We will not wrap up this week.” The CFP management committee is scheduled to convene again at the Big Ten offices for a few hours Wednesday morning. They are set to meet again in person in Dallas on Oct. 20. Expansion talks were revived by the university presidents and chancellors who oversee the College Football Playoff last month. NCAAFB – Florida schools, South Carolina move home games ahead of Ian Florida, South Carolina and South Florida are taking steps to salvage home football games as Hurricane Ian approaches. The Gators moved their game against Eastern Washington from Saturday to Sunday just before a slate of NFL games begin. The Gamecocks will host South Carolina State on Thursday night, two days earlier than previously scheduled. And the Bulls relocated their Saturday game against East Carolina from Tampa, Florida, to Boca Raton. Stetson canceled its home game scheduled for Saturday against San Diego. No. 23 Florida State and 22nd-ranked Wake Forest, meanwhile, are “closely monitoring” the storm and hoping to play as planned Saturday in Tallahassee. NCAAMBKB – NCAA puts Memphis on 3 years’ probation, no tourney ban The NCAA put Memphis on three years of probation with a public reprimand and a fine while declining to punish Tigers coach Penny Hardaway or hand down an NCAA Tournament ban. The Independent Accountability Review Panel issued only its second decision Tuesday, with cases involving Louisiana State, Arizona, Kansas and Louisville still on the group’s docket. The IARP ruled that Memphis failed to monitor Hardaway as an athletics booster, provided impermissible benefits and other benefits to recruits. The panel also ruled that Memphis failed to cooperate with the investigation by delaying handing over requested documents. NASCAR – Kurt Busch hopeful he can return from concussion this year Kurt Busch says he remains “hopeful” he will recover from a concussion in time to return to competition before the end of the NASCAR season. The 2004 Cup champion has been sidelined since he crashed July 23rd during qualifying at Pocono Raceway. He’s so far missed 10 races and withdrew his eligibility to participate in the playoffs. There are six races remaining this season. NASCAR – William Byron penalized for hit on Hamlin that NASCAR missed NASCAR has docked William Byron 25 points and fined him $50,000 for deliberately spinning championship rival Denny Hamlin in a retaliatory move missed by scoring officials. The penalty dropped Byron to eight points below the cutline heading into Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. The Hendrick Motorsports driver had been 17 points to the good, and third in the standings, before the penalty. NASCAR admitted it did not see Byron hiting Hamlin during Sunday’s race at Texas. Meanwhile, NASCAR also fined Ty Gibbs $75,000 and docked 23XI Racing 25 owner points for hitting Ty Dillon on pit road while in close proximity of race personnel. FIFA – US World Cup worries grow, 0-0 draw vs Saudis in last tuneup The United States ended its World Cup tuneup matches in unimpressive fashion, playing a 0-0 draw against Saudi Arabia at Murcia, Spain. Oft-injured Gio Reyna left in the 30th minute because of muscle tightness. Christian Pulisic returned to the depleted U.S. lineup after missing Friday’s 2-0 loss to No. 24 Japan with an unspecified injury. That was one of four lineup changes by U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter. Ricardo Pepi was inserted at forward in a final audition for the 26-man World Cup roster. But he had a team-low 13 touches and no shots against the 53rd-ranked Saudis before Jesús Ferreira replaced him in the 59th minute. Golf – LIV/PGA – Mickelson asks to remove name from lawsuit against PGA Tour Phil Mickelson and three other LIV Golf players have asked a federal judge to remove their names from the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour. Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Ian Poulter filed separately to have their names removed from the lawsuit. That leaves only three players and Saudi-funded LIV Golf as plaintiffs. The players are Bryson DeChambeau, Peter Uihlein and Matt Jones. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in January of 2024. Mickelson has been the driving force among PGA Tour players in getting the Saudi-funded rival league going. MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Last Night Women’s Volleyball Lake Michigan College 3, Kellogg Community College 1 Glen Oaks Community College 3, Southwestern Michigan College 1 Today Women’s Soccer Kellogg Community College at Lake Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 3, Lakeshore 1 Dowagiac 4, Berrien Springs 0 Parchment 3, Bridgman 2 Mattawan 8, Battle Creek Central 0 Gull Lake 6, Kalamazoo Central 0 Portage Central 1, Battle Creek Lakeview 1 – TIE Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 3, Portage Northern 1 Volleyball Mishawka (IN) 3, Niles 0 Centreville 3, Mendon 0 Girls Swimming and Diving Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 107, Bridgman Co-Op 78 Boys Tennis St. Joseph 5, Vicksburg 1 (2 Matches suspended by rain) Today Volleyball Mattawan at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Lakeshore at Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at River Valley, 6:00 p.m. Eau Claire at New Buffalo, 6:00 p.m. Gull Lake at Portage Northern, 6:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Battle Creek Lakeview, 6:30 p.m. Boys Soccer Our Lady of the Lake at Michigan Lutheran, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Hackett at South Haven, 5:30 p.m. Edwardsburg at Niles, 6:30 p.m. Plainwell at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Sturgis at Vicksburg, 6:30 p.m. New Buffalo at Comstock, 5:30 p.m. Cassopolis at Bangor, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Hartford, 5:00 p.m. Constantine at Allegan, 6:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Watervliet, 5:30 p.m. Parchment at Holland Black River, 5:00 p.m. Girls Golf SMAC Conference at Stonehedge North, 9:00 p.m. (Gull Lake host)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 4, Kansas City Royals 3 – 10 Innings Minnesota Twins 4, Chicago White Sox 0 Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia Phillies 1 Tigers 4, Royals 3 – Castro has 2 late singles, Tigers beat Royals 4-3 in 10 Harold Castro singled in the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning after tying it with a two-run single in the eighth in the Detroit Tigers’ 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Tucker Barnhart bunted pinch-runner Ryan Kreidler to third and Anthony Misiewicz (3-2) intentionally walked pinch-hitter Eric Haase. Riley Greene struck out, and the Royals decided to walk Javy Báez to pitch to Castro with the bases loaded. He hit a soft grounder up the middle to win it. In the top of the 10th, Alex Lange (6-4) retired Salvador Perez before getting Vinnie Pasquatino to bounce into an inning-ending double play. Twins 4, White Sox 0 – Wallner, Ober highlight Twins’ 4-0 victory over White Sox Matt Wallner hit a two-run homer, Bailey Ober had a career-high 10 strikeouts and the Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 4-0 on Wednesday night. Ober (2-3) threw a career-high 7 1/3 innings, allowing just two hits. Wallner, the rookie outfielder from nearby Forest Lake, hit a towering homer in the sixth inning. It was his second homer in his 11th career game and first at home. Jose Miranda added three hits for Minnesota. Lance Lynn (7-7) gave up four runs on 10 hits in five-plus innings for Chicago. White Sox interim manager Miguel Cairo was ejected following Wallner’s homer. Cubs 2, Phillies 1 – Stroman, Gomes power Cubs past struggling Phillies 2-1 Marcus Stroman pitched seven innings of four-hit ball, and Yan Gomes hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning, lifting the Chicago Cubs to a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies’ magic number to clinch a National League playoff berth is stalled at eight after their third straight loss. The Cubs won for the sixth time in seven games. Stroman (5-7) struck out six and lowered his ERA to 2.50 over his last six starts and 2.74 over his last 15. Ian Happ led off the seventh with a single through the middle of the infield off Connor Brogdon. With two out, Gomes poked a double into the right field corner, scoring Happ. Tonight Kansas City (Lynch 4-11) at Detroit (Manning 2-3), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Chicago White Sox (Cueto 7-9) at Minnesota (Winder 4-5), 7:40 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 10-12) at Chicago Cubs (Wesneski 2-1), 7:40 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League – Preseason Last Night Detroit Red Wings 6, Pittsburgh Penguins 2 St. Louis Blues 4, Chicago Blackhawks 1 Tonight Chicago Blackhawks at Detroit Red Wings, 7:30 p.m. NBA – Bulls PG Ball says ahead of knee surgery he can’t run, jump Chicago Bulls point guard Lonzo Ball says he can’t run at full speed or jump and still experiences pain in his left knee walking up stairs. Ball spoke ahead of his scheduled surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The team said last week he would undergo an arthroscopic debridement and be re-evaluated in four to six weeks. Ball says doctors are “going in there to see” exactly what the extent of the injury is and fix it. He did not have a timeframe for his recovery, though he expects to play this season. The operation will be Ball’s second on the knee in less than a year and third since he entered the NBA with the Lakers in 2017. NFL – Bears place receiver Pringle on IR because of calf injury Chicago Bears receiver Byron Pringle will miss at least four games because of a calf injury after the team placed him on injured reserve on Tuesday. Pringle left in the first quarter of Sunday’s win over the Houston Texans, after catching one pass for 11 yards. He has two receptions for 33 yards after signing with Chicago in the offseason. Chicago visits the New York Giants this week. NCAAFB – CFP expansion talks head toward October after 7-hour meeting The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff have met for almost seven hours to work on expanding the postseason system from four to 12 teams as soon as the 2024 season. There is still much work to be done. CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock says “We will not wrap up this week.” The CFP management committee is scheduled to convene again at the Big Ten offices for a few hours Wednesday morning. They are set to meet again in person in Dallas on Oct. 20. Expansion talks were revived by the university presidents and chancellors who oversee the College Football Playoff last month. NCAAFB – Florida schools, South Carolina move home games ahead of Ian Florida, South Carolina and South Florida are taking steps to salvage home football games as Hurricane Ian approaches. The Gators moved their game against Eastern Washington from Saturday to Sunday just before a slate of NFL games begin. The Gamecocks will host South Carolina State on Thursday night, two days earlier than previously scheduled. And the Bulls relocated their Saturday game against East Carolina from Tampa, Florida, to Boca Raton. Stetson canceled its home game scheduled for Saturday against San Diego. No. 23 Florida State and 22nd-ranked Wake Forest, meanwhile, are “closely monitoring” the storm and hoping to play as planned Saturday in Tallahassee. NCAAMBKB – NCAA puts Memphis on 3 years’ probation, no tourney ban The NCAA put Memphis on three years of probation with a public reprimand and a fine while declining to punish Tigers coach Penny Hardaway or hand down an NCAA Tournament ban. The Independent Accountability Review Panel issued only its second decision Tuesday, with cases involving Louisiana State, Arizona, Kansas and Louisville still on the group’s docket. The IARP ruled that Memphis failed to monitor Hardaway as an athletics booster, provided impermissible benefits and other benefits to recruits. The panel also ruled that Memphis failed to cooperate with the investigation by delaying handing over requested documents. NASCAR – Kurt Busch hopeful he can return from concussion this year Kurt Busch says he remains “hopeful” he will recover from a concussion in time to return to competition before the end of the NASCAR season. The 2004 Cup champion has been sidelined since he crashed July 23rd during qualifying at Pocono Raceway. He’s so far missed 10 races and withdrew his eligibility to participate in the playoffs. There are six races remaining this season. NASCAR – William Byron penalized for hit on Hamlin that NASCAR missed NASCAR has docked William Byron 25 points and fined him $50,000 for deliberately spinning championship rival Denny Hamlin in a retaliatory move missed by scoring officials. The penalty dropped Byron to eight points below the cutline heading into Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. The Hendrick Motorsports driver had been 17 points to the good, and third in the standings, before the penalty. NASCAR admitted it did not see Byron hiting Hamlin during Sunday’s race at Texas. Meanwhile, NASCAR also fined Ty Gibbs $75,000 and docked 23XI Racing 25 owner points for hitting Ty Dillon on pit road while in close proximity of race personnel. FIFA – US World Cup worries grow, 0-0 draw vs Saudis in last tuneup The United States ended its World Cup tuneup matches in unimpressive fashion, playing a 0-0 draw against Saudi Arabia at Murcia, Spain. Oft-injured Gio Reyna left in the 30th minute because of muscle tightness. Christian Pulisic returned to the depleted U.S. lineup after missing Friday’s 2-0 loss to No. 24 Japan with an unspecified injury. That was one of four lineup changes by U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter. Ricardo Pepi was inserted at forward in a final audition for the 26-man World Cup roster. But he had a team-low 13 touches and no shots against the 53rd-ranked Saudis before Jesús Ferreira replaced him in the 59th minute. Golf – LIV/PGA – Mickelson asks to remove name from lawsuit against PGA Tour Phil Mickelson and three other LIV Golf players have asked a federal judge to remove their names from the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour. Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Ian Poulter filed separately to have their names removed from the lawsuit. That leaves only three players and Saudi-funded LIV Golf as plaintiffs. The players are Bryson DeChambeau, Peter Uihlein and Matt Jones. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in January of 2024. Mickelson has been the driving force among PGA Tour players in getting the Saudi-funded rival league going. MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Last Night Women’s Volleyball Lake Michigan College 3, Kellogg Community College 1 Glen Oaks Community College 3, Southwestern Michigan College 1 Today Women’s Soccer Kellogg Community College at Lake Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 3, Lakeshore 1 Dowagiac 4, Berrien Springs 0 Parchment 3, Bridgman 2 Mattawan 8, Battle Creek Central 0 Gull Lake 6, Kalamazoo Central 0 Portage Central 1, Battle Creek Lakeview 1 – TIE Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 3, Portage Northern 1 Volleyball Mishawka (IN) 3, Niles 0 Centreville 3, Mendon 0 Girls Swimming and Diving Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 107, Bridgman Co-Op 78 Boys Tennis St. Joseph 5, Vicksburg 1 (2 Matches suspended by rain) Today Volleyball Mattawan at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Lakeshore at Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at River Valley, 6:00 p.m. Eau Claire at New Buffalo, 6:00 p.m. Gull Lake at Portage Northern, 6:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Battle Creek Lakeview, 6:30 p.m. Boys Soccer Our Lady of the Lake at Michigan Lutheran, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Hackett at South Haven, 5:30 p.m. Edwardsburg at Niles, 6:30 p.m. Plainwell at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Sturgis at Vicksburg, 6:30 p.m. New Buffalo at Comstock, 5:30 p.m. Cassopolis at Bangor, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Hartford, 5:00 p.m. Constantine at Allegan, 6:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Watervliet, 5:30 p.m. Parchment at Holland Black River, 5:00 p.m. Girls Golf SMAC Conference at Stonehedge North, 9:00 p.m. (Gull Lake host)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 4, Kansas City Royals 3 – 10 Innings Minnesota Twins 4, Chicago White Sox 0 Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia Phillies 1 Tigers 4, Royals 3 – Castro has 2 late singles, Tigers beat Royals 4-3 in 10 Harold Castro singled in the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning after tying it with a two-run single in the eighth in the Detroit Tigers’ 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Tucker Barnhart bunted pinch-runner Ryan Kreidler to third and Anthony Misiewicz (3-2) intentionally walked pinch-hitter Eric Haase. Riley Greene struck out, and the Royals decided to walk Javy Báez to pitch to Castro with the bases loaded. He hit a soft grounder up the middle to win it. In the top of the 10th, Alex Lange (6-4) retired Salvador Perez before getting Vinnie Pasquatino to bounce into an inning-ending double play. Twins 4, White Sox 0 – Wallner, Ober highlight Twins’ 4-0 victory over White Sox Matt Wallner hit a two-run homer, Bailey Ober had a career-high 10 strikeouts and the Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 4-0 on Wednesday night. Ober (2-3) threw a career-high 7 1/3 innings, allowing just two hits. Wallner, the rookie outfielder from nearby Forest Lake, hit a towering homer in the sixth inning. It was his second homer in his 11th career game and first at home. Jose Miranda added three hits for Minnesota. Lance Lynn (7-7) gave up four runs on 10 hits in five-plus innings for Chicago. White Sox interim manager Miguel Cairo was ejected following Wallner’s homer. Cubs 2, Phillies 1 – Stroman, Gomes power Cubs past struggling Phillies 2-1 Marcus Stroman pitched seven innings of four-hit ball, and Yan Gomes hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning, lifting the Chicago Cubs to a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies’ magic number to clinch a National League playoff berth is stalled at eight after their third straight loss. The Cubs won for the sixth time in seven games. Stroman (5-7) struck out six and lowered his ERA to 2.50 over his last six starts and 2.74 over his last 15. Ian Happ led off the seventh with a single through the middle of the infield off Connor Brogdon. With two out, Gomes poked a double into the right field corner, scoring Happ. Tonight Kansas City (Lynch 4-11) at Detroit (Manning 2-3), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Chicago White Sox (Cueto 7-9) at Minnesota (Winder 4-5), 7:40 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 10-12) at Chicago Cubs (Wesneski 2-1), 7:40 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League – Preseason Last Night Detroit Red Wings 6, Pittsburgh Penguins 2 St. Louis Blues 4, Chicago Blackhawks 1 Tonight Chicago Blackhawks at Detroit Red Wings, 7:30 p.m. NBA – Bulls PG Ball says ahead of knee surgery he can’t run, jump Chicago Bulls point guard Lonzo Ball says he can’t run at full speed or jump and still experiences pain in his left knee walking up stairs. Ball spoke ahead of his scheduled surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The team said last week he would undergo an arthroscopic debridement and be re-evaluated in four to six weeks. Ball says doctors are “going in there to see” exactly what the extent of the injury is and fix it. He did not have a timeframe for his recovery, though he expects to play this season. The operation will be Ball’s second on the knee in less than a year and third since he entered the NBA with the Lakers in 2017. NFL – Bears place receiver Pringle on IR because of calf injury Chicago Bears receiver Byron Pringle will miss at least four games because of a calf injury after the team placed him on injured reserve on Tuesday. Pringle left in the first quarter of Sunday’s win over the Houston Texans, after catching one pass for 11 yards. He has two receptions for 33 yards after signing with Chicago in the offseason. Chicago visits the New York Giants this week. NCAAFB – CFP expansion talks head toward October after 7-hour meeting The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff have met for almost seven hours to work on expanding the postseason system from four to 12 teams as soon as the 2024 season. There is still much work to be done. CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock says “We will not wrap up this week.” The CFP management committee is scheduled to convene again at the Big Ten offices for a few hours Wednesday morning. They are set to meet again in person in Dallas on Oct. 20. Expansion talks were revived by the university presidents and chancellors who oversee the College Football Playoff last month. NCAAFB – Florida schools, South Carolina move home games ahead of Ian Florida, South Carolina and South Florida are taking steps to salvage home football games as Hurricane Ian approaches. The Gators moved their game against Eastern Washington from Saturday to Sunday just before a slate of NFL games begin. The Gamecocks will host South Carolina State on Thursday night, two days earlier than previously scheduled. And the Bulls relocated their Saturday game against East Carolina from Tampa, Florida, to Boca Raton. Stetson canceled its home game scheduled for Saturday against San Diego. No. 23 Florida State and 22nd-ranked Wake Forest, meanwhile, are “closely monitoring” the storm and hoping to play as planned Saturday in Tallahassee. NCAAMBKB – NCAA puts Memphis on 3 years’ probation, no tourney ban The NCAA put Memphis on three years of probation with a public reprimand and a fine while declining to punish Tigers coach Penny Hardaway or hand down an NCAA Tournament ban. The Independent Accountability Review Panel issued only its second decision Tuesday, with cases involving Louisiana State, Arizona, Kansas and Louisville still on the group’s docket. The IARP ruled that Memphis failed to monitor Hardaway as an athletics booster, provided impermissible benefits and other benefits to recruits. The panel also ruled that Memphis failed to cooperate with the investigation by delaying handing over requested documents. NASCAR – Kurt Busch hopeful he can return from concussion this year Kurt Busch says he remains “hopeful” he will recover from a concussion in time to return to competition before the end of the NASCAR season. The 2004 Cup champion has been sidelined since he crashed July 23rd during qualifying at Pocono Raceway. He’s so far missed 10 races and withdrew his eligibility to participate in the playoffs. There are six races remaining this season. NASCAR – William Byron penalized for hit on Hamlin that NASCAR missed NASCAR has docked William Byron 25 points and fined him $50,000 for deliberately spinning championship rival Denny Hamlin in a retaliatory move missed by scoring officials. The penalty dropped Byron to eight points below the cutline heading into Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. The Hendrick Motorsports driver had been 17 points to the good, and third in the standings, before the penalty. NASCAR admitted it did not see Byron hiting Hamlin during Sunday’s race at Texas. Meanwhile, NASCAR also fined Ty Gibbs $75,000 and docked 23XI Racing 25 owner points for hitting Ty Dillon on pit road while in close proximity of race personnel. FIFA – US World Cup worries grow, 0-0 draw vs Saudis in last tuneup The United States ended its World Cup tuneup matches in unimpressive fashion, playing a 0-0 draw against Saudi Arabia at Murcia, Spain. Oft-injured Gio Reyna left in the 30th minute because of muscle tightness. Christian Pulisic returned to the depleted U.S. lineup after missing Friday’s 2-0 loss to No. 24 Japan with an unspecified injury. That was one of four lineup changes by U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter. Ricardo Pepi was inserted at forward in a final audition for the 26-man World Cup roster. But he had a team-low 13 touches and no shots against the 53rd-ranked Saudis before Jesús Ferreira replaced him in the 59th minute. Golf – LIV/PGA – Mickelson asks to remove name from lawsuit against PGA Tour Phil Mickelson and three other LIV Golf players have asked a federal judge to remove their names from the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour. Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Ian Poulter filed separately to have their names removed from the lawsuit. That leaves only three players and Saudi-funded LIV Golf as plaintiffs. The players are Bryson DeChambeau, Peter Uihlein and Matt Jones. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in January of 2024. Mickelson has been the driving force among PGA Tour players in getting the Saudi-funded rival league going. MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Last Night Women’s Volleyball Lake Michigan College 3, Kellogg Community College 1 Glen Oaks Community College 3, Southwestern Michigan College 1 Today Women’s Soccer Kellogg Community College at Lake Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 3, Lakeshore 1 Dowagiac 4, Berrien Springs 0 Parchment 3, Bridgman 2 Mattawan 8, Battle Creek Central 0 Gull Lake 6, Kalamazoo Central 0 Portage Central 1, Battle Creek Lakeview 1 – TIE Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 3, Portage Northern 1 Volleyball Mishawka (IN) 3, Niles 0 Centreville 3, Mendon 0 Girls Swimming and Diving Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 107, Bridgman Co-Op 78 Boys Tennis St. Joseph 5, Vicksburg 1 (2 Matches suspended by rain) Today Volleyball Mattawan at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Lakeshore at Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at River Valley, 6:00 p.m. Eau Claire at New Buffalo, 6:00 p.m. Gull Lake at Portage Northern, 6:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Battle Creek Lakeview, 6:30 p.m. Boys Soccer Our Lady of the Lake at Michigan Lutheran, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Hackett at South Haven, 5:30 p.m. Edwardsburg at Niles, 6:30 p.m. Plainwell at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Sturgis at Vicksburg, 6:30 p.m. New Buffalo at Comstock, 5:30 p.m. Cassopolis at Bangor, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Hartford, 5:00 p.m. Constantine at Allegan, 6:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Watervliet, 5:30 p.m. Parchment at Holland Black River, 5:00 p.m. Girls Golf SMAC Conference at Stonehedge North, 9:00 p.m. (Gull Lake host)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 4, Kansas City Royals 3 – 10 Innings Minnesota Twins 4, Chicago White Sox 0 Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia Phillies 1 Tigers 4, Royals 3 – Castro has 2 late singles, Tigers beat Royals 4-3 in 10 Harold Castro singled in the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning after tying it with a two-run single in the eighth in the Detroit Tigers’ 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Tucker Barnhart bunted pinch-runner Ryan Kreidler to third and Anthony Misiewicz (3-2) intentionally walked pinch-hitter Eric Haase. Riley Greene struck out, and the Royals decided to walk Javy Báez to pitch to Castro with the bases loaded. He hit a soft grounder up the middle to win it. In the top of the 10th, Alex Lange (6-4) retired Salvador Perez before getting Vinnie Pasquatino to bounce into an inning-ending double play. Twins 4, White Sox 0 – Wallner, Ober highlight Twins’ 4-0 victory over White Sox Matt Wallner hit a two-run homer, Bailey Ober had a career-high 10 strikeouts and the Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 4-0 on Wednesday night. Ober (2-3) threw a career-high 7 1/3 innings, allowing just two hits. Wallner, the rookie outfielder from nearby Forest Lake, hit a towering homer in the sixth inning. It was his second homer in his 11th career game and first at home. Jose Miranda added three hits for Minnesota. Lance Lynn (7-7) gave up four runs on 10 hits in five-plus innings for Chicago. White Sox interim manager Miguel Cairo was ejected following Wallner’s homer. Cubs 2, Phillies 1 – Stroman, Gomes power Cubs past struggling Phillies 2-1 Marcus Stroman pitched seven innings of four-hit ball, and Yan Gomes hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning, lifting the Chicago Cubs to a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies’ magic number to clinch a National League playoff berth is stalled at eight after their third straight loss. The Cubs won for the sixth time in seven games. Stroman (5-7) struck out six and lowered his ERA to 2.50 over his last six starts and 2.74 over his last 15. Ian Happ led off the seventh with a single through the middle of the infield off Connor Brogdon. With two out, Gomes poked a double into the right field corner, scoring Happ. Tonight Kansas City (Lynch 4-11) at Detroit (Manning 2-3), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Chicago White Sox (Cueto 7-9) at Minnesota (Winder 4-5), 7:40 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 10-12) at Chicago Cubs (Wesneski 2-1), 7:40 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League – Preseason Last Night Detroit Red Wings 6, Pittsburgh Penguins 2 St. Louis Blues 4, Chicago Blackhawks 1 Tonight Chicago Blackhawks at Detroit Red Wings, 7:30 p.m. NBA – Bulls PG Ball says ahead of knee surgery he can’t run, jump Chicago Bulls point guard Lonzo Ball says he can’t run at full speed or jump and still experiences pain in his left knee walking up stairs. Ball spoke ahead of his scheduled surgery in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The team said last week he would undergo an arthroscopic debridement and be re-evaluated in four to six weeks. Ball says doctors are “going in there to see” exactly what the extent of the injury is and fix it. He did not have a timeframe for his recovery, though he expects to play this season. The operation will be Ball’s second on the knee in less than a year and third since he entered the NBA with the Lakers in 2017. NFL – Bears place receiver Pringle on IR because of calf injury Chicago Bears receiver Byron Pringle will miss at least four games because of a calf injury after the team placed him on injured reserve on Tuesday. Pringle left in the first quarter of Sunday’s win over the Houston Texans, after catching one pass for 11 yards. He has two receptions for 33 yards after signing with Chicago in the offseason. Chicago visits the New York Giants this week. NCAAFB – CFP expansion talks head toward October after 7-hour meeting The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff have met for almost seven hours to work on expanding the postseason system from four to 12 teams as soon as the 2024 season. There is still much work to be done. CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock says “We will not wrap up this week.” The CFP management committee is scheduled to convene again at the Big Ten offices for a few hours Wednesday morning. They are set to meet again in person in Dallas on Oct. 20. Expansion talks were revived by the university presidents and chancellors who oversee the College Football Playoff last month. NCAAFB – Florida schools, South Carolina move home games ahead of Ian Florida, South Carolina and South Florida are taking steps to salvage home football games as Hurricane Ian approaches. The Gators moved their game against Eastern Washington from Saturday to Sunday just before a slate of NFL games begin. The Gamecocks will host South Carolina State on Thursday night, two days earlier than previously scheduled. And the Bulls relocated their Saturday game against East Carolina from Tampa, Florida, to Boca Raton. Stetson canceled its home game scheduled for Saturday against San Diego. No. 23 Florida State and 22nd-ranked Wake Forest, meanwhile, are “closely monitoring” the storm and hoping to play as planned Saturday in Tallahassee. NCAAMBKB – NCAA puts Memphis on 3 years’ probation, no tourney ban The NCAA put Memphis on three years of probation with a public reprimand and a fine while declining to punish Tigers coach Penny Hardaway or hand down an NCAA Tournament ban. The Independent Accountability Review Panel issued only its second decision Tuesday, with cases involving Louisiana State, Arizona, Kansas and Louisville still on the group’s docket. The IARP ruled that Memphis failed to monitor Hardaway as an athletics booster, provided impermissible benefits and other benefits to recruits. The panel also ruled that Memphis failed to cooperate with the investigation by delaying handing over requested documents. NASCAR – Kurt Busch hopeful he can return from concussion this year Kurt Busch says he remains “hopeful” he will recover from a concussion in time to return to competition before the end of the NASCAR season. The 2004 Cup champion has been sidelined since he crashed July 23rd during qualifying at Pocono Raceway. He’s so far missed 10 races and withdrew his eligibility to participate in the playoffs. There are six races remaining this season. NASCAR – William Byron penalized for hit on Hamlin that NASCAR missed NASCAR has docked William Byron 25 points and fined him $50,000 for deliberately spinning championship rival Denny Hamlin in a retaliatory move missed by scoring officials. The penalty dropped Byron to eight points below the cutline heading into Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. The Hendrick Motorsports driver had been 17 points to the good, and third in the standings, before the penalty. NASCAR admitted it did not see Byron hiting Hamlin during Sunday’s race at Texas. Meanwhile, NASCAR also fined Ty Gibbs $75,000 and docked 23XI Racing 25 owner points for hitting Ty Dillon on pit road while in close proximity of race personnel. FIFA – US World Cup worries grow, 0-0 draw vs Saudis in last tuneup The United States ended its World Cup tuneup matches in unimpressive fashion, playing a 0-0 draw against Saudi Arabia at Murcia, Spain. Oft-injured Gio Reyna left in the 30th minute because of muscle tightness. Christian Pulisic returned to the depleted U.S. lineup after missing Friday’s 2-0 loss to No. 24 Japan with an unspecified injury. That was one of four lineup changes by U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter. Ricardo Pepi was inserted at forward in a final audition for the 26-man World Cup roster. But he had a team-low 13 touches and no shots against the 53rd-ranked Saudis before Jesús Ferreira replaced him in the 59th minute. Golf – LIV/PGA – Mickelson asks to remove name from lawsuit against PGA Tour Phil Mickelson and three other LIV Golf players have asked a federal judge to remove their names from the antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour. Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Ian Poulter filed separately to have their names removed from the lawsuit. That leaves only three players and Saudi-funded LIV Golf as plaintiffs. The players are Bryson DeChambeau, Peter Uihlein and Matt Jones. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in January of 2024. Mickelson has been the driving force among PGA Tour players in getting the Saudi-funded rival league going. MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Last Night Women’s Volleyball Lake Michigan College 3, Kellogg Community College 1 Glen Oaks Community College 3, Southwestern Michigan College 1 Today Women’s Soccer Kellogg Community College at Lake Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 3, Lakeshore 1 Dowagiac 4, Berrien Springs 0 Parchment 3, Bridgman 2 Mattawan 8, Battle Creek Central 0 Gull Lake 6, Kalamazoo Central 0 Portage Central 1, Battle Creek Lakeview 1 – TIE Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 3, Portage Northern 1 Volleyball Mishawka (IN) 3, Niles 0 Centreville 3, Mendon 0 Girls Swimming and Diving Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 107, Bridgman Co-Op 78 Boys Tennis St. Joseph 5, Vicksburg 1 (2 Matches suspended by rain) Today Volleyball Mattawan at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Lakeshore at Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at River Valley, 6:00 p.m. Eau Claire at New Buffalo, 6:00 p.m. Gull Lake at Portage Northern, 6:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Battle Creek Lakeview, 6:30 p.m. Boys Soccer Our Lady of the Lake at Michigan Lutheran, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Hackett at South Haven, 5:30 p.m. Edwardsburg at Niles, 6:30 p.m. Plainwell at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Three Rivers at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Sturgis at Vicksburg, 6:30 p.m. New Buffalo at Comstock, 5:30 p.m. Cassopolis at Bangor, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Hartford, 5:00 p.m. Constantine at Allegan, 6:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Watervliet, 5:30 p.m. Parchment at Holland Black River, 5:00 p.m. Girls Golf SMAC Conference at Stonehedge North, 9:00 p.m. (Gull Lake host)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 9, Texas Rangers 8 Arizona Diamondbacks 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Milwaukee Brewers 9, Chicago Cubs 7 Tigers 9, Rangers 8 – Garcia’s hit streak ends at 23, Rangers fall to Tigers Adolis Garcia struck out during a Texas rally that fell short in the ninth inning, ending his 23-game hitting streak as the Detroit Tigers held off the Rangers 9-8. Garcia’s streak was the longest in the American League this season. He went 0 for 3 with two walks and fell one game short of matching the longest hitting string ever by a Cuban-born big leaguer, set by Rafael Palmeiro in 1994 for Baltimore. Harold Castro drove in five runs as the Tigers built a 9-0 lead in the sixth. Corey Seager homered twice for Texas. Detroit took a 9-2 lead into eighth before Garcia had an RBI groundout and Kole Calhoun hit a two-run homer. After Texas closed to 9-8 in the ninth, Garcia fanned with a runner on second. D’Backs 3, White Sox 2 – Diamondbacks down scuffling White Sox 3-2 to finish sweep Jake McCarthy hit a tiebreaking double in the ninth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-game sweep of the struggling Chicago White Sox with a 3-2 victory. Diamondbacks rookie Stone Garrett launched his first major league home run and Sergio Alcántara also went deep for Arizona, which earned its first interleague sweep since 2019. Noé Ramirez pitched a scoreless eighth and Ian Kennedy got three outs for his ninth save. Kendall Graveman took the loss in relief of Dylan Cease, who allowed Arizona’s two solo homers while striking out eight in a career-high eight innings. Alcántara hit his fourth homer of the season in the eighth to tie it at 2. Brewers 9, Cubs 7 – Yelich, Wong HR, Mitchell’s 1st hit, Brewers beat Cubs 9-7 Christian Yelich and Kolten Wong each homered for the second straight game and 2020 first-round draft pick Garrett Mitchell drove in two runs with the first hit of his big league career, leading the Milwaukee Brewers over the Chicago Cubs 9-7. Brewers starter Eric Lauer worked five innings, allowing four runs on six hits and four walks while striking out four. Chicago got 3 1/3 out of right-hander Adrian Sampson, who allowed just a run despite five hits and a walk. Chicago reliever Sean Newcomb gave up six runs in an inning as Cubs lost for the sixth time in their last nine games. Tonight Chicago Cubs (Assad 0-0) at Toronto (Berríos 9-5), 7:07 p.m. White Sox and Tigers are off NFL – National Football League – Preseason week 3 Saturday Chicago Bears 21, Cleveland Browns 20 Indianapolis Colts 21, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Yesterday Pittsburgh Steelers 19, Detroit Lions 9 Steelers 19, Lions 9 – Trubisky makes case for QB job as Steelers top Lions 19-9 Mitch Trubisky staked his claim to be the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback, throwing for 160 yards and a touchdown in a 19-9 win over Detroit in the NFL’s preseason finale. Trubisky was at his best late in the first half, leading the Steelers on a 92-yard drive that ended with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Steven Sims. Rookie Kenny Pickett played well in the second half for Ptitsburgh but it appears Trubisky has the inside track to be the starter when the Steelers begin the regular season in Cincinnati on Sept. 11. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Semifinals (best of 5) Yesterday Connecticut Sun 68, Chicago Sky 63 (CON leads 1-0) Sun 68, Sky 63 – Bonner scores 15 as Sun beat Sky in Game 1 of WNBA semis DeWanna Bonner had 15 points and nine rebounds to lead the Connecticut to a 68-63 win over the Chicago Sky in Game 1 of their WNBA semifinals series. Jonquel Jones scored 12 points and also grabbed nine rebounds for the Sun, Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and Brionna Jones added 12 points. Candace Parker had 19 points and 18 rebounds for the Sky, and Kahleah Copper scored 13 points on 5-for-10 shooting. LLWS – Hawaii wins Little League title, beating Curacao 13-3 Hawaii got back-to-back homers from Kekoa Payanal and Kama Angell in the first inning, sparking a 13-3 win in just four innings Sunday over Curacao in the championship of the Little League World Series. The LLWS title is Hawaii’s fourth. It won in 2018 and this same Honolulu team finished third last year, when COVID-19 travel restrictions prevented international teams from participating. Hawaii starter Jaron Lancaster was dominant once again as he threw all four innings, while only allowing three runs, three hits and striking out 10 Curacao hitters. NASCAR – Dillon, Blaney nab last playoff spots at rain-soaked Daytona Austin Dillon avoided a massive wreck in the rain to win at Daytona International Speedway and snag a playoff spot in the Cup Series’ regular-season finale. Dillon passed Austin Cindric for the lead with three laps to go after a 3 hour, 20 minute red flag for inclement weather. It was an aggressive move that capped a drama-filled race. Martin Truex Jr. was the biggest loser. Truex looked like he would secure the final postseason berth when the skies opened up, but he faded once the race restarted and allowed Ryan Blaney to make up ground in a wild points scramble. Tennis – US Open – Williams sisters to face Czech pair in US Open doubles Serena and Venus Williams were drawn to face the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova in the first round of doubles at the U.S. Open.The U.S. Tennis Association announced the doubles brackets Sunday, a day before the tournament begins.Doubles competition will begin on Wednesday.It is the first doubles event for the Williams sisters together since the 2018 French Open. They have won 14 Grand Slam championships in in doubles as a team, most recently at Wimbledon inn 2016.Two of their doubles titles came at the U.S. Open, in 1999 and 2009.Hradecka is a 37-year-old who won two major doubles trophies with Andrea Hlavackova — at the 2013 U.S. Open and 2011 French Open. Noskova is a 17-year-old who never has won a Grand Slam match in singles or doubles. NCAAFB – Free beer was right call at Dublin game says catering firm In the postgame analysis, free beer at the Nebraska-Northwestern game in Ireland was the right call. The freebies flowed for two hours during Northwestern’s 31-28 victory on Saturday, and the catering company for Aviva Stadium hailed its workers for keeping the refreshments coming. Levy UK + Ireland said Sunday the problem was with its payment provider, SumUp, and not with the stadium’s internet connection. Levy, a sports and hospitality caterer whose other clients include English Premier League soccer clubs, did not give an estimate of lost revenue. Golf – PGA – McIlroy storms from 6 back to win FedEx Cup and $18 million Rory McIlroy is the FedEx Cup champion for the third time. He stormed from a record-tying six shots behind to win the Tour Championship and capture the $18 million prize. Scottie Scheffler never trailed all week until the 70th hole. He built the six-shot lead Sunday morning with four birdies in six holes to complete the third round. But he was never on his game and made only one birdie in a round of 73. McIlroy shot a 66. He says winning felt even more significant because of the tumultuous year caused by Saudi-funded LIV Golf. Cycling – Kenyan cyclist dies in crash during gravel race in Vermont Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi has died in a crash during a gravel race in Vermont. Kangangi was competing in the Vermont Overland race on Saturday when he died in a crash at high speed. The wife of president-elect William Ruto of Kenya posted on Twitter that she was shocked to learn the sad news that he had passed away after a tragic crash. Rachel Ruto wrote: “We will all miss him as an individual. Kenya has lost a champion. Rest in peace Sule.” The Vermont Overland is a 59-mile dirt road bicycle race that includes nearly 7,000 feet of climbing. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night South Bend Cubs 7, West Michigan Whitecaps 1 Great Lakes Loons 4, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 3 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 5, Lansing Lugnuts 2 Tonight No games tonight MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Saturday Volleyball SMC Tri-Meet Lake Michigan College 3, Southwestern Michigan College 1 LMC wins the first game at SMC’s new fieldhouse Lake Michigan College 3, North Central Michigan 0 Southwestern Michigan College 3, North Central Michigan 2 Women’s Soccer Lake Michigan College 3, Ancilla College 1 Men’s Soccer Ancilla College 10, Lake Michigan College 0 MHSAA – High School Sports Today Boys Soccer Battle Creek Central at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Cassopolis, 6:00 p.m. South Haven at Holland Black River, 6:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Buchanan, 5:00 p.m. Bangor at Brandywine, 5:00 p.m. New Prarie (IN) at New Buffalo, 6:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Bloomingdale, 5:00 p.m. Coloma at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at Constantine, 5:00 p.m. Mattawan at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Comstock at Howardsville Christian, 5:00 p.m. Parma Western at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Gull Lake at DeWitt, 7:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Lawton at Kalamazoo Hackett, 6:00 p.m. Harper Creek at Sturgis, 6:30 p.m. Volleyball St. Joseph at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at Watervliet Grace Christian, 6:00 p.m. White Pigeon at New Buffalo, 7:00 p.m. Boys Tennis Lakeshore at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. Girls Golf SMAC West at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. (Kalamazoo Country Club)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 9, Texas Rangers 8 Arizona Diamondbacks 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Milwaukee Brewers 9, Chicago Cubs 7 Tigers 9, Rangers 8 – Garcia’s hit streak ends at 23, Rangers fall to Tigers Adolis Garcia struck out during a Texas rally that fell short in the ninth inning, ending his 23-game hitting streak as the Detroit Tigers held off the Rangers 9-8. Garcia’s streak was the longest in the American League this season. He went 0 for 3 with two walks and fell one game short of matching the longest hitting string ever by a Cuban-born big leaguer, set by Rafael Palmeiro in 1994 for Baltimore. Harold Castro drove in five runs as the Tigers built a 9-0 lead in the sixth. Corey Seager homered twice for Texas. Detroit took a 9-2 lead into eighth before Garcia had an RBI groundout and Kole Calhoun hit a two-run homer. After Texas closed to 9-8 in the ninth, Garcia fanned with a runner on second. D’Backs 3, White Sox 2 – Diamondbacks down scuffling White Sox 3-2 to finish sweep Jake McCarthy hit a tiebreaking double in the ninth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-game sweep of the struggling Chicago White Sox with a 3-2 victory. Diamondbacks rookie Stone Garrett launched his first major league home run and Sergio Alcántara also went deep for Arizona, which earned its first interleague sweep since 2019. Noé Ramirez pitched a scoreless eighth and Ian Kennedy got three outs for his ninth save. Kendall Graveman took the loss in relief of Dylan Cease, who allowed Arizona’s two solo homers while striking out eight in a career-high eight innings. Alcántara hit his fourth homer of the season in the eighth to tie it at 2. Brewers 9, Cubs 7 – Yelich, Wong HR, Mitchell’s 1st hit, Brewers beat Cubs 9-7 Christian Yelich and Kolten Wong each homered for the second straight game and 2020 first-round draft pick Garrett Mitchell drove in two runs with the first hit of his big league career, leading the Milwaukee Brewers over the Chicago Cubs 9-7. Brewers starter Eric Lauer worked five innings, allowing four runs on six hits and four walks while striking out four. Chicago got 3 1/3 out of right-hander Adrian Sampson, who allowed just a run despite five hits and a walk. Chicago reliever Sean Newcomb gave up six runs in an inning as Cubs lost for the sixth time in their last nine games. Tonight Chicago Cubs (Assad 0-0) at Toronto (Berríos 9-5), 7:07 p.m. White Sox and Tigers are off NFL – National Football League – Preseason week 3 Saturday Chicago Bears 21, Cleveland Browns 20 Indianapolis Colts 21, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Yesterday Pittsburgh Steelers 19, Detroit Lions 9 Steelers 19, Lions 9 – Trubisky makes case for QB job as Steelers top Lions 19-9 Mitch Trubisky staked his claim to be the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback, throwing for 160 yards and a touchdown in a 19-9 win over Detroit in the NFL’s preseason finale. Trubisky was at his best late in the first half, leading the Steelers on a 92-yard drive that ended with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Steven Sims. Rookie Kenny Pickett played well in the second half for Ptitsburgh but it appears Trubisky has the inside track to be the starter when the Steelers begin the regular season in Cincinnati on Sept. 11. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Semifinals (best of 5) Yesterday Connecticut Sun 68, Chicago Sky 63 (CON leads 1-0) Sun 68, Sky 63 – Bonner scores 15 as Sun beat Sky in Game 1 of WNBA semis DeWanna Bonner had 15 points and nine rebounds to lead the Connecticut to a 68-63 win over the Chicago Sky in Game 1 of their WNBA semifinals series. Jonquel Jones scored 12 points and also grabbed nine rebounds for the Sun, Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and Brionna Jones added 12 points. Candace Parker had 19 points and 18 rebounds for the Sky, and Kahleah Copper scored 13 points on 5-for-10 shooting. LLWS – Hawaii wins Little League title, beating Curacao 13-3 Hawaii got back-to-back homers from Kekoa Payanal and Kama Angell in the first inning, sparking a 13-3 win in just four innings Sunday over Curacao in the championship of the Little League World Series. The LLWS title is Hawaii’s fourth. It won in 2018 and this same Honolulu team finished third last year, when COVID-19 travel restrictions prevented international teams from participating. Hawaii starter Jaron Lancaster was dominant once again as he threw all four innings, while only allowing three runs, three hits and striking out 10 Curacao hitters. NASCAR – Dillon, Blaney nab last playoff spots at rain-soaked Daytona Austin Dillon avoided a massive wreck in the rain to win at Daytona International Speedway and snag a playoff spot in the Cup Series’ regular-season finale. Dillon passed Austin Cindric for the lead with three laps to go after a 3 hour, 20 minute red flag for inclement weather. It was an aggressive move that capped a drama-filled race. Martin Truex Jr. was the biggest loser. Truex looked like he would secure the final postseason berth when the skies opened up, but he faded once the race restarted and allowed Ryan Blaney to make up ground in a wild points scramble. Tennis – US Open – Williams sisters to face Czech pair in US Open doubles Serena and Venus Williams were drawn to face the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova in the first round of doubles at the U.S. Open.The U.S. Tennis Association announced the doubles brackets Sunday, a day before the tournament begins.Doubles competition will begin on Wednesday.It is the first doubles event for the Williams sisters together since the 2018 French Open. They have won 14 Grand Slam championships in in doubles as a team, most recently at Wimbledon inn 2016.Two of their doubles titles came at the U.S. Open, in 1999 and 2009.Hradecka is a 37-year-old who won two major doubles trophies with Andrea Hlavackova — at the 2013 U.S. Open and 2011 French Open. Noskova is a 17-year-old who never has won a Grand Slam match in singles or doubles. NCAAFB – Free beer was right call at Dublin game says catering firm In the postgame analysis, free beer at the Nebraska-Northwestern game in Ireland was the right call. The freebies flowed for two hours during Northwestern’s 31-28 victory on Saturday, and the catering company for Aviva Stadium hailed its workers for keeping the refreshments coming. Levy UK + Ireland said Sunday the problem was with its payment provider, SumUp, and not with the stadium’s internet connection. Levy, a sports and hospitality caterer whose other clients include English Premier League soccer clubs, did not give an estimate of lost revenue. Golf – PGA – McIlroy storms from 6 back to win FedEx Cup and $18 million Rory McIlroy is the FedEx Cup champion for the third time. He stormed from a record-tying six shots behind to win the Tour Championship and capture the $18 million prize. Scottie Scheffler never trailed all week until the 70th hole. He built the six-shot lead Sunday morning with four birdies in six holes to complete the third round. But he was never on his game and made only one birdie in a round of 73. McIlroy shot a 66. He says winning felt even more significant because of the tumultuous year caused by Saudi-funded LIV Golf. Cycling – Kenyan cyclist dies in crash during gravel race in Vermont Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi has died in a crash during a gravel race in Vermont. Kangangi was competing in the Vermont Overland race on Saturday when he died in a crash at high speed. The wife of president-elect William Ruto of Kenya posted on Twitter that she was shocked to learn the sad news that he had passed away after a tragic crash. Rachel Ruto wrote: “We will all miss him as an individual. Kenya has lost a champion. Rest in peace Sule.” The Vermont Overland is a 59-mile dirt road bicycle race that includes nearly 7,000 feet of climbing. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night South Bend Cubs 7, West Michigan Whitecaps 1 Great Lakes Loons 4, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 3 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 5, Lansing Lugnuts 2 Tonight No games tonight MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Saturday Volleyball SMC Tri-Meet Lake Michigan College 3, Southwestern Michigan College 1 LMC wins the first game at SMC’s new fieldhouse Lake Michigan College 3, North Central Michigan 0 Southwestern Michigan College 3, North Central Michigan 2 Women’s Soccer Lake Michigan College 3, Ancilla College 1 Men’s Soccer Ancilla College 10, Lake Michigan College 0 MHSAA – High School Sports Today Boys Soccer Battle Creek Central at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Cassopolis, 6:00 p.m. South Haven at Holland Black River, 6:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Buchanan, 5:00 p.m. Bangor at Brandywine, 5:00 p.m. New Prarie (IN) at New Buffalo, 6:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Bloomingdale, 5:00 p.m. Coloma at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at Constantine, 5:00 p.m. Mattawan at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Comstock at Howardsville Christian, 5:00 p.m. Parma Western at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Gull Lake at DeWitt, 7:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Lawton at Kalamazoo Hackett, 6:00 p.m. Harper Creek at Sturgis, 6:30 p.m. Volleyball St. Joseph at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at Watervliet Grace Christian, 6:00 p.m. White Pigeon at New Buffalo, 7:00 p.m. Boys Tennis Lakeshore at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. Girls Golf SMAC West at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. (Kalamazoo Country Club)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 9, Texas Rangers 8 Arizona Diamondbacks 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Milwaukee Brewers 9, Chicago Cubs 7 Tigers 9, Rangers 8 – Garcia’s hit streak ends at 23, Rangers fall to Tigers Adolis Garcia struck out during a Texas rally that fell short in the ninth inning, ending his 23-game hitting streak as the Detroit Tigers held off the Rangers 9-8. Garcia’s streak was the longest in the American League this season. He went 0 for 3 with two walks and fell one game short of matching the longest hitting string ever by a Cuban-born big leaguer, set by Rafael Palmeiro in 1994 for Baltimore. Harold Castro drove in five runs as the Tigers built a 9-0 lead in the sixth. Corey Seager homered twice for Texas. Detroit took a 9-2 lead into eighth before Garcia had an RBI groundout and Kole Calhoun hit a two-run homer. After Texas closed to 9-8 in the ninth, Garcia fanned with a runner on second. D’Backs 3, White Sox 2 – Diamondbacks down scuffling White Sox 3-2 to finish sweep Jake McCarthy hit a tiebreaking double in the ninth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-game sweep of the struggling Chicago White Sox with a 3-2 victory. Diamondbacks rookie Stone Garrett launched his first major league home run and Sergio Alcántara also went deep for Arizona, which earned its first interleague sweep since 2019. Noé Ramirez pitched a scoreless eighth and Ian Kennedy got three outs for his ninth save. Kendall Graveman took the loss in relief of Dylan Cease, who allowed Arizona’s two solo homers while striking out eight in a career-high eight innings. Alcántara hit his fourth homer of the season in the eighth to tie it at 2. Brewers 9, Cubs 7 – Yelich, Wong HR, Mitchell’s 1st hit, Brewers beat Cubs 9-7 Christian Yelich and Kolten Wong each homered for the second straight game and 2020 first-round draft pick Garrett Mitchell drove in two runs with the first hit of his big league career, leading the Milwaukee Brewers over the Chicago Cubs 9-7. Brewers starter Eric Lauer worked five innings, allowing four runs on six hits and four walks while striking out four. Chicago got 3 1/3 out of right-hander Adrian Sampson, who allowed just a run despite five hits and a walk. Chicago reliever Sean Newcomb gave up six runs in an inning as Cubs lost for the sixth time in their last nine games. Tonight Chicago Cubs (Assad 0-0) at Toronto (Berríos 9-5), 7:07 p.m. White Sox and Tigers are off NFL – National Football League – Preseason week 3 Saturday Chicago Bears 21, Cleveland Browns 20 Indianapolis Colts 21, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Yesterday Pittsburgh Steelers 19, Detroit Lions 9 Steelers 19, Lions 9 – Trubisky makes case for QB job as Steelers top Lions 19-9 Mitch Trubisky staked his claim to be the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback, throwing for 160 yards and a touchdown in a 19-9 win over Detroit in the NFL’s preseason finale. Trubisky was at his best late in the first half, leading the Steelers on a 92-yard drive that ended with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Steven Sims. Rookie Kenny Pickett played well in the second half for Ptitsburgh but it appears Trubisky has the inside track to be the starter when the Steelers begin the regular season in Cincinnati on Sept. 11. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Semifinals (best of 5) Yesterday Connecticut Sun 68, Chicago Sky 63 (CON leads 1-0) Sun 68, Sky 63 – Bonner scores 15 as Sun beat Sky in Game 1 of WNBA semis DeWanna Bonner had 15 points and nine rebounds to lead the Connecticut to a 68-63 win over the Chicago Sky in Game 1 of their WNBA semifinals series. Jonquel Jones scored 12 points and also grabbed nine rebounds for the Sun, Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and Brionna Jones added 12 points. Candace Parker had 19 points and 18 rebounds for the Sky, and Kahleah Copper scored 13 points on 5-for-10 shooting. LLWS – Hawaii wins Little League title, beating Curacao 13-3 Hawaii got back-to-back homers from Kekoa Payanal and Kama Angell in the first inning, sparking a 13-3 win in just four innings Sunday over Curacao in the championship of the Little League World Series. The LLWS title is Hawaii’s fourth. It won in 2018 and this same Honolulu team finished third last year, when COVID-19 travel restrictions prevented international teams from participating. Hawaii starter Jaron Lancaster was dominant once again as he threw all four innings, while only allowing three runs, three hits and striking out 10 Curacao hitters. NASCAR – Dillon, Blaney nab last playoff spots at rain-soaked Daytona Austin Dillon avoided a massive wreck in the rain to win at Daytona International Speedway and snag a playoff spot in the Cup Series’ regular-season finale. Dillon passed Austin Cindric for the lead with three laps to go after a 3 hour, 20 minute red flag for inclement weather. It was an aggressive move that capped a drama-filled race. Martin Truex Jr. was the biggest loser. Truex looked like he would secure the final postseason berth when the skies opened up, but he faded once the race restarted and allowed Ryan Blaney to make up ground in a wild points scramble. Tennis – US Open – Williams sisters to face Czech pair in US Open doubles Serena and Venus Williams were drawn to face the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova in the first round of doubles at the U.S. Open.The U.S. Tennis Association announced the doubles brackets Sunday, a day before the tournament begins.Doubles competition will begin on Wednesday.It is the first doubles event for the Williams sisters together since the 2018 French Open. They have won 14 Grand Slam championships in in doubles as a team, most recently at Wimbledon inn 2016.Two of their doubles titles came at the U.S. Open, in 1999 and 2009.Hradecka is a 37-year-old who won two major doubles trophies with Andrea Hlavackova — at the 2013 U.S. Open and 2011 French Open. Noskova is a 17-year-old who never has won a Grand Slam match in singles or doubles. NCAAFB – Free beer was right call at Dublin game says catering firm In the postgame analysis, free beer at the Nebraska-Northwestern game in Ireland was the right call. The freebies flowed for two hours during Northwestern’s 31-28 victory on Saturday, and the catering company for Aviva Stadium hailed its workers for keeping the refreshments coming. Levy UK + Ireland said Sunday the problem was with its payment provider, SumUp, and not with the stadium’s internet connection. Levy, a sports and hospitality caterer whose other clients include English Premier League soccer clubs, did not give an estimate of lost revenue. Golf – PGA – McIlroy storms from 6 back to win FedEx Cup and $18 million Rory McIlroy is the FedEx Cup champion for the third time. He stormed from a record-tying six shots behind to win the Tour Championship and capture the $18 million prize. Scottie Scheffler never trailed all week until the 70th hole. He built the six-shot lead Sunday morning with four birdies in six holes to complete the third round. But he was never on his game and made only one birdie in a round of 73. McIlroy shot a 66. He says winning felt even more significant because of the tumultuous year caused by Saudi-funded LIV Golf. Cycling – Kenyan cyclist dies in crash during gravel race in Vermont Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi has died in a crash during a gravel race in Vermont. Kangangi was competing in the Vermont Overland race on Saturday when he died in a crash at high speed. The wife of president-elect William Ruto of Kenya posted on Twitter that she was shocked to learn the sad news that he had passed away after a tragic crash. Rachel Ruto wrote: “We will all miss him as an individual. Kenya has lost a champion. Rest in peace Sule.” The Vermont Overland is a 59-mile dirt road bicycle race that includes nearly 7,000 feet of climbing. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night South Bend Cubs 7, West Michigan Whitecaps 1 Great Lakes Loons 4, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 3 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 5, Lansing Lugnuts 2 Tonight No games tonight MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Saturday Volleyball SMC Tri-Meet Lake Michigan College 3, Southwestern Michigan College 1 LMC wins the first game at SMC’s new fieldhouse Lake Michigan College 3, North Central Michigan 0 Southwestern Michigan College 3, North Central Michigan 2 Women’s Soccer Lake Michigan College 3, Ancilla College 1 Men’s Soccer Ancilla College 10, Lake Michigan College 0 MHSAA – High School Sports Today Boys Soccer Battle Creek Central at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Cassopolis, 6:00 p.m. South Haven at Holland Black River, 6:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Buchanan, 5:00 p.m. Bangor at Brandywine, 5:00 p.m. New Prarie (IN) at New Buffalo, 6:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Bloomingdale, 5:00 p.m. Coloma at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at Constantine, 5:00 p.m. Mattawan at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Comstock at Howardsville Christian, 5:00 p.m. Parma Western at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Gull Lake at DeWitt, 7:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Lawton at Kalamazoo Hackett, 6:00 p.m. Harper Creek at Sturgis, 6:30 p.m. Volleyball St. Joseph at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at Watervliet Grace Christian, 6:00 p.m. White Pigeon at New Buffalo, 7:00 p.m. Boys Tennis Lakeshore at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. Girls Golf SMAC West at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. (Kalamazoo Country Club)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 9, Texas Rangers 8 Arizona Diamondbacks 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Milwaukee Brewers 9, Chicago Cubs 7 Tigers 9, Rangers 8 – Garcia’s hit streak ends at 23, Rangers fall to Tigers Adolis Garcia struck out during a Texas rally that fell short in the ninth inning, ending his 23-game hitting streak as the Detroit Tigers held off the Rangers 9-8. Garcia’s streak was the longest in the American League this season. He went 0 for 3 with two walks and fell one game short of matching the longest hitting string ever by a Cuban-born big leaguer, set by Rafael Palmeiro in 1994 for Baltimore. Harold Castro drove in five runs as the Tigers built a 9-0 lead in the sixth. Corey Seager homered twice for Texas. Detroit took a 9-2 lead into eighth before Garcia had an RBI groundout and Kole Calhoun hit a two-run homer. After Texas closed to 9-8 in the ninth, Garcia fanned with a runner on second. D’Backs 3, White Sox 2 – Diamondbacks down scuffling White Sox 3-2 to finish sweep Jake McCarthy hit a tiebreaking double in the ninth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-game sweep of the struggling Chicago White Sox with a 3-2 victory. Diamondbacks rookie Stone Garrett launched his first major league home run and Sergio Alcántara also went deep for Arizona, which earned its first interleague sweep since 2019. Noé Ramirez pitched a scoreless eighth and Ian Kennedy got three outs for his ninth save. Kendall Graveman took the loss in relief of Dylan Cease, who allowed Arizona’s two solo homers while striking out eight in a career-high eight innings. Alcántara hit his fourth homer of the season in the eighth to tie it at 2. Brewers 9, Cubs 7 – Yelich, Wong HR, Mitchell’s 1st hit, Brewers beat Cubs 9-7 Christian Yelich and Kolten Wong each homered for the second straight game and 2020 first-round draft pick Garrett Mitchell drove in two runs with the first hit of his big league career, leading the Milwaukee Brewers over the Chicago Cubs 9-7. Brewers starter Eric Lauer worked five innings, allowing four runs on six hits and four walks while striking out four. Chicago got 3 1/3 out of right-hander Adrian Sampson, who allowed just a run despite five hits and a walk. Chicago reliever Sean Newcomb gave up six runs in an inning as Cubs lost for the sixth time in their last nine games. Tonight Chicago Cubs (Assad 0-0) at Toronto (Berríos 9-5), 7:07 p.m. White Sox and Tigers are off NFL – National Football League – Preseason week 3 Saturday Chicago Bears 21, Cleveland Browns 20 Indianapolis Colts 21, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Yesterday Pittsburgh Steelers 19, Detroit Lions 9 Steelers 19, Lions 9 – Trubisky makes case for QB job as Steelers top Lions 19-9 Mitch Trubisky staked his claim to be the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback, throwing for 160 yards and a touchdown in a 19-9 win over Detroit in the NFL’s preseason finale. Trubisky was at his best late in the first half, leading the Steelers on a 92-yard drive that ended with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Steven Sims. Rookie Kenny Pickett played well in the second half for Ptitsburgh but it appears Trubisky has the inside track to be the starter when the Steelers begin the regular season in Cincinnati on Sept. 11. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Semifinals (best of 5) Yesterday Connecticut Sun 68, Chicago Sky 63 (CON leads 1-0) Sun 68, Sky 63 – Bonner scores 15 as Sun beat Sky in Game 1 of WNBA semis DeWanna Bonner had 15 points and nine rebounds to lead the Connecticut to a 68-63 win over the Chicago Sky in Game 1 of their WNBA semifinals series. Jonquel Jones scored 12 points and also grabbed nine rebounds for the Sun, Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and Brionna Jones added 12 points. Candace Parker had 19 points and 18 rebounds for the Sky, and Kahleah Copper scored 13 points on 5-for-10 shooting. LLWS – Hawaii wins Little League title, beating Curacao 13-3 Hawaii got back-to-back homers from Kekoa Payanal and Kama Angell in the first inning, sparking a 13-3 win in just four innings Sunday over Curacao in the championship of the Little League World Series. The LLWS title is Hawaii’s fourth. It won in 2018 and this same Honolulu team finished third last year, when COVID-19 travel restrictions prevented international teams from participating. Hawaii starter Jaron Lancaster was dominant once again as he threw all four innings, while only allowing three runs, three hits and striking out 10 Curacao hitters. NASCAR – Dillon, Blaney nab last playoff spots at rain-soaked Daytona Austin Dillon avoided a massive wreck in the rain to win at Daytona International Speedway and snag a playoff spot in the Cup Series’ regular-season finale. Dillon passed Austin Cindric for the lead with three laps to go after a 3 hour, 20 minute red flag for inclement weather. It was an aggressive move that capped a drama-filled race. Martin Truex Jr. was the biggest loser. Truex looked like he would secure the final postseason berth when the skies opened up, but he faded once the race restarted and allowed Ryan Blaney to make up ground in a wild points scramble. Tennis – US Open – Williams sisters to face Czech pair in US Open doubles Serena and Venus Williams were drawn to face the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova in the first round of doubles at the U.S. Open.The U.S. Tennis Association announced the doubles brackets Sunday, a day before the tournament begins.Doubles competition will begin on Wednesday.It is the first doubles event for the Williams sisters together since the 2018 French Open. They have won 14 Grand Slam championships in in doubles as a team, most recently at Wimbledon inn 2016.Two of their doubles titles came at the U.S. Open, in 1999 and 2009.Hradecka is a 37-year-old who won two major doubles trophies with Andrea Hlavackova — at the 2013 U.S. Open and 2011 French Open. Noskova is a 17-year-old who never has won a Grand Slam match in singles or doubles. NCAAFB – Free beer was right call at Dublin game says catering firm In the postgame analysis, free beer at the Nebraska-Northwestern game in Ireland was the right call. The freebies flowed for two hours during Northwestern’s 31-28 victory on Saturday, and the catering company for Aviva Stadium hailed its workers for keeping the refreshments coming. Levy UK + Ireland said Sunday the problem was with its payment provider, SumUp, and not with the stadium’s internet connection. Levy, a sports and hospitality caterer whose other clients include English Premier League soccer clubs, did not give an estimate of lost revenue. Golf – PGA – McIlroy storms from 6 back to win FedEx Cup and $18 million Rory McIlroy is the FedEx Cup champion for the third time. He stormed from a record-tying six shots behind to win the Tour Championship and capture the $18 million prize. Scottie Scheffler never trailed all week until the 70th hole. He built the six-shot lead Sunday morning with four birdies in six holes to complete the third round. But he was never on his game and made only one birdie in a round of 73. McIlroy shot a 66. He says winning felt even more significant because of the tumultuous year caused by Saudi-funded LIV Golf. Cycling – Kenyan cyclist dies in crash during gravel race in Vermont Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi has died in a crash during a gravel race in Vermont. Kangangi was competing in the Vermont Overland race on Saturday when he died in a crash at high speed. The wife of president-elect William Ruto of Kenya posted on Twitter that she was shocked to learn the sad news that he had passed away after a tragic crash. Rachel Ruto wrote: “We will all miss him as an individual. Kenya has lost a champion. Rest in peace Sule.” The Vermont Overland is a 59-mile dirt road bicycle race that includes nearly 7,000 feet of climbing. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night South Bend Cubs 7, West Michigan Whitecaps 1 Great Lakes Loons 4, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 3 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 5, Lansing Lugnuts 2 Tonight No games tonight MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Saturday Volleyball SMC Tri-Meet Lake Michigan College 3, Southwestern Michigan College 1 LMC wins the first game at SMC’s new fieldhouse Lake Michigan College 3, North Central Michigan 0 Southwestern Michigan College 3, North Central Michigan 2 Women’s Soccer Lake Michigan College 3, Ancilla College 1 Men’s Soccer Ancilla College 10, Lake Michigan College 0 MHSAA – High School Sports Today Boys Soccer Battle Creek Central at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Cassopolis, 6:00 p.m. South Haven at Holland Black River, 6:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Buchanan, 5:00 p.m. Bangor at Brandywine, 5:00 p.m. New Prarie (IN) at New Buffalo, 6:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Bloomingdale, 5:00 p.m. Coloma at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at Constantine, 5:00 p.m. Mattawan at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Comstock at Howardsville Christian, 5:00 p.m. Parma Western at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Gull Lake at DeWitt, 7:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Lawton at Kalamazoo Hackett, 6:00 p.m. Harper Creek at Sturgis, 6:30 p.m. Volleyball St. Joseph at Paw Paw, 6:00 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at Watervliet Grace Christian, 6:00 p.m. White Pigeon at New Buffalo, 7:00 p.m. Boys Tennis Lakeshore at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. Girls Golf SMAC West at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. (Kalamazoo Country Club)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, San Francisco Giants 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Baltimore Orioles 3 Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis Cardinals 1 Tigers 6, Giants 1 – Manning throws 6 scoreless, Tigers beat Giants 6-1 for split Matt Manning threw six scoreless innings and the Detroit Tigers scored all six of their runs in the fifth to beat the San Francisco Giants 6-1 and split a two-game series. Manning allowed five hits, walked none and struck out a career-high eight in his first win since last Sept. 15 against Milwaukee. Victor Reyes and Willi Castro each drove in two runs while Kody Clemens and Harold Castro each drove in one with two out in the bottom of the fifth. All six runs were charged to Logan Webb, who was pulled after Harold Castro’s single made it 4-0. White Sox 5, Orioles 3 – Giolito, Sheets lift White Sox to 5-3 win over Orioles Lucas Giolito pitched impressively into the seventh inning, Gavin Sheets twice came through with the bases loaded and Yoán Moncada pulled off a slick double play to help the Chicago White Sox to a 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Giolito allowed one run and four hits in 6 1/3 innings. Then Kendall Graveman was helped out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh thanks to Moncada’s play at third. The bases were loaded with one out and Chicago up 3-1. Moncada lunged to his right to snag a grounder. Then he touched third for the force and threw to first to complete the play. Cubs 7, Cardinals 1 – Zach McKinstry homers as Cubs beat Cardinals 7-1 Zach McKinstry homered and drove in three runs, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-1. Nico Hoerner had three hits for Chicago, and Yan Gomes added two RBIs. Rowan Wick got five outs for the win, leading a solid performance by the Cubs bullpen. Lars Nootbaar homered for NL Central-leading St. Louis, and Corey Dickerson went 4 for 4. The Cardinals dropped to 17-5 in August. Today St. Louis (Hudson 6-6) at Chicago Cubs (Stroman 3-5), 2:20 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Lynn 3-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 9-9), 7:05 p.m. Tigers are off MLB – MLB teams to play all 29 opponents under ’23 balanced sked Every Major League Baseball team will play each other in the same season for the first time next year as the sport switches to its first balanced schedule since 2000. As a result of the format switch agreed to in the March lockout settlement, high-profile games between division rivals such as Yankees-Red Sox, Dodgers-Giants and Cubs-Cardinals will be reduced from 19 and intradivision games will drop from 47% to 32%. A team will host all of the other 29 clubs at least once every two seasons. The season opens March 30 with all teams scheduled. NBA – Kobe Bryant widow awarded $16M in trial over crash photos A federal jury has found that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million for emotional distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies of the NBA star and his daughter taken at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed them. The jurors who returned the verdict Wednesday agreed with Vanessa Bryant and her attorneys that her privacy was invaded when they took and shared photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna. Vanessa Bryant tearfully testified during the 11-day trial that news of the photos compounded her grief after losing her husband and daughter. County attorneys argued that the photos were necessary to assess the scene. NCAASB – Michigan’s Hutchins retires as NCAA softball victory leader Carol Hutchins has retired after 38 seasons as Michigan’s softball coach after winning a record number of games. The school made the announcement Wednesday, signaling the end of a career that included 1,707 wins. Bonnie Tholl was promoted to lead the program after she serving as Hutchins’ top assistant for 29 years. Hutchins won a national title in 2005 and led the Wolverines to the NCAA championship game in 2015. She won 22 Big Ten regular-season titles, 10 conference tournament championships and never had a losing season. NFL – National Football League – Preseason week 3 Tonight Green Bay Packers at Kansas City Chiefs, 8:00 p.m. San Francisco 49ers at Houston Texans, 8:15 p.m. NFL – Hall of Fame Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson dies at 87 Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson, who helped the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title, died Wednesday. The MVP of the Chiefs’ victory over the Vikings in January 1970 had been in declining health for years. He entered hospice care on Aug. 12. “Lenny the Cool” went into the Hall of Fame as a player in 1987. He also was inducted as a broadcaster in 2012. Dawson spent several decades working on local TV and radio broadcasts while also doing color analysis for NBC and hosting HBO’s iconic "Inside the NFL.” The Chiefs intend to honor him during their preseason finale against Green Bay on Thursday night. Len Dawson was 87. NFL – Lions Preview – Lions may have double digits in losses for 5th year in a row The Detroit Lions seem destined for another rough season. If the defense struggles, it will likely lead to at least 10 losses for the fifth straight year, and second in a row under coach Dan Campbell. Rookie defensive end Aiden Hutchinson appears to be a player to build around, but there isn’t much help behind him right now. The Lions should be able to move the ball and score behind a strong offensive line in Jared Goff’s second season with the team. The veteran quarterback is surrounded by an improved group of receivers, a solid duo of running backs and standout tight end T.J. Hockenson. NFL – Bears Preview – Bears enter new era, look to make jump under Poles, Eberflus The Chicago Bears are prepared to enter a new era under new general manager Ryan Poles and coach Matt Eberflus. Chicago comes into the season with few established playmakers on offense and questions to answer on defense, starting with the opener against San Francisco on Sept. 11. The Bears went 6-11 last season and missed the playoffs for the ninth time in 11 years. They are counting on quarterback Justin Fields to make big strides after a shaky rookie year. On defense, the Bears had an offseason contract standoff with star linebacker Roquan Smith that ended without a new deal. Golf – PGA – Top PGA Tour players to commit to 20-event big money slate The PGA Tour is making its boldest response yet to the rival Saudi-funded league. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has announced a plan for the best players to commit to a 20-tournament schedule starting next year. That means they will be competing against one another up to 17 times and maybe more. That involves elevating four additional tournaments that will offer $20 million or more to go along with the tournaments already announced. Monahan says top players will be determined by a new Player Impact Program criteria. The PIP will double in money to $100 million. Golf – Woods, McIlroy behind tech-infused golf league in TV venture Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are bringing their own version of team golf to the PGA Tour. Woods and McIlroy are part of a new media group called TMRW (pronounced “tomorrow”) Sports. Former Golf Channel president Mike McCarley is the CEO. The first project is called TGL. It’s a tech-infused golf league that will feature six teams of three players for matches on Monday night. The broadcast partner hasn’t been announced. It will be played in a custom-built arena. The long shots will be using a simulator. The short shots will be live. The 18-hole matches take two hours. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 2, South Bend Cubs 1 Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, PPD, DH on 8/25 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 13, Lansing Lugnuts 2 Today Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, 6:05 p.m. (Doublheader) South Bend Cubs at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7:40 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer Edwardsburg 3, Lakeshore 1 Michigan Lutheran 1, New Buffalo 0 South Haven 5, Bridgman 2 Niles 9, Brandywine 0 Constantine 2, Coloma 0 Vicksburg 5, Dowagiac 0 Hartford 8, Saugatuck 0 Kalamazoo Christian 7, Lawton 1 Mattawan 5, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Fennville 5, Schoolcraft 0 Battle Creek Lakeview 8, Three Rivers 0 Delton-Kellogg 9, Parchment 2 Portage Northern 4, East Kentwood 0 Gull Lake 3, GR Forest Hills Northern 1 Boys Tennis St. Joseph 8, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 Volleyball Michigan Lutheran 3, New Buffalo 1 Our Lady of the Lake 3, Wtvl. Grace Christian 0 Niles 3, Sturgis 0 Three Rivers 3, Paw Paw 1 Tonight Football – All games at 7:00 p.m. Non-Conference Zeeland West at Lakeshore 97.5 Y Country 6:45 Benton Harbor at Lawton South Haven at Dowagiac Watervliet at Brandywine Saugatuck at Buchanan Vicksburg at Portage Northern Edwardsburg at GR West Catholic Lowell at Mattawan East Lansing at Portage Central BC Lakeview at Harper Creek Allegan at Cassopolis Galesburg-Augusta at Decatur Comstock at Schoolcraft Union City at Centreville Reading at White Pigeon Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Delton-Kellogg Gull Lake at Marshall Wolverine Conference Plainwell at Otsego Three Rivers at Paw Paw Niles at Sturgis 8-Man Football Bangor at Twin Cities Sharks (Twin Cities Sharks is Our Lady of the Lake, Michigan Lutheran and Countryside) Fennville at Red Arrow Raiders (Red Arrow Raiders is New Buffalo at River Valley) Bridgman at Vermontville Maple Valley Marcellus at Gobles Marion at Lawrence Farwell at Wyoming-Lee Vandercook Lake at Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian Boys Soccer Byron Center at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. GR Covenant Christian at Allegan, 5:30 p.m. Schoolcraft at Buchanan, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Central at East Kentwood, 6:45 p.m. Plainwell at Wayland, 6:45 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, San Francisco Giants 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Baltimore Orioles 3 Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis Cardinals 1 Tigers 6, Giants 1 – Manning throws 6 scoreless, Tigers beat Giants 6-1 for split Matt Manning threw six scoreless innings and the Detroit Tigers scored all six of their runs in the fifth to beat the San Francisco Giants 6-1 and split a two-game series. Manning allowed five hits, walked none and struck out a career-high eight in his first win since last Sept. 15 against Milwaukee. Victor Reyes and Willi Castro each drove in two runs while Kody Clemens and Harold Castro each drove in one with two out in the bottom of the fifth. All six runs were charged to Logan Webb, who was pulled after Harold Castro’s single made it 4-0. White Sox 5, Orioles 3 – Giolito, Sheets lift White Sox to 5-3 win over Orioles Lucas Giolito pitched impressively into the seventh inning, Gavin Sheets twice came through with the bases loaded and Yoán Moncada pulled off a slick double play to help the Chicago White Sox to a 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Giolito allowed one run and four hits in 6 1/3 innings. Then Kendall Graveman was helped out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh thanks to Moncada’s play at third. The bases were loaded with one out and Chicago up 3-1. Moncada lunged to his right to snag a grounder. Then he touched third for the force and threw to first to complete the play. Cubs 7, Cardinals 1 – Zach McKinstry homers as Cubs beat Cardinals 7-1 Zach McKinstry homered and drove in three runs, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-1. Nico Hoerner had three hits for Chicago, and Yan Gomes added two RBIs. Rowan Wick got five outs for the win, leading a solid performance by the Cubs bullpen. Lars Nootbaar homered for NL Central-leading St. Louis, and Corey Dickerson went 4 for 4. The Cardinals dropped to 17-5 in August. Today St. Louis (Hudson 6-6) at Chicago Cubs (Stroman 3-5), 2:20 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Lynn 3-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 9-9), 7:05 p.m. Tigers are off MLB – MLB teams to play all 29 opponents under ’23 balanced sked Every Major League Baseball team will play each other in the same season for the first time next year as the sport switches to its first balanced schedule since 2000. As a result of the format switch agreed to in the March lockout settlement, high-profile games between division rivals such as Yankees-Red Sox, Dodgers-Giants and Cubs-Cardinals will be reduced from 19 and intradivision games will drop from 47% to 32%. A team will host all of the other 29 clubs at least once every two seasons. The season opens March 30 with all teams scheduled. NBA – Kobe Bryant widow awarded $16M in trial over crash photos A federal jury has found that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million for emotional distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies of the NBA star and his daughter taken at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed them. The jurors who returned the verdict Wednesday agreed with Vanessa Bryant and her attorneys that her privacy was invaded when they took and shared photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna. Vanessa Bryant tearfully testified during the 11-day trial that news of the photos compounded her grief after losing her husband and daughter. County attorneys argued that the photos were necessary to assess the scene. NCAASB – Michigan’s Hutchins retires as NCAA softball victory leader Carol Hutchins has retired after 38 seasons as Michigan’s softball coach after winning a record number of games. The school made the announcement Wednesday, signaling the end of a career that included 1,707 wins. Bonnie Tholl was promoted to lead the program after she serving as Hutchins’ top assistant for 29 years. Hutchins won a national title in 2005 and led the Wolverines to the NCAA championship game in 2015. She won 22 Big Ten regular-season titles, 10 conference tournament championships and never had a losing season. NFL – National Football League – Preseason week 3 Tonight Green Bay Packers at Kansas City Chiefs, 8:00 p.m. San Francisco 49ers at Houston Texans, 8:15 p.m. NFL – Hall of Fame Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson dies at 87 Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson, who helped the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title, died Wednesday. The MVP of the Chiefs’ victory over the Vikings in January 1970 had been in declining health for years. He entered hospice care on Aug. 12. “Lenny the Cool” went into the Hall of Fame as a player in 1987. He also was inducted as a broadcaster in 2012. Dawson spent several decades working on local TV and radio broadcasts while also doing color analysis for NBC and hosting HBO’s iconic "Inside the NFL.” The Chiefs intend to honor him during their preseason finale against Green Bay on Thursday night. Len Dawson was 87. NFL – Lions Preview – Lions may have double digits in losses for 5th year in a row The Detroit Lions seem destined for another rough season. If the defense struggles, it will likely lead to at least 10 losses for the fifth straight year, and second in a row under coach Dan Campbell. Rookie defensive end Aiden Hutchinson appears to be a player to build around, but there isn’t much help behind him right now. The Lions should be able to move the ball and score behind a strong offensive line in Jared Goff’s second season with the team. The veteran quarterback is surrounded by an improved group of receivers, a solid duo of running backs and standout tight end T.J. Hockenson. NFL – Bears Preview – Bears enter new era, look to make jump under Poles, Eberflus The Chicago Bears are prepared to enter a new era under new general manager Ryan Poles and coach Matt Eberflus. Chicago comes into the season with few established playmakers on offense and questions to answer on defense, starting with the opener against San Francisco on Sept. 11. The Bears went 6-11 last season and missed the playoffs for the ninth time in 11 years. They are counting on quarterback Justin Fields to make big strides after a shaky rookie year. On defense, the Bears had an offseason contract standoff with star linebacker Roquan Smith that ended without a new deal. Golf – PGA – Top PGA Tour players to commit to 20-event big money slate The PGA Tour is making its boldest response yet to the rival Saudi-funded league. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has announced a plan for the best players to commit to a 20-tournament schedule starting next year. That means they will be competing against one another up to 17 times and maybe more. That involves elevating four additional tournaments that will offer $20 million or more to go along with the tournaments already announced. Monahan says top players will be determined by a new Player Impact Program criteria. The PIP will double in money to $100 million. Golf – Woods, McIlroy behind tech-infused golf league in TV venture Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are bringing their own version of team golf to the PGA Tour. Woods and McIlroy are part of a new media group called TMRW (pronounced “tomorrow”) Sports. Former Golf Channel president Mike McCarley is the CEO. The first project is called TGL. It’s a tech-infused golf league that will feature six teams of three players for matches on Monday night. The broadcast partner hasn’t been announced. It will be played in a custom-built arena. The long shots will be using a simulator. The short shots will be live. The 18-hole matches take two hours. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 2, South Bend Cubs 1 Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, PPD, DH on 8/25 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 13, Lansing Lugnuts 2 Today Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, 6:05 p.m. (Doublheader) South Bend Cubs at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7:40 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer Edwardsburg 3, Lakeshore 1 Michigan Lutheran 1, New Buffalo 0 South Haven 5, Bridgman 2 Niles 9, Brandywine 0 Constantine 2, Coloma 0 Vicksburg 5, Dowagiac 0 Hartford 8, Saugatuck 0 Kalamazoo Christian 7, Lawton 1 Mattawan 5, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Fennville 5, Schoolcraft 0 Battle Creek Lakeview 8, Three Rivers 0 Delton-Kellogg 9, Parchment 2 Portage Northern 4, East Kentwood 0 Gull Lake 3, GR Forest Hills Northern 1 Boys Tennis St. Joseph 8, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 Volleyball Michigan Lutheran 3, New Buffalo 1 Our Lady of the Lake 3, Wtvl. Grace Christian 0 Niles 3, Sturgis 0 Three Rivers 3, Paw Paw 1 Tonight Football – All games at 7:00 p.m. Non-Conference Zeeland West at Lakeshore 97.5 Y Country 6:45 Benton Harbor at Lawton South Haven at Dowagiac Watervliet at Brandywine Saugatuck at Buchanan Vicksburg at Portage Northern Edwardsburg at GR West Catholic Lowell at Mattawan East Lansing at Portage Central BC Lakeview at Harper Creek Allegan at Cassopolis Galesburg-Augusta at Decatur Comstock at Schoolcraft Union City at Centreville Reading at White Pigeon Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Delton-Kellogg Gull Lake at Marshall Wolverine Conference Plainwell at Otsego Three Rivers at Paw Paw Niles at Sturgis 8-Man Football Bangor at Twin Cities Sharks (Twin Cities Sharks is Our Lady of the Lake, Michigan Lutheran and Countryside) Fennville at Red Arrow Raiders (Red Arrow Raiders is New Buffalo at River Valley) Bridgman at Vermontville Maple Valley Marcellus at Gobles Marion at Lawrence Farwell at Wyoming-Lee Vandercook Lake at Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian Boys Soccer Byron Center at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. GR Covenant Christian at Allegan, 5:30 p.m. Schoolcraft at Buchanan, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Central at East Kentwood, 6:45 p.m. Plainwell at Wayland, 6:45 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, San Francisco Giants 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Baltimore Orioles 3 Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis Cardinals 1 Tigers 6, Giants 1 – Manning throws 6 scoreless, Tigers beat Giants 6-1 for split Matt Manning threw six scoreless innings and the Detroit Tigers scored all six of their runs in the fifth to beat the San Francisco Giants 6-1 and split a two-game series. Manning allowed five hits, walked none and struck out a career-high eight in his first win since last Sept. 15 against Milwaukee. Victor Reyes and Willi Castro each drove in two runs while Kody Clemens and Harold Castro each drove in one with two out in the bottom of the fifth. All six runs were charged to Logan Webb, who was pulled after Harold Castro’s single made it 4-0. White Sox 5, Orioles 3 – Giolito, Sheets lift White Sox to 5-3 win over Orioles Lucas Giolito pitched impressively into the seventh inning, Gavin Sheets twice came through with the bases loaded and Yoán Moncada pulled off a slick double play to help the Chicago White Sox to a 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Giolito allowed one run and four hits in 6 1/3 innings. Then Kendall Graveman was helped out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh thanks to Moncada’s play at third. The bases were loaded with one out and Chicago up 3-1. Moncada lunged to his right to snag a grounder. Then he touched third for the force and threw to first to complete the play. Cubs 7, Cardinals 1 – Zach McKinstry homers as Cubs beat Cardinals 7-1 Zach McKinstry homered and drove in three runs, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-1. Nico Hoerner had three hits for Chicago, and Yan Gomes added two RBIs. Rowan Wick got five outs for the win, leading a solid performance by the Cubs bullpen. Lars Nootbaar homered for NL Central-leading St. Louis, and Corey Dickerson went 4 for 4. The Cardinals dropped to 17-5 in August. Today St. Louis (Hudson 6-6) at Chicago Cubs (Stroman 3-5), 2:20 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Lynn 3-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 9-9), 7:05 p.m. Tigers are off MLB – MLB teams to play all 29 opponents under ’23 balanced sked Every Major League Baseball team will play each other in the same season for the first time next year as the sport switches to its first balanced schedule since 2000. As a result of the format switch agreed to in the March lockout settlement, high-profile games between division rivals such as Yankees-Red Sox, Dodgers-Giants and Cubs-Cardinals will be reduced from 19 and intradivision games will drop from 47% to 32%. A team will host all of the other 29 clubs at least once every two seasons. The season opens March 30 with all teams scheduled. NBA – Kobe Bryant widow awarded $16M in trial over crash photos A federal jury has found that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million for emotional distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies of the NBA star and his daughter taken at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed them. The jurors who returned the verdict Wednesday agreed with Vanessa Bryant and her attorneys that her privacy was invaded when they took and shared photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna. Vanessa Bryant tearfully testified during the 11-day trial that news of the photos compounded her grief after losing her husband and daughter. County attorneys argued that the photos were necessary to assess the scene. NCAASB – Michigan’s Hutchins retires as NCAA softball victory leader Carol Hutchins has retired after 38 seasons as Michigan’s softball coach after winning a record number of games. The school made the announcement Wednesday, signaling the end of a career that included 1,707 wins. Bonnie Tholl was promoted to lead the program after she serving as Hutchins’ top assistant for 29 years. Hutchins won a national title in 2005 and led the Wolverines to the NCAA championship game in 2015. She won 22 Big Ten regular-season titles, 10 conference tournament championships and never had a losing season. NFL – National Football League – Preseason week 3 Tonight Green Bay Packers at Kansas City Chiefs, 8:00 p.m. San Francisco 49ers at Houston Texans, 8:15 p.m. NFL – Hall of Fame Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson dies at 87 Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson, who helped the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title, died Wednesday. The MVP of the Chiefs’ victory over the Vikings in January 1970 had been in declining health for years. He entered hospice care on Aug. 12. “Lenny the Cool” went into the Hall of Fame as a player in 1987. He also was inducted as a broadcaster in 2012. Dawson spent several decades working on local TV and radio broadcasts while also doing color analysis for NBC and hosting HBO’s iconic "Inside the NFL.” The Chiefs intend to honor him during their preseason finale against Green Bay on Thursday night. Len Dawson was 87. NFL – Lions Preview – Lions may have double digits in losses for 5th year in a row The Detroit Lions seem destined for another rough season. If the defense struggles, it will likely lead to at least 10 losses for the fifth straight year, and second in a row under coach Dan Campbell. Rookie defensive end Aiden Hutchinson appears to be a player to build around, but there isn’t much help behind him right now. The Lions should be able to move the ball and score behind a strong offensive line in Jared Goff’s second season with the team. The veteran quarterback is surrounded by an improved group of receivers, a solid duo of running backs and standout tight end T.J. Hockenson. NFL – Bears Preview – Bears enter new era, look to make jump under Poles, Eberflus The Chicago Bears are prepared to enter a new era under new general manager Ryan Poles and coach Matt Eberflus. Chicago comes into the season with few established playmakers on offense and questions to answer on defense, starting with the opener against San Francisco on Sept. 11. The Bears went 6-11 last season and missed the playoffs for the ninth time in 11 years. They are counting on quarterback Justin Fields to make big strides after a shaky rookie year. On defense, the Bears had an offseason contract standoff with star linebacker Roquan Smith that ended without a new deal. Golf – PGA – Top PGA Tour players to commit to 20-event big money slate The PGA Tour is making its boldest response yet to the rival Saudi-funded league. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has announced a plan for the best players to commit to a 20-tournament schedule starting next year. That means they will be competing against one another up to 17 times and maybe more. That involves elevating four additional tournaments that will offer $20 million or more to go along with the tournaments already announced. Monahan says top players will be determined by a new Player Impact Program criteria. The PIP will double in money to $100 million. Golf – Woods, McIlroy behind tech-infused golf league in TV venture Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are bringing their own version of team golf to the PGA Tour. Woods and McIlroy are part of a new media group called TMRW (pronounced “tomorrow”) Sports. Former Golf Channel president Mike McCarley is the CEO. The first project is called TGL. It’s a tech-infused golf league that will feature six teams of three players for matches on Monday night. The broadcast partner hasn’t been announced. It will be played in a custom-built arena. The long shots will be using a simulator. The short shots will be live. The 18-hole matches take two hours. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 2, South Bend Cubs 1 Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, PPD, DH on 8/25 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 13, Lansing Lugnuts 2 Today Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, 6:05 p.m. (Doublheader) South Bend Cubs at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7:40 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer Edwardsburg 3, Lakeshore 1 Michigan Lutheran 1, New Buffalo 0 South Haven 5, Bridgman 2 Niles 9, Brandywine 0 Constantine 2, Coloma 0 Vicksburg 5, Dowagiac 0 Hartford 8, Saugatuck 0 Kalamazoo Christian 7, Lawton 1 Mattawan 5, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Fennville 5, Schoolcraft 0 Battle Creek Lakeview 8, Three Rivers 0 Delton-Kellogg 9, Parchment 2 Portage Northern 4, East Kentwood 0 Gull Lake 3, GR Forest Hills Northern 1 Boys Tennis St. Joseph 8, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 Volleyball Michigan Lutheran 3, New Buffalo 1 Our Lady of the Lake 3, Wtvl. Grace Christian 0 Niles 3, Sturgis 0 Three Rivers 3, Paw Paw 1 Tonight Football – All games at 7:00 p.m. Non-Conference Zeeland West at Lakeshore 97.5 Y Country 6:45 Benton Harbor at Lawton South Haven at Dowagiac Watervliet at Brandywine Saugatuck at Buchanan Vicksburg at Portage Northern Edwardsburg at GR West Catholic Lowell at Mattawan East Lansing at Portage Central BC Lakeview at Harper Creek Allegan at Cassopolis Galesburg-Augusta at Decatur Comstock at Schoolcraft Union City at Centreville Reading at White Pigeon Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Delton-Kellogg Gull Lake at Marshall Wolverine Conference Plainwell at Otsego Three Rivers at Paw Paw Niles at Sturgis 8-Man Football Bangor at Twin Cities Sharks (Twin Cities Sharks is Our Lady of the Lake, Michigan Lutheran and Countryside) Fennville at Red Arrow Raiders (Red Arrow Raiders is New Buffalo at River Valley) Bridgman at Vermontville Maple Valley Marcellus at Gobles Marion at Lawrence Farwell at Wyoming-Lee Vandercook Lake at Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian Boys Soccer Byron Center at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. GR Covenant Christian at Allegan, 5:30 p.m. Schoolcraft at Buchanan, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Central at East Kentwood, 6:45 p.m. Plainwell at Wayland, 6:45 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, San Francisco Giants 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Baltimore Orioles 3 Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis Cardinals 1 Tigers 6, Giants 1 – Manning throws 6 scoreless, Tigers beat Giants 6-1 for split Matt Manning threw six scoreless innings and the Detroit Tigers scored all six of their runs in the fifth to beat the San Francisco Giants 6-1 and split a two-game series. Manning allowed five hits, walked none and struck out a career-high eight in his first win since last Sept. 15 against Milwaukee. Victor Reyes and Willi Castro each drove in two runs while Kody Clemens and Harold Castro each drove in one with two out in the bottom of the fifth. All six runs were charged to Logan Webb, who was pulled after Harold Castro’s single made it 4-0. White Sox 5, Orioles 3 – Giolito, Sheets lift White Sox to 5-3 win over Orioles Lucas Giolito pitched impressively into the seventh inning, Gavin Sheets twice came through with the bases loaded and Yoán Moncada pulled off a slick double play to help the Chicago White Sox to a 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Giolito allowed one run and four hits in 6 1/3 innings. Then Kendall Graveman was helped out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh thanks to Moncada’s play at third. The bases were loaded with one out and Chicago up 3-1. Moncada lunged to his right to snag a grounder. Then he touched third for the force and threw to first to complete the play. Cubs 7, Cardinals 1 – Zach McKinstry homers as Cubs beat Cardinals 7-1 Zach McKinstry homered and drove in three runs, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-1. Nico Hoerner had three hits for Chicago, and Yan Gomes added two RBIs. Rowan Wick got five outs for the win, leading a solid performance by the Cubs bullpen. Lars Nootbaar homered for NL Central-leading St. Louis, and Corey Dickerson went 4 for 4. The Cardinals dropped to 17-5 in August. Today St. Louis (Hudson 6-6) at Chicago Cubs (Stroman 3-5), 2:20 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Lynn 3-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 9-9), 7:05 p.m. Tigers are off MLB – MLB teams to play all 29 opponents under ’23 balanced sked Every Major League Baseball team will play each other in the same season for the first time next year as the sport switches to its first balanced schedule since 2000. As a result of the format switch agreed to in the March lockout settlement, high-profile games between division rivals such as Yankees-Red Sox, Dodgers-Giants and Cubs-Cardinals will be reduced from 19 and intradivision games will drop from 47% to 32%. A team will host all of the other 29 clubs at least once every two seasons. The season opens March 30 with all teams scheduled. NBA – Kobe Bryant widow awarded $16M in trial over crash photos A federal jury has found that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million for emotional distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies of the NBA star and his daughter taken at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed them. The jurors who returned the verdict Wednesday agreed with Vanessa Bryant and her attorneys that her privacy was invaded when they took and shared photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna. Vanessa Bryant tearfully testified during the 11-day trial that news of the photos compounded her grief after losing her husband and daughter. County attorneys argued that the photos were necessary to assess the scene. NCAASB – Michigan’s Hutchins retires as NCAA softball victory leader Carol Hutchins has retired after 38 seasons as Michigan’s softball coach after winning a record number of games. The school made the announcement Wednesday, signaling the end of a career that included 1,707 wins. Bonnie Tholl was promoted to lead the program after she serving as Hutchins’ top assistant for 29 years. Hutchins won a national title in 2005 and led the Wolverines to the NCAA championship game in 2015. She won 22 Big Ten regular-season titles, 10 conference tournament championships and never had a losing season. NFL – National Football League – Preseason week 3 Tonight Green Bay Packers at Kansas City Chiefs, 8:00 p.m. San Francisco 49ers at Houston Texans, 8:15 p.m. NFL – Hall of Fame Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson dies at 87 Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson, who helped the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title, died Wednesday. The MVP of the Chiefs’ victory over the Vikings in January 1970 had been in declining health for years. He entered hospice care on Aug. 12. “Lenny the Cool” went into the Hall of Fame as a player in 1987. He also was inducted as a broadcaster in 2012. Dawson spent several decades working on local TV and radio broadcasts while also doing color analysis for NBC and hosting HBO’s iconic "Inside the NFL.” The Chiefs intend to honor him during their preseason finale against Green Bay on Thursday night. Len Dawson was 87. NFL – Lions Preview – Lions may have double digits in losses for 5th year in a row The Detroit Lions seem destined for another rough season. If the defense struggles, it will likely lead to at least 10 losses for the fifth straight year, and second in a row under coach Dan Campbell. Rookie defensive end Aiden Hutchinson appears to be a player to build around, but there isn’t much help behind him right now. The Lions should be able to move the ball and score behind a strong offensive line in Jared Goff’s second season with the team. The veteran quarterback is surrounded by an improved group of receivers, a solid duo of running backs and standout tight end T.J. Hockenson. NFL – Bears Preview – Bears enter new era, look to make jump under Poles, Eberflus The Chicago Bears are prepared to enter a new era under new general manager Ryan Poles and coach Matt Eberflus. Chicago comes into the season with few established playmakers on offense and questions to answer on defense, starting with the opener against San Francisco on Sept. 11. The Bears went 6-11 last season and missed the playoffs for the ninth time in 11 years. They are counting on quarterback Justin Fields to make big strides after a shaky rookie year. On defense, the Bears had an offseason contract standoff with star linebacker Roquan Smith that ended without a new deal. Golf – PGA – Top PGA Tour players to commit to 20-event big money slate The PGA Tour is making its boldest response yet to the rival Saudi-funded league. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has announced a plan for the best players to commit to a 20-tournament schedule starting next year. That means they will be competing against one another up to 17 times and maybe more. That involves elevating four additional tournaments that will offer $20 million or more to go along with the tournaments already announced. Monahan says top players will be determined by a new Player Impact Program criteria. The PIP will double in money to $100 million. Golf – Woods, McIlroy behind tech-infused golf league in TV venture Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are bringing their own version of team golf to the PGA Tour. Woods and McIlroy are part of a new media group called TMRW (pronounced “tomorrow”) Sports. Former Golf Channel president Mike McCarley is the CEO. The first project is called TGL. It’s a tech-infused golf league that will feature six teams of three players for matches on Monday night. The broadcast partner hasn’t been announced. It will be played in a custom-built arena. The long shots will be using a simulator. The short shots will be live. The 18-hole matches take two hours. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 2, South Bend Cubs 1 Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, PPD, DH on 8/25 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 13, Lansing Lugnuts 2 Today Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, 6:05 p.m. (Doublheader) South Bend Cubs at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7:40 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer Edwardsburg 3, Lakeshore 1 Michigan Lutheran 1, New Buffalo 0 South Haven 5, Bridgman 2 Niles 9, Brandywine 0 Constantine 2, Coloma 0 Vicksburg 5, Dowagiac 0 Hartford 8, Saugatuck 0 Kalamazoo Christian 7, Lawton 1 Mattawan 5, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Fennville 5, Schoolcraft 0 Battle Creek Lakeview 8, Three Rivers 0 Delton-Kellogg 9, Parchment 2 Portage Northern 4, East Kentwood 0 Gull Lake 3, GR Forest Hills Northern 1 Boys Tennis St. Joseph 8, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 Volleyball Michigan Lutheran 3, New Buffalo 1 Our Lady of the Lake 3, Wtvl. Grace Christian 0 Niles 3, Sturgis 0 Three Rivers 3, Paw Paw 1 Tonight Football – All games at 7:00 p.m. Non-Conference Zeeland West at Lakeshore 97.5 Y Country 6:45 Benton Harbor at Lawton South Haven at Dowagiac Watervliet at Brandywine Saugatuck at Buchanan Vicksburg at Portage Northern Edwardsburg at GR West Catholic Lowell at Mattawan East Lansing at Portage Central BC Lakeview at Harper Creek Allegan at Cassopolis Galesburg-Augusta at Decatur Comstock at Schoolcraft Union City at Centreville Reading at White Pigeon Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Delton-Kellogg Gull Lake at Marshall Wolverine Conference Plainwell at Otsego Three Rivers at Paw Paw Niles at Sturgis 8-Man Football Bangor at Twin Cities Sharks (Twin Cities Sharks is Our Lady of the Lake, Michigan Lutheran and Countryside) Fennville at Red Arrow Raiders (Red Arrow Raiders is New Buffalo at River Valley) Bridgman at Vermontville Maple Valley Marcellus at Gobles Marion at Lawrence Farwell at Wyoming-Lee Vandercook Lake at Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian Boys Soccer Byron Center at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m. GR Covenant Christian at Allegan, 5:30 p.m. Schoolcraft at Buchanan, 5:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Central at East Kentwood, 6:45 p.m. Plainwell at Wayland, 6:45 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Chicago White Sox 13, Detroit Tigers 0 San Diego Padres 19, Chicago Cubs 5 White Sox 13, Tigers 0 – Moncada’s five hits, five RBIs lead White Sox past Tigers Yoán Moncada had five hits and five RBIs, including a run-scoring single against Kody Clemens, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 13-0 for a three-game series sweep. Moncada, Danny Mendick and Seby Zavala homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of five before arriving in Detroit. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch gave up on his pitching staff after six innings, using Harold Castro for the seventh, Clemens for the eighth, and Tucker Barnhart for the ninth. It was the pitching debut for the 26-year-old Clemens, whose father, Roger, won seven Cy Young Awards. Padres 19, Cubs 5 – Machado homers in hit parade, Padres pelt Cubs 19-5. Manny Machado lined a single for his 1,500th hit and hit a two-run homer in a four-RBI night to help the San Diego Padres beat the reeling Chicago Cubs 19-5. Machado was one of five Padres with three hits as San Diego routed the Cubs for the second straight hot night at Wrigley Field. Jorge Alfaro added a two-run homer and three RBIs as San Diego improved to 40-24 in winning its third straight and seventh in nine. Jake Cronenworth and Jurickson Profar each doubled twice and had three hits for the Padres, who entered the game percentage points behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West. The Cubs have lost nine straight. Today San Diego (Musgrove 7-0) at Chicago Cubs (Swarmer 1-1), 2:20 p.m. Texas (Pérez 4-2) at Detroit (Brieske 1-5), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 White Sox are off NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Finals Last Night Colorado Avalanche 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3 – OT (COL Leads 1-0) Avalanche 4, Lightning 3 – OT – Avalanche beat Lightning in OT to open Stanley Cup Final Andre Burakovsky scored 1:23 into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche opened the Stanley Cup Final with a 4-3 victory over the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night. Burakovsky ended it after the Avalanche failed to score on a power play that began late in regulation when three-time champ Patrick Maroon put the puck over the glass. Burakovsky is one of only two Avalanche players who have won the Cup. The game likely wouldn’t have even reached OT if not for big penalty kills by the Avalanche, who were 3 for 3 against Tampa Bay’s potent power play. The final kill featured a crucial save by goaltender Darcy Kuemper and a series of clears by Norris Trophy finalist defenseman Cale Makar. NHL – Bettman says NHL projected to set revenue record this season NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league is projecting record revenue this season. Bettman at his annual state of the league address before the Stanley Cup Final estimated revenue will surpass $5.2 billion. The league generated $4.6 billion in the last normal full season in 2018-19. Bettman cited a significant uptick in scoring leading to high ratings and more interest in the game. The increase also stems from new U.S. media rights deals with ESPN and Turner Sports that went into effect this season. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-2) NBA – Warriors lean on history with a chance to close out Celtics Stephen Curry and the Warriors have been within a game of clinching a championship in three of Golden State’s previous five trips to the NBA Finals during his 13-year NBA career. Curry says he’ll lean on that experience when he takes the court at Boston’s TD Garden on Thursday night. The Warriors have a 3-2 lead on the Celtics. The stakes will be equally high for the Celtics, who will try to force a Game 7. Celtics star Jayson Tatum said they’re optimistic, given how they’ve had Game 7 wins in the two prior playoff series. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Phoenix Mercury 93, Indiana Fever 80 – d Mercury 93, Fever 80 – Charles has season-high 29 points, Mercury beat Fever 93-80 Tina Charles scored a season-high 29 points on 11-of-21 shooting, Diana Taurasi hit four 3-pointers and finished with 17 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 93-80. Diamond DeShields finished with 16 points and Skylar Diggins-Smith scored 13 for Phoenix (6-9). The Mercury have won four of their last five games following a seven-game losing streak. Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana with 20 points on 10-of-20 shooting. Golf – US Open – US Open turns focus from Saudi money to golf’s toughest test The U.S. Open starts Thursday and not a moment too soon for those interested in golf. The talk all week at The Country Club outside of Boston has been more about the Saudi-funded LIV Golf league instead of thick rough and firm greens. This isn’t the first time an American major was overshadowed by controversy. The 1990 PGA Championship at Shoal Creek was under scrutiny because the club initially resisted having a Black member. The 2003 Masters was all about Martha Burk and her demand the club have a female member. Now the focus at Brookline finally turns to golf after endless chatter about Saudi money. FIFA – FIFA to announce 2026 World Cup US sites, paring from 17 FIFA plans to announce the 2026 World Cup sites, trimming the U.S. list from 17 to 10-12. Three sites are planned in Mexico and two are likely in Canada. In the first 48-nation World Cup, soccer’s governing body planned 60 games in the U.S., including all from the quarterfinals on, and 10 each in Mexico and Canada. Just two of the contending stadiums hosted games in 1994, Pasadena’s Rose Bowl joined by Orlando’s Camping World Stadium. Dozens of training complexes have been built for MLS teams, creating a far better infrastructure NFL – Commanders’ Snyder won’t testify before US House committee A lawyer representing Dan Snyder told Congress the Washington Commanders owner will not testify at a hearing next week as part of an investigation into the team’s workplace conduct. Attorney Karen Patton Seymour sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform explaining the reasons why Snyder was declining the invitation to appear at the June 22 hearing. Among the reasons given were a lack of assurance about the scope of questioning and a scheduling conflict. A spokeswoman for the committee says it intends to move forward with the hearing as scheduled. An NFL spokesman says Commissioner Roger Goodell plans to testify virtually. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday West Michigan 12, Peoria 4 Lansing 9, Fort Wayne 5 Great Lakes 5, Wisconsin 0 South Bend 15, Quad Cities 8 Today Fort Wayne at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. Wisconsin at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Quad Cities, 7:30 p.m. West Michigan at Peoria, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Tonight Girls Soccer – State Semifinals Division 2 at Byron Center GR Forest Hills Central 3, Gull Lake 1 Today Softball – State Semifinals Division 2 at Michigan State University Lakeshore vs. Escanaba, 5:30 p.m. Division 1 at Michigan State University Mattawan vs. Allen Park, 10:00 a.mSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Chicago White Sox 13, Detroit Tigers 0 San Diego Padres 19, Chicago Cubs 5 White Sox 13, Tigers 0 – Moncada's five hits, five RBIs lead White Sox past Tigers Yoán Moncada had five hits and five RBIs, including a run-scoring single against Kody Clemens, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 13-0 for a three-game series sweep. Moncada, Danny Mendick and Seby Zavala homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of five before arriving in Detroit. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch gave up on his pitching staff after six innings, using Harold Castro for the seventh, Clemens for the eighth, and Tucker Barnhart for the ninth. It was the pitching debut for the 26-year-old Clemens, whose father, Roger, won seven Cy Young Awards. Padres 19, Cubs 5 – Machado homers in hit parade, Padres pelt Cubs 19-5. Manny Machado lined a single for his 1,500th hit and hit a two-run homer in a four-RBI night to help the San Diego Padres beat the reeling Chicago Cubs 19-5. Machado was one of five Padres with three hits as San Diego routed the Cubs for the second straight hot night at Wrigley Field. Jorge Alfaro added a two-run homer and three RBIs as San Diego improved to 40-24 in winning its third straight and seventh in nine. Jake Cronenworth and Jurickson Profar each doubled twice and had three hits for the Padres, who entered the game percentage points behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West. The Cubs have lost nine straight. Today San Diego (Musgrove 7-0) at Chicago Cubs (Swarmer 1-1), 2:20 p.m. Texas (Pérez 4-2) at Detroit (Brieske 1-5), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 White Sox are off NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Finals Last Night Colorado Avalanche 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3 – OT (COL Leads 1-0) Avalanche 4, Lightning 3 – OT – Avalanche beat Lightning in OT to open Stanley Cup Final Andre Burakovsky scored 1:23 into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche opened the Stanley Cup Final with a 4-3 victory over the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night. Burakovsky ended it after the Avalanche failed to score on a power play that began late in regulation when three-time champ Patrick Maroon put the puck over the glass. Burakovsky is one of only two Avalanche players who have won the Cup. The game likely wouldn't have even reached OT if not for big penalty kills by the Avalanche, who were 3 for 3 against Tampa Bay's potent power play. The final kill featured a crucial save by goaltender Darcy Kuemper and a series of clears by Norris Trophy finalist defenseman Cale Makar. NHL – Bettman says NHL projected to set revenue record this season NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league is projecting record revenue this season. Bettman at his annual state of the league address before the Stanley Cup Final estimated revenue will surpass $5.2 billion. The league generated $4.6 billion in the last normal full season in 2018-19. Bettman cited a significant uptick in scoring leading to high ratings and more interest in the game. The increase also stems from new U.S. media rights deals with ESPN and Turner Sports that went into effect this season. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-2) NBA – Warriors lean on history with a chance to close out Celtics Stephen Curry and the Warriors have been within a game of clinching a championship in three of Golden State's previous five trips to the NBA Finals during his 13-year NBA career. Curry says he'll lean on that experience when he takes the court at Boston's TD Garden on Thursday night. The Warriors have a 3-2 lead on the Celtics. The stakes will be equally high for the Celtics, who will try to force a Game 7. Celtics star Jayson Tatum said they're optimistic,
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Chicago White Sox 13, Detroit Tigers 0 San Diego Padres 19, Chicago Cubs 5 White Sox 13, Tigers 0 – Moncada's five hits, five RBIs lead White Sox past Tigers Yoán Moncada had five hits and five RBIs, including a run-scoring single against Kody Clemens, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 13-0 for a three-game series sweep. Moncada, Danny Mendick and Seby Zavala homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of five before arriving in Detroit. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch gave up on his pitching staff after six innings, using Harold Castro for the seventh, Clemens for the eighth, and Tucker Barnhart for the ninth. It was the pitching debut for the 26-year-old Clemens, whose father, Roger, won seven Cy Young Awards. Padres 19, Cubs 5 – Machado homers in hit parade, Padres pelt Cubs 19-5. Manny Machado lined a single for his 1,500th hit and hit a two-run homer in a four-RBI night to help the San Diego Padres beat the reeling Chicago Cubs 19-5. Machado was one of five Padres with three hits as San Diego routed the Cubs for the second straight hot night at Wrigley Field. Jorge Alfaro added a two-run homer and three RBIs as San Diego improved to 40-24 in winning its third straight and seventh in nine. Jake Cronenworth and Jurickson Profar each doubled twice and had three hits for the Padres, who entered the game percentage points behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West. The Cubs have lost nine straight. Today San Diego (Musgrove 7-0) at Chicago Cubs (Swarmer 1-1), 2:20 p.m. Texas (Pérez 4-2) at Detroit (Brieske 1-5), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 White Sox are off NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Finals Last Night Colorado Avalanche 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3 – OT (COL Leads 1-0) Avalanche 4, Lightning 3 – OT – Avalanche beat Lightning in OT to open Stanley Cup Final Andre Burakovsky scored 1:23 into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche opened the Stanley Cup Final with a 4-3 victory over the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night. Burakovsky ended it after the Avalanche failed to score on a power play that began late in regulation when three-time champ Patrick Maroon put the puck over the glass. Burakovsky is one of only two Avalanche players who have won the Cup. The game likely wouldn't have even reached OT if not for big penalty kills by the Avalanche, who were 3 for 3 against Tampa Bay's potent power play. The final kill featured a crucial save by goaltender Darcy Kuemper and a series of clears by Norris Trophy finalist defenseman Cale Makar. NHL – Bettman says NHL projected to set revenue record this season NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league is projecting record revenue this season. Bettman at his annual state of the league address before the Stanley Cup Final estimated revenue will surpass $5.2 billion. The league generated $4.6 billion in the last normal full season in 2018-19. Bettman cited a significant uptick in scoring leading to high ratings and more interest in the game. The increase also stems from new U.S. media rights deals with ESPN and Turner Sports that went into effect this season. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-2) NBA – Warriors lean on history with a chance to close out Celtics Stephen Curry and the Warriors have been within a game of clinching a championship in three of Golden State's previous five trips to the NBA Finals during his 13-year NBA career. Curry says he'll lean on that experience when he takes the court at Boston's TD Garden on Thursday night. The Warriors have a 3-2 lead on the Celtics. The stakes will be equally high for the Celtics, who will try to force a Game 7. Celtics star Jayson Tatum said they're optimistic,
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Chicago White Sox 13, Detroit Tigers 0 San Diego Padres 19, Chicago Cubs 5 White Sox 13, Tigers 0 – Moncada’s five hits, five RBIs lead White Sox past Tigers Yoán Moncada had five hits and five RBIs, including a run-scoring single against Kody Clemens, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 13-0 for a three-game series sweep. Moncada, Danny Mendick and Seby Zavala homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of five before arriving in Detroit. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch gave up on his pitching staff after six innings, using Harold Castro for the seventh, Clemens for the eighth, and Tucker Barnhart for the ninth. It was the pitching debut for the 26-year-old Clemens, whose father, Roger, won seven Cy Young Awards. Padres 19, Cubs 5 – Machado homers in hit parade, Padres pelt Cubs 19-5. Manny Machado lined a single for his 1,500th hit and hit a two-run homer in a four-RBI night to help the San Diego Padres beat the reeling Chicago Cubs 19-5. Machado was one of five Padres with three hits as San Diego routed the Cubs for the second straight hot night at Wrigley Field. Jorge Alfaro added a two-run homer and three RBIs as San Diego improved to 40-24 in winning its third straight and seventh in nine. Jake Cronenworth and Jurickson Profar each doubled twice and had three hits for the Padres, who entered the game percentage points behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West. The Cubs have lost nine straight. Today San Diego (Musgrove 7-0) at Chicago Cubs (Swarmer 1-1), 2:20 p.m. Texas (Pérez 4-2) at Detroit (Brieske 1-5), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 White Sox are off NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Finals Last Night Colorado Avalanche 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3 – OT (COL Leads 1-0) Avalanche 4, Lightning 3 – OT – Avalanche beat Lightning in OT to open Stanley Cup Final Andre Burakovsky scored 1:23 into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche opened the Stanley Cup Final with a 4-3 victory over the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night. Burakovsky ended it after the Avalanche failed to score on a power play that began late in regulation when three-time champ Patrick Maroon put the puck over the glass. Burakovsky is one of only two Avalanche players who have won the Cup. The game likely wouldn’t have even reached OT if not for big penalty kills by the Avalanche, who were 3 for 3 against Tampa Bay’s potent power play. The final kill featured a crucial save by goaltender Darcy Kuemper and a series of clears by Norris Trophy finalist defenseman Cale Makar. NHL – Bettman says NHL projected to set revenue record this season NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league is projecting record revenue this season. Bettman at his annual state of the league address before the Stanley Cup Final estimated revenue will surpass $5.2 billion. The league generated $4.6 billion in the last normal full season in 2018-19. Bettman cited a significant uptick in scoring leading to high ratings and more interest in the game. The increase also stems from new U.S. media rights deals with ESPN and Turner Sports that went into effect this season. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-2) NBA – Warriors lean on history with a chance to close out Celtics Stephen Curry and the Warriors have been within a game of clinching a championship in three of Golden State’s previous five trips to the NBA Finals during his 13-year NBA career. Curry says he’ll lean on that experience when he takes the court at Boston’s TD Garden on Thursday night. The Warriors have a 3-2 lead on the Celtics. The stakes will be equally high for the Celtics, who will try to force a Game 7. Celtics star Jayson Tatum said they’re optimistic, given how they’ve had Game 7 wins in the two prior playoff series. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Phoenix Mercury 93, Indiana Fever 80 – d Mercury 93, Fever 80 – Charles has season-high 29 points, Mercury beat Fever 93-80 Tina Charles scored a season-high 29 points on 11-of-21 shooting, Diana Taurasi hit four 3-pointers and finished with 17 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 93-80. Diamond DeShields finished with 16 points and Skylar Diggins-Smith scored 13 for Phoenix (6-9). The Mercury have won four of their last five games following a seven-game losing streak. Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana with 20 points on 10-of-20 shooting. Golf – US Open – US Open turns focus from Saudi money to golf’s toughest test The U.S. Open starts Thursday and not a moment too soon for those interested in golf. The talk all week at The Country Club outside of Boston has been more about the Saudi-funded LIV Golf league instead of thick rough and firm greens. This isn’t the first time an American major was overshadowed by controversy. The 1990 PGA Championship at Shoal Creek was under scrutiny because the club initially resisted having a Black member. The 2003 Masters was all about Martha Burk and her demand the club have a female member. Now the focus at Brookline finally turns to golf after endless chatter about Saudi money. FIFA – FIFA to announce 2026 World Cup US sites, paring from 17 FIFA plans to announce the 2026 World Cup sites, trimming the U.S. list from 17 to 10-12. Three sites are planned in Mexico and two are likely in Canada. In the first 48-nation World Cup, soccer’s governing body planned 60 games in the U.S., including all from the quarterfinals on, and 10 each in Mexico and Canada. Just two of the contending stadiums hosted games in 1994, Pasadena’s Rose Bowl joined by Orlando’s Camping World Stadium. Dozens of training complexes have been built for MLS teams, creating a far better infrastructure NFL – Commanders’ Snyder won’t testify before US House committee A lawyer representing Dan Snyder told Congress the Washington Commanders owner will not testify at a hearing next week as part of an investigation into the team’s workplace conduct. Attorney Karen Patton Seymour sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform explaining the reasons why Snyder was declining the invitation to appear at the June 22 hearing. Among the reasons given were a lack of assurance about the scope of questioning and a scheduling conflict. A spokeswoman for the committee says it intends to move forward with the hearing as scheduled. An NFL spokesman says Commissioner Roger Goodell plans to testify virtually. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday West Michigan 12, Peoria 4 Lansing 9, Fort Wayne 5 Great Lakes 5, Wisconsin 0 South Bend 15, Quad Cities 8 Today Fort Wayne at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. Wisconsin at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Quad Cities, 7:30 p.m. West Michigan at Peoria, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Tonight Girls Soccer – State Semifinals Division 2 at Byron Center GR Forest Hills Central 3, Gull Lake 1 Today Softball – State Semifinals Division 2 at Michigan State University Lakeshore vs. Escanaba, 5:30 p.m. Division 1 at Michigan State University Mattawan vs. Allen Park, 10:00 a.mSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Chicago White Sox 13, Detroit Tigers 0 San Diego Padres 19, Chicago Cubs 5 White Sox 13, Tigers 0 – Moncada’s five hits, five RBIs lead White Sox past Tigers Yoán Moncada had five hits and five RBIs, including a run-scoring single against Kody Clemens, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 13-0 for a three-game series sweep. Moncada, Danny Mendick and Seby Zavala homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of five before arriving in Detroit. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch gave up on his pitching staff after six innings, using Harold Castro for the seventh, Clemens for the eighth, and Tucker Barnhart for the ninth. It was the pitching debut for the 26-year-old Clemens, whose father, Roger, won seven Cy Young Awards. Padres 19, Cubs 5 – Machado homers in hit parade, Padres pelt Cubs 19-5. Manny Machado lined a single for his 1,500th hit and hit a two-run homer in a four-RBI night to help the San Diego Padres beat the reeling Chicago Cubs 19-5. Machado was one of five Padres with three hits as San Diego routed the Cubs for the second straight hot night at Wrigley Field. Jorge Alfaro added a two-run homer and three RBIs as San Diego improved to 40-24 in winning its third straight and seventh in nine. Jake Cronenworth and Jurickson Profar each doubled twice and had three hits for the Padres, who entered the game percentage points behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West. The Cubs have lost nine straight. Today San Diego (Musgrove 7-0) at Chicago Cubs (Swarmer 1-1), 2:20 p.m. Texas (Pérez 4-2) at Detroit (Brieske 1-5), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 White Sox are off NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Finals Last Night Colorado Avalanche 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3 – OT (COL Leads 1-0) Avalanche 4, Lightning 3 – OT – Avalanche beat Lightning in OT to open Stanley Cup Final Andre Burakovsky scored 1:23 into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche opened the Stanley Cup Final with a 4-3 victory over the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night. Burakovsky ended it after the Avalanche failed to score on a power play that began late in regulation when three-time champ Patrick Maroon put the puck over the glass. Burakovsky is one of only two Avalanche players who have won the Cup. The game likely wouldn’t have even reached OT if not for big penalty kills by the Avalanche, who were 3 for 3 against Tampa Bay’s potent power play. The final kill featured a crucial save by goaltender Darcy Kuemper and a series of clears by Norris Trophy finalist defenseman Cale Makar. NHL – Bettman says NHL projected to set revenue record this season NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league is projecting record revenue this season. Bettman at his annual state of the league address before the Stanley Cup Final estimated revenue will surpass $5.2 billion. The league generated $4.6 billion in the last normal full season in 2018-19. Bettman cited a significant uptick in scoring leading to high ratings and more interest in the game. The increase also stems from new U.S. media rights deals with ESPN and Turner Sports that went into effect this season. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-2) NBA – Warriors lean on history with a chance to close out Celtics Stephen Curry and the Warriors have been within a game of clinching a championship in three of Golden State’s previous five trips to the NBA Finals during his 13-year NBA career. Curry says he’ll lean on that experience when he takes the court at Boston’s TD Garden on Thursday night. The Warriors have a 3-2 lead on the Celtics. The stakes will be equally high for the Celtics, who will try to force a Game 7. Celtics star Jayson Tatum said they’re optimistic, given how they’ve had Game 7 wins in the two prior playoff series. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Phoenix Mercury 93, Indiana Fever 80 – d Mercury 93, Fever 80 – Charles has season-high 29 points, Mercury beat Fever 93-80 Tina Charles scored a season-high 29 points on 11-of-21 shooting, Diana Taurasi hit four 3-pointers and finished with 17 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 93-80. Diamond DeShields finished with 16 points and Skylar Diggins-Smith scored 13 for Phoenix (6-9). The Mercury have won four of their last five games following a seven-game losing streak. Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana with 20 points on 10-of-20 shooting. Golf – US Open – US Open turns focus from Saudi money to golf’s toughest test The U.S. Open starts Thursday and not a moment too soon for those interested in golf. The talk all week at The Country Club outside of Boston has been more about the Saudi-funded LIV Golf league instead of thick rough and firm greens. This isn’t the first time an American major was overshadowed by controversy. The 1990 PGA Championship at Shoal Creek was under scrutiny because the club initially resisted having a Black member. The 2003 Masters was all about Martha Burk and her demand the club have a female member. Now the focus at Brookline finally turns to golf after endless chatter about Saudi money. FIFA – FIFA to announce 2026 World Cup US sites, paring from 17 FIFA plans to announce the 2026 World Cup sites, trimming the U.S. list from 17 to 10-12. Three sites are planned in Mexico and two are likely in Canada. In the first 48-nation World Cup, soccer’s governing body planned 60 games in the U.S., including all from the quarterfinals on, and 10 each in Mexico and Canada. Just two of the contending stadiums hosted games in 1994, Pasadena’s Rose Bowl joined by Orlando’s Camping World Stadium. Dozens of training complexes have been built for MLS teams, creating a far better infrastructure NFL – Commanders’ Snyder won’t testify before US House committee A lawyer representing Dan Snyder told Congress the Washington Commanders owner will not testify at a hearing next week as part of an investigation into the team’s workplace conduct. Attorney Karen Patton Seymour sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform explaining the reasons why Snyder was declining the invitation to appear at the June 22 hearing. Among the reasons given were a lack of assurance about the scope of questioning and a scheduling conflict. A spokeswoman for the committee says it intends to move forward with the hearing as scheduled. An NFL spokesman says Commissioner Roger Goodell plans to testify virtually. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday West Michigan 12, Peoria 4 Lansing 9, Fort Wayne 5 Great Lakes 5, Wisconsin 0 South Bend 15, Quad Cities 8 Today Fort Wayne at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. Wisconsin at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Quad Cities, 7:30 p.m. West Michigan at Peoria, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Tonight Girls Soccer – State Semifinals Division 2 at Byron Center GR Forest Hills Central 3, Gull Lake 1 Today Softball – State Semifinals Division 2 at Michigan State University Lakeshore vs. Escanaba, 5:30 p.m. Division 1 at Michigan State University Mattawan vs. Allen Park, 10:00 a.mSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Chicago White Sox 13, Detroit Tigers 0 San Diego Padres 19, Chicago Cubs 5 White Sox 13, Tigers 0 – Moncada’s five hits, five RBIs lead White Sox past Tigers Yoán Moncada had five hits and five RBIs, including a run-scoring single against Kody Clemens, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 13-0 for a three-game series sweep. Moncada, Danny Mendick and Seby Zavala homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of five before arriving in Detroit. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch gave up on his pitching staff after six innings, using Harold Castro for the seventh, Clemens for the eighth, and Tucker Barnhart for the ninth. It was the pitching debut for the 26-year-old Clemens, whose father, Roger, won seven Cy Young Awards. Padres 19, Cubs 5 – Machado homers in hit parade, Padres pelt Cubs 19-5. Manny Machado lined a single for his 1,500th hit and hit a two-run homer in a four-RBI night to help the San Diego Padres beat the reeling Chicago Cubs 19-5. Machado was one of five Padres with three hits as San Diego routed the Cubs for the second straight hot night at Wrigley Field. Jorge Alfaro added a two-run homer and three RBIs as San Diego improved to 40-24 in winning its third straight and seventh in nine. Jake Cronenworth and Jurickson Profar each doubled twice and had three hits for the Padres, who entered the game percentage points behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West. The Cubs have lost nine straight. Today San Diego (Musgrove 7-0) at Chicago Cubs (Swarmer 1-1), 2:20 p.m. Texas (Pérez 4-2) at Detroit (Brieske 1-5), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 White Sox are off NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Finals Last Night Colorado Avalanche 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3 – OT (COL Leads 1-0) Avalanche 4, Lightning 3 – OT – Avalanche beat Lightning in OT to open Stanley Cup Final Andre Burakovsky scored 1:23 into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche opened the Stanley Cup Final with a 4-3 victory over the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night. Burakovsky ended it after the Avalanche failed to score on a power play that began late in regulation when three-time champ Patrick Maroon put the puck over the glass. Burakovsky is one of only two Avalanche players who have won the Cup. The game likely wouldn’t have even reached OT if not for big penalty kills by the Avalanche, who were 3 for 3 against Tampa Bay’s potent power play. The final kill featured a crucial save by goaltender Darcy Kuemper and a series of clears by Norris Trophy finalist defenseman Cale Makar. NHL – Bettman says NHL projected to set revenue record this season NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league is projecting record revenue this season. Bettman at his annual state of the league address before the Stanley Cup Final estimated revenue will surpass $5.2 billion. The league generated $4.6 billion in the last normal full season in 2018-19. Bettman cited a significant uptick in scoring leading to high ratings and more interest in the game. The increase also stems from new U.S. media rights deals with ESPN and Turner Sports that went into effect this season. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-2) NBA – Warriors lean on history with a chance to close out Celtics Stephen Curry and the Warriors have been within a game of clinching a championship in three of Golden State’s previous five trips to the NBA Finals during his 13-year NBA career. Curry says he’ll lean on that experience when he takes the court at Boston’s TD Garden on Thursday night. The Warriors have a 3-2 lead on the Celtics. The stakes will be equally high for the Celtics, who will try to force a Game 7. Celtics star Jayson Tatum said they’re optimistic, given how they’ve had Game 7 wins in the two prior playoff series. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Phoenix Mercury 93, Indiana Fever 80 – d Mercury 93, Fever 80 – Charles has season-high 29 points, Mercury beat Fever 93-80 Tina Charles scored a season-high 29 points on 11-of-21 shooting, Diana Taurasi hit four 3-pointers and finished with 17 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 93-80. Diamond DeShields finished with 16 points and Skylar Diggins-Smith scored 13 for Phoenix (6-9). The Mercury have won four of their last five games following a seven-game losing streak. Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana with 20 points on 10-of-20 shooting. Golf – US Open – US Open turns focus from Saudi money to golf’s toughest test The U.S. Open starts Thursday and not a moment too soon for those interested in golf. The talk all week at The Country Club outside of Boston has been more about the Saudi-funded LIV Golf league instead of thick rough and firm greens. This isn’t the first time an American major was overshadowed by controversy. The 1990 PGA Championship at Shoal Creek was under scrutiny because the club initially resisted having a Black member. The 2003 Masters was all about Martha Burk and her demand the club have a female member. Now the focus at Brookline finally turns to golf after endless chatter about Saudi money. FIFA – FIFA to announce 2026 World Cup US sites, paring from 17 FIFA plans to announce the 2026 World Cup sites, trimming the U.S. list from 17 to 10-12. Three sites are planned in Mexico and two are likely in Canada. In the first 48-nation World Cup, soccer’s governing body planned 60 games in the U.S., including all from the quarterfinals on, and 10 each in Mexico and Canada. Just two of the contending stadiums hosted games in 1994, Pasadena’s Rose Bowl joined by Orlando’s Camping World Stadium. Dozens of training complexes have been built for MLS teams, creating a far better infrastructure NFL – Commanders’ Snyder won’t testify before US House committee A lawyer representing Dan Snyder told Congress the Washington Commanders owner will not testify at a hearing next week as part of an investigation into the team’s workplace conduct. Attorney Karen Patton Seymour sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform explaining the reasons why Snyder was declining the invitation to appear at the June 22 hearing. Among the reasons given were a lack of assurance about the scope of questioning and a scheduling conflict. A spokeswoman for the committee says it intends to move forward with the hearing as scheduled. An NFL spokesman says Commissioner Roger Goodell plans to testify virtually. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday West Michigan 12, Peoria 4 Lansing 9, Fort Wayne 5 Great Lakes 5, Wisconsin 0 South Bend 15, Quad Cities 8 Today Fort Wayne at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. Wisconsin at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Quad Cities, 7:30 p.m. West Michigan at Peoria, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Tonight Girls Soccer – State Semifinals Division 2 at Byron Center GR Forest Hills Central 3, Gull Lake 1 Today Softball – State Semifinals Division 2 at Michigan State University Lakeshore vs. Escanaba, 5:30 p.m. Division 1 at Michigan State University Mattawan vs. Allen Park, 10:00 a.mSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1 Chicago Cubs at Baltimore Orioles, PPD Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Tigers 3, Pirates 1 – Another strong start by Faedo propels Tigers by Pirates 3-1 Miguel Cabrera hit a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers completed a two-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 3-1 victory. Harold Castro led off the eighth with a single against Wil Crowe and Jonathan Schoop followed with a bloop single to shallow center. Cabrera stepped in and delivered a sharp single up the middle, scoring Castro from second as Reynolds’ throw home sailed well up the first-base line. Daz Cameron doubled and tripled while driving in two runs for Detroit. Alex Faedo went 5 innings, only allowing 1 run on three hits, while striking out 7. Pittsburgh rookie Jack Suwinski hit his seventh home run for the Pirates. Cubs at Orioles, PPD, Rain – Cubs-Orioles postponed by rain; makeup set for Aug. 18 The interleague game between the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles was postponed by a relentless rain shower that started shortly before the scheduled start and never let up. Wednesday’s ill-fated finale of the two-game series will be made up Aug. 18, previously an off day for both teams. This was slated to be Chicago’s only visit to Baltimore in 2022, but now the Cubs will have to make a detour late this summer in an effort to earn a delayed split. The Cubs wrap a three-game set in Washington on Aug. 17, and the Orioles will be coming off a series in Toronto before hosting Boston on the 19th. Dodgers 4, White Sox 1 – Gonsolin, Smith, Bellinger lead Dodgers over White Sox 4-1 Tony Gonsolin improved to 7-0, tossing three-hit ball over six innings, and Will Smith and Cody Bellinger homered early to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Smith hit a two-run drive in the first inning, and Bellinger made it 3-0 when he connected leading off the second against Johnny Cueto. That was all Gonsolin needed. The 28-year-old right-hander struck out five and walked one while lowering his National League-best ERA to 1.58. The only run he allowed was when Jake Burger homered leading off the fifth. Cueto dropped his third straight start. The two-time All-Star went six innings, allowing three runs and four hits, and Chicago’s three-game win streak ended. Today L.A. Dodgers (Anderson 7-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 4-2), 2:10 p.m. Tigers and Cubs are off NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 116, Golden State Warriors 100 (BOS Leads 2-1) Celtics 116, Warriors 100 – Celtics beat Warriors 116-100, take 2-1 lead in NBA Finals Jaylen Brown scored 27 points, Jayson Tatum added 26 and the Boston Celtics beat back another third-quarter onslaught by the Golden State Warriors in a 116-100 victory that gave them a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Marcus Smart added 24 points. Stephen Curry led Golden State with 31 points and six 3-pointers. He had 15 points in a 33-25 third quarter by the Warriors but was hurt late in the fourth after Al Horford rolled into his leg on a loose ball. It was similar to a play during the regular season in which Smart dove into Curry’s legs while chasing a loose ball. NBA – Net change: Warriors find Boston baskets set too high The Golden State Warriors arrived at the TD Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals to find that the basket they were shooting at in warmups was the wrong height. A 10-foot wooden pole was brought in to measure, and it confirmed that the basket was a couple of inches too high. It was quickly adjusted. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said during his pregame media availability that he wasn’t aware of the issue, but it wasn’t uncommon. Kerr then took the opportunity to needle the league for the finals’ late start times, saying: “It’s a good thing the game starts at midnight. We’ll have plenty of time to fix it.” NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at New York Rangers, 8:00 p.m. (Series tied 2-2) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Connecticut Sun 88, Indiana Fever 69 Washington Mystics 84, Chicago Sky 82 Sun 88, Fever 69 – Connecticut beats Indiana 88-69 for 4th straight victory Brionna Jones had 18 points and nine rebounds, Jonquel Jones added 16 points and nine rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Indiana Fever 88-69 for their fourth straight victory. DeWanna Bonner scored 12 points and Alyssa Thomas had 11 points, nine rebounds and five assists for Connecticut (10-3). DiJonai Carrington went 5 of 5 from the floor for the second straight game and finished with 12 points. Bonner moved into a tie for 17th in WNBA history for 3-pointers after a make early in the third quarter. NaLyssa Smith led Indiana with a season-high 19 points. Danielle Robinson added 12 points and Queen Egbo had 10. The Fever shot just 37.5% from the field, including 3 of 21 from distance. Mystics 84, Sky 82 – Cloud makes go-ahead free throw, Mystics hold off Sky 84-82 Ariel Atkins scored 19 points, Natasha Cloud made two free throws with six seconds left and the Washington Mystics held off the Chicago Sky 84-82 to avenge a series loss Sunday. Washington closed the first half on an 11-3 run to take a 45-40 lead and extended it to 57-42 after scoring 12 of the opening 14 points of the third. But the Mystics were held to just 15 points in the fourth as Chicago battled back. Chicago’s Candace Parker had a shot blocked but got her own rebound and converted a three-point play with 27.9 to tie it at 82. Cloud dribbled down the clock, drove to the basket and was fouled before making two free throws. Chicago got it inside to Parker, but her left-handed layup didn’t hit the rim. Nassar – Simone Biles, other women seek $1B-plus from FBI over Nassar Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor. There’s no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts. But the agents failed to act, leaving Nassar free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. Individual lawsuits could follow the tort claims filed Wednesday. Claimants include Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists. An email seeking comment was sent to the FBI. In remarks to Congress last year, FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged major mistakes. NCAATF – Notre Dame’s Jacobs wins 10K title at NCAA championships Notre Dame junior Dylan Jacobs overcame a fall to win the 10,000 meters at the opening day of the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Wednesday. Jacobs took the lead on the final lap and held off runner-up Alex Maier of Oklahoma State to cross the finish line in 28 minutes, 12.32 seconds. Northern Arizona’s Abdihamid Nur was third. Southeast Missouri State senior Logan Blomquist won the hammer with a personal best of 240 feet, 8 inches (73.37 meters) in the final round. Tennessee freshman Wayne Pinnock won the men’s long jump at 26-3 (8 meters). Texas senior Adrian Piperi won the shot put at 70-7 1/4 (21.52 meters). NFL – Bears had workout canceled for violating NFL contact rules Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus says the team had to cancel an offseason workout this week because they violated NFL rules by having live contact in a session last month. Eberflus said the contact that occurred was because of overzealous players and not the team’s practice structure. He said neither he nor the organization was fined, and the Bears found out Monday evening that Tuesday’s OTA session was canceled. The Bears were back on the field on Wednesday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, PPD to 6/10 Cedar Rapids Kernels 12, South Bend Cubs 5 Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, PPD to 6/9 Today Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 5:35 p.m. (DH) Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake 1, Mason 0 Zeeland West 2, St. Joseph 1 Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan 5, Hudsonville 2 Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, PPD Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, PPD Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, PPD Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, PPD Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, PPD Today Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, 6:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 1 At Caledonia Portage Central vs. Hudsonville, 6:00 p.m. Division 3 at Otsego Otsego vs. Hudsonville Unity Christian, 6:00 p.m. Friday Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Zeeland West, 6:30 p.m. Division 4 at Portage Northern Our Lady of the Lake vs. Kalamazoo Christian, 6:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1 Chicago Cubs at Baltimore Orioles, PPD Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Tigers 3, Pirates 1 – Another strong start by Faedo propels Tigers by Pirates 3-1 Miguel Cabrera hit a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers completed a two-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 3-1 victory. Harold Castro led off the eighth with a single against Wil Crowe and Jonathan Schoop followed with a bloop single to shallow center. Cabrera stepped in and delivered a sharp single up the middle, scoring Castro from second as Reynolds’ throw home sailed well up the first-base line. Daz Cameron doubled and tripled while driving in two runs for Detroit. Alex Faedo went 5 innings, only allowing 1 run on three hits, while striking out 7. Pittsburgh rookie Jack Suwinski hit his seventh home run for the Pirates. Cubs at Orioles, PPD, Rain – Cubs-Orioles postponed by rain; makeup set for Aug. 18 The interleague game between the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles was postponed by a relentless rain shower that started shortly before the scheduled start and never let up. Wednesday’s ill-fated finale of the two-game series will be made up Aug. 18, previously an off day for both teams. This was slated to be Chicago’s only visit to Baltimore in 2022, but now the Cubs will have to make a detour late this summer in an effort to earn a delayed split. The Cubs wrap a three-game set in Washington on Aug. 17, and the Orioles will be coming off a series in Toronto before hosting Boston on the 19th. Dodgers 4, White Sox 1 – Gonsolin, Smith, Bellinger lead Dodgers over White Sox 4-1 Tony Gonsolin improved to 7-0, tossing three-hit ball over six innings, and Will Smith and Cody Bellinger homered early to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Smith hit a two-run drive in the first inning, and Bellinger made it 3-0 when he connected leading off the second against Johnny Cueto. That was all Gonsolin needed. The 28-year-old right-hander struck out five and walked one while lowering his National League-best ERA to 1.58. The only run he allowed was when Jake Burger homered leading off the fifth. Cueto dropped his third straight start. The two-time All-Star went six innings, allowing three runs and four hits, and Chicago’s three-game win streak ended. Today L.A. Dodgers (Anderson 7-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 4-2), 2:10 p.m. Tigers and Cubs are off NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 116, Golden State Warriors 100 (BOS Leads 2-1) Celtics 116, Warriors 100 – Celtics beat Warriors 116-100, take 2-1 lead in NBA Finals Jaylen Brown scored 27 points, Jayson Tatum added 26 and the Boston Celtics beat back another third-quarter onslaught by the Golden State Warriors in a 116-100 victory that gave them a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Marcus Smart added 24 points. Stephen Curry led Golden State with 31 points and six 3-pointers. He had 15 points in a 33-25 third quarter by the Warriors but was hurt late in the fourth after Al Horford rolled into his leg on a loose ball. It was similar to a play during the regular season in which Smart dove into Curry’s legs while chasing a loose ball. NBA – Net change: Warriors find Boston baskets set too high The Golden State Warriors arrived at the TD Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals to find that the basket they were shooting at in warmups was the wrong height. A 10-foot wooden pole was brought in to measure, and it confirmed that the basket was a couple of inches too high. It was quickly adjusted. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said during his pregame media availability that he wasn’t aware of the issue, but it wasn’t uncommon. Kerr then took the opportunity to needle the league for the finals’ late start times, saying: “It’s a good thing the game starts at midnight. We’ll have plenty of time to fix it.” NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at New York Rangers, 8:00 p.m. (Series tied 2-2) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Connecticut Sun 88, Indiana Fever 69 Washington Mystics 84, Chicago Sky 82 Sun 88, Fever 69 – Connecticut beats Indiana 88-69 for 4th straight victory Brionna Jones had 18 points and nine rebounds, Jonquel Jones added 16 points and nine rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Indiana Fever 88-69 for their fourth straight victory. DeWanna Bonner scored 12 points and Alyssa Thomas had 11 points, nine rebounds and five assists for Connecticut (10-3). DiJonai Carrington went 5 of 5 from the floor for the second straight game and finished with 12 points. Bonner moved into a tie for 17th in WNBA history for 3-pointers after a make early in the third quarter. NaLyssa Smith led Indiana with a season-high 19 points. Danielle Robinson added 12 points and Queen Egbo had 10. The Fever shot just 37.5% from the field, including 3 of 21 from distance. Mystics 84, Sky 82 – Cloud makes go-ahead free throw, Mystics hold off Sky 84-82 Ariel Atkins scored 19 points, Natasha Cloud made two free throws with six seconds left and the Washington Mystics held off the Chicago Sky 84-82 to avenge a series loss Sunday. Washington closed the first half on an 11-3 run to take a 45-40 lead and extended it to 57-42 after scoring 12 of the opening 14 points of the third. But the Mystics were held to just 15 points in the fourth as Chicago battled back. Chicago’s Candace Parker had a shot blocked but got her own rebound and converted a three-point play with 27.9 to tie it at 82. Cloud dribbled down the clock, drove to the basket and was fouled before making two free throws. Chicago got it inside to Parker, but her left-handed layup didn’t hit the rim. Nassar – Simone Biles, other women seek $1B-plus from FBI over Nassar Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor. There’s no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts. But the agents failed to act, leaving Nassar free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. Individual lawsuits could follow the tort claims filed Wednesday. Claimants include Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists. An email seeking comment was sent to the FBI. In remarks to Congress last year, FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged major mistakes. NCAATF – Notre Dame’s Jacobs wins 10K title at NCAA championships Notre Dame junior Dylan Jacobs overcame a fall to win the 10,000 meters at the opening day of the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Wednesday. Jacobs took the lead on the final lap and held off runner-up Alex Maier of Oklahoma State to cross the finish line in 28 minutes, 12.32 seconds. Northern Arizona’s Abdihamid Nur was third. Southeast Missouri State senior Logan Blomquist won the hammer with a personal best of 240 feet, 8 inches (73.37 meters) in the final round. Tennessee freshman Wayne Pinnock won the men’s long jump at 26-3 (8 meters). Texas senior Adrian Piperi won the shot put at 70-7 1/4 (21.52 meters). NFL – Bears had workout canceled for violating NFL contact rules Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus says the team had to cancel an offseason workout this week because they violated NFL rules by having live contact in a session last month. Eberflus said the contact that occurred was because of overzealous players and not the team’s practice structure. He said neither he nor the organization was fined, and the Bears found out Monday evening that Tuesday’s OTA session was canceled. The Bears were back on the field on Wednesday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, PPD to 6/10 Cedar Rapids Kernels 12, South Bend Cubs 5 Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, PPD to 6/9 Today Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 5:35 p.m. (DH) Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake 1, Mason 0 Zeeland West 2, St. Joseph 1 Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan 5, Hudsonville 2 Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, PPD Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, PPD Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, PPD Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, PPD Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, PPD Today Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, 6:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 1 At Caledonia Portage Central vs. Hudsonville, 6:00 p.m. Division 3 at Otsego Otsego vs. Hudsonville Unity Christian, 6:00 p.m. Friday Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Zeeland West, 6:30 p.m. Division 4 at Portage Northern Our Lady of the Lake vs. Kalamazoo Christian, 6:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1 Chicago Cubs at Baltimore Orioles, PPD Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Tigers 3, Pirates 1 – Another strong start by Faedo propels Tigers by Pirates 3-1 Miguel Cabrera hit a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers completed a two-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 3-1 victory. Harold Castro led off the eighth with a single against Wil Crowe and Jonathan Schoop followed with a bloop single to shallow center. Cabrera stepped in and delivered a sharp single up the middle, scoring Castro from second as Reynolds' throw home sailed well up the first-base line. Daz Cameron doubled and tripled while driving in two runs for Detroit. Alex Faedo went 5 innings, only allowing 1 run on three hits, while striking out 7. Pittsburgh rookie Jack Suwinski hit his seventh home run for the Pirates. Cubs at Orioles, PPD, Rain – Cubs-Orioles postponed by rain; makeup set for Aug. 18 The interleague game between the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles was postponed by a relentless rain shower that started shortly before the scheduled start and never let up. Wednesday's ill-fated finale of the two-game series will be made up Aug. 18, previously an off day for both teams. This was slated to be Chicago's only visit to Baltimore in 2022, but now the Cubs will have to make a detour late this summer in an effort to earn a delayed split. The Cubs wrap a three-game set in Washington on Aug. 17, and the Orioles will be coming off a series in Toronto before hosting Boston on the 19th. Dodgers 4, White Sox 1 – Gonsolin, Smith, Bellinger lead Dodgers over White Sox 4-1 Tony Gonsolin improved to 7-0, tossing three-hit ball over six innings, and Will Smith and Cody Bellinger homered early to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Smith hit a two-run drive in the first inning, and Bellinger made it 3-0 when he connected leading off the second against Johnny Cueto. That was all Gonsolin needed. The 28-year-old right-hander struck out five and walked one while lowering his National League-best ERA to 1.58. The only run he allowed was when Jake Burger homered leading off the fifth. Cueto dropped his third straight start. The two-time All-Star went six innings, allowing three runs and four hits, and Chicago's three-game win streak ended. Today L.A. Dodgers (Anderson 7-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 4-2), 2:10 p.m. Tigers and Cubs are off NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 116, Golden State Warriors 100 (BOS Leads 2-1) Celtics 116, Warriors 100 – Celtics beat Warriors 116-100, take 2-1 lead in NBA Finals Jaylen Brown scored 27 points, Jayson Tatum added 26 and the Boston Celtics beat back another third-quarter onslaught by the Golden State Warriors in a 116-100 victory that gave them a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Marcus Smart added 24 points. Stephen Curry led Golden State with 31 points and six 3-pointers. He had 15 points in a 33-25 third quarter by the Warriors but was hurt late in the fourth after Al Horford rolled into his leg on a loose ball. It was similar to a play during the regular season in which Smart dove into Curry's legs while chasing a loose ball. NBA – Net change: Warriors find Boston baskets set too high The Golden State Warriors arrived at the TD Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals to find that the basket they were shooting at in warmups was the wrong height. A 10-foot wooden pole was brought in to measure, and it confirmed that the basket was a couple of inches too high. It was quickly adjusted. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said during his pregame media availability that he wasn't aware of the issue, but it wasn't uncommon. Kerr then took the opportunity to needle the league for the finals' late start times,
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1 Chicago Cubs at Baltimore Orioles, PPD Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Tigers 3, Pirates 1 – Another strong start by Faedo propels Tigers by Pirates 3-1 Miguel Cabrera hit a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers completed a two-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 3-1 victory. Harold Castro led off the eighth with a single against Wil Crowe and Jonathan Schoop followed with a bloop single to shallow center. Cabrera stepped in and delivered a sharp single up the middle, scoring Castro from second as Reynolds’ throw home sailed well up the first-base line. Daz Cameron doubled and tripled while driving in two runs for Detroit. Alex Faedo went 5 innings, only allowing 1 run on three hits, while striking out 7. Pittsburgh rookie Jack Suwinski hit his seventh home run for the Pirates. Cubs at Orioles, PPD, Rain – Cubs-Orioles postponed by rain; makeup set for Aug. 18 The interleague game between the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles was postponed by a relentless rain shower that started shortly before the scheduled start and never let up. Wednesday’s ill-fated finale of the two-game series will be made up Aug. 18, previously an off day for both teams. This was slated to be Chicago’s only visit to Baltimore in 2022, but now the Cubs will have to make a detour late this summer in an effort to earn a delayed split. The Cubs wrap a three-game set in Washington on Aug. 17, and the Orioles will be coming off a series in Toronto before hosting Boston on the 19th. Dodgers 4, White Sox 1 – Gonsolin, Smith, Bellinger lead Dodgers over White Sox 4-1 Tony Gonsolin improved to 7-0, tossing three-hit ball over six innings, and Will Smith and Cody Bellinger homered early to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Smith hit a two-run drive in the first inning, and Bellinger made it 3-0 when he connected leading off the second against Johnny Cueto. That was all Gonsolin needed. The 28-year-old right-hander struck out five and walked one while lowering his National League-best ERA to 1.58. The only run he allowed was when Jake Burger homered leading off the fifth. Cueto dropped his third straight start. The two-time All-Star went six innings, allowing three runs and four hits, and Chicago’s three-game win streak ended. Today L.A. Dodgers (Anderson 7-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 4-2), 2:10 p.m. Tigers and Cubs are off NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 116, Golden State Warriors 100 (BOS Leads 2-1) Celtics 116, Warriors 100 – Celtics beat Warriors 116-100, take 2-1 lead in NBA Finals Jaylen Brown scored 27 points, Jayson Tatum added 26 and the Boston Celtics beat back another third-quarter onslaught by the Golden State Warriors in a 116-100 victory that gave them a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Marcus Smart added 24 points. Stephen Curry led Golden State with 31 points and six 3-pointers. He had 15 points in a 33-25 third quarter by the Warriors but was hurt late in the fourth after Al Horford rolled into his leg on a loose ball. It was similar to a play during the regular season in which Smart dove into Curry’s legs while chasing a loose ball. NBA – Net change: Warriors find Boston baskets set too high The Golden State Warriors arrived at the TD Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals to find that the basket they were shooting at in warmups was the wrong height. A 10-foot wooden pole was brought in to measure, and it confirmed that the basket was a couple of inches too high. It was quickly adjusted. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said during his pregame media availability that he wasn’t aware of the issue, but it wasn’t uncommon. Kerr then took the opportunity to needle the league for the finals’ late start times, saying: “It’s a good thing the game starts at midnight. We’ll have plenty of time to fix it.” NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at New York Rangers, 8:00 p.m. (Series tied 2-2) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Connecticut Sun 88, Indiana Fever 69 Washington Mystics 84, Chicago Sky 82 Sun 88, Fever 69 – Connecticut beats Indiana 88-69 for 4th straight victory Brionna Jones had 18 points and nine rebounds, Jonquel Jones added 16 points and nine rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Indiana Fever 88-69 for their fourth straight victory. DeWanna Bonner scored 12 points and Alyssa Thomas had 11 points, nine rebounds and five assists for Connecticut (10-3). DiJonai Carrington went 5 of 5 from the floor for the second straight game and finished with 12 points. Bonner moved into a tie for 17th in WNBA history for 3-pointers after a make early in the third quarter. NaLyssa Smith led Indiana with a season-high 19 points. Danielle Robinson added 12 points and Queen Egbo had 10. The Fever shot just 37.5% from the field, including 3 of 21 from distance. Mystics 84, Sky 82 – Cloud makes go-ahead free throw, Mystics hold off Sky 84-82 Ariel Atkins scored 19 points, Natasha Cloud made two free throws with six seconds left and the Washington Mystics held off the Chicago Sky 84-82 to avenge a series loss Sunday. Washington closed the first half on an 11-3 run to take a 45-40 lead and extended it to 57-42 after scoring 12 of the opening 14 points of the third. But the Mystics were held to just 15 points in the fourth as Chicago battled back. Chicago’s Candace Parker had a shot blocked but got her own rebound and converted a three-point play with 27.9 to tie it at 82. Cloud dribbled down the clock, drove to the basket and was fouled before making two free throws. Chicago got it inside to Parker, but her left-handed layup didn’t hit the rim. Nassar – Simone Biles, other women seek $1B-plus from FBI over Nassar Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor. There’s no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts. But the agents failed to act, leaving Nassar free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. Individual lawsuits could follow the tort claims filed Wednesday. Claimants include Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists. An email seeking comment was sent to the FBI. In remarks to Congress last year, FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged major mistakes. NCAATF – Notre Dame’s Jacobs wins 10K title at NCAA championships Notre Dame junior Dylan Jacobs overcame a fall to win the 10,000 meters at the opening day of the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Wednesday. Jacobs took the lead on the final lap and held off runner-up Alex Maier of Oklahoma State to cross the finish line in 28 minutes, 12.32 seconds. Northern Arizona’s Abdihamid Nur was third. Southeast Missouri State senior Logan Blomquist won the hammer with a personal best of 240 feet, 8 inches (73.37 meters) in the final round. Tennessee freshman Wayne Pinnock won the men’s long jump at 26-3 (8 meters). Texas senior Adrian Piperi won the shot put at 70-7 1/4 (21.52 meters). NFL – Bears had workout canceled for violating NFL contact rules Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus says the team had to cancel an offseason workout this week because they violated NFL rules by having live contact in a session last month. Eberflus said the contact that occurred was because of overzealous players and not the team’s practice structure. He said neither he nor the organization was fined, and the Bears found out Monday evening that Tuesday’s OTA session was canceled. The Bears were back on the field on Wednesday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, PPD to 6/10 Cedar Rapids Kernels 12, South Bend Cubs 5 Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, PPD to 6/9 Today Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 5:35 p.m. (DH) Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake 1, Mason 0 Zeeland West 2, St. Joseph 1 Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan 5, Hudsonville 2 Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, PPD Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, PPD Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, PPD Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, PPD Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, PPD Today Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, 6:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 1 At Caledonia Portage Central vs. Hudsonville, 6:00 p.m. Division 3 at Otsego Otsego vs. Hudsonville Unity Christian, 6:00 p.m. Friday Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Zeeland West, 6:30 p.m. Division 4 at Portage Northern Our Lady of the Lake vs. Kalamazoo Christian, 6:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1 Chicago Cubs at Baltimore Orioles, PPD Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Tigers 3, Pirates 1 – Another strong start by Faedo propels Tigers by Pirates 3-1 Miguel Cabrera hit a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers completed a two-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 3-1 victory. Harold Castro led off the eighth with a single against Wil Crowe and Jonathan Schoop followed with a bloop single to shallow center. Cabrera stepped in and delivered a sharp single up the middle, scoring Castro from second as Reynolds’ throw home sailed well up the first-base line. Daz Cameron doubled and tripled while driving in two runs for Detroit. Alex Faedo went 5 innings, only allowing 1 run on three hits, while striking out 7. Pittsburgh rookie Jack Suwinski hit his seventh home run for the Pirates. Cubs at Orioles, PPD, Rain – Cubs-Orioles postponed by rain; makeup set for Aug. 18 The interleague game between the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles was postponed by a relentless rain shower that started shortly before the scheduled start and never let up. Wednesday’s ill-fated finale of the two-game series will be made up Aug. 18, previously an off day for both teams. This was slated to be Chicago’s only visit to Baltimore in 2022, but now the Cubs will have to make a detour late this summer in an effort to earn a delayed split. The Cubs wrap a three-game set in Washington on Aug. 17, and the Orioles will be coming off a series in Toronto before hosting Boston on the 19th. Dodgers 4, White Sox 1 – Gonsolin, Smith, Bellinger lead Dodgers over White Sox 4-1 Tony Gonsolin improved to 7-0, tossing three-hit ball over six innings, and Will Smith and Cody Bellinger homered early to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Smith hit a two-run drive in the first inning, and Bellinger made it 3-0 when he connected leading off the second against Johnny Cueto. That was all Gonsolin needed. The 28-year-old right-hander struck out five and walked one while lowering his National League-best ERA to 1.58. The only run he allowed was when Jake Burger homered leading off the fifth. Cueto dropped his third straight start. The two-time All-Star went six innings, allowing three runs and four hits, and Chicago’s three-game win streak ended. Today L.A. Dodgers (Anderson 7-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 4-2), 2:10 p.m. Tigers and Cubs are off NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 116, Golden State Warriors 100 (BOS Leads 2-1) Celtics 116, Warriors 100 – Celtics beat Warriors 116-100, take 2-1 lead in NBA Finals Jaylen Brown scored 27 points, Jayson Tatum added 26 and the Boston Celtics beat back another third-quarter onslaught by the Golden State Warriors in a 116-100 victory that gave them a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Marcus Smart added 24 points. Stephen Curry led Golden State with 31 points and six 3-pointers. He had 15 points in a 33-25 third quarter by the Warriors but was hurt late in the fourth after Al Horford rolled into his leg on a loose ball. It was similar to a play during the regular season in which Smart dove into Curry’s legs while chasing a loose ball. NBA – Net change: Warriors find Boston baskets set too high The Golden State Warriors arrived at the TD Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals to find that the basket they were shooting at in warmups was the wrong height. A 10-foot wooden pole was brought in to measure, and it confirmed that the basket was a couple of inches too high. It was quickly adjusted. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said during his pregame media availability that he wasn’t aware of the issue, but it wasn’t uncommon. Kerr then took the opportunity to needle the league for the finals’ late start times, saying: “It’s a good thing the game starts at midnight. We’ll have plenty of time to fix it.” NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at New York Rangers, 8:00 p.m. (Series tied 2-2) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Connecticut Sun 88, Indiana Fever 69 Washington Mystics 84, Chicago Sky 82 Sun 88, Fever 69 – Connecticut beats Indiana 88-69 for 4th straight victory Brionna Jones had 18 points and nine rebounds, Jonquel Jones added 16 points and nine rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Indiana Fever 88-69 for their fourth straight victory. DeWanna Bonner scored 12 points and Alyssa Thomas had 11 points, nine rebounds and five assists for Connecticut (10-3). DiJonai Carrington went 5 of 5 from the floor for the second straight game and finished with 12 points. Bonner moved into a tie for 17th in WNBA history for 3-pointers after a make early in the third quarter. NaLyssa Smith led Indiana with a season-high 19 points. Danielle Robinson added 12 points and Queen Egbo had 10. The Fever shot just 37.5% from the field, including 3 of 21 from distance. Mystics 84, Sky 82 – Cloud makes go-ahead free throw, Mystics hold off Sky 84-82 Ariel Atkins scored 19 points, Natasha Cloud made two free throws with six seconds left and the Washington Mystics held off the Chicago Sky 84-82 to avenge a series loss Sunday. Washington closed the first half on an 11-3 run to take a 45-40 lead and extended it to 57-42 after scoring 12 of the opening 14 points of the third. But the Mystics were held to just 15 points in the fourth as Chicago battled back. Chicago’s Candace Parker had a shot blocked but got her own rebound and converted a three-point play with 27.9 to tie it at 82. Cloud dribbled down the clock, drove to the basket and was fouled before making two free throws. Chicago got it inside to Parker, but her left-handed layup didn’t hit the rim. Nassar – Simone Biles, other women seek $1B-plus from FBI over Nassar Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor. There’s no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts. But the agents failed to act, leaving Nassar free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. Individual lawsuits could follow the tort claims filed Wednesday. Claimants include Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists. An email seeking comment was sent to the FBI. In remarks to Congress last year, FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged major mistakes. NCAATF – Notre Dame’s Jacobs wins 10K title at NCAA championships Notre Dame junior Dylan Jacobs overcame a fall to win the 10,000 meters at the opening day of the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Wednesday. Jacobs took the lead on the final lap and held off runner-up Alex Maier of Oklahoma State to cross the finish line in 28 minutes, 12.32 seconds. Northern Arizona’s Abdihamid Nur was third. Southeast Missouri State senior Logan Blomquist won the hammer with a personal best of 240 feet, 8 inches (73.37 meters) in the final round. Tennessee freshman Wayne Pinnock won the men’s long jump at 26-3 (8 meters). Texas senior Adrian Piperi won the shot put at 70-7 1/4 (21.52 meters). NFL – Bears had workout canceled for violating NFL contact rules Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus says the team had to cancel an offseason workout this week because they violated NFL rules by having live contact in a session last month. Eberflus said the contact that occurred was because of overzealous players and not the team’s practice structure. He said neither he nor the organization was fined, and the Bears found out Monday evening that Tuesday’s OTA session was canceled. The Bears were back on the field on Wednesday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, PPD to 6/10 Cedar Rapids Kernels 12, South Bend Cubs 5 Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, PPD to 6/9 Today Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 5:35 p.m. (DH) Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake 1, Mason 0 Zeeland West 2, St. Joseph 1 Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan 5, Hudsonville 2 Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, PPD Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, PPD Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, PPD Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, PPD Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, PPD Today Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, 6:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 1 At Caledonia Portage Central vs. Hudsonville, 6:00 p.m. Division 3 at Otsego Otsego vs. Hudsonville Unity Christian, 6:00 p.m. Friday Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Zeeland West, 6:30 p.m. Division 4 at Portage Northern Our Lady of the Lake vs. Kalamazoo Christian, 6:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1 Chicago Cubs at Baltimore Orioles, PPD Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Tigers 3, Pirates 1 – Another strong start by Faedo propels Tigers by Pirates 3-1 Miguel Cabrera hit a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers completed a two-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 3-1 victory. Harold Castro led off the eighth with a single against Wil Crowe and Jonathan Schoop followed with a bloop single to shallow center. Cabrera stepped in and delivered a sharp single up the middle, scoring Castro from second as Reynolds’ throw home sailed well up the first-base line. Daz Cameron doubled and tripled while driving in two runs for Detroit. Alex Faedo went 5 innings, only allowing 1 run on three hits, while striking out 7. Pittsburgh rookie Jack Suwinski hit his seventh home run for the Pirates. Cubs at Orioles, PPD, Rain – Cubs-Orioles postponed by rain; makeup set for Aug. 18 The interleague game between the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles was postponed by a relentless rain shower that started shortly before the scheduled start and never let up. Wednesday’s ill-fated finale of the two-game series will be made up Aug. 18, previously an off day for both teams. This was slated to be Chicago’s only visit to Baltimore in 2022, but now the Cubs will have to make a detour late this summer in an effort to earn a delayed split. The Cubs wrap a three-game set in Washington on Aug. 17, and the Orioles will be coming off a series in Toronto before hosting Boston on the 19th. Dodgers 4, White Sox 1 – Gonsolin, Smith, Bellinger lead Dodgers over White Sox 4-1 Tony Gonsolin improved to 7-0, tossing three-hit ball over six innings, and Will Smith and Cody Bellinger homered early to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Smith hit a two-run drive in the first inning, and Bellinger made it 3-0 when he connected leading off the second against Johnny Cueto. That was all Gonsolin needed. The 28-year-old right-hander struck out five and walked one while lowering his National League-best ERA to 1.58. The only run he allowed was when Jake Burger homered leading off the fifth. Cueto dropped his third straight start. The two-time All-Star went six innings, allowing three runs and four hits, and Chicago’s three-game win streak ended. Today L.A. Dodgers (Anderson 7-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 4-2), 2:10 p.m. Tigers and Cubs are off NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 116, Golden State Warriors 100 (BOS Leads 2-1) Celtics 116, Warriors 100 – Celtics beat Warriors 116-100, take 2-1 lead in NBA Finals Jaylen Brown scored 27 points, Jayson Tatum added 26 and the Boston Celtics beat back another third-quarter onslaught by the Golden State Warriors in a 116-100 victory that gave them a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Marcus Smart added 24 points. Stephen Curry led Golden State with 31 points and six 3-pointers. He had 15 points in a 33-25 third quarter by the Warriors but was hurt late in the fourth after Al Horford rolled into his leg on a loose ball. It was similar to a play during the regular season in which Smart dove into Curry’s legs while chasing a loose ball. NBA – Net change: Warriors find Boston baskets set too high The Golden State Warriors arrived at the TD Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals to find that the basket they were shooting at in warmups was the wrong height. A 10-foot wooden pole was brought in to measure, and it confirmed that the basket was a couple of inches too high. It was quickly adjusted. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said during his pregame media availability that he wasn’t aware of the issue, but it wasn’t uncommon. Kerr then took the opportunity to needle the league for the finals’ late start times, saying: “It’s a good thing the game starts at midnight. We’ll have plenty of time to fix it.” NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at New York Rangers, 8:00 p.m. (Series tied 2-2) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Connecticut Sun 88, Indiana Fever 69 Washington Mystics 84, Chicago Sky 82 Sun 88, Fever 69 – Connecticut beats Indiana 88-69 for 4th straight victory Brionna Jones had 18 points and nine rebounds, Jonquel Jones added 16 points and nine rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Indiana Fever 88-69 for their fourth straight victory. DeWanna Bonner scored 12 points and Alyssa Thomas had 11 points, nine rebounds and five assists for Connecticut (10-3). DiJonai Carrington went 5 of 5 from the floor for the second straight game and finished with 12 points. Bonner moved into a tie for 17th in WNBA history for 3-pointers after a make early in the third quarter. NaLyssa Smith led Indiana with a season-high 19 points. Danielle Robinson added 12 points and Queen Egbo had 10. The Fever shot just 37.5% from the field, including 3 of 21 from distance. Mystics 84, Sky 82 – Cloud makes go-ahead free throw, Mystics hold off Sky 84-82 Ariel Atkins scored 19 points, Natasha Cloud made two free throws with six seconds left and the Washington Mystics held off the Chicago Sky 84-82 to avenge a series loss Sunday. Washington closed the first half on an 11-3 run to take a 45-40 lead and extended it to 57-42 after scoring 12 of the opening 14 points of the third. But the Mystics were held to just 15 points in the fourth as Chicago battled back. Chicago’s Candace Parker had a shot blocked but got her own rebound and converted a three-point play with 27.9 to tie it at 82. Cloud dribbled down the clock, drove to the basket and was fouled before making two free throws. Chicago got it inside to Parker, but her left-handed layup didn’t hit the rim. Nassar – Simone Biles, other women seek $1B-plus from FBI over Nassar Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the sports doctor. There’s no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts. But the agents failed to act, leaving Nassar free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. Individual lawsuits could follow the tort claims filed Wednesday. Claimants include Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists. An email seeking comment was sent to the FBI. In remarks to Congress last year, FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledged major mistakes. NCAATF – Notre Dame’s Jacobs wins 10K title at NCAA championships Notre Dame junior Dylan Jacobs overcame a fall to win the 10,000 meters at the opening day of the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Wednesday. Jacobs took the lead on the final lap and held off runner-up Alex Maier of Oklahoma State to cross the finish line in 28 minutes, 12.32 seconds. Northern Arizona’s Abdihamid Nur was third. Southeast Missouri State senior Logan Blomquist won the hammer with a personal best of 240 feet, 8 inches (73.37 meters) in the final round. Tennessee freshman Wayne Pinnock won the men’s long jump at 26-3 (8 meters). Texas senior Adrian Piperi won the shot put at 70-7 1/4 (21.52 meters). NFL – Bears had workout canceled for violating NFL contact rules Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus says the team had to cancel an offseason workout this week because they violated NFL rules by having live contact in a session last month. Eberflus said the contact that occurred was because of overzealous players and not the team’s practice structure. He said neither he nor the organization was fined, and the Bears found out Monday evening that Tuesday’s OTA session was canceled. The Bears were back on the field on Wednesday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, PPD to 6/10 Cedar Rapids Kernels 12, South Bend Cubs 5 Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, PPD to 6/9 Today Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 5:35 p.m. (DH) Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake 1, Mason 0 Zeeland West 2, St. Joseph 1 Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan 5, Hudsonville 2 Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, PPD Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, PPD Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, PPD Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, PPD Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, PPD Today Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Coldwater Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Ann Arbor Skyline, 6:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 1 At Caledonia Portage Central vs. Hudsonville, 6:00 p.m. Division 3 at Otsego Otsego vs. Hudsonville Unity Christian, 6:00 p.m. Friday Girls Soccer – Regional Finals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Zeeland West, 6:30 p.m. Division 4 at Portage Northern Our Lady of the Lake vs. Kalamazoo Christian, 6:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3 Baltimore Orioles 9, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0 Tigers 5, Pirates 3 – Rain man: Skubal wins 4th straight as Tigers top Pirates 5-3 Tarik Skubal pitched seven steady innings to win his fourth straight decision and Harold Castro hit a two-run single to lead the Detroit Tigers to a rain-delayed 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. After the start was pushed back more than two hours, Skubal gave up three runs and six hits while striking out nine and walking one. The left-hander has worked a career-high seven innings in three consecutive outings and is 4-0 with a 1.60 ERA in his last seven starts. Castro’s hit, a liner up the middle, capped a three-run fourth that put the Tigers in front 4-1. Rookie Spencer Torkelson drove in the first run with a double. Orioles 9, Cubs 3 – Orioles hit 5 home runs, cruise past Cubs 9-3 Cedric Mullins and Trey Mancini hit successive homers, sparking a power surge that carried the Baltimore Orioles past the Chicago Cubs 9-3. Jorge Mateo, Austin Hays and Ramón Urías also connected for the Orioles, who beat the Cubs for the first time in seven tries since 2008. Reliever Bryan Baker earned the win after allowing one run and one hit over 1 1/3 innings. Christopher Morel homered on the game’s first pitch off rookie Kyle Bradish and has reached base safely in 21 consecutive games to begin his career, extending his Cubs’ record. Morel also had an RBI triple in the sixth. White Sox 4, Dodgers 0 – Kopech, Pollock lead White Sox to 4-0 win over Dodgers Michael Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball, pinch-hitter AJ Pollock delivered a two-run double against his former team and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0. Pollock’s clutch swing off the bench sparked a four-run sixth that sent the White Sox to their third consecutive victory. It was the fourth time this season Kopech worked at least five innings and limited an opponent to one hit. The right-hander struck out eight and walked one, lowering his ERA to 1.94. The NL West-leading Dodgers dropped their third straight. Today Detroit (Skubal 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Keller 2-5), 12:35 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 12:15 Chicago Cubs (Stroman 2-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 3-4), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 6-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 0-2), 8:10 p.m. MLB – Angels fire manager Joe Maddon amid 12-game losing streak The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak. Third base coach Phil Nevin will be the Angels’ interim manager when they host Boston on Tuesday night. Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon’s first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start before their current losing streak began. They are one loss shy of tying the longest skid in franchise history. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Tampa Bay Lightning 4, New York Rangers 1 (Series tied 2-2) Lightning 4, Rangers 1 – Lightning beat Rangers 4-1 in Game 4 to even East final Nikita Kucherov scored on a breakaway and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves , helping the Tampa Bay Lightning shut down the New York Rangers 4-1 and even the NHL’s Eastern Conference final at two games apiece. Kucherov took a pass from Ondrej Palat in the middle of the ice and skated in on goaltender Igor Shesterkin to give the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions a two-goal lead just over 13 minutes into the second period. Palat, Pat Maroon and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning, who have rebounded from losing the first two games of the series on the road to keep their bid to become the first team in nearly 40 years to win three consecutive Stanley Cup titles alive. Game 5 is Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Indiana Fever at Connecticut Sun, 7:00 p.m. Chicago Sky at Washington Mystics, 8:00 p.m. WNBA – Los Angeles Sparks fire coach and GM Derek Fisher The Los Angeles Sparks have fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher the team announced. Fisher took over the team before the 2019 season and became the GM a year later. He finished his career with a 54-46 record as coach. The Sparks missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 2011 and bolstered their roster by adding All-Star Liz Cambage in the offseason. They had a difficult schedule to start the season with nine of their first 12 games on the road and are 5-7. WNBA – Griner’s fate tangled up with other American held in Russia Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the WNBA star’s case is tangled up with that of another prisoner few Americans have ever heard of. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false. He was left out of a prisoner exchange in April that brought home yet another detainee, Marine veteran Trevor Reed. That resolution escalates pressure on the Biden administration to avoid a repeat scenario of another one-for-one swap that does not include Whelan. Golf – LIV – Dustin Johnson quits PGA membership to play in Saudi league Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson says he has resigned his PGA Tour membership to participate in the new golf series backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The first LIV Golf Invitational, which offers $25 million in prize money, is taking place outside London starting Thursday. Johnson says he “had to think long and hard” about leaving the PGA Tour, seemingly ending his hopes of competing in the Ryder Cup for the United States. Johnson is No. 15 in the world, the highest-ranked player in the field. Golf – Tiger Woods says his leg not ready and he won’t play US Open Tiger Woods has pulled out of the U.S. Open and says his body "needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf.” He said he hopes to be ready to play in a charity pro-am event in Ireland ahead of the British Open at St. Andrews in July. The U.S. Open is next week at The Country Club at Brookline outside of Boston. Woods made a surprise return to golf at the Masters just 14 months after he broke bones in his right leg and ankle in a car crash. He later played the PGA Championship at Southern Hills but withdrew after the third round. Woods has won the U.S. Open three times, most recently in 2008. Golf – US Open to accept Mickelson and all eligible players Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other players competing in the Saudi-funded rival golf league are free to play the U.S. Open next week. That was always expected but confirmed Tuesday by the USGA. The USGA says if a player earned his way into the the U.S. Open, should that be taken away because he is playing a different league? It felt the answer was no. CEO Mike Whan says more than 9,000 people signed up for the U.S. Open and the USGA is not in the business of policing what they stand for. NFL – Rodgers unsure how long he will play beyond this season Aaron Rodgers says he’s unsure how much longer he will keep playing football. But he’s definitive about at least one element of his playing future. The four-time MVP quarterback expects to retire as a Green Bay Packer. That scenario seemed uncertain when Rodgers skipped the Packers mandatory minicamp last year in a standoff with team officials. That relationship has since improved enough that Rodgers signed a contract extension with the Packers after producing his second straight MVP season. Rodgers said Tuesday at the Packers minicamp that he doesn’t know yet whether he will play beyond this upcoming season. Olympics – Figure Skating – Figure skating minimum age rises to 17 before 2026 Olympics No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior international events has been passed by the International Skating Union that will raise the minimum age to 17 before the next Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The limit will be phased in with 16-year-olds allowed to compete in the 2023-24 season. It will then rise to 17 for the season before the Olympics. NCAASFB – Coaches: Doubleheaders in WCWS semis threaten player safety Oklahoma bounced back from losing a Women’s College World Series semifinal to UCLA on Monday, dominating the Bruins in a game that started 30 minutes after the first one. Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said the turnaround should not have been so quick. Gasso called it a player safety issue. She likes that the NCAA’s Division I Competition Oversight Committee added a day between the semifinals and the finals in changes made before this season, but she would give it up for time between semifinal games. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday West Michigan Whitecaps 9, Lansing Lugnuts 5 Cedar Rapids Kernels 7, South Bend Cubs 1 Dayton Dragons 14, Great Lakes Loons 8 Today Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Caledonia Portage Central 2, Traverse City West 0 Hudsonville 1, Rockford 0 Division 3 at Otsego Otsego 8, Brooklyn Columbia Central 0 Hudsonville Unity Christian 4, South Haven 0 Division 4 at Portage Northern Kalamazoo Christian 1, Lansing Christian 0 – 2 OT Our Lady of the Lake 2, Saugatuck 1 Tonight Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Mason, 5:30 p.m. St. Joseph vs. Zeeland West, 7:30 p.m. Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan vs. Hudsonville, 4:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3 Baltimore Orioles 9, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0 Tigers 5, Pirates 3 – Rain man: Skubal wins 4th straight as Tigers top Pirates 5-3 Tarik Skubal pitched seven steady innings to win his fourth straight decision and Harold Castro hit a two-run single to lead the Detroit Tigers to a rain-delayed 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. After the start was pushed back more than two hours, Skubal gave up three runs and six hits while striking out nine and walking one. The left-hander has worked a career-high seven innings in three consecutive outings and is 4-0 with a 1.60 ERA in his last seven starts. Castro’s hit, a liner up the middle, capped a three-run fourth that put the Tigers in front 4-1. Rookie Spencer Torkelson drove in the first run with a double. Orioles 9, Cubs 3 – Orioles hit 5 home runs, cruise past Cubs 9-3 Cedric Mullins and Trey Mancini hit successive homers, sparking a power surge that carried the Baltimore Orioles past the Chicago Cubs 9-3. Jorge Mateo, Austin Hays and Ramón Urías also connected for the Orioles, who beat the Cubs for the first time in seven tries since 2008. Reliever Bryan Baker earned the win after allowing one run and one hit over 1 1/3 innings. Christopher Morel homered on the game’s first pitch off rookie Kyle Bradish and has reached base safely in 21 consecutive games to begin his career, extending his Cubs’ record. Morel also had an RBI triple in the sixth. White Sox 4, Dodgers 0 – Kopech, Pollock lead White Sox to 4-0 win over Dodgers Michael Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball, pinch-hitter AJ Pollock delivered a two-run double against his former team and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0. Pollock’s clutch swing off the bench sparked a four-run sixth that sent the White Sox to their third consecutive victory. It was the fourth time this season Kopech worked at least five innings and limited an opponent to one hit. The right-hander struck out eight and walked one, lowering his ERA to 1.94. The NL West-leading Dodgers dropped their third straight. Today Detroit (Skubal 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Keller 2-5), 12:35 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 12:15 Chicago Cubs (Stroman 2-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 3-4), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 6-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 0-2), 8:10 p.m. MLB – Angels fire manager Joe Maddon amid 12-game losing streak The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak. Third base coach Phil Nevin will be the Angels’ interim manager when they host Boston on Tuesday night. Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon’s first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start before their current losing streak began. They are one loss shy of tying the longest skid in franchise history. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Tampa Bay Lightning 4, New York Rangers 1 (Series tied 2-2) Lightning 4, Rangers 1 – Lightning beat Rangers 4-1 in Game 4 to even East final Nikita Kucherov scored on a breakaway and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves , helping the Tampa Bay Lightning shut down the New York Rangers 4-1 and even the NHL’s Eastern Conference final at two games apiece. Kucherov took a pass from Ondrej Palat in the middle of the ice and skated in on goaltender Igor Shesterkin to give the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions a two-goal lead just over 13 minutes into the second period. Palat, Pat Maroon and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning, who have rebounded from losing the first two games of the series on the road to keep their bid to become the first team in nearly 40 years to win three consecutive Stanley Cup titles alive. Game 5 is Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Indiana Fever at Connecticut Sun, 7:00 p.m. Chicago Sky at Washington Mystics, 8:00 p.m. WNBA – Los Angeles Sparks fire coach and GM Derek Fisher The Los Angeles Sparks have fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher the team announced. Fisher took over the team before the 2019 season and became the GM a year later. He finished his career with a 54-46 record as coach. The Sparks missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 2011 and bolstered their roster by adding All-Star Liz Cambage in the offseason. They had a difficult schedule to start the season with nine of their first 12 games on the road and are 5-7. WNBA – Griner’s fate tangled up with other American held in Russia Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the WNBA star’s case is tangled up with that of another prisoner few Americans have ever heard of. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false. He was left out of a prisoner exchange in April that brought home yet another detainee, Marine veteran Trevor Reed. That resolution escalates pressure on the Biden administration to avoid a repeat scenario of another one-for-one swap that does not include Whelan. Golf – LIV – Dustin Johnson quits PGA membership to play in Saudi league Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson says he has resigned his PGA Tour membership to participate in the new golf series backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The first LIV Golf Invitational, which offers $25 million in prize money, is taking place outside London starting Thursday. Johnson says he “had to think long and hard” about leaving the PGA Tour, seemingly ending his hopes of competing in the Ryder Cup for the United States. Johnson is No. 15 in the world, the highest-ranked player in the field. Golf – Tiger Woods says his leg not ready and he won’t play US Open Tiger Woods has pulled out of the U.S. Open and says his body "needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf.” He said he hopes to be ready to play in a charity pro-am event in Ireland ahead of the British Open at St. Andrews in July. The U.S. Open is next week at The Country Club at Brookline outside of Boston. Woods made a surprise return to golf at the Masters just 14 months after he broke bones in his right leg and ankle in a car crash. He later played the PGA Championship at Southern Hills but withdrew after the third round. Woods has won the U.S. Open three times, most recently in 2008. Golf – US Open to accept Mickelson and all eligible players Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other players competing in the Saudi-funded rival golf league are free to play the U.S. Open next week. That was always expected but confirmed Tuesday by the USGA. The USGA says if a player earned his way into the the U.S. Open, should that be taken away because he is playing a different league? It felt the answer was no. CEO Mike Whan says more than 9,000 people signed up for the U.S. Open and the USGA is not in the business of policing what they stand for. NFL – Rodgers unsure how long he will play beyond this season Aaron Rodgers says he’s unsure how much longer he will keep playing football. But he’s definitive about at least one element of his playing future. The four-time MVP quarterback expects to retire as a Green Bay Packer. That scenario seemed uncertain when Rodgers skipped the Packers mandatory minicamp last year in a standoff with team officials. That relationship has since improved enough that Rodgers signed a contract extension with the Packers after producing his second straight MVP season. Rodgers said Tuesday at the Packers minicamp that he doesn’t know yet whether he will play beyond this upcoming season. Olympics – Figure Skating – Figure skating minimum age rises to 17 before 2026 Olympics No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior international events has been passed by the International Skating Union that will raise the minimum age to 17 before the next Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The limit will be phased in with 16-year-olds allowed to compete in the 2023-24 season. It will then rise to 17 for the season before the Olympics. NCAASFB – Coaches: Doubleheaders in WCWS semis threaten player safety Oklahoma bounced back from losing a Women’s College World Series semifinal to UCLA on Monday, dominating the Bruins in a game that started 30 minutes after the first one. Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said the turnaround should not have been so quick. Gasso called it a player safety issue. She likes that the NCAA’s Division I Competition Oversight Committee added a day between the semifinals and the finals in changes made before this season, but she would give it up for time between semifinal games. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday West Michigan Whitecaps 9, Lansing Lugnuts 5 Cedar Rapids Kernels 7, South Bend Cubs 1 Dayton Dragons 14, Great Lakes Loons 8 Today Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Caledonia Portage Central 2, Traverse City West 0 Hudsonville 1, Rockford 0 Division 3 at Otsego Otsego 8, Brooklyn Columbia Central 0 Hudsonville Unity Christian 4, South Haven 0 Division 4 at Portage Northern Kalamazoo Christian 1, Lansing Christian 0 – 2 OT Our Lady of the Lake 2, Saugatuck 1 Tonight Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Mason, 5:30 p.m. St. Joseph vs. Zeeland West, 7:30 p.m. Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan vs. Hudsonville, 4:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3 Baltimore Orioles 9, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0 Tigers 5, Pirates 3 – Rain man: Skubal wins 4th straight as Tigers top Pirates 5-3 Tarik Skubal pitched seven steady innings to win his fourth straight decision and Harold Castro hit a two-run single to lead the Detroit Tigers to a rain-delayed 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. After the start was pushed back more than two hours, Skubal gave up three runs and six hits while striking out nine and walking one. The left-hander has worked a career-high seven innings in three consecutive outings and is 4-0 with a 1.60 ERA in his last seven starts. Castro's hit, a liner up the middle, capped a three-run fourth that put the Tigers in front 4-1. Rookie Spencer Torkelson drove in the first run with a double. Orioles 9, Cubs 3 – Orioles hit 5 home runs, cruise past Cubs 9-3 Cedric Mullins and Trey Mancini hit successive homers, sparking a power surge that carried the Baltimore Orioles past the Chicago Cubs 9-3. Jorge Mateo, Austin Hays and Ramón Urías also connected for the Orioles, who beat the Cubs for the first time in seven tries since 2008. Reliever Bryan Baker earned the win after allowing one run and one hit over 1 1/3 innings. Christopher Morel homered on the game's first pitch off rookie Kyle Bradish and has reached base safely in 21 consecutive games to begin his career, extending his Cubs' record. Morel also had an RBI triple in the sixth. White Sox 4, Dodgers 0 – Kopech, Pollock lead White Sox to 4-0 win over Dodgers Michael Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball, pinch-hitter AJ Pollock delivered a two-run double against his former team and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0. Pollock's clutch swing off the bench sparked a four-run sixth that sent the White Sox to their third consecutive victory. It was the fourth time this season Kopech worked at least five innings and limited an opponent to one hit. The right-hander struck out eight and walked one, lowering his ERA to 1.94. The NL West-leading Dodgers dropped their third straight. Today Detroit (Skubal 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Keller 2-5), 12:35 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 12:15 Chicago Cubs (Stroman 2-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 3-4), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 6-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 0-2), 8:10 p.m. MLB – Angels fire manager Joe Maddon amid 12-game losing streak The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak. Third base coach Phil Nevin will be the Angels' interim manager when they host Boston on Tuesday night. Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon's first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start before their current losing streak began. They are one loss shy of tying the longest skid in franchise history. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Tampa Bay Lightning 4, New York Rangers 1 (Series tied 2-2) Lightning 4, Rangers 1 – Lightning beat Rangers 4-1 in Game 4 to even East final Nikita Kucherov scored on a breakaway and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves , helping the Tampa Bay Lightning shut down the New York Rangers 4-1 and even the NHL's Eastern Conference final at two games apiece. Kucherov took a pass from Ondrej Palat in the middle of the ice and skated in on goaltender Igor Shesterkin to give the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions a two-goal lead just over 13 minutes into the second period. Palat, Pat Maroon and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning, who have rebounded from losing the first two games of the series on the road to keep their bid to become the first team in nearly 40 years to win three consecutive Sta...
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3 Baltimore Orioles 9, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0 Tigers 5, Pirates 3 – Rain man: Skubal wins 4th straight as Tigers top Pirates 5-3 Tarik Skubal pitched seven steady innings to win his fourth straight decision and Harold Castro hit a two-run single to lead the Detroit Tigers to a rain-delayed 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. After the start was pushed back more than two hours, Skubal gave up three runs and six hits while striking out nine and walking one. The left-hander has worked a career-high seven innings in three consecutive outings and is 4-0 with a 1.60 ERA in his last seven starts. Castro’s hit, a liner up the middle, capped a three-run fourth that put the Tigers in front 4-1. Rookie Spencer Torkelson drove in the first run with a double. Orioles 9, Cubs 3 – Orioles hit 5 home runs, cruise past Cubs 9-3 Cedric Mullins and Trey Mancini hit successive homers, sparking a power surge that carried the Baltimore Orioles past the Chicago Cubs 9-3. Jorge Mateo, Austin Hays and Ramón Urías also connected for the Orioles, who beat the Cubs for the first time in seven tries since 2008. Reliever Bryan Baker earned the win after allowing one run and one hit over 1 1/3 innings. Christopher Morel homered on the game’s first pitch off rookie Kyle Bradish and has reached base safely in 21 consecutive games to begin his career, extending his Cubs’ record. Morel also had an RBI triple in the sixth. White Sox 4, Dodgers 0 – Kopech, Pollock lead White Sox to 4-0 win over Dodgers Michael Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball, pinch-hitter AJ Pollock delivered a two-run double against his former team and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0. Pollock’s clutch swing off the bench sparked a four-run sixth that sent the White Sox to their third consecutive victory. It was the fourth time this season Kopech worked at least five innings and limited an opponent to one hit. The right-hander struck out eight and walked one, lowering his ERA to 1.94. The NL West-leading Dodgers dropped their third straight. Today Detroit (Skubal 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Keller 2-5), 12:35 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 12:15 Chicago Cubs (Stroman 2-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 3-4), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 6-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 0-2), 8:10 p.m. MLB – Angels fire manager Joe Maddon amid 12-game losing streak The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak. Third base coach Phil Nevin will be the Angels’ interim manager when they host Boston on Tuesday night. Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon’s first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start before their current losing streak began. They are one loss shy of tying the longest skid in franchise history. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Tampa Bay Lightning 4, New York Rangers 1 (Series tied 2-2) Lightning 4, Rangers 1 – Lightning beat Rangers 4-1 in Game 4 to even East final Nikita Kucherov scored on a breakaway and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves , helping the Tampa Bay Lightning shut down the New York Rangers 4-1 and even the NHL’s Eastern Conference final at two games apiece. Kucherov took a pass from Ondrej Palat in the middle of the ice and skated in on goaltender Igor Shesterkin to give the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions a two-goal lead just over 13 minutes into the second period. Palat, Pat Maroon and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning, who have rebounded from losing the first two games of the series on the road to keep their bid to become the first team in nearly 40 years to win three consecutive Stanley Cup titles alive. Game 5 is Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Indiana Fever at Connecticut Sun, 7:00 p.m. Chicago Sky at Washington Mystics, 8:00 p.m. WNBA – Los Angeles Sparks fire coach and GM Derek Fisher The Los Angeles Sparks have fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher the team announced. Fisher took over the team before the 2019 season and became the GM a year later. He finished his career with a 54-46 record as coach. The Sparks missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 2011 and bolstered their roster by adding All-Star Liz Cambage in the offseason. They had a difficult schedule to start the season with nine of their first 12 games on the road and are 5-7. WNBA – Griner’s fate tangled up with other American held in Russia Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the WNBA star’s case is tangled up with that of another prisoner few Americans have ever heard of. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false. He was left out of a prisoner exchange in April that brought home yet another detainee, Marine veteran Trevor Reed. That resolution escalates pressure on the Biden administration to avoid a repeat scenario of another one-for-one swap that does not include Whelan. Golf – LIV – Dustin Johnson quits PGA membership to play in Saudi league Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson says he has resigned his PGA Tour membership to participate in the new golf series backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The first LIV Golf Invitational, which offers $25 million in prize money, is taking place outside London starting Thursday. Johnson says he “had to think long and hard” about leaving the PGA Tour, seemingly ending his hopes of competing in the Ryder Cup for the United States. Johnson is No. 15 in the world, the highest-ranked player in the field. Golf – Tiger Woods says his leg not ready and he won’t play US Open Tiger Woods has pulled out of the U.S. Open and says his body "needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf.” He said he hopes to be ready to play in a charity pro-am event in Ireland ahead of the British Open at St. Andrews in July. The U.S. Open is next week at The Country Club at Brookline outside of Boston. Woods made a surprise return to golf at the Masters just 14 months after he broke bones in his right leg and ankle in a car crash. He later played the PGA Championship at Southern Hills but withdrew after the third round. Woods has won the U.S. Open three times, most recently in 2008. Golf – US Open to accept Mickelson and all eligible players Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other players competing in the Saudi-funded rival golf league are free to play the U.S. Open next week. That was always expected but confirmed Tuesday by the USGA. The USGA says if a player earned his way into the the U.S. Open, should that be taken away because he is playing a different league? It felt the answer was no. CEO Mike Whan says more than 9,000 people signed up for the U.S. Open and the USGA is not in the business of policing what they stand for. NFL – Rodgers unsure how long he will play beyond this season Aaron Rodgers says he’s unsure how much longer he will keep playing football. But he’s definitive about at least one element of his playing future. The four-time MVP quarterback expects to retire as a Green Bay Packer. That scenario seemed uncertain when Rodgers skipped the Packers mandatory minicamp last year in a standoff with team officials. That relationship has since improved enough that Rodgers signed a contract extension with the Packers after producing his second straight MVP season. Rodgers said Tuesday at the Packers minicamp that he doesn’t know yet whether he will play beyond this upcoming season. Olympics – Figure Skating – Figure skating minimum age rises to 17 before 2026 Olympics No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior international events has been passed by the International Skating Union that will raise the minimum age to 17 before the next Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The limit will be phased in with 16-year-olds allowed to compete in the 2023-24 season. It will then rise to 17 for the season before the Olympics. NCAASFB – Coaches: Doubleheaders in WCWS semis threaten player safety Oklahoma bounced back from losing a Women’s College World Series semifinal to UCLA on Monday, dominating the Bruins in a game that started 30 minutes after the first one. Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said the turnaround should not have been so quick. Gasso called it a player safety issue. She likes that the NCAA’s Division I Competition Oversight Committee added a day between the semifinals and the finals in changes made before this season, but she would give it up for time between semifinal games. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday West Michigan Whitecaps 9, Lansing Lugnuts 5 Cedar Rapids Kernels 7, South Bend Cubs 1 Dayton Dragons 14, Great Lakes Loons 8 Today Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Caledonia Portage Central 2, Traverse City West 0 Hudsonville 1, Rockford 0 Division 3 at Otsego Otsego 8, Brooklyn Columbia Central 0 Hudsonville Unity Christian 4, South Haven 0 Division 4 at Portage Northern Kalamazoo Christian 1, Lansing Christian 0 – 2 OT Our Lady of the Lake 2, Saugatuck 1 Tonight Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Mason, 5:30 p.m. St. Joseph vs. Zeeland West, 7:30 p.m. Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan vs. Hudsonville, 4:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3 Baltimore Orioles 9, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0 Tigers 5, Pirates 3 – Rain man: Skubal wins 4th straight as Tigers top Pirates 5-3 Tarik Skubal pitched seven steady innings to win his fourth straight decision and Harold Castro hit a two-run single to lead the Detroit Tigers to a rain-delayed 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. After the start was pushed back more than two hours, Skubal gave up three runs and six hits while striking out nine and walking one. The left-hander has worked a career-high seven innings in three consecutive outings and is 4-0 with a 1.60 ERA in his last seven starts. Castro’s hit, a liner up the middle, capped a three-run fourth that put the Tigers in front 4-1. Rookie Spencer Torkelson drove in the first run with a double. Orioles 9, Cubs 3 – Orioles hit 5 home runs, cruise past Cubs 9-3 Cedric Mullins and Trey Mancini hit successive homers, sparking a power surge that carried the Baltimore Orioles past the Chicago Cubs 9-3. Jorge Mateo, Austin Hays and Ramón Urías also connected for the Orioles, who beat the Cubs for the first time in seven tries since 2008. Reliever Bryan Baker earned the win after allowing one run and one hit over 1 1/3 innings. Christopher Morel homered on the game’s first pitch off rookie Kyle Bradish and has reached base safely in 21 consecutive games to begin his career, extending his Cubs’ record. Morel also had an RBI triple in the sixth. White Sox 4, Dodgers 0 – Kopech, Pollock lead White Sox to 4-0 win over Dodgers Michael Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball, pinch-hitter AJ Pollock delivered a two-run double against his former team and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0. Pollock’s clutch swing off the bench sparked a four-run sixth that sent the White Sox to their third consecutive victory. It was the fourth time this season Kopech worked at least five innings and limited an opponent to one hit. The right-hander struck out eight and walked one, lowering his ERA to 1.94. The NL West-leading Dodgers dropped their third straight. Today Detroit (Skubal 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Keller 2-5), 12:35 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 12:15 Chicago Cubs (Stroman 2-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 3-4), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 6-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 0-2), 8:10 p.m. MLB – Angels fire manager Joe Maddon amid 12-game losing streak The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak. Third base coach Phil Nevin will be the Angels’ interim manager when they host Boston on Tuesday night. Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon’s first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start before their current losing streak began. They are one loss shy of tying the longest skid in franchise history. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Tampa Bay Lightning 4, New York Rangers 1 (Series tied 2-2) Lightning 4, Rangers 1 – Lightning beat Rangers 4-1 in Game 4 to even East final Nikita Kucherov scored on a breakaway and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves , helping the Tampa Bay Lightning shut down the New York Rangers 4-1 and even the NHL’s Eastern Conference final at two games apiece. Kucherov took a pass from Ondrej Palat in the middle of the ice and skated in on goaltender Igor Shesterkin to give the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions a two-goal lead just over 13 minutes into the second period. Palat, Pat Maroon and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning, who have rebounded from losing the first two games of the series on the road to keep their bid to become the first team in nearly 40 years to win three consecutive Stanley Cup titles alive. Game 5 is Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Indiana Fever at Connecticut Sun, 7:00 p.m. Chicago Sky at Washington Mystics, 8:00 p.m. WNBA – Los Angeles Sparks fire coach and GM Derek Fisher The Los Angeles Sparks have fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher the team announced. Fisher took over the team before the 2019 season and became the GM a year later. He finished his career with a 54-46 record as coach. The Sparks missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 2011 and bolstered their roster by adding All-Star Liz Cambage in the offseason. They had a difficult schedule to start the season with nine of their first 12 games on the road and are 5-7. WNBA – Griner’s fate tangled up with other American held in Russia Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the WNBA star’s case is tangled up with that of another prisoner few Americans have ever heard of. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false. He was left out of a prisoner exchange in April that brought home yet another detainee, Marine veteran Trevor Reed. That resolution escalates pressure on the Biden administration to avoid a repeat scenario of another one-for-one swap that does not include Whelan. Golf – LIV – Dustin Johnson quits PGA membership to play in Saudi league Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson says he has resigned his PGA Tour membership to participate in the new golf series backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The first LIV Golf Invitational, which offers $25 million in prize money, is taking place outside London starting Thursday. Johnson says he “had to think long and hard” about leaving the PGA Tour, seemingly ending his hopes of competing in the Ryder Cup for the United States. Johnson is No. 15 in the world, the highest-ranked player in the field. Golf – Tiger Woods says his leg not ready and he won’t play US Open Tiger Woods has pulled out of the U.S. Open and says his body "needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf.” He said he hopes to be ready to play in a charity pro-am event in Ireland ahead of the British Open at St. Andrews in July. The U.S. Open is next week at The Country Club at Brookline outside of Boston. Woods made a surprise return to golf at the Masters just 14 months after he broke bones in his right leg and ankle in a car crash. He later played the PGA Championship at Southern Hills but withdrew after the third round. Woods has won the U.S. Open three times, most recently in 2008. Golf – US Open to accept Mickelson and all eligible players Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other players competing in the Saudi-funded rival golf league are free to play the U.S. Open next week. That was always expected but confirmed Tuesday by the USGA. The USGA says if a player earned his way into the the U.S. Open, should that be taken away because he is playing a different league? It felt the answer was no. CEO Mike Whan says more than 9,000 people signed up for the U.S. Open and the USGA is not in the business of policing what they stand for. NFL – Rodgers unsure how long he will play beyond this season Aaron Rodgers says he’s unsure how much longer he will keep playing football. But he’s definitive about at least one element of his playing future. The four-time MVP quarterback expects to retire as a Green Bay Packer. That scenario seemed uncertain when Rodgers skipped the Packers mandatory minicamp last year in a standoff with team officials. That relationship has since improved enough that Rodgers signed a contract extension with the Packers after producing his second straight MVP season. Rodgers said Tuesday at the Packers minicamp that he doesn’t know yet whether he will play beyond this upcoming season. Olympics – Figure Skating – Figure skating minimum age rises to 17 before 2026 Olympics No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior international events has been passed by the International Skating Union that will raise the minimum age to 17 before the next Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The limit will be phased in with 16-year-olds allowed to compete in the 2023-24 season. It will then rise to 17 for the season before the Olympics. NCAASFB – Coaches: Doubleheaders in WCWS semis threaten player safety Oklahoma bounced back from losing a Women’s College World Series semifinal to UCLA on Monday, dominating the Bruins in a game that started 30 minutes after the first one. Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said the turnaround should not have been so quick. Gasso called it a player safety issue. She likes that the NCAA’s Division I Competition Oversight Committee added a day between the semifinals and the finals in changes made before this season, but she would give it up for time between semifinal games. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday West Michigan Whitecaps 9, Lansing Lugnuts 5 Cedar Rapids Kernels 7, South Bend Cubs 1 Dayton Dragons 14, Great Lakes Loons 8 Today Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Caledonia Portage Central 2, Traverse City West 0 Hudsonville 1, Rockford 0 Division 3 at Otsego Otsego 8, Brooklyn Columbia Central 0 Hudsonville Unity Christian 4, South Haven 0 Division 4 at Portage Northern Kalamazoo Christian 1, Lansing Christian 0 – 2 OT Our Lady of the Lake 2, Saugatuck 1 Tonight Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Mason, 5:30 p.m. St. Joseph vs. Zeeland West, 7:30 p.m. Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan vs. Hudsonville, 4:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3 Baltimore Orioles 9, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0 Tigers 5, Pirates 3 – Rain man: Skubal wins 4th straight as Tigers top Pirates 5-3 Tarik Skubal pitched seven steady innings to win his fourth straight decision and Harold Castro hit a two-run single to lead the Detroit Tigers to a rain-delayed 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. After the start was pushed back more than two hours, Skubal gave up three runs and six hits while striking out nine and walking one. The left-hander has worked a career-high seven innings in three consecutive outings and is 4-0 with a 1.60 ERA in his last seven starts. Castro’s hit, a liner up the middle, capped a three-run fourth that put the Tigers in front 4-1. Rookie Spencer Torkelson drove in the first run with a double. Orioles 9, Cubs 3 – Orioles hit 5 home runs, cruise past Cubs 9-3 Cedric Mullins and Trey Mancini hit successive homers, sparking a power surge that carried the Baltimore Orioles past the Chicago Cubs 9-3. Jorge Mateo, Austin Hays and Ramón Urías also connected for the Orioles, who beat the Cubs for the first time in seven tries since 2008. Reliever Bryan Baker earned the win after allowing one run and one hit over 1 1/3 innings. Christopher Morel homered on the game’s first pitch off rookie Kyle Bradish and has reached base safely in 21 consecutive games to begin his career, extending his Cubs’ record. Morel also had an RBI triple in the sixth. White Sox 4, Dodgers 0 – Kopech, Pollock lead White Sox to 4-0 win over Dodgers Michael Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball, pinch-hitter AJ Pollock delivered a two-run double against his former team and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0. Pollock’s clutch swing off the bench sparked a four-run sixth that sent the White Sox to their third consecutive victory. It was the fourth time this season Kopech worked at least five innings and limited an opponent to one hit. The right-hander struck out eight and walked one, lowering his ERA to 1.94. The NL West-leading Dodgers dropped their third straight. Today Detroit (Skubal 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Keller 2-5), 12:35 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 12:15 Chicago Cubs (Stroman 2-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 3-4), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 6-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 0-2), 8:10 p.m. MLB – Angels fire manager Joe Maddon amid 12-game losing streak The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak. Third base coach Phil Nevin will be the Angels’ interim manager when they host Boston on Tuesday night. Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon’s first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start before their current losing streak began. They are one loss shy of tying the longest skid in franchise history. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Tampa Bay Lightning 4, New York Rangers 1 (Series tied 2-2) Lightning 4, Rangers 1 – Lightning beat Rangers 4-1 in Game 4 to even East final Nikita Kucherov scored on a breakaway and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves , helping the Tampa Bay Lightning shut down the New York Rangers 4-1 and even the NHL’s Eastern Conference final at two games apiece. Kucherov took a pass from Ondrej Palat in the middle of the ice and skated in on goaltender Igor Shesterkin to give the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions a two-goal lead just over 13 minutes into the second period. Palat, Pat Maroon and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning, who have rebounded from losing the first two games of the series on the road to keep their bid to become the first team in nearly 40 years to win three consecutive Stanley Cup titles alive. Game 5 is Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals Tonight Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Indiana Fever at Connecticut Sun, 7:00 p.m. Chicago Sky at Washington Mystics, 8:00 p.m. WNBA – Los Angeles Sparks fire coach and GM Derek Fisher The Los Angeles Sparks have fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher the team announced. Fisher took over the team before the 2019 season and became the GM a year later. He finished his career with a 54-46 record as coach. The Sparks missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 2011 and bolstered their roster by adding All-Star Liz Cambage in the offseason. They had a difficult schedule to start the season with nine of their first 12 games on the road and are 5-7. WNBA – Griner’s fate tangled up with other American held in Russia Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the WNBA star’s case is tangled up with that of another prisoner few Americans have ever heard of. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false. He was left out of a prisoner exchange in April that brought home yet another detainee, Marine veteran Trevor Reed. That resolution escalates pressure on the Biden administration to avoid a repeat scenario of another one-for-one swap that does not include Whelan. Golf – LIV – Dustin Johnson quits PGA membership to play in Saudi league Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson says he has resigned his PGA Tour membership to participate in the new golf series backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The first LIV Golf Invitational, which offers $25 million in prize money, is taking place outside London starting Thursday. Johnson says he “had to think long and hard” about leaving the PGA Tour, seemingly ending his hopes of competing in the Ryder Cup for the United States. Johnson is No. 15 in the world, the highest-ranked player in the field. Golf – Tiger Woods says his leg not ready and he won’t play US Open Tiger Woods has pulled out of the U.S. Open and says his body "needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf.” He said he hopes to be ready to play in a charity pro-am event in Ireland ahead of the British Open at St. Andrews in July. The U.S. Open is next week at The Country Club at Brookline outside of Boston. Woods made a surprise return to golf at the Masters just 14 months after he broke bones in his right leg and ankle in a car crash. He later played the PGA Championship at Southern Hills but withdrew after the third round. Woods has won the U.S. Open three times, most recently in 2008. Golf – US Open to accept Mickelson and all eligible players Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other players competing in the Saudi-funded rival golf league are free to play the U.S. Open next week. That was always expected but confirmed Tuesday by the USGA. The USGA says if a player earned his way into the the U.S. Open, should that be taken away because he is playing a different league? It felt the answer was no. CEO Mike Whan says more than 9,000 people signed up for the U.S. Open and the USGA is not in the business of policing what they stand for. NFL – Rodgers unsure how long he will play beyond this season Aaron Rodgers says he’s unsure how much longer he will keep playing football. But he’s definitive about at least one element of his playing future. The four-time MVP quarterback expects to retire as a Green Bay Packer. That scenario seemed uncertain when Rodgers skipped the Packers mandatory minicamp last year in a standoff with team officials. That relationship has since improved enough that Rodgers signed a contract extension with the Packers after producing his second straight MVP season. Rodgers said Tuesday at the Packers minicamp that he doesn’t know yet whether he will play beyond this upcoming season. Olympics – Figure Skating – Figure skating minimum age rises to 17 before 2026 Olympics No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year’s Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior international events has been passed by the International Skating Union that will raise the minimum age to 17 before the next Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The limit will be phased in with 16-year-olds allowed to compete in the 2023-24 season. It will then rise to 17 for the season before the Olympics. NCAASFB – Coaches: Doubleheaders in WCWS semis threaten player safety Oklahoma bounced back from losing a Women’s College World Series semifinal to UCLA on Monday, dominating the Bruins in a game that started 30 minutes after the first one. Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said the turnaround should not have been so quick. Gasso called it a player safety issue. She likes that the NCAA’s Division I Competition Oversight Committee added a day between the semifinals and the finals in changes made before this season, but she would give it up for time between semifinal games. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday West Michigan Whitecaps 9, Lansing Lugnuts 5 Cedar Rapids Kernels 7, South Bend Cubs 1 Dayton Dragons 14, Great Lakes Loons 8 Today Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Caledonia Portage Central 2, Traverse City West 0 Hudsonville 1, Rockford 0 Division 3 at Otsego Otsego 8, Brooklyn Columbia Central 0 Hudsonville Unity Christian 4, South Haven 0 Division 4 at Portage Northern Kalamazoo Christian 1, Lansing Christian 0 – 2 OT Our Lady of the Lake 2, Saugatuck 1 Tonight Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek Gull Lake vs. Mason, 5:30 p.m. St. Joseph vs. Zeeland West, 7:30 p.m. Baseball – Regional Semifinals Division 1 at Portage Northern Mattawan vs. Hudsonville, 4:00 p.m. Division 2 at Edwardsburg Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m. Division 3 at Centreville Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m. Division 4 at Kalamazoo College Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 at Decatur Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Turning The Corner: A show about the Detroit Tigers with Cody Stavenhagen & Kieran Steckley
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Today we discuss the WIN against the Minnesota Twins in Target field. Harold Castro vs Miguel Cabrera? Chafin or Fulmer? AJ Hinch? All the controversy in a win.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline– Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Did you know every week, nearly 40 million job seekers visit LinkedIn? Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONMLB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 4, Minnesota Twins 2 – 10 Innings Chicago White Sox 3, Boston Red Sox 1 Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Tigers 4, Twins 2 – 10 Innings – Candelario’s homer in 10th lifts Tigers in 4-2 win vs. Twins Jeimer Candelario hit the tiebreaking two-run homer in the 10th inning for the Detroit Tigers to beat the Minnesota Twins 4-2. Harold Castro went deep twice earlier as Tigers dodged another sweep and broke a six-game winning streak by the Twins. The Tigers have 25 homers in 43 games for the fewest in baseball. Trevor Larnach hit a two-run homer for the Twins in the fourth inning to spoil an otherwise-stellar start by Rony García pieced together by Tigers relievers. White Sox 3, Red Sox 1 – Burger’s homer off Hill lifts White Sox over Red Sox Jake Burger hit a three-run homer off Rich Hill, Lucas Giolito overcame a shaky first inning and the Chicago White Sox beat the Red Sox 3-1 to end Boston’s six-game winning streak. The White Sox won for the fourth time in six games. Burger, recalled Tuesday from Triple-A Charlotte after Luis Robert was placed on the COVID-19 injured list, hit an 0-2 breaking pitch in the fifth inning that traveled an estimated 444 feet. Giolito threw 27 pitches in the first but still allowed fewer than two runs for the fourth time this season. Hill held the White Sox hitless through four innings but lost his lead quickly. Reds 4, Cubs 3 – Votto homers, triples, shouts at reliever as Reds beat Cubs Joey Votto homered and tripled, then shouted at Cubs reliver Rowan Wick during a tense ending to the Cincinnati Reds’ 4-3 win over Chicago. Votto had a solo homer in the second inning off Kyle Hendricks and a two-run triple in the third as Cincinnati ended a two-game skid. Wick brushed back the 16-year veteran in the eighth, then walked him. Votto barked at Wick as he made his way to first base, and he also had words for Chicago’s dugout. An inning later, Reds reliever Hunter Strickland plunked Patrick Wisdom. Cubs manager David Ross was ejected by plate umpire Dan Merzel after leaving the dugout to protest. Today Chicago Cubs (Steele 1-4) at Cincinnati (Greene 1-6), 12:35 p.m. Cleveland (Pilkington 0-0) at Detroit (Skubal 3-2), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 Boston (Wacha 3-0) at Chicago White Sox (Keuchel 2-4), 8:10 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 93, Miami Heat 80 (BOS Leads 3-2) Tonight Dallas Mavericks at Golden State Warriors, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-1) NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 2nd Round Last Night St. Louis Blues 5, Colorado Avalanche 4 – OT (COL Leads 3-2) Tonight New York Rangers at Carolina Hurricanes, 7:00 p.m. (Series Tied 2-2) Edmonton Oilers at Calgary Flames, 9:30 p.m. (EDM Leads 3-1) Indy 500 – Penske ready for 300,000 guests in a full-capacity Indy 500 Roger Penske will at last be able to open the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to a capacity crowd this Sunday for his first true Indianapolis 500 since buying the property in 2020. The pandemic forced his first 500 to be held without spectators and only 40% capacity last year. He’s spent more than $30 million in capital improvements to prepare the iconic speedway for Penske’s first true housewarming party. He expects more than 300,000 people on property Sunday and has been relentless in ensuring the speedway is in pristine condition for his guests. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Los Angeles Sparks at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m. WNBA – WNBA’s Fever fire Stanley, promote Knox as interim coach The Indiana Fever have fired coach Marianne Stanley following a 2-7 start. The New York Liberty are the only WNBA team with fewer wins this season. The Fever announced that Carlos Knox is being promoted from assistant coach to interim coach. Interim general manager Lin Dunn says Indiana needed to go in a different direction with a young nucleus of players. Stanley was in the final year of her contract. Knox was a star college player at nearby IUPUI. WNBA – Brittney Griner’s wife tells ABC she wants WNBA star home Brittney Griner’s wife, Cherelle, wants President Joe Biden to secure her partner’s release, doing whatever is necessary to get the WNBA star home from Russia where she has been detained for more than three months. Cherelle Griner became emotional detailing what little she knows about Brittney’s detainment during an interview that aired Wednesday on Good Morning America. The Phoenix Mercury center has been detained since Feb. 17 after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage at an airport near Moscow. The 31-year-old Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist for the U.S. She faces drug smuggling charges that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The Biden administration has determined Griner is being wrongfully detained. Tennis – French Open – No. 1 Djokovic eases into 3rd round Novak Djokovic has eased into the third round of his French Open title defense with a straight-set victory over Alex Molcan. The top-ranked Djokovic defeated the 24-year-old Slovakian 6-2, 6-3, 7-6. Molcan was able to push Djokovic to a third-set tiebreaker but threw his racket down in frustration after his 34th unforced error to fall behind 6-3. Other second-round winners on the men’s side were third seed Alexander Zverev and No. 6 Carlos Alcaraz, both in five sets. Coco Gauff has reached the third round in the women’s bracket by winning a second-set tiebreak. The 18-year-old American is the youngest player remaining in the draw. Two-time Grand Slam champ Victoria Azarenka also advanced, but U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu and fourth-seeded Maria Sakkari were ousted in the second round. NFL – NFL to appeal ruling in Gruden lawsuit over leaked emails The NFL says it will appeal a ruling denying the league’s request to move former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s lawsuit over leaked emails from a public courtroom into closed-door arbitration. In a statement, the NFL denied Gruden’s claims that league officials or Commissioner Roger Goodell leaked racist, sexist and homophobic emails by Gruden to force him to resign last October. Judge Nancy Allf in Las Vegas refused requests to dismiss Gruden’s claim outright or move it to out-of-court talks that could be overseen by Goodell. Gruden emerged from the courtroom declaring “Go Raiders” and saying he was going to let the process take care of itself. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night Dayton Dragons at West Michigan Whitecaps, suspended Great Lakes Loons 4, South Bend Cubs 3 Beloit Sky Carp 11, Lansing Lugnuts 4 Tonight Dayton Dragons at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. (doubleheader) Great Lakes Loons at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Beloit Sky Carp, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Yesterday Girls Soccer – District Quarterfinals Division 2 St. Joseph 3, Paw Paw 0 Lakeshore 6, Edwardsburg 1 Vicksburg 7, Niles 0 Division 3 Watervliet 3, Berrien Springs 2 – OT Three Rivers 3, Coloma 0 GR South Christian 7, Fennville 1 Parchment 8, Comstock 0 Portland 8, Delton-Kellogg 0 Division 4 Michigan Lutheran 8, Buchanan 2 Bridgman 8, Brandywine 0 Lawton 10, Covert 0 Hartford 1, Bangor 0 Division 1 Portage Central 5, Holt 0 BC Lakeview 6, Jackson 4 Portage Northern 2, Grand Ledge 1 – OT Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 1, Lansing Everett 0 Caledonia 6, Kalamazoo Central 1 Baseball Lakeshore 8, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 3 – Game 1 Lakeshore vs. Loy Norrix – Game 2 Postponed Bridgman 6, Niles 4 Watervliet 1, Martin 0 Softball Lakeshore 10, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 – Game 1 Lakeshore 15, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 – Game 2 South Haven 15, Hartford 5 Hartford at South Haven – Game 2 Postponed Edwardsburg 15, Plainwell 0 – Game 1 Edwardsburg 15, Plainwell 0 – Game 2 Today Baseball Eau Claire at Michigan Lutheran, 4:15 p.m. (DH) River Valley at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. Decatur at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Otsego at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. South Haven at Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Niles at Sturgis, 4:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Schoolcraft, 4:30 p.m. Mattawan at Battle Creek Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Kalamazoo Central at Coldwater, 4:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. Softball Coloma at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. Hartford at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. River Valley at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. Howardsville Christian at Lawrence, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Decatur at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Otsego at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. Cassopolis at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. Mattawan at Battle Creek Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Kalamazoo Central at Coldwater, 4:00 p.m. Girls Soccer – District Quarterfinals Division 4 (Buchanan) New Buffalo at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 (Kalamazoo Christian) Kalamazoo Heritage at Kalamazoo Christian, 5:00 p.m. MHSAA – Bloomingdale adding girls soccer Bloomingdale high school announced this week that the school will be adding girls soccer to their list of available sports starting next season. Bloomingdale currently has a boys soccer team, which plays in the fall. The new girls soccer team will take to the field next spring. The Cardinals athletic department says more information will be coming over the next few months as they build their girls soccer program. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Minnesota Twins fell to 27-17 in a 4-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers in the series finale at Target Field. Dylan Bundy started and pitched very well, giving way to Griffin Jax and Emilio Pagán, who gave up a game-tying homer to Harold Castro. Trevor Larnach homered in the win, and the Twins will now host the Kansas City Royals for four games this weekend.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Did you know every week, nearly 40 million job seekers visit LinkedIn? Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONMLB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Minnesota Twins fell to the Detroit Tigers in Wednesday's series finale at Target Field. Trevor Megill gave up a game-winning home run from Jeimer Candelario in the 10th inning. Harold Castro homered twice for Detroit, and Trevor Larnach added one of his own for the Twins. Dylan Bundy was solid for six innings but Minnesota couldn't hold its early 2-0 lead. The Twins are 27-17.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Did you know every week, nearly 40 million job seekers visit LinkedIn? Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONMLB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Minnesota Twins fell to the Detroit Tigers in Wednesday's series finale at Target Field. Trevor Megill gave up a game-winning home run from Jeimer Candelario in the 10th inning. Harold Castro homered twice for Detroit, and Trevor Larnach added one of his own for the Twins. Dylan Bundy was solid for six innings but Minnesota couldn't hold its early 2-0 lead. The Twins are 27-17. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Did you know every week, nearly 40 million job seekers visit LinkedIn? Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONMLB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today we discuss the WIN against the Minnesota Twins in Target field. Harold Castro vs Miguel Cabrera? Chafin or Fulmer? AJ Hinch? All the controversy in a win. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline– Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Did you know every week, nearly 40 million job seekers visit LinkedIn? Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONMLB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Minnesota Twins fell to 27-17 in a 4-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers in the series finale at Target Field. Dylan Bundy started and pitched very well, giving way to Griffin Jax and Emilio Pagán, who gave up a game-tying homer to Harold Castro. Trevor Larnach homered in the win, and the Twins will now host the Kansas City Royals for four games this weekend. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Did you know every week, nearly 40 million job seekers visit LinkedIn? Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONMLB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A.J. Hinch joins us to talk about pinch-hitting Miggy for Harold Castro, if the team is taking too many pitches at the plate, and his future in Detroit
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 4, Minnesota Twins 2 – 10 Innings Chicago White Sox 3, Boston Red Sox 1 Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Tigers 4, Twins 2 – 10 Innings – Candelario’s homer in 10th lifts Tigers in 4-2 win vs. Twins Jeimer Candelario hit the tiebreaking two-run homer in the 10th inning for the Detroit Tigers to beat the Minnesota Twins 4-2. Harold Castro went deep twice earlier as Tigers dodged another sweep and broke a six-game winning streak by the Twins. The Tigers have 25 homers in 43 games for the fewest in baseball. Trevor Larnach hit a two-run homer for the Twins in the fourth inning to spoil an otherwise-stellar start by Rony García pieced together by Tigers relievers. White Sox 3, Red Sox 1 – Burger’s homer off Hill lifts White Sox over Red Sox Jake Burger hit a three-run homer off Rich Hill, Lucas Giolito overcame a shaky first inning and the Chicago White Sox beat the Red Sox 3-1 to end Boston’s six-game winning streak. The White Sox won for the fourth time in six games. Burger, recalled Tuesday from Triple-A Charlotte after Luis Robert was placed on the COVID-19 injured list, hit an 0-2 breaking pitch in the fifth inning that traveled an estimated 444 feet. Giolito threw 27 pitches in the first but still allowed fewer than two runs for the fourth time this season. Hill held the White Sox hitless through four innings but lost his lead quickly. Reds 4, Cubs 3 – Votto homers, triples, shouts at reliever as Reds beat Cubs Joey Votto homered and tripled, then shouted at Cubs reliver Rowan Wick during a tense ending to the Cincinnati Reds’ 4-3 win over Chicago. Votto had a solo homer in the second inning off Kyle Hendricks and a two-run triple in the third as Cincinnati ended a two-game skid. Wick brushed back the 16-year veteran in the eighth, then walked him. Votto barked at Wick as he made his way to first base, and he also had words for Chicago’s dugout. An inning later, Reds reliever Hunter Strickland plunked Patrick Wisdom. Cubs manager David Ross was ejected by plate umpire Dan Merzel after leaving the dugout to protest. Today Chicago Cubs (Steele 1-4) at Cincinnati (Greene 1-6), 12:35 p.m. Cleveland (Pilkington 0-0) at Detroit (Skubal 3-2), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 Boston (Wacha 3-0) at Chicago White Sox (Keuchel 2-4), 8:10 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 93, Miami Heat 80 (BOS Leads 3-2) Tonight Dallas Mavericks at Golden State Warriors, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-1) NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 2nd Round Last Night St. Louis Blues 5, Colorado Avalanche 4 – OT (COL Leads 3-2) Tonight New York Rangers at Carolina Hurricanes, 7:00 p.m. (Series Tied 2-2) Edmonton Oilers at Calgary Flames, 9:30 p.m. (EDM Leads 3-1) Indy 500 – Penske ready for 300,000 guests in a full-capacity Indy 500 Roger Penske will at last be able to open the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to a capacity crowd this Sunday for his first true Indianapolis 500 since buying the property in 2020. The pandemic forced his first 500 to be held without spectators and only 40% capacity last year. He’s spent more than $30 million in capital improvements to prepare the iconic speedway for Penske’s first true housewarming party. He expects more than 300,000 people on property Sunday and has been relentless in ensuring the speedway is in pristine condition for his guests. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Los Angeles Sparks at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m. WNBA – WNBA’s Fever fire Stanley, promote Knox as interim coach The Indiana Fever have fired coach Marianne Stanley following a 2-7 start. The New York Liberty are the only WNBA team with fewer wins this season. The Fever announced that Carlos Knox is being promoted from assistant coach to interim coach. Interim general manager Lin Dunn says Indiana needed to go in a different direction with a young nucleus of players. Stanley was in the final year of her contract. Knox was a star college player at nearby IUPUI. WNBA – Brittney Griner’s wife tells ABC she wants WNBA star home Brittney Griner’s wife, Cherelle, wants President Joe Biden to secure her partner’s release, doing whatever is necessary to get the WNBA star home from Russia where she has been detained for more than three months. Cherelle Griner became emotional detailing what little she knows about Brittney’s detainment during an interview that aired Wednesday on Good Morning America. The Phoenix Mercury center has been detained since Feb. 17 after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage at an airport near Moscow. The 31-year-old Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist for the U.S. She faces drug smuggling charges that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The Biden administration has determined Griner is being wrongfully detained. Tennis – French Open – No. 1 Djokovic eases into 3rd round Novak Djokovic has eased into the third round of his French Open title defense with a straight-set victory over Alex Molcan. The top-ranked Djokovic defeated the 24-year-old Slovakian 6-2, 6-3, 7-6. Molcan was able to push Djokovic to a third-set tiebreaker but threw his racket down in frustration after his 34th unforced error to fall behind 6-3. Other second-round winners on the men’s side were third seed Alexander Zverev and No. 6 Carlos Alcaraz, both in five sets. Coco Gauff has reached the third round in the women’s bracket by winning a second-set tiebreak. The 18-year-old American is the youngest player remaining in the draw. Two-time Grand Slam champ Victoria Azarenka also advanced, but U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu and fourth-seeded Maria Sakkari were ousted in the second round. NFL – NFL to appeal ruling in Gruden lawsuit over leaked emails The NFL says it will appeal a ruling denying the league’s request to move former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s lawsuit over leaked emails from a public courtroom into closed-door arbitration. In a statement, the NFL denied Gruden’s claims that league officials or Commissioner Roger Goodell leaked racist, sexist and homophobic emails by Gruden to force him to resign last October. Judge Nancy Allf in Las Vegas refused requests to dismiss Gruden’s claim outright or move it to out-of-court talks that could be overseen by Goodell. Gruden emerged from the courtroom declaring “Go Raiders” and saying he was going to let the process take care of itself. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night Dayton Dragons at West Michigan Whitecaps, suspended Great Lakes Loons 4, South Bend Cubs 3 Beloit Sky Carp 11, Lansing Lugnuts 4 Tonight Dayton Dragons at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. (doubleheader) Great Lakes Loons at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Beloit Sky Carp, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Yesterday Girls Soccer – District Quarterfinals Division 2 St. Joseph 3, Paw Paw 0 Lakeshore 6, Edwardsburg 1 Vicksburg 7, Niles 0 Division 3 Watervliet 3, Berrien Springs 2 – OT Three Rivers 3, Coloma 0 GR South Christian 7, Fennville 1 Parchment 8, Comstock 0 Portland 8, Delton-Kellogg 0 Division 4 Michigan Lutheran 8, Buchanan 2 Bridgman 8, Brandywine 0 Lawton 10, Covert 0 Hartford 1, Bangor 0 Division 1 Portage Central 5, Holt 0 BC Lakeview 6, Jackson 4 Portage Northern 2, Grand Ledge 1 – OT Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 1, Lansing Everett 0 Caledonia 6, Kalamazoo Central 1 Baseball Lakeshore 8, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 3 – Game 1 Lakeshore vs. Loy Norrix – Game 2 Postponed Bridgman 6, Niles 4 Watervliet 1, Martin 0 Softball Lakeshore 10, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 – Game 1 Lakeshore 15, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 – Game 2 South Haven 15, Hartford 5 Hartford at South Haven – Game 2 Postponed Edwardsburg 15, Plainwell 0 – Game 1 Edwardsburg 15, Plainwell 0 – Game 2 Today Baseball Eau Claire at Michigan Lutheran, 4:15 p.m. (DH) River Valley at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. Decatur at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Otsego at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. South Haven at Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Niles at Sturgis, 4:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Schoolcraft, 4:30 p.m. Mattawan at Battle Creek Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Kalamazoo Central at Coldwater, 4:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. Softball Coloma at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. Hartford at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. River Valley at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. Howardsville Christian at Lawrence, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Decatur at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Otsego at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. Cassopolis at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. Mattawan at Battle Creek Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Kalamazoo Central at Coldwater, 4:00 p.m. Girls Soccer – District Quarterfinals Division 4 (Buchanan) New Buffalo at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 (Kalamazoo Christian) Kalamazoo Heritage at Kalamazoo Christian, 5:00 p.m. MHSAA – Bloomingdale adding girls soccer Bloomingdale high school announced this week that the school will be adding girls soccer to their list of available sports starting next season. Bloomingdale currently has a boys soccer team, which plays in the fall. The new girls soccer team will take to the field next spring. The Cardinals athletic department says more information will be coming over the next few months as they build their girls soccer program. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 4, Minnesota Twins 2 – 10 Innings Chicago White Sox 3, Boston Red Sox 1 Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Tigers 4, Twins 2 – 10 Innings – Candelario's homer in 10th lifts Tigers in 4-2 win vs. Twins Jeimer Candelario hit the tiebreaking two-run homer in the 10th inning for the Detroit Tigers to beat the Minnesota Twins 4-2. Harold Castro went deep twice earlier as Tigers dodged another sweep and broke a six-game winning streak by the Twins. The Tigers have 25 homers in 43 games for the fewest in baseball. Trevor Larnach hit a two-run homer for the Twins in the fourth inning to spoil an otherwise-stellar start by Rony García pieced together by Tigers relievers. White Sox 3, Red Sox 1 – Burger's homer off Hill lifts White Sox over Red Sox Jake Burger hit a three-run homer off Rich Hill, Lucas Giolito overcame a shaky first inning and the Chicago White Sox beat the Red Sox 3-1 to end Boston's six-game winning streak. The White Sox won for the fourth time in six games. Burger, recalled Tuesday from Triple-A Charlotte after Luis Robert was placed on the COVID-19 injured list, hit an 0-2 breaking pitch in the fifth inning that traveled an estimated 444 feet. Giolito threw 27 pitches in the first but still allowed fewer than two runs for the fourth time this season. Hill held the White Sox hitless through four innings but lost his lead quickly. Reds 4, Cubs 3 – Votto homers, triples, shouts at reliever as Reds beat Cubs Joey Votto homered and tripled, then shouted at Cubs reliver Rowan Wick during a tense ending to the Cincinnati Reds' 4-3 win over Chicago. Votto had a solo homer in the second inning off Kyle Hendricks and a two-run triple in the third as Cincinnati ended a two-game skid. Wick brushed back the 16-year veteran in the eighth, then walked him. Votto barked at Wick as he made his way to first base, and he also had words for Chicago's dugout. An inning later, Reds reliever Hunter Strickland plunked Patrick Wisdom. Cubs manager David Ross was ejected by plate umpire Dan Merzel after leaving the dugout to protest. Today Chicago Cubs (Steele 1-4) at Cincinnati (Greene 1-6), 12:35 p.m. Cleveland (Pilkington 0-0) at Detroit (Skubal 3-2), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 Boston (Wacha 3-0) at Chicago White Sox (Keuchel 2-4), 8:10 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 93, Miami Heat 80 (BOS Leads 3-2) Tonight Dallas Mavericks at Golden State Warriors, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-1) NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 2nd Round Last Night St. Louis Blues 5, Colorado Avalanche 4 – OT (COL Leads 3-2) Tonight New York Rangers at Carolina Hurricanes, 7:00 p.m. (Series Tied 2-2) Edmonton Oilers at Calgary Flames, 9:30 p.m. (EDM Leads 3-1) Indy 500 – Penske ready for 300,000 guests in a full-capacity Indy 500 Roger Penske will at last be able to open the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to a capacity crowd this Sunday for his first true Indianapolis 500 since buying the property in 2020. The pandemic forced his first 500 to be held without spectators and only 40% capacity last year. He's spent more than $30 million in capital improvements to prepare the iconic speedway for Penske's first true housewarming party. He expects more than 300,000 people on property Sunday and has been relentless in ensuring the speedway is in pristine condition for his guests. WNBA – Women's National Basketball Association Tonight Los Angeles Sparks at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m. WNBA – WNBA's Fever fire Stanley, promote Knox as interim coach The Indiana Fever have fired coach Marianne Stanley following a 2-7 start. The New York Liberty are the only WNBA team with fewer wins this season.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 4, Minnesota Twins 2 – 10 Innings Chicago White Sox 3, Boston Red Sox 1 Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Tigers 4, Twins 2 – 10 Innings – Candelario's homer in 10th lifts Tigers in 4-2 win vs. Twins Jeimer Candelario hit the tiebreaking two-run homer in the 10th inning for the Detroit Tigers to beat the Minnesota Twins 4-2. Harold Castro went deep twice earlier as Tigers dodged another sweep and broke a six-game winning streak by the Twins. The Tigers have 25 homers in 43 games for the fewest in baseball. Trevor Larnach hit a two-run homer for the Twins in the fourth inning to spoil an otherwise-stellar start by Rony García pieced together by Tigers relievers. White Sox 3, Red Sox 1 – Burger's homer off Hill lifts White Sox over Red Sox Jake Burger hit a three-run homer off Rich Hill, Lucas Giolito overcame a shaky first inning and the Chicago White Sox beat the Red Sox 3-1 to end Boston's six-game winning streak. The White Sox won for the fourth time in six games. Burger, recalled Tuesday from Triple-A Charlotte after Luis Robert was placed on the COVID-19 injured list, hit an 0-2 breaking pitch in the fifth inning that traveled an estimated 444 feet. Giolito threw 27 pitches in the first but still allowed fewer than two runs for the fourth time this season. Hill held the White Sox hitless through four innings but lost his lead quickly. Reds 4, Cubs 3 – Votto homers, triples, shouts at reliever as Reds beat Cubs Joey Votto homered and tripled, then shouted at Cubs reliver Rowan Wick during a tense ending to the Cincinnati Reds' 4-3 win over Chicago. Votto had a solo homer in the second inning off Kyle Hendricks and a two-run triple in the third as Cincinnati ended a two-game skid. Wick brushed back the 16-year veteran in the eighth, then walked him. Votto barked at Wick as he made his way to first base, and he also had words for Chicago's dugout. An inning later, Reds reliever Hunter Strickland plunked Patrick Wisdom. Cubs manager David Ross was ejected by plate umpire Dan Merzel after leaving the dugout to protest. Today Chicago Cubs (Steele 1-4) at Cincinnati (Greene 1-6), 12:35 p.m. Cleveland (Pilkington 0-0) at Detroit (Skubal 3-2), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 Boston (Wacha 3-0) at Chicago White Sox (Keuchel 2-4), 8:10 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 93, Miami Heat 80 (BOS Leads 3-2) Tonight Dallas Mavericks at Golden State Warriors, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-1) NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 2nd Round Last Night St. Louis Blues 5, Colorado Avalanche 4 – OT (COL Leads 3-2) Tonight New York Rangers at Carolina Hurricanes, 7:00 p.m. (Series Tied 2-2) Edmonton Oilers at Calgary Flames, 9:30 p.m. (EDM Leads 3-1) Indy 500 – Penske ready for 300,000 guests in a full-capacity Indy 500 Roger Penske will at last be able to open the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to a capacity crowd this Sunday for his first true Indianapolis 500 since buying the property in 2020. The pandemic forced his first 500 to be held without spectators and only 40% capacity last year. He's spent more than $30 million in capital improvements to prepare the iconic speedway for Penske's first true housewarming party. He expects more than 300,000 people on property Sunday and has been relentless in ensuring the speedway is in pristine condition for his guests. WNBA – Women's National Basketball Association Tonight Los Angeles Sparks at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m. WNBA – WNBA's Fever fire Stanley, promote Knox as interim coach The Indiana Fever have fired coach Marianne Stanley following a 2-7 start. The New York Liberty are the only WNBA team with fewer wins this season.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 4, Minnesota Twins 2 – 10 Innings Chicago White Sox 3, Boston Red Sox 1 Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Tigers 4, Twins 2 – 10 Innings – Candelario’s homer in 10th lifts Tigers in 4-2 win vs. Twins Jeimer Candelario hit the tiebreaking two-run homer in the 10th inning for the Detroit Tigers to beat the Minnesota Twins 4-2. Harold Castro went deep twice earlier as Tigers dodged another sweep and broke a six-game winning streak by the Twins. The Tigers have 25 homers in 43 games for the fewest in baseball. Trevor Larnach hit a two-run homer for the Twins in the fourth inning to spoil an otherwise-stellar start by Rony García pieced together by Tigers relievers. White Sox 3, Red Sox 1 – Burger’s homer off Hill lifts White Sox over Red Sox Jake Burger hit a three-run homer off Rich Hill, Lucas Giolito overcame a shaky first inning and the Chicago White Sox beat the Red Sox 3-1 to end Boston’s six-game winning streak. The White Sox won for the fourth time in six games. Burger, recalled Tuesday from Triple-A Charlotte after Luis Robert was placed on the COVID-19 injured list, hit an 0-2 breaking pitch in the fifth inning that traveled an estimated 444 feet. Giolito threw 27 pitches in the first but still allowed fewer than two runs for the fourth time this season. Hill held the White Sox hitless through four innings but lost his lead quickly. Reds 4, Cubs 3 – Votto homers, triples, shouts at reliever as Reds beat Cubs Joey Votto homered and tripled, then shouted at Cubs reliver Rowan Wick during a tense ending to the Cincinnati Reds’ 4-3 win over Chicago. Votto had a solo homer in the second inning off Kyle Hendricks and a two-run triple in the third as Cincinnati ended a two-game skid. Wick brushed back the 16-year veteran in the eighth, then walked him. Votto barked at Wick as he made his way to first base, and he also had words for Chicago’s dugout. An inning later, Reds reliever Hunter Strickland plunked Patrick Wisdom. Cubs manager David Ross was ejected by plate umpire Dan Merzel after leaving the dugout to protest. Today Chicago Cubs (Steele 1-4) at Cincinnati (Greene 1-6), 12:35 p.m. Cleveland (Pilkington 0-0) at Detroit (Skubal 3-2), 7:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:50 Boston (Wacha 3-0) at Chicago White Sox (Keuchel 2-4), 8:10 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Boston Celtics 93, Miami Heat 80 (BOS Leads 3-2) Tonight Dallas Mavericks at Golden State Warriors, 9:00 p.m. (GSW Leads 3-1) NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 2nd Round Last Night St. Louis Blues 5, Colorado Avalanche 4 – OT (COL Leads 3-2) Tonight New York Rangers at Carolina Hurricanes, 7:00 p.m. (Series Tied 2-2) Edmonton Oilers at Calgary Flames, 9:30 p.m. (EDM Leads 3-1) Indy 500 – Penske ready for 300,000 guests in a full-capacity Indy 500 Roger Penske will at last be able to open the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to a capacity crowd this Sunday for his first true Indianapolis 500 since buying the property in 2020. The pandemic forced his first 500 to be held without spectators and only 40% capacity last year. He’s spent more than $30 million in capital improvements to prepare the iconic speedway for Penske’s first true housewarming party. He expects more than 300,000 people on property Sunday and has been relentless in ensuring the speedway is in pristine condition for his guests. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Los Angeles Sparks at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m. WNBA – WNBA’s Fever fire Stanley, promote Knox as interim coach The Indiana Fever have fired coach Marianne Stanley following a 2-7 start. The New York Liberty are the only WNBA team with fewer wins this season. The Fever announced that Carlos Knox is being promoted from assistant coach to interim coach. Interim general manager Lin Dunn says Indiana needed to go in a different direction with a young nucleus of players. Stanley was in the final year of her contract. Knox was a star college player at nearby IUPUI. WNBA – Brittney Griner’s wife tells ABC she wants WNBA star home Brittney Griner’s wife, Cherelle, wants President Joe Biden to secure her partner’s release, doing whatever is necessary to get the WNBA star home from Russia where she has been detained for more than three months. Cherelle Griner became emotional detailing what little she knows about Brittney’s detainment during an interview that aired Wednesday on Good Morning America. The Phoenix Mercury center has been detained since Feb. 17 after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage at an airport near Moscow. The 31-year-old Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist for the U.S. She faces drug smuggling charges that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The Biden administration has determined Griner is being wrongfully detained. Tennis – French Open – No. 1 Djokovic eases into 3rd round Novak Djokovic has eased into the third round of his French Open title defense with a straight-set victory over Alex Molcan. The top-ranked Djokovic defeated the 24-year-old Slovakian 6-2, 6-3, 7-6. Molcan was able to push Djokovic to a third-set tiebreaker but threw his racket down in frustration after his 34th unforced error to fall behind 6-3. Other second-round winners on the men’s side were third seed Alexander Zverev and No. 6 Carlos Alcaraz, both in five sets. Coco Gauff has reached the third round in the women’s bracket by winning a second-set tiebreak. The 18-year-old American is the youngest player remaining in the draw. Two-time Grand Slam champ Victoria Azarenka also advanced, but U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu and fourth-seeded Maria Sakkari were ousted in the second round. NFL – NFL to appeal ruling in Gruden lawsuit over leaked emails The NFL says it will appeal a ruling denying the league’s request to move former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s lawsuit over leaked emails from a public courtroom into closed-door arbitration. In a statement, the NFL denied Gruden’s claims that league officials or Commissioner Roger Goodell leaked racist, sexist and homophobic emails by Gruden to force him to resign last October. Judge Nancy Allf in Las Vegas refused requests to dismiss Gruden’s claim outright or move it to out-of-court talks that could be overseen by Goodell. Gruden emerged from the courtroom declaring “Go Raiders” and saying he was going to let the process take care of itself. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night Dayton Dragons at West Michigan Whitecaps, suspended Great Lakes Loons 4, South Bend Cubs 3 Beloit Sky Carp 11, Lansing Lugnuts 4 Tonight Dayton Dragons at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. (doubleheader) Great Lakes Loons at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Beloit Sky Carp, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Yesterday Girls Soccer – District Quarterfinals Division 2 St. Joseph 3, Paw Paw 0 Lakeshore 6, Edwardsburg 1 Vicksburg 7, Niles 0 Division 3 Watervliet 3, Berrien Springs 2 – OT Three Rivers 3, Coloma 0 GR South Christian 7, Fennville 1 Parchment 8, Comstock 0 Portland 8, Delton-Kellogg 0 Division 4 Michigan Lutheran 8, Buchanan 2 Bridgman 8, Brandywine 0 Lawton 10, Covert 0 Hartford 1, Bangor 0 Division 1 Portage Central 5, Holt 0 BC Lakeview 6, Jackson 4 Portage Northern 2, Grand Ledge 1 – OT Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 1, Lansing Everett 0 Caledonia 6, Kalamazoo Central 1 Baseball Lakeshore 8, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 3 – Game 1 Lakeshore vs. Loy Norrix – Game 2 Postponed Bridgman 6, Niles 4 Watervliet 1, Martin 0 Softball Lakeshore 10, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 – Game 1 Lakeshore 15, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 – Game 2 South Haven 15, Hartford 5 Hartford at South Haven – Game 2 Postponed Edwardsburg 15, Plainwell 0 – Game 1 Edwardsburg 15, Plainwell 0 – Game 2 Today Baseball Eau Claire at Michigan Lutheran, 4:15 p.m. (DH) River Valley at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. Decatur at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Otsego at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. South Haven at Gobles, 4:30 p.m. Niles at Sturgis, 4:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Schoolcraft, 4:30 p.m. Mattawan at Battle Creek Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Kalamazoo Central at Coldwater, 4:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. Softball Coloma at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. Hartford at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. River Valley at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. Howardsville Christian at Lawrence, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Decatur at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Otsego at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. Cassopolis at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. Mattawan at Battle Creek Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Kalamazoo Central at Coldwater, 4:00 p.m. Girls Soccer – District Quarterfinals Division 4 (Buchanan) New Buffalo at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. Division 4 (Kalamazoo Christian) Kalamazoo Heritage at Kalamazoo Christian, 5:00 p.m. MHSAA – Bloomingdale adding girls soccer Bloomingdale high school announced this week that the school will be adding girls soccer to their list of available sports starting next season. Bloomingdale currently has a boys soccer team, which plays in the fall. The new girls soccer team will take to the field next spring. The Cardinals athletic department says more information will be coming over the next few months as they build their girls soccer program. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 3, Tampa Bay Rays 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 3 – 10 innings Chicago Cubs 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 0 Tigers 3, Rays 2 – Castro homers in 9th, Tigers top Rays 3-2 for 4th straight Harold Castro hit his first home run of the year with two outs in the ninth inning, a tiebreaking shot that sent the Detroit Tigers past the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 for their season-best fourth straight victory. Castro connected off Andrew Kittredge. Michael Fulmer got the win in relief and Gregory Soto pitched the ninth for his sixth save in seven tries. Jonathan Schoop hit a two-run homer that put Tigers rookie Alex Faedo in position for his first major league win, but Brett Phillips helped the Rays erase their 2-0 deficit with a home run in the sixth and a leadoff double in the eighth. Phillips scored on Wander Franco's sacrifice fly to tie it. White Sox 5, Royals 3 – F/10 – Robert powers White Sox past Royals in 10 after Cueto's gem Luis Robert hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning after Johnny Cueto's impressive Chicago debut, and the White Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-3 in the opener of a five-game series. Yasmani Grandal also had a two-run shot for the White Sox, who squandered a 3-0 lead in the eighth. Robert connected off Scott Barlow with two outs, scoring the automatic runner as well. The 36-year-old Cueto pitched six shutout innings in his first major league start this season after getting promoted from Triple-A Charlotte. The two-time All-Star allowed just two hits and two walks, striking out seven. Only one runner reached second base against him. Cubs 9, Pirates 0 – Contreras hits 1st-inning slam, Cubs beat Pirates 9-0 Willson Contreras led off with a double and became a rare leadoff hitter with a first-inning grand slam as the Chicago Cubs burst to an eight-run lead and beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-0. Contreras became the 10th leadoff hitter since 1901 with a first-inning slam, the first since Houston's George Springer off Kansas City's Edinson Vólquez on June 24, 2016. The slam was the 100th homer of Contreras' career. Wade Miley retired his first 14 batters before Michael Chavis lined a single to left and ended a 13-inning hitless streak for Pittsburgh batters. Today Chicago White Sox (Cease 3-1) at Kansas City (Heasley 0-1), 2:10 p.m. – Game 1 Chicago White Sox (TBD) at Kansas City (Singer 0-0), 7:10 p.m. – Game 2 Detroit (Brieske 0-2) at Tampa Bay (McClanahan 2-2), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Pittsburgh (Brubaker 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Thompson 2-0), 7:40 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers, 7:00 p.m. (Game 1) St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche, 9:30 p.m. (Game 1) NHL – Vegas fires DeBoer The Vegas Golden Knights have fired coach Peter DeBoer after they missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. General manager Kelly McCrimmon says the front office believes a new coach would put the team in the best position to succeed next season. Vegas failed to qualify for the playoffs after a barrage of injuries compounded by salary cap problems wreaked havoc on the lineup. NHL – Love of hockey sends Greenberg from Cubs to Blackhawks Jeff Greenberg grew up watching Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He played hockey all the way through the club level at the University of Pennsylvania. It's that love for the sport that prompted Greenberg to take on a unique challenge. After working in baseball for more than 15 years, Greenberg has moved over to the NHL as an associate general manager in the revamped front office of the Chicago Blackhawks. Greenberg is tasked with overseeing the strategic systems and processes for the team's hockey operations department. He says it's an “incredible opportunity.”
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 3, Tampa Bay Rays 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 3 – 10 innings Chicago Cubs 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 0 Tigers 3, Rays 2 – Castro homers in 9th, Tigers top Rays 3-2 for 4th straight Harold Castro hit his first home run of the year with two outs in the ninth inning, a tiebreaking shot that sent the Detroit Tigers past the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 for their season-best fourth straight victory. Castro connected off Andrew Kittredge. Michael Fulmer got the win in relief and Gregory Soto pitched the ninth for his sixth save in seven tries. Jonathan Schoop hit a two-run homer that put Tigers rookie Alex Faedo in position for his first major league win, but Brett Phillips helped the Rays erase their 2-0 deficit with a home run in the sixth and a leadoff double in the eighth. Phillips scored on Wander Franco’s sacrifice fly to tie it. White Sox 5, Royals 3 – F/10 – Robert powers White Sox past Royals in 10 after Cueto’s gem Luis Robert hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning after Johnny Cueto’s impressive Chicago debut, and the White Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-3 in the opener of a five-game series. Yasmani Grandal also had a two-run shot for the White Sox, who squandered a 3-0 lead in the eighth. Robert connected off Scott Barlow with two outs, scoring the automatic runner as well. The 36-year-old Cueto pitched six shutout innings in his first major league start this season after getting promoted from Triple-A Charlotte. The two-time All-Star allowed just two hits and two walks, striking out seven. Only one runner reached second base against him. Cubs 9, Pirates 0 – Contreras hits 1st-inning slam, Cubs beat Pirates 9-0 Willson Contreras led off with a double and became a rare leadoff hitter with a first-inning grand slam as the Chicago Cubs burst to an eight-run lead and beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-0. Contreras became the 10th leadoff hitter since 1901 with a first-inning slam, the first since Houston’s George Springer off Kansas City’s Edinson Vólquez on June 24, 2016. The slam was the 100th homer of Contreras’ career. Wade Miley retired his first 14 batters before Michael Chavis lined a single to left and ended a 13-inning hitless streak for Pittsburgh batters. Today Chicago White Sox (Cease 3-1) at Kansas City (Heasley 0-1), 2:10 p.m. – Game 1 Chicago White Sox (TBD) at Kansas City (Singer 0-0), 7:10 p.m. – Game 2 Detroit (Brieske 0-2) at Tampa Bay (McClanahan 2-2), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Pittsburgh (Brubaker 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Thompson 2-0), 7:40 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers, 7:00 p.m. (Game 1) St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche, 9:30 p.m. (Game 1) NHL – Vegas fires DeBoer The Vegas Golden Knights have fired coach Peter DeBoer after they missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. General manager Kelly McCrimmon says the front office believes a new coach would put the team in the best position to succeed next season. Vegas failed to qualify for the playoffs after a barrage of injuries compounded by salary cap problems wreaked havoc on the lineup. NHL – Love of hockey sends Greenberg from Cubs to Blackhawks Jeff Greenberg grew up watching Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He played hockey all the way through the club level at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s that love for the sport that prompted Greenberg to take on a unique challenge. After working in baseball for more than 15 years, Greenberg has moved over to the NHL as an associate general manager in the revamped front office of the Chicago Blackhawks. Greenberg is tasked with overseeing the strategic systems and processes for the team’s hockey operations department. He says it’s an “incredible opportunity.” NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – Conference Finals Tonight Boston Celtics at Miami Heat, 8:30 p.m. (Game 1) NBA – Woman files for protective order against Cavs’ Rajon Rondo A Louisville woman has filed for an emergency protective order against Cleveland Cavaliers guard Rajon Rondo and alleges the former Kentucky star brandished a gun and threatened her life. News outlets report the woman alleges Rondo “became enraged” last week during a confrontation and filed for the EPO on Friday in Jefferson County Family Court. She says in the EPO that Rondo then went outside and knocked over the trash cans, stomped on the landscaping lights and drove his car onto the lawn. Rondo returned and beat on a window with a gun before giving the gun to former Louisville Metro Police interim chief Yvette Gentry and leaving. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Atlanta Dream at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m. NFL – Buck, Aikman excited about ‘starting over’ with ESPN Joe Buck and Troy Aikman have met their ESPN co-workers for the first time as they prepare to take over in the “Monday Night Football” booth. Both said Monday they are excited about the challenge of doing something new after 20 seasons together at Fox. Aikman had considered a deal with Amazon to call Thursday night games while reducing his schedule at Fox. But the logistics of that arrangement became difficult, and ESPN began talking to him about moving to Monday nights. Once Aikman was on board, ESPN snagged Buck from Fox, where he had a year left on his contract. Buck says the parting was amicable. NFL – AP source: Browns QB Watson to meet with NFL reps in Texas A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will meet with NFL officials in Texas. Watson is facing 22 civil lawsuits from massage therapists accusing him of sexual misconduct and plans to meet with the league representatives this week, according to the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. Watson faces potential discipline from the league, which is independently investigating whether he violated its personal conduct policy. Reporter Josina Anderson was first to report the meeting on Twitter. A league spokesman declined to comment on the tweet and said "there’s no timetable as the review is active and ongoing.” NCAA – States hands off when it comes to NCAA, athlete compensation The NCAA recently issued a warning that there are still rules to follow now that college athletes can make money off their fame and celebrity. It waited nearly a year to do so and it has raised speculation of a crackdown on some of the dealmakers working with college athletes. About two dozen states have laws regarding athlete compensation. The laws, however, have no enforcement mechanisms. There has been no indication so far that a state attorney general or prosecutor will go after a booster organization striking deals with athletes. CFL – Roughriders cancel practices as CFL work stoppage continues The Saskatchewan Roughriders became the fourth Canadian Football League team to cancel training-camp practices after the league and its players broke off negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. The Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts canceled practices on Sunday, a day after negotiations halted, putting players on seven of the league’s nine teams in a legal strike position. Players for the Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Elks won’t be in a legal strike position until later this week under Alberta’s labor laws. Hamilton players planned to stand outside the team’s stadium in a show of unity on Tuesday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday No games last night Today Lansing Lugnuts at Great Lakes Loons, 11:05 a.m. West Michigan Whitecaps at Fort Wayne Tin Caps, 6:35 p.m. South Bend Cubs at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7:40 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Baseball Hudsonville 9, Lakeshore 3 – Game 1 Lakeshore 10, Hudsonville 3 – Game 2 Kalamazoo Central 4, Watervliet 3 – Game 1 Watervliet 6, Kalamazoo Central 1 – Game 2 Coloma 5, Saugatuck 2 Lawton 5, Fennville 1 Mendon 15, Comstock 4 – Game 1 Mendon 8, Comstock 1 – Game 2 Portage Northern 17, Grandville 11 Girls Tennis North Muskegon 5, Brandywine 3 Three Rivers 7, South Haven 1 Softball Lakeshore 6, Mattawan 2 – Game 1 Lakeshore 7, Mattawan 3 – Game 2 River Valley 15, Eau Claire 0 – Game 1 River Valley 15, Eau Claire 0 – Game 2 Coloma 10, Saugatuck 0 – Game 1 Coloma 15, Saugatuck 0 – Game 2 Lawton 11, Fennville 1 – Game 1 Lawton 7, Fennville 0 – Game 2 Gobles 12, Kalamazoo Hackett 10 – Game 1 Gobles 21, Kalamazoo Hackett 4 – Game 2 Cassopolis 17, Bloomingdale 6 – Game 1 Cassopolis 23, Bloomingdale 10 – Game 2 Decatur 12, White Pigeon 0 – Game 1 Decatur 18, White Pigeon 0 – Game 2 Girls Soccer SMAC Tournament Gull Lake 6, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 Gold Division Semifinal Portage Central 1, St. Joseph 0 Gold Division Semifinal Lakeshore 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Silver Division Semifinal Portage Northern 3, Mattawan 2 – Shootout Silver Division Semifinal Other Games Michigan Lutheran 8, Bangor 0 Watervliet 2, Berrien Springs 0 New Buffalo 8, Covert 0 Coloma 1, Saugatuck 0 Paw Paw 3, Allegan 2 Edwardsburg 3, Three Rivers 1 Plainwell 9, Sturgis 0 Otsego 5, Dowagiac 0 Vicksburg 8, Niles 0 Comstock 4, Hartford 1 Kalamazoo Christian 8, Delton-Kellogg 0 Kalamazoo Hackett 5, Constantine 0 Fennville 0, Lawton 0 – TIE Schoolcraft 10, Parchment 2 Boys Golf BCS Conference at Chickaming GC (River Valley) Team Scores South Haven 387 Bridgman 400 Berrien Springs 416 Howardsville Chr. 434 Brandywine 437 Buchanan 441 River Valley 446 Our Lady of the Lake 448 New Buffalo 501 Top 10 Individual Connor Shooks OLL 86 Aiden Mondschein BUCH 88 Parker Williamson SH 89 Justin Ott BRID 93 Elliott Williamson SH 93 Brandon Tripp BSPR 94 Cade Hahn SH 96 Nate Hawley BRID 99 Nathan Jergens HCHR 100 Evan Spriggs NBUFF 101 Today Baseball Michigan Lutheran at Our Lady of the Lake, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Benton Harbor at Berrien Springs, 4:00 p.m. (DH) South Haven at Bridgman, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Brandywine at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. (DH) New Buffalo at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Coloma at Gobles, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Lawton at Watervliet, 4:30 p.m. River Valley at Lawrence, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Vicksburg at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Sturgis at Edwardsburg, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Allegan at Niles, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Three Rivers at Otsego, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Plainwell at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Portage Central at BC Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Hopkins at Mattawan, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Martin at Saugatuck, 4:30 p.m. (DH) BC Central at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Softball Howardsville Christian at Michigan Lutheran, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Niles at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Benton Harbor at Berrien Springs, 4:00 p.m. (DH) South Haven at Bridgman, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Brandywine at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. (DH) New Buffalo at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. (DH) River Valley at Lawrence, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Lawton at Watervliet, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Vicksburg at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Sturgis at Edwardsburg, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Three Rivers at Otsego, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Plainwell at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Loy Norrix at BC Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Girls Soccer Michigan Lutheran at South Haven, 5:00 p.m. Holland Black River at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Girls Tennis Byron Center at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. South Bend St. Joseph (IN) at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 3, Tampa Bay Rays 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 3 – 10 innings Chicago Cubs 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 0 Tigers 3, Rays 2 – Castro homers in 9th, Tigers top Rays 3-2 for 4th straight Harold Castro hit his first home run of the year with two outs in the ninth inning, a tiebreaking shot that sent the Detroit Tigers past the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 for their season-best fourth straight victory. Castro connected off Andrew Kittredge. Michael Fulmer got the win in relief and Gregory Soto pitched the ninth for his sixth save in seven tries. Jonathan Schoop hit a two-run homer that put Tigers rookie Alex Faedo in position for his first major league win, but Brett Phillips helped the Rays erase their 2-0 deficit with a home run in the sixth and a leadoff double in the eighth. Phillips scored on Wander Franco’s sacrifice fly to tie it. White Sox 5, Royals 3 – F/10 – Robert powers White Sox past Royals in 10 after Cueto’s gem Luis Robert hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning after Johnny Cueto’s impressive Chicago debut, and the White Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-3 in the opener of a five-game series. Yasmani Grandal also had a two-run shot for the White Sox, who squandered a 3-0 lead in the eighth. Robert connected off Scott Barlow with two outs, scoring the automatic runner as well. The 36-year-old Cueto pitched six shutout innings in his first major league start this season after getting promoted from Triple-A Charlotte. The two-time All-Star allowed just two hits and two walks, striking out seven. Only one runner reached second base against him. Cubs 9, Pirates 0 – Contreras hits 1st-inning slam, Cubs beat Pirates 9-0 Willson Contreras led off with a double and became a rare leadoff hitter with a first-inning grand slam as the Chicago Cubs burst to an eight-run lead and beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-0. Contreras became the 10th leadoff hitter since 1901 with a first-inning slam, the first since Houston’s George Springer off Kansas City’s Edinson Vólquez on June 24, 2016. The slam was the 100th homer of Contreras’ career. Wade Miley retired his first 14 batters before Michael Chavis lined a single to left and ended a 13-inning hitless streak for Pittsburgh batters. Today Chicago White Sox (Cease 3-1) at Kansas City (Heasley 0-1), 2:10 p.m. – Game 1 Chicago White Sox (TBD) at Kansas City (Singer 0-0), 7:10 p.m. – Game 2 Detroit (Brieske 0-2) at Tampa Bay (McClanahan 2-2), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Pittsburgh (Brubaker 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Thompson 2-0), 7:40 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers, 7:00 p.m. (Game 1) St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche, 9:30 p.m. (Game 1) NHL – Vegas fires DeBoer The Vegas Golden Knights have fired coach Peter DeBoer after they missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. General manager Kelly McCrimmon says the front office believes a new coach would put the team in the best position to succeed next season. Vegas failed to qualify for the playoffs after a barrage of injuries compounded by salary cap problems wreaked havoc on the lineup. NHL – Love of hockey sends Greenberg from Cubs to Blackhawks Jeff Greenberg grew up watching Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He played hockey all the way through the club level at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s that love for the sport that prompted Greenberg to take on a unique challenge. After working in baseball for more than 15 years, Greenberg has moved over to the NHL as an associate general manager in the revamped front office of the Chicago Blackhawks. Greenberg is tasked with overseeing the strategic systems and processes for the team’s hockey operations department. He says it’s an “incredible opportunity.” NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – Conference Finals Tonight Boston Celtics at Miami Heat, 8:30 p.m. (Game 1) NBA – Woman files for protective order against Cavs’ Rajon Rondo A Louisville woman has filed for an emergency protective order against Cleveland Cavaliers guard Rajon Rondo and alleges the former Kentucky star brandished a gun and threatened her life. News outlets report the woman alleges Rondo “became enraged” last week during a confrontation and filed for the EPO on Friday in Jefferson County Family Court. She says in the EPO that Rondo then went outside and knocked over the trash cans, stomped on the landscaping lights and drove his car onto the lawn. Rondo returned and beat on a window with a gun before giving the gun to former Louisville Metro Police interim chief Yvette Gentry and leaving. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Atlanta Dream at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m. NFL – Buck, Aikman excited about ‘starting over’ with ESPN Joe Buck and Troy Aikman have met their ESPN co-workers for the first time as they prepare to take over in the “Monday Night Football” booth. Both said Monday they are excited about the challenge of doing something new after 20 seasons together at Fox. Aikman had considered a deal with Amazon to call Thursday night games while reducing his schedule at Fox. But the logistics of that arrangement became difficult, and ESPN began talking to him about moving to Monday nights. Once Aikman was on board, ESPN snagged Buck from Fox, where he had a year left on his contract. Buck says the parting was amicable. NFL – AP source: Browns QB Watson to meet with NFL reps in Texas A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will meet with NFL officials in Texas. Watson is facing 22 civil lawsuits from massage therapists accusing him of sexual misconduct and plans to meet with the league representatives this week, according to the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. Watson faces potential discipline from the league, which is independently investigating whether he violated its personal conduct policy. Reporter Josina Anderson was first to report the meeting on Twitter. A league spokesman declined to comment on the tweet and said "there’s no timetable as the review is active and ongoing.” NCAA – States hands off when it comes to NCAA, athlete compensation The NCAA recently issued a warning that there are still rules to follow now that college athletes can make money off their fame and celebrity. It waited nearly a year to do so and it has raised speculation of a crackdown on some of the dealmakers working with college athletes. About two dozen states have laws regarding athlete compensation. The laws, however, have no enforcement mechanisms. There has been no indication so far that a state attorney general or prosecutor will go after a booster organization striking deals with athletes. CFL – Roughriders cancel practices as CFL work stoppage continues The Saskatchewan Roughriders became the fourth Canadian Football League team to cancel training-camp practices after the league and its players broke off negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. The Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts canceled practices on Sunday, a day after negotiations halted, putting players on seven of the league’s nine teams in a legal strike position. Players for the Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Elks won’t be in a legal strike position until later this week under Alberta’s labor laws. Hamilton players planned to stand outside the team’s stadium in a show of unity on Tuesday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday No games last night Today Lansing Lugnuts at Great Lakes Loons, 11:05 a.m. West Michigan Whitecaps at Fort Wayne Tin Caps, 6:35 p.m. South Bend Cubs at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7:40 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Baseball Hudsonville 9, Lakeshore 3 – Game 1 Lakeshore 10, Hudsonville 3 – Game 2 Kalamazoo Central 4, Watervliet 3 – Game 1 Watervliet 6, Kalamazoo Central 1 – Game 2 Coloma 5, Saugatuck 2 Lawton 5, Fennville 1 Mendon 15, Comstock 4 – Game 1 Mendon 8, Comstock 1 – Game 2 Portage Northern 17, Grandville 11 Girls Tennis North Muskegon 5, Brandywine 3 Three Rivers 7, South Haven 1 Softball Lakeshore 6, Mattawan 2 – Game 1 Lakeshore 7, Mattawan 3 – Game 2 River Valley 15, Eau Claire 0 – Game 1 River Valley 15, Eau Claire 0 – Game 2 Coloma 10, Saugatuck 0 – Game 1 Coloma 15, Saugatuck 0 – Game 2 Lawton 11, Fennville 1 – Game 1 Lawton 7, Fennville 0 – Game 2 Gobles 12, Kalamazoo Hackett 10 – Game 1 Gobles 21, Kalamazoo Hackett 4 – Game 2 Cassopolis 17, Bloomingdale 6 – Game 1 Cassopolis 23, Bloomingdale 10 – Game 2 Decatur 12, White Pigeon 0 – Game 1 Decatur 18, White Pigeon 0 – Game 2 Girls Soccer SMAC Tournament Gull Lake 6, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 Gold Division Semifinal Portage Central 1, St. Joseph 0 Gold Division Semifinal Lakeshore 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Silver Division Semifinal Portage Northern 3, Mattawan 2 – Shootout Silver Division Semifinal Other Games Michigan Lutheran 8, Bangor 0 Watervliet 2, Berrien Springs 0 New Buffalo 8, Covert 0 Coloma 1, Saugatuck 0 Paw Paw 3, Allegan 2 Edwardsburg 3, Three Rivers 1 Plainwell 9, Sturgis 0 Otsego 5, Dowagiac 0 Vicksburg 8, Niles 0 Comstock 4, Hartford 1 Kalamazoo Christian 8, Delton-Kellogg 0 Kalamazoo Hackett 5, Constantine 0 Fennville 0, Lawton 0 – TIE Schoolcraft 10, Parchment 2 Boys Golf BCS Conference at Chickaming GC (River Valley) Team Scores South Haven 387 Bridgman 400 Berrien Springs 416 Howardsville Chr. 434 Brandywine 437 Buchanan 441 River Valley 446 Our Lady of the Lake 448 New Buffalo 501 Top 10 Individual Connor Shooks OLL 86 Aiden Mondschein BUCH 88 Parker Williamson SH 89 Justin Ott BRID 93 Elliott Williamson SH 93 Brandon Tripp BSPR 94 Cade Hahn SH 96 Nate Hawley BRID 99 Nathan Jergens HCHR 100 Evan Spriggs NBUFF 101 Today Baseball Michigan Lutheran at Our Lady of the Lake, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Benton Harbor at Berrien Springs, 4:00 p.m. (DH) South Haven at Bridgman, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Brandywine at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. (DH) New Buffalo at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Coloma at Gobles, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Lawton at Watervliet, 4:30 p.m. River Valley at Lawrence, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Vicksburg at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Sturgis at Edwardsburg, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Allegan at Niles, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Three Rivers at Otsego, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Plainwell at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Portage Central at BC Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Hopkins at Mattawan, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Martin at Saugatuck, 4:30 p.m. (DH) BC Central at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Softball Howardsville Christian at Michigan Lutheran, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Niles at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Benton Harbor at Berrien Springs, 4:00 p.m. (DH) South Haven at Bridgman, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Brandywine at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. (DH) New Buffalo at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. (DH) River Valley at Lawrence, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Lawton at Watervliet, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Vicksburg at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Sturgis at Edwardsburg, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Three Rivers at Otsego, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Plainwell at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Loy Norrix at BC Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Girls Soccer Michigan Lutheran at South Haven, 5:00 p.m. Holland Black River at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Girls Tennis Byron Center at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. South Bend St. Joseph (IN) at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Detroit Tigers 3, Tampa Bay Rays 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 3 – 10 innings Chicago Cubs 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 0 Tigers 3, Rays 2 – Castro homers in 9th, Tigers top Rays 3-2 for 4th straight Harold Castro hit his first home run of the year with two outs in the ninth inning, a tiebreaking shot that sent the Detroit Tigers past the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 for their season-best fourth straight victory. Castro connected off Andrew Kittredge. Michael Fulmer got the win in relief and Gregory Soto pitched the ninth for his sixth save in seven tries. Jonathan Schoop hit a two-run homer that put Tigers rookie Alex Faedo in position for his first major league win, but Brett Phillips helped the Rays erase their 2-0 deficit with a home run in the sixth and a leadoff double in the eighth. Phillips scored on Wander Franco’s sacrifice fly to tie it. White Sox 5, Royals 3 – F/10 – Robert powers White Sox past Royals in 10 after Cueto’s gem Luis Robert hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning after Johnny Cueto’s impressive Chicago debut, and the White Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-3 in the opener of a five-game series. Yasmani Grandal also had a two-run shot for the White Sox, who squandered a 3-0 lead in the eighth. Robert connected off Scott Barlow with two outs, scoring the automatic runner as well. The 36-year-old Cueto pitched six shutout innings in his first major league start this season after getting promoted from Triple-A Charlotte. The two-time All-Star allowed just two hits and two walks, striking out seven. Only one runner reached second base against him. Cubs 9, Pirates 0 – Contreras hits 1st-inning slam, Cubs beat Pirates 9-0 Willson Contreras led off with a double and became a rare leadoff hitter with a first-inning grand slam as the Chicago Cubs burst to an eight-run lead and beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-0. Contreras became the 10th leadoff hitter since 1901 with a first-inning slam, the first since Houston’s George Springer off Kansas City’s Edinson Vólquez on June 24, 2016. The slam was the 100th homer of Contreras’ career. Wade Miley retired his first 14 batters before Michael Chavis lined a single to left and ended a 13-inning hitless streak for Pittsburgh batters. Today Chicago White Sox (Cease 3-1) at Kansas City (Heasley 0-1), 2:10 p.m. – Game 1 Chicago White Sox (TBD) at Kansas City (Singer 0-0), 7:10 p.m. – Game 2 Detroit (Brieske 0-2) at Tampa Bay (McClanahan 2-2), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Pittsburgh (Brubaker 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Thompson 2-0), 7:40 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers, 7:00 p.m. (Game 1) St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche, 9:30 p.m. (Game 1) NHL – Vegas fires DeBoer The Vegas Golden Knights have fired coach Peter DeBoer after they missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. General manager Kelly McCrimmon says the front office believes a new coach would put the team in the best position to succeed next season. Vegas failed to qualify for the playoffs after a barrage of injuries compounded by salary cap problems wreaked havoc on the lineup. NHL – Love of hockey sends Greenberg from Cubs to Blackhawks Jeff Greenberg grew up watching Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He played hockey all the way through the club level at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s that love for the sport that prompted Greenberg to take on a unique challenge. After working in baseball for more than 15 years, Greenberg has moved over to the NHL as an associate general manager in the revamped front office of the Chicago Blackhawks. Greenberg is tasked with overseeing the strategic systems and processes for the team’s hockey operations department. He says it’s an “incredible opportunity.” NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – Conference Finals Tonight Boston Celtics at Miami Heat, 8:30 p.m. (Game 1) NBA – Woman files for protective order against Cavs’ Rajon Rondo A Louisville woman has filed for an emergency protective order against Cleveland Cavaliers guard Rajon Rondo and alleges the former Kentucky star brandished a gun and threatened her life. News outlets report the woman alleges Rondo “became enraged” last week during a confrontation and filed for the EPO on Friday in Jefferson County Family Court. She says in the EPO that Rondo then went outside and knocked over the trash cans, stomped on the landscaping lights and drove his car onto the lawn. Rondo returned and beat on a window with a gun before giving the gun to former Louisville Metro Police interim chief Yvette Gentry and leaving. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Tonight Atlanta Dream at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m. NFL – Buck, Aikman excited about ‘starting over’ with ESPN Joe Buck and Troy Aikman have met their ESPN co-workers for the first time as they prepare to take over in the “Monday Night Football” booth. Both said Monday they are excited about the challenge of doing something new after 20 seasons together at Fox. Aikman had considered a deal with Amazon to call Thursday night games while reducing his schedule at Fox. But the logistics of that arrangement became difficult, and ESPN began talking to him about moving to Monday nights. Once Aikman was on board, ESPN snagged Buck from Fox, where he had a year left on his contract. Buck says the parting was amicable. NFL – AP source: Browns QB Watson to meet with NFL reps in Texas A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will meet with NFL officials in Texas. Watson is facing 22 civil lawsuits from massage therapists accusing him of sexual misconduct and plans to meet with the league representatives this week, according to the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. Watson faces potential discipline from the league, which is independently investigating whether he violated its personal conduct policy. Reporter Josina Anderson was first to report the meeting on Twitter. A league spokesman declined to comment on the tweet and said "there’s no timetable as the review is active and ongoing.” NCAA – States hands off when it comes to NCAA, athlete compensation The NCAA recently issued a warning that there are still rules to follow now that college athletes can make money off their fame and celebrity. It waited nearly a year to do so and it has raised speculation of a crackdown on some of the dealmakers working with college athletes. About two dozen states have laws regarding athlete compensation. The laws, however, have no enforcement mechanisms. There has been no indication so far that a state attorney general or prosecutor will go after a booster organization striking deals with athletes. CFL – Roughriders cancel practices as CFL work stoppage continues The Saskatchewan Roughriders became the fourth Canadian Football League team to cancel training-camp practices after the league and its players broke off negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. The Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts canceled practices on Sunday, a day after negotiations halted, putting players on seven of the league’s nine teams in a legal strike position. Players for the Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Elks won’t be in a legal strike position until later this week under Alberta’s labor laws. Hamilton players planned to stand outside the team’s stadium in a show of unity on Tuesday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday No games last night Today Lansing Lugnuts at Great Lakes Loons, 11:05 a.m. West Michigan Whitecaps at Fort Wayne Tin Caps, 6:35 p.m. South Bend Cubs at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7:40 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Baseball Hudsonville 9, Lakeshore 3 – Game 1 Lakeshore 10, Hudsonville 3 – Game 2 Kalamazoo Central 4, Watervliet 3 – Game 1 Watervliet 6, Kalamazoo Central 1 – Game 2 Coloma 5, Saugatuck 2 Lawton 5, Fennville 1 Mendon 15, Comstock 4 – Game 1 Mendon 8, Comstock 1 – Game 2 Portage Northern 17, Grandville 11 Girls Tennis North Muskegon 5, Brandywine 3 Three Rivers 7, South Haven 1 Softball Lakeshore 6, Mattawan 2 – Game 1 Lakeshore 7, Mattawan 3 – Game 2 River Valley 15, Eau Claire 0 – Game 1 River Valley 15, Eau Claire 0 – Game 2 Coloma 10, Saugatuck 0 – Game 1 Coloma 15, Saugatuck 0 – Game 2 Lawton 11, Fennville 1 – Game 1 Lawton 7, Fennville 0 – Game 2 Gobles 12, Kalamazoo Hackett 10 – Game 1 Gobles 21, Kalamazoo Hackett 4 – Game 2 Cassopolis 17, Bloomingdale 6 – Game 1 Cassopolis 23, Bloomingdale 10 – Game 2 Decatur 12, White Pigeon 0 – Game 1 Decatur 18, White Pigeon 0 – Game 2 Girls Soccer SMAC Tournament Gull Lake 6, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0 Gold Division Semifinal Portage Central 1, St. Joseph 0 Gold Division Semifinal Lakeshore 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Silver Division Semifinal Portage Northern 3, Mattawan 2 – Shootout Silver Division Semifinal Other Games Michigan Lutheran 8, Bangor 0 Watervliet 2, Berrien Springs 0 New Buffalo 8, Covert 0 Coloma 1, Saugatuck 0 Paw Paw 3, Allegan 2 Edwardsburg 3, Three Rivers 1 Plainwell 9, Sturgis 0 Otsego 5, Dowagiac 0 Vicksburg 8, Niles 0 Comstock 4, Hartford 1 Kalamazoo Christian 8, Delton-Kellogg 0 Kalamazoo Hackett 5, Constantine 0 Fennville 0, Lawton 0 – TIE Schoolcraft 10, Parchment 2 Boys Golf BCS Conference at Chickaming GC (River Valley) Team Scores South Haven 387 Bridgman 400 Berrien Springs 416 Howardsville Chr. 434 Brandywine 437 Buchanan 441 River Valley 446 Our Lady of the Lake 448 New Buffalo 501 Top 10 Individual Connor Shooks OLL 86 Aiden Mondschein BUCH 88 Parker Williamson SH 89 Justin Ott BRID 93 Elliott Williamson SH 93 Brandon Tripp BSPR 94 Cade Hahn SH 96 Nate Hawley BRID 99 Nathan Jergens HCHR 100 Evan Spriggs NBUFF 101 Today Baseball Michigan Lutheran at Our Lady of the Lake, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Benton Harbor at Berrien Springs, 4:00 p.m. (DH) South Haven at Bridgman, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Brandywine at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. (DH) New Buffalo at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Coloma at Gobles, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Lawton at Watervliet, 4:30 p.m. River Valley at Lawrence, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Vicksburg at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Sturgis at Edwardsburg, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Allegan at Niles, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Three Rivers at Otsego, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Plainwell at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Portage Central at BC Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Hopkins at Mattawan, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Martin at Saugatuck, 4:30 p.m. (DH) BC Central at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Softball Howardsville Christian at Michigan Lutheran, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Niles at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Benton Harbor at Berrien Springs, 4:00 p.m. (DH) South Haven at Bridgman, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Brandywine at Buchanan, 4:15 p.m. (DH) New Buffalo at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. (DH) River Valley at Lawrence, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Lawton at Watervliet, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Vicksburg at Dowagiac, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Sturgis at Edwardsburg, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Three Rivers at Otsego, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Plainwell at Paw Paw, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Loy Norrix at BC Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Girls Soccer Michigan Lutheran at South Haven, 5:00 p.m. Holland Black River at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Girls Tennis Byron Center at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. South Bend St. Joseph (IN) at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 5, Baltimore Orioles 1 New York Yankees 5, Chicago White Sox 1 Chicago Cubs 3, Arizona Diamondbacks 2 Tigers 5, Orioles 1 – Cabrera homers, Skubal strikes out 11 as Tigers top Orioles Miguel Cabrera blasted his 505th career home run, Tarik Skubal equaled his career high with 11 strikeouts, and the Detroit Tigers completed their first series sweep this season by defeating the Baltimore Orioles 5-1. Cabrera had two hits, scored two runs and knocked in two more for the Tigers, who have won three straight. Harold Castro added three hits, a run scored and two RBIs. Skubal lasted six innings, limiting Baltimore to three hits and two walks. Trey Mancini’s homer off Rony Garcia in the ninth prevented the Orioles from being shut out in back-to-back games. Yankees 5, White Sox 1 – Cortes pitches 8 crisp innings as Yankees beat White Sox 5-1 Nestor Cortes pitched a career-high eight innings and the New York Yankees took advantage of Michael Kopech’s one wild stretch by beating the Chicago White Sox 5-1. New York managed just two hits: a second-inning single for Isiah Kiner-Falefa and a two-run homer by Joey Gallo in the ninth. But it was more than enough, thanks to the crafty Cortes. The 27-year-old left-hander allowed three hits, struck out seven and walked none. Adam Engel homered for Chicago, and Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball. He gave up four walks, and the Yankees took advantage. Cubs 3, Diamondbacks 2 – Schwindel’s go-ahead hit in 9th lifts Cubs over Arizona Frank Schwindel hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and the Chicago Cubs beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2. Patrick Wisdom and Rafael Ortega also homered for the Cubs, who have won four of six after a 3-14 stretch. Wisdom doubled to deep center field to lead off the ninth against Ian Kennedy and Schwindel reached out and hit a soft line drive over first base. Arizona lost its first series in six. The Diamondbacks had won their previous last five one-run games — they are 7-4 in one-run games this season after going was 10-31 in such games last season. Tonight Detroit (Faedo 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Kluber 1-2), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Pittsburgh (Wilson 0-2) at Chicago Cubs (Miley 0-0), 7:40 p.m. Chicago White Sox (TBD) at Kansas City (Keller 1-3), 8:10 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – 2nd Round Yesterday Boston Celtics 109, Milwaukee Bucks 81 (BOS Wins 4-3) Dallas Mavericks 123, Phoenix Suns 90 (DAL Wins 4-3) End Round 2 NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Yesterday New York Rangers 4, Pittsburgh Penguins 3 – OT (NYR Wins 4-3) Calgary Flames 3, Dallas Stars 2 – OT (CGY Wins 4-3) End Round 1 WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Yesterday Atlanta Dream 85, Indiana Fever 79 Dream 85, Fever 79 – Howard scores 33 points to help Dream beat Fever 85-79 Top-pick Rhyne Howard had a career-high 33 points — the most in any WNBA game this season — to help the Atlanta Dream beat the Indiana Fever 85-79. In a game that featured the two top picks in last month’s draft, Howard made 9-of-18 from the field and 12-of-17 from the free-throw line with three steals. Indiana’s NaLyssa Smith, who was picked second, had 18 points before leaving the game with about 6 1/2 minutes left due to a right ankle injury. Kelsey Mitchell led the Fever with 27 points, her third consecutive game scoring at least 24. NASCAR – Kurt Busch wins for MJ Kurt Busch pinched his way past Kyle Larson for the lead with eight laps to go, then drove his gaudy Jordan Brand-styled car away from the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion to win Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway. It was the second win for the up-and-coming 23XI Racing team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, who followed the two leaders and Kyle Busch across in fourth place. Bubba Wallace won the team’s first race last year at Talladega. Golf – PGA – Lee rallies to win Nelson for 2nd straight year K.H. Lee has successfully defended his Byron Nelson title. Lee fired a 9-under 63 for a one-shot victory over local favorite Jordan Spieth (speeth) at birdie-besieged TPC Craig Ranch. Lee’s 240-yard shot on the par-5 12th hole stopped less than 5 feet from the pin, and the eagle put him in front for good. Spieth shot a 67 to finish a stroke ahead of Hideki Matsuyama and Sebastián Muñoz (69), who held or shared the lead the first three rounds. Matsuyama shot a 62 and Xander Schauffele had a career-best 61 to finish in a tie for fifth. Golf – Champions – Stricker completes dominant performance Steve Stricker completed at a wire-to-wire victory in the Regions Tradition, closing with a 4-under 68 for a six-stroke victory and his fourth PGA Tour Champions major title. Stricker’s second Tradition win at Greystone Golf & Country Club came in his third event since returning from a six-month absence for health reasons. Two straight birdies punctuated the dominant performance. Paidrag Harrington finished second, birdieing the final two holes for a 68. Steven Alker was in the group at 14 under after a 72. Golf – LPGA – Australian Lee hangs on to win Founders Cup LPGA scoring leader Minjee Lee made her only three birdies on the back nine and captured the Cognizant Founders Cup by two shots over Lexi Thompson. The 25-year-old Australian took the lead for good with a birdie on the par-5 14th hole at Upper Montclair Country Club. She closed with a 2-under 70 for a 72-hole total of 19-under 269 in the event that honors the 13 founding members of the LPGA Tour. Lee won her seventh career title and first since taking her first major at last year’s Evian Championship. CFL – 3 CFL teams cancel opening practices amid work stoppage Three Canadian Football league teams canceled their opening training-camp practices Sunday, a day after the league and players union broke off negotiations on a collective bargaining agreement. The Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts canceled practices, with more teams expected to follow suit. The previous CBA expired at midnight, with the CFL Players’ Association directing players from seven of the nine teams to participate in a work stoppage beginning at 12:01 a.m. EDT Sunday. Players with the Edmonton Elks and Calgary Stampeders reported to their camps because they will not be in a legal strike position under Alberta laws until later this month. The lone previous CFL strike came in 1974 and was resolved before the start of the season. IndyCar – IndyCar’s aeroscreen gets mixed reviews in 1st rain test IndyCar officials will spend the next few days collecting information and gathering advice about improving aeroscreen visibility for races held in the rain. Many drivers complained Saturday that they struggled to see other cars late in the IndyCar Grand Prix — even though each has flashing red lights. It was the most intense rainfall the series has competed in since 2018. Race runner-up Simon Pagenaud suggested adding a windshield wiper to the cars. Frye said series officials also will look into whether the use or non-use of tear-off covers by teams could have played a part Saturday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night Great Lakes Loons 10, Lake County Captains 9 Dayton Dragons 10, Lansing Lugnuts 8 West Michigan Whitecaps 2, Beloit Snappers 1 South Bend Cubs 5, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 1 Today No games today MHSAA – High School Sports Tonight Baseball Lakeshore at Hudsonville, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Eau Claire at River Valley, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Watervliet at Kalamazoo Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Coloma at Saugatuck, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Fennville at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Centreville at Bangor, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Cassopolis at Bloomingdale, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Mendon at Comstock, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Hartford at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Decatur at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Colon at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 4:30 p.m. Portage Central at Otsego, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Grandville at Portage Northern, 4:30 p.m. (DH) BC Lakeview at Gull Lake, 4:00 p.m. Softball Mattawan at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Eau Claire at River Valley, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Niles at Allegan, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Coloma at Saugatuck, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Fennville at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Saugatuck at Martin, 4:30 p.m. Gobles at Kalamazoo Hackett, 4:30 p.m. Centreville at Bangor, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Cassopolis at Bloomingdale, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Mendon at Comstock, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Hartford at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Decatur at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Colon at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 4:30 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at GR South Christian, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer SMAC Tournament 4 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at 1 Gull Lake, 6:30 p.m. Gold Division Semifinal 3 St. Joseph at 2 Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Gold Division Semifinal 8 Battle Creek Lakeview at 5 Lakeshore, 6:30 p.m. Silver Division Semifinal 7 Portage Northern at 6 Mattawan, 6:30 p.m. Silver Division Semifinal 10 B. C. Central at 9 Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Bronze Division Finals Other Games Michigan Lutheran at Bangor, 5:30 p.m. Watervliet at Berrien Springs, 5:30 p.m. New Buffalo at Covert, 5:00 p.m. Saugatuck at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Allegan, 6:00 p.m. Three Rivers at Edwardsburg, 5:30 p.m. Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Niles at Vicksburg, 6:00 p.m. Comstock at Hartford, 5:30 p.m. Kal. Christian at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Constantine at Kal. Hackett, 5:45 p.m. Fennville at Lawton, 6:00 p.m. Parchment at Schoolcraft, 5:00 p.m. Boys Golf BCS-White at Chickaming GC, 9:00 a.m. (River Valley)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 5, Baltimore Orioles 1 New York Yankees 5, Chicago White Sox 1 Chicago Cubs 3, Arizona Diamondbacks 2 Tigers 5, Orioles 1 – Cabrera homers, Skubal strikes out 11 as Tigers top Orioles Miguel Cabrera blasted his 505th career home run, Tarik Skubal equaled his career high with 11 strikeouts, and the Detroit Tigers completed their first series sweep this season by defeating the Baltimore Orioles 5-1. Cabrera had two hits, scored two runs and knocked in two more for the Tigers, who have won three straight. Harold Castro added three hits, a run scored and two RBIs. Skubal lasted six innings, limiting Baltimore to three hits and two walks. Trey Mancini’s homer off Rony Garcia in the ninth prevented the Orioles from being shut out in back-to-back games. Yankees 5, White Sox 1 – Cortes pitches 8 crisp innings as Yankees beat White Sox 5-1 Nestor Cortes pitched a career-high eight innings and the New York Yankees took advantage of Michael Kopech’s one wild stretch by beating the Chicago White Sox 5-1. New York managed just two hits: a second-inning single for Isiah Kiner-Falefa and a two-run homer by Joey Gallo in the ninth. But it was more than enough, thanks to the crafty Cortes. The 27-year-old left-hander allowed three hits, struck out seven and walked none. Adam Engel homered for Chicago, and Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball. He gave up four walks, and the Yankees took advantage. Cubs 3, Diamondbacks 2 – Schwindel’s go-ahead hit in 9th lifts Cubs over Arizona Frank Schwindel hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and the Chicago Cubs beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2. Patrick Wisdom and Rafael Ortega also homered for the Cubs, who have won four of six after a 3-14 stretch. Wisdom doubled to deep center field to lead off the ninth against Ian Kennedy and Schwindel reached out and hit a soft line drive over first base. Arizona lost its first series in six. The Diamondbacks had won their previous last five one-run games — they are 7-4 in one-run games this season after going was 10-31 in such games last season. Tonight Detroit (Faedo 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Kluber 1-2), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Pittsburgh (Wilson 0-2) at Chicago Cubs (Miley 0-0), 7:40 p.m. Chicago White Sox (TBD) at Kansas City (Keller 1-3), 8:10 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – 2nd Round Yesterday Boston Celtics 109, Milwaukee Bucks 81 (BOS Wins 4-3) Dallas Mavericks 123, Phoenix Suns 90 (DAL Wins 4-3) End Round 2 NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Yesterday New York Rangers 4, Pittsburgh Penguins 3 – OT (NYR Wins 4-3) Calgary Flames 3, Dallas Stars 2 – OT (CGY Wins 4-3) End Round 1 WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Yesterday Atlanta Dream 85, Indiana Fever 79 Dream 85, Fever 79 – Howard scores 33 points to help Dream beat Fever 85-79 Top-pick Rhyne Howard had a career-high 33 points — the most in any WNBA game this season — to help the Atlanta Dream beat the Indiana Fever 85-79. In a game that featured the two top picks in last month’s draft, Howard made 9-of-18 from the field and 12-of-17 from the free-throw line with three steals. Indiana’s NaLyssa Smith, who was picked second, had 18 points before leaving the game with about 6 1/2 minutes left due to a right ankle injury. Kelsey Mitchell led the Fever with 27 points, her third consecutive game scoring at least 24. NASCAR – Kurt Busch wins for MJ Kurt Busch pinched his way past Kyle Larson for the lead with eight laps to go, then drove his gaudy Jordan Brand-styled car away from the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion to win Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway. It was the second win for the up-and-coming 23XI Racing team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, who followed the two leaders and Kyle Busch across in fourth place. Bubba Wallace won the team’s first race last year at Talladega. Golf – PGA – Lee rallies to win Nelson for 2nd straight year K.H. Lee has successfully defended his Byron Nelson title. Lee fired a 9-under 63 for a one-shot victory over local favorite Jordan Spieth (speeth) at birdie-besieged TPC Craig Ranch. Lee’s 240-yard shot on the par-5 12th hole stopped less than 5 feet from the pin, and the eagle put him in front for good. Spieth shot a 67 to finish a stroke ahead of Hideki Matsuyama and Sebastián Muñoz (69), who held or shared the lead the first three rounds. Matsuyama shot a 62 and Xander Schauffele had a career-best 61 to finish in a tie for fifth. Golf – Champions – Stricker completes dominant performance Steve Stricker completed at a wire-to-wire victory in the Regions Tradition, closing with a 4-under 68 for a six-stroke victory and his fourth PGA Tour Champions major title. Stricker’s second Tradition win at Greystone Golf & Country Club came in his third event since returning from a six-month absence for health reasons. Two straight birdies punctuated the dominant performance. Paidrag Harrington finished second, birdieing the final two holes for a 68. Steven Alker was in the group at 14 under after a 72. Golf – LPGA – Australian Lee hangs on to win Founders Cup LPGA scoring leader Minjee Lee made her only three birdies on the back nine and captured the Cognizant Founders Cup by two shots over Lexi Thompson. The 25-year-old Australian took the lead for good with a birdie on the par-5 14th hole at Upper Montclair Country Club. She closed with a 2-under 70 for a 72-hole total of 19-under 269 in the event that honors the 13 founding members of the LPGA Tour. Lee won her seventh career title and first since taking her first major at last year’s Evian Championship. CFL – 3 CFL teams cancel opening practices amid work stoppage Three Canadian Football league teams canceled their opening training-camp practices Sunday, a day after the league and players union broke off negotiations on a collective bargaining agreement. The Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts canceled practices, with more teams expected to follow suit. The previous CBA expired at midnight, with the CFL Players’ Association directing players from seven of the nine teams to participate in a work stoppage beginning at 12:01 a.m. EDT Sunday. Players with the Edmonton Elks and Calgary Stampeders reported to their camps because they will not be in a legal strike position under Alberta laws until later this month. The lone previous CFL strike came in 1974 and was resolved before the start of the season. IndyCar – IndyCar’s aeroscreen gets mixed reviews in 1st rain test IndyCar officials will spend the next few days collecting information and gathering advice about improving aeroscreen visibility for races held in the rain. Many drivers complained Saturday that they struggled to see other cars late in the IndyCar Grand Prix — even though each has flashing red lights. It was the most intense rainfall the series has competed in since 2018. Race runner-up Simon Pagenaud suggested adding a windshield wiper to the cars. Frye said series officials also will look into whether the use or non-use of tear-off covers by teams could have played a part Saturday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night Great Lakes Loons 10, Lake County Captains 9 Dayton Dragons 10, Lansing Lugnuts 8 West Michigan Whitecaps 2, Beloit Snappers 1 South Bend Cubs 5, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 1 Today No games today MHSAA – High School Sports Tonight Baseball Lakeshore at Hudsonville, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Eau Claire at River Valley, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Watervliet at Kalamazoo Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Coloma at Saugatuck, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Fennville at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Centreville at Bangor, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Cassopolis at Bloomingdale, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Mendon at Comstock, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Hartford at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Decatur at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Colon at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 4:30 p.m. Portage Central at Otsego, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Grandville at Portage Northern, 4:30 p.m. (DH) BC Lakeview at Gull Lake, 4:00 p.m. Softball Mattawan at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Eau Claire at River Valley, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Niles at Allegan, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Coloma at Saugatuck, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Fennville at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Saugatuck at Martin, 4:30 p.m. Gobles at Kalamazoo Hackett, 4:30 p.m. Centreville at Bangor, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Cassopolis at Bloomingdale, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Mendon at Comstock, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Hartford at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Decatur at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Colon at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 4:30 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at GR South Christian, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer SMAC Tournament 4 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at 1 Gull Lake, 6:30 p.m. Gold Division Semifinal 3 St. Joseph at 2 Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Gold Division Semifinal 8 Battle Creek Lakeview at 5 Lakeshore, 6:30 p.m. Silver Division Semifinal 7 Portage Northern at 6 Mattawan, 6:30 p.m. Silver Division Semifinal 10 B. C. Central at 9 Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Bronze Division Finals Other Games Michigan Lutheran at Bangor, 5:30 p.m. Watervliet at Berrien Springs, 5:30 p.m. New Buffalo at Covert, 5:00 p.m. Saugatuck at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Allegan, 6:00 p.m. Three Rivers at Edwardsburg, 5:30 p.m. Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Niles at Vicksburg, 6:00 p.m. Comstock at Hartford, 5:30 p.m. Kal. Christian at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Constantine at Kal. Hackett, 5:45 p.m. Fennville at Lawton, 6:00 p.m. Parchment at Schoolcraft, 5:00 p.m. Boys Golf BCS-White at Chickaming GC, 9:00 a.m. (River Valley)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 5, Baltimore Orioles 1 New York Yankees 5, Chicago White Sox 1 Chicago Cubs 3, Arizona Diamondbacks 2 Tigers 5, Orioles 1 – Cabrera homers, Skubal strikes out 11 as Tigers top Orioles Miguel Cabrera blasted his 505th career home run, Tarik Skubal equaled his career high with 11 strikeouts, and the Detroit Tigers completed their first series sweep this season by defeating the Baltimore Orioles 5-1. Cabrera had two hits, scored two runs and knocked in two more for the Tigers, who have won three straight. Harold Castro added three hits, a run scored and two RBIs. Skubal lasted six innings, limiting Baltimore to three hits and two walks. Trey Mancini’s homer off Rony Garcia in the ninth prevented the Orioles from being shut out in back-to-back games. Yankees 5, White Sox 1 – Cortes pitches 8 crisp innings as Yankees beat White Sox 5-1 Nestor Cortes pitched a career-high eight innings and the New York Yankees took advantage of Michael Kopech’s one wild stretch by beating the Chicago White Sox 5-1. New York managed just two hits: a second-inning single for Isiah Kiner-Falefa and a two-run homer by Joey Gallo in the ninth. But it was more than enough, thanks to the crafty Cortes. The 27-year-old left-hander allowed three hits, struck out seven and walked none. Adam Engel homered for Chicago, and Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball. He gave up four walks, and the Yankees took advantage. Cubs 3, Diamondbacks 2 – Schwindel’s go-ahead hit in 9th lifts Cubs over Arizona Frank Schwindel hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and the Chicago Cubs beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2. Patrick Wisdom and Rafael Ortega also homered for the Cubs, who have won four of six after a 3-14 stretch. Wisdom doubled to deep center field to lead off the ninth against Ian Kennedy and Schwindel reached out and hit a soft line drive over first base. Arizona lost its first series in six. The Diamondbacks had won their previous last five one-run games — they are 7-4 in one-run games this season after going was 10-31 in such games last season. Tonight Detroit (Faedo 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Kluber 1-2), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Pittsburgh (Wilson 0-2) at Chicago Cubs (Miley 0-0), 7:40 p.m. Chicago White Sox (TBD) at Kansas City (Keller 1-3), 8:10 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – 2nd Round Yesterday Boston Celtics 109, Milwaukee Bucks 81 (BOS Wins 4-3) Dallas Mavericks 123, Phoenix Suns 90 (DAL Wins 4-3) End Round 2 NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Yesterday New York Rangers 4, Pittsburgh Penguins 3 – OT (NYR Wins 4-3) Calgary Flames 3, Dallas Stars 2 – OT (CGY Wins 4-3) End Round 1 WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Yesterday Atlanta Dream 85, Indiana Fever 79 Dream 85, Fever 79 – Howard scores 33 points to help Dream beat Fever 85-79 Top-pick Rhyne Howard had a career-high 33 points — the most in any WNBA game this season — to help the Atlanta Dream beat the Indiana Fever 85-79. In a game that featured the two top picks in last month’s draft, Howard made 9-of-18 from the field and 12-of-17 from the free-throw line with three steals. Indiana’s NaLyssa Smith, who was picked second, had 18 points before leaving the game with about 6 1/2 minutes left due to a right ankle injury. Kelsey Mitchell led the Fever with 27 points, her third consecutive game scoring at least 24. NASCAR – Kurt Busch wins for MJ Kurt Busch pinched his way past Kyle Larson for the lead with eight laps to go, then drove his gaudy Jordan Brand-styled car away from the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion to win Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway. It was the second win for the up-and-coming 23XI Racing team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, who followed the two leaders and Kyle Busch across in fourth place. Bubba Wallace won the team’s first race last year at Talladega. Golf – PGA – Lee rallies to win Nelson for 2nd straight year K.H. Lee has successfully defended his Byron Nelson title. Lee fired a 9-under 63 for a one-shot victory over local favorite Jordan Spieth (speeth) at birdie-besieged TPC Craig Ranch. Lee’s 240-yard shot on the par-5 12th hole stopped less than 5 feet from the pin, and the eagle put him in front for good. Spieth shot a 67 to finish a stroke ahead of Hideki Matsuyama and Sebastián Muñoz (69), who held or shared the lead the first three rounds. Matsuyama shot a 62 and Xander Schauffele had a career-best 61 to finish in a tie for fifth. Golf – Champions – Stricker completes dominant performance Steve Stricker completed at a wire-to-wire victory in the Regions Tradition, closing with a 4-under 68 for a six-stroke victory and his fourth PGA Tour Champions major title. Stricker’s second Tradition win at Greystone Golf & Country Club came in his third event since returning from a six-month absence for health reasons. Two straight birdies punctuated the dominant performance. Paidrag Harrington finished second, birdieing the final two holes for a 68. Steven Alker was in the group at 14 under after a 72. Golf – LPGA – Australian Lee hangs on to win Founders Cup LPGA scoring leader Minjee Lee made her only three birdies on the back nine and captured the Cognizant Founders Cup by two shots over Lexi Thompson. The 25-year-old Australian took the lead for good with a birdie on the par-5 14th hole at Upper Montclair Country Club. She closed with a 2-under 70 for a 72-hole total of 19-under 269 in the event that honors the 13 founding members of the LPGA Tour. Lee won her seventh career title and first since taking her first major at last year’s Evian Championship. CFL – 3 CFL teams cancel opening practices amid work stoppage Three Canadian Football league teams canceled their opening training-camp practices Sunday, a day after the league and players union broke off negotiations on a collective bargaining agreement. The Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts canceled practices, with more teams expected to follow suit. The previous CBA expired at midnight, with the CFL Players’ Association directing players from seven of the nine teams to participate in a work stoppage beginning at 12:01 a.m. EDT Sunday. Players with the Edmonton Elks and Calgary Stampeders reported to their camps because they will not be in a legal strike position under Alberta laws until later this month. The lone previous CFL strike came in 1974 and was resolved before the start of the season. IndyCar – IndyCar’s aeroscreen gets mixed reviews in 1st rain test IndyCar officials will spend the next few days collecting information and gathering advice about improving aeroscreen visibility for races held in the rain. Many drivers complained Saturday that they struggled to see other cars late in the IndyCar Grand Prix — even though each has flashing red lights. It was the most intense rainfall the series has competed in since 2018. Race runner-up Simon Pagenaud suggested adding a windshield wiper to the cars. Frye said series officials also will look into whether the use or non-use of tear-off covers by teams could have played a part Saturday. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night Great Lakes Loons 10, Lake County Captains 9 Dayton Dragons 10, Lansing Lugnuts 8 West Michigan Whitecaps 2, Beloit Snappers 1 South Bend Cubs 5, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 1 Today No games today MHSAA – High School Sports Tonight Baseball Lakeshore at Hudsonville, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Eau Claire at River Valley, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Watervliet at Kalamazoo Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Coloma at Saugatuck, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Fennville at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Centreville at Bangor, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Cassopolis at Bloomingdale, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Mendon at Comstock, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Hartford at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Decatur at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Colon at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 4:30 p.m. Portage Central at Otsego, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Grandville at Portage Northern, 4:30 p.m. (DH) BC Lakeview at Gull Lake, 4:00 p.m. Softball Mattawan at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Eau Claire at River Valley, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Niles at Allegan, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Coloma at Saugatuck, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Fennville at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Saugatuck at Martin, 4:30 p.m. Gobles at Kalamazoo Hackett, 4:30 p.m. Centreville at Bangor, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Cassopolis at Bloomingdale, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Mendon at Comstock, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Hartford at Marcellus, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Decatur at White Pigeon, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Colon at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 4:30 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at GR South Christian, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer SMAC Tournament 4 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at 1 Gull Lake, 6:30 p.m. Gold Division Semifinal 3 St. Joseph at 2 Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Gold Division Semifinal 8 Battle Creek Lakeview at 5 Lakeshore, 6:30 p.m. Silver Division Semifinal 7 Portage Northern at 6 Mattawan, 6:30 p.m. Silver Division Semifinal 10 B. C. Central at 9 Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Bronze Division Finals Other Games Michigan Lutheran at Bangor, 5:30 p.m. Watervliet at Berrien Springs, 5:30 p.m. New Buffalo at Covert, 5:00 p.m. Saugatuck at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Allegan, 6:00 p.m. Three Rivers at Edwardsburg, 5:30 p.m. Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Niles at Vicksburg, 6:00 p.m. Comstock at Hartford, 5:30 p.m. Kal. Christian at Delton-Kellogg, 6:00 p.m. Constantine at Kal. Hackett, 5:45 p.m. Fennville at Lawton, 6:00 p.m. Parchment at Schoolcraft, 5:00 p.m. Boys Golf BCS-White at Chickaming GC, 9:00 a.m. (River Valley)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 5, Baltimore Orioles 1 New York Yankees 5, Chicago White Sox 1 Chicago Cubs 3, Arizona Diamondbacks 2 Tigers 5, Orioles 1 – Cabrera homers, Skubal strikes out 11 as Tigers top Orioles Miguel Cabrera blasted his 505th career home run, Tarik Skubal equaled his career high with 11 strikeouts, and the Detroit Tigers completed their first series sweep this season by defeating the Baltimore Orioles 5-1. Cabrera had two hits, scored two runs and knocked in two more for the Tigers, who have won three straight. Harold Castro added three hits, a run scored and two RBIs. Skubal lasted six innings, limiting Baltimore to three hits and two walks. Trey Mancini's homer off Rony Garcia in the ninth prevented the Orioles from being shut out in back-to-back games. Yankees 5, White Sox 1 – Cortes pitches 8 crisp innings as Yankees beat White Sox 5-1 Nestor Cortes pitched a career-high eight innings and the New York Yankees took advantage of Michael Kopech's one wild stretch by beating the Chicago White Sox 5-1. New York managed just two hits: a second-inning single for Isiah Kiner-Falefa and a two-run homer by Joey Gallo in the ninth. But it was more than enough, thanks to the crafty Cortes. The 27-year-old left-hander allowed three hits, struck out seven and walked none. Adam Engel homered for Chicago, and Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball. He gave up four walks, and the Yankees took advantage. Cubs 3, Diamondbacks 2 – Schwindel's go-ahead hit in 9th lifts Cubs over Arizona Frank Schwindel hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and the Chicago Cubs beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2. Patrick Wisdom and Rafael Ortega also homered for the Cubs, who have won four of six after a 3-14 stretch. Wisdom doubled to deep center field to lead off the ninth against Ian Kennedy and Schwindel reached out and hit a soft line drive over first base. Arizona lost its first series in six. The Diamondbacks had won their previous last five one-run games — they are 7-4 in one-run games this season after going was 10-31 in such games last season. Tonight Detroit (Faedo 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Kluber 1-2), 6:40 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 6:20 Pittsburgh (Wilson 0-2) at Chicago Cubs (Miley 0-0), 7:40 p.m. Chicago White Sox (TBD) at Kansas City (Keller 1-3), 8:10 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – 2nd Round Yesterday Boston Celtics 109, Milwaukee Bucks 81 (BOS Wins 4-3) Dallas Mavericks 123, Phoenix Suns 90 (DAL Wins 4-3) End Round 2 NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Yesterday New York Rangers 4, Pittsburgh Penguins 3 – OT (NYR Wins 4-3) Calgary Flames 3, Dallas Stars 2 – OT (CGY Wins 4-3) End Round 1 WNBA – Women's National Basketball Association Yesterday Atlanta Dream 85, Indiana Fever 79 Dream 85, Fever 79 – Howard scores 33 points to help Dream beat Fever 85-79 Top-pick Rhyne Howard had a career-high 33 points — the most in any WNBA game this season — to help the Atlanta Dream beat the Indiana Fever 85-79. In a game that featured the two top picks in last month's draft, Howard made 9-of-18 from the field and 12-of-17 from the free-throw line with three steals. Indiana's NaLyssa Smith, who was picked second, had 18 points before leaving the game with about 6 1/2 minutes left due to a right ankle injury. Kelsey Mitchell led the Fever with 27 points, her third consecutive game scoring at least 24. NASCAR – Kurt Busch wins for MJ Kurt Busch pinched his way past Kyle Larson for the lead with eight laps to go, then drove his gaudy Jordan Brand-styled car away from the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion to win Sunday's race at Kansas Speedway. It was the second win for the up-and-coming 23XI Racing team owned by Michael J...
El venezolano Miguel Cabrera se une a una élite en la historia de las mayores al pegar el hit 3.000. Escuchen al propio Miguel, así como a otros jugadores. Joe Jiménez y Gregory Soto conversan con Harold Castro de Jugador a Jugador. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The road to .500 takes a great step in the right direction with a close victory over the Southsiders. Harold Castro is unreal. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline AGThere is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus.Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Molecule MattressVisit OnMolecule.com and save twenty percent with promo code LOCKEDON. NetSuiteNetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind financing program only for those ready to switch today! Head to NetSuite.com/LockedOn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 9, Cleveland Indians 4 – F/7 – Game 1 Detroit Tigers 7, Cleveland Indians 1 – F/7 – Game 2 Chicago White Sox 13, Minnesota Twins 3 Milwaukee Brewers 15, Chicago Cubs 7 Tigers 9, Indians 4 – Game 1 – Castro, Schoop drive in 3 each, Tigers beat Indians 9-4 Harold Castro and Jonathan Schoop each drove in three runs, powering the Detroit Tigers past the Cleveland Indians 9-4 in the first game of a doubleheader. Castro's two-out single off Bryan Shaw in the fifth inning scored Nomar Mazara and broke a 4-4 tie. Schoop had a two-run single in the seventh as the Tigers banged out 15 hits in the seven-inning game. Kyle Funkhouser retired all five batters he faced in relief of starter José Urena, who allowed a career-high four home runs in 3 1/3 innings. Detroit won at Cleveland for the first time in five games this season. Rookie Bobby Bradley hit two of the four homers off Urena. Tigers 7, Indians 1 – Game 2 – Cabrera hits 494th homer, Tigers sweep DH from Indians Miguel Cabrera hit his 494th career homer, moving into sole possession of 28th place all-time, and the Detroit Tigers completed a doubleheader sweep with a 7-1 win over the Cleveland Indians. Cabrera went 2 for 4, scored twice and broke a tie with Lou Gehrig and Fred McGriff on the homer list with a solo shot off Nick Wittgren in the fifth inning. Wily Peralta, who didn't pitch in the majors last year, allowed one unearned run over five innings for his first victory since April 17, 2019, with Kansas City. White Sox 13, Twins 3 – Grandal hits 2 of White Sox 6 HRs to rip Twins 13-3 Yasmani Grandal hit a three-run shot and a towering two-run drive, and the Chicago White Sox went deep six times to pound the Minnesota Twins 13-3. Rookie Andrew Vaughn smacked a two-run homer and had three RBIs. Gavin Sheets hit his first career home run in his second game as Chicago won its third straight. José Abreu and Brian Goodwin added solo shots to help first-place Chicago expand its lead over Cleveland in the AL Central. Dylan Cease cruised to his fourth victory in five starts, allowing three hits and striking out seven in six innings. Josh Donaldson and Nelson Cruz connected for solo homers off the 25-year-old right-hander. Brewers 15, Cubs 7 – Ashby tagged, but Brewers sweep Cubs for 8th straight win Highly touted Milwaukee prospect Aaron Ashby got roughed up for seven runs in the first inning of his big league debut, but Luis Urias homered twice as the Brewers rallied to rout the Chicago Cubs 15-7 for their eighth straight win. The Brewers swept the three-game series and increased their NL Central lead to six games over Chicago. The Cubs lost their sixth in a row. Willy Adames hit a grand slam during an eight-run burst in the fourth inning that put Milwaukee ahead 14-7. His error at shortstop helped the Cubs break loose at the start against Ashby. Today Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m. Cubs and Tigers are off. NBA – National Basketball Association Playoffs – Rd. 3 – Conference Finals – Best of 7 Last Night Phoenix Suns 130, Los Angeles Clippers 103 (PHX wins 4-2) Suns 130, Clippers 103 – Chris Paul leads Suns past Clippers 130-103, into NBA Finals The Phoenix Suns are headed to the NBA Finals for the first time in 28 years, defeating the Los Angeles Clippers 130-103 to close out the Western Conference finals in six games. Chris Paul tied his career playoff high of 41 points points and Devin Booker added 22 points to send the Suns to their third Finals appearance in franchise history. They will face either the Atlanta Hawks or Milwaukee Bucks, who are tied 2-2 in the East finals. Marcus Morris led the Clippers with 26 points and Paul George added 21 points. Tonight Atlanta Hawks at Milwaukee Bucks, 8:30 p.m. (Series tied 2-2)
Welcome back! A series split over the weekend with the Houston Astros has your Detroit Tigers in 3rd place in the American League Central Division... We break down Casey Mize day, Tarik Skubal day, the offense, Jonathan Schoop, Gregory Soto, Willi and Harold Castro, and more as we head into the week!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline AGThere is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus.Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Fully Loaded ChewFully Loaded Chew is offering LOCKED ON “TEAM” listeners a special offer – Rightnow you can try a can for just $1. Go to www.fullyloadedchew.com and use promo code: “LockedOn”Wild AlaskanRight now you can get $15 off your 1st box of premium seafood when you visit WildAlaskanCompany.com/MLB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Welcome back! A series split over the weekend with the Houston Astros has your Detroit Tigers in 3rd place in the American League Central Division... We break down Casey Mize day, Tarik Skubal day, the offense, Jonathan Schoop, Gregory Soto, Willi and Harold Castro, and more as we head into the week! Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Fully Loaded Chew Fully Loaded Chew is offering LOCKED ON “TEAM” listeners a special offer – Right now you can try a can for just $1. Go to www.fullyloadedchew.com and use promo code: “LockedOn” Wild Alaskan Right now you can get $15 off your 1st box of premium seafood when you visit WildAlaskanCompany.com/MLB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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