TORONTO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Alejandro Kirk singled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning, Bo Bichette and Brandon Belt hit solo home runs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Houston Astros 3-2 Wednesday night. Chris Bassitt (7-4) gave up two runs and four hits with five strikeouts and no ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Zach Davies earned his first victory in more than a year, Corbin Carroll homered and the NL West-leading Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Washington Nationals 6-2 on Wednesday night. The surprising Diamondbacks have won eight of 10, share the National League lead in ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Amed Rosario and Josh Naylor each had three hits and an RBI, Josh Bell drove in a run for the sixth consecutive game and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Boston Red Sox 5-2 on Wednesday night. Rosario singled twice against Kutter Crawford (1-3), then had an RBI double off ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Elly De La Cruz hit a 458-foot drive for his first major league homer and Will Benson hit a game-ending home run in the ninth that lifted the Cincinnati Reds over Los Angeles 8-6 on Wednesday night and extended the Dodgers' losing streak to a season-high four. De La Cruz ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee rookie center fielder Joey Wiemer spent part of the Brewers' trip to Cincinnati last weekend allowing a former college teammate to cut his hair. "My buddy Dre ( Dondrae Bremner ) in Cincinnati, he's cut my hair for the last, like, six years," said Wiemer, who ...
MIAMI (AP) — Lionel Messi has pulled off his latest stunning feat: He is headed to Major League Soccer and joining Inter Miami. After months — years, even — of speculation, Messi on Wednesday finally revealed his decision to join a Miami franchise that has been led by another global ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Charlie Morton went to find Pete Alonso and apologize for hitting him with a pitch that knocked the Mets slugger out of the game. Alonso appreciated the gesture. "He came up after I got X-rayed," Alonso said after the Braves beat the Mets 7-5 on Wednesday night. "He was ...
DENVER (AP) — Austin Slater had a pinch-hit RBI single in a three-run seventh inning and drove in another run in a two-run eighth as the San Francisco Giants rallied to beat the Colorado Rockies 5-4 on Wednesday night after being held hitless into the sixth inning. Taylor Rogers (2-2) picked ...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Rookie Alec Burleson pulled a first-pitch homer to right field in the eighth inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Texas 1-0 on Wednesday night, ending Rangers infielder Marcus Semien's hitting streak at 25 games. Semien was 0 for 4 to stop the longest streak in the ...
MIAMI (AP) — After building their largest lead of the night to that point midway through the third quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals, the Denver Nuggets put on a rebounding clinic. Aaron Gordon grabbed one on the defensive end after Miami's Max Strus missed, then Michael Porter Jr. came ...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Trout homered, Mickey Moniak had a three-run double and Luis Rengifo hit a tying homer and a tiebreaking RBI single in the Los Angeles Angels' 6-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night. Trout and Moniak also made stellar defensive plays for the Halos, ...
MIAMI (AP) — Luis Arraez singled twice to raise his major league-leading batting average to .403 and help the Miami Marlins beat the Kansas City Royals 6-1 on Wednesday night. Jesús Sánchez homered, singled twice and had four RBI for the Marlins, who won their sixth straight. The ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Oakland Athletics began a three-game series in Pittsburgh by essentially doing whatever they could to give away what became a 15th straight road loss. The fundamentals manager Mark Kotsay keeps telling his players they need to be great at were lacking. Yet, rather than ...
TORONTO (AP) — Kevin Gausman matched his career high by striking out 13 over seven innings, George Springer, Bo Bichette and Daulton Varsho all homered, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Houston Astros 5-1 Tuesday night. Gausman (5-3) gave up a leadoff homer to Mauricio Dubón on his second ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Rob Refsnyder had the go-ahead RBI single in a four-run eighth inning and James Paxton tied his season high with nine strikeouts, giving the Boston Red Sox a 5-4 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday night. Kiké Hernández drove in two runs and Masataka Yoshida ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Liam Hendriks earned his first save since returning from cancer, Lucas Giolito pitched six hitless innings and the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 3-2 on Tuesday night for their season-high fourth straight victory. Isiah Kiner-Falefa ended Chicago's combined ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Reds newcomer Elly De La Cruz predicted Matt McLain's late-game heroics. McLain's single to deep center field highlighted a three-run comeback in the ninth inning as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-8 on Tuesday night. Trailing 8-6 with one out ...
PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff wanted to play Iga Swiatek at the French Open again. Gauff will get that matchup in the quarterfinals on Wednesday — a year after losing to Swiatek in the final at Roland Garros. Swiatek won her second championship on the red clay of Paris by defeating Gauff in ...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Marcus Semien extended his majors-best hitting streak to 25 games with a go-ahead double and Dane Dunning won again since taking injured ace Jacob deGrom's spot in the starting rotation for the AL West-leading Texas Rangers. After finding out earlier Tuesday that ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Joey Wiemer hit a game-winning single in the 10th inning to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to a 4-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night. Wiemer's hit came off Austin Voth (1-2). It scored pinch-runner Andruw Monasterio, who was the automatic runner. "Joey's a ...