CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Lionel Messi gave Inter Miami a pep talk this week, exhorting his MLS team to be "more united than ever" to get through a recent rough stretch. Motivational speeches sometimes work. Messi being Messi almost never fails. Messi got a rise out of the crowd when he scored ...
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit his 18th homer, then had a tiebreaking, two-run double in the 11th inning that lifted the Philadelphia Phillies to a 9-6 victory Saturday night extending their winning streak to nine and sending the Athletics to their 11th straight loss. Max ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Caleb Durbin and Brice Turang hit back-to-back doubles in the eighth inning to help the Milwaukee Brewers top the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 on Sunday. Durbin sent a sweeper from Ryan Borucki (1-2) to the track in left field, driving in two and tying it at 5. Turang brought him ...
DETROIT (AP) — Kyle Manzardo and Angel Martínez hit RBI doubles in Cleveland's four-run 10th inning, helping the Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers for the third straight game, 7-5 on Saturday night. Bo Naylor homered and drove in two runs, including a sacrifice fly that was part of the ...
DETROIT (AP) — Tarik Skubal gave up two hits and matched a career high with 13 strikeouts in his first professional complete game, Zach McKinstry had a two-run homer in a five-run fourth inning and the Detroit Tigers beat the Cleveland Guardians 5-0 Sunday to avoid a four-game sweep. The ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Seiya Suzuki and Reese McGuire homered in the eighth inning and the Chicago Cubs rallied for an 11-8 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday. Nico Hoerner and Pete Crow-Armstrong drove in two runs apiece as the NL Central Division leaders took their fourth straight ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — For the first two months of this season, Reese McGuire didn't know when his next opportunity was going to come in the majors. When it arrived on Sunday, he had the game of his career. McGuire was called up by the Chicago Cubs and had his first multihomer game in the majors ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jared Jones' second season in the big leagues is over before it even began. The Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher underwent surgery to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow on Wednesday and will miss 10 to 12 months. The 23-year-old Jones initially complained ...
EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Facing stiff resistance around the NFL, the tush push managed to move the chains and gain a fresh set of downs. League owners narrowly failed to pass a proposal to prohibit the polarizing short-yardage strategy at their spring meetings in Minnesota on Wednesday, keeping ...
DENVER (AP) — Ranger Suárez pitched into the seventh inning to outduel Germán Márquez, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Colorado Rockies 2-0 on Thursday to sweep the four-game series. Philadelphia has won seven straight overall and 11 of its last 12 on the road. The Phillies have ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates are reeling, and just about everything is on the table for a last-place team that has already fired its manager and packed a half-decade's worth of public-relations missteps into two months. Well, except for one thing: trading ace Paul Skenes. Asked ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gavin Williams pitched six strong innings and José Ramírez had three more hits to extend his hitting streak to 14 games as the Cleveland Guardians beat the Minnesota Twins 5-1 on Wednesday. Steven Kwan was 3 for 5 with two doubles and Carlos Santana added his second home ...
Cleveland's Evan Mobley, the defensive player of the year this season, was also the top vote-getter for the NBA's All-Defensive team that was revealed on Thursday. Mobley got 99 first-team votes from a global panel of 100 writers and broadcasters who cover the NBA and cast ballots to determine ...
DETROIT (AP) — Carlos Santana had a two-run double in the fourth inning, Angel Martínez hit a solo homer in the fifth and Tanner Bibee threw seven scoreless innings to lead the Cleveland Guardians in a 7-0 win over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday night. It was the first meeting between the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Austin Hays had three hits and two RBIs, and scored the go-ahead run on Monday night as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-1 for their fifth consecutive victory. Gavin Lux hit two doubles, his second scoring Hays in the sixth inning to break a 1-1 tie. Hays ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians-Minnesota game was suspended in the fourth inning Monday night after a second rain delay with the Twins leading 2-1. The game will resume Tuesday night with the regularly scheduled game to follow 30 minutes after its completion. The Guardians ...
Jockeying for NCAA Tournament bids ramps up in college baseball this week with conference tournaments taking center stage. Tournament champions in 29 conferences will be automatic qualifiers in the 64-team national tournament, which opens with regional play May 30. Regional hosts will be ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bailey Falter gave up four hits and had five strikeouts through seven innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended a four-game losing streak with a 1-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night. Falter (3-3) has surrendered one run in 23 2/3 innings over his past four ...
One day after Scottie Scheffler captured his third major at the PGA Championship, the 156-man field for the U.S. Open began to take shape Monday with 27 players added through the world ranking and qualifiers being held on three continents. It won't include Sergio Garcia for the first time ...
DENVER (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit his 300th career home run, a 466-foot shot off the facing of the third deck in right field, and the Philadelphia Phillies rallied past the struggling Colorado Rockies 9-3 on Monday night. Alec Bohm hit a go-ahead homer in a four-run eighth inning for ...