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BOSTON (AP) — Chris Davis ended his record slump at 0 for 54 and drew applause from rival fans at Fenway Park, getting three hits and driving in four runs as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox 9-5 on Saturday to end a four-game losing streak.
NASHVILLE -- Craig Smith stopped for a few moments before twirling his stick and slipping it into his glove like a sword in a sheath after his shot got through Dallas Stars goalie Ben Bishop. Smith's goal, the first overtime winner in the NHL, couldn't have come ...
WASHINGTON -- The Carolina Hurricanes head home down 2-0 to the Washington Capitals in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference First Round but aren't dejected after a 4-3 overtime loss to the defending Stanley Cup champions at Capital One Arena on ...
TORONTO (AP) — Luke Maile knows how tough Blake Snell can be, having caught him many times during two seasons with Tampa Bay. Maile, now Toronto's backup catcher, broke up Snell's no-hit bid in the sixth inning, and the Blue Jays went on to beat the ...
MIAMI (AP) — Newcomer Austin Dean had four hits and five RBIs, both career highs, to help the Miami Marlins break a five-game losing streak by beating the Philadelphia Phillies 10-3 Saturday. Dean hit his first major league homer and also drove in two runs ...
The confidence and swagger that a high-powered Dodgers offense generated during a torrid start has disappeared. In its place is the confusion and mounting frustration of a losing streak that grew to six games Saturday night. The Dodgers had few answers ...
Angels infielder Zack Cozart felt relieved as he pulled into first base at Wrigley Field, moments after knocking a 78-mph pitch from Chicago Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks to left field for a run-scoring single in the second inning of the Angels' 6-5 win Saturday.
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Five golfers who had all previously won a major championship started Saturday tied for the lead at the 2019 Masters at 7 under. After a wild day at Augusta National, one of them, Italy's Francesco Molinari, now has a two-shot lead with just 18 ...
Claressa Shields now owns the WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO and The Ring women's middleweight titles after beating Christina Hammer in the headlining bout of a Showtime boxing card on Saturday. Shields won a unanimous decision, 98-92, on all three judges ...
WINNIPEG -- The Winnipeg Jets might trail the St. Louis Blues in the Western Conference First Round, but themes of belief and determination were commonplace Saturday with the series shifting to St. Louis for Game 3. The Jets lost 4-3 on Friday at home ...
Free Press sports writer Nick Baumgardner breaks down Michigan football's spring game at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Saturday: The offense. As expected, the offense operated from a no-huddle look and stayed within mostly three-receiver sets, ...
There are dry spells, and then there are droughts. Martin Truex Jr. ended both Saturday night at Richmond Raceway by winning his first Cup Series race in 25 tries and his first short-track race in 81 career races. Truex may not have won had the race been a ...
ATLANTA — Freddie Freeman hit a go-ahead R.B.I. single in the second inning, Ronald Acuna Jr. had his fifth straight multihit game, and the Atlanta Braves snapped the Mets' three-game winning streak with an 11-7 victory Saturday night. Dansby Swanson ...
Sharks forward Logan Couture said he avoided another loss in San Jose's 5-3 defeat at the hands of the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday night. Just over eight minutes into the second period of Game 2 of the Sharks' first-round playoff series, Couture dropped ...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic struck for a first-half brace to lift the LA Galaxy to a 2-0 win over the Philadelphia Union Saturday night at Dignity Health Sports Park. Ibrahimovic, who pulled within one of Carlos Vela's Golden Boot lead, opened his account in the 27th ...
Programming note: Watch the pregame edition of Warriors Outsiders on Saturday at 3:30 p.m., streaming live on the MyTeams app. Luke Walton no longer is head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Walton and the team mutually agreed to part ways, the ...
Alabama head coach Nick Saban spoke to reporters Saturday following the Crimson Tide's annual A-Day Game at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Below is everything Saban said after the White team's 31-17 win over the Crimson team in his final press conference of ...
ATLANTA -- Israel Adesanya came to UFC 236 looking to prove himself, once and for all, on the highest level. He left the Octagon with the interim middleweight title and the fight of the year in one of the most dramatic bouts in UFC history. Adesanya (17-0) ...
The NBA regular season is over. The playoffs finally are here. The Warriors take the first step in their pursuit of a third consecutive NBA championship when they take on the Clippers in Game 1 of their best-of-seven first-round series Saturday night at Oracle ...
Minnesota United's debut game at Allianz Field swung on a pendulum of emotions. From positive notes of misty eyes or actual tears of joy and the elation of how an early, beautiful goal could mean victory. To the negative counterbalance of angst in ...
The Spring Game has officially concluded for Virginia Tech. The Hokies were able to showcase everything they have been working on since the last season ended. VTScoop was on hand to cover the entire performance on Saturday and deliver the eight most ...
There is still reason to believe in Tampa Bay's playoff chances, but it's getting harder and harder to find. Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper, right, watches play in the first period against the Columbus Blue Jackets in Game 2 of the first round of the ...
It looked like it would be a double play. The ball, hit by Tigers center fielder JaCoby Jones, headed toward Jonathan Schoop at second. A double play would not have ended the Tigers' brewing rally, but it would have minimized it. No such luck. Instead, the ...
BOSTON — Maple Leafs forward Nazem Kadri temporarily went to the locker room after a knee-on-knee hit from Jake DeBrusk in the second period. When Kadri retaliated late in the third, he was done for good. Kadri drew a game misconduct for ...
The final pitch of the Cubs' 6-5 loss Saturday to the Angels was a viral moment. After all, footage of a furious Kyle Schwarber being restrained by Javy Baez after being called out on a checked swing to end the game is made for Twitter. Whether Schwarber had ...
Ezequiel Barco came off the bench to score two goals, including an amazing curling effort in the second half, to lift Atlanta United to a 2-0 victory over New England on Saturday at Gillette Stadium. The victory was the first in the league this season for Atlanta ...
With a fast international field that included Ethiopia great Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ben True knew he would need to be in the lead making the final turn onto Charles Street at Saturday's wet and mild BAA 5K. The four-time winner and American record-holder out of ...
Next season's Gophers football team was on display in the spring game at Athlete's Village's indoor practice facility Saturday. The game, which was moved indoors and not open to the public because of space restrictions, was played by dividing the Gophers ...
He may no longer be at the Chiefs, but that didn't stop Liam Messam being the inspiration to their thrilling Super Rugby win over the Blues in Hamilton on Saturday night. The former skipper of the club and most-capped player (179 matches) turned ...
Giannis Antetokounmpo leads the Milwaukee Bucks into the NBA Playoffs as the top seed in the East. Tom Pennington / Getty Images. For the first time since the George W. Bush administration, the NBA Playoffs will begin without LeBron James. He has led ...
TORONTO – Over the last week, former Raptors big man Lucas Nogueira has been back in Toronto after spending the last several months training in his native Brazil. Making the rounds, Bebe visited the team's practice facility on Thursday and told reporters ...
ESPN rode the wave of Friday's superstar-laden leaderboard at Round 2 of the Masters to some hefty audience numbers, but they fell significantly short of the same time period a year ago. The second-round Masters telecast by the Worldwide Leader ...
The FAI president Donal Conway's voice mailbox was full last night, perhaps taken up by messages of encouragement that he was at last asserting his leadership of the association, ruled for so long by John Delaney as though it were his fiefdom. All the signs ...
Daniel Ricciardo's former Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen has warned rivals he won't be "playing nice" and it seems that lack of maturity is something the Aussie is certainly not missing given his post qualifying interview. Although the Dutchman qualified ...
A former Wallaby now working as Rugby Australia's elite coaching director believes the Wallabies going forward would be stronger without Israel Folau in their side ahead of the Rugby World Cup. Folau is facing the sack after Rugby Australia said it intends to ...
The day has come and gone. Minnesota United FC have arrived at their new home of Allianz Field, and opened it with an absurd delight of a game with New York City FC. The game featured four goals in an eight-minute first-half stretch, two VAR decisions, ...
WASHINGTON -- During the middle of his nine-pitch at-bat with two outs in the eighth inning, Adam Eaton heard a few random scattered cheers from the crowd of 32,103 fans at Nationals Park. A few miles away at Capital One Arena in D.C., the Washington ...
Saturday's show at Memorial Stadium was a bit like when your Mom used to say, "I just hope everyone has a good time." The Red team technically beat the White team 24-13 in the 2019 version of the Spring Game, but mostly this was about the Huskers ...
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