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By RICHARD J. MARCUS Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marcus Stroman pitched six strong innings to win his fourth consecutive start and rookie Miguel Amaya went 3 for 3 with his first major league home run as the Chicago Cubs defeated the San Diego Padres 7-1. Yan Gomes and Trey Mancini hit back-to-back homers

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer No. 1 national seed Wake Forest completed one of the most dominant runs through an NCAA Tournament regional and joined eight other teams advancing to super regionals. The Demon Deacons beat George Mason 15-1 in the final in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and outscored their three opponents by a combined

HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Makenzy Doniak scored 44 seconds into the second half and the San Diego Wave went on to beat Gotham in the National Women’s Soccer League on Sunday. Doniak came into the match as a second-half substitute and promptly scored off a pass between two defenders from Jaedyn Shaw, who was also

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Eddie Rosario hit a grand slam off Miguel Castro with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Atlanta Braves rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-5. Arizona led 5-4 heading into the ninth after Ketel Marte hit a two-run homer and Corbin Carroll connected for

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Tre Richardson hit two grand slams among his three home runs and tied an NCAA postseason record with 11 RBIs to lead TCU to a 20-5 rout of Arkansas in a winner’s bracket game of the Fayetteville Regional. Richardson hit a grand slam in the first inning and another in the

By MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Josh Lester drove in two runs with his first major league hit during his season debut, and Tyler Wells won for the first time in his last four starts as the Baltimore Orioles beat the San Francisco Giants 8-3. James McCann reached base three times for

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — Alex Palou started and finished first in the Detroit Grand Prix on Sunday, winning his second IndyCar race in less than a month and for the sixth time of his career. The Spaniard won the Indianapolis Grand Prix in May. He led 74 of 100 laps

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Uruguay and South Korea advanced to the semifinals of the Under-20 World Cup on Sunday. The South Americans beat the United States 2-0 in Santiago del Estero, dominating the match from start to finish. The Asian team, which also played in the previous U-20 World Cup final, secured its spot

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Viktor Hovland is a playoff winner at the Memorial. The Norwegian star made a clutch birdie on the 17th hole and a big par on the 18th hole for a 70. That got him into a playoff with Denny McCarthy. Hovland won with a 7-foot

By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Marcus Semien’s hitting streak, Nathan Eovaldi’s nearly untouchable pitching, Travis Jankowski’s leaping catches. The AL West-leading Texas Rangers are doing just about everything right. “Everybody I feel like is groovin’ right now,” Eovaldi said. Semien extended MLB’s longest hitting streak this season to 23 games,

MILAN (AP) — Veteran AC Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimović has announced his retirement from soccer in an emotional night at San Siro. Ibrahimović is out of contract with the club at the end of the season and Milan had already announced there would be a special ceremony after its match against Hellas Verona to bid

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A’ja Wilson scored 27 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Candace Parker made two free throws with 24 seconds left and the Las Vegas Aces beat the Indiana Fever 84-80 to extend its franchise record for consecutive wins to open a season to six games. Las Vegas used an 11-1 run capped by

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Vegas Golden Knights were flying high after Game 1 in the 2018 Stanley Cup Final. They just beat Washington and believed they were en route to the championship. Then reality hit in a big way. The Capitals won the next four games. It’s a

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Stanford’s NiJaree Canady outlasted Washington’s Ruby Meylan in a battle of Pac-12 freshman pitchers to push the Cardinal into the national semifinals. Canady threw a one-hitter, and No. 9 seed Stanford beat No. 7 Washington 1-0 on Sunday in a Women’s College World Series elimination

By LARRY FLEISHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon Belt broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run homer and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Mets 6-4 for a three-game sweep. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. also went deep for the Blue Jays, who blew a four-run lead but quickly recovered. Toronto has won

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Will Butcher hit a tying home run, Jack Dragum drove in the go-ahead run with a single, and Charlotte edged Clemson 3-2 in an elimination game at the Clemson Regional. Charlotte trailed 2-1 entering the seventh inning before Butcher tied it with a one-out solo home run. One out later, Dragum

MIAMI (AP) — Luis Arraez hit a tiebreaking infield single in the eighth inning and the Miami Marlins beat the Oakland Athletics 7-5 to complete a three-game sweep. Joey Wendle doubled against A’s reliever Austin Pruitt to lead off the inning, then advanced on Jacob Stallings’ single. Stallings took second on right-fielder Ramon Laureano’s throw

By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Yandy Díaz’s sixth-inning RBI single turned into a two-run Little League homer, and the major league-best Tampa Bay Rays beat the sloppy Boston Red Sox 6-2. Josh Lowe, Luke Raley and Díaz each had two hits for the Rays, who are 6-1 against AL East rival Boston

By HARVEY VALENTINE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit a pair of three run homers, Drew Ellis hit his first two home runs of the season, and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Washington Nationals 11-3 to take the rubber game of the series. J.T. Realmuto went deep for the second day in a

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Triston McKenzie tossed five scoreless innings in his injury-delayed season debut, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Minnesota Twins 2-1 for a split of the four-game series. McKenzie had 10 strikeouts and only one baserunner, a two-out single by Michael Taylor in the third. Cleveland scored