Adolis Garcia went 3-for-4 with a home run, Leody Taveras went 4-for-5 and drove in four runs, and the Texas Rangers closed out a road series win on Sunday with a 16-8 rout of the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif. Texas fell behind early when Anthony Rendon sent Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani home with a three-run homer in the first inning off of Rangers starter Martin Perez. Perez surrendered seven earned runs and eig
The Chicago White Sox scored 11 runs in the second inning and bludgeoned the host Cincinnati Reds 17-4 on Sunday afternoon. Hanser Alberto homered for the second straight game, Gavin sheets hit a three-run shot and Andrew Vaughn doubled, tripled and drove in four runs as the White Sox claimed the rubber match of the three-game series. Chicago has won five of its last seven games. The Reds got solo home runs from Jonatha
Alan Pulido scored his first goal since August 2021 and visiting Sporting Kansas City finally snapped their witness start to the season with a 2-1 victory over the Seattle Sounders on Sunday. Erik Thommy scored an early opener and then assisted Pulido for Kansas City (1-7-3, 6 points), which became the last MLS team to win its first game against a Sounders team that remains atop the Western Conference standings. Pulido'
William Contreras and Willy Adames belted two-run home runs as the Milwaukee Brewers salvaged one win on their six-game Western swing with a 7-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday afternoon. Adames added a sacrifice fly and a run-scoring single to complete a season-best, four-RBI day for the Brewers, who had lost the first two games of the series after suffering a three-game sweep in Colorado against the Roc
Denny Hamlin stormed around Kansas Speedway in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, clipped leader Kyle Larson on the last lap and won Sunday's AdventHealth 400 NASCAR Cup Series race in Kansas City, Kan. On the hottest race day of the season -- 89 degrees -- Larson tried to close out his third win of the year, but he couldn't hold off Hamlin's charge in the No. 11 Camry over the last five laps. After running third over much of
Stephen Ames of Canada wrapped up a stellar weekend of golf with a bogey-free, 4-under-par 68 to win the Mitsubishi Electric Classic by four shots on Sunday in Duluth, Ga. Ames held at least a share of the lead after each round in order to secure his second win of the season and his fourth career title on the PGA Tour Champions. He had previously won the Trophy Hassan II in Morocco in February. Ames carded a 19-under 19
Wyndham Clark pulled away from Xander Schauffele to earn his first PGA Tour victory and a $3.6 million check at the Wells Fargo Championship on Sunday in Charlotte, N.C. At a star-packed "designated event" with a purse of $20 million, the 80th-ranked golfer in the world played his best golf over the weekend to break away from the field, following Saturday's round of 63 with a 3-under 68. With a 19-under 265 at Quail Hol
Whit Merrifield homered and drove in four runs Sunday as the visiting Toronto Blue Jays completed a three-game series sweep with a 10-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Daulton Varsho and Kevin Kiermaier also had home runs, and Danny Jansen drove in two runs for the Blue Jays. Brandon Belt went 3-for-4 with two runs. Toronto starter Yusei Kikuchi (5-0) pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings, allowing four hits and two walks wi
Isaac Paredes had an RBI single with one out in the 10th inning to lift the Tampa Bay Rays to an 8-7 win against the visiting New York Yankees in the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon. Paredes hit an opposite-field line drive to right off Albert Abreu (1-1) to score Brandon Lowe from second base. Jose Siri and Christian Bethancourt homered for Tampa Bay, which came back from a 6-0 deficit. Harr
Isaac Paredes had an RBI single with one out in the 10th inning to lift the Tampa Bay Rays to an 8-7 win against the visiting New York Yankees in the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon. Paredes hit an opposite-field line drive to right off Albert Abreu (1-1) to score Brandon Lowe from second base. Jose Siri and Christian Bethancourt homered for Tampa Bay, which came back from a 6-0 deficit. Harr
Paul Goldschmidt hit three homers and drove in four runs as the St. Louis Cardinals snapped their eight-game losing streak with a 12-6 victory over the visiting Detroit Tigers. Brendan Donovan hit a three-run homer for the Cardinals and Lars Nootbaar drove in two runs. Cardinals starting pitcher Steven Matz allowed one run on five hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out two without a walk. Reliever JoJo Romero (1-0) earned
The Vegas Golden Knights have not needed a bounce-back game since Game 2 of their opening-round series victory over the Winnipeg Jets. As the Golden Knights hit the road for Game 3 of their Western Conference semifinal series Monday in Edmonton, they are in dire need of a rebound against the Oilers. Edmonton evened the best-of-seven series at 1-1 with Saturday's dominant 5-1 victory that showed in no uncertain terms the
Kris Bryant and Brenton Doyle each homered and finished with three RBIs Sunday afternoon for the visiting Colorado Rockies, who beat the New York Mets 13-6 in the rubber game of a three-game series. The Rockies have won six of seven, while the Mets have dropped 11 of 14. Bryant had a game-tying RBI single in the third and hit a two-run homer in the fifth. Doyle laced a two-run homer -- his first in the majors - later in
Salvador Perez homered and Ryan Yarbrough won a start for the first time since August 2021 as the host Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics 5-1, salvaging the final game of the weekend series. It was a painful victory for Yarbrough (1-4), who was struck on the left cheek by Ryan Noda's line drive, with an exit velocity measured at 106 mph. Yarbrough was helped off the field and the Royals said he was "alert" and
