“THE SCOREBOARD” ===== INDIANA HS BASEBALL STATE FINALS FRIDAY, JUNE 19 CLASS 3A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 4:30 PM ET | GUERIN CATHOLIC (27-3-1) VS. ANDREAN (30-3) CLASS 1A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 8 PM ET | NORTHEAST DUBOIS (23-5) VS. KOUTS (31-1) SATURDAY, JUNE 20 CLASS 2A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 4:30 PM ET | EVANSVILLE MATER DEI (29-3) VS. BLUFFTON (19-10) CLASS 4A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 8 PM ET | BLOOMINGTON SOUTH (25-6) VS. LAKE CENTRAL (27-8) ================================== INDIANA BOYS GOLF STATE FINALS Jun 16, 2026 8 am ET / 7 CT. Jun 17, 2026 8 am ET / 7 CT FIRST ROUND PAIRINGS: https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2025-26%20BGO%20State%20Pairings.pdf ==================================== NHL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE STANLEY CUP FINAL GAME 1: VEGAS 5 CAROLINA 4 GAME 2: CAROLINA 4 VEGAS 3 OT GAME 3: VEGAS 5 CAROLINA 4 2 OT GAME 4: CAROLINA 5 AT VEGAS 3 *GAME 5: CAROLINA 4 VEGAS 2 *GAME 6: CAROLINA 3 VEGAS 0 =================================== MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TIGERS AT GUARDIANS PPD MARLINS 4, PIRATES 2 NATIONALS 10, MARINERS 1 PADRES 5, ORIOLES 2 YANKEES 8, BLUE JAYS 3 DIAMONDBACKS 5, REDS 3 METS 8, BRAVES 1 TWINS 5, CARDINALS 4 ROYALS 4, ASTROS 0 ROCKIES 23, ATHLETICS 9 GIANTS 5, CUBS 1 RAYS 8, ANGELS 3 RANGERS 6, RED SOX 4 =================================== MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL COLUMBUS 4, INDIANAPOLIS 3 DAYTON 17, FT. WAYNE 1 SOUTH BEND 10, PEORIA 3 =================================== COLLEGE BASEBALL WORLD SERIES SUNDAY TROY 12 OLE MISS 8 NORTH CAROLINA 5 WEST VIRGINIA 2 ===== TV SCHEDULE: MEN’S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES: FRIDAY, JUNE 12 – SUNDAY/MONDAY 21/22 | CHARLES SCHWAB FIELD IN OMAHA, NE GAME 7 | 2 P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 15 ON ESPN GAME 8 | 7 P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 15 ON ESPN GAME 9 | 2 P.M. TUESDAY, JUNE 16 ON ESPN GAME 10 | 8 P.M. TUESDAY, JUNE 16 ON ESPN GAME 11 | 2 P.M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 ON ESPN GAME 12 | 7 P.M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 ON ESPN BRACKET 1 | TBD THURSDAY, JUNE 18 ON ESPN (IF NECESSARY) BRACKET 2 | TBD THURSDAY, JUNE 18 ON ESPN (IF NECESSARY) CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME 1 | TBD SATURDAY, JUNE 20 ON ESPN CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME 2 | 2:30 P.M. SUNDAY, JUNE 21 ON ABC CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME 3 | 7 P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 22 ON ESPN (IF NECESSARY) =================================== WNBA LIBERTY 86 MYSTICS 64 DREAM 102 TEMPO 77 =============================== MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER NO GAMES SCHEDULED =============================== WORLD CUP STAGE FIXTURES SUNDAY, 14 JUNE 2026 GERMANY 7 CURAÇAO 1 NETHERLANDS 2 JAPAN 2 SWEDEN 5 TUNISIA 1 IVORY COAST 1 ECUADOR 0 AUSTRAILIA 2 TURKEY 0 MONDAY, 15 JUNE 2026 SAUDI ARABIA V URUGUAY – GROUP H – MIAMI STADIUM SPAIN V CABO VERDE – GROUP H – ATLANTA STADIUM IR IRAN V NEW ZEALAND – GROUP G – LOS ANGELES STADIUM BELGIUM V EGYPT – GROUP G – SEATTLE STADIUM TUESDAY, 16 JUNE 2026 FRANCE V SENEGAL – GROUP I – NEW YORK NEW JERSEY STADIUM IRAQ V NORWAY – GROUP I – BOSTON STADIUM ARGENTINA V ALGERIA – GROUP J – KANSAS CITY STADIUM AUSTRIA V JORDAN – GROUP J – SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA STADIUM WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2026 GHANA V PANAMA – GROUP L – TORONTO STADIUM ENGLAND V CROATIA – GROUP L – DALLAS STADIUM PORTUGAL V CONGO DR – GROUP K – HOUSTON STADIUM UZBEKISTAN V COLOMBIA – GROUP K – MEXICO CITY STADIUM THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 2026 CZECHIA V SOUTH AFRICA – GROUP A – ATLANTA STADIUM SWITZERLAND V BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – GROUP B – LOS ANGELES STADIUM CANADA V QATAR – GROUP B – BC PLACE VANCOUVER MEXICO V KOREA REPUBLIC – GROUP A – ESTADIO GUADALAJARA FRIDAY, 19 JUNE 2026 BRAZIL V HAITI – GROUP C – PHILADELPHIA STADIUM SCOTLAND V MOROCCO – GROUP C – BOSTON STADIUM TÜRKIYE V PARAGUAY – GROUP D – SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA STADIUM USA V AUSTRALIA – GROUP D – SEATTLE STADIUM SATURDAY, 20 JUNE 2026 GERMANY V CÔTE D’IVOIRE – GROUP E – TORONTO STADIUM ECUADOR V CURAÇAO – GROUP E – KANSAS CITY STADIUM NETHERLANDS V SWEDEN – GROUP F – HOUSTON STADIUM TUNISIA V JAPAN – GROUP F – ESTADIO MONTERREY SUNDAY, 21 JUNE 2026 URUGUAY V CABO VERDE – GROUP H – MIAMI STADIUM SPAIN V SAUDI ARABIA – GROUP H – ATLANTA STADIUM BELGIUM V IR IRAN – GROUP G – LOS ANGELES STADIUM NEW ZEALAND V EGYPT – GROUP G – BC PLACE VANCOUVER MONDAY, 22 JUNE 2026 NORWAY V SENEGAL – GROUP I – NEW YORK NEW JERSEY STADIUM FRANCE V IRAQ – GROUP I – PHILADELPHIA STADIUM ARGENTINA V AUSTRIA – GROUP J – DALLAS STADIUM JORDAN V ALGERIA – GROUP J – SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA STADIUM TUESDAY, 23 JUNE 2026 ENGLAND V GHANA – GROUP L – BOSTON STADIUM PANAMA V CROATIA – GROUP L – TORONTO STADIUM PORTUGAL V UZBEKISTAN – GROUP K – HOUSTON STADIUM COLOMBIA V CONGO DR – GROUP K – ESTADIO GUADALAJARA WEDNESDAY, 24 JUNE 2026 SCOTLAND V BRAZIL – GROUP C – MIAMI STADIUM MOROCCO V HAITI – GROUP C – ATLANTA STADIUM SWITZERLAND V CANADA – GROUP B – BC PLACE VANCOUVER BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA V QATAR – GROUP B – SEATTLE STADIUM CZECHIA V MEXICO – GROUP A – MEXICO CITY STADIUM SOUTH AFRICA V KOREA REPUBLIC – GROUP A – ESTADIO MONTERREY THURSDAY, 25 JUNE 2026 CURAÇAO V CÔTE D’IVOIRE – GROUP E – PHILADELPHIA STADIUM ECUADOR V GERMANY – GROUP E – NEW YORK NEW JERSEY STADIUM JAPAN V SWEDEN – GROUP F – DALLAS STADIUM TUNISIA V NETHERLANDS – GROUP F – KANSAS CITY STADIUM TÜRKIYE V USA – GROUP D – LOS ANGELES STADIUM PARAGUAY V AUSTRALIA – GROUP D – SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA STADIUM FRIDAY, 26 JUNE 2026 NORWAY V FRANCE – GROUP I – BOSTON STADIUM SENEGAL V IRAQ – GROUP I – TORONTO STADIUM EGYPT V IR IRAN – GROUP G – SEATTLE STADIUM NEW ZEALAND V BELGIUM – GROUP G – BC PLACE VANCOUVER CABO VERDE V SAUDI ARABIA – GROUP H – HOUSTON STADIUM URUGUAY V SPAIN – GROUP H – ESTADIO GUADALAJARA SATURDAY, 27 JUNE 2026 PANAMA V ENGLAND – GROUP L – NEW YORK NEW JERSEY STADIUM CROATIA V GHANA – GROUP L – PHILADELPHIA STADIUM ALGERIA V AUSTRIA – GROUP J – KANSAS CITY STADIUM JORDAN V ARGENTINA – GROUP J – DALLAS STADIUM COLOMBIA V PORTUGAL – GROUP K – MIAMI STADIUM CONGO DR V UZBEKISTAN – GROUP K – ATLANTA STADIUM =============================== MAJOR NATIONAL HEADLINES/RELEASES NHL STANLEY CUP HURRICANES STORM PAST GOLDEN KNIGHTS IN GAME 6 TO GRAB STANLEY CUP LAS VEGAS — Rod Brind’Amour captained the Carolina Hurricanes to their first Stanley Cup in 2006. Twenty years later on Sunday night, Brind’Amour got to pick up and hold the trophy again on the ice at T-Mobile Arena after coaching the Hurricanes to another Stanley Cup victory. Rookie goaltender Brandon Bussi, a waiver-wire pickup from Florida in October, made 22 saves to win his third straight start and record his first career playoff shutout, and Jackson Blake had a goal and an assist to lead the Hurricanes to a 3-0 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 6 on Sunday night. Taylor Hall and Nikolaj Ehlers also scored for Carolina, which won the best-of-seven series, 4-2. “I think it was just our time,” Brind’Amour said. “We weren’t going to be denied.” Carolina captain Jordan Staal, who tied a Stanley Cup Final record with goals in five straight games to start the series and totaled six goals in the finals, was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the playoffs. According to Sportsnet Stats, Brind’Amour became just the fourth person to both captain and coach a franchise to a Stanley Cup, joining Toe Blake (Montreal Canadiens), Hap Day (Toronto Maple Leafs) and Cooney Weiland (Boston Bruins). “It felt great (to lift the Cup again),” Brind’Amour said. “I’m so happy for everyone. That’s what this is about. That’s what hockey is about. It’s the ultimate team sport.” Brind’Amour was asked to compare winning the Stanley Cup as a player and a head coach. “It’s different, because as a player, I really wanted it for myself,” Brind’Amour said. “Now, sitting back behind (the bench) watching, I really wanted it for these guys because there’s no harder-working group. I see it every day. It’s just like a proud dad watching his kids go to work. Just couldn’t say enough good things about this group.” At 37 years and 277 days, Staal became the oldest winner of the Conn Smythe. Goaltender Tim Thomas (2011) of the Boston Bruins was the previous oldest at 37 years and 61 days. Staal also won the Stanley Cup in 2009 as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins. “That’s a lot of years,” Staal said. “I mean, it’s amazing. It’s something I’ve been going after ever since I got the first one. You want to win it again and again and again.” Carter Hart finished with 20 saves for Vegas, which lost in the finals for the second time in the team’s nine-year history. The Golden Knights won the Stanley Cup in 2023. Hall gave Carolina a 1-0 lead at the 3:47 mark of the first period. Jaccob Slavin set up the score with a stretch pass from blue line to blue line. Hall was open as he took the pass and broke in on the left wing, beating Hart with a wrist shot past his glove side for his seventh goal of the playoffs and second in the finals. Vegas, which outshot the Hurricanes 11-8 in the opening period, had several excellent chances to tie the game later in the period. Brett Howden broke in alone down the slot midway through the period, but Bussi made a stick save on his five-hole try. The Golden Knights had a flurry of chances near the end of the period, including two close-in tries by Mark Stone and a one-timer by Pavel Dorofeyev from the bottom of the right circle that Bussi made a diving save to stop. Carolina tightened up on defense in the second period, holding Vegas to just three shots on goal. The Hurricanes extended the lead to 2-0 at the 13:31 mark when Logan Stankoven fed Blake alone on the edge on the right circle, and Blake blasted a one-timer past Hart’s glove side for his seventh goal of the playoffs. Vegas had a chance to cut the lead in half midway through the third period when Carolina forward Eric Robinson went to the penalty box for high-sticking Nic Dowd. On the ensuing power play, Stone crossed a pass to a wide-open Jack Eichel at the bottom edge of the left circle, but Eichel’s snap shot against a stickless Bussi went off the crossbar. The Golden Knights pulled Hart for an extra attacker with three minutes to go, and Ehlers intercepted a pass and sealed the win with an empty-netter with 68 seconds to play, his eighth goal of the playoffs. “As I’ve always said, it’s a find-a-way league,” Vegas coach John Tortorella said. “All the games were close, and it was just try to find a way, and they did tonight, and they beat us.” Golden Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb, who played the final four games with a full cage after taking an Ehlers slap shot on the nose that needed 30 stitches to repair, said he was proud of his team. “We came together late in the year and we battled our asses off,” McNabb said. “I’m proud of how we got here. We just came up a little bit short.” Slavin joined Ken Morrow (Islanders, 1980) as the only American-born players to win Olympic gold and the Stanley Cup in the same year. ================================ NBA: OFF-SEASON THE NBA OFFSEASON BEGINS, WITH LOTS OF EYES ON GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO, LEBRON JAMES AND MORE And just like that, it’s next season in the NBA. The New York Knicks will be feted with a championship parade through the streets of Manhattan on Thursday after a postseason in which they successfully rallied from six double-digit deficits to win games in the playoffs, including all four of their victories in the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs. It continued the unprecedented run of NBA parity, with eight different franchises winning championships in the last eight seasons — Toronto in 2019, the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020, Milwaukee in 2021, Golden State in 2022, Denver in 2023, Boston in 2024, Oklahoma City last year and now New York. “To me, it just really speaks to the state of NBA basketball and the state of the future of the game,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “And now with this draft class coming in this year — again, not just the first pick, but a draft that’s considered the deepest in many years — there’s so much talent everywhere. … So, it’s a really bright future ahead for the league.” It is, but every team is now chasing the Knicks. They had all the answers. For 29 other franchises, at least on some levels, there seems to only be questions. — Will Milwaukee really trade Giannis Antetokounmpo after 13 seasons, 10 All-Star selections, two Most Valuable Player awards and an NBA championship in 2021? — Will LeBron James come back to the NBA for a 24th season? If so, will it be with the Los Angeles Lakers for a ninth year or will he look for a presumably final chapter elsewhere? — What will Washington do with the No. 1 pick in the draft later this month? — And who will coach in Chicago, Dallas and Portland? Those are just some of the major issues facing teams around the league as summer gets underway. It’s going to be hard for the Knicks to repeat, because it’s hard for any team to repeat — as the Thunder found out this season. “The history of the NBA is littered with teams that were not able to find ultimate success again,” Thunder general manager Sam Presti said. “I think there have only been three teams that have repeated since we’ve been in Oklahoma City, and the reasons for that are many, probably too many to list. But the fact is that it helps illustrate how rare and how special it is when you do have a chance to win at the highest level in this league or in professional sports in general. “However, NBA history is also built on the backs of those teams that saw their losses as a continued quest for improvement and progress. Most importantly, they saw it as what competition boils down to, what it’s all about at any level of sports.” The Giannis question Antetokounmpo, the biggest star in Milwaukee, will be eligible this fall for an extension that could be worth up to $275 million. But the Bucks don’t have a roster that’s a championship contender. If they trade Antetokounmpo, they can essentially start over with what would be a slew of players and draft picks. If they keep him, there’s no guarantee he’ll be happy — because it seems like he’s primarily interested now in trying to win more titles. “I just think before the draft is a natural time, right, because if Giannis does play somewhere else we’re going to get a lot of assets. … You’ve got to get it right,” Bucks co-owner Jimmy Haslam said in May, when the team introduced new coach Taylor Jenkins — who was told that Antetokounmpo may or may not be with the franchise when next season starts. The draft is next week. And logic would suggest that the Bucks — if they are going to trade Antetokounmpo — may do so at least a few days before the draft, so they have some specific idea of who to target with the capital that they’ll get as part of whatever deal might go down. Miami has been mentioned in the Giannis sweepstakes for months, and the Heat are involved in talks with the Bucks again. LeBron watch James has never gone into a summer with this much freedom. He could stay with the Lakers. He could pick another spot. He could retire. He could demand a max salary. He could take less money to help a team out. Or he could just continue posting videos of chip-ins on Instagram; yes, James has the golf bug. “When the time comes, you guys will know what I decide to do,” James said when the Lakers were eliminated this spring by Oklahoma City in a 4-0 sweep. The Lakers have a lot of other decisions, including how to handle an extension for Austin Reaves. But getting some sense from James about his plans will surely go a long way toward having other moves fall into place. The Spurs Victor Wembanyama is eligible for a four-year extension that would top $250 million, and there’s obviously no reason San Antonio wouldn’t want to commit to keep the game’s most fascinating player around. The extension would start in 2027-28. There are some other roster spots to address, but the starters are under contract. It will be interesting to watch how free agents view San Antonio as a destination, especially since the Spurs will go into next season as one of the favorites — if not the biggest one — for the 2027 NBA title. “Competitiveness, that’s what makes you better,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “That’s what pushes you to continue to improve in the dark, long hours when nobody is around. We improved a whole lot this year. We have … more motivation to continue to get better.” Other top issues — The NBA still hasn’t revealed what, if anything, will come from an investigation by outside counsel into whether a $28 million endorsement contract between Kawhi Leonard and a California-based sustainability services company allowed the Los Angeles Clippers to circumvent league salary cap rules. — Portland hasn’t said who will coach next season, with interim coach Tiago Splitter still in the mix. Chicago and Dallas still have openings. It would seem advantageous to have coaches in place by the draft. ============================== NFL FORMER NFL ALL-PRO DE ALDON SMITH DIES AT 36 Former NFL defensive end Aldon Smith, who quickly made an impact as an All-Pro pass rusher before encountering off-field issues, died on Saturday. He was 36. The San Francisco 49ers, who selected Smith seventh overall in the 2011 NFL Draft out of Missouri, confirmed his death on Saturday without providing a cause. “We are devastated by the sudden and tragic passing of Aldon Smith,” the team said in a statement. “Aldon’s undeniable talent and sheer dominance on the field were on display from the moment he joined our organization, having recorded one of the best rookie seasons the National Football League has seen. Beyond his excellence as a player, Aldon will be remembered for his infectious smile that lit up every room he walked into. Our entire organization sends its deepest condolences to the Smith family and all who knew and loved Aldon.” Smith played his first four seasons for the 49ers and totaled 152 tackles, 44 sacks, 81 quarterback hits, one interception, five forced fumbles, one fumble recovery and one safety in 50 regular-season games (30 starts). He added another 20 tackles and 5.5 sacks in eight playoff games (six starts) for San Francisco. His 14 sacks in 2011 were the second-most by a rookie in one season since sacks became an official statistic in 1982, per the team. Smith’s 19.5 sacks in 2012 set a franchise single-season mark and his 33.5 total from 2011-12 are the most by any player in his first two NFL seasons, per the team. Smith made the NFL All-Rookie Team in 2011 and was selected to the Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro in 2012. Smith was suspended nine games in 2014 for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy. The 49ers released him in August 2015 after a DUI arrest. He was arrested 10 times in nine years for a series of incidents, per an ESPN report on Saturday, including an arrest for three felony charges of possessing illegal assault weapons in October 2013. Smith played nine games (seven starts) for the Oakland Raiders in 2015 before the league suspended him indefinitely for another violation of its substance abuse policy. After missing the entire 2016 and 2017 campaigns, the Raiders released him in March 2018 after an arrest for domestic violence. The NFL suspended him in April 2020 when he signed with the Dallas Cowboys and he was reinstated from the suspension that May. He played 16 games (all starts) for the Cowboys in 2020. The Seattle Seahawks signed him in April 2021 and released him that August. His career totals were 228 tackles, 52.5 sacks, one interception, five forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries, one safety and 103 QB hits in 75 regular-season games (53 starts). ESPN reported that Smith announced his retirement from the NFL in 2023, and the next year he began a project mentoring young athletes on dealing with the pressures and distractions of being a professional athlete. He also mentored the rookie classes of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Las Vegas Raiders. Smith, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, played two seasons at Missouri and totaled 79 tackles, 23 tackles for loss and 14.5 sacks in 23 games from 2009-10. He was a first-team All-Big 12 Conference pick and the team’s defensive lineman of the year in 2010. ============================= COLLEGE FOOTBALL ARIZONA STATE PREVIEW: It’s a nice thought when a school wants to hire a favorite son to be the head football coach, and it always scores easy points with the fan base and donors. But it almost never, ever works like everyone wants it to. And then Kenny Dillingham becomes everything a program could ask for. READ MORE: https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/arizona-state-football-preview-2026 ===== NORTH CAROLINA PREVIEW If it were anyone else but Bill Belichick, the blah 4-8 season would be chalked up to a redo.Everything is settling in, adjustments need to be made, “We’re on to 2026,” and all the other things new head coaches do.But Belichick is 74 – there’s no five-year plan to greatness at North Carolina. The Tar Heels are supposed to win because he’s Bill Belichick, and the guy on the other side of the field isn’t. READ MORE: https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/north-carolina-football-preview-2026 ===== RICE PREVIEW No, Rice football isn’t a lost cause.It takes everything to hit just right for big things to happen – like the ten-win seasons in 2008 and 2013 – and no matter how it happened, getting to three bowl games in the last four years is something. READ MORE: https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/rice-football-preview-2026 ===== CENTRAL FLORIDA PREVIEW UCF is getting there.No, this isn’t an “I told you so” thing, but yeah, there’s a difference between ripping up a Group of Six conference like the American – with one or two giant wins a year over the big boys – and dealing with the week-in-and-week-out life in a Power Four league. READ MORE: https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/ucf-football-preview-2026 ===== DUKE PREVIEW Duke won the ACC Championship in football. It still doesn’t seem right, and it might have taken a ton of crazy things to make it happen, but at this point, we shouldn’t be surprised. Duke football wins. (And, by the way, Duke totally deserved to be in the College Football Playoff as a Power Four champion, but that’s in the past.) Has Miami ever won an ACC Championship? No, and it has 35 overall wins over the last four years. READ MORE: https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/duke-football-preview-2026 ================================ BASEBALL MLB ROUNDUP: ROCKIES BATTER ATHLETICS WITH 23 RUNS ON 24 HITS Willi Castro hit two home runs and drove in seven runs to lead the visiting Colorado Rockies, who set a franchise records for runs in a game in routing the Athletics 23-9 on Sunday in Las Vegas. Castro hit a two-run homer in the second and a grand slam in the eighth to finish 4-for-6. Hunter Goodman also hit a pair of home runs and drove in four runs, going 5-for-6 and coming up a triple short of the cycle. Troy Johnston added a home run and four RBIs as the Rockies pounded out 24 hits and six home runs while scoring the most runs in a Major League Baseball game this season. Colorado starter Tomoyuki Sugano (7-4) was battered by the A’s, giving up nine hits and eight runs in five innings. Eiberson Castellano picked up the save in his major league debut as he allowed no runs over the final three innings. A’s starter Jeffrey Springs (3-7) gave up seven hits and eight runs (six earned) in four innings. The southpaw didn’t walk anyone and struck out five. Tyler Soderstrom and Max Muncy homered for the Athletics, who amassed 15 hits. MLB news Rangers 6, Red Sox 4 Wyatt Langford and Kyle Higashioka homered in back-to-back innings to start the game, and Texas avoided a three-game series sweep at the hands of host Boston. Rangers starter Nathan Eovaldi (6-7) pitched seven innings, striking out six while working around three runs and six hits. Teammate Brandon Nimmo (2-for-5) hit a clutch two-RBI double in the fourth inning, while Justin Foscue went 3-for-3 with a run scored. Higashioka and Cody Freeman also had multiple hits. Texas tagged Red Sox starter Connelly Early (5-5) for six runs and 11 hits through the first 4 2/3 innings and totaled 13 knocks in the game. Boston’s Willson Contreras homered twice on his 3-for-4 night and Masataka Yoshida went 2-for-4 with a double and run scored but the Red Sox lost for the fifth time in seven games. Marlins 4, Pirates 2 Heriberto Hernandez and Joe Mack each hit solo home runs and Max Meyer outdueled Paul Skenes as visiting Miami earned a rubber-match win over Pittsburgh. Meyer (7-0) yielded one run on six hits over six innings. Pete Fairbanks gave up a run but struck out two to pick up his ninth save of the season. Liam Hicks added two hits and a run for the Marlins. Skenes (6-6) allowed two runs on four hits. The reigning National League Cy Young winner struck out the side in the fourth and sixth, but the Pirates lost his sixth straight start. Bryan Reynolds went 2-for-3 with a home run and Nick Gonzales and Jake Mangum each had two hits for Pittsburgh. Yankees 8, Jays 3 Ben Rice and Jose Caballero homered in a five-run ninth inning and visiting New York defeated Toronto in the rubber game of a three-game series. With Paul Goldschmidt on second with one out in the ninth, Rice drilled a tiebreaking two-run homer off Braydon Fisher (2-2). Caballero hit a three-run shot to break the game open. Starter Will Warren allowed two runs, eight hits and three walks with one strikeout in four innings. New York’s Camilo Doval (3-0) pitched a perfect eighth to earn the win. Goldschmidt had three hits. Davis Schneider hit a solo homer for the Blue Jays, while starter Patrick Corbin allowed two runs, seven hits and no walks with three strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings. White Sox 6, Dodgers 3 Colson Montgomery and Chase Meidroth belted two-run homers to highlight a six-run sixth inning as host Chicago claimed the rubber match of its three-game set with Los Angeles. With the White Sox trailing 1-0, Sam Antonacci opened the sixth with a solo homer. After Andrew Benintendi’s RBI double chased Dodgers starter Emmet Sheehan, Montgomery and Meidroth added homers off reliever Jack Dreyer to build a 6-1 lead. Sheehan (3-4) allowed three runs and four hits over five-plus innings while Erick Fedde (2-5) threw 2 2/3 scoreless innings in the bulk role for the White Sox. Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts poked solo homers for Los Angeles, which lost its first series since May 8-10 against the Atlanta Braves. Twins 5, Cardinals 4 Ryan Kreidler roped a double with two outs in the eighth to drive in the winning run against St. Louis in Minneapolis. Byron Buxton went 3-for-5 while Kody Clemens and Josh Bell added two hits apiece for the Twins. Starter Taj Bradley allowed four runs over 6 2/3 innings, then Andrew Morris (2-2) fanned three in the eighth and Yoendrys Gomez picked up his sixth save. JJ Wetherholt went 2-for-5 with a homer and 3 RBIs for the Cardinals while Alec Burleson homered to extend his hitting streak to a career-best 14 games. Starter Michael McGreevy departed with a lead after giving up two runs over six innings, but relievers JoJo Romero and George Soriano (3-1) surrendered six hits and three runs in two innings. Rays 8, Angels 3 Junior Caminero and Victor Mesa Jr. stroked two-run homers when Tampa Bay scored five runs in the eighth to snap a 3-3 tie and defeat Los Angeles in Anaheim, Calif. Mesa, Jonathan Aranda and Cedric Mullins contributed two hits apiece for the Rays while Ben Williamson added his first homer of the season. Kevin Kelly (4-2), the third of six Tampa Bay pitchers in a bullpen game, struck out three in two innings. Donovan Walton homered and Jo Adell posted two hits for the Angels, who used five relievers after Grayson Rodriguez left in the third inning with lower back tightness. Sam Bachman (1-1) surrendered all five runs in the eighth via four hits and two walks. Padres 5, Orioles 2 Rodolfo Duran drove in three runs with a home run and a double to spark visiting San Diego past Baltimore. Duran, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jackson Merrill posted two hits apiece for the Padres. Walker Buehler (4-3) allowed just one run over five innings, then Mason Miller capped four relievers’ work by fanning three of the four batters he faced to collect his 19th save. Jeremiah Jackson poked a solo homer for the Orioles while Gunnar Henderson and Blaze Alexander notched two hits each. Starter Trevor Rogers (3-7) gave up five hits and two runs over six innings. Nationals 10, Mariners 1 James Wood finished a triple shy of the cycle and Miles Mikolas pitched seven scoreless innings as host Washington routed Seattle to win its third straight series. After Seattle scored its lone run off opener PJ Poulin in the first, Wood stroked his fifth leadoff homer of the year in the bottom of the first. Wood finished 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBI while Keibert Ruiz also went 3-for-4 with a homer. Mikolas (2-5) scattered three hits during his seven-inning stint with three strikeouts. Mariners starter Emerson Hancock (5-3) surrendered nine hits and six runs over four innings. Reliever Anthony Munoz (lower back tightness) and first baseman Josh Naylor (foul ball off right shin) left the game in the latter innings. Mets 8, Braves 1 Freddy Peralta overcame a laborious first inning to toss five solid frames and earn the win as New York beat visiting Atlanta in the rubber game of a three-game series. A.J. Ewing went 3-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs for the Mets, who went 3-3 on their homestand. Ewing, Jared Young and Brett Baty all had an RBI during a four-run first inning before Ewing and Marcus Semien homered in the fifth. Juan Soto had two hits, including a two-run single in the eighth, and drew two walks. Baty, Carson Benge and Bo Bichette finished with two hits each. Peralta (5-4) gave up one run on four hits and one walk while striking out two. He retired 14 in a row between the first and fifth and allowed just one runner beyond first base after the first. He opened the game giving up three straight singles and surrendering one run on 28 pitches. Diamondbacks 5, Reds 3 Tommy Troy, Geraldo Perdomo and Gabriel Moreno homered to help visiting Arizona earn a win against Cincinnati in the rubber game of their three-game series. Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen allowed three runs and six hits on 85 pitches in six innings. He struck out four, walked two and allowed solo homers to JJ Bleday and Noelvi Marte for the Reds, who have lost eight of 10. Cincinnati left-hander Andrew Abbott allowed one run and four hits in five innings. He struck out five and walked three on 95 pitches. Moreno led off the eighth by hitting a high fly to right off Zach Maxwell (0-1) that sailed just over the fence to give Arizona the lead for good. Brewers 4, Phillies 0 Light-hitting Blake Perkins, who entered hitting .113, belted a three-run homer and Kyle Harrison tossed six innings of three-hit ball as Milwaukee shut out visiting Philadelphia. Perkins put the Brewers in front 4-0 in the fourth with his first home run of the season off Cristopher Sanchez (8-3), who was 6-0 over his previous nine starts. Sanchez yielded four runs on eight hits in 5 2/3 innings for his first loss since April 18. Harrison (8-1) allowed three singles with three strikeouts, no walks and a hit batter in an efficient 80-pitch outing. Abner Uribe followed with a scoreless seventh and Aaron Ashby finished with two scoreless frames. Royals 4, Astros 0 Stephen Kolek allowed five hits over 7 1/3 stellar innings and Maikel Garcia had three hits with three RBIs as Kansas City avoided a series sweep to visiting Houston. Kolek (4-1) and two relievers limited the Astros to four singles and a double after Houston recorded 18 runs and eight homers over the first two games of the series. Jac Caglianone also drove in a run for the Royals. Brice Matthews hit a leadoff double in the third for the Astros but was stranded at second. Spencer Arrighetti (7-2) allowed all the Royals’ runs on eight hits and struck out seven over six innings. Giants 5, Cubs 1 Logan Webb threw eight innings of one-run ball for a second straight start, Matt Chapman gave him all the support he would need with a two-run homer, and San Francisco salvaged one win in a three-game home series against Chicago. Six days after he was pulled before the ninth inning with a 3-1 lead and watched the Washington Nationals rally for a 4-3 victory, Webb saw Caleb Kilian lock down the right-hander’s second win in his last three starts by setting down the Cubs 1-2-3 in the ninth, striking out a pair. Webb (4-4) allowed seven hits without issuing a walk in his eight innings. He struck out seven. Cubs opener Ryan Rolison and bulk-innings reliever Colin Rea (5-5) matched zeroes with Webb for four innings before surrendering three runs in the fifth, highlighted by Chapman’s homer. ============================ COLLEGE BASEBALL TROY SCORES SEVEN UNANSWERED RUNS TO ELIMINATE OLE MISS FROM COLLEGE WORLD SERIES OMAHA, Neb. – Troy launched three homers and scored seven unanswered runs to top Ole Miss 12-8 in Sunday’s College World Series elimination game. The Trojans trailed 6-2 in the fifth before breaking through for three two-out runs to chase Ole Miss starter Hunter Elliott. Troy got two of its first three hitters on with singles from Josh Pyne and Jimmy Janicki before Drew Nelson drew a two-out walk to load the bases, putting Troy in position to grab the momentum. Elliott worked a 1-2 count to Sean Darnell before a balk brought home the first run. Darnell followed it with a single through the left side to cut the Ole Miss lead to 6-5. Darnell, who was on base five times, going 3-for-3 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch, was responsible for four of the five runs against Elliott in his 4.2 innings. In the second inning, the senior second baseman had crushed a two-run homer 416 feet off of the Ole Miss lefty. Troy claimed its first lead off the ballgame with a four-spot in the seventh, starting with a game-tying homer from Jimmy Janicki off of JP Robertson. Janicki lasered a line drive 417 feet off the Rebel right-hander before a one-out single from Nelson forced Ole Miss to bring in lefty Walker Hooks. After a Darnell walk, Jabe Boroff broke the tie with a two-run double down the left field line, which were his 20th and 21st RBIs of the NCAA Tournament, the most since Georgia’s Rich Poythress in 2008. Fellow Pike Road, Alabama native Houston Markham extended the lead to 9-6 with a base hit up the middle. Troy tacked on three more in the eighth with a backside blast from Blake Cavill before two runs came in on a dropped popup hit by Boroff after Nelson walked and Darnell singled. On the mound, sophomore Noah Thigpen was dynamite out of the Trojan bullpen, going five innings with six hits, two runs, one walk and five strikeouts after taking over in the fourth. It was the longest relief appearance of his career, while his five punchouts matched his career high. Thigpen exited after a leadoff single by Hayden Federico in the ninth before getting into a 2-0 count against Owen Paino. The Trojans brought on lefty Zach Crotchfelt, who punched out Paino, got Austin Fawley to fly out and struck out Brayden Randle to end the ballgame. Early in the ballgame, Ole Miss struck first with two runs in the first inning, both unearned to Trojan starter Tommy Egan. An error on a ground ball to first base allowed Ole Miss leadoff man Dom Decker to reach second base and score on a Judd Utermark single. With two outs, Federico knocked in Utermark on a double down the left field line. Egan’s day ended after a leaoff walk in the third, finishing with two-plus innings pitched, four hits, four runs – two earned, two walks and two strikeouts. The Rebels added two in the second with a single by Fawley and a two-run blast by Randle. Lefty Hayden Smith punched out two in the third to strand the inherited runner from Egan’s walk, but the Rebels scored two on a two-run blast from Collin Reuter in the fourth. The Trojans turned to righty Noah Thigpen after a walk to Decker, who started his spectacular day with two strikeouts in the frame. Notables Troy moves to 19-20 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, 7-2 in this season’s NCAA Tournament, and 8-4 in the NCAA Tournament under Skylar Meade. Troy is 5-0 when facing elimination in this year’s NCAA Tournament. The Trojans won four straight to win the Gainesville Regional after dropping their opening game to Miami. Troy is 5-4 against teams from the SEC this season. The Trojans have wins over Georgia, Alabama, Florida (2x) and Ole Miss. Troy’s SEC losses have come to Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Georgia and Alabama. Troy’s overcame a four-run deficit in the win. It was its sixth comeback of four-plus runs this season – all six have come since the start of April. It was also Troy’s second four-run comeback of the NCAA Tournament. The Trojans overcame a 6-2 deficit to defeat Miami 9-6 in the Gainesville Regional Tommy Egan’s first strikeout of the day to end the first inning was his 100th of the season. He’s the first Trojan with 100 strikeouts in a season since Shane McCain in 2014. Hayden Smith made his first relief appearance since April 21 against Jacksonville State. His previous seven appearances had been starts. Noah Thigpen’s five innings were the longest relief appearance of his career. Thigpen’s five strikeouts matched his career high. It was his fourth time recording five strikeouts, and his third time this season. Sean Darnell’s two-run homer in the second inning was his fifth homer of the season. It traveled 416 feet with a 103 MPH exit velocity. It was the furthest home run of his career, surpassing the 415-foot homer he hit at UAB on May 14. Darnell recorded his second three-hit game of the season. Darnell’s four RBIs matched his season high. He also drove in four with a grand slam against Alabama State on March 31. Jabe Boroff’s two-run double in the seventh inning gave him 21 in the NCAA Tournament. It’s the most NCAA Tournament RBIs since Georgia’s Rich Poythress also had 21 in 2008. Jimmy Janicki’s solo homer in the seventh inning was his 21st of the season, fourth of the NCAA Tournament, and second of the CWS. It traveled 417 feet with a 111 MPH exit velocity. Janicki’s first CWS homer against West Virginia tied the game in the seventh inning. He’s the third player with multiple go-ahead/game-tying homers in the seventh inning or later in a single CWS in the past 30 seasons, joining LSU’s Tommy White (2023) and Texas’s Cameron Rupp (2009). Janicki’s 21 homers this season are tied with Michael Rivera (1996) for the sixth-most in Troy history. Janicki recorded his 87th RBI of the season, which breaks a tie with Georgia’s Daniel Jackson for the second-most in college baseball. It is also the Troy single-season record. Drew Nelson played centerfield for the first time in his college career. He moved to centerfield from left field after Steven Meier exited due to injury in the seventh inning. Meier was replaced by Zaid Diaz, who went to left field. Next Up Troy will face the loser of Sunday night’s winner’s bracket game between No. 4 North Carolina and No. 16 West Virginia at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. ===== TAR HEELS RALLY PAST WEST VIRGINIA, 5-2, TO ADVANCE IN CWS OMAHA, NEB.—Fifth-seeded North Carolina scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to break open a pitcher’s duel and top #16 seed West Virginia, 5-2, on Sunday night at Charles Schwab Field in the winner’s bracket of the College World Series. UNC is a game away from reaching the CWS final series, improving to 52-12-1 with the victory. The Mountaineers, who entered the game having won 18 of their last 20 games, dropped to 46-16. The Tar Heels have won 16 of 19 contests, continuing their standout season. With the win, Carolina advanced and will play its next game on Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET in Omaha against either West Virginia or Troy. WVU will play Troy in an elimination game on Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET. Carolina has started 2-0 in the College World Series for the first time since 2006. Teams that start 2-0 in the CWS have won 29 of the last 35 NCAA championships. It’s the first time UNC has allowed two or fewer runs in consecutive CWS games since beating LSU 4-2 and NC State 7-0 in 2013. The Tar Heels manufactured two runs in the bottom of the first inning to take a quick, 2-0 lead. WVU tied it with single runs in the third and fourth, then the game was a scoreless pitcher’s duel until UNC took the lead in the bottom of the seventh by scoring three, taking advantage of two Mountaineer errors. Gavin Gallaher’s two-run triple was the key blow and provided the game-winning RBI. “We preach defense and pitching here at UNC,” Gallaher said. “We know how important that is, especially when you’re playing in Omaha on the biggest stage. So when other teams make those mistakes, it’s important that you capitalize, because when you get to this point in the season, you’re not going to get many chances like that. Fortunately, they did make those mistakes and we capitalized.” Walker McDuffie (9-3) pitched 3.2 scoreless, hitless innings and picked up the win for Carolina, striking out four and allowing two walks. Caden Glauber pitched the final 0.2 innings to pick up his fifth save of the season, blowing away both batters he faced with strikeouts. Carolina is 27-0 this season when he pitches. “Zero thought of anybody else except Caden Glauber [coming into the game late],” Forbes aid. “I thought McDuffie was really pitching well, too, and he had all three pitches working. But I knew in my mind, okay if we get to a certain point, I’m going to probably make a change. We liked the match-up with McDuffie.” Maxx Yehl (9-3) started for WVU, allowing two first-inning runs before settling down to strike out seven. He allowed just two runs before Carolina added three in the bottom of the seventh to pick up the win. How It Happened: • In the bottom of the first inning, Carolina loaded the bases when Jake Schaffner and Owen Hull hit back-to-back singles and Macon Winslow was hit by a pitch. Erik Paulsen followed with a based-loaded walk to drive in Gallaher, who’d reached on a fielder’s choice. Cooper Nicholson then drove in Hull on a groundout for a 2-0 Tar Heel lead. • The Mountaineers cut the UNC advantage in half in the top of the third when Ben Lumsden singled to right field and scored on a single up the middle by Armani Guzman. • In the top of the fourth, WVU tied it at 2-2. The Mountaineers put runners at first and third base to start the frame before Sean Smith scored on a double play that helped kill the rally but still allowed the run. • Carolina took control with three runs in the bottom of the seventh when Gallaher drove in Carter French and Schaffner with a two-run triple. Hull followed with an RBI single to make the score 5-2. • West Virginia mounted a rally in the bottom of the ninth, putting runners on first and second with one out to drive McDuffie from the game. Glauber relieved him and got the final two outs to pick up the save. • Tar Heel Ryan Lynch started on the mound and allowed five hits and a pair of earned runs in 4.2 innings while striking out two. ================================ NASCAR DENNY HAMLIN WINS THE NASCAR CUP RACE AT POCONO FOR HIS THIRD STRAIGHT VICTORY LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — With every Denny Hamlin victory, speculation about his future grows and talks of retirement are questioned. He signed a two-year extension with Joe Gibbs Racing that runs through 2027 and he insists it will be his last season. At 45, he’s the oldest full-time Cup Series driver in the field, but he can’t stop winning. Hamlin won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway on Sunday for his third consecutive victory and passed the late Kyle Busch for sole possession of ninth place on the all-time wins list. Hamlin last week won his 63rd race in NASCAR’s top series to tie his former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate on the all-time wins list. His eighth career victory at Pocono pushed him ahead of Busch for sole possession of ninth. His recent success — it is his fourth win of the season, not including the non-points All-Star race — has renewed talk that Hamlin should reconsider retirement when his deal with Gibbs expires. “I think for Denny, he wants to leave on top, right? He doesn’t want to leave where it was one year too long,” said JGR co-owner Heather Gibbs. “At this rate, what he’s producing out there, it’s not something you would not consider. We want the best drivers in our cars. Our teams work to put the best cars on track. “If it works out and he’s still producing and he wants to, it’s a huge commitment for him, he’s got his own team that he kind of wants to run. It’s hard when you dangle checkered flags in front of him, too. He so far has put a stop to such talk despite performing at the highest level of his long career.” Hamlin, who wasn’t even sure he wanted to return to honor this two-year extension after losing the championship in last November’s season finale and then the December death of his father in a house fire, understands he’s performing at a high level. But as far as continuing past 2027? It’s not yet on his radar despite how strong he’s been on the track. “I would certainly say it’s the best we’ve been,” Hamlin said. “We come to the racetrack every week knowing we got a great shot to win. The team’s doing an amazing job giving me exactly what I need in the car every single week. That’s why we’re winning.” Sunday’s win comes nearly 20 years to the date after his first career victory, which was at Pocono on June 11, 2006. He swept the races at the Pennsylvania track that year. Hamlin said Pocono has become “like a second home for me.” “First win here, so special here. Pocono has mastered the fan experience from the crowd in the stands to the infield here,” Hamlin said. “Just so happy for this whole Joe Gibbs Racing team. The pit crew is flawless right now. We got it all going.” Despite 64 career victories, this marks the first time in his career that Hamlin has won three consecutive races. The feat tied Richard Petty, who did it in 1966 and 1967, Bobby Allison in 1971 and Darrell Waltrip in 1981. Petty, Allison and Waltrip are all in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He also took a jab at NASCAR, noting that it was technically his ninth victory at Pocono, but he was stripped of the victory in 2022 when NASCAR said he and Busch’s car’s failed post-race inspection. “They aren’t getting that checkered flag back,” Hamlin said. Tyler Reddick, who drives for the 23XI Racing team owned by Hamlin and Michael Jordan, finished second as Toyota took the top two spots. Hamlin is now 19 points behind Reddick in the Cup Series standings. “Everyone is racing hard for track position. Some of it’s just bad luck, I guess, where you catch cars,” Reddick said. “It’s a bummer. I mean, if the 11 wasn’t the winner, you could consider this a good day. I know we finished second. Scoring the points we did just didn’t get the job done.” When Hamlin tied Busch for all-time wins last week, Hamlin celebrated with a special tribute to Busch. On Sunday, he collected the checkered flag and skipped any tributes to Busch, who died unexpectedly of sepsis at age 41 last month. Toyota drivers have won 10 of 16 races this season, and JGR has accounted for five of them. William Byron finished third in a Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. “I think this is probably the first time in four months that I’ve been able to drive the car this way, just be able to make moves and have the balance stay with me,” Byron said. Byron was followed by John Hunter Nemechek in fourth in a Toyota for Legacy Motor Club. Nemechek led 42 laps Sunday — double what he’s led the last two years. Kyle Larson was fifth for Hendrick and Erik Jones was sixth for Legacy as Toyota drivers took four of the top six spots. Bell fights through pain Christopher Bell, driving with a broken wrist after a horrific wreck last weekend at Michigan that registered as the hardest hit in the era of NASCAR’s new car, led 18 late laps based on strategy but faded to a 26th-place finish. “Certainly we were mired back in the 20s and so I think it was an amazing gamble,” Bell said. “The situation is so hard because you don’t know if you’re racing for the win, if you’re racing to finish the race, and so I don’t stop shifting until about 10 to go. Certainly adverse conditions, like whenever people make quick moves on restarts and get put three-wide or the car gets loose, things like that are very difficult.” Bell expected his injured arm will be a hindrance the next two weeks as NASCAR races the street course in San Diego and the road course in Sonoma, California — two tracks where shifting is heavily used. No rain NASCAR moved the start of the race up two hours to avoid expected rain in the Pocono Mountain region that could alter the completion of the 400-mile race. By doing so, all inclement weather was avoided and the race was run without interruption. Up next NASCAR makes its inaugural visit to San Diego with a first-of-its-kind street race at Naval Base Coronado. The NASCAR San Diego weekend marks the first NASCAR event ever contested on an active military base, with races Friday, Saturday and Sunday. San Diego will host just the second street course in NASCAR’s modern era. The Chicago street course hosted two national series each of the past three seasons. The race weekend will coincide with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy. ============================== GOLF BUD CAULEY, 36, LANDS FIRST PGA TOUR TITLE AT RAINY CANADIAN OPEN It was a long climb for Bud Cauley, but he finally made it. Cauley birdied three consecutive holes on the back nine during the final round of the RBC Canadian Open on his way to shooting 5-under-par 65 and winning on the PGA Tour for the first time Sunday in Caledon, Ontario. Cauley, 36, had never finished higher than third since turning pro in 2011. The RBC Canadian Open was his 239th PGA Tour event — most of them coming prior a 2018 car accident that broke six of his ribs, fractured his leg and forced a collapsed lung. “Just how hard that was,” said Cauley, reflecting on his journey. “Just so many people helped me get here and I’m just really thankful for all the help that I’ve gotten.” Cauley ended up at 17-under 263 for a two-stroke victory over England’s Matt Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick shot 64, finishing his round with a 12-foot eagle putt on No. 18 after a bogey on the previous hole pretty much dashed his hopes of winning the tournament at rainy TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley’s North course. Norway’s Viktor Hovland (65) claimed third at 14 under. Cauley used four birdies, including a chip-in on No. 12, on a five-hole stretch (Nos. 11 to 15) to pull away from the pack for a three-shot lead. “I’m just very proud of the way I kind of kept going and continued to make birdies there on the back nine and I’m just so happy,” he said. Fitzpatrick generally liked his performance. “It’s a good week,” he said. “I would have taken it at the start of the week. I felt like there was a lot of good stuff in there.” Jimmy Stanger trailed by three going to No. 18, but an approach into the water cost him and he bogeyed the hole and settled for 67. At 13 under, he tied with Jackson Suber (70), Brice Garnett (68) and Sweden’s Jesper Svensson (68) for fourth place. Suber led Cauley by one shot through three rounds. Still, Suber had a worthwhile experience, gaining entry later this year in the British Open and Travelers based on the result. He qualified for the U.S. Open during a Monday qualifier at the beginning of the week. “To be able to play in the U.S. Open next week, Travelers, and then the British Open, I mean, that’s a pretty big schedule change, especially coming into the year with conditional status,” Suber said. Defending champion Ryan Fox of New Zealand posted 68 and tied with two others — Canadian Sudarshan Yellamaraju (68) and South African Aldrich Potgieter (65) — at 12 under. “Obviously going into the week, it was like you have that little bit of added pressure being at the Canadian Open and for me being pretty close to home and stuff like that,” Yellamaraju said. “I just kind of tried to keep trying to tell myself to play the best that I could and just fight until the very end, which was pretty much what I did.” Second-round leader Ben James recovered from a disastrous third round to shoot 69 and tie for 54th place at 3 under in his PGA Tour debut. Brooks Koepka, who was a co-leader after a first-round 64, withdrew prior to the final round citing a hand injury. After a 72 on Saturday, he stood at 6 under through three rounds. The start of Sunday’s round was pushed back because of concerns related to the weather forecast. Golfers were sent off the first and 10th tees in threesomes. ===== GINA KIM, YANA WILSON EACH WIN FIRST LPGA TITLE AT DOW TEAM EVENT Gina Kim and Yana Wilson are the newest winners on the LPGA Tour after they combined for an 8-under-par 62 Sunday to win the Dow Championship, the tour’s only team event, at Midland (Mich.) Country Club. Kim eagled the par-4 fifth hole and Wilson sank three of the team’s four birdies on the back nine to wrap up a two-shot win at 17-under 263 for the week. South Korea’s Hye-Jin Choi and Hyo Joo Kim (65) took second place, and two teams tied for third at 14 under: Koreans Jin Hee Im and Somi Lee (61) and Alison Lee and Lilia Vu (64). The tournament used foursomes (alternate shot) as the format on Thursday and Saturday, while four-ball (best ball), considered the easier of the two formats, was reserved for Friday and Sunday. Wilson, a teenage rookie, became the first 19-year-old to win on the LPGA Tour since Thailand’s Chanettee Wannasaen in 2023. “It feels awesome,” Wilson said. “Yeah, just to do it alongside Gina, someone who I really trust and someone whose game is frickin’ awesome, it’s just awesome. I really have no words.” Kim, 26, had one career top-10 finish before this week. And neither she nor Wilson are ranked anywhere close to the top 100 in the world. But now, they’ve secured full LPGA status for two years and qualified for the two remaining majors, the Women’s Open and the Evian Championship. “I’m just glad I don’t have to do qualifying anymore. At least up until next year,” Kim said. “I was in that playoff with Rose Zhang (at a U.S. Open final qualifying site) and I was like, ‘Rose, one of these days it’s my dream to not have to do these dang qualifiers. My knees hurt. My hips hurt. Everything hurts. I would love to see a schedule where I didn’t to have fit qualifiers in.’” Kim said she was “late to the game” in finding a partner for the tournament and thought of Wilson, with whom she had played on the Epson Tour. “I didn’t know if I was going to play in this event to be honest, because I had been asked by a couple other people,” Wilson said. “I just didn’t feel comfortable saying yes to them; I just felt really comfortable picking Gina as my partner. “… If you watch this girl hit the ball, oh, my gosh. I could learn a thing or two for sure. Yeah, I mean, it was the easiest decision I’ve made.” Kim described her hole-out eagle at No. 5 as a tone-setter. “Oh, gosh, I was not expecting it,” she said. “I knew I hit a really good shot and I was thinking, ‘Oh, OK, maybe I’ll tap in for birdie and then it just disappeared.’” Wilson birdied Nos. 10, 14 and 17. The latter two holes gave her and Kim a two-shot lead and a three-shot cushion, respectively. Choi and Kim led by one stroke after the third round and carded five birdies without a bogey for their 65, but it wasn’t enough to keep up with the victors. Juli Inkster, the 65-year-old World Golf Hall of Famer, teamed up with Angel Yin for this event and the pair shot their best score of the week, a 64, to tie for 12th at 9 under. On Friday, Inkster broke the record for the oldest player to make the cut in an official LPGA event. “We had an amazing time out there,” Inkster said. “Angel played amazing today. But it was fun. I think we played loose. You know, I helped out when I could but Angel was a driving force; but I was just glad to be by her side and her partner.” ================================== UFC JUSTIN GAETHJE STUNS ILIA TOPURIA AT UFC FREEDOM 250 For all of the surrounding speculation and controversy, it’s hard to imagine UFC’s Freedom 250 card at the White House could have gone any better than it did on Sunday night in terms of the action in the Octagon. In one of the most shocking upsets in UFC history, Justin Gaethje defeated Ilia Topuria to win the lightweight championship and cap UFC Freedom 250 in Washington. Topuria’s corner stopped the fight at the end of the fourth round. Gaethje (28-5) put together a stunningly dominant performance, battering a fighter in Topuria (17-1) who was widely considered the sport’s pound-for-pound best. The fight was nearly stopped by the doctor between the third and fourth rounds on account of severe swelling in Topuria’s eyes. The ultimately decisive blow was a knee to the rib cage at the end of the fourth round that left Topuria unable to go out for the fifth round. To put the upset into context, many predicted that Gaethje would get knocked out in the first round. Not only did Gaethje set the tone early in the fight unlike any of Topuria’s recent legendary opponents, but he never relinquished it. The American had Topuria, from the nation of Georgia, in danger for the entirety of the fight — even after Topuria seemingly had Gaethje where he wanted him in Round 2. “When he didn’t get the finish at the end of the second round, I think it really took his spirit,” Gaethje said. “I said it in the press conference leading up. I was like, he really backed himself into a corner saying he’s going to be so dominant. When we go to the second round, you’re going to be like, ‘What the (expletive)?’ When we go to the third round, you’re going to be like, ‘What the (expletive)?’ And, you know, that’s what I did tonight.” At times during the afternoon, it felt as if the worst-case scenario would unfold in terms of weather and outdoor fighting conditions. The rain forecast looked ominous at best, and concerns surrounding humidity and other natural factors in the Octagon gave way to concern that fighters wouldn’t find enough footing to reliably hunt for knockouts. Considering six of the seven fights ended in a first- or second-round KO/TKO, that was clearly not the case. Beyond that, it was also the first card in UFC history where every single fight ended by KO/TKO. “We were sweating the storm all day,” UFC CEO Dana White said. “It’s beautiful all day, and then it’s looking like from 6 to 9, there’s going to be a storm. And what, this is crazy, but the storm literally split and went around the White House. The breeze was perfect. I mean, just everything. You couldn’t have had a better night. It was absolutely perfect. Just enough wind to keep the bugs off us. I mean, (everything) that I was worried about played out perfectly.” All in all, the spectacle is going to be considered perhaps the greatest success in the history of the UFC, even with all of the controversy and perhaps deserved criticism of the event itself. Had the fights been terrible and Mother Nature not cooperated, it would have been a different story. But the fight card was among the best in the sport’s history, and Gaethje’s triumph instantly stands among the sport’s best moments. It simply could not have been written any better for White and company. Frenchman Ciryl Gane earned the UFC interim heavyweight title for the second time, spoiling Alex Pereira’s attempt at becoming the first three-division champion in UFC history with a stunning finish at 1:27 in the second round. Gane (14-2) hit Pereira (13-4) with a jab that essentially knocked the Brazilian out on his feet, though referee Herb Dean was reluctant to call the fight, which only subjected Pereira to more punishment. It’s the definitive moment in the UFC career of Gane, who has often been considered the bridesmaid and never the bride in the heavyweight division until Sunday. Sean O’Malley backed up his status as America’s most popular mixed martial artist, defeating Canadian Aiemann Zahabi with a walk-off knockout at 4:02 of the second round that will be a staple of UFC highlight reels for years to come. O’Malley, always the showman, gave a military-style salute to the crowd of service members and the president’s invitees as Zahabi (14-3) was falling to the canvas. The win puts O’Malley (20-3) firmly back into bantamweight title contention, and he likely will be next up for champion Petr Yan, whom he called out in his post-fight interview. Josh Hokit continued his rise up the heavyweight division, backing up his viral and controversial fight-week antics by finishing the UFC’s knockout king, fellow American Derrick Lewis, with an extended combination of punches at 4:09 of the second round. It was a dominant performance from Hokit throughout, as he nearly finished Lewis (29-14) multiple times in the first round as well to improve to 10-0. Mauricio Ruffy of Brazil’s esteemed Fighting Nerds registered another statement performance, stopping 40-year-old Michael Chandler at 4:29 in the first round of their lightweight bout. Ruffy (14-2) hurt Chandler (23-11) with a stunning roundhouse kick and ended the fight with a handful of finishing blows to Chandler’s head. The fight could very well be the end of Chandler’s UFC career and essentially diminishes any chance the Missouri native had at a future fight against Conor McGregor, whom Chandler was reportedly in line to face with a victory. Bo Nickal earned his second straight victory, finishing fellow American Kyle Daukaus at 4:34 in the first round in their middleweight fight with a vicious right and a subsequent series of elbows. Nickal (9-1), a former All-American wrestler at Penn State, has now finished three of his six wins in the UFC by KO/TKO and is 6-1 in the UFC since his 2023 debut. Daukaus fell to 17-5. After an hour-long delay due to rain, Brazilian featherweight Diego Lopes knocked out Albuquerque’s Steve Garcia with an explosive combination of punches at 2:42 in the second round. It was an impressive come-from-behind effort by Lopes (28-8), who was unquestionably losing the featherweight fight before Garcia (19-6) made the decision to trade punches with him. =================================== INDIANA SPORTS NEWS AND HEADLINES INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS The Columbus Clippers outlasted the Indianapolis Indians, 4-3, in 12 innings on Sunday afternoon at Victory Field. The Indians loaded the bases in extra innings but could not capitalize. Thomas Harrington (L, 0-5) entered in the 10th inning and kept the Indians (28-41) in the game, allowing no hits to the 11 batters he faced, but a sac bunt moved the automatic runner over to third base in the 12th inning. Cooper Ingle decided the game with a sac fly to score the winning run for Columbus (38-30), 4-3. The Indians trailed 3-0 until the sixth inning but and got it all back in one swing. Termarr Johnson launching a game-tying, three-run home run to make it a 3-3 ball game. Indianapolis had their greatest chance with a bases-loaded, two-out situation in the bottom of the 11th. Termarr Johnson started the inning on second as the automatic runner, and Ronny Simon and Enmanuel Valdez were intentionally walked. On the brink of achieving third walk off at Victory Field this season, Jhostynxon Garcia grounded into a double play to end the inning. Columbus’ Tommy Mace (W, 3-0) got out of the bases-loaded jam in the 11th and pitched a scoreless 12th to earn the win. The Indians have an off day on Monday before beginning a six-game road series with the Iowa Cubs, beginning on Tuesday, June 16 at 7:38 PM ET. 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This forces the catcher to play closer to the plate. At the time, catchers would stand farther back behind the batter with no one on base to make it easier to catch pitches. 1902 – Corsicana defeats Texarkana, 51 – 3, in a Texas League game. Jay Clarke of Corsicana takes advantage of the small park and hits eight home runs. Some telegraph operators, thinking there is a mistake, report the score as 5 – 3. 1923 – Lou Gehrig makes his Major League debut with the New York Yankees as a pinch hitter. 1925 – The Philadelphia Athletics go into the bottom of the 8th inning trailing, 15 – 4, and score 13 runs to defeat the Cleveland Indians, 17 – 15. Al Simmons caps the comeback with a three-run homer with two outs. 1928 – Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics steals home for the 54th and final time in his 24-year career to extend his major league record. It comes in the 8th inning against the Cleveland Indians. The Athletics beat Cleveland, 12 – 5, as Lefty Grove is the winning pitcher. 1931 – Cut-down day for major league rosters includes the retirement of Eddie Collins and Harry Heilmann. Collins becomes a coach for the Philadelphia Athletics and Heilmann will return briefly to the Cincinnati Reds next season. 1938: Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds stuns the baseball world by pitching his second successive no-hitter in five days, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6 – 0, as Brooklyn plays the first night game ever at Ebbets Field. In front of 38,748 fans, including spectator Babe Ruth, Vander Meer strikes out seven and walks eight, including three one-out walks in the 9th inning. A force at home and a fly ball end the game. Vander Meer no-hit the Boston Bees, 3 – 0, on June 11th. Future Hall of Fame outfielder Billy Williams is born in Whistler, AL. 1948 – The Detroit Tigers beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 – 1, before a crowd of 54,480 in the first night game at Briggs Stadium. The Tigers are the last American League team to install lights. 1951 – The Cubs trade Andy Pafko along with Johnny Schmitz, Wayne Terwilliger, and Rube Walker to the Dodgers for Bruce Edwards, Joe Hatten, Eddie Miksis, and Gene Hermanski. The deal, which prevents the coveted “Handy Andy” from going to the rival Giants, is the first of many to be made by Buzzie Bavasi, Brooklyn’s new general manager. 1952 – The St. Louis Cardinals set a National League comeback record by rallying from an 11 – 0 deficit to post a 14 – 12 victory over the New York Giants. St. Louis scores seven runs in the 5th inning, three in the 7th, two in the 8th and two in the 9th to cap off the incredible comeback. 1958: In a move that is perceived to be a prelude to a second deal with the Yankees, the A’s trade Woodie Held and Vic Power to the Indians for southpaw Dick Tomanek, utility player Preston Ward, and right fielder Roger Maris. Owner Arnold Johnson, already under pressure for allowing Kansas City to become a quasi-farm club for the Bronx Bombers, is warned by American League president Will Harridge not to send the outfield slugger to New York for at least 18 months. Future Hall of Famer Wade Boggs is born in Omaha, NE. 1961 – The expansion Washington Senators are 30-30 after winning today. It is the latest date an expansion team will be at .500. Washington will lose its next ten games. 1962 – Hank Aaron and Roberto Clemente trade grand slams in a wild battle between the Braves and Pirates, but it is Clemente’s that ignites a seven-run rally in the 8th for a 9 – 8 Pirate victory. 1963 – Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants pitches a 1 – 0 no-hitter against the Houston Colt .45’s. It is the first Giants no-hitter since Carl Hubbell pitched one in 1929. 1964 – The St. Louis Cardinals make one of their best trades ever, acquiring outfielder Lou Brock from the Chicago Cubs for pitchers Ernie Broglio and Bobby Shantz and outfielder Doug Clemens. As a member of the Cardinals, Brock will set the all-time stolen base record and reach the 3,000-hit mark. Broglio will soon be felled by arm injuries and will only win seven more games in the majors, while Shantz and Clemens will only make marginal contributions. 1965 – Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain makes a 1st-inning relief appearance and strikes out the first seven batters he faces, setting a major league record. He records 14 strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings as Detroit rallies to beat the Boston Red Sox, 6 – 5. Bill Freehan has a record-tying 19 putouts at catcher. 1967 – Jimmy Wynn becomes the first Astros player to hit three homers in one game, becoming the first of only two Houston players to have accomplished the feat in the 34-year history of the Astrodome. In 1994, “Toy Cannon’s” performance will be matched by future Hall of Fame first baseman Jeff Bagwell. 1968 – The Phillies fire manager Gene Mauch and replace him with Bob Skinner, skipper of the team’s farm club in San Diego. “The Little General”, who is best remembered for being at the helm during the club’s infamous collapse in 1964, compiled a 646-684 (.486) record during his tenure with Philadelphia which lasted more than eight years. 1969: The New York Mets help their power needs by adding first baseman Donn Clendenon. Clendenon had refused a January trade that would have sent him from Montreal to Houston, but he agrees to go to New York. In exchange, Montreal receives Steve Renko, Kevin Collins, and two minor leaguers, and also acquires pitcher Dick Radatz from Detroit in a separate deal. En route to setting the National League record of playing in 1,117 consecutive games, Billy Williams, after fouling a pitch off his foot in yesterday’s contest, hobbles to the plate as a pinch-hitter in the Cubs’ 7 – 6 loss to Cincinnati at Crosley Field. The contest marks the first time “Sweet Swingin’ Billy” has not been in the starting lineup during the 878 games of the streak. 1971 – Roberto Clemente makes a fantastic catch of Bob Watson’s line drive in Houston’s Astrodome, depriving Watson of a home run in the 8th inning. Joe Morgan is on first base with two out when Watson hits a vicious liner toward the right field corner. Clemente, going full speed, races toward the wall and, in one sudden move, makes a twisting leap for a one-handed grab, back to the plate, just before the ball would have hit above the yellow line on the wall, in home run territory. When Clemente comes down, his body hits the wall and he suffers a bruised left ankle and his left elbow also is swollen. Blood spills from a gash on the left knee. Clemente slumps on both knees, back to the infield. The magnificent play helps Pittsburgh earn a 3 – 0 win. 1973 – Former Atlanta Braves outfielder Tommie Aaron becomes the first black manager of a team located in the deep South. Aaron replaces Clint Courtney as manager of the Savannah Braves, who become the first Double-A team to employ an African-American manager. 1975 – Cliff Johnson swats a grand slam off Mike Garman in the top of the 9th for an 8 – 7 stunner for Houston over St. Louis. The Redbirds had just tallied three runs to snap a 4 – 4 tie. 1976: A game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros is rained out at the Houston Astrodome. Only members of both teams are able to make it to the stadium. The game is postponed when heavy rains and flooding prevent umpires, fans and stadium personnel from arriving at the dome. It is the first rainout in Astrodome history. Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley attempts to sell three of his star players. Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers are sent to the Boston Red Sox for $1 million apiece and Vida Blue to the New York Yankees for $1.5 million. Three days later, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn will void the moves, saying they are “not in the best interests of baseball.” 1977 – In an unpopular move, the New York Mets trade franchise pitcher Tom Seaver just moments before the trading deadline. The Mets send Seaver to the Cincinnati Reds for four lesser players: infielder Doug Flynn, outfielders Steve Henderson and Dan Norman, and pitcher Pat Zachry. Seaver will go on to win 75 games for the Reds in five and a half seasons. The same day, New York trades slugger Dave Kingman to the San Diego Padres for utility player Bobby Valentine and a minor league pitcher. 1980 – Jorge Orta of the Cleveland Indians hits a double and five singles and scores four runs in a 14 – 5 triumph over the Minnesota Twins. Toby Harrah records seven RBI for Cleveland. 1983: In one of the worst trades in franchise history, the St. Louis Cardinals send first baseman Keith Hernandez to the New York Mets in exchange for pitchers Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey. The deal is motivated by Hernandez’s penchant for cocaine, which he will overcome in New York. In a lower-profile move, the White Sox trade Tony Bernazard to the Mariners for Julio Cruz in a swap of second basemen. 1987 – Mike Scott and Dave Smith combine for 17 strikeouts in a 4 – 0 shutout of the Reds by the Astros. Scott fans the first 14 over eight innings then Smith punches out the final three. Bill Doran homers while Kevin Bass adds a two-run triple. 1992: Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers’ career save mark of 341 when he preserves a 1 – 0 victory for the Boston Red Sox with one scoreless inning against the New York Yankees. In the New York-Penn League, the Erie Sailors beat the Jamestown Expos in 13 innings at College Stadium, 6 – 5, marking the first ever game played by a team representing the National League’s new expansion team, the Florida Marlins. The first pitch of the franchise is thrown by John Lynch, who will leave baseball to eventually become a safety for the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Denver Broncos. 1993 – In a small but necessary first step, Minor League Baseball bans the use of smokeless tobacco on the field, in dugouts and on any mode of transportation used by its teams, with violators subjected to fines and ejection. It will take until 2016 for Major League Baseball to adopt a similar measure as part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. 1996 – The Dodgers turn their first triple play in forty-seven years. In the bottom of the 1st, Chipper Jones of Atlanta hits a pop-up to SS Juan Castro, who catches the ball on a full run, then relays to 2B Delino DeShields to retire Marquis Grissom for the second out; DeShields then throws to 1B Eric Karros before Mark Lemke can return to the bag. Los Angeles goes on to win the game, 6 – 2. 1997 – In one of the more surprising developments of the first weekend of interleague play, the Baltimore Orioles complete a sweep of the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field, on Lenny Webster’s 10th-inning home run off Mark Wohlers. One byproduct of interleague play that isn’t a surprise is the increase at the turnstiles. Attendance is up nearly 10,000 per game for the weekend, and the Seattle Mariners average 52,074 for their four interleague games in the Kingdome. 1999 – Baltimore first baseman Will Clark gets his 2,000t” career hit, a 10th-inning single in the team’s 6 – 5 walk-off victory over the Royals at Camden Yards. The 35-year-old “Thrill’ will end his 15-year big league career next season with a .303 batting average, collecting 2,176 hits with the Giants, Rangers, Orioles, and Cardinals. 2002 – Rafael Palmeiro of the Texas Rangers reaches his 1,000th career extra-base hit by hitting a double in the 5th inning of a 4 – 0 loss to the Houston Astros. Palmeiro becomes the 25th major leaguer to reach the mark. 2003 – Reed Johnson becomes fourth player to hit a leadoff and walk-off home run in the same game. The walk-off comes off Mark Guthrie leading off the bottom of the 10th to give Toronto a 5 – 4 win over the Cubs. 2006 – David Ortiz of the Red Sox hits a towering fly ball in the top of the 6th inning at the Metrodome. The ball soars toward the upper deck but strikes a speaker hanging from the ceiling and falls onto the field. Ortiz only reaches first base and is later put out on a double play. After the game, Boston manager Terry Francona says: “It’s like playing putt-putt golf where you’ve got to go around the windmill. That’s embarrassing. The outcome of the game should never, never hinge on a speaker.” The Twins complete a three-game sweep of the Red Sox with a 5 – 3 win. 2007 – Julio Franco comes to bat against Roger Clemens. Their combined age is 93 years, 246 days, the oldest pitcher-batter matchup in the major leagues since Rube Walberg and Nick Altrock on October 1, 1933. Franco and Clemens had first faced off on May 15, 1984, 19 months before the Mets’ starting left fielder in this game, Carlos Gomez, was even born. 2008: Scott Baker strikes out four batters in an inning, the first Minnesota Twins hurler to accomplish the feat. In the 3rd inning of a 4 – 2 loss to Milwaukee, Baker fans Ryan Braun. On a strikeout of Prince Fielder, the ball bounces away from backstop Mike Redmond, letting Fielder reach first. Baker strikes out Russell Branyan and then gets Mike Cameron looking to end the frame. Chien-Ming Wang, who is 8-2 after back-to-back 19-win seasons, breaks his right foot running the bases in an interleague game with the Astros, spoiling a 13 – 0 Yankee rout. Wang will miss the remainder of the season and the injury will completely derail his career. Carlos Delgado drives in his 1,405th run in the majors, breaking Juan Gonzalez’s record for most RBI by a Puerto Rican player. 2010: Just called up from AAA Portland, Aaron Cunningham hits a grand slam off Brett Cecil in the Padres’ 8 – 2 win over Toronto. Cunningham was called up to replace the injured Matt Stairs, and the slam is his first hit in a San Diego uniform. Mat Latos is the winner, but all is not rosy for the Friars: catcher Yorvit Torrealba is handed a three-game suspension and is fined an undisclosed amount for bumping umpire Larry Vanover in the previous day’s game. Unwanted by the Brewers, pitcher Jeff Suppan shows flashes of his old form in his return to the St. Louis Cardinals. One of the heroes of the team’s conquest of the 2006 World Series title, Suppan gives up a run in four innings and hits a double and scores a run; reliever Blake Hawksworth gets credit for the 4 – 2 win over the Mariners. 2011: One day after seeing their nine-game winning streak stopped by James Shields’s shutout, the Red Sox are back at it, getting even with the Rays as Josh Beckett tosses a one-hitter in a 3 – 0 win. Kevin Youkilis hits a three-run homer off Jeremy Hellickson in the 7th for the game’s only runs. Reid Brignac has Tampa Bay’s only hit, a 3rd-inning single. Rickie Weeks homers and doubles twice as the Brewers defeat the Cubs, 7 – 5, to complete their climb to the top of the NL Central, claiming sole possession of first place after a slow start to the season. Ryan Braun doubles twice, singles and scores three runs and Corey Hart also has three hits as the Brew Crew’s bats are not dampened by rainy conditions at Wrigley Field. Mark Teixeira homers from both sides of the plate in a 12 – 4 Yankee win over Texas. It is his 11th time doing so, tying Eddie Murray and Chili Davis for the all-time record. 2012: An eight-run explosion by the Rockies in the 10th inning takes them to a 12 – 4 win over the Tigers. For the Rockies, it’s the most runs they have ever scored in an extra inning; the win stops an eight-game losing streak and is their first in ten interleague games this year. A fielding error by P Jose Valverde on Eric Young’s sacrifice bunt sets up the big inning, and Carlos Gonzalez and Michael Cuddyer hit back-to-back homers off Luis Marte before the Rox are done. The Rays crush their cross-state rivals the Marlins, 11 – 0, as Matt Moore gives up only one hit in seven innings. Burke Badenhop and Brandon Gomes complete his effort with a hitless inning each for a combined one-hit shutout. Desmond Jennings drives in four runs for the Rays. 2013 – The Rockies hit for the cycle in the span of four batters against Phillies starter Jonathan Pettibone in the 1st inning, on their way to a 10 – 5 win. After Jordan Pacheco draws a one-out walk off Pettibone, Carlos Gonzalez doubles, Michael Cuddyer singles, Wilin Rosario triples and Tyler Colvin caps things off with a homer. The Rockies add another run before the end of the inning, on their way to getting 18 hits on the night; Tyler Chatwood is the beneficiary of the outburst, improving to 4-1. 2015: The Padres fire manager Bud Black after nine seasons at the helm. The Padres never reached the postseason during Black’s tenure, and are two games under .500 after making wholesale changes meant to take them over the hump during the off-season. He will be replaced by Pat Murphy. The Mets snap the Blue Jays’ eleven-game winning streak with a two-run rally in the bottom of the 11th that gives them a 4 – 3 win. Jose Bautista homers twice for Toronto, including a game-tying shot in the top of the 9th, and the Jays take the lead on Dioner Navarro’s sacrifice fly in the 11th, but RBI singles by Lucas Duda and Wilmer Flores in the bottom of the inning give the game to the Mets. 2016: Ichiro Suzuki collects a pair of hits in the Marlins’ 6 – 3 loss to the Padres. His 9th-inning double off Fernando Rodney is his 4,257th hit as a major leaguer, counting his time in Japan and the United States. This moves him ahead of Pete Rose for the all-time mark and brings him within 21 hits of the magic 3000 hit club in the U.S. On the day SS Jose Reyes is eligible for reinstatement from his suspension following an off-season domestic violence incident, the Rockies decide to have him designated for assignment, eating approximately $40 million remaining on his contract. Rookie Trevor Story has emerged as a star during Reyes’ prolonged absence, prompting the Rockies to cut ties with the former All-Star. 2019 – With some of their big sluggers about to return from injury, the Yankees still add another one via trade, acquiring DH Edwin Encarnacion, who is leading the AL with 21 homers, from the Mariners for 19-year-old P Juan Then. 2020 – The impasse over the resumption of the MLB season gets deeper, as Commissioner Rob Manfred now states that there may not be a season at all. It was expected that he would decree a 50-game season, as allowed by the March 26th agreement between the MLBPA and owners, but he is now reluctant to do so. 2021: The Diamondbacks lose their 21st consecutive road game, one shy of the record, and do so in excruciating fashion when they can’t hold an 8 – 5 lead over the Giants in the 8th inning. Joe Mantiply and Humberto Castellanos combine to load the bases on a pair of hits and a walk, before Mike Yastrzemski hits a two-out grand slam to put the Giants in front. Arizona will tie the record with another road loss tomorrow. Taking account of Major League Baseball’s decision last off-season to recognize the Negro Leagues as having been major leagues, Baseball-Reference.com unveils a major upgrade of its website to reflect this, with available Negro League numbers now integrated into players’ records. “Our intent is to have consistent treatment across the white major leagues and the Black major leagues,” site founder and President Sean Forman explains. 2022: For the second consecutive day, a pitcher is denied a no-hitter in the 9th inning. After Miles Mikolas yesterday, it’s Tyler Anderson’s turn to keep his opponents hitless into the 9th. He strikes out Mike Trout for the first out, but then allows a triple to Shohei Ohtani that ends the bid, and Craig Kimbrel records the final two outs of the Dodgers’ 4 – 1 win over the Angels. Anderson almost loses the bid when the first batter of the game, Taylor Ward, hits a ball that drops when OFs Mookie Betts and Cody Bellinger collide; it is originally ruled a hit, but the official scorer quickly reverses himself, instead giving an error to Bellinger. The Astros are the first team to throw two immaculate innings in the same game, as Luis Garcia strikes out the side on nine pitches in the 2nd, and Phil Maton repeats the feat in the 7th. In both cases the three batters for the Rangers are the same: Nathaniel Lowe, Ezequiel Duran and Brad Miller. Garcia and Maton are respectively the eighth and ninth pitchers to accomplish the feat for Houston. There have only been 105 instances of the feat in the majors, although it has become more common in recent years. Houston wins the game easily, 9 – 2. 2025 – After the Red Sox complete a three-game sweep of the Yankees with a 2 – 0 win, they pull off a stunning trade by sending DH Rafael Devers to the Giants in return for four players. Devers is in the second year of a ten-year deal and is the last remaining player on the roster from the Sox’s most recent World Series win in 2018. Births[edit] 1840 – Washington Fulmer, outfielder (d. 1907) 1860 – Ed Glenn, outfielder (d. 1892) 1862 – Peek-A-Boo Veach, infielder (d. 1937) 1863 – Jerry Hurley, catcher (d. 1950) 1866 – Nick Wise, catcher/outfielder (d. 1923) 1869 – Tom Hart, catcher (d. 1939) 1870 – Rony Viox, minor league infielder/pitcher 1876 – Charlie Dexter, outfielder (d. 1934) 1878 – Ed Wheeler, infielder (d. 1960) 1884 – Heinie Beckendorf, catcher (d. 1949) 1890 – Dutch Schirick, pinch hitter (d. 1968) 1890 – John Wilson, pitcher (d. 1954) 1891 – Frank Crossin, catcher (d. 1965) 1891 – Horace Jenkins, outfielder (d. 1962) 1891 – Lou North, pitcher (d. 1974) 1892 – Connie Rector, pitcher (d. 1963) 1894 – Mike Cantwell, pitcher (d. 1953) 1894 – Norm Glockson, catcher (d. 1955) 1895 – Lunie Danage, infielder (d. 1982) 1896 – Ray Richmond, pitcher (d. 1969) 1897 – Cy Twombly, pitcher (d. 1974) 1903 – Owen Kahn, pinch runner (d. 1981) 1904 – Ed Pipgras, pitcher (d. 1964) 1904 – Pid Purdy, outfielder (d. 1951) 1904 – Hank Winston, pitcher (d. 1974) 1905 – Joe Lillard, outfielder (d. 1978) 1906 – Monte Weaver, pitcher (d. 1994) 1910 – Enrique Lantigua, catcher and Dominican national team manager (d. 1985) 1912 – Babe Dahlgren, infielder; All-Star (d. 1996) 1912 – Mem Lovett, pinch hitter (d. 1995) 1916 – Bud Stewart, outfielder (d. 2000) 1918 – Joe Scott infielder (d. 1997) 1919 – Keijiro Kawaguchi, NPB pitcher (d. 1991) 1922 – Giovanni Beale, infielder (d. 1970) 1925 – Gene Baker, infielder; All-Star (d. 1999) 1927 – Ben Flowers, pitcher (d. 2009) 1927 – Ed Wiltsee, minor league player (d. 2019) 1927 – Matt Zidich, minor league pitcher-outfielder (d. 2008) 1928 – Gene Hassell, minor league infielder and manager 1928 – Koichi Harada, NPB pitcher (d. 2019) 1928 – Wayne Haynes, minor league pitcher (d. 2014) 1930 – Glen Van Proyen, minor league pitcher; scout (d. 2016) 1931 – Bernice Gera, minor league umpire (d. 1992) 1932 – Mario Cuomo, minor league outfielder (d. 2015) 1934 – Harvey Tomter, minor league pitcher (d. 2005) 1936 – Hiroo Kataoka, NPB catcher (d. 2021) 1938 – Billy Williams, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer 1939 – Ty Cline, outfielder 1940 – Yoshihiro Kuroda, NPB pitcher 1941 – Bruce Dal Canton, pitcher (d. 2008) 1941 – Katsutoshi Sasaki, NPB pitcher 1943 – Richard Bloch, arbitrator 1943 – Al Closter, pitcher (d. 2026) 1943 – Al Shaw, minor league pitcher 1944 – Richard Rainwater, owner (d. 2015) 1945 – Isamu Teramoto, NPB outfielder (d. 1980) 1946 – Ken Henderson, outfielder 1946 – Don Lohse, minor league pitcher (d. 1975) 1946 – Champ Summers, outfielder (d. 2012) 1949 – Dusty Baker, outfielder, manager; All-Star 1949 – Andy Bottin, minor league outfielder and manager 1950 – Yoshinori Murakami, NPB pitcher 1951 – Kiyotaka Iwasaki, NPB pitcher 1951 – Tazuru Kakino, Japanese national team manager (d. 2021) 1951 – Yukio Yaegashi, NPB catcher 1952 – Junichi Kashiwabara, NPB infielder 1952 – Koji Takagi, NPB pitcher 1955 – Greg Bonin, umpire 1956 – Lance Parrish, catcher; All-Star 1957 – Brett Butler, outfielder; All-Star 1958 – Wade Boggs, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer 1958 – Armando Johnson, Cuban league outfielder and manager 1959 – Tim Hallgren, minor league pitcher 1960 – Susumu Kaneda, NPB catcher 1960 – Nelson Rood, minor league infielder and manager 1962 – Bob Kendrick, historian 1963 – Masaru Ito, NPB pitcher 1963 – Randy Smith, general manager 1966 – Dave Liddell, catcher 1967 – Rafael Bustamante, scout 1967 – Daren Epley, minor league infielder 1969 – Tim Holland, minor league infielder 1969 – Félix Isasi Jr., Cuban league outfielder 1969 – Won-jin Jang, KBO outfielder 1969 – Tim Keuter, Hoofdklasse pitcher 1969 – Brian Lane, minor league infielder 1970 – Travis Buckley, minor league pitcher 1970 – Jo Jo Smith, minor league pitcher 1971 – Hiroyasu Hayashi, NPB outfielder 1971 – Stuart Howell, Australian national team pitcher 1972 – Tony Clark, infielder; All-Star 1972 – Ramiro Mendoza, pitcher 1972 – Andy Pettitte, pitcher; All-Star 1972 – Carlos Subero, coach 1973 – Jon Edwards, minor league pitcher 1974 – Scott Tunkin, Australian national team infielder 1975 – Boris Rothermundt, Division Elite pitcher 1975 – Chris Wakeland, outfielder 1976 – Eiji Yano, NPB pitcher 1977 – Bret Prinz, pitcher 1978 – Zach Day, pitcher 1978 – Tatsuo Kato, NPB pitcher 1979 – Tom Lorrentop, First Division pitcher 1979 – Matt Smith, pitcher 1979 – Shinsuke Yamada, NPB outfielder 1980 – Muhammad Iftikhar, Pakistani national team infielder 1980 – Erik Kratz, catcher 1980 – Jin-young Lee, KBO outfielder 1980 – Jen-Yen Wu, CPBL pitcher 1981 – Hiroyuki Oshima, NPB outfielder 1981 – Jeremy Reed, outfielder 1982 – Clayton Hamilton, minor league pitcher 1982 – Martin Le Roux, South African national team catcher 1982 – Anderson Mejía, minor league catcher and pitcher 1982 – Yoshiyuki Kuwahara, NPB outfielder 1983 – Abel Moreno, minor league pitcher 1983 – Niels van Weert, Hoofdklasse infielder 1984 – Vicente Cafaro, minor league infielder 1984 – Tim Lincecum, pitcher; All-Star 1984 – Cliff Pennington, infielder 1985 – Michael Fiers, pitcher 1986 – Jake Laber, minor league pitcher (d. 2016) 1986 – Trevor Plouffe, infielder 1986 – Sean West, pitcher 1987 – Jake Elmore, infielder 1987 – Josh Lindblom, pitcher 1987 – Ryoma Nogami, NPB pitcher 1987 – Eduardo Nunez, infielder; All-Star 1987 – Alexandre Periard, minor league pitcher 1987 – Douglas Solís, Nicaraguan national team pitcher 1988 – Jake Locker, drafted outfielder 1988 – John Murrian, minor league catcher 1988 – Luis Ramírez, minor league infielder 1989 – Leandro Castro, minor league outfielder 1989 – Daiki Tohmei, NPB pitcher 1990 – Henry García, minor league pitcher 1990 – José Medina, Salvadoran national team infielder 1990 – Byron Ortiz, Guatemalan national team pitcher 1991 – Jun Hasegawa, NPB pitcher 1991 – Travis Jankowski, outfielder 1991 – Bijan Rademacher, minor league outfielder 1992 – Shogo Nakashima, NPB pitcher 1992 – Alejandro Sanchez, minor league infielder 1994 – José Corrales, Guatemalan national team pitcher 1995 – Dominic Smith, infielder 1996 – Reshard Munroe, minor league outfielder 1996 – Jordis Ramos, minor league pitcher 1996 – Shahid Sattar, Pakistani national team outfielder 1998 – Garrett Acton, pitcher 1998 – Luis Castro, minor league outfielder 1998 – Daisuke Moriura, NPB pitcher 1998 – Soichiro Yamazaki, NPB pitcher 1999 – Steven Cruz, pitcher 1999 – Christian Scott, pitcher 2000 – Christian Pedrol, minor league pitcher 2000 – Oswald Peraza, infielder 2001 – Austin Hendrick, minor league outfielder 2001 – Atsuki Mutoh, NPB outfielder 2001 – Jhonkensy Noel, infielder 2002 – Takeru Furuichi, NPB catcher 2002 – Hibiki Kato, NPB infielder 2002 – Hans Benno Pereira, Singapore national team pitcher Deaths[edit] 1893 – Darby O’Brien, outfielder (b. 1863) 1906 – Sandy Nava, catcher (b. 1860) 1906 – Mike Sullivan, pitcher (b. 1870) 1919 – Fred Tenney, pitcher (b. 1859) 1921 – Robert Foster, catcher (b. 1856) 1929 – Tim Flood, infielder (b. 1875) 1931 – Florence Killilea, minor league owner (b. 1902) 1931 – Bill O’Hara, outfielder (b. 1881) 1937 – Al Krumm, pitcher (b. 1865) 1939 – Carlos Zaldo, Cuban league infielder and manager (b. 1860) 1947 – Luke Stuart, infielder (b. 1892) 1949 – Jim Buchanan, pitcher (b. 1876) 1949 – Jay Clarke, catcher (b. 1882) 1952 – Grace Lou Comiskey, secretary (b. ????) 1954 – Lew Carr, infielder (b. 1872) 1956 – Scotty Ingerton, infielder (b. 1886) 1959 – Charlie Eakle, infielder (b. 1887) 1964 – Jim Spotts, catcher (b. 1909) 1965 – Jack Calvo, outfielder (b. 1894) 1967 – Ollie Welf, pinch runner (b. 1889) 1968 – Sam Crawford, outfielder; Hall of Famer (b. 1880) 1976 – Jimmie Dykes, infielder, manager; All-Star (b. 1896) 1977 – Bill Lee, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1909) 1987 – George Smith, infielder (b. 1937) 1987 – Schoolboy Johnny Taylor, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1916) 1987 – Don White, outfielder (b. 1919) 1988 – Hugh Willingham, infielder (b. 1906) 1989 – Judy Johnson, infielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1899) 1990 – Bucky Jacobs, pitcher (b. 1913) 1991 – Happy Chandler, commissioner; Hall of Famer (b. 1898) 1992 – Ed Lopat, pitcher, manager; All-Star (b. 1918) 1993 – Katsumi Oki, NPB catcher (b. 1918) 1994 – Seiya Kinami, NPB infielder 1997 – Bill Lawrence, outfielder (b. 1906) 1998 – Casey Walker, catcher (b. 1912) 1999 – Gene Markland, infielder (b. 1919) 2001 – Marcelino Solis, pitcher (b. 1930) 2002 – Edilberto Gamilla, Philippines national team pitcher (b. 1932) 2004 – Jack Spencer, college coach (b. 1923) 2005 – Carroll Sembera, pitcher (b. 1941) 2006 – Carl Thompson, minor league manager (b. 1921) 2007 – Larry Whiteside, writer (b. 1937) 2008 – John Buzhardt, pitcher (b. 1936) 2008 – Billy Muffett, pitcher (b. 1930) 2009 – Tony Washington, minor league outfielder/first baseman (b. 1937) 2010 – Wally Komatsubara, scout (b. 1929) 2011 – Ted Gray, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1924) 2013 – Dick Haviland, minor league outfielder (b. 1925) 2013 – Stan Lopata, catcher; All-Star (b. 1925) 2015 – Juan Bregio, Cuban league manager (b. 1930) 2015 – Takeshi Kiritoshi, NPB outfielder (b. 1944) 2017 – Fidel Mejía, Dominican national team infielder (b. 1949) 2017 – Robert Zimmerman, minor league pitcher (b. 1929) 2018 – Hal Smeltzly, college coach (b. 1931) 2019 – Larry Foss, pitcher (b. 1936) 2020 – Jorge Rubio, pitcher (b. 1945) 2024 – Norm Bass, pitcher (b. 1939) 2024 – Mike Brumley, infielder (b. 1962) ============================================== TV SPORTS TODAY (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, June 15 COLLEGE BASEBALL 2 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 7, Omaha, Neb. 7 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 8, Omaha, Neb. MLB BASEBALL 7 p.m. MLBN — N.Y. Mets at Cincinnati (7:10 p.m.) 10 p.m. ESPN — Tampa Bay at L.A. Dodgers SOCCER (MEN’S) Noon FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Spain vs. Cape Verde, Group H, Atlanta 3 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Belgium vs. Egypt, Group G, Seattle 6 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay, Group H, Miami Gardens, Fla. 9 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Iran vs. New Zealand, Group G, Inglewood, Calif. SOFTBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Colts at Blaze 9:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Talons WNBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. USA — Las Vegas at Dallas 10 p.m. NBCSN — Los Angeles at Golden State PEACOCK — Los Angeles at Golden State _____ Tuesday, June 16 COLLEGE BASEBALL 2 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 9, Omaha, Neb. 8 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 10, Omaha, Neb. MLB BASEBALL 7:30 p.m. TBS — San Diego at St. Louis (7:45 p.m.) 9:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Baltimore at Seattle (9:40 p.m.) OR Pittsburgh at Athletics (9:40 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 8:30 p.m. ABC — NBA Finals: San Antonio at New York, Game 6 (if necessary) SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: France vs. Senegal, Group I, East Rutherford, N.J. 6 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Iraq vs. Norway, Group I, Foxborough, Mass. 9 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Argentina vs. Algeria, Group J, Kansas City, Mo. Midnight FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Austria vs. Jordan, Group J, Santa Clara, Calif. SOFTBALL 7 p.m. ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Bandits WNBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. USA — Toronto at Indiana _____ Wednesday, June 17 COLLEGE BASEBALL 2 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 11, Omaha, Neb. 7 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 12, Omaha, Neb. GOLF 6:30 a.m. (Thursday) USA — PGA Tour: U.S. Open, First Round, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, N.Y. MLB BASEBALL 12:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Mets at Cincinnati (12:40 p.m.) OR Miami at Philadelphia (1:05 p.m.) 3:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Tampa Bay at L.A. Dodgers (joined in progress) (3:10 p.m.) OR Miami at Philadelphia (joined in progress) (1:05 p.m.) 7 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees (7:05 p.m.) OR Toronto at Boston (joined in progress) (6:45 p.m.) 7:05 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees 10 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Pittsburgh at Athletics (joined in progress) (9:40 p.m.) OR Baltimore at Seattle (joined in progress) (9:40 p.m.) NHL HOCKEY 8 p.m. ABC — Stanley Cup Final: Vegas at Carolina, Game 7 (if necessary) SOFTBALL 6 p.m. CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Blaze at Bandits SOCCER (MEN’S) 1 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Portugal vs. DR Congo, Group K, Houston 4 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: England vs. Croatia, Group L, Arlington, Texas 7 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Ghana vs. Panama, Group L, Toronto 9 p.m. ESPN2 — USL League One: Fort Wayne FC at Forward Madison FC 10 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Uzbekistan vs. Colombia, Group K, Mexico City WNBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. USA — New York at Chicago 10 p.m. USA — Las Vegas at Phoenix _____ Thursday, June 18 COLLEGE BASEBALL 2 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 13, Omaha, Neb. 7 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series: TBD, Game 14, Omaha, Neb. GOLF 6:30 a.m. USA — PGA Tour: U.S. Open, First Round, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, N.Y. 3 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, First Round, Blythefield Country Club, Belmont, Mich. 6:30 a.m. (Friday) NBCSN — PGA Tour: U.S. Open, Second Round, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, N.Y. MLB BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Toronto at Boston (1:35 p.m.) OR Cleveland at Milwaukee (2:10 p.m.) 6:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia (6:40 p.m.) OR San Francisco at Atlanta (7:15 p.m.) SOCCER (MEN’S) Noon FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Czechia vs. South Africa, Group A, Atlanta 3 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Switzerland vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Group B, Inglewood, Calif. 6 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Canada vs. Qatar, Group B, Vancouver, British Columbia 9 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Mexico vs. South Korea, Group A, Guadalajara, Mexico SOFTBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Talons at Volts 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Cascade WNBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Atlanta at Indiana _____ Friday, June 19 AUTO RACING 3 p.m. FS2 — Indy NXT Series: Practice, Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. 4 p.m. FS2 — NTT IndyCar Series: Practice, Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. 7 p.m. FS1 — NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series: NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Race at San Diego, Naval base Coronado, San Diego GOLF 6:30 a.m. NBCSN — PGA Tour: U.S. Open, Second Round, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, N.Y. 3 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Second Round, Blythefield Country Club, Belmont, Mich. MLB BASEBALL 7 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Milwaukee at Atlanta (7:15 p.m.) OR Washington at Tampa Bay (7:10 p.m.) 8:10 p.m. APPLE TV — St. Louis at Kansas City 9:40 p.m. APPLE TV — Minnesota at Arizona 10 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Boston at Seattle (10:10 p.m.) OR L.A. Angels at Athletics (joined in progress) (9:40 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 8:30 p.m. ABC — NBA Finals: New York at San Antonio, Game 7 (if necessary) SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: U.S. vs. Australia, Group D, Seattle 6 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Scotland vs. Morocco, Group C, Foxborough, Mass. 8:30 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Brazil vs. Haiti, Group C, Philadelphia 11 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Turkey vs. Paraguay, Group D, Santa Clara, Calif. SOFTBALL 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Cascade WNBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. ION — Washington at New York 10 p.m. ION — Minnesota at Golden State _____ Saturday, June 20 AUTO RACING 10 a.m. FS1 — Indy NXT Series: Qualifying, Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. 11 a.m. FS1 — NTT IndyCar Series: Practice, Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. 12:30 p.m. FS1 — Indy NXT Series: Grand Prix at Road America – Race 1, Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. 1 p.m. NBCSN — Pro Motocross Championship: High Point National, High Point Raceway, Mt. Morris, Pa. 2 p.m. FS1 — NTT IndyCar Series: Qualifying, Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. 5 p.m. CW — NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series: United Rentals Driven to Serve 250, Naval base Coronado, San Diego COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series – Finals: TBD, Game 1, Omaha, Neb. GOLF 10 a.m. USA — PGA Tour: U.S. Open, Third Round, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, N.Y. Noon NBC — PGA Tour: U.S. Open, Third Round, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, N.Y. 3 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Third Round, Blythefield Country Club, Belmont, Mich. LACROSSE (MEN’S) 9 p.m. ESPN2 — PLL: Maryland at New York MILB BASEBALL 7 p.m. MLBN — Triple-A: Scranton/Wilkes-Barre at Columbus MLB BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Cincinnati at N.Y. Yankees (1:35 p.m.) OR Toronto at Chicago Cubs (2:20 p.m.) 4:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Milwaukee at Atlanta (joined in progress) (4:10 p.m.) OR San Diego at Texas (joined in progress) (4:05 p.m.) 7 p.m. FOX — Regional Coverage: Cleveland at Houston (7:15 p.m.) OR N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia (7:15 p.m.) 10 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Baltimore at L.A. Dodgers (10:10 p.m.) OR Boston at Seattle (10:10 p.m.) SOCCER (MEN’S) 1 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Netherlands vs. Sweden, Group F, Houston 4 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Germany vs. Ivory Coast, Group E, Toronto 8 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Ecuador vs. Curacao, Group E, Kansas City, Mo. Midnight FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Tunisia vs. Japan, Group F, Monterrey, Mexico SOFTBALL Noon ESPN — Athletes Unlimited: Blaze at Bandits WNBA BASKETBALL 1 p.m. ABC — Indiana at Atlanta 3 p.m. ABC — Seattle at Phoenix 8 p.m. CBS — Chicago at Dallas _____ Sunday, June 21 AUTO RACING 11 a.m. FS1 — NTT IndyCar Series: Warmup, Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. Noon FS1 — Indy NXT Series: Grand Prix at Road America – Race 2, Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. 2 p.m. FOX — NTT IndyCar Series: Xpel Grand Prix at Road America, Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. 3:30 p.m. TNT — NASCAR Cup Series: Anduril 250, Naval base Coronado, San Diego COLLEGE BASEBALL 2:30 p.m. ABC — Men’s College World Series – Finals: TBD, Game 2, Omaha, Neb. ESPNU — Men’s College World Series – Finals: TBD, Game 2, Omaha, Neb. (Altcast Placeholder) GOLF 9 a.m. USA — PGA Tour: U.S. Open, Final Round, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, N.Y. 11 a.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Final Round, Blythefield Country Club, Belmont, Mich. Noon NBC — PGA Tour: U.S. Open, Final Round, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Southampton, N.Y. 2 p.m. CBS — LPGA Tour: Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Final Round, Blythefield Country Club, Belmont, Mich. MLB BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Chicago White Sox at Detroit (1:40 p.m.) OR Washington at Tampa Bay (1:40 p.m.) 3 p.m. NBCSN — Minnesota at Arizona (3:15 p.m.) PEACOCK — Minnesota at Arizona (3:15 p.m.) 7 p.m. NBC — N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia (7:20 p.m.) PEACOCK — N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia (7:20 p.m.) RUGBY (MEN’S) 8 p.m. ESPN2 — MLR Playoffs: TBD, Championship SOCCER (MEN’S) Noon FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Spain vs. Saudi Arabia, Group H, Atlanta 3 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Belgium vs. Iran, Group G, Inglewood, Calif. 6 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, Group H, Miami Gardens, Fla. 9 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: New Zealand vs. Egypt, Group G, Vancouver, British Columbia SOFTBALL 12:30 p.m. ESPN — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Cascade 8 p.m. MLBN — Athletes Unlimited: Blaze at Bandits WNBA BASKETBALL 4 p.m. CBS — Golden State at Las Vegas 6 p.m. NBATV — Washington at Minnesota 8 p.m.ESPN — New York at Los Angeles About The Author troyderengowski61@gmail.com See author's posts Post navigation THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” SUNDAY JUNE 14, 2026
