THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” SUNDAY JUNE 28, 2026

“THE SCOREBOARD”

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

ROCKIES 8, TWINS 5

GIANTS 5, BRAVES 0

RED SOX 4, YANKEES 1

ASTROS 8, TIGERS 6

RANGERS 7, BLUE JAYS 4

WHITE SOX 2, ROYALS 1

METS 6, PHILLIES 2

GUARDIANS 4, MARINERS 3

REDS 9, PIRATES 7

RAYS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 2

CUBS 8, BREWERS 2

MARLINS 5, CARDINALS 1

DODGERS 15, PADRES 3

ANGELS 5, ATHLETICS 2

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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

INDIANAPOLIS 4 SCRANTON 3

SOUTH BEND 11 QUAD CITIES 1

WEST MICHIGAN 5 DAYTON 1

WEST MICHIGAN 8 DAYTON 1

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WNBA SCOREBOARD

FEVER 111 SPARKS 87

MERCURY 89 TEMPO 87

STORM 105 DREAM 90

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MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER SCOREBOARD

NO GAMES SCHEDULED

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WORLD CUP SCOREBOARD

SATURDAY, 27 JUNE 2026

CROATIA 2 GHANA 1

ENGLAND 2 PANAMA 0

COLUMBIA 0 PORTUGAL 0

CONGO 3 UZBEKISTAN 1

ALGERIA 3 AUSTRIA 3

ARGENTINA 3 JORDAN 1

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INDIANA HS FOOTBALL SCHEDULES

NORTHWEST CROSSROADS CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, AUG. 21

ANDREAN AT MERRILLVILLE, 7 PM

HIGHLAND AT GRIFFITH, 7 PM

HOBART AT CHESTERTON, 7 PM

LOWELL AT CROWN POINT, 7 PM

MICHIGAN CITY AT HANOVER, 7 PM

MUNSTER AT LAKE CENTRAL, 7 PM

RENSSELAER AT KANKAKEE VALLEY, 7 PM

FRIDAY, AUG. 28

ANDREAN AT BISHOP LUERS, 6:30 PM

GRIFFITH AT MUNSTER, 7 PM

HANOVER AT LAKE CENTRAL, 7 PM

KANKAKEE VALLEY AT WHEELER, 7 PM

LOWELL AT LAPORTE, 7 PM

PORTAGE AT HOBART, 7 PM

WHITING AT HIGHLAND, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 4

ANDREAN AT KANKAKEE VALLEY ©, 7 PM

GRIFFITH AT LOWELL, 7 PM

HIGHLAND AT HANOVER ©, 7 PM

HOBART AT MUNSTER ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 11

HANOVER AT LOWELL ©, 7 PM

HIGHLAND AT CALUMET, 7 PM

KANKAKEE VALLEY AT HOBART ©, 7 PM

MUNSTER AT ANDREAN ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 18

ANDREAN AT HOBART ©, 7 PM

EAST CHICAGO AT MUNSTER, 7 PM

HANOVER AT KANKAKEE VALLEY ©, 7 PM

LOWELL AT HIGHLAND ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 25

HIGHLAND AT ANDREAN ©, 7 PM

HOBART AT LOWELL ©, 7 PM

KANKAKEE VALLEY AT CULVER ACADEMY, 6:30 PM

MUNSTER AT HANOVER ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 2

ANDREAN AT GUERIN, 6:30 PM

HANOVER AT HOBART ©, 7 PM

KANKAKEE VALLEY AT LOWELL ©, 7 PM

MUNSTER AT HIGHLAND ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 9

ANDREAN AT HANOVER ©, 7 PM

HIGHLAND AT KANKAKEE VALLEY ©, 7 PM

HOBART AT MORTON, 7 PM

LOWELL AT MUNSTER ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 16

HANOVER AT HAMMOND CENTRAL, 7 PM

HOBART AT HIGHLAND ©, 7 PM

KANKAKEE VALLEY AT MUNSTER ©, 7 PM

LOWELL AT ANDREAN ©, 7 PM

©CONFERENCE GAME

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NORTHEAST CORNER CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, AUG. 21

ANGOLA AT GOSHEN, 7 PM

CENTRAL NOBLE AT CULVER, 7:30 PM

CHURUBUSCO AT BREMEN, 7 PM

FAIRFIELD AT CALUMET, 7:30 PM

FREMONT AT BLACKHAWK, 7 PM, NEW HAVEN

GARRETT AT DEKALB, 7 PM

NORTHRIDGE AT WEST NOBLE, 7 PM

PRAIRIE HEIGHTS AT WOODLAN, 7 PM

SOUTH ADAMS AT EASTSIDE, 7 PM

ST. JOSEPH AT LAKELAND, 7 PM

FRIDAY, AUG. 28

BLUFFTON AT CHURUBUSCO, 7 PM

BRONSON (MICH.) AT PRAIRIE HEIGHTS, 7 PM

DEKALB AT ANGOLA, 7 PM

EASTSIDE AT ADAMS CENTRAL, 7 PM

HUNTINGTON NORTH AT GARRETT, 7 PM

GLENN AT FAIRFIELD, 7 PM

LAKELAND AT PLYMOUTH, 7 PM

OSCEOLA GRACE AT FREMONT, 7 PM

WEST NOBLE AT WAWASEE, 7 PM

WOODLAN AT CENTRAL NOBLE, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 4

ANGOLA AT FAIRFIELD ©, 7 PM

CENTRAL NOBLE AT EASTSIDE ©, 7 PM

CHURUBUSCO AT FREMONT ©, 7 PM

GARRETT AT WEST NOBLE ©, 7 PM

LAKELAND AT PRAIRIE HEIGHTS, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 11

ANGOLA AT GARRETT ©, 7 PM

EASTSIDE AT FREMONT ©, 7 PM

FAIRFIELD AT LAKELAND ©, 7 PM

PRAIRIE HEIGHTS AT CHURUBUSCO ©, 7 PM

WEST NOBLE AT CENTRAL NOBLE, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 18

CENTRAL NOBLE AT LAKELAND, 7 PM

CHURUBUSCO AT ANGOLA, 7 PM

EASTSIDE AT FAIRFIELD, 7 PM

FREMONT AT WEST NOBLE, 7 PM

PRAIRIE HEIGHTS AT GARRETT, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 25

CHURUBUSCO AT CENTRAL NOBLE ©, 7 PM

FAIRFIELD AT WEST NOBLE ©, 7 PM

FREMONT AT PRAIRIE HEIGHTS ©, 7 PM

GARRETT AT EASTSIDE, 7 PM

LAKELAND AT ANGOLA ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 2

ANGOLA AT FREMONT, 7 PM

CENTRAL NOBLE AT PRAIRIE HEIGHTS ©, 7 PM

EASTSIDE AT CHURUBUSCO ©, 7 PM

GARRETT AT FAIRFIELD ©, 7 PM

WEST NOBLE AT LAKELAND ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 9

FAIRFIELD AT CHURUBUSCO, 7 PM

FREMONT AT CENTRAL NOBLE ©, 7 PM

LAKELAND AT GARRETT ©, 7 PM

PRAIRIE HEIGHTS AT EASTSIDE ©, 7 PM

WEST NOBLE AT ANGOLA ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 16

CENTRAL NOBLE AT GARRETT, 7 PM

CHURUBUSCO AT LAKELAND, 7 PM

EASTSIDE AT ANGOLA, 7 PM

FREMONT AT FAIRFIELD, 7 PM

PRAIRIE HEIGHTS AT WEST NOBLE, 7 PM

©CONFERENCE GAME

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WABASH RIVER CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, AUG. 21

ATTICA AT FAITH CHRISTIAN, 7 PM

CARROLL AT SEEGER, 7 PM

COVINGTON AT TRI-COUNTY, 7 PM

CRAWFORDSVILLE AT PARKE HERITAGE, 7 PM

NORTH CENTRAL AT NORTH VERMILLION, 7 PM

RIVERTON PARKE VS. LINTON, 7:30 PM, ROSE-HULMAN

SOUTHMONT AT FOUNTAIN CENTRAL, 7 PM

WEST VIGO AT SOUTH VERMILLION, 7 PM

FRIDAY, AUG. 28

ATTICA AT TRI-COUNTY, 7 PM

COVINGTON AT SOUTH NEWTON, 7 PM

FOUNTAIN CENTRAL AT CRAWFORDSVILLE, 7 PM

PARIS (ILL.) AT NORTH VERMILLION, 7:30 PM

SEEGER AT BENTON CENTRAL, 7 PM

SOUTH VERMILLION AT SULLIVAN, 7 PM

WEST VIGO AT PARKE HERITAGE, 7 PM

SATURDAY, AUG. 29

RIVERTON PARKE AT TRI, 3 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 4

FOUNTAIN CENTRAL AT RIVERTON PARKE ©, 7 PM

NORTH VERMILLION AT COVINGTON ©, 7 PM

SEEGER AT ATTICA ©, 7 PM

SOUTH VERMILLION AT PARKE HERITAGE ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 11

COVINGTON AT FOUNTAIN CENTRAL ©, 7 PM

PARKE HERITAGE AT ATTICA ©, 7 PM

RIVERTON PARKE AT SEEGER ©, 7 PM

SOUTH VERMILLION AT NORTH VERMILLION ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 18

COVINGTON AT SOUTH VERMILLION ©, 7 PM

FOUNTAIN CENTRAL AT ATTICA ©, 7 PM

NORTH VERMILLION AT RIVERTON PARKE ©, 7 PM

PARKE HERITAGE AT SEEGER ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 25

ATTICA AT NORTH VERMILLION ©, 7 PM

COVINGTON AT PARKE HERITAGE ©, 7 PM

FOUNTAIN CENTRAL AT SEEGER ©, 7 PM

RIVERTON PARKE AT SOUTH VERMILLION ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 2

NORTH VERMILLION AT PARKE HERITAGE ©, 7 PM

RIVERTON PARKE AT ATTICA ©, 7 PM

SEEGER AT COVINGTON ©, 7 PM

SOUTH VERMILLION AT FOUNTAIN CENTRAL ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 9

ATTICA AT COVINGTON ©, 7 PM

FOUNTAIN CENTRAL AT NORTH VERMILLION ©, 7 PM

PARKE HERITAGE AT RIVERTON PARKE ©, 7 PM

SEEGER AT SOUTH VERMILLION ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 16

NORTH VERMILLION AT SEEGER ©, 7 PM

PARKE HERITAGE AT FOUNTAIN CENTRAL ©, 7 PM

RIVERTON PARKE AT COVINGTON ©, 7 PM

SOUTH VERMILLION AT ATTICA ©, 7 PM

©CONFERENCE GAME

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EASTERN INDIANA CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, AUG. 21

BATESVILLE AT TRITON CENTRAL, 7 PM

GREENSBURG AT SHELBYVILLE, 7 PM

LAWRENCEBURG AT EAST CENTRAL ©, 7:30 PM

MILAN AT RUSHVILLE, 7 PM

NEW CASTLE AT FRANKLIN COUNTY, 7 PM

RICHMOND AT CONNERSVILLE, 7 PM

WALNUT HILLS (OHIO) AT SOUTH DEARBORN, 7 PM

FRIDAY, AUG. 28

BATESVILLE AT MILAN, 7 PM

CONNERSVILLE AT FRANKLIN COUNTY, 7 PM

EAST CENTRAL AT NEW PALESTINE, 7 PM

GREENFIELD AT LAWRENCEBURG, 7 PM

SHELBYVILLE AT RUSHVILLE, 7 PM

SOUTH DEARBORN AT SWITZERLAND COUNTY, 7 PM

SOUTH DECATUR AT GREENSBURG, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 4

CONNERSVILLE AT GREENSBURG, 7 PM

EAST CENTRAL AT CINCINNATI ELDER (OHIO), 7 PM

FRANKLIN COUNTY AT RUSHVILLE ©, 7 PM

SOUTH DEARBORN AT BATESVILLE, 7 PM

TAYLOR (OHIO) AT LAWRENCEBURG, 7:30 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 11

BATESVILLE AT RUSHVILLE, 7 PM

FRANKLIN COUNTY AT EAST CENTRAL, 7:30 PM

GREENSBURG AT LAWRENCEBURG, 7 PM

SHENANDOAH AT CONNERSVILLE, 7 PM

SOUTH DEARBORN AT RICHMOND, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 18

BATESVILLE AT EAST CENTRAL ©, 7:30 PM

GREENSBURG AT SOUTH DEARBORN ©, 7 PM

LAWRENCEBURG AT FRANKLIN COUNTY, 7 PM

RUSHVILLE AT CONNERSVILLE, 7 PM

FRIDAY, SEP. 25

EAST CENTRAL AT HARRISON (OHIO), 7 PM

FRANKLIN COUNTY AT GREENSBURG ©, 7 PM

LAWRENCEBURG AT BATESVILLE ©, 7 PM

MADISON AT SOUTH DEARBORN, 7 PM

RUSHVILLE AT CENTERVILLE, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 2

EAST CENTRAL AT CONNERSVILLE ©, 7 PM

GREENSBURG AT BATESVILLE, 7 PM

RUSHVILLE AT LAWRENCEBURG, 7 PM

SOUTH DEARBORN AT FRANKLIN COUNTY ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 9

BATESVILLE AT FRANKLIN COUNTY, 7 PM

COLUMBUS NORTH AT EAST CENTRAL, 7:30 PM

CONNERSVILLE AT LAWRENCEBURG ©, 7 PM

GREENSBURG AT JENNINGS COUNTY, 7 PM

RUSHVILLE AT SOUTH DEARBORN ©, 7 PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 16

CONNERSVILLE AT BATESVILLE ©, 7 PM

FRANKLIN COUNTY AT NORTH DECATUR, 7 PM

GREENSBURG AT RUSHVILLE ©, 7 PM

RONCALLI AT EAST CENTRAL, 7:30 PM

LAWRENCEBURG AT SOUTH DEARBORN, 7 PM

©CONFERENCE GAME

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MAJOR NATIONAL HEADLINES/RELEASES

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

MLB ROUNDUP: HUNTER GOODMAN SOCKS 3 HOMERS AS ROCKIES TOP TWINS

Hunter Goodman hit a career-best three home runs and tallied five RBIs, leading the Colorado Rockies to an 8-5 win over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday in Minneapolis.

Kyle Karros added a two-run homer and Jake McCarthy finished 2-for-5 with a triple and two runs for the Rockies, who have alternated wins and losses for seven games.

Michael Lorenzen (3-9) broke a 10-start winless drought and picked up his first victory since April 24. He limited the Twins to two runs on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings. Jimmy Herget got the final two outs for his third save.

Trevor Larnach went 3-for-5 with a three-run double to lead Minnesota, which took its fourth defeat in five games. Mike Paredes (0-1) allowed three runs on eight hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Giants 5, Braves 0

Logan Webb continued his brilliant pitching in the month of June, Rafael Devers launched two home runs and San Francisco evened the score with visiting Atlanta in their three-game series with a shutout victory.

The Giants limited the Braves to one hit. The hosts grabbed a lead they’d never relinquish when Devers led off the second inning with a solo shot off Atlanta starter Bryce Elder (5-6). Webb (5-5) limited the Braves to one hit in seven innings.

Atlanta’s lone hit off Webb came when Mauricio Dubon doubled with one out in the second. Elder lasted just four innings, charged with all five San Francisco runs on five hits.

Red Sox 4, Yankees 1

Rookie Jake Bennett allowed one run over 6 1/3 innings and Masataka Yoshida and Anthony Seigler poked solo homers as host Boston defeated New York for the third straight day.

Bennett (2-3), who did not allow his first hit until two outs in the fifth, left to a standing ovation after surrendering just three hits and two walks to go with three strikeouts. Seigler, the Yankees’ first-round pick in the 2018 draft, cracked his first major league homer in the second inning to give the Red Sox a 2-0 lead.

New York’s Gerrit Cole (2-3) permitted four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. Max Schuemann stroked a solo homer for the Yankees, who lost for the sixth time in eight games to fall into a share of the AL East lead with the Tampa Bay Rays.

Astros 8, Tigers 6

Isaac Paredes delivered a go-ahead two-run double in the eighth and visiting Houston rallied for a win over Detroit.

Jeremy Pena, who had a game-tying hit earlier in the eighth, finished with three hits, two runs and two RBIs for the Astros. Christian Walker supplied four hits, and Cam Smith delivered a two-run homer. Houston reliever AJ Blubaugh (4-2) threw two scoreless innings, and Josh Hader pitched the ninth for his seventh save.

Framber Valdez, facing his former team for the second time this season, started for Detroit and gave up four runs on eight hits over six innings. Kerry Carpenter hit the Tigers’ first grand slam of the season. Hao-Yu Lee also homered before Will Vest (3-5) blew a late lead.

Rangers 7, Blue Jays 4

Jake Burger produced three hits and two RBIs as Texas defeated host Toronto for the third day in a row.

Corey Seager added a solo home run while Alejandro Osuna and Elias Diaz drove in two runs apiece for the Rangers. Starter Cal Quantrill threw four scoreless innings, and Peyton Gray (3-0) struck out four in his 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief.

Yohendrick Pinango popped a two-run homer for the Blue Jays and Alejandro Kirk added a solo shot. Starter Dylan Cease (4-4) struck out 10 but surrendered four runs, four hits and five walks over his 4 2/3-inning stint.

White Sox 2, Royals 1

Jacob Gonzalez delivered a one-out, walk-off single as Chicago claimed a franchise-record 10th straight home series win with a victory over Kansas City.

Colson Montgomery, Chase Meidroth and Braden Montgomery all singled for their second hits to open the ninth inning against Daniel Lynch IV (2-2). Facing John Schreiber, Gonzalez lined a 3-2 fastball past shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. in a five-man infield as the first-place White Sox improved to 4-1 on their six-game homestand.

Grant Taylor (3-1) pitched two perfect innings with four strikeouts for the win. Kansas City’s Michael Massey was 2-for-2 with a walk, but the Royals managed just six hits.

Mets 6, Phillies 2

Francisco Lindor and A.J. Ewing each had two-run hits in the sixth inning for host New York, which ended a seven-game skid with a come-from-behind victory over Philadelphia.

The Mets didn’t get a runner beyond first over the first five innings against Tim Mayza and Alan Rangel (0-1) before they rallied from the 2-0 hole by batting around in the sixth. New York starter Christian Scott, who was activated from the 15-day injured list prior to the game, allowed two runs on three hits over 4 1/3 innings.

Bryce Harper was the only Philadelphia player with multiple hits, finishing 2-for-4 with a two-run homer as the Phillies saw their four-game winning streak end. Rangel surrendered four runs on four hits in four innings.

Guardians 4, Mariners 3

Kahlil Watson had an RBI double in the fourth inning and fellow rookie Cooper Ingle followed with his first major league hit, a two-run single, as Cleveland beat visiting Seattle.

Slade Cecconi (4-6) earned his first home victory of the season with six-plus scoreless innings as the Guardians recorded their fourth win in 11 games since All-Star Jose Ramirez broke his left wrist. Cade Smith allowed two runners in the ninth but escaped for his 25th save.

Randy Arozarena belted a three-run homer in the eighth to pull Seattle within 4-3. Mariners starter Logan Gilbert (6-5) worked seven innings, giving up four runs on seven hits.

Reds 9, Pirates 7

With the Reds down to their last strike, Eugenio Suarez hit a go-ahead three-run home run in the top of the ninth to lift Cincinnati to a comeback win over host Pittsburgh.

Suarez’s eighth homer gave the Reds back-to-back wins. Chase Burns struck out a season-high 10 batters, matching a career high, but had his team-record streak of 12 consecutive outings allowing two runs or fewer snapped. Burns gave up five runs on nine hits in six-plus innings.

Brandon Lowe led the Pirates with four RBIs and Jared Triolo had three hits. Gregory Soto (4-2) served up Suarez’s homer, which made a winner of Caleb Ferguson (1-0). Chase Petty pitched a hitless ninth inning for his first career save.

Rays 4, Diamondbacks 2

Jonathan Aranda’s two-run homer broke a tie and Junior Caminero also homered as Tampa Bay defeated Arizona in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Caminero opened the Rays’ scoring with his sixth homer in the past five games. Michael Grove (1-0) was the pitcher of record in his Tampa Bay debut, allowing a hit over three scoreless innings.

Katel Marte homered for the Diamondbacks, who have scored just three runs while losing the first two games of the series. Arizona starter Jose Cabrera (0-1) gave up four runs and seven hits in five-plus innings in his second major league start.

Nationals 4, Orioles 3 (10 innings)

Daylen Lile singled in the tiebreaking run with the first at-bat in the 10th inning and visiting Washington held on to halt a four-game losing streak with a victory against Baltimore.

The Orioles loaded the bases with two outs in the 10th before Justin Lawrence notched his first save since 2024 on Samuel Basallo’s groundout. Washington starter Foster Griffin held the Orioles to one unearned run over seven innings. Luis Garcia Jr. homered among his four hits for Washington.

Baltimore tied the game with two runs in the eighth inning on Pete Alonso’s RBI double and Basallo’s pinch-hit single. Orioles starter Brandon Young gave up two runs on seven hits across five innings. Ryan Helsley (0-4) took the loss.

Cubs 8, Brewers 2

Ian Happ hit a three-run homer in a four-run sixth inning as visiting Chicago leveled the three-game series with a win over Milwaukee.

Seiya Suzuki and Michael Conforto also homered for the Cubs. David Peterson (4-6), acquired in a trade Wednesday with the Mets, allowed a homer in his first pitch for Chicago but settled in to give up five hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings.

Brewers starter Kyle Harrison allowed two runs on three hits over five innings before Chad Patrick (5-4) yielding four runs in two-thirds of an inning. Jackson Chourio began the bottom of the first with a homer.

Marlins 5, Cardinals 1

Xavier Edwards went 3-for-5 with an RBI single, Kyle Stowers drove in two runs and visiting Miami beat St. Louis for its fourth straight victory.

Javier Sanoja had three hits, an RBI and two stolen bases for the Marlins, who improved to a major-league-best 18-5 in June. Ryan Gusto tossed 3 1/3 scoreless innings before giving way to John King (6-1), who threw 1 1/3 shutout frames against his former team.

Masyn Winn singled in a run and JJ Wetherholt and Lars Nootbaar had two hits apiece for the Cardinals, who have lost four straight and seven of their past nine. Andre Pallante (9-5) allowed a career-high 11 hits and five runs over 6 2/3 innings, snapping his five-decision winning streak.

Dodgers 15, Padres 3

Kyle Tucker, Dalton Rushing and Mookie Betts smashed homers in a massive sixth inning as visiting Los Angeles routed San Diego.

A 1-1 game through five innings was broken wide open with a nine-run frame that saw 12 batters come to the plate. Tucker finished with three of the Dodgers’ 17 hits and four RBIs. Yoshinobu Yamamoto (8-5) allowed five hits and two runs over six innings.

Gavin Sheets homered and had an RBI single for the Padres. Bulk reliever Randy Vasquez (6-6) was tagged for eight hits and seven runs, five of them earned, in 3 1/3 innings.

Angels 5, Athletics 2

Jo Adell hit a two-run triple and Denzer Guzman delivered a tiebreaking single to help Los Angeles record a victory over the Athletics at Anaheim, Calif.

Oswald Peraza and Logan O’Hoppe also had RBI singles as the Angels won for the fifth time in seven games. Starter Reid Detmers worked 5 2/3 innings and gave up two runs and four hits. Ryan Zeferjahn (4-3) struck out two in the seventh.

Jonah Heim rang in his 31st birthday with a 445-foot homer for the A’s, who fell for the fifth time in seven outings. The Athletics played without shortstop Jacob Wilson (shoulder) for the third straight game, and left fielder Tyler Soderstrom (left hip tightness) exited after 2 1/2 innings.

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NBA

MAGIC WAIVE F JONATHAN ISAAC IN COST-SAVING MOVE

A day before his full 2026-27 salary would have become guaranteed, forward Jonathan Isaac was waived by the Orlando Magic on Saturday.

Had Isaac remained with the club another 24 hours, he would have been guaranteed $14.5 million for the upcoming season. However, he is now owed just $8 million.

According to ESPN, the Magic elected not to spread the $8 million payment across seven seasons, meaning Isaac theoretically could re-sign with Orlando should he not receive a better deal from another team.

Isaac, 28, produced the worst stats of his seven-season NBA career in 2025-26. He averaged 2.6 points, 2.5 rebounds and 0.4 assists, all career lows, in 52 games, all as a reserve.

The Magic selected Isaac with the sixth overall pick in 2017 out of Florida State. He has played his entire NBA career with Orlando, though he missed the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons due to injuries.

In 328 NBA games (109 starts), Isaac has averages of 6.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 0.7 assists.

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PADRAIG HARRINGTON LEADS DICK’S OPEN; JOHN DALY MAKES CHARGE

Padraig Harrington carded four birdies on the front nine and finished with a 5-under 67 to take a one-shot lead after two rounds of the Dick’s Open on Saturday in Endicott, N.Y.

Harrington had six birdies and one bogey and sits at 12-under 132 after two trips around En-Joie Golf Course. Dicky Pride (70) and Thongchai Jaidee (67) of Thailand are tied for second.

Matt Gogel (65) and Aussies Scott Hend (66) and Richard Green (67) are tied for fourth.

Harrington will be seeking his 12th career Champions Tour victory on Sunday, well aware there will be plenty of pursuers.

“The problem with 12 under is there’s probably a bunch of guys who could shoot 6, 7, 8 under par here who are going to have a chance tomorrow,” Harrington said. “Would have been nice to get away. Tomorrow, just going to have to come out and play well.”

Jaidee shot a 31 on the front nine, thanks to an eagle on the par-5, No. 5, and four birdies. He bogeyed two holes on the back nine before finishing with a birdie on 18.

Pride made three straight birdies at Nos. 3-5 but shot 1-over on the back nine. He had two birdies, but also had a bogey and a double-bogey.

One golfer who soared 44 places up the leaderboard was John Daly, who had a 63 that marked his lowest career score on the Champions Tour. It was also 10 strokes better than his first-round performance.

Daly, 60, made it clear the better showing had nothing to do with putting in more work between rounds.

“I haven’t seen a driving range in five years, no,” Daly said. “I don’t work on my golf game.”

Daly had an eagle on the par-5, No. 8 and made seven birdies during a bogey-free round.

He’s four shots behind Harrington but certainly in the mix heading into the final round.

“I hit the ball pretty good yesterday, just couldn’t get anything out of it, just couldn’t get anything close,” Daly said. “But today, chipped in twice and made a 60-footer, that always helps. Hit the ball good today, hit a lot of fairways and made a few putts.”

Daly’s only victory on the Champions Tour was back in 2017 when he won at the Insperity Invitational in the Houston area. In his most recent tournament earlier this month, he tied for 17th at the American Family Insurance Championship in Madison, Wis.

Daly also received a ton of fan support while walking the course in Endicott.

“I’ve always loved (the fans),” Daly said. “There’s no skeletons in my closet. When I screw up, I screw up and I tell them. When I do things good, they see it. I’ve never lied to my fans. I think a lot of them relate to the life that I’ve lived and some of the ups and downs that I’ve had. We just connect so good and it’s been that way for 35 years. I wouldn’t change it for the world, I love them.”

Defending champion Steve Allan of Australia shot 68-72 over the first two rounds and is tied for 32nd at 4-under 140.

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HAERAN RYU GRABS LEAD, KORDA LURKS AT WOMEN’S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

South Korea’s Haeran Ryu continued her hot streak Saturday to surge into the lead of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn.

Ryu followed her 8-under-par 64 Friday with birdies on two of her first five holes and an eagle on the par-5 seventh to make her push. She balanced a birdie on No. 9 with her only bogey on No. 10 to finish 4-under 68 and capture the lead.

Ryu sits at 11 under through 54 holes, which gives her a 1-shot edge over Canada’s Brooke M. Henderson going into the final round.

“Yeah, today my front nine, it was amazing because I got an eagle and three birdies,” Ryu said. “I started the back nine, it was more windy and a lot of tough shots and tough putts, but I just made one bogey today, so it was, I think, good for me for tomorrow, and tomorrow I just want to have more confidence and more calm.”

Ryu’s quest to earn her fourth career win and first of the season was aided considerably by fellow South Korean Ina Yoon and her rough day.

The leader through the first two rounds and seeking her first career win, Yoon squandered her five-shot lead as she struggled through a six-bogey day to finish 3-over 75. That dropped the 23-year-old into third place, two shots off the pace.

“I had a really long day, actually, especially the front nine,” Yoon said. “I was just nervous a lot. I missed short putts. Yeah, that’s what I expected. I’m kind of learning still.”

Nelly Korda, aiming to become the third woman to win the first three majors of the season after her victories at the Chevron Championship and U.S. Women’s Open, made headway on the lead due to Yoon’s tumble, but she still has work to do to catch Ryu.

Korda is in a tie for sixth at 7 under after carding a 1-under 71. The world No. 1 balanced three birdies against two bogeys to move within four shots of the lead, two closer than where she started the day.

Henderson moved into much better position than Korda with another steady round. Seeking her first major victory since 2022, Henderson followed a 69 and a 68 with Saturday’s 69 that featured four birdies against a single bogey.

“I’m really happy with how the round went today. Nice to get it under par and climb the leaderboard a little bit,” Henderson said. “I’ve been working really hard on myself and also my game coming into this week, so I feel like it’s nice to see it pay off a bit.”

Three strokes back of the leader are the Netherlands’ Dewi Weber (68) and South Korea’s A Lim Kim (71).

Alison Lee fired a 68 to pull into a share of sixth place with Korda.

Rounding out the top 10 are Auston Kim (69), Australia’s Karis Davidson (71) and South Korea’s Dongeun Lee (72), all in a tie for eighth at 6 under.

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VIKTOR HOVLAND BIRDIES 18 TO OVERTAKE SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER AT TRAVELERS

Norway’s Viktor Hovland birdied the final hole to shoot 6-under-par 64 and snatch the lead from Scottie Scheffler at the end of the third round of the Travelers Championship on Saturday at Cromwell, Conn.

Hovland leads by one stroke at 20-under 190 heading into the final round Sunday at TPC River Highlands.

Scheffler birdied three consecutive holes on the back nine to regain sole possession of the lead before a bogey on the last hole cost him a share of the lead. Hovland sank a 6½-foot putt to finish his round.

Scheffler, ranked the world’s No. 1 golfer, is aiming to win the tournament for the second time in three years. He entered the day holding a two-shot advantage on Hovland.

Hovland had three birdies on the frontside and four more on the backside Saturday.

Patrick Cantlay (64) and Akshay Bhatia (67) are tied for third place at 15 under. Bhatia was 4 under for the round through eight holes but went 1 over the rest of the way.

Wyndham Clark, who won the U.S. Open last weekend, moved into contention by shooting 65 and sharing fifth place at 13 under with Ben Griffin (67), Eric Cole (69), England’s Matt Fitzpatrick (67) and Ireland’s Shane Lowry (64).

Fitzpatrick had his only bogey on the first hole.

The best scores of the round were 63s from Keith Mithcell (12 under for tournament), Brian Harman (11 under), Christ Gotterup (11 under) and Matt McCarty (8 under).

Defending champion Keegan Bradley had 70 — his highest round of the week — and is at 8 under.

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NASCAR

TY GIBBS STREAKS TO NASCAR POLE AT SONOMA RACEWAY

SONOMA, Calif. – After turning his first lap in Saturday’s highly competitive NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session at Sonoma Raceway, Ty Gibbs felt he had more potential in his No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

His instincts were spot-on. Late in the session, Gibbs made one more run and put his car on the pole for Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at the 1.99-mile, 11-turn road course (3:30 p.m. ET on TNT, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Navigating the circuit in 74.829 seconds (95.738 mph), Gibbs edged Carson Hocevar (95.706 mph) by 0.025 seconds (95.706 mph) for the top starting spot in Sunday’s race, the opening round of the Cup Series’ five-event In-Season Challenge.

The Busch Light Pole Award was Gibbs’ first of the season, his first on a road course and the third of his career.

“The re-runs are just super-weird here,” Gibbs said. “Sometimes you can go a lot faster. Sometimes you don’t. I felt like I just had some more speed out there. The car is really fast this weekend, and we’re really excited to race tomorrow.”

To Gibbs, the defending winner of the $1-million In-Season Challenge, qualifying and racing 110 laps on Sunday are markedly different disciplines.

“Tomorrow is a whole different program,” he said. “You’re going to be a lot easier on the car instead of hammering it, like in qualifying. So, it’s just completely different.

“You could be on the pole today and suck tomorrow. You just have to be really focused on the race, and that’s the most important part. We’ll stick to that.”

For the second straight week, Hocevar will start in the second position. Last Sunday at Naval Base Coronado, he lined up on the front row next to pole winner Shane van Gisbergen before finishing 19th.

“I didn’t feel like my lap was very good, and I was getting ready to run another, and I got through (Turn) 10, and they said, ‘P1,’” Hocevar said. “And I was like, ‘Well, (shoot), I don’t have to do another. I’m already P1.’

“So, I was super happy about that, the lap time, but I didn’t think it was amazing.”

Two-time Sonoma winner and reigning series champion Kyle Larson qualified third at 95.686 mph. Michael McDowell (95.677 mph), Hocevar’s teammate at Spire Motorsports, was fourth, followed by Ross Chastain (74.913 mph).

McDowell has finished in the top five in three of the last four Sonoma races, including a second-place run in 2024.

Van Gisbergen, the defending race and pole winner, qualified sixth after complaining about the handling of his No. 97 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet in practice, where he posted the fifth fastest lap.

Chase Briscoe and AJ Allmendinger, head-to-head opponents in the first round of the In-Season Challenge, qualified seventh and eighth, respectively. Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano filled the final two positions in the top 10.

Series leader Tyler Reddick claimed the 11th starting spot. His 23XI Racing teammate, Bubba Wallace, crashed within the first three minutes of the Group 2 qualifying session and will start Sunday’s race in a backup car.

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INDIANA SPORTS NEWS AND HEADLINES

INDIANA FEVER

INDIANAPOLIS (June 27, 2026) — The Indiana Fever (11-8) earned an emphatic 111-87 win over the LA Sparks at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Saturday night. On the way to victory, four players scored 15+ points, including Monique Billings, Aliyah Boston, Ty Harris and Kelsey Mitchell.

The Fever claimed a 27-21 lead over the Sparks in the first quarter, fueled by eight points and five rebounds from Boston and seven from Harris. Indiana outscored the Sparks 30-16 in the second quarter, thanks in part to another nine points from Boston, taking a 20-point, 57-37 advantage heading into the second half.

Mitchell scored 13 points in the third quarter, aiding the Fever in expanding the lead to 89-58 going into the final 10 minutes. With baskets from eight different players in the fourth quarter, Indiana secured the dominant 24-point win over the visiting Sparks.

POSTGAME NOTES
BOX SCORE

Indiana Fever Notes:

• Ty Harris earned her second start of the year in place of an injured Caitlin Clark. Harris finished the night with 16 points, surpassing her previous season high of seven points set on May 13, 2026, on the road against the LA Sparks.
• In the first half, Aliyah Boston became the third Fever player all-time to have a perfect field goal percentage, a perfect three-point percentage, a perfect free throw percentage and score at least 15 points in a single half, joining Tamika Whitmore, and Coretta Brown. Boston is the first to make said achievement since the 2007 season, doing so 19 years after Whitmore did.
• With 15 points scored, Monique Billings matched a season high, originally set on June 6, 2026 against the New York Liberty.
• Billings set a new franchise record for plus-minus, recording a +38 during her time on the court, passing the previous high of +36 set by Anna DeForge on August 8, 2006 against the New York Liberty.
• Bree Hall made her 2026 season debut at 2:09 in the third quarter, scoring her first professional three pointer and her first points of the season with 29 seconds left in the quarter. Additionally, scoring five points, Hall surpassed her previous regular season high of three points, tallied as a member of the Golden State Valkyries on June 22, 2025.
• Kelsey Mitchell recorded four three pointers, bringing her career total to 716, now moving her just 11 away from tying Katie Douglas for the seventh most in WNBA history.
• Scoring 26 points, Mitchell recorded her 121st career 20+ point scoring game, tying Brittney Griner for the 15th most in WNBA history.
• The Fever scored 100+ points for the seventh time this season, the most in the WNBA this year with the Las Vegas Aces in second with five games. The total continues to distance itself from the team’s previous single-season record of four 100+ scoring games, set in 2024.
• The team’s 111 points scored mark the third most points scored in a game with the only other two games being a 114 and 113 scoring night, both occurring earlier this season.

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INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS

José Urquidy and Brendan Beck stunned both clubs in a late-night pitchers’ duel, but the Indianapolis Indians ran away with the victory after scoring three runs in the ninth inning to defeat the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, 4-3, in walk-off fashion on Saturday night at Victory Field.

Down by two runs in the bottom of the ninth, Shawn Ross delivered a bases-loaded, two-RBI single to knot the game up, 3-3. Dominic Fletcher, whose bat has not cooled off all of June, singled to left field to load the bases once again, setting the stage for Termarr Johnson. The 22-year-old drew the walk-off walk to send the RailRiders (3-2, 40-39) home for the night.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre struck first and fast, launching Urquidy’s second pitch out of the park for a 1-0 lead. After the first-inning solo shot, Urquidy did not allow a hit for the rest of his outing. He struck out five and walked two RailRiders. It was Urquidy’s first time this season, across both Indianapolis (2-3, 33-47) and the Pittsburgh Pirates, that he walked more than one batter in a game.

Brendan Beck went a bit further than Urquidy and pumped through 7.0 innings, but gave up four more hits than his opposition. The Indians finally got to Beck in his last frame and tied the contest up at one run apiece after stringing together two singles, a stolen base and a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning.

After both starting pitchers had passed the baton to the bullpen, Marco Luciano broke the tie game with a 402-foot two-run home run off Jaden Woods in the eighth inning.

Beau Burrows (W, 4-1) threw a perfect ninth inning to earn the win. Eric Reyzelman (L, 0-1) took the loss, allowing four out of the five batters he faced in the ninth inning to reach base. All three ninth-inning runs were charged to Reyzelman.

The Indians aim for a series split on Sunday at 1:35 PM, the final game of the series. Antwone Kelly (3-5, 5.43) is expected to start for Indianapolis against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre’s Alexander Cornielle (0-1, 5.14).

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FISHERS FREIGHT

FISHERS- The Fishers Freight took on the Green Bay Blizzard for the third and final time of the regular season on Saturday night. After a high scoring battle, Green Bay claimed the win, defeating the Freight 83-50. 

FIRST QUARTER

Fishers got the ball first and on their first drive, Josiah King scored the game’s first touchdown. After a good kick from Calum Sutherland, the Freight took a 7-0 lead. 

Green Bay tied it up on their first drive of the game after Kairee Robinson ran the ball in two yards for a touchdown. Andrew Mevis successfully kicked the extra point and followed it up with a good deuce, making it 9-7 in favor of Green Bay. 

Fishers turned the ball over on downs on their second drive of the game, with about four minutes to go in the first quarter. 

Quickly, the Blizzard added another touchdown to make it 16-7 before Mevis kicked another successful deuce. 

SECOND QUARTER

The Freight started with the ball mid-drive in the second quarter. Ultimately, Fishers fumbled the ball that was recovered by the Blizzard. Freight head coach Dixie Wooten challenged the call but it was upheld. 

After recovering the ball, Green Bay marched down to score another touchdown. This time it was Isaac Ross before Mevis had another good extra point. This brought the score to 25-7.

With just under eight minutes to go in the first half, CJ Windham caught a pass from Harper and ran it in for a touchdown to make it 25-13 before Sutherland added the extra point. 

The Blizzard responded with another touchdown, this time run in by quarterback Liam Thompson himself. This made it 32-14 after the kick.

Windham scored again to make it 32-21 after a good extra point kick. Sutherland opted for an onside kick on the next kickoff, however Green Bay collected the ball regardless. 

They quickly scored again when Kairee Robinson rushed the ball into the end zone again. This made it 39-21 after a good kick by Mevis. 

With less than a minute to go in the half, Jordan Davis scored a 17 yard touchdown next for the Freight. Sutherland tacked on the extra point and two more points with a deuce to cut Green Bay’s lead to 39-30.

They answered back with another touchdown by Kairee Robinson with just six seconds left in the second quarter. Mevis made it 46-30 before attempting the last deuce of the half. 

He did not make it and Fishers got the ball for one last scoring attempt, but they did not score either. 

THIRD QUARTER

On the kickoff, Fred Flavors returned the football for a touchdown to start the second half. Mevis’ extra point kick was good to make it 53-30 before the Freight got the ball back. 

On their next drive, Fishers turned the ball over on downs again. 

Robinson scored another touchdown for Green Bay just five minutes into the second half before Mevis had another good kick. This made it 60-30 with the Blizzard up, however Mevis made it 62-30 with another deuce. 

King ran in the game’s next touchdown for Fishers about halfway through the third quarter. The Freight went for two points and did not make it, keeping the score at 62-36. 

Thompson ran in the next touchdown for Green Bay, to make it 68-36 before another good kick from Mevis. 

Dominic Roberto scored the game’s next touchdown with just a few seconds left on the clock. Fishers went for two again and this time, they were successful as Isaiah Coulter caught the ball. This made it 69-44 to end the quarter. 

FOURTH QUARTER

Cole Stenstrom scored first in the fourth quarter with a touchdown to make it 76-44 after the extra point. He added another after Fishers turned the ball over on their next possession. This made it 83-44.

Isaiah Coulter caught the ball in the end zone for the Freight’s next touchdown with under one minute to go in regulation. 

After a lengthy timeout for an injury to Diondre Glover, Fishers went for another two-point conversion but did not get it. A penalty was called on the play, resulting in a redo where they were still unable to score. 

Time expired soon after as the Green Bay Blizzard defeated the Freight, 83-50 and won their eighth and final home game of the regular season, going undefeated in all of them.

ABOUT THE FISHERS FREIGHT:

The Fishers Freight are a professional indoor football team based in the Indianapolis metropolitan area that competes in the Indoor Football League. The Freight are now playing at the new Fishers Event Center. Information and tickets can be found HERE. 

Don’t forget to follow the Freight on Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube for news, updates, contests, and much more.

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“SPORTS EXTRA”

TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY

1871 – Both the Athletic of Philadelphia and the Troy Haymakers score in each inning, with Athletic winning, 49 – 33, the highest-scoring contest in the history of the National Association. The 42 hits made by Athletic (including a 7-for-7 day by John Radcliff and 6-for-8 performances by Al Reach and Levi Meyerle) is also a league record.

1884 – Tom Lee of Chicago gives up a franchise record six homers in a game at Lake Front Park, where the fence is just under 200 feet from home plate. No Cubs pitcher will match that until Matt Swarmer in 2022.

1894 – Louisville P George Hemming throws an 11-inning 25-hitter, as the Colonels edge Boston, 11 – 9.

1903:

At St. Louis, Cy Young shuts out the Browns in the opener, 1 – 0, pinning a tough loss on Red Donahue. Boston righty Long Tom Hughes follows with a 3 – 0 win in the nitecap. Jack Powell takes the loss.

Detroit travels out of state for a home game – a Sunday match in Toledo, Ohio against the A’s. Charles Bender tops the Tigers’ Joe Yeager, 7 – 3, before a crowd of 4,500.

1907 – The last-place Washington Senators steal a record 13 bases off C Branch Rickey in a 16 – 5 win over New York. Rickey, acquired last February from the Browns, is pressed into service despite a bad shoulder because of an injury to starter Red Kleinow. Rickey’s first throw to second base ends up in right field and the subsequent tosses are not much better. He almost nips Jim Delahanty on a steal of third base. In his eight innings, relief pitcher Lew Brockett helps Washington with a deliberate windup. Only pitcher Tom Hughes and 2B Nig Perrine are steal-less, while Hal Chase swipes one for New York.

1909 – Phillies president Israel Durham dies four months after taking over the team.

1910 – Cubs shortstop Joe Tinker steals home twice, becoming the first major leaguer to accomplish the feat in Chicago’s 11 – 1 home win over the Reds. Mordecai Brown is the winner.

1911 – Just two and a half months after a fire destroyed the old Polo Grounds, the new grounds open for business. The old bleachers, seating 10,000, were untouched, but the new double-decker grandstand seats another 16,000. Only 6,000 fans show up for the inauguration as Christy Mathewson shuts out the Rustlers, 3 – 0, on nine hits. On the front end of a double steal, Mathewson swipes home in the 4th inning. While guests at the Highlanders’ Hilltop Park, the Giants won 21 of 29 games.

1912 – The Giants sweep another two from the Braves, winning 10 – 3 and 12 – 3. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, adding a steal of home in the 4th inning. This is the second time in a month that a Giants pitcher has stolen home: Red Ames did it May 22nd against Brooklyn. The Giants will steal home 17 times this year to tie the National League mark set by Chicago last season.

1914 – The Reds’ Pete Schneider makes his debut with a nifty 1 – 0 shutout over the Pirates. He will finish the year with a 5-13 mark.

1915:

Recent University of Michigan graduate George Sisler makes his major league debut as a pinch hitter. Sisler stays on to pitch the last three innings, giving up no runs, in the Browns’ 4 – 2 loss to the White Sox.

The Giants sweep two from the Braves, winning 3 – 2 and 5 – 3. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, pitching 11 innings to beat Pat Ragan. Art Fletcher scores the winning run in the 11th on an error. Matty allows six hits, including a two-run homer in the 4th by Sherry Magee. Jeff Tesreau is the winner in the nitecap.

1916:

New York Yankee outfielder Lee Magee collects a record-tying four assists.

The Giants’ Ferdie Schupp stops the Braves on one hit, a single by Ed Konetchy.

Cubs catcher Bill Fischer sets a major league record by catching all 27 innings in a doubleheader loss to the Pirates. The second game goes 18 innings before the Corsairs win it, 3 – 2. Impressed with Fischer’s durability, the Pirates will acquire the backstop next month.

Rogers Hornsby, playing his first full season for St. Louis, has a five-hit day, with three singles and two doubles.

1919 – Red Sox submariner Carl Mays hurls two complete games beating the Yankees, 2 – 0, in the first game and losing the nightcap, 4 – 1.

1922:

Christy Mathewson, in a sanitarium for treatment of tuberculosis, throws out the first pitch for a game at Saranac Lake, NY.

Walter Johnson wins another 1 – 0 battle, this one over the Yankees, for his third straight shutout and 97th in all. Johnson strikes out nine. Waite Hoyt losses a tough one, allowing just two hits in the first eight innings. Earl Smith’s double in the 9th drives home the winner.

1925:

Tris Speaker connects for the 658th double of his career, breaking Nap Lajoie’s career record. He will go on to set the all-time record – still standing – with 792.

A’s OF “Broadway” Bill Lamar hits in his 28th straight game; he’ll be stopped tomorrow, but will hit .356 on the year.

1927:

The Yanks build a 9 – 0 lead against the A’s, and withstand an eight-run rally by the Mackmen in the 9th to win, 9 – 8. New York now leads the American League by ten games. Lou Gehrig collects his 100th hit of the year, belting his 23rd homer with one on. Babe Ruth, nursing a sore right knee, sits out his third straight game.

At Chicago, Lena Blackburne, filling in for manager Ray Schalk, ejected earlier in the game by Brick Owens, inserts himself as a pinch hitter in the 9th and singles. He comes around to score the winning run as the White Sox edge the Indians, 8 – 7.

1928 – Babe Ruth slugs two home runs to lead the Yankees to a 10 – 4 victory over the Athletics, and Ty Cobb appears in his 3,000th career game.

1931 – Records for catching fly balls are set in a doubleheader as the A’s beat the Tigers, 9 – 1 and 5 – 1. The Detroit outfielders make 24 putouts, and Philadelphia adds 19 for a two-team total of 43 in the two games.

1933:

2B Billy Herman sets National League fielding records with 11 putouts in the first game and 16 for the twin bill, as the Cubs take a pair from the Phillies, 9 – 5 and 8 – 3.

Spitballer Jack Quinn, one week short of his 50th birthday, loses his final career decision as the Dodgers edge the Reds, 6 – 5.

1935 – Earl Averill’s consecutive game streak ends at 673 when he is injured in a pre-July 4th fireworks accident. Cleveland still wins, 6 – 5, over the visiting White Sox.

1936 – Larry French and Bill Lee pitch the Cubs to twin shutouts, 3 – 0 and 6 – 0, over the Giants and replace the Cardinals in the league lead.

1939 – The Yankees hit eight home runs in the first game of a doubleheader with the A’s, and five more in the nightcap. Both are major league records, as are the 53 total bases in a doubleheader. Joe DiMaggio, Babe Dahlgren and Joe Gordon each hit three homers. The Yankees win the opener, 23 – 2, and take the nightcap, 10 – 0.

1940 – Johnny Vander Meer, plagued with control problems, is optioned by the Reds to Indianapolis. Vandy was ineffective in the Reds’ pennant drive last year and was knocked out in his only two starts this year.

1941 – White Sox rookie Don Kolloway does it all. He steals four bases, including second, third, and home in the 9th, and hits two home runs and a single in a 6 – 4 win over the Indians.

1947 – Walker Cooper of the Giants hits a home run in his sixth consecutive game to tie a record set by George Kelly in 1924. Cooper had two homers in the first game of the streak, and his shot today helps his brother Mort win, 14 – 6, over the Phils. No player will homer in his brother’s win until Jordan Danks does so to help John Danks 66 years later.

1949 – After missing the first 69 games of the season because of an ailing heel, Joe DiMaggio wakes to find the pain has disappeared. He returns to the Yankee lineup with a single and a home run that help the Bombers beat the Red Sox, 6 – 4, in a night game at Fenway Park. He will hit four homers in a three-game sweep.

1950:

Roy Smalley of the Cubs hits for the cycle in a 15 – 3 win over the Cards at Wrigley Field. Doyle Lade is the winner.

Hideo Fujimoto throws the first perfect game in Nippon Pro Baseball history.

1951:

Monte Irvin clubs two homers off Ralph Branca as the Giants edge the Dodgers, 5 – 4. The second homer, a three-run shot in the 8th, gives the win to reliever Sheldon Jones. The Dodgers now lead the Giants by five games.

Singer Helen Traubel sells her estimated 5,000 shares in the Browns to Bill Veeck and urges her fellow stockholders to do the same.

The Cubs’ Frank Hiller faces just 27 batters in pitching a one-hitter over the Cards, winning 8 – 0. Enos Slaughter has a 5th-inning single but is erased on a double play. Randy Jackson poles his seventh homer in the 7th and the Cubs pull off a double steal in the 9th when they add four runs. Jack Cusick swipes home, with Hiller stealing third.

1952 – Stan Musial tops the All-Star balloting for the second year in a row.

1957:

Ray Moore blanks Cleveland, 6 – 0, as the Orioles pitching staff hurls its fourth consecutive shutout, for a new American League mark.

Ponca City and Greenville (Sooner State League) turn triple plays in successive half innings. Greenville turns theirs in the bottom of the 1st, while Ponca City follows with one in the top half of the 2nd.

By stuffing the ballot box, Cincinnati fans elect eight Redlegs as starters in the All-Star Game. Over protests from Redlegs fans, Commissioner Ford Frick names Stan Musial, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron to replace Cincinnati’s Gus Bell, George Crowe and Wally Post in the starting lineup. In the final vote tally, Musial is the only non-Redleg who would have started.

1959 – Phillies flychaser Wally Post becomes the first major leaguer to throw out two runners from the outfield in one inning as his team loses to the Giants, 6 – 0.

1961:

The Phillies and Giants play for 5 hours and 11 minutes, but the 15-inning contest ends in a 7 – 7 tie. Both teams score three in the 15th in the longest night game to date.

Ryne Duren goes eight innings and strikes out 12 former teammates to give the Angels a 5 – 3 win over New York. Mickey Mantle drives in all three Yankee runs, two on a home run.

1962:

At Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles brings reliever Larry Sherry in to pitch in the 8th inning with brother Norm Sherry behind the plate. Larry goes two-thirds of an inning and is lifted, and the Dodgers top the Mets, 5 – 4, in 13 innings. The Sherrys are the first brother battery since the Baileys started for the Redlegs in 1959.

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle break a scoreless tie in the 4th with back-to-back home runs to lead the Yanks to a 4 – 2 win over the Twins.

1963 – At Los Angeles, the Braves’ Warren Spahn beats Don Drysdale, three-hitting the Dodgers, 1 – 0. It is the first time Spahn has beaten the Dodgers on their home grounds since August 21, 1948 (15 years). He had lost 14 straight: nine at Ebbets Field; four at Memorial Coliseum and one at Dodger Stadium.

1966 – At Fenway Park, the last-place Red Sox cash in five Yankee errors to top the visitors, 5 – 3. All of New York’s scoring comes from Mickey Mantle, who blasts a two-run homer in the 1st and an opposite field homer on the left field screen in the 8th.

1967 – Relief ace Hoyt Wilhelm of the White Sox extends his major-league record for consecutive errorless games to 247. The White Sox win, 3 – 2, at Baltimore.

1969 – After ending its 11-game losing streak yesterday, San Diego suffers its second 19 – 0 shutout of the season, as the Dodgers, behind Don Drysdale, match the National League-record shutout margin. The Dodgers score ten runs in the 3rd to make it easy. Steve Arlin is the loser. Seven batters have two ribbies for the Dodgers.

1970:

For the third time in their careers, Pete Rose and Bobby Tolan combine to belt lead-off homers for the Reds. This time Houston’s Don Wilson is the victim. Tony Perez hits his 27th homer, off Wilson, in the top of the 9th for a 3 – 2 Reds win.

In the final games played at Forbes Field, the Pirates sweep a doubleheader from the Cubs, 3 – 2 and 4 – 1 in front of 40,198 fans, to gain a first-place tie with the Mets.

1973 – During a 2 – 0 win over the Angels, White Sox star Dick Allen breaks his leg in a collision with Mike Epstein at first base. Allen will come to bat only five more times all season.

1974 – At Cleveland, Indians OF Leron Lee crashes into Boston C Carlton Fisk, knocking him out of the game. Fisk’s left knee injury is so serious he will not return to action this year, and, with a broken arm sustained in next year’s spring training, will not play until June 1975.

1975 – At Riverfront Stadium, George Foster hits a two-out two-run homer in the 10th inning to give the Reds a 6 – 4 win over the Padres.

1976:

Boston’s Butch Hobson debuts at Fenway Park with a double off the center field wall and a rare inside-the-park homer, both off the Orioles’ Rudy May. Boston wins, 12 – 8.

Tigers rookie Mark “the Bird” Fidrych amuses a national television audience by talking to the baseball and pitching a complete game seven-hitter in a 5 – 1 win over the Yankees.

1977:

Ken Reitz knocks in eight runs – half on a grand slam – in a 13 – 3 St. Louis win over Pittsburgh.

Billy Hunter becomes the Rangers’ fourth manager in six days. Connie Ryan had filled in after Eddie Stanky’s abrupt departure.

1979:

It should’ve been five. At Honolulu, Hawaii (Pacific Coast League) tops Phoenix, 6 – 5, in 17 innings. Steve Brye of Hawaii is given a PCL-record four consecutive intentional walks before he drives in the winning run in the 17th inning.

The Pirates trade pitchers Ed Whitson, Al Holland and Fred Breining to the Giants for P Dave Roberts and infielders Bill Madlock and Lenny Randle. Madlock, whose average dropped after the Giants moved him to 2B, will rebound with the Bucs, hitting .328 the rest of the way and leading them to a pennant.

The Reds sell OF Ken Henderson to the Cubs and swap P Pedro Borbon to the Giants for OF Hector Cruz.

1980 – J.R. Richard again leaves after just 3 1/3 innings against Cincinnati in an 8 – 5 loss. In 16 starts, the Houston star has now left early three times with a sore back, three times with a sore shoulder, and three times with a weak forearm.

1984 – Dwight Evans hits a three-run home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to complete the cycle and give Boston a 9 – 6 win over Seattle.

1987:

In a seven-game day, American League batters combined to hit a record 28 home runs.

Pinch hitter Greg Gross breaks up Ron Darling’s no-hitter with a leadoff triple in the 8th inning and two Phillie rallies beat the Mets, 5 – 4.

Don Baylor moves ahead of Ron Hunt on the all-time hit-by-pitch list when the Yankees’ Rick Rhoden plunks him during a 6 – 2 loss to the Red Sox. It is the 244th time that Baylor has been hit by a pitch. He’ll end with 267, putting him third on the list behind turn-of-the-century star Hughie Jennings.

One day after hitting three home runs in Oakland’s 13 – 3 rout of the Indians, A’s rookie 1B Mark McGwire hits two more in a 10 – 0 Oakland romp to tie the major-league record of five homers in two games. McGwire’s nine runs in two games ties an American League record set in 1937.

1991 – Reds SS Barry Larkin hits three consecutive home runs in an 8 – 5 win over the Astros, giving him a major league record-tying five over a two-game span. Ernie Banks and Freddie Patek are the only other shortstops to homer three times in a game.

1992 – Minnesota rumbles by Oakland for the third straight game, 10 – 2, to leave the two teams tied in the American League West at 43-31. Scott Erickson wins over Kevin Campbell. Kirby Puckett and Greg Gagne homer for the Twins.

1993 – Rangers OF Jose Canseco faces ligament transplant surgery in his arm, which he injured during his brief one-inning stint on the mound in relief on May 29th.

1994:

Oakland P Bobby Witt follows up his one-hit shutout over the Royals with a two-hit whitewashing of the Angels, winning by a score of 3 – 0.

Mets P Dwight Gooden receives a 60-day suspension for violating terms of his drug aftercare program.

Before a crowd of 55,021, the Rockies split a pair with the visiting Padres. The Rocks outslug the Pads to win the opener, 10 – 9, as the two teams combine for six homers. No balls leave the park in the second game, an 11 – 3 Padre win. San Diego scores a National League-record nine runs in the 11th, and the ten runs in the inning by two teams is one short of the NL mark.

The Phils’ injury-plagued C Darren Daulton suffers another season-ending injury when he uses his left collarbone to catch a foul tip off the bat of Jeff Conine. Daulton will be out the rest of the season. Florida beats the Phils, 2 – 1, as Jeff Mutis wins his first and only game in the National League.

1995:

Colorado pulls off the hidden ball trick in a 2 – 1, 11-inning loss to the host San Francisco Giants. In the first inning, Darren Lewis is tagged out at third base by Vinny Castilla, with Barry Bonds at bat.

The Cubs trade C Rick Wilkins to the Astros for OF Luis Gonzalez and C Scott Servais.

1996:

Darryl Strawberry’s 300th career round-tripper is a dramatic 9th-inning, two-run dinger which gives the Yankees a come-from-behind 3 – 2 win over the Royals.

Seattle scores seven runs in the 1st inning, and eight in the 5th, on the way to a 19 – 8 pasting of the Rangers. 3B Luis Sojo gets five hits for the winners.

1997:

Yankees P David Wells starts the game against Cleveland wearing Babe Ruth’s autographed cap from the 1934 season. Manager Joe Torre makes him take it off after the 1st inning since it doesn’t conform to the team’s current uniform. Without the cap, Wells blows a 3 – 0 lead as the Indians go on to a 12 – 8 victory. The Indians mount a 19-hit attack, as CF Marquis Grissom accounts for five of the hits, while 3B Matt Williams gets four hits, including a pair of homers, and drives home six runs.

For the second time in three days, a Tiger steals four bases with Boston C Scott Hatteberg behind the plate. This time it is Damion Easley doing the stealing in Detroit’s 9 – 2 victory. Tomorrow, Hatteberg will start on the bench, but will come in when Bill Haselman breaks his finger.

1998:

Sammy Sosa has two singles and an RBI – but no homers – as the Cubs snap a seven-game losing streak with a 6 – 3 win over the Royals.

Milwaukee 3B Jeff Cirillo gets five hits and drives in two runs, but it’s not enough to keep the Brewers from losing a 10 – 8 decision to the White Sox.

The Twins’ Bob Tewksbury slows down Mark McGwire, twice retiring him with a 44-MPH lob. McGwire grounds out in the 1st inning swinging at a lob, and then with a 0 – 2 count in the 4th, pops out to first on another. Tewksbury also retires Ray Lankford in the 6th on a lob and ends with a 3 – 2 win.

1999 – Hack Wilson ups his RBI total for the 1930 season to 191. 69 years after the season, an RBI is added to his batting record by the commissioner’s office, which also gives Babe Ruth six additional walks, raising his career-record total to 2,062. “There is no doubt that Hack Wilson’s RBI total should be 191,” commissioner Bud Selig says. “I am sensitive to the historical significance that accompanies the correction of such a prestigious record, especially after so many years have passed, but it is important to get it right.” The missing RBI comes from the second game of a doubleheader between Wilson’s Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds on July 28, 1930 in which Charlie Grimm was wrongly credited with two RBIs and Wilson with none. Ruth’s walk total is now 2,062. Ted Williams is second, trailing by 43, and Rickey Henderson of the New York Mets is third, 134 behind Ruth.

2000:

The Orioles nip the Red Sox, 8 – 7 in 11 innings, as B.J. Surhoff goes 5 for 6 for Baltimore, stretching his hitting streak to 21 games.

The Rockies overcome a seven-run deficit to defeat the visiting Giants, 17 – 13, as 3B Jeff Cirillo slugs a double and three home runs, drives home six runs, and scores five himself. Cirillo’s third homer, a two-run shot off John Johnstone, breaks a 12 – 12 tie. The Rockies draw their 20 millionth fan to one ballpark faster than any other team in major league history. Taking less than six years, Colorado eclipses the Dodgers’ mark of taking nine years in two stadiums to reach the milestone.

2001:

The Reds defeat the Cubs, 5 – 2, as OF Alex Ochoa gets five hits, including a home run, for Cincinnati. OF Dmitri Young adds four hits.

After 20 seasons in San Diego, Padre outfielder Tony Gwynn announces he’ll retire at the end of the season. The future Hall of Famer has the highest lifetime batting average (.338) among all active players.

2002 – Tampa Bay whips their cross-state rival Marlins, 4 – 0, behind Wilson Alvarez and two relievers. In the 7th, Kevin Millar of the Marlins hits a towering fly that lands on one of the catwalks that hang from the stadium’s dome. It never comes down and is ruled a double. It’s the second time a ball has gotten stuck in a catwalk at Tropicana Field. In 1999, Jose Canseco hit a home run drive that lodged there. Millar joins Ruppert Jones, Ricky Nelson, Dave Kingman, Alvaro Espinoza and Canseco as the only players to hit a fair ball that got stuck in a stadium obstruction. Jones and Nelson both had hits get caught in the overhead speakers at the old Kingdome. The balls hit by Kingman and Espinoza were at the Minneapolis Metrodome with Kingman’s getting stuck in a drainage valve and Espinoza’s lodging in an overhead speaker.

2004 – In a 14 – 6 win over the Expos at Citizens Bank Park, David Bell becomes the seventh player in Phillies history to hit for the cycle. The Philadelphia third baseman joins his grandfather Gus Bell (1951) as the only grandson and grandfather combination to accomplish the feat.

2007:

Frank Thomas hit his 500th home run. He is the 21st player to reach the mark. He connects with a three-run shot in the 1st against Carlos Silva, going 396 feet to left field. The hit is the difference in a 5 – 4 victory by the Jays.

Craig Biggio ties his career high with five hits to reach 3,000 for his career. He is the 27th player to have accumulated that many. It is one day shy of the 19th anniversary of his first major league hit, a June 29th single against Orel Hershiser. Biggio becomes the first player to reach 3,000 hits in a five-hit game. On his third hit, the hustling veteran is thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. Biggio is 5 for 6 overall in Houston’s 8 – 5 win in 11 innings.

2008:

The Los Angeles Dodgers win a game without the benefit of a hit when they are thwarted by Angels pitchers Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo over eight innings. In the 6th inning, Matt Kemp reaches first base on an error by Weaver, steals second and advances to third on a throwing error by catcher Jeff Mathis, then scores the game’s only run on a sacrifice fly by Blake DeWitt. The last team to win a game without registering a base hit were the Cleveland Indians who beat Boston’s Matt Young under similar circumstances on April 12, 1992. It is the fifth time since 1900 that a major league team has won a game without a hit.

Danny Rios of the Yakult Swallows is served with a one-year suspension for positive steroid tests in May and June. He is the third player to be suspended under Nippon Pro Baseball’s steroid policy (following Rick Guttormson and Luis A. Gonzalez) and the second to be suspended for a year. Rios was only 2-7 a year after having won the Korea Baseball Organization MVP award. The KBO never tested Rios for steroids when he pitched in that league. Rios, like Gonzalez, played in the majors before going to Japan.

2009:

Mariano Rivera earns his 500th career save as the Yankees complete a three-game sweep of the Mets with a 4 – 2 win at Citi Field. Rivera, who is the second pitcher to reach the milestone after Trevor Hoffman, also draws a bases-loaded walk in the 9th for his first career RBI.

The red-hot Colorado Rockies complete a sweep of the A’s with a 3 – 1 win, their 20th in their last 23 games. Aaron Cook takes a shutout into the 9th to earn the win.

The Lake Elsinore Storm rout the High Desert Mavericks, 33 – 18, in the California League; the two teams set a new league record for runs in a game. The Storm set a record with 32 hits. Six Storm players score at least four times, led by Matt Clark’s seven runs. Kuo-Hui Lo scores four, drives in four and homers twice in a losing cause. Nine pitchers allow three or more runs, with only Travis Mortimore having a good day (1 2/3 IP, 0 R).

2010:

Ubaldo Jimenez gives up no hits over the first five innings but then runs into trouble, giving up four runs to the Padres in the 6th. The Rockies’ offense bails him out, however, with four home runs and ten runs and he registers his major league-leading 14th win; his ERA has risen from 1.16 to 1.83 after his last two mediocre starts, though.

The Tigers lose pitcher Joel Zumaya to an elbow injury suffered while throwing a pitch in the 8th inning against the Twins, but they hold on for a 7 – 5 win to take over first place in the AL Central. The Bengals jump to an early 4 – 0 lead on 1st-inning doubles by Miguel Cabrera and Brennan Boesch. Jeremy Bonderman is the winner over Francisco Liriano, but Zumaya’s dramatic injury casts a pall over the Tigers’ dugout; x-rays will confirm that he has a fractured elbow and will not pitch again this year.

Edwin Rodriguez, who became the first Puerto Rican manager in major league history last week, wins a game in front of his countrymen as the Marlins defeat the Mets, 10 – 3, at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the first major league game played in the stadium since the MLB-owned Montreal Expos were forced to move a number of home games there in 2003 and 2004. A crown of more than 18,000 is on hand for the historic game. With Bobby Valentine turning down an offer to manage the Marlins, Rodriguez will be confirmed as Florida’s skipper for the remainder of the season.

2011:

The University of South Carolina becomes the first team to go 10-0 in a NCAA Tournament, winning the 2011 College World Series for their second straight title. They win, 5 – 2, over Florida in Game 2 of the finals, behind Michael Roth’s 14th win of the year. Karsten Whitson takes the loss, his only one this season. Gamecocks 2B Scott Wingo is named the Tournament MVP.

Cliff Lee hurls his third consecutive shutout in blanking the Red Sox, 5 – 0. The Phillies pitcher now has a 32-inning scoreless streak and improves to 9-5, going 5-0, 0.21 in June. The last Philly pitcher to throw three consecutive shutouts was Robin Roberts in 1950.

The Mets hit their first grand slam since August 1, 2009, when Jason Bay connects in the 4th inning of their game against the Tigers. They don’t have to wait as long for the next one, as one inning later, Carlos Beltran imitates him to cap a 14 – 3 win. The Mets had been outslammed 18-0 in the interim.

2012:

Madison Bumgarner pitches a one-hitter for a 5 – 0 win over the Reds. It is the fourth straight shutout by Giants pitchers, setting a franchise record.

OF Yasiel Puig becomes the third Cuban defector this year to sign a contract worth tens of millions with a major league team, when he agrees to a seven-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers for $42 million. Puig’s signing follows that of Yoenis Cespedes, who is having a fine rookie season with Oakland, and of Jorge Soler who inked a deal with the Cubs earlier this month. The 21-year-old centerfielder will need to remain in Mexico City for a few more weeks, until a work visa can be obtained. However, the Dodgers are anxious to complete the deal before a cap on international signings comes into effect on July 2nd as part of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.

2013:

Having already matched Roger Clemens’ 1997 feat of winning his first 11 decisions of the season, the Tigers’ Max Scherzer becomes the first pitcher since “Rocket Roger” in 1986 to roll off 12 straight wins at the start of the year. Scherzer defeats the Rays, 6 – 3, although he is still two wins shy of Roger, who began his breakout season with 14 straight W’s. In support of Scherzer’s pitching, Miguel Cabrera has a four-hit game, including a pair of homers against Alex Colome.

The Phillies end a six-game winning streak by the Dodgers with a 16 – 1 shellacking. Delmon Young has a career-high six RBI and John Lannan wins his first game for the team. For the Dodgers, it’s their biggest losing margin since moving to Los Angeles in 1958.

2015 – Pitcher Steven Matz has a great debut as he goes 3 for 3 at the plate and pitches into the 8th inning to lead the Mets to a 7 – 2 win over the Reds, completing a doubleheader sweep. He becomes the first pitcher to drive in four runs in his debut, settling down after allowing a home run to the first batter he faces, Brandon Phillips.

2016:

The Indians defeat the Braves, 5 – 3, behind Corey Kluber, for their 11th straight win. It is the team’s longest winning streak since 1982 and they now lead the AL Central by 5 1/2 games.

In defeating the Reds, 7 – 2, in 15 innings, the Cubs have to use three different pitchers in left field after they run out of position players. Relievers Travis Wood and Spencer Patton alternate between the mound and the outfield in the 14th, then another reliever, Pedro Strop, plays in left in the 15th as Wood closes out the win. Kris Bryant snaps the tie with an RBI single in the top of the 15th and Javier Baez follows with a grand slam to put the game away.

2017:

Walking on the Roberto Clemente Bridge near PNC Park in Pittsburgh, PA, umpire John Tumpane sees a woman climb over the railing. Realizing she is suicidal and about to jump into the Allegheny River below, Tumpane reaches and grabs her, and then gets assistance from other passers-by to prevent her from making the fatal leap until emergency workers can arrive on the scene.

One day after he ranted to reporters about pitcher Jake Arrieta’s failure to hold on baserunners when the Nationals stole a team-record seven bases, C Miguel Montero is designated for assignment by the Cubs, who call his tirade unprofessional and detrimental to the team’s cohesion.

2018:

University of California sophomore 1B Andrew Vaughn is the winner of the Golden Spikes Award, honoring the best college baseball player in the country. Vaughn hit .402 with 23 homers and 63 RBIs this season and beats out three top picks in the 2018 amateur draft: Casey Mize, Brady Singer and Kody Clemens.

Oregon State University wins the 2018 College World Series, defeating the University of Arkansas, 5 – 0, in Game 3 of the finals. Kevin Abel throws a complete game shutout to seal the win, retiring the last 20 batters of the game. C Adley Rutschman is named the tournament MVP with a record 17 hits in the tourney. It is Oregon’s third championship, after those in 2006 and 2007.

2019 – Police in the Dominican Republic announce that they have arrested the prime suspect in the shooting of David Ortiz on June 9th. They believe the affair was a case of mistaken identity and that the shots were intended for a cousin of the crime’s sponsor, who was sitting next to Ortiz at the bar, but that the henchmen hired to do the job got confused. The suspect has links to the Mexican Gulf Cartel. That theory will not convince many people and will be torn apart by a private investigation that will confirm that Big Papi was indeed the intended target.

2023 – Domingo Germán of the Yankees throws the 24th perfect game in major league history, and the first since 2012, in defeating the Athletics, 11 – 0. He strikes out nine batters in pitching his gem.

2024 – Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, one of the few men to win both a Rookie of the Year Award and an MVP Award, passes away at 86, only a few days after the death of long-time teammate Willie Mays.

2025 – Hall of Fame outfielder Dave Parker dies of Parkinson’s disease at 74, a few weeks before his scheduled induction ceremony in Cooperstown; he had been elected by the Veterans Committee as part of the 2025 Hall of Fame Class.

Births[edit]

1846 – George McManus, manager (d. 1918)

1861 – Mart McQuaid, infielder (d. 1928)

1861 – Mox McQuery, infielder (d. 1900)

1865 – Frank Scheibeck, infielder (d. 1956)

1866 – Charlie Petty, pitcher (d. 1928)

1868 – John Taber, pitcher (d. 1940)

1871 – Ike Fisher, catcher (d. 1947)

1877 – Bob Blewett, pitcher (d. 1958)

1880 – Mike Lynch, pitcher (d. 1927)

1881 – George Cockill, umpire (d. 1937)

1882 – Spider Baum, minor league pitcher (d. 1955)

1886 – Fred Miller, pitcher (d. 1953)

1889 – Bill Mundy, infielder (d. 1958)

1890 – Howard Drew, USA national team outfielder (d. 1957)

1890 – Ken Williams, outfielder (d. 1959)

1892 – Sidney Ross, pitcher (d. 1935)

1907 – Joe Cascarella, pitcher (d. 2002)

1910 – Lee Gamble, outfielder (d. 1994)

1910 – Haruyasu Nakajima, first Triple Crown winner in Japan (d. 1987)

1911 – Jim Hitchcock, infielder (d. 1959)

1915 – A. Ray Smith, minor league executive (d. 1999)

1919 – Leniel Hooker, pitcher (d. 1977)

1920 – Bert Shepard, pitcher (d. 2008)

1921 – Steve Filipowicz, outfielder (d. 1975)

1921 – John Hooper, minor league outfielder (d. 2014)

1924 – Bill Andress, umpire (d. 2008)

1924 – Ray Cash, minor league catcher and manager (d. 1985)

1927 – Tunney Brooks, minor league player (d. 2012)

1927 – Paul Eames, minor league catcher and manager; scout (d. 2011)

1927 – Dick Lane, outfielder (d. 2018)

1930 – Charlie Moore Sr., minor league pitcher

1931 – Oscar Rodriguez, minor league infielder; Salon de la Fama

1935 – Junzo Ando, NPB catcher

1935 – Don Bacon, minor league infielder and manager

1935 – Bob Blaylock, pitcher (d. 2024)

1935 – Orlando McFarlane, catcher (d. 2007)

1936 – Fred Gladding, pitcher (d. 2015)

1937 – Cal Emery, infielder (d.2010)

1937 – Ron Luciano, umpire; author (d. 1995)

1940 – Gary Wagner, pitcher (d. 2026)

1941 – Len Boehmer, infielder

1941 – Al Downing, pitcher; All-Star

1941 – Fred Talbot, pitcher (d. 2013)

1942 – Shozo Doi, NPB infielder and manager

1942 – Tom Fletcher, pitcher (d. 2018)

1942 – George Woodson, minor league pitcher

1943 – Susumu Sakudo, NPB catcher

1943 – Keisuke Senda, NPB infielder

1944 – Hal Breeden, infielder (d. 2021)

1944 – Tadao Yamamoto, NPB infielder

1946 – Greg Sims, outfielder

1948 – Hiroshi Suzuki, minor league pitcher

1949 – Don Baylor, designated hitter, manager; All-Star (d. 2017)

1950 – Chris Speier, infielder; All-Star

1952 – Kojiro Ikegaya, NPB pitcher

1952 – Joe Sambito, pitcher; All-Star

1953 – Isao Fukuda, NPB coach

1954 – Pablo Juárez, Nicaraguan national team outfielder

1954 – Kwang-kwon Lee, KBO pitcher

1955 – Kwang-eun Lee, KBO outfielder and manager

1956 – Brad Fischer, coach

1956 – Lai-Fa Lee, NPB outfielder; CPBL manager (d. 2024)

1957 – Hisato Aoyama, NPB pitcher

1958 – Clay Christiansen, pitcher

1958 – Rafael Vasquez, pitcher

1958 – Keijiro Yumioka, NPB infielder

1960 – John Elway, minor league outfielder

1961 – Martin Helmig, German national team pitcher

1961 – Yoshihiro Nishioka, NPB outfielder

1961 – Jay Schroeder, minor league catcher

1961 – Joe Szekely, minor league catcher and manager

1962 – Kazuo Matsubayashi, NPB outfielder

1964 – Mark Grace, infielder; All-Star

1964 – Kevin Reimer, outfielder

1964 – Dave Serrano, college coach

1966 – Frank Bolick, infielder

1966 – Austis Gibbs, minor league infielder

1966 – Shawn Jeter, outfielder

1967 – Eduardo Cárdenas, Cuban league infielder

1967 – Matt Karchner, pitcher

1967 – Ron Witmeyer, infielder

1969 – Aaron Jersild, minor league pitcher

1969 – Todd Revenig, pitcher

1970 – Kevin Polcovich, infielder

1971 – Greg Keagle, pitcher

1971 – Ron Mahay, pitcher

1971 – Neil Szeryk, Canadian national team infielder

1972 – Chad Kopitzke, minor league pitcher

1973 – Jose Flores, infielder

1973 – Corey Koskie, infielder

1974 – Toine Jager, Hoofdklasse outfielder

1975 – Chad Green, minor league outfielder

1975 – Richard Hidalgo, outfielder

1975 – Adam Robinson, minor league infielder

1976 – Ryohei Endo, NPB pitcher

1976 – Kenshi Kawaguchi, NPB outfielder

1976 – Osmani Urrutia, Cuban League outfielder

1977 – Kevin McGlinchy, pitcher

1977 – Chris Spurling, pitcher

1977 – Hua-Wei Tseng, CPBL outfielder

1978 – Ryan McDermott, minor league pitcher (d. 2015)

1979 – Dirk Fries, Bundesliga pitcher

1980 – Victor Mendez, minor league outfielder

1981 – Brandon Phillips, infielder; All-Star

1983 – T.J. Franco, minor league pitcher

1983 – Masamitsu Hirano, NPB pitcher

1983 – Andriy Kubalskyy, Ukrainian national team outfielder

1984 – Tyron Bartorillo, New Zealand national team infielder

1984 – Clay Zavada, pitcher

1985 – Colt Hynes, pitcher

1986 – Takuya Hashimoto, Japanese national team infielder

1986 – Takashi Maruyama, NPB pitcher

1987 – Andrea Girasole, Bundesliga pitcher

1988 – Jose Felix, minor league player

1988 – Wang-Wei Lin, minor league outfielder

1988 – Wang-Yi Lin, minor league pitcher

1988 – Kevan Smith, catcher

1989 – Min-sik Kim, KBO catcher

1989 – Jason Krizan, outfielder

1989 – Daichi Mizuguchi, NPB infielder

1989 – Naomichi Umeda, NPB infielder

1990 – Steeven Vesque, Division Elite pitcher-infielder

1992 – Jui-Lin Chang, CPBL pitcher

1993 – Michael Feliz, pitcher

1993 – Juan Herrera, minor league infielder

1993 – Marek Minarik, minor league pitcher

1993 – Erick Salcedo, minor league infielder

1994 – Spencer Bivens, pitcher

1994 – José Cuas, pitcher

1995 – Taiki Sekine, NPB outfielder

1996 – Daniel Álvarez, minor league pitcher

1996 – Evan Mendoza, minor league infielder

1996 – Takumu Nakano, NPB infielder

1997 – Marielbys Ferro, Cuban women’s national team infielder

1998 – Fernando Villegas Jr., minor league outfielder

1998 – Josh Winckowski, pitcher

1998 – Itsuki Yamamoto, NPB pitcher

2000 – Kevin Solórzano, Ecuadorian national team pitcher

2001 – Ryota Kawano, NPB infielder

2001 – Jakob Marsee, outfielder

2001 – Luis Rodríguez, Puerto Rican national team pitcher

2001 – Blake Walston, pitcher

2002 – Kristian Campbell, infielder

2003 – Shinya Sugai, NPB pitcher

2003 – Richelle Toledo, Philippines women’s national team catcher

Deaths[edit]

1888 – Joe Brown, pitcher (b. 1859)

1902 – Robert Ives, minor league pitcher (b. 1876)

1909 – Israel Durham, owner (b. 1855)

1922 – Dick Lowe, catcher (b. 1854)

1937 – Pop Joy, infielder (b. 1860)

1941 – Jack Herbert, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1877)

1941 – Bruce Petway, catcher, manager (b. 1885)

1944 – Ecky Stearns, infielder (b. 1861)

1950 – Mutz Ens, infielder (b. 1887)

1955 – Spider Baum, minor league pitcher (b. 1882)

1957 – Johnny Ray, outfielder (b. 1911)

1960 – Bull Durham, pitcher (b. 1877)

1962 – Mickey Cochrane, catcher, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1903)

1962 – Cy Morgan, pitcher (b. 1878)

1963 – Frank Baker, infielder; Hall of Famer (b. 1886)

1968 – Paddy Driscoll, infielder (b. 1895)

1969 – Sammy Gee, infielder (b. 1928)

1977 – Otto Bluege, infielder (b. 1909)

1978 – Johnny Schulte, catcher (b. 1896)

1987 – Bill Schuster, infielder (b. 1912)

1999 – A. Ray Smith, minor league owner (b. 1915)

2004 – Hal Toenes, pitcher (b. 1917)

2005 – Steve Reich, minor league pitcher (b. 1971)

2008 – Sam Carrigan, umpire (b. 1921)

2008 – George Heller, minor league pitcher (b. 1927)

2009 – Ralph Nelles, minor league executive (b. 1918)

2009 – Tony Patch, umpire (b. 1940)

2011 – Billy Baldwin, outfielder (b. 1948)

2011 – John Bargas, minor league catcher (b. 1923)

2012 – Joe Richardson, minor league player and manager (b. 1921)

2012 – Doris Sams, AAGPBL outfielder and pitcher (b. 1927)

2014 – Jim Brosnan, pitcher (b. 1929)

2014 – Jim Duffus, minor league pitcher; author (b. 1927)

2016 – Takuji Kochi, NPB infielder (b. 1920)

2017 – Pepper Martin, minor league infielder and college coach (b. 1920)

2018 – Mike Kilkenny, pitcher (b. 1945)

2022 – Hisami Haijima, NPB catcher (b. 1934)

2024 – Orlando Cepeda, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1937)

2025 – Dave Parker, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1951)

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TV SPORTS TODAY

(All times Eastern)

Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts

Sunday, June 28

AUTO RACING

9 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Lenova Austrian Grand Prix, Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria

3:30 p.m.

TNT — NASCAR Cup Series: Toyota / Save Mart 350, In-Season Challenge – Round 1, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, Calif.

5:30 p.m.

FOX — NHRA: Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park, Norwalk, Ohio

GOLF

6 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: DS Automobiles 83° Open d’Italia, Final Round, Circolo Golf Torino, Fiano, Torino, Italy

9 a.m.

NBCSN — LPGA Tour: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Final Round, Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn.

11 a.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: DICK’S Open, Final Round, En-Joie Golf Course, Endicott, N.Y.

1 p.m.

NBC — LPGA Tour: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Final Round, Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn.

2 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: Travelers Championship, Final Round, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn.

4 p.m.

NBC — PGA Tour: Travelers Championship, Final Round, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn.

MLB BASEBALL

1:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (1:35 p.m.) OR Arizona at Tampa Bay (1:40 p.m.)

3 p.m.

NBCSN — Athletics at L.A. Angels (3:15 p.m.)

PEACOCK — Athletics at L.A. Angels (3:15 p.m.)

7 p.m.

NBC — N.Y. Yankees at Boston (7:20 p.m.)

PEACOCK — N.Y. Yankees at Boston (7:20 p.m.)

SOCCER (MEN’S)

3 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Inglewood, Calif.

SOFTBALL

1 p.m.

ESPN — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Volts

8 p.m.

MLBN — Athletes Unlimited: Bandits at Spark

WNBA BASKETBALL

2 p.m.

CBS — Minnesota at Dallas

4 p.m.

CBS — Las Vegas at Chicago

7 p.m.

ESPN — New York at Golden State

X GAMES

4 p.m.ABC — X Games Sacramento 2026: Day 2, From Sacramento, Calif.

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