THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” WEDNESDAY JULY 1, 2026

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

DODGERS 9, ATHLETICS 3

MARINERS 8, ANGELS 3

PHILLIES 8, PIRATES 0

TIGERS 9, YANKEES 3

CUBS 9, PADRES 7

WHITE SOX 9, ORIOLES 3

RANGERS 4, GUARDIANS 2

NATIONALS 8, RED SOX 1

DIAMONDBACKS 8, GIANTS 2

METS 3, BLUE JAYS 0

CARDINALS 5, BRAVES 3

BREWERS 7, REDS 2

RAYS 10, ROYALS 4

ASTROS 6, TWINS 4

MARLINS 14, ROCKIES 3

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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

INDIANAPOLISD 12 OMAHA 5

GREAT LAKES 12 FT. WAYNE 2

BELOIT 4 SOUTH BEND 0

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WNBA SCOREBOARD

LIBERTY 93 ACES 85

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MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER SCOREBOARD

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WORLD CUP SCOREBOARD

NORWAY 2 IVORY COAST 1

FRANCE 3 SWEDEN 0

MEXICO 2M ECUADOR

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NBA NEWS

LEBRON HITS FREE AGENCY: JAMES NOT RETURNING TO LAKERS, PLANS TO PLAY 24TH SEASON ELSEWHERE

LeBron James is leaving the Los Angeles Lakers, which means another decision awaits.

A mere 16 years after his first famed “decision” — the one that saw him leave Cleveland for Miami — James is getting ready to change uniforms once again. He has told the Lakers that his eight-year run with them is over and that he’ll play a record-extending 24th NBA season elsewhere.

James has made clear many times in recent years that more championships are his motivation, which means it’s almost certain he’ll pick a team that he believes can contend for the NBA title in 2027. Golden State is believed to be on his list, though there are certainly some who will wonder if reunions with Cleveland and Miami are possible. Or, perhaps, a new landing spot awaits such as San Antonio, where he could partner with 7-foot-4 global megastar Victor Wembanyama.

“I’ve done it all. I’ve seen it all,” James said when the Lakers’ season ended in May — after what was his last game with the franchise. “Just being able to compete and trying to win championships, I think that’s a motivating factor.”

The first half of his decision is complete: He’s back for at least one more year, which means his family agreed to that part of the plan — James had said his wife Savannah and 12-year-old daughter Zhuri would have big says in whether he continued to play.

His next decision — where to play — is among the biggest dominoes that will fall during the NBA’s offseason player movement window, alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo being traded by Milwaukee to Miami.

The next step for James is hearing from interested teams — Golden State, Miami and Cleveland were among the clubs expected to make pitches, a person with knowledge of the plans said — before he picks a landing spot. How long the process will take is anyone’s guess, and the person made clear to The Associated Press that money won’t be a factor in James’ decision.

The Lakers released a statement Tuesday thanking James for his eight seasons with the club.

“LeBron James is one of the greatest athletes in history,” said Jeanie Buss, part of the Lakers’ ownership group. “We will always be thankful for his eight years with the Lakers, including the title he led us to in 2020 under the toughest imaginable circumstances, and the countless records he broke in purple and gold. We wish him all the best in the future, both on the court and off. He will always be a cherished part of the Lakers family.”

ESPN, citing James’ longtime agent and Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul, first reported James’ plans.

What happens now for James

The free agency period in the league opened at 6 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, which meant James and Paul could start taking those meetings. James will not be able to sign with a new team until the league’s offseason moratorium is lifted on July 6.

The momentum toward Golden State seemed to pick up when longtime Warriors forward Draymond Green did not exercise his $27.6 million option for this coming season earlier this week, in large part to allow his team flexibility to make other roster moves. It doesn’t mean Green won’t be back in Golden State — all indications are that he will — but it gives the team options.

“Personally, I’m always willing to work with the team on whatever is best, especially at this point in my career,” Green said on the latest episode of his podcast, which was released Tuesday. “So, my decision to opt out was for a few reasons. As you all know, I’ve always taken the approach of working with the organization. I’ve been in one place for 14 years. It’s more of a family to me than anything.”

Golden State is a franchise James faced four times with Cleveland in the NBA Finals. He also has close relationships with Green, Stephen Curry and Warriors coach Steve Kerr; Curry was his teammate and Kerr was his coach for the United States’ run to the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Games.

James’ tenure with the Lakers was the longest he spent in one stint with an NBA team and he led them to the 2020 NBA championship. He became the NBA’s career scoring leader while wearing a Lakers uniform and surpassed a slew of other records while in purple and gold.

He spent the first seven years of his career in Cleveland, then left for four years in Miami, where he won the first two of his four championships. That was followed by another four-year stint with the Cavaliers (so he had 11 years there total), and in 2018 he joined the Lakers.

A career like none other

James is the NBA’s oldest active player; he turns 42 in December. He was the first player in league history to log 23 seasons; he’ll add at least one more to that this season. He also became the first player in the league to have a son as a teammate, with Bronny James playing alongside him with the Lakers.

The list of James’ accolades to this point are beyond comparison.

He’s a 22-time All-Star, a 21-time All-NBA selection, a four-time Most Valuable Player, a four-time NBA Finals MVP, a three-time All-Star Game MVP, and was part of the NBA’s 75th anniversary team. He’s coming off a season where he averaged 20.9 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 7.2 assists per game, and for his career, he’s averaged 26.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 7.4 assists in more than 1,600 games.

“He created a whole new era for the Lakers, including leading us to an NBA Championship in 2020 and all the milestones he surpassed in a Lakers jersey,” Lakers Hall of Famer Magic Johnson wrote on social media. “I’ll always love and be grateful for him and wish him all the best in the next phase of his life, on and off the court!”

NBA sets cap, tax lines for 2026-27

As is custom, the NBA revealed the salary cap for this coming season shortly before the formal start of the free agency window. The cap was set at $164.961 million, with the tax level at $200.428 million.

Other numbers released by the league:

— The minimum team salary is $148.465 million.

— The first apron level is $209.015 million.

— The second apron level is $221.686 million.

— The non-taxpayer midlevel salary is $15.044 million.

— The taxpayer midlevel is $6.064 million.

— The room midlevel is $9.366 million.

Hardaway Jr., Fontecchio to Heat

Tim Hardaway Jr. grew up in Miami, where his father’s jersey sways as one that the Heat retired. And now, he’ll follow in his father’s footsteps — agreeing to a $6.5 million deal to join the Heat and be one of the shooters around soon-to-be formally acquired Antetokounmpo. Miami also agreed with Simone Fontecchio on a deal that will only cost Miami $2.5 million against the cap.

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KAWHI LEONARD GOING BACK TO TORONTO AFTER RAPTORS MAKE DEAL WITH CLIPPERS, AP SOURCE SAYS

Kawhi Leonard is headed back to the Toronto Raptors, after they struck a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers to reunite with the player who led their run to the 2019 NBA championship, a person with knowledge of the talks said Tuesday.

The Raptors are sending Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, two first-round picks, two second-round picks and pick swap to the Clippers for Leonard, said the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the trade has not received the required league approval.

Leonard spent one season in Toronto, and that was the year the Raptors won their lone title. He turned 35 on Monday but is coming off the highest-scoring season of his career, averaging 27.9 points for the Clippers in 65 games.

Leonard is a seven-time All-Star, seven-time All-NBA selection, a two-time NBA champion (also having won in 2014 with San Antonio) and is generally considered one of the game’s top defensive players.

The trade is the latest in what’s becoming a long line of huge deals getting made between clubs already this summer, one that has seen Giannis Antetokounmpo getting traded by Milwaukee to Miami, Ja Morant getting moved to Portland by Memphis and now this — one where the Raptors will hope that Leonard can weave his title magic one more time.

Toronto agreeing to make this deal suggests that it isn’t worried about the ongoing probe into an endorsement deal that Leonard had with a California-based sustainability services company.

The NBA opened its investigation back in September into whether a $28 million endorsement contract between Leonard and Aspiration Fund Adviser, LLC — a company that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year — broke league rules, following a report by journalist Pablo Torre. The primary issue for the NBA to decide is if the deal allowed the Clippers to circumvent league salary cap rules.

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NBA TRANSACTIONS ROUNDUP: KEVIN HUERTER REPORTEDLY TO RETURN TO PISTONS

The Detroit Pistons plan to re-sign wing Kevin Huerter to a three-year, $27 million contract, multiple outlets reported.

NBA’s free agency period opens Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET, at which time teams can begin negotiations with players other than their own.

The Pistons acquired Huerter, 27, at the trade deadline from the Chicago Bulls in a deal that also involved the Minnesota Timberwolves. Through the complex maneuvering, the Pistons also gained a first-round draft pick used to select guard Ebuka Okorie, who was Stanford’s leading scorer as a freshman in his only season there.

Huerter was acquired to help the Pistons score from long range. Huerter has career figures of 36.8% shooting from 3-point range and 11.4 points per game. After the trade, he failed to find his role with the Pistons immediately and also sustained multiple injuries that caused him to miss games. He found a groove in the final 11 games he played and averaged 11.5 points and 38.2% on 3-pointers in that span.

In other transactions Tuesday:

–The Atlanta Hawks acquired guard Devin Carter and a 2033 second-round draft pick from the Sacramento Kings, receiving the draft rights to Alpha Kaba — the 60th overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft.

The Kings selected Carter with the 13th overall pick of the 2024 NBA Draft, and he appeared in 38 games (12 starts) in the 2025-26 season. He averaged 8.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 18.4 minutes per game. Carter, 24, became expendable, however, when the Kings took guards Darius Acuff Jr. and Emanuel Sharp in the draft last week. Acuff was the No. 7 overall pick.

Kaba was the No. 60 overall pick in 2017 and has not played in the NBA. Now 30, he plays for the Shenzhen Leopards in the Chinese Basketball Association and for the national team of Guinea.

–Free agent small forward Simone Fontecchio plans to sign a one-year contract to return to the Miami Heat, ESPN reported.

Fontecchio, 30, averaged 8.5 points and 3.0 rebounds in 70 games (nine starts) last season with Miami. The Italian also shot 37.5% shooting from 3-point range.

He has averaged 7.8 points and 2.9 rebounds in 263 career games (58 starts) with the Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons and Heat.

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REPORT: WIZARDS WON’T ENTERTAIN TRADE OFFERS FOR ANTHONY DAVIS

The Washington Wizards don’t intend to trade veteran forward Anthony Davis after acquiring him at last season’s trade deadline, ESPN reported on Tuesday.

Buzz about a potential trade for Davis emerged on Monday when ESPN reported that the Golden State Warriors intended to pursue LeBron James in free agency and trade for Davis to reunite the teammates who won the 2020 NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers.

James confirmed Tuesday that he’s going to leave the Lakers, but Washington seems to be making the second half of those plans difficult. It was reported last week that the Wizards are set to sign Trae Young to a four-year, $212 million deal after also trading for him at the trade deadline.

Davis will be eligible for a four-year, $275 million contract extension on Aug. 6, a deal that would replace the player option he currently has for the 2027-28 season. Inking those two to longer-term deals and pairing them with No. 1 overall pick AJ Dybantsa gives the Wizards a core of sorts as they look to snap a five-year playoff drought.

Davis, 33, still hasn’t made his Washington debut as he was sidelined with ligament damage in his left hand when sent over from the Dallas Mavericks in February. He played a career-low 20 games last season, averaging 20.4 points, 11.1 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.7 blocks, and has battled injuries frequently, playing more than 56 games just once in the last six seasons.

The 10-time All-Star has career averages of 24.0 points and 10.7 rebounds in 807 games (800 starts) over 14 seasons with the New Orleans Hornets/Pelicans (2012-19), Los Angeles Lakers (2019-25) and Mavericks.

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ROBERT WILLIAMS III AGREES TO A CONTRACT EXTENSION WITH THE TRAIL BLAZERS

Robert Williams III has agreed to a contract extension with the Portland Trail Blazers that will keep him with the team through the 2028-29 season, the team announced Tuesday.

Williams, 28, averaged 6.7 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.5 blocks a game this season, becoming a key contributor off the bench for Portland, which made the playoffs for the first time in five seasons.

The 6-foot-10 center averaged 17.1 minutes a game in 59 games, but he did not play in back-to-back games for the Blazers after struggling with knee injuries for the previous two seasons.

“Rob has proven to be one of the league’s most impactful defenders, bringing rim protection, rebounding and offensive feel and versatility to our frontcourt,” Blazers general manager Joe Cronin said in a statement released by the team. “His veteran presence off the court has helped establish a culture of tenacity, grit, and accountability with our young guys, and we are excited to have him continue to represent Rip City.”

It was the second move the Blazers made in as many days. On Monday, the team traded forwards Jerami Grant and Kris Murray to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Ja Morant.

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CENTER JOCK LANDALE AGREES TO $14 MILLION, 1-YEAR DEAL TO RE-SIGN WITH HAWKS, AP SOURCE SAYS

ATLANTA (AP) — Center Jock Landale has reached an agreement on a one-year, $14 million deal to re-sign with the Atlanta Hawks, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the deal cannot be singed or announced by the team before July 6.

The Hawks helped to clear financial room for Landale by declining their $24.3 million team option on forward Jonathan Kuminga. Monday was the last day for Atlanta to commit to the option and the decision made Kuminga a free agent.

Landale averaged 9.1 points and 4.1 rebounds in 23 regular-season games with Atlanta, but missed the team’s playoff loss to the New York Knicks because of a sprained right ankle. The Hawks acquired the 6-foot-11 Landale from the Utah Jazz on Feb. 4, one day after Landale was traded from Memphis to Utah as part of an eight-player deal.

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NBA SALARY CAP RISES 6.5% AS FREE-AGENT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN

The NBA announced Tuesday that the salary cap for the 2026-27 season has been set at $164.961 million, which represents a 6.5% increase over the previous season.

In conjunction with the $10,420,000 rise in each team’s cap, the minimum team salary has climbed over $9.2 million to $148.465 million. The first apron level has jumped to $209.015 million — an increase of $13,070,000 — and the second apron level has moved to $221.686 million. That’s a rise of $13,862,000.

All of these numbers go into effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday, six hours after NBA teams were permitted to start negotiating with free agents. That period began at 6 p.m. Tuesday ET.

All free agent negotiations technically must cease at midnight Tuesday. That’s when the league’s moratorium period goes into effect until noon on Monday, July 6.

According to Spotrac.com, all 30 NBA teams except the Memphis Grizzlies are over the new cap number. The Denver Nuggets, Oklahoma City Thunder and Orlando Magic are above the first apron, but no teams are hard-capped at this time by the second apron.

However, being over the cap does not necessarily mean the same thing as being out of cap space.

Per Spotrac, the Los Angeles Lakers, Brooklyn Nets and Chicago Bulls each are projected to have at least $30 million in cap space to use on prospective free agents. The Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Clippers can make moves to free up cap space.

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REPORT: BIDS FOR SOME NBA EUROPE FRANCHISES REACH $1 BILLION

Bids for all 12 planned future franchises of the soon-to-launch NBA Europe reached $500 million with some as high as $1 billion, Sportico reported Tuesday.

The NBA intends to launch NBA Europe by 2017, with 12 of the league’s 16 teams to be built from the ground up. Bids to own franchises in a dozen previously selected cities were due Monday.

The 12 predetermined cities are Athens, Greece; Barcelona, Spain; Berlin; Istanbul; London; Lyon, France; Madrid; Manchester, England; Milan; Munich; Paris; and Rome.

Reports have indicated that Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic is a potential investor in the Rome franchise.

“We’re extremely encouraged by the final bids we received for permanent franchises,” Mark Tatum, NBA deputy commissioner, said in a statement. “This will be the biggest influx of capital European basketball has ever seen, and we have clear front-runners in each of our 12 target cities, including many existing basketball and football clubs. We will now work with the NBA and FIBA Boards to finalize the long-form agreements.”

Soccer

The report indicated that as many as 20 existing basketball and soccer clubs in Europe submitted ownership bids. NBA owners are not allowed to own teams in the new league.

The 16-team NBA Europe will be filled out with four existing FIBA franchises from various overseas leagues that will earn their way into the new league.

The reported bids for franchises met initial projections. Sports Business Journal reported earlier this year that potential owners would pay between $500 million and $1 billion for a franchise.

Sportico reported earlier this week that the NBA will fund financial losses as NBA Europe tries to establish itself. The 12 new permanent franchises are projected to at least break even in three years.

All future league equity will be split evenly between current NBA owners and ownership groups of the 12 new franchises.

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MEN’S COLLEGE BASETBALL

5-STAR SENIOR G GABE NESMITH COMMITS TO VANDERBILT

Vanderbilt received a commitment Tuesday from five-star guard Gabe Nesmith on Tuesday out of Overtime Elite in Atlanta.

Nesmith is ranked as the nation’s No. 6 small forward and the No. 20 overall recruit in the Class of 2027 by 247Sports composite.

The 6-foot-5 senior is also expected to see playing time at guard in college. He is the cousin of Indiana Pacers guard Aaron Nesmith, who spent two seasons with the Commodores.

Nesmith is the highest-ranked recruit in head coach Mark Byington’s career, and Vanderbilt’s highest-ranked commit since 2018. He chose Vanderbilt over Providence, Ole Miss and several other suitors in part because of the staff, calling Byington a “true players’ coach.”

“I just believed in Coach Byington and how good he is as a coach,” Nesmith told 247Sports. “He’s been successful at Vanderbilt and everywhere he’s been.”

Nesmith, the top recruit in Georgia, averaged 18.6 points for the Nightrydas during the prestigious Nike Elite Youth Basketball League circuit this spring.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

MLB ROUNDUP: DODGERS’ DAVE ROBERTS BECOMES FASTEST TO 1,000 WINS

Tommy Edman had four hits, including a homer, and drove in four while manager Dave Roberts recorded his 1,000th career regular-season victory as the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Athletics 9-3 on Tuesday in West Sacramento, Calif.

Roberts, who is in his 11th season, became the fourth manager in Dodgers history to reach the 1,000-victory mark. Roberts’ 1,606 career games (1,000-606) are the fewest needed to reach 1,000 wins, 35 fewer games than the previous fastest mark, held by Cap Anson (1875-98).

Miguel Rojas also went deep and drove in two runs and Mookie Betts had three hits as the Dodgers won for the seventh time in their past eight games. Los Angeles had 14 hits for a total of 31 over two nights while dominating the A’s both times.

Justin Wrobleski (10-2) struck out a career-high 11 while throwing seven innings of three-run ball for Los Angeles. Colby Thomas went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer for the A’s. Jeffrey Springs (3-8) gave up six runs on eight hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Mariners 8, Angels 3

Bryan Woo set the single-season record for most consecutive scoreless innings at T-Mobile Park as Seattle defeated visiting Los Angeles.

Woo opened with six scoreless frames to reach 32 overall before reliever Eduard Bazardo allowed a pair of inherited runners to score in the seventh. Woo (7-6), who won his fifth straight home start, was charged with two runs on four hits in 6 1/3 innings. The right-hander walked one and struck out five.

The Mariners managed just three hits off Angels starter Jose Soriano (8-5) through the first five innings before opening the sixth with three straight singles against him to break a scoreless tie and spark a five-run inning.

Phillies 8, Pirates 0

Cristopher Sanchez worked seven strong innings while guiding Philadelphia to a win over visiting Pittsburgh.

Sanchez (10-3) allowed just three hits and two walks, striking out nine as he became the first starting pitcher to reach 10 wins this season. Justin Crawford had three hits and three RBIs for the Phillies, while Trea Turner added a homer, a double and three RBIs on his 33rd birthday.

Esmerlyn Valdez’s four-game homer streak came to an end, although the Pirates rookie still went 2-for-3 with a walk. Bubba Chandler (3-8) yielded five runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings.

Tigers 9, Yankees 3

Riley Greene belted a pair of homers in consecutive at-bats off Cam Schlittler, Tarik Skubal pitched six innings and visiting Detroit cruised past New York.

The Tigers slugged five home runs against the Yankees for the first time since Aug. 30, 2018, as Kerry Carpenter, Spencer Torkelson and James Outman also went deep. Skubal (4-4) allowed two runs (one earned) and one hit while fanning nine.

Ben Rice homered, but the Yankees lost their season-high sixth straight game. Schlittler (8-5) was tagged for a career-worst six runs on seven hits in four-plus innings. He served up four homers, also a career high.

Cubs 9, Padres 7

Dansby Swanson led a long-ball barrage with two home runs, and host Chicago held on for a win over San Diego.

Alex Bregman hit a three-run shot and Michael Busch and Pete Crow-Armstrong had solo homers for the Cubs, who won their fourth straight. Matthew Boyd (3-1) allowed three runs over five-plus innings. Ryan Rolison recorded the last out to earn his first career save.

Fernando Tatis Jr. hit two home runs and Manny Machado and Gavin Sheets also homered for the Padres, who have lost four in a row. JP Sears (1-1) gave up seven runs (six earned) in 4 2/3 innings.

White Sox 9, Orioles 3

Colson Montgomery and Junior Perez homered during a seven-run third inning as visiting Chicago beat Baltimore, taking the first two games of the three-game series.

Jacob Gonzalez had three hits and drove in three runs and Andrew Benintendi provided three hits as the White Sox won for the sixth time in eight games. They will win a series against Baltimore for the first time since July 2021 regardless of the result in the Wednesday afternoon series finale.

Chicago’s Erick Fedde (3-6) went five innings and yielded three runs on five hits. Gunnar Henderson had two hits and scored two runs for the Orioles, whose losing streak grew to four games. They have lost six of their past seven games.

Rangers 4, Guardians 2

Cleveland left fielder Cooper Ingle threw the ball into the stands, incorrectly thinking it was the third out of the seventh inning, to bring home Ezequiel Duran as the go-ahead run, leading Texas past the host Guardians.

Duran led off the seventh with a single against Cleveland starter Tanner Bibee and moved to second on a groundout by Evan Carter. Alejandro Osuna followed with a routine fly to Ingle, who caught it and promptly threw it over the screen into the crowd down the left field line.

Jacob deGrom (7-5) earned his fourth victory in his past five decisions for the Rangers, striking out nine over seven innings, allowing two runs on four hits. Bibee (2-9) also worked seven strong innings but received the loss when Ingle committed what was scored as a two-base error and an unearned run.

Nationals 8, Red Sox 1

Cade Cavalli allowed one hit and struck out a career-high 13 batters in seven innings as visiting Washington defeated Boston.

The only run Boston scored against Cavalli (5-4) was unearned. He didn’t issue a walk in his 100-pitch outing. The Red Sox managed just four hits as their five-game winning streak ended.

CJ Abrams homered as the Nationals won for the third time in four games and leveled the three-game series at one victory apiece. James Wood finished 3-for-5 with two RBIs.

Diamondbacks 8, Giants 2

Arizona ran its season-long winning streak against San Francisco to eight games, riding home runs from Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Ketel Marte to a victory in Phoenix.

Recalled earlier in the day from Triple-A and making his first big-league start since April 11, Brandon Pfaadt (1-1) gave up one run on three hits in 5 1/3 innings. Gurriel, Marte, Gabriel Moreno and Max Kepler had two hits apiece for the Diamondbacks.

Luis Arraez singled, tripled and homered for the Giants, and Rafael Devers also went deep. Landen Roupp (5-8) permitted six runs and walked six in 2 2/3 innings.

Mets 3, Blue Jays 0

Nolan McLean struck out seven in six scoreless innings and visiting New York defeated Toronto to split the first two of a three-game series.

McLean (5-5) allowed five hits and two walks, while Francisco Alvarez and Luis Torrens provided support with solo home runs. Former Blue Jay Bo Bichette went 1-for-4 for the Mets and made some excellent defensive plays at third base.

Toronto starter Kevin Gausman (4-7) completed six innings, allowing one run on five hits. Luis Urias had two singles and a walk.

Cardinals 5, Braves 3

Matthew Liberatore threw five strong innings and Nathan Church ended a long homerless streak to lead St. Louis over host Atlanta.

Liberatore (4-5) allowed one run on one hit and four walks, striking out nine, to earn his first victory since May 31. Church blasted a three-run homer to cap a four-run rally in the fourth inning when the Cardinals took the lead. It was Church’s sixth home run but first since April 26.

Ozzie Albies drove in two runs for the Braves. Martin Perez (5-6) yielded four runs on five hits in five innings.

Brewers 7, Reds 2

Jake Bauers and Jackson Chourio homered and Brandon Sproat pitched effectively into the sixth inning as Milwaukee defeated visiting Cincinnati.

The Brewers have won six straight against the Reds, including all five games this season. Bauers and Sal Frelick each had three hits to pace Milwaukee’s 14-hit attack.

The Brewers gained control with four runs in the fourth off Rhett Lowder (3-6), opening the inning with five consecutive singles en route to a 5-1 lead. Sproat (3-4) allowed two runs on four hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Rays 10, Royals 4

Junior Caminero homered in his fifth consecutive game, a three-run shot to highlight Tampa Bay’s six-run third inning, and the Rays won their sixth straight game, beating host Kansas City.

Ryan Vilade also homered and Griffin Jax (4-5) allowed three runs and struck out five over six innings to win his third straight start for the Rays. Caminero has clubbed eight of his 23 home runs in the past seven games.

Bobby Witt Jr. socked a two-run homer in the third and an eighth-inning solo shot as part of a three-hit night for the Royals, who have lost five of six.

Astros 6, Twins 4

Yordan Alvarez capped a six-run fourth inning with his third grand slam of the season as Houston rallied past visiting Minnesota.

Alvarez tied the franchise record with his seventh career grand slam, joining Alex Bregman, Carlos Lee and Jose Altuve. It was his 26th home run of the season. The Astros evened the three-game series at one win apiece behind Alvarez and a resilient effort from Mike Burrows (4-8), who overcame a ragged first inning to go five frames of four-run ball.

Twins starter Joe Ryan (5-5) permitted six runs on six hits in four innings. Ryan Kreidler hit a two-run single, and Kody Clemens produced two hits and two runs.

Marlins 14, Rockies 3

Javier Sanoja, Joe Mack and Owen Caissie each hit a home run in Miami’s blowout win over Colorado in Denver.

Sanoja hit a three-run shot in the third, extending the Marlins’ lead to 5-1. Mack’s two-run blast in the seventh and Caissie’s three-run homer in the eighth were late highlights from a huge offensive game for the Marlins, who have won six of their past seven.

Eury Perez (4-6) earned the win in his second start since returning from the injured list. Perez struck out eight in 5 1/3 innings, allowing just one run on two hits and four walks. Mickey Moniak homered for the Rockies. Tanner Gordon was tagged for five runs in five innings.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

WALTER CAMP PRE-SEASON FOOTBALL TEAMS

First Team Offense:

Wide Receiver:  Malachi Toney (Miami), Jeremiah Smith (Ohio State)*

Tight End:  Trey’Dez Green (LSU)

Offensive Line:  Carter Smith (Indiana)#, Trevor Goosby (Texas), Austin Siereveld (Ohio State), Anthonie Knapp (Notre Dame)

Center:  Kade Pieper (Iowa)

Quarterback:  Arch Manning (Texas)

Running Back:  Kewan Lacy (Ole Miss), Ahmad Hardy (Missouri)*

Placekicker:  Tate Sandell (Oklahoma)#

First Team Defense

Defensive Line:  Dylan Stewart (South Carolina), Colin Simmons (Texas), Tyrique Tucker (Indiana), Teitum Tuioti (Oregon)

Linebacker: Xavier Atkins (Auburn), Sammy Brown (Clemson), Rasheem Biles (Texas)

Defensive Back:  Kelley Jones (Mississippi State), Leonard Moore (Notre Dame)*, Brandon Finney, Jr. (Oregon), KJ Bolden (Georgia)

Punter: Palmer Williams (Baylor)

Kick Returner:  Da’Realyst Clark (Kent State)

Second Team Offense

Wide Receiver: Cam Coleman (Texas), KJ Duff (Rutgers)

Tight End:  Jamari Johnson (Oregon)

Offensive Line:  Evan Tengesdahl (Cincinnati), Wendell Moe, Jr. (Tennessee), Jordan Seaton (LSU), Andrew Sprague (Michigan)

Center: Drew Bobo (Georgia)

Quarterback:  Julian Sayin (Ohio State)#

Running Back:  Cam Cook (West Virginia), Caleb Hawkins (Oklahoma State)#

Placekicker:  Lucas Carneiro (Ole Miss)

Second Team Defense

Defensive Line:  A’Mauri Washington (Oregon), Anthony Smith (Minnesota), David Stone (Oklahoma), John Henry Daley (Michigan)#

Linebacker:  Rolijah Hardy (Indiana), Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asu (Notre Dame), Isaiah Jones (Indiana)

Defensive Back:  Bray Hubbard (Alabama), Ellis Robinson IV (Georgia), Marcus Ratcliffe (Texas A&M), Bryce Fitzgerald (Miami)

Punter:  Evan Crenshaw (Troy)

Kick Returner:  Chauncy Cobb (Arkansas State)

* – 2025 First Team Walter Camp All-America selection

# – 2025 Second Team Walter Camp All-America selection

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NHL NEWS

PENGUINS ACQUIRE D KAEDAN KORCZAK FROM GOLDEN KNIGHTS

The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired defenseman Kaedan Korczak from the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday in exchange for defenseman Parker Wotherspoon.

Korczak, 25, has scored four goals with 33 assists in 155 career games over parts of five seasons with the Golden Knights. He had three assists in 13 games of the just-completed playoffs as Vegas lost in the Stanley Cup Finals to the Carolina Hurricanes.

Wotherspoon, 28, has scored four goals with 42 assists in 188 career games over four seasons with the New York Islanders (2022-23), Boston Bruins (2023-25) and Penguins (2025-26).

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PANTHERS ACQUIRE G AKIRA SCHMID FROM GOLDEN KNIGHTS

The Florida Panthers acquired goaltender Akira Schmid from the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft.

“Akira is a talented and athletic goaltender who has shown poise in high-pressure moments,” Panthers general manager Bill Zito said in a statement on Monday. “We are excited to welcome him to our organization.”

Sergei Bobrovsky and fellow Panthers goaltender Daniil Tarasov each can become an unrestricted free agent on Wednesday.

Schmid, who can become a restricted free agent, posted a 16-10-6 record with two shutouts, a 2.59 goals-against average and .893 save percentage in 34 games (33 starts) this past season.

Schmid, 26, owns a 32-28-10 record with three shutouts, a 2.66 GAA and .898 save percentage in 82 career games (65 starts) with the New Jersey Devils and Golden Knights. The Swiss goaltender was selected by the Devils in the fifth round of the 2018 NHL Draft.

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PANTHERS GET G JACOB MARKSTROM IN 5-PLAYER TRADE WITH DEVILS

Goaltender Jacob Markstrom returned to the Florida Panthers in a five-player trade on Tuesday with the New Jersey Devils.

The Panthers acquired Markstrom and forward Angus Crookshank, while sending forwards Evan Rodrigues, Jesper Boqvist and prospect Ben Steeves to the Devils.

Markstrom, 36, was a second-round draft pick by Florida in 2008 and appeared in 43 games for the Panthers before being traded to the Vancouver Canucks in March 2014.

The 6-foot-6 Markstrom was 23-19-1 with one shutout in 44 games for the Devils in 2025-26, posting a 3.07 goals-against average and .883 save percentage.

“Jacob is an established veteran leader in this league who possesses size and a relentless drive to win,” said Panthers president of hockey operations and general manager Bill Zito. “We are excited for him to compete alongside our established group and return to South Florida.”

An All-Star in 2019-20 and a Vezina Trophy finalist in 2021-22, Markstrom is 264-231-64 with 25 shutouts, a 2.73 GAA and .907 save percentage in 264 games with the Panthers, Canucks, Calgary Flames and Devils.

The Panthers also acquired goaltender Akira Schmid from the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday and appear to be moving on from veteran netminder Sergei Bobrovsky, who will become an unrestricted free agent Wednesday.

Crookshank, 26, had one goal in eight games in his lone season with the Devils in 2025-26. He had two goals and two assists in 21 games with the Ottawa Senators from 2023-25.

“We also want to extend our sincere gratitude to Evan and Jesper for their contributions to our organization,” Zito said.

Rodrigues, 32, lifted the Stanley Cup with Florida in 2023-24 and 2024-25. He tallied 31 points (11 goals, 20 assists) in 69 games in 2025-26.

Rodrigues has recorded 270 points (107 goals, 163 assists) in 616 career games with the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, Colorado Avalanche and Panthers.

Boqvist, 27, won the Stanley Cup in his first season with the Panthers in 2024-25 and recorded 13 points (four goals, nine assists) in 73 games in 2025-26.

Boqvist began his career with the Devils (2019-23) and has 105 points (50 goals, 55 assists) in 387 career games with New Jersey, the Boston Bruins and Florida. The Devils drafted him in the second round in 2017.

Steeves, 24, just completed his third season with the AHL’s Charlotte Checkers. He set career highs across the board in 2025-26 with 23 goals and 22 assists in 72 games.

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BLUES PLACE F JONATHAN DROUIN ON WAIVERS FOR BUYOUT

The St. Louis Blues placed veteran forward Jonathan Drouin on waivers Tuesday for the purpose of buying out his contract.

Drouin, 31, is signed through the 2026-27 season and carries a cap hit of $4 million. The buyout would reduce the Blues’ cap charge to $1.33 million in each of the next two years.

Drouin had one goal and two assists in nine games with St. Louis after being acquired as part of the March 6 trade that sent forward Brayden Schenn to the New York Islanders. For the season, he had a total of 24 points (four goals, 20 assists) in 64 games.

He has 398 points (111 goals, 287 assists) in 671 career games with five teams since being drafted in the first round (third overall) by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2013.

TSN reported that Drouin intends to continue his NHL career and likely will have options on the free-agent market.

Also Tuesday, the Blues tendered qualifying offers to two restricted free agents: forward Connor McMichael and defenseman Leo Loof.

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GOLF NEWS

PGA Tour

JOHN DEERE CLASSIC

Site: Silvis, Illinois.

Course: TPC Deere Run. Yardage: 7,327. Par: 71,

Prize money: $8.8 million. Winner’s share: $1,584,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS).

Defending champion: Brian Campbell.

FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.

Last week: Viktor Hovland won the Travelers Championship.

Notes: The tournament has a big emphasis on youth. Jackson Koivun, the No. 1 amateur in the world, makes his professional debut. The tournament gave sponsor exemptions to NCAA champion Preston Stout of Oklahoma State, and U.S. Amateur champion Mason Howell, who just graduated high school and is going to Georgia. … Zach Johnson is skipping his first U.S. Senior Open to play the John Deere Classic, his local PGA Tour event that he won in 2012. … Jordan Spieth won his first PGA Tour title at the John Deere in 2013. He is in the field this week ahead of returning to Royal Birkdale where he won the 2017 British Open. … Also playing is 18-year-old Blades Brown, who has special temporary membership. Brown also is in the top 20 in Korn Ferry Tour points. The Korn Ferry Tour is off this week. … Memorial winner J.T. Poston is playing. … Max Homa is in the field. This is the one-year anniversary of the last time Homa was inside the top 100 in the world ranking.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/

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USGA and PGA Tour Champions

U.S. SENIOR OPEN

Site: Columbus, Ohio.

Course: Scioto CC. Yardage: 7,170. Par: 70.

Prize money: $4 million. Winner’s share: $800,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Golf Channel), 5-7 p.m. (Peacock); Saturday, noon to 2 p.m. (Peacock), 2-5 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Peacock), 3-6 p.m. (NBC).

Defending champion: Padraig Harrington.

Last year: Harrington won by one shot over Stewart Cink at The Broadmoor in Colorado.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Stewart Cink.

Last PGA Tour Champions event: Dicky Pride won the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open.

Notes: This is the 100-year anniversary of Bobby Jones winning the 1926 U.S. Open at Scioto Country Club. … Jack Nicklaus grew up at Scioto, about 15 minutes away from Muirfield Village that he built for the Memorial. … Samuel Bush, the grandfather of the late President George H.W. Bush, was one of the co-founders of Scioto. … The winner is exempt into the U.S. Open next year at Pebble Beach. … Padraig Harrington will try to join Miller Barber as the only three-time winners of the U.S. Senior Open. … The tournament dates to 1980. … This is the third time for Scioto to host the U.S. Senior Open. Gene Sauers (2016) and Dale Douglass (1986) and the previous two winners at the course originally designed by Donald Ross. … Andrew Green did a renovation at Scioto to restore it to its original design, while removing hundreds of trees. … Steve Stricker (2019) and Fred Funk (2009) share the U.S. Senior Open record for largest margin of victory at six strokes.

Next week: Kaulig Companies Championship.

Next U.S. Senior Open: Oak Tree National in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Online: https://www.usga.org/ and https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions

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European tour

BMW INTERNATIONAL

Site: Munich.

Course: Golfclub Munchen Eichenried. Yardage: 7,354. Par: 72.

Prize money: $3 million. Winner’s share: $500,000.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 6:30-11 a.m. (Golf Channel), 11 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel app); Saturday-Sunday, 7 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Daniel Brown.

Race to Dubai leader: Patrick Reed.

Last week: Eugenio Chacarra won the Italian Open.

Notes: Patrick Reed is playing the second of four straight weeks on the European tour as the American tries to build his lead in the Race to Dubai. … This is the home club of Stephan Jaeger, who is playing the John Deere Classic this week on the PGA Tour as he is outside the top 70. … Marco Penge of England, who has not played since the PGA Championship as he tries to take care of health issues, is in the field. Penge withdrew from the U.S. Open and said he would not return until he was ready. … The field includes seven players from LIV Golf, which including Joaquin Niemann, Sergio Garcia, Carlos Ortiz and Abraham Ancer. … Eugenio Chacarra of Spain is playing as he tries to secure one of the 10 spots on the PGA Tour from the Race to Dubai. … The tournament dates to 1989, when David Feherty defeated Fred Couples by five shots. … Paul Azinger was a two-time winner of the BMW International Open.

Next week: Genesis Scottish Open.

Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/

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LPGA Tour

Last week: Hae Ran Ryu won the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

Next week: Amundi Evian Championship.

Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.

Online: https://www.lpga.com/

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Korn Ferry Tour

Last week: Drew Nesbitt won the Memorial Health Championship.

Next week: The Blue Championship.

Points leader: Doc Redman.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour

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Other tours

Japan Golf Tour: Japan Players Championship, Nishi Nasuno CC, Tochigi, Japan. Defending champion: Tatsunori Shogenji. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/

Ladies European Tour: Hulencourt Women’s Open, Hulencourt GC, Vieux Genappe, Belgium. Television: Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Golf Channel app); Sunday, 9 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel app). Defending champion: Darcey Harry. Online: https://ladieseuropeantour.com/

Challenge Tour: Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge, Golf PGA France du Vaudreuil, Le Vaudreuil, France. Previous winner: David Horsey. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/hotelplanner-tour/

Japan LPGA: Shiseido-JAL Ladies Open, Totsuka CC (East), Kanagawa, Japan. Defending champion: Saki Nagamine. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/

Korea LPGA: The Lotte Open, Bear’s Best Cheongna, Incheon, South Korea. Defending champion: Hyejun Park. Online: https://klpga.co.kr/

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JORDAN SPIETH BELIEVES BETTING A ROOT CAUSE OF FAN BEHAVIOR ISSUES

Jordan Spieth was asked Tuesday about the apparent rise in heckling at PGA Tour events and the major championships. The reporter didn’t mention betting, but Spieth was quick to take it there.

The golf world, just like the sports world writ large, has grappled with the legalization and then the proliferation of sports betting in the United States. Spieth made the connection between sports betting and increasingly unruly galleries during his pre-tournament press conference at the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Ill.

Specifically, Spieth discussed Wyndham Clark winning the U.S. Open on June 21 while most of the crowd seemed to be vocally against him throughout the weekend.

“I think you had some unique circumstances there,” Spieth said. “I don’t know. I mean, I think the one thing that I’ll point out is I do think that betting in golf is something that’s going to have to be tackled here soon, because I don’t know how much of, say, the Wyndham scenario was the fact that it was enticing to bet the field versus Wyndham on Sunday in a legalized betting state, and you could have had people out there that are essentially, you know, have $100 to $10,000, depending on who it is, on the field versus somebody else.”

Spieth pointed out the very nature of attending a golf tournament. Unlike in many sports, where spectators are far enough removed from the court or field of play, a heckler in golf is close enough to shout during a backswing and affect the outcome he is betting on in one direction or another.

“In golf it’s tricky because you could actually impact the outcome if you wanted to,” Spieth said. “It may not last very long, but you could impact a shot if you wanted to. I don’t know of another sport that you could impact as a fan like you can golf.”

The three-time major champion went on to add that unruly fans, while in the spotlight now, are not a new phenomenon altogether.

“I’ve also played rounds with guys who were not treated well 10, 15 years ago,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a crazy new thing. I do think the Bethpage (Black) Ryder Cup was, from what I understand, maybe a lingering effect from that with an American (versus) European (angle).

“You know, Cam Young (and Matt Fitzpatrick at) The Players,” Spieth added, citing fans at The Players Championship vocally rooting against Fitzpatrick in the final round. “I’m trying to single them out for you, but I wasn’t a part of either one of them, but I will say that from what I’ve seen, a lot of times it has to do with betting, and that is in the last five years.

“We’ll see what happens with that.”

Nobody, not even bettors, are likely to root against Spieth this weekend at TPC Deere Run. A longtime fan favorite on tour, Spieth is pursuing his first win since the 2022 RBC Heritage. He won the John Deere in 2013 — his first PGA Tour title — and 2015.

“There’s been a consistency level that was better than years past,” Spieth said. “The last month I felt like I played kind of the same level of golf and didn’t get a whole lot out of it. I had some opportunities in some big events to obviously maintain kind of the trajectory I was on.

“I’m not letting it get to me. I feel like my game is in a really good state. I’m more consistent and an all-around better player than I’ve been in a long time. If I stay the course, the results will come.”

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MATTHEW JORDAN, PETER UIHLEIN AMONG 20 TO QUALIFY FOR THE OPEN

Englishman Matthew Jordan qualified for his fifth consecutive Open Championship in a sudden-death playoff, while three LIV Golf members also earned their way into the field at Royal Birkdale via final qualifying Tuesday around the United Kingdom.

Four final qualifying sites were staged at Dundonald Links, West Lancashire, Burnham & Berrow and Royal Cinque Ports. Five spots in the Open were available at each site for a total of 20 qualifiers.

Jordan, 30, has made a habit of playing the Open each year. While he has yet to win on Europe’s DP World Tour and did not appear in another major until the 2025 U.S. Open, Jordan has played every Open since 2022. He went through final qualifying in 2023 to compete at Royal Liverpool, his home course, and he finished T10 there before tying for 10th again in 2024.

Jordan went to a three-for-one playoff at West Lancashire against countrymen Joe Dean and Sam Easterbrook, an amateur. On the second playoff hole, Jordan landed a perfect approach shot inches away from the hole to set up his winning birdie.

“I’m really pleased. Days like this are long and to come away from it saying you didn’t qualify in a playoff would be gutting, so it makes it all worthwhile,” Jordan said.

“I woke up last night feeling terrible for whatever reason, so I was tired coming here and then once I finished 18 I could feel my body kind of giving up on me because I was so tired. Seeing all these people gave me a bit more adrenaline, but I think I’ll be knackered tonight.”

Samuel Bairstow of England finished the 36-hole qualifier at West Lancashire in first place at 10-under 132. Kazuma Kobori of New Zealand, Josele Ballester of Spain and Tiger Christensen of Germany were tied at 9 under, and Jordan, Easterbrook and Dean finished 8 under.

Ballester is one of the LIV Golf members to successfully play their way into the Open. The 22-year-old former U.S. Amateur champ has not appeared in a major in 2026, and he will play in his second Open following his debut in 2023.

American vet Peter Uihlein, on LIV since its introduction in 2022, was one of five to advance from Royal Cinque Ports. Uihlein, 36, also qualified for the earlier this month U.S. Open and finished T56 there in his first major appearance since 2018.

The third LIV player to qualify Tuesday was Caleb Surratt, a member of Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII. Surratt finished second to fellow American James Nicholas at Burnham & Berrow. His appearance at the U.S. Open this month (T63) was his major championship debut.

The 20 players to qualify Tuesday are:
–Dundonald Links: Jack McDonald (Scotland), Matthew Baldwin (England), amateur David Howard (Ireland), amateur Nevill Ruiter (Netherlands), Marcus Plunkett (U.S.)
–West Lancashire: Samuel Bairstow (England), Kazuma Kobori (New Zealand), Josele Ballester (Spain), Tiger Christensen (Germany), Matthew Jordan (England)
–Burnham & Berrow: James Nicholas (U.S.), Caleb Surratt (U.S.), Tom Sloman (England), amateur Alejandro de Castro Piera (Spain), Austen Truslow (U.S.)
–Royal Cinque Ports: Baard Bjoernevik Skogen (Norway), MJ Daffue (South Africa), Matthew Southgate (England), Peter Uihlein (U.S.), Antoine Rozner (France)

Spaniard Sergio Garcia followed a 68 with a 75 at West Lancashire to post 1 under and fall short of returning to the Open. The LIV stalwart qualified last year and tied for 34th, but that was his only appearance at the Open since 2022.

Other notable players who failed to qualify include Australians Cameron Davis and Marc Leishman, India’s Anirban Lahiri, Belgium’s Thomas Detry and South Africa’s Branden Grace.

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INDIANA SPORTS NEWS

INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS

Tied at 5-5 in the fifth inning, the Indianapolis Indians scored three runs in the fifth and four runs in the eighth to defeat the Omaha Storm Chasers, 12-5, on Tuesday night at Werner Park. Dominic Fletcher capped the scoring with a three-run home run.

The Indians (4-3, 35-47) saw a 5-0 lead vanish, but struck back in the fifth frame. Jack Brannigan, in his Triple-A debut, notched a his first hit to kick things off. A wild pitch brought him to second base and Rafael Flores Jr. hit his 10th double of the season for the game’s decisive blow. Mike Jarvis and Termarr Johnson each logged an RBI single later in the inning.

Flores logged another RBI hit in the eighth with Fletcher’s long ball to follow. Indy built their early five-run advantage on an RBI double from Jhostynxon Garcia in the first, and then the second inning saw a Johnson RBI walk and three-run double from Enmanuel Valdez.

Pirates No. 21 prospect Khristian Curtis allowed four runs across 1.2 innings but the bullpen picked him up the rest of the way. Nick Dombkowski (W, 3-4) tossed 3.1 innings with an unearned run. Justin Meis (1.2ip), Hunter Stratton (1.1ip) and Jaden Woods (1.0ip) did not allow a run the remainder of the game.

Storm Chasers (3-4, 36-45) starting pitcher Henry Williams allowed all five Indians runs and Andrew Pérez (L, 2-5) allowed three in the fifth.

Indy and Omaha continue the six game series on Wednesday at 8:05 PM ET. LHP Connor Wietgrefe (0-1, 7.50) will take the mound for the Indians in his second Triple-A start. Royals LHP Kris Bubic (0-1, 10.38) will continue his major league rehab assignment as the starter for the Storm Chasers.

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INDIANA PACERS

The Pacers will face off against recent playoff rivals and familiar faces in the 2026 NBA Cup. The league announced the groups for the fourth edition of the annual in-season tournament on Tuesday night.

Indiana was drawn into East Group B along with the defending NBA champion New York Knicks, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Miami Heat.

The Pacers will host NBA Cup games against New York and Philadelphia at Gainbridge Fieldhouse and hit the road for games against Cleveland and Miami.

Each matchup has plenty of intrigue, headlined by the game against the Knicks. While New York captured the NBA title in June, the Pacers took out the Knicks in each of the previous two postseasons, including the 2025 Eastern Conference Finals. The rivalry will be renewed early in the 2026-27 season.

The Pacers will have another playoff rematch against the Cavaliers, who Indiana defeated in the second round of the 2025 playoffs en route to an Eastern Conference title.

The 76ers roster features former Pacers star Paul George, as well as former MVP Joel Embiid, All-Star guard Tyrese Maxey, and All-Rookie guard VJ Edgecombe. And the Heat will have a very different look next season thanks to a reported trade that will be completed following the conclusion of the NBA moratorium next week.

Groups for the 2026 NBA Cup were chosen in a random draw. The 15 teams in each conference were placed into five pots based on last year’s standings. One team from each pot was selected to form each group.

The format remains largely the same as past seasons. Each conference has been divided into three groups of five teams. Every team will play one game against every other team in its group (two home, two away for a total of four games). Group Play games will take place on “Cup Nights” every Friday from Oct. 30 to Nov. 27, as well as additional “Cup Nights” on Tuesday, Nov. 24 and Wednesday, Nov. 25.

At the conclusion of Group Play, the three group winners from each conference and one “wild card” team (the best second-place team in each conference) will advance to the Knockout Rounds.

The Quarterfinals (Friday, Dec. 4 and Saturday, Dec. 5) and Semifinals (Tuesday, Dec. 8 and/or Wednesday, Dec. 9) will be held in NBA team markets this year. The Championship will be hosted in Indianapolis this year at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse on Friday, Dec. 11.

Just like in years past, all NBA Cup games aside from the Championship will count toward the regular season standings. Dates and times for Group Play games will be announced next month when the NBA reveals the 2026-27 regular season schedule.

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PURDUE SOFTBALL

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue softball head coach Magali Frezzotti has added a transfer duo with the signing transfer pitcher, Alyx Rossi, and transfer outfielder, Izzy Neal.

The Massachusetts native, Rossi, will join the Boilermakers after spending her freshman year in the ACC at Boston College. Neal joins the Boilers as a familiar face, transferring in-conference from Big Ten rival, Ohio State.

Rossi was the 2024-25 Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year before heading to Boston College for her freshman year in 2026. During her freshman campaign, Rossi made 25 appearances with five starts while recording four wins in the circle. 

The rookie tossed 64.1 innings with 34 strikeouts, with a complete-game one hitter over Purdue’s in-state rival, Notre Dame. 

Neal, also a rising sophomore, spent one year at Ohio State in 2026. The freshman hit an impressive .376, which led the Buckeyes, with 38 hits, 25 runs scored, a double, and a homer. 

The Brownsburg native was perfect in the field, earning 25 putouts with two assists for a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage on the year. Prior to her time at Ohio State, Neal was named All-State First Team in Indiana, the 2025 Conference Player of the Year, and a Miss Softball finalist. 

The transfers are joining a Boilermaker program that broke 11 team records during the 2026 season, landing on the bubble of NCAA tournament contention for the second consecutive season. Purdue landed seven All-Big Ten honors, four NFCA All-Region honors, and both a NFCA All-American and a CSC Academic All-America

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NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Notre Dame football juniors Anthonie Knapp, Leonard Moore and Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa were named to the 2026 Walter Camp Preseason All-America Team, the organization announced Tuesday. Knapp and Moore earned first-team honors, while Vilamu-Asa was selected to the second team.

Walter Camp is the nation’s oldest college football All-America team, selecting its first All-America team in 1889. It is one of the five All-America teams included in consensus and unanimous All-America determinations. 

Notre Dame is one of just six schools to have at least three players on the Walter Camp Preseason All-America teams.

Knapp, a starter on the Irish offensive line in 27 games over the past two seasons, makes his debut on the Walter Camp Preseason All-America team. He played a key role in leading a dominant Notre Dame rushing attack that averaged 5.7 yards per carry, tied for the third-best mark in the FBS last season. The Irish offense rushed for more than 200 yards per game and averaged 7.3 yards per play a season ago behind Knapp.

A unanimous All-American a season ago, Moore started in 10 games for the Irish and led the team with five interceptions, which was tied for the seventh-most in the country. He tallied 31.0 total tackles, forced one fumble and had seven pass breakups.

Moore made his presence known in multiple games throughout the season. Against Boise State last October, he forced three turnovers (two interceptions, one forced fumble), for his first career multi-interception game. Moore, who also had six solo tackles against the Broncos, was named the Walter Camp FBS Defensive Player of the Week and the Jim Thorpe Award Defensive Back of the Week following his performance.

It’s the second-straight season Moore has been named to the Walter Camp Preseason All-America First Team. He was also named to the Lott Impact Trophy Watch List last month.

Viliamu-Asa saw action in 11 games last year, making two starts before missing the final game of the season due to injury. The Inland Empire, California native finished fourth on the team with 48.0 total tackles. He also notched 7.5 tackles for loss and three sacks to go along with an interception, two pass breakups and five quarterback hurries during his sophomore campaign.

It’s the first career preseason All-American honor for Viliamu-Asa, who like Moore, was named to the Lott Impact Trophy Watch List in May.

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BUTLER BASKETBALL

BUTLER’S ICONIC HINKLE FIELDHOUSE WILL PLAY HOST TO THE NEXT NBA CUP FINAL IN DECEMBER

The NBA is going back to college this coming season, bringing the NBA Cup championship game to Butler’s historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

Hinkle — one of the oldest arenas in the country — is iconic, and more than fits the billing that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and other league officials were looking for when he said the league was searching for “storied college arenas” to play host to the Cup final.

The 2026-27 title game, to be played Dec. 11, will mark the first time the Cup final is held outside of Las Vegas — which hosted the final for the first three in-season tournaments.

“Hinkle Fieldhouse offers a special setting to capture the excitement and drama of the Emirates NBA Cup Championship,” NBA Head of Global Events Kelly Flatow said. “Playing the championship in an iconic basketball environment like this will further establish it as a signature moment on the NBA calendar.”

The arena, which has about 9,100 seats, has played host to at least six U.S. presidents — Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush — along with the first U.S. vs. Soviet Union basketball games, circuses, tennis matches, ice shows and even was used as a barracks for the U.S. military during World War II.

“Hinkle Fieldhouse gets loud,” Boston Celtics basketball operations president Brad Stevens said when he coached at Butler, “and it gets as loud as loud gets.”

Hinkle also was home of the famed Indiana high school basketball tournament for decades, including 1954 when tiny Milan High beat Muncie Central High to win the state title in the story that served as the inspiration for the classic basketball movie “Hoosiers” — which used Hinkle as the set for its championship game.

Indianapolis native Oscar Robertson also played there; his Crispus Attucks High team won state titles in that arena in 1955 and 1956 as well. It also has been the site of NBA games in the past, along with some WNBA games in 2022.

The Los Angeles Lakers won the inaugural NBA Cup in 2023; the event was simply called the in-season tournament that year. Milwaukee won in 2024 and New York beat San Antonio for the 2025 title — in a preview of this season’s NBA Finals, in which the Knicks topped the Spurs again.

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BALL STATE BASEBALL

Ball State baseball alumni are competing at various levels of professional baseball, including six Cardinals who have played in Major League Baseball so far this year. Below is a look at how former Ball State baseball players have fared in the first half of the 2026 season.

Merritt Beeker (Nationals system) – The 2024 Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Year and 11th round pick by Washington, Beeker is currently on the 60-day injured list a season after posting a 3-2 record, 1.85 ERA, 1.12 WHIP and 78 strikeouts in 63.1 innings pitched across 38 games for the Low-A Fredericksburg Nationals in 2025.

Ryan Brown (Dodgers system) – Brown is on the 60-day injured list as well but tallied 92 strikeouts in 48.0 innings across 37 games in his first professional season in 2025. The right-handed pitcher who was selected in the ninth round by Los Angeles in 2023 boasted one of the top strikeouts per nine innings pitched (17.25) ratios in the minor leagues last year.

Alex Call (Los Angeles Dodgers) – Call has been a steady contributor to the reigning World Series champions, including recently hitting his first home run of the year in a 12-3 win on June 23 at Minnesota. The outfielder has produced a .267/.373/.343 slash line with 28 hits, five doubles, 16 RBI and 16 runs scored while playing in 51 games so far this season.

Zach Cole (Astros system) – Cole has mainly split time between Houston and the Triple-A Sugar Land Space Cowboys this season, and he’s tallied three home runs and eight RBI in 51 at bats with the Astros including a homer in his first MLB game of the season on May 4 against the Dodgers.

Hunter Dobbins (Tigers system) – A catcher who was signed by Detroit in 2024, Dobbins has split time between Low-A Lakeland and High-A West Michigan this year. The right-handed hitter has been productive in power categories as of late, as he’s produced five doubles, one triple, four home runs, 17 RBI and a .585 slugging percentage in the month of June for the Lakeland Flying Tigers.

Dylan Grego (Padres system) – Grego has made stops at High-A Fort Wayne, Low-A Lake Elsinore and even Triple-A El Paso in his first full professional campaign. The switch-hitting shortstop went 9-for-18 with three doubles, two RBI and four runs scored in a five-game stint with the El Paso Chihuahuas in mid-June and has posted a .314/.379/.431 slash line in 51 at bats during the month of June between El Paso and Lake Elsinore.

Jacob Hartlaub (Rays system) – A 14th round pick by Tampa Bay in the 2025 draft, Hartlaub has struck out 28 in 23.2 innings pitched this year for the Low-A Charleston RiverDogs. The right-handed pitcher holds a 3-1 record with three saves and 35 strikeouts in 33.2 innings pitched so far in his professional career.

Drey Jameson (Arizona Diamondbacks) – Jameson got called back up to the big leagues on June 6 and has eight strikeouts in 10.1 innings across six appearances with Arizona. The former first round pick by the Diamondbacks boasts a career 6-2 record and 2.99 ERA with 69 strikeouts in 78.1 innings pitched in Major League Baseball.

Ty Johnson (Rays system) – Johnson has collected the May International League Pitcher of the Month and International League Pitcher of the Week (June 29 after 5.0 no-hit innings with nine strikeouts) accolades recently. The right-handed pitcher has posted 56 strikeouts in 44.1 innings pitched with a 3-1 record, 2.64 ERA and 0.95 WHIP across nine starts so far this year.

Chayce McDermott (Dodgers system) – Acquired by Los Angeles in an April 16 trade from Baltimore, McDermott has worked 2.1 innings in two games this season with the Dodgers. The former fourth round pick has a 4.95 ERA and 35 strikeouts in 20.0 innings pitched across 20 appearances with the Triple-A Oklahoma City Comets.

Kyle Nicolas (Orioles system) – Nicolas was traded from Cincinnati to Baltimore on June 4 after appearing in seven games with the Reds. The right-handed pitcher has posted 26 strikeouts in 20.0 innings between stints with the Triple-A Louisville Bats and Triple-A Norfolk Tides.

Trennor O’Donnell (Red Sox system) – The eighth round pick in the 2023 draft by Boston, O’Donnell has pitched in three games in recent weeks after missing much of the 2025 season due to injury. O’Donnell struck out five in 3.0 shutout frames on June 27 and has 10 punchouts in 7.1 innings pitched so far this season.

Tyler Schweitzer (Chicago White Sox) – Schweitzer made his major league debut on April 8, getting four outs in relief against the Orioles. The left-handed pitcher has made three more appearances with the White Sox since then along with a 2-2 record and 33 strikeouts in 40.2 frames with Triple-A Charlotte this year.

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SOUTHERN INDIANA VOLLEYBALL

EVANSVILLE, Ind.- University of Southern Indiana Volleyball announced its 2026 schedule on Tuesday.

Featuring a pair of matches against Big Ten opponents, the Screaming Eagles have 30 matches on their slate, including 13 home contests.

The Eagles are set to begin their season hosting the USI Invitational, which features matches against Murray State University, Eastern Michigan University, and Northern Illinois University on August 28-29. Marking the first match in school history against EMU, the second meeting with NIU, and the eighth against Murray State.

For their first road challenge, the Screaming Eagles will fly south to take on Georgia Tech University and Campbell University on September 4th, and Xavier University on September 5.  All three matches will mark first-time meetings in program history for the Eagles.

USI will return home on September 7 to host Indiana University, marking the third time the Eagles have taken on the Hoosiers in school history. This matchup is the second time USI Volleyball has hosted a Big Ten opponent since moving to Division I, following last season’s match against Michigan State University in Liberty Arena.

The Screaming Eagles will travel to Columbus, Ohio, for the Sports Imports Classic for their final non-conference tournament. USI takes on Youngstown State University first on September 11, then the host team, Ohio State University, on the 12th, and wraps up play on September 13 against Winthrop University.

The home and home series with crosstown rival, the University of Evansville, will wrap up non-conference play. The first match on September 18 will mark the second annual Battle for the Lloyd, which USI will host after winning the championship match last season. The Eagles will then travel across two to take on the Purple Aces on September 19.

To open Ohio Valley Conference play, the Screaming Eagles are set to travel to Charleston, Illinois, to take on Eastern Illinois University, the reigning conference champions, on September 25-26.

After the bye week, the Eagles will be back in action October 9-10 for the OVC home opener against Morehead State University. USI will be on the road the following weekend at Lindenwood University, October 16-17.

The Screaming Eagles are set for a four-game home stand, hosting Western Illinois University October 23-24, then the University of Tennessee Martin October 29-30.

To kick off November, USI will travel south to Tennessee State University on November 6-7. For the regular-season home finale, the Eagles host Southeast Missouri State University on November 12-13. Then, USI will wrap up the regular season on the road at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, November 17-18.

The 46th annual OVC Tournament is set to run from November 22 through the 24th on the campus of the top-seeded team, with the top eight seeded teams.

USI is looking to continue to build on the success of the 2025 season after finishing 19-13 overall and 14-4 in conference, marking the best OVC finish and most DI wins in a season in school history.

Head Coach Jeffrey Aucoin is entering his fourth season at the helm, bringing with him 12 returning players, including 2025 OVC Freshman of the Year Aysa Thomas, and First Team All-OVC Ashby Willis. Aucoin added three newcomers to the roster for 2026, two freshmen, Aubrey Fair and Vita Sensenbrenner, along with transfer setter Aspen Jankowski.

Admission information for USI home contests and ESPN+ broadcasts will be announced later this summer.

For updates throughout the season, fans can follow USI Athletics and USI Volleyball on Facebook, Instagram, and X, as well as online at usiscreamingeagles.com.

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TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY

1859 – In the first college baseball game ever played, Amherst defeats Williams College, 73 – 32 (66 – 32 by some reports) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

1901:

Chicago 1B Jack Doyle, harassed by a Polo Grounds fan, jumps into the stands and hits him once with his left hand, reinjuring the hand which he had broken several weeks before. The Giants’ Luther Taylor trims Chicago’s Jack Taylor, 6 – 4.

The Phillies hand the Pirates a 1 – 0 loss, for Pittsburgh’s only shutout of the year in 139 games. This is a 20th century National League record that will hold up; the 1894 Boston and Philadelphia teams went through the 132-game season without being shut out in the highest-scoring season ever.

1902 – Playing his first game for Connie Mack’s A’s, Rube Waddell faces only 27 batters, blanking the Orioles, 2 – 0. The 25-year-old southpaw strikes out the side three times by whiffing Billy Gilbert, Harry Howell and Jack Cronin in the 3rd (on just nine pitches), 6th, and 9th innings. C Ossee Schreckengost throws out the two baserunners.

1903 – Pitcher Cy Young drives home the only run in the 10th inning as the Boston Americans beat Chicago, 1 – 0.

1905 – White Sox P Frank Owen narrowly misses becoming the first to pitch a doubleheader shutout as the Browns score two runs off him in the two games. The Sox win, 3 – 2 and 3 – 0.

1906 – Righthander Jack Taylor, 8-9 with the St. Louis Cardinals, returns to the Cubs in exchange for second-string C Pete Noonan, rookie P Fred Beebe and cash. Taylor will help the Cubs by going 12-3 the rest of the year.

1909 – All National League games are cancelled in mourning for Israel Durham, President of the Philadelphia Phillies, who died on June 28th.

1910 – White Sox Park opens with a 2 – 0 loss to the Browns. The stadium, since called Comiskey Park, is baseball’s biggest and cost $750,000 to build. 24,900 attend the game, 1,100 less than capacity. This stadium will close in the fall of 1990, to be replaced by a new structure, which will be known as New Comiskey Park.

1911:

Ty Cobb, who had an infield single off Earl Hamilton in his last game, on June 29th, repeats by beating out another infield hit against the St. Louis lefty. Again, Detroit wins, this time, 8 – 0.

The A’s pound Walter Johnson for 13 runs, the most he’ll allow in his career, and beat Washington, 13 – 8. Frank Baker hits his second of five career homers off Johnson in the 6th with a man on.

In a 3 – 0 Chicago win over the host Reds, Cubs player-manager Frank Chance leaves the game suffering from a blood clot in the brain. Except for 11 brief appearances at 1B over the next three years, his playing days are over.

1912 – At Pittsburgh, Chicago’s Wildfire Schulte breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Marty O’Toole and Jimmy Lavender by legging out an inside-the-park homer in the 12th inning. Lavender and the Cubs win, 1 – 0.

1915 – Pittsburgh (Federal League) drops the first game, 6 – 0, at Baltimore, then scores in every inning of the nitecap to win, 13 – 5. This is the first game since 1894 in which this has happened.

1916:

Babe Ruth retires the first ten Washington batters, but the next five reach base, sending the Boston lefty to the showers and to a 4 – 2 loss.

At age 42 years and 4 months, Honus Wagner is the oldest player to hit an inside-the-park home run. He connects for the Pirates in the 4th inning at Cincinnati.

1917:

The Reds’ Fred Toney pitches a doubleheader, beating the Pirates, 4 – 1 and 5 – 1. He walks one and allows three hits in each game, the fewest hits allowed by any pitcher winning two games in one day.

Despite a state law banning Sunday baseball, the Robins play their first Sunday game in Brooklyn, charging regular admission and beating the Phils, 3 – 2. Charles Ebbets announces that the admission will benefit the Militia of Mercy, a wartime charity, and is for a pregame band concert and military drill exhibition before the game. When the band concert ends ticket sales stop to conform with the Sunday baseball laws. More than 12,000 attend. Despite the maneuver, Ebbets and manager Wilbert Robinson are arrested, and will pay a small fine.

1919 – Going 5 for 5 in a 9 – 4 win over the Phils, Brooklyn’s Ed Konetchy gets his tenth straight hit, tying Jake Gettman’s record with Washington in 1897. Both will be topped by Walt Dropo in 1952.

1920:

Leaving Robison Field in mid-season, the Cardinals make their debut as the home team at Sportsman’s Park, also the home of the American League’s St. Louis Browns, bowing to the Pirates, 6 – 2. After signing a ten-year lease for $20,000 annually with Browns’ president Phil Ball, the team moves six blocks to be able to play its home games in a modern ballpark.

Walter Johnson pitches a no-hitter, his first, against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. An error by Bucky Harris costs him a perfect game, but Harris’s hit drives in Washington’s only run. The next day, Johnson comes up with the first sore arm of his life and is useless for the rest of the year, finishing 8-10.

1921 – Casey Stengel is traded from the last-place Phils to the second-place Giants, along with IF Johnny Rawlings and P Red Causey for IF Goldie Rapp and outfielders Lance Richbourg and Lee King.

1925 – The Giants move back on top of the National League, taking two from the Phils. Hack Wilson then hits two home runs in the 3rd inning of the 16 – 7 nightcap.

1926 – The Pirates break an eight-game losing streak by beating St. Louis. They move into second place, dropping the Cards to third.

1934:

Bill Terry is the top vote-getter in the All-Star balloting. Babe Ruth leads all American League outfielders.

The Cardinals outlast the Reds, 8 – 6, in an 18-inning first game of a double bill in Cincinnati. Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitas duel for 17 innings.

1935 – Yankees OF George Selkirk suggests a cinder path, six feet wide, be installed in the outfield so a player knows when he is nearing the wall.

1936:

Powel Crosley, Jr. exercises his two-year option and buys controlling interest in the Cincinnati Reds.

The Athletics send veteran pitcher Bill Dietrich to Washington for the waiver price. He’ll be there three weeks before the Senators waive him to the White Sox on July 20th.

Detroit collects 25 hits off three White Sox pitchers to win, 21 – 7.

1938 – Dodgers C Babe Phelps fractures the thumb on his throwing hand for the second time this year.

1941:

Before 52,832 at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio leads a sweep of the Red Sox, 7 – 2 and 9 – 2. The second game is called after five innings. DiMaggio has two hits in the first game and one in the second to tie Willie Keeler’s major-league hitting streak of 44 games with the help of a difficult decision by the official scorer. Red Sox third baseman Jim Tabor makes a poor throw, but Joltin’ Joe is given a hit by New York World-Telegram’s Dan Daniel. The Yankees have 25 hits in the two games but fail to hit a home run in the first game, ending their streak of 25 consecutive games with at least one dinger. The previous record, set by the Tigers in 1940, was 17 games.

The few fans watching the Brooklyn Dodgers’ game on WNBT are witnesses to a breakthrough in marketing: for ten seconds before the first pitch of the game, the screen shows the image of a clock superimposed over a map of the United States. A voice then states “America runs on Bulova time”. It is the first television advertisement ever broadcast in the United States.

1943:

The Sporting News switches to a tabloid format from a standard metro layout as a means of saving newsprint.

Jungo Watanabe hits the first inside-the-park sayonara homer in Japanese Professional Baseball League history for an exciting wrap-up. It is his only career dinger.

1945 – Away from the game for four years, Hank Greenberg makes a dramatic return in front of an emotional crowd of 47,700 at Briggs Stadium as he homers off Charlie Gassaway in his first game following being released from the Armed Forces. Hammerin Hank’s round-tripper helps the first-place Tigers beat the A’s, 9 – 5.

1948 – Brooklyn’s Roy Campanella makes his debut, catching Ralph Branca. Campy doubles in his first at-bat, adds two singles, but the Giants win 6 – 4 over Branca.

1950:

At Boston, Tommy Byrne takes the loss for the Yankees, but reliever Whitey Ford does little to help. In his major league debut, Ford throws 4 2/3 inning, allowing seven hits, six walks, and five earned runs. Boston rolls, 13 – 4. Rookie Walt Dropo hits a grand slam for the Bosox to dump the Yanks into third place.

Behind unbeaten rookie Bob Miller, the first-place Phils trip the Dodgers, 6 – 4. Jim Konstanty makes his 30th relief appearance to help Miller win his seventh straight. Mike Goliat and Willie Jones homer to pace an 11-hit attack. By winning their second straight game from Brooklyn, the Whiz Kids move .002 ahead of St. Louis and a game and a half ahead of Brooklyn.

The Reds’ Ewell Blackwell has to go ten innings but finally beats the Cubs, 5 – 3, striking out 14 and allowing just two hits. One of the hits is Andy Pafko’s three-run home run in the 9th.

1951:

Elmer Valo belts three homers to help the A’s sweep the Senators, 10 – 7 and 3 – 2. Two of his homers come in the first game, when teammate Gus Zernial hits his 18th homer. Irv Noren has a pair of doubles and a homer for the Nats.

Philadelphia’s Russ Meyer and Jim Konstanty hold Brooklyn to one hit but lose anyway, 2 – 0. Pee Wee Reese’s two-run triple follows two walks in the 3rd and accounts for all the hits and runs.

Veteran Bob Feller pitches the third no-hitter of his career, tying the record of Cy Young and Larry Corcoran, as he beats Detroit’s Bob Cain, 2 – 1. Feller loses his shutout in the 4th when Johnny Lipon reaches on an error, swipes second base, goes to third on a errant pickoff, and scores on a sacrifice fly. Rookie Bob Chakales shuts out the Tigers in the nightcap, 2 – 0, for Cleveland’s tenth straight win over Detroit. Detroit has scored eight runs in the ten losses.

In the second game of a doubleheader, the Browns’ Ned Garver, en route to a 20-win season, limits the White Sox to two hits, winning, 3 – 1. The loss drops the Sox out of the American League lead. Chicago wins the opener, 2 – 1 in 11 innings on Minnie Minoso’s 400-foot homer to left center. Minnie’s blow breaks up a pitching duel between loser Duane Pillette and Ken Holcombe.

Before 58,815 at Yankee Stadium, the Yanks top the Red Sox, 5 – 2, behind Eddie Lopat’s six-hitter. The win moves the Yankees ahead of the White Sox by four percentage points. Jerry Coleman homers off Mel Parnell, while Johnny Pesky connects for the Sox. Bobby Doerr singles for his 2,000th career hit.

1952 – The Indians’ Larry Doby walks five times in a 19-inning game.

1956 – Mickey Mantle switch-hits home runs in the same game for the fourth time in his career. The Yankees win 8 – 6 over Washington.

1957:

Cincinnati fans threaten to sue Commissioner Ford Frick unless Gus Bell, George Crowe and Wally Post are restored to the All-Star team. They finished first in the ballotting thanks to vote-stuffing by Cincinnati fans, ahead of more deserving players.

Orioles pitcher George Zuverink and catcher Frank Zupo form the first “Z” battery in major league history as the Yankees beat the Birds, 3 – 2.

1958 – The Cubs’ Tony Taylor hits a ball inside the third base line that falls into the rain gutter in fair territory at Wrigley Field. San Francisco rookie OF Leon Wagner chases the ball, but is fooled by Cubs relief pitchers staring intently under the bench. Wagner does not look for the ball in the gutter 40 to 50 feet further down. Taylor reaches home on the hit.

1959 – The Redlegs purchase veteran 3B Willie Jones from the Indians.

1960:

The Pirates are not big base-stealers, but aggressive baserunning is their stock in trade, as evidenced by today’s ten-inning, come-from-behind, walk-off win over Los Angeles, wherein Joe Christopher and Roberto Clemente combine to, in effect, steal the game. Christopher races in from second base on Clemente’s infield single. Maury Wills fields the bouncer and throws to Gil Hodges but Clemente is safe by inches, and Christopher slides in a fraction of a second before Hodges’ peg to the plate arrives. Dick Stuart then slices a lazy fly ball down the right-field line. Clemente is off and running as Frank Howard lumbers over to pick up the ball; he hesitates before throwing, and then fires wildly between third base and home as Clemente scores standing up.

Cards reliever Ernie Broglio is nothing but efficient, tossing a total of 2 1/3 innings of relief in two games with the Braves. Ernie wins both. The Cards blow a 7 – 0 lead in the opener before winning in the 10th, 8 – 7. They blow a 5 – 0 lead in the nitecap, but win 7 – 5. Fellow reliever Lindy McDaniel gets rapped in both games.

A first-refusal option for chief minority stockholder H. Gabriel Murphy to buy the holdings of Washington owner Calvin Griffith expires. Murphy will lose two court decisions in efforts to keep Griffith from moving the Senators to Minnesota.

1961:

At Milwaukee, Gordy Coleman collects eight hits and leads the Reds to a sweep over the Braves. The Reds win the opener, 8 – 5, as Coleman collects five hits, including a three-run homer in the 13th off Warren Spahn. Gordy chips in with three more hits in the nitecap, a 4 – 3 Reds win.

The Senators stake rookie Carl Mathias to a 3 – 0 lead over New York, but a Mickey Mantle solo shot, a few feet left of the 456-foot sign in left at Yankee Stadium, puts New York on the board. The Nats up the score to 5 – 1, but Mantle then bangs a three-run homer to make it 5 – 4 and knock out Mathias, who in his 11 major league games will give up three homers to Mantle. In the 9th, Roger Maris poles a two-run homer, his 28th, to give New York a 7 – 6 victory.

1962:

Albie Pearson becomes the first player to go hitless in 11 at bats in a doubleheader (both nine-inning games). Los Angeles splits with the Yankees, losing 6 – 3 before winning 12 – 5. Reliever Art Fowler helps himself to a win in the nitecap by driving in four runs on a pair of singles. The Yanks take over first place.

The White Sox drop Cleveland to third place while winning a pair, 5 – 4 and 7 – 6. In the second game, they also set a major-league record with three run-scoring sacrifice flies (by Juan Pizarro, Nellie Fox and Al Smith) in the 5th inning when they score six runs. Indian RF Gene Green makes the first putout of the 6th inning, but then muffs two other fly balls, both of which are credited as sacrifice flies, the scorer assuming the runners on third would have scored anyway.

1963 – The Reds send C Jesse Gonder and cash to the Mets for 3B Charlie Neal and C Sammy Taylor. Cincinnati also sells 2B Don Blasingame to Washington.

1964:

Say It Ain’t So… Juan. While the Giants’ Juan Marichal is reducing his ERA from 2.54 to 2.44 in the course of a 2 – 1 win over Bob Veale and the Pirates, Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente resume their personal war for National League hitting honors. Clemente singles twice, drives in the Pirates’ only run, and finishes at .349. Mays doesn’t have much of a chance to close ground; after his 1st-inning home run, the Bucs’ moundsmen walk him the next three times up. However, the one hit jumps him from .344 to .347. Ironically, the Pirates’ only run is driven in by Clemente when Marichal resorts to a quick pitch with the bases loaded in the 5th. Clemente gets just enough of the ball to drive it into the ground in front of the plate and it bounces so high that Orlando Cepeda has to wait helplessly for it to come down as the run scores and Clemente flies across the base.

At Crosley Field, the Reds score four runs in the bottom of the 9th to tie the Cubs, 5 – 5. Pete Rose ends the game with a 10th-inning homer.

It’s “Taxi Day” at Yankee Stadium and nearly 5,000 cabbies and their families are on hand as Kansas City runs up the meter to win, 5 – 4.

1966 – At Washington, Mickey Mantle homers in the 1st inning off Phil Ortega, as New York edges the Senators, 8 – 6. Mick scores another run when Joe Pepitone cracks a two-run homer.

1967:

Baltimore’s Jim Palmer gives up a grand slam – but it is in the minors. Sent to Rochester (International League) to rehabilitate from back problems, Rochester manager Earl Weaver starts the 21-year-old against Buffalo, in a game moved to Niagara Falls because of racial disturbances on Buffalo’s east side. Palmer is given a 7 – 0 lead, but the Bisons score five runs in the 3rd, four coming home on a grand slam by Johnny Bench. Rochester hangs on to win, 10 – 8. Palmer will never give up a slam in a 19-year major league career.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Orioles lose to Cleveland, 6 – 0. John O’Donoghue wins in relief. Mike Adamson makes his major league debut for Baltimore: he is the first draftee to bypass the minors and go straight to the majors, though he’ll play in the minors next year.

1968 – A 1st-inning wild pitch that eludes backup catcher Johnny Edwards allows a run to break Bob Gibson’s streak of 47 2/3 innings of scoreless pitching (in which he allows just 21 hits). The Cards beat Don Drysdale and the Dodgers in Los Angeles, 8 – 1. Gibson will pitch 23 innings before giving up another run.

1970:

The Reds top the Braves, 9 – 2, as Tommy Helms becomes the first Red player to go deep at Riverfront Stadium. Helms’s homer, which hits the LF pole just above the wall, is his only one of the year.

The return of Denny McLain following his suspension is witnessed by a gathering of 53,863 fans and 71 writers. He is knocked out of the box in the 6th inning, but the Tigers rally to beat the Yankees in the 11th, 6 – 5.

The Cards trade Ted Abernathy, acquired May 29th, to the Royals for P Chris Zachary. Abernathy will go 9-3 the rest of the year for Kansas City.

1971 – The Mets release 2B Al Weis, a World Series hero less than two years earlier.

1972:

Roberto Clemente’s fourth and fifth (out of six) career home runs off his friend and fellow future Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins provide the Pirates with a 4 – 3 walk-off win against the Cubs at Three Rivers Stadium. Clemente hits Fergie’s first pitch in the 7th inning over the left field fence to tie the game. After the Bucs fall behind, 3 – 2, his second homer is a game-ending blast with none out in the 9th.

Nolan Ryan allows five hits and strikes out 16 in pitching the Angels to a 5 – 3 victory over the Athletics. Ryan has a RBI single and is helped by homers from Ken Berry and Leo Cardenas, off Steve Hamilton.

1973:

At Wrigley Field, the Mets edge the Cubs, 6 – 5, in the first game of a doubleheader. Then it is the Cubs’ turn, as Randy Hundley bangs a 9th-inning three-run homer to give Chicago the 6 – 5 edge. Ron Santo has seven hits for the afternoon, five in the nitecap.

At California, the Twins’ Jim Kaat fires a one-hitter to beat the Angels, 2 – 1. Frank Robinson’s home run in the 2nd is the only hit. This is the second time in his career that Robby hits a home run to break up a no-hitter: he did it July 30, 1971 against Kansas City’s Dick Drago.

The Reds, 11 games behind the Dodgers at the beginning of the day, stage two dramatic comebacks to snatch a doubleheader win from Los Angeles. Hal King’s clutch three-run pinch home run with two outs wins the first game, 4 – 3, against Don Sutton, while Tony Perez’s 10th-inning hit wins the second, 3 – 2. This day will be looked upon as the turning point of the National League’s Western Division race.

Luis Aparicio of the Red Sox steals the 500th base of his career in a 9 – 5 loss to Milwaukee. It is the highest total in the American League since Eddie Collins retired in 1930.

1975 – The Reds win their fourth extra-inning game in five days, beating the Astros, 8 – 7 in 15 innings. Pat Darcy is the winner.

1976 – The Indians paste the Toledo Mud Hens, 13 – 1, in an exhibition game in Toledo. Manager Frank Robinson, hitting as the DH, flies out to CF and, while returning to the dugout, exchanges angry words with Hens P Bob Reynolds. Suddenly, Robby flattens Reynolds with a right-left combination and is quickly ejected from the game.

1978 – The Astros trade C Joe Ferguson to the Dodgers for two players to be named later (IF Rafael Landestoy and OF Jeffrey Leonard).

1979 – New York hits five homers off Red Sox starter Dennis Eckersley to win, 6 – 5. Boston also loses speedster Jerry Remy, batting .304 on the season, when he injures a knee sliding home. Remy will appear in only seven more games all year. Remy will never swipe more than 16 bases after coming back, after averaging 35 steals his first four seasons.

1982 – In what is considered a questionable decision at the time, Cal Ripken Jr. is moved from third base to shortstop by Oriole manager Earl Weaver.

1983 – Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules that the 43 players who were on the disabled list during the 1981 players’ strike are not entitled to their salaries for that period. The decision saves the club owners about $2.5 million.

1984:

Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, whose 166 victories in 13 seasons are the most in club history, retires.

Minnesota’s Frank Viola stops the Tigers, 9 – 0, on four hits in front of 53,484 at Detroit. Kent Hrbek has three hits, including a homer, and four RBIs.

1990 – Yankee Andy Hawkins throws the season’s sixth no-hitter, but still loses, 4 – 0 to the White Sox. With two out in the bottom of the 8th, New York’s Mike Blowers misplays Sammy Sosa’s routine grounder for an error, and Hawkins walks two to load the bases. Outfielders Jim Leyritz and Jesse Barfield drop back-to-back fly balls to allow all four runs to score. Barfield loses Ivan Calderon’s fly ball in the sun and the ball bounces off his mitt. Ken Johnson in 1964 was the last pitcher to lose a no-hitter. This game will be downgraded to “near no-hitter” next year when Major League Baseball changes the definition of a no-hitter, as Hawkins did not pitch nine full innings.

1992 – White Sox SS Craig Grebeck gets five hits in Chicago’s 8 – 5 win over the Indians. Bobby Thigpen saves it for Kirk McCaskill, the winner over Jack Armstrong (2-10).

1994 – The Orioles and Angels combine to hit a major league record-tying 11 home runs in a contest won by Baltimore, 14 – 7. The Orioles smash six of the round-trippers and the Angels hit five. It is the eighth 11-home run game in history. Surprisingly, none of the homers goes as far as 400 feet.

1996:

In San Francisco, Barry Bonds and Mark Carreon homer to lead the Giants to a 9 – 6 win over the Rockies. The win snaps a ten-game losing streak, the longest for the Giants since a ten-game skein in 1985 and a 13-game losing streak in 1944.

At Yankee Stadium, the Key outguns the Rocket, as Jimmy Key beats Roger Clemens, 2 – 0. Mike Aldrete’s solo home run in the 7th is the first score.

1998 – Trailing the Mets, 8 – 7, in the bottom of the 8th inning, Toronto comes up with eight runs. New York fights back with two in their half of the 9th, but the Blue Jays hold on for a 15 – 10 triumph.

1999:

The Brewers defeat the Cubs, 19 – 12, as SS Jose Valentin hits two-run home runs from each side of the plate. 2B Ronnie Belliard and C Dave Nilsson each get four hits for Milwaukee, while Belliard drives home five runs. The Brewers light up Steve Trachsel for ten runs in 3 2/3 innings pitched, hanging his National League-high 11th loss on him. The Brew Crew collects 21 hits for the second time in three nights. There are eight homers in the game, including a pair by the Cubs’ Mickey Morandini. Not homering after four straight games in which he went deep is Sammy Sosa, who singles twice.

Tom Glavine wins his 13th straight game over the Expos, 4 – 1, a streak that stretches back to 1994. He takes no chances with the Braves bullpen, which has blown two leads in the last two games, pitching a complete game. Curiously, before his winning streak, Glavine was 3-13 against the Expos.

In Toronto’s 8 – 6 win over Baltimore, Blue Jays P John Frascatore ties a major league mark with his third win in three consecutive appearances in three days.

2000:

Whitey Herzog, the winningest manager in franchise history, and Willie Wilson, a speedy outfielder who was an offensive spark plug, become members of the Kansas City Royals’ Hall of Fame.

On Canada’s 133rd birthday, Florida’s Ryan Dempster and Montreal’s Mike Johnson hook up in a rare matchup of Canadian starters. Dempster comes out on top as the Marlins defeat the Expos, 6 – 5. Johnson hails from Edmonton, Alberta, while Dempster is a native of Sechelt, British Columbia. Theirs is the first matchup of Canadian-born starters since last September when Dempster took on Eric Gagné of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

BARK, the Baseball Aquatic Retrieval Korps, debuts at PacBell Park. Six Portuguese water dogs will be used to retrieve splashdown home runs which land in McCovey Cove.

2001:

The Giants clip the Cardinals, 5 – 4, on Barry Bonds Day. Barry has a double and three walks as Calvin Murray provides the scoring with a three-run home run. Mark McGwire is 0 for 4 and is now 0 for his last 22 at bats.

The Orioles defeat the White Sox, 11 – 3, on Cal Ripken Jr. Day. Ripken gets three hits in the Baltimore cause.

2003:

The White Sox trade three minor league prospects to the Mets to obtain their catcher’s brother, Roberto Alomar. The 12-time All-Star, who struggled during his season and a half in New York, is exchanged for left-handed reliever Royce Ring, right-hander Edwin Almonte and infielder Andrew Salvo. Just a few hours later, the White Sox acquire outfielder Carl Everett (.274, 18, 51) from the Rangers. Texas will pick two or three players from a Chicago minor league pool, and the team will also give money to help pay part of the former outfielder’s $9.15 million deal.

The Marlins set a franchise mark for runs scored and tie a team record with 25 hits, with Miguel Cabrera, Ivan Rodriguez and Luis Castillo collecting four each. The 20 – 1 victory celebration over the Braves is tempered as a fan is injured in the 7th inning when Darren Bragg’s bat slips from the Atlanta outfielder’s hand and flies into the stands causing an 18-minute delay as the unidentified man is airlifted to a hospital.

2004 – In the game of the year, the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 5 – 4, in 13 innings. The score is tied 3 – 3 after nine innings and both teams have to wiggle their way out of many jams to keep it that way. In the 12th inning, the Red Sox place runners on second and third with two outs when Trot Nixon lifts a fly ball to shallow left field. Yankees SS Derek Jeter races out and catches the ball before diving headfirst into the stands and bloodying his face, forcing him to leave the game. In the top of the 13th inning, Manny Ramirez homers to give the Red Sox the lead, but the Yankees stage a two-out rally in the bottom half of the inning. Ruben Sierra singles, then comes around to score on Miguel Cairo’s game-tying RBI double. Pinch hitter John Flaherty, the last man off the Yankees’ bench, follows with a game-winning single to score Cairo.

2005 – After walking 2,100 miles from Camp Verde, Arizona to reach Wrigley Field, Bill Holden throws the ceremonial first pitch and leads the crowd in singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the 7th-inning stretch at the Cubs game against the Nationals. Inspired by the DVD, This Old Cub, a documentary about former Cubs All-Star third baseman Ron Santo who lost both his legs to diabetes, the 56-year-old school teacher, with two bad knees, pounds the pavement for 172 days and raises $250,000 with his ‘Walk the Walk’ campaign for juvenile diabetes research.

2007 – Mike Hargrove surprisingly resigns as the manager of the Seattle Mariners with the team in first place in the AL West.

2009:

Is the era of high scoring over? For the first time since September 1, 1976, three National League games end in 1 – 0 scores on the same day. All of the shutouts are combined efforts: Mike Pelfrey of the Mets beats Milwaukee, Johnny Cueto leads the Reds over Arizona, and the Dodgers defeat Colorado with an 8th-inning run.

One day after blowing the lead in a ten-run Oriole comeback, Jonathan Papelbon saves Boston’s come-from-behind 6 – 5 win over the Birds. The BoSox score four in the 9th to tie the game, giving Papelbon the chance to close it in the 11th, thereby passing Bob Stanley for the franchise lead for saves with 133.

2010:

The Diamondbacks clean house, firing general manager Josh Byrnes and manager A.J. Hinch in one fell swoop. Bench coach Kirk Gibson will serve as interim manager, while team Vice-President Jerry Dipoto will take over GM duties. The Diamondbacks are last in the NL West with a record of 31-48, the third worst in the major leagues.

The Rays come back twice to defeat the Twins, 5 – 4, in 10 innings. Carl Crawford goes 4 for 6 with two runs, one RBI, a stolen base and a great catch to rob Joe Mauer in the 5th inning. The Rays had not won back-to-back games since June 6-9th.

The Red Sox are facing a catching crunch, with back-up Jason Varitek apparently victim of a broken foot less than a week after starter Victor Martinez was placed on the disabled list with a broken thumb. With rookie Gustavo Molina the only healthy catcher on the roster, Boston repatriates veteran Kevin Cash from Houston, in a trade for infielder Angel Sanchez.

2011:

Jair Jurrjens of the Braves picks up his 11th win of the year with a one-hitter over the Orioles, 4 – 0. He lowers his National League-leading ERA to 1.89 in a bid to be named the starter of the 2011 All-Star Game. Adam Jones has the lone safety, a single in the 7th, while Jason Heyward hits his first homer since April 29th to open the scoring.

The Rangers cruise to a 15 – 5 win over the Marlins as Nelson Cruz drives in six runs. Converted reliever Alexi Ogando improves to 8-3 on the year.

2012:

Major League Baseball announces the starters and reserves for the 2012 All-Star Game, to be held in Kansas City, MO. Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers receives over 11 million votes, shattering the record tally of 7.4 million votes received by Jose Bautista last year. Hamilton is one of seven members of the Rangers to be named to the American League squad by manager Ron Washington. In the National League, Buster Posey of the San Francisco Giants sets a mark for most votes received by a player from the senior circuit with 7.6 million votes.

Rob Cordemans becomes the all-time Hoofdklasse win leader. He strikes out seven and allows two unearned runs in a rain-shortened 6 – 2 victory over the Sparta/Feyenoord. Bas de Jong goes 3 for 3 with two RBI to lead the offense. Cordemans now has 151 wins, passing Bart Volkerijk.

2013:

Andy Pettitte passes Whitey Ford for the most strikeouts in New York Yankees history when he records his 1,957th in the Yankees’ 10 – 4 win over the Twins. The win goes to reliever Joba Chamberlain, his first of the year, as he benefits from a three-run outburst off reliever Jared Burton in the 8th. The Yankees then add four runs in the top of the 9th as they end a five-game losing streak.

Bryce Harper homers in his first game back with the Nationals after missing over a month following a collision with an outfield fence in which he hurt his knee. The Nats defeat the Brewers, 10 – 5.

2014 – It requires no less than two video reviews, but the Indians pull off an unlikely triple play in the 4th inning of their 10 – 3 win over the Dodgers. With runners on the corners, Adrian Gonzalez slashes a pitch to left field; Michael Brantley runs in to make the catch and guns down Dee Gordon at the plate. Yasiel Puig then makes a late break for second base and appears to beat C Yan Gomes’s throw to 2B Jason Kipnis. Indians manager Terry Francona is the first to object, asking for a review of the call at second base, and it is overturned; Dodgers manager Don Mattingly then comes out of the dugout and asks officials to take another look at the out at home, but that one stands, and the Indians have a triple play.

2015:

Carlos Carrasco of the Indians comes within one strike of pitching a no-hitter as in the 9th inning, the Rays’ Joey Butler lines a two-out, two-strike pitch over 2B Jason Kipnis’ head. The hit, which drives in a run, comes after Carrasco had walked Asdrubal Cabrera and hit Brandon Guyer with a pitch earlier in the inning. Carrasco is removed from the game and Austin Adams records the last out of an 8 – 1 win.

Angels General Manager Jerry Dipoto resigns over a rumored power struggle with manager Mike Scioscia. Former GM Bill Stoneman takes over on an interim basis.

2016 – The Indians set a new team record with their 14th straight win, but it doesn’t come easy as they need 19 innings to defeat the Blue Jays, 2 – 1. Carlos Santana, who had scored the Indians’ first run in the 3rd, homers off infielder Darwin Barney for the winning run. 19 pitchers are used in the game, with starter Trevor Bauer going the last five innings for Cleveland to earn the win; for its part, Toronto runs out of pitchers in the 18th, and another infielder, Ryan Goins, precedes Barney on the mound.

2018 – The Yankees beat down the Red Sox, 11 – 1, with a six-homer barrage, including three by Aaron Hicks, and one by back-up catcher Kyle Higashioka that is also his first major league hit. Luis Severino becomes the first 13-game winner in the majors, while David Price, who gives up five of the long balls, is the loser. The Yanks have now hit 137 homers, setting a new club record for most before the All-Star break.

2019:

Pitcher Tyler Skaggs of the Angels is found dead in his hotel room a few hours before the team’s scheduled game against the Rangers. The game is postponed. Skaggs was 27 and police confirm that no foul play is suspected, although it will later be revealed that he died of a drug overdose.

The Pirates beat down on the Cubs, with 23 hits in an 18 – 5 win. Josh Bell hits three homers and drives in seven runs, Adam Frazier has five hits including four doubles, matching the major league record, while Colin Moran also has a five-hit game.

2021 – The results of the vote for starters at the 2021 All-Star Game are announced and youth is well represented as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. leads all players for most votes received, and other brash youngsters such as Fernando Tatis Jr., Shohei Ohtani, Rafael Devers, Adam Frazier, Teoscar Hernandez and Jesse Winker join him as first-timers voted in by fans, while Ronald Acuna is a second-timer at 23. It’s veterans like Salvador Perez and Mike Trout – who is injured and likely to miss the game – who stand out in this group.

2022:

Nolan Arenado hits the first cycle by a Cardinals player since Mark Grudzielanek in 2005, but it’s in vain as St. Louis loses to the Phillies, 5 – 3. The Phils’ Darick Hall hits his third homer in two days, accounting for all the hits in his major league career so far.

The Peruvian national team gets one of its biggest wins ever, as the world’s 42nd-ranked team upsets Venezuela, 5 – 4. After getting five hits and no runs in their first two games in the 2022 Bolivarian Games, Peru comes to life today. Daniel Shimura’s three-run double provides the big hit while Jonathan Farías escapes a bases-loaded jam to end it.

2025 – The Blue Jays celebrate Canada Day in style with a 12 – 5 win over the Yankees. George Springer is the hero, as he delivers a key grand slam in the 7th inning as part of a seven-RBI day. His two homers give him an even 100 since joining the Jays.

Births[edit]

1855 – Foghorn Bradley, pitcher (d. 1900)

1857 – Roger Connor, infielder, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1931)

1859 – John Kiley, outfielder (d. 1940)

1861 – John Clarkson, pitcher; Hall of Famer (d. 1909)

1861 – Charlie Daniels, pitcher (d. 1938)

1861 – Frank Keffer, pitcher (d. 1923)

1870 – Charlie Nyce, infielder (d. 1908)

1871 – Jim Duncan, catcher (d. 1901)

1876 – Jim Buchanan, pitcher (d. 1949)

1878 – Fred Holmes, catcher/infielder (d. 1956)

1879 – Jake Atz, infielder (d. 1945)

1883 – Jack Quinn, pitcher (d. 1946)

1885 – Ed Larkin, catcher (d. 1934)

1888 – J.J. Lane, minor league pitcher (d. 1946)

1888 – Ben Taylor, infielder, manager; Hall of Fame (d. 1953)

1889 – Richard Goodbred, minor league pitcher and manager (d. 1968)

1889 – Lefty James, pitcher (d. 1933)

1891 – Fritz Scheeren, outfielder (d. 1973)

1893 – Howie Camp, outfielder (d. 1960)

1896 – Bert Cole, pitcher (d. 1975)

1900 – Louis Brower, infielder (d. 1994)

1900 – Joe Casey, pitcher (d. 1987)

1900 – Mel Simons, outfielder (d. 1974)

1902 – Kent Greenfield, pitcher (d. 1978)

1902 – Willie Jones, catcher (d. ????)

1907 – Bill Stern, broadcaster (d. 1971)

1913 – Frank Barrett, pitcher (d. 1998)

1913 – Wedo Martini, pitcher (d. 1970)

1915 – Boots Poffenberger, pitcher (d. 1999)

1915 – Babe Young, infielder (d. 1983)

1916 – Eli Chism, outfielder (d. 1982)

1916 – Herbert Ogden, US national team outfielder (d. 2007)

1916 – Bob Prince, announcer (d. 1985)

1918 – Al Tate, pitcher (d. 1993)

1920 – Paul Lehner, outfielder (d. 1967)

1921 – Takeshi Doigaki, NPB catcher (d. 1991)

1924 – Jack Bruner, pitcher (d. 2003)

1924 – Ken Wood, outfielder (d. 2007)

1925 – Shigeru Araki, NPB infielder (d. ????)

1928 – Hersh Freeman, pitcher (d. 2004)

1929 – Ray Coss, minor league outfielder (d. 2014)

1929 – Leo Rodríguez, minor league infielder and manager; Salon de la Fama (d. 2011)

1930 – Frank Joranko, college coach (d. 2019)

1930 – Bill Nishita, minor league and NPB pitcher (d. 2003)

1930 – Frank Seeley, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)

1932 – Masaru Sugimoto, NPB outfielder

1933 – Frank Baumann, pitcher (d. 2020)

1933 – Hiroshi Kuroiwa, NPB pitcher

1935 – Hiroomi Oyane, NPB pitcher

1936 – Dick Drott, pitcher (d. 1985)

1937 – Ron Nischwitz, pitcher

1938 – Craig Anderson, pitcher

1938 – Yukiyoshi Yamamoto, NPB outfielder

1939 – Joel Gibson, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)

1941 – Kazuhiro Ishiguro, NPB infielder (d. 2015)

1942 – Masaru Kobashi, NPB player

1943 – Kingo Kondo, NPB outfielder

1944 – Hidetaka Okura, NPB infielder

1945 – Billy Rohr, pitcher

1950 – Kazuo Nagasawa, Japanese national team outfielder

1951 – Kuo-Hui Liu, Chinese Taipei national team infielder

1951 – Jim Otten, pitcher

1952 – Kerry Dineen, outfielder (d. 2015)

1952 – Mike Teahen, Canadian national team catcher

1956 – Brian Sabean, General Manager

1959 – Tony Walker, outfielder

1962 – Shoji Fujii, Japanese national team coach

1964 – DeWayne Coleman, minor league pitcher

1964 – Nikolay Gervasov, Russian national team manager

1964 – Tim Rypien, minor league catcher

1966 – Shoichi Nakajima, Japanese national team coach

1968 – Keiichi Kojima, NPB pitcher

1969 – Shinjiro Hiyama, NPB outfielder

1970 – Masahiro Koda, NPB infielder

1971 – Yusuke Torigoe, NPB infielder

1971 – Jamie Walker, pitcher

1973 – Seok Jeong, minor league pitcher

1973 – Leoner Vasquez, minor league pitcher

1974 – Ken Warner, minor league infielder

1977 – Steve Hoff, minor league pitcher

1977 – Cheng-Hua Kao, CPBL catcher

1977 – Hiroya Tani, NPB pitcher

1979 – Ke Ma, Chinese national team infielder

1979 – Chris Morris, minor league outfielder

1979 – Masahiro Yamada, KBO pitcher

1980 – Byeong-Hak An, minor league pitcher

1980 – Nelson Cruz, outfielder; All-Star

1980 – Andre Simpson, minor league pitcher

1981 – Matt Carson, outfielder

1981 – Han-joon Yoo, KBO infielder

1982 – Justin Huber, infielder

1983 – Alexander Campbell, Fijian national team pitcher

1983 – Derek Hankins, minor league pitcher

1983 – Kodai Sakurai, NPB outfielder

1983 – Yuji Sogawa, NPB pitcher

1983 – Ting-Jen Yeh, CPBL pitcher

1984 – Bryan Adamski, college coach

1984 – Richard Leander, Elitserien pitcher-infielder

1984 – Chris Mason, minor league pitcher

1984 – Rich Thompson, pitcher

1985 – Masaki Hiraoka, NPB pitcher

1985 – Chris Perez, pitcher; All-Star

1985 – Soma Yamauchi, NPB pitcher

1986 – Charlie Blackmon, outfielder; All-Star

1986 – Kyle LaMotta, minor league outfielder

1987 – Raul Interiano, Salvadoran national team infielder

1987 – Pete Tountas, minor league infielder

1989 – John Love, American Samoa national team infielder

1989 – Mike Montgomery, pitcher

1989 – Brett Oberholtzer, pitcher

1989 – Everton Shimizu, Brazilian national team infielder

1989 – Taylor Siemens, minor league pitcher

1990 – Colin Rea, pitcher

1990 – Junior Téllez, Nicaraguan national team pitcher

1991 – Rivar Angulo, minor league pitcher

1991 – Ping-Hung Chi, minor league outfielder

1991 – Seth Schwindenhammer, minor league outfielder

1991 – Tyler Smith, infielder

1991 – Michael Wacha, pitcher; All-Star

1992 – Aaron Sanchez, pitcher; All-Star

1993 – Akbar Aminudin, Indonesian national team outfielder

1993 – Juan López, Guatemalan national team infielder

1994 – Jaylin Davis, outfielder

1994 – Chris Flexen, pitcher

1995 – Ron Marinaccio, pitcher

1995 – Kohei Miyadai, NPB pitcher

1996 – Seung-min Choi, NPB infielder

1996 – Jared Ng, Singaporean national team outfielder

1997 – Gunnar Groen, minor league pitcher

1999 – Jair Camargo, catcher

1999 – Billy Parsons, Australian national team pitcher

2001 – Viacheslav Babii, Ukrainian national team catcher

2001 – Ben Hernandez, minor league pitcher

2003 – Keito Matsuura, NPB pitcher

2004 – Ruito Nishimura, NPB infielder

2006 – Yu-Chien Chang, CPBL pitcher

2006 – Barry Oñas, Philippines national team player

Deaths[edit]

1903 – Jimmy Cooney, infielder (b. 1865)

1908 – Doc Landis, pitcher (b. 1854)

1917 – Al Buckenberger, manager (b. 1861)

1921 – Amos Booth, infielder (b. 1848)

1924 – Jerry D’Arcy, outfielder (b. 1885)

1937 – Russ Hall, infielder (b. 1871)

1941 – Harry Adams, umpire (b. 1863)

1945 – Joe Ranson, catcher (b. 1900)

1946 – Hub Knolls, pitcher (b. 1883)

1948 – Pete Knisely, outfielder (b. 1884)

1962 – Sam Mayer, outfielder (b. 1893)

1962 – Ewing Waddy, pitcher (b. 1910)

1963 – Earl Moseley, pitcher (b. 1884)

1964 – Jay Rogers, catcher (b. 1888)

1966 – Goldie Rapp, infielder (b. 1892)

1968 – Dave Barbee, outfielder (b. 1905)

1970 – Herb Hall, pitcher (b. 1893)

1971 – Walt Kinney, pitcher (b. 1893)

1972 – Will Koenigsmark, pitcher (b. 1896)

1980 – Curt Coleman, infielder (b. 1887)

1981 – Dan Daniel, writer (b. 1890)

1982 – Footsie Blair, infielder (b. 1900)

1982 – Ray Scarborough, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1917)

1988 – Ed Sauer, outfielder (b. 1919)

1992 – Teruo Matsumoto, NPB pitcher (b. 1943)

1992 – Lane Shultis, minor league pitcher (b. 1898)

1993 – Joseph Styborski, minor league pitcher (b. 1903)

1998 – Ed Connolly, pitcher (b. 1939)

2003 – Bill Miller, pitcher (b. 1927)

2004 – Michihiro Takabatake, NPB outfielder (b. 1944)

2005 – Jorge Sequea, minor league infielder (b. 1980)

2006 – Larry Delo, minor league pitcher (b. 1930)

2007 – Francis Riel, minor league pitcher (b. 1914)

2008 – Duane Kratzer, minor league player (b. 1914)

2008 – Jules Tygiel, author (b. 1949)

2009 – John Moss, minor league player/executive (b. 1918)

2009 – Eugene Okey, minor league pitcher (b. 1923)

2010 – Andy Porter, pitcher (b. 1911)

2011 – Victorino Castro, Nicaraguan national team outfielder (b. ????)

2011 – Tom DeLong, minor league outfielder (b. 1942)

2012 – Mike Hershberger, outfielder (b. 1939)

2013 – John Stanford, college coach (b. 1935)

2013 – Fumio Takechi, NPB pitcher (b. 1926)

2018 – Harvey Gentry, pinch hitter (b. 1926)

2019 – Leonel Aldama, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1924)

2019 – Yasuo Shirasaki, NPB pitcher (b. 1933)

2019 – Tyler Skaggs, pitcher (b. 1991)

2020 – Carl Angelo, minor league pitcher (b. 1932)

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TV SPORTS

Wednesday, July 1

GOLF

6:30 a.m. (Thursday)

GOLF — DP World Tour: BMW International Open, First Round, Golfclub München Eichenried, Munich

HIGH SCHOOL LACROSSE (BOY’S)

4 p.m.

ESPNU — Naptown Challenge: TBD, 2028 Division Championship, Annapolis, Md.

6 p.m.

ESPNU — Naptown Challenge: TBD, 2027 Division Championship, Annapolis, Md.

MLB BASEBALL

12:30 p.m.

MLBN — Chicago White Sox at Baltimore (12:35 p.m.)

3:30 p.m.

MLBN — San Diego at Chicago Cubs (joined in progress) (2:20 p.m.)

8 p.m.

ESPN — Cincinnati at Milwaukee

SOCCER (MEN’S)

Noon

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 32, Atlanta

4 p.m.

FS1 — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 32, Seattle

8 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 32, Santa Clara, Calif.

SOFTBALL

7 p.m.

ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Blaze at Spark

TENNIS

6 a.m.

ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Second Round, London

6 a.m. (Thursday)

ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Second Round, London

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Thursday, July 2

GOLF

6:30 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: BMW International Open, First Round, Golfclub München Eichenried, Munich

11 a.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: U.S. Senior Open Championship, First Round, Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio

4 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: John Deere Classic, First Round, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Ill.

5:30 p.m.

NBCSN — PGA Tour Champions: U.S. Senior Open Championship, First Round, Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio

6:30 a.m. (Friday)

GOLF — DP World Tour: BMW International Open, Second Round, Golfclub München Eichenried, Munich

MLB BASEBALL

12:30 p.m.

MLBN — Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (12:35 p.m.)

3:30 p.m.

MLBN — Miami at Colorado (joined in progress) (3:10 p.m.)

10 p.m.

MLBN — San Diego at L.A. Dodgers (10:10 p.m.)

SOCCER (MEN’S)

3 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 32, Inglewood, Calif.

7 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 32, Toronto

9:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — USL League One: Knoxville at Boise

11 p.m.

FS1 — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 32, Vancouver, British Columbia

SOFTBALL

7 p.m.

ESPN — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Bandits

TENNIS

6 a.m.

ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Second Round, London

6 a.m. (Friday)

ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Third Round, London

WNBA BASKETBALL

8 p.m.

PRIME VIDEO — Dallas at Connecticut

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Friday, July 3

AUTO RACING

7:30 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, United Kingdom

11:30 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Sprint Qualifying, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, United Kingdom

2 p.m.

FS2 — Indy NXT Series: Practice, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio

3 p.m.

FS2 — NTT IndyCar Series: Practice, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio

GOLF

6:30 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: BMW International Open, Second Round, Golfclub München Eichenried, Munich

11 a.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: U.S. Senior Open Championship, Second Round, Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio

4 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: John Deere Classic, Second Round, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Ill.

5:30 p.m.

NBCSN — PGA Tour Champions: U.S. Senior Open Championship, Second Round, Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio

MLB BASEBALL

4 p.m.

MLBN — St. Louis at Chicago Cubs (4:05 p.m.)

7 p.m.

MLBN — Chicago White Sox at Cleveland (7:10 p.m.)

8:10 p.m.

APPLE TV — Tampa Bay at Houston

9:40 p.m.

APPLE TV — Milwaukee at Arizona

10 p.m.

MLBN — Toronto at Seattle (10:10 p.m.)

NBA BASKETBALL

7 p.m.

ESPN2 — Summer League: TBA

9 p.m.

ESPN2 — Summer League: TBA

SOCCER (MEN’S)

2 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 32, Arlington, Texas

6 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 32, Miami Gardens, Fla.

9:30 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 32, Kansas City, Mo.

TENNIS

6 a.m.

ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Third Round, London

6 a.m. (Saturday)

ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Third Round, London

WNBA BASKETBALL

7:30 p.m.

ION — Minnesota at New York

10 p.m.

ION — Chicago at Las Vegas

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Saturday, July 4

AUTO RACING

7 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Sprint Race, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, United Kingdom

10 a.m.

FS1 — NTT IndyCar Series: Practice, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio

11 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Qualifying, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, United Kingdom

1 p.m.

FS1 — Indy NXT Series: Grand Prix at Mid-Ohio – Race 2, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio

2 p.m.

NBCSN — SuperMotocross World Championship: RedBud – Round 22, Buchanan, Mich.

2:30 p.m.

FS1 — NTT IndyCar Series: Qualifying, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio

5:30 p.m.

CW — NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series: NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Race at Chicagoland, Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, Ill.

EATING COMPETITION

Noon

ESPN2 — Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest: From Coney Island, N.Y.

GOLF

7 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: BMW International Open, Third Round, Golfclub München Eichenried, Munich

1 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: John Deere Classic, Third Round, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Ill.

2 p.m.

NBC — PGA Tour Champions: U.S. Senior Open Championship, Third Round, Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio

3 p.m.

CBS — PGA Tour: John Deere Classic, Third Round, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Ill.

MLB BASEBALL

11 a.m.

MLBN — Pittsburgh at Washington (11:05 a.m.)

4 p.m.

MLBN — Toronto at Seattle (4:10 p.m.)

8 p.m.

FOX — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Mets at Atlanta (8:08 p.m.) OR St. Louis at Chicago Cubs (8:08 p.m.)

9:30 p.m.

MLBN — Milwaukee at Arizona (9:40 p.m.)

NBA BASKETBALL

7 p.m.

ESPN — Summer League: TBA

9 p.m.

ESPN — Summer League: TBA

SOCCER (MEN’S)

1 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 16, Houston

5 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 16, Philadelphia

SOFTBALL

4:30 p.m.

CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Volts at Bandits

7 p.m.

ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Spark

9 p.m.

CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Blaze at Talons

TENNIS

6 a.m.

ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Third Round, London

6 a.m. (Sunday)

ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Round of 16, London

TRACK AND FIELD

Noon

NBCSN — USATF: Prefontaine Classic (Diamond League), Eugene, Ore.

WNBA BASKETBALL

1 p.m.

CBS — Golden State at Atlanta

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Sunday, July 5

AUTO RACING

9 a.m.

FS1 — NTT IndyCar Series: Warmup, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio

10 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Pirelli British Grand Prix, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, United Kingdom

FS1 — Indy NXT Series: Grand Prix at Mid-Ohio – Race 2, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio

12:30 p.m.

FOX — NTT IndyCar Series: Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio

6 p.m.

TNT — NASCAR Cup Series: eero 400, In-Season Challenge – Round 2, Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, Ill.

BIG3 BASKETBALL

1 p.m.

CBS — Week 3: LA Riot vs. Boston Ball Hogs, Miami 305 vs. Chicago Triplets, DMV Trilogy vs. Houston Rig Hands, Dallas Power vs. Detroit Amps, Miami

GOLF

7 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: BMW International Open, Final Round, Golfclub München Eichenried, Munich

1 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: John Deere Classic, Final Round, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Ill.

3 p.m.

CBS — PGA Tour: John Deere Classic, Final Round, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Ill.

NBC — PGA Tour Champions: U.S. Senior Open Championship, Final Round, Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

Noon

ESPNU — NHSI: TBD, Semifinal, Cary, N.C.

8:30 p.m.

ESPNU — NHSI: TBD, Championship, Cary, N.C.

LACROSSE (MEN’S)

2 p.m.

ESPN — PLL All-Star Game: West vs. East, Anapolis, Md.

LACROSSE (WOMEN’S)

5:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — WLL All-Star Game: West vs. East, Anapolis, Md.

MLB BASEBALL

Noon

NBC — N.Y. Mets at Atlanta (12:30 p.m.)

PEACOCK — N.Y. Mets at Atlanta (12:30 p.m.)

1:30 p.m.

NBCSN — Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees (1:35 p.m.)

PEACOCK — Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees (1:35 p.m.)

5 p.m.

NBCSN — Toronto at Seattle

PEACOCK — Toronto at Seattle

7 p.m.

NBC — San Diego at L.A. Dodgers (7:20 p.m.)

PEACOCK — San Diego at L.A. Dodgers (7:20 p.m.)

9:30 p.m.

NBCSN — Boston at L.A. Angels

PEACOCK — Boston at L.A. Angels

NBA BASKETBALL

9 p.m.

ESPN — Summer League: TBA

SOCCER (MEN’S)

4 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 16, East Rutherford, N.J.

8 p.m.

FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Round of 16, Mexico City

SOCCER (WOMEN’S)

Noon

ESPN — NWSL: Bay FC at Boston

SOFTBALL

1 p.m.

ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Spark

8 p.m.

MLBN — Athletes Unlimited: Volts at Bandits

TENNIS

6 a.m.

ESPN — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Round of 16, London

Noon

ABC — ATP/WTA: Wimbledon, Round of 16, London

TRACK AND FIELD

Noon

NBCSN — USATF: Prefontaine Classic (Diamond League), Eugene, Ore.

WNBA BASKETBALL

7 p.m.

ESPN — Indiana at Las Vegas

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