THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” SATURDAY JULY 4, 2026

“THE SCOREBOARD”

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

ROCKIES 15, GIANTS 3

CARDINALS 17, CUBS 1

NATIONALS 9, PIRATES 5

BLUE JAYS 2, MARINERS 0

DODGERS 4, PADRES 3

RED SOX 5, ANGELS 2

MARLINS 12, ATHLETICS 5

GUARDIANS 4, WHITE SOX 3 (10 INNINGS)

ORIOLES 3, REDS 0

BRAVES 5, METS 3

RAYS 3, ASTROS 1

YANKEES 5, TWINS 2

BREWERS 7, DIAMONDBACKS 4 (11 INNINGS)

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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

INDIANAPOLIS 1 OMAHA 0 (SUSPENDED TOP 4)

BELOIT 1 SOUTH BEND 0 (SUSPENDED TOP 2)

FT. WAYNE 8 GREAT LAKES 5

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WNBA SCOREBOARD

LIBERTY 99 LYNX 86

ACES 98 SKY 90 OT

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WORLD CUP SOCCER SCOREBOARD

EGYPT 1 AUSTRALIA 1

ARGENTINA 3 CAPE VERDE 2

COLUMBIA 1 GHANA 0

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2026 COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEWS

https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football-preview-2026

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL FUTURE POWER RANKINGS THROUGH 2027

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48864748/college-football-2026-future-power-rankings-every-team

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2026 BIG TEN COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW, PREDICTIONS, TOP TRANSFERS

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49073551/2026-big-ten-college-football-preview-predictions-top-transfers-more

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NFL TRAINING CAMP DATES

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2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE

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2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE

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NATIONAL SPORTS RELEASES

NBA NEWS

BOSTON CELTICS SIGN CENTER NEEMIAS QUETA TO A 4-YEAR EXTENSION, AP SOURCE SAYS

The Boston Celtics have signed center Neemias Queta to a four-year extension, according to person familiar with the agreement.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because the signing cannot be announced until Monday at the earliest. ESPN, which first reported the deal, cited agent Bill Duffy in saying the extension was worth $56 million.

Retaining Queta seemed to be a priority for the Celtics, who traded perennial All-Star Jaylen Brown to Philadelphia earlier this week for Paul George and draft picks.

Queta, who turns 27 on July 13, is coming off a breakout season with the Celtics. He averaged a career-best 10.2 points, a career-best 8.4 rebounds and was a full-time starter for the first time.

The Portugal native also got better as the season went along, averaging 11.2 points on 68% shooting after the All-Star break.

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REPORT: WIZARDS ACQUIRE C DEANDRE AYTON FROM LAKERS

The Los Angeles Lakers are trading center Deandre Ayton to the Washington Wizards in exchange for guard Jaden Hardy and two second-round draft picks, ESPN reported Friday.

The picks are in 2031 and 2032, per the report.

Ayton, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, averaged 12.5 points and 8.0 rebounds in 72 games (all starts) in his lone season with the Lakers in 2025-26.

Ayton, who turns 28 on July 23, has averaged 15.8 points and 10.1 rebounds in 470 career games (463 starts) with the Phoenix Suns (2018-23), Portland Trail Blazers (2023-25) and Lakers.

Hardy, who turns 24 on Sunday, split the 2025-26 season with the Dallas Mavericks and Wizards and averaged 9.2 points in 57 games (four starts).

A second-round pick in 2022, Hardy has averaged 8.4 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 235 games (19 starts) with the Mavericks (2022-26) and Wizards. He has canned 38.6% of his career 3-point attempts (324 of 839).

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REPORT: HORNETS ACQUIRE DORIAN FINNEY-SMITH, 3 PICKS FROM ROCKETS

The Charlotte Hornets are acquiring forward Dorian Finney-Smith and three second-round picks from the Houston Rockets, ESPN reported on Friday.

The Hornets are receiving the Memphis Grizzlies’ 2027 second-rounder as well as the Rockets’ 2028 and 2033 second-round selections.

The move gives Houston some roster flexibility and creates a $13 million trade exception, while Charlotte now has stockpiled 20 second-round picks over the next seven years, per ESPN.

Signed in June 2025 to a four-year, $53 million deal, Finney-Smith was largely ineffective during his lone season with the Rockets. He averaged 3.3 points and 2.5 rebounds in 37 games (one start) in 2025-26.

Finney-Smith, 33, has averaged 8.0 points and 4.4 rebounds in 628 career games (445 starts) for the Dallas Mavericks, Brooklyn Nets, Los Angeles Lakers and Rockets.

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AGENT: LEBRON JAMES WOULD’VE JOINED KNICKS IF NOT FOR TITLE

LeBron James would have taken his talents to Madison Square Garden next season had the building’s tenants not just won the NBA title, Klutch  Sports CEO Rich Paul said.

Given the New York Knicks ended their 53-year NBA title drought last month, James and Paul have been left to examine their options with the former once again testing free agency. Paul, who also is James’ agent, used a whiteboard to dissect his client’s potential destinations during the latest episode of his “Game Over” podcast.

“If the Knicks hadn’t won, there would be no board,” Paul said. “He’d be going to the Knicks.”

That said, the Knicks are not out of contention to land James, who on Tuesday informed the Los Angeles Lakers that he will continue his NBA career elsewhere.

James, 41, has spent the past eight seasons with the Lakers, highlighted by helping the franchise win the 2020 NBA title.

Paul, however, knows James would come under fire if he joined the Knicks and inadvertently became the face of the defending champions.

“When LeBron comes onto your team, I don’t care if you just won a championship, I don’t care if you’ve been the best player — it’s different, man,” Paul said. “Jalen Brunson would have to literally pick up the phone and say, ‘Hey man, it’s no issue with me. It’s no issue with me.’ I’m not saying that would make his decision, but you’ve gotta respect that.”

The Philadelphia 76ers garnered Paul’s attention given their recent moves, namely acquiring star guard Jaylen Brown from the Boston Celtics for 36-year-old Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round picks.

“How could you not have the attention when you have (Tyrese) Maxey, (V.J.) Edgecombe, Brown and (Joel) Embiid?” asked Paul, who also noted James’ had worked with new 76ers president Mike Gansey during his previous stint in Cleveland.

The Cavaliers, Miami Heat, Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets were solid contenders on the whiteboard, while the Golden State Warriors, Celtics, San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks also serve as potential candidates.

A four-time NBA MVP and the league’s all-time leading scorer, James just completed his record-setting 23rd NBA season. He officially became a free agent at 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

James averaged 20.9 points, 7.2 assists and 6.1 rebounds this past season with the Lakers. The 22-time All-Star and four-time NBA champion is the all-time leader in games (1,622) and points (43,440).

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REPORTS: C ANDRE DRUMMOND AGREES TO 1-YEAR DEAL WITH KNICKS

The New York Knicks have agreed to a one-year, $3.9 million deal with veteran center Andre Drummond, according to published reports on Friday.

Drummond, who turns 33 next month, will replace Mitchell Robinson, who spent eight seasons with New York and was a solid defender and key cog on the team that won the 2026 NBA Finals.

Drummond, a two-time All-Star, has played for six teams over 14 NBA seasons. He spent his first 7 1/2 seasons with the Detroit Pistons before bouncing around the league to five different teams.

Drummond averaged 6.4 points and 8.4 rebounds in 63 games (25 starts) for the Philadelphia 76ers last season.

Overall, Drummond has averages of 12.1 points, 11.9 rebounds and 1.2 blocked shots in 967 games (688 starts). He ranks eighth among active players with 1,197 blocked shots.

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WNBA NEWS

MORE THAN HALF OF WNBA PLAYERS MISS ALL-STAR STARTER VOTE, AP SOURCE SAYS

NEW YORK (AP) — More than half of the WNBA ‘s 180 players didn’t submit their ballots for All-Star starters ahead of this month’s game in Chicago, a person familiar with the balloting told The Associated Press on Friday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the voting. It’s unclear why so many players didn’t cast their votes. However, the Los Angeles Sparks were one of the teams that didn’t have all of its players vote due to some operational errors.

“Players were sent ballots via email,” the Sparks said in a statement. “Some players indicated that they didn’t receive the email or weren’t aware of it until after the voting period had closed. That’s something we take responsibility for as an organization, and we’ll have a more robust process going forward.”

Fan vote accounts for 50% of the overall vote while players and a media panel each are 25%. It’s been that way since 2017.

New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu said her team has never had an issue getting players to submit their ballots.

“We always vote. But I do think especially if they’re weighed as much as they are, like teams should be making sure that their players are voting like it is important. There should never just be a team that like, doesn’t get the ballot. …That’s something that every player should be getting the opportunity. And if the player doesn’t want to vote, then that’s on them.”

The league announced the All-Star starters on Thursday.

ESPN was the first to report the lack of ballots.

Like the media, each player is given a link to a voting site as well as an individual username and password. Those are supplied by the league to the teams who distribute them to the players.

Sparks guard Kelsey Plum was lower in the player balloting than she was from the media and fans. She is second in the WNBA in scoring, but has only played in a dozen games because of injuries. She was 12th among players votes after ranking sixth by the fans and fifth by media.

She finished seventh in the voting overall for the guards. Even if the Sparks had all voted, it wouldn’t have been a guarantee that Plum moved up to the top four spots. In the past, players have said that they have either voted for their entire team on the ballot or for friends or college teammates which has led to some skewed results. Some do take it seriously and pick who they think are the best players.

All-Star starter Caitlin Clark was right in front of the player balloting finishing in 11th. She was picked as an All-Star starter as she was second in the fan vote and third in the media rankings.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NEWS

NBC, PEACOCK WILL SHOW ALL 15 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GAMES ON SUNDAY

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — NBC is used to undertaking large presentations with the Olympics. It will face another tall task this weekend, presenting all of the Major League Baseball games as part of “Star-Spangled Sunday.”

It is the first time a media company has had all 15 games on the schedule.

While some may harken back or shudder to the days of the ill-fated Baseball Network in 1994 and ’95, there are notable exceptions.

All of the games will be available nationally and without blackout restrictions. All of them will be available on Peacock and most on NBCSN.

NBC will begin coverage with the New York Mets facing the Atlanta Braves at 12 p.m. EDT. It also has the Los Angeles Dodgers hosting the San Diego Padres at 7 p.m. EDT.

Rob Hyland, NBC Sports SVP of Production and Coordinating Producer, will oversee Sunday’s coverage. Hyland produced the primetime coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics, as well as Super Bowl 60 in February.

Hyland said NBC began work on coordinating Sunday’s coverage in March.

“Working together with local production teams and Major League Baseball, we are excited for ‘Star-Spangled Sunday,’ which will require constant communication and collaboration unlike any event I’ve worked on in nearly three decades with NBC Sports,” he said.

Most games will feature announcers from both teams, a process that has worked well on “Sunday Night Baseball” with Jason Benetti working with analysts with ties to both teams.

The Padres-Dodgers game will feature Benetti with Orel Hershiser and Jake Peavy, along with C.C. Sabathia handling the “Inside the Pitch” analysis. It is believed to be the first time three Cy Young Award winners will work together on an MLB broadcast.

Peacock will also offer multi-view four-box presentation on Sunday.

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MLB ROUNDUP: ROCKIES’ JAKE MCCARTHY SOCKS LEADOFF HOMER, GRAND SLAM

Jake McCarthy hit the first pitch of the home half of the first inning for a home run and later added a grand slam, propelling the Colorado Rockies to a 15-3 shellacking of the San Francisco Giants in the opener of a three-game series Friday night in Denver.

McCarthy finished with four hits and a career-high six RBIs, becoming the seventh player in major league history to hit a leadoff homer and grand slam in the same game, per MLB.com.

Cole Carrigg drove in three runs and tripled twice for the Rockies, who got six strong innings from Ryan Feltner (3-2) and saw Gabriel Hughes record a three-inning save in his major league debut.

Coming off being named the National League Pitcher of the Month for June, Giants starter Logan Webb (5-6) was tagged for seven runs on 11 hits over three innings. Rafael Devers belted a home run among two hits for San Francisco.

Cardinals 17, Cubs 1

Masyn Winn and Alec Burleson each drove in four runs, helping visiting St. Louis set season highs in both runs and hits (17) during a romp over Chicago.

The Cardinals scored multiple runs each inning between the second through sixth to jump ahead 16-0. Winn had an RBI single and joined Nathan Church in belting a three-run homer. The high-octane offense was more than enough for Andre Pallante (10-5), who scattered five hits in 5 2/3 scoreless innings.

Alex Bregman had an RBI double in the seventh for the Cubs, who had their five-game winning streak end. David Peterson (4-7) was hit hard, permitting 10 runs on nine hits in 3 2/3 innings.

Nationals 9, Pirates 5

Luis Garcia Jr. and Daylen Lile each belted two home runs, leading Washington to a home win over Pittsburgh.

Lile also doubled and drove in four runs and Garcia had three RBIs. Jose Tena hit a two-run homer and James Wood had a double, a triple and scored a run for Washington. Foster Griffin (9-2) allowed one run on four hits in five innings.

Bryan Reynolds doubled, homered and drove in two runs while Esmerlyn Valdez went 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI for the Pirates. Mitch Keller (6-6) yielded five runs on eight hits over six innings.

Blue Jays 2, Mariners 0

Dylan Cease pitched seven sharp innings as Toronto defeated host Seattle in the opener of a three-game series between the teams that met in the 2025 American League Championship Series.

It was the third victory in the past four games for the Blue Jays following a six-game skid. Cease (5-4) allowed only three hits, walked one and struck out nine.

The Mariners saw their three-game winning streak end, and they fell out of a first-place tie with the idle Texas Rangers in the AL West. Luis Castillo (3-7) went six innings and allowed two runs on five hits.

Dodgers 4, Padres 3

Teoscar Hernandez hit a go-ahead grand slam in the seventh inning as Los Angeles rallied for a victory over visiting San Diego, sending the Padres to a season-high seventh consecutive loss.

Los Angeles starter Shohei Ohtani struck out nine over six innings of three-run ball. Kyle Hurt (3-1) threw a scoreless inning, and Tanner Scott pitched the ninth for his 12th save as the Dodgers won for the ninth time in 11 games.

Jackson Merrill homered for the Padres, who squandered a 3-0 lead. Michael King took a shutout into the seventh inning but wound up charged with two runs (one earned) on three hits over six-plus innings. Adrian Morejon (6-2) served up Hernandez’s slam.

Red Sox 5, Angels 2

Romy Gonzalez went 3-for-4 with a triple and two RBIs and Aroldis Chapman broke the record for most strikeouts by a reliever en route to his 17th save as Boston defeated Los Angeles in Anaheim, Calif.

Caleb Durbin hit a home run and scored twice, Jarren Duran had two RBIs and Ceddanne Rafaela collected two hits for Boston. Jake Bennett (3-3) allowed two runs on five hits over 7 2/3 innings. Chapman struck out Denzer Guzman for his 1,364th career strikeout, breaking the all-time reliever record held by Hoyt Wilhelm.

Jose Siri homered and Zach Neto had two hits and an RBI for the Angels, who lost their fourth straight game. Reid Detmers (3-6) permitted five runs on seven hits over five innings.

Marlins 12, Athletics 5

Heriberto Hernandez hit a three-run homer and Jakob Marsee added a solo shot during a six-run first inning to help Miami post a victory over the Athletics in West Sacramento, Calif.

Kyle Stowers went 4-for-5 with two homers, three RBIs and three runs for the Marlins, who halted a two-game slide. Owen Caissie added a solo shot as Miami matched its season high with five homers.

Nick Kurtz hit a two-run homer and Jeff McNeil had a three-run double for the Athletics, who lost for the ninth time in 12 games.

Guardians 4, White Sox 3 (10 innings)

Kahlil Watson singled up the middle in the 10th inning, scoring the winning run as Cleveland beat visiting Chicago and took a one-game lead over the White Sox atop the American League Central.

Travis Bazzana led off with a single off Sean Newcomb (0-2), moving automatic runner Steven Kwan to third. Watson followed with Cleveland’s second consecutive walk-off hit to open the four-game series. Erik Sabrowski (3-1) pitched a perfect top of the 10th.

White Sox starter Anthony Kay exited following a two-hour rain delay. He allowed one run and one hit in four innings. Miguel Vargas hit a three-run homer.

Orioles 3, Reds 0

Trevor Rogers threw five shutout innings and Samuel Basallo hit a two-run homer as Baltimore knocked off host Cincinnati.

Rogers (6-7) allowed just two hits and five walks while striking out four to register his third win in as many starts. Tyler Wells retired the Reds in order in the ninth to earn his first save since 2023. The Orioles scored what became the winning run in the first inning on a throwing error by catcher Tyler Stephenson.

Reds starter Brady Singer (3-8) lasted five innings, allowing three hits and five walks. Cincinnati stranded 10 runners and was 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position, finishing with four hits, all of which were singles.

Braves 5, Mets 3

Matt Olson emphatically ended a 16-game homerless streak with a pair of solo shots to lead Atlanta past visiting New York in the opener of a four-game series.

Olson produced his second multi-homer game of the season and the 27th of his career. He raised his total to a team-high 22 homers this season. The Braves had only five hits, and four left the park, as Michael Harris II and Ozzie Albies also went deep.

Christian Scott (2-1) worked four innings and allowed three runs on two hits as the Mets fell a season-worst 16 games below .500.

Rays 3, Astros 1

Junior Caminero smacked his 10th home run over his past 10 games and Nick Fortes added a pair of run-scoring extra-base hits as Tampa Bay extended its winning streak to nine games with a victory at Houston.

Caminero, the American League Player of the Month for June, snapped a 1-1 deadlock with his 25th home run in the seventh inning, a solo shot off Astros reliever Steven Okert (1-1). Fortes homered in the sixth and added an RBI double with two outs in the eighth. Bryan Baker handled the ninth inning for his 23rd save.

Astros starter Spencer Arrighetti rebounded from a ragged month of June by working six innings, allowing one run on two hits.

Yankees 5, Twins 2

Ben Rice hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the third inning and New York snapped its seven-game losing streak — the team’s longest in three years — with a win over visiting Minnesota.

Following a rain delay, Rice lifted a full-count fastball from Minnesota rookie starter Mike Paredes (0-2) into the right field seats for his 24th homer. Trent Grisham accounted for two runs and two RBIs in his return from the injured list. Gerrit Cole (3-3) allowed two runs on five hits in five innings, and David Bednar struck out the side in the ninth for his 17th save.

Kody Clemens homered in the first inning and Victor Caratini cut into the deficit with a fourth-inning RBI single for the Twins. Paredes allowed three runs on four hits in four innings.

Brewers 7, Diamondbacks 4 (11 innings)

Brice Turang hit a two-run single in a four-run 11th inning to help Milwaukee earn a win against Arizona in the opener of a three-game series in Phoenix.

Turang had three hits and also a run, Jake Bauers collected three hits, an RBI and a run, and Garrett Mitchell hit a two-run homer for the Brewers, who have won four of five. Kyle Harrison has won seven straight decisions, but he got a third straight no-decision after letting a 3-0 lead slip away. The left-hander was tagged for three runs and five hits in 2 2/3 innings.

Ildemaro Vargas had three hits and an RBI, Gabriel Moreno produced two hits, an RBI and a run, and Nolan Arenado contributed a two-run double for Arizona, which has lost two in a row. Diamondbacks rookie Jose Cabrera went 3 1/3 innings, allowing three runs and six hits.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS

LONGTIME COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH JIM WALDEN, WHO LED WASHINGTON STATE TO A BOWL GAME, DIES AT 88

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Longtime college football coach Jim Walden, who played quarterback in the Canadian Football League before leading Washington State to a bowl game and spending nine seasons at Iowa State, died Thursday. He was 88.

The two schools announced his death in statements Friday. No cause was given.

“We are saddened to learn of the passing of Coach Walden,” Cougars athletic director Jon Haarlow said. “He will forever be remembered as a great Coug who deeply loved Washington State. Our heart is with Coach Walden’s family, friends and all the former players whose lives he positively impacted.”

Walden was born and raised in Aberdeen, Mississippi, and played quarterback in junior college before transferring to Wyoming, where he played for future Nebraska coach Bob Devaney. He led the Cowboys to two championships in the old Skyline Conference.

Walden was chosen by Cleveland in the NFL draft and Denver in the AFL draft in 1960, but he chose instead to play in the CFL for the BC Lions because he was offered more money. He also played for Calgary and Edmonton before getting into coaching.

Walden returned to Mississippi and spent several years coaching high school football before Devaney hired him at Nebraska, where he was an assistant on the Huskers’ national championship teams in 1970 and 1971.

He also spent time at Miami (Florida) before moving to Washington State, where he became the head coach in 1978. He went 44-52-4 over 10 seasons, highlighted by a berth in the Holiday Bowl in 1981, before moving onto Iowa State, where he went 28–57–3.

After his coaching career, Walden spent time doing radio color commentary for the Arena Football League and Washington State.

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NHL NEWS

STARS CAPTAIN JAMIE BENN RETURNING FOR 18TH SEASON

Captain Jamie Benn is returning for his 18th season with the Dallas Stars in 2026-27, the team announced Friday.

The soon-to-be 37-year-old forward ranks second in franchise history in goals, points and games played.

He agreed to a one-year, $850,000 deal worth up to an additional $1.15 million in potential performance bonuses.

“Jamie’s leadership and commitment to this organization is truly unmatched and he has helped define our culture,” Stars general manager Jim Nill said. “He continues to set the standard on and off the ice, and we’re excited to have him leading our team for another season.”

Benn registered 36 points (15 goals, 21 assists), a plus-8 rating and 53 penalty minutes in 60 games in 2025-26, missing 20 games due to injuries.

He has 992 points (414 goals, 578 assists), a plus-89 rating and 932 penalty minutes in 1,252 regular-season games with the Stars, who drafted him in the fifth round (129th overall) in 2007. Benn has 80 points (28 goals, 52 assists) in 126 playoff games, losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup Final in 2020.

Only Mike Modano has more goals, points and games in Minnesota North Stars/Dallas history than Benn, a three-time All-Star who won the Art Ross Trophy with a league-high 87 points in 2014-15.

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TENNIS NEWS

NOVAK DJOKOVIC TIES ROGER FEDERER’S WIMBLEDON WINS MARK

Novak Djokovic delivered a record-tying 7-5, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4) third-round victory over big-serving Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech on Friday at Wimbledon.

The seventh-seeded Serbian, a seven-time champion at the All England Club, matched Roger Federer’s men’s record with his 105th singles win at the grass court Grand Slam. Martina Navratilova holds the overall mark with 120.

“To be able to make history in this  sport is a huge honor and a huge privilege,” the 39-year-old Djokovic said during his on-court interview. “Particularly here, it’s always a been a dream childhood tournament of mine. I’m not thinking about whether it’s going to be 105 or 106, but I’m just thinking about trying to win that match on a given day.

“Today I was quite stressed out. There was more tension than usual. I knew it was going to be a very challenging match for me. I’m just happy to overcome this. I propose a matchup between me and Roger for 106!”

Djokovic weathered 21 aces by the 6-foot-5 Rinderknech, who saved six of nine break points and won 82.4% of the points on his first serve. Rinderknech finished with a 67-40 advantage in winners, but Djokovic was sharp with only 16 unforced errors in the three-hour, 15-minute match.

“He’s very tall. He hit some incredible serves. So, he deserves a round of applause for his performance today,” said Djokovic. “It was a really tiring, really close match. I’m happy to overcome it. Sometimes you just have to find a way to win, and I’m happy I did that today.”

Up next for the 24-time Grand Slam winner is Russian qualifier Roman Safiullin, who posted a 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 win upset of No. 24 Joao Fonseca of Brazil.

In other action Friday, defending champion and No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner of Italy moved into the fourth round for the fifth straight year with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 defeat of Jenson Brooksby in 2:13.

“I am very happy about the win,” Sinner said in his on-court interview. “I am trying to improve every day. A small step forward today and I am trying to get better if I want to get further in this tournament.”

Sinner’s next opponent is Japanese qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki, who knocked out 19-year-old Spaniard and No. 23 seed Rafael Jodar 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4.

Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff pulled off a 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5), 7-5 upset of two-time semifinalist and No. 8 seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia.

Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz rallied past No. 21 Tommy Paul 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5, 6-2 and No. 22 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain defeated Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics in straight sets.

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GOLF NEWS

LIV GOLFER ACKNOWLEDGES LEAGUE’S FUTURE ‘NOT LOOKING GREAT’

Carlos Ortiz admitted Friday that the future of LIV Golf looks bleak, now that the Saudi group that bankrolled it said it will stop paying the bills.

“It’s looking a little bit tough, hopefully there’s a way forward,” Ortiz said following his second round at the BMW International Open in Germany, a stop on the DP World Tour.

“I mean, I honestly don’t know all the situation, but it’s not looking great, obviously, as we all know. That’s a shame. I’ve really enjoyed my time playing all around the world and it’s been awesome playing with my team.”

Ortiz, a 35-year-old from Mexico, has one LIV Golf win (LIV Golf Houston, 2024) and one PGA Tour victory (Houston Open, 2020). He joined LIV in 2022.

He said Friday that should LIV cease operations after the 2026 season, he knows he will come through just fine.

“We’ll see what happens, you know, but whatever happens, I’m sure I’ll find a place to play and, for me, it’s just about playing golf,” said Ortiz, a member of the LIV team Torque GC. “If I can start coming to places like this and seeing new places, then it will be great. For me, whatever happens is totally fine.”

After 36 holes at the Golfclub Munchen Eichenried in Munich, Ortiz was in a three-way tie for second place on Friday at 10-under after back-to-back rounds of 67, one shot behind the leader.

Joaquin Niemann of Chile, captain of Torque GC, struck a much more hopeful tone when he spoke on Friday. He told bunkered.co.uk that he plans to honor his LIV commitment in 2027.

“I know for sure he (Scott O’Neil, LIV CEO) is doing the best job he can to raise the money and keep getting the product that we have — which I think is the best,” Niemann, 27, said.

“Coming and seeing the difference on DP (World Tour) to what LIV has, LIV is great. But, yeah, hopefully we can get the money and please the fans who hope we keep going.”

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GEORGE MCNEILL MOVES AHEAD BY 2 IN U.S. SENIOR OPEN DEBUT

In his first year of eligibility at the U.S. Senior Open, George McNeill shot a 4-under-par 66 to take the 36-hole lead on Friday at Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio.

McNeill posted the low round of the championship thus far and separated from the pack by birdieing two of his final four holes. At 6-under 134, he has earned a two-stroke lead over Irishman Padraig Harrington, who’s chasing his third U.S. Senior Open title in five years.

Harrington, like McNeill, improved on his first-round score by two shots with a 3-under 67. The defending champion will play in the final pairing with first-timer McNeill on Saturday.

“I don’t think I’m going to try to do anything different than I normally would at a tournament,” McNeill said.

McNeill turned 50 last October and hasn’t won in his first season on the PGA Tour Champions. He won twice on the PGA Tour, with his latest victory in 2012, and he openly acknowledged that his record at USGA championships isn’t the best either.

“My best (U.S. Open) finish, I think, was Oakmont in 2007. I think I finished — I made the cut on the number, and I think I finished last of the guys that made the cut,” McNeill said. “So nothing too exciting. All the other championships, I believe I missed the cut.

“Never really had a good feel for U.S. Opens. I don’t know if age is helping me. This Senior Open is obviously I’m doing OK so far.”

McNeill started his round on the back nine and birdied Nos. 12, 13, and 17. His only bogey came at the par-4 third, dropping him to 4 under. But a two-putt birdie at the par-5 sixth put him back ahead of Harrington again, and he drained a long birdie putt at the par-3 ninth to extend his lead.

Harrington’s round of four birdies and one bogey was enough to keep him near the top of the leaderboard. The World Golf Hall of Famer has been around the block enough to know what championship golf can throw at him.

“Look, as I said, I’d like to play well on the weekend, but if I don’t play well, I’m going to try to win this tournament another way. It’s just one of those things that with experience I know things don’t go your way at times when you’re leading, and things can feel like bad breaks,” Harrington said. “It doesn’t mean I have any perfect ability to deal with it. I’ve certainly seen all these situations. So I won’t be surprised by anything, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m going to handle it that well either.”

Stewart Cink and South Korea’s Charlie Wi were tied for the first-round lead. After posting identical even-par 70s Friday, they are tied for third at 3 under along with Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez (68).

Cink won the first two majors of the season, the Senior PGA Championship and the Regions Tradition. He was 3 over for his round before birdieing Nos. 6, 7 and 9 to get back to even for the day.

“It was really not just the last hole, but I made significant putts on my last four holes. So that definitely helps the confidence,” Cink said. “Just seeing the ball go in the hole is huge in this game. I salvaged an OK round today when it was really pretty rough all around … Dug myself a little hole, but the last four were — it was really good to salvage those.”

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LUCAS GLOVER, 46, BUILDS 2-SHOT EDGE AT JOHN DEERE CLASSIC

Lucas Glover has compiled 14 birdies and no bogeys over the first two rounds to take a two-stroke lead midway through the John Deere Classic on Friday in Silvis, Ill.

Glover, who had not shot a round on the PGA Tour lower than 67 this year, put together his two best rounds of the season to take the sole lead after 36 holes. He followed an opening 63 with a 6-under 65 on Friday to get to 14-under 128.

He leads Lee Hodges (66) by two and Zac Blair (68) by three.

“It’s just golf, so rest up and get ready for tomorrow,” Glover said. “It’s going to be more of the same. Scores are going to be low. A lot of hungry kids out there wanting to play well, so we’ll do our best.”

Glover, 46, enjoyed a resurgence in the second half of his career when he won the 2021 John Deere and back-to-back tournaments in 2023, including a playoff event. Those titles accounted for half of his six PGA Tour victories.

“I mean, this is my 23rd year. There’s nothing I hadn’t been there, done that, to be fair,” Glover said. “I’ve played in the last groups and played great, and I’ve played in the last groups and played terrible.

“There’s no formula other than hydrate and rest and keep the pedal down this week, because it’s not going to be able to hang on. There’s going to be birdies and eagles. It’s going to be fun.”

Hodges spaced six birdies and one bogey across his card after opening with a 64. The 31-year-old is three years removed from his lone PGA Tour triumph and counts among those “hungry kids” aiming to catch Glover.

“I putted super, super well. Probably the best single day of putting I’ve had on tour,” said Hodges, who made birdie putts from 40 and 27 feet before a 16-footer on his penultimate hole. “I can’t remember a better one. It bailed me out a couple of times.”

Blair might be able to relate. After consecutive birdie putts from 14 and 13 feet at Nos. 5-6, he holed a 22-footer at No. 14 for his third birdie and then finished even stronger with the flatstick.

He bombed in a right-to-left 57-footer for birdie at the par-3 16th, added a 10 1/2-foot birdie at the par-5 17th and saved par from 16 feet to hold onto third place.

The 35-year-old is hunting for his first PGA Tour victory and said his mindset on the weekend will be more of the same.

“Just get a bunch of looks and hopefully the putter stays kind of hot, and you make a few and you make it pretty easy on yourself,” he said.

Tied for fourth at 10 under are Jackson Suber (64), Tyler Duncan (66), Troy Merritt (66), David Lipsky (65), Ben Kohles (67) and Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune (65). Max Homa posted a 66 and is alone in 10th place at 9 under.

The low round of the day belonged to Eric Cole, who shot an 8-under 63 — 13 shots better than his first round — to get to 3 under. That was enough for him to rally and make the cut on the number. Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth and Keegan Bradley all shot rounds of 69 to squeak into the weekend at 3 under as well.

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AUTO RACING

TO SHANE VAN GISBERGEN’S CHAGRIN, NASCAR RETURNS TO CHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAY

Shane van Gisbergen restored his dominance on road courses Sunday and reinforced the fact that he is the greatest NASCAR road racer ever, but the stakes increase for the New Zealander during the second half of 2026.

It’s 18 races down, 18 to go this season and, to the Trackhouse Racing driver’s chagrin, there are no more curvy layouts to conquer.

While NASCAR returns to the Chicago area this weekend, drivers will not be found again on Michigan Avenue. That’s a bummer for van Gisbergen because he won two of the three races held on the Chicago Street Course.

Instead, NASCAR returns to the 1.52-mile Chicagoland Speedway, a tri-oval in southwest suburban Joliet, Ill., that has not hosted an event since Alex Bowman earned his first career victory there in 2019.

Sunday’s eero 400, a 267-lapper that breaks the stretch of consecutive road races, will be the 20th NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway.

Three active drivers have wins there: Brad Keselowski owns two while Denny Hamlin and Bowman have one apiece.

Keselowski’s pair came with different manufacturers: Dodge in 2012 while racing for then-Penske Racing and in Ford for Team Penske two years later.

Now 42, Keselowski took the 2012 Cup title in the season he first won in Chicago, becoming the first Dodge driver to notch a title since 1975 when it was done by Richard Petty, who turned 89 on Thursday.

Currently in his 19th Cup season and fifth as part-owner of RFK Racing, the Michigan native fended off rumors that his group will become Dodge’s flagship team as the manufacturer returns to Cup in 2027.

“For those asking — RFK racing has multi-year agreement with @fordracing and a commitment from their leadership to return the program to a championship contender,” Keselowski wrote June 25 on social media. “Any speculation else-wise makes for great internet talk but, it is not based on anything real.”

The number one comes up frequently regarding Ford, the Joliet speedway and the 2012 champ.

Ford is a disappointing 1-for-18 in 2026, while the blue oval has only a lone checkered flag in 19 Chicagoland races.

Keselowski himself has just one victory in 162 RFK starts, a 2024 Darlington win.

To use a football term, he and the manufacturer will be going for two on Sunday.

In a similar vein, van Gisbergen will be going for two on Sunday. While all his eight official NASCAR wins have come on road courses, he won on an oval last July in the Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

He recognizes he’ll need more success on ovals to get where he wants to go.

Last season in 30 races on tracks that were not road courses, van Gisbergen posted an average finish of 24.8. Through 14 races on similar configurations this season, he has bumped it up to 20.9 — an improvement but certainly numbers that will not make him a viable title contender.

On May 31, he scored his first top-five showing by finishing fifth in Nashville. He will have to improve markedly to create more top-fives.

He opens the eero 400 in 14th place, which at least puts him into Chase playoff contention.

“It certainly helps us,” the No. 97 Chevrolet driver said Sunday of his win at Sonoma, “but this is an oval championship.”

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INDIANA FEVER

Shane van Gisbergen restored his dominance on road courses Sunday and reinforced the fact that he is the greatest NASCAR road racer ever, but the stakes increase for the New Zealander during the second half of 2026.

It’s 18 races down, 18 to go this season and, to the Trackhouse Racing driver’s chagrin, there are no more curvy layouts to conquer.

While NASCAR returns to the Chicago area this weekend, drivers will not be found again on Michigan Avenue. That’s a bummer for van Gisbergen because he won two of the three races held on the Chicago Street Course.

Instead, NASCAR returns to the 1.52-mile Chicagoland Speedway, a tri-oval in southwest suburban Joliet, Ill., that has not hosted an event since Alex Bowman earned his first career victory there in 2019.

Sunday’s eero 400, a 267-lapper that breaks the stretch of consecutive road races, will be the 20th NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway.

Three active drivers have wins there: Brad Keselowski owns two while Denny Hamlin and Bowman have one apiece.

Keselowski’s pair came with different manufacturers: Dodge in 2012 while racing for then-Penske Racing and in Ford for Team Penske two years later.

Now 42, Keselowski took the 2012 Cup title in the season he first won in Chicago, becoming the first Dodge driver to notch a title since 1975 when it was done by Richard Petty, who turned 89 on Thursday.

Currently in his 19th Cup season and fifth as part-owner of RFK Racing, the Michigan native fended off rumors that his group will become Dodge’s flagship team as the manufacturer returns to Cup in 2027.

“For those asking — RFK racing has multi-year agreement with @fordracing and a commitment from their leadership to return the program to a championship contender,” Keselowski wrote June 25 on social media. “Any speculation else-wise makes for great internet talk but, it is not based on anything real.”

The number one comes up frequently regarding Ford, the Joliet speedway and the 2012 champ.

Ford is a disappointing 1-for-18 in 2026, while the blue oval has only a lone checkered flag in 19 Chicagoland races.

Keselowski himself has just one victory in 162 RFK starts, a 2024 Darlington win.

To use a football term, he and the manufacturer will be going for two on Sunday.

In a similar vein, van Gisbergen will be going for two on Sunday. While all his eight official NASCAR wins have come on road courses, he won on an oval last July in the Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

He recognizes he’ll need more success on ovals to get where he wants to go.

Last season in 30 races on tracks that were not road courses, van Gisbergen posted an average finish of 24.8. Through 14 races on similar configurations this season, he has bumped it up to 20.9 — an improvement but certainly numbers that will not make him a viable title contender.

On May 31, he scored his first top-five showing by finishing fifth in Nashville. He will have to improve markedly to create more top-fives.

He opens the eero 400 in 14th place, which at least puts him into Chase playoff contention.

“It certainly helps us,” the No. 97 Chevrolet driver said Sunday of his win at Sonoma, “but this is an oval championship.”

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INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS

PAPILLION, Neb. – The Indianapolis Indians announced their Friday, July 3 game at the Omaha Storm Chasers has been suspended in the top of the fourth inning due to inclement weather. With the Indians leading, 1-0, the game will resume on Saturday, July 4 at 6:05 PM ET from Werner Park. Saturday’s regularly scheduled game will begin about 30 minutes after the conclusion of the suspended contest and is shortened to 7.0 innings.

Starting pitchers have not been named at this time.

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INDIANA FOOTBALL

‘GREAT STORY’ – EVANS LOOMS AS KEY OFFENSIVE-LINE FACTOR

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – A healthy Drew Evans is ready to make maximum impact in what looms as another national title contending Indiana football season.

“It was a huge time to hone things down and sharpen yourself,” the 6-foot-4, 307-pound redshirt senior offensive lineman says. “It was really beneficial for me.”

It should also be really beneficial for a Hoosier team seeking a strong follow up to its 16-0 national title run.

Injuries cost Evans four games in each of the last two seasons. He thrived in the spring, with better vocal leadership a big priority. That was especially important with veteran offensive linemen Carter Smith and Bray Lynch sidelined with injuries.

“I’ve gotten better at being vocal,” he says. “I had to be that vocal piece (in the spring) as one of the only returners out there. It falls to me. I’m doing better.”

Missing the final four games of the 2024 season, and then four more late last season (although he was back for the final title push) was misery for Evans, who had become a key member of one of the nation’s best offensive lines during the program’s first-ever playoff appearance. He called it “mentally challenging” that he couldn’t be on the field with teammates he has said are his “best friends in the world,” and said it required a “different kind of toughness” to overcome.

READ MORE: https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2026/7/3/football-great-story-evans-looms-as-key-offensive-line-factor-PETE

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INDIANA STATE TRACK

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Two Indiana State track and field alumni are set to compete in one of the most prestigious meets of the Diamond League calendar Saturday, as Noah Malone and Erin Reese take part in the Prefontaine Classic.

Malone will be making his third Prefontaine Classic appearance in the Para 100m, having placed second in 2025 and first in 2023 in the event at Hayward Field. Reese will be making her Prefontaine Classic debut in Saturday’s hammer throw, which features 10 of the top 20 hammer throwers in the world.

Malone, who competed at Indiana State from 2020-23 before, is coming off a win in the Para 100m at the LA Grand Prix in June, having run a time of 10.40 to claim the top spot by nearly three-tenths of a second. A six-time Paralympic medalist (two gold, three silver, one bronze) between Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 and a three-time World Championships medalist between 2023 and 2024, Malone remains among the best short sprinters in Indiana State history. He ranks in the top five in program history in both the indoor 60m (6.75) and outdoor 100m (10.34), while also running the anchor leg for five of the top 10 4x100m relay teams in program history.

Reese, who competed at Indiana State from 2017-19, is coming off three straight appearances at USATF Events, placing eighth in the hammer at the LA Grand Prix (73.29m/240-5) and Lone Star Grad Prix (72.58m/238-1) while finishing sixth at the USATF Throws Festival (74.18m/243-4). A 2024 Olympian in Paris and a 2024 USATF Indoor Champion in the weight throw, Reese owns Indiana State’s facility record in both the weight throw (25.26m/82-10.5) and hammer throw (76.76m/251-10), with her hammer throw mark coming this season. This season has been Reese’s best on the professional stage, as she has cleared the 74-meter mark at three different meets including a pair of throws over the 75-meter mark at the Sycamore Open (76.76m/251-10, 75.09m/246-4). She was a three-time All-American at Indiana State, finishing as national runner-up in the hammer throw in 2019 and also placing fourth nationally in the weight throw that season. Reese remains Indiana State’s school record holder in the hammer throw at 71.06m (233-2).

Reese’s hammer throw competition starts at 3 p.m. ET (Noon PT), while Malone’s 100m race is slated for 3:55 p.m. ET (12:55 p.m. PT).

Up Next

Malone and Reese have both hit the qualifying standards for the USATF Outdoor and Para National Championships, which take place July 23-26 in New York City. The duo will be joined at the US Championships by current Sycamore and two-time All-American Rachel Mehringer, who hit the qualifying mark in the 100m hurdles.

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TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY

JULY 4

1881 – At Riverside Grounds in Buffalo, NY, Mickey Welch throws two complete game victories as the Troy Trojans sweep a doubleheader from the Bisons in National League action, 8 – 3 and 12 – 0.

1884 – In American Association action, Guy Hecker of the Louisville Eclipse pitches complete games to win both ends of a doubleheader. The Youngsville, Pennsylvania native does not walk a single batter as he beats the Brooklyn Atlantics, 5 – 4 and 8 – 2.

1900:

In Chicago, the Colts sweep Philadelphia, winning 10 – 4 and 5 – 4, in 12 innings. A number of fans fire pistols to celebrate the holiday but no injuries occur.

At Cincinnati, in the 3rd inning of the second game, Giants 1B Jack Doyle slugs ump Robert Emslie after being called out on a steal attempt. Fans jump from the stands as the two get into it and players finally separate the two fighters. Two policemen chase the fans back into the stands and then arrest Doyle and take him to the York Street station. He’ll be fined for the assault. The Reds lose the nitecap, 6 – 3, after winning the opener, 8 – 1.

1904:

Jack Chesbro, the New York Highlanders spitballer, wins his 14th in a row, an American League record that will stand until Walter Johnson wins 16 straight in 1912. The A’s lose both today, as the Highlanders sweep the three-game series.

At the Polo Grounds, the Giants sweep a doubleheader from the Phils to run their win streak to 18 games. New York wins the opener, 4 – 1, behind Luther Taylor then take the nitecap, 11 – 3, behind Christy Mathewson. Matty leaves after seven innings, leading 11 – 1. The streak of 18 games matches one rung up by the 1885 White Stockings and the 1894 Baltimore Orioles; the record is 20 games, held by the 1884 Providence Grays.

In Pittsburgh, the Cubs and Pirates celebrate the holiday by racking up record nine triples in the afternoon end of a doubleheader. Pittsburgh has six of the triples and wins, 11 – 6. Chicago wins the morning game, 7 – 2.

1905:

In an A.M.-P.M, doubleheader between Boston and Philadelphia, the A’s take the morning game, 5 – 2, using pitchers Eddie Plank, Andy Coakley and Rube Waddell on the mound to beat Jesse Tannehill. The afternoon contest proves a classic as Philadelphia’s Waddell bests Cy Young in a 20-inning marathon, when the Athletics prevail, 4 – 2. Boston outhits the A’s, 15 to 13, but the 38-year-old Young loses on an error, hit batsman and two hits. Young walks nobody in the 20 innings, while 1B Bob Unglaub records 31 putouts. Philadelphia C Ossee Schreckengost works 28 innings in one day, a major league record.

At National League Park, the Phillies split with the Giants, winning the first game, 2 – 0, as Jack Sutthoff outpitches Christy Mathewson. Sutthoff allows just three hits. Joe McGinnity earns the split in the nitecap with a 6 – 3 victory.

Bugs Raymond of the Charleston Sea Gulls (South Atlantic League), pitches the morning and afternoon games of a doubleheader, throwing a no-hitter in each game.

The Cardinals trade INF Dave Brain to Pittsburgh for George McBride.

1906:

The visiting Cubs and Pirates deal aces today with Chicago coming out on top in both games. Three Finger Brown beats Lefty Leifield, 1 – 0, in the lidlifter with both pitchers allowing just one hit. It is just the second double one-hitter in history, the first occurring on August 20, 1886. Lefty collects the only Buc shot while holding Chicago hitless until Jimmy Slagle’s safety in the 9th inning. Slagle scores on a sacrifice, error, and ground out. Brown will toss nine shutouts this year. In the second game, Carl Lundgren tosses another 1 – 0 shutout for Chicago, beating Vic Willis. When Brown and Leifield face off on September 6th, Brown will again allow just one hit.

Major league attendance for today’s holiday games has the American League with 75,000 and the National League at 68,000.

1908:

Lefthander Hooks Wiltse pitches a ten-inning no-hitter for the Giants over the Phillies, 1 – 0. He loses his bid for a perfect nine innings when, with two outs, he hits Phils P George McQuillan with a pitch on a 1 and 2 count. Umpire Charles Rigler calls the earlier pitch a ball, to the dismay of Hooks and the fans, who thought it a strike. Art Devlin scores the winner in the 10th after singling off McQuillan and coming around on two errors. New York wins the nitecap more easily, 9 – 3.

In Pittsburgh, an A.M.-P.M. doubleheader with the Cubs draws 50,000 fans. Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown wins the morning game, 2 – 0, for his fourth straight shutout. Ed Reulbach takes the afternoon affair, 9 – 3. The Cubs and Bucs play five games in three days with the Cubs winning three: Brown cops two, tossing two shutouts – a six-hitter and a two-hitter.

1911:

In the morning game between Chicago and Detroit, Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb’s 40-game hitting streak, as the White Sox win, 7 – 3. Cobb has hit .491 since the skein started on May 15th.

In the first game of two in Chicago, Wildfire Schulte, hits a 3rd-inning grand slam off Bobby Keefe to lead the Cubs to an 8 – 3 win over the Reds. Reggie Richter is the victor. The second game ends at 2 – 2 after ten innings.

Armando Marsans and Rafael Almeida become the first Cuban natives to appear in a major league game as they both make their debut for the Reds. Steve Bellan had played in the National Association previously and had been born in Cuba when it was a Spanish colony; if one considers the NA a major league, Bellan has a claim as the first Cuban player.

The Phillies mug the Giants, 7 – 5, literally knocking New York P Doc Crandall out of the box, when he is hit with a line drive by Red Dooin. Doc gets relief from Rube Marquard, but Pete Alexander picks up the win. Fred Luderus strokes two homers for the Quakers.

1912:

The Brooklyn Dodgers end the New York Giants’ win streak of 16 games by sweeping a doubleheader, 10 – 3 and 5 – 2. The Dodgers take the a.m. game, cuffing Christy Mathewson for five runs on five hits in three innings. Hooks Wiltse is the loser in the afternoon contest, but the Giants are still in the lead by 14 1/2 games.

Three weeks after the Tigers ask waivers on George Mullin, he pitches himself a 32nd birthday present at Detroit, a 7 – 0 no-hitter over the Browns. Mullin helps his victory with three hits and two RBIs. In the morning game, a 9 – 3 Detroit win, Ty Cobb steals second, third base and home in the 5th inning against the battery of George Baumgardner and Paul Krichell. Cobb has stolen home five times this season; this is his first swipe of home in his last eight successes that didn’t occur in the 1st inning.

Boston’s Smoky Joe Wood suffers his worst loss of the year, a 16 – 4 shellacking at the hands of the Athletics. Eddie Plank beats Wood, who will finish the year at 34-5. Wood will win his next start on July 8th, the first of 16 in a row.

1913 – Red Sox pitcher Smoky Joe Wood smokes two doubles in the 4th inning against the A’s, setting a record for pitchers.

1914:

The Robins drum the Braves, sweeping a doubleheader, 7 – 5 in 11 innings and 4 – 3 in the nitecap. The nitecap is especially hard fought: Lefty Tyler plunks Dodger SS Ollie O’Mara on the neck and when Jake Daubert crosses the plate with the winning run in the 9th, he collides with Braves C Hank Gowdy and is knocked unconscious. Boston (26-40) is 10 1/2 games in back of New York.

At the Polo Grounds, the Giants sweep an A.M.-P.M. twinbill from the Phils, winning 5 – 4 and 3 – 0. Christy Mathewson, in winning the shutout, records his 350th victory.

Turnabout is fair play. The Pittfeds sweep a pair from Baltimore, winning 5 – 1 and 8 – 7. In the 8th inning of the opener, Pitt SS Ed Holly nabs Harvey Russell with the hidden ball trick. Baltimore’s Otto Knabe pulled it against Pittsburgh five weeks ago.

1916 – Joe Jackson goes 3 for 5 against the Athletics. In 30 games since May 31st, he has hit 55 for 104, a .524 batting average.

1924 – Phils SS Heinie Sand handles 18 chances against the Giants, falling one short of Danny Richardson’s record set on June 20, 1892.

1925 – The Athletics’ Lefty Grove battles the Yankees’ Herb Pennock for 15 innings before taking a 1 – 0 loss. Pennock is a model of control, issuing no walks and giving up four hits.

1928 – Ray Schalk resigns as White Sox manager; Lena Blackburne replaces him. Blackburne will last one year and in 1930 will start selling his Rubbing Mud from the Delaware River to the American League to use to take the shine off of baseballs. The National League will adopt it in the 1950s.

1929 – A brawl breaks out in the 3rd inning of a game between the St. Paul Saints and the Minneapolis Millers in the American Association. The Millers’ Hughie McMullen grounds out to first base, and spikes P Huck Betts, who is covering the bag. Betts replies by firing the ball at McMullen’s head in retaliation, but misses him; however, reserve infielder Sam Bohne, who is coaching at first base, enters the fray by punching Betts; both dugouts empty and a free-for-all ensues. Reporter George Barton describes it as “the most vicious affair ever witnessed at Nicollet Park.”

1932:

In the International League, Baltimore’s Buzz Arlett again hits four home runs in a game, one a grand slam from the right side of the plate, and the other three homers from the left side, with Reading again the victim. It is the second time Arlett has accomplished the feat in five weeks.

Bill Dickey punches and breaks Carl Reynolds’s jaw after the Senator outfielder collides with him on a close play at home plate. The American League suspends the Yankee catcher for 30 days and fines him $1,000 for his one-punch fight.

Dugdale Park in Seattle burns down after a 4th of July celebration. The cause is arson. Sicks Stadium will be built on the site and open in 1938.

1933 – The Washington Senators widen their lead over the second-place Yankees to 2 1/2 games with a double-bill win before 77,365 holiday fans at Yankee Stadium, 6 – 5 in ten innings and 3 – 2.

1934:

After the finish of the holiday doubleheaders by all the teams, the Giants, by winning two from the Braves at the Polo Grounds, have a clear lead. They are 3 1/2 games ahead of the Cubs and 4 1/2 in front of the Cardinals. In the American League, the race has seesawed between the Yankees and Detroit with New York only one game ahead. The improved Red Sox are 6 1/2 behind, and Washington, last year’s winner, seven back and dropping fast.

When Dodgers manager Casey Stengel comes out to the mound to remove P Boom-Boom Beck from the game in Philadelphia’s Baker Bowl, the frustrated Beck turns and fires the ball at the tin wall in right field. Dodgers OF Hack Wilson, not paying attention to the happenings, hears the ball, hurries to retrieve it, and fires a strike to second base to prevent the imaginary runner from advancing.

In a Negro National League game, Satchel Paige pitches a 4 – 0 no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Crawfords against the Homestead Grays in Pittsburgh, with only a walk and an error spoiling a perfect game. He strikes out 17. Josh Gibson is his catcher, the only time in Negro league history in which battery-mates in a no-hitter are both members of the Hall of Fame, something which would only the white majors in 1971, when Bob Gibson and Ted Simmons will work a no-hitter together. Legend claims that Paige then drives to Chicago to shut out the Chicago American Giants, 1 – 0, in 12 innings, giving him two shutouts in two different cities in the same day, but the claim has since been disproved. The no-hitter, however, is documented.

1935 – The Cardinals move into second place with a twin win over the Cubs, but the Giants hold a nine-game lead at the season’s midpoint.

1938 – The Phillies move into Shibe Park by splitting a twin bill with the Boston Bees losing the first game, 10 – 5, and winning the nightcap, 10 – 2. Problems with the Baker Bowl made it necessary for the Phils to share the Athletics’ home field at 21st Street and Lehigh Avenue.

1939:

It’s Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium and the “Iron Horse”‘s uniform number 4 will be the first ever to be retired. After emcee Sid Mercer informs the sell-out crowd the man of the hour is too moved to speak, Gehrig changes his mind when Skipper Joe McCarthy encourages him, and delivers the keynote address describing himself as “the luckiest man on the face of the earth”.

The Red Sox’s Jim Tabor hits four home runs as Boston sweeps Philadelphia, 17 – 7 and 18 – 12. Three of his homers, including a record-tying two grand slams, come in the nightcap. He totals 19 bases and 11 RBI in the two slugfests.

1940 – Ab Wright of Minneapolis (American Association) follows one home run in a morning game of a holiday doubleheader with four home runs and a triple – 19 total bases – against St. Paul.

1942 – In the 8th inning of an 8 – 4 Negro National League victory over the Newark Eagles at Yankee Stadium, Baltimore Elite Giants spitball ace Bill Byrd beans Eagles player-manager Willie Wells. Wells is carried from the field, and the incident causes him to design a batting helmet. When he steps into the batter’s box in a few days, he will be wearing a modified construction worker’s hardhat.

1944 – Baltimore’s Oriole Park, erected in 1914 for the Federal League, burns down. The Orioles moves to the city’s unroofed Venable Stadium. It will be used this way until a second tier is added and the ballpark is re-named “Memorial Stadium” when the St. Louis Browns move in for the 1954 season.

1948:

Ted Williams faces three pitchers in the 7th inning, a first in American League history, as Boston snaps a 5 – 5 tie by scoring 14 runs to beat the visiting Philadelphia Athletics, 20 – 8. A’s pitcher Charlie Harris retires one batter in 14 and coughs up 12 runs, before Bill McCahan takes over. Williams, who makes the final out in the inning, and Bobby Doerr, tie records by drawing two walks apiece. Pitcher Ellis Kinder has two hits, off Harris and McCahan. The 14 runs in one inning is a record, but five years later they will do even better with 17 in one inning.

Led by Roy Campanella’s first two major league homers, the host Dodgers edge the Giants, 13 – 12, in a wild game lasting 3 1/2 hours. 37 players see action, 20 by Brooklyn, as both teams score four times in the 9th.

Braves rookie Johnny Antonelli, 18, makes his debut in the 8th inning of a 7 – 2 loss to the Phils, giving up one run on two hits. The Phils also win game two of the doubleheader.

1949 – The Dodgers increase their lead to two games over the Cardinals by winning the twin bill from the Phillies while the Redbirds, with Max Lanier dropping his first start since reinstatement, divide with the Cubs.

1950 – Braves slugger Sid Gordon ties the major-league record for season grand slams with four when he hits one against the Phillies. Boston’s 12 – 9 win in game two gives the two teams a total of 40 runs, 55 hits, and 90 total bases for the day.

1951 – In a wild doubleheader featuring a double ejection of manager Charlie Dressen, the first-place Dodgers sweep the Giants, winning 6 – 5 in 11 innings, and 4 – 2. The Dodgers drive out Sal Maglie in the opener after the Giants build a lead on homers by Don Mueller and Willie Mays. Brooklyn counters in the 8th with a pinch homer by Roy Campanella, a homer by Pee Wee Reese, and a tying single from Gil Hodges. Bobby Thomson’s homer in the 11th puts the Giants ahead by one, but Preacher Roe wins it with a squeeze bunt. Ralph Branca wins the nitecap with homer help from Hodges and Duke Snider. Dressen is tossed in the 2nd inning of the second game for protesting pitch calls; after he takes a seat behind the dugout umpire Scotty Robb tosses him a second time. The victories put Brooklyn 6 1/2 games up.

1954 – Indians Mike Garcia, Ray Narleski and Early Wynn (in a rare relief role) shut down the White Sox, 2 – 1, only allowing Minnie Minoso’s 9th-inning single.

1957 – George Crowe of the Redlegs goes 5 for 5 against his old Braves teammates, but Milwaukee wins, 10 – 7.

1959 – Yankee pitcher Bob Turley turns in another one hit masterpiece at Washington. A lazy fly in the 9th by pinch-hitter Julio Becquer drops in front of LF Norm Siebern for the only Senator safety. SS Tony Kubek goes 8 for 10 in the doubleheader, as the Yanks sweep, 10 – 6 and 7 – 0.

1960 – Mickey Mantle’s three-run 1st-inning home run off Hal Woodeshick is the 300th of his career. Mantle becomes the 18th player to join the 300 club, but the Yankees drop a 9 – 8 decision to Washington.

1961:

At Chicago, the Giants roll to a 19 – 3 win in the first game, collecting 22 hits including a homer by Orlando Cepeda that is one of the longest in Wrigley Field history. The Cubs come back in the nitecap to win, 3 – 2, overcoming Willie Mays’s 300th homer.

At Metropolitan Stadium, the Twins sweep a pair from the White Sox, winning the opener, 6 – 4, when Julio Becquer hits a 9th-inning grand slam as a pinch hitter. Cal McLish shuts out the Twins in the second game until the 8th inning when the Twins score four runs, two on Harmon Killebrew’s only career inside-the-park homer, off McLish. It is the Twins’ first inside-the-park home run. They win, 4 – 2, behind Jack Kralick.

Before 74,246 – the largest crowd at Yankee Stadium since 1947 – the Yankees split with the Tigers, winning the opener 6 – 2, before losing, 4 – 3, in ten innings.

Johnny Antonelli returns to the Braves as the Indians sell the veteran back to where he started as an 18-year-old pitcher.

1962:

The San Francisco Giants sign Santa Clara College P Bob Garibaldi for a $150,000 bonus.

In only their second season, the Angels win for the 14th time in 20 games and move into first place by sweeping Washington, 4 – 2 and 4 – 1 in D.C.

1964 – Manny Jimenez, who went the entire 1963 season without a home run, hits three, and goes 4 for 4 for Kansas City against Baltimore. The game ends in a 6 – 6 tie when halted by a special curfew so a fireworks display can take place in Baltimore.

1966 – Ron Santo sets a modern-day Cubs record when he hits in his 28th straight game, as the Cubs lose the opener to the Pirates, 7 – 5. The Cubs win the nightcap 6 – 4, but Santo is held hitless. In between the first and second game of the streak, the opener of a twinbill on June 1st, Santo had no official at-bats. He received four walks and was hit by a pitch. The day before, however, he was 1 for 3, which counts as the actual start of the streak.

1967:

The Mets end a 19-game losing streak to Juan Marichal with their first win against the Dominican Dandy, 8 – 7. Marichal’s win streak started in 1962. Jack Fisher is the winning pitcher.

In Minnesota, Mudcat Grant stops the Yankees to give the Twins an 8 – 3 victory. Mickey Mantle drives in all three New York runs with two homers.

Atlanta’s Phil Niekro gets the best of rookie brother Joe as the Braves beat the Cubs, 8 – 3. It is the first decision between the pair.

Philadelphia C Clay Dalrymple collects six walks in a 19-inning doubleheader against the Astros. The Phillies win the first, 9 – 0, and take the nightcap, 4 – 3, in 11 innings.

1969 – The Dodgers take first place in the National League West by sweeping a doubleheader against the Braves in Los Angeles, winning 6 – 7 and 7 – 3.

1970:

In the opener of a twin bill between Pittsburgh and Chicago, Roberto Clemente hits his third and fourth Wrigley Field round-trippers in two games. The first blast puts Pittsburgh up, 2 – 1, in the 3rd, and the last provides the Pirates’ final two runs in the 10 – 6 win. With Clemente resting in the second game, the Cubs salvage the split, 7 – 2, behind Milt Pappas, with Pittsburgh falling half a game behind division-leading New York.

At Fenway Park, Tony Conigliaro and Billy Conigliaro homer for the Red Sox in a 5 – 1 win over the Indians. Sonny Siebert is the winner.

The Cards send three pinch hitters to the plate in the 8th inning and all three strike out. Steve Renko of the Expos fans ten in the game, including Jim Beauchamp, Vic Davalillo and Leron Lee in the 8th, to give Montreal an 8 – 0 win.

1971 – Backed by a pair of homers. Mike Cuellar wins his tenth straight for the first-place O’s, beating Detroit’s Joe Coleman, 3 – 2.

1972:

Leron Lee singles in the 9th to break up Tom Seaver’s no-hitter, but the Mets shut out the Padres, 2 – 0, in the opener. Seaver strikes out 11. The Pads take the nitecap, 4 – 2, as Nate Colbert hits his 16th homer.

Denny McLain makes his National League debut in the second game of a twinbill with the Cubs, called in the 8th inning because of rain. McLain gets no decision in the 3 – 3 tie, but receives a standing ovation at the end from the crowd of 50,597. Atlanta wins the opener, 5 – 1, as Ron Reed beats Juan Pizarro. Paul Casanova’s first National League homer and Mike Lum’s three-run homer in the 7th account for four runs.

1973:

Before 45,000 Twins fans, Eddie Bane, the top collegiate pitcher this year and Minnesota’s top draft pick, makes his major league debut against the Royals. Bane pitches well for seven innings, but the Royals emerge with a 5 – 4 win, beating reliever Ray Corbin. Bane will finish the season 0-5.

The Orioles win their third come-from-behind win over the Brewers, this time scoring 10 runs in the last three innings to win, 10 – 7.

1974 – Toby Harrah’s 3rd-inning homer is the only hit for Texas, as Bert Blyleven and the Twins win, 3 – 1.

1976 – On the nation’s bicentennial anniversary, Philadelphia splits a doubleheader with Pittsburgh, 10 – 5 and 7 – 1. In the first game, the Phils’ Tim McCarver loses a grand slam when he passes a teammate on the bases.

1977:

In the first game of a doubleheader, Chicago outfielder Larry Biittner pitches the last 1 1/3 innings for the Cubs, striking out three. That’s the good news. The bad news is he allows six earned runs on five hits and a walk as the Expos crush the Cubs, 19 – 3. Two of the three K’s are of the opposing pitcher, Jackie Brown, and the last is Larry Parrish, who had earlier homered on a 1-2 pitch from his former teammate. Biittner also serves up homers to Ellis Valentine and Andre Dawson, each of whom have five ribbies. Biittner is later fined $50 by the National League for throwing a “brush-back” pitch after surrendering the three home runs, but a collection is taken up to pay for his shave. Further bad news for the Cubs in the nitecap is that Bruce Sutter is knocked out for the first time this year, and a massive knot beneath his right shoulder will keep him out of the All-Star Game. The Cubs also lose that game, 7 – 6.

The Boston Red Sox end their nine-game losing streak by walloping a major league-record – since topped – eight home runs, in beating Toronto, 9 – 6 at Fenway Park. Seven of the homers are solo shots, another record. Four home runs (by Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski and George Scott) come in the 8th inning. Only Scott’s is not consecutive. Lynn and Scott each hit two, while Rice, Yaz, Butch Hobson and Bernie Carbo have one apiece. The Sox’s previous high for homers was six and they won’t top that number again until 1999.

New York stays a game ahead of the Red Sox by edging Cleveland, 7 – 5. The Yankees get home runs from Chris Chambliss, Roy White, Lou Piniella and Graig Nettles.

After eight straight hits, Ron Cey is called out on strikes in the 9th in a 4 – 0 Dodgers win over San Francisco. Cey had five hits the day before and three straight today.

1979 – The Phillies’ Steve Carlton shuts out the Mets, 1 – 0, on a one-hitter, but the Phils manage to lose three other hurlers on the same day: Larry Christenson pulls a groin muscle, Dick Ruthven goes on the disabled list, and Randy Lerch fractures his thumb in a brawl.

1980:

Reggie Smith belts the 7,000th home run in Dodgers history and Don Sutton sets a team record with his 52nd career shutout in the Dodgers’ 4 – 0 victory over the Giants.

Nolan Ryan fans the Reds’ Cesar Geronimo to become the fourth pitcher ever to reach 3,000 career strikeouts. Ironically, Geronimo was also Bob Gibson’s 3,000th career strikeout victim six years earlier. Despite the milestone, Ryan allows six runs in 4 1/3 innings and Houston loses, 8 – 1.

1982 – Celebrating Independence Day at Mile High Stadium in Denver, 65,666 fans watch an American Association contest and enjoy a giant fireworks display after the game. The gathering is the largest crowd in minor league history.

1983 – Dave Righetti pitches the Yankees’ first no-hitter since Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, handcuffing the Red Sox, 4 – 0, before a holiday crowd of 41,077 at Yankee Stadium. It’s the first no-hitter by a Yankee lefty since George Mogridge in 1917.

1984:

Yankee hurler Phil Niekro strikes out Ranger Larry Parrish to become the ninth major league player to reach the 3,000 strikeout milestone. New York wins, 5 – 0.

Jim Rice caps a 5-for-6 day with a grand slam in the bottom of the 10th inning to give Boston a 13 – 9 win over Oakland.

1985 – In a marathon game that borders on the surreal, the Mets endure two rain delays and 6:10 of playing time to beat the Braves, 16 – 13, in 19 innings on Fireworks Night in Atlanta. The Mets take a 10 – 8 lead in the top of the 13th inning, only to watch the Braves tie it up. The Mets score again in the 18th, but relief hurler Rick Camp (a .060 hitter who is batting because Atlanta has no more position players available to pinch-hit) ties the score with his first major league home run on a two-out, two-strike pitch in the bottom of the inning. No pitcher had ever homered that late in a game before. Finally, the Mets erupt for five runs in the 19th off Camp and Atlanta can respond only with two. Keith Hernandez hits for the cycle for the Mets, and the game ends at 3:55 A.M. on July 5th, the latest finish in major league history. At 4:01 A.M., the post-game fireworks display begins, causing local residents to think the city is under attack.

1986 – At Comiskey Park, with the score 1 – 1 in the bottom of the 8th, Sox OF John Cangelosi leads off with a drive to the right field corner. A fan leans out of the stands and appears to touch the ball as he tumbles onto the field. Anticipating an interference call, Yankee OF Claudell Washington slows down, while the speedy Cangelosi easily reaches third base. The umps don’t see any interference and Cangelosi remains on third, and scores on a sacrifice fly. The Sox win, 2 – 1.

1987 – With the Indians’ and Phil Niekro’s 9 – 6 win over the Tigers, the Niekro brothers pass the Perrys (Gaylord and Jim) with 530 combined victories.

1988:

As he did yesterday, Mark McGwire belts a 16th-inning homer to give the A’s a 4 – 2 win over Cleveland. Doug Jones pitches three shutout innings for Cleveland, but gets no decision, ending his major league-record streak of 15 consecutive saves.

Kansas City releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the fourth most in major league history. He will sign with St. Louis next week.

National League umpire Lee Weyer, 51, dies of a heart attack after working the Cubs’ 3 – 2 win over San Francisco.

1989 – Cincinnati’s Tom Browning is three outs away from his second career perfect game when Dickie Thon doubles, and Browning is eventually relieved by John Franco in a 2 – 1 win over Philadelphia.

1992:

In Atlanta’s 4 – 2 win over the Cubs, Braves SS Jeff Blauser hits a two-run home run in the 1st inning to start the scoring. It is the 1,776th big league homer hit on the holiday. Brian Hunter adds a solo shot to back Charlie Leibrandt (7-3).

Montreal OF Larry Walker throws out Padres SS Tony Fernandez at first base on a one-hopper to right in the 1st inning of the Expos’ 3 – 2 win over San Diego. Fred McGriff has a solo home run off starter Chris Nabholz, with John Wetteland picking up his first win of the year.

1993 – At the Astrodome, the Jalisco Charros beat the Monterrey Industrials, 2 – 1. It is the only 20th Century Mexican League game held in a major league stadium.

1996 – The Yankees provide the fireworks, signing Darryl Strawberry; on June 24th, Yankee GM Bob Watson said five times that Strawberry “doesn’t fit.”

1997 – Giants P Shawn Estes holds the Rockies to one hit in 8 2/3 innings as San Francisco shuts out Colorado, 4 – 0. Quinton McCracken’s single is Colorado’s only hit as Estes fans 11 and walks only 2. Rod Beck comes in to record the last out.

1998:

Dodger interim General Manager Tommy Lasorda sends blue chippers Dennys Reyes and Paul Konerko to the Reds for closer Jeff Shaw. Lasorda later admits he was unaware that Shaw, under terms of the Basic Agreement, has the right to demand a trade at the end of the season.

Three White Sox pitchers combine to shut out the Red Sox, 3 – 0, on five hits. John Snyder gets the win with 7 1/3 innings. Nomar Garciaparra has two walks but his 24-game hitting streak ends.

1999:

The Royals defeat the Indians, 10 – 9, as C Mike Sweeney ties an American League record by recording an RBI in his 13th straight game. Taffy Wright of the White Sox set the mark in 1941. The major league standard is 17 games, set by Oscar Grimes of the Chicago Cubs in 1922. OF Jermaine Dye brings home six of Kansas City’s runs with four hits, including a pair of homers.

The Pirates lose to the Brewers, 4 – 3, losing C Jason Kendall to a severely dislocated ankle in the process. Trying to break up Steve Woodard’s perfect game, Kendall drags a bunt in the 5th inning and hits the first base bag awkwardly, ripping the ankle bone from the joint. He will be out for the rest of the season.

The Blue Jays defeat the Devil Rays, 6 – 3, despite Jose Canseco’s 30th home run of the season. Canseco becomes the first player in history to reach the 30 mark with four different teams, having previously done so with Oakland, Texas, and Toronto. Pat Hentgen wins his 100th career game and Shawn Green reaches the 100 homer mark with a pair of long balls.

2000:

Becoming only the third player in Cardinal history to homer in his first career at-bat, Keith McDonald pinch hits a home run in a 14 – 3 victory over the Reds. Eddie Morgan (in 1936) and Wally Moon (in 1954) are the other Redbirds to accomplish the feat. McDonald will homer as well in his second at-bat, on July 6th.

In the Tigers’ 11 – 0 blowout over Tampa Bay, Shane Halter takes over the catching duties in the 8th from Detroit’s Brad Ausmus. Halter has now played every position in the majors: with the Royals, he pitched on July 17, 1998. Dave Mlicki is the winner with Dean Palmer powering a pair of home runs.

2001:

The fifty people stranded on the Ferris wheel ride at Comerica Park for two hours during the Royal-Tiger game are rescued by firefighters and emergency crews using a cherry picker and a fire truck ladder. The inconvenienced fans will receive tickets to another game, free dinner and team autographs from the Tigers.

The Brewers’ new home, Miller Park, continues to be jinxed as a parachutist breaks his ankle when he misses the opening in the retractable roof and lands on a beam several hundred feet off the ground. Another member of the Sky Knights Sports Parachute Club misses the stadium completely.

2002 – The Yankees defeat the Indians, 7 – 1. Jim Thome has his streak of consecutive games hitting a home run stopped at seven, one short of the major league record.

2003 – In 10 – 3 victory over New York, the Red Sox score all their runs with the long ball, hitting a record seven home runs off the Yankees. Prior to today’s Independence Day fireworks, the Bronx Bombers had given up six homers in a game four times, including twice to Boston (1997 and 1977) and the Indians (1970).

2004 – The selection of Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr. and Sammy Sosa as starters in the NL All-Stars’ line-up marks the first time in history three players with 500 career home runs have appeared on the same team. The trio will form the starting outfield in the 75th All-Star Game in Houston’s Minute Maid Park.

2008:

In the highest-scoring game at Coors Field since the introduction of the humidor, Colorado tops the Marlins, 18 – 17. They also set a Rockies record with a comeback from a nine-run deficit as Florida led, 13 – 4, halfway through the 4th. Chris Iannetta singles home the winner for his fourth RBI of the day. Matt Holliday and Cody Ross each drive in five, Garrett Atkins has five hits, Holliday and Ryan Spilborghs each homer twice and both Spilborghs and Jorge Cantu score four in the slugfest. Taylor Buchholz gets the win with a scoreless 9th for Colorado.

The Cardinals drop a 2 – 1 decision to the Cubs but Albert Pujols socks his 300th career home run. At 28 years, 170 days old, he becomes the fifth youngest player to hit 300, one day ahead of Mel Ott. The younger players were Alex Rodriguez, Jimmie Foxx, Ken Griffey Jr. and Andruw Jones.

2009:

Tim Lincecum, last year’s National League Cy Young Award winner, is in his best form, beating Houston, 9 – 0, with seven scoreless innings, running his streak of scoreless innings to 23. He also scores the Giants’ first run in the 5th and is now 9-2 with a 2.23 ERA.

Two Indian-born pitchers, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, both make their professional debuts with the GCL Pirates. The two former cricket players were discovered on a reality TV show. Their story will be turned into a movie Million Dollar Arm, named after that television show.

2010:

The rosters for the 2010 All-Star Game, to be played at Angels Stadium, are announced today. The top vote getters are Joe Mauer in the American League and Albert Pujols in the National League. Among the first-time All-Stars is 40-year-old reliever Arthur Rhodes of the Reds; he sports a sparkling 1.09 ERA in his 19th big league season.

Torii Hunter celebrates his selection as the Angels’ sole representative in the All-Star Game they will host next week by banging out two home runs and driving in seven runs in an 11 – 0 win over the Royals. Paul McAnulty also homers in his first major league game since 2008.

Drew Stubbs hits three of the Reds’ seven home runs in a wind-aided 14 – 3 demolition of the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Four of Cincinnati’s long balls come after two outs in the eight-run 7th inning. Rookie Tyler Colvin bangs two homers of his own in a losing cause. For the Reds, 1B Joey Votto is ejected in the 1st inning for arguing balls and strikes, but his replacement, Paul Janish, goes 4 for 4 with one of the homers.

Top Blue Jays pitching prospect Kyle Drabek, acquired form the Phillies in last winter’s Roy Halladay deal, is a little closer to the big leagues after pitching a no-hitter for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the AA Eastern League, 5 – 0 over New Britain.

The North wins the 2010 Hoofdklasse All-Star Game, the first All-Star contest in the 85-plus years of the top Dutch league. Dwayne Kemp, a former Cubs minor leaguer from Rotterdam, goes 3 for 3 to take MVP honors. Jean-Paul Gulinck picks up the victory, which the North wins, 7 – 4.

Harold Garcia of the Clearwater Threshers hits safely for the 37th straight game, breaking Joe Altobelli’s 59-year-old Florida State League record. Garcia’s hitting streak will end tomorrow.

2011:

Derek Jeter resumes his quest for 3,000 hits after missing three weeks with a strained calf muscle. However, the Indians’ Josh Tomlin keeps him hitless while defeating the Yankees, 6 – 3. Jeter is still six hits away from the magic number.

Travis Snider’s return to the big leagues is less heralded, but the Blue Jays outfielder has a lot more success. He bangs three doubles in his return from a stint in the minors as the Blue Jays jump all over the Red Sox’s John Lackey, scoring seven runs in 2 1/3 innings on their way to a 9 – 7 win at Fenway Park.

Vance Worley must wonder what he has to do to stay with the Phillies. Today, he pitches seven scoreless innings in beating the Marlins, 1 – 0, improving his record to 4-1, 2.21, but still gets sent down to AAA Lehigh Valley after the game. The Phils explain that the demotion may be short-lived, as Worley is expected back in Philly after the All-Star break.

2012:

The Phillies’ Cliff Lee finally earns his first win of the year in beating the Mets, 9 – 2. He is now 1-5 in 14 starts, and his lack of production has been one of the reasons the Phils have fallen behind the pace in the NL East.

The Astros trade veteran Carlos Lee to the Miami Marlins in return for 3B Matt Dominguez, one of the team’s top prospects, and P Rob Rasmussen.

2013 – Austin Jackson goes 4 for 5 with a two-run homer and Justin Verlander pitches seven shutout innings to pick up his 9th win as Detroit demolishes Toronto, 11 – 1. Torii Hunter has three RBIs and Prince Fielder adds a couple more as the Bengals’ other sluggers compensate for the absence of Miguel Cabrera, who takes a rare day off.

2014 – The Athletics pull off a blockbuster trade, acquiring starting pitchers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel from the Cubs in return for three top prospects, SS Addison Russell, OF Billy McKinney and P Dan Straily.

2017 – Red Sox rookie LF Andrew Benintendi has a great day, collecting five hits, of which two are homers, and driving in six runs in an 11 – 4 win over the Texas Rangers. He also makes a great catch in the outfield in support of David Price’s pitching. He is the first rookie in Red Sox history to have two five-hit games in a season, having done so previously on April 23rd.

2021 – Russia and Ukraine win the last two of the 2021 European Championship Qualifiers, both teams winning returns to the European Championship (Russia had last appeared in 2016, Ukraine in 2010). Andrei Lobanov and Denis Leonov hold Belarus to one run, while Cuban imports David Castillo, Geidys Soler and Yunior Valiente go deep in Russia’s 4 – 1 win; Russia had averaged 20 runs in the four games before this one. Ukraine has to beat host Serbia, 9 – 5, with three RBI from Illia Velykyi. Andrii Boyko is the winning hurler and Sergii Shtapura gets a three-inning save.

2023 – Four Eugene Emeralds pitchers no-hit the Tri-City Dust Devils at PK Park. Hayden Birdsong tosses the first five innings, allowing only a walk, and strikes out 11. Mat Olsen pitches the next two innings and picks up the win; he strikes out five. William Kempner pitches a perfect 8th inning recording two strikeouts, and while Sam Delaplane walks two, he earns his first save since 2019 with a hitless and scoreless 9th inning. Adrian Sugastey scores the first run of the game in the 7th on a wild pitch, and drives in the only other two runs in the 8th with a single.

2024 – Christian Walker homers twice against rookie starter Landon Knack to lead the Diamondbacks to a 9 – 3 in over the Dodgers. Walker seems to have a particular liking for hitting in Dodger Stadium, having hit five long balls over the three-game series between the two teams. He has now homered in his last five games at the ballpark, and has hit 19 homers there with an OPS of 1.184; he is tied with Paul Goldschmidt for most homers by a visiting player, and first overall for OPS among players with at least 100 plate appearances in the ballpark, slightly ahead of the Dodgers’ own Shohei Ohtani.

2025 – They may have been around for over 150 years, but the Cubs are still setting franchise records. Today, for the first time, they hit six homers in the first three innings of a game, and hit eight overall for another record, in defeating the Cardinals, 11 – 3, at Wrigley Field. Michael Busch becomes the first Cubs first baseman since Ernie Banks in 1963 to hit three long balls in a game; Pete Crow-Armstrong homers twice while going 4-for-4, and the Cubbies go back-to-back three times in the game. The first six homers are all hit off Miles Mikolas

Births[edit]

1850 – Robert Armstrong, outfielder (d. 1917)

1852 – Jerry Turbidy, infielder (d. 1920)

1853 – Bill Sullivan, outfielder (d. 1884)

1857 – Levin Jones, outfielder (d. 1914)

1858 – Chris Fulmer, catcher (d. 1931)

1859 – Mickey Welch, pitcher; Hall of Famer (d. 1941)

1861 – Louie Heilbroner, manager (d. 1933)

1863 – Jim McTamany, outfielder (d. 1916)

1864 – Fred Donovan, catcher (d. 1916)

1865 – Frank Millard, infielder (d. 1892)

1880 – George Mullin, pitcher (d. 1944)

1880 – Paul Steinberg, umpire (d. 1972)

1880 – Pinky Swander, outfielder (d. 1944)

1884 – Lou Manske, pitcher (d. 1963)

1884 – Jack Warhop, pitcher (d. 1960)

1886 – Bill Kenworthy, infielder (d. 1950)

1886 – Norman Patterson, US national team outfielder (d. 1961)

1890 – Milt Reed, infielder (d. 1938)

1891 – Frank Edington, outfielder (d. 1969)

1894 – Bobby Murray, infielder (d. 1979)

1896 – Charles Wesley, infielder/outfielder, manager (d. 1944)

1900 – Dot Fulghum, infielder (d. 1947)

1900 – Wes Kingdon, infielder (d. 1975)

1903 – Howard Hobson, college coach (d. 1991)

1903 – Abe Saperstein, Negro League executive (d. 1966)

1904 – Ed Cotter, infielder (d. 1959)

1904 – Mel Ingram, pinch runner (d. 1979)

1908 – Jimmy Everett, pitcher (d. 1996)

1917 – Al Barillari, minor league pitcher and manager (d. 2000)

1917 – Mike Palagyi, pitcher (d. 2013)

1918 – Bob Boston, infielder (d. 2002)

1920 – Susumu Nagashima, NPB catcher (d. ????)

1922 – Loren Bain, pitcher (d. 1996)

1924 – Mamoru Asai, NPB pitcher (d. ????)

1924 – Frederick Postolese, minor league infielder (d. 2015)

1926 – Les Barnes, minor league infielder (d. 2014)

1926 – Jack Rose, college coach (d. 2018)

1928 – John Chironna, college coach (d. 2010)

1928 – Tamotsu Hagimoto, NPB pitcher

1928 – Richie Lazar, umpire (d. 2003)

1928 – Chuck Tanner, outfielder, manager (d. 2011)

1929 – Peter Angelos, owner (d. 2024)

1929 – Babe Birrer, pitcher (d. 2013)

1929 – Tae-yeong Jang, South Korean national team outfielder (d. 1999)

1929 – Bill Tremel, pitcher (d. 2013)

1929 – Bill Tuttle, outfielder (d. 1998)

1930 – José Rayle, minor league pitcher (d. 2015)

1930 – George Steinbrenner, owner (d. 2010)

1931 – Bobby Malkmus, infielder (d. 2025)

1935 – Ed Strichek, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)

1935 – Freddy Toribio, Dominican national team manager

1936 – Dan Gallagher, scout (d. 2020)

1936 – Sadao Mizuno, NPB infielder

1937 – Gordon Seyfried, pitcher

1938 – Tom Orton, minor league catcher (d. 2020)

1938 – John Sterling, broadcaster (d. 2026)

1938 – Kimitaka Sugimoto, NPB infielder

1940 – Isamu Shinoda, NPB infielder

1940 – Mickey Sinnerud, minor league infielder

1940 – Kazushi Watanabe, NPB pitcher

1942 – David Blackstock, college coach (d. 2017)

1942 – Hal Lanier, infielder, manager

1944 – Fred Rico, outfielder

1946 – Joe Henderson, pitcher (d. 2024)

1947 – Jim Minshall, pitcher

1947 – Jim Nelson, pitcher (d. 2004)

1948 – Ed Armbrister, outfielder (d. 2021)

1948 – Wayne Nordhagen, outfielder

1950 – Charles Bordes, minor league player

1950 – Hiroyoshi Shimizu, NPB infielder

1950 – Masafumi Takeda, NPB pitcher

1950 – Kenji Yoshimura, NPB infielder

1954 – Jim Beattie, pitcher

1954 – Dan Larson, pitcher

1958 – Katsuji Ueno, NPB outfielder

1961 – Hak-kil Yoon, KBO pitcher

1962 – Johnny Abrego, pitcher

1962 – Todd Lamb, minor league pitcher

1963 – Jose Oquendo, infielder

1965 – Jay Crawford, minor league pitcher

1965 – Andres Mena, minor league pitcher

1965 – Steve Owens, college coach

1967 – Vinny Castilla, infielder; All-Star

1967 – Frank Humber, minor league pitcher

1967 – Simon Sheldon-Collins, Australian national team pitcher

1969 – Todd Marinovich, drafted pitcher

1971 – Brendan Donnelly, pitcher; All-Star

1971 – Chad Townsend, minor league infielder

1973 – Jay Canizaro, infielder

1974 – Jeff Harris, pitcher

1975 – Jun Heima, Japanese national team infielder

1976 – Armando Roman, Mexican national team pitcher

1976 – Estevão Sato, Brazilian national team infielder

1977 – Ben Gogan, Great Britain national team infielder

1977 – Franklin Gonzalez, minor league infielder

1978 – Robby Verhaert, First Division player

1979 – Peter Maestrales, minor league infielder

1979 – Amaury Sanit, pitcher

1980 – Kyle Leon, minor league outfielder

1980 – Dmitri Likhine, Russian national team outfielder

1981 – Francisco Cruceta, pitcher

1981 – Yuya Ishii, NPB pitcher

1981 – Matt Yourkin, minor league pitcher

1983 – Ethan Katz, coach

1983 – Sergio Santos, pitcher

1984 – Jeff Gerbe, minor league pitcher

1984 – Delong Jia, China Baseball League infielder

1984 – Petr Minařík, Extraliga pitcher

1984 – Kei Yoshida, NPB outfielder

1985 – Carlos Arias, minor league pitcher

1985 – Jared Hughes, pitcher

1985 – Chad Tracy, manager

1986 – Chris Matlock, minor league pitcher

1986 – Hiroki Uemoto, NPB infielder

1987 – Griffin Benedict, coach

1987 – Aaron Bray, minor league infielder

1987 – Jae-woo Kim, South Korean national team pitcher

1989 – Jabari Blash, outfielder

1989 – Joel Torres, minor league outfielder

1990 – Matt Dermody, pitcher

1990 – Steven Ramos, minor league outfielder

1992 – Zac Curtis, pitcher

1992 – Mike Ford, infielder

1993 – Austin Bossart, minor league catcher

1994 – Ryunosuke Higuchi, NPB infielder

1994 – Zack Jones, minor league catcher

1996 – Yeris González, Nicaraguan national team pitcher

1996 – Ryoya Kurihara, NPB outfielder

1996 – Tatsuki Kuwahara, NPB infielder

1996 – Kevin Smith, infielder

1996 – Ty Tice, pitcher

1996 – Cody Wilson, outfielder

1997 – Camilo Doval, pitcher; All-Star

1997 – Ethan Roberts, pitcher

1998 – Masaya Kyoyama, NPB pitcher

1998 – Hosei Takata, NPB pitcher

2000 – AJ Blubaugh, pitcher

2000 – Kun-Yu Chiang, CPBL infielder

2000 – Joven Maulit, Philippines national team outfielder

2000 – Juan Mejia, pitcher

2000 – Zane Mills, minor league pitcher

2000 – Kelvin Peña, minor league infielder

2001 – Cheng-Lin Jan, CPBL outfielder

2001 – Junior Pérez, outfielder

2005 – Lucas Rementería, Argentinian national team pitcher

2007 – Xuan-You Wang, CPBL infielder

Deaths[edit]

1892 – Frank Millard, infielder (b. 1865)

1907 – Conny McGeehan, pitcher (b. 1882)

1910 – Sy Hayman, Negro league pitcher (b. 1885)

1911 – Jimmy Mathison, infielder (b. 1878)

1913 – Henry Murphy, umpire (b. 1853)

1922 – John Pickett, infielder (b. 1866)

1925 – George Derby, pitcher (b. 1857)

1936 – Charles Schwartz, college coach (b. ????)

1936 – Phil Wisner, infielder (b. 1870)

1938 – James Roseman, outfielder, manager (b. 1856)

1939 – Charles Barrett, scout (b. 1871)

1947 – Ed Sweeney, catcher (b. 1888)

1954 – Lee Garvin, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1877)

1954 – Walter Queisser, minor league pitcher (b. 1885)

1960 – Frank Parkinson, infielder (b. 1895)

1960 – Eddie Wall, pitcher (b. 1903)

1961 – Jake Hehl, pitcher (b. 1899)

1962 – Abe Kruger, pitcher (b. 1885)

1966 – Jesse Purnell, infielder (b. 1881)

1968 – Jack Holloway, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1899)

1968 – John Quinn, umpire (b. 1897)

1969 – Lew Drill, catcher (b. 1877)

1972 – Don Ping, college coach (b. 1898)

1973 – Walter Schmidt, catcher (b. 1887)

1974 – Jack Compton, pitcher (b. 1882)

1974 – José Antonio Huelga‎, Cuban league pitcher (b. 1948)

1974 – Del Webb, owner (b. 1899)

1978 – Joe Vance, pitcher (b. 1905)

1980 – Jack Martin, infielder (b. 1887)

1984 – Reginald Hopwood, outfielder (b. 1906)

1984 – Doyt Morris, outfielder (b. 1916)

1985 – Frank Walsh, umpire (b. 1905)

1986 – Oscar Roettger, infielder (b. 1900)

1987 – Bobby Vandever, player (b. 1914)

1988 – Lee Weyer, umpire (b. 1936)

1989 – Jim Missouri, pitcher (b. 1917)

1993 – Walter Stephenson, catcher (b. 1911)

1994 – Cal Cooper, pitcher (b. 1922)

1994 – Tex Hoyle, pitcher (b. 1921)

1994 – Masayoshi Nakayama, NPB pitcher (b. 1917)

1994 – Sam Segraves, outfielder (b. 1920)

1998 – Lee Moody, infielder (b. 1917)

2002 – Tadashi Suzuki, NPB infielder (b. 1941)

2005 – Hank Stram, college coach (b. 1923)

2006 – Marilyn Olinger, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1928)

2007 – Joe Morlan, minor league catcher (b. 1936)

2008 – Julio Gotay, infielder (b. 1939)

2008 – Billy Stinchcomb, minor league pitcher (b. 1944)

2009 – Seong-ok Cho, KBO outfielder (b. 1961)

2011 – Wes Covington, outfielder (b. 1932)

2011 – Jack Rumohr, minor league pitcher (b. 1936)

2012 – Daniel Beck, minor league outfielder (b. 1925)

2014 – Earl Robinson, outfielder (b. 1936)

2016 – Alvaro Lebrija, minor league executive; Salon de la Fama (b. 1923)

2017 – Gene Conley, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1930)

2025 – Bobby Jenks, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1981)

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TV SPORTS TODAY

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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