THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” SUNDAY AUGUST 16, 2026

“THE SCOREBOARD”

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

CARDINALS 8, CUBS 4

BREWERS 4, DODGERS 1

WHITE SOX 4, TIGERS 3

BLUE JAYS 4, YANKEES 1

ORIOLES 4, RAYS 3 (10 INNINGS)

GUARDIANS 6, PADRES 1

METS 5, NATIONALS 4

MARLINS 8, REDS 4

MARINERS 10, ASTROS 5

PHILLIES 9, TWINS 1

RED SOX 4, PIRATES 0

DIAMONDBACKS 10, BRAVES 3

ANGELS 1, ROYALS 0

RANGERS 5, ATHLETICS 3

GIANTS 7, ROCKIES 1

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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

INDIANAPOLIS 4 NASHVILLE 3

FT. WAYNE 2 QUAD CITIES 2 (PPD)

GREAT LAKES 7 SOUTH BEND 4

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WNBA SCOREBOARD

LIBERTY 82 SUN 75

MYSTICS 80 SPARKS 70

LYNX 92 ACES 87

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MLS SCOREBOARD

ATLANTA 2 NY RED BULLS 1

MONTREAL 1 DC UNITED 1

CHARLOTTE 3 COLUMBUS 1

ORLANDO 1 CINCINNATI 1

TORONTO 2 NEW ENGLAND 1

HOUSTON 1 LA GALAXY 0

NASHVILLE 4 MIAMI 1

COLORADO 2 KANSAS CITY 0

SAL LAKE 1 MINNESOTA 1

SAN DIEGO 1 LAFC 0

ST. LOUIS 3 SAN JOSE 1

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHEDULES

https://scoreboard.homestead.com/football/teams.htm#load

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL

https://www.maxpreps.com/in/volleyball

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER

https://www.maxpreps.com/in/soccer

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOCCER

https://www.maxpreps.com/in/soccer/girls

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/boys/cross-country

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/girls/cross-country

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS TENNIS

https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/boys/tennis

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL WEEK 1

ALL TIMES EASTERN

ADAMS CENTRAL AT FORT WAYNE LUERS 7:00 PM

ALEXANDRIA AT GREENFIELD-CENTRAL 7:00 PM

ANDREAN AT MERRILLVILLE 8:00 PM

ANGOLA AT GOSHEN 7:00 PM

ATTICA AT FAITH CHRISTIAN 7:00 PM

AVON AT DECATUR CENTRAL 7:00 PM

BATESVILLE AT TRITON CENTRAL 7:00 PM

BELLMONT AT MADISON-GRANT 7:00 PM

BLOOMINGTON SOUTH AT BLOOMINGTON NORTH 7:00 PM

BOONVILLE AT EVANSVILLE BOSSE 7:30 PM

BROWN COUNTY AT OWEN VALLEY 7:00 PM

BROWNSBURG AT LAWRENCE NORTH 7:00 PM

BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL AT CORYDON CENTRAL 7:00 PM

CARROLL (FLORA) AT SEEGER 7:00 PM

CASCADE AT MONROVIA 7:00 PM

CASTLE AT EVANSVILLE NORTH 7:30 PM

CASTON AT WHITKO 7:00 PM

CENTRAL NOBLE AT CULVER 7:30 PM

CHRISTEL HOUSE AT BOWMAN ACADEMY 7:30 PM

CHURUBUSCO AT BREMEN 7:00 PM

CLINTON CENTRAL AT FRANKFORT 7:00 PM

CLINTON PRAIRIE AT FRONTIER 7:00 PM

COLUMBUS EAST AT MOORESVILLE 7:00 PM

COLUMBUS NORTH AT WHITELAND 7:00 PM

COVENANT CHRISTIAN AT PARK TUDOR 7:00 PM

COVINGTON AT TRI-COUNTY 7:00 PM

CRAWFORDSVILLE AT PARKE HERITAGE 7:00 PM

DELPHI AT BENTON CENTRAL 7:00 PM

DELTA AT MUNCIE CENTRAL 7:30 PM

EASTERN (GREENTOWN) AT OAK HILL 7:00 PM

EASTERN (PEKIN) AT WEST WASHINGTON 7:00 PM

ELKHART AT CONCORD 7:00 PM

ELWOOD AT SOUTHERN WELLS 7:00 PM

EVANSVILLE HARRISON AT EVANSVILLE REITZ 7:30 PM

EVANSVILLE MATER DEI AT EVANSVILLE CENTRAL 7:30 PM

EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL AT JASPER 7:30 PM

FAIRFIELD AT CALUMET 7:30 PM

FISHERS AT CARMEL 7:00 PM

FLOYD CENTRAL AT GIBSON SOUTHERN 7:30 PM

FORT WAYNE NORTH AT EAST NOBLE 7:00 PM

FORT WAYNE SNIDER AT WARSAW 7:00 PM

FORT WAYNE WAYNE AT LEO 7:00 PM

FRANKLIN AT SOUTHPORT 7:00 PM

FRANKLIN CENTRAL AT PLAINFIELD 7:00 PM

FRANKTON AT TIPTON 7:00 PM

FREMONT AT FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK 7:00 PM

GARRETT AT DEKALB 7:00 PM

GARY WEST AT FORT WAYNE NORTHROP 7:00 PM

GREENCASTLE AT CLOVERDALE 7:00 PM

GREENSBURG AT SHELBYVILLE 7:00 PM

HAGERSTOWN AT KNIGHTSTOWN 7:00 PM

HAMILTON HEIGHTS AT LAPEL 7:00 PM

HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN AT CARROLL (FORT WAYNE) 7:30 PM

HAMMOND CENTRAL AT SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON 7:30 PM

HAMMOND MORTON AT PORTAGE 8:00 PM

HAMMOND NOLL AT SOUTH BEND RILEY 7:30 PM

HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE) AT WEST LAFAYETTE 7:30 PM

HENRYVILLE AT CLARKSVILLE 7:00 PM

HERITAGE HILLS AT SOUTH SPENCER 8:00 PM

HIGHLAND AT GRIFFITH 8:00 PM

HOBART AT CHESTERTON 8:00 PM

HUNTINGTON NORTH AT EASTBROOK 7:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS ARSENAL TECH AT NOBLESVILLE 7:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL AT BEN DAVIS 7:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS CHATARD AT LAFAYETTE JEFF 7:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS HOMESCHOOL AT CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN 7:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN AT INDIANAPOLIS ATTUCKS 7:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS RITTER AT DANVILLE 7:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS RONCALLI AT FORT WAYNE DWENGER 7:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS SCECINA AT FORT WAYNE CONCORDIA 7:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS TINDLEY AT EDINBURGH 7:00 PM

JAY COUNTY AT BLACKFORD 7:00 PM

JEFFERSONVILLE AT LAWRENCE CENTRAL 7:00 PM

JENNINGS COUNTY AT PAOLI 7:00 PM

JOHN GLENN AT BOONE GROVE 7:30 PM

KNOX AT NORTH JUDSON 8:00 PM

LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC AT MITCHELL 7:30 PM

LAPORTE AT NEW PRAIRIE 8:00 PM

LAVILLE AT TRITON 7:00 PM

LAWRENCEBURG AT EAST CENTRAL 7:30 PM

LOGANSPORT AT PERU 7:00 PM

LOWELL AT CROWN POINT 8:00 PM

MARION AT FORT WAYNE SOUTH 7:00 PM

MARTINSVILLE AT BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE 7:00 PM

MCCUTCHEON AT GUERIN CATHOLIC 7:00 PM

MICHIGAN CITY AT HANOVER CENTRAL 8:00 PM

MILAN AT RUSHVILLE 7:00 PM

MISHAWAKA AT MISHAWAKA MARIAN 7:00 PM

MOUNT VERNON (FORTVILLE) AT KOKOMO 7:00 PM

MOUNT VERNON (POSEY) AT FOREST PARK 7:30 PM

MUNSTER AT LAKE CENTRAL 8:00 PM

NEW CASTLE AT FRANKLIN COUNTY 7:00 PM

NEW HAVEN AT HERITAGE 7:00 PM

NORTH CENTRAL (FARMERSBURG) AT NORTH VERMILLION 7:00 PM

NORTH CENTRAL (INDIANAPOLIS) AT BREBEUF JESUIT 7:00 PM

NORTH DAVIESS AT WASHINGTON 7:00 PM

NORTH DECATUR AT SOUTH DECATUR 7:00 PM

NORTH HARRISON AT SALEM 7:00 PM

NORTH NEWTON AT WHITING 8:00 PM

NORTH POSEY AT SOUTHRIDGE 7:30 PM

NORTH PUTNAM AT SOUTH PUTNAM 7:00 PM

NORTH WHITE AT TAYLOR 7:00 PM

NORTHEASTERN AT EASTERN HANCOCK 7:00 PM

NORTHFIELD AT NORTH MIAMI 7:00 PM

NORTHRIDGE AT WEST NOBLE 7:00 PM

NORTHVIEW AT TERRE HAUTE NORTH 7:00 PM

NORTHWESTERN AT MANCHESTER 7:00 PM

NORTHWOOD AT COLUMBIA CITY 7:00 PM

NORWELL AT MISSISSINEWA 7:00 PM

OSCEOLA GRACE AT PURDUE ENGLEWOOD 8:00 PM

PENDLETON HEIGHTS AT LEBANON 7:00 PM

PERRY MERIDIAN AT BEECH GROVE 7:00 PM

PHALEN ACADEMY AT INDIANAPOLIS WASHINGTON 7:00 PM

PIKE CENTRAL AT EASTERN GREENE 7:00 PM

PIONEER AT LEWIS CASS 7:00 PM

PLYMOUTH AT TIPPECANOE VALLEY 7:00 PM

PRAIRIE HEIGHTS AT WOODLAN 7:00 PM

PRINCETON AT TECUMSEH 8:00 PM

PROVIDENCE AT NEW ALBANY 7:00 PM

RENSSELAER CENTRAL AT KANKAKEE VALLEY 8:00 PM

RICHMOND AT CONNERSVILLE 7:00 PM

RIVER FOREST AT EAST CHICAGO CENTRAL 8:00 PM

RIVERTON PARKE VS. LINTON 7:30 PM

SCOTTSBURG AT MADISON 7:00 PM

SEYMOUR AT GREENWOOD 7:00 PM

SHENANDOAH AT BLUFFTON 7:30 PM

SILVER CREEK AT CHARLESTOWN 7:00 PM

SOUTH ADAMS AT EASTSIDE 7:00 PM

SOUTH BEND ADAMS AT CULVER ACADEMY 7:00 PM

SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH AT LAKELAND 7:00 PM

SOUTH CENTRAL (UNION MILLS) AT WHEELER 8:00 PM

SOUTH NEWTON AT LAKE STATION 8:00 PM

SOUTHMONT AT FOUNTAIN CENTRAL 7:00 PM

SOUTHWOOD AT ROCHESTER 7:00 PM

SPEEDWAY AT HERITAGE CHRISTIAN 7:00 PM

SPRINGS VALLEY AT EDGEWOOD 7:00 PM

SULLIVAN AT NORTH KNOX 7:00 PM

SWITZERLAND COUNTY AT CRAWFORD COUNTY 7:00 PM

TELL CITY AT PERRY CENTRAL 8:00 PM

TERRE HAUTE SOUTH AT VINCENNES LINCOLN 7:00 PM

TRI-CENTRAL AT WES-DEL 7:00 PM

TRINITY LUTHERAN AT INDIANAPOLIS SHORTRIDGE 7:00 PM

TWIN LAKES AT NORTH MONTGOMERY 7:00 PM

UNION CITY AT TRI 7:00 PM

UNION COUNTY AT MONROE CENTRAL 7:30 PM

VALPARAISO AT PENN 7:30 PM

WABASH AT MACONAQUAH 7:00 PM

WALNUT HILLS (OHIO) AT SOUTH DEARBORN 7:00 PM

WARREN CENTRAL AT CENTER GROVE 7:00 PM

WAWASEE AT JIMTOWN 7:00 PM

WEST CENTRAL AT WINAMAC 7:00 PM

WEST VIGO AT SOUTH VERMILLION 7:00 PM

WESTERN AT INDIAN CREEK 7:00 PM

WESTERN BOONE AT TRI-WEST 7:00 PM

WESTFIELD AT HOMESTEAD 7:00 PM

WHEATON ST. FRANCIS (ILL.) AT NEW PALESTINE 7:00 PM

WINCHESTER AT CENTERVILLE 7:00 PM

YORKTOWN AT ANDERSON 7:00 PM

ZIONSVILLE AT PIKE 7:00 PM

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 1 SCHEDULE/TV

FRIDAY, AUG. 28

IDAHO AT CAL POLY | 10 P.M. | ESPN

SATURDAY, AUG. 29

TCU VS. NORTH CAROLINA (AVIVA STADIUM IN DUBLIN, IRELAND) | 12 P.M. | ESPN

SAN JOSE STATE AT USC | 3 P.M. | NBC

ALABAMA STATE VS. SOUTHERN (LEGION FIELD IN BIRMINGHAM, ALA.) | 3 P.M. | ESPNU

NC STATE AT VIRGINIA | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN

JACKSONVILLE STATE AT NORTH DAKOTA STATE | 5:30 P.M. | CBSSN

SACRAMENTO STATE AT EASTERN MICHIGAN | 6:30 P.M. | ESPN+

HAWAI’I AT STANFORD | 7 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

NEW MEXICO STATE AT FLORIDA STATE | 7 P.M. | THE CW NETWORK

EAST TEXAS A&M AT MERCER | 7 P.M. | ESPN

HOWARD VS. ALABAMA A&M (CENTER PARC STADIUM IN ATLANTA) | 7:30 P.M. | ABC

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M AT TARLETON STATE | 9 P.M. | ESPN2

MEMPHIS AT UNLV | 10 P.M. | FOX

WEEK 1

THURSDAY, SEPT. 3

UMASS AT RUTGERS | 6 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

BETHUNE-COOKMAN AT UCF | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

AKRON AT WAKE FOREST | 7 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

MERRIMACK AT DELAWARE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

WEST GEORGIA AT KENNESAW STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

UALBANY AT BUFFALO | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF AT MISSOURI | 8 P.M. | SEC NETWORK

COLORADO AT GEORGIA TECH | 8 P.M. | ESPN

EASTERN ILLINOIS AT MINNESOTA | 8 P.M. | PEACOCK

IDAHO AT UTAH | 9 P.M. | ESPNU

UAB AT ILLINOIS | 9 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

FRIDAY, SEPT. 3

SAN JOSE STATE AT EASTERN MICHIGAN | 6:30 P.M. | ESPN+

INDIANA STATE AT PURDUE | 7 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

NORTH CAROLINA A&T AT GEORGIA STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

UTEP AT OKLAHOMA | 8 P.M. | SECN+

LIU AT KANSAS | 8 P.M. | ESPNU

TOLEDO AT MICHIGAN STATE | 8 P.M. | FS1

MIAMI (FLA.) AT STANFORD | 9 P.M. | ESPN

FRESNO STATE AT USC | 9 P.M. | FOX

SATURDAY, SEPT. 4

EAST CAROLINA AT ALABAMA | 12 P.M. | ABC

OREGON STATE AT HOUSTON | 12 P.M. | ESPN

COASTAL CAROLINA AT WEST VIRGINIA | 12 P.M. | TNT/HBO MAX

NEW HAMPSHIRE AT SYRACUSE | 12 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

NORTH TEXAS AT INDIANA | 12 P.M. | FOX

OHIO AT NEBRASKA | 12 P.M. | FS1

BRYANT AT ARMY | 12 P.M. | CBSSN

TARLETON STATE AT BOWLING GREEN | 12 P.M. | ESPN+

LIBERTY AT JAMES MADISON | 12 P.M. | ESPNU

MIAMI (OHIO) AT PITT | 12:30 P.M. | ESPN UNLIMITED AND THE CW NETWORK

BALL STATE AT OHIO STATE | 12:30 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

KENT STATE AT SOUTH CAROLINA | 12:45 P.M. | SEC NETWORK

YOUNGSTOWN STATE AT KENTUCKY | 1 P.M. | SECN+

SE MISSOURI STATE AT IOWA STATE | 1 P.M. | ESPN+

DUQUESNE AT AIR FORCE | 1 P.M. | MW+

RHODE ISLAND AT TEMPLE | 2 P.M. | ESPN+

TENNESSEE STATE AT GEORGIA | 3 P.M. | SECN+

AUBURN VS. BAYLOR (MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM IN ATLANTA) | 3:30 P.M. | ABC

FURMAN AT TENNESSEE | 3:30 P.M. | SECN+

TEXAS STATE AT TEXAS | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN

BOSTON COLLEGE AT CINCINNATI | 3:30 P.M. | FOX

TULANE AT DUKE | 3:30 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

BOISE STATE AT OREGON | 3:30 P.M. | CBS

MARSHALL AT PENN STATE | 3:30 P.M. | FS1

THE CITADEL AT CHARLOTTE | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+

TOWSON AT NAVY | 3:30 P.M. | CBSSN

UT RIO GRANDE VALLEY AT UTSA | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+

FORDHAM AT NORTH DAKOTA STATE | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN UNLIMITED AND THE CW NETWORK

MAINE AT APP STATE | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+

OKLAHOMA STATE AT TULSA | 3:45 P.M. | ESPNU

NORTH ALABAMA AT ARKANSAS | 4:15 P.M. | SEC NETWORK

NORTHERN ILLINOIS AT IOWA | 4:15 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

ALCORN STATE AT SOUTHERN MISS | 5 P.M. | ESPN+

WYOMING AT COLORADO STATE | 6 P.M. | USA NETWORK

NORFOLK STATE AT OLD DOMINION | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

MISSOURI STATE AT TEXAS A&M | 7 P.M. | ESPN

AUSTIN PEAY AT VANDERBILT | 7 P.M. | SECN+

ABILENE CHRISTIAN AT TEXAS TECH | 7 P.M. | FS1

NICHOLLS AT KANSAS STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

IDAHO STATE AT UTAH STATE | 7 P.M. | CBSSN

ARKANSAS STATE AT MEMPHIS | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

HOUSTON CHRISTIAN AT RICE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL AT SOUTH FLORIDA | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

MURRAY STATE AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

EASTERN KENTUCKY AT JACKSONVILLE STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

CHARLESTON SOUTHERN AT GEORGIA SOUTHERN | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

SE LOUISIANA AT SOUTH ALABAMA | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

SAM HOUSTON AT TROY | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

CLEMSON AT LSU | 7:30 P.M. | ABC

UL MONROE AT MISSISSIPPI STATE | 7:30 P.M. | ESPNU

VMI AT VIRGINIA TECH | 7:30 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

WESTERN MICHIGAN AT MICHIGAN | 7:30 P.M. | NBC

NORTHWESTERN STATE AT LOUISIANA TECH | 7:30 P.M. | ESPN+

FLORIDA ATLANTIC AT FLORIDA | 7:45 P.M. | SEC NETWORK

UTAH TECH AT BYU | 8 P.M. | ESPN+

HAMPTON AT MARYLAND | 8 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE AT NORTHWESTERN | 8 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

LAMAR AT LOUISIANA | 8 P.M. | ESPN+

MORGAN STATE AT ARIZONA STATE | 9 P.M. | ESPN+

MERCYHURST AT NEW MEXICO STATE | 9 P.M. | ESPN+

NORTHERN ARIZONA AT ARIZONA | 9:30 P.M. | ESPN+

PORTLAND STATE AT SAN DIEGO STATE | 9:30 P.M. | USA NETWORK

UNLV AT HAWAI’I | 10 P.M. | ESPN UNLIMITED AND THE CW NETWORK

CENTRAL MICHIGAN AT NEW MEXICO | 10 P.M. | FS1

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE AT SACRAMENTO STATE | 10 P.M. | ESPN+

UCLA AT CAL | 10:30 P.M. | ESPN

WESTERN KENTUCKY AT NEVADA | 10:30 P.M. | CBSSN

SUNDAY, SEPT. 6

TEXAS SOUTHERN AT PRAIRIE VIEW A&M | 12 P.M. | ESPN2

FLORIDA A&M VS. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE (HARD ROCK STADIUM IN MIAMI GARDENS, FLA.) | 3 P.M. | ESPN

WASHINGTON STATE AT WASHINGTON | 4 P.M. | NBC

OLE MISS VS. LOUISVILLE (NISSAN STADIUM IN NASHVILLE, TENN.) | 7:30 P.M. | ABC

NOTRE DAME VS. WISCONSIN (LAMBEAU FIELD IN GREEN BAY, WIS.) | 7:30 P.M. | NBC

MONDAY, SEPT. 7

SMU AT FLORIDA STATE | 7:30 P.M. | ESPN

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NFL PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE

WEEK 1

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15

BILLS 29, PANTHERS 14

BEARS 34, BROWNS 10

VIKINGS 13, GIANTS 10

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WEEK 2

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20

LAS VEGAS AT HOUSTON (ESPN), 8:00

SAN FRANCISCO AT L.A. CHARGERS, 10:00

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21

N.Y. JETS AT PITTSBURGH, 7:00

CAROLINA AT JACKSONVILLE, 7:30

GREEN BAY AT DENVER, 9:00

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22

WASHINGTON AT DETROIT, NOON

BUFFALO AT CLEVELAND, 1:00

ATLANTA AT INDIANAPOLIS, 1:00

BALTIMORE AT MINNESOTA, 1:00

NEW ORLEANS AT L.A. RAMS, 4:00

N.Y. GIANTS AT MIAMI, 4:00

CHICAGO AT CINCINNATI, 7:00

PHILADELPHIA AT NEW ENGLAND, 7:00

KANSAS CITY AT TAMPA BAY, 7:30

DALLAS AT ARIZONA, 10:00

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23

SEATTLE AT TENNESSEE (FOX), 8:00

WEEK 3

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27

PITTSBURGH AT BUFFALO, 7:00

NEW ENGLAND AT CLEVELAND (PRIME VIDEO), 8:00

SAN FRANCISCO AT LAS VEGAS, 8:00

L.A. RAMS AT L.A. CHARGERS, 10:00

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28

WASHINGTON AT BALTIMORE, 6:00

HOUSTON AT CAROLINA, 7:00

ATLANTA AT MIAMI, 7:00

TAMPA BAY AT JACKSONVILLE, 7:30

N.Y. GIANTS AT N.Y. JETS, 7:30

NEW ORLEANS AT DALLAS, 8:00

ARIZONA AT GREEN BAY, 8:00

SEATTLE AT KANSAS CITY, 8:00

CINCINNATI AT PHILADELPHIA (CBS), 8:00

MINNESOTA AT DENVER, 9:00

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29

DETROIT AT INDIANAPOLIS, 1:00

CHICAGO AT TENNESSEE, 6:00

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2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS SCHEDULE

WEEK DATE OPPONENT TV / TIME (ET)

WEEK 1 THU, AUG 13 @ NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS LOCAL (7:30 PM)

WEEK 2 SAT, AUG 22 VS. ATLANTA FALCONS LOCAL (1:00 PM)

WEEK 3 SAT, AUG 29 VS. DETROIT LIONS LOCAL (1:00 PM)

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2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE

WEEK DATE OPPONENT TIME (ET) TV / STREAMING

1 SUN, SEPT 13 VS. BALTIMORE RAVENS 1:00 PM CBS

2 SUN, SEPT 20 @ KANSAS CITY CHIEFS 8:20 PM NBC

3 SUN, SEPT 27 VS. HOUSTON TEXANS 1:00 PM CBS

4 SUN, OCT 4 @ WASHINGTON COMMANDERS 9:30 AM NFL NET

5 SUN, OCT 11 @ PITTSBURGH STEELERS 1:00 PM CBS

6 SUN, OCT 18 VS. TENNESSEE TITANS 1:00 PM FOX

7 SUN, OCT 25 @ MINNESOTA VIKINGS 1:00 PM CBS

8 SUN, NOV 1 @ JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS 1:00 PM CBS

9 SUN, NOV 8 VS. DALLAS COWBOYS 1:00 PM FOX

10 SUN, NOV 15 VS. MIAMI DOLPHINS 1:00 PM CBS

11 THU, NOV 19 @ HOUSTON TEXANS 8:15 PM PRIME VIDEO

12 SUN, NOV 29 VS. NEW YORK GIANTS 1:00 PM FOX

13 BYE WEEK

14 SUN, DEC 13 @ PHILADELPHIA EAGLES 1:00 PM FOX

15 SUN, DEC 20 @ TENNESSEE TITANS 1:00 PM CBS

16 TBD – FLEX VS. CINCINNATI BENGALS TBD TBD

17 SUN, JAN 3 @ CLEVELAND BROWNS 1:00 PM FOX

18 TBD – FLEX GAME VS. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS TBD TBD

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TOP NATIONAL SPORTS HEADLINES

NFL NEWS

NFL ROUNDUP: JOSH ALLEN, BILLS OPEN UP HIGHMARK STADIUM IN STYLE

Josh Allen passed for 111 yards and one touchdown and the Buffalo Bills opened Highmark Stadium with a 29-14 victory over the Carolina Panthers in a preseason game at Orchard Park, N.Y., on Saturday afternoon.

Allen tossed a 9-yard touchdown pass to Keon Coleman in the first quarter and completed 6 of 8 passes in the club’s preseason opener. It also was Buffalo’s first game since Sean McDermott was fired as coach and replaced by Joe Brady.

The new stadium is located right next to where the former one resided, and the Bills made themselves comfortable as Ian Wheeler and Frank Gore Jr. scored on fourth-quarter runs to boost Buffalo’s lead to 29-7.

Bryce Young played sparingly for the Panthers (1-1) and was 3-of-5 passing for 18 yards. Kenny Pickett and Kyle Trask threw touchdown passes and Trask also was picked off once.

Bears 34, Browns 10

Case Keenum completed 9 of 10 passes for 151 yards and two touchdowns to help Chicago roll past visiting Cleveland in the preseason opener for both teams.

Bears starting quarterback Caleb Williams didn’t play and Tyson Bagent (169 yards) and Keenum helped Chicago recover from an early 10-0 deficit. Jamree Kromah had two sacks and a fumble recovery for the Bears.

Deshaun Watson, who missed all of last season due to an Achilles injury, completed 11 of 15 passes for 126 yards and guided Cleveland to all of its points in the first half. Watson is competing for the starting job with Shedeur Sanders, who completed 6 of 11 passes for 79 yards and one interception.

Vikings 13, Giants 10

Carson Wentz threw the go-ahead touchdown pass to Myles Price in the third quarter and Kyler Murray made a brief appearance as Minnesota staved off New York in both teams’ opener.

Murray is the Vikings’ new quarterback after playing seven seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. He completed 2 of 3 passes for 10 yards. Minnesota defender Jamal Adams was carted off with an apparently serious knee injury.

Jaxson Dart threw a touchdown pass to Malachi Fields for the Giants, who were playing their first game under new coach John Harbaugh. Jameis Winston completed 8 of 9 passes for 89 yards.

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SEAHAWKS, CB DEVON WITHERSPOON AGREE TO 4-YEAR, $132 MILLION DEAL, AP SOURCE SAYS

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks and cornerback Devon Witherspoon have agreed to a four-year, $132 million contract extension, with $101 million guaranteed, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Saturday.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the contract, which would make Witherspoon the highest-paid cornerback in the NFL, hasn’t been finalized.

On March 26, the Seahawks exercised their fifth-year option on Witherspoon, but elected to sign him to a long-term deal on the same day they started preseason play against the Dallas Cowboys.

Witherspoon, 25, was selected No. 5 overall by the Seahawks in the 2023 draft. In the same round of that draft, the Seahawks selected wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who in March agreed to a four-year, $168.8 million contract with $120 million guaranteed.

In three seasons with Seattle, Witherspoon has been selected to the Pro Bowl each season. He also made the second-team All-Pro team and helped the Seahawks win the Super Bowl last season.

Witherspoon appeared in all three of Seattle’s playoff games during its Super Bowl run, making 17 tackles and four passes defended.

In 43 regular-season games, Witherspoon has 249 tackles, 32 passes defended, 16 tackles for loss, 4 1/2 sacks and two interceptions.

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TEXANS SIGN QB BRETT RYPIEN, PLACE QB GRAHAM MERTZ ON IR

The Houston Texans signed veteran Brett Rypien to a contract on Saturday and placed fellow quarterback Graham Mertz on season-ending injured reserve.

The move comes two days after Mertz tore his ACL during the Texans’ 27-7 preseason loss to the visiting Los Angeles Chargers.

Rypien, 30, will be the third quarterback on the depth chart behind starter C.J. Stroud and veteran backup Davis Mills.

Rypien has made four NFL starts since entering the league as an undrafted free agent in 2019 with the Denver Broncos. He has passed for 950 yards, four touchdowns and nine interceptions in 11 games with the Broncos, Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals.

Rypien played college football at Boise State and holds the Mountain West career passing yardage record of 13,578. He is the nephew of Mark Rypien, who played 11 NFL seasons (1988-97, 2001) for five teams and was MVP of Super Bowl XXVI for Washington.

A sixth-round draft pick in 2025, Mertz sustained a knee injury during a scramble late in the second quarter. Before leaving, he completed 4 of 7 passes for 23 yards.

Mertz, 25, spent most of his rookie season on the injured list. He dealt with a leg injury during his senior season at Florida.

Mertz, who played at Wisconsin (2019-22) and Florida (2023-24), did not appear in a regular-season game in 2025.

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BENGALS VETERAN DT B.J. HILL CLEARED TO START PRACTICING

Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle B.J. Hill passed a physical exam and was cleared to return to practice Saturday.

The 31-year-old veteran was placed on the active/physically unable to perform list on July 25 following offseason ankle surgery.

Hill, who is entering his sixth season with the Bengals, started all 17 games last season and recorded four sacks, nine quarterback hits and 66 tackles.

He has posted 27.5 sacks, 75 QB hits, 407 tackles, four fumble recoveries and two interceptions in 129 career games (84 starts) with the New York Giants (2018-20) and Bengals. New York drafted him in the third round in 2018.

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SEAHAWKS DE DEMARCUS LAWRENCE: ‘THIS WILL BE MY LAST YEAR’

Seattle Seahawks defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence plans to retire following the 2026 season, his 13th in the NFL.

The five-time Pro Bowl selection told a Yahoo  Sports reporter on Friday that “this will be my last year.”

Lawrence, 34, won the Super Bowl with Seattle last season following 11 campaigns with the Dallas Cowboys.

He made 16 starts in 2025, recorded six sacks and recovered three fumbles — two of them for touchdowns.

Lawrence said he wants to spend more time with his wife and six children back in Dallas, and that he thought about retiring after last season.

“It was a tough process,” he said. “But through the grace of God, I’m able to play another year and soak it all up one more good time before I hang it up.”

Lawrence has 67.5 sacks, 503 tackles, 146 QB hits, 24 forced fumbles, 11 fumble recoveries and two interceptions in 157 career games (139 starts) with the Cowboys (2014-24) and Seahawks. Dallas drafted him in the second round in 2014 and he made the Pro Bowl in 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2025.

Lawrence signed a three-year, $32.5 million deal with Seattle in March 2025. He is due a base salary of $8.15 million in 2026 and $9.65 million in 2027, per Spotrac.

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REPORT: STEELERS DT KEEANU BENTON SIGNS 4-YEAR, $72M EXTENSION

The Pittsburgh Steelers reportedly signed defensive tackle Keeanu Benton to a four-year, $72 million extension.

ESPN reported Friday night that the deal would make Benton the highest-paid interior defensive lineman in franchise history at $18 million per season.

Benton, 25, started all 17 games last season and set career highs with 5.5 sacks, 12 quarterback hits and 51 tackles.

He has 7.5 sacks, 28 QB hits, 123 tackles, nine passes defensed, one interception, three forced fumbles and one fumble recovery in 51 games (40 starts) since being drafted by the Steelers in the second round in 2023.

The 6-foot-4, 309-pound Benton becomes the third member of Pittsburgh’s 2023 draft class to land an extension this offseason, joining outside linebacker Nick Herbig and tight end Darnell Washington.

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BASEBALL NEWS

MLB ROUNDUP: CARDS’ JOSHUA BAEZ FIRST TO DEBUT WITH 3-HR GAME

Joshua Baez became the first player in major league history to hit three home runs in his debut, helping lead the visiting St. Louis Cardinals to an 8-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday afternoon.

Baez hit homers to right, center and left field in his first three at-bats, driving in five runs as St. Louis won its third game in four tries. He became the 11th Cardinals hitter to homer in his first career at-bat, and the 33rd to homer on the first career pitch he faced in the majors.

Cardinals starter Michael McGreevy (5-9) earned his first win since July 8, tossing six innings of three-run (none earned), five-hit ball, striking out six and walking two. Cubs starter Matthew Boyd (8-2) lost his first game since March 26. The veteran left-hander allowed seven runs on five hits across 5 1/3 frames, walking three and striking out a pair.

Michael Conforto hit a three-run homer for Chicago, which had won nine of its previous 11 games. Blaze Jordan and Alec Burleson also homered for St. Louis.

Brewers 4, Dodgers 1

Jacob Misiorowski went six strong innings, Joey Ortiz and William Contreras hit two-run home runs and visiting Milwaukee evened the season series against Los Angeles.

The long ball offense was plenty for Misiorowski (12-5), who gave up one run on five hits with one walk and six strikeouts. The National League Cy Young Award favorite now has a 1.75 ERA. The season series will be decided in Sunday’s finale of a four-game series.

Shohei Ohtani had an RBI triple, while left-hander Justin Wrobleski (11-5) gave up four runs on four hits over six innings. After earning a spot on the NL All-Star team, Wrobleski has allowed at least three earned runs in each of his last four starts.

White Sox 4, Tigers 3

Andrew Benintendi drove in the go-ahead run and visiting Chicago held on for a win over Detroit.

Benintendi had two hits and scored a run. Colson Montgomery drove in two and Braden Montgomery knocked in the other for the White Sox, who lead the Tigers by 4 1/2 games in the American League Central. Jordan Hicks (2-1) tossed 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. Bryan Hudson got the last three outs for his fifth save.

Eduardo Valencia homered and drove in two runs and Gleyber Torres supplied three hits and drove in the Tigers’ third run.

Blue Jays 4, Yankees 1

Charles McAdoo doubled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning, and Toronto defeated visiting New York.

McAdoo also had an RBI single in a two-run eighth as Toronto clinched the three-game series by winning the first two. Spencer Miles (5-2) pitched around a single with the aid of a caught stealing in the seventh. Louis Varland struck out the side in the ninth to earn his 28th save.

Brent Headrick (6-2) allowed the tiebreaking run in the seventh. Yankees starter Cam Schlittler allowed one run on four hits and three walks with seven strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings. George Lombard Jr. drove in New York’s run with a single in the second.

Orioles 4, Rays 3 (10 innings)

Tyler O’Neill singled in Colton Cowser in the 10th inning as Baltimore won its second straight one-run affair against American League East-leading Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Baltimore reliever Cam Sanders whiffed Richie Palacios in an eight-pitch at-bat with two runners on to notch his second save in two nights and third overall. Pete Alonso was 3-for-5 with a homer and Christian Encarnacion-Strand ripped a solo shot. Starter Kyle Bradish yielded two runs on seven hits.

Jonathan Aranda went 3-for-5, while Chandler Simpson and Yandy Diaz had two hits apiece for Tampa Bay. Starter Ian Seymour fanned nine in six innings but surrendered three runs on six hits. Closer Bryan Baker (1-1) gave up the game-winning hit against his former team.

Guardians 6, Padres 1

Joey Cantillo and three relievers combined to allow just one hit as Cleveland snapped San Diego’s six-game winning streak.

Cantillo (9-7) held the Padres hitless after allowing Jake Cronenworth’s single in the first inning. Colin Holderman, Hunter Gaddis and Erik Sabrowski followed by combining to throw three hitless innings to seal the 10,000th victory in Cleveland franchise history.

Jo Adell, Patrick Bailey and Steven Kwan each doubled in a run for Cleveland. Adell, Kwan and Chase DeLauter each had two hits. The Guardians recorded 11 hits and dealt the Padres just their fifth loss in their last 21 games.

Mets 5, Nationals 4

Francisco Lindor had the walk-off RBI single as host New York scored twice in the ninth inning to edge Washington in the middle game of a three-game series.

The Mets left two runners on in the eighth before surging back against Yovanny Cruz (0-1), who got just one out in the ninth. Jefry Yan (1-0) retired all five batters he faced as New York improved to 8-3 since the trade deadline. Carson Benge homered for the Mets.

Brady House put the Nationals ahead with a three-run homer in the sixth. Andres Chaparro delivered a solo shot in the fourth while Jacob Young finished with two hits for Washington, which fell to 5-9 this month. Will Dion struck out seven and allowed just one walk over 4 1/3 innings of relief work.

Marlins 8, Reds 4

Heriberto Hernandez hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the eighth to lift visiting Miami to a comeback victory over Cincinnati.

Jakob Marsee was 4-for-4 with a solo home run, while Joe Mack went 3-for-5 with a solo shot as Miami snapped a four-game road skid and evened the three-game set. Miami starter Ryan Gusto allowed four runs (two earned) on six hits with no walks and six strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.

For the Reds, Matt McLain was 3-for-4 with a double and a homer, Ke’Bryan Hayes also homered and Sal Stewart had two hits, including a two-run single. Reds starter Brady Singer scattered eight hits, allowing three runs with two walks and four strikeouts over six innings.

Mariners 10, Astros 5

Emerson Hancock matched his career high by working seven innings, and Seattle rode a four-run second inning to a victory over host Houston.

Hancock (7-7) snapped a three-start skid, surrendering two runs on five hits and two walks with eight strikeouts. Brendan Donovan (3-for-5, three RBIs) and Cole Young (3-for-5, homer, four RBIs) posted big nights, while Victor Robles hit a two-run triple.

Houston starter Hayden Wesneski (2-1) gave up five runs on seven hits and one walk with six strikeouts over four innings, marking his shortest outing of the season. Isaac Paredes (3-for-4, two RBIs) slugged a two-run shot and Christian Vazquez ripped a solo homer.

Phillies 9, Twins 1

Bryson Stott slapped a three-run homer to cap a seven-run fifth inning, and Alec Bohm delivered a career-high five hits for Philadelphia in a win against Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Bryce Harper contributed two hits and scored a run, and Edmundo Sosa and J. T. Realmuto drove in two runs each for Philadelphia. Jesus Luzardo (11-5) went 6 2/3 innings, allowing one run and scattering seven hits while striking out nine. Trea Turner limped off in the eighth after fouling a pitch off his right knee.

Luke Keaschall had two hits on his 24th birthday and Kaelen Culpepper also had two hits for the Twins, who fell to 4-9 this month. Rookie Connor Prielipp (3-6) was tagged for a career-high eight runs and eight hits in five innings.

Red Sox 4, Pirates 0

Sonny Gray threw seven scoreless innings and Wilyer Abreu’s second-inning solo home run put Boston on course for a shutout of host Pittsburgh.

Gray (15-3) set a career-high for wins and leads the American League in that category. Gray struck out seven and walked one to lead Boston to its second win in three games following a five-game skid. Andruw Monasterio doubled in two insurance runs in a three-run ninth.

Abreu’s home run with one out in the second off Pirates starter Jared Jones (2-5) was one of his three hits. It tarnished a solid start for Jones, who struck out seven, walked two and gave up just one run on four hits over five innings.

Diamondbacks 10, Braves 3

Eduardo Rodriguez pitched six strong innings and Nolan Arenado hit a pair of home runs to help visiting Arizona defeat Atlanta, clinching the three-game series as well as the season series.

Rodriguez (12-4), who settled down after giving up two first-inning runs, allowed five hits, struck out five and did not issue a walk. Arenado, who was 2-for-4 with a walk, three runs and four RBIs, hit a two-run homer in the third inning and a solo shot in the seventh, giving him 20 for the season.

Ronald Acuna Jr. led off with a 429-foot home run to center field for the Braves, his 13th. It was his 199th career home run and 40th leadoff homer. Grant Holmes (7-5) lost for the first time since June 22. He worked 3 2/3 innings and allowed six runs — matching his career high — on six hits and three walks while striking out three.

Angels 1, Royals 0

Reid Detmers allowed two hits and struck out 11 over eight shutout innings and Nolan Schanuel had three hits and drove in the winning run in the eighth as Los Angeles edged Kansas City in Anaheim, Calif.

It was the first home win in 22 starts for Detmers (4-8), who entered the contest tied with Kutter Crawford and Alex Cobb for the most consecutive home starts without a win in American League history (21). It also snapped Detmers’ nine-start winless streak.

Nate Pearson (2-1) took the loss for the Royals, who have lost five of six. He gave up the game’s lone run on one hit and one walk in one inning. Kansas City wasted a strong start from Randy Dobnak, who allowed four hits,and struck out six over 5 2/3 innings.

Rangers 5, Athletics 3

Wyatt Langford hit a go-ahead two-run homer as part of a 3-for-4 outing to lead the Texas to a victory over the Athletics at West Sacramento, Calif.

Corey Seager had two hits and one RBI and MacKenzie Gore (7-9) ended a four-start winless stretch for Texas, which halted a four-game losing streak. Jacob Latz recorded a two-inning save as the Rangers moved back into the final wild-card spot in the tight AL race. Gore gave up three runs and eight hits over 5 2/3 innings.

Henry Bolte went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer for the Athletics, who lost for the 16th time in the past 20 contests. Alika Williams had two hits for the A’s, who have dropped nine of their last 10 home games. J.T. Ginn (8-7) allowed four runs and eight hits over six innings.

Giants 7, Rockies 1

Logan Webb coasted after getting supported by a six-run fourth inning, including a home run by Drew Gilbert, and San Francisco squared its home series against Colorado at a game apiece.

Gilbert finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored and a career-high-tying three RBIs for the Giants, who would have moved into a last-place tie with the Rockies in the National League West with a third straight defeat. The victory gave Webb a winning record for the first time this season. He’s now 12-4 lifetime against Colorado — four more wins than he’s recorded against any other opponent.

Connor Norby had the only extra-base hit for Colorado, a double. The Rockies were out-hit 10-5. Rockies starter Michael Lorenzen (3-11) was charged with six runs in 3 2/3 innings, serving up four hits and three walks. He struck out one

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THREE-TIME MVP AARON JUDGE PLAYS CATCH FOR FIRST TIME IN REHAB FROM BROKEN RIB, RETURN DATE UNCLEAR

TORONTO (AP) — Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge played catch in New York on Friday as he continues working toward a return from a broken right rib.

“Just part of the ramp-up to baseball activity,” manager Aaron Boone said of Judge before Saturday’s game against the Blue Jays in Toronto. “Hopefully he’ll continue to progress through this week. We’ll see what else gets introduced.”

Judge hasn’t played since May 31, but the three-time AL MVP and eight-time All-Star has said he intends to return this season. He was cleared to begin light workout activity on Aug. 5.

Boone spoke to Judge and said the slugger responded well to throwing for the first time in his rehab. However, Boone didn’t know when Judge might be ready to rejoin the Yankees.

“We expect him back, but we’re in the early stages of baseball activity,” Boone said. “Hopefully things continue to go well.”

Judge is hitting .248 with 17 home runs, 38 RBIs and a .907 OPS. He had just one homer in his final 18 games before going on the IL.

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BLUE JAYS PUT SIX-TIME ALL-STAR VLADIMIR GUERRERO JR. ON 7-DAY IL BECAUSE OF CONCUSSION SYMPTOMS

TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays put six-time All-Star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on the seven-day IL Saturday because of concussion symptoms and selected outfielder Daz Cameron from Triple-A Buffalo.

To make room on the 40-man roster, right-hander Lazaro Estrada was designated for assignment.

Also Saturday, Toronto recalled left-hander Ricky Tiedemann from Buffalo and optioned right-hander Chase Lee to Triple-A.

Guerrero left Friday’s 3-1 victory over the Yankees following a collision with New York rookie shortstop George Lombard Jr. on a chaotic play at third base in the sixth inning.

Lombard was trying to leap over a sliding Guerrero at third base when his knee and thigh struck Guerrero’s head.

Guerrero’s helmet was dislodged. He got up and ran home to score the tying run, but looked dazed after crossing the plate. Charles McAdoo replaced Guerrero at first base in the seventh.

After Friday’s game, manager John Schneider said Guerrero had “a little bit of a headache.” Schneider said Guerrero still had a headache Saturday.

Guerrero is batting .263 with seven homers and 46 RBIs.

Tiedemann went 0-1 with a 6.43 ERA in seven games, two starts, at three minor league levels this season.

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NBA NEWS

HORNETS GETTING DENNIS SCHRODER IN TRADE WITH CAVALIERS, AP SOURCE SAYS

The Charlotte Hornets are acquiring veteran point guard Dennis Schroder and cash from the Cleveland Cavaliers for guard Tre Mann, according to a person close to the situation.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because neither team had announced the trade.

Schroder gives the Hornets a backup point guard behind Coby White. Charlotte traded LaMelo Ball to Minnesota earlier this offseason as part of a roster shake-up.

Schroder joins his 12th franchise after being traded for the ninth time. The 32-year-old from Germany has career averages of 13.7 points and 4.9 assists.

Mann appeared in 53 games for Charlotte last season, averaging 5.5 points.

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GOLF NEWS

STEVEN ALKER TAKES 1-STROKE LEAD AT BOEING CLASSIC

New Zealand’s Steven Alker fired a 4-under-par 68 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead at the Boeing Classic in Snoqualmie, Wash.

The 55-year-old made a move early, getting two birdies over his first three holes, then finished with four birdies over his final eight to wrap his second straight round at 68 or better (67 on Friday).

He’s at 9-under 135 for the tournament.

Alker, an 11-time Champions Tour winner, is looking for his second win this season and first since the Cologuard Classic in March. He acknowledged that a death in the family — his wife’s mother — had affected his family in recent weeks.

“(My wife) has been supporting me for 20 years and it’s time to support her,” Alker said. “Everybody’s got stuff going on off the golf course, there’s always — but when you’re dealing with death, it’s a little bit different just to be in the right place mentally. So, starting to get there.”MLB news

American Vaughn Taylor matched Alker’s 68 with his five birdies and solitary bogey. That was good enough to land him in second place at 8 under.

Steve Flesch and Denmark’s Soren Kjeldsen are tied for third at 7 under.

Flesch was 1 under for the day until he pocketed an eagle on the par-5 18th to get to 69.

Kjeldsen carded a 67 following an up-and-down day. He followed three straight birdies to open his round with a double-bogey, nearly wiping away his hot start.

He balanced another bogey with five more birdies to lower his score.

“I felt good coming out,” Kjeldsen said. “Then I birdied the first three and then I had a little hiccup after that, but straight back into playing well after. So it was — obviously it’s not a clean card, but hitting a lot of good shots, making some putts as well. I feel I’m in a good place.”

Rory Sabbatini of Slovakia had an impressive 65 on Friday, but he finished at 1-over 73 on Saturday. That left him in a tie for fifth with four players: Australia’s Richard Green (65), Notah Begay III (67), Argentina’s Angel Cabrera (69) and Jerry Kelly (71).

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ARPICHAYA YUBOL, SOPHIA SCHUBERT DEADLOCKED THROUGH 3 IN PORTLAND

While the first three rounds of the Standard Portland (Ore.) Classic have provided some twists and turns, they haven’t yet provided clarity.

Going into the final day, Thailand’s Arpichaya Yubol and American Sophia Schubert co-lead with a two-shot lead on the rest of the field.

Yubol, seeking her first ever LPGA tournament win, shot her worst round of the tournament Saturday with a 4-under-par 68 after back-to-back 66s.

Yet, the 24-year-old who had come into the day with the lead didn’t show signs of wilting, shaking off a solitary bogey on 15 to rescue par on each of her final three holes. Her start included three birdies over the first seven holes, and she added two more on Holes 10-11.

“I can say just kind of more excited for me,” Yubol said. “I didn’t focus any score that much, but I just do my best on my games, try to like control my driver, my putter, everything.”

Schubert, 30, is also in search of her first career win. She finished a shot better than Yubol at 67 with seven birdies and a pair of bogeys.

From Holes 5-12 at Columbia Edgewater Country Club she was perfect, with four birdies, helping her forge a tie with Yubol at 16 under for the tourney.

She hasn’t let the competition dim her enthusiasm for just enjoying the moment.

“I can’t wait to play with (Yubol) again,” Schubert said. “We had a great day today. She’s fun to play with. So, I don’t know what it’s going to take, but I think for me personally, it’s just going to take being patient and calm and try to put a smile on my face and have fun.”

World No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand is lurking in third place at 14 under after her third-round 67.

Thitikul carded eight birdies, though she also suffered three bogeys.

South Korea’s Narin An is in fourth at 13 under after shooting a 66.

Her fellow countrywoman Jiwon Jeon shot a matching 66 and it tied for fifth at 12 under with five other golfers. Those players include Japan’s Minami Katsu (67), South Korean’s Chella Choi (67), Thailand’s Chanettee Wannasaen (67), Belgium’s Manon De Roey (68) and Japan’s Erika Hara (69).

Surprise first-round leader Mariel Galdiano lost more ground on Saturday, falling into a tie for 16th with five other golfers. She’s still 10 under for the tournament after her 2-under 70.

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SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER HOLDS 2-SHOT LEAD WITH ROUND TO PLAY AT FEDEX ST. JUDE

Scottie Scheffler shot 2-under-par 68 to maintain the lead Saturday in the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tenn., as he aims for his first victory since January.

Scheffler moved to 13-under 197 for a two-stroke lead on Sam Burns and South Korea’s Sunjae Im at TPC Southwind, where the opening event of the FedEx Cup playoffs is taking place.

Burns rose into contention with a bogey-free 62 that included three consecutive birdies at one point.

Im, who was Scheffler’s playing partner Saturday, posted 67. For the second round in the tournament, Im had a better score than Scheffler.

This is the first of three tournaments in the PGA Tour’s postseason. The top 50 players in terms of season-long points advanced to next week’s BMW Championship. Scheffler entered this week atop the points standings.

Scheffler hasn’t won since his first tournament (The American Express) of the season yet remains the World No. 1 as he has produced 11 top-10 finishes. His first bogey of the third round came on the fourth hole, and he didn’t post his first birdie of the day until No. 8.

He had another bogey at No. 17 after his approach shot went into a bunker, so he has dealt with a pair of bogeys in both the second and third rounds.

Jake Knapp (67) and England’s Tommy Fleetwood (68) are tied for fourth place at 8 under.

Brian Harman (69), South Korea’s Si Woo Kim (65), Sweden’s Alex Noren (66) and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama (67) are all at 7 under.

Norway’s Viktor Hovland briefly caught up to Scheffler before a horrendous stretch that resulted in a 72. He tumbled to a tie for 10th place at 6 under.

Hovland played the ninth through 15th holes in 5 over — and that came with a birdie on No. 11. Two wayward shots on the par-4 12th resulted in a pair of penalty strokes and he carded 6 on the hole.

Jordan Speith, who was a first-round co-leader, also shot 72 on Saturday. He’s at 4 under and tied for 19th.

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COLTS FOOTBALL

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WESTFIELD, Ind. – For DeForest Buckner, no news is good news. And yet, no news actually qualifies as news here, if that makes sense.

The “no news” part here is that the Colts’ plan for Buckner – to get him ready for Week 1 of the 2026 season – remains unchanged. He’s still taking limited reps in practice as he works his way back from season-ending neck surgery he underwent on New Year’s Eve 2025.

The only thing that’s changed, Buckner said, is how he’s felt after working his way into full-team periods of practice.

“I feel like every day, the soreness post-practice has (been) less and less,” Buckner said. “So it’s been very encouraging.”

Buckner, of course, is a linchpin of the Colts’ defense. He’s a player every offense has to account for both in their passing and run game plans; his meticulous, dedicated work ethic and been-there, done-that experience has made him a pillar within the Colts’ locker room, too.

So any time Buckner provides an update on how he’s doing, it’s newsworthy – even if there’s not really any news that comes from it.

“I feel really good with the reps I’m consistently getting,” Buckner said.

News & Notes from Saturday:

The Colts returned to Grand Park for an indoor, non-padded practice on Saturday.

Linebacker CJ Allen (hamstring), running back D.J. Giddens (hamstring) and cornerback Charvarius Ward Sr. (back) did not practice.

Special teams coordinator Brian Mason, who sustained a knee injury when he was rolled up on at the end of Thursday’s preseason game, was in attendance and coaching on his feet Saturday. “He’s a dog,” marveled Buckner.

The Colts spent all of seven-on-seven and 11-on-11 work in the red zone.

In 11-on-11, cornerback Justin Walley had three pass break-ups.

Quarterback Daniel Jones looked off a defender and zipped a touchdown up the sideline to tight end Tyler Warren early in 11-on-11.

Linebacker Bryce Boettcher registered a PBU in seven-on-seven.

Jones tossed touchdowns to wide receivers Laquon Treadwell and Josh Downs in both seven-on-seven and 11-on-11; Jones’ 11-on-11 touchdown to Treadwell showcased plus accuracy in a tight window on a lengthy rollout to his right.

Jones also found wide receiver Ashton Dulin in the back of the end zone for a score later in 11-on-11.

Quarterback Anthony Richardson Sr. tossed a shovel pass to running back Ulysses Bentley IV, who dashed away from a defender for a touchdown in 11-on-11.

Wide receiver Raylen Sharpe had a spectacular catch with a defender in front of him for a touchdown late in 11-on-11.

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INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Joshua Palacios orchestrated the Indianapolis Indians’ second extra-inning victory of the series over the Nashville Sounds in 10 innings, 4-3, on Saturday night at First Horizon Park. The first-place Indians now sit 1.5 games atop the second-half International League standings.

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INDY ELEVEN

Jacksonville, Fla. – Indy Eleven scored off a free kick in the 92nd minute to earn a 1-0 road victory at USL Championship Eastern Conference opponent Sporting JAX on Saturday night.

Loïc Mesanvi created the set piece opportunity by earning a free kick left of the 18.  Cam Lindley delivered an exquisite ball past the far post that Paco Craig headed down off the shoulder of defender Antonio Gomez into the upper 90 for the game’s only goal and three points for the Boys in Blue.  Lindley matched his jersey number with a game-high six chances created to increase his season total to 31 in 18 matches.

It was another record-setting night for Indy Eleven goalkeeper Eric Dick, who recorded his third clean sheet of the season and the 35th of his USL Championship career to become the 14th player in league history to reach that plateau.  The Carmel native and Butler product made two stops in the match to reach 300 saves in his USL-C career, making him the 19th player to achieve that.

Dick earned his third “Save of the Week” nomination on Tuesday and he has a chance to get another one after stopping a breakaway from Jean Mota in the 32nd minute.  Mota received a long pass behind the defense and fired a left-footed blast from outside the area.  Dick came off his line to lessen the angle and made a two-handed deflection that pushed the ball wide of the post.

The Boys in Blue had their best first-half scoring chance in the 39th minute when Alejandro Mitrano earned a free kick.  Lindley delivered another impressive cross from the left edge of the pitch into the six where Anthony Herbert headed it under the crossbar, but Sporting JAX keeper Jake McGuire punched it over the top.

The win moves Indy Eleven up two places into sixth in the 13-team Eastern Conference.  The top eight teams in the East at the end of the regular season on October 24 advance to the USL Championship playoffs.

The Boys in Blue host “Noche Latina” next Saturday, August 22 at 7 p.m. vs. Louisville City FC presented by Financial Center First Credit Union, The International Center, and Morales Group Staffing.  Indy Eleven will wear special Noche Latina warm-up jerseys and discounted tickets starting at $14 and a Noche Latina scarf are available online.

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INDY ELEVEN

By Madie Chandler-Donahue | FeverBasketball.com

Indiana Fever at Atlanta Dream

Sunday, August 16, 2026

State Farm Arena | 5:00 p.m. ET

BROADCAST INFO

TV: ESPN/Disney+ – TBA

Radio: 93.5/107.5 The Fan – John Nolan (play-by-play), Bria Goss (analyst)

PROBABLE STARTERS

Indiana Fever (22-12)

Guard – Caitlin Clark

Guard – Kelsey Mitchell

Forward – Lexie Hull

Forward – Makayla Timpson

Center – Aliyah Boston

Atlanta Dream (21-12)

Guard – Allisha Gray

Guard – Jordin Canada

Forward – Rhyne Howard

Forward – Naz Hillmon

Center – Angel Reese

GAME PREVIEW

The Fever are back in action on Sunday to take on the Dream in Atlanta after defeating the Dallas Wings on Friday. Indiana has won three straight, and eight of its last 10 games heading into Atlanta.

Last time out the Dream handled the Connecticut Sun, 104-69. Both Allisha Gray and Rhyne Howard notched 29 points in the outing, and were Atlanta’s only two players to score in double figures. Gray and Howard have led the Dream in scoring all season as they average a combined 37 points per game.

Atlanta is 8-2 in its last 10 contests, but played just three teams in the top-8 of the WNBA’s standings over that span. The Dream beat the Wings, lost to the Aces, and lost to the Washington Mystics. The Dream are currently fifth in the league’s overall standings as they pursue postseason positioning down the stretch of the regular season.

Indiana sits in fourth place following its matchup with Dallas on Friday. The Dream lead the season series with the Fever, 2-1, heading into the final regular season meeting between the two teams on Sunday. A tied head-to-head record could impact playoff positioning for both teams as the regular season winds down, making Sunday’s matchup in Atlanta a critical game for the Fever.

Indiana has all the momentum it needs – Kelsey Mitchell has scored 20 or more points in 18 straight games, Caitlin Clark is putting up historic offensive performances, Ty Harris knocked down a career-high five 3-pointers on Friday, and Aliyah Boston recorded her 10th double double of the season.

The Fever own the WNBA’s best offense, and take it to Atlanta in pursuit of a fourth consecutive win on Sunday.

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TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY

1870 – Young pitcher Fred Goldsmith demonstrates at a public exhibition at the Capitoline Grounds in Brooklyn, NY that the curve ball is a real pitch and not simply an optical illusion, as he manages to make a ball bend around three parallel stakes placed in the ground. Henry Chadwick is among those in attendance and reports on the event in the next day’s paper. Goldsmith’s claim to have invented the pitch will be disputed by Candy Cummings, however.

1902 – The Athletics move into first place to stay as 18,675 see them beat Chicago, 2 – 1.

1903 – Toledo native George Mullin, pitching for the Tigers, helps the attendance today (6,000) as the Tigers take on New York in a Sunday game in Toledo. Mullin is racked for eight runs, but Detroit scores 12, led by the hitting of Sam Crawford, who is 5 for 6.

1904 – The Pirates disappoint 23,000 fans at the Polo Grounds by sweeping two from the Giants, 7 – 2 and 4 – 1. The Bucs jump on Christy Mathewson for five runs in two innings of the opener. It’s the first doubleheader loss for New York this year.

1907 – The Washington Post reports that Browns SS Bobby Wallace is the highest-paid player in either league at a salary of $6,500.

1908 – The Cardinals deal a blow to the Giants’ pennant hopes by defeating them twice in St. Louis. With Christy Mathewson refusing to pitch on Sundays, Red Ames and Joe McGinnity take the losses.

1909:

New York and Pittsburgh play to a 2 – 2 tie, stopped after eight innings because of a drenching downpour. Off Christy Mathewson, Ham Hyatt hits his third pinch triple of the year, a record that won’t be matched till 1970. Outfielder Red Murray prevents a loss for Matty with one of the greatest catches ever seen at Forbes Field. With two outs and two on, Dots Miller belts a long line drive off Matty into the growing darkness. With everyone straining to follow the ball, a bolt of lightning flashes and Murray is seen making a bare-handed grab on the dead run to end the inning. Bill Klem then calls the game.

The A’s jump on Walter Johnson, scoring six runs in five innings, before relief comes in. Before exiting, Johnson hits his first major league homer, off Harry Krause, who will lead the AL in ERA with a sparkling 1.39.

1910 – The Tigers top the Senators, 8 – 3, with Ty Cobb stealing home for the second time in his career. It comes in the 4th inning with Bob Groom on the mound.

1911:

At Brooklyn, Pittsburgh right-hander Elmer Steele needs just 72 pitches to shut out the Dodgers 9-0. Steele takes a perfect game into the 9th inning before catcher Tex Erwin’s one out single gives Brooklyn its only baserunner. Pirate shortstop Honus Wagner suffers a serious ankle injury rounding first in the 1st inning. He will miss 13 games, play one at first base, then miss another 12. With Wagner out, the Pirates will lose eight of 13 and drop out of the race.

In the 4th inning, Wildfire Schulte busts his record fourth grand slam of the season to help the Cubs maul the Boston Rustlers, 13 – 6. Pitching, it’s Brown over Brown as Mordecai tops Buster.

Philadelphia OF Sherry Magee is reinstated, following his suspension for attacking umpire Bill Finneran several weeks earlier.

At the Polo Grounds, it takes Christy Mathewson just 92 pitches to top the Reds, 6 – 1. Big Six allows just two Cincy hits in beating George Suggs. It is Matty’s 22nd straight win over the Ohioans.

1912:

Behind Earl Hamilton’s seven-hitter, the lowly Browns beat the front-running Red Sox, 3 – 2. Hamilton gives up six hits to beat O’Brien.

In Chicago, the Giants score twice in the opening frame off Jimmy Lavender to knock out the would-be Giant-killer and go on to win, 7 – 4. Fred Merkle and Larry Doyle pull off a double steal in the inning, with Doyle on the front end. Jeff Tesreau puzzles the locals and the Cubs drop six games behind the Giants.

Walter Johnson and Joe Wood are in pursuit of Rube Marquard’s 19-game win streak. Johnson picks on the White Sox for his 14th straight, a two-hitter, tying Jack Chesbro’s 1904 mark. The Washingtonians win, 2 – 0, beating “our meatball expert” (Chicago Record-Herald) Joe Benz with eight hits. A week later Joe Wood will win number 13 in a row.

1913 – For the second time in two weeks, a Brooklyn player hits two inside-the-park homers. This time it is Bob Fisher in a nitecap 14 – 5 win at St. Louis. Brooklyn also beats the Cards in the opener, 1 – 0.

1914 – In what was his second career start in the big leagues, George LeClair registers a Game Score of -56 in a 21 – 6 loss by the Pittsburgh Rebels against the Indianapolis Hoosiers. LeClair gives up 24 hits (18 singles, 4 doubles, and 2 triples), 21 runs, 20 earned runs, eight walks and no strikeouts in an eight-inning complete game. The 20 earned runs are the most given up in a game by a pitcher in the American League, National League or Federal League since 1901. LeClair is forced to pitch all game because Pittsburgh has only four healthy pitchers at the time.

1915:

In the second game of a doubleheader, Tiger rookie Bernie Boland no-hits Cleveland through 26 batters before Ben Paschal singles, his first and only hit of the year. Boland wins, 3 – 1.

In New York, A’s left-hander Rube Bressler pitches a one-hitter, blanking the Yankees, 3 – 0. At age 20, Bressler becomes, and remains, the youngest pitcher to shut out the Yankees on one hit or none.

In the Federal League, Alex Main of Kansas City pitches a 5 – 0 no-hitter versus Buffalo.

At Boston, Smoky Joe Wood fires a 1 – 0 shutout over Washington. The Nationals have lost all 11 games at Fenway Park this year.

1919 – The Browns set an American League record with 53 total chances against the A’s, but lose, 7 – 4. The Browns have 26 assists and St. Louis 1B George Sisler has 17 putouts. With no putouts, the St. Louis outfielders have the day off.

1920 – Cleveland SS Ray Chapman, 29, is beaned by a Carl Mays pitch. A righthanded batter who crowds the plate, Chapman freezes and fails to get out of the way of the submarine delivery. He is carried from the field and dies the next day from a fractured skull. Mays, a surly, unpopular pitcher, is the target of fans’ and players’ outrage. Chapman, a Cleveland favorite since breaking in in 1912, had been married the previous year. In October his wife will receive a full World Series share, $3,986.34. The incident has no effect on Mays’ pitching. One week later he will blank Detroit, 10 – 0, and go on to win 26 and lose 11. Joe Sewell will be called up to take Chapman’s place, and for 14 years he will be the hardest man to strike out in the Major Leagues.

1921 – The Braves’ Walton Cruise connects off the Cubs’ Pete Alexander for the second home run hit out of mammoth Braves Field. The first home run, also to right field, was hit by Cruise in 1917. There will be 38 home runs in Braves Field this year: 34 inside the park, three bounce home runs, and Cruise’s missile. Braves pitcher Dana Fillingim is the beneficiary of the offense as he beats Alexander, 8 – 6.

1922:

In Pittsburgh, trailing, 7 – 6, the Pirates load the bases with two outs before Walter Schmidt drives a ball to deep left center. Giants LF Casey Stengel makes a dramatic catch on the dead run to preserve the New York win.

The Browns beat Walter Johnson and the Senators again, 11 – 2. Brownie star George Sisler is 1 for 5 with a run scored.

1927 – Teeing off on a Tommy Thomas pitch, Babe Ruth becomes the first player to homer over the roof of Chicago’s Comiskey Park.

1930:

Lefty Grove (20-4) wins his sixth in a row, beating the Browns in Philadelphia, 4 – 2. Grove drives in the first two runs in the 2nd off Dick Coffman, who gives up nine hits in the loss. The Browns net ten hits off Grove.

At Wrigley Field, the league-leading Cubs nip the Phillies, 10 – 9, in the first game of a doubleheader, then play to a 3 – 3 tie in 11 innings before darkness intervenes. In the first game, the Phils score eight runs in the 7th to take a 9 – 8 lead, but Gabby Hartnett’s drive wins the game for Chicago. Hack Wilson hits his 41st homer in the opener. The Phils manage just two hits in the nitecap, but take a 3 – 0 lead into the 9th. Chicago comes back when Riggs Stephenson scores on a balk, then Woody English cracks a two-run homer to tie the score. Meanwhile, second-place Brooklyn splits with the Pirates, 7 – 5 and 2 – 6.

1939 – The Giants suspend 2B Burgess Whitehead, who will show up the next day in full uniform at Yankee Stadium and ask to work out. Yankee manager Joe McCarthy refuses. Whitehead rejoins the Giants a few days later, but he will be suspended again in mid-September after leaving the team.

1940 – Jimmie Foxx smashes two homers to help the Red Sox beat the Senators. The two round trippers move him ahead of Lou Gehrig on the all-time list with a total of 495.

1942 – In the first 1942 East-West Game, the East wins yet again, 5 – 2. Leon Day retires all seven batters he faces, five of them by strikeout for the East, while Satchel Paige bombs for the West.

1947 – Ralph Kiner hits three successive home runs for the host Pittsburgh Pirates, in a 12 – 7 win over the Cardinals in a game in which the two clubs bang out a major-league record ten homers (since topped). Two other Bucs, Hank Greenberg and Billy Cox, and one Cardinal, Whitey Kurowski, each contribute two home runs to set a major-league record for most players with two or more homers in a game. Kiner matches the major league mark of seven home runs in four games, six in three games, five in two games, and four in consecutive at bats. By the end of the month, Big Ralph will still trail Johnny Mize 39 to 43 in a head-to-head home run competition that will only be matched by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961. Starters Roger Wolff and the Cards’ Ken Burkhart both exit in the 1st inning.

1948 – Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer at age 53 in New York. He will lie in state at Yankee Stadium and be viewed by more than 100,000 mourners.

1950:

At the Polo Grounds, Hank Thompson hits two inside-the-park home runs as the Giants drub the Dodgers, 16 – 7.

Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers denies news reports that Jackie Robinson, last year’s MVP, will be traded. The latest tempest was started by the second baseman’s comments after he was removed from the lineup on August 12th by Burt Shotton after making an error. “I wouldn’t be surprised if I was traded,” Jackie was quoted as saying.

The Phils polish off the second-place Braves, 5 – 1, on Robin Roberts’ three-hitter. The Phils score four in the 4th off Vern Bickford, concluding the scoring with Del Ennis’ 26th homer.

1951:

The Cards score six runs in the 7th inning to defeat the Pirates, 9 – 6. Murry Dickson, trying for his 17th win, takes the loss. Stan Musial hits a three-run homer in the 6th to start the scoring for St. Louis. His inside-the-park homer is his first hit in 13 at bats, and his second one in four days.

The Browns end the Indians’ win streak at 13 when Tommy Byrne pitches and bats St. Louis to a 4 – 0 win. Byrne allows two hits in seven innings and drives in all the runs before retiring with back spasms. Mike Garcia loses to drop the Indians’ lead to 1 1/2 games over the Yankees.

Sal Maglie outpitches Don Newcombe, 2 – 1, to cut the Dodger lead over the Giants to 9 1/2 games. Maglie allows four hits, including Billy Cox’s 300-foot homer, in winning his 17th. The Giants score the winner in the 7th when Bobby Thomson scores on a wild pitch. Pee Wee Reese goes hitless, ending his 22-game hitting streak.

At Elmira, NY, minor leaguer Don Zimmer marries Jean Carol Bauerle at home plate. Teammate Ed Roebuck is supposed to make it a double wedding, but opts for a church instead.

1954 – In a throwing contest between Jimmy Piersall and Willie Mays before a Red Sox-Giants charity game in Boston, Piersall hurts his arm. He starts the game but leaves midway. He wakes up the following morning with a sore arm that stays with him a year, and he will never throw quite as well again.

1958 – Pirate Frank Thomas clouts three consecutive home runs in a 13 – 4 pasting of the Redlegs. Pittsburgh is now seven games behind Milwaukee.

1960 – Following three straight bunt singles by Pittsburgh to start off the 9th, a visibly rattled Robin Roberts administers an utterly unintentional four-pitch free pass to Roberto Clemente, who, despite his free-swinging and prideful reputation, is evidently not entirely inflexible in his determination to accept no handouts. Thus is broken the 3 – 3 tie produced by Clemente’s 6th-inning RBI single. Making his 50th appearance of the year, reliever Elroy Face makes the one-run lead stand up, retiring Philly in order in the 9th.

1961:

Cincinnati takes the National League lead for good with a shutout sweep, 6 – 0 and 8 – 0, at Los Angeles before 72,140, a record crowd for a NL doubleheader. Bob Purkey gives up four hits and Jim O’Toole just two in handing the Dodgers their first twinbill whitewash since July 18, 1935.

Roger Maris ties an American League record with his seventh home run in his sixth consecutive game with a long ball, as New York beats Chicago, 5 – 4, in the 9th inning. His two blasts off Billy Pierce give him 48, three more than teammate Mickey Mantle.

Just five outs shy of career shutout No. 53, Milwaukee starter Warren Spahn is denied when Dick Stuart delivers an RBI single, thus bringing home the bullet Spahn has just dodged. That bullet came off the bat of Roberto Clemente, a loud double just a few feet shy of clearing Milwaukee County Stadium’s left centerfield fence. Disappointed but undaunted, Spahn will settle for career win No. 301 – a complete-game 2 – 1 decision over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1962 – For the second night in a row, Frank Robinson clouts two homers to power the Reds to a 7 – 1 win over the Braves. Robby now has nine homers in eight games, and 11 in the last 12. Lee Maye’s home run off Jim Maloney is the only Braves score.

1964 – Sandy Koufax pitches a 3 – 0 shutout win against St. Louis, but he will miss the rest of the season because of an elbow injury suffered when he slid into second base against Milwaukee back on August 8th. In the nightcap, Curt Simmons matches Koufax with a 4 – 0 shutout of the Dodgers. Card CF Curt Flood has eight straight hits in the doubleheader split.

1965 – At Fenway Park, Earl Wilson is all the Boston offense as he bangs a pair of two-run home runs. But the righty still takes the loss to the White Sox, 5 – 4.

1966:

Willie Mays hits his 534th home run, matching Jimmie Foxx’s record for right-handed batters, as Gaylord Perry beats the Cardinals, 3 – 1.

In Chicago, Bert Campaneris collects 4 hits, steals 2 bases, and scores 4 runs in a 4-2 Kansas City win over the White Sox. It is his second such game this season, becoming the first player with two such games in a career (he is still the only player with two such games in the same season). Campy also becomes the first player with 4 or more runs to score all of his team’s runs, a feat since matched by Dick McAuliffe, Eric Davis and Matt Kemp.

1967 – Reds P Jim Maloney retires all 19 batters he faces, but has to leave the game with one out in the 7th when he steps in a hole and injures his ankle. Reliever Billy McCool allows two hits and the Reds win, 2 – 0, in Pittsburgh.

1968:

Philadelphia’s Richie Allen ties a National League record by drawing five bases on balls in one game, but the Dodgers win, 7 – 5.

Detroit’s Denny McLain is 16-0 on the road after blanking the Red Sox, 4 – 0, in Boston. Tigers catcher Bill Freehan is hit by a pitch in three consecutive plate appearances, painfully tying a major league record. He will be hit a record-tying 24 times this season.

1969:

The Phillies rack up their fourth straight shutout victory when Rick Wise pitches a four-hitter to defeat the Astros, 7 – 0. The Phils set a modern club record with the streak. Dick Allen hits a homer and Wise joins in with a homer and a single.

In an 8 – 1 win in Atlanta, St. Louis P Bob Gibson reaches 200 strikeouts (en route to 269) for the seventh season, a National League record.

Seattle’s Sicks Stadium shakes when 250-pound Boog Powell legs out an inside-the-park homer in the 9th against ex-teammate Steve Barber. It really isn’t that vital, as Baltimore romps, 15 – 3.

1970:

In a 5 – 3 Montreal win over the Astros, Bob Bailey hits one of the longest home runs in Astrodome history.

Down 3 – 0 in the 8th, the Brewers score four runs, three of them on a Danny Walton bases-loaded double, to beat the Indians, 4 – 3. Gus Gil’s single drives in the last run. The biggest crowd of the season, 44,387, is on hand for bat day, allowing Bernie Brewer to leave his perch in right field after 40 days. Bernie had vowed to stay there until the crowd topped 40,000, and when the attendance is announced, Bernie slides down his slide.

1971 – Harmon Killebrew, who has a higher percentage of his hits (28.6%) go for home runs than any other player, collects his annual triple in a 11 – 2 win over the Indians. It marks his eighth season when he will hit exactly one three-bagger.

1975 – In a 9 – 1 win over Cleveland, the Twins set a major league mark with nine batters getting two or more hits. Jim Hughes is the recipient of the largesse.

1976:

With the help of three picked-off Oakland runners at first base, the first such occurrence in the American League since 1910, the Brewers beat Oakland, 4 – 3. Another oddity happens when Oakland’s Billy Williams is called out on strikes after refusing to enter the batter’s box. He is then thrown out of the game.

Lou Brock collects five hits in a losing cause as the Cardinals fall to the Padres, 11 – 7.

1977:

At Yankee Stadium, New York blows a 9 – 4 lead in the top of the 9th when Chicago scores six runs, but a two-run homer by Chris Chambliss in the bottom of the inning gives the Yankees an 11 – 10 win.

At Montreal, the Phillies win their 13th straight, a 20th century club record, beating the Expos, 7 – 5. Warren Brusstar is the winner over Joe Kerrigan.

1978 – Boston’s Luis Tiant wins his 200th major league game, beating Nolan Ryan and the Angels, 4 – 2. Jim Rice’s two-run home run is the difference.

1982 – Richie Hebner returns to the Pirates, who buy the veteran from the Tigers.

1986 – Dale Holman, of the International League’s Richmond Braves becomes the first professional player ever to play for two teams in one game. The game was suspended because of rain on June 16th when he was in the lineup for Syracuse. By the time the game is completed today, Holman had been traded to Richmond and is in the lineup for the other side.

1987:

The wind is blowing out at Wrigley Field as the Mets pound the Cubs, 23 – 10, setting a club record for runs scored in a game.

Tim Raines goes 5 for 5 and hits for the cycle to lead the Expos to a 10 – 7 win over Pittsburgh.

1988 – The Dodgers trade Pedro Guerrero to the Cardinals for pitcher John Tudor, whose 2.29 ERA is leading the National League.

1989:

Yankees OF Luis Polonia is arrested in his hotel room for having sex with a 15-year-old girl. He will be sentenced to 60 days in jail after the season.

Lefty Tom Drees, 26, pitches his third no-hitter of the season for AAA Vancouver, beating Las Vegas, 5 – 0, in the seven-inning opener of a doubleheader. He fired consecutive 1 – 0 no-hitters, beating Calgary in nine innings (May 23rd) and Edmonton in seven (May 28th). Drees, now 12-11, will pitch 7+ innings for the White Sox in 1991 for his only major league action.

1990 – In a 7 – 5 loss to the Indians, the Twins’ Kirby Puckett starts off in RF and then moves to SS, 3B, and 2B in the 8th inning. Al Newman switches from 3B to SS back to 3B in the frame. Cleveland fails to score.

1991 – The Red Sox obtain P Dan Petry from the Braves in exchange for a player to be named later.

1992 – Greg Maddux allows four hits as the Cubs beat Houston, 1 – 0. Maddux goes the route, winning his 15th, beating Brian Williams.

1996:

Trailing, 2 – 0, the Orioles score 14 runs over the final three innings to defeat the Athletics, 14 – 3, in the first game of a doubleheader. Rafael Palmeiro drives home six runs for Baltimore, and each member of the starting lineup, with the exception of leadoff man Roberto Alomar, gets at least two hits. The Orioles stroke 19 hits for the second day in a row off Oakland pitching. Baltimore also takes the nightcap, 5 – 4 in ten innings.

San Diego OF Steve Finley homers in the Padres game against the Mets in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. By doing so, he becomes the first major league player to have homered in three different countries, having previously hit four-baggers in the USA and Canada. The Padres win the first regular-season game to be played outside of the US or Canada, 15 – 10, belting four homers. Leadoff batter Tony Gwynn is 3 for 5 and will repeat it tomorrow in the 7 – 3 loss to the Mets.

Playing for his seventh team in six years, Mark Whiten hits a pinch hit homer in his first at bat for Seattle to help beat the Yanks. In his last at-bat for the Braves before being traded for farmhand Roger Blanco, Whiten belted a three-run pinch homer to beat the Phils, 5 – 2. Whiten is the 45th player used by Seattle this season.

1998:

The Padres defeat the Brewers, 4 – 0, in the first game of a doubleheader behind Kevin Brown’s one-hitter. Brown fans 11 and allows only a single to OF Jeromy Burnitz. The Brewers bounce back to take the nightcap, 4 – 2.

Baltimore OF Eric Davis has his 30-game hitting streak snapped in a 5 – 3 loss to the Indians.

1999:

The Indians obtain 2B Carlos Baerga from the Padres in exchange for a player to be named later.

The Reds’ Juan Guzman has to leave his start in Pittsburgh after seven innings because his shoes are too small. After he was traded to the Reds, he arrived with only his size 10 1/2 orange and black Orioles shoes. Puma sent him a size 9 1/2 in red which he wears today until blisters develop. The Reds still win, 9 – 2.

Alex Rodriguez homers for the fifth straight game to pace the Mariners to a 7 – 5 win over Toronto. He’ll go homerless tomorrow.

2000:

The Rangers shut out the Yankees, 5 – 0, as P Brian Sikorski hurls scoreless ball into the 8th inning in his major league debut. Texas OF Gabe Kapler goes hitless in the game, ending his 28-game hitting streak. During the streak, Kapler batted .375 (42 for 112) and his average jumped from .241 to .289. The outfielder’s streak is the tenth of at least 28 games in the American League since 1950.

The Astros defeat the Pirates, 11 – 10, hitting six home runs in a game for the second time in four days. Houston has now hit a National League-record 18 homers in its last four contests.

2001:

After piloting the team to 13 games above .500 in spite of numerous injuries to key players, manager Jimy Williams is fired by the Red Sox. The ousted skipper is replaced by the club’s well-respected pitching coach, Joe Kerrigan, but will fade completely down the stretch.

Barry Bonds’ second home run of the game and 53rd of the season breaks the franchise record established by his godfather, Willie Mays. With his first homer, the left fielder eclipses the National League record for home runs by a left-handed batter established in 1947 by another Giant, Johnny Mize.

The Padres defeat the Mets, 6 – 5. San Diego rookie P Jeremy Fikac gets the win in his major league debut as he strikes out the side in his only inning. In 2004, he will also get a win his final major league appearance in an otherwise unremarkable career.

2002:

The Twins down the Red Sox, 5 – 0, in the process ending Pedro Martinez’s scoreless inning streak at 35. It is the longest such streak in the majors since 2000.

After four days of delaying the decision, the executive board of the Major League Baseball Players Association votes 57-0 to set an August 30th strike date. All eight previous negotiations since 1972 have resulted in work stoppages in the national pastime.

During opening ceremonies of the Little League World Series at Volunteer Stadium, the 1955 Little League Team from Charleston, SC, is honored. The fourteen boys from the Cannon Street YMCA team, who were banned from their own state’s post-season tournament 47 years ago due their skin color, were invited to Williamsport at the time as guests after the other 61 South Carolina all-white leagues were told by Little League officials the winner of their state finals would not be permitted to participate in the tournament because they refused to play a duly-franchised league.

2006 – Bruce Froemming umpires in his 5,000th game, becoming the second major league umpire to ever reach that figure. Bill Klem was the first.

2007:

The World Youth Championship is canceled by the International Baseball Federation after Venezuela refuses to issue visas to Taiwan’s entry. Australia and the Netherlands had backed out due to security concerns. The Championship is held anyway, but without IBAF sponsorship.

The Puerto Rican Winter League’s 2007-2008 season is canceled due to financial concerns. It is the first time since the league’s founding in 1939 that it will not hold a season.

Trevor Hoffman saves his 30th game of the season for the Padres. It gives him a record 12 consecutive 30-save campaigns.

2008:

In the Olympics, Cuba improves to 4-0 with a 1 – 0 win over Taiwan. Elier Sánchez and Norberto González combine on the whitewash while Frederich Cepeda homers off of Cheng-Chang Lee.

South Korea edges Japan, 5 – 3, in a duel of melting bullpens. Hitoki Iwase allows three runs in the 9th while South Korean closer Ki-joo Han allows a triple and double to two of the three batters he faces. Dae-ho Lee and Takahiro Arai both hit two-run homers in the Asian showdown.

Team USA rallies to beat Team Canada, 5 – 4, and avoid falling to 1-3. Brian Duensing provides fine relief after replacing Brett Anderson while Canadian veterans Chris Reitsma and Rhéal Cormier allow the tying and losing runs.

The Netherlands beats host China, 6 – 4, thanks to home runs from Sharnol Adriana, Sidney de Jong and Bryan Engelhardt. This ensures that for the fifth straight Olympics (all of those in which baseball has been a Medal event) no team will go 0-7.

For the first time in Arizona Diamondbacks history, the team gets two grand slams in a game. Both Miguel Montero and Chris Young hit the first grand slam of their careers in the 11 – 5 win over the Astros.

2009:

The Angels score nine runs in the 13th inning against Baltimore, in a 17 – 8 victory marking Torii Hunter’s return after more than a month spent on the disabled list. Hunter lines into a bases-loaded double play in the 11th, but redeems himself in the 13th with a dribbler up the middle in the same situation which opens the floodgates. Juan Rivera hits a three-run home to cap the onslaught.

Derek Jeter hits an RBI double off Seattle’s Doug Fister in the 3rd for his 2,674th hit as a shortstop, surpassing Luis Aparicio’s all-time leading total for the position. The Yankees lose the game, however, 10 – 3, as Fister records his first win in the majors.

One day after being hit in the head by a pitch, the Rangers’ Ian Kinsler homers and drives in two runs in Texas’s 4 – 3 win over Boston. Dustin Nippert is the winner and Frank Francisco records the save in a game that pushes Texas a half-game ahead of Boston in the American League wild card race.

2010:

On the final deadline for signing players selected in this year’s amateur draft, the Nationals agree to a last-minute major league contract worth $9.9 million with first overall pick Bryce Harper. A number of other top draftees sign as well, leaving only three of the top 32 picks unsigned.

The Saraperos de Saltillo win the 2010 Mexican League pennant, topping the Pericos de Puebla, four games to one, in the finals. Today’s Game 5 is a 21 – 2 rout. Refugio Cervantes drives in five, scores four and homers twice while 42-year-old Noé Muñoz (15 years since his last major league appearance) goes 3 for 4 with two doubles and four runs. Jose Mercedes goes the distance, throwing 90 of 120 pitches for strikes, for the win, while Guadalupe Perez takes the loss.

Shaun Marcum only allows a 7th-inning homer to Conor Jackson in beating the Oakland Athletics, 3 – 1, pitching a one-hitter for the first complete game of his career. He joins Blue Jays teammate Brandon Morrow who pitched a one-hitter on August 8th. All the Jays’ runs come on homers: a solo shot by José Bautista that is originally ruled an inside-the-park homer before the umpires state that it had in fact hit the foul pole, and a two-run shot by Edwin Encarnacion.

Jonathan Albaladejo earns his 39th save of the season for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees in a 7 – 4 win over Toledo, breaking the International League single-season mark held by Matt Whiteside since 2004.

Bobby Thomson, who hit what is arguably the most famous home run in baseball history – the Shot Heard ‘Round the World – dies at home in Savannah, GA. The memorable walk-off homer off Brooklyn’s Ralph Branca on October 3, 1951, sent the New York Giants to the 1951 World Series. Thomson was a star outfielder mostly with the Giants and Milwaukee Braves during the 1950s.

2012:

Major League Baseball approves the sale of the San Diego Padres from John Moores to a group headed by local businessman Ron Fowler, which also includes former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley and pro golfer Phil Mickelson. The sale is for $800 million. In the game that follows, the Padres are shut out by Kris Medlen of the Braves, 6 – 0, as Chipper Jones hits a pair of homers.

Garrett Jones homers twice, both three-run shots, to lead Pittsburgh to a 10 – 6 win over the Dodgers. A.J. Burnett wins his 15th game, over Joe Blanton, who is ejected in the 5th inning. Also being shown the door for Los Angeles are Matt Kemp tossed in the 2nd inning by Angel Campos for uttering words while teammate Andre Ethier is at bat, and manager Don Mattingly, who gets the thumb from crew chief Tim Tschida for coming to his star centerfielder’s defense. For his part, Blanton is already on his way out of the game after giving up eight runs in 4 1/3 inning when Campos throws him out too.

2013 – The Phillies fire manager Charlie Manuel and replace him with Hall of Fame 2B Ryne Sandberg. The Phillies have lost 19 of their last 24 games, and lose again in Sandberg’s debut, being blanked, 4 – 0, by Zack Greinke and the Dodgers.

2015 – Madison Bumgarner does it all as he throws a three-hit shutout to defeat the Nationals, 5 – 0. The Giants ace has 14 strikeouts, matching a career best, and also doubles and homers, his fourth long ball of the season, to improve to 14-6. For the Nats, it is a sixth straight loss, and they fall below .500 for the first time since May 6th, when they were 14-15.

2016:

Playing his first game in Philadelphia after being traded by the Phillies almost a year ago, Chase Utley has one of the best games of his career, homering twice including a grand slam in leading the Dodgers to a 15 – 5 win.

The Blue Jays score eight runs in the 8th to mount a come-from-behind 12 – 6 win over the Yankees and take over first place from Baltimore in a tightly-fought AL East race. C Russell Martin’s second homer of the contest puts the Jays ahead to stay. His counterpart for New York, Gary Sanchez, also homers twice, making it the first time in American League history that both starting catchers have done so. Troy Tulowitzki has four hits and also homers for Toronto, while Scott Feldman earns his first win since being acquired in a mid-season trade.

2017 – Short of infielders because of injuries, the Mets start catcher Travis d’Arnaud at third base in their game against the Yankees. However, as d’Arnaud has never played the position professionally, manager Terry Collins decides to switch him and starting second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera every time a right-handed batter comes up, in order to minimize the chance of a ball actually being hit towards the improvized infielder. The two end up exchanging positions 18 times as the Yankees prevail, 5 – 3, making for an unusual boxscore that reads “Cabrera 2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b” and “d’Arnaud 3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b-2b-3b”.

2018:

Just two weeks after suffering a 25 – 4 loss, the worst in team history, the Mets turn around and defeat the Phillies, 24 – 4, in the first game of a doubleheader, setting team records for runs and hits (25). Coming on the back of a 16 – 5 win over the Orioles the day before, the win also marks the first time they score at least 15 runs in back-to-back games. Jose Bautista, who does not even start the game, leads the offense with a grand slam and seven RBIs. However, the Mets return to form in the nitecap, losing 9 – 6.

The Rangers turn an extremely rare triple play in their 8 – 6 win over the Angels. It goes 5-4, i.e. from 3B Jurickson Profar to 2B Rougned Odor, and all three outs are baserunners – not the batter – something not seen since 1912. With the bases loaded, David Fletcher smokes a liner to Profar, who fields it on a short hop, steps on the bag then tags Taylor Ward, who is returning to the bag, thinking the ball has been caught on the fly. Profar then throws to Odor to force Kole Calhoun and complete the triple killing.

2019 – Mike Yastrzemski continues his excellent rookie season for the Giants with the first three-homer game of his career, coming in a 10 – 9 win over the Diamondbacks. The two teams combine to hit 12 homers, one shy of the major league record and only the second time that many have been hit in a game. Yaz’s last blast in the 11th inning provides the winning margin for San Francisco. Kevin Pillar also goes deep twice, his second giving the Giants a 9 – 7 lead in the 10th, but Wilmer Flores, also with his second of the game, and Nick Ahmed reply with solo shots to extend the contest.

2020:

With an 8 – 5 win over the Tigers, the Indians have now beaten their division rivals 20 straight times, dating back to April 2019. It is the second longest winning streak against one opponent since at least 1901, with only the Baltimore Orioles defeating the Kansas City Royals in the first 23 games played between the two teams in 1969 and 1970 having gone longer.

The White Sox blast four consecutive home runs in the 5th inning of their 7 – 2 win over the Cardinals, only the tenth time the feat has been accomplished in major league history. Yoan Moncada, Yasmani Grandal, José Abreu and Eloy Jimenez all homer off Roel Ramirez, who has a rough big league debut, with Moncada’s being a three-run shot. It’s also the first time three Cuban-born players – Moncada, Grandal and Abreu – have hit consecutive homers.

2021 – By hitting a triple for the Mets, Pete Alonso ends a record streak of 68 games without the team getting a three-base hit.

2023 – Ian Lewis of the Jupiter Hammerheads in the Class A Florida State League steals five bases without getting a single hit. Such a rare feat has only been accomplished once in the majors since 1901, by Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, in 1989, although it is more common in the minors. Lewis steals all three bases after reaching on an error in the 5th, his second time getting on base that way, and the final theft comes on the back end of a double steal after drawing a walk in the 7th.

Births[edit]

1851 – James Sumner, umpire (d. 1881)

1854 – Doc Landis, pitcher (d. 1908)

1855 – Hick Carpenter, infielder (d. 1937)

1862 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, college coach (d. 1965)

1865 – Ed Mayer, infielder (d. 1946)

1870 – Willie Clark, infielder (d. 1932)

1872 – Gene Steere, infielder (d. 1942)

1876 – Philip Bartelme, minor league executive (d. 1954)

1879 – A.J. Hamilton, minor league pitcher (d. ????)

1884 – Joe Hovlik, pitcher (d. 1951)

1885 – Hub Northen, outfielder (d. 1947)

1889 – Hank Robinson, pitcher (d. 1965)

1890 – Charlie Carroll, college coach (d. 1961)

1890 – Baby Doll Jacobson, outfielder (d. 1977)

1890 – Thurman Jennings, infielder/outfielder (d. 1978)

1890 – Gifford McDonald, pitcher (d. 1976)

1892 – Bill Keen, infielder (d. 1947)

1893 – Cy Wright, infielder (d. 1947)

1895 – Fred Bailey, outfielder (d. 1972)

1897 – Bob Fothergill, outfielder (d. 1938)

1899 – Willie Ware, infielder (d. 1967)

1900 – Billy Rhiel, infielder (d. 1946)

1900 – George Scales, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1976)

1901 – Mahlon Higbee, outfielder (d. 1968)

1902 – Zearlee Maxwell, infielder (d. 1957)

1903 – Eddie Wall, pitcher (d. 1960)

1905 – Hi Simmons, college coach (d. 1995)

1908 – Andy Bednar, pitcher (d. 1937)

1910 – Norman Cross, pitcher (d. 1982)

1910 – Fermín Valdés, infielder (d. ????)

1911 – Herman Besse, pitcher (d. 1972)

1913 – Tiny Bonham, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1949)

1913 – Lew Carpenter, pitcher (d. 1979)

1914 – Jesse Warren, infielder (d. 2003)

1915 – Tsunesuke Sasaki, NPB outfielder (d. ????)

1916 – Brennan King, pitcher (d. 1978)

1919 – Alcibíades Colón, minor league outfielder (d. 2016)

1921 – Takashi Masuda, NPB outfielder (d. 1986)

1922 – Gene Woodling, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2001)

1923 – Sherwood Brewer, infielder (d. 2003)

1924 – Inez Voyce, AAGPBL infielder (d. 2022)

1925 – Willie Jones, infielder; All-Star (d. 1983)

1927 – Roque Contreras, minor league pitcher

1928 – Don Dahlke, minor league infielder (d. 2021)

1929 – Keith Little, minor league infielder (d. 2008)

1929 – Curt Roberts, infielder (d. 1969)

1929 – Francis Seastrand, minor league infielder (d. 2011)

1931 – Dick Parente, NPB infielder

1931 – Don Rudolph, pitcher (d. 1968)

1934 – Ray Young, college coach

1935 – David Garcia, minor league infielder and manager (d. 2010)

1938 – Jürgen Helmig, German national team player; German Baseball Hall of Fame

1938 – Buck Rodgers, catcher, manager

1940 – Gabriel Acosta, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)

1940 – Federico Soldi, Serie A1 outfielder

1941 – Gene Brabender, pitcher (d. 1996)

1941 – Bill Edgerton, pitcher

1941 – Larry Loughlin, pitcher (d. 1999)

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

1945 – Jan Dukes, pitcher

1946 – Chia-Hsiang Lin, CPBL manager; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame

1948 – Mike Jorgensen, infielder, manager

1950 – Rocky Roe, umpire

1952 – Al Holland, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2026)

1953 – Nick Leyva, manager

1953 – Shinichi Takagi, NPB pitcher

1955 – Dean Towill, Australian national team outfielder

1956 – Keisuke Okamoto, NPB infielder (d. 2025)

1956 – Armando Quijada, minor league pitcher

1958 – Jim Maler, infielder

1960 – Bill Mooneyham, pitcher

1961 – Yoshiaki Hino, NPB infielder

1961 – Greg Jelks, infielder (d. 2017)

1961 – Donnie Scott, catcher

1961 – Mike Yastrzemski, minor league outfielder (d. 2004)

1963 – Kenny Clark, minor league infielder

1963 – Alexander Krupenchenkov, USSR national team outfielder

1963 – Rob Thomson, manager

1964 – Rick Reed, pitcher; All-Star

1965 – Xavier Hernandez, pitcher

1965 – Frank Jäger, Bundesliga pitcher-infielder

1965 – Jim LeMasters, minor league pitcher

1965 – Rex Peters, college coach

1966 – Steve Foster, pitcher and coach

1966 – Terry Shumpert, infielder

1967 – Bret Barberie, infielder

1968 – Aaron Acosta, minor league pitcher

1968 – Chun-Nan Ou, CPBL outfielder

1969 – Henry Garcés, Colombian national team pitcher

1969 – Curtis Shaw, minor league pitcher

1970 – Miguel Flores, minor league infielder and manager

1970 – Steve Maddock, minor league pitcher and manager

1970 – Quinton McCracken, outfielder

1970 – Craig McDonald, Swedish national team infielder

1971 – Fausto Peña, Dominican national team outfielder

1971 – Rafael Pina, minor league pitcher

1972 – Atsushi Ibayashi, NPB pitcher

1973 – Darold Brown, scout

1973 – Damian Jackson, infielder

1973 – Scott Krause, minor league outfielder

1974 – Roger Cedeno, outfielder

1974 – Masahiro Kimura, NPB pitcher

1974 – John Snyder, pitcher

1975 – Jin Ho Cho, pitcher

1975 – Michael Coleman, outfielder

1976 – Jeff Alfano, minor league catcher

1976 – Nelson Abreu, minor league infielder

1976 – Tim Meyer, Bundesliga player

1977 – Olaf Dreesen, Bundesliga infielder

1977 – Pat Gorman, minor league pitcher

1978 – Greg Belson, minor league pitcher

1978 – Ernesto Binarao, Philippines national team pitcher

1978 – Henry Bonilla, minor league pitcher

1978 – Ruben Castillo, minor league infielder

1978 – Brian Gordon, pitcher

1978 – Tony Jaramillo, coach

1978 – Wen-Chuan Lan, TML infielder

1980 – Ryan Hanigan, catcher

1980 – T.J. Hendricks, minor league pitcher

1980 – Ben Kozlowski, pitcher

1981 – Ryan Childs, minor league pitcher

1982 – Rick Guarno, minor league catcher

1982 – Edgardo Lebron, minor league infielder

1982 – Freddy Sandoval, infielder

1982 – Katsuki Yamazaki, NPB pitcher

1983 – Ryota Arai, NPB infielder

1983 – Chris Mobley, minor league pitcher

1983 – Matt Stocco, minor league catcher

1984 – Matt Betsill, minor league infielder

1984 – Fernando Ozuna, Guatemalan national team infielder

1984 – Isaiah Stanback, drafted player

1985 – Manauris Baez, minor league pitcher

1985 – Daric Barton, infielder

1985 – Karl Bolt, minor league infielder

1985 – Kenta Matsusaka, NPB outfielder

1985 – Alfredo Unzúe, minor league pitcher

1986 – Yu Darvish, pitcher; All-Star

1986 – Angel Flores, minor league catcher and manager

1986 – Shooter Hunt, minor league pitcher

1986 – Mike Kenney, minor league pitcher

1986 – Martin Maldonado, catcher

1987 – David Berner, minor league pitcher

1987 – Jake Shaffer, minor league outfielder

1988 – Justin Grimm, pitcher

1988 – J.C. Ramirez, pitcher

1989 – Shohei Habu, NPB outfielder

1989 – Wei-Ting Lin, CPBL infielder

1989 – Frank Soto, Costa Rican national team infielder

1990 – Adrian Sanchez, infielder

1990 – Zak Sinclair, drafted pitcher

1992 – Delino DeShields Jr., outfielder

1992 – Connor Joe, infielder

1992 – Sung-Hsun Wu, Taiwan national team catcher

1993 – Carlos Muñoz, Philippines national team outfielder-pitcher

1993 – Kenny Peoples-Walls, minor league infielder

1994 – Yuta Kuroki, NPB pitcher

1994 – Luis Heredia, minor league pitcher

1994 – Juan Santana, NPB infielder

1995 – Trey Hannam, minor league coach

1996 – Brady Aiken, minor league pitcher

1996 – Peter Solomon, pitcher

1996 – Tyler Stephenson, catcher

1997 – Dominic Canzone, outfielder

1997 – Shota Hiranuma, NPB infielder

1998 – Akil Baddoo, outfielder

1999 – Rafael Monsion, minor league pitcher

2001 – Chris Burke, minor league outfielder

2002 – Jui-Chieh Lin, signed pitcher

2002 – Jaden Rudd, minor league outfielder

2002 – Tsubasa Yoshino, NPB outfielder

2004 – Saúl Arias, minoir league ptcher

2007 – Fynn Himmelsbach, Swiss national team pitcher

Deaths[edit]

1906 – Tom Carey, infielder, manager (b. 1846)

1919 – Ed McKean, infielder (b. 1864)

1923 – Bill Day, pitcher (b. 1867)

1923 – Jim Scoggins, pitcher (b. 1891)

1927 – J. Ogden Armour, owner (b. 1863)

1927 – Jerry Denny, infielder (b. 1859)

1931 – Nemesio Romaguera, Cuban baseball player and pioneer (b. ~1847)

1937 – Bunk Congalton, outfielder (b. 1875)

1943 – Beals Becker, outfielder (b. 1886)

1944 – Tom Sullivan, catcher (b. 1906)

1946 – Billy Rhiel, infielder (b. 1900)

1948 – Babe Ruth, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1895)

1953 – Wyman Smith, outfielder (b. 1898)

1953 – Ty Tyson, outfielder (b. 1892)

1970 – Kurt Krieger, pitcher (b. 1926)

1971 – Walter Mueller, outfielder (b. 1894)

1972 – Fred Bailey, outfielder (b. 1895)

1976 – George Aiton, outfielder (b. 1890)

1977 – Charlie Barnabe, pitcher (b. 1900)

1977 – Al Javery, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1918)

1977 – Joe Kelly, outfielder (b. 1886)

1983 – Earl Averill, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1902)

1984 – Tommie Aaron, infielder (b. 1939)

1984 – Fred Hahn, pitcher (b. 1929)

1985 – Dick Drott, pitcher (b. 1936)

1993 – Bama Rowell, infielder (b. 1916)

1999 – Dick Fishbaugh, college coach (b. circa 1933)

2001 – Geraldine Reiber, AAGPBL chaperone (b. 1914)

2002 – Johnny Roseboro, catcher; All-Star (b. 1933)

2003 – Leigh Neuage, minor league pitcher (b. 1983)

2007 – Chico Garcia, infielder; Salón de la Fama (b. 1924)

2009 – Brent Schoening, minor league pitcher (b. 1978)

2010 – Larry Novak, minor league outfielder (b. 1931)

2010 – Bobby Thomson, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1923)

2011 – Lou Markle, college coach (b. 1929)

2011 – Leo Rodriguez, minor league infielder; Salon de la Fama member (b. 1929)

2013 – Noriji Shiomura, NPB infielder (b. 1934)

2014 – Etsuro Tsukamoto, NPB outfielder (b. 1924)

2017 – Gene Bennett, scout (b. 1928)

2017 – Tommy Hawkins, executive (b. 1936)

2025 – Bob McKillop, minor league infielder (b. 1942)

2025 – Kazutoshi Yamada, NPB infielder (b. 1965)

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TV SPORTS TODAY

(All times Eastern)

Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts

Sunday, Aug. 16

AUTO RACING

8:30 a.m.

FS2 — NTT IndyCar Series: Warmup, Streets of Markham, Markham, Ontario

Noon

FOX — NTT IndyCar Series: Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham, Streets of Markham, Markham, Ontario

LACROSSE (MEN’S)

1 p.m.

ABC — PLL: New York at Philadelphia

MLB BASEBALL

Noon

NBCSN — Baltimore at Tampa Bay (12:15 p.m.)

PEACOCK — Baltimore at Tampa Bay (12:15 p.m.)

1:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Yankees at Toronto (1:37 p.m.) OR Arizona at Atlanta (1:35 p.m.)

3 p.m.

ABC — St. Louis at Chicago Cubs

7 p.m.

NBCSN — Seattle at Houston (7:20 p.m.)

PEACOCK — Seattle at Houston (7:20 p.m.)

SOCCER (WOMEN’S)

9 p.m.

ESPN — NWSL: Washington at Angel City

SOFTBALL

8 p.m.

MLBN — Athletes Unlimited All-Star Cup: TBD, Rosemont, Ill.

WNBA BASKETBALL

5 p.m.

ESPN — Indiana at Atlanta

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