“THE SCOREBOARD” MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL BREWERS 9, BRAVES 4 REDS 4, YANKEES 1 TIGERS 5, WHITE SOX 4 (10 INNINGS) MARLINS 2, GIANTS 1 ASTROS 2, GUARDIANS 1 RAYS 4, NATIONALS 3 CARDINALS 12, ROYALS 10 RANGERS 4, PADRES 3 TWINS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 2 PIRATES 8, ROCKIES 6 ANGELS 9, ATHLETICS 7 ORIOLES 12, DODGERS 1 PHILLIES 6, METS 2 MARINERS 3, RED SOX 1 =================================== MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INDIANAPOLIS 3 IOWA 1 FT. WAYNE 6 SOUTH BEND 2 =================================== COLLEGE BASEBALL WORLD SERIES TV SCHEDULE: MEN’S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES: OKLAHOMA 9 NORTH CAROLINA 3 NORTH CAROLINA 6 OKLAHOMA 2 (SERIES 1-1) ===== CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES GAME 3 | 7 P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 22 ON ESPN (IF NECESSARY) =================================== WNBA ACES 92 VALKYRIES 73 MYSTICS 84 LYNX 79 SPARKS 98 LIBERTY 97 =============================== MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER NO GAMES SCHEDULED =============================== WORLD CUP SCORES SUNDAY, 21 JUNE 2026 JAPAN 4 TUNISIA 0 SPAIN 4 SAUDIA ARABIA 0 BELGIUM 0 IRAN 0 CAPE VERDE 2 URGUAY 2 EGYPT 3 NEW ZEALAND 1 ===== MONDAY, 22 JUNE 2026 NORWAY V SENEGAL – GROUP I – NEW YORK NEW JERSEY STADIUM FRANCE V IRAQ – GROUP I – PHILADELPHIA STADIUM ARGENTINA V AUSTRIA – GROUP J – DALLAS STADIUM JORDAN V ALGERIA – GROUP J – SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA STADIUM TUESDAY, 23 JUNE 2026 ENGLAND V GHANA – GROUP L – BOSTON STADIUM PANAMA V CROATIA – GROUP L – TORONTO STADIUM PORTUGAL V UZBEKISTAN – GROUP K – HOUSTON STADIUM COLOMBIA V CONGO DR – GROUP K – ESTADIO GUADALAJARA WEDNESDAY, 24 JUNE 2026 SCOTLAND V BRAZIL – GROUP C – MIAMI STADIUM MOROCCO V HAITI – GROUP C – ATLANTA STADIUM SWITZERLAND V CANADA – GROUP B – BC PLACE VANCOUVER BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA V QATAR – GROUP B – SEATTLE STADIUM CZECHIA V MEXICO – GROUP A – MEXICO CITY STADIUM SOUTH AFRICA V KOREA REPUBLIC – GROUP A – ESTADIO MONTERREY THURSDAY, 25 JUNE 2026 CURAÇAO V CÔTE D’IVOIRE – GROUP E – PHILADELPHIA STADIUM ECUADOR V GERMANY – GROUP E – NEW YORK NEW JERSEY STADIUM JAPAN V SWEDEN – GROUP F – DALLAS STADIUM TUNISIA V NETHERLANDS – GROUP F – KANSAS CITY STADIUM TÜRKIYE V USA – GROUP D – LOS ANGELES STADIUM PARAGUAY V AUSTRALIA – GROUP D – SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA STADIUM FRIDAY, 26 JUNE 2026 NORWAY V FRANCE – GROUP I – BOSTON STADIUM SENEGAL V IRAQ – GROUP I – TORONTO STADIUM EGYPT V IR IRAN – GROUP G – SEATTLE STADIUM NEW ZEALAND V BELGIUM – GROUP G – BC PLACE VANCOUVER CABO VERDE V SAUDI ARABIA – GROUP H – HOUSTON STADIUM URUGUAY V SPAIN – GROUP H – ESTADIO GUADALAJARA SATURDAY, 27 JUNE 2026 PANAMA V ENGLAND – GROUP L – NEW YORK NEW JERSEY STADIUM CROATIA V GHANA – GROUP L – PHILADELPHIA STADIUM ALGERIA V AUSTRIA – GROUP J – KANSAS CITY STADIUM JORDAN V ARGENTINA – GROUP J – DALLAS STADIUM COLOMBIA V PORTUGAL – GROUP K – MIAMI STADIUM CONGO DR V UZBEKISTAN – GROUP K – ATLANTA STADIUM =================================== MAJOR NATIONAL HEADLINES/RELEASES COLLEGE BASEBALL WORLD SERIES NORTH CAROLINA FORCES WINNER-TAKE-ALL CWS FINAL AFTER LYNCH, GLAUBER COOL OFF OKLAHOMA’S HOT OFFENSE OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — North Carolina coach Scott Forbes had to make a quick pitching change when starter Ryan Lynch tweaked his left oblique midway through Game 2 of the College World Series finals. No worries. Forbes called on freshman Caden Glauber for the 29th time this season, and for the 29th time he’s pitched, the Tar Heels won. Their 6-2 victory over Oklahoma kept alive their pursuit of the school’s first national championship in baseball. The winner-take-all Game 3 is Monday night. “This is what it’s all about,” Forbes said. “This is why you work so hard — to play in a night game, national championship game. So we’re excited about that opportunity.” Lynch and Glauber cooled off Oklahoma’s bats, Owen Hull and Cooper Nicholson homered, and North Carolina (54-13-1) bounced back from a 9-3 loss in Game 1. The Sooners (42-23) scored twice in the first inning and then had two hits and a total of five baserunners the rest of the way. Lynch injured his lower left side throwing his second pitch of the fifth. Glauber (12-0) came on and struck out the side and fanned a total of eight over five innings. “When you play for the best team in college baseball, it’s pretty easy to go out there with the defense you have and the offense you have,” said Glauber, who has allowed one run in 10 1/3 CWS innings. Glauber graduated from high school a year early and was 17 when he enrolled at Carolina last fall. He’s the only pitcher in Division I with 12 wins and five saves and is pitching to a 2.05 ERA over 92 innings, with all but three of his appearances in relief. He’s been comfortable on stages big and small all season. Sunday he faced an OU team that had been averaging 9.4 runs per game in the postseason and 8.25 in the CWS. “The preparation takes over the fear,” he said. “We work so hard on it. You know, you’ve got to have the right mindset, and you know that you’re made for the moment, whatever moment you’re in.” The Sooners were held to their fewest runs since a May 19 loss to LSU. They hadn’t been held scoreless over eight straight innings since a 3-0 loss to Southeastern Louisiana on March 17. Their four hits were their fewest since a March 19 loss to LSU. “Obviously, tough loss today,” OU’s Trey Gambill said. “But I don’t think we overly care. We know that we still have the opportunity to win the national championship. It’s going to be a fun atmosphere. We’re excited. Have a good meal tonight, good shower and be ready for tomorrow.” OU freshman starter Xander Mercurius (1-3) struck out six of the first seven batters he faced but encountered trouble when Carolina’s first two batters reached base in the third inning. Jake Schaffner pulled a ball into the right-field corner for a two-run triple and scored on a wild pitch to put the Tar Heels up 3-2. Mercurius began laboring in the third and left after Hull’s second homer of the CWS and ninth of the season leading off the fifth. “The trick in baseball is to not get away from your game plan and start trying to punch guys out,” OU coach Skip Johnson said, “and he kind of lost it a little bit. Instead of just trying to throw the ball to the target, he’s trying to punch people out.” Nicholson’s team-leading 16th homer, off Nate Smithburg in the seventh, made it 6-2. Glauber walked consecutive batters with one out in the ninth. The game ended when Dasan Harris grounded to second and Gavin Gallaher turned an unassisted double play that was confirmed after Oklahoma challenged the call. Johnson said Nick Wesloski (2-1) would start for the Sooners on Monday. Wesloski pitched 5 2/3 innings in an 11-4 win over Georgia last Wednesday. Forbes said he was undecided on a starter. “It will be all hands on deck,” he said. “I feel like we’ve got about seven options to start tomorrow, and I like every one of them.” =================================== MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL MLB ROUNDUP: BREWERS SCORE 8 RUNS IN 2ND TO POWER PAST BRAVES William Contreras hit a three-run homer to cap an eight-run outburst in the second inning, and the visiting Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Atlanta Braves 9-4 on Sunday. The victory enabled the National League Central-leading Brewers to salvage one game against the NL East-leading Braves in the three-game set. It also ended their three-game losing streak. Contreras, a former Brave, was 4-for-5, scored two runs and drove in three runs to pace the team’s 13-hit attack. Jake Bauers, Sal Frelick and David Hamilton added two hits apiece. Robert Gasser (1-3) pitched a season-high six innings and 97 pitches, and retired the last nine batters he faced. He allowed two runs on four hits and one walk. He matched his career high with seven strikeouts and won for the first time since May 15, 2024. Braves starter Bryce Elder (5-5) allowed all eight of his runs over six innings in the second, giving up 12 hits. Rowdy Tellez hit a homer against his former team, and Mauricio Dubon had three of Atlanta’s seven hits. Reds 4, Yankees 1 Chase Burns pitched five solid innings and extended his personal winning streak to eight games as Cincinnati downed host New York to win a series at Yankee Stadium for the second time in three seasons. Burns (9-1) allowed only Ben Rice’s 22nd homer in the third among five hits. The 23-year-old right-hander withstood six New York stolen bases in seven attempts. Burns improved to 8-0 in his past 11 starts and also struck out at least seven for the seventh straight outing. Tyler Stephenson hit a three-run homer in the fourth off Yankees rookie Elmer Rodriguez (0-2) as the Reds outscored the Yankees 14-3 in the final two games of the series after striking out 17 times Friday. Rodriguez allowed three runs on four hits in four-plus innings during his fourth career start. Tigers 5, White Sox 4 (10 innings) Matt Vierling hit a bases-loaded single in the 10th inning to drive in the game-winning run, as host Detroit completed a three-game sweep of Chicago. Detroit scored two runs in the 10th after Tristan Peters’ sacrifice fly gave Chicago the lead in the top of the inning. Dillon Dingler hit his team-high 18th homer and drove in two runs for the Tigers. Will Vest (3-4) picked up the victory in relief. Luisangel Acuna hit a two-run homer, his first of the season, for Chicago. Marlins 2, Giants 1 Kyle Stowers homered off Logan Webb as host Miami completed a three-game sweep of San Francisco to improve to a majors-best 14-4 in June. Stowers scored both of the Marlins’ runs in the second and fourth innings, opening the scoring with his eighth homer. Ryan Gusto lasted 4 1/3 innings before John King (4-1) and the Miami bullpen combined for 4 2/3 scoreless innings of relief. Webb (4-5) pitched his first complete game since 2024, allowing five hits and two runs in eight innings. Casey Schmitt had the Giants’ lone RBI in the third inning on a single that followed Luis Arraez’s double. Astros 2, Guardians 1 Yordan Alvarez slugged his American League-leading 25th home run, and Kai-Wei Teng worked six strong innings as Houston claimed the rubber match of a three-game series against visiting Cleveland. The Astros won the fourth of their last five series behind Alvarez and right-hander Teng (4-6), who snapped a three-start skid. Teng allowed one run on four hits over six innings. Closer Josh Hader notched his fifth save with a perfect ninth. Guardians starter Slade Cecconi (3-6) allowed two runs on six hits over six innings. Rays 4, Nationals 3 Jonny DeLuca slugged a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning, and Tampa Bay strengthened an MLB-best home record with a comeback victory over Washington in St. Petersburg, Fla. With the Rays down 3-2 and facing his brother-in-law Orlando Ribalta (0-1), Yandy Diaz singled with one out, posting his fourth consecutive game with two hits. DeLuca then belted Ribalta’s slider up in the zone out to left for his fourth homer and a 4-3 advantage that stood over the final two frames. The Rays, 26-10 at home, are 8-1 in the past nine series sets in the domed park and won their fourth straight series over the Nats. Washington’s CJ Abrams went 2-for-4 with a homer and double, and red-hot Nasim Nunez was 2-for-3 with his National League-leading 28th stolen base. Cardinals 12, Royals 10 JJ Wetherholt hit two of St. Louis’ four home runs, helping the visitors stave off Kansas City to avoid a sweep in the three-game series. Wetherholt scored three times and drove in three runs and Ivan Herrera hit a three-run homer and scored three times for the Cardinals, who had a season-high 16 hits. Jac Caglianone hit two homers for the Royals, who also got home runs from Carter Jensen and Nick Loftin. Neither starting pitcher made it to the third inning. Kansas City’s Stephen Kolek (4-2) allowed nine runs over 1 2/3 innings after allowing 15 earned runs in 50 1/3 innings entering the game. St. Louis starter Dustin May, fresh off a one-hit shutout, allowed six runs in two innings. Rangers 4, Padres 3 Wyatt Langford hit a three-run homer and Texas edged San Diego in Arlington, Texas, to win for only the second time in six games and take two of three in the series. Langford went 2-for-4, and Josh Jung’s RBI single in the fourth broke a tie. Jung finished 2-for-3. Nicky Lopez went 2-for-2 with two runs scored. Rangers starter Nathan Eovaldi (7-7) gave up three runs on seven hits over six innings with nine strikeouts. The right-hander’s start was delayed a day because he was scratched on Saturday due to left knee soreness. It was the finale of a nine-game road trip for the Padres, who had won two of their previous three. Xander Bogaerts was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Bulk hurler Lucas Giolito (2-3) yielded four runs on seven hits in four innings. Twins 4, Diamondbacks 2 A three-run seventh inning propelled visiting Minnesota to a series-clinching win over Arizona in Phoenix. Alex Jackson’s single through the hole into right field brought home Ryan Kreidler and Josh Bell, with an assist from a Corbin Carroll error, to put the Twins ahead 3-2. Cody Laweryson (1-0) earned the first win of his career in relief of starter Mike Paredes, who allowed two runs over five innings in his third career start. The blown lead spoiled a strong major league debut from Jose Cabrera, who delivered five shutout innings with three hits and no walks. Ketel Marte sparked the Diamondbacks’ offense with a two-run double in the second inning, but Arizona fell flat from there, finishing 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position. Pirates 8, Rockies 6 Bryan Reynolds and Nick Gonzales homered and finished with two hits each, and Pittsburgh beat host Colorado. Jake Mangum had three hits and Spencer Horwitz contributed two for Pittsburgh, which built an 8-1 lead before surviving a late Colorado surge. Pirates starter Jared Jones left the game after he was struck on the right elbow by a comebacker that ended the third inning. Jones, who allowed one run on one hit, was replaced by Yohan Ramirez (5-2) to start the fourth. Ramirez pitched two scoreless innings, allowing no hits to earn the win. The Pirates announced that initial images of Jones were negative and he will be re-examined in Pittsburgh on Monday. TJ Rumfield homered and Jake McCarthy had two hits for the Rockies. Angels 9, Athletics 7 Zach Neto delivered a tie-breaking home run in the top of the ninth to lift Los Angeles past the host Athletics in West Sacramento, Calif. With Jose Siri on, Neto launched his 17th homer of the season over the left field wall against Elvis Alvarado (3-2) to put the Angels ahead 9-7. Los Angeles reliever Chase Silseth (2-1) worked a scoreless eighth to help his team split the four-game series. Starting pitcher Reid Detmers allowed five runs on six hits in six innings. Nick Kurtz (2-for-4, three RBIs) hit a two-run shot off reliever Brent Suter that gave the A’s a 7-4 advantage in the seventh. Denzer Guzman pulled the Angels even in the eighth with a three-run blast to center off Hogan Harris, marking Guzman’s third straight game with a home run. Orioles 12, Dodgers 1 Colton Cowser had three hits, including a home run, and drove in four runs to help Baltimore rout host Los Angeles in the rubber game of their three-contest series. Taylor Ward singled, homered and scored three runs, Blaze Alexander had three hits, including a home run, Pete Alonso blasted a three-run shot, and Gunnar Henderson had two hits and scored two runs for the Orioles. Starter Brandon Young (6-2) went five innings, allowing one run and five hits. Dodgers starter Emmet Sheehan (3-5) allowed six runs and eight hits in 3 1/3 innings. Los Angeles has lost two in a row for first time since a four-game skid May 9-12. Phillies 6, Mets 2 Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper capped their big weekends by each hitting home runs as host Philadelphia rolled past New York in the rubber game of a three-contest series between the National League East rivals. Zack Wheeler pitched into the sixth for the 10th straight start for the Phillies, who outscored the Mets 21-5 over the final two games of the series to improve to 12-6 this month. Schwarber, who hit three homers on Saturday, slugged a three-run homer on Sunday. Harper, who hit for his first career cycle Saturday, went deep off Austin Warren in the fifth. Harper finished 3-for-4 and went 7-for-9 in the last two games as he raised his average from .248 to .266. Carson Benge homered and scored both runs for the last-place Mets, who went 2-4 on a six-game road trip. David Peterson (3-6) gave up five runs, four earned, on six hits in four innings in his first start since May 26. Mariners 3, Red Sox 1 Dominic Canzone homered and Logan Gilbert pitched 6 1/3 solid innings as Seattle defeated visiting Boston to salvage the finale of a three-game series. Gilbert (6-4) allowed one run on three hits. The right-hander walked two and struck out eight. Canzone (hamstring) left the game in the bottom of the sixth inning. Nate Eaton went deep for Boston’s only run. Payton Tolle (3-5) went six innings and gave up three runs on six hits. =================================== NBA REPORTS: THUNDER TRADING G AARON WIGGINS TO HAWKS The Oklahoma City Thunder are trading reserve guard Aaron Wiggins to the Atlanta Hawks for two second-round draft picks, according to multiple reports on Sunday night. Atlanta will send Oklahoma City its second-round pick in 2030 and the least favorable of the Hawks’ or Los Angeles Lakers’ second-rounder in 2032, per the reports. ESPN reported that the Thunder entered this offseason with a projected luxury tax penalty of $213 million that will be reduced to $152 million with the trade. Oklahoma City, which opens a roster spot with the transaction, has picks at Nos. 12 and 17 in the NBA draft on Tuesday. Wiggins, 27, averaged 9.4 points, 3.1 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 21.8 minutes in 65 regular-season games (21 starts) last season. He averaged only 1.5 points and 5.8 minutes in 13 playoff games, all as a reserve as his role was reduced. For his career, Wiggins averages 8.7 points, 3.2 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 20.3 minutes in 339 regular-season games (100 starts). He averaged 6.0 points, 2.3 rebounds and 13.8 minutes in the 2025 postseason when the Thunder captured the NBA championship. Wiggins averaged a career-high 12.0 points during the 2024-25 regular season. Oklahoma City selected Wiggins in the second round of the 2021 draft out of Maryland. Wiggins has three years remaining on a contract that will pay him $9.2 million next season, per the reports. The Hawks have an $11 million trade exception created when they dealt guard Luke Kennard to the Lakers in February. ===== 2026 NBA MOCK DRAFT HTTPS://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/ATHLETIC/7373292/2026/06/21/NBA-MOCK-DRAFT-CAMERON-BOOZER-CALEB-WILSON-GIANNIS/?EAFS_ENABLED=FALSE HTTPS://BLEACHERREPORT.COM/ARTICLES/25443479-LATEST-NBA-DRAFT-2026-RUMORS-AJ-DYBANTSA-TRADES-AND-MORE-PICKS-PROSPECTS HTTPS://WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM/NBA/NEWS/2026-NBA-MOCK-DRAFT-GIANNIS-ANTETOKOUNMPO-TRADE-WOULD-CREATE-CHAOS-WIZARDS-SELECT-DARRYN-PETERSON-AT-NO-1 =================================== COLLEGE FOOTBALL AIR FORCE PREVIEW: HTTPS://COLLEGEFOOTBALLNEWS.COM/COLLEGE-FOOTBALL/AIR-FORCE-FOOTBALL-PREVIEW-2026 STANFORD PREVIEW: HTTPS://COLLEGEFOOTBALLNEWS.COM/COLLEGE-FOOTBALL/STANFORD-FOOTBALL-PREVIEW-2026 KENNESAW STATE PREVIEW: HTTPS://COLLEGEFOOTBALLNEWS.COM/COLLEGE-FOOTBALL/KENNESAW-STATE-FOOTBALL-PREVIEW-2026 KANSAS PREVIEW: HTTPS://COLLEGEFOOTBALLNEWS.COM/COLLEGE-FOOTBALL/KANSAS-FOOTBALL-PREVIEW-2026 MARSHALL PREVIEW: HTTPS://COLLEGEFOOTBALLNEWS.COM/COLLEGE-FOOTBALL/MARSHALL-FOOTBALL-PREVIEW-2026 ================================ GOLF WYNDHAM CLARK HANGS ON TO WIN SECOND US OPEN IN FOUR YEARS Wyndham Clark refused to stop thinking he could win the U.S. Open on Sunday in Southampton, N.Y. He recovered from a rough front nine and shot 3-over-par 73 to hang on to win the tournament for the second time in four years. “It comes down to just believing that good things are going to happen and that you’re going to make the putt, and fortunately the ones I needed to make, I did,” Clark said. His four-round total of 4-under 276 gave him a one-stroke victory at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. Clark’s six-shot advantage entering the day dwindled to one on multiple occasions, but he never lost the lead. He is the third player to collect two U.S. Open victories since 2017 after Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau. Clark outlasted Northern Ireland star Rory McIlroy in 2023 at Los Angeles Country Club for his first major. In between his two U.S. Open championships, Clark missed the 2025 cut at Oakmont. That result was punctuated when he damaged lockers in the golfer’s area, and was temporarily banned from the club. “The first one was kind of just the breakthrough of knowing I can do it, and then this one was a lot of redemption,” Clark said. “Last year was so tough, a terrible year. I left this place in shambles, and it’s amazing what a year can do. I’m leaving here this Sunday as a champion, and I’m just so blessed.” Runner-up Sam Burns shot 67 for a top-10 finish in the U.S. Open for the third year in a row. “I think I did my best, and I did everything I could to have a chance to win today,” Burns said. “I started the day seven shots back. That’s very difficult to overcome, especially (against) someone who is playing as well as Wyndham has been playing.” South Korea’s Tom Kim (70) was third at 1 under. J.T. Poston (67), Keith Mitchell (70) and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (71) shared fourth place at even par. Clark never gave up the lead that he’d held since Thursday night. Yet he was in danger of becoming the first U.S. Open competitor to fail to win after leading by more than five shots. “I played some ugly golf the last two days, but my putter and short game kind of kept me in it,” Clark said. Clark became the 24th golfer to win the U.S. Open multiple times. Burns missed a birdie putt on No. 18 with a chance to tie, while a few holes back, Clark’s tee shot on No. 16 went into the fescue. But Clark escaped the situation and ended up sinking a 24-foot putt for an unlikely birdie to extend the lead back to two shots. “To make birdie there was honestly a bonus,” Clark said. “I just wanted to make par. That was one of the pivotal points of the tournament.” Clark needed three putts on No. 17, taking a bogey to return the margin to one stroke. But he two-putted for par on No. 18, sinking a nine-inch putt to finish off his second victory of the year after he won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson last month. After playing the front nine in a birdie-free 3-over par, Clark seemed to steady himself with a birdie on No. 10. His margin was back to one stroke after a bogey on No. 13 while Burns holed a 17 1/2-foot birdie putt on No. 16. Kim continued to lurk, pulling within two shots of Clark with two holes to play before a bogey on the 17th tanked his chances. He said the experience was rewarding. “This is my best finish in a major since the British Open in 2023 (when he tied for runner-up), so a lot of positives,” Kim said. “I think this is going to give me a big boost for the rest of the season.” Scheffler, who was trying to complete the career Grand Slam on his 30th birthday, never made much of a move, with a three-putt bogey on No. 14 doing damage. “I gave myself a decent amount of looks today,” Scheffler said. “Yeah, just a few shots. That’s really all it came down to.”Earlier, Burns, one-third of the way through his round, was within three shots of Clark and pulled a stroke closer after his fourth birdie of the round on No. 8. Poston won two weeks ago at the Memorial Tournament in his most recent outing. He said there were good possibilities Sunday. “I felt like we were really good about being patient the first three days,” Poston said. “Then a little calmer winds out there today I felt like yielded maybe a few more birdies, so we felt like we could try and post a number.” The best rounds of the day were 66s turned in by Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg and Chile’s Joaquin Niemann. Niemann tied for seventh at 1 over, while Aberg was at 3 over and tied for 17th. “We’re getting closer and closer,” Niemann said. “That’s the only direction I’ve seen since I started playing golf, that I always get closer to my goals and my dreams. I know it’s one step forward to that.” ===== MIYU YAMASHITA BEATS LOTTIE WOAD IN PLAYOFF TO WIN MEIJER LPGA TITLE Miyu Yamashita of Japan fired a final-round 64, then defeated England’s Lottie Woad on the first playoff hole to capture the Meijer LPGA Classic title on Sunday in Belmont, Mich. The pair replayed the par-5 18th hole at Blythefield Country Club, where Yamashita got much closer to the pin than Woad on their third shots. Woad missed her birdie try and Yamashita rolled in a short putt for the win. The 2025 Women’s Open champion and LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year, Yamashita now has her third LPGA title and will move up to third in the Race for the CME Globe season-long points race. Yamashita, 24, began the day five strokes behind 54-hole leader Jing Yan. “It had like a score gap with the top” to begin the day, Yamashita said through a translator on the TV broadcast. “But this week I had really good feeling, so I’m really happy to win.” Woad nearly stole a memorable win when she holed out for birdie from the sand at the par-4 17th hole. That put her at 18 under and meant she needed to par No. 18 to win outright. But a 4-foot putt to clinch the title lipped out, and she took bogey and headed to the playoff. “Obviously 17 was pretty — a bonus,” Woad said. “Didn’t have the easiest bunker shot and obviously made it. Thought it was going a little bit past, so was happy with that. “Felt like I hit an OK putt (at No. 18). Obviously lipped out on the high side. Yeah, Miyu played great in the playoff hole.” Yamashita birdied five of her first seven holes to close the gap. She added birdies at Nos. 10, 11 and 13 before hitting her only speed bump with a bogey at the par-3 15th. Yamashita hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation during the round. Meanwhile, Yan — a 30-year-old vet seeking her first career win — was the second- and third-round leader but couldn’t keep up. She bogeyed twice and birdied twice in her first five holes and was stuck on 14 under for a while. After bogeying her final two holes, Yan signed for a 1-over 73 and tied for seventh at 13 under. Taiwan’s Wei-Ling Hsu and China’s Yan Liu posted matching 67s and tied for third at 15 under. Another stroke back at 14 under were South Korea’s Miinji Kang (66) and Australia’s Cassie Porter (70). Yan was tied with Grace Kim of Australia (66) and Minami Katsu of Japan (67). ==================================== NHL PANTHERS LAND BRADY TKACHUK IN BLOCKBUSTER DEAL WITH SENATORS Brady Tkachuk is heading to Florida, where he will join his brother Matthew with the Panthers in one of the NHL’s biggest offseason moves. The Ottawa Senators are trading their captain to the Panthers for a package of draft picks, the teams announced Sunday. Ottawa will receive Florida’s two first-round picks in this year’s draft — No. 9 and No. 25 overall — along with a first-round pick in 2029 that is top-10 protected and a second-round pick in 2027. Florida had acquired the 25th pick earlier Sunday in a trade sending forward Mackie Samoskevich to the Seattle Kraken. The deal gives Florida another top-tier power forward and reunites the Tkachuk brothers in the NHL. Brady, 26, and Matthew, 28, helped Team USA secure Olympic gold earlier this year, and now they aim to bring more hardware to the Panthers after Florida missed the playoffs following consecutive Stanley Cup wins. “Brady is a dynamic competitor and one of the most physical and relentless forwards in the league,” Panthers general manager Bill Zito said. “A proven leader and exactly the type of player we want in our locker room, he strives to make everyone around him better both on and off the ice. We’re thrilled to welcome Brady to South Florida to join our group as we continue our pursuit of championship hockey.” The move is a major shift for Ottawa, which selected Tkachuk fourth overall in 2018 and made him the face of its rebuild. He spent eight seasons with the Senators and served as captain for the past five. Tkachuk had pushed back on questions about his future as recently as April, when trade speculation followed Ottawa’s first-round playoff exit. “I feel like I’ve answered this hundreds of times,” Tkachuk said at the time. “None of that, I feel like I’ve never shown, I’ve never said, none of those things ever came out of my mouth. And quite honestly, it’s just getting frustrating. It’s becoming a distraction, because I have been fully committed to this team, to the city and it’s just becoming a distraction and frustrating to deal with.” Tkachuk had 22 goals and 37 assists in 60 games last season. Ottawa reached the playoffs for a second straight year, but was swept by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes in the first round. Tkachuk was held without a point in the series. For his career, the three-time All-Star has notched 213 goals and 250 assists across 572 regular-season games. He’s added four goals and three assists in 10 career postseason games. He has two years remaining on his contract at an $8.2-million cap hit, giving Florida more than a short-term rental. The Panthers already have a core led by Matthew Tkachuk, Aleksander Barkov, Sam Reinhart, Sam Bennett, Carter Verhaeghe, Gustav Forsling and Anton Lundell. For Ottawa, the return adds three first-round picks and another future second to a franchise that now has to replace its captain while continuing to build around its young core. “This was not a decision we took lightly, but ultimately we did what we felt was best for the long-term future of our hockey club,” Senators general manager Steve Staios said in a statement. “We now possess cap space and draft capital and will be actively working to improve our roster.” ==================================== AUTO RACING CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD CHARGES FROM LAST TO FIRST TO WIN AT ROAD AMERICA Christian Lundgaard asked his Arrow McLaren team over the radio what everyone else also wondered after the Dane took the checkered flag Sunday for the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America Presented by AMR. “How did we do that?” Lundgaard asked incredulously to his pit box. SEE: Race Results Lundgaard used strategy, speed and a bit of good fortune to climb from last in the 25-car field after contact on Lap 1 to earn his second victory of the season in the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. The race ended under caution when Graham Rahal spun into the gravel trap outside Canada Corner after contact with Will Power while dueling for third place on a one-lap restart to the checkered flag. The victory was the third of Lundgaard’s NTT INDYCAR SERIES career, joining his win in May on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course with Arrow McLaren and in 2023 on the streets of Toronto with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. “I knew we had a chance,” Lundgaard said of the probability of winning after the early contact. “I knew how this race panned out last year, and I knew it was all about just sticking in the race. I did that last year. I made a bunch of mistakes last year that spun ourselves around last year, and I just wanted to make up for that. David Malukas finished second in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Chevrolet, his third runner-up finish of the season as he seeks his first career victory. Power held on to finish third in the No. 26 TWG AI Honda, matching his best finish of his first season with Andretti Global. Kyffin Simpson finished a season-best fourth in the No. 8 Sunoco Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, with points leader and four-time series champion Alex Palou rounding out the top five in the No. 10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda. Lundgaard, who started 12th, took the lead for the second and final time on Lap 52 of the 55-lap race when the No. 66 Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb Agajanian Honda of leader Marcus Armstrong slowed with a mechanical problem. Armstrong led by 2.787 seconds with five laps to go before mechanical fate cruelly robbed him of what may have been his first career victory. Armstrong’s stricken machine finally lost power in Turn 5 on Lap 53, triggering a caution period and a one-lap race to the checkered flag. Lundgaard never was challenged by Malukas on the final one-lap trip around the 14-turn, 4.014-mile road course, with most of the attention focused on the fierce duel for third between series veterans Power and Rahal. Power, holding a straight-line speed advantage, attempted to move to the outside of Rahal at the end of the back straightaway, with both cars making contact and Rahal’s No. 15 MSC Industrial Supply Honda spinning into the gravel, ending the race. That was the climax to a thrilling race filled with varying tire strategies and fierce competition for nearly every position. But nothing was more exciting or improbable than Lundgaard’s charge to the front. On the opening lap, Lundgaard made contact with Scott Dixon in Turn 1, damaging the left front wing on Lundgaard’s car and deflating one of his Firestone Firehawk tires. He pulled into the pits on Lap 2 for tires, fuel and a new front wing, with Arrow McLaren strategists devising new tactics on the fly. Lundgaard cycled to the lead for the first time on Lap 43 when Armstrong, Malukas and Rahal made their final pit stops from the top three positions. Danish driver Lundgaard led Rosenqvist by 11.720 seconds on Lap 45 when he made his final pit stop, with the Arrow McLaren team refilling his fuel and fastening four Firestone Firehawk alternate tires in a speedy 7.1 seconds. The big cushion before the stop allowed Lundgaard to exit his final stop second behind Armstrong and just ahead of Malukas, who had hotter, stickier rubber on his wheels and passed Lundgaard for second on Lap 46. Josef Newgarden made his final stop from the lead on Lap 49 in the No. 2 PPG Team Penske Chevrolet, handing the lead back to Armstrong, who was 3.671 seconds ahead of Malukas. Meanwhile, Lundgaard passed Malukas for second on Lap 49, with Armstrong nearly three seconds up the road. Then Armstrong’s bid for his first win evaporated as his power dwindled, letting Lundgaard pass for the lead on Lap 52. “It was all smooth sailing,” a deflated Armstrong said. “I came out of Turn 6, and the engine just started sputtering like it was out of fuel. But clearly it wasn’t. And then it just completely died. There was no indication there was nothing wrong.” Pole sitter Palou led 13 laps, but his chances for a fourth career Road America victory vanished when he was penalized for speeding in the pits on Lap 29. Palou fell to 22nd after his drive-through penalty on one of the longest pit roads in the series, but he was appointment viewing in his charge toward the front over the closing 25 laps. Palou leads second-place Malukas by 60 points and third-place Kyle Kirkwood, who finished 10th, by 61 points in the standings. Lundgaard is fourth, 77 points behind Palou. The next NTT INDYCAR SERIES event is The Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Presented by the 2027 CR-V Hybrid on Sunday, July 5 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course near Columbus, Ohio. ===== COREY HEIM GRABS SURPRISE FIRST WIN AT NAVAL BASE CORONADO Corey Heim shocked the NASCAR circuit with his first career Cup Series victory Sunday afternoon, battling teammate Tyler Reddick and taking the checkers in the inaugural Anduril 250 road race at the Naval Base Coronado in San Diego. Heim’s No. 67 Toyota got beside Reddick, who soon had tire problems, with just over two laps left. He moved by and led a 1-2 finish for 23XI Racing by beating teammate Bubba Wallace by 10.365 seconds in the 75-lap race that had seven cautions. The win came in the 13th career Cup start for the 23-year-old Heim, the defending Craftsman Truck Series champion. Heim’s win was the fourth straight for Toyota but ended the three-race winning streak of Denny Hamlin, who brought his No. 11 home in 14th and is only eight points behind points leader Reddick, who was 25th. Kyle Larson, Zane Smith and AJ Allmendinger were the final drivers in the top five. In the third of four road races on NASCAR’s Cup Series schedule, polesitter Shane van Gisbergen led the first three laps, but Ryan Blaney moved past the road-course ace shortly before Jimmie Johnson’s No. 84 Toyota slammed into the tire barrier. Blaney led a hard-charging Wallace, who climbed to the runner-up spot halfway through the 20 laps that comprised Stage 1, but Chase Elliott stalled and had a lengthy first pit stop. Christopher Bell (fractured left wrist) came to pit road on Lap 13 and did a scheduled driver change, with Brent Crews hopping into the seat of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Meanwhile, cars slowly traveled around the 19-turn, 3.40-mile track, a street course featuring visuals of an aircraft carrier, other ships and water near the base. An error by his pit crew resulted in Wallace losing a right front tire under green, creating the second caution and ending the segment under caution with Blaney’s No. 12 Ford leading Ryan Preece, Larson, Ty Gibbs and Allmendinger. About halfway through Stage 2 on Lap 32, Austin Hill, Connor Zilisch, Gibbs and van Gisbergen wrecked hard at the front of the field on a restart, damaging the outside barrier in a nine-car accident and creating a red-flag period. Larson led late in Stage 2, but he pitted his No. 5 with two laps to go and turned the top spot over to Preece, who took the checkers. Riley Herbst, Chris Buescher, Allmendinger and Blaney followed behind Preece’s No. 60 Ford. ===== CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD OVERCOMES EARLY COLLISION TO WIN XPEL GRAND PRIX Christian Lundgaard displayed some resilience as he went from worst to first, capturing his second IndyCar Series victory of the season in the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America on Sunday. Lundgaard fell from his starting position of 12th into last place after a Lap 1 collision. He gradually worked his way back up in his No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet, taking the lead for good on the 52nd lap of the 55-lap race at Elkhart Lake, Wisc. It’s his third career IndyCar victory, meaning the 24-year-old Danish driver has won more this season than in his first four seasons in the series combined. The latest win moved him up to fourth in the NTT IndyCar Series Championship standings. “I knew we had a chance,” Lundgaard said of his surge from the back of the pack. “I knew how this race panned out last year, and I knew it was all about just sticking in the race. I did that last year. I made a bunch of mistakes last year that spun ourselves around last year, and I just wanted to make up for that. “We’ve been on the struggle bus all weekend, so to turn this around, I have to thank the team for that.” Lundgaard led for just seven laps, fourth-most among competitors, after his car sustained damage to the left front wing and a deflated tire due to a Turn 1 collision with Scott Dixon. He beat out second-place finisher David Malukas and his No. 12 Team Penske Chevrolet by 0.6241 seconds, with the race finishing under caution after the one-lap restart to determine the winner was halted by Graham Rahal going off the track after colliding with Will Power, who finished third. For Malukas, it was his third runner-up finish of the season. He is still seeking his first career IndyCar win, but he’s up to second in the IndyCar standings with five top-five finishes in 10 races this season. Alex Palou, atop the standings with four wins this season, earned his sixth 2026 pole but the Spaniard finished in fifth (behind Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Kyffin Simpson) after he was penalized for speeding in the pits on Lap 29. New Zealand’s Marcus Armstrong, seeking his first career win, held the lead for 14 laps into the final stretch. He led by nearly three seconds with five laps to go when his car abruptly lost power, allowing Lundgaard to overtake him and sending him falling all the way down to 24th place. “It was all smooth sailing,” Armstrong said after the race. “I came out of Turn 6, and the engine just started sputtering like it was out of fuel. But clearly it wasn’t. And then it just completely died. There was no indication there was nothing wrong.” Felix Rosenqvist of Sweden led for a race-high 18 laps, finishing in eighth place. ==================================== INDIANA SPORTS NEWS AND HEADLINES INDIANA FEVER Indiana Fever vs Phoenix MercuryMonday, June 22, 2026Gainbridge Fieldhouse | 8:00 p.m. ET BROADCAST INFO TV: USA/WTHR/Fever Direct – Pat Boylan (play-by-play), Debbie Antonelli (analyst)Radio: 93.5/107.5 The Fan – John Nolan (play-by-play), Bria Goss (analyst) PROBABLE STARTERS Indiana Fever (9-7) Guard – Caitlin ClarkGuard – Kelsey MitchellForward – Lexie HullForward – Monique BillingsCenter – Aliyah Boston Phoenix Mercury (5-12) Guard – Lexi HeldGuard – Kahleah CopperForward – Noemie BrochantForward – Alyssa ThomasCenter – Natasha Mack GAME PREVIEW The Fever will tip off a three-game homestand on Monday night when they welcome the Phoenix Mercury to Gainbridge Fieldhouse. It is the first meeting between Indiana and Phoenix this season and the first of two straight games between the two teams, as the Mercury will remain in Indianapolis for a second game against the Fever on Wednesday. The Fever will visit Phoenix on July 9. Indiana had won four straight games before dropping both halves of a home-and-home set with Atlanta last week. The Dream prevailed 108-101 in Indianapolis on Thursday and 113-96 on Saturday in Atlanta. The Dream’s 113 points on Saturday are tied for the second-most allowed by the Fever in franchise history. Atlanta shot 50 percent from the field, 46.2 percent from 3-point range, scored 54 points in the paint, and tallied 22 second-chance points thanks to 12 offensive rebounds. The Fever will try to fix their recent defensive issues and bounce back against a Mercury team that snapped a four-game skid with a 93-73 win over Seattle on Saturday. Phoenix is led by four-time All-Star Kahleah Copper, who is eighth in the WNBA in scoring at 19.1 points per game (Fever All-Stars Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell are third and fourth respectively, at 21.1 and 20.8 points per game). Alyssa Thomas, a three-time All-WNBA first-team selection, is averaging 13.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game. Thomas and Clark are dueling for the league lead in assists, with Thomas currently leading the way, averaging 8.4 assists to Clark’s 8.1 per game. ==================================== INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS Davis Wendzel clubbed a solo home run in the second inning and the pitching staff stymied the Iowa Cubs offense as the Indianapolis Indians earned a series split in the first-half finale on Sunday afternoon at Principal Park, 3-1. Iowa had its opportunities squandered, going 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position. Wendzel opened the scoring with his 10th homer of the season for Indianapolis (31-44). The Indians added a second run in the fifth on an RBI double from Enmanuel Valdez and capped their scoring in the seventh as Valdez recorded his second RBI knock. José Urquidy (W, 5-3) went 5.0 strong innings with zero runs, five hits, one walk and five strikeouts. Hunter Stratton made his season debut with Indy, tossing 2.0 shutout frames. Thomas Harrington (S, 1) allowed a run in the ninth but held on for his first-career minor league save. Jordan Wicks (L, 0-5) remains winless on the campaign as he allowed two runs over 5.0 innings for Iowa (30-42). The Indians have an off day on Monday before beginning a six-game homestand with the Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre RailRiders on Tuesday, June 23 at 7:05 PM ET. Indy has not named a starter while RHP Alexander Cornielle (0-1, 6.75) is scheduled to start for the RailRiders. =================================== INDIANA COLLEGE SPORTS WEB SITES UINDY ATHLETICS: https://athletics.uindy.edu/ MARIAN ATHLETICS: https://muknights.com/ INDIANA WESLEYAN ATHLETICS: https://iwuwildcats.com/ EARLHAM ATHLETICS: https://goearlham.com/ WABASH ATHLETICS: https://sports.wabash.edu/ FRANKLIN ATHLETICS: https://franklingrizzlies.com/ ROSE-HULMAN ATHLETICS: https://athletics.rose-hulman.edu/ ANDERSON ATHLETICS: https://athletics.anderson.edu/landing/index TRINE ATHLETICS: https://trinethunder.com/landing/index BETHEL ATHLETICS: https://bupilots.com/ DEPAUW ATHLETICS: https://depauwtigers.com/ HANOVER ATHLETICS: https://athletics.hanover.edu/ MANCHESTER ATHLETICS: https://muspartans.com/ HUNTINGTON ATHLETICS: https://www.huathletics.com/ OAKLAND CITY ATHLETICS: https://gomightyoaks.com/index.aspx ST. FRANCIS ATHLETICS: https://www.saintfranciscougars.com/landing/index IU KOKOMO ATHLETICS: https://iukcougars.com/ IU EAST ATHLETICS: https://www.iueredwolves.com/ IU SOUTH BEND ATHLETICS: https://iusbtitans.com/ PURDUE NORTHWEST ATHLETICS: https://pnwathletics.com/ INDIANA TECH ATHLETICS: https://indianatechwarriors.com/index.aspx GRACE COLLEGE ATHLETICS: https://gclancers.com/ ST. MARY OF THE WOODS ATHLETICS: https://smwcathletics.com/ GOSHEN COLLEGE ATHLETICS: https://goleafs.net/ HOLY CROSS ATHLETICS: https://www.hcsaints.com/index.php TAYLOR ATHLETICS: https://www.taylortrojans.com/ VINCENNES ATHLETICS: https://govutrailblazers.com/landing/index ========================================================= “SPORTS EXTRA” TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY 1894: The Colts beat the Pirates, 10 – 7, with Bill Dahlen collecting two hits and an RBI. Washington scores in every inning to whip Boston, 26 – 12. In the course of the rout, George “White Wings” Tebeau scores four runs without the benefit of a hit. 1901 – In the first game of a double-header in Boston, Kid Nichols drives in all of the Beaneater runs in a 4 – 2 win over the visiting Pirates, becoming the first of ten modern era pitchers to drive in all of their team’s runs in a 4 (or more) RBI game. 1902 – Cleveland plays its third straight Sunday game in a minor league park, this time in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Cleveland beats Washington, 6 – 4, behind Addie Joss. 1903 – At the Polo Grounds, a crowd of 19,000 is on hand for the twin bill with Chicago; Iron Joe McGinnity wins the opener, 5 – 4, in 10 innings, over Jack Taylor. But Chicago takes the nightcap, scoring six runs against Christy Mathewson in the 9th inning to enable Jock Menefee to pick up a win, 10 – 6. Matty gives up 13 hits and ten runs in losing his fourth game of the year. 1907 – At New York, the Boston Doves blow Christy Mathewson out of the game after four innings with ten runs on eight hits. But the Giants claw back to win, 11 – 10, in 12 innings. 1908 – Honus Wagner gets hit No. 2,000 in the 8th against Jake Weimer of the Reds, who wins 4 – 0 over the Pirates. Wagner makes an error when he is struck on the finger in the 1st inning. 1909: The Detroit club buys the rest of the vacant Bennett Field grounds as the site for a new park. The National League postpones its games for today because of the funeral of George Dovey, co-owner of the Boston Doves with his brother John Dovey. Pittsburgh owner Barney Dreyfuss is one of the honorary pall bearers for the funeral in Philadelphia. Christy Mathewson pitches four innings for the Bucknell alumni against the varsity, as the undergrads win, 13 – 12. Matty also plays 3B and chips in with three hits. 1910 – Congressman John K. Tener, former Chicago White Stockings and Pittsburgh Alleghenies pitcher, wins the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania. He will be elected and will serve as president of the National League while governor. 1912: The Red Sox beat the Highlanders, 10 – 3, to complete a five-game sweep. Boston scores 55 runs in the sweep. Chicago drubs the Cardinals, 10 – 2, behind Heinie Zimmerman’s five RBIs. The Great Zim has a single, two doubles and a triple. They might be the Braves this year, but they’re still the doormats of the National League. The Giants fatten their averages today, beating Boston, 17 – 5 and 14 – 12. New York puts the opener away for Christy Mathewson with ten runs in the 7th inning, with Walt Dickson taking the loss. Ty Cobb gets pinch hit for in an unusual scenario. With two outs in the 9th, and the Tigers down 11 – 3, Cobb is nowhere to be found, and George Mullin substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out Cobb is in the clubhouse showering. 1913 – George Pearce of the Cubs stops the Cards on one hit, a single by Ed Konetchy. Pearce wins, 6 – 0, over Pol Perritt. 1914 – The Giants shade the Reds, 3 – 2, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 9th off Red Ames. Christy Mathewson gives up seven hits and no walks as the Giants increase their lead over the National League to four games. For the second year in a row, Matty will end the season with fewer walks than victories, the only pitcher ever to accomplish that. 1915 – Grover Cleveland Alexander allows two hits in the 1st inning and none in the next eight innings, but the match-up with the Giants’ Rube Marquard ends in a 1 – 1 tie. 1916: Brownie 1B George Sisler makes his final mound appearance of the year, a complete game 2 – 0 loss to White Sox starter Reb Russell, himself a future position player. Against the Giants, the Braves pull off a triple steal in the 11th inning, with Johnny Evers on the front end. It is the National League’s only extra-inning triple steal; the American League’s only triple swipe in extra time will come in 1941. Babe Ruth almost duplicates teammate Rube Foster’s no-hitter, allowing just three singles, two by Frank Gilhooley, in beating the Yankees, 1 – 0. The game takes one hour, 18 minutes. 1917 – Honus Wagner is given a day in Pittsburgh in honor of his unretirement for one more year. 1918 – It’s a hot day in New York, and umpires George Hildebrand and Billy Evans don’t show up, so Giants coach Mike Donlin and Browns trainer Bits Bierhalter take their places. The game takes 15 innings to reach an inconclusive 4 – 4 tie. 1925 – Pittsburgh defeats St. Louis, 24 – 6. Max Carey collects two hits in an inning twice, in both the 1st and 8th frames. 1926 – The Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Cleveland Alexander on waivers from the Cubs to help in the pennant chase. He’ll be 9-7 down the stretch and a World Series hero. 1927 – The Cards strengthen their hold on second place by defeating the Cubs, 11 – 5, to sweep the series. Grover Cleveland Alexander, pitching out of turn at his own request, stops the Cubs on six hits. Alexander wanted to face the team that had shipped him down the river last season. Frankie Frisch has three hits to put him at .331, a point ahead of Rogers Hornsby, for whom he was traded. 1928 – Journeyman hurler Hank Johnson of the Yankees blanks the star-studded Athletics, 4 – 0. In the game for Connie Mack’s team are Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker and Lefty Grove. 1930 – Babe Ruth ties a major league record by hitting five homers in two games and six homers in three games. The Yankee outfielder hit three homers in the second game of the doubleheader yesterday, two homers in today’s opener and one more in the nightcap. 1932 – The National League, at a meeting of club presidents, finally approves players wearing numbers. The American League had started the practice in 1929. 1934: Detroit takes over first place, beating Washington, 11 – 3, dislodging the Yankees who lose, 4 – 1, to Cleveland. Bill Terry and Joe Cronin, managers of the 1933 pennant winners, are named to head the All-Star teams, establishing a precedent that is still followed. 1938 – Chicago’s Hank Steinbacher gets five singles and a double in six at bats as the White Sox pound Washington, 16 – 3. 1944 – Ron Northey homers in the top of the 15th for a 1 – 0 Phillies win over the Braves. Jim Tobin throws his second no-hitter, winning 7 – 0 in the second game of the doubleheader against Philadelphia. The game is called in the 5th inning because of darkness. 1946 – Bill Veeck heads a syndicate which purchases the Cleveland Indians. This launches Veeck on a long career as a lively promoter at the major league level, having already achieved success in the minors. 1947 – Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters when Eddie Stanky of the Brooklyn Dodgers singles with one out in the 9th inning. Blackwell then gets Al Gionfriddo before Jackie Robinson bangs out a second single. Blackwell wins, 4 – 0, his ninth straight win, to improve to 11-2. Stanky’s hit ends Blackwell’s hitless-inning streak at 19. 1950 – Larry Jansen of the Giants wins the first game of a doubleheader with a 3 – 0 shutout of the Cards, and Dave Koslo follows suit with a 5 – 0 two-hitter in the second game, giving New York a sweep of the twin bill. Jansen has not allowed a run in 29 innings, while for Koslo it is the start of a 13-game win streak over the Cards. The Cards were last shut out in a twin bill on July 2, 1933, by the Giants. 1951: A power failure at Forbes Field delays the start of the game with the Dodgers by two hours. Rain holds up play in the 6th inning by another 36 minutes, pushing the ending to 1:56 a.m., the latest game played to date. Brooklyn has no power problems as Jackie Robinson’s homer helps Da Bums to an 8 – 4 win over Pittsburgh. Of the 24,966 on hand at the start, 10,000 are still present at the end. Willie Mays, 20, hits a 10th-inning home run, the first of his 22 extra-inning home runs, off 42-year-old Dutch Leonard of the Cubs. It is a three-run shot that gives the Giants a 9 – 6 win. 1953 – Senators C Ed Fitz Gerald pulls off an unassisted double play against Cleveland in a 7 – 5 win in the first game of a doubleheader. 1958 – A game between the Olean Oilers (New York-Penn League) and the Erie Sailors is rescheduled from 7:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. But the Sailors don’t get the word and arrive at the Olean ball park 50 minutes after the 4:00 P.M. starting time, and the umpires forfeit the game to Olean. 1958 – Willie Kirkland unloads a 14th-inning home run to give San Francisco a 5 – 4 win over the Phils. Johnny Antonelli, in relief, tosses six shutout innings for the victory. The nitecap is called after six innings with the Giants ahead, 1 – 0. When play is resumed July 23rd, the Phils will win, 3 – 2. 1959: At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead New York to a 13 – 6 win. Bill Skowron adds his fourth homer in four days to move New York to three games out of first place. Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax fans 16 Phillies, to set a new record for a night game, and wins, 6 – 2. 1961 – Roger Maris leads the Yankees on an 8 – 3 thrashing of the A’s by belting his 27th homer of the year. He adds two doubles and a single. Maris has now hit 20 homers in the past 30 days (May 24th to today), to tie the mark set by Ralph Kiner in 1947. 1962: Playing four hours and two minutes, the Braves outscore the Giants, 11 – 9, in the National League’s longest nine-inning night game. Stan Musial becomes the all-time total bases leader, raising his total to 5,864, in the first game against the Phillies. St. Louis wins the opener, 7 – 3, but loses the nightcap, 11 – 3. Orioles’ first baseman Boog Powell becomes the first player to homer over the center field hedge at Memorial Stadium as he goes deep off the Red Sox’s Don Schwall, who gives up the 469-foot shot. 1963 – Philadelphia CF Tony Gonzalez plays his 200th straight errorless game to help rookie Ray Culp beat Roger Craig and the Mets, 2 – 0. 1965 – Ray Barker’s major league record-tying second consecutive pinch-hit home run is wasted in a first-game, 6 – 2 Yankees loss to the A’s. Mickey Mantle adds a home run in the opener, but in the 4 – 2 nightcap win, he tries to score from second base on a wild pitch and snaps an upper-thigh hamstring. He will be out for three weeks. Ironically, the June 21st Sports Illustrated cover features Mantle with the prescient title “New York Yankees: End of an Era?” 1969 – An American League record-tying, three straight, two-out home runs by Ted Kubiak, Reggie Jackson and Sal Bando in the 3rd inning power a 7 – 3 Oakland victory over Minnesota in the first of two games. Bando also homers in the 1st to back Chuck Dobson’s win over Jim Kaat. Kaat gets a save in the nitecap as Jim Perry squeezes home Tony Oliva with the winning run in the 13th. The Twins win, 4 – 3. 1970 – Rod Carew, batting .376 for the Twins, injures his right knee during an attempted double play when Milwaukee’s Mike Hegan slides into him. The injury will require surgery and sideline him until September. Harmon Killebrew’s 5th-inning homer with two on enables the Twins to beat the Brewers, 4 – 3, behind Jim Kaat. 1976: Randy Jones pitches the Padres to a 4 – 2 win over the Giants, and ties Christy Mathewson’s 63-year-old National League record by going 68 innings without a base on balls. He receives a standing ovation from the home crowd after striking out Darrell Evans to end the 7th. His streak ends when he walks C Marc Hill leading off the 8th. It is Jones’s 13th win of the year. Fred Norman pitches a four-hitter as the Reds beat the visiting Dodgers, 6 – 0. 1977: The Phillies outslug the Reds, 15 – 9, at Veterans Stadium. Joe Hoerner makes his debut with the Reds, handing out an intentional walk and then a grand slam to Larry Bowa. The Red Sox bang five homers (George Scott, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk with two, and Butch Hobson), all off Jim Palmer, to beat Baltimore, 5 – 4. The Sox have now won 12 of their last 13 games and set homer records for eight games (29), seven games (26), and six games (24). The Sox reach 100 homers, the earliest they ever have. It’s not easy but the Yankees stop their five-game losing streak with a 12 – 11 win over Detroit. The Yankees are led by Graig Nettles, with a three-run homer, and Reggie Jackson, who belts a two-run triple. It’s not a good year for Texas manager Frank Lucchesi, as Eddie Stanky takes over, leading the club to a 10 – 8 triumph over the Twins. In spring training, he had been assaulted by 2B Lenny Randle, who broke his jaw with a punch. Tomorrow, the “homesick” Stanky will resign. 1978 – Mookie Wilson, of the Jackson Generals, and his wife Rosa are married at home plate in Jackson, Mississippi. 1980 – Claudell Washington hits his first three National League home runs to lead the Mets to a 9 – 6 win at Los Angeles and snap a seven-game losing streak. 1982: The Phillies’ Pete Rose moves into second place for career hits, passing Hank Aaron with his 3,772nd hit. The historic hit is a 3rd-inning double off Cardinal hurler John Stuper. Ranger Rick Honeycutt shuts out California, 4 – 0, snapping Rod Carew’s 25-game hitting streak in the process. The streak was the longest of Carew’s career and the longest in Angels history. Red Sox rookie Wade Boggs hits his first major league home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to give Boston a 5 – 4 win over Detroit. Boggs will finally crack the starting lineup for good after tomorrow’s game, in which regular 3B Carney Lansford severely sprains his ankle while unsuccessfully trying to stretch a triple into an inside-the-park home run. Boggs will hit .390 in Lansford’s absence and .349 for the season. 1984: In a teary home plate ceremony before the Twins-White Sox game at the Metrodome, Calvin Griffith and his sister, Thelma Haynes, sign a letter of intent to sell their 52 percent ownership of the Twins to Minneapolis banker Carl Pohlad for $32 million. Griffith and his sister had been involved with the franchise since 1922, when they were adopted by owner Clark Griffith when the team was the Washington Senators. Rick Monday, baseball’s first-ever first pick in the June free-agent draft (by the Kansas City A’s in 1965) is released by the Dodgers, ending a 19-year major league career. 1985 – In his first major league at-bat, Curt Ford delivers a pinch single off Lee Smith to give St. Louis a 2 – 1 win over the Cubs and sole possession of first place in the National League East. Chicago, which had been clinging to first place, has now lost 11 in a row. 1986 – San Francisco sweeps a doubleheader from Houston, 4 – 2 and 3 – 2, and leapfrogs past the Astros into first place in the National League West. 1987 – Tom Seaver abandons his comeback attempt with the injury-riddled Mets and retires with a career Win-Loss record of 311-205, an ERA of 2.86, 3,640 strikeouts (3rd on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton), and 61 shutouts (7th). 1990 – The last-place Braves fire manager Russ Nixon and replace him with GM Bobby Cox, who last managed Toronto in 1985. Cox will turn the franchise’s fortunes completely around, starting with a surprise pennant in 1991. 1991 – Mickey Tettleton of the Tigers becomes the 17th player to ever hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium in Detroit as the Tigers drop a 10 – 3 decision to the Angels. 1992 – Mariners OF Dave Cochrane ties a club record for most assists by an outfielder in a game with two, and sets a club mark for most errors in a game with three. The Athletics defeat the Mariners, 7 – 2. 1993 – White Sox backstop Carlton Fisk surpasses Bob Boone catching his 2,226th game to become the all-time leader. 1994 – OF Ken Griffey Jr. leads the Mariners to a 12 – 3 win over the Angels by stroking his 31st home run of the season. In doing so, Griffey breaks Babe Ruth’s record for most home runs before the end of June. Although the Yankee slugger needed only 63 games to reach 30 homers in 1928 and 68 games in 1930, Junior accomplishes the feat in the Mariners’ 70th game of the season. 1995: The Reds defeat the Braves, 9 – 8, as Cincinnati’s Eric Anthony and Eddie Taubensee both hit home runs as pinch-hitters in the 8th inning. It is only the second time that a club has hit two pinch homers in the same frame in the National League since 1975. Two acoustic panels fall from the roof of the Toronto SkyDome, injuring seven fans during the 7th inning of the Brewers’ 7 – 0 win over the Blue Jays. 1996: In Cleveland, Ruben Sierra homers from both sides of the plate as the Yankees beat the Indians, 11 – 9. One of Sierra’s home runs comes in the nine-run 6th inning. Albert Belle, back from a two-game suspension, is 3 for 5 with a homer, and Eddie Murray adds his 488th home run for the Tribe. The game takes 4:10. The Cubs beat the Padres, 9 – 6, in 16 innings. 1B Brant Brown is the hero for Chicago with five hits on the day, including a double and a two-run homer in the 16th. 1997 – The Braves power four homers in a nine-run 3rd inning to sink the Phils, 12 – 5, handing Philadelphia its eighth loss in a row. Chipper Jones, Fred McGriff, Michael Tucker and Jeff Blauser all homer in Atlanta’s biggest inning since 1989. 1998: Florida OF Mark Kotsay gets five hits in the Marlins’ 12-inning, 3 – 2 win over Tampa Bay. The Rangers send P Bobby Witt to the Cardinals in exchange for a player to be named and cash. 1999: In Atlanta’s 2 – 1 loss to Montreal, Brian Jordan is hit on the right wrist by a pitch from Mike Thurman, and his batting will be hampered for the remainder of the season. At Denver, the Cubs overcome an eight-run deficit to trip the Rockies, 13 – 12. Cincinnati defeats Arizona, 8 – 7, as 2B Pokey Reese goes 5 for 6, including a double and triple. 2000 – The Cardinals defeat the Giants, 11 – 10. San Francisco scores eight runs in the 5th inning in a losing cause. 2001: At Wrigley Field, Milwaukee beats the Cubs and Kerry Wood, 2 – 1, snapping Chicago’s home win streak at 12 games, their longest win streak since 1936. It’s their first loss since May 18th. James Mouton’s infield single in the 9th drives home the winner. The Giants double the Cardinals, 10 – 5, despite a home run by Mark McGwire. It is the first meeting between teams sporting 500-homer hitters (Barry Bonds and McGwire) since 1976. Four years after becoming the first Taiwanese native to hit for the cycle in the CPBL, Kai-Fa Chen hits for a cycle in the Taiwan Major League. It is the first cycle in TML history and he becomes the first Taiwanese native to hit for two cycles in the country’s pro circuits. The Braves trade John Rocker along with minor league third baseman Troy Cameron to the Indians in a four-player deal in return for relievers Steve Karsay and Steve Reed as well as cash. The Atlanta fireballer became a national figure after his negative comments about New Yorkers, homosexuals, unwed mothers and immigrants appeared in Sports Illustrated. 2002: The scheduled game between St. Louis and the Cubs is postponed after 33-year-old pitcher Darryl Kile is found dead in his Chicago hotel room of an apparent heart attack. The Marlins score four runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to defeat the Tigers, 5 – 4. Luis Castillo goes hitless in four at bats to end his 35-game hitting streak. The Texas Longhorns win their fifth College World Series, beating South Carolina, 12 – 6, in the finale of the 2002 College World Series. Chris Carmichael hits a three-run home run and closer Huston Street picks up his fourth save and is selected the Outstanding Player. Augie Garrido is the first coach to win CWS championships at two schools. Texas last won a CWS in 1983, when Roger Clemens pitched for the Longhorns. 2007: Miguel Tejada goes on the disabled list with a wrist injury, ending a run of 1,152 consecutive games played, the fifth-longest run in major league history. Ryan Rowland-Smith makes his historic major league debut. The former Australian Olympic star and Silver Medalist becomes the first player in history to have a hyphenated surname. 2008 – The second 2008 European Cup ends in Regensburg. FC Barcelona becomes the first Spanish team to win a European Cup since the 1960s, with a 12 – 11 win over Nettuno. Jesus Golindano hits a grand slam for FC Barcelona and Remigio Leal closes it out for the save. 2009: Donald Fehr announces his retirement as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association after 25 years. He was in charge during the 1994 strike and the relative labor peace that followed. His resignation will be effective in March 2010, when the union’s general counsel, Michael Weiner, will take over. All-Star centerfielder Carlos Beltran of the New York Mets is placed on the disabled list with a bruised right knee. The ailing Mets still defeat St. Louis, 6 – 4, as Omir Santos goes 4 for 4 to hand Tim Redding his first win for New York. 2010: DOOR Neptunus breaks a 21-year-old record for consecutive wins in a Hoofdklasse season by taking their 19th in a row (with struggles in the 2010 European Cup in between the wins back home). Leon Boyd fans eight in a 6 – 1 win over the Almere Magpies. The record, set back in 1989, also belonged to Neptunus though two other teams had tied it. In 1989-1990, Neptunus had won 32 games over two seasons. Also, in 1988, Haarlem Nicols went unbeaten in 25 straight games, but that included a tie. In the same game, Almere brings in 46-year-old René Rijst in a comeback. Rijst tosses a scoreless 9th, retiring the two former minor leaguers he faces in Dwayne Kemp and Danny Rombley. René extends his record with 28 Hoofdklasse seasons played and becomes the fourth four-decade player in league history after Han Urbanus, Marcel Kruyt and Marcel Joost. Arizona State University, the #1 seed, gets bumped from the 2010 College World Series by losing their first two games. ASU had not lost consecutive games all season until this point. The sale of the Texas Rangers by Tom Hicks to a group headed by Chuck Greenberg is not proceeding smoothly. Although announced in January, it is now before a Federal Bankruptcy Court. Judge Michael Lynn issues a ruling today that creditors are adversely affected by a plan to pay them $75 million and are entitled to vote on it. The sale could fall through if the creditors veto the deal, valued at $575 million overall; at issue is the treatment of $525 million in loans on which Hicks’s ownership group defaulted last year. Meanwhile, on the field, the Rangers beat Pittsburgh, 6 – 3, thanks to Josh Hamilton’s 17th homer of the year, extending his hitting streak to 17 games. The White Sox extend their unlikely winning streak to seven games with a 9 – 6 victory over Atlanta to move one game above .500. They are helped by a freakish play with two outs in the 4th, when Alex Rios hits a ground ball that jumps inside 3B Brooks Conrad’s shirt for an infield single. Paul Konerko follows with a single and Carlos Quentin with a three-run homer for a 9 – 3 lead. Before the streak, both manager Ozzie Guillen and general manager Kenny Williams were rumored to be on the verge of losing their job. Jamie Moyer serves up the 505th home run of his major league career, to Russell Branyan, in a 2 – 1 win over the Indians. Moyer ties Robin Roberts for the most homers surrendered in the majors. The GCL Yankees rip the GCL Pirates, 11 – 4. In the 5th, the Bucs turn to Dovydas Neverauskas, who allows two runs in 2 1/3 IP. He becomes the first Lithuanian to play in the minor leagues. 2011: Two teams who have not been used to playing .500 ball in recent years reach the mark today. The Nationals even their record with a 2 – 1 win over Seattle as John Lannan outduels Erik Bedard thanks to a pair of unearned runs. It is the latest the Nats have been at .500 since their inaugural season in Washington in 2005; they have reached the mark by going 10-1 over their last 11 games. Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, the Pirates also reach the magic number as Kevin Correia picks up his ninth win, 5 – 4, over the Orioles, thanks to a costly error by the O’s Blake Davis in his major league debut. Brandon Wood and Michael McKenry both score when Josh Harrison’s 5th-inning ground ball with two outs passes between the second baseman’s legs. Closer Joel Hanrahan remains perfect for the season, registering his 20th save in as many opportunities. Pittsburgh has hovered around the .500 mark all year so far, in a bid to end an 18-year streak of losing seasons. The Reds split a doubleheader with the Yankees as Chris Heisey hits three homers in the nitecap for a 10 – 2 win. Johnny Cueto is the winner against journeyman starter Brian Gordon. The Yanks win the opener, 4 – 2, when Jorge Posada, making a rare start at first base, hits a two-run homer, his first long ball since April 23rd. 2012 – Roy Oswalt is successful in his return to the major leagues with the Texas Rangers, pitching into the 7th inning in a 4 – 1 win over Colorado. For their part, the Rockies suffer their 13th loss over their last 15 games. 2013 – Max Scherzer improves his record to 11-0 with a 10 – 3 Tigers win over the Red Sox. Roger Clemens, in 1997, was the last pitcher to reach that mark. 2014 – The Padres fire General Manager Josh Byrnes. 2015 – ESPN reveals it has obtained a copy of a notebook belonging to Pete Rose which contains evidence of regular betting on baseball games during the 1986 season. The notebook was seized during a police raid on one of Rose’s associates in 1989, after Rose was banned from baseball by Commissioner Bart Giamatti, and had been under court-ordered seal since. Its content corroborate the contents of the Dowd Report, which led to Rose’s suspension, and make it even less likely that current Commissioner Rob Manfred will reverse it, as Rose has pleaded for him to do. 2016 – Nationals outfielder Michael Taylor has a nightmarish game, as he gets to wear the platinum sombrero, striking out five times, then lets Yasiel Puig’s 9th-inning single roll under his glove for a three-base error. The mistake turns a 3 – 2 Nats lead to a 4 – 3 loss to the Dodgers, as Howie Kendrick also scores on the “Little League homer”. 2017: The Dodgers complete a four-game sweep of the Mets with a 6 – 3 win. Joc Pederson hits a go-ahead home run in the 7th and teammates Enrique Hernandez and Justin Turner also go deep in the win. Over the four games, Los Angeles outscored New York 36-11 and banged 15 homers to move into first place in the NL West. Today’s game between the White Sox and Twins at Target Field starts after a Twins record rain delay of four hours and fifty minutes. First pitch is finally thrown at 5 pm, as the two teams badly want to get the game in the books, since the alternative would be to lose a rare off-day on August 28th were it postponed. Chicago ends up with a 9 – 0 win. 2018 – MLB suspends Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna for 75 games, retroactive to May 8th, the day he was arrested on charges of domestic violence and placed on administrative leave. It is the second-longest such punishment handed out, only less than the 82 games given to Hector Olivera in 2016. 2020 – MLB owners agree unanimously on a plan for a 60-game season beginning around July 24th – if everyone signs off on health and safety protocols. 2021: Baseball’s number one prospect, IF Wander Franco makes his debut with the Rays, going 2 for 4 with a double, a three-run homer and a walk. While everyone is impressed, his efforts are not enough as the Red Sox defeat the Rays, 9 – 5. Meanwhile, one of the other top five prospects is on the winning side in a big game, as Julio Rodríguez scores a pair in the Dominican national team’s 10 – 7 win over Venezuela in the Final Olympic Qualifier opener. The game features ten homers, two apiece by the Dominicans’ Diego Goris and Venezuela’s Alexi Amarista, while Juan Francisco drives in five for the victors. 2022: The Orioles’ 7 – 0 win over Washington is called after only six innings due to rain, having already been interrupted for almost an hour by an earlier rain storm, but it’s enough time for Austin Hays to hit for the cycle. He gets one of the needed hits in each of his four at-bats, including a double as rain has begun falling again in the bottom of the 6th. One day after setting a personal best as a hitter with eight RBIs, Shohei Ohtani sets another one on the mound as he racks up 13 strikeouts in eight scoreless innings in a 5 – 0 win over Kansas City. 2023: Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña are the first two players named to the 2023 All-Star Game, after finishing first in their respective leagues in the first round of fan voting. Acuña leads all players with over three million votes received. Joe Ryan pitches a complete game three-hitter in shutting out the Red Sox, 6 – 0. He is the first Twins pitcher to throw a shutout since 2018, when José Berríos accomplished the feat. Byron Buxton homers twice, with both hits travelling over 465 feet. 2024 – For the first time since the introduction of the pitch clock before last season, a major league game ends on a violation of that rule. Kyle Finnegan is on the mound for Washington and facing Ryan McMahon with the bases loaded and a full count, after the Rockies have managed to tie the score on four consecutive singles. But Finnegan takes too long to start his delivery and home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt calls the violation, which results in Ball Four, ending the game as it pushes across the winning run for a 7 – 6 Rockies win. Finnegan is the clear major league leader with nine such violations this season – no other pitcher has more than five. 2025 – Louisiana State University wins the College World Series for the second time in three years, defeating Coastal Carolina University, 5 – 3, in the finale. Pitcher Kade Anderson is named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player after pitching a shutout the previous day. Births[edit] 1860 – Tom O’Brien, infielder (d. 1921) 1877 – Gus Thompson, pitcher (d. 1958) 1879 – Jack Zalusky, catcher (d. 1935) 1883 – Ed Donalds, pitcher (d. 1950) 1884 – Roy Hitt, pitcher (d. 1956) 1884 – Charlie Roy, pitcher (d. 1950) 1887 – Red Fisher, outfielder (d. 1940) 1888 – Dick Kauffman, infielder (d. 1948) 1888 – Bert Whaling, catcher (d. 1965) 1892 – John Mercer, infielder (d. 1982) 1893 – Larry Pezold, infielder (d. 1957) 1896 – Steel Arm Davis, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1941) 1897 – Bill Mizeur, pinch hitter (d. 1976) 1899 – Leo Moon, pitcher (d. 1970) 1900 – Joe Poetz, pitcher (d. 1942) 1903 – Carl Hubbell, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1988) 1907 – George Puccinelli, outfielder (d. 1956) 1907 – Norris Ward, AAGPBL umpire (d. 1981) 1909 – Harry Rosenberg, outfielder (d. 1997) 1913 – Bill Williams, infielder; All-Star (d. 1990) 1914 – Jim Asbell, outfielder (d. 1967) 1914 – Maury Newlin, pitcher (d. 1978) 1915 – Tom Turner, infielder (d. 2013) 1919 – Yoshimasa Aoike, NPB catcher 1920 – Walt Masterson, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2008) 1921 – Riichi Matsumoto, NPB infielder (d. WWII) 1922 – William Makell, catcher (d. 1967) 1922 – Orvis Sigler, college coach (d. 2016) 1923 – Tomoharu Kai, NPB outfielder (d. 2010) 1923 – Felo Ramírez, broadcaster (d. 2017) 1925 – Shinpei Ichii, NPB infielder (d. 2008) 1927 – Han Urbanus, Hoofdklasse pitcher (d. 2021) 1928 – Garcia Massingale, player (d. 1990) 1929 – Dean Ehlers, minor league catcher and college coach (d. 2017) 1930 – Eiji Hatsuoka, NPB outfielder (d. 2015) 1930 – Toshiyuki Ota, NPB infielder 1931 – Faye Throneberry, outfielder (d. 1999) 1932 – Masao Haido, NPB pitcher (d. 2011) 1933 – Miguel Sotelo, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama (d. 2007) 1933 – Bob Bennett, college coach (d. 2020) 1934 – Russ Snyder, outfielder 1936 – Jim Bronstad, pitcher (d. 2022) 1936 – Hank Burbridge, college coach (d. 2005) 1937 – Jim O’Rourke, pinch-hitter (d. 2021) 1937 – Bob Scott, Negro League pitcher 1937 – Bob Sloan, scout (d. 2019) 1937 – Jake Wood, infielder 1938 – Andy Baylock, college coach 1942 – Roy Heiser, pitcher 1947 – Bobby Douglass, minor league pitcher 1949 – Ron Hodges, catcher (d. 2023) 1949 – Dave Tomlin, pitcher 1950 – Yukihiro Ikeda, NPB infielder 1951 – Mike Anderson, outfielder 1952 – Randy Scarbery, pitcher 1953 – Roy Thomas, pitcher 1960 – Greg Booker, pitcher (d. 2019) 1962 – Bryan Price, manager 1964 – Jim Hunter, pitcher 1964 – Seiji Tomashino, NPB infielder 1965 – Kazuhiro Takeda, NPB pitcher 1966 – Jorge Brito, catcher 1966 – Rob Neyer, writer 1967 – Trey McCall, college coach 1968 – Hideo Nakamura, NPB infielder 1968 – Basilio Petkidis, Greek national team outfielder 1969 – Edward Rogers, owner 1970 – Shawn Wills, minor league outfielder 1971 – Brant Brown, outfielder 1971 – Sean Drinkwater, minor league infielder 1971 – Jiro Fujitate, NPB outfielder 1971 – Sang-soo Kang, KBO pitcher 1971 – Brian Sackinsky, pitcher 1971 – Hunter Wendelstedt, umpire 1972 – Shuichiro Matsumoto, NPB outfielder 1972 – Miguel del Toro, pitcher (d. 2001) 1974 – Kokichi Akune, NPB infielder 1974 – Jayson Bass, minor league outfielder 1974 – Kris Detmers, minor league pitcher 1974 – Ikuo Ikeda, NPB pitcher 1975 – Kenshin Kawakami, pitcher 1975 – Esteban Yan, pitcher 1976 – Alexander Koutun, Russian national team outfielder 1976 – Di Mao, China Baseball League outfielder 1978 – Jamie Detillion, college coach 1978 – Anthony Ferrari, pitcher 1978 – Willie Harris, infielder 1978 – Jonder Martínez, Cuban National League pitcher 1979 – Brad Hawpe, outfielder; All-Star 1979 – Shinji Niinuma, NPB catcher 1980 – Luis Maza, infielder 1982 – Ian Kinsler, infielder; All-Star 1982 – Jason Motte, pitcher 1982 – Steve Ziroli, college coach 1984 – Daniel Cox, minor league infielder 1984 – Cesar Ramos, pitcher 1984 – Shingo Takeyama, NPB catcher 1985 – Tadashi Ishimine, NPB catcher 1985 – Sung-heon Lim, KBO pitcher 1985 – Seok-min Park, KBO infielder 1985 – Luke Sommer, minor league pitcher 1985 – Juan Valdes, minor league outfielder 1986 – Douglas Morales, minor league outfielder 1987 – Mark-Jan Moorman, Hoofdklasse outfielder 1987 – Michele Quattrini, Italian Baseball League pitcher 1988 – Haijun Deng, China Baseball League outfielder 1989 – Koshiro Imamura, Japanese national team pitcher 1989 – Héctor Mayora, minor league pitcher 1989 – Ryan Searle, minor league pitcher 1990 – Darrell Ceciliani, outfielder 1990 – Ali Knowles, minor league pitcher 1992 – Miller Diaz, minor league pitcher 1992 – Chi-Hung Hsu, CPBL infielder 1992 – Michele Meschini, Italian Baseball League pitcher 1993 – Cheng-Hsuan Lin, CPBL pitcher 1994 – Engelb Vielma, infielder 1994 – Rhett Wiseman, minor league outfielder 1995 – Matthew Batten, infielder 1995 – Chung-Hei Leung, Hong Kong national team pitcher 1995 – Tyler O’Neill, outfielder 1996 – César Rosado, minor league pitcher 1997 – Josh Naylor, infielder; All-Star 1997 – Troy Johnston, infielder 1999 – Briley Knight, minor league outfielder 2000 – Tyler Callihan, infielder 2000 – Christoph Hoscher, Austrian national team catcher 2000 – Liván Soto, infielder 2001 – Takaya Ishikawa, NPB infielder 2001 – Akira Itokazu, Peruvian national team pitcher 2001 – Matthew Ward, Bundesliga catcher 2002 – Amiel de Guzman, Philippines national team pitcher 2002 – Kai-Noa Wynyard, minor league pitcher 2004 – Chun-Sheng Hsin, CPBL pitcher 2004 – Khushdeep Kaur, Indian women’s national team catcher 2005 – Filip Kollmann, Extraliga pitcher Deaths[edit] 1903 – Fatty Briody, catcher (b. 1858) 1907 – Parry Wright, umpire (b. 1859) 1908 – Everett Mills, infielder, manager (b. 1845) 1910 – Tom Doran, catcher (b. 1880) 1918 – Jack Abbott, college coach (b. 1873) 1923 – Javan Emory, Negro League manager (b. 1859) 1926 – Joe Crotty, catcher (b. 1859) 1930 – Bill Dam, outfielder (b. 1885) 1940 – Montague Alfred Noble, Australian executive (b. 1873) 1944 – Larry Sutton, scout (b. 1858) 1953 – Charlie Hemphill, outfielder (b. 1876) 1955 – Frankie Hayes, catcher; All-Star (b. 1914) 1956 – Ed Forsythe, infielder (b. 1887) 1959 – Hal Bubser, pinch hitter (b. 1895) 1959 – Arthur DeBaker, minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1874) 1980 – Eddie McLane, college coach (b. 1899) 1981 – Kisaku Kato, NPB infielder and manager (b. 1908) 1986 – Alpheus Deane, pitcher (b. 1916) 1988 – Hank Edwards, outfielder (b. 1919) 1988 – Russell Trabue, pitcher (b. 1900) 1991 – Marv Owen, infielder (b. 1906) 1992 – Rufus Baker, infielder (b. 1918) 1993 – Bubba Phillips, infielder (b. 1928) 2002 – Darryl Kile, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1968) 2002 – Ron Kline, pitcher (b. 1932) 2003 – Harry Kinzy, pitcher (b. 1910) 2003 – Leonard Koppett, writer (b. 1923) 2005 – Roberto Olivo, Venezuelan League umpire (b. 1914) 2006 – Paul Campbell, infielder (b. 1917) 2009 – Hiromi Wada, NPB catcher (b. 1936) 2013 – Seitaro Watanabe, NPB pitcher (b. 1922) 2014 – Steve Anson, college coach (b. 1954) 2018 – Tony Bartirome, infielder (b. 1932) 2022 – Moe Ogier, minor league pitcher (b. 1944) 2022 – Allan Rajanen, minor league catcher (b. 1950) 2025 – Matt Murray, pitcher (b. 1970) ============================================== TV SPORTS TODAY (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, June 22 COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — Men’s College World Series – Finals: TBD, Game 3, Omaha, Neb. (if necessary) ESPNU — Men’s College World Series – Finals: TBD, Game 3, Omaha, Neb. (Altcast) (if necessary) MLB BASEBALL 6:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Kansas City at Tampa Bay (6:40 p.m.) OR N.Y. Yankees at Detroit (6:40 p.m.) From grills to beer: What dads say they want for Father’s Day 10 p.m. ESPN — Atlanta at San Diego SOCCER (MEN’S) 1 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Argentina vs. Austria, Group J, Arlington, Texas 5 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: France vs. Iraq, Group I, Philadelphia 8 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Norway vs. Senegal, Group I, East Rutherford, N.J. 11 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Jordan vs. Algeria, Group J, Santa Clara, Calif. SOFTBALL 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Talons WNBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. USA — Phoenix at Indiana _____ Tuesday, June 23 MLB BASEBALL Noon MLBN — 2026 MLB Scouting Combine: From Phoenix 5 p.m. MLBN — Houston at Toronto (joined in progress) (4:07 p.m.) 7:30 p.m. TBS — L.A. Dodgers at Minnesota (7:40 p.m.) 9:30 p.m. MLBN — Athletics at San Francisco (9:45 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. ABC — 2026 NBA Draft: First Round, New York ESPN — 2026 NBA Draft: First Round, New York NBATV — 2026 NBA Draft: First Round, New York SOCCER (MEN’S) 1 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Portugal vs. Uzbekistan, Group K, Houston 4 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: England vs. Ghana, Group L, Foxborough, Mass. 7 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Panama vs. Croatia, Group L, Toronto 10 p.m. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Colombia vs. Congo DR, Group K, Guadalajara, Mexico SOFTBALL 7 p.m. ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited: Bandits at Volts 9 p.m. CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Talons WNBA BASKETBALL 10 p.m. USA — New York at Las Vegas _____ Wednesday, June 24 MLB BASEBALL Noon MLBN — Texas at Miami (12:10 p.m.) 3 p.m. MLBN — Boston at Colorado (3:10 p.m.) 6:40 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — N.Y. Yankees at Detroit 7 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets (7:10 p.m.) OR Milwaukee at Cincinnati (7:10 p.m.) 10 p.m. MLBN — Athletics at San Francisco (joined in progress) (9:45 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. ESPN — 2026 NBA Draft: Second Round, New York NBATV — 2026 NBA Draft: Second Round, New York SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Switzerland vs. Canada, Group B, Vancouver, British Columbia FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Bosnia-Herzegovina vs. Qatar, Group B, Seattle 6 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Scotland vs. Brazil, Group C, Miami Gardens, Fla. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Morocco vs. Haiti, Group C, Atlanta 8 p.m. ESPN2 — USL Championship: San Antonio at Colorado Springs 9 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Czech Republic vs. Mexico, Group A, Mexico City FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: South Africa vs. South Korea, Group A, Guadalupe, Mexico SOFTBALL 8 p.m. CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Bandits at Volts WNBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. USA — Phoenix at Indiana 10 p.m. USA — Atlanta at Golden State _____ Thursday, June 25 GOLF 7 a.m. GOLF — DP World Tour: DS Automobiles 83° Open d’Italia, First Round, Circolo Golf Torino, Fiano, Torino, Italy 11 .m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, First Round, Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn. 3 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: Travelers Championship, First Round, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn. MLB BASEBALL Noon MLBN — Kansas City at Tampa Bay (12:10 p.m.) 7 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Yankees at Boston (7:10 p.m.) OR Texas at Toronto (7:07 p.m.) SOCCER (MEN’S) 4 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Ecuador vs. Germany, Group E, East Rutherford, N.J. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Curacao vs. Ivory Coast, Group E, Philadelphia 7 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Tunisia vs. Netherlands, Group F, Kansas City, Mo. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Japan vs. Sweden, Group F, Arlington, Texas 10 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Turkey vs. U.S., Group D, Inglewood, Calif. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Paraguay vs. Australia, Group D, Santa Clara, Calif. SOFTBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — Athletes Unlimited: Talons at Blaze WNBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Los Angeles at Toronto 10 p.m. NBATV — Dallas at Las Vegas _____ Friday, June 26 AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 11 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 6:30 a.m. (Saturday) APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria GOLF 7 a.m. GOLF — DP World Tour: DS Automobiles 83° Open d’Italia, Second Round, Circolo Golf Torino, Fiano, Torino, Italy 11 .m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Second Round, Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn. 3 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: Travelers Championship, Second Round, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn. 9 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: DICK’S Open, First Round, En-Joie Golf Course, Endicott, N.Y. (taped) MLB BASEBALL 7 p.m. MLBN — Seattle at Cleveland (7:10 p.m.) 7:40 p.m. APPLE TV — Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee 9:40 p.m. APPLE TV — L.A. Dodgers at San Diego 10 p.m. MLBN — Atlanta at San Francisco (10:15 p.m.) SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Norway vs. France, Group I, Foxborough, Mass. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Senegal vs. Iraq, Group I, Toronto 8 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Uruguay vs. Spain, Group H, Guadalajara, Mexico FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, Group H, Houston 11 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: New Zealand vs. Belgium, Group G, Vancouver, British Columbia FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Egypt vs. Iran, Group G, Seattle SOFTBALL 6 p.m. CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Talons at Blaze 8 p.m. ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Volts WNBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. ION — TBA 10 p.m. ION — Atlanta at Golden State _____ Saturday, June 27 AUTO RACING 6:30 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 10 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Qualifying, Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 5:30 p.m. CW — NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series: Pit Boss/FoodMaxx 250, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, Calif. BIG3 BASKETBALL 4 p.m. CBS — Week 2: LA Riot vs. Dallas Power, Detroit Amps vs. Miami 305, Houston Rig Hands vs. Boston Ball Hogs, DMV Trilogy vs. Chicago Triplets, Detroit GOLF 7:30 a.m. GOLF — DP World Tour: DS Automobiles 83° Open d’Italia, Third Round, Circolo Golf Torino, Fiano, Torino, Italy 10 a.m. NBCSN — LPGA Tour: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Third Round, Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn. Noon NBC — LPGA Tour: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Third Round, Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn. 1 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: Travelers Championship, Third Round, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn. 3 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Third Round, Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn. NBC — PGA Tour: Travelers Championship, Third Round, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn. 5 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: DICK’S Open, Second Round, En-Joie Golf Course, Endicott, N.Y. 6 a.m. (Sunday) GOLF — DP World Tour: DS Automobiles 83° Open d’Italia, Final Round, Circolo Golf Torino, Fiano, Torino, Italy LACROSSE (MEN’S) 4 p.m. ESPN — PLL: TBA, San Diego MIXED MARTIAL ARTS 10 p.m. ESPN2 — PFL: Main Card, San Diego MLB BASEBALL 1 p.m. ABC — N.Y. Yankees at Boston (1:10 p.m.) 4 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets (4:10 p.m.) OR Kansas City at Chicago White Sox (4:10 p.m.) 8:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: L.A. Dodgers at San Diego (8:40 p.m.) OR Atlanta at San Francisco (9:05 p.m.) SOCCER (MEN’S) 5 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Panama vs. England, Group L, East Rutherford, N.J. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Croatia vs. Ghana, Group L, Philadelphia 7:30 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Colombia vs. Portugal, Group K, Miami Gardens, Fla. FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Congo DR vs. Uzbekistan, Group K, Atlanta 10 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Jordan vs. Argentina, Group J, Arlington, Texas FS1 — FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Algeria vs. Austria, Group J, Kansas City, Mo. SOFTBALL 2 p.m. ESPN — Athletes Unlimited: Talons at Blaze 5 p.m. CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Bandits at Spark WNBA BASKETBALL 2 p.m. CBS — Phoenix at Toronto 8 p.m. CBS — Los Angeles at Indiana X GAMES 4 p.m. ABC — X Games Sacramento 2026: Day 2, From Sacramento, Calif. _____ Sunday, June 28 AUTO RACING 9 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Lenova Austrian Grand Prix, Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 3:30 p.m. TNT — NASCAR Cup Series: Toyota / Save Mart 350, In-Season Challenge – Round 1, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, Calif. 5:30 p.m. FOX — NHRA: Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park, Norwalk, Ohio GOLF 6 a.m. GOLF — DP World Tour: DS Automobiles 83° Open d’Italia, Final Round, Circolo Golf Torino, Fiano, Torino, Italy 9 a.m. NBCSN — LPGA Tour: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Final Round, Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn. 11 a.m. GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: DICK’S Open, Final Round, En-Joie Golf Course, Endicott, N.Y. 1 p.m. NBC — LPGA Tour: KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Final Round, Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minn. 2 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: Travelers Championship, Final Round, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn. 4 p.m. NBC — PGA Tour: Travelers Championship, Final Round, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Conn. MLB BASEBALL 1:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (1:35 p.m.) OR Arizona at Tampa Bay (1:40 p.m.) 3 p.m. NBCSN — Athletics at L.A. Angels (3:15 p.m.) PEACOCK — Athletics at L.A. Angels (3:15 p.m.) 7 p.m. NBC — N.Y. Yankees at Boston (7:20 p.m.) PEACOCK — N.Y. Yankees at Boston (7:20 p.m.) SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup Knockout Stage: TBD, Inglewood, Calif. SOFTBALL 1 p.m. ESPN — Athletes Unlimited: Cascade at Volts 8 p.m. MLBN — Athletes Unlimited: Bandits at Spark WNBA BASKETBALL 2 p.m. CBS — Minnesota at Dallas 4 p.m. CBS — Las Vegas at Chicago 7 p.m. ESPN — New York at Golden State X GAMES 4 p.m.ABC — X Games Sacramento 2026: Day 2, From Sacramento, Calif. About The Author troyderengowski61@gmail.com See author's posts Post navigation THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” SUNDAY JUNE 21, 2026
