“THE SCOREBOARD”
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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL
SATURDAY SCORES: https://www.maxpreps.com/in/volleyball/scores/?date=9/12/2026
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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER
SATURDAY SCORES: https://www.maxpreps.com/in/soccer/scores/?date=9/12/2026
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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOCCER
SATURDAY SCORES: https://www.maxpreps.com/in/soccer/girls/scores/?date=9/12/2026
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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS CROSS COUNTRY
https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/boys/cross-country
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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY
https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/girls/cross-country
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INDIANA BOYS TENNIS
https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/boys/tennis
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INDIANA GIRLS FLAG FOOTBALL
SATURDAY SCORES: https://www.maxpreps.com/in/flag-football/girls/scores/?date=9/12/2026
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD
MARINERS 19, ATHLETICS 1
METS 12, YANKEES 2
TIGERS 11, ROCKIES 7
MARLINS 4, DODGERS 3
RAYS 3, ASTROS 2
WHITE SOX 6, CARDINALS 5
RANGERS 6, DIAMONDBACKS 2
CUBS 4, PIRATES 3
BRAVES 12, PHILLIES 2
BREWERS 13, REDS 9
RED SOX 5, ROYALS 1
BLUE JAYS 7, ORIOLES 3
PADRES 7, GIANTS 6
NATIONALS 6, ANGELS 5
TWINS 4, GUARDIANS 3
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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD
INDIANAPOLIS 5 OMAHA 1
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WNBA SCOREBOARD
NO GAMES SCHEDULED
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MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER SCOREBOARD
RED BULL NY 1 COLUMBUS 0
DC UNITED 0 ATLANTA 0
CINCINNATI 3 CHARLOTTE 3
MIAMI 2 NASHVILLE 2
ORLANDO 3 TORONTO 0
DALLAS 2 PORTLAND 1
KANSAS CITY 3 LAFC 1
ST. LOUIS 4 MINNESOTA 2
COLORADO 1 MONTREAL 0
NY CITY 2 SALT LAKE 0
LA GALAXY 1 SEATTLE 1
SAN JOSE 1 HOUSTON 0
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD
COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 2
SATURDAY, SEPT. 12
NO. 5 INDIANA 55, HOWARD 0
NO. 16 PENN STATE 27, TEMPLE 9
NO. 10 TEXAS A&M 48, ARIZONA STATE 20
NO. 2 GEORGIA 70, WESTERN KENTUCKY 20
SOUTH FLORIDA 28, ARMY 24
KENT STATE 36, WOFFORD 15
DAYTON 30, THOMAS MORE 7
RHODE ISLAND 31, ELON 10
KANSAS STATE 34, WASHINGTON STATE 7
VIRGINIA TECH 44, OLD DOMINION 21
WAKE FOREST 38, PURDUE 36
APP STATE 27, EAST CAROLINA 24
LIBERTY 24, GARDNER-WEBB 23
CENTRAL MICHIGAN 13, COLGATE 10
MIAMI (OHIO) 45, HOLY CROSS 7
JAMES MADISON 87, WAGNER 3
NORTH CAROLINA 35, EAST TENNESSEE STATE 3
DAVIDSON 28, DICKINSON 14
LAFAYETTE 13, MARIST 9
SPRINGFIELD 48, HUSSON 0
WEST VIRGINIA 52, UT MARTIN 7
WASHINGTON & JEFF. 42, KEYSTONE 0
CENTRAL STATE (OHIO) 49, MOREHOUSE 21
HOPE 38, WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT 10
ROSE-HULMAN 27, KALAMAZOO 7
CALVIN 49, SAINT NORBERT 7
BUCKNELL 14, VMI 3
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL 30, NORTH CAROLINA A&T 22
OKLAHOMA STATE 39, NO. 6 OREGON 31
BALL STATE 41, STONY BROOK 17
SOUTH DAKOTA 41, EASTERN WASHINGTON 23
YOUNGSTOWN STATE 70, DUQUESNE 13
LEHIGH 44, WILLIAM & MARY 20
UNI 56, DRAKE 14
MAYVILLE STATE 37, MINNESOTA MORRIS 13
CONCORDIA CHICAGO 42, GRINNELL 7
MONTANA 35 , UTAH TECH 14
NO. 3 NOTRE DAME 52, RICE 0
NO. 12 ALABAMA 45, KENTUCKY 17
NO. 15 BYU 28, ARIZONA 17
NO. 19 WASHINGTON 16 , UTAH STATE 14
MISSISSIPPI STATE 38, MINNESOTA 13
COLORADO 52, WEBER STATE 21
PITT 12, UCF 7
CAL 21, SYRACUSE 18
DUKE 31, ILLINOIS 27
MICHIGAN STATE 35, EASTERN MICHIGAN 7
MARYLAND 38, UCONN 14
UTSA 30, TEXAS STATE 26
UAB 23, UL MONROE 20
AKRON 45, ROBERT MORRIS 10
TOLEDO 63, CENTRAL CONNECTICUT 10
UMASS 37, SACRED HEART 10
NORTH TEXAS 44, UNLV 6
NO. 17 SMU 56, UC DAVIS 10
WYOMING 21, NORTHERN COLORADO 13
NEW MEXICO 70, MERCYHURST 7
TROY 34, ALABAMA STATE 17
LAMAR 23, IDAHO 17
VANDERBILT 35 , DELAWARE 26
AUSTIN PEAY 63, MOREHEAD STATE 7
NORTHERN ARIZONA 38, UIW 28
FLORIDA 52 , CAMPBELL 3
BOISE STATE 38, MEMPHIS 20
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 33, BUFFALO 20
OHIO 29, JACKSONVILLE STATE 27
IDAHO STATE 59, SAN DIEGO 17
EASTERN KENTUCKY 22, CHATTANOOGA 17
CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 26, THE CITADEL 20
BUTLER 52 , FRANKLIN 0
FURMAN 20, MERCER 13
KENTUCKY STATE 20, CLARK ATLANTA 3
WESTERN MICHIGAN 49 , MONMOUTH 14
CINCINNATI 62, WESTERN CAROLINA 10
NO. 22 HOUSTON 77 , SOUTHERN 6
NEBRASKA 56, BOWLING GREEN 7
COLORADO STATE 58, SOUTHERN UTAH 24
TULSA 23, SAM HOUSTON 17
ILLINOIS STATE 28, NORTHERN ILLINOIS 24
TULANE 28, SOUTH ALABAMA 24
ARKANSAS STATE 52, WEST GEORGIA 7
GEORGIA STATE 31, KENNESAW STATE 17
MARSHALL 28, MIDDLE TENNESSEE 26
MISSOURI STATE 48, LINDENWOOD 14
INDIANA STATE 42, EASTERN ILLINOIS 35
NICHOLLS 31, UT RIO GRAND VALLEY 28
TENNESSEE TECH 45, SAMFORD 16
EAST TEXAS A&M 38, NORTHWESTERN STATE 14
HOUSTON CHRISTIAN 88, ARKANSAS BAPTIST 0
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 57, NEW HAVEN 14
OUACHITA BAPTIST 23, SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE 17
TRINITY (TX) 31, MCMURRY 17
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN 25, RIPON 24
UCLA 28 , SAN DIEGO STATE 10
WISCONSIN 36, WESTERN ILLINOIS 9
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 34 , SE MISSOURI STATE 20
CENTRAL ARKANSAS 59, CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 20
SE LOUISIANA 30, NORTH ALABAMA 25
NO. 21 IOWA 16, IOWA STATE 13
FLORIDA ATLANTIC 38, NAVY 30
COASTAL CAROLINA 45, FORDHAM 7
NO. 9 OLE MISS 41, CHARLOTTE 9
NO. 8 LSU 45, LOUISIANA TECH 14
MURRAY STATE 27, VALPARAISO 18
NO. 18 TENNESSEE 45, GEORGIA TECH 24
NO. 4 TEXAS 24, NO. 1 OHIO STATE 23
SOUTH CAROLINA 45 , TOWSON 9
TARLETON STATE 27, MCNEESE 24
NO. 13 TEXAS TECH 35, OREGON STATE 24
TCU 63, GRAMBLING 7
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN 26, ABILENE CHRISTIAN 7
BAYLOR 44, PRAIRIE VIEW A&M 3
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 3
THURSDAY, SEPT. 17
SYRACUSE AT PITT | 7:30 P.M. | ESPN
FRIDAY, SEPT. 18
MIAMI (FLA.) AT WAKE FOREST | 7:30 P.M. | ESPN
HOUSTON AT TEXAS TECH | 8 P.M. | FOX
PORTLAND STATE AT OREGON | 10:30 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK
SATURDAY, SEPT. 19
COASTAL CAROLINA AT DELAWARE | 11:30 A.M. | CBSSN
KENT STATE AT OHIO STATE | 12 P.M. | FOX
GEORGIA AT ARKANSAS | 12 P.M. | ABC
BUFFALO AT PENN STATE | 12 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK
TULANE AT KANSAS STATE | 12 P.M. | ESPN2
BOWLING GREEN AT IOWA STATE | 12 P.M. | ESPNU
ARIZONA STATE AT KANSAS | 12 P.M. | FS1
MERCER AT GEORGIA TECH | 12 P.M. | ACC NETWORK
NORTH CAROLINA AT CLEMSON | 12 P.M. | ESPN/DISNEY+
AKRON AT MINNESOTA | 12 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK
NORTH TEXAS AT TEXAS STATE | 12 P.M. | USA NETWORK
EASTERN MICHIGAN AT WISCONSIN | 12:30 P.M. | PEACOCK
NC STATE AT VANDERBILT | 12:45 P.M. | SEC NETWORK
WYOMING AT CENTRAL MICHIGAN | 1 P.M. | ESPN+
MAINE AT BOSTON COLLEGE | 2 P.M. | ACCNX
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AT ILLINOIS | 2 P.M. | PEACOCK
TEMPLE AT TOLEDO | 3 P.M. | CBSSN
KENTUCKY AT TEXAS A&M | 3:30 P.M.
FLORIDA STATE AT ALABAMA | 3:30 P.M. | ABC
USC AT RUTGERS | 3:30 P.M. | CBS
SMU AT LOUISVILLE | 3:30 P.M.
UTAH STATE AT UTAH | 3:30 P.M. | FOX
MIAMI (OHIO) AT CINCINNATI | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+
WAGNER AT CAL | 3:30 P.M. | ACC NETWORK
UTEP AT MICHIGAN | 3:30 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK
DUQUESNE AT WASHINGTON STATE | 3:30 P.M. | USA NETWORK
STONEHILL AT UMASS | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+
WESTERN KENTUCKY AT INDIANA | 4 P.M. | PEACOCK
UNI AT IOWA | 4 P.M. | FS1
STANFORD AT DUKE | 4 P.M. | CW
BALL STATE AT LIBERTY | 4 P.M. | ESPN+
LOUISIANA TECH AT BAYLOR | 4 P.M. | ESPNU
MISSISSIPPI STATE AT SOUTH CAROLINA | 4:15 P.M. | SEC NETWORK
SE LOUISIANA AT UL MONROE | 4:30 P.M. | ESPN+
EAST CAROLINA AT OLD DOMINION | 6 P.M. | ESPN+
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC | 6 P.M. | ESPN+
CHARLOTTE AT APPALACHIAN STATE | 6 P.M. | ESPN+
MARSHALL AT MISSOURI STATE | 6:30 P.M. | CBSSN
TROY AT MISSOURI | 7 P.M. | SECN+
FLORIDA AT AUBURN | 7 P.M. | ESPN
GEORGIA STATE AT UCF | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
MURRAY STATE AT OKLAHOMA STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
UCONN AT SOUTHERN MISS | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
UT MARTIN AT MEMPHIS | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
WESTERN MICHIGAN AT RICE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
DELAWARE STATE AT SOUTH FLORIDA | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
NEVADA AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
OHIO AT SOUTH ALABAMA | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
GEORGIA SOUTHERN AT JACKSONVILLE STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
NICHOLLS AT SAM HOUSTON | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
EASTERN WASHINGTON AT WASHINGTON | 7:15 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK
MICHIGAN STATE AT NOTRE DAME | 7:30 P.M. | NBC
LSU AT OLE MISS | 7:30 P.M. | ABC
NEW MEXICO AT OKLAHOMA | 7:30 P.M. | ESPN2
BYU AT COLORADO STATE | 7:30 P.M. | CBS
WEST VIRGINIA VS. VIRGINIA (IN CHARLOTTE, N.C.) | 7:30 P.M. | ACC NETWORK
VIRGINIA TECH AT MARYLAND | 7:30 P.M. | FOX/FS1
KENNESAW STATE AT TENNESSEE | 7:45 P.M. | SEC NETWORK
UTSA AT TEXAS | 8 P.M. | SECN+
ARKANSAS STATE AT TCU | 8 P.M. | ESPNU
EAST TEXAS A&M AT TULSA | 8 P.M. | ESPN+
UAB AT LOUISIANA | 8 P.M. | ESPN+
SOUTH DAKOTA AT BOISE STATE | 10 P.M. | CBSSN
JAMES MADISON AT SAN DIEGO STATE | 10 P.M. | CW
NORTHERN ILLINOIS AT ARIZONA | 10:30 P.M. | TNT
NORTH DAKOTA STATE AT SACRAMENTO STATE | 10:30 P.M. | ESPN
PURDUE AT UCLA | 11 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK
MONTANA AT OREGON STATE | 11 P.M. | USA NETWORK
FRESNO STATE AT SAN JOSE STATE | 11 P.M. | FS1
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NFL WEEK 1 SCHEDULE
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2026
BEARS @ PANTHERS 1:00 PM FOX BANK OF AMERICA STADIUM, CHARLOTTE
BUCCANEERS @ BENGALS 1:00 PM FOX PAYCOR STADIUM, CINCINNATI
SAINTS @ LIONS 1:00 PM FOX FORD FIELD, DETROIT
FALCONS @ STEELERS 1:00 PM FOX ACRISURE STADIUM, PITTSBURGH
BILLS @ TEXANS 1:00 PM CBS NRG STADIUM, HOUSTON
RAVENS @ COLTS 1:00 PM CBS LUCAS OIL STADIUM, INDIANAPOLIS
BROWNS @ JAGUARS 1:00 PM CBS EVERBANK STADIUM, JACKSONVILLE
JETS @ TITANS 1:00 PM CBS NISSAN STADIUM, NASHVILLE
DOLPHINS @ RAIDERS 4:25 PM FOX ALLEGIANT STADIUM, LAS VEGAS
COMMANDERS @ EAGLES 4:25 PM FOX LINCOLN FINANCIAL FIELD, PHILADELPHIA
CARDINALS @ CHARGERS 4:25 PM CBS SOFI STADIUM, INGLEWOOD
PACKERS @ VIKINGS 4:25 PM CBS U.S. BANK STADIUM, MINNEAPOLIS
COWBOYS @ GIANTS 8:20 PM NBC / PEACOCK METLIFE STADIUM, EAST RUTHERFORD
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2026
BRONCOS @ CHIEFS 8:15 PM ESPN / ABC GEHA FIELD AT ARROWHEAD STADIUM, KANSAS CITY
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2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS SCHEDULE
WEEK DATE OPPONENT TV / TIME (ET)
WEEK 1 THU, AUG 13 @ NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS LOCAL (7:30 PM)
WEEK 2 SAT, AUG 22 VS. ATLANTA FALCONS LOCAL (1:00 PM)
WEEK 3 SAT, AUG 29 VS. DETROIT LIONS LOCAL (1:00 PM)
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2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE
WEEK DATE OPPONENT TIME (ET) TV / STREAMING
1 SUN, SEPT 13 VS. BALTIMORE RAVENS 1:00 PM CBS
2 SUN, SEPT 20 @ KANSAS CITY CHIEFS 8:20 PM NBC
3 SUN, SEPT 27 VS. HOUSTON TEXANS 1:00 PM CBS
4 SUN, OCT 4 @ WASHINGTON COMMANDERS 9:30 AM NFL NET
5 SUN, OCT 11 @ PITTSBURGH STEELERS 1:00 PM CBS
6 SUN, OCT 18 VS. TENNESSEE TITANS 1:00 PM FOX
7 SUN, OCT 25 @ MINNESOTA VIKINGS 1:00 PM CBS
8 SUN, NOV 1 @ JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS 1:00 PM CBS
9 SUN, NOV 8 VS. DALLAS COWBOYS 1:00 PM FOX
10 SUN, NOV 15 VS. MIAMI DOLPHINS 1:00 PM CBS
11 THU, NOV 19 @ HOUSTON TEXANS 8:15 PM PRIME VIDEO
12 SUN, NOV 29 VS. NEW YORK GIANTS 1:00 PM FOX
13 BYE WEEK
14 SUN, DEC 13 @ PHILADELPHIA EAGLES 1:00 PM FOX
15 SUN, DEC 20 @ TENNESSEE TITANS 1:00 PM CBS
16 TBD – FLEX VS. CINCINNATI BENGALS TBD TBD
17 SUN, JAN 3 @ CLEVELAND BROWNS 1:00 PM FOX
18 TBD – FLEX GAME VS. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS TBD TBD
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DOWN 20 POINTS IN 4TH QUARTER, NO. 4 TEXAS RALLIES TO STUN NO. 1 OHIO STATE
Hollywood Smothers scored on a 1-yard touchdown run with 25 seconds to play and Arch Manning came alive in the fourth quarter to direct three scoring drives as No. 4 Texas rallied for a 24-23 victory over top-ranked Ohio State on Saturday in a titanic early season clash in Austin, Texas.
Manning finished with 196 yards passing after collecting only 60 yards in a dreary first half. He completed 23 of his 37 throws and ran for 22 yards on seven carries, while Smothers finished with 74 yards and two scores on the ground for Texas (2-0).
Ohio State ruled through three quarters before Texas dominated the fourth. The Longhorns trailed 23-3 midway through the third quarter but drew to within six points on Smothers’ 1-yard TD with 7:14 to play.
The Buckeyes’ Connor Hawkins missed a 45-yard field-goal attempt with 4:16 remaining, and the Longhorns drove 73 yards in 12 plays for the winning score.
Julian Sayin passed for 278 yards and a touchdown to Jeremiah Smith to lead Ohio State (1-1). Smith finished with eight catches for 164 yards, but only two of those catches came in the second half.
The Buckeyes took advantage of the Longhorns’ early mistakes to build a 10-0 lead. Raleek Brown fumbled on the game’s first offensive snap with Ohio State’s Jay Timmons both forcing the miscue and recovering it on the Texas 18-yard line. The Buckeyes settled for Hawkins’ 28-yard field goal.
Later in the quarter, Ohio State’s Jaylen McClain intercepted a Manning pass that bounced out of Cam Coleman’s hands when he dove for the ball. The Buckeyes drove 81 yards in 10 plays, culminating with Ja’Kobi Jackson’s 8-yard TD run with 5:39 left in the first quarter.
Gianni Spetic got the Longhorns on the board with a 37-yard field goal with 5:42 to play in the second quarter. Hawkins answered with a 30-yard FG with 1:41 to go until halftime.
The Buckeyes had the half’s final score, a 19-yard Sayin-to-Smith scoring pass that gave Ohio State a 20-3 lead at the break.
The Buckeyes outgained Texas 240-97 in the half, with Sayin producing 192 yards through the air to Manning’s 60.
Ohio State added to the margin when Hawkins converted his third FG of the game, this one from 48 yards away, with 8:09 to play in the third quarter.
Manning’s 3-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Wingo on the second snap of the fourth quarter culled the Longhorns’ deficit to 23-10 to set the stage for the furious finish with Smothers’ pair of 1-yard TD runs.
COMPLETE COLLEGE RUNDOWN: https://www.espn.com/college-football/scoreboard/_/group/80
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
MLB ROUNDUP: MARINERS CLOBBER A’S BY FRANCHISE-RECORD 18 RUNS
The Seattle Mariners set a franchise record for largest victory margin as well as season bests for runs and hits in a 19-1 rout of the Athletics on Saturday night in West Sacramento, Calif.
Cole Young homered and drove in five runs and Randy Arozarena went deep and had four RBIs for the Mariners. Among their 23 hits were rookie Michael Arroyo’s first major league homer and home runs for Dominic Canzone and J.P. Crawford.
Weston Wilson had a career-best five hits while Young, Arroyo (three RBIs), Josh Naylor and Julio Rodriguez had three hits apiece for Seattle. Right-hander Bryan Woo (12-9) continued his mastery against the Athletics by allowing one unearned run and three hits over six innings. He struck out five and walked two to improve to 9-1 in 12 career starts against the A’s.
The Athletics lost for just the third time in 10 games. All-Star Shea Langeliers (knee) was activated prior to the game and went 1-for-3 with the lone RBI. Gage Jump (6-11) gave up five runs and five hits over two innings.
Mets 12, Yankees 2
Francisco Lindor, Luis Torrens and rookie Carson Benge homered off Gerrit Cole, and the visiting Mets rolled to a 12-2 victory over the Yankees.
Lindor added a grand slam in the eighth as the Mets won for the fifth time in six games and improved to 22-13 since their big selloff at last month’s trade deadline by hitting Cole hard again. Rookie Zac Thornton (4-5) allowed two runs on five hits in a career-high-tying seven innings.
Cole was tagged for five runs on nine hits (three home runs) in 4 1/3 innings after allowing four homers in Sunday’s loss at San Diego. He struck out four and didn’t walk a batter as he matched his second-shortest outing since returning from Tommy John surgery on May 22.
Tigers 11, Rockies 7
Hao-Yu Lee sparked a seven-run, eighth-inning rally with a double and capped it with a two-run triple as host Detroit beat struggling Colorado.
Lee had three hits, scored twice and drove in three runs. Max Clark supplied three hits while scoring a run and knocking in another, and Kevin McGonigle added a solo homer.
Hunter Goodman blasted a three-run homer for the Rockies, who have lost six straight. Tigers starter Andrew Sears gave up four runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings. Colorado starter Tanner Gordon allowed four runs and 10 hits in four innings.
Marlins 4, Dodgers 3
Graham Pauley slugged a two-run homer and Otto Lopez smacked a go-ahead RBI single in a three-run second inning as host Miami defeated Los Angeles to end the Dodgers’ eight-game winning streak.
The Marlins’ bullpen allowed just two hits and one run in 5 1/3 innings. Miami snapped a four-game losing skid. The Marlins are just 2-7 over their past nine games.
Max Muncy and Mookie Betts — each with a solo homer — led Los Angeles’ offense. Muncy has 28 dingers this season. Betts has 20. Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman returned to action after missing two games due to knee soreness. Freeman went 0-for-4.
Rays 3, Astros 2
Pinch hitter Nick Madrigal produced a tie-breaking sacrifice fly, Bryan Baker recorded his major league-leading 40th save and first-place Tampa Bay edged Houston in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Richie Palacios had a single and two RBIs while Victor Mesa singled, scored and walked twice as the Rays stretched their lead over the New York Yankees in the American League East to four games.
Starter Ian Seymour had a dominant stretch after allowing a run in the first inning but failed to win in his sixth straight appearance, five of them starts. The left-hander finished with two runs allowed on four hits over six innings. He whiffed 10 and walked one. Tyler Wells (5-2) followed Seymour with a scoreless seventh.
White Sox 6, Cardinals 5
Randal Grichuk hit a go-ahead two-run home run with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to help Chicago beat host St. Louis and snap a four-game losing streak.
Grichuk went deep with a 1-2 count against closer Riley O’Brien, taking a sinker just over the fence to the opposite field in right, with outfielder Victor Scott II also losing his glove over the fence. Grichuk’s 13th home run, against the team that brought him to the majors, trumped a tie-breaking solo shot by Cardinals rookie Leo Bernal against Grant Taylor in the bottom of the eighth.
Another former Cardinals player, right-hander Jordan Hicks (3-2), walked a batter but also got one out for the victory. Bryan Hudson got three outs for his eighth save.
Rangers 6, Diamondbacks 2
Wyatt Langford hit a 435-foot homer to open a six-run fifth inning, Elias Diaz had three hits and an RBI, and Texas beat Arizona in Phoenix to even their three-game series.
Rangers right-hander Nathan Eovaldi, activated from the injured list Saturday, gave up one run over 2 2/3 innings of relief in his first appearance since Aug. 7, though he did not factor in the decision.
Brandon Nimmo had two doubles and an RBI, and Josh Jung had two hits and an RBI for Texas. Jung was also activated from the injured list Saturday. Langford added a double.
Cubs 4, Pirates 3
Nico Hoerner was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to force in the go-ahead run as Chicago pulled out a victory over visiting Pittsburgh.
Pedro Ramirez had a double and a home run, and Michael Busch hit a solo shot for the Cubs. Ryan Rolison (9-1) allowed one hit in 1 2/3 scoreless innings to earn the win. Ryan Zeferjahn struck out Bryan Reynolds looking for the final out and his sixth save.
Ryan O’Hearn hit a three-run home run, and Paul Skenes allowed two runs on four hits over seven innings for the Pirates.
Braves 12, Phillies 2
Michael Harris II and Ronald Acuna Jr. each homered and right-hander Tyler Mahle produced another strong start to lead Atlanta to a win over visiting Philadelphia, clinching the three-game series.
The Braves now hold a six-game lead over the two-time division champion Phillies in the National League East. Harris was 4-for-5 with a three-run homer, his 25th, and two runs. Acuna was 3-for-3 with a home run and a walk, two runs scored and two RBIs. Mahle (6-10) matched his season high by pitching seven innings and allowed one run on six hits.
Tim Mayza was Philadelphia’s replacement starter for Jesus Luzardo, who had to be skipped because of shoulder soreness. It was the fifth time the left-hander had been used as an opener. He pitched three scoreless innings with two hits before being lifted.
Brewers 13, Reds 9
Garrett Mitchell’s bat remained scorching hot as the Milwaukee center fielder went 4-for-5 with four RBIs, helping the host Brewers break a record as they defeated Cincinnati.
Mitchell, who went 3-for-5 with a grand slam Friday, got all four hits in the first five innings, with a two-run homer in the first, and a two-run double that capped a five-run fifth. Cooper Pratt doubled while going 3-for-5, while Brice Turang (2-for-4) and William Contreras also homered in the win.
Juan Brito (3-for-4) hit his second home run and drove in three for the Reds, who lost their fifth straight. Eugenio Suarez hit his 23rd home run as part of a 3-for-4 night with three runs scored and two RBIs, and JJ Bleday broke an 0-for-20 streak with a 2-for-5 performance that included two runs scored and an RBI.
Red Sox 5, Royals 1
Ranger Suarez tossed his second straight seven-inning start and Boston scored in its final three at-bats en route to a win over visiting Kansas City.
Suarez (7-4) struck out eight, scattered five hits and allowed one run while completing his seven frames in 96 pitches as the Red Sox snapped their three-game losing streak. Roman Anthony, Adley Rutschman and Nick Sogard each had multiple hits while Wilyer Abreu hit a two-run double that gave Boston a sixth-inning lead it would not relinquish.
Carter Jensen’s 24th home run of the season marked the only scoring for the Royals, who opened the series with a win Friday.
Blue Jays 7, Orioles 3
Alejandro Kirk belted a two-run home run and had three RBIs to help Toronto defeat visiting Baltimore.
The teams have split the first two of the three-game series in their pursuit of an American League playoff spot. The Blue Jays are one game behind the Cleveland Guardians for the third and final AL wild-card spot. The Orioles are three behind. Brett Bateman added a solo shot for Toronto.
Kyle Bradish (7-14) allowed five runs and eight hits in three innings for Baltimore.
Padres 7, Giants 6
Jackson Merrill and Fernando Tatis Jr. hit home runs, Michael King overcame a shaky start to complete seven innings, and San Diego overcame host San Francisco for a sixth consecutive win.
Dustin Harris drove in three runs and Xander Bogaerts had four hits for the Padres, who now sit a game and a half ahead of the Arizona Diamondbacks for the third and final National League wild-card playoff spot.
Giants starter Cesar Perdomo (0-1) couldn’t finish the fifth, having allowed five runs and 10 hits in 4 2/3 innings. King (11-9) was pulled with a 7-3 lead after the seventh, having set down 16 of the final 18 batters he faced. He was charged with three runs on five hits, striking out four and walking none.
Nationals 6, Angels 5
Harry Ford drove in the winning run with an infield grounder and Washington survived another blown save to beat visiting Los Angeles.
With one out, Daylen Lile was intentionally walked by Jose Fermin (4-3). Runners CJ Abrams and Lile executed a double steal and, with the infield in, Angels shortstop Zach Neto booted Ford’s grounder and Abrams scored the winning run. Jack Sinclair (1-0) pitched 1 1/3 innings for the win.
Los Angeles trailed 4-0 entering the eighth but scored three runs in the eighth and two more in the ninth as the Nationals added to their major league record with their 39th blown save of the season. Andres Chaparro singled in Jose Tena to tie the game in the ninth.
Twins 4, Guardians 3
Emmanuel Rodriguez hit a home run in his first big-league plate appearance and Minnesota held on for a win over Cleveland in Minneapolis.
Royce Lewis went 1-for-3 with an RBI for the Twins, who also got RBIs from Kody Clemens and Victor Caratini, all in Minnesota’s four-run third inning. Twins left-hander Connor Prielipp (5-7) picked up his second victory in his past three starts, giving up three runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings,
Travis Bazzana finished 1-for-3 with an RBI for the Guardians, who dropped to 1 1/2 games behind the Chicago White Sox in the American League Central. Steven Kwan and Brayan Rocchio each drove in a run. Franco Aleman (0-1) was pelted for four runs on five hits in two-thirds of an inning.
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GOLF NEWS
ZACH JOHNSON, JAY JURECIC SHARE 36-HOLE SANFORD LEAD
Zach Johnson fired a 6-under-par 64 to pull into a share of the Sanford International lead during second-round play on Saturday in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Johnson and Jay Jurecic, who posted a second-round 65 at Minnehaha Country Club, enter the final round at 7-under 133. The former Masters champ with more than $55 million in career earnings and the former schoolteacher with $5,641 in career earnings will share Sunday’s final pairing with Ben Crane.
Crane (64), Jamie Donaldson of Wales (66) and South Africa’s Retief Goosen (67) lurk one shot behind the leaders.
Johnson and Jurecic moved to the top, in part, by posting eagles at the par-5 No. 12 within minutes of each other. Crane, Donaldson and Goosen settled for birdies on the hole.
“I struck the ball awesome,” Johnson said. “I hit the middle of the face a lot today, especially off the tee.”
If Johnson prevails Sunday, then the 50-year-old will claim his fifth Champions title this season. If Jurecic prevails, he’ll become the 16th player in Champions history to win after earning a spot in a tournament via the open qualifier.
The Sanford represents just the fourth Champions start for the 56-year-old Jurecic, who didn’t pick up a club until he was 18. He closed the second round with a birdie that generated a big response from the gallery.
“That was probably the best feeling in golf I’ve had with the grandstands,” said Jurecic, who played tours in the Dakotas for 20 years. “To make that putt and finish strong like that was just a dream come true. It felt awesome.”
Goosen and Chad Campbell fired 67s to share the lead after the first round, but Goosen backed up slightly as he balanced five birdies with two bogeys. Campbell posted a 68 to drop into a tie for sixth with Mark Wilson at 5-under.
Michael Block, Ryan Armour and Australia’s Greg Chalmers, who aced the 17th hole on Saturday, sit another shot back at 4-under.
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JENNIFER KUPCHO GETS U.S. EVEN THROUGH TWO DAYS OF SOLHEIM CUP
The United States rallied late to forge an 8-8 tie with Europe through two days of the Solheim Cup on Saturday, with Colorado’s Jennifer Kupcho giving her side plenty of final-day momentum.
Kupcho sank a pair of long putts of more than 110 feet combined on the final two holes of four-ball competition Saturday as the United States turned a deficit into a tie at Bernardus Golf near ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
Sunday’s 12 singles matches are only expected to increase the drama.
With Kupcho and Lindy Duncan down a hole at 17, Kupcho put her drive into a waste area along the right side of the fairway. She sent her approach shot over a pair of trees and to the back of a long green.
Putting first, Kupcho drained a 91-foot, downhill putt, while Europe’s Celine Boutier and Carlota Ciganda missed their short birdie putts. That tied the match and sent it into a deciding hole.
Kupcho won that too, with an estimated 20-foot left-breaking putt. Instead of Europe leading through two days, Kupcho’s putter evened the match.
With the 12 singles ahead, the United States needs 14 total points to retain the trophy.
While the putt at 18 won the match, it was the putt at 17 that left Kupcho feeling invincible.
“I don’t know, walking up to the (17th) green, I just thought, ‘OK, during all these practice rounds, I’d just get up and whack it,’” Kupcho said afterward on the Golf Channel broadcast. “So, yeah, really didn’t read it. I was, like, ‘All right, we’ll just give it a run, make sure we get it there.’ But what the heck, it went in. That was insane.”
After a 4-4 tie on the opening day, Europe forged ahead in foursomes competition earlier Saturday. Maja Stark and Linn Grant opened for Europe with a 3 and 2 victory over Allisen Corpuz and Nelly Korda.
Leona Maguire and Esther Henseleit had a 1-up victory over Kupcho and Rose Zhang in morning foursomes, while Mimi Rhodes and Nastasia Nadaud completed Europe’s dominating morning with a 4 and 3 victory over Andrea Lee and Auston Kim.
The only United States victory in the morning came in impressive fashion, 6 and 5 from Alison Lee and Lauren Coughlin over Charley Hull and Lottie Woad.
The day looked even worse when Europe opened four-ball play with a 2 and 1 victory from Stark and Grant over Megan Khang and Lauren Coughlin.
The United States went to work from there. Yealimi Noh and Andrea Lee earned a 1-up victory over Hull and Woad. Zhang and Kim added to that with a 3 and 2 win over Nadaud and Maguire leading into the final match of the day.
Kupcho, who entered this week with one win in her last six Solheim Cup matches, showed her resiliency to win a key point with Duncan.
“Kupcho, look, she’s had a tough couple days, her two matches have been tough,” United States captain Angela Stanford said. “Today they were down, but she’s a fighter, I’ve said that all along. … She just doesn’t give up, and she’s a fighter. Now her team has seen that in person. They knew it, but then when you see it, it’s awesome.”
With more pressure on her putt at 18, than her bomb at 17, Kupcho did not blink.
“For me, it’s a lot easier when I can know which way it breaks,” Kupcho said about lining up the right-to-left breaker at 18. “So if it breaks more, I have the line down. Just to put a good stroke on that. It was amazing. Great finish to the match.”
Europe captain Anna Nordqvist moved to put the day into perspective after the drama of Saturday’s final match.
“It’s been a great match,” Nordqvist said. “I think overall it’s been a great day. We’re tied going into tomorrow. We have 12 matches and I know the girls are ready for tomorrow.”
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NASCAR NEWS
JOEY LOGANO BLAZES TO POLE FOR ENJOY ILLINOIS 300
MADISON, Ill.–With a spectacular lap late in Saturday’s NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session, Joey Logano won the pole for Sunday’s Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway by a wide margin.
The only competitor in the 36-driver field to crack the 33-second barrier, Logano covered the 1.25-mile distance in 32.817 seconds (137.124 mph) to claim the top starting spot for the second race in the Cup Series Chase.
It marked the second pole this season for Logano, who won the inaugural Cup Series race at WWTR in 2022. In winning his first pole at the track and the 35th of his career, Logano beat second-place qualifier Kyle Larson (135.980 mph) by 0.276 seconds.
“Honestly, I feel like I’ve had good cars here for qualifying — I just have always screwed up Turn 1,” said Logano, who is eighth in the Chase standings, 72 points out of the lead. “It’s nice to have a good, clean lap.
“It’s in your head, right? Before you go out because you’ve had four qualifying sessions before where you’ve always screwed up Turn 1. I’ve overdriven it. I’ve underdriven it because of that.
“I hit it right this time, so that part was good. I was able to get through it pretty well and have a pretty solid (Turns) 3 and 4, and the car did what it needed to do. The car has got some raw speed in it, which is very encouraging for (Sunday).”
Logano is the only driver in the field who has finished in the top five in each of the four previous races at Gateway.
Chase drivers claimed the top 10 positions during time trials, with Logano’s Team Penske teammate, Ryan Blaney, qualifying third at 135.898 mph and last Sunday’s Darlington winner, Christopher Bell, earning the fourth spot on the grid at 135.767 mph.
Chase Briscoe was fifth fastest, followed by Carson Hocevar, Bubba Wallace, Chase Elliott, Ty Gibbs and series leader Denny Hamlin, who improved significantly from his 30th position on the speed chart during practice earlier in the day.
The remaining six Chase drivers qualified as follows: Austin Cindric 13th, Ryan Preece 14th, Daniel Suarez 15th, Tyler Reddick 18th, Chris Buescher 21st and William Byron 24th. For the second straight week, Buescher’s No. 17 Ford failed inspection twice, resulting in the ejection of crew chief Joshua Sisco and the loss of pit selection for Sunday’s race.
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TOP INDIANA PRESS RELEASES/HEADLINES
COLTS FOOTBALL
The Indianapolis Colts today elevated cornerback Kenneth Harris to the active roster from the practice squad for Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens.
Harris, 6-0, 192 pounds, was signed to the team’s practice squad on August 31, 2026. He participated in training camp with the Colts after originally signing with the team as a free agent on August 26, 2026. Harris previously participated in the New England Patriots’ 2026 offseason program and training camp. He was originally signed by the Patriots as an undrafted free agent on May 8, 2026.
Collegiately, Harris played in 59 career games (29 starts) at Oklahoma State (2023-25) and Arkansas State (2020-22) and compiled 113 tackles (92 solo), 61.5 tackles for loss, 1.0 sack, 28 passes defensed and three interceptions. In 2025, he saw action in 12 games (11 starts) and totaled 33 tackles (27 solo), 2.0 tackles for loss, 1.0 sack and five passes defensed.
WATCH ON TV
Kickoff: 1:00 p.m. ET
TV coverage: CBS
Play-by-Play: Andrew Catalon
Color Analyst: Logan Ryan
Sideline: AJ Ross
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INDIANA FOOTBALL
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Josh Hoover threw four touchdown passes, three to wide receiver Charlie Becker, and No. 5 Indiana routed Howard 55-0 in a 55-minute game on Saturday.
Hoover was 6 of 11 for 145 yards, has four TDs in each of his first two games with Indiana and has thrown for 10,006 yards in his career. Becker had 81 yards, finishing one TD catch short of matching the school’s single-game record.
Neither played in the second half, and the two coaches agreed to shorten the fourth quarter to 10 minutes.
“Better taste in our mouth after this one,” two-time Associated Press Coach of the Year Curt Cignetti said, comparing it to last week’s game. “Got the shutout on defense, played a lot of people, emptied the bench, shortened the fourth quarter. We started to dominate up front, It started on offense and defensively it got to the point where they really couldn’t block us. The only issue was we couldn’t tackle their quarterback occasionally.”
Lee Beebe Jr. and Turbo Richard each topped 100 yards as Indiana (2-0) rushed for 301 yards. The defending national champs extended the Football Bowl Subdivision’s longest active winning streak to 18 and the FBS’ longest active home winning streak to 17.
Cignetti is still unbeaten at Memorial Stadium and his 28-2 record after 30 games is the second best in FBS history. Fielding Yost started his Michigan tenure at 29-0-1.
Howard (1-2) dropped its second straight. The Football Championship Subdivision school’s only victory over an FBS opponent came in 2017 against UNLV.
Hoover connected with Becker for scores of 34 and 6 yards on Indiana’s first two drives before finding Shazz Preston for a 39-yard score and a 20-0 lead in the first quarter.
Becker added a 41-yard TD reception midway through the second quarter, and Indiana closed the half with Rolijah Hardy’s 19-yard interception return and Richard’s 14-yard scoring run to make it 41-0.
Howard quarterback Ja’Shawn Scroggins was 8 of 15 for 43 yards with one interception.
“That’s gone on a couple times this year, I think in two other games,” Cignetti said, explaining the decision to shorten the game. “It was mentioned before the game by the officials, just in case, and I brought it up after the third quarter and they went and talked to their coach. We got it done in less than three hours and got everybody out of the heat.”
Takeaway
Howard: After starting the game with back-to-back first downs, the Bison had just two the rest of the game. They were outgained 510-57, including 301-13 on the ground. There will be better days for coach Ted White’s team.
Indiana: Cignetti made it clear what needed to improve in Week 2 — the ground game and the defense. Consider it done. The defense forced punts on each Howard’s first (six) drives and Hardy’s interception was forced by pressure on Scroggins.
Bad weather
Bad weather sent many fans home early for the second straight week. In the season opener, it was excessive heat that pushed field temperatures up to 152 degrees.
On Saturday, it was rain that arrived just before the two-minute timeout in the first half. While the temperature at kickoff was 75 degrees, the humidity was 88 percent.
Kicking change
Indiana played without kicker Nico Radicic, who has a lower back injury. Cignetti said Radicic woke up Thursday morning with a stiff back and was unable to play. He was replaced by Paddy McAteer, who is from Ireland. McAteer didn’t have any field-goal attempts, but did miss his second extra-point attempt wide left.
Up next
Howard: visits Rutgers on Sept. 25
Indiana: hosts Western Kentucky next Saturday.
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PURDUE FOOTBALL
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Wake Forest quarterback Gio Lopez ran for a 3-yard touchdown in double overtime, and he converted the two-point conversion to lift the Demon Deacons to a 38-36 victory over Purdue on Saturday.
The Boilermakers thought they stopped Wake Forest on fourth-and-15 when Carlos Hernandez was originally ruled short of the first down after a catch, but it was overturned and Lopez scored two plays later.
“I didn’t want to let the team down, so I just tried to go score that thing.” Lopez said of the conversion run.
Lopez completed 16 of 27 passes for 225 yards and a touchdown and he ran for 59 yards and two touchdowns for Wake Forest (2-0).
“We have an absolute big-time quarterback,” Wake Forest coach Jake Dickert said. “He’s fast. In the toughest moments, the biggest spot, he’s taking hits, doing whatever it takes to win, He’s ultimate competitor. We dominated the line of scrimmage on offense.”
Lopez said there are things to fix, but the mood naturally was upbeat.
“I missed some throws,” Lopez said. “We had some execution we could have done better. But you win an overtime game, there is nothing more exciting than that. Right now, we’re enjoying the win and take it all in.”
Fame Ijeboi ran for 114 yards and three touchdowns for Purdue (1-1). The Boilermakers took a 36-30 lead on Ijeboi’s 3-yard TD run on the first possession of the second OT. The two-point conversion failed.
Bryce Kania caught a 24-yard pass from Lopez to put the Demon Deacons ahead 30-23 in the first overtime.
The Boilermakers came through on fourth down with Ryan Browne’s 9-yard TD pass to De’Nylon Morrissette.
Browne was 32 of 43 for a career-high 329 yards.
“He just keeps getting better and better,” Purdue coach Barry Odom said.
Purdue rallied from being 23-13 early in the fourth quarter to force overtime. Ijeboi’s 7-yard TD run narrowed Purdue’s deficit to 23-20 with 3:53 left. Purdue tied it with a 20-yard field goal by Jacobo Echeverria Lozano in the closing seconds of regulation.
Ijeboi scored from 14 yards out to give Purdue a 7-0 lead on the game’s opening possession. Wake Forest scored 17 consecutive points to take a 17-7 lead at halftime.
“He has the heart of a champion,” Odom said on Ijeboi. “He’s going to have a monster season for us.”
The takeaway
Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons moved the ball for the first three-plus quarters but had to settle for three field goals. However, they were able to make the key plays when needed., Connor Calvert had three field goals of 39, 22 and 44 for Wake Forest.
Purdue: A strong fourth quarter seemingly put the Boilermakers in position to match their win total from last year, but they came up short “You lose a heartbreaker and a close one when you did all the work you did for it,” Odom said. “The team is gutted a bit but we’ll bounce back.”
Up next
Wake Forest: Hosts Miami Friday.
Purdue: At UCLA next Saturday.
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NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The University of Notre Dame football team (2-0) scored quickly and never looked back in a 52-0 victory over Rice (1-1) in sold-out Notre Dame Stadium Saturday on a sunny and warm afternoon.
Adon Shuler set the tone as the team captain is known to do, streaking in from his safety spot on the second play of the game to force a fumble. Boubacar Traore picked the ball up, returned it for a touchdown and the rout was on 14 seconds into the game.
Notre Dame would outgain the Owls 478-128 in total yards and hold them to just two of 12 on third down.
CJ Carr played the first half and one series in the second, completing 16-of-20 passes for 253 yards and four touchdowns. Two of those tosses ended up in the hands of Jordan Faison who finished with four total catches and 54 yards.
The defensive effort was a full team effort, as Notre Dame forced Rice into five fumbles and recovered four of them. Jaiden Ausberry and Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa led the team with five tackles each.
The shutout victory is the second of the Marcus Freeman era at Notre Dame and the most lopsided, surpassing the 44-0 win over Boston College in 2022.
It took just 14 seconds.
Rice received the opening kickoff and started from its own 25. Quarterback Jacurri Brown’s first-down pass fell incomplete. On second down, running back Davis Lane Jr. took a handoff to the right and was hit immediately by Shuler and Traore scooped it up at the Rice 24-yard line and returned it untouched for a touchdown. Spencer Porath’s extra point made it 7-0 before the game was a minute old.
It was the second career defensive touchdown for Traore, who returned an interception 34 yards for a score against Purdue in 2024.
On the next Rice possession Brown picked up four yards on a keeper and then broke loose for 11 on second down but Luke Talich forced another fumble at the Rice 40. Brown recovered his own fumble, but a pattern for the game was set. On third-and-eight Rice fumbled again and this time it was recovered by Notre Dame’s Jaiden Ausberry at the Rice 38.
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The Irish offense took over and needed just four plays. Aneyas Williams rushed for seven, CJ Carr hit Jaden Greathouse for six on a first-down conversion, and Carr found Jordan Faison from 25 yards out for the touchdown. The Irish were up 14-0 and just 4:30 of game time had elapsed.
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Notre Dame’s defense forced another punt on the next Rice drive, aided by a chop block penalty that backed the Owls up to their own 14. Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa, in his first action of the season, pushed Rice back even further with a seven-yard tackle for loss.
Carr and the offense went back to work. An eight-yard pass to Micah Gilbert and a 23-yard strike to Greathouse moved the chains into Rice territory. Carr hit Faison for nine on third-and-six then finished the drive with an 11-yard touchdown to Faison — his second scoring catch of the quarter.
Carr opened the game six-for-six before his first incompletion which is the best start to a game of his career (previous best: five-for-five, twice in 2025). The two touchdowns extended his streak to 14 consecutive games with a touchdown pass, tied for the third-longest active streak in the FBS entering this weekend’s action behind Darian Mensah (19) and Julian Sayin (15).
The Irish picked up in the second quarter where they left off. On first down from the Notre Dame 47, Carr hit Greathouse for 19 yards, then found Matt Jeffery for 18 yards to the Rice 16. After an incompletion, Nolan James Jr. burst through the middle for 15 yards to the one-yard line. James punched it in on the next play for his first career rushing touchdown.
Rice’s next drive ended in familiar fashion for the visiting Owls. Brown scrambled for 10 on a third-and-7 conversion, but a false start and a run-heavy approach couldn’t sustain the drive. On third-and-11 from the Rice 12, Brown was stripped on a keeper and Viliamu-Asa recovered the fumble at the Rice six-yard line.
Two plays later, James scored again from a yard out for his second rushing touchdown of the game and first career multi-touchdown performance.
After a Rice punt, Carr opened a drive with a 20-yard completion to Mylan Graham and later hit Faison for nine yards on a third-down conversion. A personal foul on Jack Larsen wiped out a 12-yard Williams run and stalled the drive, forcing a punt.
Rice went nowhere on its next drive. Faison returned the punt 37 yards to the Rice 38. Two plays later, Carr rolled to his right after great protection and chucked it to Micah Gilbert running across the end zone for a 39-yard touchdown.
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Carr finished the half 12-of-16 for 191 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions. Faison had four catches for 54 yards and two touchdowns to earn his first career multi-touchdown game.
Notre Dame received the second-half kickoff and went right back to work. Carr hit Jerome Bettis Jr. for five to set up third-and-three. Williams converted with a six-yard run up the middle. On the next play, Carr went deep left and found Bettis. The sophomore receiver hauled it in at the Rice 33 and rumbled down to the six-yard line for a 56-yard gain for the longest play of the game and a career long catch for Bettis. A pass interference penalty on Rice’s Koa Akui moved the ball to the two and Carr found Cooper Flanagan in the end zone for a two-yard touchdown and his career-high matching fourth scoring toss.
The Irish were up 49-0 with 11:41 remaining. Notre Dame would tack on three points with a Spencer Porath 36-yard field goal with 4:21 left in the third quarter.
Notre Dame’s reserves took over from there. Backup quarterback Noah Grubbs completed seven-of-10 passes for 73 yards, connecting with Elijah Burress three times for 33 yards and twice finding Logan Saldate. The defense continued to suffocate Rice, which managed just one sustained drive past midfield in the second half. That drive ended with a fumble at the Notre Dame 16 forced by Kahanu Kia and recovered by Rodney Dunham.
Third-string quarterback Teddy Jarrard completed both of his pass attempts in the final minutes, including a 20-yard strike to Devin Fitzgerald.
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BUTLER FOOTBALL
INDIANAPOLIS – Butler defeated the Franklin College Grizzlies 52-0 on Saturday evening at the Bud & Jackie Sellick Bowl. Butler’s shutout is the first since the 2024 season when Butler shutout Virginia-Lynchburg. Steven Stephany was tremendous on defense for Butler, forcing two fumbles and recording an interception. With the win, Butler improves to 2-1 on the season while Franklin slides to 1-1.
NOTEABLE STATS
Gabe Passini completed 14-of-20 passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns. Passini added 51 rushing yards on eight carries.
Nick Munson caught two passes for 41 yards and a touchdown. Munson had one rush for 11 yards and a touchdown.
Blake Matthews had two catches for 36 yards and a touchdown.
Michael Dellumo scored his first collegiate touchdown and carried the ball 10 times for 79 yards.
Desmin Jackson had nine carries for 71 yards and a touchdown. Jackson has now recorded a touchdown in all three of Butler’s games this season.
Zac Willingham-Davis scored his first touchdown of his Butler career.
Sam Manna had eight carries for 57 yards.
Jack Linden carried the ball six times for 60 yards. Linden also scored his first collegiate touchdown in the contest.
Stephany was sensational on defense, recording two forced fumbles, an interception and eight tackles.
Madden Beriault recovered a fumble.
Blair Schonhorst recorded his first interception of his Butler career.
Will Beesley led the defense with eight tackles, two QB hits and a forced fumble.
Tristan Johnson had a fumble recovery.
Okemdi Eze recorded a sack.
Christian Kramer made his collegiate debut.
Butler forced five Franklin turnovers, three fumbles and two interceptions.
ON THE RECORD WITH HEAD COACH KEVIN LYNCH
“Well, first off, it’s always great to win and to win like that and in that fashion. I thought we did a great job of coming out ready to play. They had some weapons with a ton of ability and wanted to take advantage of some things, but we won the turnover battle, five to zero. That’s something that really hit us last year in a negative way, so we’ve been really clean that way through the first three games. You can do some special things if you win the turnover margin like that. I’m really happy about that. I really liked our second half. I thought at times on offense in the first half, we weren’t playing with the type of urgency I’d love to play with, and I thought in the second half we did a great job of controlling the line of scrimmage and getting first downs, and then finally got some explosive runs there. So overall, I mean, you can’t say much. We were very clean and did a good job, you know, being disruptive. So really proud of the guys and big win for us as a team.”
HOW IT HAPPENED
Butler forced a Franklin pun on their first drive of the game. The Bulldogs then put together a nine-play, 55-yard drive that ended with an 11-yard touchdown run from Munson. On the first play of the Grizzlies’ next drive, Stephany forced a fumble at the Franklin 37-yard line and Beriault jumped on the loose ball. Butler was unable to convert on the turnover as a missed 44-yard field goal gave Franklin the ball back just before the end of the quarter. Butler took the 7-0 advantage into the second quarter.
On the first play of the second quarter, Stephany forced his second fumble of the game and Diamond hoped on the ball, recording Butler’s second turnover of the game. BU then put together a seven-play, 54-yard drive that ended with a 29-yard Munson receiving touchdown, which marked his second score of the game. On Franklin’s next drive, Schonhorst jumped in front of a pass and was able to hold onto it, marking the Bulldogs’ first interception of the game and the third caused turnover of the first half. After a Bulldog punt, Franklin started driving down the field. Stephany continued his spectacular first half, as he jumped in front of a Franklin pass, grabbing Butler’s second interception of the quarter. Butler then put together a three-play, 62-yard drive that saw Matthews haul in a 29-yard touchdown reception, giving Butler a 21-0 lead. Franklin then turned the ball over on downs, which gave Butler one final opportunity of the half with 1:14 left in the second quarter. The Bulldogs drove down the field and were able to convert a 26-yard field goal with three seconds left as BU took the 24-0 lead into the half.
Butler opened the second half with a nine-play, 63-yard drive that ended with a six-yard rushing score for Dellumo. Both sides then traded possessions before Franklin began driving down the field. The Bulldog defense thwarted the Grizzlies’ offensive efforts as Beesley forced another fumble and Johnson jumped on the ball, marking BU’s fifth forced turnover of the game. Following the fumble, Jackson rattled off a 28-yard run giving the Bulldogs the ball on the five yard line of Franklin. Jackson finished the two-play drive with a five-yard rush to the left side as the tailback scampered into the endzone for his third touchdown of the season. Butler took the 38-0 lead into the fourth.
Butler opened the fourth quarter with an 11-play, 76-yard drive that ended with Willingham-Davis scoring his first touchdown as a Bulldog on a four-yard rush. Butler then put together a 12-play, 85-yard drive that ended with a 33-yard rushing touchdown from Linden. BU cruised to the 52-0 victory at the final whistle.
UP NEXT
Butler will return to action next Saturday, Sept. 19, as the Bulldogs host Chicago State at the Bud & Jackie Sellick Bowl on Homecoming. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. and the game will be streamed live on ESPN+.
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BALL STATE FOOTBALL
MUNCIE, Ind. — The Ball State football team opened its 2026 home slate Saturday afternoon, topping Stony Brook in the programs’ first-ever meeting, 41-17, in front of a Family Weekend crowd of 10,390.
After a late Stony Brook touchdown, TJ Horton ran a career-long 54-yard rush to award the Cardinals (1-1, 0-0 MAC) their final score of the game, stamping an exclamation point on the program’s first win of the year. Horton’s first rushing touchdown of the season capped a late back and forth between Ball State and the Seawolves (1-2, 0-0 CAA) which also saw Jalen Bonds run the ball 49 yards down the field for a touchdown, earning the longest rush of his career.
Horton had a career-day on the ground inside Scheumann Stadium, starting with a 37-yard rush in the opening quarter which set up Tate Hoover’s first touchdown reception at Ball State and Keldric Luster’s first career passing touchdown.
Luster and his corps of backs and receivers totaled 486 yards in total offense, the most by a Ball State team since recording 520 yards at Buffalo in 2024.
Luster’s offensive efficiency was marked by throwing for 256 yards on 27-of-32 passing. In just the first half alone, Luster’s 18 completions eclipsed last year’s Ball State season-best total of 17 through an entire game (three times by Kiael Kelly).
With an .843 completion percentage, Luster broke the program record by a quarterback with at least 30 attempts.
Along with the three-yard connection with Hoover, the fourth-year quarterback had a pair of 23-yard TD passes to Jabari Smith and Bonds in the second quarter. Luster’s success in the aerial game included a career-long pass of 28 yards to Jamarion McDougle.
Ball State’s receiving unit was led by Smith, who grabbed six catches for 72 yards, followed by Isaiah Thacker who totaled 31 yards on five catches. Ten different Cardinals were successful targets and four tallied four or more receptions – the first time since 2024 versus Central Michigan.
Kamron Chamble recorded the first two interceptions of his collegiate career Saturday, with the first creating the opportunity for Bonds’ receiving touchdown, following Chamble’s 33-yard return. It was Bonds’ first career receiving touchdown.
Kaleb Stewart led Ball State’s tackling effort, totaling seven. He also shared a sack with Ben Marsh in the fourth quarter. Layton Starks and Ka’Shawn Thomas also had half a sack a piece while four different Cardinals tallied four tackles. Starks led the unit in tackles for loss, finishing with 2.5.
The defensive pressure brought on by the Cardinals limited the Seawolves to 183 rushing yards, with 69 of those yards stemming from two rushing touchdowns in the final minutes of the fourth quarter. Ball State’s defense also held Stony Brook’s Quinn Boyd to 147 passing yards, the first time he’s thrown under 300 passing yards this season.
On special teams, Brody Boehm went 2-of-2 with field goals from 38 and 30 yards in the fourth quarter, giving Ball State six points and extending the lead to 27-11, prior to final touchdowns from Bonds and Horton.
The Cardinals are on the road next week as they travel to Lynchburg, Virginia. to battle Conference USA foe Liberty. Kickoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. ET, with broadcast available on ESPN+.
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INDIANA STATE FOOTBALL
CHARLESTON, Ill. – Elijah Owens turned in a career performance with five total touchdowns and the Sycamore offense delivered late with a key first down to hold off an Eastern Illinois rally as Indiana State topped the host Panthers on Saturday night, 42-35.
Eastern Illinois (1-2) cut Indiana State’s (1-2) 35-7 lead down to 42-35 with a four-touchdown surge over the span of 15 minutes as quarterback Cole LaCrue connected on three touchdown passes and added a touchdown run to make it a one-possession game. Needing a first down on 3rd-and-9 from the Indiana State 26-yard line, the Sycamores turned to quarterback Elijah Owens to deliver once again in the game.
Owens took the snap and stepped back, before running the ball up the middle for an 11-yard gain for the first down, forcing EIU to take its final timeout with 2:21 remaining in the game. Three plays later, Owens took the ball up the middle for a four-yard gain on 3rd-and-1 to record the final first down allowing Indiana State to run out the clock in securing their fifth win over EIU in the last seven meetings.
Owens spotlighted the Indiana State offensive attack as the redshirt junior quarterback went 21-of-33 through the air for 284 yards and three touchdowns, while adding 18 carries for 98 yards and two additional scores in his first collegiate five-touchdown game. The Jacksonville, Ill. native was effective throughout the game with touchdown passes to BJ Wuest, Dane Pardridge, and Aaron Ball, while his final rushing touchdown, a 15-yard draw up the middle, give Indiana State the 42-21 lead with 10:40 remaining in the contest.
EIU fought back into the game after going down 35-7 early in the third quarter after Owens found BJ Wuest for a 42-yard touchdown pass on Indiana State’s opening drive of the second half. Panther quarterback Cole LaCrue nearly willed EIU to the comeback with touchdown passes to Jeremy Reeves, Jacarre Fleming-Page, and Charles Kellom, while adding an eight-yard touchdown rush in leading the EIU comeback attempt.
The Sycamores jumped out to the 28-7 halftime lead with Aaron Ball scoring on a three-yard touchdown run on Indiana State’s opening offensive possession, while Owen (1-yard TD run), Dane Pardridge (35-yard TD reception), and Aaron Ball (1-yard TD reception) all found the end zone in the first half.
Ball finished with 13 carries for 97 yards and a touchdown and recorded Indiana State’s longest carry of the season with a 57-yard rush up the middle late in the second quarter. BJ Wuest hauled in a career-high six catches for 142 yards and a score, while KeShon Singleton added five receptions for 66 yards in the win.
Alex Rose and Braxton Sampson each recorded a team-high seven tackles, while Sampson posted a team-best 1.5 tackles-for-loss. Kaleb Harris added six stops and a TFL, while Kolten Gajewski, Robert Beasley, and Bryce Patterson all recorded sacks in the win.
How They Scored
Aaron Ball scored on a three-yard touchdown run to cap Indiana State’s opening seven-play, 80-yard drive to put the Sycamores ahead 7-0 over EIU early in the first quarter.
EIU answered on Charles Kellom’s 76-yard touchdown run at the 11:18 mark of the first quarter to tie the game up at 7-7.
The Sycamores retook the lead with 10 seconds remaining in the first quarter as Elijah Owens went around the left side for a one-yard touchdown on the quarterback keeper to cap a six-play, 59-yard drive to put Indiana State up 14-7.
Indiana State added to the lead in the second quarter as Elijah Owens found Dane Pardridge for the 35-yard touchdown pass to end a 10-play, 99-yard drive to make it a 21-7 game with 7:50 to play in the first half.
The Sycamores found the end zone just before the halftime break as Aaron Ball hauled in the one-yard touchdown pass from Elijah Owens with seven seconds remaining in the second quarter to stretch the lead to 28-7 to cap a six-play, 80-yard drive that was highlighted by an Aaron Ball 57-yard carry down to the EIU 23 on the first play of the drive.
Indiana State added to the lead on their first drive of the third quarter as Elijah Owens found BJ Wuest down the left sideline for the 42-yard touchdown pass with 11:11 on the clock to stretch the lead to 35-7.
EIU was back on the scoreboard with 4:23 remaining in the third quarter as Jeremy Reeves hauled in the 21-yard touchdown pass from Cole LaCrue to make it a 35-14 game.
The Panthers continued to chip away as Cole LaCrue scored on an eight-yard touchdown run with 1:23 remaining in the third to cut the deficit down to 35-21.
Elijah Owens was back in the end zone for the second time of the game as the redshirt junior quarterback carried the ball in from 15 yards out to cap an eight-play, 91-yard drive and make it a 42-21 lead with 10:40 remaining.
The Panthers responded on their ensuing drive as Cole LaCrue found Jacarre Fleming-Page for a seven-yard touchdown pass to make it a 42-28 game with 6:16 remaining.
EIU took advantage of a Sycamore turnover to cut the game back to 42-35 as Charles Kellom hauled in the eight-yard touchdown pass from Cole LaCrue to make it one score game with 4:03 remaining to provide the final scoring margin.
News & Notes
Elijah Owens jumped from 11th all the way to seventh all-time in Indiana State’s career passing list following his 284-yard game on Saturday night at Eastern Illinois, becoming just the seventh Sycamore quarterback to surpass 3,000 career passing yards, achieving the feat in just 20 career games played.
Owens (3,017) passed Blayne Baggett (2,741 – 2005), Kyle Frondorf (2,778 – 1986-88), Kevin Cox (2,885 – 1993-96), and Julian Reese (2,961 – 2001-02) to move into seventh all-time in Sycamore program history.
Owens (4,010) became just the 10th player in Indiana State history to achieve 4,000-plus career total offensive yards after recording 284 passing yards and 98 rushing yards in Saturday night’s game.
Owens recorded his first collegiate game with at least five touchdowns (three passing, two rushing) after achieving the feat on Saturday night against Eastern Illinois.
Owens’ three passing touchdown game marked his second collegiate three-passing touchdown game and first since achieving the feat at Eastern Illinois back on September 7, 2024.
Owens’ two rushing touchdown game marked his second collegiate multi-rushing touchdown game and first since achieving the feat on November 23, 2024, at Northern Iowa.
Aaron Ball recorded two touchdowns (one rushing, one receiving), becoming the first Sycamore running back to achieve the feat since Plez Lawrence recorded a receiving touchdown and a rushing touchdown on September 6, 2025, against Eastern Illinois.
Dane Pardridge recorded his first receiving touchdown at Indiana State after hauling in a 35-yard touchdown for a second in the second quarter.
BJ Wuest set new career highs in receptions (6), receiving yards (142), and his first collegiate receiving touchdown in the win.
Wuest’s 142-yard game marked Indiana State’s first 100-yard receiving game of the 2026 season and first Sycamore receiver to post at least 100 receiving yards since Rashad Rochelle recorded 120 yards in the 2025 season finale against Murray State (Nov. 22, 2025).
Kolten Gajewski, Robert Beasley, and Bryce Patterson all recorded sacks in the game.
CJ Davis recorded his first forced fumble of the season, while Lovell Vereen II recorded his first fumble recovery.
Indiana State evened the all-time series against Eastern Illinois to 43-43-4 with the win on Saturday night. The Sycamores have won five of the last seven in the series against EIU.
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TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
1845 – Alexander Cartwright presents the first set of baseball rules, 20 in total.
1883 – Cleveland’s one-arm pitcher Hugh Daily no-hits Philadelphia, 1 – 0.
1889 – Old Hoss Radbourn pitches a complete doubleheader for Boston but fails to win either game. After losing the opener to Cleveland, 3 – 0, he has to hit a home run himself in the 9th inning of the nightcap to salvage a 4 – 4 tie.
1900 – At the Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson makes his first start, pitching a complete game loss to the Orphans. Chicago wins, 6 – 5, scoring four runs in the 1st, thanks to an error by 1B Jack Doyle.
1901 – The Baltimore Orioles edge the A’s, 12 – 10. In the 9th, the A’s have the tying runs on base with two out when Connie Mack sends up pinch-hitter Doc Powers to bat for Nap Lajoie, who is sulking and refuses to hit. Powers flies out to end the game.
1902 – Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance play their first game as a SS-2B-1B combo for Chicago. Germany Schaefer is at 3B as Chicago clips St. Louis, 12 – 0.
1906 – At St. Louis, Chicago tops the Cardinals, 6 – 2, as Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown wins his 11th straight.
1907:
Pittsburgh’s Nick Maddox makes his major league debut and tosses a nifty 4 – 0 shutout over the St. Louis Cards.
At Washington Park, Christy Mathewson tops Jim Pastorius, 2 – 1, striking out 11 Superbas batters. Dan McGann is 4 for 4 for New York, while teammate Jack Hannifin collects a single, double, triple and two walks in his five trips to the plate.
1908:
An error by Pittsburgh’s Charlie Starr accounts for all three Reds runs as the Pirates lose, 3 – 2. The loss drops the Pirates to third place.
Lancaster (Ohio State League) P Walt “Smoke” Justis hurls his fourth no-hitter of the season, defeating Marion, 3 – 0. His other gems came on July 19th, August 2nd and September 8th. Justis had no record in two major league appearances with Detroit in 1905.
Browns pitcher Rube Waddell gives up a Detroit run in the 1st when Ty Cobb triples home Matty McIntyre, but ties the game when he singles a run home in the 2nd. Waddell allows nothing after that and the Browns win, 2 – 1, when Syd Smith singles in the winner in the bottom of the 11th.
1909 – Ty Cobb clinches the American League home run title with his ninth round-tripper. It is an inside-the-park drive against the Browns. In fact, all his nine home runs this season are inside-the-park, including two on July 15th. Only Sam Crawford (12 in 1901) has hit more inside-the-park homers in a year than Cobb.
1915 – The Kansas City Packers of the Federal League are the first major league team to play a game against inmates inside a prison as they visit the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, KS. They win handily, 23 – 1, as they play all of their regulars in the game.
1920 – Carl Mays, who started yesterday, opens today for the Yankees in Detroit. This time he is more effective, stopping Detroit on two runs. Babe Ruth hits his 49th home run and Mays drives in the final run of a 4 – 2 win.
1922:
The Browns announce that George Sisler has severely strained ligaments and cannot lift his right arm over his head. He might be out for the remainder of the season, jeopardizing the Browns’ pennant chances and Sisler’s 39-game hitting streak. Ironically, the injury occurred when Sisler tried to catch a throw on a hit by Ty Cobb, whose streak he is trying to break. Without Sisler, the Browns rally to beat the Tigers, 8 – 6. Baby Doll Jacobson, playing 1B, makes two errors.
The powerful Baltimore Orioles win their fourth straight International League pennant. The O’s are paced by Lefty Grove (18-8), in his third of five seasons (108-36) in Baltimore.
Pittsburgh sweeps a pair from the visiting Braves, winning 8 – 1 and 6 – 1. Wilbur Cooper and Johnny Morrison are the winners. Joe Genewich makes his major league debut in relief for the Braves. Genewich jumped from the sandlots, where he was making $5 a game pitching, directly to the Braves, bypassing the minors.
1923 – The White Sox buy OF Maurice Archdeacon from Rochester (International League) for $50,000. After batting .402 in 22 games, the little speed merchant will drop to .319, then to .111, then out of sight.
1924 – Brooklyn’s Dazzy Vance shuts out the Reds, 2 – 0, for his 14th win in a row.
1925 – Brooklyn’s Dazzy Vance narrowly misses back-to-back no-hitters over Philadelphia, pitching a 10 – 1 no-hitter five days after a 1 – 0 one-hitter. The Phils’ lone run is scored by Chicken Hawks, who reaches second base on an error. Five days earlier it was Hawks’ 2nd-inning single that ruined Vance’s no-hitter. On June 17, 1923, Vance lost a no-hitter with two out in the 9th. In the second game, the Phils win, 7 – 3, behind Hawks’ grand slam.
1927 – Babe Ruth hits two home runs, to bring his season’s total to 52, and the Yankees win a pair from Cleveland to clinch the American League pennant with a 98-41 record and 17-game lead. It is Miller Huggins’ fifth pennant, tying him with Connie Mack.
1931:
At Wrigley Field, the Cubs win 11 – 7 over the Braves when player-manager Rogers Hornsby cracks an 11th-inning pinch grand slam. This is the first extra-inning pinch grand slam in major league history. The Cubs take the second game, 8 – 1, behind Guy Bush’s one-hitter, his second of the year. His first was against the Cards on August 9th.
Yankee Tony Lazzeri steals second base, reaches third, then steals home in the 12th to give Lefty Gomez a 2 – 1 win over Detroit in the lidlifter. New York edges the Tigers, 4 – 3, in the nitecap although Earl Whitehill holds them to six hits. One of the hits is a two-run home run by Lou Gehrig in the 6th.
After the Giants lose, 1 – 0, to Larry Benton in the opener, Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons pitches New York to a 9 – 4 nitecap win over the Reds. Bill Terry contributes two doubles and two home runs in the win.
Cardinal P Paul Derringer has his scoreless inning streak stopped at 33, but manages to beat the Phils, 6 – 2, on six hits.
1932 – Brooklyn’s Jack Quinn earns his 247th major league victory at age 49, pitching a complete game 6 – 5 win over the Cardinals. It is the final win of his career. Dizzy Dean fans nine in the nitecap, but the Cards lose, 3 – 1. Quinn will hold the record as oldest pitcher to win a game until April 17, 2012, when he will be eclipsed by Jamie Moyer.
1933 – The White Sox toss their veterans at the A’s and almost pull off a sweep. Sam Jones, 41, tops Philadelphia, 3 – 2 in the opener, but the Mackmen then beat 44-year-old Red Faber, 4 – 2, in the nitecap.
1934:
With his fiancee, Edna Mae Skinner of Oklahoma, watching, Schoolboy Rowe halts the Tiger skid with a 2 – 0 win over Washington. He asks in a radio interview: “How’m I doing, Edna?”
Judge Landis sells the World Series broadcast rights to the Ford Motor Company for $100,000. Previously no fee had been charged.
Lefty Gomez pitches a three-hitter against the Indians for his 25th win.
1935 – Friday the 13th brings bad luck to the Cards. Trailing the Giants, 10 – 6, in the last of the 9th, the Cards tie it up and then give the ball to Dizzy Dean. But the Giants score three in the 10th against the tired star to win, 13 – 10. With Larry French and the Cubs beating the Dodgers, 4 – 1, St. Louis now leads the National League by four percentage points.
1936:
The Cardinals and Giants split a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds before 64,417, the largest crowd in the 60-year history of the National League.
Indians teenage pitching phenom Bob Feller ties the major league record and sets a new American League record by striking out 17 batters as he two-hits the A’s, 5 – 2. After the season, “Bullet Bob” will return to his Van Meter, Iowa home to graduate from high school.
1937 – Manager Charlie Dressen presses Reds GM Warren Giles for a contract renewal and is fired. Chief scout Bobby Wallace takes over the last-place team.
1938 – A special committee names Alexander Cartwright to Baseball’s Hall of Fame for originating the sport’s basic concepts. Henry Chadwick, inventor of the box score and the first baseball writer, is also honored.
1941 – The Dodgers’ Whit Wyatt beats the Cards’ Mort Cooper, 1 – 0, in St. Louis. Dixie Walker’s double in the 8th is the first Dodger hit. Walker then relays a stolen sign to Billy Herman, who singles him home.
1942 – Chicago Cub SS Lennie Merullo makes a major league record four errors in the 2nd inning of the nightcap against the Boston Braves. Merullo’s son is born today and is named Boots. The Cubs win, 12 – 8, after losing the first game, 10 – 6.
1946 – The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant, edging the Cleveland Indians, 1 – 0, on Ted Williams’ inside-the-park home run, the only one of his career. Williams punches the ball over the shift when LF Fat Pat Seerey pulls in behind the SS position. The Boston margin at the season’s end will be 12 games.
1948 – Cleveland P Don Black suffers a cerebral hemorrhage while at bat against the Browns. Black’s life will hang in the balance for a week; his career will end. Owner Bill Veeck of the Indians arranges a benefit game for Black on September 22nd, a contest that attracts 76,000, and $40,000 of the receipts are turned over to the pitcher.
1949 – For the second time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits home runs in four consecutive at-bats, over two games. He performed the same feat in 1947. The two homers today are numbers 33 and 34 for the season. Kiner’s 1949 total will include 25 on the road, 29 at Forbes Field, 14 of them in the bullpen enclosure still known as Greenberg Gardens (which will become known as Kiner Korner).
1950 – Sal Maglie’s string of scoreless innings ends at 45, but he beats the Pirates, 3 – 1, in a rain-shortened seven-inning game. Pirate Gus Bell’s 257-foot fly ball barely clears the right field wall at the Polo Grounds. For Maglie, it is his 11th straight win.
1951:
Yankees leadoff hitter Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Trucks pitch deep into the right field upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to center field, the ball would have traveled 600 feet. Mantle then K’s three times, as Trucks drives over New York for a 9 – 2 Detroit win. Trucks adds a pair of RBIs.
The Cards play a rare doubleheader – the first in the 20th century – with two different teams, defeating the Giants, 6 – 4, in the first game in the afternoon when they score six runs against Sal Maglie in the 2nd inning. In the nitecap, against the Braves, the Cards manage just one hit – by pitcher Al Brazle – in losing to Warren Spahn, 2 – 0. The Cards’ total attendance is 8,865 – 4,160 for the Giants and 4,705 for the Braves. It is the first time since 1883 that three-team twin bill has been played.
1952:
OF Frank Carswell of the Buffalo Bisons wins the International League batting title with a .344 average. He also leads the league in home runs with 30 and has 101 RBI.
Warren Spahn strikes out six Pirates in a row en route to an 8 – 0 win in Boston.
1953:
Red Sox C Sammy White makes an unassisted double play.
Bob Trice becomes the first black player to appear for the A’s. The former Homestead Grays hurler, who was both the Pitcher of the Year and the Rookie of the Year in the International League this year, will only pitch in three games for Philadelphia this season, 19 next year and a few more in 1956.
1954 – Redlegs slugger Ted Kluszewski scores a run in a 6 – 5 loss to the Pirates. Big Klu has scored in 17 consecutive games, a modern record.
1958 – The Braves’ Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis, 8 – 2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times.
1959:
Glen Hobbie of the Cubs stops Ken Boyer’s hitting streak at 29 games. He was 41 for 117 for a .350 mark over the course of his streak. Hobbie allows just four hits in shutting out the Cards, 8 – 0.
The Braves’ Red Schoendienst returns to the line-up for the first time since being diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis last November.
1960:
Nellie Fox hits a two-out home run in the 11th to give the visiting White Sox a 6 – 5 win over the Senators. It is Nellie’s second home run of the year.
Eighteen-year-old OF Danny Murphy becomes the youngest Cub to hit a home run when he clouts a three-run homer off Bob Purkey, but the Reds win, 8 – 6, in Cincinnati. Murphy will play just 49 games for the Cubs from 1960 to 1962. He will come back as a pitcher for the White Sox in 1969 and 1970.
1962
In Kansas City’s 5 – 4 win over the Angels, 17-year-old Ed Kirkpatrick pinch hits in the 9th for Los Angeles. He is the youngest player in the American League since Jim Derrington, in 1956, and no one younger will debut this century in the AL.
Washington OF Jim Piersall is arrested for going into the stands after a heckling fan prior to a game against Baltimore. He is charged with disorderly conduct, but later cleared. Joe Hicks replaces Jimmy in the 7 – 1 loss to the Orioles. O’s winning pitcher Chuck Estrada clouts one of the three Birds homers.
1963 – Jim Bouton’s 20th win, 2 – 0 at Minnesota, clinches the Yankees’ 28th pennant.
1964 – St. Louis becomes the first National League club to score in each inning since the Giants did it on June 1, 1923. They coast, 15 – 2, at Wrigley Field with Curt Simmons improving his record to 15-9. Dick Ellsworth goes to 14-15 for Chicago. Julian Javier, Lou Brock and Mike Shannon homer for the Birds. A dropped pop-up in the top of the 9th secures St. Louis’ place in history.
1965 – At the Astrodome facing Don Nottebart, Giant outfielder Willie Mays becomes the fifth player in major league history to hit 500 career home runs. The “Say Hey Kid” will hit a league-leading and career-high 52 home runs en route to his second MVP season. Juan Marichal gets his 22nd victory, a 5 – 1 decision over Houston. It is the 11th straight win for San Francisco, which now has a two-and-a-half-game lead in the National League pennant race.
1967 – At Comiskey Park Cleveland and Chicago play a marathon 17-inning game, the White Sox ultimately winning, 1 – 0, on a game-ending RBI single by Rocky Colavito against his former squad. The contest features excellent starting pitching by Sonny Siebert and Gary Peters. Siebert goes 11 innings, allowing just four hits and no walks to Chicago batters. Peters also pitches 11 innings, yielding only one hit while walking ten Indians.
1969:
Baltimore becomes the American League East champs when Tom Phoebus wins the clincher, 10 – 5, over Cleveland. Baltimore is 18 games ahead of Detroit with 17 to play.
Detroit is eliminated when they lose to the Senators, 11 – 6. The Nats score five in the 5th, three coming home on a Ken McMullen homer, one of his four hits in the game. Detroit rallies in the 6th on Willie Horton’s third grand slam of the year, but McMullen knocks home another two runs to give Darold Knowles (7-3) the win over Tom Timmermann.
In a 6 – 4 defeat to the Reds, Bobby Bonds becomes the fourth player in major league history steal at least 30 bases and hit at least 30 home runs in the same season. The other members of the 30/30 club include Ken Williams (1922), Willie Mays (1956 & 1957) and Hank Aaron (1963). Bonds will have four more 30-30 seasons during his career.
1970:
At Wrigley Field, the Pirates lead the Cubs, 2 – 1, with two outs and no one on in the 9th when Willie Smith hits a routine fly to Matty Alou. Alou drops it and three singles later the Cubs have a 3 – 2 win. The victory puts the Cubs a game behind the Bucs and a half-game behind the Mets.
Kansas City sweeps a pair from Oakland, winning both by 8 – 7 scores. In the 11-inning opener, A’s SS Bert Campaneris sets an American League record by participating in six double plays. It will be tied in the National League.
1971 – Frank Robinson of the Orioles homers in each game of a doubleheader split with Detroit, becoming the 11th member of the 500 home run club with his second shot. Amazingly, six years prior to the day, Willie Mays became the fifth member. The O’s win the opener, 9 – 1, behind Dave McNally’s 13th consecutive win. The Tigers use 17 hits to win the nitecap, 10 – 5, for Fred Scherman, who pitches 8 2/3 innings in relief of Joe Niekro.
1972:
The Reds’ Johnny Bench hits a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Braves, 8 – 6. He hit a grand slam yesterday in a 7 – 5 win over Atlanta, and he’ll have 11 homers and 33 ribbies for September.
Frank Howard, who is not playing regularly for the Tigers, hits a three-run homer off Dave McNally of the Orioles for a Detroit victory. It is his 13th career four-bagger off his favorite pitcher. He had hit one with the Rangers on July 18th, and 11 with the Senators from 1965 to 1971.
Roberto Clemente’s final career regular-season home run – No. 240 – propels Pittsburgh to a 6 – 4 win over Chicago. It comes, appropriately enough, off Fergie Jenkins, Clemente’s old friend and frequent HR victim and within the “friendly confines” of Wrigley Field. Today’s blast is a two-run, tie-breaking bomb, “crashed deep into the center field seats,” as per Post-Gazette scribe Charley Feeney. “Clemente just hit everything I had,” admits Jenkins. “He hit a slider for a single, a fastball for a triple and another slider for the home run. He’s something.”
1973 – During an 8 – 6 win over the Padres, the Giants’ Tito Fuentes ties a major-league record by being hit by pitches three times.
1974:
The Phillies set a National League record by using 27 players during a 17-inning, 7 – 3, loss to the Cardinals. The Cards had set the record two days earlier.
With 16 games remaining, the enigmatic Dick Allen of the White Sox announces he is quitting the team. His 32 home runs, the last of which was hit August 16th, will still be enough to lead the American League.
1977 – The Dodgers’ Dusty Baker drives in a team-record five runs in one inning, the 2nd, as Los Angeles whips the Padres, 18 – 4. Los Angeles leads the NL West by 13 1/2 games.
1982 – Steve Carlton (20-9) shuts out St. Louis, 2 – 0, on three hits and raps a solo home run to become the major league’s first 20-game winner this season.
1983:
Dan Quisenberry breaks John Hiller’s all-time single-season save record, recording the final two outs of the Royals’ 4 – 3 win over the Angels for his 39th save of the season.
Oakland’s Rickey Henderson steals three bases in a 6 – 5 win over Texas to give him 101 for the season and a major league-record three consecutive seasons with 100 or more.
Mets C Mike Fitzgerald becomes the 48th player in major league history to hit a home run in his first at-bat, connecting for a solo shot off Tony Ghelfi in the 2nd inning of New York’s 5 – 1 win over Philadelphia.
1985 – The Rangers trade P Dave Stewart to the Phillies for pitcher Rick Surhoff, whose brother B.J. Surhoff was the first overall pick in the amateur draft in June.
1986 – The Rangers set a club record with seven home runs in a 14 – 1 rout of Minnesota. Five of the home runs come off Twins starter Bert Blyleven, who will yield a major league-record 50 this season.
1987 – Chicago’s Floyd Bannister faces the minimum 27 batters in a 2 – 0 one-hitter against Seattle, striking out ten while walking none. Hard-luck loser Mark Langston pitches a two-hitter for the Mariners.
1989 – Fay Vincent is elected baseball’s eighth commissioner, succeeding the late Bart Giamatti, whom he served as deputy commissioner.
1991:
Toronto OF Joe Carter drives in a run in the Blue Jays’ 7 – 6 victory over the A’s, becoming the first player in history to reach the 100 plateau in three consecutive seasons with three different teams. Nine players had collected 100 RBI with three teams, but none consecutively.
A 55-ton concrete beam crashes onto an empty public walkway at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. The Expos will reschedule all of their 13 remaining home games, playing them on the road while the stadium is repaired and growing cracks in concrete ribs supporting the stadium are checked out.
1992 – Cleveland’s Kenny Lofton steals his 53rd and 54th bases breaking the American League rookie record of 53 set by Donie Bush in 1909. Lofton will swipe a league-high 66 bases, 12 ahead of another rookie, Pat Listach, and lead AL center fielders with 14 assists. He scores both runs today, including the winner in the 9th, to beat the White Sox, 2 – 1. Eric Plunk is the winner with Steve Olin picking up his 25th save.
1993:
The Astros’ game against the Rockies in Colorado is postponed when the Denver area is hit by a late-summer storm which deposits more than five inches of snow. Just 24 hours before game time, it had been 92 degrees.
Royals C Mike Macfarlane twice is charged with throwing errors to first base following strikeouts in Kansas City’s 9 – 0 win over Chicago.
1995 – Tigers Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell set a new American League record for joint appearances – 1,915 games.
1996:
By hitting his 30th home run, Dante Bichette joins his teammate Ellis Burks as a member of the 30/30 club. The Rockies join the 1987 New York Mets as the only teams in history to have two 30-30 players (Howard Johnson and Darryl Strawberry) during the same season.
Toronto C Charlie O’Brien unveils a hockey-style catcher’s mask in the game against the Yankees. The mask is a success and will be adopted by many of Charlie’s peers, but the Blue Jays lose to the New Yorkers, 4 – 1. Andy Pettitte wins his 21st.
1997:
In St. Louis, Tony Gwynn reaches 200 hits for the fifth time in his career in the Padres’ 8 – 3 win over the Cardinals. Greg Vaughn has a three-run double to lead the attack.
The Mets, down 6 – 0 with one strike to go in the bottom of the 9th, rally to tie the Expos. Carl Everett ties the game with a grand slam. Two innings later, Bernard Gilkey hits a three-run homer to end it, 9 – 6. Facing Dustin Hermanson, the Mets manage just one hit through the first eight innings, and that is a blooper by Carlos Mendoza, his first major league hit. Two singles and two relievers later the Mets tie it. John Franco is the winner over Steve Kline.
The Dodgers drop a 5 – 1 decision to the Astros as Tom Candiotti’s knuckleball does all sorts of tricks in the 1st inning. Candiotti hits three Houston batters in the frame, and another to lead off the 2nd, to tie a major league mark. C Mike Piazza also records two passed balls in the inning as the Astros score four of their five runs.
1998:
Sammy Sosa hits his 61st and 62nd home runs of the season against the Milwaukee Brewers to tie the National League record of ten multi-homer games in a single season set by Ralph Kiner in 1947. The two home runs pace the Cubs to an 11 – 10 win, and tie Sosa with Mark McGwire for the home run lead.
Arizona defeats the Reds, 5 – 0, behind the one-hit pitching of Andy Benes. Gregg Olson picks up the last two outs for the save, as 1B Sean Casey gets the only hit for Cincinnati.
1999 – Mike Hampton (20-3) wins his 20th game, 13 – 2, over the Phils and the Astros win their club-record 11th straight game.
2001:
Due the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Major League Baseball postpones all games through September 17th. The 91 missed games, the most regular-season contests not played since World War I forced the cancellation of the final month of the 1918 season, are re-scheduled for the week after the regular season was supposed to end, meaning the World Series is likely to extend into November for the first time in history.
The International League cancels the Governors’ Cup playoff in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack. Louisville held a 1 – 0 over Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
2002:
Oriole infielder Mike Bordick establishes a new American League record playing his 96th consecutive errorless game at shortstop. The mark was held by former teammate Cal Ripken Jr..
The U.S. Senate passes a resolution honoring Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell who is retiring at the end of the season. The 84-year-old has been a major league baseball announcer for 55 years.
2003 – After signing a one-day contract, Ken Daneyko grounds out to short in his professional baseball debut with the Newark Bears. The former New Jersey Devils defenseman, who was honored by the team before the game, plays a doubleheader against the Pennsylvania Road Warriors in a game started in a driving rainstorm and called immediately after his at bat, before it has become official.
2005 – During the six-run 2nd-inning uprising by the Padres, each Dodger outfielder commits an error. The fielding miscues of Ricky Ledee (LF), Jose Cruz Jr. (RF) and Jayson Werth (CF) contribute to the 6 – 4 loss to first-place San Diego.
2008 – Francisco Rodriguez records his 58th save in the Angels’ 5 – 2 win over the Mariners. This breaks the record of 57 saves in a season held since 1990 by Bobby Thigpen. He will end the season with 62.
2009:
By hitting an infield single in the second game of Seattle’s doubleheader against Texas, Ichiro Suzuki reaches the 200 hit mark for the ninth straight year, a first in major league history. Texas wins the opener, 7 – 2, but loses the nitecap, 5 – 0, as Felix Hernandez wins his 15th of the year.
Philadelphia sweeps New York, 5 – 4 and 1 – 0, in a day/night doubleheader that draws almost 90,000 fans to Citizens Bank Park. In the nitecap, Pedro Martinez reminds the crowd of his glory days by shutting out the Mets over eight innings before Ryan Madson comes in to finish the game. The only blight on Philly’s day are the continuing struggles of closer Brad Lidge, who gives up two runs in the 9th in saving the opening win.
Cory Luebke comes within four outs of throwing a no-hitter in the 2009 Baseball World Cup. Facing Team Canada, Luebke fans ten and has his gem spoiled by a Chris Robinson single. The USA goes on to an 8 – 0 rout.
2010:
Reid Brignac hits a walk-off homer in the 11th inning to lead the Rays to a 1 – 0 win over the Yankees and puts Tampa Bay into first place in the AL East. Brignac enters the game in the 9th inning, after Carl Crawford is ejected for arguing a called third strike, but his blast off Sergio Mitre ends a great pitching duel that started with CC Sabathia and David Price facing each other.
The Padres stop the Rockies’ ten-game winning streak with a 6 – 4 win at Coors Field. Miguel Tejada drives in four runs and Ernesto Frieri records his first career win in relief of rookie Cory Luebke, while Heath Bell earns his 41st save of the year.
2011:
Mariano Rivera becomes the second pitcher to record 600 saves, one year after Trevor Hoffman, in preserving New York’s 3 – 2 win over Seattle with a scoreless 9th inning. “Mo” is only one save behind Hoffman’s all-time record, as Hoffman retired after last season.
It took him eight tries since he recorded his last win on July 24th, but 45-year-old Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, the major leagues’ active win leader, finally records victory number 200. He pitches six innings and leaves with a 6 – 5 lead over the Blue Jays, then his teammates get to work padding that cushion, as the game ends 18 – 6. In the 9th inning, P Junichi Tazawa makes his return to the majors two years after an injury interrupted a promising major league debut.
Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers continue to steamroll over opponents. Verlander picks up his 23rd win – the first pitcher to reach that total since Barry Zito in 2002 – when he pitches seven shutout innings over the White Sox, for a 5 – 0 win. Verlander has won his last 11 starts, something no one has done for the Bengals since Hal Newhouser in 1946. The win is also Detroit’s 11th straight this month.
2013:
Chris Davis hits his 50th homer of the year off Steve Delabar in the 8th to lead the Orioles to a 5 – 3 win over Toronto. Davis joins Babe Ruth and Albert Belle as the only players to hit 50 dingers and 40 doubles in the same season.
It may be too little too late, but the Nationals are finally getting hot, winning their seventh straight and 18th in 23 games, 6 – 1 over the Phillies. They are now four and a half games back of a wild card slot, but time is running out. Ross Ohlendorf, making an emergency start in place of ace Stephen Strasburg, picks up the win.
Masahiro Tanaka of the Rakuten Golden Eagles improves to 21-0 in 2013, having won his last 25 decisions. He breaks Kazuhisa Inao’s 57-year-old Nippon Pro Baseball record for 20 consecutive wins in a season.
2014 – The Dodgers crush the Giants, 17 – 0, setting a record for most runs by a visiting team at AT&T Park. The Dodgers’ 24 hits are the most by any team at the ballpark. Zack Greinke pitches six scoreless innings and adds a double and homer, while Hanley Ramirez has four hits and Matt Kemp goes 3 for 3.
2015 – The Mets win their seventh straight in dramatic fashion as Daniel Murphy hits a game-tying three-run homer off Ryan Kelly of the Braves with two out in the 9th. They then score three runs in the 10th, benefiting from an ill-timed throwing error by 3B Hector Olivera, to win, 10 – 7. It is their first four-game sweep of the Braves since 1989, while the Braves have lost 12 straight at home for the first time since 1931.
2017 – The Indians set a new American League record with their 21st consecutive win when they defeat the Tigers, 5 – 3. Detroit manages to take a 1 – 0 lead against Mike Clevinger in the 1st, but in the bottom of the inning, Jay Bruce hits a three-run homer off Buck Farmer and Cleveland nurses that lead until the end of the game. The win also ties the major league record of 21 consecutive wins, set by the 1935 Chicago Cubs.
2020 – Alec Mills of the Cubs pitches a no-hitter, defeating the Brewers, 12 – 0, in only the 15th start of his career.
2021 – By defeating the Padres, 9 – 1, the Giants, who were given little chance of being contenders before the season started, become the first major league team to clinch a postseason slot this year. However, they are still in a tight race with the Dodgers for the division title in the NL West, and the team that finishes second is almost certain to host the Wild Card Game.
2022:
Two rookie pitchers for the Twins, Joe Ryan and Jovani Moran, combine to keep the Royals hitless until one out in the 9th when, after back-to-back walks, another rookie, Bobby Witt Jr., doubles to end the bid for a no-hitter. Another single and a sacrifice fly make the final score 6 – 3 in the Twins’ favor. Ryan goes seven innings, but is removed by manager Rocco Baldelli after throwing 106 pitches.
By hitting a pair of homers for the Yakult Swallows, Munetaka Murakami ties the all-time NPB record set in 1964 by the legendary Sadaharu Oh for most homers in a season by a Japanese player with 55. The record was later tied by two foreigners, Tuffy Rhodes and Alex Cabrera, before being topped by another gaijin, Wladimir Balentien, who hit 60 in 2013. With 15 games left in the season, Murakami has a shot at beating that record as well.
2023:
France makes its Women’s Baseball World Cup debut. Angélique André scores a 1st-inning run off Venezuela’s Frandelis Garcia and Camille Foucher blanks the former Bronze Medalists in that frame, but Venezuela comes back for an easy win as expected, 11 – 1. CF Marbel Diaz scores three and C Mariana Valdez drives in four.
By defeating the Phillies, 4 – 1, the Braves clinch their sixth straight NL East division title, the first major league team to clinch this year. Austin Riley drives in three of the runs with a two-run homer and a sacrifice fly.
2024 – The Tigers come within one out of a combined no-hitter against the Orioles, before Gunnar Henderson breaks the spell with a two-out triple in the 9th. In a bullpen game, Beau Brieske records the first four outs before turning the ball over to rookie Brant Hurter, who records 17 consecutive outs. Adley Rutschman draws a walk to lead off the 8th for the O’s first baserunner, but Brenan Hanifee completes the 8th inning and Tyler Holton records the first two outs in the 9th without allowing a safety before Henderson’s hit. Holton then strikes out Anthony Santander to end the game, a 1 – 0 win for Detroit.
2025:
Neptunus wins the 2025 Holland Series, 4 games to 2, over HCAW, to repeat as titlists. Tom de Blok allows 3 hits and one run in a complete game victory, outdueling Lars Huijer. Bob van der Meer and Christian Diaz each have 3 hits to support de Blok, who is named Series MVP.
The Rouen Huskies repeat as French Division I champs, sweeping the Barracudas de Montpellier in 3 games in the finals. Jake Mackenzie has four hits and Thibault Mercadier saves it for Luke Livian.
The Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League title, sweeping the Charros de Jalisco in 3 games. In today’s 7-2 clincher, Brooks Hall and four relievers take care of the pitching while Carlos Pérez homers twice.
Births[edit]
1830 – Alonzo Slote, pre-MLB player (d. 1901)
1864 – Al Schellhase, catcher (d. 1919)
1887 – Harry Redmond, infielder (d. 1960)
1890 – Walt Marbet, pitcher (d. 1956)
1893 – John Kelleher, infielder (d. 1960)
1893 – Mike McNally, infielder (d. 1965)
1893 – Dutch Ruether, pitcher (d. 1970)
1894 – Sam Crane, infielder (d. 1955)
1894 – Dink O’Brien, catcher (d. 1971)
1896 – Pat Collins, catcher (d. 1960)
1896 – Art Stokes, pitcher (d. 1962)
1896 – Jasper Washington, infielder (d. 1960)
1896 – Roy Wilson, pitcher (d. 1969)
1897 – Eddie Rommel, pitcher (d. 1970)
1898 – Curt Fullerton, pitcher (d. 1975)
1898 – Glenn Killinger, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1988)
1903 – Rabbit Warstler, infielder (d. 1964)
1904 – Fujio Nagasawa, NPB infielder (d. 1985)
1906 – Thornton Lee, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1997)
1906 – Jim Levey, infielder (d. 1970)
1907 – John Campbell, pitcher (d. 1995)
1908 – Otho Nitcholas, pitcher (d. 1986)
1909 – Jelly Jackson, infielder (d. 1980)
1913 – Charley Justice, outfielder (d. 1974)
1913 – Booker McDaniel, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1974)
1913 – Roy Zimmerman, infielder (d. 1991)
1915 – Morrie Aderholt, outfielder (d. 1955)
1915 – Nick Gregory, minor league outfielder (d. 1973)
1917 – Barney Higdon, pitcher (d. 1981)
1918 – Bill Caplinger, minor league pitcher (d. 2018)
1920 – Ed Sudol, umpire (d. 2004)
1922 – Armando Báez, Cuban national team infielder (d. 2010)
1923 – Acie Griggs, outfielder (d. 2007)
1924 – Kazuhiro Kuroda, NPB outfielder (d. 2007)
1924 – Sam Moir, minor league infielder (d. 2018)
1927 – Jenny Romatowski, AAGPBL catcher (d. 2014)
1928 – Jim Melton, minor league pitcher
1930 – George Susce, pitcher
1932 – Delio Amado León, announcer (d. 1996)
1932 – Hideo Okubo, NPB infielder
1932 – John Zeitler, minor league infielder (d. 2016)
1933 – Don Whittington, Negro League infielder
1934 – Tom Hughes, pitcher (d. 2019)
1937 – Masamoto Katsuura, NPB outfielder
1938 – Bob Heffner, pitcher (d. 2025)
1939 – Hsiang-Jui Feng, Taiwanese national team pitcher
1939 – Tom Parsons, pitcher
1939 – Silvano Quezada, minor league pitcher
1941 – Ryozo Kato, NPB commissioner
1942 – Kenji Fukuura, NPB pitcher
1942 – Takashi Teraoka, NPB outfielder (d. 2011)
1944 – Irish O’Reilly, college coach (d. 2018)
1945 – Rick Wise, pitcher; All-Star
1947 – Mike Adamson, pitcher (d. 2022)
1949 – Rick Dempsey, catcher
1949 – John Henry, owner
1949 – Jim Obradovich, infielder (d. 2012)
1949 – Roger Williams, college coach
1950 – Kenichi Oyamada, NPB catcher (d. 2001)
1951 – Tom McMillan, infielder
1951 – Charles Minott, minor league pitcher (d. 1979)
1953 – Chikara Tanaka, NPB catcher
1954 – John Harris, infielder
1954 – Billy Smith, pitcher (d. 2025)
1955 – Mike Fischlin, infielder
1958 – Paul Mulder, Hoofdklasse pitcher
1959 – Jose Lorenzana, Puerto Rican national team catcher
1959 – Kenichi Sato, NPB infielder
1959 – Jackie Wright, minor league infielder (d. 2021)
1960 – Ariel Delgado, Nicaraguan national team infielder
1960 – Steve Roadcap, minor league catcher and manager
1962 – Jen-An Chen, TML outfielder
1963 – Rodney McCray, outfielder
1964 – Greg Hibbard, pitcher
1965 – Steve Curry, pitcher
1965 – Jeff Kipila, minor league infielder
1965 – Carlos Narváez, Colombian national team catcher
1967 – Tom Allison, scout
1967 – Rod Correia, infielder
1968 – Erik Bennett, pitcher
1968 – Denny Neagle, pitcher; All-Star
1968 – Obed Plascencia Jr., minor league outfielder
1968 – Tetsuya Sugo, Japanese national team pitcher
1968 – Bernie Williams, outfielder; All-Star
1969 – Jeff Bigler, minor league infielder
1969 – Russ Davis, infielder
1969 – Marcos Garcia, minor league pitcher
1969 – Hiroyasu Ito, NPB outfielder
1970 – James Vida, minor league infielder
1971 – Brent Brede, outfielder
1971 – Tom McCormick, minor league pitcher
1971 – Tom Nevers, minor league infielder
1971 – Armando Rios, outfielder
1972 – Nelson Cruz, pitcher
1972 – Bryce Darnell, college coach
1972 – Chan Perry, outfielder
1972 – Bob Scafa, minor league pitcher
1973 – Todd Abbott, minor league pitcher
1973 – Ivica Anić, Croatian national team pitcher
1973 – Lien-Hung Chen, CPBL outfielder and manager
1973 – Jimmy Summers, Hoofdklasse pitcher
1976 – Jose Cueto, minor league pitcher
1976 – Wade Miller, pitcher
1976 – Masanobu Okubo, NPB pitcher
1976 – Jeremy Robinson, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)
1977 – Masahiro Araki, NPB infielder
1977 – Ryan Cameron, minor league pitcher
1977 – Grant Roberts, pitcher
1978 – Mark Hanrahan, minor league pitcher
1978 – Danny Prata, minor league pitcher
1979 – Masashi Miki, NPB infielder
1980 – Daisuke Matsuzaka, pitcher
1980 – German Melendez, minor league pitcher and manager
1980 – Derrek Nunley, minor league pitcher
1981 – Justin James, pitcher
1982 – Donald Duarte, Cuban league infielder
1982 – Kazuhiro Hatakeyama, NPB infielder
1982 – Kang-min Kim, KBO outfielder
1982 – Matt Rogelstad, minor league infielder
1982 – Rickie Weeks, infielder; All-Star
1983 – Andy LaRoche, infielder
1983 – Nobuaki Umehara, NPB pitcher
1984 – Jesse English, pitcher
1984 – Georgios Lempesis, Greek national team outfielder
1985 – Salvador Sanchez, minor league outfielder
1985 – Luke French, pitcher
1985 – Brad Meyers, minor league pitcher
1985 – Jesús Rodríguez, minor league pitcher
1986 – Benjamin Dille, Hoofdklasse infielder
1987 – Jason Hagerty, minor league catcher
1988 – Fumikazu Kimura, NPB outfielder
1988 – Andy Wilkins, infielder
1988 – Marcus Walden, pitcher
1989 – Joe Cuda, minor league pitcher
1989 – Eric Perez, Virgin Islands national team infielder
1990 – Sneider Batista, minor league infielder
1990 – Steve Hathaway, pitcher
1990 – Gabriel Noriega, minor league infielder
1990 – Fazal Ur Rehman, Pakistani national team outfielder
1991 – Juan Berger, Guatemalan national team outfielder
1991 – Óscar Jiménez, Division Honor pitcher
1991 – Zach Lee, pitcher
1991 – Ho-Nam Leung, Hong Kong national team pitcher
1991 – Kyle Zimmer, pitcher
1992 – Matthew Kent, minor league pitcher
1993 – Fernando Perez, minor league infielder
1993 – Jeff Singer, minor league pitcher
1993 – Keita Watanabe, NPB pitcher
1995 – Marcel Jiménez, Bundesliga outfielder
1995 – Cheng-Hsien Lin, CPBL pitcher
1996 – Branden Becker, minor league infielder
1996 – Jhonathan Díaz, pitcher
1996 – Alfonso Rivas, infielder
1996 – Max Wotell, minor league pitcher
1997 – Taylor Trammell, outfielder
1998 – Gerardo Carrillo, pitcher
1998 – Félix Rodas, Salvadoran national team pitcher
1999 – Nick Pogue, minor league pitcher
1999 – Anders Tolhurst, minor league pitcher
1999 – Mael Zan, French Division I outfielder
2000 – Osleivis Basabe, infielder
2001 – Yhoswar García, minor league outfielder
2001 – Junya Nishi, NPB pitcher
2002 – Luis Orellana, Honduran national team pitcher
2002 – Renato Samuel Jr., Philippines national team catcher
2002 – Marlon Vega, Cuban league pitcher
2004 – Nikau Pouaka-Grego, minor league infielder
2004 – Kin-Nam Tsang, Hong Kong national team pitcher
2006 – Wenyu Wang, Chinese national team pitcher
2006 – Clay Winklaar, minor league outfielder
2007 – Phuriphat Promma, Thai national team pitcher
Deaths[edit]
1917 – Gene Derby, catcher (b. 1860)
1933 – Bill Brennan, umpire (b. 1880)
1933 – Joe Harrington, infielder (b. 1869)
1945 – Cy Blanton, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1908)
1946 – Ed Gagnier, infielder (b. 1883)
1947 – Ed Lennon, pitcher (b. 1897)
1949 – Tim Jordan, infielder (b. 1879)
1951 – Scrappy Brown, infielder (b. 1899)
1952 – Al Clauss, pitcher (b. 1891)
1953 – Wesley Callahan, infielder (b. 1888)
1954 – Roy Grimes, infielder (b. 1893)
1960 – Ralph Mattis, outfielder (b. 1890)
1966 – Ralph Comstock, pitcher (b. 1887)
1967 – Ralph LaPointe, infielder (b. 1922)
1967 – Joe Stanley, outfielder (b. 1881)
1970 – Lee Riley, outfielder (b. 1906)
1971 – Paul G. Smith, minor league player and manager, college coach (b. 1881)
1973 – Vince Barton, outfielder (b. 1908)
1973 – John MacLean, broadcaster (b. 1921)
1973 – Johnny McCarthy, infielder (b. 1910)
1975 – Clyde Glass, minor league player and manager (b. 1901)
1987 – Charlie Parks, catcher (b. 1917)
1979 – Hap Ward, outfielder (b. 1885)
1980 – Eduardo Green, minor league outfielder (b. 1920)
1980 – Charlie Pechous, infielder (b. 1896)
1991 – Orlando Asbury, pitcher (b. 1897)
2001 – Jorge Comellas, pitcher (b. 1916)
2003 – Johnny Welaj, outfielder (b. 1914)
2006 – Walter Crosby, catcher (b. 1921)
2008 – Jim Spooner, college coach (b. ~1946)
2009 – Lonny Frey, infielder; All-Star (b. 1910)
2012 – Jack Pierce, infielder; Salon de la Fama (b. 1949)
2012 – Robert Seebold, minor league outfielder (b. 1924)
2013 – Dan Osinski, pitcher (b. 1933)
2014 – Harry Pilarski, minor league pitcher (b. 1921)
2014 – Frank Torre, infielder (b. 1931)
2015 – Jane Badini, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1924)
2015 – Erma Bergmann, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1924)
2017 – Pete Domenici, minor league pitcher (b. 1932)
2019 – Alex Grammas, infielder, manager (b. 1926)
2020 – Charles Peterson, minor league outfielder (b. 1974)
2021 – Ruly Carpenter, owner (b. 1940)
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TV SPORTS TODAY
(All times Eastern)
Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts
Sunday, Sept. 13
AUTO RACING
6 a.m.
APPLE TV — Formula 1: TAG Heuer Gran Premio de España 2026, MADRING Sur, Madrid
3 p.m.
USA — NASCAR Cup Series: Enjoy Illinois 300 – The Chase, World Wide Technology Raceway, Madison, Ill.
COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN’S)
Noon
ACCN — Stanford at Duke
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S)
1 p.m.
ESPN2 — Paradise Invitational: TBD, Consolation, Nassau, Bahamas
3 p.m.
ESPN — Wisconsin at Texas
5 p.m.
ESPN — Paradise Invitational: TBD, Championship, Nassau, Bahamas
8 p.m.
ESPN — UCLA at Utah
CYCLING
10 p.m.
NBCSN — UCI: 2026 Vuelta a España, Final Stage (taped)
GOLF
5 a.m.
GOLF — 2026 Solheim Cup: Team U.S. vs. Team Europe – 12 Singles Matches & Closing Ceremony, Bernardus Golf, Cromvoirt, Netherlands
8:30 a.m.
CNBC — DP World Tour: Amgen Irish Open, Final Round, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg, Ireland
2:30 p.m.
GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: Sanford International, Final Round, Minnehaha Country Club, Sioux Falls, S.D.
5 p.m.
GOLF — Korn Ferry Tour: Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, Final Round, Vanderbilt Legends Club, Franklin, Tenn.
MLB BASEBALL
1:30 p.m.
MLBN — Regional Coverage: Houston at Tampa Bay (1:40 p.m.) OR Kansas City at Boston (1:35 p.m.)
4:30 p.m.
MLBN — Regional Coverage: Texas at Arizona (joined in progress) (4:10 p.m.) OR Seattle at Athletics (joined in progress) (4:05 p.m.)
7 p.m.
NBCSN — San Diego at San Francisco (7:20 p.m.)
PEACOCK — San Diego at San Francisco (7:20 p.m.)
NFL FOOTBALL
1 p.m.
CBS — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, Baltimore at Indianapolis, Cleveland at Jacksonville OR Buffalo at Houston
FOX — Regional Coverage: Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, New Orleans at Detroit, Atlanta at Pittsburgh OR Chicago at Carolina
4:25 p.m.
CBS — Regional Coverage: Green Bay at Minnesota OR Arizona at L.A. Chargers
FOX — Regional Coverage: Miami at Las Vegas OR Washington at Philadelphia
8:20 p.m.
NBC — Dallas at N.Y. Giants
PEACOCK — Dallas at N.Y. Giants
SOCCER (MEN’S)
9 a.m.
USA — English Premier League: Brighton & Hove Albion at Coventry City
11:30 a.m.
NBCSN — English Premier League: Manchester City at Manchester United
USA — Bundesliga: Bayern Munich at SV Elversberg
SOCCER (WOMEN’S)
1 p.m.
ESPN — NWSL: Boston at Washington
TENNIS
2 p.m.
ABC — ATP: U.S. Open, Championship, New York
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