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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCORES
SAN FRANCISCO 8 CINCINNATI 2
NY YANKEES 4 TORONTO 3 (10)
MIAMI 7 ATLANTA 0
ARIZONA 6 PITTSBURGH 5
WASHINGTON 4 MILWAUKEE 3
KANSAS CITY 3 DETROIT 2
BALTIMORE 9 CLEVELAND 5
MINNESOTA 13 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 7
TAMPA BAY 1 HOUSTON 0
BOSTON 7 TEXAS 2
LA DODGERS 3 OAKLAND 2
LA ANGELS 3 NY METS 2
SAN DIEGO 10 COLORADO 2
PHILADELPHIA 6 SEATTLE 0
CHICAGO CUBS 6 ST. LOUIS 2
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCORES
TOLEDO 10 INDIANAPOLIS 8
WEST MICHIGAN 5 FORT WAYNE 2
WISCONSIN 15 SOUTH BEND 12
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EARLY COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, AUG. 24 IN WEEK ZERO:
AER LINGUS COLLEGE FOOTBALL CLASSIC: FLORIDA STATE VS. GEORGIA TECH (IN DUBLIN, IRELAND) | 12 P.M. ET | ESPN
MCNEESE AT TARLETON STATE | 2:30 P.M. ET| ESPN2
MONTANA STATE AT NEW MEXICO | 4 P.M. ET | FS1
FCS KICKOFF: NORTH ALABAMA VS. SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE (CRAMTON BOWL IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA) | 7 P.M. ET | ESPN
MEAC/SWAC CHALLENGE: NORFOLK STATE VS. FLORIDA A&M (CENTER PARC STADIUM IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA) | 7:30 P.M. | ABC
SMU AT NEVADA | 8 P.M. ET |CBS SPORTS NETWORK
DELAWARE STATE AT HAWAII
THURSDAY, AUG. 29
NORTH CAROLINA AT MINNESOTA | 8 P.M. ET | FOX
NORTH DAKOTA STATE AT COLORADO | 8 P.M. ET | ESPN
SACRAMENTO STATE AT SAN JOSE STATE | 10 P.M. ET | TRUTV AND MAX
FRIDAY, AUG. 30
TCU AT STANFORD | 10:30 P.M. ET | ESPN
SATURDAY, AUG. 31
AFLAC KICKOFF GAME: CLEMSON VS. GEORGIA (MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA) | 12 P.M. ET | ABC
PENN STATE AT WEST VIRGINIA | 12 P.M. | FOX
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE AT OKLAHOMA STATE | 2 P.M. ET | ESPN+
MIAMI (FL) AT FLORIDA | 3:30 P.M. ET | ABC
NOTRE DAME AT TEXAS A&M | 7:30 P.M. ET | ABC
GEORGIA STATE AT GEORGIA TECH | 8 P.M. ET | ACC NETWORK
TEXAS A&M-COMMERCE AT SAN DIEGO STATE | 8 P.M. ET | TRUTV AND MAX
SUNDAY, SEPT. 1
ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC: NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL VS. ALABAMA STATE (HARD ROCK STADIUM IN MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA) | 3 P.M. ET | ESPN
VEGAS KICKOFF CLASSIC: LSU VS. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ALLEGIANT STADIUM IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA) | 7:30 P.M. ON ABC
MONDAY, SEPT. 2
BOSTON COLLEGE AT FLORIDA STATE | 7:30 P.M. ET | ESPN
NFL PRE-SEASON
WEEK ONE:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8:
CAROLINA AT NEW ENGLAND, 7:00 PM
DETROIT AT N.Y. GIANTS, 7:00 PM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9:
ATLANTA AT MIAMI, 7:00 PM
HOUSTON AT PITTSBURGH, 7:00 PM
PHILADELPHIA AT BALTIMORE, 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10:
WASHINGTON AT N.Y. JETS, 12:00 PM
CHICAGO AT BUFFALO, 1:00 PM
LAS VEGAS AT MINNESOTA, 4:00 PM
GREEN BAY AT CLEVELAND, 4:25 PM
TAMPA BAY AT CINCINNATI, 7:00 PM
KANSAS CITY AT JACKSONVILLE, 7:00 PM
SAN FRANCISCO AT TENNESSEE, 7:00 PM
SEATTLE AT L.A. CHARGERS, 7:05 PM
NEW ORLEANS AT ARIZONA, 8:00 PM
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11:
DENVER AT INDIANAPOLIS, 1:00 PM
DALLAS AT L.A. RAMS, 4:30 PM
WEEK TWO:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15:
PHILADELPHIA AT NEW ENGLAND, 7:00 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17:
ATLANTA AT BALTIMORE, 12:00 PM
CINCINNATI AT CHICAGO, 1:00 PM
N.Y. GIANTS AT HOUSTON, 1:00 PM
DETROIT AT KANSAS CITY 4:00 PM
MINNESOTA AT CLEVELAND, 4:25 PM
N.Y. JETS AT CAROLINA, 7:00 PM
ARIZONA AT INDIANAPOLIS, 7:00 PM
WASHINGTON AT MIAMI, 7:00 PM
BUFFALO AT PITTSBURGH, 7:00 PM
SEATTLE AT TENNESSEE, 7:00 PM
L.A. RAMS AT L.A. CHARGERS, 7:05 PM
TAMPA BAY AT JACKSONVILLE, 7:30 PM
DALLAS AT LAS VEGAS, 10:00 PM
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18:
GREEN BAY AT DENVER, 8:00 PM
NEW ORLEANS AT SAN FRANCISCO, 8:00 PM
WEEK THREE:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22:
INDIANAPOLIS AT CINCINNATI, 8:00 PM
CHICAGO AT KANSAS CITY, 8:20 PM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23:
JACKSONVILLE AT ATLANTA, 7:00 PM
MIAMI AT TAMPA BAY, 7:30 PM
SAN FRANCISCO AT LAS VEGAS, 10:00 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24:
CAROLINA AT BUFFALO, 1:00 PM
PITTSBURGH AT DETROIT, 1:00 PM
BALTIMORE AT GREEN BAY, 1:00 PM
L.A. RAMS AT HOUSTON, 1:00 PM
MINNESOTA AT PHILADELPHIA, 1:00 PM
L.A. CHARGERS AT DALLAS, 4:00 PM
N.Y. GIANTS AT N.Y. JETS, 7:30 PM
CLEVELAND AT SEATTLE, 10:00 PM
SUNDAY, AUGUST 25:
TENNESSEE AT NEW ORLEANS, 2:00 PM
ARIZONA AT DENVER, 4:30 PM
NEW ENGLAND AT WASHINGTON (NBC), 8:00 PM
NFL WEEK ONE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, SEPT. 5
- BALTIMORE RAVENS AT KANSAS CITY CHIEFS, 8:20 P.M. ET (NBC)
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6
- GREEN BAY PACKERS VS. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES (IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL), 8:15 P.M. ET (PEACOCK)
SUNDAY, SEPT. 8
- PITTSBURGH STEELERS AT ATLANTA FALCONS, 1 P.M. ET (FOX)
- ARIZONA CARDINALS AT BUFFALO BILLS, 1 P.M. ET (CBS)
- TENNESSEE TITANS AT CHICAGO BEARS, 1 P.M. ET (FOX)
- NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS AT CINCINNATI BENGALS, 1 P.M. ET (CBS)
- HOUSTON TEXANS AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS, 1 P.M. ET (CBS)
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS AT MIAMI DOLPHINS, 1 P.M. ET (CBS)
- CAROLINA PANTHERS AT NEW ORLEANS SAINTS, 1 P.M. ET (FOX)
- MINNESOTA VIKINGS AT NEW YORK GIANTS, 1 P.M. ET (FOX)
- LAS VEGAS RAIDERS AT LOS ANGELES CHARGERS, 4:05 P.M. ET (CBS)
- DENVER BRONCOS AT SEATTLE SEAHAWKS, 4:05 P.M. ET (CBS)
- DALLAS COWBOYS AT CLEVELAND BROWNS, 4:25 P.M. ET (CBS)
- WASHINGTON COMMANDERS AT TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS, 4:25 P.M. ET (FOX)
- LOS ANGELES RAMS AT DETROIT LIONS, 8:20 P.M. ET (NBC)
MONDAY, SEPT. 9
- NEW YORK JETS AT SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS, 8:15 P.M. ET (ESPN/ABC)
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OLYMPIC NEWS
U.S. WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL BEATS FRANCE, REACHES KNOCKOUTS
The United States swept France on the final day of pool play Sunday at South Paris Arena to advance to the quarterfinals of the Olympic women’s volleyball tournament.
The American team eked out three narrow set victories — 29-27, 29-27, 25-20 — to win its second match in Pool A action and finish second in the group. The U.S. are trying to repeat as gold medalists after winning this event for the first time at the Tokyo Games.
Andrea Drews led the U.S. with 15 points, Chiaka Ogbogu scored 13 and Haleigh Washington and Kathryn Plummer each chipped in with 11. Drews also laid down 15 digs and Jordyn Poulter racked up 28 sets.
Critically, the U.S. doubled France’s total number of blocks (12 to 6) and capitalized on 21 French errors.
The knockout round is set, and the U.S. will face Poland in the quarterfinals on Tuesday. Poland also went 2-1 in pool play, placing second in Pool B.
China, Brazil and Italy won the other three matches Sunday to clinch first in their respective groups at 3-0.
China rallied to beat Serbia 3-1 (21-25, 25-20, 25-22, 29-27) to win Pool A. Brazil won a lengthy second set and swept Poland 3-0 (25-21, 38-36, 25-14) to prevail in Pool B, and Italy defeated Turkey 3-0 (25-14, 25-16, 25-21) to go unbeaten in Pool C.
Serbia and the Dominican Republic were the top two third-place teams in pool play and earned the final berths into the Round of 8.
Along with the U.S.-Poland match, China will meet Turkey, Brazil will play the Dominican Republic and Italy will face Serbia in the quarterfinals Tuesday.
NOAH LYLES RIDES CAREER ROLLER COASTER TO OLYMPIC 100-METER GOLD
PARIS — Noah Lyles rode through all the highs and lows before reaching the pinnacle of his sport on Sunday, rebounding from career frustrations to win the men’s 100 meters final in a classic at the Paris Olympics.
The three-time world champion at 200 meters failed even to qualify for the shorter sprint at the U.S. Olympic trials three years ago, and rebuilt himself with the singular goal of becoming the fastest man on earth.
On Sunday, he clinched the top of the podium by just five thousands of a second in 9.79, winning in a photo finish over Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, in a finale where a 9.91 from Jamaican rival Oblique Seville was only good enough for last place.
American Fred Kerley, the silver medalist three years ago in Tokyo, took bronze this time with a time of 9.81 seconds.
But this race belonged to Lyles.
“It’s been a roller coaster, ups and downs,” Lyles said. “I’m usually a guy who likes to come out blazing in all my rounds, especially in the 200. But the 100, it’s my first time here on the Olympic stage.”
Lyles is the first American sprinter to win the 100-meter gold medal since Justin Gatlin in 2004 as Athens.
A superstar long before he set foot on the track at the Stade de France, all eyes were on the charismatic showman of the sport who starred in the popular Netflix series “SPRINT” and completed an elusive world championship double in Budapest.
He hopes that compelling storylines can catapult his sport into the limelight in the United States, where U.S. fans are hard to draw to the track outside of the Olympics.
“I’ve always looked at my sport like we can do more. I want more from not only our federations but also our athletes,” Lyles said. “Of course, everybody within their comfort zones. But I want to see this great sport of ours and what we have to show — the dominance, the storylines.”
Lyles will compete next in the 200 in his quest for the rare Olympic sprint double, with the opening rounds set for Monday.
Italy’s Lamont Jacobs was fifth in 9.85 seconds. He won the gold in Tokyo.
American Kenny Bednarek placed seventh in 9.88.
AMERICAN KRISTEN FAULKNER PEDALS TO GOLD IN OLYMPIC CYCLING ROAD RACE
PARIS — American Kristen Faulkner pulled off a major upset as she won the women’s road-race gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, making the most of the top riders’ mind games to snatch the biggest victory of her career.
Faulkner, along with Belgian Lotte Kopecky, caught the leading duo of Dutch great Marianne Vos and Hungarian Blanka Vas with 3.4 kilometers remaining and immediately produced a brutal acceleration.
Vas, Vos and Kopecky looked at each other, all three reluctant to burn the little energy they had left to chase, and let Faulkner ride to glory in slightly under four hours in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.
Faulkner, 31, from Homer, Alaska, seemed in such disbelief that despite her comfortable advantage on the Pont d’Iena, she did not celebrate as she crossed the finish line.
“It’s a dream come true,” Faulkner said. “I knew Kopecky wanted to catch the front two, so I knew she’d ride with me, and I also knew if we caught them I had to attack because I could not beat them at the line.”
Vos won the three-women sprint to take silver — 58 seconds behind Faulkner — and Kopecky claimed the bronze.
“We managed to bridge the gap (with Vas and Vos), and we all looked at each other,” world champion Kopecky told reporters. “On paper, Marianne was the fastest sprinter, so it made me think and I did not want to make the effort. So I focused on getting a medal.”
The first decisive moment came when American Chloe Dygert crashed on a corner just before the Butte Montmartre climb, causing a bunch split.
Kopecky was on the wrong side of it, but she fought her way back in the descent before Vos and Vas pulled away.
Belgium coach Ludwig Willem justified Kopecky’s risk-averse strategy.
“It is indeed a poker game; you keep an eye on one another,” he told reporters. “One cannot say she played it badly. At this level, one is fighting for an Olympic title, one has to take risks, and you can end up with bronze instead of gold, but she also could have ended up in fourth position.
For Vos, a 14-time world champion across four cycling disciplines, it was a missed opportunity to add to her London 2012 road-race title and 2008 Beijing points race gold medal on the track.
“At the end, I didn’t have much left anymore, so when they came back, I watched Kopecky, hoping she would make the effort to close the gap (with Faulkner),” Vos told reporters.
Meanwhile, Faulkner needed luck just to be part of the competition.
Though she won the U.S. road race title in May, she didn’t qualify for the Olympic road race, with Dygert and Taylor Knibb earning the spots. But Knibb withdrew last month to focus on the Olympic triathlon, and Faulkner was tabbed as her replacement.
BOBBY FINKE DOMINATES THE POOL, SETS 1,500 FREESTYLE WORLD RECORD
PARIS — American iron-man Bobby Finke smashed the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle world record as he retained the Olympic gold medal in the event in a thrilling swim Sunday at the Paris pool.
Finke became the only U.S. male swimmer to win an individual gold medal in Paris.
After 30 lung-busting laps, Finke touched the wall in 14 minutes, 30.67 seconds at La Defense Arena, eclipsing Sun Yang’s 12-year-old world mark of 14:31.02 set at the London Games.
Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri took silver, 3.88 seconds behind Finke, with Daniel Wiffen, the 800-meter gold medalist, taking the bronze for Ireland.
Finke became the first male swimmer to go back-to-back in the grueling event since Australia’s Grant Hackett in 2000-04 and the first American since Mike Burton in 1968-72.
Three years after winning the 800- and 1,500-meter golds at the Tokyo Games, Finke marked his place among the titans of distance swimming with an aggressive swim that he led from start to finish.
He was a full body length ahead of Paltrinieri and Wiffen by the 300-meter mark.
Paltrinieri made a charge near the 600-meter mark and pulled up to Finke’s waist, but there was no stopping the American.
“I really wanted to get on top of the podium again, and I hear the anthem all over again like I did for the first time in Tokyo,” Finke said.
Ireland’s first men’s Olympic swimming champion, Wiffen had tipped a world record would be needed to take gold and hoped he would be the man.
It was Finke, though, producing something special to hold on for the world record and send the La Defense Arena crowd into hysteria.
Also, the United States’ 64-year unbeaten run in the men’s 4×100-meter medley was ended by China.
Amid deafening cheers at the converted rugby stadium, the 100-meter freestyle world record holder Pan Zhanle brought China home with an outrageous swim as he, Xu Jiayu, Qin Haiyang and Sun Jiajun won in a time of 3 minutes, 27.46 seconds.
Caeleb Dressel and the Americans took silver, 0.55 seconds behind the Chinese, while a Leon Marchand-powered France grabbed the bronze.
The U.S. did not compete at the 1980 Moscow Games due to a boycott, but they had never been beaten in the men’s medley final dating to the inaugural event at the 1960 Rome Games.
Pan will take enormous credit for defeating them as he rocketed to the wall in 45.92 seconds. Qin, who swam the breaststroke leg, also was important with a sizzling time of 57.98 to upstage France’s four-gold hero Marchand.
In women’s competition, Sweden world record holder Sarah Sjostrom completed a remarkable freestyle sprint double by adding the women’s 50-meter gold to her 100-meter title in her fifth Games at the Paris Olympics.
Australia’s Meg Harris, a gold medalist in the 4x100m free relay, took the silver, and China’s Zhang Yufei secured the bronze for her fifth medal of the Games and ninth of her career.
“I never thought I would win two golds on my fifth Olympics. It’s unbelievable,” said Sjostrom, who will turn 31 later in August. “This is the peak of my career for sure.
“I’m definitely going to continue swimming for many years, but I mean, how can I top this ever?,” she asked.
The Swede smashed Hungarian Katinka Hosszu’s Olympic record in the semifinals, where she was the only swimmer under 24 seconds, as she went 23.66.
Sjostrom could not match that time in Sunday’s “splash and dash” at the La Defense Arena, touching the wall in 23.71 after the single length thrash down the pool and then raising two fingers in triumph.
Harris finished 0.26 behind her, the only other woman under 24 seconds, and Zhang was 0.49 off the Sjostrom’s pace.
Sjostrom, silver medalist in the 50 meters at Tokyo three years ago — and after breaking her elbow before those Games — now has six individual medals from the last three Olympics — three golds, two silvers and a bronze.
Meanwhile, Regan Smith finally earned a gold medal as the U.S. smashed its world record in the women’s 4×100 medley relay. Australia took the silver and China the bronze.
The U.S quartet of Smith, Lilly King, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske touched out with a final time of 3 minutes, 49.63 seconds.
The previous record of 3:50.40 was set by the United States at the world championships in Gwangju, South Korea, in July 2019.
Smith had won five silvers — three in this meet — and one bronze before finally landing the elusive gold.
U.S. WOMEN ON TO OLYMPICS QUARTERFINALS WITH BIG WIN OVER GERMANY
Jackie Young scored 19 points off the bench to lead Team USA to an 87-68 win over Germany in the final game of women’s basketball group play in the Summer Olympics on Sunday in Villeneuve d’Ascq, France.
The Americans, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Olympic tournament after going 3-0 in group play, won their 58th straight game in Olympic competition. Quarterfinals begin Wednesday, but opponents are still being determined.
Young shot 7-of-13 from the floor and also swished five 3-pointers to go with four rebounds, two assists and two steals. A’ja Wilson added 14 points and four steals, Breanna Stewart scored 13 points, and Sabrina Ionescu, Alyssa Thomas and Kelsey Plum each had five assists off the bench.
Germany (2-1) also will advance to the quarterfinals despite its defeat. The Germans were led by 15 points and six rebounds from Dallas Wings forward Satou Sabally, 14 points from Alexis Peterson, and 10 points from Leonie Fiebich.
The Germans jumped out to an early 15-6 lead, powered by Fiebich scoring eight points and dishing out an assist in the opening five minutes of the game.
Trailing by three points entering the second period, the Americans responded on both ends of the floor, holding Sabally and Fiebich scoreless as the U.S. went on a 25-10 run. Three of the Las Vegas Aces players on the team — Wilson, Young and Plum — showed off their chemistry in that period, combining for 11 points and five assists as the U.S. took a 12-point advantage into halftime.
The Americans led by as many as 23 points after Young hit a 3-pointer on an assist from Plum to end the third quarter. The U.S. tallied 25 assists on the day to Germany’s 14, and also outrebounded the Germans 42-32.
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER ADDS GOLD MEDAL TO 2024 COLLECTION OF WINS
PARIS — American Scottie Scheffler won the gold medal at the men’s Olympic golf competition on Sunday with a final score of 19 under par at Le Golf National, south of the city.
He turned in a final-round 62, which included six birdies on the back nine. He closed with birdies on holes 15 through 18.
The World No. 1 finished one shot ahead of Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood (66), who took silver at 18 under. Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama (65) was two shots back to claim the bronze medal, improving on his tie for fourth place on home soil in Tokyo three years ago.
For Scheffler, this is his seventh victory of 2024. His wins include The Players Championship and the Masters Tournament.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC DEFEATS CARLOS ALCARAZ, WINS ELUSIVE GOLD MEDAL
PARIS — Novak Djokovic completed his career Golden Slam as the 37-year-old Serb fought off Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in a memorable Olympic men’s singles final battle at Roland Garros on Sunday.
After heartbreak in Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, Djokovic simply would not be denied the one title that had eluded him for so long, winning 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) in front of a enthralled and appreciative crowd on Court Philippe Chatrier.
He won the bronze medal in 2008 and lost bronze-medal matches in the 2016 and 2020 Games.
Djokovic, the top seed, delivered one of the finest performances of his career to deny Alcaraz and become only the fifth player to win all four singles Grand Slams and the Olympic title.
Neither player took a backward step in a ferocious contest in which the first set alone lasted one hour, 33 minutes as they wrestled for control.`
Alcaraz cracked first in the tiebreak and when another tiebreak was required to decide the second set, again Djokovic again found another gear, sealing victory with a stunning forehand winner down the line.
Djokovic roared to the sky and after shaking hands with Alcaraz, he fell to his knees in tears on the center of the court before climbing into the crowd to be swamped by his family and team.
The 21-year-old Alcaraz, who was denied the Olympic title to go with this year’s French Open and Wimbledon crowns, was in tears at the end as well.
BASEBALL NEWS
MLB ROUNDUP: WHITE SOX 7TH TEAM TO LOSE 20 STRAIGHT
August 5 – Royce Lewis hit a three-run homer to highlight a six-run second inning on Sunday as the Minnesota Twins sent the Chicago White Sox to their 20th straight loss with a 13-7 win in Minneapolis.
The White Sox are the seventh team in modern baseball history to lose 20 straight games. The 1988 Baltimore Orioles hold the record for longest losing streak in American League history with 21. The modern-day record is 23 losses in a row, set by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1961.
Willi Castro had three hits and three RBIs and Jose Miranda had three hits and scored twice for the Twins, who have won four in a row. Starter Simeon Woods Richardson allowed three runs and six hits in four innings. He struck out six and walked three. Cole Sands (5-1) threw two innings of scoreless relief.
Andrew Benintendi homered, while Andrew Vaughn had three hits, two RBIs and two runs for Chicago. Brooks Baldwin also had three hits and scored twice. White Sox starter Chris Flexen (2-11) allowed eight runs (six earned) and seven hits in 1 2/3 innings. He struck out three and walked three.
Phillies 6, Mariners 0
Zack Wheeler pitched eight scoreless innings and was backed by four home runs, three in a five-run eighth inning, as Philadelphia snapped a six-game skid with its interleague victory against host Seattle.
Bryce Harper, mired in one of the worst slumps of his career, went 3-for-4 with a homer, and Kyle Schwarber, Bryson Stott and Alec Bohm also went deep for the National League East-leading Phillies, who won for just the fourth time in 15 games since the All-Star break.
The matchup of All-Star right-handers didn’t disappoint, as Wheeler dueled with Seattle’s Logan Gilbert. Wheeler (11-5) allowed two hits, walked one and struck out nine. Gilbert (6-8) gave up one run on four hits in six innings. He didn’t walk a batter and fanned seven. It was Gilbert’s 18th quality start of the season, tied with Baltimore’s Corbin Burnes for the most in the majors.
Marlins 7, Braves 0
Jonah Bride’s three-run home run highlighted a six-run outburst in the fourth inning, and Edward Cabrera pitched five scoreless innings to spark visiting Miami to a shutout of Atlanta for a split of the teams’ four-game series.
Cabrera (2-3) entered the game with a 6.65 ERA and had not won since April 21. He pitched five shutout innings Sunday — his longest scoreless stint of the season — on three hits, two walks and eight strikeouts. It was his first victory in four career starts against the Braves.
The Marlins’ bullpen covered the final four innings without allowing a run. Emmanuel Ramirez (two innings), Jesus Tinoco (one inning) and George Soriano (one) finished Miami’s sixth shutout of the season.
Giants 8, Reds 2
Matt Chapman hit a game-tying home run in the fourth inning and made a key defensive play in the sixth to help lead visiting San Francisco past Cincinnati.
Left-hander Robbie Ray (2-1) won in his third start back from Tommy John surgery, allowing two runs on three hits — including two solo homers — while striking out nine and walking one over five innings in the rubber game of the series.
The Giants’ LaMonte Wade Jr. broke a 2-2 tie with a solo homer in the sixth, and Tyler Fitzgerald added a two-run homer in the eighth. In the second, Jeimer Candelario matched Elly De La Cruz for Cincinnati’s home run lead with his 18th homer. Espinal followed with a homer for a 2-0 lead, but the Reds were shut out the rest of the way.
Royals 3, Tigers 2
Pinch hitter MJ Melendez hit a two-out, three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning, and Kansas City held off host Detroit.
Melendez’s 13th homer of the season, off Shelby Miller (5-7), allowed the Royals to win three of four games in the series. Royals starter Michael Wacha gave up two runs and seven hits in six innings. Chris Stratton (4-3) picked up the win, and Hunter Harvey recorded his first save with Kansas City.
Detroit’s Brant Hurter, making his major league debut, gave up two hits and struck out three in three innings of scoreless relief. Gio Urshela hit an RBI single and Matt Vierling added a sacrifice fly for the Tigers.
Nationals 4, Brewers 3
James Wood hit a three-run triple, Luis Garcia Jr. homered for the second straight game and Mitchell Parker pitched six shutout innings to help Washington defeat visiting Milwaukee.
Parker (6-6) scattered three hits and three walks and struck out three to earn the win for the Nationals. Wood’s bases-clearing hit made it 4-0 in the sixth. Kyle Finnegan secured his 30th save of the season as Washington took two of three in the series.
Gary Sanchez hit a two-run homer during the Brewers’ three-run eighth inning. Milwaukee starter Tobias Myers (6-5) took the loss despite limiting the Nationals to one run on four hits over five innings. Hoby Milner surrendered four hits in the sixth, including Wood’s triple.
Yankees 4, Blue Jays 3 (10 innings)
DJ LeMahieu hit a game-ending single with one out in the 10th inning as host New York continued its surge with a victory over Toronto.
Following a rain delay of one hour, 49 minutes, LeMahieu gave the Yankees their seventh win in eight games. After Trent Grisham sacrificed automatic runner Anthony Volpe to third, LeMahieu won it by hitting a 1-1 slider from Bowden Francis (4-3) into center. Luis Soto hit a solo shot, his 28th of the season, in the seventh.
Mark Leiter Jr. (3-4) stranded two in the 10th by striking out Alejandro Kirk to set up New York’s second walk-off win this season. LeMahieu’s game-winner atoned for Clay Holmes’ ninth blown save in 32 chances this season. Kirk’s sacrifice fly against Holmes tied the game at 3.
Diamondbacks 6, Pirates 5
Joc Pederson delivered a three-run home run in the seventh inning to help Arizona rally for a win against host Pittsburgh.
Ketel Marte also homered for the Diamondbacks, who trailed 4-0 entering the sixth inning. A.J. Puk escaped a ninth-inning jam to secure his second save this season. Arizona took two of three games in the series and has won nine of its last 11 games.
Colin Holderman (3-4) took the loss after surrendering Pederson’s home run. Yasmani Grandal had three hits for the Pirates, who have lost three of their last four. Paul Skenes allowed two runs on five hits over 5 1/3 innings, walking three and striking out four.
Orioles 9, Guardians 5
Gunnar Henderson clubbed a two-run homer for one of his three hits, while Adley Rutschman had three RBIs as Baltimore earned a split its four-game road set with Guardians.
Eloy Jimenez also had three hits and an RBI, while rookie Jackson Holliday went deep for the Orioles, who totaled 16 runs and 30 hits to win the final two of the series. Baltimore’s Corbin Burnes (12-4) matched a career high for wins despite allowing five runs (four earned) and seven hits over five innings.
Josh Naylor hit a three-run homer for the Guardians, who collected 10 hits and stole five bases. Cleveland’s Gavin Williams (1-4) struck out eight, but yielded six runs, eight hits and two walks over four innings.
Rays 1, Astros 0
Brandon Lowe produced a run-scoring double in the top of the third inning, and five pitchers combined on a three-hit shutout as Tampa Bay claimed the rubber match of a three-game series against Houston.
After Dylan Carlson delivered a leadoff double to left field in the third, Lowe followed with his RBI double to right to score Carlson and snap the scoreless deadlock. Both extra-base hits came against rookie right-hander Spencer Arrighetti (4-10), who pitched brilliantly for Houston.
Arrighetti allowed one run on five hits and two walks, with a career-best 12 strikeouts. It marked the 10th consecutive game Astros pitching recorded at least 10 strikeouts, a franchise record. Houston has 129 strikeouts over 90 innings during that span, yet dropped to 5-5 over that 10-game stretch.
Red Sox 7, Rangers 2
Wilyer Abreu posted his first career multi-home run game to power Boston over Texas in Arlington, Texas.
Abreu had a solo shot in the fourth inning, then hit a three-run homer in the sixth to finish with four RBIs. His second blast was his 12th of the season and handed Boston a 6-2 lead. Jarren Duran and David Hamilton each added a solo home run for the Red Sox. Duran had three hits and two RBIs in the victory.
The Rangers received solo home runs from Corey Seager and Josh Jung, who had two of the team’s three hits.
Dodgers 3, Athletics 2
Cavan Biggio broke a third-inning tie with an RBI single, five relievers combined for 13 outs of scoreless ball and Los Angeles secured a series win over host Oakland.
In a game in which all the scoring took place in the first three innings, Dodgers relievers Evan Phillips, Blake Treinen, Alex Vesia (2-3), Daniel Hudson and Anthony Banda shut the door on the A’s, preserving a one-run lead. Enrique Hernandez hit a two-run double in the first.
Biggio’s hit came with two outs in the third after Jason Heyward singled against A’s starter Osvaldo Bido (2-3) and took second on a fielding error. A’s slugger Brent Rooker had hit a two-run shot in the first to tie the game at 2.
Angels 3, Mets 2
Griffin Canning struck out a season-high eight batters as Los Angeles outlasted visiting New York in Anaheim, Calif.
Canning (4-10) gave up two runs (one earned) on three hits and four walks for his first victory since June 24. Los Angeles took the series despite losing six of 10 on this homestand. Jo Adell doubled and scored a run for the Angels, who were outhit 5-4.
The Mets, trying to keep pace in the National League wild-card picture, have lost five of their last eight. Mets veteran starter Jose Quintana (6-7) gave up three runs on three hits with four walks and four strikeouts over five innings.
Padres 10, Rockies 2
Kyle Higashioka, Jurickson Profar and David Peralta each homered to back up Matt Waldron strong start as San Diego powered past visiting Colorado.
Waldron (7-9) gave up just one run on two hits over 5 2/3 innings, walking two and striking out seven. The outcome marked San Diego’s fifth straight series win since the All-Star break and puts it into a virtual tie with Atlanta for the National League’s first wild-card spot.
Cal Quantrill (7-8) absorbed the loss, permitting three runs off five hits and three walks in 4 1/3 innings with two strikeouts. The Rockies managed just five hits, including solo home runs by Brenton Doyle and Jacob Stallings.
Cubs 6, Cardinals 2
Justin Steele threw 6 2/3 solid innings to help lead Chicago over visiting St. Louis.
In his first victory since July 11, Steele (3-5) allowed two runs on three hits, while striking out six and walking two. Mike Tauchman and Miguel Amaya each finished 2-for-4 with a solo home run for the Cubs, who won their fourth game in five tries.
The Cardinals managed just four hits, including Masyn Winn’s two-run homer in the third. Miles Mikolas (8-9) suffered the loss for the Cardinals, who dropped three of four in the series.
THE TOP TEAMS IN THE MLB STANDINGS ARE STILL AT THE TOP, BUT IT HASN’T BEEN SMOOTH SAILING
The morning of June 26, the Cleveland Guardians and Philadelphia Phillies were on pace for 107 wins. The New York Yankees were on pace for 104, and the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers for an even 100.
Those five teams still have the top records in the game, but since then, they’ve all dealt with stretches of mediocrity. Now Cleveland has baseball’s best record but is on pace for only 98 wins. The Guardians are the only team left with a winning percentage above .600.
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before regression arrived, but it’s been jarring to see so many teams at the top struggle. Here’s a look at the challenges they’ve faced.
CLEVELAND GUARDIANS
The Slump: 16-18 in their last 34 games
The Problems: Cleveland recently went on a five-game winning streak, so let’s not overstate the extent of this downturn. Still, the Guardians’ run differential of minus-22 over the last 34 games suggests some issues. They’ve averaged only 3.71 runs per game over that span as their hitting with runners in scoring position — a major reason for their success — has slipped.
Why They Can Bounce Back: Emmanuel Clase, Hunter Gaddis, Cade Smith and Tim Herrin — who have combined for 208 relief appearances this year — all have ERAs under 2.00. We’ve seen some regression from Cleveland, but that quartet has remained strong.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
The Slump: 4-12 in their last 16 games
The Problems: When Philadelphia lost to Oakland 18-3 on July 14 it seemed like a bit of a fluke, but the Phillies haven’t looked right since. In the last 16 games, Philadelphia’s bullpen has an ERA of 7.13, and the Phillies lost All-Star left-hander Ranger Suárez to the injured list due to back problems.
Why They Can Bounce Back: Well, Philadelphia gave its bullpen a bit of an makeover, trading Seranthony Domínguez and Gregory Soto and adding Carlos Estévez and Tanner Banks. Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola remain solid at the top of the rotation.
BALTIMORE ORIOLES
The Slump: 18-21 in their last 39 games
The Problems: Injuries have caught up to the pitching staff, and star catcher Adley Rutschman hit .132 in July.
Why They Can Bounce Back: The Orioles made some additions to the rotation and bullpen at the trade deadline, but the big spark of late has come from top prospect Jackson Holliday, who is back from the minors for his second stint with Baltimore this year. Holliday struggled mightily at the plate back in April, but in his five games since returning, he’s 7 for 18 with two home runs.
NEW YORK YANKEES
The Slump: 17-24 in their last 41 games
The Problems: There have been a lot. Every one of the Yankees’ starting pitchers has an ERA over 5.00 over the past 41 games. And the offense hasn’t done nearly enough to support Aaron Judge and Juan Soto.
Why They Can Bounce Back: They’ve already started. The Yankees have won seven of their last eight, including a three-game sweep in Philadelphia. They scored 63 runs in those eight games, and their schedule looks favorable down the stretch.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS
The Slump: 10-12 in their last 22 games
The Problems: The Dodgers have struck out 230 times in those 22 games, a high number even in this day and age. The rotation has had room for improvement for a while, and Clayton Kershaw’s return hasn’t been the answer so far. Los Angeles won the NL West by 16 games last year and by 22 in 2022. The lead is just 4 1/2 right now over San Diego.
Why They Can Bounce Back: They made a significant move at the deadline, bringing in right-hander Jack Flaherty, and Mookie Betts is due back soon from his broken hand.
TRIVIA TIME
The Chicago White Sox have lost 20 consecutive games, one shy of the American League record set by the Orioles when they started 0-21 in 1988. Who did Baltimore finally beat that season to end the skid?
Line of the Week
San Francisco’s Blake Snell threw the third no-hitter in the majors this season, blanking Cincinnati 3-0 on Friday night. It was also the first victory of the year for the left-hander, who struggled initially in 2024 but has now allowed two runs in 33 innings over his past five starts.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
The Arizona Diamondbacks scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat Washington 9-8 on Monday night. Corbin Carroll’s two-run homer won the game for Arizona, which has won 21 of its last 30 games and is now in position for a wild card.
The Diamondbacks had a 1.2% win probability while down 8-2 in the seventh, according to Baseball Savant.
NFL NEWS
REPORT: RAMS WR PUKA NACUA (KNEE) LEAVES PRACTICE EARLY
Los Angeles Rams star wide receiver Puka Nacua left practice early on Sunday and had his right knee wrapped in ice, The Athletic reported.
Nacua, 24, left a joint practice with Los Angeles Chargers after a series against their defense, then watched in full uniform from the sideline with a bag of ice on his knee, per the report.
After practice, Rams coach Sean McVay didn’t have an answer as to why last season’s runner-up in NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year voting exited early.
Following an off day on Monday, the Rams return to practice on Tuesday at their old facility in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Nacua is coming off a stellar rookie campaign, with 105 catches for 1,486 yards and six touchdowns while starting all 17 games. A fifth-round pick, he made the Pro Bowl after setting NFL rookie records for receptions and receiving yards.
McVay and the Rams are practicing without a trio of starting offensive linemen: guard Jonah Jackson (bruised scapula) and tackles Rob Havenstein (foot) and Alaric Jackson (ankle), each of whom McVay has labeled as “week-to-week.”
CARDINALS LB ZAVEN COLLINS SIGNS TWO-YEAR EXTENSION
Arizona Cardinals linebacker Zaven Collins signed a two-year contract extension through 2026.
Financial terms were not disclosed by the Cardinals on Saturday, however multiple media outlets reported it was worth $14 million, including $11.25 million in guarantees.
“I’ve been here for the last four years, I’ve seen the culture shift in many ways and I see the culture (trending up) so you stay with it,” Collins said. “And you want to stay with it. Especially everything you’ve worked to build here, why would you want to bail out now?”
Collins, 25, recorded 41 tackles, 3.5 sacks, one interception and one fumble recovery in 17 games (17 starts) last season. He has totaled 166 tackles and 5.5 sacks in 50 career games (39 starts) since being selected by Arizona with the 16th overall pick of the 2021 NFL Draft out of Tulsa.
“He’s a big part of what we want to do on defense, this year and moving forward,” Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon said. “They’ve been working on that for a while and I’m glad they got that done now.”
PANTHERS FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICK XAVIER LEGETTE EXITS PRACTICE
Carolina Panthers first-round draft pick Xavier Legette sustained a lower leg injury and exited practice on Sunday morning.
Canales said Legette’s injury is not related to the hamstring issue that caused the rookie to miss time during organized team activities.
“It’s something in his lower leg,” Panthers head coach Dave Canales said. “I don’t want to get into any details. We’re just going to evaluate him this afternoon as a precaution, and then we’ll go from there. I’ll have more information.”
The Panthers traded with the Buffalo Bills to obtain the 32nd pick of the 2024 NFL Draft and select Legette out of South Carolina.
In five seasons, he caught 113 passes for 1,678 yards and 12 touchdowns for the Gamecocks. He had a career-best season in 2023 with 71 receptions for 1,255 yards and seven scores.
COMMANDERS ROOKIE QB JAYDEN DANIELS TO PLAY VS. JETS
Washington Commanders rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels will play in next weekend’s preseason opener against the New York Jets, head coach Dan Quinn said Sunday.
The Commanders used the second overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft on Daniels, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner.
“I think we’ve probably said it all along there’s been a whole process,” Quinn said Sunday. “Like, it’s not been a secret at all but a process of how we’re going to go get guys ready. So, the games are important, to go and play and get ready — not just with Jayden, but with everybody.”
Quinn did not disclose how long Daniels, 23, would play in Saturday’s game in East Rutherford, N.J.
Jets coach Robert Saleh said earlier this week it was unlikely his quarterback, 40-year-old Aaron Rodgers, would play in the preseason. Rodgers is coming off a torn Achilles sustained in the opening game last season.
Daniels completed 72.2 percent of his passes for 3,812 yards, 40 touchdowns and four interceptions last season at LSU. He also rushed for 1,134 yards and 10 scores in 12 games.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS
REPORT: NCAA ACCUSES MICHIGAN’S SHERRONE MOORE OF RULES VIOLATION
New Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore is one of seven members from last season’s football program accused of violating NCAA rules in a draft of the NCAA’s notice of allegations, ESPN reported Sunday.
Moore is accused of committing a Level 2 violation, according to the draft document. That would make him a potential repeat violator by the NCAA, given that he contacted recruits during a COVID-19 recruiting dead period.
Per the draft, which is subject to change with its final version, Moore could face a show-cause penalty and possibly a suspension. It is alleged he deleted a string of 52 text messages between himself and former Michigan staff member Connor Stalions in October 2023.
That alleged interaction came on the same day that media reports revealed Stalions was attempting to steal play-calling signals of upcoming opponents.
The text messages in question were later recovered via “device imaging,” and Moore produced them to enforcement staff, per the draft.
Former Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh and staff members Chris Partridge, Denard Robinson and Stalions — and the university itself — also are accused of committing Level 1 violations, the most severe type. Harbaugh denied all knowledge of illegal scouting, and the draft notice did not offer any evidence that he was aware of or took part in any recruiting violations.
Still, he received a three-game suspension from the Big Ten to end the 2023 regular season for violating league sportsmanship rules.
Per the draft, former coaches Jesse Minter and Steve Clinkscale also are accused of recruiting violations unrelated to Stalions.
Harbaugh was named the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers on Jan. 24. Two days later, Michigan announced the promotion of Moore, the team’s offensive coordinator/offensive line coach.
Stalions resigned from his job on the Michigan football staff during the 2023 season, which ended with the Wolverines going undefeated and winning the national championship.
GOLF NEWS
MORIYA JUTANUGARN PLAYS NEAR-FLAWLESS ROUND TO WIN PORTLAND TITLE
Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn birdied four of her last seven holes to pull away from the field and win the Portland Classic on Sunday in Oregon.
Jutanugarn shot a final-round, 6-under-par 66 at Columbia Edgewater Country Club, with her only bogey of the entire tournament coming at the 72nd hole. At 22-under 266, she finished two clear of Angel Yin (69), Russia’s Nataliya Guseva (68) and South Korea’s Narin An (66).
An jumped into the lead at 21 under by acing the par-3 16th hole. She could only follow up the dramatic hole-in-one with a par and a bogey, setting the clubhouse lead at 20 under before Jutanugarn rolled past her.
Jutanugarn, 30, began the day three strokes off the pace before following up her Saturday round of 64 by rocketing up the leaderboard, including three straight birdies at Nos. 12-14. The final of her seven birdies came at the par-4 17th to give her some breathing room.
It is Jutanugarn’s third LPGA victory and her first time in the winner’s circle at a non-team event since 2018.
Sofia Garcia of Paraguay (68), So Mi Lee of South Korea (69) and Polly Mack of Germany (70) tied for fifth at 19 under. Second-round leader Dewi Weber of the Netherlands shot a 72 and placed eighth at 18 under.
TOP INDIANA RELEASES
INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS
MUD HENS BLAST PAST INDIANS IN NINTH, TAKE SERIES FINALE 10-8
INDIANAPOLIS – Trey Sweeney launched a go-ahead two-run home run in the ninth inning as the Toledo Mud Hens put up five unanswered runs to defeat the Indianapolis Indians, 10-8, in the series finale at Victory Field on Sunday afternoon.
With Indianapolis (16-15, 49-55) leading 8-5 after six innings, the Mud Hens (16-17, 51-56) mounted a comeback for the victory. The first four batters of the seventh inning reached base safely, with Spencer Torkelson doubling home a pair to spark the rally. A run-scoring double play then knotted the game at eight runs apiece before Trey Sweeney’s two-out homer off Connor Sadzeck (L, 2-2) in the ninth.
The Indians opened the game with a four-run first courtesy of three consecutive RBI doubles from Seth Beer, Billy Cook and Jason Delay. Toledo responded in the following frame with three runs off an RBI double from Stephen Scott and run-scoring groundout from Andrew Navigato.
The back-and-forth contest continued from there, with Indy and Toledo exchanging two-run homers by Billy Cook and Spencer Torkelson in the third and fifth innings, respectively. Indianapolis tacked on another pair in the sixth with an RBI single from Andrés Alvarez and a sacrifice fly from Jack Suwinski.
Devin Sweet (W, 7-5) entered in the eighth inning and tossed a pair of perfect innings with three strikeouts, sealing Toledo’s third consecutive win after Indianapolis won the first three games of the series.
Thomas Harrington, Pittsburgh’s No. 6 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, allowed five runs with four strikeouts across 5.2 innings in his Triple-A debut.
Cook led the Indians offense, going 3-for-5 with a double, home run and three RBI. It was his fourth consecutive game with multiple extra-base hits after roping two doubles on Saturday night in his Pirates organization debut. Edward Olivares joined Cook with another 3-for-5 showing.
The Indians will be off on Monday as they travel to Nashville for a six-game series with the Brewers-affiliated Sounds. The series opener from First Horizon Park is scheduled for 7:35 PM ET on Tuesday. Neither team has announced a starting pitcher.
INDIANA SWIMMING
KING CLOSES OLYMPIC CAREER WITH RELAY GOLD, WORLD RECORD
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University alumna Lilly King has said the 2024 Olympics will be her final Summer Games, and she ended it in storybook fashion.
King and Team USA won the women’s 4×100-meter medley – the final race of the swimming program at Paris 2024 – in a world record time of 3:49.63 on Sunday (Aug. 4) inside La Défense Arena. With the victory, the Americans topped the gold medal leaderboard in swimming with eight over Australia’s seven.
The U.S. reset its world record by 87 hundredths of a second, previously set at the 2019 World Championships. Regan Smith and King were members of the previous record relay and returned to swim the first half of Sunday’s swim, followed by Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske. King blasted a 1:04.90 to extend the United States’ lead through two legs, nearly identical to the 1:04.81 split from the 2019 effort.
King is now a six-time Olympic medalist and three-time gold medalist and has won a medal at all three Olympics she has competed in. She also holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke.
TERRE HAUTE ATHLETICS
JAMIE BAUM EARNS LOW ERA AWARD AS TEAM USA CLAIMS SILVER AT WORLD CUP
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. —
Jamie Baum , a member of the Rose-Hulman women’s basketball and baseball teams, helped lead Team USA to a Silver Medal at the 2024 Women’s Baseball World Cup, earning the best finish for the USA since 2014. Baum earned the Low ERA Award amongst all players in the World Cup.
Team USA finished with a perfect 5-0 record in the group stage, and they will compete for a World Cup title and a Gold Medal on Saturday at 3 PM against Japan who the Americans beat 5-4 in extra innings on Thursday. The loss was the first for Japan in the World Cup since 2012, snapping a 42-game winning streak. In the Championship game, Japan bounced back and extended their streak of six consecutive World Cup titles with an 11-5 victory on Saturday afternoon.
In the World Cup, Baum has made two appearances on the hill. She picked up the no decision in the hill after earning the start against Japan on Thursday. She pitched 5.2 innings, allowing just 3 runs in the 5-4 extra innings victory. Baum also pitched 2 no-hit innings with 3 strikeouts in the win over Mexico to open the tournament.
In the tune-up games last week, Baum also made appearances on the bump leading up to the World Cup. She closed out the first game, a 13-0 victory for Team USA, with a perfect seventh inning, and she only needed 7 pitches to do so. Then, on Friday afternoon, Baum earned the start in the final tune-up against Canada. She pitched three innings of no-hit baseball with three strikeouts en route to a 5-4 victory over Canada.
The senior from Los Altos, California has been a three-year member of the Rose-Hulman women’s basketball team, and she has earned All-HCAC honors in each of the last two seasons. She currently ranked top-10 in Rose-Hulman women’s basketball history in career minutes played, career three-point field goals, and career blocked shots.
Baum also joined the Rose-Hulman baseball team in 2024 and became the first female to appear in a game for the Rose-Hulman baseball program in its 137-year history. She ripped a two-run single against Webster in her first career collegiate at bat for the Fightin’ Engineers.
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NUMBERS IN SPORTS
25 – 8 – 35 – 33 – 14 – 4 – 44 – 32 – 5 – 1 – 92 – 70 – 53 – 47
August 5, 1927 – Phillies outfielder Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at-bats in 9-7 win v Pirates
August 5, 1940 – St Louis Brown’s pitcher John Whitehead, Number 25 pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game.
August 5, 1948 – Cleveland Indians set a club record for most double plays in a game (6) in a 3-0 win against Washington
August 5, 1969 – Pirates outfielder Willie Stargell, Number 8 smashes the first and longest home run ever hit out of Dodger Stadium; the incomparable shot off Alan Foster measures 506 feet
August 5, 1972 – Detroit Tigers shortstop Ed Brinkman, Number 8 commits an error, ending a record streak of 72 games & 331 total chances without a misplay
August 5, 1973 – Atlanta Braves pitcher Phil Niekro, Number 35 no-hits San Diego Padres, 9-0; first no-hitter for franchise in Atlanta
August 5, 1975 – Philadelphia Phillies create MLB record when first 8 batters get hits off Bill Bonham, Number 33, beat Cubs 13-5
August 5, 1979 – Philadelphia Phillies 3rd baseman Pete Rose, Number 14 registered an NL record 2,427th career single in a 5-2 home loss vs the Pirates
August 5, 1979 – Willie Mays ( Number 24), Warren Giles , and Hack Wilson (Number 4) inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
August 5, 1984 – Toronto designated hitter Cliff Johnson, Number 44 hit an MLB record 19th career pinch-hit HR in Blue Jays 4-3 win over Baltimore Orioles
August 5, 1986 – Giants left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton, Number 32 becomes 2nd to reach the 4,000 strikeout milestone when he gets center-fielder Eric Davis in an 11-5 loss v Reds
August 5, 1999 – St. Louis slugger Mark McGwire, Number 25 becomes only the 16th MLB player to reach the 500 home run milestone as the Cardinals lose 10-2 v San Diego at Busch Stadium
August 5, 2005 – St. Louis Cardinals 1st baseman Albert Pujols, Number 5 becomes the first player to connect for 30 home runs in each of his first 5 MLB seasons
August 5, 2006 – Warren Moon (Number 1) became the first black quarterback to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Also inducted in that same HOF Class of 2006 were Troy Aikman (Number 8), John Madden, Rayfield Wright ( Number 70), Harry Carson (Number 53), and (Number 92) Reggie White
August 5, 2007 – Atlanta left-hander Tom Glavine, Number 47 becomes only the 23rd pitcher in MLB history to reach the 300-win milestone as the Braves beat Cubs, 8-3
FOOTBALL HISTORY
Football History for August 5
August 5, 1959- In an exhibition game the NFL’s Chicago Cardinals defeated the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts 55-26 at Toronto’s CNE Stadium.
August 5, 1961- The Chicago Bears played an exhibition preseason tilt with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL at Molson Stadium in Montreal, Quebec. The Bears won 34-16.
August 5, 1966- The Chicago College All-Star game is played at Soldier Field in Chi-town as the Green Bay Packers in front of 72,000 fans blanked the All-Stars 38-0. The MVP award, always given to the college player team, happened to be Gary Lane the quarterback from the University of Missouri.
August 5, 1967- The very first exhibition game after the AFL/NFL merger took place as the Denver Broncos (AFL) stunned the Detroit Lions (NFL) 13-7 at the University of Denver.
August 5, 1978- Mexico City’s, Olympic Stadium is the venue for an NFL preseason exhibition as the New Orleans Saints defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 14-7.
August 5, 1996 – In an NFL exhibition game in Monterrey Mexico the Kansas City Chiefs routed the Dallas Cowboys by the score of 32-6.
August 5, 2006- The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio officially inducts Reggie White, Warren Moon, Troy Aikman, Harry Carson, Rayfield Wright, and John Madden at the Hall’s annual ceremony.
August 5 football birthdays
August 5, 1940 – Roman Gabriel was a quarterback from North Carolina State who in 1989 was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He landed in the NFL with the LA Rams where he played for 11 years before moving onto Philadelphia to play for the Eagles for another 5 seasons after that. He was the first Filipino-American in the NFL to play the position of quarterback.
August 5, 1946 – Gary Beban was a QB from UCLA who won the coveted Heisman Trophy in 1967 edging out OJ Simpson by the narrowest margin as well as the Maxwell Award for being the best all-around college football player that season. He also received awards for academic accomplishments of being a great student as well! Mr. Beban entered the College Football Hall of Fame in the induction class of 1989. He played professionally in the NFL for the LA Rams, Washington Redskins, and the Denver Broncos.
August 5, 1952 – Freddie Scott from Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. was a wide receiver who earned a place in the College Football Hall of Fame in the induction class of 2001. He also had a 10-year career in the NFL where he saw action with the Baltimore Colts and the Detroit Lions. Mr. Scott scored 18 of his 20 NFL career touchdowns with the Lions. Interestingly enough his son Freddie Scott II, also played in the NFL for the Lions & Colts from 1996-1998.
August 5, 1987 – Lake Butler, Florida – The shifty running back from Clemson C.J. Spiller was born. C.J. Spiller was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame by National Football Foundation voters in 2021.
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
Aug. 5
1921 — Pittsburgh radio station KDKA and announcer Harold Arlin provided listeners with the first broadcast of a major league game. The Pirates beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5.
1927 — Philadelphia’s Cy Williams hit for the cycle, drove in six runs, and scored three times to lead the Phillies to a 9-7 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1931 — For the second time in his career, Jim Bottomley got six hits as the St. Louis Cardinals beat Pittsburgh 16-2 in the second game of a doubleheader.
1932 — Detroit pitcher Tommy Bridges lost his bid for a perfect game on a bloop single by the 27th Washington batter, pinch-hitter Dave Harris. The Tigers beat the Senators 13-0.
1933 — Sammy West of the St. Louis Browns had four extra-base hits in a 10-9, 12-inning win over the Chicago White Sox.
1942 — Don Kolloway’s two-out steal of home in the fifth inning was the only run as the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 1-0.
1969 — Pittsburgh’s Willie Stargell became the only player to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium. Stargell’s shot off of Los Angeles’ Alan Foster cleared the right-field pavilion and landed 506 feet from home plate.
1973 — Phil Niekro of the Atlanta Braves pitched a 9-0 no-hitter against the San Diego Padres. He walked three and struck out four in recording the first no-hitter by the franchise in Atlanta.
1975 — The first eight batters for Philadelphia Phillies got hits for a major league record, en route to a 13-5 win over the Chicago Cubs.
1984 — Cliff Johnson of the Blue Jays hit his 19th career pinch homer to set a major league record as Toronto beat the Orioles 4-3 at Memorial Stadium.
1999 — Mark McGwire became the 16th member of the 500-home run club, hitting two homers — Nos. 500 and 501 — in the St. Louis Cardinals’ loss to San Diego.
2001 — The Cleveland Indians tied a major league record and became the first team in 76 years to overcome a 12-run deficit to win, defeating the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in 11 innings.
2005 — Albert Pujols became the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in each of his first five seasons, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Atlanta Braves 11-3.
2006 — Trevor Hoffman set a major league record with his 11th 30-save season and the San Diego Padres defeated the Washington Nationals 6-3.
2007 — Tom Glavine earned his 300th victory in an 8-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The 41-year-old left-hander became the 23rd pitcher with 300 victories and only the fifth lefty to win 300.
2013 — Alex Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 (211 games) and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece when Major League Baseball disciplined 13 players in a drug case — the most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal nearly a century ago. Ryan Braun’s 65-game suspension last month and previous punishments bring to 18 the total number of players disciplined for their relationship to Biogenesis of America, a closed anti-aging clinic in Florida accused of distributing banned performing-enhancing drugs.
2019 — Jonathon Villar of the Orioles hits for the cycle in a 9-6 loss to the Yankees.
2021 — Team USA is headed to the Olympic Gold Medal Game for the first time in 21 years, beating South Korea, 7 – 2 at the 2020 Olympics (held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Teenager Eui-lee Lee holds the US to two runs in five innings, one a mammoth homer by Jamie Westbrook, but five relievers are called on in the 6th when the US scores five times. Jack López drives in two for the US while Hye-seong Kim goes 3 for 3 in a losing cause. Ryder Ryan gets the win in relief of Joe Ryan.
Aug. 6
1908 — John Lush threw a six-inning, rain-shortened no-hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0. It was Lush’s second no-hitter against the Dodgers.
1933 — Pinky Higgins of the Philadelphia Athletics hit for the cycle and drove in five runs in a 12-8 win over the Washington Senators.
1952 — Satchel Paige, 46, became the oldest pitcher in major league history to pitch a complete game or a shutout when he beat Virgil Trucks and the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in 12 innings.
1972 — Hank Aaron hit his 660th and 661st career home runs to break Babe Ruth’s record for most home runs with one club. The 661st came in the 10th inning to give the Atlanta Braves a 4-3 triumph over the Cincinnati Reds.
1981 — As a result of a seven-week strike, major league baseball players approved a split-season format. The New York Yankees, Oakland A’s, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers were declared the first-half champions and automatically qualified for the divisional series.
1985 — The Major League Baseball Players’ Association went on strike.
1986 — The Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 13-11 in a record-setting battle of grand slams. Texas’ Toby Harrah hit a grand slam in the second inning before Larry Sheets and Jim Dwyer connected for grand slams in Baltimore’s nine-run fourth.
1988 — Rich Gossage registered his 300th career save, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4.
1999 — Tony Gwynn went 4-for-5, singling in his first at-bat to become the 22nd major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits, as the San Diego Padres beat the Montreal Expos 12-10.
2001 — Boston’s Scott Hatteberg performed the ultimate baseball opposite. Hatteberg hit a grand slam one at-bat after lining into a triple play as the Red Sox defeated the Texas Rangers 10-7. Hatteberg lined into a triple play in the fourth inning and in the sixth he hit his second career grand slam to move Boston ahead for good.
2002 — At 32, Robb Nen became the youngest player to record 300 saves, as San Francisco beat the Chicago Cubs 11-10. Nen became the 16th member of the 300-save club.
2007 — St. Louis tied a major league record with 10 straight hits in a 10-run fifth inning, with pitcher Braden Looper and Aaron Miles getting two apiece in a 10-5 victory over San Diego.
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Aug. 7
1907 — Walter Johnson won the first of his 417 victories, leading the Washington Senators past the Cleveland Indians 7-2.
1922 — Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hit two home runs in the sixth inning of rout over the Washington Senators.
1923 — Cleveland’s Frank Bower went 6-for-6 with a double and five singles as the Indians routed the Washington Senators 22-2.
1956 — The largest crowd in minor league history, 57,000, saw 50-year-old Satchel Paige of Miami beat Columbus in an International League game at the Orange Bowl.
1963 — Jim Hickman of the New York Mets hit for the cycle in a 7-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at the Polo Grounds. Hickman’s cycle came in single-double-triple-homer order.
1985 — The strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association ended with the announcement of a tentative agreement. The season resumed Aug. 8.
1999 — Wade Boggs became the first player to homer for his 3,000th hit, with a two-run shot in Tampa Bay’s 15-10 loss to Cleveland. Boggs already had a pair of RBI singles when he homered off Chris Haney in the sixth inning.
2004 — Greg Maddux became the 22nd pitcher in major league history to reach 300 victories, leading the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victory over San Francisco.
2007 — San Francisco’s Barry Bonds hit home run No. 756 to break Hank Aaron’s storied record with one out in the fifth inning, hitting a full-count, 84 mph fastball from Washington’s Mike Bacsik. Noticeably absent were Commissioner Bud Selig and Aaron. The Nationals won 8-6.
2016 — Ichiro Suzuki tripled off the wall for his 3,000th hit in the major leagues, becoming the 30th player to reach the milestone as the Miami Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 10-7.
2016 — Manny Machado became the second player in major league history to homer in the first, second and third innings, driving in a career-high seven runs in a 10-2 victory over Chicago.
2018 — Bartolo Colon of Texas became the winningest pitcher from Latin America in the Rangers’ 11-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners. After six tries, the 45-year-old right-hander got his 246th career victory and finally broke the tie with Nicaragua’s Dennis Martinez. Colon gave up four runs and eight hits in seven innings and improved his record to 6-10.
2021 — Host nation Japan wins its first ever gold medal in Olympic baseball by defeating the United States 2-0.
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Aug. 8
1903 — A week after pitching his first doubleheader triumph, Joe “Iron Man” McGinnity of the New York Giants scored a double victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers 6-1 and 4-3. In the second game, he stole home.
1915 — Philadelphia’s Gavvy Cravath hit four doubles and drove in eight runs in a 14-7 victory over the Reds at Cincinnati.
1920 — Howard Ehmke of the Detroit Tigers pitched the fastest 1-0 game in American League history — 1 hour, 13 minutes, for a victory against the New York Yankees.
1931 — Bob Burke of the Washington Senators pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox.
1954 — The Brooklyn Dodgers pounded the Cincinnati Reds 20-7 at Ebbets Field. The Dodgers scored 13 runs in the eighth inning after two were out.
1973 — Designated hitter Orlando Cepeda hit four doubles as the Boston Red Sox posted a 9-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
1985 — Baseball, after a two-day walkout, resumed playing with 18 games scheduled, including five doubleheaders.
1988 — The first night game scheduled in the 74-year history of Chicago’s Wrigley Field’s was postponed with the Cubs leading the Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 after heavy rains started in the bottom of the fourth inning. Philadelphia’s Phil Bradley led off the game with a home run, but all numbers were wiped out when the rain came.
1992 — Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley had his consecutive save record snapped at 40. His consecutive save records — 36 straight to start a season, and 40 straight over two seasons — ended trying to protect a 2-1 lead in the ninth inning against the Kansas City Royals. Eckersley gave up a two-out, two-run single to Gregg Jefferies to give the Royals a 3-2 lead. But the Athletics came back to win the game in the ninth, 5-3.
1997 — Randy Johnson struck out 19, matching the major league record for left-handers he had tied earlier this season, as the Seattle Mariners defeated the Chicago White Sox 5-0.
1998 — Paul Molitor stole his 500th base in Minnesota’s 6-3 loss to Baltimore becoming the fifth player with 3,000 hits and 500 steals. Molitor joined Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, and Lou Brock.
2000 — Darren Dreifort of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit two homers and was the winning pitcher in a 7-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
2001 — Damion Easley went 6-for-6 with a home run and three RBIs as Detroit pounded Texas 19-6.
2014 — Bartolo Colon records the 200th win of his career in the Mets’ 5 – 4 win over the Phillies.
2016 — Brandon Crawford became the first major league player in 41 years to get seven hits in a game, putting the San Francisco Giants ahead to stay with an RBI single in the 14th inning of an 8-7 victory over the Miami Marlins. Crawford tripled, doubled and had five singles in eight at-bats.
2018 — Milwaukee’s Jesus Aguilar, Travis Shaw, and Eric Thames hit consecutive first-inning homers to spoil the debut of San Diego’s Brett Kennedy in the Brewers 8-4 win over the Padres.
2018 — Jacob deGrom struck out 10 over six innings, received rare significant run support and earned his first win in nearly two months as the New York Mets blanked the Cincinnati Reds 8-0. Brandon Nimmo tied a team record with three doubles and drove in three runs as the Mets won for the 22nd time in their last 66 games. DeGrom (6-7) ended a seven-start winless streak, allowing four hits in a 100-pitch outing and lowering his major league-leading ERA to 1.77.
TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
Aug. 5
1921 — Radio station KDKA and announcer Harold Arlin provide the first broadcast of a major league game as the Pirates beat the Phillies 8-5 at Pittsburgh.
1936 — At the Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his third of four gold medals, winning the 200-meter race in an Olympic-record 20.7 seconds.
1954 — The first election for the Boxing Hall of Fame is held. Twenty-four fighters are elected, with the most noteworthy from the modern era Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, and Henry Armstrong. Fifteen are selected from the pioneer era including John L. Sullivan, Gentleman Jim Corbett, and Jack Johnson.
1967 — The Denver Broncos beat the Detroit Lions, 13-7, in a preseason game, for the first AFL victory over an NFL team.
1984 — American Joan Benoit wins the first Olympic marathon for women in 2:24:52, finishing 400 meters ahead of Norway’s Grete Waitz.
1991 — Sergei Bubka becomes the first to clear 20 feet outdoors in the pole vault, breaking his world record by a half-inch at the Galan track meet in Malmo, Sweden.
1997 — Michael Johnson wins his third straight 400-meter title at the world championships in Athens, Greece, capturing the gold medal in 44.12 seconds.
2005 — Jason Gore shoots a 12-under 59 in the second round of the Nationwide Tour’s Cox Classic in Omaha, Nebraska.
2006 — Warren Moon becomes the first black quarterback to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio; joined by Troy Aikman, John Madden, Rayfield Wright, Harry Carson, and Reggie White.
2007 — Tom Glavine earns his 300th victory in an 8-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
2007 — Lorena Ochoa wins the Women’s British Open — the first women’s professional tournament played at venerable St. Andrews — for her first major title.
2012 — Jamaica’s Usain Bolt claims consecutive gold medals in the marquee track and field event at the Summer Games in London. Only about fifth-fastest of the eight runners to the halfway mark, Bolt erases that deficit and overtakes a star-studded field to win the 100-meter dash final in 9.63 seconds, an Olympic record that lets him join Carl Lewis as the only men to win the event twice.
2012 — Britain’s Andy Murray cruises past Roger Federer 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 in the Olympic tennis singles final at Wimbledon. Serena and Venus Williams win the doubles title, as Serena becomes tennis’ first double-gold medalist at an Olympics since Venus won singles and doubles at the 2000 Sydney Games. Ben Ainslie earns another gold medal in the Finn class to become the most successful sailor in Olympic history.
2013 — Alex Rodriguez is suspended through 2014 (211 games) and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera are banned 50 games apiece when Major League Baseball disciplines 13 players in a drug case.
2014 — The San Antonio Spurs hire WNBA star Becky Hammon as an assistant coach, making her the first woman to join an NBA coaching staff.
2017 — Justin Gatlin spoils Usain Bolt’s farewell beating him in the 100 meters at the world track championships in London. Bolt gets off to a slow start and Gatlin holds him off at the line in 9.92 seconds. American sprinter Christian Coleman took silver in 9.94 seconds and Bolt took bronze in 9.95.
2018 — The Springfield Lasers win their first World Team Tennis title edging the Philadelphia Freedoms 19-18. The Lasers were 0-5 in the WTT championship finals and winless in three meetings with the Freedoms during the 2018 regular season.
2018 — Georgia Hall of England catches Pornanong Phatlum in a final-round duel at Royal Lytham & St. Annes to win the Women’s British Open for her first major title.
Aug. 6
1958 — Glen Davis of Columbus, Ohio, sets a world record in the 400 hurdles with a time of 49.2 in Budapest, Hungary.
1966 — Muhammad Ali knocks out Brian London in the third round to retain his world heavyweight title.
1972 — South African Gary Player wins his second PGA golf championship with a two-stroke victory over Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron.
1978 — John Mahaffey beats Tom Watson and Jerry Pate on the second playoff hole to win the PGA Championship.
1984 — American athlete Carl Lewis wins the long jump (8.54m), his second of 4 gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics.
1991 — Debbie Doom of the U.S. pitches her second consecutive perfect game in women’s softball at the Pan American Games. Doom threw a perfect game at the Netherlands Antilles in the opener and matched that performance against Nicaragua, winning 8-0.
1992 — Carl Lewis leads a U.S. sweep in the long jump in the Olympics with a mark of 28 feet, 5 1-2 inches on his first attempt. Mike Powell takes the silver and Joe Greene the bronze. Kevin Young demolishes one of the track’s oldest records with a time of 46.78 seconds in the 400 hurdles. Bruce Baumgartner becomes the first American wrestler to win medals in three straight Olympics, taking the gold in the 286-pound freestyle division.
1994 — Jeff Gordon wins the Brickyard 400, the first stock car race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1995 — Canada’s Donovan Bailey wins the 100 meters at the World Track and Field Championships in Goteborg, Sweden, marking the first time since 1976 that an American fails to win a medal in the event at a major meet.
1999 — Tony Gwynn goes 4-for-5, singling in his first at-bat to become the 22nd major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits, as the San Diego Padres beat the Montreal Expos 12-10.
2001 — Two-time champion Marion Jones is disqualified and has her string of 42 consecutive 100m final victories snapped by Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada.
2006 — Tiger Woods (30) becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3 stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open.
2006 — Floyd Landis is fired by his team and the Tour de France no longer considers him its champion after his second doping sample tested positive for higher-than-allowable levels of testosterone.
2006 — Sherri Steinhauer wins the Women’s British Open for the third time, and the first since it became a major.
2008 — Sammy Villegas, a former University of Toledo basketball player, is charged with point shaving. Villegas is accused of shaving points during the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.
2008 — Kim Terrell-Kearney wins the first professional championship match featuring two black bowlers, beating Trisha Reid 216-189 in the U.S. Bowling Congress’ U.S. Women’s Open. Terrell-Kearney collects her second U.S. Women’s Open title and third career major title.
2010 — Tyson Gay upsets the defending world and Olympic champion Usain Bolt in a race between the two fastest runners in history. Gay beats the Jamaican at the DN Galan meet in 9.84 seconds at the same stadium where Bolt last lost a race two years ago. Bolt finishes second in 9.97.
2015 — Ryan Lochte becomes the first man to win the 200-meter individual medley four consecutive times at the World Swimming Championships. Lochte comes home strong on the freestyle lap and touches first in 1:55.81 in Kazan, Russia.
2017 — I.K. Kim won the Women’s British Open, hanging on with a 1-under 71 for a two-shot victory over Jodi Ewart Shadoff and her first major championship.
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Aug. 7
1907 — Walter Johnson wins the first of his 417 victories, leading the Washington Senators past the Cleveland Indians 7-2.
1952 — Bion Shively, 74, drives Sharp Note to victory in the third heat of the Hambletonian Stakes.
1982 — Speed Bowl wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats with 25-year-old Tom Haughton in the sulky, the youngest to win the Hambletonian.
1983 — Norway’s Grete Waitz takes the women’s marathon in the first world track and field championships in Helsinki, Finland.
1992 — Sergei Bubka, the world record-holder and defending Olympic champion, fails to clear a height in the pole vault.
1999 — Wade Boggs becomes the first player to homer for his 3,000th hit, connecting with a two-run shot in Tampa Bay’s 15-10 loss to Cleveland.
2004 — Greg Maddux becomes the 22nd pitcher in major league history to reach 300 victories, leading the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victory over San Francisco.
2005 — Justin Gatlin dominates the 100 meters at the track and field championships in Helsinki. The Olympic champion wins in 9.88 seconds, finishing 0.17 seconds ahead of Michael Frater of Jamaica. The margin of victory is the largest in the 10 world championships held since the meet’s inception in 1983.
2007 — San Francisco’s Barry Bonds hits home run No. 756 to break Hank Aaron’s storied record. Noticeably absent are Commissioner Bud Selig and Aaron.
2012 — Aly Raisman becomes the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold on floor. She picks up a bronze on balance beam on the final day of gymnastics at the London Olympics and just misses a medal in the all-around.
2016 — Jim Furyk becomes the first golfer to shoot a 58 in PGA Tour history. Three years after Furyk became the sixth player on tour with a 59, he takes it even lower in the Travelers Championship with a 12-under 58 in the final round.
2016 — Ichiro Suzuki triples off the wall for his 3,000th hit in the major leagues, becoming the 30th player to reach the milestone as the Miami Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 10-7.
2016 — Manny Machado becomes the second player in major league history to homer in the first, second and third innings, driving in a career-high seven runs in a 10-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
2016 — American swimmer Katie Ledecky sets a new world record with a time of 3:56.46 to win the gold medal in the women’s 400m freestyle at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
2021 — Kevin Durant with 29 points leads USA to his third and the team’s 4th consecutive Olympic men’s basketball gold medal with an 87-82 win over France in Tokyo.
2021 — Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra wins his country’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in Tokyo.
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Aug. 8
1902 — The United States, led by William Larned, beats Britain three matches to two to capture the Davis Cup.
1903 — Britain wins the Davis Cup by beating the United States 4-1.
1936 — At the Berlin Olympics, the United States finishes 1-2-3 in the men’s decathlon. Glenn Morris sets a world record with 7,900 points, followed by Robert Clark and Jack Parker.
1981 — Shiaway St. Pat, driven by Ray Remmen, wins the first Hambletonian Stakes run at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J. in four heats.
1982 — Ray Floyd, who shot a record 63 in the opening round, wins the PGA championship by three shots over Lanny Wadkins.
1984 — Carl Lewis sets the Olympic record in the 200 meters with a 19.80 clocking.
1987 — Mack Lobell, driven by John Campbell, wins the Hambletonian in straight heats with a record-smashing performance. Mack Lobell wins the second heat, and the race, by 6¼ lengths over Napoletano in 1:53 3-5, a fifth of a second off the world all-age trotting record set by Prakas in 1985.
1992 — The Dream Team picks up its gold medal and Carl Lewis anchors a world-record 400-meter relay, winning his eighth gold medal in three Olympics. The U.S. basketball team beats Croatia 117-85, with the 32-point margin of victory the smallest of the Games. In the 400, Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell and Lewis set a world record of 37.40 seconds. Steve Lewis anchors another world record as the Americans won the 1,600 relay by nearly half the length of a football field. The team of Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Michael Johnson, and Lewis ran the 1,600 in 2:55.74.
2006 — Roger Goodell is chosen as the NFL’s next commissioner. Favored for months to get the job, he is unanimously elected by the league’s 32 owners on the fifth ballot.
2010 — Los Angeles Sparks forward Tina Thompson scores 23 points to become the WNBA’s all-time scoring leader in a 92-83 loss to the San Antonio Silver Stars. She surpasses Lisa Leslie’s career total of 6,263 points. Thompson is the last of the original WNBA players.
2012 — Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings of the United States become the first three-time gold medalists in Olympic beach volleyball history. The duo beat Jennifer Kessy and April Ross 21-16, 21-16 in the all-American final, extending their Olympic winning streak to 21 matches.
2012 — Brittney Reese wins the long jump, becoming the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic long jump since Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988. Caster Semenya makes her Olympic debut three years after being forced to undergo gender tests, finishing second in her 800 heat.
2015 — Katie Ledecky ends her world swimming championships in spectacular style, lowering her world record by 3.61 seconds in the 800-meter freestyle for her fifth gold medal. The 18-year-old American completes a sweep of the 200, 400, 800, and 1,500 freestyles in Kazan, Russia. She was the anchor leg on the victorious 4×200 free relay, too.
2018 — The NCAA Board of Governors and Division I Board of Directors adopt a “series of significant policy and legislative changes” as part of an effort to “fundamentally” change the NCAA’s structure. The NCAA changes eligibility rules, allowing top prospects to hire agents in high school and giving college players more leeway to return after declaring for the NBA draft.
2021 — USA women’s basketball team wins its record-extending 7th consecutive Olympic gold medal with a 90-75 win over Japan in Tokyo; guards Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi each win their 5th straight gold.
2021 — USA Women’s volleyball defeats Brazil in straight sets to win the gold medal. It’s the first Olympic gold medal in USA Women’s volleyball history. The win would give the United States 39 gold medals breaking a tie with China on the final day of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.