By MICHAEL R. SISAK and SHELBY LUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It was bedlam on Broadway as the New York Knicks won their first NBA championship in 53 years on Saturday night, with exuberant celebrations marred by mayhem and violence, including gunshots in Times Square. Outside ...
By KENZO FUKUDA Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong homered on the first pitch of the game and the Chicago Cubs hit two more home runs in a 6-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night. Crow-Armstrong connected off Trevor McDonald (2-4) for his 12th ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — J.T. Realmuto hit a three-run homer and the Philadelphia Phillies scored five times in the sixth inning before holding on for a 9-8 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday night. Bryson Stott put the Phillies ahead 4-3 in the sixth with his second RBI double of the game. ...
By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto carried a no-hit bid into the ninth inning, sending the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 7-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday. Yamamoto retired his first 23 batters before Chase Meidroth reached on a two-out error ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Jalen Brunson and the Comeback Knicks did it again. And now they're the Champion Knicks. For the first time in 53 years, New York rules the NBA. Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for New York in the fourth quarter, ...
By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Aldon Smith, the troubled but talented pass rusher whose promising career was derailed by legal problems, has died at age 36. The San Francisco 49ers announced Smith's death on Saturday night. The team did not disclose a cause of ...
By WES CROSBY Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Spencer Horwitz was hit by a pitch from Anthony Bender with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to bring in the go-ahead run and give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 3-2 win over Miami on Saturday, ending the Marlins' six-game win ...
By TOM WITHERS Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Tarik Skubal was tagged for a two-run homer by Cleveland's Daniel Schneemann in the two-time reigning Cy Young winner's return from elbow surgery and the Guardians downed the Detroit Tigers 3-1 on Saturday. Skubal (3-3) threw 80 pitches ...
TORONTO (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt hit a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 on Saturday. After Cody Bellinger singled to open the ninth against Blue Jays closer Louis Varland, Goldschmidt followed with a 400-foot drive to left, his ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Eli White homered and matched a career high with three hits Saturday, leading the Atlanta Braves to a 3-1 win over the New York Mets. White laced an RBI double in the second inning and homered in the fourth before hitting another double in the seventh as the major ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Blaze Jordan hit his first major league homer and Iván Herrera went deep twice for the St. Louis Cardinals in a power-fueled 9-6 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday. Herrera and Jordan Walker had back-to-back home runs off reliever Justin Lawrence that broke a ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Golden Knights coach John Tortorella is sticking with Carter Hart against the Hurricanes even though he is the first goalie to give up four goals in each of the first five games of a Stanley Cup Final. The teams meet in Game 6 on Sunday, and the Stanley Cup will be in ...
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Denny Hamlin will start his third consecutive NASCAR Cup Series race from the pole after qualifying in the top spot at Pocono Raceway on Saturday. Hamlin, who is trying to win his third consecutive race, covered the "Tricky Triangle" in 51.948 seconds during qualifying ...
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Christopher Bell will race at Pocono and possibly the next month or so with a cast on his left wrist. Bell sustained "a normal broken bone" that didn't require surgery during a hit at Michigan International Speedway last week. Bell kept both hands on the wheel during ...
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Sophie Cunningham hit three 3-pointers and scored the final 11 points for Indiana, helping the Fever beat the Connecticut Sun 85-75 on Saturday night to improve to 4-1 in Commissioner's Cup play. Caitlin Clark had 25 points and five assists as Indiana (8-5) closed ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Owen Caissie had a two-run double to cap a four-run seventh inning and the Miami Marlins beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-3 on Friday night for their sixth straight victory. Sandy Alcantara (6-4) won for the third time in three starts in June, working eight innings. He gave up ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jacob Misiorowski threw a 104.5 mph pitch, the fastest by a starting pitcher since tracking began, and struck out 15 with no walks in a one-hitter that led the Milwaukee Brewers over the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0 on Friday night. The 24-year-old right-hander struck out Kyle ...
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Denny Hamlin will start his third consecutive NASCAR Cup Series race from the pole after qualifying in the top spot at Pocono Raceway on Saturday. Hamlin, who is trying to win his third consecutive race, covered the "Tricky Triangle" in 51.948 seconds during qualifying ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Spencer Horwitz was hit by a pitch from Anthony Bender with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to bring in the go-ahead run and give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 3-2 win over Miami on Saturday, ending the Marlins' six-game win streak. Bender (1-1) struck out the first two ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — J.T. Realmuto hit a three-run homer and the Philadelphia Phillies scored five times in the sixth inning before holding on for a 9-8 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday night. Bryson Stott put the Phillies ahead 4-3 with an RBI double in the sixth. Realmuto followed ...