Year: 2022

By JILL PAINTER LOPEZ Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his 50th home run of the season but Shohei Ohtani also went deep during their MVP showdown, and the Los Angeles Angels held off the slumping New York Yankees 4-3. The top two candidates for AL MVP both delivered before a sellout

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Corbin Carroll’s ability to hit helped the Arizona Diamondbacks win in his big league debut on Monday night. The top prospect’s ability to run helped him dodge a would-be postgame shower. Carroll had a go-ahead, two-run double to break a fifth-inning tie and the Diamondbacks climbed

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Aaron Judge has hit his 50th home run of the season, connecting in the eighth inning for the New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Angels. The slugger sent a 434-foot solo drive to left-center off reliever Ryan Tepera to trim New York’s deficit to 4-3. Judge became one of 10

By RICH ROVITO Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Garrett Mitchell hit a tying home run in the eighth inning and Keston Hiura connected for a game-ending shot in the ninth as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied past the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-5. Hiura, who replaced injured first baseman Rowdy Tellez in the fourth, launched a two-run homer

CINCINNATI (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols tagged his major league record 450th different pitcher for a home run, connecting off Cincinnati left-hander Ross Detwiler in a 13-4 rout of the Reds. Pujols hit his 694th home run overall. He had been tied with Barry Bonds for most pitchers as longball victims at

NEW YORK (AP) — When Serena Williams won the 1999 U.S. Open for her first Grand Slam title at age 17, she wore white beads in her hair. Williams won her first match of the 2022 U.S. Open at age 40. And her daughter, Olympia, was courtside, sporting a hairstyle paying homage to Mom’s from

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have acquired offensive lineman Dennis Daley from the Carolina Panthers. The Titans sent their 2024 fifth-round pick to the Panthers in exchange for Daley and Carolina’s seventh-round pick in 2024. Daley was a sixth-round pick by the Panthers in 2019 and started nine games last season and 21

By IAN HARRISON Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Danny Jansen hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning and singled home the winning run in the 11th as the Toronto Blue Jays overcame a four-run deficit to defeat the Chicago Cubs 5-4. Jansen connected off Erich Uelmen for his 11th homer, then won it with

By BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gio Urshela’s three-run double in the fifth inning pushed the Minnesota Twins ahead and four relievers made the lead stand in a 4-2 win over the Boston Red Sox. Urshela punched a 3-2 pitch from John Schreiber into the right-field corner, scoring all three runners who had

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Ten-year pro Sam Martin became the second veteran punter to lose his job Monday when the Denver Broncos waived him in favor of waiver wire pickup Corliss Waitman. Earlier, the Tennessee Titans released three-time Pro Bowler Brett Kern, who had been with them since

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Freddie Freeman drove in the go-ahead run with a grounder in the top of the 10th inning, Chris Martin escaped a bases-loaded jam in the bottom half and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Miami Marlins 3-2. Trea Turner had his 1,000th career hit with an

BARRANQUILLA, Colombia (AP) — USA Basketball is on the brink of qualifying for next year’s World Cup. John Jenkins scored 26 points and the U.S. defeated Colombia 95-77 on Monday night in a second-round qualifying game. The win put the Americans in position to clinch a spot in the World Cup — to be held