NILES — Mother Nature shortened Sunday’s game between the Mahoning Valley Scrappers and West Virginia to less than six full innings, as a strong line of storms swept through Niles just before 5 p.m. However, the storms were too little, too late as far as the Black Bears were concerned, ...
AKRON — There were just too many missed opportunities for the Cardinal Mooney baseball team on Saturday. The Cardinals’ defense committed six errors, leading to five unearned runs in a 12-7 loss to Sandusky Perkins in a Division IV state semifinal at 7 17 Credit Union Park in ...
PITTSBURGH — Max Meyer allowed one run in six innings, stranding nine runners in the Miami Marlins’ 4-2 victory over Paul Skenes and the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday. Meyer (7-0) gave up six hits, walked three and hit a batter, but he struck out nine. Skenes (6-6), who fell to 0-4 in six starts since last winning on May 12, gave up home runs to Heriberto Hernandez and Joe Mack in the second inning. The Pirates ace set a career high with 23 swings and misses and struck out 10, including the side in the fourth and sixth. He gave up four hits with one walk in six innings. Miami, ...
CLEVELAND — Mother Nature wrecked havoc on Travis Kelce’s scheduled first pitch before Sunday’s game between the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians. The final game of the weekend series was postponed because of the threat of inclement weather, 40 minutes before the scheduled first pitch The game will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader on Sept. 4. The rescheduled game will start at 2:10 p.m. EDT with the regular game at 7:10 p.m. EDT. It was sunny when the teams and umpire crew met, but weather radar showed a large cell of rain and thunderstorms coming in from ...
CLEVELAND — Cleveland Guardians All-Star third baseman Jose Ramirez was placed on the injured list on Sunday for only the second time in his major league career because of a broken bone in his left hand. Ramirez fractured the left hamate bone during the fifth inning of Saturday’s 3-1 win ...
SAN ANTONIO — Knowing New York had waited 53 years to see the Knicks hoist the NBA championship trophy, owner James Dolan didn’t even wait to be handed the 30-pound gold-plated prize. He grabbed it and lifted it skyward with a yell. “I want to say something to New York,” Dolan ...
