ST. LOUIS — Brandon Lowe homered, Marcell Ozuna drove in two runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 on Thursday. Rookie Konnor Griffin extended his hitting streak to eight games with a double. He also scored a run and stole a base. Griffin went 6 for 13 in the ...
CONCORD, N.C. — Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion who won more races than anyone across NASCAR's three national series, has died. He was 41. The Busch Family, Richard Childress Racing and NASCAR issued a joint statement Thursday saying Busch died after being hospitalized. No cause ...
BASEBALL DIVISION IV PLAYOFFS Ursuline 5, Woodridge 2 — Ursuline broke a 2-2 tie in the sixth inning and added two more insurance runs in the top of the seventh inning. Rowan Urbach led the Irish with three hits, including a double and a home run and 11 strikeouts as the starting pitcher. Harrison DeLuca and Frank D’Altorio added a hit and an RBI each for Ursuline and Matt Pesa had two hits. DIVISION V PLAYOFFS South Range 7, Wellington 0 — Brennen Klasovsky went the distance for South Range, striking out 13 in seven innings and allowing just one hit. Dane Tiger had a hit ...
ST. LOUIS — Spencer Horwitz homered, Konnor Griffin had four singles, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-0 on Wednesday night to snap a four-game losing streak. Carmen Mlodzinski (4-3) allowed four hits and a walk in five innings to improve to 3-0 with a 1.75 ERA in 11 career appearances against the Cardinals. Yohan Ramirez, Evan Sisk, Justin Lawrence and Dennis Santana each pitched a scoreless inning of relief for Pittsburgh, which gave up five hits. The Pirates led 3-0 when they scored four runs in the eighth inning off Cardinals reliever Matt Svanson. ...
DETROIT — Angel Martinez hit a tiebreaking triple in the 10th inning, Jose Ramirez followed with an RBI double and the Cleveland Guardians beat the slumping Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Wednesday night. Cleveland tied it at 1 in the ninth when Daniel Schneemann scored on Patrick Bailey’s groundout. Schneemann opened the inning with a single off Will Vest before advancing on Travis Bazzana’s single and Steven Kwan’s sacrifice bunt. Detroit, which has lost five straight games and 13 of 15, had an opportunity to win in the bottom of the ninth with runners on first and second and no ...
ALLIANCE — After an upset win over third-seeded Badger on Monday, Lowellville head coach Mike Alfano said his team was playing its best softball of the season. But on Wednesday, the 12th-seeded Rockets’ season came to a brutal halt. Matched up against No. 6 Chalker, Lowellville fell ...
