SALEM X-TRA MILE CLUB

SALEM — The Salem X-Tra Mile Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the girls locker room at Sebo Stadium.

GUARDIANS GET TO RED SOX EARLY

CLEVELAND (AP) — Angel Martínez had an RBI single during Cleveland’s four-run first and made a key defensive play in the second inning as the Guardians held on for a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.

Cleveland’s Chase DeLauter and Kyle Manzardo broke out of slumps with two hits apiece.

Caleb Durbin had an RBI double in the fifth inning for the Red Sox. They have dropped six of seven.

Colin Holderman (3-0), the second of six Guardians’ pitchers, got the win with 1 1/3 innings of hitless ball. Starter Slade Cecconi allowed three runs in 4 1/3 innings. Cade Smith picked up his MLB-leading 20th save.

Boston’s Brayan Bello, who came in after opener Tyler Samaniego (0-3) allowed four runs in the first, threw seven scoreless innings and allowed four hits with five strikeouts.

Samaniego allowed six straight singles with one out, including RBI base hits by Rhys Hoskins and Angel Martínez. Hoskins scored after Boston center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela bobbled Martinez’s line drive while getting it out of his glove for an error. Patrick Bailey extended Cleveland’s lead to 4-0 with a sacrifice fly to bring in Manzardo.

In the second inning, Boston’s Mickey Gasper tried to score from second after Cleveland shortstop Brayan Rocchio was unable to field Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s grounder, but Martínez easily threw out Gasper.

Boston got all of its runs in the fifth. It opened the inning with four straight hits including Marcelo Mayer’s RBI base hit and a double by Durbin down the right-field line to bring home Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Jarren Duran also had a sacrifice fly.

Up next

Boston right-hander Sonny Gray (5-1, 3.27 ERA) looks for his fourth win in May. LHP Parker Messick (6-1, 2.24 ERA) was set to start for Cleveland.

REYNOLDS LIFTS PIRATES IN 9TH

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning — after Oneil Cruz hit a mammoth shot early — to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.

Reynolds launched a 422-foot shot to left field off Taylor Rogers (1-2), scoring Tyler Callihan, who replaced Spencer Horwitz after an infield hit to begin the inning.

All the previous scoring came in the first three innings.

Pittsburgh’s Jared Jones struck out Byron Buxton on three straight fastballs that topped 100 mph in his first start in the majors since Sept. 27, 2024.

Kody Clemens hit sixth homer on Jones’ seventh straight pitch above 100 to give the Twins a 1-0 lead. The 24-year-old right-hander missed more than a year after undergoing UCL surgery in 2025. He allowed five runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.

Twins starter Taj Bradley threw eight straight balls to put Brandon Lowe and Reynolds on base with one out in the first. Nick Gonzales reached on an infield single with Lowe scoring on a throwing error by third baseman Brooks Lee.

Oneil Cruz drove in Reynolds with a grounder to first, and Konnor Griffin followed with a two-out RBI single for a 3-1 advantage.

Tristan Gray tied it 3-3 with a bases-loaded two-run single in the second, and Trevor Larnach followed in the third with his third homer — a 424-foot shot that left the park in right to put the Twins up 5-3.

Cruz hit his 12th home run — a two-out 450-shot that also left the park in right to cut it to 5-4 in the third.

Clemens threw Cruz out at home in the eighth to keep it 5-4 after the Pirates had runners on second and third with nobody out and failed to score.

Wilber Dotel allowed one hit in three innings of relief for Pittsburgh, and Gregory Soto (4-0) pitched a perfect ninth for the win.

Bradley gave up four runs on five hits in four innings.

Up next

Twins RHP Bailey Ober (6-2, 3.92) was set to start Saturday opposite Pirates RHP Mitch Keller (5-2, 3.64).

76ERS GET GANSEY FROM CAVS

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers have found their replacement for Daryl Morey and have agreed to hire Mike Gansey as their president of basketball operations, a person with knowledge of the move told The Associated Press on Friday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the hiring has not yet been revealed publicly.

Gansey joined the Cavaliers in 2011 and has worked as their general manager since 2022.

The 43-year-old Gansey was an All-Ohioan Olmsted Falls High School and still the all-time leading scorer. He played collegiately at West Virginia, where he was a first-team All-Big East selection. Gansey previously served as GM for the Cleveland Charge of the NBA’s G League.

He replaces Morey, who was fired earlier this month after the 76ers were eliminated in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

The 76ers were easily ousted by the New York Knicks to end Morey’s sixth season in charge, and the organization quickly decided that someone else would lead the basketball operations department.

The Sixers went 270-212 in the regular season under Morey but just 28-26 in the postseason, failing to advance past the second round. They returned to the playoffs this season after missing them for the only time in Morey’s tenure in 2024-25, when they went 24-58.

Bob Myers, the former Golden State Warriors general manager, led the search for Morey’s replacement.

Myers built the Golden State teams that won NBA championships in 2015, ’17, ’18 and ’22. He worked as a commentator at ESPN after leaving the Warriors before joining Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment in October 2025 as president of sports.

His first major move with the Sixers is adding Gansey to the front office. The 76ers decided when they fired Morey to keep Nick Nurse as their coach.

Gansey worked under Cleveland President Koby Altman and helped shaped the Cavaliers into an Eastern Conference playoff team.