PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen hit a go-ahead two-run double in the seventh inning just seconds before a fan fell off the 21-foot Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park in the Pittsburgh Pirates' 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs 4-3 on Wednesday night.
With the Pirates trailing 3-2 in the ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Victor Scott II, Lars Nootbaar and Masyn Winn hit consecutive home runs in the ninth inning, with Winn going deep for the second time in the game, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Cincinnati 6-0 in a doubleheader opener Wednesday to stop the Reds' five-game winning ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Bo Naylor hit a three-run homer and Luis Ortiz kept Minnesota's hitters off balance and off the scoreboard for 6 1/3 innings, leading the Cleveland Guardians to a 4-2 win over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night.
Naylor connected in the seventh inning off reliever Brock ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Willson Contreras hit a three-run homer in the first inning of the second game, Pedro Pagés added a solo shot and the St. Louis Cardinals swept a day-night doubleheader from the Cincinnati Reds 6-0 and 9-1 on Wednesday.
Contreras and Pagés homered off 22-year-old ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jonah Bride had three of Minnesota's 17 hits, Bailey Ober allowed one run in 7 2/3 innings and the Minnesota Twins rolled to an 11-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Monday night.
Minnesota had 10 players with hits, the first time the Twins had done that since last ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Nick Martinez pitched six sparkling innings, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 on Monday night for their fifth straight win.
Martinez (1-3) allowed one run and five hits in the opener of a seven-game homestand. Graham Ashcraft and Tony Santillan each ...
MIAMI (AP) — Cleveland moved into Round 2 with the most lopsided series win in NBA playoff history.
Donovan Mitchell scored 22 points, De'Andre Hunter added 19 and the Cavaliers led by as many as 60 points before beating the Miami Heat 138-83 on Monday night to sweep their Eastern Conference ...
MIAMI (AP) — Kenny Atkinson didn't need a few months, or a few weeks, or even a few games before figuring out the potential of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
He needed two practices.
Go back to training camp in Bradenton, Florida. The Cavaliers were in Day 2 there, and one of Atkinson's assistant ...
Eleven Big Ten teams have settled on their starting quarterbacks. The other seven, including defending national champion Ohio State, will carry competitions into preseason practice.
Illinois' Luke Altmyer, Michigan State's Aidan Chiles, Nebraska's Dylan Raiola, Penn State's Drew Allar, ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians reliever Paul Sewald was placed on the 15-day injured list before Tuesday's game against the Minnesota Twins with a right shoulder stain.
The right-hander was removed during the fifth inning of Monday night's game against the Twins with right shoulder inflammation. ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Steven Kwan hit a tiebreaking single in the sixth inning, lifting the Cleveland Guardians over the Boston Red Sox 5-4 on Saturday in a doubleheader opener for their sixth win in seven games.
With the score 4-4, Brennan Bernardino (1-1) hit Will Wilson with a pitch starting ...
MIAMI (AP) — Donovan Mitchell didn't have a great shooting day. Darius Garland was in street clothes, out with an injury.
And Cleveland rolled anyway, moving to the brink of Round 2.
Jarrett Allen scored 22 points, De'Andre Hunter added 21 and the Cavaliers — bullying Miami around all day ...
DENVER (AP) — Noel Marte hit a two-run homer, Austin Hays added a pair of solo drives and the Cincinnati Reds beat Colorado 6-4 on Saturday to send the Rockies to their 13th loss in 14 games.
Colorado lost its fifth game in a row and is 4-22, the worst 26-game start in franchise history. The ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jarren Duran had Boston's first straight steal of home since Jacoby Ellsbury exactly 16 years earlier, and the Red Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 Saturday for a doubleheader split after losing the opener 5-4.
Duran tripled in the third inning and took off against Doug ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Bengals added playmaking defensive end Shemar Stewart of Texas A&M with the 17th overall pick Thursday night at the NFL draft.
The Bengals had the 25th-ranked scoring defense in the NFL last season and hope Stewart's size and speed will help.
"He's ...
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Browns general manager Andrew Berry opted for more draft picks and a defensive lineman instead of a "unicorn."
After trading the second overall pick to Jacksonville and the chance to get two-way star Travis Hunter, Cleveland selected Michigan defensive tackle Mason Graham ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Donovan Mitchell delivered when the Cleveland Cavaliers needed him most.
After the Miami Heat seized momentum and appeared on the verge of possibly tying the series, Mitchell took over. He scored Cleveland's next eight points and the Cavaliers held on for a 121-112 victory ...
Evan Mobley said his goal coming into the season with the Cleveland Cavaliers was to win the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award.
He got it done.
The Cavs consider Mobley to be their best defensive player, and the league thought even more highly of him. Mobley held off fellow finalists ...
MIAMI (AP) — Max Meyer struck out a career-high 14 in six scoreless innings, pinch-hitter Kyle Stowers had a three-run homer in the seventh and the Miami Marlins beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-3 on Monday night.
Meyer struck out the side in the sixth and walked into the dugout to a standing ...
MIAMI (AP) — Agustín Ramírez walked, doubled twice and singled in his second major league game to help the Miami Marlins beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-3 on Tuesday night.
Ramírez went 2 for 3 in his MLB debut on Monday, and his five hits are the most in the first two MLB games by a Marlins ...