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Australian No. 1 pick makes MLB debut against Rays

CLEVELAND — Travis Bazzana knew he was going to be nervous making his major league debut until he took his first at-bat and fielded his first ground ball. After that, everything felt normal again. Bazzana, the No. 1 pick in the 2024 amateur draft, went 0 for 2 with two walks in his major league debut for the Cleveland Guardians in Tuesday night’s 1-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. The 23-year-old Bazzana found out on Sunday after Triple-A Columbus’ doubleheader at Buffalo that he was going to be called up. The move was made official Tuesday when Juan Brito was optioned to ...

Penguins fighting for their playoff lives

The Pittsburgh Penguins are halfway to history. Sidney Crosby and the Penguins are aiming to become just the fifth team in NHL history to win a series after trailing 3-0. They’ve won two straight games to force Game 6 in Philadelphia on Wednesday night. “It’s quite clear the situation for us is win or go home,” said Crosby, who had two assists in a 3-2 win Monday night. “I think that urgency, that desperation, whatever you want to call it, I think has brought (out) some of our best hockey because of it. So, we just gotta keep going here.” The Flyers are among the four ...

AROUND THE HORN

Libb plays for Mount Union WEST LAFAYETTE — Mount Union won the 2025-26 Ohio Athletic Conference Men’s Golf Championship after the final round at River Greens Golf Course on Sunday afternoon. Mount Union freshman Jase Libb, a West Branch High School graduate, was the Purple Raiders’ fifth golfer and finshed 20th in the 40 golfer field with a three-day total of 9-over-par 225. He shot rounds of 73-72-80. The Purple Raiders finished with a team score of 871 (294-293-284), which was tied with Otterbein for first place but won the championship after winning the second playoff ...

Penguins put the pressure on

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Connor Dewar, Kris Letang and Elmer Soderblom scored and the Pittsburgh Penguins avoided elimination for the second time in 48 hours with a 3-2 win over Philadelphia in Game 5 of their first-round series on Monday night. Sidney Crosby shook off a shot to his left knee to add two assists for the Penguins, who cut the Flyers’ lead in the best-of-seven series to 3-2. Game 6 is Wednesday in Philadelphia, where the pressure will be on the Flyers to avoid putting themselves in danger of becoming just the fifth team in NHL history to blow a series after winning the ...

Buccos bounced by Cardinals

PITTSBURGH — Jose Fermin hit a tiebreaking two-run double after Pedro Pages and JJ Wetherholt hit consecutive homers — all in the ninth inning — as the St. Louis Cardinals rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 Monday night after breaking up a perfect game bid in the seventh inning. With the Pirates leading 2-0, four Pittsburgh pitchers combined to shut down the Cardinals through 6 2/3 innings before Alec Burleson legged out a two-out, infield single off Evan Sisk in the seventh. Pages’ and Wetherholt’s home runs off Dennis Santana (2-2) lifted the Cardinals into a ...

CORRECTION

Tina Mobley purchased a Clark Avenue home from Tanna T. Newlan et al. An incorrect name of the buyer was published in Saturday’s edition.