Monday Sports – Tigers blanked by Twins 5-0

MLB – Major League Baseball
Yesterday
Minnesota Twins 5, Detroit Tigers 0
Seattle Mariners 6, Chicago White Sox 3
Chicago Cubs 7, Kansas City Royals 3

Twins 5, Tigers 0 – Bailey Ober allows 1 hit in 8 innings to lead the Tigers past the Twins 5-0
Bailey Ober allowed one hit in eight scoreless innings, and the Minnesota Twins beat Detroit 5-0 to win the weekend and season series against the Tigers. Willi Castro and Manuel Margot each had three hits for the Twins, who went 2 for 15 with runners in scoring position. Minnesota won two of three to finish 7-6 against Detroit. Ober allowed a clean single to Matt Vierling to lead off the fourth and walked two batters while recording a career-high 11 strikeouts. Detroit is down to three healthy starting pitchers and got nine innings from its bullpen for the third time in six games.

Mariners 6, White Sox 3 – Raleigh homers again as the Mariners complete a three-game sweep of the White Sox 6-3
Cal Raleigh hit a two-run homer, Bryce Miller pitched 6 1/3 innings and the Seattle Mariners completed a three-game sweep of the White Sox with a 6-3 win to extend Chicago’s losing streak to 14 games. The trip to Chicago came at a good time for the Mariners, who lost eight of nine games before beginning the series. Miller allowed three runs on seven hits with six strikeouts and did not allow a walk. Austin Voth got two outs in the seventh, Yimi García pitched a scoreless eighth, and Andrés Muñoz closed the game with a scoreless inning in steady rain for his 18th save in 21 chances.

Cubs 7, Royals 3 – Pete Crow-Armstrong hits go-ahead RBI as the Cubs defeat the Royals 7-3
Pete Crow-Armstrong, who came into the game hitting .183, was 3 for 4 with a run and the go-ahead RBI as the Chicago Cubs defeated the Kansas City Royals 7-3. The Cubs won the three-game series two games to one. The Cubs are 12-8 in their last 20 games after going 3-9 in their previous 12. Javier Assad allowed three runs on five hits in six innings. Cole Ragans took the loss, allowing four runs in 5 2/3 innings. Chicago added three insurance runs in the ninth, including Patrick Wisdom’s second homer in as many days.

Tonight
Cleveland (Bibee 8-4) at Detroit (Flaherty 7-5), 6:40 p.m. News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 6:15
Chicago Cubs (Taillon 7-5) at Cincinnati (Spiers 3-2), 7:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Marsh 7-7) at Chicago White Sox (Flexen 2-10), 8:10 p.m.

MLB – Rangers acquire catcher Carson Kelly from Tigers for 2 minor leaguers
The Texas Rangers have acquired catcher Carson Kelly from the Detroit Tigers for two minor leaguers. Kelly, who will likely back up Gold Glove winner Jonah Heim, batted .240 with seven homers and 29 RBIs in 60 games for the Tigers this season. For his career, he has a .224 average with 52 home runs and 199 RBIs over parts of nine seasons with St. Louis, Arizona and Detroit. The Tigers received catcher Liam Hicks and right-hander Tyler Owens in the deal.

MLB – Cubs get Isaac Paredes from the Rays for Christopher Morel and 2 minor leaguers
The Chicago Cubs have acquired All-Star infielder Isaac Paredes from the Tampa Bay Rays for third baseman Christopher Morel and two minor leaguers. Paredes is batting .245 with 16 homers and 55 RBIs in 101 games this season. He signed with Chicago as an amateur free agent in 2015, but he was traded to Detroit two years later and made his big league debut with the Tigers in 2020. The Cubs, who are focused on the future ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline, sent Morel and right-handers Hunter Bigge and Ty Johnson to the Rays.

NFL – Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay makes 1st training camp since his December fall
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay made his first training camp trip Sunday, marking his first sideline appearance since falling at his home last fall. Irsay has been rehabilitating from right shoulder and left leg injuries after police officers from Carmel, Indiana, a northern suburb of Indianapolis, wrote that they found Irsay breathing but unresponsive and with a bluish skin tone on Dec. 8. Irsay told reporters he is feeling better and hopes to make a full recovery as he sat in a golf cart during Indy’s late-afternoon practice.

Olympics – GYM – Biles shakes off a calf injury to dominate during gymnastics qualifying
Simone Biles posted an all-around total of 59.566 during Olympic qualifying inside a packed and star-studded Bercy Arena in Paris despite complaining of a left calf injury that had her limping. Biles appeared to tweak the leg while warming up on floor exercise during the second rotation. She had the ankle taped and then returned to put on the kind of show-stopping performance that has long been her signature.

Olympics – Soccer – US women beat Germany 4-1 at Olympics and Canada tops France 2-1
Sophia Smith scored a pair of goals to help the United States beat Germany 4-1 and advance to the quarterfinals at the Paris Olympics. Mallory Swanson and Lynn Williams also scored for the Americans. Canada’s Vanessa Gilles scored in the 12th minute of stoppage time to beat France 2-1 and keep alive its hopes of advancing. Australia produced a stunning comeback to beat Zambia 6-5 in Nice. Momoko Tanikawa scored deep in stoppage time to clinch Japan’s 2-1 comeback win over Brazil. World champion Spain beat Nigeria 1-0 to make it two wins from two in Group C. Colombia beat New Zealand 2-0 in Lyon.

Olympics – Basketball – US men’s basketball team rolls past Serbia 110-84 in opening game
LeBron James made his Olympic return after a 12-year absence. Kevin Durant played for the first time this summer. And the two most-experienced Olympians on this U.S. team opened the Paris Games, not to mention a bid for a fifth consecutive gold medal for the Americans — with a near-perfect show. Durant made his first eight shots on the way to 23 points in less that 17 minutes, James added 21 points, nine assists and seven rebounds and the U.S. rolled to a 110-84 win over Serbia in the Olympic opener for both teams on Sunday. Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic scored 20 points for Serbia.

Olympics – Beach volleyball at Eiffel Tower stadium draws the crowds
Paris’s iconic Eiffel Tower is serving as a backdrop for one of the most photogenic venues of the Paris Olympics. The 13,000-seat stadium was built specifically for the Olympics at Champ de Mars, a garden where Parisians and tourists typically sit on the grass for picnics or July 14 firework displays. The site draws hundreds of people on any regular day, but since the start of the Olympics, people buy tickets to beach volleyball matches just to squeeze through crowds of people for the perfect selfies and videos with the tower and sand in the background.

Olympics – Rafael Nadal wins in singles and will play rival Novak Djokovic on Monday
Rafael Nadal made a last-minute decision to play singles at the Paris Olympics and won his first-round match against Marton Fucsovics 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. Sunday’s victory by Nadal sets up a blockbuster showdown against rival Novak Djokovic on Monday. Nadal was greeted by a standing ovation from spectators, many of whom used cameras on their phones to capture the moment when he strode into Court Philippe Chatrier. That’s the same stadium where he has captured his record 14 French Open titles. There is a statue of Nadal outside, and fans gathered around it Sunday morning, when it was still unclear whether the 38-year-old Spaniard would be competing in the afternoon.

MWL – Midwest League Baseball
Last Night
Great Lakes Loons 3, Lake County Captains 2
West Michigan Whitecaps 11, Lansing Lugnuts 0
Peoria Chiefs 6, South Bend Cubs 5

Tonight
No games tonight