MLB – Major League Baseball
Yesterday
Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Detroit Tigers 1
Chicago White Sox 11, Tampa Bay Rays 9
Kansas City Royals 8, Chicago Cubs 4
Pirates 6, Tigers 1 – Spencer Horwitz hits 1st career grand slam as Pirates top Tigers 6-1 for series sweep
Spencer Horwitz hit his first career grand slam and Bailey Falter matched a career-high with eight strikeouts to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-1 win and sweep of the Detroit Tigers. Horwitz drove a two-out cutter from Troy Melton 416 feet to centerfield to make it 5-0. Andrew McCutchen opened the scoring in the first with his ninth homer of the season. Bryan Reynolds led off with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly from Oneil Cruz in the third inning. Matt Vierling provided Detroit’s lone run with a single in the seventh that scored Spencer Torkelson.
White Sox 11, Rays 9 – Montgomery homers and drives in 5 to rally White Sox past Rays 11-9
Colson Montgomery hit a three-run homer in the second inning and a two-run double in the eighth, rallying the Chicago White Sox to an 11-9 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. Kyle Teel launched his first major league homer for the White Sox, who trailed 4-0 after the first and 7-5 through seven. He finished with four hits and scored three times. Chicago took two of three games from the Rays at George M. Steinbrenner Field to complete a 5–1 trip. Tampa Bay has lost 11 of 16. Montgomery, a rookie shortstop called up to the majors on July 4, connected off starter Taj Bradley for his second big league homer and set a career high with five RBIs.
Royals 8, Cubs 4 – Vinnie Pasquantino hits two of Royals’ four homers, Kansas City tops Cubs 8-4
Vinnie Pasquantino hit two of Kansas City’s four two-run homers and doubled on a 3-for-4 afternoon, leading the Royals past the Chicago Cubs 8-4. Salvador Perez and rookie Tyler Tolbert also went deep as the Royals took two of three games from the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Tolbert’s homer was his first in the majors. Matt Shaw and Pete Crow-Armstrong hit solo shots for Chicago, which entered tied with Milwaukee for first place in the NL Central and the best record in the majors. Pasquantino’s pair of 400-foot-plus drives gave him two multi-homer games this season and three for his career.
Tonight
Toronto (Lauer 5-2) at Detroit (Olson 4-3), 6:40 p.m. News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 6:15p
White Sox and Cubs are off
WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association
Tonight
Las Vegas Aces at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m.
Seattle Storm at Chicago Sky, 8:30 p.m.
NFL – Bears defense opens training camp by picking on QB Caleb Williams and the offense
The Chicago Bears defense dominated from the start against coach Ben Johnson’s offense to begin training camp Wednesday as Caleb Williams’ first pass was picked off by Tremaine Edmunds. The defense is playing more man-to-man coverage and attacking more as defensive coordinator Dennis Allen utilizes tactics he relied on as Saints head coach and defensive coordinator. The Bears defense is hoping the addition of Grady Jarrett can provide a boost against the run, an area where they fell off last season after ranking No. 1 at it in 2023.
NFL – Miami Dolphins’ Bayron Matos airlifted to hospital after training camp injury
Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Bayron Matos suffered an undisclosed injury at the end of Wednesday’s practice and was flown to a hospital on a helicopter. The injury happened in the final minutes of Day 1 of the Dolphins’ training camp. The team said Matos was airlifted in stable condition. It did not release information on the injury. Matos is 24 and is in his second season.
NFL – Daniel Jones, Anthony Richardson begin competition to be Colts starting QB
Anthony Richardson says he’s healthy. Daniel Jones says he’s ready. And Indianapolis Colts coach Shane Steichen has a plan for how to use his top two quarterbacks as they compete for the starting job. Steichen reiterated Wednesday there is no timetable to make a decision. Indy opens the regular season Sept. 7 at home against the Miami Dolphins. The competition began Wednesday as the Colts held their first training camp practice. It will steadily ramp up until players begin wearing pads next week.
NCAAFB – NIL promises to recruits and coaches wait for decision on if they can keep them
Next week, college football coaches can put the recruiting promises they’ve made to high school seniors on paper. Then, the question becomes whether they can keep them. Uncertainty over interpretations of a key element of the lawsuit settlement that’s reshaping college sports has placed recruiters on a tightrope. They need clarity about whether the third-party collectives that ruled name, image, likeness payments over the first four years of NIL can be treated as a workaround of the $20.5 million cap on what schools can now pay players directly or whether they’ll simply become a small cog in the new system.
NASCAR – NASCAR to hold 1st street race on active military base at Naval Base Coronado
NASCAR will hold a street race on Naval Base Coronado in Southern California next June as a replacement for its downtown Chicago event that ran the last three years. The move to the San Diego area doesn’t eliminate a return to Chicago, where NASCAR will still maintain an office and effort an eventual return, perhaps as early as 2027. But the shift next year will allow NASCAR to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy by hosting all three of its national series over a three-day weekend on June 19-21.
MLS – MLS, playing without Messi, beats Liga MX 3-1 in All-Star Game
Sam Surridge, Tai Baribo and Brian White scored goals and Major League Soccer defeated Liga MX of Mexico 3-1 in the MLS All-Star Game. MLS has defeated Liga MX three times in four tries. Last year Liga MX won 4-1 in Columbus, Ohio. The MLS All-Stars won in 2022 and beat Liga MX on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw a year prior. Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammate, Jordi Alba, both face possible league suspensions for their team’s next match against Cincinnati on Saturday for missing the All-Star game.
LLBB – NJ Little Leaguer suspended for bat flip, a celebration governing body promotes
A 12-year-old Little Leaguer is “distraught” at the prospect of missing his team’s first state tournament game because he was suspended for flipping his bat after hitting a game-winning home run. But his father says Little League Baseball promotes bat-flipping celebrations on its social media accounts that don’t result in punishment. Now, Marco Rocco’s family has gone to court to seek an emergency temporary restraining order that will allow him to play in the New Jersey state tournament that starts on Thursday. The Haddonfield, New Jersey player was suspended after flipping his bat after hitting as winning home run in a game on July 16.
MWL – Midwest League Baseball
Last Night
Lake County 4, Lansing 2
South Bend 6, Dayton 2
Great Lakes 6, Beloit 5
West Michigan 9, Peoria 4
Tonight
Lansing Lugnuts at Lake County Captains, 7:00 p.m.
South Bend Cubs at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m. Sports Radio WSBT 6:45p
Beloit Sky Carp at Great Lakes Loons, 7:05 p.m.
West Michigan Whitecaps at Peoria Chiefs, 7:35 p.m.
