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AP National Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez is back in the MLB playoffs nearly a decade after helping the club win a World Series championship. Perez and the Royals will open their AL Wild Card Series at the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday. He is the only member of the KC

AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Denny Hamlin had problems with pit road. Christopher Bell had problems with the wall. Chase Elliott’s issues began long before Sunday’s race with a misfiring engine. In fact, just about everyone starting off the round of 12 in NASCAR’s Cup Series playoffs endured some kind of issue

NEW YORK (AP) — The baseball season is going extra innings. While the American League playoff picture cleared up Sunday, the National League remained muddled heading into what was supposed to be an off day before the postseason. Houston hosts Detroit, and Baltimore is at home against Kansas City in best-of-three AL Wild Card Series

AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Luis Arraez held off Shohei Ohtani’s bid to win the National League Triple Crown and became the first player since the 1800s to earn batting titles with three teams. Kansas City Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. won his first American League batting championship, finishing with a major league-best

AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Ross Chastain took the lead from Martin Truex Jr. on a late restart and won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on Sunday. William Byron was unable to chase down Chastain after he took the lead with 20 laps to go, though the Hendrick Motorsports

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Charlie Morton gave up a three-run homer to Michael Massey in the first inning and the Atlanta Braves squandered a chance to clinch a postseason berth, losing to the playoff-bound Kansas City Royals 4-2 in what was supposed to be the final day of the regular season. Atlanta hosts doubleheader

AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brendan Donovan hit a solo homer in the third and followed it up with an RBI single two innings later and Alec Burleson drove in three runs, leading the St. Louis Cardinals past the San Francisco Giants 6-1. José Fermín hit an RBI single in the sixth as

AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Travis Kelce not only showed that rumors of his demise were a little exaggerated, he became the Kansas City Chiefs’ career receptions leader. Kelce had seven receptions for 89 yards as the Chiefs rallied for a 17-10 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday. With his second

AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Kansas City’s Rashee Rice might be lost for the rest of the season after suffering a knee injury on a bizarre play against the Los Angels Chargers. Rice was carted to the team bus after the Chiefs’ 17-10 victory with his right knee in a brace that had

AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has a reshuffled offensive line protecting him against the Kansas City Chiefs. That’s not encouraging news for Herbert, who is still hampered by a high right ankle sprain that occurred two weeks ago at Carolina. The Chargers are missing both starting offensive

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Cedric Teuchert scored a goal and added two assists, Rasmus Alm and Eduard Löwen also scored a goal apiece and St. Louis City beat Sporting Kansas City 3-1. Teuchert blasted a shot from a couple yards outside the area that split a pair of defenders and slipped inside the post, beyond

AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Travis d’Arnaud hit a home run in the ninth inning and the Atlanta Braves kept up their postseason push with a 2-1 win over the playoff-bound Kansas City Royals. Reynaldo López came off the injured list to throw six strong innings for the Braves, who moved one game ahead

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Paxton DeLaurent hit Cam Pedro for the game’s only touchdown, DC Pippin kicked four field goals and Southeast Missouri State defeated Northwestern State 19-0. It was SEMO’s first shutout of a Division I opponent in 30 years. The Redhawks allowed only 120 yards and five first downs. The Demons had

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Aric Almirola crashed victory lane in the NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff opener Saturday at Kansas Speedway for his second victory of the season. Almirola, the 40-year-old former Cup driver running a limited Xfinity schedule for Joe Gibbs Racing, has six career Xfinity victories, also winning at Martinsville in April. He

CHARLESTON, Ill. (AP) — Nate Glantz threw four unanswered touchdown passes to Jeff Caldwell in the second half and Lindenwood rallied to beat Eastern Illinois 28-25 in a Big South-Ohio Valley Conference opener. Glantz and Caldwell teamed up for touchdowns covering 11 and 22 yards in the third quarter after Lindenwood (2-3) was shut out

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Jacob Clark threw three touchdown passes, the last was his second to Lance Mason with eight seconds to play, as Missouri State edged Youngstown State 38-31 to open Missouri Valley Football Conference play. Clark set up the winning score with a 38-yard keeper around the left side to the Penguins’ 7

AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Christopher Bell won the pole for the third straight NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway. That gave him the best possible starting position as he tries to advance through the second round of the playoffs. Bell had a lap of 179.336 mph in the pole shootout