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By SUSIE RANTZ Associated Press Lo’eau LaBonta scored twice in the first half and the Kansas City Current remained unbeaten this season with a 4-1 road victory over the Portland Thorns on Sunday  in the National Women’s Soccer League. Courtney Brown scored her first NWSL goal and Trinity Rodman added a second as the Washington

By STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sonny Gray allowed one hit over seven innings and Alec Burleson drove in two runs and the St. Louis Cardinals completed a three-game sweep with a 5-3 win over the San Francisco Giants. Brendan Donovan and Matt Carpenter also drove in runs for the Cardinals, who

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer retired 15 of the 16 batters he faced over five scoreless innings in his season debut, rookie Wyatt Langford extended his RBI streak to five games and the Texas Rangers beat Kansas City 4-0. That completed a three-game

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Max Scherzer pitched five scoreless innings in his season debut for the Texas Rangers. The three-time Cy Young Award winner struck out four and allowed only one hit against Kansas City on Sunday. He threw 39 of his 57 pitches for strikes and didn’t walk

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sonny Gray of the St. Louis Cardinals threw 6 2/3 perfect innings against the San Francisco Giants on Sunday before Patrick Bailey broke it up with a home run. Bailey hit an 0-1 cutter 425 feet to right field for the Giants’ first baserunner, hit and run of the game against

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police say one man is dead and five others were wounded in a downtown St. Louis shooting. Police say they believe women were fighting in a park when men stepped in and drew firearms. Police say the man who died was in his mid-twenties and has not yet been

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro missed the finale of the Royals’ series at Texas. The Royals say only that Quatraro is out Sunday while tending to a personal matter, and that he wouldn’t be away from the team long. Bench coach Paul Hoover is managing the Royals in Quatraro’s absence. Hoover

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Daniel Ríos scored off a set piece in the 71st minute to rally Atlanta United to a 1-1 draw with St. Louis City in the first meeting between the two clubs. St. Louis City (3-6-10) scored for the first time in its last four matches to take a 1-0 lead. João

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Juan “Cucho” Hernández scored three goals — his first multi-goal game of the season — to help the Columbus Crew beat Sporting Kansas City 4-0. Cucho opened the scoring when he cut back to evade a defender near the center of the area and then slipped a rolling shot inside the

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jon Gray allowed two hits over five innings  to rebound from his worst major league start and Wyatt Langford hit an eighth-inning grand slam that led the Texas Rangers over the Kansas City Royals 6-0. Gray allowed back-to-back third-inning singles. He gave nine earned runs and 11 hits in three innings-plus

By DAVID SOLOMON Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alec Burleson had a career-high five RBIs with his first multi-homer game and the St. Louis Cardinals overcame a three-run, first-inning deficit to beat the San Francisco Giants 9-4 and move back over .500. Paul Goldschmidt and Brendan Donovan also homered for the Cardinals, who at

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer is set to make his season debut for the Texas Rangers. He is their scheduled starter for Sunday’s game against Kansas City. Scherzer hasn’t pitched for the Rangers since Game 3 of the World Series last fall. He had offseason surgery to repair a

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Marcus Semien hit three-run double to cap Texas’ five-run sixth inning, Wyatt Langford had two run-scoring hits and the Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals 6-2. Nathan Eovaldi (4-3) allowed two runs and four hits and with one walk while striking out six in six innings as the Rangers won their

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Conor McGregor posted on Instagram on Friday that a broken toe was the reason he had to pull out of his headline UFC 303 bout against Michael Chandler after previously not specifying the injury. Light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira will face top-ranked challenger Jiri Prochazka

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ governor has signed legislation enabling the state to lure the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Major League Baseball’s Royals away from neighboring Missouri. The measure signed Friday by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly would help the teams pay for new stadiums by allowing Kansas

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Brendan Donovan hit a two-run homer and a double and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the San Francisco Giants 6-5 in the Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The 114-year-old Rickwood Field is the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — As Ajay Stone strolled around historic Rickwood Field and gazed at tributes displayed in honor of Willie Mays and other Negro Leaguers, he clutched a cherished memory under his arm. It was a picture from 2004 of Mays holding Stone’s then-10-month-old daughter Haley, who was

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Freddy Fermin homered twice and Bobby Witt Jr. hit the go-ahead homer in the eighth inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2 to avoid a three-game sweep. Fermin also singled for his first three-hit game of the season. Witt homered off Oakland reliever Vinny Nittoli to break

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Witnesses say they heard an Ohio man demand the keys to a Jeep that was being towed behind a Missouri couple’s RV before he brutally stabbed them both and killed the man at an Interstate 80 rest area. Twenty-two-year-old James Thompson Jr. was formally charged with first-degree murder and 10

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers are struggling to score runs and win games with slugger Adolis García in an extended slump. Last year’s AL Championship Series MVP is hitting only .155 since the start of May, and has only one homer his past 21 games. Manager Bruce