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By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Justin Steele pitched six effective innings and Patrick Wisdom homered, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the Texas Rangers 10-3. Trey Mancini collected three of Chicago’s 14 hits in its third consecutive win. Yan Gomes hit a solo homer in a four-run eighth, and Wisdom, Dansby Swanson,

By DANA GAURUDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Rafael Devers homered twice, including his fifth career grand slam, and drove in five runs to lead the Boston Red Sox over the Detroit Tigers 14-5. Devers’ grand slam capped a six-run, second inning. Adam Duvall hit a two-run homer, doubled twice and scored three runs for

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryon Stott capped a three-run rally in the ninth inning with the game-winning single to right field to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday. Brandon Marsh ripped an RBI single to right to make it 2-1. Edmundo Sosa

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kawhi Leonard scored 27 points, Norman Powell added 23 and the Los Angeles Clippers solidified their hopes of avoiding the play-in game with a 136-125 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. Russell Westbrook had 20 points for the Clippers, who have won four of their

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Roope Hintz had the only goal in a shootout to give the Dallas Stars a 2-1 win over the Vegas Golden Knights in a matchup of playoff-bound division leaders. Dallas has 102 points with three games left in the regular season. The Stars began the day

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — There was chaos on the Kentucky Derby trail Saturday, with bumping down the stretch and close finishes from coast-to-coast on the last weekend of major prep races before the Triple Crown begins next month. The winners were separated by a mere quarter-length. Practical Move held

NEW YORK (AP) — Lord Miles, a 59-1 long shot, held off favorite Hit Show by a nose with Dreamlike next in a thrilling three-wide finish to win the $750,000 Wood Memorial on Saturday at Aqueduct, earning 100 points toward the Kentucky Derby. Lord Miles broke from the No. 8 post in the Grade 2

By BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Salvador Pérez hit a game-tying, three-run homer in the eighth inning and Nate Eaton scored on a wild pitch in the ninth as the Kansas City Royals rallied past the San Francisco Giants 6-5. Eaton pinch-ran for Vinnie Pasquantino, who led off the ninth with a

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Darin Ruf agreed to a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants, reuniting with his former team six days after he was released by the New York Mets. The 36-year-old spent parts of three seasons with San Francisco from 2020-22, batting .248 with 32 home runs in 247 games. Ruf

By DAVE SKRETTA and STEVE REED AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Heavy rain that left pools of standing water across Augusta National brought play to a halt at the Masters on Saturday, and Brooks Koepka and the rest of the field will have a long Sunday slog to determine who will wear the

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers’ victory over the Phoenix Suns was their 42nd win this season and guaranteed a finish over .500. That was only a dream in early November when Los Angeles stumbled out of the gates by losing 10 of its first 12 games.

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods made the cut at the Masters and then it all went downhill from there. Slogging through a rain-drenched, 49-degree day at Augusta National proved too much for the aching five-time champion to overcome. The 47-year-old Woods, who is still recovering from a 2021

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — One week after being jeered by his own fans Lionel Messi scored one goal and set up the other as Paris Saint-Germain won at a wasteful Nice 2-0 to maintain its six-point lead of the French league. Argentina’s Word Cup-winning star clipped in a cross from

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Samuel Chukwueze has upstaged Vinícius Júnior by scoring twice in an outstanding performance by the Villarreal forward to lead its 3-2 comeback win at Real Madrid in the Spanish league. The Nigeria international canceled out a sixth-minute own goal by teammate Paul Torres when he scored

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Live updates from Saturday’s second and third rounds of the Masters (all times local): 5:10 p.m. Augusta National has set the schedule to complete the weather-delayed Masters on Sunday. The third round is scheduled to resume at 8:30 a.m. If that goes according to plan, the final round would begin at

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Moving day at the Masters was mostly about everyone leaving on Saturday. A cold, relentless rain was too much for Augusta National to handle, leading to one of the earliest finishes for a Saturday — just 15 minutes after CBS came on the air —

By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — Second-place Lazio has taken control of a tight battle for the Champions League qualifying places with a 2-1 win over Juventus in Serie A. Mattia Zaccagni scored what was to prove the winner early in the second half after Adrien Rabiot had cancelled out Sergej Milinković-Savić’s

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Emily Fox and Lindsey Horan both scored for the United States in a 2-0 victory Saturday over Ireland that was marred by what appeared to be a serious left knee injury to Mallory Swanson. Swanson was carted off the field at Q2 Stadium and

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Award-winning cyclist Ethan Boyes died after being struck by a car at a national park in San Francisco, the U.S. Park Police said Saturday. The athlete was hit while riding his bike Tuesday afternoon around Presidio, a historic park south of the Golden Gate Bridge, authorities said. Boyes was taken to