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Orioles shut out by Giants, 4-0, as Alex Cobb dominates his former club

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

Alex Cobb received the largest contract given to a pitcher in Orioles history. On Saturday night, he showed his former team what could have been.Cobb shut out Baltimore for 7 2/3 innings, allowing just five hits and striking out seven, in the San Francisco Giants’ 4-0 victory to even the clubs’ weekend series at Oracle Park.On the verge of the 2018 season, Cobb signed a four-year, $57 million deal with Baltimore, going 7-22 with a 5.10 ERA over 41 starts before he was traded to the Los Angeles Angels with one year left on the contract. Owed $4.5 million in deferred payments from that agreement, Cobb will receive the fifth-largest paycheck from the Orioles (36-22) of any player this season.Orioles right-hander Kyle Bradish matched Cobb for two innings, but the Giants (29-29) struck for three runs in the third, the same frame Baltimore third baseman Gunnar Henderson exited with low back discomfort. Bradish lasted only one more inning before handing the game to the bullpen....

How to get to Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon with MTS trolley

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Want to avoid traffic and parking headaches for the Rock 'N' Roll Marathon? The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System is encouraging attendees to take the trolley for Sunday's 7 a.m. race.The Rock 'N' Roll Marathon starting line is at Sixth Ave & Quince St at Balboa Park. Participants coming from Santee, El Cajon, San Diego State University, Mission Valley or Old Town, or those on the UC San Diego Blue Line from University City of Morena Blvd. stations can get off a County Center/Little Italy Station, which is a 1.6-mile walk to the start line.If you are on the trolley's Orange Line from El Cajon, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, or southeast San Diego, or the UC San Diego Blue Line from South Bay stations, be sure to take it to the Fifth Avenue Station for a 1.6-mile walk to the start line. No free shuttles to the Start Line will be provided this year, according to the MTS. 5 arrested at DUI checkpoint in Poway Here's a look at Sunday's train schedule:PRE-RACEGreen Line: St...

Las Vegas ballpark pitch revives debate over public funding for sports stadiums

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Gov. Joe Lombardo wants to help build Major League Baseball’s smallest ballpark, arguing that the worst team in baseball can boost Las Vegas, a city striving to call itself a sports mecca.Debate about public funding for private sports clubs has been revived with the Oakland Athletics ballpark proposal. The issue pits Nevada’s powerful tourism industry, including trade unions, against a growing chorus of mostly progressive groups nationwide raising concerns about the use of tax dollars to finance sports stadiums that could otherwise fund government services or schools.The debate over relocating the team from California to Nevada echoes others around the country. Politicians have approved large sums of taxpayer money going to sports clubs in Buffalo, New York; Atlanta; and Nashville, Tennessee. In Tempe, Arizona, though, voters rejected a $2.3 billion proposal that would have included a new arena for the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes.The Oakland A’s organi...

Earthquakes, Rapids play to scoreless draw

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Daniel de Sousa Brito saved five shots in goal for San Jose as the Earthquakes and Colorado Rapids played to a scoreless draw on Saturday night.Marko Ilic did not have to make a save to earn the clean sheet for Colorado (2-8-7), which is still in search of its first win at home this season.The Rapids entered play having gone 6-0-5 in their last 11 home matches with San Jose (6-5-5). Colorado has lost six straight matches in all competitions, including a club-record five in a row at home. The Rapids, however, have played a club-record 12 straight matches at home without a loss to San Jose.The Earthquakes snapped a 15-match winless streak on the road last week with a 1-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders.San Jose was trying to win two straight road matches for the first time since 2019. The Earthquakes’ win over Seattle was its first clean sheet on the road since a 1-0 win over the Sounders in July of 2021.San Jose returns home to host the Phila...

Champs! Willow Glen’s McKenna Campbell hits walk-off double in NorCal D-II final

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

SAN JOSE — What a way to cap off a high school career, walking off a NorCal championship..Willow Glen senior catcher McKenna Campbell jumped on the first pitch she saw in the bottom of the seventh inning and drilled it to left field, scoring Katelynn Dilbeck from first base with the winning run in a 6-5 victory over Notre Dame-Salinas for the Northern California Division II regional softball championship.“It’s been our goal since freshman year,” an emotional Campbell said, apologizing as she struggled to regain her composure. “We worked so hard and it’s just a dream come true.”It was the second double of the game for Campbell, who will play college softball at Miami of Ohio. She also hit a double and scored the only run in a 1-0 win over Bullard-Fresno in the NorCal semifinals.“She’s come up clutch these last couple of games,” Willow Glen coach Don Spingola said. “She’s a leader on the field, a leader at practic...

NCAA baseball: Stanford in tough spot after coughing up lead to Texas A&M

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

Stanford allowed three runs in the top of the eighth inning in an 8-4 loss to Texas A&M on Saturday night at Sunken Diamond and now needs a win over Cal St. Fullerton to keep its season alive.Stanford led Texas A&M 4-2 after five innings of its own regional bracket in the NCAA tournament but allowed two runs in the sixth inning and three more in the eighth.In the eighth, the Aggies loaded the bases before Hunter Haas doubled to left to score three runs and give his team the lead for good.Hass finished with two hits and five RBI as Texas A&M advanced to Monday’s regional final at 6 p.m. Whichever team meets the Aggies in the final will need to beat them twice to advance to the Super Regionals next week.Eddie Park and Alberto Rios both had two hits for Stanford (39-17), which faces Fullerton on Sunday at noon. Braden Montgomery added a two-run homer in the first inning.Stanford and Fullerton played a three-game against each other in February to start the season, with...

NorCal regionals: St. Ignatius wins Division II baseball title; Live Oak cruises to D-V softball crown

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

BaseballDivision II finalSt. Ignatius’ pitching is young, but that clearly hasn’t been an issue for the San Francisco school.The Wildcats have a new trophy to prove it.Two days after freshman Chase Gordon allowed one run in a complete-victory victory over Bellarmine, another freshman, Archer Horn, pitched five shutout innings on Saturday to help St. Ignatius beat host Casa Grande 3-0 in the NorCal Division II championship game in Petaluma.Sophomore Beau Schaffer relieved Horn and pitched the final two innings to clinch the title.Fourth-seeded St. Ignatius scored all the runs it needed in the first inning. Leonard Beatie’s bunt single knocked in Gus Parker to make it 1-0.Niko Gomozias followed with a sacrifice fly to left to drive in Dominic Camarillo for a 2-0 advantage.An inning later, Camarillo got hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to stretch the margin to three.Horn and Schaffer handled it from there, keeping Casa Grande off the scoreboard as the Wildcats imp...

Acuña hits 464-foot homer in Braves’ 5-2 win over Diamondbacks

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. stole a base when no one was looking, hit a homer to the fans buying beer.Spencer Strider overpowered major league hitters by blowing fastballs past them.When the Atlanta Braves’ two young stars are in the lineup, it’s can’t-miss viewing.Acuña hit a 464-foot home run, Strider struck out seven in six effective innings and the Braves beat the streaking Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2 on Saturday night.“You feel like every day — Spencer it’s every five days — you can’t ask for a better seat in the house watching that every day,” said Braves reliever Jesse Sanchez, who worked out of a big jam in the sixth inning.Scuffling at the plate lately, the Braves had 11 hits to end Arizona’s six-game winning streak.Marcell Ozuna and Eddie Rosario had run-scoring singles against Rhyne Nelson (2-4) to help the Braves go up 3-0 through five innings. Atlanta scored another run on a double play in the sixth inning and Acuña followed by hitti...

Darvish dominant, Tatis homers twice in Padres’ 6-0 win over Cubs

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Yu Darvish struck out nine in seven dominant innings, Fernando Tatis Jr. homered twice and the San Diego Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 6-0 on Saturday night.“This is as good as stuff we have seen him have all year,” San Diego manager Bob Melvin said. “He used his fastball more today, more curveball, the split, then went to kind of his cutters and sliders a little bit later, so he really kept them off-balanced.” Darvish (4-4) rebounded from a May 28 outing at the New York Yankees when he gave up seven runs in 2 2/3 innings in a 10-7 loss.Against the Cubs, Darvish was in complete command all night, giving up just two singles — Chicago’s only hits of the game — and one walk.“The two-seamer,” Darvish said through a translator when asked what was his best pitch was on the night. “All-in-all, I think it was a really good game.”Tatis hit a solo homer in the third and a three-run blast in the eighth for his 11th of the season and 10th multi-homer game in his career. Bo...

Oral Roberts rallies, beats Washington 15-12 at Stillwater Regional, wins 20th straight

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:50 GMT

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Jake McMurray had four of Oral Roberts’ 24 hits and Jonah Cox went 3 for 4 with a double, a home run and six RBIs to help the No. 4 seeded Golden Eagles rally from an eight-run deficit and beat Washington 15-12 Saturday night at the Stillwater Regional for their 20th consecutive win. Oral Roberts (48-11) awaits the winner of a loser-out game between Washington and Dallas Baptist on Sunday. The Huskies beat the Patriots 9-5 in the regional’s opening game. Johnny Tincher and Sam DeCarlo each hit a home run in Washington’s seven-run first inning and Tincher’s RBI groundout in the second made it 8-0 but Cox hit a three-run shot in the third — ORU’s second home run of the inning — and added an RBI sacrifice fly to cap a three-run fourth that made it 8-7. McMurray scored on an RBI single by Cox that gave the Golden Eagles a 12-8 lead in the fifth in and Cox drove in Blaze Brothers with a single that made it 13-10 in the top of the sev...