Famous for collapses, the Philadelphia Phillies came close to adding another chapter. They led 11-0 in the sixth. And then they were ahead 12-11 in the eighth when Ryan Ludwick drove a pitch to deep center-field with two on. Aaron Rowand went back and prevented the tying and go-ahead runs from scoring with a tumbling catch on the warning track, and the Phillies held on for a 13-11 victory over the…
An eighth-inning meltdown cost the Arizona Diamondbacks half of their NL West lead. Randy Winn and Pedro Feliz homered off Tony Pena in the eighth and the San Francisco Giants rallied for an 8-5 victory over Arizona on Monday night. The Diamondbacks’ lead in the division slipped to one game over San Diego, which beat Pittsburgh 3-0.
Mark DeRosa’s fifth straight hit was his biggest of the night. It capped a three-run, ninth-inning rally Monday night and kept the Chicago Cubs in first place. “It was huge. You look at the scoreboard and see 6-0 Milwaukee, you can’t quit in that situation. You got to keep fighting in front of your home fans,” DeRosa said after Chicago’s 7-6 victory.
Petteri Wirtanen scored his second goal of the game with 1:36 left in overtime and added an assist, leading the Anaheim Ducks to a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks. Daniel Sedin tied the game for Vancouver with 4:16 left in regulation. The Ducks rested most of their big-name players and the fourth line of Wirtanen, George Parros and Brad May picked up the slack, combining for all three goals and…
Garnet Exelby scored the winning goal in overtime to lift the Atlanta Thrashers to a 4-3 preseason victory over the New York Islanders on Monday night. Joey Crabb scored twice, and Brett Sterling added a goal for the Thrashers, who squandered a 3-1 lead. Matthew Spiller had two goals, and Freddy Meyer had the other for the Islanders.
Alex Kovalev scored 4:31 into overtime to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday night in the first preseason game for both teams. Kovalev took Mark Streit’s pass and cut into the slot before beating Marc-Andre Fleury with a wrist shot as Pittsburgh squandered an opportunity to play the final minutes with a 5-on-3 advantage.
Joey Harrington, who has been sacked 13 times in his first two starts for the Falcons, was feeling more heat on Monday — this time from his coach. Bobby Petrino said it’s not fair to blame the offensive line for the high sack totals — including seven in Sunday’s 13-7 loss at Jacksonville. Petrino said Harrington is holding the ball too long.
The Atlanta Falcons again are turning to Morten Andersen to solve their kicking woes. One day after Matt Prater missed two field goals in the Falcons’ 13-7 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Falcons cut him and signed the 47-year-old Andersen on Monday. Andersen, an eight-time Pro Bowl selection and the NFL’s career scoring leader with 2,445 points, and also the Falcons’ leader with 707.
Maybe everything will change this week. Maybe Rex Grossman will finally find the consistency the Chicago Bears have been craving and silence that serenade of boos at Soldier Field. For now, coach Lovie Smith is preaching patience. While Cedric Benson perked up and ran for 101 yards, Grossman was mediocre again on Sunday, throwing two interceptions in the second half of Chicago’s 20-10 victory over…
A victory over Baltimore, a loss by Boston and a defeat for Detroit. It’s almost as though the New York Yankees won three times Monday night. Hideki Matsui broke out of a long slump with a go-ahead homer, Phil Hughes earned his first win at Yankee Stadium and New York beat the Orioles 8-5 to move closer to a playoff spot.
