The Milwaukee Brewers lost their ace, then moved into first place in the NL Central. Johnny Estrada hit his second grand slam of the season against Houston and Milwaukee overcame an injury to Ben Sheets to beat the Astros 9-1 on Tuesday night, moving the Brewers less than a percentage point ahead of the Chicago Cubs in a tight division race.
Pushing for the playoffs, Cubs manager Lou Piniella went with some risky strategy by calling on ace Carlos Zambrano to pitch on three days’ rest, hoping to shape his rotation for the rest of the season. The results Tuesday night were not encouraging for Chicago, which plans to bring back Ted Lilly on short rest Wednesday.
Martin Gerber made 52 saves to help the Ottawa Senators beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-0 in a preseason game Tuesday night. Ilya Zubov, Andrej Meszaros and Nick Foligno scored in the first period for Ottawa. Philadelphia tried to rally in the second, outshooting the Senators 22-7, but the Flyers were stymied by Gerber.
Johan Franzen scored twice and had an assist to lead Detroit to a 6-1 win over Minnesota on Tuesday night. Chris Chelios and Pavel Datysuk each added a goal and an assist and Tomas Holmstrom had three assists to lead the Red Wings. The starting time was pushed back 15 minutes because heavy rain closed down runways at Minneapolis-St.
A horse owned and bred in Lockerbie has its sights set on a ninth successive victory at Doncaster.
Lawyers for a former Madison Square Garden executive suing New York Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas for sexual harassment rested her case after four days of testimony portraying him as a foul-mouthed lout who loathed and then loved her. Plaintiff Anucha Browne Sanders wrapped her case up Tuesday with friends and family recounting conversations where she detailed Thomas’ alleged…
Once the best closer in baseball, Red Sox reliever Eric Gagne has suddenly become shaky. So has Boston’s lead in the AL East. Gagne allowed three eighth-inning runs, two of them on a double by Russ Adams, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Red Sox 4-3 on Tuesday night. “I don’t know how to put it into words,” Gagne said.
Back on the field in time for the stretch drive, Mike Mussina and Doug Mientkiewicz are helping the New York Yankees try to chase down Boston. Mussina limited Baltimore to three singles over seven innings, Mientkiewicz hit a three-run homer and the Yankees beat the Orioles 12-0 Tuesday night to inch closer to the first-place Red Sox.
NHL teams could be back to playing every other club in the league by next season. The board of governors from the 30 teams met Tuesday and moved closer to ditching the unbalanced schedule put it place after the lockout wiped out the 2004-05 season. Although a vote won’t take place before the group meets again in November, there was a clear indication Tuesday that the often criticized schedule would…
Logan Couture will spend at least another year in junior hockey before getting his chance with the San Jose Sharks. San Jose reassigned Couture, the ninth overall pick in the draft, to the OHL’s Ottawa 67’s on Tuesday. The high-scoring center had a brief stint in training camp with the Sharks, who traded up twice in June to draft him.
