In a pitchers’ duel between Dodgers starter Brandon McCarthy and Indians ace Corey Kluber, Enrique Hernandez’s pinch-hit solo homer in the eighth off Indians reliever Andrew Miller proved to be the difference as the Dodgers topped the Indians, 6-4, on Wednesday at Progressive Field.
Beginning with back-to-back homers from Derek Fisher — in his MLB debut — and Jake Marisnick, the Astros scored nine runs against the Rangers in the sixth inning. Houston ended the Rangers’ five-game winning streak with a 13-2 win on Wednesday at Minute Maid Park.
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Curtis Granderson joined the 300-home run club in a timely fashion. Granderson led off the eighth by launching a tiebreaking homer for No. 300 of his career, and Lucas Duda added a three-run homer in the five-run inning to lift the Mets to a 9-4 victory over the Cubs on Wednesday night and take the series.
When the 117th U.S. Open begins Thursday at Erin Hills in rural Wisconsin, less than a third of the 156-player field has even a remote chance of winning. You see, the U.S. Golf Association, which conducts the second of golf’s majors (though it might be the third as of 2019 at Pebble Beach), bills the U.S. Open as Golf’s Toughest Test. Erin Hills is the longest course in major championship history.
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Less than four innings into Wednesday night’s 7-3 Red Sox win over the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park, Mookie Betts, rounding the bases after a solo home run that put Boston up by three, found himself a triple shy of his first cycle. Instead of completing the cycle, Betts launched another homer, his 11th, for an insurance run in the eighth.
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After Chris Singleton was selected by the Cubs in the 19th round of the 2017 MLB Draft, the center fielder placed a call to his former coach at Charleston Southern University to thank him for the opportunities he’d set him up for. Stuart Lake, who stood next to Singleton in the face of unimaginable tragedy, appreciated the words but had to correct Singleton.
The second-longest Citi Field homer of the Statcast era.
