Mariners, RHP Castillo reach 5-year, $108M dealMariners, RHP Castillo reach 5-year, $108M deal
The Mariners and right-hander Luis Castillo are in agreement on a five-year, $108 million contract extension.
Day: September 25, 2022
Braves’ Wright MLB’s first 20-game winner in ’22Braves’ Wright MLB’s first 20-game winner in ’22
Atlanta Braves right-hander Kyle Wright, who entered the 2022 season with just two career wins, became MLB’s first 20-game winner this season with a 6-3 win Saturday over the Philadelphia Phillies.
The First Look: Sanderson Farms ChampionshipThe First Look: Sanderson Farms Championship
Fresh off his Presidents Cup debut, Sam Burns returns to defend his Sanderson Farms Championship, the first of his three wins last season. This is the second event of the 2022-23 PGA TOUR season. FIELD NOTES: Burns is one of three Presidents Cup participants going from Quail Hollow to the Country Club of Jackson. Burns, at No. 12 in the world, is the highest-ranked golfer in the field… Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Sebastian Munoz (who won the Sanderson in 2019) of the International Team are the other Presidents Cup participants in the field… There will be plenty of support for Davis Riley at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Riley, a Mississippi native, returns to tee it up in his home state after a fabulous rookie campaign on TOUR that saw him finish 33rd in the FedExCup, including a runner-up to Burns at the Valspar Championship… This is the second event of the season, so look for most of the Korn Ferry Tour graduates, led by Korn Ferry Tour Championship winner Justin Suh, the winner of the KFT’s season-long points race, to try to make some early noise… Sponsor exemptions include a trio of college standouts: Sam Murphy of Louisiana Tech, Brice Wilkinson of Southern Miss (who won the 108th Mississippi State Amateur in June), and former Mississippi star Jackson Suber, who finished ninth in the 2022 PGA TOUR U presented by Velocity Global… Other notables teeing it up include TOUR Championship qualifiers Sahith Theegala (who finished T8 a year ago after holding the 54-hole lead), and Scott Stallings (the Sanderson champion a decade ago) plus TOUR winners like Sepp Straka, Seamus Power, Harris English, Keegan Bradley, and J.T. Poston, each of whom are ranked inside the top-55 in the world… Four major champions will tee it up along with nine past winners of the Sanderson Farms Championship. FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 500 FedExCup points. COURSE: Country Club of Jackson, par 72, 7,461 yards. This marks the ninth year this Mississippi beauty will host the Sanderson Farms Championship. The course was redesigned in 2008 (the tournament routing includes the Azalea and Dogwood nines) by John Fought and incorporating some Donald Ross signatures – especially around the greens. The club’s history dates all the way back to 1914. Sam Burns utilized an impressive iron game to win the title last season, as he finished T1 in greens in regulation for the week plus first in SG: Off-the-Tee and SG: Tee-to-Green. Keep an eye on impressive ball-strikers this week. 72-HOLE RECORD: 263, Dan Halldorson (1986 at Hattiesburg GC). CC of Jackson record: 266, Sam Burns (2021) 18-HOLE RECORD: 18-HOLE RECORD: 61, Keith Clearwater (2nd round, 1996 at Annandale GC). CC of Jackson record: 62, Roberto Castro (1st round, 2015). STORYLINES: There will be five golfers in the field with Mississippi ties including Riley and TOUR winner Chad Ramey of Fulton, Mississippi. Ramey won the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship earlier this year… Six of the past nine winners in Mississippi were first-time TOUR winners… Sam Burns set the tournament scoring record a year ago, and with the average score the last five seasons hovering around the 20-under mark, birdies will be a premium at The Country Club of Jackson. LAST TIME: Sam Burns captured his second PGA TOUR title in the 2021 calendar year, topping the field in Mississippi on the back of four birdies in a six-hole stretch during his second nine on Sunday. Burns finished with a 5-under 67, good enough to finish ahead of Nick Watney and Cameron Young by one shot. Burns’ back nine on Sunday featured birdies on Nos. 13-15 and when Young made an untimely bogey on the par-5 14th, Burns was able to pull away. Burns won the Valspar Championship earlier in 2021 (a title he would go on to defend in 2022) and his one-shot win in Jackson was his first of three last season. Henrik Norlander shot the round of the day Sunday, an 8-under 64, and finished tied for fourth alongside Hayden Buckley, Andrew Landry, and Trey Mullinax. HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 3:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. ET. Saturday, Sunday, 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Radio: Thursday-Friday, 1 p.m.–6:30 p.m. ET. Saturday-Sunday, 2 p.m.-7 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio) For outside of the U.S., click here for GOLFTV powered by the PGA TOUR PGA TOUR LIVE PGA TOUR Live is available exclusively on ESPN+ • Featured Groups: traditional PGA TOUR LIVE coverage of two concurrent featured groups
How to Watch: Presidents Cup, SundayHow to Watch: Presidents Cup, Sunday
The 14th edition of the Presidents Cup continues Sunday at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. The U.S. Team and International Team will battle it out in different formats before the winning group hoists the trophy. The U.S. Team leads 11-7 over the Internationals as Sunday Singles gets underway. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action. Scoring Tee times MATCH 19 Justin Thomas (U.S.) vs. Si Woo Kim (Intl.), 12:02 p.m. Eastern MATCH 20 Jordan Spieth (U.S.) vs. Cam Davis (Intl.), 12:14 p.m. Eastern MATCH 21 Sam Burns (U.S.) vs. Hideki Matsuyama (Intl.), 12:26 p.m. Eastern MATCH 22 Patrick Cantlay (U.S.) vs Adam Scott (Intl.), 12:38 p.m. Eastern MATCH 23 Scottie Scheffler (U.S.) vs. Sebastian Munoz (Intl.), 12:50 p.m. Eastern MATCH 24 Tony Finau (U.S.) vs. Taylor Pendrith (Intl.), 1:02 p.m. Eastern MATCH 25 Xander Schauffele (U.S.) vs. Corey Conners (Intl.), 1:14 p.m. Eastern MATCH 26 Cameron Young (U.S.) vs. Sungjae Im (Intl.), 1:26 p.m. Eastern MATCH 27 Billy Horschel (U.S.) vs. K.H. Lee (Intl.), 1:38 p.m. Eastern MATCH 28 Max Homa (U.S.) vs. Tom Kim (Intl.), 1:50 p.m. Eastern MATCH 29 Collin Morikawa (U.S.) vs. Mito Pereira (Intl.), 2:02 p.m. Eastern MATCH 30 Kevin Kisner (U.S.) vs. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Intl.), 2:14 p.m. Eastern HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Saturday, 7 a.m.-8 a.m. (Golf Channel/Peacock), 8 a.m.-6 p.m. (NBC/Peacock). Sunday, 12 p.m.-6 p.m. (NBC/Peacock) Radio: Saturday: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday: 12 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio) For outside of the U.S., click here for GOLFTV powered by the PGA TOUR MUST READS Presidents Cup match previews: Sunday Singles Presidents Cup: Saturday match recaps Late rally leaves International Team a chance for Presidents Cup upset Tom Kim ignites International team hopes with epic day at Presidents Cup Spieth and Thomas go 4-0-0 for U.S. Team U.S. Team leads as Kim sparks International Team How the format, scoring works Nine Things to Know: Quail Hollow Club COMMUNITY Text +1 (704) 237-6877 or click here to get behind-the-scenes content from the Presidents Cup and stay up to date with all of the action from Quail Hollow.
2022 Mohawk Million Night2022 Mohawk Million Night
Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park, favorite Oh Well did not disappoint in the Mohawk Million, winning over Silly Me Hanover and Proud To Be Lindy. Also on the card, Stockade Seelster won the Metro Pace, Slay won the Canadian Trotting Classic, Sylvia Hanover won the She’s A Great Lady, and Raised by Lindy won the Elegantimage Stakes. Get the results, charts, and photos here.
Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas go 4-0-0 for U.S. TeamJordan Spieth and Justin Thomas go 4-0-0 for U.S. Team
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Davis Love III remembers Jordan Spieth “bopping into the team room” at the 2013 Presidents Cup, sporting a T-shirt and shorts, and quickly turning his attention to ping pong. Love’s wife Robin was unfamiliar with the precocious Spieth, just 20 years old at the time. “Robin said, ‘Who is that kid?’” Love recalled this week. “I go, ‘That’s the future of our team right there.’” He was right. Spieth has yet to turn 30 but is the most-experienced member of this year’s U.S. Presidents Cup team and his partnership with childhood friend Justin Thomas, already successful before this year, has now become historic. Spieth and Thomas won all four of their matches this week, becoming the first American pair since Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker in 2009 to go 4-0-0 (and just the third overall). On Saturday, Spieth and Thomas beat Sungjae Im and Corey Conners in morning Foursomes, 4 and 3, before a Spieth chip-in ended their match with Hideki Matsuyama and Taylor Pendrith by the same 4-and-3 margin. “I rode my horse today for sure, and I feel like it’s just one of those things where if one’s off, the other one’s on and vice versa,” Thomas said. “Man, it’s a great quality, and I really hope we keep it up because it doesn’t get any more fun than this out here.” As the International Team rallied for victories in Saturday’s final three matches to claw within 11-7 entering Sunday Singles, it was the U.S. Team’s cornerstone duo that provided the crucial point to avoid being shut out in afternoon Four-ball and keep a significant cushion. The International Team would need its best Singles performance in this tournament’s history just to tie the Americans. No team has ever scored 8.5 points in Singles, the amount needed for the U.S. to win outright. RELATED: Saturday match recaps | Tom Kim gives International Team a spark Thomas hit it within 5 feet on the 15th hole in their afternoon match – the same hole that is used as the Wells Fargo Championship’s closing hole – before Spieth chipped in for a birdie that the International’s had an opportunity to match. Taylor Pendrith missed an 8-footer that would have extended the match, however. “I was thinking Justin’s got birdie, but I may as well try and not wait for him. It’s straight up the hill,” Spieth said. “That hole location where I was is about the easiest spot if you’re going to miss the green. I just came out right on line and went in with a little speed, but with the pin out, it went right in the middle. … I thought we were going to need a birdie just to go to the next hole.” Thomas and Spieth have been friends long enough, and so successful as a team, that no one is concerned with stealing the spotlight. After Pendrith’s putt lipped out, a beaming Thomas motioned his hands in Spieth’s direction, encouraging the crowd to shower Spieth with applause. On the youngest U.S. Team in Presidents Cup history, the 29-year-olds Spieth and Thomas are unquestioned veterans. Spieth now holds a career 12-5-1 record in Presidents Cup competition, with Thomas now 10-2-2. They carry respect, and they back it up. “I think there are certain guys on the team who have played a lot in these team events,” said world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler early in the week. “I look at Jordan and JT as those guys. They’re the longest tenured … there are certain guys where their voice holds a lot of weight.” Spieth and Thomas relish the leadership role and the pairing. Following Friday’s Four-ball victory against Adam Scott and Cam Davis, Thomas was asked how he handles Spieth’s trademark brand of scrambling golf. A troublesome spot akin to an 18-handicapper leads to recovery theatrics and a head scratch. Time and again. On Thursday, Spieth hooked a drive on 15 that landed in the creek running alongside the fairway and inexplicably bounced out; the duo won the hole with a par. The next day, Spieth’s approach on 15 bounced off rocks in the creek and caromed into light rough over the green. He saved par and tied the hole. “That was nothing,” Thomas quipped Friday evening. “It’s not even, like, remotely close to some Jordan Spieth golf I’ve seen before. Anything and everything he does on the golf course does not surprise me. I’ve seen crazier, that’s for sure.” The end of Saturday’s match is yet another example.
Mariners and RHP Castillo agree to $108M dealMariners and RHP Castillo agree to $108M deal
The Mariners and right-hander Luis Castillo are in agreement on a five-year, $108 million contract extension.
La Russa will not return to White Sox this seasonLa Russa will not return to White Sox this season
Tony La Russa will not return to the Chicago White Sox this season, the team announced on Saturday, after his doctors advised the veteran manager to continue resting after undergoing surgery to repair a pacemaker.
U.S. Team leads Presidents Cup as Tom Kim gives International Team a sparkU.S. Team leads Presidents Cup as Tom Kim gives International Team a spark
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The U.S. Team has a juggernaut in Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas that moved them closer to another victory in the Presidents Cup on Saturday. The International Team has a spark plug in 20-year-old Tom Kim, who delivered the emotion and big putts that made it clear the Americans will have to work for it. The day started with the Americans having a mathematical chance to clinch the cup. It ended with them holding an 11-7 lead, with 12 singles matches left on Sunday. Spieth and Thomas became only the second U.S. partnership to win all four team matches in the Presidents Cup, handily winning their Foursomes match in the morning and their Fourballs match in the afternoon. The International Team split the morning matches, and the way this Presidents Cup has gone for them, not losing ground felt like a win. And then it got better. They rallied over the final hour in two matches to turn deficits into 1-up wins, taking the afternoon session by winning three of the four matches. The star was Kim, the youngest player at Quail Hollow and perhaps the biggest personality. He started the comeback with a 55-foot eagle putt on the par-4 11th hole against Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele. They were all square going to the last, Si Woo Kim already out of the hole, and Tom Kim facing a 10-foot birdie putt for the win. He took a few steps back as the ball neared the hole, dropped his putter and slammed his cap to the ground in a raucous celebration. “I wanted that putt more than anything in the world,” Kim said. Moments later, Adam Scott and Cameron Davis rallied from 1 down with three holes remaining when Davis made a 12-foot eagle putt on the 16th and a 15-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole to go 1 up. On the final hole, Sam Burns hit his approach to 4 feet that gave him and Billy Horschel a chance to earn a halve. And then Davis made a 10-foot birdie for another point. The Americans are still very much in control, needing only four wins and a halve from the 12 singles matches in the final session. Spieth and Thomas have led the way. The only other U.S. tandem in a Presidents Cup to go 4-0 was Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker at Harding Park in 2009. The International Team had Louis Oosthuizen and Branden Grace do the same in South Korea in 2015. Thomas and Spieth have been close friends for 15 years, dating to junior golf and international outings. This is the first time in a Presidents Cup that they have been paired together, and both are on their games. It a lethal combination. Even so, the end of the matches gave Spieth pause. “We’ve got to go get the job done tomorrow and win two more points for our team,” Spieth said. “I’d love to get a singles win, and I know Justin would, too. We’re going to be close enough where our two would be obviously extremely important.” Kim won both his matches Saturday, teaming with K.H. Lee in morning foursomes to beat Burns and Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, 2 and 1. Scott is playing on his 10th team — eight losses and one tie — and was shut out until he and Hideki Matsuyama took down Collin Morikawa and Cameron Young in the morning, and Scott and Davis proved to be a great Australian duo in the afternoon. “Any victory against the U.S. Team has got to be really hard fought,” Scott said. “So this feels good.” Max Homa is still having the week of his life. After his late heroics the night before, he partnered with Tony Finau in a 4-and-3 victory over Si Woo Kim and Davis. Homa sat out the afternoon session. He is 3-0 in his debut playing in a Presidents Cup. Schauffele and Cantlay lost for the first time in three matches this week. They were 2 up after 10 holes and were 3 under the rest of the way, with Schauffele making a 40-foot birdie putt from short of the 15th green for a 1-up lead that looked like it would carry them to another point. Instead, Si Woo Kim made a 4-foot birdie putt to square the match on the 16th, and a 5-foot par putt to keep it tied on the 17th. Tom Kim was so nervous he covered his eyes and was peaking through his fingers, pumping his fist when the putt dropped. And then the 20-year-old Korean had the stage to himself at the end, and he delivered a winner. Left to be seen is what one putt — one point — can do for an International Team that still has a four-point deficit to overcome.