MAJOR LEAGUES
Jacoby Ellsbury hit a home run with two outs in the 10th inning as the New York Yankees ended an eight-game losing streak at the Chicago White Sox with a 4-3 victory on Saturday.
The Yankees scored three times in the ninth against Ronald Belisario and then grabbed their first lead of the day when Ellsbury hit a drive to right off Zach Putnam (2-1) for his second homer.
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Dellin Betances (3-0) pitched a perfect inning for the win and David Robertson finished for his 10th save in 11 chances, bouncing back nicely after yielding Adam Dunn’s game-ending homer in Chicago’s 6-5 victory on Friday night.
Also in the American League, Toronto pitcher A. Dickey won for the third time in four starts and Brett Lawrie homered as the Blue Jays beat the Oakland Athletics 5-2.
The AL East-leading Blue Jays (28-22), who won for the 10th time in 12 games, have not been atop the division this late into the season since July 6, 2000, when they were 46-40.
Kansas City’s Eric Hosmer equaled a season high with four hits and pinch-runner Jarrod Dyson scored the go-ahead run in the 13th inning off a throwing error by rookie reliever Mike Morin as the Royals won a 4 hour, 53-minute marathon 7-4 over the Los Angeles Angels .
In other AL games, the Cleveland Indians blanked the Baltimore Orioles 9-0, the Houston Astros beat the Seattle Mariners 9-4, the Texas Rangers downed the Detroit Tigers 12-2 and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 6-5 over 15 innings.
In Atlanta, Michael Cuddyer and Troy Tulowitzki each hit home runs as the Colorado Rockies beat the Braves 3-1 in the National League.
The Rockies were without some of their big bats.
Carlos Gonzalez missed his third straight start with a swollen finger and Nolan Arenado was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a broken finger.
Also in the NL, Josh Harrison had a tiebreaking, two-out single in the seventh inning after Jose Tabata hit a sacrifice fly as the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Washington Nationals 3-2 for their fourth straight win.
Philadelphia pitcher David Buchanan threw five effective innings in his major league debut and Chase Utley hit a two-run homer to power the Phillies past the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3, while the Miami Marlins beat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 after Jacob Turner pitched 6-1/3 scoreless innings.
In other games, the St Louis Cardinals downed the Cincinnati Reds 6-3, the Chicago Cubs edged the San Diego Padres 3-2 and the Arizona Diamondbacks were 3-2 winners over the New York Mets.
The San Francisco Giants beat the Minnesota Twins 2-1 in an interleague game.
New Taipei Kings guard Jeremy Lin on Friday was named the Taiwan Professional Basketball League’s (TPBL) Player of the Month, the first domestic player to win the award, while the Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers are to welcome their third head coach in less than a year. Lin averaged 22 points, 5.4 rebounds and 6.6 assists over five games in October and last month, helping the Kings to second in the standings with a 4-2 record as of Friday. The Kings last night defeated the Lioneers 96-78 to move level with the top-of-the-table Formosa Dreamers (5-2), while in the night game, the New Taipei
LIVERPOOL WIN: The 50th Champions League goal by Mohamed Salah helped the leaders of the Premier League to keep their perfect record intact Real Madrid’s big stars on Tuesday turned on the style to revive the Spanish giant’s faltering UEFA Champions League title defense. Galacticos Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham all scored in a thrilling 3-2 win against Serie A leaders Atalanta BC. However, Madrid still had to ride their luck as Mateo Retegui fired over from in front of goal in stoppage-time when handed a golden chance to level the game. It was only Madrid’s third win in the competition’s revamped league phase and leaves the 15-time champions in the unseeded playoff positions in 18th place. “It’s a very important win. Not everyone wins
TO NO AVAIL: The Denver Nuggets’ Serbian center Nikola Jokic surpassed his 53-point performance in the 2023 Western Conference semi-finals against Phoenix The Washington Wizards withstood a 56-point explosion from Denver star Nikola Jokic to beat the Nuggets 122-113 on Saturday and snap their 16-game NBA losing streak. Jokic, who won his third NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) award last season, posted a career scoring high — surpassing a 53-point performance in game four of the 2023 Western Conference semi-finals against Phoenix and a 50-point regular-season best against Sacramento in 2021. The Serbian big man added 16 rebounds and eight assists, but it was all to no avail as Washington, buoyed by 39 points from Jordan Poole, won for the first time
Taiwan’s Lin Cheng-jing won a bronze medal in the clean and jerk in the women’s under-49 kg division at the 2024 IWF World Weightlifting Championships in Bahrain on Saturday. Lin won her first medal at a World Weightlifting Championships for lifting 107kg in the clean and jerk in her weight class, 2kg more than Rosegie Ramos of the Philippines. However, Ramos won bronze for the combined lift after topping Lin by 5kg in the snatch. Ri Song-gum of North Korea won gold in the division’s combined lift with a total of 213kg, while Xiang Linxiang of China took silver with
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