Month: April 2019

6:38 PM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo has a ritual after losses. He walks into the locker room, undresses, wraps a towel around his lower body, puts protective covers on his toes and plunks his feet into a red bucket that is filled to the brim with ice water. Actually, he ices after
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6:46 PM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox entered their series finale on Sunday against the Detroit Tigers with the worst rotation ERA in baseball and the second-worst overall mark. They exited it with a new strikeout record. Reynaldo Lopez and three relievers combined to strike out 20 Tigers during Chicago’s 4-1 win at
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10:06 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — DJ LeMahieu and Gio Urshela became the latest Yankees to get hurt as New York completed a three-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants with an 11-5 win on Sunday that included another long home run by Gary Sanchez. LeMahieu was removed in the bottom of the third because
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6:23 PM ET Associated Press RIDGEDALE, Mo. — Tom Pernice Jr. and Scott Hoch completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the PGA Tour Champions’ Bass Pro Shops Legends, opening with Pernice’s hole-in-one on the Top of the Rock par-3 course. Pernice used a 7-iron on the 175-yard first hole. They finished with an 8-under 46
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6:15 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — Ryan Palmer and Jon Rahm shot a 3-under 69 in the alternate-shot final round of the Zurich Classic on Sunday and won the PGA Tour’s only team event by three strokes over Sergio Garcia and Tommy Fleetwood. The victory was the fourth on the tour for the
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5:56 PM ET Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Chase Elliott has won the Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, giving Chevrolet its first victory of the season. Elliott took the lead shortly after a restart with four laps to go and worked with three other Chevy drivers to hold off the rest of the field.
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5:24 PM ET PHOENIX — Chicago Cubs third baseman David Bote wasn’t supposed to be in the starting lineup Sunday. But that was before manager Joe Maddon got a nudge to give the nod to the hot hitter. “The process worked well,” Maddon said. “I had him [Bote] listed to not play, but he’s had
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5:37 PM ET Associated Press STUTTGART, Germany — Third-seeded Petra Kvitova beat No. 8 Anett Kontaveit 6-3, 7-6 (2) to win the Porsche Grand Prix final on Sunday. The 29-year-old Czech clinched her second title of the year. She also won Sydney in January. Kvitova, playing in her fourth final of the year, saved two
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