MLB – Major League Baseball

Yesterday

Detroit Tigers 8, Boston Red Sox 1

Kansas City Royals 3, Chicago White Sox 2

Colorado Rockies 6, Chicago Cubs 5

Tigers 8, Red Sox 1 – Reyes 2 triples, Tigers beat slumping Red Sox 8-1

Victor Reyes tripled twice and drove in three runs, Tarik Skubal pitched five scoreless innings, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox 8-1. Skubal allowed five hits and struck out four. Robbie Grossman hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the first. He departed the game prior to the third with a left elbow contusion after getting hit by a pitch. Jonathan Schoop contributed two hits and two RBIs for Detroit. The Red Sox lost for the sixth time in seven games and dropped 1 1/2 games behind idle Tampa Bay in the AL East.

Royals 3, White Sox 2 – Lynch, 4 relievers lead Royals to 3-2 win over White Sox

Daniel Lynch and four relievers held the Chicago White Sox in check, and Emmanuel Rivera’s line drive was misplayed into an early two-run double that helped the Kansas City Royals hang on for a 3-2 victory. Kansas City won its second consecutive game, while the AL Central-leading White Sox lost for the ninth time in their last 14. Chicago has scored two runs or fewer in three of its past four games. Jake Brentz worked a hitless ninth inning for his first major league save. Jose Abreu homered for the White Sox.

Rockies 6, Cubs 5 – Still here: Story homers twice, Rockies beat Cubs 6-5

Trevor Story hit two home runs, including a go-ahead two-run drive in the fifth inning, and the Colorado Rockies hung on to beat the Chicago Cubs 6-5. Sam Hilliard and Connor Joe also homered and Brendan Rodgers extended his hitting streak to 12 games with two singles. The Rockies took two of three from the Cubs. Wilson Contreras hit a two-run double in Chicago’s four-run fifth. The Cubs concluded their six-game trip with a 2-4 mark after a series of trade deadline deals that saw the departure of stalwarts Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Javier Báez. Story was the subject of trade rumors before the deadline.

Today

Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Detroit Tigers at Cleveland Indians, 7:10 p.m.                  103.7 Cosy-FM/94.9 WSJM-FM 6:50

NFL – National Football League Preseason – Hall of Fame Game – Canton, Ohio

Last Night

Pittsburgh Steelers 16, Dallas Cowboys 3

Steelers 16, Cowboys 3 – Steelers use strong 2nd half to beat Cowboys 16-3

The Pittsburgh Steelers followed a stumbling first half with a strong final 30 minutes to beat Dallas 16-3 in the first NFL preseason game in two years. Last season’s exhibition games were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So maybe the enthusiastic crowd was an indication that even for a match between teams using very few regulars, the hunger for pro football has not faded. Or maybe it was simply a matter of two of the league’s most popular franchises being on the field in the Hall of Fame game, regardless of how many backups were in action.

NFL – Cousins returns to Vikings quarterback room after quarantine

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins has been activated from the COVID-19 reserve list. He completed the NFL’s required five-day quarantine for unvaccinated players deemed a high-risk close contact with an infected person. The Vikings also activated Nate Stanley to bring their quarterback cadre close to full strength after a tenuous stretch of training camp practices. Rookie Kellen Mond tested positive and remains on the reserve list away from the team. The absence of Cousins, Mond and Stanley left Jake Browning as the only quarterback Saturday. Browning is vaccinated.

NCAA – Michigan State AD Beekman to take on new role at school

Michigan State athletic director Bill Beekman is moving to a new job: .