MLB – Major League Baseball
Last Night
Detroit Tigers 5, Minnesota Twins 0
Toronto Blue Jays 7, Chicago White Sox 3
Chicago Cubs 4, Milwaukee Brewers 3 – 11 Innings
Tigers 5, Twins 0 – Skubal goes 7, Schoop brings in 2 runs in Tigers’ 5-0 win
Tarik Skubal allowed just two hits in seven shutout innings in Detroit Tigers’ 5-0 win over the Minnesota Twins. Jonathan Schoop drove in two of Detroit’s runs and his is hitting .438 with a home run and six RBIs in the five-game series against his former team. The Tigers have won three of four in the series that concludes Thursday. Skubal walked one and struck out six to improve to 3-0 with a 1.22 ERA in his last six starts. Minnesota’s Bailey Ober allowed five runs on nine hits in six innings. The Twins haven’t scored in 20 innings.
Blue Jays 7 White Sox 3 – Guerrero homers as Jays win 7th straight, beat White Sox 7-3
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a two run home run, Danny Jansen added a three-run blast, and the Toronto Blue Jays extended their winning streak to seven games by beating the Chicago White Sox 7-3. It’s Toronto’s longest winning streak since an eight-game run last Sept. 1-9. Santiago Espinal added a solo shot as the Blue Jays won for the 11th time in 14 games. Blue Jays left-hander Hyun Jin Ryu left after four innings because of tightness in his forearm.
Cubs 4, Brewers 3 – F/10 – Morel hits sac fly in 10th as Cubs beat Brewers 4-3
Rookie Christopher Morel drove in Jason Heyward with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3. Heyward started on second base and moved up on a groundout by Nick Madrigal. Morel then drove him in with a fly to left against Hoby Milner (2-1) and got mobbed by his teammates in the infield after the winning run scored. Morel extended his club record by reaching base in his first 15 major league games, when he walked and scored in the first. Willson Contreras singled twice, drove in a run and scored one after hitting home runs in his previous two games.
Tonight
Minnesota (Archer 0-2) at Detroit (Faedo 1-2), 1:10 p.m. WSJM/WCSY 12:50
Chicago White Sox (Cueto 0-1) at Toronto (Manoah 5-1), 3:07 p.m.
St. Louis (Liberatore 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (Thompson 5-0), 8:05 p.m.
NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals
Tonight
Boston Celtics at Golden State Warriors, 9:00 p.m. (Game 1)
NBA – Diabate, Houstan staying in NBA draft and leaving Michigan
Michigan standout freshmen Moussa Diabate and Caleb Houstan are staying in the NBA draft. Diabate and Houstan had to make a decision to stay in school or to remain in the draft by Wednesday. The 6-foot-11 Diabate started 26 of 32 games for the Wolverines, averaging nine points and six rebounds. He was born in Paris and played high school basketball in Florida. Houstan, from Canada, led Michigan with 60 3-pointers, averaged 10 points and started in every game last season as a shooting guard.
NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals
Last Night
New York Rangers 6, Tampa Bay Lightning 2 (NYR Leads 1-0)
Rangers 6, Lightning 2 – Chytil scores twice, Rangers rout Lightning 6-2 in Game 1
Filip Chytil scored twice in the second period and the New York Rangers routed the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning 6-2 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin and Frank Vatrano each had a goal and an assist, Chris Kreider also scored and Alexis Lafrenière and Adam Fox each had two assists to help New York win its franchise-record seventh straight home playoff game. Igor Shesterkin stopped 37 shots. Steven Stamkos had a goal and an assist. Game 2 is Friday night at Madison Square Garden.
Tonight
Edmonton Oilers at Colorado Avalanche, 8:00 p.m. (COL Leads 1-0)
WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association
Last Night
New York Liberty 87, Indiana Fever 74
Liberty 87, Fever 74 – New York ends 7-game skid, beats Indiana 87-74
Sabrina Ionescu scored 23 points, Rebecca Allen added 17 and the New York Liberty beat the Indiana Fever 87-74 to snap a seven-game losing streak. New York was outscored 33-17 in the second quarter, but used two big runs in the second half to take control. New York went on a 13-0 run in the third to take a 53-52 lead on Natasha Howard’s three-point play. The Liberty also went on a 12-0 run, capped by Allen’s 3-pointer, in the fourth to make it 77-68. Indiana missed its first 14 shots of the fourth and went 1 for 16 in the final 10 minutes. Howard and Stefanie Dolson each scored 16 points for New York. Kelsey Mitchell scored 17 points for Indiana.
NFL – Ex-Bears DT Akiem Hicks signs a 1-year deal with the Bucs
Veteran defensive tackle Akiem Hicks has signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 32-year-old Hicks is likely to become a replacement for Ndamukong Suh, who is a free agent after spending the past three seasons on one-year deals with Tampa Bay. Hicks was a third-round draft pick of the New Orleans Saints in 2012 and spent three seasons and part of a fourth with them before finishing the 2015 season with the New England Patriots. He played the past six years with the Chicago Bears, starting all 77 games he appeared in and had 31 sacks.
NFL – House Oversight Committee invites Goodell, Snyder to appear
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has invited NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to appear at a hearing later this month. Committee members say they sent letters to the league and team requesting Goodell and Snyder appear June 22. An NFL spokesman says the league received the invitation and would respond directly in a timely manner. Congress launched an investigation into the organization’s workplace culture last year after the league declined to release a report about an independent review it oversaw that led to a $10 million fine. The Commanders say they have assisted the NFL in cooperating with all prior requests from the committee and look forward to responding to the invitation in a timely manner.
NFL – Brady, Rodgers headline list of NFL players skipping OTAs
Tom Brady earned the right to skip voluntary workouts a long time ago. Several other star players, including Aaron Rodgers and Lamar Jackson, also aren’t participating in organized team activities, a trend that’s increasing around the NFL. In Brady’s case, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are thrilled the seven-time Super Bowl champion is playing another season after a brief retirement in February. While their teams were on the field, Rodgers and Brady were involved in another competition Wednesday, taking on fellow quarterbacks Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes in “The Match” golf exhibition in Las Vegas.
Golf – LPGA – US Open’s $10M purse offers hope for gender pay equality
Dottie Pepper recalls being paired with Meg Mallon for the final round of the 1991 U.S. Women’s Open with what she viewed as an impressive $110,000 first-place prize on the line. Things have changed, but Lydia Ko says not enough. Mallon would win that title in 1991, collecting the first six-figure payout in women’s golf history. Pepper says, “That was a big deal.” Three decades later, Pepper can hardly comprehend that the top female golfers in the world will be competing this week for a record $10 million purse. That includes a winner’s take of $1.8 million at the U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles. Ko, the No. 3-ranked women’s golfer in the world, said she’s grateful for steps toward equal pay but added “there’s still a ways to go.”
Tennis – French Open – Swiatek wins 33rd match in a row
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek has won her 33rd match in a row with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over 11th-seeded Jessica Pegula to advance to the semifinals of the French Open. The 21-year-old Swiatek has gone unbeaten since February for the WTA’s longest such stretch since Serena Williams compiled a 34-match run in 2013. Swiatek, who won the 2020 French Open, will next face Daria Kasatkina of Russia for a spot at the final. The 20th-seeded Kasatkina advanced with a 6-4, 7-6 win over No. 29 Veronika Kudermetova, also of Russia.
MILB – Midwest League Baseball
Yesterday
West Michigan Whitecaps 8, Lake County Captains 0
Cedar Rapids Kernels 10, Lansing Lugnuts 2
Great Lakes Loons 3, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 1
South Bend Cubs at Dayton Dragons, game suspended 6th with SB Leading 3-0
Today
West Michigan Whitecaps at Lake County Captains, 7:00 p.m.
Cedar Rapids Kernels at Lansing Lugnuts, 7:05 p.m.
Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, 7:05 p.m.
South Bend Cubs at Dayton Dragons, 6:05 p.m. – Completion of 6/1 game
South Bend Cubs at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m. – Game 2
MHSAA – High School Sports
Yesterday
Girls Soccer – District Semifinals
Division 2 (Mattawan)
St. Joseph 1, Lakeshore 0
Mattawan 5, Vicksburg 0
-District Championship game Saturday, 10:00 a.m. at Mattawan
Division 2 (Marshall)
Marshall 8, Coldwater 0
Gull Lake 9, Hastings 1
-District Championship game Friday, 6:00 p.m. at Marshall
Division 3 (Berrien Springs)
Three Rivers 5, Watervliet 0
-Will play South Haven in District Championship game Friday, 6:00 p.m. at Berrien Springs
Division 3 (Hudsonville Unity Christian)
Grand Rapids South Christian 5, Allegan 0
Hudsonville Unity Christian 6, Holland Christian 1
-District Championship game Friday, 6:00 p.m. at Unity Christian
Division 4 (Buchanan)
Michigan Lutheran 2, Bridgman 1
Our Lady of the Lake 8, New Buffalo 0
-District Championship game Friday, 5:00 p.m. at Buchanan
Baseball – Regular Season
Wyoming 10, South Haven 2 – Game 1
Wyoming 5, South Haven 1 – Game 2
Softball – Regular Season
Lakeshore 6, Portage Northern 0
Today
Girls Soccer – District Championship
Division 3 (Delton-Kellogg)
Otsego vs. Portland, 6:00 p.m.
