Troy Tulowitzki played as if a late-season injury is behind him. Tulowitzki doubled and singled in his return to the Toronto lineup after missing three weeks with injuries, and the AL East champion Blue Jays rallied past the Tampa Bay Rays 8-4 Friday night. ”Big relief he’s back out there,” Toronto center fielder Kevin Pillar said.
((The Sports Xchange)) – Houston left-hander Dallas Keuchel became the American League’s first 20-game winner and the Astros hit four home runs and stayed alive in AL West race with a 21-5 trouncing of the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Friday. Right fielder George Springer, shortstop Carlos Correa, center fielder Colby Rasmus and third baseman Luis Valbuena homered for the Astros (85-75), who set a franchise record for runs
(The Sports Xchange) – Mike Trout hit a leadoff triple in the ninth and then scored the winning run in a 2-1 victory on Friday over the Texas Rangers, keeping the Los Angeles Angels’ playoff hopes alive. “It’s a big game,” Trout said. “We’re fighting.” The Angels (84-76) were one game behind Houston starting the day in the race for the second wild-card spot.
(The Sports Xchange) – Chris Sale threw seven-plus innings, struck out seven, allowed five hits and walked one as he broke one of the Chicago White Sox’s oldest single-season records with a strikeout in the second inning in their 2-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Sale finished the season with 274 strikeouts surpassing the previous high of 269 set by Ed Walsh in 1908. It hasn’t quite set in yet,
The Indianapolis Colts signed backup quarterback Josh Johnson after the National Football League team listed starter Andrew Luck as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Luck, who has an injury to his throwing shoulder, saw limited practice time with the team on Friday. Head coach Chuck Pagano said Luck is questionable but he remains hopeful that Luck will start Sunday.
By Alexander Winning and Suleiman Al-Khalidi MOSCOW/AMMAN (Reuters) – Russian jets hit Islamic State targets and other rebel groups in Syria on Saturday, on a fourth day of air strikes by Moscow in support of President Bashar al-Assad which have dramatically escalated foreign intervention in Syria. Russia’s air campaign in Syria, where a U.S.-led air coalition and fighters on the ground from regional states are already entangled in the four-year-old
By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) – An airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the U.S. military called possible “collateral damage” in the battle to oust Taliban insurgents. Frantic MSF staff phoned military officials at NATO in Kabul and Washington after the attack, and bombs continued to rain down near
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican on Saturday dismissed a gay priest from his Holy See job on the eve of a major Church meeting for a highly public coming out that challenged the Roman Catholic teaching that homosexual acts are a sin. Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa, a Polish theologian, had worked at the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s doctrinal arm, since 2003. The
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Suicide car bomb attacks targeting two mainly Shi’ite Muslim districts of Baghdad killed at least 18 people on Saturday, police and medical sources said. The attacks targeted the mainly Shi’ite districts of Kadhimiya and Hurriya in northern Baghdad. Police said at least 60 people were wounded. (Reporting by Baghdad news room; Writing by Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel wants to avoid an adversarial relationship with Moscow and is unsure how Russia’s recent military intervention in Syria will affect the situation there. Netanyahu, in an interview recorded for broadcast on Sunday on “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS,” did not join the United States and other NATO nations in criticizing Russia’s taking military action in Syria.