Hours after benching third baseman Pablo Sandoval for using his Instagram account during a loss to Atlanta the night before, the Red Sox bounced back for its second win in 10 games, 5-2 over the Braves on Thursday. The win came thanks in part to a dropped popup and a 10-pitch at-bat by starting pitcher Clay Buchholz that ended with a strikeout. ”Regardless of what has gone on, a win
On the brink of another major milestone during a surprisingly successful comeback season, Alex Rodriguez stood on first base and soaked in the adulation of an adoring crowd. A-Rod certainly didn’t expect it to be this good. Rodriguez reached 2,999 hits with a pair of singles, and Carlos Beltran and Brett Gardner each had two-run homers, leading the New York Yankees to a 9-4 victory over the Miami Marlins on
By Peter Rutherford SEOUL (Reuters) – Few golfers would describe Park In-bee’s languid, truncated swing as “textbook”, but after winning her sixth career major at the Women’s PGA Championship on Sunday, the South Korean is no doubt content to have played her way into the record books. While New Zealand teen Lydia Ko’s stunning rise from amateur to world number one hogged the global golfing headlines over the last year,
By Peter Rutherford SEOUL, June 19 (Reuters) – Few golfers would describe Park In-bee’s languid, truncated swing as “textbook”, but after winning her sixth career major at the Women’s PGA Championship on Sunday, the South Korean is no doubt content to have played her way into the record books. While New Zealand teen Lydia Ko’s stunning rise from amateur to world number one hogged the global golfing headlines over the
Controversial New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez singled twice on Thursday to move within one hit of becoming the 29th player in Major League Baseball to record 3,000 hits. Rodriguez, who returned this season after serving a 162-game suspension for doping violations linked to the Biogenesis steroid distribution scandal, has been methodically ticking off milestones. In Thursday’s 9-4 win over the Miami Marlins, Rodriguez notched an RBI single in the
Tiger Woods endured the worst US Open round of his career Thursday with a shocking 10-over 80 at Chambers Bay. It marked Woods’ third round in the 80s this season and he equalled the worst major championship round of his career, bringing back memories of his 10-over 81 at the storm-hit 2002 British Open in Muirfield. It was a tough day,” said Woods, who will turn 40 in December.
By Mark Lamport-Stokes UNIVERSITY PLACE, Washington (Reuters) – Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia led a chorus of criticism of the greens during the U.S. Open first round on Thursday but former champion Geoff Ogilvy felt that good putters “would prevail”. World number one McIlroy and eighth-ranked Garcia had both described the putting surfaces at Chambers Bay as too bumpy and below par while American left-hander Phil Mickelson bemoaned the lack
– You snooze, you lose. The last Porsche 918 Spyder has been built; that’s it above, getting a final rubdown. The planned 918-unit production run is completed, and the company claims that all are spoken for, with about 300 ending up in the United States. You can watch the assembly process here, and here are 15 things we learned when we toured the production facility last fall. – The 918 originally appeared
-As the first “all-new” product to debut from the rechristened Lincoln Motor Company, the MKC has had a lot of eyes on it. Even though Lincoln’s compact crossover shares a great deal of its underlying mechanicals with the Ford Escape, that’s no bad place to start. Apparently, U.S. buyers agree and have so far made the 2015 MKC the bestselling entry in Lincoln’s four-vehicle SUV lineup. READ MORE ›› –
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