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MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Tampa Bay Rays 6, Detroit Tigers 1 Kansas City Royals 6, Chicago White Sox 2 Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Rays 6, Tigers 1 – Paredes homers twice, Rodriguez leaves early, Rays win 6-1 Isaac Paredes homered twice against his former teammates to double his career big league total, helping the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 6-1 on an afternon Eduardo Rodriguez left in the first inning and headed to the injured list. Rodriguez lasted just one out and averaged 91.9 mph for his fastball, 2.4 mph below his season average, and left the mound with Tigers head athletic trainer Doug Teter. Drew Rasmussen allowed four hits in five shutout innings with seven strikeouts and no walks, improving to 4-0 with a 1.01 ERA in his last five starts. Royals 6, White Sox 2 – Witt homers off Giolito, Melendez connects as KC tops Chisox Bobby Witt Jr. and MJ Melendez homered and fellow rookie Emmanuel Rivera hit a go-ahead triple to lead the Kansas City Royals over the Chicago White Sox 6-2. Witt, Melendez and Rivera each had two hits. Rivera’s sinking liner escaped a diving Adam Engel for a triple that drove in Melendez with the tiebreaking run in the sixth. In his return from the COVID-19-related injured list, Giolito labored early, needing 54 pitches to complete the first two innings, allowing four hits and two walks. After Witt’s leadoff homer in the third, Giolito struck out six of the next seven batters and permitted only a pair of singles before being lifted after five innings. Pirates 3, Cubs 2 – Chicago-born rookie Suwinski homers, lifts Pirates over Cubs Rookie Jack Suwinski, who attended high school 20 minutes from Wrigley Field, hit a tiebreaking home run and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cubs 3-2, ending Chicago’s four-game winning streak. Suwinski made his major league debut this season and began the day hitting .183 with two homers. With the score 2-all, the 23-year-old outfielder from Taft High School opened the fifth inning with a drive off Drew Smyly that barely cleared the center field wall. Michael Chavis’ single in the third snapped the Pirates’ scoreless streak of 20 innings. They scored in the eighth inning of Sunday’s 1-0 win over the Reds despite being no-hit by Hunter Greene and Art Warren, then lost 9-0 and 7-0 earlier this week at Wrigley Field. Today Chicago White Sox (Velasquez 2-3) at Kansas City (Hernández 0-3), 2:10 p.m. Arizona (Gallen 2-0) at Chicago Cubs (Stroman 1-3), 7:40 p.m. Tigers are off NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – 1st Round Last Night Carolina Hurricanes 2, New York Rangers 1 – OT (CAR Leads 1-0) Calgary Flames 9, Edmonton Oilers 6 (CGY Leads 1-0) Tonight Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers, 7:00 p.m. (TBL Leads 1-0) St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche, 9:30 p.m. (COL Leads 1-0) NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Playoffs – Conference Finals Last Night Golden State Warriors 112, Dallas Mavericks 87 (GSW Leads 1-0) Tonight Boston Celtics at Miami Heat, 8:30 p.m. (MIA Leads 1-0) NBA – Barnes, Mobley, Cunningham unanimous NBA All-Rookie picks Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes, Cleveland forward Evan Mobley and Detroit guard Cade Cunningham were unanimously voted to the NBA All-Rookie first team. Orlando’s Franz Wagner and Houston’s Jalen Green were the other players chosen for the first team by a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters. Barnes, the No. 4 pick by the Toronto Raptors, edged Mobley for the Rookie of the Year in the smallest margin under the current format that began in 2002-03. They both received 200 points in the All-Rookie balloting, along with Cunningham, the 2021 No. 1 pick. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Seattle Storm 74, Chicago Sky 71 Storm 74, Sky 71 – Magbegor, Stewart power Storm to 74-71 win over Sky Ezi Magbegor scored 21 points, Breanna Stewart added 13 and the Seattle Storm beat the Chicago Sky 74-71. Magbegor added six rebounds and four assists, and Stewart had four steals for the Storm (2-3). Seattle led 74-62 after Gabby Williams’ 3-pointer with 2:28 remaining. Candace Parker scored the final seven points in a 9-0 Chicago run to close out the game. The Sky (2-2) had the ball with 9.1 seconds left, but Allie Quigley misfired on a 22-footer on the game’s final shot. Azura Stevens led Chicago with 18 points. Parker finished with 11 points and nine rebounds. NCAAWBKB – Central Michigan’s top scorer Molly Davis transfers to Iowa All-Mid-American Conference first-team pick Molly Davis of Central Michigan is transferring to Iowa. That word from Hawkeyes coach Lisa Bluder. The 5-foot-7 guard from Midland, Michigan, was a three-year starter for the Chippewas and led the team last season with 18.6 points and 4.7 assists per game. She has scored at least 10 points in 67 games, including a career-high 33 points against Ohio in the 2021 MAC Tournament semifinals. Davis will have two season of eligibility because of the COVID-19 bonus year. NCAAFB – Raise makes Ohio State’s Day one of highest-paid coaches Ohio State plans to hike Ryan Day’s annual salary to $9.5 million as part of a two-year contract extension that will put him among the nation’s highest-paid college football coaches. Day’s raise makes him the latest coach to crack $9 million per year, putting him in company with Alabama’s Nick Saban and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and in line with recent megadeals given to Michigan State’s Mel Tucker and LSU’s Brian Kelly. In three seasons, Day has led the Buckeyes to a 34-4 record, including 23-1 in the Big Ten. NCAAFB – Saban calls out Texas A&M for using NIL deals to buy players Alabama coach Nick Saban called out Texas A&M, saying the school was “buying” players with name, image and likeness deals. The Aggies signed the top recruiting class in the country earlier this year. While speaking at an event in Birmingham, Alabama, Saban also mention Jackson State and Miami as schools that have used NIL deals to lure players. Jackson State coach Deion Sanders responded by calling Saban’s comments about a $1 million NIL deal for a highly touted recruit a lie. Saban said Alabama players earned more than $3 million from sponsorship and endorsement deals “the right way.” CFL – CFL, players’ union make tentative labor deal, ending strike The Canadian Football League and its players’ union have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract, ending the second strike in CFL history. The league made the announcement Wednesday night. The contract must be ratified by both the CFL board of governors and the CFL Players’ Association. The new collective bargaining agreement comes four days after players with seven of the league’s nine teams did not show up for the start of training camp. Players with the two remaining teams would have been eligible to walk off the job Thursday. Soccer – US Soccer equalizes pay in milestone with women, men The U.S. Soccer Federation has reached milestone agreements to pay its men’s and women’s teams equally. That makes the American national governing body the first in the sport to promise both sexes completely matching compensation. The federation has announced separate collective bargaining agreements through 2028 with the unions for both national teams. The move ends years of often acrimonious negotiations. One of the main sticking points was World Cup prize money. The unions agreed to pool FIFA’s payments for the men’s World Cup this year and next year’s Women’s World Cup. It will also pool the 2026 and 2027 tournaments. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Yesterday South Bend 8, Wisconsin 2 Great Lakes 7, Lansing 6 West Michigan 9, Fort Wayne 0 Tonight Lansing at Great Lakes, 6:05 p.m. West Michigan at Fort Wayne, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Wisconsin, 7:40 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Soccer SMAC Tournament Gull Lake 2, Portage Central 1 Championship game St. Joseph 2, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 1 3rd place game Lakeshore 3, Portage Northern 0 5th place game Battle Creek Lakeview 2, Mattawan 0 7th place game Kalamazoo Central 4, Battle Creek Central 1 9th place game Other Games Our Lady of the Lake 9, Covert 0 South Haven 5, Berrien Springs 0 Buchanan 8, Brandywine 0 Coloma 8, Watervliet 0 Allegan 7, Niles 1 Plainwell 3, Otsego 1 Edwardsburg 7, Sturgis 0 Vicksburg 5, Three Rivers 1 Schoolcraft 5, Constantine 0 Fennville 1, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Saugatuck 3, Delton-Kellogg 0 Softball Buchanan 14, Centreville 1 – Game 1 Buchanan 14, Centreville 4 – Game 2 Decatur 11, Marcellus 6 – Game 1 Decatur 5, Marcellus 3 – Game 2 Today Baseball Lakeshore at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Our Lady of the Lake at Eau Claire, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Bloomingdale at Bangor, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Gobles at Coloma, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Watervliet at Lawton, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Bronson at Brandywine, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Mattawan at BC Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. (DH) BC Central at Kalamazoo Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Gull Lake at Kal. Loy Norrix, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Portage Northern at Portage Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Elkhart Central (IN) at Edwardsburg, 5:30 p.m. Constantine at Galesburg-Augusta, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Parchment at Kalamazoo Christian, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Schoolcraft at Kalamazoo Hackett, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Saugatuck at Martin, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Softball Lakeshore at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Michigan Lutheran at Kal. Hackett, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Bronson at Brandywine, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Bloomingdale at Bangor, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Gobles at Coloma, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Howardsville Christian at River Valley, 4:15 p.m. (DH) Mattawan at BC Lakeview, 4:00 p.m. (DH) BC Central at Kalamazoo Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Gull Lake at Kal. Loy Norrix, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Portage Northern at Portage Central, 4:00 p.m. (DH) Plainwell at Hamilton, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Hopkins at Otsego, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Constantine at Galesburg-Augusta, 4:30 p.m. (DH) Girls Soccer Bangor at Our Lady of the Lake, 5:00 p.m. Comstock at Michigan Lutheran, 6:00 p.m. Bridgman at New Buffalo, 4:45 p.m. Dowagiac at Paw Paw, 7:30 p.m. Saugatuck at Hamilton, 4:00 p.m. Boys Golf Gull Lake Invitational, 9:00 a.m. (@GVSU, The Meadows GC) Gull Lake, St. Joseph, Lakeshore, Chelsea, Tawas Area, Haslett, Okemos, Williamston, DeWitt, Lansing Christian, BC Lakeview, Cassopolis, Marshall, Vicksburg, Lowell, Spring Lake, East Grand Rapids, Cadillac Girls Tennis – Regionals Division 2 at Mattawan, 8:30 a.m. St. Joseph, Byron Center, Holland, Mattawan, Middleville Thornapple Kellogg, Portage Central, Portage Northern, Sturgis, Wyoming, Zeeland East, Zeeland West Division 3 at Allegan, 8:00 a.m. Lakeshore, Allegan, Hamilton, Hastings, Otsego, Paw Paw, Plainwell, Gull Lake, Wayland Division 1 at Hudsonville, 9:30 a.m. Caledonia, East Kentwood, Grand Haven, Grand Rapids Union, Grandville, Holland West Ottawa, Hudsonville, Jenison, Kalamazoo Central, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, RockfordSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.