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BATON ROUGE, La. — Tommy White and Tre’ Morgan every hit two of LSU’s six dwelling runs, Paul Skenes allowed simply 4 hits and a stroll over 7 2/3 scoreless innings and the Tigers beat Kentucky 14-0 Saturday night time on the Baton Rouge Super Regional. ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Taijuan Walker untucked his jersey and eliminated his cap within the Phillies’ dugout. He shook his head. He couldn't consider he wouldn't pitch the sixth inning in Sunday’s 7-3 victory over the Dodgers at Citizens Bank Park. He had allowed simply two hits by way of 5 scoreless innings. He struck out 5 and walked two. He had thrown solely 83 pitches, 22 fewer than his season excessive on April 9. He continued to throw the ball tougher than he had all season. But Walker has not been as efficient his third time by way of the lineup this yr. Plus, the Phillies have had the National League’s finest bullpen since mid-April. In Phillies supervisor Rob Thomson’s thoughts, it was the proper time to deploy his prime relievers. “I asked him, ‘Three times?’” Walker mentioned, smiling....

ATLANTA — Dominic Smith and Jeimer Candelario hit two-run homers within the sixth inning and the Washington Nationals beat Atlanta 6-2 on Sunday to cease a six-game skid and the Braves’ seven-game successful streak. ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Kyle Teel drove in 4 runs, Brian Edgington pitched an entire recreation, and Virginia rolled previous Duke 12-2 on Sunday to win the Charlottesville Super Regional. ...

DETROIT -- In some other park, Corbin Carroll may need hit for the cycle. At Comerica Park, he didn’t -- however the D-backs will definitely take it. Putting collectively a three-hit recreation in a 7-5 win over Detroit on Sunday afternoon, serving to to raise Arizona to a fifth consecutive win and a sequence sweep, Carroll tripled within the first, doubled within the eighth, and knocked an RBI single in a four-run ninth to assist shepherd alongside a last-ditch comeback rally. In the third, in the meantime, he crushed a 414-foot flyout to straightaway heart. It got here off his bat at 101 mph, and in response to statcast would have been a house run in 19 out of 30 large league parks. Running out his triple, Carroll went from house to 3rd in 10.93 seconds. That’s the second-fastest within ...

MILWAUKEE — Brewers supervisor Craig Counsell missed Sunday’s sport in opposition to the Oakland Athletics to attend his son’s highschool commencement. ...

CHICAGO – Prior to Sunday's sequence finale vs. Miami, the Chicago White Sox positioned right-handed pitcher Liam Hendriks on the 15-day injured record (retroactive to June 10) with proper elbow irritation and recalled left-hander Tanner Banks from Class AAA Charlotte. Hendriks, 34, is 2-0 with a 5.40 ERA (3 ER/5.0 IP), three strikeouts and one save over 5 appearances this season after being reinstated from the injured record on May 29. He started the season on the injured record to proceed his remedy for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Hendriks publicly revealed his most cancers prognosis on January 8, accomplished remedy on April 3 and introduced he was most cancers free on April 20. Banks, 31, is 2-0 with a 3.13 ERA (8 ER/23.0 IP), three walks and 30 strikeouts over 13 reduction appearances wit...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — J.P. Crawford tied a profession excessive with 4 hits, Julio Rodríguez was 3 for five with homer and the Seattle Mariners beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-2 on Saturday evening regardless of Shohei Ohtani going deep for the third time in 5 video games. ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Bobby Miller was so spectacular by way of his first three profession begins that he hadn't wanted to fret a lot about pitching his method out of massive league jams. Miller danced round some early hassle Saturday afternoon earlier than settling in to proceed his traditionally dominant run to start his profession. The 24-year-old right-hander tossed six scoreless innings to decrease his ERA to 0.78 -- and to guide the Dodgers to a 9-0 win over the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. In doing so, Miller grew to become simply the fourth pitcher in AL/NL historical past to go not less than 5 innings and permit no multiple run in every of his first 4 profession video games. The final to take action was Kenta Maeda in 2016 (additionally with the Dodgers), whereas Cody Anderson additi...