DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera hit his 511th home run as Detroit won the completion of a suspended game 8-0 and Spencer Torkelson hit a three-run homer in a seven-run seventh inning that led the Tigers over the Kansas City Royals 7-3 for a sweep both games. Cabrera, who is retiring after the season, tied Mel Ott for 25th on the career home run list. The 40-year-old has 373 homers for Detroit, tying Norm Cash for second behind Al Kaline’s 399. At 54-105, the Royals have their most losses since 2005.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Garrett Mitchell doubled, walked twice and scored in his first big league game since April, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0. Corbin Burnes, Julio Teheran and Ethan Small combined on a six-hitter for the NL Central champions. Burnes struck out four and walked one in four innings in his final tuneup for the postseason, throwing 39 of his 66 pitches for strikes. The Brewers reinstated Mitchell from the 60-day injured list. The 24-year-old Mitchell, a 2020 first-round pick, hurt his left shoulder on a slide into third base on April 18.
DENVER (AP) — Brenton Doyle drove in four runs, Elehuris Montero finished a triple shy of hitting for the cycle and the Colorado Rockies defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 14-5 Thursday night in a matchup of the first- and last-place teams in the NL West. Colorado, which was 2-10 against the Dodgers this season entering the game, had lost nine of its last 10 games and scored just 16 runs in its last eight games. The nine-run setback was tied for the third-most lopsided loss of the season for division-champion Los Angeles. The Rockies pounded out a season-best 18 hits and their 14 runs tied a season high. Every Colorado starter had a hit, and seven had at least two hits.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Santander homered in the first, DL Hall worked out of a sixth-inning jam and the Baltimore Orioles clinched the AL East title with a 2-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Dean Kremer allowed two hits and a walk in 5 1/3 innings, striking out eight, and the Orioles reached 100 wins for the sixth time in team history and first since 1980. Now the Orioles will enter the postseason as the top seed in the American League. The team also announced on the scoreboard after the third inning that it had reached an agreement with the state keeping the Orioles in Baltimore for at least the next 30 years.
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 70 million fans will attend Major League Baseball games for the first time in six years, a post-pandemic rebound for a sport that instituted its biggest on-field changes in decades. A pitch clock to speed play, limits on defensive shifts to increase offense, new social spaces at ballparks and technology innovations to speed entry have factored into a 9.2% rise in average attendance to 29,176. Expanding the playoffs to 12 teams, which began last year, led to more than half the teams remaining in mathematical contention.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The NFL figured it had a marquee made-for-TV matchup when it announced the league’s schedule in May. Aaron Rodgers’ New York Jets would square off at home against Patrick Mahomes and the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs in prime time on Sunday night. Well, then came quite a plot twist. Rodgers was lost for the season just four snaps into his debut with the Jets and now all the hype has shifted toward off-the-field intrigue. Some fans are wondering whether Taylor Swift will show up at MetLife Stadium to support Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce again.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Zach Wilson knows the noise is out there and it’s blaring right now. The New York Jets quarterback is being criticized, slammed and ripped apart by frustrated fans on social media and sports talk radio and his unflattering play has been documented and dissected by reporters. Wilson understands it all. The embattled one-time face of the franchise is trying to tune it out. Wilson is also trying to get better and insists he will. The third-year quarterback is set to make his third straight start in place of the injured Aaron Rodgers on Sunday night against the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — David Montgomery rushed for 121 yards and three touchdowns, and the Detroit Lions asserted themselves as the team to beat in the NFC North, beating the Green Bay Packers 34-20. Montgomery carried the ball 32 times. He became the first Lion to rush for three touchdowns at Green Bay and the first Detroit player to top 100 yards rushing with three TDs since James Stewart in 2000. The Lions beat the Packers for the fourth straight time, a streak that includes the final game of last season. Jordan Love threw for a touchdown and ran for another for the Packers.
UNDATED (AP) — There is a Big 12 matchup of undefeated teams when No. 24 Kansas plays at third-ranked Texas. Both are 4-0. The game Saturday will be the first between the schools when both are ranked. The Longhorns are unbeaten through their first four games for the first time since 2012. Kansas is 4-0 in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1914 and 1915. Oklahoma, the Big 12's only other undefeated team, is home against Iowa State. The 14th-ranked Sooners average 507 total yards per game and score a league-high 47 points a game. Iowa State has one of the league's best defenses.
UNDATED (AP) — Oklahoma had several seasons crippled by plucky underdogs in recent years. Iowa State has been one of the Sooners' biggest nuisances. The Cyclones defeated Oklahoma in 2017 and 2020 and have pushed the Sooners several other times. Now, Iowa State could stop the 14th-ranked Sooners from taking an unbeaten record into next week’s showdown with Texas. Oklahoma allows just 8.5 points per game, second-best in the nation. Iowa State leads the Big 12 in total defense, allowing 292.5 yards per game.
UNDATED (AP) — TCU will try to extend a 10-game winning streak in Big 12 regular-season games in a visit from West Virginia. The Mountaineers are vying for their first 2-0 start in league games since 2018. TCU quarterback Chandler Morris is the Big 12 leader in total offense at 326 yards per game and is averaging 280 yards passing per game. The West Virginia defense has held consecutive opponents to less than 200 yards passing.
UNDATED (AP) — Texas Tech is going for its longest winning streak in the Houston series at six games in the first Big 12 meeting of the former Southwest Conference foes. Behren Morton is set to start at quarterback for the Red Raiders after Tyler Shough sustained a broken fibula in last week's 20-13 loss at West Virginia. It's the third consecutive season Shough has had a long-term injury. Former Texas Tech quarterback Donovan Smith is set to start for the Cougars.
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — U.S. captain Zach Johnson is counting on the veteran partnership of Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas to spark a comeback in afternoon fourballs at the Ryder Cup after Europe swept the morning session 4-0. Spieth and Thomas will face Viktor Hovland and Tyrrell Hatton in the opening match of the day’s second session. Brooks Koepka will also get his first action in a pairing with Scottie Scheffler against Jon Rahm and Nicolai Hojgaard. The third match features Max Homa and Wyndham Clark against Robert MacIntyre and Justin Rose. The last match has Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele against Rory McIlroy and Matt Fitzpatrick. All 12 players on both teams will have played by the end of the day.
UNDATED (AP) — A hearing has been set for Nov. 14 in Oregon State and Washington State’s legal fight with the Pac-12 and its departing members to govern the conference and control its assets. The preliminary injunction hearing will be held in Washington Superior Court in Whitman County. A judge in that same court granted a temporary restraining order to the two schools earlier this month that blocked a board of directors meeting with Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff and university leaders from schools that have announced plans to leave the league.
THURSDAY SCORES
INTERLEAGUE
Final Chicago White Sox 3 Arizona 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Detroit 8 Kansas City 0
Final Oakland 2 Minnesota 1
Final Detroit 7 Kansas City 3
Final Baltimore 2 Boston 0
Final Toronto 6 N.Y. Yankees 0
Final Seattle 3 Texas 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Miami at N-Y Mets 1:10 p.m. (Suspended)
Final Milwaukee 3 St. Louis 0
Final Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 2
Final Atlanta 5 Chicago Cubs 3
Final Colorado 14 L.A. Dodgers 5
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE