KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brady Singer stuck out nine, Vinnie Pasquantino hit a three-run triple and the Kansas City Royals completed a sweep of the Oakland Athletics with an 8-1 victory. It was the third sweep of the season for Kansas City. It took until September 20 for the Royals to record their third sweep of the season last year. Singer tossed six innings on one-run ball, giving up six hits with one walk and nine strikeouts. The Athletics' JP Sears allowed four runs on five hits with two walks and four strikeouts.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rafael Devers tied a Boston record by homering for his fifth consecutive game, and the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11-3 to stop a season-high, four-game losing streak. Devers hit a two-run homer in the sixth off Ryan Fernandez, his ninth home run this season. He became the seventh Boston player to homer in five straight games, the first since Bobby Dalbec from Sept. 5-10, 2020. Tyler O’Neill homered against his former team as Boston rebounded after falling two games under .500 for the first time this season. The Red Sox outhit St. Louis 14-6.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani’s first walk-off hit for the Los Angeles Dodgers was also his first game-ending hit in the majors in nearly four years. His new teammates and fans who celebrated with him at Chavez Ravine expect to see many more feats from a superstar who’s somehow improving in Dodger Blue. Ohtani pulled a low fastball to right with two outs in the 10th inning Sunday, scoring Jason Heyward and ending the Dodgers’ 3-2 victory over Cincinnati. Two teammates doused Ohtani with water while a crowd of 52,656 roared for the latest feat by the $700 million slugger.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Xander Schauffele has won his first major with a thrilling win at the PGA Championship. Schauffele made a 6-foot birdie putt on the last hole at Valhalla for a one-shot victory over Bryson DeChambeau. Schauffele set a major championship scoring record in the process. The Olympic gold medalist now has something even more valuable in silver. He gets to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy. Schauffele finished at 21-under 263, breaking by one shot the major record. Schauffele is the first player since Phil Mickelson in 2005 to birdie the last hole of the PGA Championship to win by one.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler finished off what he called a “hectic” week at the PGA Championship by surging to an eighth-place finish. The world's top-ranked golfer shot a 6-under 65 to finish at 13 under for the tournament. The round came two days after Scheffler spent time in a Louisville jail following his arrest on charges stemming from a traffic incident. Scheffler is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. The 27-year-old Texan says he's not sure what's in store on the legal front in the near future and he's mostly focused on getting home to his wife and newborn son.
DENVER (AP) — Anthony Edwards overcame a slow start and the Timberwolves roared back from a 20-point second-half deficit to eliminate the reigning NBA champion Denver Nuggets 98-90 in a Game 7 Minnesota masterpiece. The Timberwolves overcame a 15-point halftime deficit — the largest comeback in a Game 7 in NBA playoff history — behind Edwards, who had just four points, no rebounds and three assists at halftime but finished with 16 points, eight boards and seven assists. Jamal Murray led Denver with 35 points and Nikola Jokic scored 34 but they got little else from their supporting cast.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton scored 26 points and the Indiana Pacers rode one of the most sensational first halves in Game 7 history to a 130-109 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday, advancing to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 10 years. The Pacers made 29 of their 38 shots in the first half, a shooting percentage of 76.3% that was the highest in the postseason since 1997, when the NBA began keeping detailed play-by-play for all four quarters. They led 70-55 at that point. The No. 6-seeded Pacers advanced to face top-seeded Boston in a series that begins Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson broke his left hand in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, one final injury for a team that was decimated by them. The Knicks lost their most important player when Brunson checked out late in the third quarter and went to the locker room. The Knicks announced in the fourth quarter that he wouldn’t return. Brunson was struggling Sunday, going 6 for 17 for 17 points. He also had nine assists. OG Anunoby played despite a strained left hamstring that forced him to miss the previous four games, but lasted just five minutes.
UNDATED (AP) — Jim Otto, the Hall of Fame center known as Mr. Raider for his durability through a litany of injuries, has died. The team confirmed Otto's death Sunday night. He was 86. The cause of death was not immediately known. Otto joined the Raiders for their inaugural season in the American Football League in 1960 and was a fixture on the team for the next 15 years. He never missed a game because of injuries and competed in 210 consecutive regular-season games and 308 straight total contests despite undergoing nine operations on his knees during his playing career. His right leg was amputated in 2007.
SUNDAY SCORES
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Final Boston 11 St. Louis 3
Final Houston 9 Milwaukee 4
Final Arizona 6 Detroit 4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Cleveland 5 Minnesota 2
Final Baltimore 6 Seattle 3
Final Toronto 5 Tampa Bay 2
Final N.Y. Yankees 7 Chicago White Sox 2
Final Kansas City 8 Oakland 4
Final L.A. Angels 4 Texas 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Philadelphia 11 Washington 5
Final N.Y. Mets 7 Miami 3
Final Pittsburgh 3 Chicago Cubs 2
Final San Francisco 4 Colorado 1
Final L.A. Dodgers 3 Cincinnati 2
Final San Diego 9 Atlanta 1
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
Final Indiana 130 New York 109