DETROIT (AP) — Wenceel Pérez singled with two out in the 11th inning and the Detroit Tigers rallied three times to beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Saturday night. The Tigers trailed in the ninth, 10th and 11th innings, but rallied each time to end a five-game losing streak. Kansas City had won five straight. Parker Meadows led off the 11th with an RBI triple and the Royals intentionally walked Javier Báez. Jake Rogers hit into a double play, but Pérez lined a ball off the wall in right center field off James McArthur. Jason Foley was credited with the win.
CHICAGO (AP) — A Cubs fielding mix-up allowed Nolan Arenado’s short fly to drop for a tying, two-run single in a three-run eighth inning, Tommy Pham tripled and scored in the ninth and the St. Louis Cardinals rallied past Chicago 5-4. St. Louis trailed 4-1 in the eighth before a run-scoring error by newly acquired third baseman Isaac Paredes. Arenado hit a fly to short center that second baseman Nico Hoerner called for and was readying to catch when center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong called him off. Crow-Armstrong couldn’t get to the ball, which dropped 213 feet from the plate as two runs scored.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — J.D. Martinez has faced many relief pitchers during his 14 years in the majors. The New York Mets designated hitter though could only laugh and smile after striking out against the Los Angeles Angels rookie Ben Joyce. Joyce struck out Martinez with a 104.7 mph cutter on Saturday night, the fastest pitch in the majors this season. It eclipsed the 104.5 mph he threw on July 12 against Seattle. According to Sportradar, it is also tied for the sixth-fastest pitch since 2009.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Chicago White Sox extended their team-record losing streak to 19, giving up Max Kepler’s tiebreaking home run in the seventh inning that lifted the Minnesota Twins to a 6-2 win. Chicago’s losing streak is the longest since Baltimore dropped 19 in a row in August 2021. Kepler, who entered in the fifth inning as a pinch hitter, hit his seventh home run of the season. The drive to right off Touki Toussaint sent the Twins to their 11th win in 12 games against the White Sox this season.
UNDATED (AP) — Steve McMichael couldn’t make it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, so the ceremony came to him. Battling ALS and bedridden in the advanced stages of the neurological disease, the 66-year-old two-time All-Pro defensive tackle was the second player enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame among seven members of the Class of 2024 on Saturday. McMichael was surrounded by several of his Chicago Bears teammates and his wife, Misty, at his home in Homer Glen, Illinois. Dwight Freeney, Randy Gradishar, Devin Hester, Andre Johnson, Julius Peppers and Patrick Willis also were inducted into the Hall.
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — University of Colorado offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur is preparing for his first full season coaching at the college level since 1998, when he served as Stanford's offensive line coach. Deion Sanders promoted Shurmur from offensive analyst to play-caller for the final four games last season. This year, he tabbed him as his offensive coordinator. Shurmur says being back at the college level with young players has given him a fresh perspective after spending 23 seasons in the NFL.
OLYMPICS
PARIS (AP) — U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky won the women’s 800-meter freestyle in the 2024 Paris Games, earning her ninth Olympic gold medal. She joins Michael Phelps as the only swimmers to win the same event at four straight Summer Games. Also, U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson finished second in the women’s 100 finals, losing to Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia.
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson’s comeback story hit a brick wall Saturday when Julien Alfred romped to the 100-meter title in 10.72 seconds to blow away the field and bring the first-ever Olympic medal to her island country of St. Lucia. Racing one lane to the left of Richardson, and with rain puddling on the purple track in the Stade de France, Alfred got off to a fantastic start and beat Richardson by .15 seconds — about three body lengths. Richardson’s training partner, Melissa Jefferson, finished third in 10.92 seconds.
PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles is getting kind of old for this. Just maybe not too old to keep going. The American gymnastics superstar says “never say never” when it comes to her future. Biles made the comment after earning her third gold medal in Paris, where she won the women's vault final on Saturday. The 27-year-old says the lure of competing at the 2028 Los Angeles Games is tempting. Biles has 10 career Olympic medals, seven of them gold. Rebeca Andrade of Brazil earned silver in vault while American Jade Carey grabbed the bronze three years after tripping during the vault final in Tokyo.
PARIS (AP) — Kaylia Nemour of Algeria delivered the country’s first gold medal in gymnastics, putting together a thrilling routine in the uneven bars final to edge China’s Qiu Qiyuan. American star Sunisa Lee picked up her third medal in Paris and sixth of her Olympic career by grabbing bronze, exactly where she finished in Tokyo three years ago. Nemour is French and still trains in France but switched to compete for Algeria following a dispute with the French gymnastics federation. She scored a staggering 15.7, tied for the highest score of the meet on any event.
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Halfway to its goal of gold, the U.S. has the No. 1 seed going into the medal round at the Paris Olympics. And now the real games start. Anthony Edwards scored 26 points, six players reached double figures for the U.S. and the Americans wrapped up the top spot coming out of group play by rolling past Puerto Rico 104-83 on Saturday.
PARIS (AP) — Unbeaten at last year’s World Cup on the way to the gold medal. Unbeaten so far at the Paris Olympics. No team in this tournament has better defensive numbers, either. And Germany doesn’t care if anyone notices that, either. The Germans — both last summer at the World Cup and this summer at the Paris Games — play like they have copious chips on all their shoulders. They’re brash, they’re tough, they’re confident and they’re already assured of their best showing ever at an Olympics. Now, they want more.
VILLEPINTE, France (AP) — Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan has clinched her first Olympic medal in front of a crowd that chanted her name at the Paris Games. Her win Sunday comes a day after fellow female boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria secured a victory as well following days of online abuse and intense scrutiny about their participation. Lin defeated Svetlana Kamenova Staneva of Bulgaria in a women’s 57-kilogram quarterfinal, advancing to the division’s semifinal round to ensure she will win at least a bronze medal. Lin and Khelif have been at the center of a clash over gender identity and regulations in sports, as critics have brought up their disqualification from the world championships last year over unspecified eligibility tests.
PARIS (AP) — The 2024 Paris Games got off to a rocky start with many religious groups around the world, including the Vatican over a tableau in the opening ceremony perceived by some as evoking Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” But faith leaders gathered Sunday with Olympic officials in front of Notre Dame Cathedral to celebrate how faith and sport can complement each other. Far from the controversy, in an inconspicuous tent-like structure tucked away at the end of the athletes’ village in Paris, ordained and lay representatives from the five major global religions have been providing spiritual comfort to Olympians.
SATURDAY SCORES
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Final L.A. Dodgers 10 Oakland 0
Final L.A. Angels 5 N.Y. Mets 4
Final Seattle 6 Philadelphia 5
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final N.Y. Yankees 8 Toronto 3
Final Detroit 6 Kansas City 5
Final Minnesota 6 Chicago White Sox 2
Final Tampa Bay 6 Houston 1
Final Baltimore 7 Cleveland 4
Final Texas 7 Boston 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final St. Louis 5 Chicago Cubs 4
Final Washington 6 Milwaukee 4
Final Pittsburgh 4 Arizona 2
Final Cincinnati 6 San Francisco 4
Final Miami 4 Atlanta 3
Final San Diego 3 Colorado 2