PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber set the MLB single-season record with his 14th leadoff home run Tuesday night against the Tampa Bay Rays before being removed from the game in the fourth inning due to a hyperextended left elbow. In the bottom of the first inning, Schwarber sent a 1-0 fastball from Rays starter Taj Bradley 437 feet to center field, moving ahead of Alfonso Soriano, who had 13 leadoff homers in 2003 with the New York Yankees, and giving the Phillies a 1-0 lead. Philadelphia went on to a 9-4 win. Schwarber’s 35th homer of the season was the 45th leadoff homer of his career, with 32 coming since joining the Phillies in 2022.
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has expanded the permissible scope of coach’s challenge reviews on some out-of-bounds plays, saying Tuesday that if a foul should have been called on the play it now can be assessed shortly after the fact. The league’s Board of Governors approved the move on the second day of its two-day meeting in New York, after it was unanimously recommended by the league’s competition committee last week. The change will take effect this season. The review change could have come into play at least once in last season’s playoffs, when Dallas’ Kyrie Irving fouled Minnesota’s Jaden McDaniels and the ball went out of bounds. No foul was called on the play, and even though the review clearly showed Irving hitting McDaniels’ arm the ball was awarded to Dallas because it went out off of McDaniels. When such out-of-bounds plays have reviews triggered by coaches challenging now, on-court officials and the NBA Replay Center “will be able to review the video to determine whether a foul proximate to the violation should have been called,” the league said, providing that certain criteria are met.
WNBA players and their union spoke out against Commissioner Cathy Engelbert’s recent comments on a TV show that failed to condemn racist and bitter criticism from fans toward the Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese rivalry. Engelbert made an appearance on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Monday and was asked by anchor Tyler Mathisen about what he called the “darker” tone taken by fan bases on social media that brings race and sometimes sexuality into the conversation. “How do you try and stay ahead of that, try and tamp it down or act as a league when two of your most visible players are involved — not personally, it would seem, but their fan bases are involved — in saying some very uncharitable things about the other?” Mathisen asked. Engelbert responded by saying, “There’s no more apathy. Everybody cares. It is a little of that Bird-Magic moment if you recall from 1979, when those two rookies came in from a big college rivalry, one white, one Black. And so we have that moment with these two. But the one thing I know about sports, you need rivalry. That’s what makes people watch. They want to watch games of consequence between rivals. They don’t want everybody being nice to one another.”
Versatile running back Roger Craig, former MVP Ken Anderson and 2024 finalist Art Powell are among the players nominated in the Seniors category for the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame class. The Hall released a list of 183 nominees on Tuesday to be considered by a newly created Seniors Screening Committee. That group will reduce the list to 50 players over the next several weeks. A separate Seniors Blue Ribbon Committee will reduce that list to the three finalists to be considered by the full selection committee in early 2025. The three seniors will be grouped with one coach and contributor with at least one and no more than three of those finalists getting in based on voting. Craig, Anderson and Powell are among the 10 players on this year’s list of nominees who made it to the seminal stage of 12 candidates last year when Steve McMichael and Randy Gradishar were voted in as seniors. Powell made it to the final cut but didn’t get the 80% threshold needed for induction.
TUESDAY'S SCORES
Major League Baseball
American League
Kansas City 5, NY Yankees 0
Cleveland 5, Chicago White Sox 0
Baltimore 5, Boston 3
Minnesota 10, LA Angels 10
Oakland 4, Houston 3
National League
Philadelphia 9, Tampa Bay 4
Pittsburgh 6, Miami 4
Atlanta 12, Washington 0
Cincinnati 3, St. Louis 0
Chicago Cubs 6, LA Dodgers 3
Milwaukee 3, San Francisco 2
Interleague
Detroit 11, Colorado 0
Toronto 6, NY Mets 2
San Diego 7, Seattle 3
Arizona 6, Texas 0