MIAMI (AP) — Luis Arraez had three hits to raise his major league-leading batting average to .399, and the Miami Marlins beat the Kansas City Royals 9-6 on Monday night. Arraez drove in two runs for the Marlins, who erased an early four-run deficit and won their fourth straight game. Bryan De La Cruz hit his eighth homer, while Jon Berti, Nick Fortes and Joey Wendle had two hits apiece. After going hitless in four at-bats Friday against Oakland, Arraez is 10 for 13 over the last three games. No big league player has batted .400 for a season since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — No team in over 25 years has been more dominant than the Vegas Golden Knights through the first two games of a Stanley Cup Final. They have outscored the Florida Panthers by eight goals, including Monday night’s 7-2 victory in Game 2 that put the Knights two wins from the first championship in the franchise’s short six-year history. Jonathan Marchessault scored twice for the Knights and started an early blitz that chased Sergei Bobrovsky, the NHL’s hottest postseason goalie. Marchessault also had an assist to finish with three points. His 12 postseason goals set a Golden Knights record, with all of them coming after the first round. The only player with more following the opening round was Pavel Bure, who scored 13 for Vancouver in 1994.
LONDON (AP) — Missing penalties in a major international soccer final was bad enough for three Black players on England's national team. Being subjected to a torrent of racial abuse on social media in the aftermath made it even worse. Monkey emojis. Being told to go home. The N-word. The even sadder part? Everyone knew it was coming. A report last year from FIFA, the governing body of world soccer, showed that more than 50% of players competing in two international tournaments in 2021 — the African Cup of Nations and the European Championship — received some form of discriminatory abuse in more than 400,000 posts on social media. More than a third were of a racist nature. With social media continuing to fuel abuse, players and teams are coming up with ways to both raise awareness and reduce their exposure to offensive users. GoBubble is a company that configures AI software to act as a filter to stop discriminatory comments from being seen by a social media user. It has customers from the Premier League down to the fourth division in English soccer, around Europe and in Australia.
MIAMI (AP) — The Denver Nuggets visit the Miami Heat for game three of the NBA Finals with the series tied 1-1. The Heat defeated the Nuggets 111-108 in the last matchup. Gabe Vincent led the Heat with 23 points, and Nikola Jokic led the Nuggets with 41 points. The Heat are 27-14 in home games. Miami has a 14-8 record in games decided by less than 4 points. The Nuggets are 19-22 on the road. Denver is fifth in the league scoring 16.2 fast break points per game led by Michael Porter Jr. averaging 3.4.
MONDAY SCORES
STANLEY CUP FINALS
Vegas 7, Florida 2 Vegas leads best-of-seven series 2-0
MLB
INTERLEAGUE
Miami 9, Kansas City 6
Philadelphia 8, Detroit 3
Pittsburgh 5, Oakland 4
Texas 4, St. Louis 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Tampa Bay 4, Boston 1
Houston 11, Toronto 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 2, Milwaukee 0
San Diego 5, Chicago Cubs 0