Saints Hammer Five Home Runs Win 21st of Season, 11-5 Over Goldeyes (St Paul Saints)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jun 2016
Tony Caldwell set a career high with two home runs and five RBI, Alonzo Harris tied a career high with two home runs and the Saints had nine extra base hits as they won their third straight game 11-5 improving to 21-9 on the season, best record in the American Association ... Argo led off with a triple and Caldwell drilled a two-run home run to left, his second of the game and career tying high fourth of the season, to make it 8-2....

Upton Jr. remains a stolen-base threat

Edit MLB 19 Jun 2016
Entering play Saturday night, Upton had swiped 15 bases for the Padres this season, seventh in the Majors, and the outfielder has been caught only four times ... In every season from 2008-12, Upton swiped at least 30 bases. He hasn't reached 30 since, but that's been largely the result of injuries and struggles at the plate, which kept him off the basepaths in the first place ... stealing home off of a Chris Rusin pitch....

Terry Jones: Edmonton Eskimos hammer home statement they're all in to win big again

Edit Toronto Sun 19 Jun 2016
Statement games, in the Canadian Football League, normally come along around Labour Day or much later in the season, certainly not in the pre-season. But this game and this pre-season were one-offs. And nobody on the Eskimos was backing down about making a statement with the pre-season that came to a conclusion before Saturday at The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium....

Kendrick, Turner, Pederson homer; Dodgers beat Brewers 10-6

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 19 Jun 2016
... his ninth homer of the season. Pederson hit a towering shot leading off the sixth that landed 10 rows into the bleachers in right-center field. The blast, Pederson's third hit in his first game this season leading off, put the Dodgers ahead 9-5 ... RHP Matt Garza (0-0, 2.25) makes his second start of the season since coming off the 60-day disabled list....

Marlins ride 17-hit outburst to 9-6 win over Rockies

Edit The Miami Herald 19 Jun 2016
Five players recorded at least two hits, as Miami knocked off Colorado for the second consecutive night, winning 9-6 ... The Marlins (36-32) wasted no time, taking a 1-0 first-inning lead off a Marcell Ozuna sacrifice fly ... Fresh off his go-ahead, two-run homer on Friday night, Christian Yelich delivered another big hit against the Rockies ... It marked the first time all season Chen didn't pitch at least five innings....

Div. 3 Baseball: Groton-Dunstable finishes perfectly good run with Division 2 baseball title

Edit Boston Herald 19 Jun 2016
The Crusaders finished off the remarkable feat of maneuvering through an entire season undefeated with a come-from-behind 5-4 victory against North Reading in yesterday’s Division 3 state championship game at Holy Cross. Groton-Dunstable (23-0) is the first state champion to go through an entire season without a loss since Plymouth North in 2008....

Revolution Win in Vancouver, Top Whitecaps FC 2-1 (New England Revolution)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jun 2016
The win marked the Revolution's first regular season victory on the road in 2016 and puts the Revolution tied for fourth in points in the Eastern Conference ... The Revs regained the advantage in the 55th minute, when midfielder Kelyn Rowe took a centering pass from forward Teal Bunbury and smashed it into the net for his third goal of the season, putting the Revs up 2-1 ... for the third and final regular season meeting with D.C....

NBA Rumors: Los Angeles Lakers Shopping D’Angelo Russell?

Edit Inquisitr 19 Jun 2016
After a disappointing season that saw head coach Byron Scott fired, the Los Angeles Lakers are nearing an important offseason ... In the past season, Russell was limited to 28.2 minutes per game this past season under Byron Scott. Scott constantly insulted Russell’s defense in postgame news conferences, and cited the defensive end of the floor as the reason he came off the bench for a noteworthy portion of the season....

Sharp-shooting Furkan Korkmaz wants to make a full-time NBA move

Edit Denver Post 19 Jun 2016
If there’s one thing that Furkan Korkmaz is sure about, it’s that he has no intention of going back overseas for another season ... And with the seventh pick in the NBA draft, the Nuggets will select … Michigan State’s Deyonta Davis shows off shot-blocking in Nuggets workout Sorting out Nuggets’ predraft workout prospects ... That pops off the screen when watching film of his games for Anadolu Efes in the Turkish League....

Curry: 'I need to play my best game of the year'

Edit The Examiner 19 Jun 2016
Speights wrote that Curry will score 50 points in the 1,316 game the league has seen this season. "Steph's gonna go off on Sunday," he wrote ... Curry also said the team's historic 73 wins during the regular season would represent nothing without winning the NBA title. Coming back this season and winning another title was their goal from the beginning of the season, he said....

Inciarte sprints lift Braves over Mets 4-3, 4th straight win

Edit The Oklahoman 19 Jun 2016
Jeff Francoeur and Tyler Flowers hit solo shots for the Braves, who have just 31 home runs this season — 26 fewer than any other big league team. With the score 3-all, Inciarte doubled against Addison Reed (1-1) leading off the eighth ... Atlanta closed to 3-2 against Matz on Chase d'Arnaud's two-out RBI single in the fifth and Francoeur's third home run of the season in the sixth, a drive off the facing of the second deck in left....

With efficiency improving, Keuchel finding groove

Edit MLB 19 Jun 2016
Keuchel was denied the win when the Reds scored on a two-out, two-strike, two-run home run in the top of the ninth by Adam Duvall off Ken Giles. The Astros won on George Springer's walk-off single in the 11th, scoring Jason Castro ... In his seventh quality start of the season, the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner did not walk a batter and struck out six....

Finley goes six in Staten Island's 10-inning no-hitter

Edit MLB 19 Jun 2016
It's been a memorable start to the season for Class A Short Season Staten Island ... Headlining the combined no-hitter -- the first combined extra-inning no-hitter in New York-Penn League history -- was 19-year-old righty Drew Finley, who fired six no-hit frames but allowed one earned run in his season debut for Staten Island....
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