• The Canadian Press

    Ohtani gifts Roberts a toy Porsche after tying club record for most homers by a Japanese-born player

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dave Roberts recently joked that Shohei Ohtani should gift Roberts a Porsche when Ohtani breaks his Dodgers' record for most home runs by a Japanese-born player. Ohtani obliged, just maybe not in the way Roberts imagined. Before Friday's game against the Atlanta Braves, the Dodgers' slugger gifted Roberts a purple toy model Porsche in his office. Roberts said the car is sitting on his desk. Ohtani hit his seventh home run, and tied Roberts' mark, with a home run at Toronto on

  • The Canadian Press

    White Sox wait out 3-hour rain delay in 10th inning to beat Cardinals 6-5

    ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tanner Banks came on after a three-hour rain delay to strike out pinch-hitter Iván Herrera in the bottom of the 10th inning, and the Chicago White Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5 on Saturday night to snap a four-game losing streak. “I’ve never been part of anything like that before, but I’m happy to have been a part of it.” White Sox manager Pedro Grifol said. “I’m happy to have been on the right end of that one because that would have been a tough one to lose. There was so

  • Yahoo Sports

    NBA playoffs: Timberwolves put Nuggets on notice with Game 1 win sparked by Anthony Edwards' heroics

    Edwards' coming out party continued in emphatic fashion in a Game 1 win over the reigning champs.

  • The Canadian Press

    Electric Pittsburgh Pirates rookie Jared Jones is piling up strikeouts and silencing doubters

    PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jared Jones understands the plan. He totally gets that the Pittsburgh Pirates are doing what they can to protect the future — both his and theirs — by being cautious with the precocious 22-year-old's electric right arm. In time, the kid gloves will come off. They have to. Jones knows this. So he's trying to stay patient while simultaneously doing everything he can to speed up the process. Jones cleared another major hurdle Saturday, striking out 10 without a walk over seven nea