• The Canadian Press

    José Soriano pitches 6 sharp innings as the Angels beat the Guardians 6-0

    CLEVELAND (AP) — José Soriano pitched six innings for his first career win as a starter and Mickey Moniak hit a three-run homer, powering the Los Angeles Angels to a 6-0 win over the Cleveland Guardians on Friday night. Soriano (1-4), who pitched strictly in relief last season, allowed five hits. The right-hander was only stressed once, working out of a jam in the fifth by striking out Andrés Giménez with the bases loaded on a nasty curveball. Both of Soriano's career wins have been against Clev

  • The Canadian Press

    Altuve drives in go-ahead run, steals 300th base to lead Astros over Mariners 5-3

    HOUSTON (AP) — Jose Altuve hit a go-ahead bunt RBI single and collected his 300th career stolen base in Houston’s four-run seventh inning to lead the Astros to a 5-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night. The 2017 AL MVP is the fifth player in MLB history to have at least 300 steals, 2,000 hits, 400 doubles, 200 homers and a career batting average of .300 or higher, joining Derek Jeter, Paul Molitor, Willie Mays and Roberto Alomar. The Mariners missed a scoring opportunity in the eighth.

  • The Canadian Press

    Yankees score two in the ninth to beat Tigers 2-1

    NEW YORK (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton hit a tying double in the ninth inning and Anthony Rizzo followed with a game-winning single to give the New York Yankees a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night. Shut out on two hits for eight innings, the Yankees got four in a row off closer Jason Foley (2-1) to start and finish the ninth in a heartbeat. Aaron Judge opened the inning by bouncing a single through the middle and advanced to second on Alex Verdugo’s bunt single toward third. Stanton

  • The Canadian Press

    Canucks advance to 2nd round, beating Predators 1-0 in Game 6 on Pius Suter's late goal

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vancouver coach Rick Tocchet told Pius Suter to keep shooting. Suter did just that, and it paid off. Suter scored with 1:39 left and the Canucks advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs with a 1-0 victory over the Nashville Predators on Friday night in Game 6. “If you keep going to those spots, it’ll happen, and it happened for Suits and big game- winning goal for us,” Tocchet said about the forward who had three of his five shots in the third. Nashville had a fin