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Colt Keith hit his first major league home run and Kenta Maeda (mah-EH'-dah) threw five scoreless innings in his return to help the Detroit Tigers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-2 and snap a season-high five-game losing streak. Keith turned on a full-count, two-out pitch off Alek Manoah (muh-NOH'-ah) in the second inning. Maeda gave up four hits without a walk for his second win.
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Alex Kirilloff hit a go-ahead home run in the fourth inning and Minnesota retired 15 of the last 16 hitters as the Twins edged the slumping Texas Rangers 3-2. Carlos Correa, Christian Vázquez and Jose Miranda each had two hits for the Twins, who won their third straight since snapping a seven-game losing streak.
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Nick Gonzales drove in a career-high four runs and Bailey Falter carried a shutout into the eighth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Atlanta Braves 11-5. Falter had a 20-inning scoreless streak over three starts halted in the eighth when Ronald Acuna (ah-KOO'-nyah) Junior hit a three-run home run, helping the Braves avoid their first shutout of the season.
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Seth Lugo became the American League’s first eight-game winner, Michael Massey and Bobby Witt Junior homered, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-1 for their seventh consecutive victory. Lugo allowed one run and four hits, lowering his A-L-best earned-run average from 1.79 to to 1.74. The Royals are a season-best 14-game over .500 at 33-and-19.
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Taylor Heise (HY'-zee) had a goal and an assist in helping lead Minnesota to a 4-1 home win over Boston in Game 3 of the Professional Women's Hockey League finals. The victory allowed Minnesota to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series, needing just one more to secure the league's first-ever title.
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The New Orleans Saints have made an 11.4 million-dollar (US) payment toward Superdome renovations, defusing a public standoff between the N-F-L club and state officials who oversee the stadium that will host the next Super Bowl. Announcement of the payment came hours after Saints president Dennis Lauscha, in comments published on the team’s website, decried “disingenuous and unprofessional” conduct by the state commission that oversees the Superdome.
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