Christian Yelich hit a three-run homer off Craig Kimbrel in the ninth inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago 4-0 on Sunday for their second straight shutout against the Cubs. Milwaukee took two of three in the weekend series to pull within three games of Chicago for the second NL wild card. The Brewers had […]
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Carlos Carrasco made his return to the mound from leukemia Sunday and the Cleveland Indians pitcher was applauded by both teams in a touching scene during Tampa Bay’s 8-2 victory that completed a three-game sweep. The right-hander entered in the seventh inning for his first major league appearance since being diagnosed with a treatable form
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Justin Verlander pitched his third career no-hitter, punctuating a dominant season with an overpowering performance to lead the Houston Astros past the Toronto Blue Jays 2-0 on Sunday. Verlander struck out 14 and allowed just one runner, walking Cavan Biggio with one out in the first inning. Verlander became the first pitcher to throw two
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WESTERPLATTE, Poland — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was not invited. President Trump abruptly canceled. And as other global leaders gathered in Poland on Sunday to commemorate the start of the deadliest conflict in human history, the event served to underscore the divisions in Europe and within Poland itself. In Warsaw, President Andrzej Duda
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Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander is pitching a no-hitter through six innings against the Toronto Blue Jays. Verlander has struck out nine and thrown 84 pitches Sunday at Toronto. The only runner he’s allowed was Cavan Biggio on a one-out walk in the first inning. Verlander has thrown two no-hitters in the majors, both while
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PITTSBURGH — Bernie Sanders was in his element — railing against “the billionaire class” — as he talked up his “100-percent pro-union voting record” and his participation in “God knows how many picket lines.” “At the end of the day,” he told what his campaign said were over 1,000 Sanders-supporting union members and activists who
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LOS ANGELES — When a group of workers at the video-game maker Riot Games staged a three-hour walkout in May over the company’s handling of sex discrimination accusations, they had help from a labor organizer named Emma Kinema. Ms. Kinema doesn’t work for a union, but she is part of a grass-roots wave of labor
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After the world’s No. 1 tennis player, Naomi Osaka, knocked 15-year-old Coco Gauff out of the U.S. Open on Saturday — nabbing her 10th straight win in the Grand Slam event — the victor showed more than just her athletic prowess. As Gauff fought to hold back tears before the packed Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens,
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The United Nations secretary general visited Congo’s eastern city of Beni on Sunday, pledging solidarity as the region faces an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 2,000 people in a year and ongoing insecurity that has residents skeptical of outside help. “I could not go to the DRC (Congo) without coming to meet the brave
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Major league batters broke the monthly home run record for the third time this year and are on pace to shatter the season mark with weeks to spare, part of a season in which strikeouts also are occurring at an unprecedented rate. Batters hit 1,228 home runs hit in the majors in August, the Elias
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