MLB  – Major League Baseball
Last Night

  Detroit Tigers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3

  Baltimore Orioles 9, Chicago Cubs 3

Chicago White Sox 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0

Tigers 5, Pirates 3 – Rain man: Skubal wins 4th  straight as Tigers top Pirates 5-3

  Tarik  Skubal pitched seven steady innings to win his fourth straight decision and  Harold Castro hit a two-run single to lead the Detroit Tigers to a rain-delayed  5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. After the start was pushed back more  than two hours, Skubal gave up three runs and six hits while striking out nine  and walking one. The left-hander has worked a career-high seven innings in  three consecutive outings and is 4-0 with a 1.60 ERA in his last seven starts.  Castro’s hit, a liner up the middle, capped a three-run fourth that put the  Tigers in front 4-1. Rookie Spencer Torkelson drove in the first run with a  double.

Orioles 9, Cubs 3 – Orioles hit 5 home runs, cruise  past Cubs 9-3

  Cedric  Mullins and Trey Mancini hit successive homers, sparking a power surge that  carried the Baltimore Orioles past the Chicago Cubs 9-3. Jorge Mateo, Austin  Hays and Ramón Urías also connected for the Orioles, who beat the Cubs for the  first time in seven tries since 2008. Reliever Bryan Baker earned the win after  allowing one run and one hit over 1 1/3 innings. Christopher Morel homered on the  game’s first pitch off rookie Kyle Bradish and has reached base safely in 21  consecutive games to begin his career, extending his Cubs’ record. Morel also  had an RBI triple in the sixth.

White Sox 4, Dodgers 0 – Kopech, Pollock lead White  Sox to 4-0 win over Dodgers

  Michael  Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball, pinch-hitter AJ Pollock delivered a  two-run double against his former team and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los  Angeles Dodgers 4-0. Pollock’s clutch swing off the bench sparked a four-run  sixth that sent the White Sox to their third consecutive victory. It was the  fourth time this season Kopech worked at least five innings and limited an  opponent to one hit. The right-hander struck out eight and walked one, lowering  his ERA to 1.94. The NL West-leading Dodgers dropped their third straight.

Today

  Detroit  (Skubal 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Keller 2-5), 12:35 p.m.                  WSJM/WCSY 12:15

  Chicago  Cubs (Stroman 2-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 3-4), 7:05 p.m.

  L.A.  Dodgers (Gonsolin 6-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 0-2), 8:10 p.m.

MLB  – Angels fire manager Joe Maddon amid 12-game losing streak

  The  Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a  12-game losing streak. Third base coach Phil Nevin will be the Angels’ interim  manager when they host Boston on Tuesday night. Maddon went 130-148 with the  Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. After  finishing with losing records in Maddon’s first two seasons, the Angels were  off to a strong 27-17 start before their current losing streak began. They are  one loss shy of tying the longest skid in franchise history.

NHL  – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals
Last Night

  Tampa Bay Lightning 4, New York Rangers 1                       (Series  tied 2-2)

Lightning 4, Rangers 1 – Lightning beat Rangers 4-1 in  Game 4 to even East final

  Nikita  Kucherov scored on a breakaway and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves , helping  the Tampa Bay Lightning shut down the New York Rangers 4-1 and even the NHL’s  Eastern Conference final at two games apiece. Kucherov took a pass from Ondrej  Palat in the middle of the ice and skated in on goaltender Igor Shesterkin to  give the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions a two-goal lead just over 13  minutes into the second period. Palat, Pat Maroon and Steven Stamkos also  scored for the Lightning, who have rebounded from losing the first two games of  the series on the road to keep their bid to become the first team in nearly 40  years to win three consecutive Stanley Cup titles alive. Game 5 is Thursday  night at Madison Square Garden.

NBA  – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals
Tonight

  Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m.         (Series tied 1-1)

WNBA  – Women’s National Basketball Association
Tonight

  Indiana Fever at Connecticut Sun, 7:00 p.m.

  Chicago Sky at Washington Mystics, 8:00 p.m. 

WNBA  – Los Angeles Sparks fire coach and GM Derek Fisher

  The  Los Angeles Sparks have fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher the  team announced. Fisher took over the team before the 2019 season and became the  GM a year later. He finished his career with a 54-46 record as coach. The  Sparks missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 2011 and  bolstered their roster by adding All-Star Liz Cambage in the offseason. They  had a difficult schedule to start the season with nine of their first 12 games  on the road and are 5-7.

WNBA  – Griner’s fate tangled up with other American held in Russia

  Brittney  Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country.  But the WNBA star’s case is tangled up with that of another prisoner few  Americans have ever heard of. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December  2018 arrest on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false. He  was left out of a prisoner exchange in April that brought home yet another  detainee, Marine veteran Trevor Reed. That resolution escalates pressure on the  Biden administration to avoid a repeat scenario of another one-for-one swap  that does not include Whelan.

Golf  – LIV – Dustin Johnson quits PGA membership to play in Saudi league

  Two-time  major winner Dustin Johnson says he has resigned his PGA Tour membership to  participate in the new golf series backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth  fund. The first LIV Golf Invitational, which offers $25 million in prize money,  is taking place outside London starting Thursday. Johnson says he “had to think  long and hard” about leaving the PGA Tour, seemingly ending his hopes of  competing in the Ryder Cup for the United States. Johnson is No. 15 in the  world, the highest-ranked player in the field.

Golf  – Tiger Woods says his leg not ready and he won’t play US Open

  Tiger  Woods has pulled out of the U.S. Open and says his body "needs more time  to get stronger for major championship golf.” He said he hopes to be ready to  play in a charity pro-am event in Ireland ahead of the British Open at St.  Andrews in July. The U.S. Open is next week at The Country Club at Brookline  outside of Boston. Woods made a surprise return to golf at the Masters just 14  months after he broke bones in his right leg and ankle in a car crash. He later  played the PGA Championship at Southern Hills but withdrew after the third  round. Woods has won the U.S. Open three times, most recently in 2008.

Golf  – US Open to accept Mickelson and all eligible players

  Dustin  Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other players competing in the Saudi-funded rival  golf league are free to play the U.S. Open next week. That was always expected  but confirmed Tuesday by the USGA. The USGA says if a player earned his way  into the the U.S. Open, should that be taken away because he is playing a  different league? It felt the answer was no. CEO Mike Whan says more than 9,000  people signed up for the U.S. Open and the USGA is not in the business of  policing what they stand for.

NFL  – Rodgers unsure how long he will play beyond this season

  Aaron  Rodgers says he’s unsure how much longer he will keep playing football. But  he’s definitive about at least one element of his playing future. The four-time  MVP quarterback expects to retire as a Green Bay Packer. That scenario seemed  uncertain when Rodgers skipped the Packers mandatory minicamp last year in a  standoff with team officials. That relationship has since improved enough that  Rodgers signed a contract extension with the Packers after producing his second  straight MVP season. Rodgers said Tuesday at the Packers minicamp that he  doesn’t know yet whether he will play beyond this upcoming season.

Olympics  – Figure Skating – Figure skating minimum age rises to 17 before 2026 Olympics

  No  15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics  following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva  at this year’s Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior  international events has been passed by the International Skating Union that  will raise the minimum age to 17 before the next Winter Olympics in  Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The limit will be phased in with 16-year-olds  allowed to compete in the 2023-24 season. It will then rise to 17 for the  season before the Olympics.

NCAASFB  – Coaches: Doubleheaders in WCWS semis threaten player safety

  Oklahoma  bounced back from losing a Women’s College World Series semifinal to UCLA on  Monday, dominating the Bruins in a game that started 30 minutes after the first  one. Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said the turnaround should not have been so  quick. Gasso called it a player safety issue. She likes that the NCAA’s  Division I Competition Oversight Committee added a day between the semifinals  and the finals in changes made before this season, but she would give it up for  time between semifinal games.

MILB – Midwest League Baseball
Yesterday

  West Michigan Whitecaps 9, Lansing Lugnuts 5

  Cedar Rapids Kernels 7, South Bend Cubs 1

  Dayton Dragons 14, Great Lakes Loons 8 

Today

  Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m.

  Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m.

  Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m.

MHSAA – High School Sports
Last Night
Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals
Division 1 at Caledonia

  Portage Central 2, Traverse City West 0

  Hudsonville 1, Rockford 0

Division 3 at Otsego

  Otsego 8, Brooklyn Columbia Central 0

  Hudsonville Unity Christian 4, South Haven 0

Division 4 at Portage Northern

  Kalamazoo Christian 1, Lansing Christian 0 – 2 OT

  Our Lady of the Lake 2, Saugatuck 1

Tonight
Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals
Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek

  Gull Lake vs. Mason, 5:30 p.m.

  St. Joseph vs. Zeeland West, 7:30 p.m.

Baseball – Regional Semifinals
Division 1 at Portage Northern

  Mattawan vs. Hudsonville, 4:00 p.m.

Division 2 at Edwardsburg

  Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m.

Division 3 at Centreville

  Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m.

Division 4 at Kalamazoo College

  Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m.

Division 4 at Decatur

  Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m. 

MLB – Major League Baseball 
 Last Night 
 Detroit Tigers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3 
 Baltimore Orioles 9, Chicago Cubs 3 
Chicago White Sox 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
Tigers 5, Pirates 3 – Rain man: Skubal wins 4th straight as Tigers top Pirates 5-3 
 Tarik Skubal pitched seven steady innings to win his fourth straight decision and Harold Castro hit a two-run single to lead the Detroit Tigers to a rain-delayed 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. After the start was pushed back more than two hours, Skubal gave up three runs and six hits while striking out nine and walking one. The left-hander has worked a career-high seven innings in three consecutive outings and is 4-0 with a 1.60 ERA in his last seven starts. Castro&rsquo;s hit, a liner up the middle, capped a three-run fourth that put the Tigers in front 4-1. Rookie Spencer Torkelson drove in the first run with a double.
Orioles 9, Cubs 3 – Orioles hit 5 home runs, cruise past Cubs 9-3 
 Cedric Mullins and Trey Mancini hit successive homers, sparking a power surge that carried the Baltimore Orioles past the Chicago Cubs 9-3. Jorge Mateo, Austin Hays and Ramón Urías also connected for the Orioles, who beat the Cubs for the first time in seven tries since 2008. Reliever Bryan Baker earned the win after allowing one run and one hit over 1 1/3 innings. Christopher Morel homered on the game&rsquo;s first pitch off rookie Kyle Bradish and has reached base safely in 21 consecutive games to begin his career, extending his Cubs&rsquo; record. Morel also had an RBI triple in the sixth.
White Sox 4, Dodgers 0 – Kopech, Pollock lead White Sox to 4-0 win over Dodgers 
 Michael Kopech pitched six innings of one-hit ball, pinch-hitter AJ Pollock delivered a two-run double against his former team and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0. Pollock&rsquo;s clutch swing off the bench sparked a four-run sixth that sent the White Sox to their third consecutive victory. It was the fourth time this season Kopech worked at least five innings and limited an opponent to one hit. The right-hander struck out eight and walked one, lowering his ERA to 1.94. The NL West-leading Dodgers dropped their third straight.
Today 
 Detroit (Skubal 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Keller 2-5), 12:35 p.m.                  WSJM/WCSY 12:15 
 Chicago Cubs (Stroman 2-5) at Baltimore (Lyles 3-4), 7:05 p.m. 
 L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 6-0) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 0-2), 8:10 p.m.
MLB – Angels fire manager Joe Maddon amid 12-game losing streak 
 The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak. Third base coach Phil Nevin will be the Angels&rsquo; interim manager when they host Boston on Tuesday night. Maddon went 130-148 with the Angels, who hired him before the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. After finishing with losing records in Maddon&rsquo;s first two seasons, the Angels were off to a strong 27-17 start before their current losing streak began. They are one loss shy of tying the longest skid in franchise history.
NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals 
 Last Night 
 Tampa Bay Lightning 4, New York Rangers 1                       (Series tied 2-2)
Lightning 4, Rangers 1 – Lightning beat Rangers 4-1 in Game 4 to even East final 
 Nikita Kucherov scored on a breakaway and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves , helping the Tampa Bay Lightning shut down the New York Rangers 4-1 and even the NHL&rsquo;s Eastern Conference final at two games apiece. Kucherov took a pass from Ondrej Palat in the middle of the ice and skated in on goaltender Igor Shesterkin to give the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions a two-goal lead just over 13 minutes into the second period. Palat, Pat Maroon and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning, who have rebounded from losing the first two games of the series on the road to keep their bid to become the first team in nearly 40 years to win three consecutive Stanley Cup titles alive. Game 5 is Thursday night at Madison Square Garden.
NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals 
 Tonight 
 Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m.         (Series tied 1-1)
WNBA – Women&rsquo;s National Basketball Association 
 Tonight 
 Indiana Fever at Connecticut Sun, 7:00 p.m. 
 Chicago Sky at Washington Mystics, 8:00 p.m. 
WNBA – Los Angeles Sparks fire coach and GM Derek Fisher 
 The Los Angeles Sparks have fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher the team announced. Fisher took over the team before the 2019 season and became the GM a year later. He finished his career with a 54-46 record as coach. The Sparks missed the playoffs last season for the first time since 2011 and bolstered their roster by adding All-Star Liz Cambage in the offseason. They had a difficult schedule to start the season with nine of their first 12 games on the road and are 5-7.
WNBA – Griner&#8217;s fate tangled up with other American held in Russia 
 Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the WNBA star&rsquo;s case is tangled up with that of another prisoner few Americans have ever heard of. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false. He was left out of a prisoner exchange in April that brought home yet another detainee, Marine veteran Trevor Reed. That resolution escalates pressure on the Biden administration to avoid a repeat scenario of another one-for-one swap that does not include Whelan.
Golf – LIV – Dustin Johnson quits PGA membership to play in Saudi league 
 Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson says he has resigned his PGA Tour membership to participate in the new golf series backed by Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s sovereign wealth fund. The first LIV Golf Invitational, which offers $25 million in prize money, is taking place outside London starting Thursday. Johnson says he &ldquo;had to think long and hard&rdquo; about leaving the PGA Tour, seemingly ending his hopes of competing in the Ryder Cup for the United States. Johnson is No. 15 in the world, the highest-ranked player in the field.
Golf – Tiger Woods says his leg not ready and he won&#8217;t play US Open 
 Tiger Woods has pulled out of the U.S. Open and says his body &quot;needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf.&rdquo; He said he hopes to be ready to play in a charity pro-am event in Ireland ahead of the British Open at St. Andrews in July. The U.S. Open is next week at The Country Club at Brookline outside of Boston. Woods made a surprise return to golf at the Masters just 14 months after he broke bones in his right leg and ankle in a car crash. He later played the PGA Championship at Southern Hills but withdrew after the third round. Woods has won the U.S. Open three times, most recently in 2008.
Golf – US Open to accept Mickelson and all eligible players 
 Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and other players competing in the Saudi-funded rival golf league are free to play the U.S. Open next week. That was always expected but confirmed Tuesday by the USGA. The USGA says if a player earned his way into the the U.S. Open, should that be taken away because he is playing a different league? It felt the answer was no. CEO Mike Whan says more than 9,000 people signed up for the U.S. Open and the USGA is not in the business of policing what they stand for.
NFL – Rodgers unsure how long he will play beyond this season 
 Aaron Rodgers says he&rsquo;s unsure how much longer he will keep playing football. But he&rsquo;s definitive about at least one element of his playing future. The four-time MVP quarterback expects to retire as a Green Bay Packer. That scenario seemed uncertain when Rodgers skipped the Packers mandatory minicamp last year in a standoff with team officials. That relationship has since improved enough that Rodgers signed a contract extension with the Packers after producing his second straight MVP season. Rodgers said Tuesday at the Packers minicamp that he doesn&rsquo;t know yet whether he will play beyond this upcoming season.
Olympics – Figure Skating – Figure skating minimum age rises to 17 before 2026 Olympics 
 No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian national champion Kamila Valieva at this year&rsquo;s Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior international events has been passed by the International Skating Union that will raise the minimum age to 17 before the next Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d&rsquo;Ampezzo, Italy. The limit will be phased in with 16-year-olds allowed to compete in the 2023-24 season. It will then rise to 17 for the season before the Olympics.
NCAASFB – Coaches: Doubleheaders in WCWS semis threaten player safety 
 Oklahoma bounced back from losing a Women&rsquo;s College World Series semifinal to UCLA on Monday, dominating the Bruins in a game that started 30 minutes after the first one. Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said the turnaround should not have been so quick. Gasso called it a player safety issue. She likes that the NCAA&rsquo;s Division I Competition Oversight Committee added a day between the semifinals and the finals in changes made before this season, but she would give it up for time between semifinal games.
MILB – Midwest League Baseball 
 Yesterday 
 West Michigan Whitecaps 9, Lansing Lugnuts 5 
 Cedar Rapids Kernels 7, South Bend Cubs 1 
 Dayton Dragons 14, Great Lakes Loons 8 
Today 
 Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. 
 Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. 
 Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m.
MHSAA – High School Sports 
 Last Night 
 Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals 
 Division 1 at Caledonia 
 Portage Central 2, Traverse City West 0 
 Hudsonville 1, Rockford 0
Division 3 at Otsego 
 Otsego 8, Brooklyn Columbia Central 0 
 Hudsonville Unity Christian 4, South Haven 0
Division 4 at Portage Northern 
 Kalamazoo Christian 1, Lansing Christian 0 – 2 OT 
 Our Lady of the Lake 2, Saugatuck 1
Tonight 
 Girls Soccer – Regional Semifinals 
 Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek 
 Gull Lake vs. Mason, 5:30 p.m. 
 St. Joseph vs. Zeeland West, 7:30 p.m.
Baseball – Regional Semifinals 
 Division 1 at Portage Northern 
 Mattawan vs. Hudsonville, 4:00 p.m.
Division 2 at Edwardsburg 
 Berrien Springs vs. Vicksburg, 4:30 p.m.
Division 3 at Centreville 
 Buchanan vs. Climax-Scotts, 5:00 p.m.
Division 4 at Kalamazoo College 
 Michigan Lutheran vs. Gobles, 4:30 p.m.
Division 4 at Decatur 
 Decatur vs. Colon, 4:30 p.m.

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