Corey Hart also homered and drove in four runs for Milwaukee, which has won 13 of 16 to climb within 6 1/2 games of St. Louis for the second NL wild card spot. Milwaukee (67-69) also trails the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh, with Atlanta currently on top of the wild card standings. Peralta (1-0) pitched six innings, allowing three runs and...

Adam LaRoche kept up his tear at the plate with three hits for the Nationals, who have won four straight and own the best record in the majors at 84-52. They maintained a 7½-game lead over Atlanta in the NL East. For the second night in a row, Washington tied a team record for home runs in a game. LaRoche has hit three of those 12 long balls, and his...

Eliot Johnson’s errant throw to home plate that led to two runs in the seventh inning helped New York win for just the fifth time in 15 games. New York sat atop the division standings by itself for 84 consecutive days — its longest streak since 2004 — until Tuesday night’s 5-2 loss to Tampa Bay dropped the Yankees into a tie with Baltimore....

Two years ago, Donald was incorrectly called safe at first by umpire Jim Joyce, costing Detroit’s Armando Galarraga a perfect game. On Wednesday night, the Cleveland third baseman made a terrific catch in foul ground while tumbling into the crowd during the Indians’ 7-1 loss to the Tigers — but a young woman was shaken up. “I felt...

Ryan Dempster (5-1) gave up RBI doubles to Billy Butler in the first inning and Salvador Perez in the sixth, but was otherwise stingy for the AL West-leading Rangers. He only allowed two other hits in six innings, striking out eight to win his fourth straight game. Beltre’s homer came off Everett Teaford (1-4), who was making his fifth start of the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ekaterina Makarova of Russia and Bruno Soares of Brazil won the U.S. Open mixed doubles title Thursday. The unseeded team beat the fourth-seeded pair of Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic and Marcin Matkowski of Poland 6-7 (8), 6-1, 12-10 tiebreak. Makarova and Soares wasted an 8-4 lead in the tiebreak and faced a championship point...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Reggie Miller is joining his sister, Cheryl, in the basketball Hall of Fame. The former Indiana Pacers star will be inducted into the basketball shrine on Friday night along with Don Nelson, the winningest coach in NBA history, and Nike co-founder Phil Knight. Ralph Sampson, the only three-time college player of the...

However, despite being without strikers Wayne Rooney and Andy Carroll, defender Ashley Cole and winger Adam Johnson, Hodgson told reporters he was happy with the options available. “It is a great blow to lose players you have selected but we chose a large squad to cope with that,” he said. “I’m still happy with the players...