Nearly a month after he was sent down to the minor leagues amid an abysmal start to the season, Blue Jays pitcher Alek Manoah is finally on his way back to The Show.
Manoah will rejoin the big-league roster for Friday’s game against the Tigers, manager John Schneider told reporters on Tuesday. His promotion comes after an up-and-down minor league assignment that included an 11-run outing, though he later struck out 10 batters across five innings at Double A.
Author: Michael
A wrong turn just prior to the finish line wound up costing a runner thousands of dollars on July 4th in Atlanta.
Senbere Teferi, the defending Peachtree Road Race champion, was leading the 10-kilometer race mere meters from the finish line but was led astray after following a police motorcycle that took a right turn off the course.
As a result, she finished third instead of winning the annual race. She won $3,000 instead of the winner’s prize of $10,000.
ESPN presents its seventh annual ranking of the best men’s players and coaches in world soccer.
These days, the Angels are operating in the words of the great Ray Charles: If it wasn’t for bad luck, they’d have no luck at all.
On the same day that star center fielder Mike Trout was placed on the injured list with a broken hand, two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani left Tuesday’s start against the Padres in the sixth inning with a blister on his right middle finger.
Ohtani was pulled after allowing a single and back-to-back home runs without recording an out in the inning, as San Diego extended its lead at the time to 5-1.
When Devon Allen announced his intention to return to football, it signaled that a new challenger was arriving for the title of NFL’s fastest player. But if you ask the former national champion hurdler, the debate is not a close one.
Allen, who focused solely on track and field after his college career ended in 2016 and signed with the Eagles in ’22, said there’s no question he’s the fastest NFL player in a recent interview with TMZ, singling out Seattle’s DK Metcalf and Miami’s Tyreek Hill as potential competitors.
The flame-thrower underwent Tommy John surgery in 2021.
Major League Baseball announced several additions to the 2023 All-Star Game on Tuesday, as replacements for injured players.
Among the additions was Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco, who was added to the American League All-Star roster in place of injured Yankees slugger Aaron Judge who will miss the July 11 Midsummer Classic in Seattle because of an injured toe.
Franco, who slugged his 10th home run of the season in the Rays’ 3-1 loss to the Phillies on Tuesday, is batting .286 with 43 RBIs and 26 stolen bases.
In what’s become essentially a holiday tradition, the Fourth of July once again belongs to Joey Chestnut. The 39-year-old competitive eater won his 16th Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest at New York’s Coney Island on Tuesday, consuming 62 hot dogs and buns, 13 clear of the next-closest competitor.
The victory was Chestnut’s eighth straight at the event and 16th in the past 17 years, cementing the most dominant run in competitive eating’s signature event.
After decades of being held in June—and while the college baseball season was still going on—the MLB draft was shifted to July to be held in conjunction with the All-Star break back in 2021. That timeline has persisted in ’23, with another strong crop of soon-to-be professional players lined up to have their baseball dreams realized.
The 2023 MLB draft will begin on Sunday, July 9 at Lumen Field in Seattle, with the first day covering the first two rounds. Rounds 3-10 will take place on Monday, July 10, and the draft will wrap up with rounds 11-20 on Tuesday, July 11.
As the first half of the season winds down, the Padres made the decision to designate veteran slugger Nelson Cruz for assignment, the team announced Tuesday. San Diego will have seven days to trade Cruz, who will then be put on waivers if a deal isn’t agreed to.
The move comes in the midst of a tough stretch for San Diego in which its lost seven of its past nine games, entering play on Tuesday 11 games out of first place in the National League West and seven games out of the NL’s third wild-card spot.