Chris Leroux

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Major League Baseball--Tampa Bay Rays at Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants at Chicago Cubs or Atlanta Braves at Washington Nationals, 11:30 a.m. (FOX); New York Mets at Minnesota Twins, 3 p.m. (FXSP) PGA Golf--Masters...

  PHOENIX (AP) — Since his days at Notre Dame ended and he turned pro, A.J. Pollock had rarely hit a home run and never two in a game.   He was a slugger on Wednesday, though, knocking two over the left-field wall off Jonathan Sanchez to...

The Orioles scored eight runs in the first inning Sunday, but still had to squeak out a victory in the late innings of a sloppy, rainy contest. Paced by a Chris Dickerson grand slam against Pittsburgh starter Chris Leroux, the Orioles took an 8-0 lead...

The Orioles make their third and final spring trip to Bradenton today to face the Pirates in a 1:05 p.m. start. Left-hander Brian Matusz will start for the Orioles. Pirates pitcher Jeff Karstens, scheduled to make his first spring start, has been...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Norwich City at Manchester United, 8:55 a.m. (ESPN2) Men’s College Basketball--Louisville at Syracuse, 11 a.m. (CBS); Alabama at Florida, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Butler at Virginia Commonwealth, 11 a.m....

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Tennis--U.S. Open, 10 a.m. (CBS) College Football--Alabama State vs. Bethune-Cookman, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Kentucky at Louisville, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN); Southern Methodist at Baylor, 5:30 p.m. (FXSP) Auto Racing--Indy Racing League, Indy...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Melky Cabrera hit his eighth homer of the season, Ryan Theriot drove in two runs and the San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 on Friday night.   Barry Zito (7-6) survived five eventful innings to win for the...

TV SPORTS Major League Baseball-Boston Red Sox at Detroit Tigers, Noon (ESPN2); Washington Nationals at Chicago Cubs, 1:10 p.m. (WGN); Miami Marlins at Cincinnati Reds, 3 p.m. (ESPN2) Golf-Masters Tournament, 2 p.m. (ESPN) NBA Basketball-New York...

1986 - Mitchell Moonlite, aided by nine errors, eliminated the Aberdeen A's from the state amateur baseball tournament, 10-4. 1991 - Kent Alm scored on an eighth-inning error, lifting Aberdeen Circus-Wendy's-Coke to a 4-3 victory over Mitchell at the...

CHICAGO (AP) — Brian Burres failed to make the Pittsburgh Pirates out of spring training, then struggled in the minors. He kept working, and was rewarded Friday. Burres pitched into the sixth in his first start of the season and Alex Presley had...

The Pittsburgh Pirates didn’t need their All-Star on Sunday. The closer is superfluous when it’s an eight-run game. Instead, a pair of maybe-could-have-beens again made the case that, perhaps, these Pirates are deserving of more attention...

TV SPORTS Cycling-Tour de France, Stage 3, 7 a.m. (VERSUS) Major League Baseball-Chicago Cubs at Washington Nationals, Noon (WGN); Tampa Bay Rays at Minnesota Twins, 1 p.m. (FXSP) MLS Soccer-New England at Real Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN2);...