June 3, 2025 4:27 am
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s run of four straight Women’s College World Series titles ended when Lauren Allred’s walk-off sacrifice fly gave #12 Texas Tech a 3-2 victory in the semifinals. Coach Patty Gasso’s Sooners were down to their last strike in the top of the seventh inning when Abigale Dayton summoned a bit of magic, hitting a tying two-run homer against Red Raiders ace NiJaree Canady. But the Red Raiders responded quickly in the bottom half. Mihyia Davis singled with one out and Hailey Toney followed with a double. Allred hit a fly ball to right field and Sydney Barker’s throw to the plate was wide, allowing Davis to score easily.
Texas Tech will face #6 Texas in the best-of-three WCWS Championship Series starting Wednesday night. WJPA-AM (1450) will carry the Championship series via Westwood One. Pregame is scheduled for 7:45 pm each night.
June 3, 2025 4:27 am
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Kentucky Derby runner-up and Preakness winner Journalism has opened as the 8-5 favorite in the Belmont Stakes to close out the Triple Crown. Derby winner Sovereignty was set as the second choice at odds of 2-1 on Monday. Baeza, who finished third in Kentucky in early May, opened at 4-1 with Bob Baffert-trained Rodriguez next at 6-1. Journalism drew the No. 7 post in the field of eight horses for the second Belmont at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. Sovereignty will leave the starting gate from the No. 2 post.
June 2, 2025 4:29 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Manny Machado homered in the first inning and hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in a four-run seventh for the San Diego Padres, who rallied past the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-4 to take two of three games in their series. Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run shot to tie Roberto Clemente for third place on Pittsburgh’s career list with 240 homers. Adam Frazier also went deep to give the Pirates a 4-1 lead in the fourth. Gavin Sheets slammed face-first into the wall while tracking Frazier’s homer and left the game.
June 2, 2025 4:33 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Andrew McCutchen tied Roberto Clemente for third place on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ all-time home run list at 240 with a two-run shot off San Diego’s Randy Vásquez in the third inning. It was the second homer in as many nights and fifth of the season for the 38-year-old McCutchen, who’s in his 17th big league season and 12th with Pittsburgh over two stints. Clemente hit 240 homers from 1955-1972. He was 38 when he was killed on Dec. 31, 1972, in the crash of a plane he chartered to deliver emergency supplies for the survivors of an earthquake in Nicaragua.
June 2, 2025 4:35 am
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is the Memorial winner for the second year in a row. The world’s No. 1 player delivered another relentless performance. He shot 70 in the final round and turned a decent duel into another runaway. He wound up winning by four shots over Ben Griffin. That makes Scheffler the first back-to-back winner at Memorial since Tiger Woods. Lately his game has looked a lot more like the tournament host Jack Nicklaus. Scheffler now has won three of his last four tournaments. Rickie Fowler had his first top 10 of the year. That got him into the British Open.
May 31, 2025 11:49 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego closer Robert Suarez got a huge called third strike with the bases loaded to end the eighth inning and the Padres beat Pittsburgh 3-2 on Friday night for their 10th straight victory over the Pirates. After Jason Adam loaded the bases with two outs, Suarez came in and struck out Henry Davis looking on a low pitch that appeared out of the strike zone. Davis tossed his bat and started taking off his wrist guard in anticipation of taking first, then threw up his arms in disgust and tossed his helmet. Andrew McCutchen, representing the tying run, put his hands on his helmet in surprise halfway up the line. Pirates manager Don Kelly was ejected by plate umpire Edwin Jimenez, the third time he’s been ejected in just 20 games as manager. The four-out save was Suarez’s major league-leading 18th. He struck out three.
Padres right-hander Nick Pivetta (6-2) held the Pirates to two runs and six hits while striking out eight and walking none for his first win in five starts. The right-hander cruised through five scoreless, two-hit innings and had a 1-0 lead before allowing two runs with two outs in the sixth. Tommy Pham and Isiah Kiner-Falefa singled to open the inning. Pivetta retired Oneil Cruz and Andrew McCutchen on one pitch apiece before allowing RBI singles by Bryan Reynolds and Spencer Horwitz.
The Padres regained the lead in the bottom of the inning against Mitch Keller (1-7). Fernando Tatis Jr. drew a leadoff walk and raced around to score on Luis Arraez’s opposite-field double into the left-field corner. Arraez advanced on Manny Machado’s fly ball to left and beat second baseman Adam Frazier’s throw home with a headfirst slide on Jackson Merrill’s grounder. San Diego took a 1-0 lead in the fourth. Machado doubled with two outs and came home when Merrill’s single carmoned off the glove of sliding shortstop Kiner-Falefa.
Pirates starter Mitch Keller (1-7) took the hard-luck loss, allowing three runs on just three hits over his six innings.
May 30, 2025 4:56 am
In San Diego Friday Night, the Pittsburgh Pirates fell to the Padres at Petco Park. Mitch Keller pitched six innings and allowed all three, earned runs in the loss. He is now 1-7 on the year. Keller did start strong by retiring the first 11 batters he faced, but then the Padres scored.
The Pirates did score and take the lead two innings later with run scoring singles by Bryan Reynolds and Spencer Horwitz.
San Diego responded and took the lead in the sixth. The Pirates loaded the bases in the top of the eighth, but MLB save leader Robert Suarez got Henry Davis looking on a controversial third strike. Pirates skipper Don Kelly was ejected immediately after the low call. This is the third time Kelly has been removed from a game in his 20 games as the Pirates’ manager.
Andrew McCutcheon moved into ninth place on the Pirates’ all-time hits list. His double to left center field in the top of eighth gives him 1,710 hits in the black and gold. He passes Hall of Famer Arky Vaughan on the list.
Baily Falter, 3-3 with a 3.47 ERA is scheduled to face Dylan Cease tonight at 9:40. The game will be on 1450 AM.
May 31, 2025 4:42 am
The series opener between the Washington Wild Things and Schaumburg Boomers was postponed Friday night due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a single-admission doubleheader Saturday, starting at 5:05. Tickets for Friday’s game can be exchanged ror any remaining 2025 Wild Things home game, subject to availability.
May 30, 2025 7:00 am
Addy Frey held Chartiers-Houston to just one run and four hits, leading Neshannock to a fourth consecutive WPIAL 2A softball championship. The Lancers scored an unearned run in the first, then added two in the third, three in the fourth and a final run in the fifth. Ella Richey tripled to open the Bucs’ sixth inning and scored on a throwing error, the only run for Chartiers-Houston.
Union and Carmichaels played 5 1/2 innings without a run and just one hit. Two outs in the Union sixth inning, the Scotties strung together a double, a single and a two run home run to win a third WPIAL title in the past four years. Carmichaels was held without a baseball, one day after the Mikes’ baseball team was on the wrong end of a no-hitter in the WPIAL final.
PIAA playoffs begin Monday with sites & times expected Saturday afternoon. Washington & Greene County will send six teams into the state playoffs. Softball teams from Bentworth, Carmichaels, Chartiers-Houston & West Greene have clinched. Carmichaels and Peters Township baseball teams are also heading for states. WPIAL Softball Brackets WPIAL Baseball Brackets
Thursday, May 29
Softball Championships at Lilley Field (PennWest-California)
2A #1 Neshannock > #2 Chartiers-Houston, 7-1
1A #1 Union > #2 Carmichaels, 3-0
Tuesday, May 27
Baseball Third Place
5A #4 Bethel Park > #7 Peters Township, 17-2
Softball Third Place
2A #11 Riverside > #12 Bentworth, 4-3
1A #3 West Greene > #5 Jeff-Morgan, 4-3
Wednesday, May 28
Baseball Championship at EQT Park
1A #1 Serra Catholic > #6 Carmichaels, 9-0
Monday, June 2
PIAA First Round (sites/times to be announced)
Baseball
5A Peters Township at District 3 champion Lampeter-Strasburg
1A Carmichaels at District 6 champion Homer Center
Softball
2A Chartiers-Houston at District 9 champion Cranberry
2A Bentworth at District 6 champion West Shamokin
1A Carmichaels at District 5 champion Berlin-Brothersvalley/Fannett-Metal
1A West Greene at District 10 champion Cambridge Springs
June 1, 2025 7:27 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Andrew McCutchen homered into the second deck in left field off Dylan Cease, Bailey Falter combined with three relievers on a two-hitter and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat San Diego 5-0 to snap a 10-game losing streak to the Padres. McCutchen’s 396-foot shot leading off the fifth was his fourth of the season and one shy of tying Roberto Clemente for third on the Pirates’ career list with 240 homers. Falter held the Padres to just two singles while striking out one and walking one in 6 1/3 innings. Caleb Ferguson, Dennis Santana and David Bednar provided hitless relief. (Photo: AP)
