May 16, 2023 3:51 am
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers are re-signing free agent quarterback Mason Rudolph, according to various reports. Rudolph, 27, spent the 2022 season as the Steelers’ third-string quarterback and dressed in just one game. Before that, Rudolph was the top backup to Ben Roethlisberger from 2019-21. Rudolph played in 17 games in that stretch, making 10 starts, most of them in 2019.
May 16, 2023 3:57 am
DALLAS (AP) — Roope Hintz and Wyatt Johnston scored goals and the Dallas Stars advanced to the Western Conference final with a 2-1 win over the Seattle Kraken in Game 7. Dallas moves on to play first-year coach Pete DeBoer’s former team, the Vegas Golden Knights. Game 1 of the West final is Friday night in Las Vegas. DeBoer improved to 7-0 in Game 7s. A day after his 20th birthday, Johnston made it 2-0 with 7:12 left, when he gathered a puck that ricocheted off the back board to the left of the Seattle net and scored. Jake Oettinger had 22 saves, and the only Seattle score came with 17.6 seconds left.
May 16, 2023 3:58 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Oakland Athletics have reached an agreement with Bally’s and Gaming & Leisure Properties to build a potential stadium on the Tropicana hotel site along the Las Vegas Strip. Bally’s on Monday unveiled plans for a 30,000-seat stadium on the 35-acre site. The project is expected to cost about $1.5 billion. The A’s are asking for nearly $400 million in public support from the Nevada Legislature, which could vote on a proposal this week.
May 15, 2023 12:01 am
The WPIAL Softball championship tournaments open Monday with 4A & 5A first-round games. 1A, 2A & 3A softball get started on Tuesday. Baseball also starts on Tuesday with a pair of preliminary (round of 32) games. The brackets include11 Washington County baseball and eight softball teams. Greene County has six teams in the playoffs, two in baseball and four softball. We’ll have as many games as possible on WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here! Click for WPIAL Softball WPIAL Baseball
Trinity survived a scare from Penn-Trafford Monday, opening the WPIAL 5A softball playoffs. The Hillers ran into outs on the bases in the 2nd, 4th and 6th innings, but managed to get by the Warriors. Taylor Dean got the win, allowing just two runs, one earned, in seven innings of work. Mirranda Rinehart homered in the third to tie the game. Hanna Suhoski doubled and scored when Addi Agnew’s fly ball to right was dropped and kicked out of play. Finley Hohn’s sacrifice fly scored Agnew with what proved to be the winning run. Trinity moves to the quarterfinals Wednesday against #6 Latrobe.
First Round
Monday, May 15
SB 5A #3 Trinity 3, #14 Penn-Trafford 2
May 15, 2023 3:55 am
BALTIMORE (AP) — Mitch Keller struck out a career-high 13 in seven innings and the slumping Pittsburgh Pirates won for only the second time in 13 games, 4-0 over the Baltimore Orioles. The Pirates avoided a sweep after dropping the first two games of the series. Pittsburgh was 20-8 after a 16-1 win at Washington on April 29. Then the Pirates scored just 18 runs in their next 12 games. They managed four Sunday without a single extra-base hit, and that was plenty the way Keller was pitching. Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman, who has played in every game this season, pinch-hit in the ninth and popped out to end the game.
May 15, 2023 4:00 am
DENVER (AP) — Colorado pitcher Ryan Feltner has a skull fracture and concussion after getting hit by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos. Feltner was injured Saturday night and was discharged from Swedish Medical Center on Sunday. He will not need surgery. Feltner was put on the 15-day injured list. When asked whether the 26-year-old right-hander will be out for days, weeks or months, Black said “probably on the longer end of that.”
May 14, 2023 12:01 am
Jacob LaDuca followed up his Friday walk-off home run with a five RBI game in the finals as #1 Washington & Jefferson throttled #3 St. Vincent, 12-3, in the PAC Baseball Championship Tournament. The Presidents have won four straight League titles, 15 overall, 11 of them under head coach Jeff Mountain. W&J has not lost a Conference tournament game since the final of the 2018 tourney to Thomas More.
Trailing 1-0, Trevor Dean drilled a two-run home run in the bottom of the first, putting the Presidents (31-12) in front to stay. LaDuca picked up the first of his RBIs with a groundout. Dean added a two-run single in the second and LaDuca stroked a two-run double in the fourth, putting W&J up 8-1. Starting pitcher Shane Fox scattered eight hits over 7.1 innings of work, hit longest and best outing of the season. Tyler Horvat went 3-for-4, scored three times and added to his single-season-school-record stolen base mark with his 27th of the season. Nolan Lutz was 4-for-5 and drove in a pair of runs giving him 30 RBI on the season. Lutz also added five outstanding defensive plays to either save errant throws or run down long foul fly balls. W&J now awaits announcement of the NCAA Division III Baseball regional pairings. That action is due to start Friday, May 19.
Saturday
Final Wash & Jeff 12, St. Vincent 3
May 14, 2023 7:42 am
BALTIMORE (AP) — Tyler Wells pitched seven innings of one-hit ball and the Baltimore Orioles used home runs by Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson to beat the slumping Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. Wells had a career-high eight strikeouts and walked two. The only baserunner against the right-hander over the first six innings Saturday night came on a clean, sharp single to left field by Carlos Santana to lead off the second. Wells then retired 17 straight before walking Santana with two outs in the seventh. Roansy Contreras took the loss, giving up two runs in seven innings. Félix Bautista secured his 10th save in 13 chances.
May 14, 2023 7:44 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers rookie tight end Darnell Washington may symbolize his team’s “go big” philosophy. The Steelers selected the 6-foot-8 Washington in the third round of the NFL draft, won over by his unusual skill set. Washington made a name for himself as one of the best blocking tight ends in the country while playing at the University of Georgia. He expects to become a bigger part of the passing game in Pittsburgh, which is building around second-year quarterback Kenny Pickett.
May 13, 2023 4:06 am
BALTIMORE (AP) — Cedric Mullins has hit for the cycle for the Baltimore Orioles against Pittsburgh. Mullins hit a single in the third inning, a triple in the fifth, a double in the seventh and a three-run homer in the eighth. He became the seventh Oriole to accomplish the feat and first since Austin Hays on June 22, 2022 against Washington. After completing the cycle with his home run, Mullins received a standing ovation when he took the field defensively for the top of the ninth. Baltimore beat the Pirates 6-3.
