August 29, 2020 4:31 am
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Jedd Gyorko homered twice and Corbin Burnes struck out 10 in six innings, helping the Milwaukee Brewers pound the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1. Burnes gave up three hits and walked one as the Brewers bounced back after dropping six of their previous eight games. They were swept in a three-game series at Pittsburgh last weekend. Gyorko hit solo shots in the first and seventh innings for his sixth career multihomer game. His last one came against the Brewers on May 1, 2017, when he was playing for the St. Louis Cardinals.
August 29, 2020 4:30 am
(AP) – The NHL’s second-round playoff series will resume with three games each on Saturday and Sunday after players prompted the league to postpone two days of action to protest racial injustice. In the NHL’s Eastern Conference hub city of Toronto, Tampa Bay and Boston will play Game 4 of their series on Saturday, followed by Philadelphia and the New York Islanders playing Game 3 at night. Vegas and Vancouver will play Game 3 of their series at night in the West hub city of Edmonton, Alberta. The postponements of four games have led the NHL to push back the potential completion of the second-round schedule by as many as two days should three of the series require a Game 7.
August 29, 2020 4:29 am
UNDATED (AP) – Big Ten coaches, athletic directors and medical personnel are working on multiple plans for staging a football season – including one that would have the league kicking off as soon as Thanksgiving weekend. A person with direct knowledge of the conference’s discussions told The Associated Press the conference is in the early stages of a complicated process that also involves broadcast partners and possible neutral site venues. The Big Ten announced on Aug. 11 it was postponing its fall football season and has faced push back and criticism ever since.
August 28, 2020 1:26 pm
The Pittsburgh Pirates today traded outfielder Jarrod Dyson to the Chicago White Sox. In exchange, the Pirates will receive an additional capacity in its 2019-2020 International Signing Bonus Pool, allowing them to spend an additional $243,300 in this year’s International Signing Period. The announcement was made by Pirates General Manager Ben Cherington.
August 28, 2020 5:54 am
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — The Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Presidents’ Council has voted to postpone all fall 2020 intercollegiate athletic competition in response to the evolving Coronavirus pandemic. The decision, based on the NCAA’s Division III Administrative Committee announcement on August 20 recommending that member schools not compete in the fall term to avoid potential increased health and safety risks, was made during an Aug. 26 virtual meeting of the PAC Presidents’ Council. The seasons for men’s and women’s tennis and men’s and women’s golf are being planned for the spring 2021 semester. The PAC had also explored moving the men’s and women’s outdoor track and field seasons to the fall. PAC outdoor track and field programs have typically held their traditional seasons in the spring.
August 28, 2020 4:02 am
Cole Tucker singled home in the go-ahead run in extra innings and the Pirates beat the Cardinals, 4-3 in Game 1. The seven-inning game went to extras tied at one before the Bucs scored three times in the eighth, including an RBI single by Bryan Reynolds and an error by third baseman Brad Miller. Chad Kuhl delivered six innings of one-run ball for Pittsburgh. The Pirates came away with a sweep as Erik Gonzalez and Adam Frazier provided RBI singles in a 2-0 decision over the Redbirds. Cody Ponce earned his first big league victory by pitching into the sixth inning of his first start, limiting St. Louis to five hits.
August 28, 2020 3:54 am
UNDATED (AP) – Seven more Major League Baseball games have been postponed. Oakland’s game at Texas along with Philadelphia at Washington, Baltimore at Tampa Bay, Minnesota at Detroit, Colorado at Arizona, Miami at the New York Mets and Boston at the Blue Jays were postponed a day after three games weren’t played in response to the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin. Teams were left to make decisions for themselves without much apparent guidance from MLB. Some games were officially postponed a few hours before the first pitch. Others like Colorado-Arizona appeared to be on schedule until a few minutes before first pitch.
August 28, 2020 3:59 am
UNDATED (AP) – An unprecedented walkout over racial injustice has postponed a second day of the NBA playoffs. The NBA decided to postpone three more games Thursday to join the three that weren’t played Wednesday, when players from six NBA teams decided not to play postseason games in a boycott that quickly reverberated across other professional leagues. The Milwaukee Bucks initiated the action in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. NBA spokesman Mike Bass said the league hoped to resume Friday or Saturday.
President Donald Trump criticized the NBA’s action, telling reporters that the NBA has become like “a political organization.” The WNBA also called off its three games for a second night.
August 28, 2020 3:57 am
The NHL postponed its Stanley Cup playoff games scheduled for Thursday and Friday in response to the Blake shooting. The decision was reached by the league and the NHL Players’ Association, and was made after members of the Hockey Diversity Alliance asked the NHL to postpone the playing of games. San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane says the HDA strongly feels this sends a clear message that human rights take priority over sports.
August 28, 2020 3:53 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger says his surgically repaired right elbow feels better than it has in years. Roethlisberger missed most of the 2019 season after tearing three flexor tendons in his right elbow in Week 2 against Seattle. The 38-year-old says the elbow had been bothering him for quite some time but now he is able to throw pain-free. While the team is trying to keep Roethlisberger on a “pitch count” as he prepares for his 17th season, he’s taken on a heavier workload this camp than he has in previous years.
