BALTIMORE-- Gunnar Henderson homered in the first inning and the Baltimore Orioles later tore through Chicago's bullpen, winning 13-3 to hand the visiting White Sox their 11th straight loss Monday. Cedric Mullins had three hits, including a homer, and drove in three runs, Austin Slater added three hits and three RBIs and Henderson also knocked in three runs. Emmanuel Rivera, Ryan O'Hearn, Adley Rutschman, Colton Cowser and Jackson Holliday each had two hits for Baltimore, which has won three of its past four games. Orioles starter Corbin Burnes settled in after giving up two first-inning runs. He completed five innings, allowing six hits and striking out four, to secure his first victory in his past five starts. Keegan Akin and Cole Irvin, who notched a three-inning save, worked in relief for the Orioles. White Sox starter Chris Flexen (2-14) gave up three runs on seven hits in 3 1/3 innings. He has the most losses of any pitcher in the major leagues this year. The Orioles (80-59) opened a six-game homestand and hoped to get on a run after going only 5-5 in August home games. It was the first game for the White Sox (31-108) since losing 2-0 to the New York Mets on Sunday to break the single-season franchise record for losses. Gavin Sheets and Corey Julks each provided two of the team's eight hits. Chicago started strong against Burnes (13-7). The first two batters reached base and Andrew Benintendi drove in the first run with a sacrifice fly in the first inning. Sheets drove in the next run with a single. Henderson led off the bottom of the first with his 34th homer of the season. In the third inning, Anthony Santander drove in a run with a single and Slater had a run-scoring double to give the Orioles a 3-2 lead. Baltimore tacked on two runs in the fifth and six more in the sixth for an 11-2 lead. Slater's two-run single and Rivera's two-run triple were highlights in the sixth.
NEW YORK- Defending champion Coco Gauff became the latest big-name casualty to exit the U.S. Open when Emma Navarro won their fourth round match 6-3 4-6 6-3 to down her stunned American compatriot for the second time in a Grand Slam this year. Gauff had been looking to avenge her defeat by Navarro at Wimbledon, where she lost in the fourth round, but the 13th seed stunned the crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium with an aggressive and dominant all-round display that had Gauff searching for answers.
Gauff was her own worst enemy, however, especially on serve where the 20-year-old third seed struggled and had 19 double faults -- as many as she had in her first three matches combined -- while she also made 60 unforced errors. Navarro's victory moved her into a second Grand Slam quarter-final where she will play Spain's 26th seed Paula Badosa, while defeat for Gauff will see her drop out of the top five in the world rankings. "I lost in the first round (in the) last two years and now to be making quarter-finals is pretty insane," Navarro said.
"This is the city I was born in and it feels so special to be playing here. "Coco's an amazing player and I have a ton of respect for her. I know she's going to come back here and win this thing again one year." Gauff started poorly, serving three double faults in her opening service game as a hush descended in the crowd before she recovered, saving four break points to level the first set at 1-1. From then on it was mainly the self-assured Navarro dictating rallies with poise while Gauff made errors playing on the defensive, handing her fellow American a 4-2 lead when she double-faulted yet again, this time on a break point.
Gauff let out a triumphant scream when she saved a set point on serve but Navarro was almost unstoppable on her own serve, taking it to love to seal the opening set. IN CONTROL The second set went with serve but while Navarro was well in control, Gauff was struggling and Navarro duly broke at 3-3 with a passing shot after a mad scramble to the net. That was just the wake-up call Gauff needed as the holder suddenly switched gears and broke twice to win three games in a row and force a decider. Gauff's celebratory roar whipped the crowd into a frenzy but their enthusiasm quickly faded and turned into groans of disappointment when she served two consecutive double faults to give Navarro a break. Gauff nearly threw it away at 4-2 with four double faults in one game. Two more double faults while serving to stay in the match proved to be her undoing as Navarro sealed her progress when the champion's return on match point went long. "It was tough losing the second set," Navarro said.
"I had chances. I was up 30-love at 4-3 and then had a little bit of a lull there. "But I was able to regroup after the second set and just come into the third set with a fresh mindset. I wanted to play aggressive tennis and I think I was able to do that."
MADRID- - Barcelona's attacking midfielder Dani Olmo said on Tuesday he was delighted with his dream debut for the Spanish giants, coming off the bench to score the winner in a hard-fought 2-1 comeback victory at Rayo Vallecano.
NEW YORK-- Big-hitting Frances Tiafoe and former finalist Madison Keys did their bit to boost American hopes at the U.S. Open when they both booked their tickets into the third round in convincing fashion on Wednesday. The home stalwarts flew the American flag during the day session at Arthur Ashe Stadium where Keys, the 14th seed, beat Australia's Maya Joint 6-4 6-0 while Tiafoe was leading 6-4 6-1 1-0 when Kazakhstan's Alexander Shevchenko retired.
Tiafoe, who reached the New York semi-finals in 2022 and this year was a runner-up in his final tune-up event, was in complete control when Shevchenko, who had the trainer out after the second set, suddenly called it a day. "Happy to get it done. Hate to win it that way but overall I thought I actually played pretty well today," Tiafoe said after a stress-free victory during which he changed shirts five times.
Tiafoe broke Shevchenko to take the first set and grabbed a 5-1 double-break lead in the second before serving out the one-sided match. Keys, making her 13th main-draw appearance at the U.S. Open, struck first against Joint when she converted on her third break-point opportunity for a 4-3 lead en route to wrapping up the opening set on her serve. The 29-year-old American opened the second with another break and sprinted to the finish line in 62 minutes.
"After the first set I feel like I made a few adjustments on my returns just to put a little bit more pressure on her," said Keys, who retired from her two previous tournaments at Wimbledon and Toronto. "And I felt like once I was able to get a little bit out ahead I really just ran with the moment and was able to close it out really well." Up next for Keys, who lost to fellow American Sloane Stephens in the 2017 U.S. Open final, is a clash with 33rd-seeded Belgian Elise Mertens.
It was not all good news for the American contingent at Flushing Meadows as unseeded American Taylor Townsend fell 6-3 7-5 to Spanish 26th seed Paula Badosa. Other players representing the stars and stripes in action on Wednesday include defending champion and third seed Coco Gauff, who will open the night session on Ashe versus unseeded German Tatjana Maria.
Ben Shelton, who electrified the home crowds last year with a spirited run to the semi-finals, is closing out the day session on Grandstand against Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut with the winner going on to face Tiafoe. World number 12 Taylor Fritz, the highest-ranked American in the men's draw, will cap play in Louis Armstrong Stadium against Italy's Matteo Berrettini.
BOSTON-George Springer homered and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a two-run double in the late innings as the visiting Toronto Blue Jays went on to a 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox in Monday's historic completion of a June 26 suspended game. Boston catcher Danny Jansen made major league history as the first player to appear for both teams in the same game. He was batting for Toronto when the contest was suspended, then traded to the Red Sox on July 27 for three prospects. Jansen was facing an 0-1 count on June 26 when the game was suspended by rain with one out in the top of the second inning. On Monday, Toronto's Daulton Varsho pinch-hit for Jansen in the at-bat, and Jansen was behind the plate for Boston. Jansen was replacing catcher Reese McGuire, who is now at Triple-A Worcester for the Red Sox. Varsho struck out in the second and finished 1-for-4. Jansen also was 1-for-4 for Boston. Springer broke a scoreless deadlock with a towering one-out solo homer to left in the seventh, tagging Boston righty Nick Pivetta (4-5) with the loss. Pivetta fell despite picking up 10 strikeouts over six innings of relief. He allowed three runs (two earned) on four hits, walking none. Zach Pop (1-2) recorded the win after Ryan Yarbrough threw 3 1/3 innings of two-hit, shutout relief. Chad Green struck out three in the ninth, working around a Masataka Yoshida double, to post his third save of the season. Jansen recorded the first of just four Red Sox hits with a fifth-inning single, while Jarren Duran's solo homer with one out in the eighth drove in the lone run for Boston. The Blue Jays added to their lead with a three-run eighth, which began with Brian Serven's one-out single into the left field corner. After an error on Spencer Horwitz's fielder's-choice grounder to first, back-to-back doubles by Guerrero and Addison Barger made it 4-0, with Guerrero's double bringing home Serven and Ernie Clement and Barger's plating Guerrero. Neither team recorded a hit in the one-plus innings that were completed on June 26, though Toronto starter Yariel Rodriguez and Boston counterpart Kutter Crawford combined to issue three walks. Crawford struck out one in the top of the first. Varsho got Toronto in the hit column when he banged a one-out single off the left field wall in the top of the fifth, but Boston right fielder Wilyer Abreu made a spectacular sliding catch to rob Leo Jimenez of a hit two batters later.
