Rams Make A Blockbuster Trade

Rams go no-doubt Super Bowl favorites

From Bill Plaschke: The Rams were six yards from nan Super Bowl.

The Rams’ celebrated young defense needed only to smother immobile Seattle Seahawks backmost Sam Darnold heavy successful his territory successful nan last 5 minutes to regain possession and person a existent changeable astatine winning last season’s NFC championship.

They couldn’t touch him.

For much than 4 minutes Darnold drove downfield, connecting connected 3 of 4 passes, baffling nan walk rushers, bleeding nan clock, and by nan clip nan Seahawks yet gave nan shot back, nan Rams had only 25 seconds to live.

Final score: Seahawks 31, Rams 27.

Final verdict: The Rams needed a closer.

The Rams needed personification to pursuit Darnold into submission nan measurement Aaron Donald erstwhile famously chased down Joe Burrow successful nan last seconds of Super Bowl LVI.

The Rams needed ... Myles Garrett?

Are you kidding me? They sewage him? He now plays for them?

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Rams get Myles Garrett for Jared Verse and draught picks successful blockbuster trade

Why Rams’ determination to draught Ty Simpson is besides an finance successful Matthew Stafford

Dodgers autumn to Diamondbacks

From Maddie Lee: The “Beat L.A.” chants astatine Chase Field roseate and fell for nan last 4 innings, sometimes spurred organically, astatine different times prompted by nan immense videoboard looming supra halfway field.

And arsenic nan Dodgers’ discourtesy continued to sputter, nan Diamondbacks surged pinch a trio of location runs, giving nan fans precisely what they asked for Monday night.

“Overall, I thought we had immoderate bully at-bats and barreled up immoderate balls,” Dodgers correct fielder Kyle Tucker said aft nan 4-1 loss. “But they made immoderate bully plays and we conscionable weren’t capable to get nan runs across, truthful conscionable benignant of really it goes sometimes.”

Tucker was 1 of 5 Dodgers successful nan starting lineup who went hitless. Designated hitter Shohei Ohtani was nan only Dodger pinch aggregate hits (three). And a quiet violative nighttime for nan Dodgers wasted a value commencement from starter Emmett Sheehan.

Sheehan held nan Diamondbacks (32-27) to 2 runs and 3 hits successful 6⅓ innings, carrying guardant a caller inclination for nan Dodgers’ rotation, which entered Monday pinch a National League-best 3.05 ERA.

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Angels rustle lead, suffer to Rockies

TJ Rumfield deed a go-ahead sacrifice alert successful nan ninth inning and nan Colorado Rockies utilized a five-run eighth to rally past nan Angels 9-8 connected Monday night.

Hunter Goodman put Colorado up 8-6 pinch a three-run homer successful nan eighth. Jake McCarthy homered earlier for nan Rockies, who have won much games this season (23) than they did earlier nan All-Star break past year.

Jorge Soler’s two-run triple for the Angels tied it 8-all successful nan bottommost of nan eighth.

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USC shot reaches Super Regional

From Jose de Jesus Ortiz: As Augie Lopez trotted astir nan bases precocious Monday night, nan mini contingent of USC fans could yet beryllium heard astatine Blue Bell Park. With 1 towering blast to correct field, nan Trojans’ designated hitter silenced Texas A&M’s rowdy 12th Man.

Lopez’s three-run location tally helped push nan Trojans complete Texas A&M 7-1 to scope nan NCAA ace location for nan first clip successful 21 years.

Lopez silenced astir of nan sellout crowd of 7,042, making it easy to perceive USC fans serenading him during nan College Station Regional Final.

“Augie! Augie! Augie!” USC fans chanted aft Lopez returned to nan dugout. After nan win, he was named nan regional’s astir outstanding player.

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This time successful sports history

1896 — Hastings, ridden by H. Griffin, edges Handspring by a cervix to seizure nan Belmont Stakes.

1908 — Royal Tourist, ridden by Eddie Dugan, posts a four-length triumph complete Live Wire successful nan Preakness Stakes.

1909 — Joe Madden, ridden by Eddie Dugan, wins nan Belmont Stakes by 8 lengths complete Wise Mason.

1935 — French Championships Men’s Tennis: Englishman Fred Perry wins his only French title, beating Gottfried von Cramm of Germany 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3.

1947 — After a six-year layoff, 13-year-old Honey Cloud wins nan 2nd title astatine Aqueduct. His jockey, Clarence Minner, takes his first thrust successful 10 years.

1962 — French Championships Women’s Tennis: In an all-Australian last Margaret Smith thumps doubles partner Lesley Turner 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.

1971 — European Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London: Ajax thumps Panathinaikos, 2-0; Dutch champions statesman 3-year play of domination.

1985 — Nancy Lopez thumps Alice Miller by 8 strokes to triumph nan LPGA championship.

1991 — Andrettis decorativeness 1-2-3 successful nan Miller 200 astatine Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway successful Milwaukee. Mario Andretti finishes third, his boy Michael wins nan title and his nephew John vanished second.

1996 — Annika Sorenstam closes pinch a 4-under 66 to triumph her 2nd consecutive U.S. Women’s Open. Sorenstam’s 8-under 272 is nan champion ever successful nan Open.

2002 — Annika Sorenstam matches nan LPGA grounds for separator of triumph successful a 54-hole arena while winning nan inaugural Kellogg-Keebler Classic. Sorenstam finishes astatine 21-under 195 to triumph by 11 strokes.

2005 — Jockey Russell Baze wins aboard Queen of nan Hunt for his 9,000th victory.

2007 — Daniel Gibson scores a career-high 31 points arsenic Cleveland thumps Detroit 98-82 to beforehand to nan NBA Finals. The Cavaliers are nan 3rd squad to travel backmost from an 0-2 shortage successful a convention finals, joining nan 1971 Baltimore Bullets and 1993 Chicago Bulls.

2008 — Pittsburgh outlasts Detroit 4-3 successful 3 overtimes of Game 5 of nan Stanley Cup finals. Petr Sykora scores astatine 9:57 of nan 3rd overtime ending nan fifth-longest finals crippled successful NHL history.

2011 — Dirk Nowitzki makes nan tie-breaking layup pinch 3.6 seconds left, and nan Dallas Mavericks roar backmost from 15 points down successful nan 4th fourth to hit nan Miami Heat 95-93 and necktie nan NBA finals astatine 1 crippled apiece. The Mavs outscore nan Heat 22-5 down nan agelong and propulsion disconnected nan biggest comeback triumph successful an NBA finals since 1992.

2019 — US Open Women’s Golf, CC of Charleston: Lee Jeong-eun of South Korea wins her first awesome title; thumps runners-up Lexi Thompson, Agel Yin and Ryu So-yeon by 2 strokes.

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This time successful shot history

1928 -- Les Bell of nan Boston Braves deed 3 location runs and a triple astatine Braves Field, but nan Cincinnati Reds came distant pinch a 20-12 triumph.

1928 -- The Philadelphia Phillies defeated nan St. Louis Cardinals 2-1. All nan runs came from 3 pinch-hit location runs.

1941 -- Lou Gehrig died successful New York astatine property 37.

1949 -- The Philadelphia Phillies deed 5 homers successful nan eighth inning against nan Cincinnati Reds. Andy Seminick deed 2 and Del Ennis, Willie Jones, and Schoolboy Rowe deed 1 apiece. Seminick had homered earlier successful nan game.

1959 -- The Baltimore Orioles-Chicago White Sox crippled astatine Comiskey Park was delayed for astir half an hr arsenic a swarm of gnats overcame nan field. Groundskeepers tried utilizing bug sprays and torches, but nan gnats wouldn’t budge. A postgame fireworks show was brought successful from halfway section and a fume explosive was attached to nan framework. The gnats near and nan Orioles defeated nan White Sox, 3-2.

1990 -- Randy Johnson sounded nan first no-hitter successful nan Seattle Mariners’ history arsenic he hit nan Detroit Tigers 2-0. The 6-foot-10 left-hander, walked six and struck retired 8 while pitching nan first no-hitter astatine nan Kingdome, which opened for shot successful 1977.

1996 -- Houston starter Darryl Kile tied nan modern awesome convention grounds by hitting 4 batters successful a 2-0 nonaccomplishment astatine St. Louis, and nan first to do it successful nan NL since Moe Drabowsky successful 1957.

2000 -- Tampa Bay’s Fred McGriff deed his 400th location run, but nan Devil Rays mislaid to nan Mets 5-3.

2000 -- Rick Aguilera of nan Chicago Cubs became nan 13th pitcher pinch 300 saves successful a 2-0 triumph complete Detroit. Aguilera reached nan people successful 614 appearances, 3rd quickest.

2002 -- Philadelphia pitcher Robert Person drove successful 7 runs pinch a expansive slam and a three-run homer successful an 18-3 triumph complete Montreal. Person had conscionable travel disconnected nan abnormal database and collected his first triumph of nan season.

2005 -- Kansas City completed a expanse of nan New York Yankees pinch a 5-2 victory. The Royals, who person nan worst grounds and second-lowest payroll successful nan awesome leagues, vanished their first three-game expanse of nan Yankees astatine location successful 15 years.

2009 -- Dan Uggla of nan Marlins became nan fastest 2nd baseman to 100 homers successful Florida’s 10-3 triumph complete Milwaukee. Uggla’s two-run changeable successful nan bottommost of nan 2nd came successful his 502nd crippled arsenic a 2nd baseman, beating Alfonso Soriano to 100 by 34 games.

2010 — Ken Griffey Jr. announces his status aft 22 seasons successful nan awesome leagues. Hitting only .184 successful part-time work for nan Mariners, he retires pinch 630 location runs and six seasons of 40 aliases much homers. Most of his profession was spent pinch Seattle and nan Cincinnati Reds.

2010 -- Armando Galarraga of nan Detroit Tigers mislaid his bid for a cleanable crippled pinch 2 outs successful nan ninth inning connected a telephone that first guidelines umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he blew. First baseman Miguel Cabrera cleanly fielded Jason Donald’s grounder to his correct and made an meticulous propulsion to Galarraga covering nan bag. The shot was location successful time, and each of Comerica Park was fresh to observe nan 3-0 triumph complete Cleveland, until Joyce emphatically signaled safe.

2011 -- Aubrey Huff deed 3 location runs and matched his profession champion pinch six RBIs and nan San Francisco Giants posted a 12-7 triumph complete nan St. Louis Cardinals. Huff deed two-run homers successful nan 4th and ninth and a solo changeable successful nan seventh.

2015 — In a memorable awesome convention debut, Joey Gallo hits a two-run homer successful his 2nd at-bat connected nan measurement to collecting 3 hits and 4 RBIs successful starring Texas to a 15-2 beating of nan White Sox.

2017 — Clayton Kershaw of nan Dodgers records his 2,000th strikeout.

2018 — Jacob deGrom matches a profession precocious group conscionable 2 weeks earlier by racking up 13 strikeouts successful 7 innings successful a commencement against nan Cubs.

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