The Sports Report: Dodgers Drop Their Sixth In A Row

Dodgers’ skid reaches six

From Maddie Lee: Dodgers 3rd guidelines coach Dino Ebel went straight to Shohei Ohtani’s title for NL MVP pinch his gripe.

Ebel, who coached Cubs prima halfway fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong pinch Team USA successful nan World Baseball Classic this year, gave him condolences for serving arsenic nan designated hitter connected Wednesday. He couldn’t play halfway section each day?

Ohtani and Crow-Armstrong had conscionable traded leadoff location runs, truthful Crow-Armstrong told reporters that he changeable backmost with: “Well, it took your feline 10 pitches, it only took maine one.”

He was exaggerating slightly. Ohtani’s leadoff homer came connected nan seventh transportation of nan at-bat against Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga. And that, of course, wasn’t really really Crow-Armstrong felt.

“A [seven]-pitch at-bat to commencement nan crippled and decorativeness it disconnected pinch a 110 [mph] shot astatine 20 degrees is beautiful ridiculous,” Crow-Armstrong said.

The National League MVP title transformed into a head-to-head showdown betwixt nan frontrunners astatine Wrigley Field connected Wednesday, arsenic nan Dodgers fell to nan Cubs 7-6, which extended their season-high losing streak to six games.

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Dalton Rushing retired pinch torn UCL

From Maddie Lee: The Dodgers ended up pinch an acute request astatine nan waste and acquisition deadline aft all.

Catcher Dalton Rushing’s elbow wounded was diagnosed arsenic a partial tear of his ulnar collateral ligament, arsenic head Dave Roberts first told AM 570’s David Vassegh.

“It’s a bummer because he has made a batch of strides,” Roberts said “Even conscionable this correct here, you’re talking astir complete 125 sheet appearances that you’re missing retired on, and besides opportunities to drawback awesome convention innings. So I consciousness for Dalton.”

He’ll beryllium unopen down from throwing for 4 to six weeks, Roberts said. But nan scheme is for him to resume hitting earlier then. Asked if Rushing could drawback again this season, Roberts said he believed location was a “very small” chance.

“I dream I’m wrong,” Roberts said. “He’s a reliable kid, and truthful for him to spell done this speaks a lot. So I deliberation that would beryllium awesome if he can. Certainly a anticipation pinch nan time, but we’re surely trying to support nan bat alive, for sure.”

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Angels suffer again

Tyler O’Neill and Coby Mayo deed successive homers successful nan 4th inning, Trevor Rogers took a two-hitter into nan seventh and nan Baltimore Orioles hit the Angels 5-2 Wednesday night.

Despite unloading respective cardinal players earlier Monday’s waste and acquisition deadline, nan Orioles stay successful nan heavy of nan AL wild-card title aft winning nan first 2 games of this bid against nan last-place Angels.

Baltimore (56-58) will activity to complete a three-game expanse connected Thursday. With a victory, nan Orioles will move within a crippled of .500 for nan first clip since April 30.

Jose Siri homered for nan Angels, who person mislaid 10 of 12.

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Sparks suffer to Sky

From Marisa Ingemi: The Sparks couldn’t build disconnected of Sunday’s triumph Wednesday and dropped to 7 games nether .500 pinch a 95-88 loss successful Chicago. It aligned pinch nan communicative of nan 2026 Sparks, wherever being afloat competitory has been conscionable retired of scope isolated from for a fewer flashes.

A decent mediate of nan crippled was overwhelmed by a bad opening and closing. Chicago scored 33 points successful nan first 4th and 34 successful nan 4th to support nan Sparks from afloat closing in. Dearica Hamby led nan Sparks pinch 22 points and 13 rebounds for her 5th double-double of nan season.

The Sparks (11-18) fell into a 15-point spread successful nan first aft Chicago rattled disconnected 5 three-pointers. The Sky (12-19) led 48-38 astatine nan half.

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Chargers backmost successful San Diego

From Sam Farmer: This is wherever it each started for Jim Harbaugh, this idyllic hilltop University of San Diego field pinch its sweeping views of nan metropolis and ocean, Spanish Renaissance architecture and courtyards lined pinch thenar trees.

Harbaugh had been an adjunct coach elsewhere, learning nan ropes arsenic an violative advisor astatine Western Kentucky and quarterbacks coach for nan Oakland Raiders, but this was his first chance to beryllium a caput coach. It launched a 2nd profession for nan longtime NFL quarterback, taking him to Stanford, nan San Francisco 49ers — wherever his squad fell conscionable short of a Lombardi Trophy — to a national title astatine Michigan, and now to nan Chargers, pinch whom he’s opening his 3rd season.

The Chargers person moved training campy to USD for Tuesday and Wednesday this week, reuniting Harbaugh pinch a spot legendary Raiders proprietor Al Davis advised him not to come.

“Awww, Jimmy, Jimmy, I thought you wanted to beryllium a pro coach,” Davis, sound dripping pinch disappointment, told him successful 2004 erstwhile he learned Harbaugh was leaving his Raiders gig.

“But Mr. Davis, you coached assemblage football,” Harbaugh countered.

“Yeah,” Davis said, “but that was astatine USC, not U-S-D.”

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Chargers adjunct coach Max McCaffrey is making a sanction for himself

Rams emotion Sean McVay’s camps

From Gary Klein: NFL training camps are 2 weeks of basking practices.

Two weeks of dorm life and meetings. Separation from family.

For nan Rams, nether coach Sean McVay, it’s besides apparently thing else.

“How he runs it,” information Kam Curl said, “it’s love.”

Love?

Let’s beryllium clear: Training camps nary longer are nan two-a-day-workout, full-contact slogs of decades past.

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New eligibility rules should thief USC

From Ryan Kartje: During his 8 seasons arsenic a caput assemblage shot coach, Lincoln Riley often faced a frustrating conundrum erstwhile it came to playing freshmen: Were a fistful of plays astatine nan extremity of a blowout really worthy burning a full twelvemonth of eligibility?

“I tin retrieve astatine times going to a subordinate successful nan game,” Riley said Tuesday. “‘We tin astir apt play you for illustration 5 to 10 plays astatine nan extremity of nan game. But if you do that, we can’t play you anymore, aliases we’re going to person to return your redshirt.’ We’re having to talk astir that in-game. … You had to beryllium fresh to set connected nan fly.”

But aft years of meticulously monitoring that playing time, those adjustments will nary longer beryllium necessary, aft nan NCAA adopted caller eligibility rules successful June. The caller exemplary gives athletes a broad 5 years to compete, efficaciously eliminating nan request for redshirts aliases typical waivers. It besides could change really rosters are constructed.

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This time successful sports history

1958 — Glen Davis of Columbus, Ohio, sets a world grounds successful nan 400 hurdles pinch a clip of 49.2 successful Budapest, Hungary.

1966 — Muhammad Ali knocks retired Brian London successful nan 3rd information to clasp his world heavyweight title.

1972 — South African Gary Player wins his 2nd PGA play title pinch a two-stroke triumph complete Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron.

1978 — John Mahaffey thumps Tom Watson and Jerry Pate connected nan 2nd playoff spread to triumph nan PGA Championship.

1984 — American jock Carl Lewis wins agelong jump (8.54m), his 2nd of 4 golden medals astatine Los Angeles Olympics.

1991 — Debbie Doom of nan U.S. pitches her 2nd consecutive cleanable crippled successful women’s softball astatine nan Pan American Games. Doom threw a cleanable crippled astatine nan Netherlands Antilles successful nan opener and matches that capacity against Nicaragua, winning 8-0.

1992 — Carl Lewis leads a U.S. expanse successful nan agelong jump successful nan Olympics pinch a people of 28 feet, 5 1-2 inches connected his first attempt. Mike Powell takes nan metallic and Joe Greene nan bronze. Kevin Young demolishes 1 of track’s oldest records pinch a clip of 46.78 seconds successful nan 400 hurdles. Bruce Baumgartner becomes nan first American wrestler to triumph medals successful 3 consecutive Olympics, taking nan golden successful nan 286-pound freestyle division.

1994 — Jeff Gordon wins nan Brickyard 400, nan first banal car title astatine nan Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

1995 — Canada’s Donovan Bailey wins nan 100 meters astatine World Track and Field Championships successful Goteborg, Sweden, marking nan first clip since 1976 an American fails to triumph a badge successful nan arena astatine a awesome meet.

2001 — Two-time champion Marion Jones is disqualified and has her drawstring of 42 consecutive 100m last victories snapped by Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine astatine nan World Athletics Championships successful Edmonton, Canada.

2006 — Tiger Woods (30) becomes nan youngest subordinate pinch 50 PGA Tour wins pinch a three-stroke triumph complete Jim Furyk successful nan Buick Open.

2006 — Floyd Landis is fired by his squad and nan Tour de France nary longer considers him its champion aft his 2nd doping sample tested affirmative for higher-than-allowable levels of testosterone.

2006 — Sherri Steinhauer wins nan Women’s British Open for nan 3rd time, and nan first since it became a major.

2008 — Sammy Villegas, a erstwhile University of Toledo hoops player, is charged pinch constituent shaving. Villegas is accused of shaving points during nan 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.

2008 — Kim Terrell-Kearney wins nan first master title lucifer featuring 2 Black bowlers, beating Trisha Reid 216-189 successful nan U.S. Bowling Congress’ U.S. Women’s Open. Terrell-Kearney collects her 2nd U.S. Women’s Open title and 3rd profession awesome title.

2010 — Tyson Gay upsets nan defending world and Olympic champion Usain Bolt successful a title betwixt nan 2 fastest runners successful history. Gay thumps nan Jamaican astatine nan DN Galan meet successful 9.84 seconds astatine nan aforesaid stadium wherever Bolt past mislaid a title 2 years ago. Bolt finishes 2nd successful 9.97.

2015 — Ryan Lochte becomes nan first man to triumph nan 200-meter individual medley 4 consecutive times astatine nan world swimming championships. Lochte comes location beardown connected nan freestyle thigh and touches first successful 1:55.81 successful Kazan, Russia.

2017 — I.K. Kim won nan Women’s British Open, hanging connected pinch a 1-under 71 for a two-shot triumph complete Jodi Ewart Shadoff and her first awesome championship.

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This time successful shot history

1908 — John Lush threw a six-inning, rain-shortened no-hitter for nan St. Louis Cardinals, who hit nan Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0. It was Lush’s 2nd no-hitter against nan Dodgers.

1933 — Pinky Higgins of nan Philadelphia Athletics deed for nan rhythm and drove successful 5 runs successful a 12-8 triumph complete nan Washington Senators.

1952 — Satchel Paige, 46, became nan oldest pitcher successful awesome convention history to transportation a complete crippled aliases a shutout erstwhile he hit Virgil Trucks and nan Detroit Tigers 1-0 successful 12 innings.

1972 — Hank Aaron deed his 660th and 661st profession location runs to break Babe Ruth’s grounds for astir location runs pinch 1 club. The 661st came successful nan 10th inning to springiness nan Atlanta Braves a 4-3 triumph complete nan Cincinnati Reds.

1981 — As a consequence of a seven-week strike, awesome convention shot players approved a split-season format. The New York Yankees, Oakland A’s, Philadelphia Phillies and Dodgers were declared nan first-half champions and automatically qualified for nan divisional series.

1985 — The Major League Baseball Players’ Assn. went connected strike.

1986 — The Texas Rangers hit nan Baltimore Orioles 13-11 successful a record-setting conflict of expansive slams. Texas’ Toby Harrah deed a expansive slam successful nan 2nd inning earlier Larry Sheets and Jim Dwyer connected for expansive slams successful Baltimore’s nine-run fourth.

1988 — Rich Gossage registered his 300th save, and nan Chicago Cubs hit nan Philadelphia Phillies 7-4.

1999 — Tony Gwynn went 4-for-5, singling successful his first at-bat to go nan 22nd awesome leaguer to scope 3,000 hits, arsenic nan San Diego Padres hit nan Montreal Expos 12-10.

2001 — Boston’s Scott Hatteberg performed nan eventual shot opposite. Hatteberg deed a expansive slam 1 at-bat aft lining into a triple play arsenic nan Red Sox defeated nan Texas Rangers 10-7. Hatteberg lined into a triple play successful nan 4th inning and successful nan sixth he deed his 2nd profession expansive slam to move Boston up for good.

2002 — At 32, Robb Nen became nan youngest subordinate to grounds 300 saves, arsenic San Francisco hit nan Chicago Cubs 11-10. Nen became nan 16th personnel of nan 300-save club.

2007 — St. Louis tied a awesome convention grounds pinch 10 consecutive hits successful a 10-run 5th inning, pinch pitcher Braden Looper and Aaron Miles getting 2 apiece successful a 10-5 triumph complete San Diego.

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