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García delivers 6th career walk-off hit as Sox drop fourth straightJun 14, 2025 11:09 pm - Adolis García delivered his his sixth career walk-off hit with an RBI single with two out in the 11th inning to give the Texas Rangers a 5-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox. García hit a line drive to the wall in center field on the first pitch from reliever Tyler Alexander, scoring automatic runner Evan Carter. It was the only hit allowed by Alexander in three innings.
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Boyd got early start to pickoff plan; Cubs beat PiratesJun 14, 2025 6:37 pm - The Cubs and Pirates played their third straight low-scoring, one-run game at Wrigley Field on Saturday. Dansby Swanson’s solo homer in the sixth was the difference as the Cubs won 2-1.
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O’Donnell: ‘Blessed’ Jiggetts traced path from Bears to radio to grandfather beaming with prideJun 14, 2025 4:37 pm - Former Bear and WSCR sports personality Dan Jiggetts — on a life cycle built for two with wife Karen — has masted the art of being a successful family man.The result is two daughters, two sons-in-law and four grandsons who make Father's Day at any of the family households a celebration of unfettered love, gratitude and happiness.
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Add Vaughn to list of White Sox regrettable draft picksJun 14, 2025 4:31 pm - The White Sox traded former No. 3 overall pick Andrew Vaughn to Milwaukee on Friday. Where does he rank among the team’s greatest draft regrets? Mike McGraw makes a list.
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PCA’s acronym status proves he’s arrived as baseball’s latest phenomJun 14, 2025 2:42 pm - The first place Cubs act like they belong there and the dynamic Pete Crow Armstrong acts as if none of it is unusual. Whatever awaits over the long summer and the adventures of a pending playoffs is awash among the sheer joy of waiting for PCA’s next at bat, his next stolen base, his next chasing down any ball that thinks it can get past him.
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Gilgeous-Alexander goes wild in the 4th, Thunder rally to top Pacers 111-104 and tie FinalsJun 13, 2025 11:49 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — Game on the line, season quite possibly on the line, the Oklahoma City Thunder had only one place to turn. They went to the MVP. And Shai Gilgeous-Alexande...
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Howard’s 36 points and 9 three-pointers lead Dream past Sky 88-70Jun 13, 2025 10:16 pm - Rhyne Howard made a career-high nine 3-pointers and finished with a season-high 36 points, Brittney Griner moved into second place on the WNBA career blocks list, and the Atlanta Dream beat the Chicago Sky 88-70 on Friday night.
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Josh Smith homers and scores all 3 runs for Rangers in win over White SoxJun 13, 2025 10:10 pm - Josh Smith homered and scored all three Texas runs as the Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox 3-1. The leadoff hitter for the Rangers had a single in the first and scored on Corey Seager's sacrifice fly. Smith's seventh homer was a 396-foot drive in the third, and he then walked in the fifth before Marcus Semien's RBI double.
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The inaugural AUSL season has been a big hitJun 13, 2025 10:07 pm - The Athletes Unlimited Softball League opened this week in Rosemont to capacity crowds and a feeling it is building a future.
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Cook pitches complete-game shutout, Boomers blank Mud Monsters 4-0Jun 13, 2025 9:34 pm - Cole Cook struck out 12 in a complete game shutout as the Schaumburg Boomers blanked the Mississippi Mud Monsters 4-0 in the first ever meeting between the teams at Wintrust Field on Friday night.