Ohtani elected to start at DH in 4th straight All-Star Game, joins Judge as only holdovers (2024)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals gave their announced crowd of 23,268 plenty to cheer about on a damp Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium.

William Contreras and Brice Turang had three hits apiece, Christian Yelich hit his ninth home run of the season and Colin Rea pitched seven shutout innings to lift the Milwaukee Brewers past the Colorado Rockies 3-0 on Wednesday night. The Brewers’ win was their eighth in their past 10 games and extended their lead over the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Central Division to seven games. Rea gave up six hits while striking out four and walking none to earn his fourth win in his past five starts. Yelich had a pair of extra-base hits for Milwaukee, including a 446-foot solo home run in the first inning off a sinker from Colorado starter Dakota Hudson.

David Peralta hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the seventh inning for his first of the season in the San Diego Padres’ 6-4 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night. The 427-foot drive into the Texas bullpen in right-center helped give the Padres their 10th win in 13 games. San Diego ended Texas' three-game home shutout streak on Manny Machado’s two-run shot in the third. Jurickson Profar had two hits on the night he was named an All-Star for the first time as an NL starter. The nod came almost 12 years after Profar made his major league debut as a 19-year-old for the Rangers, with him in the city of his original team, and where the All-Star Game will be held July 16.

The U.S. soccer team’s largest supporters’ group has called for coach Gregg Berhalter’s ouster following the team’s first-round elimination from the Copa America. The American Outlaws issued a statement two days after a 1-0 loss to Uruguay. The group says: “There needs to be accountability and a plan to move forward for the USMNT" and adds it’s time to make a change in the head coaching position. Berhalter has led the team to seven wins, six losses and one draw since returning in September.

Martin Ojeda scored a goal and Orlando City beat Toronto FC 2-1 to extend Toronto losing streak to five games. Facundo Torres played a cross that Toronto’s Nicksoen Gomis redirected into the net in the for an own goal that gave Orlando (6-9-6) a 2-1 lead in the 45th minute. Toronto (7-12-3) in winless in eight consecutive games. Derrick Etienne Jr. scored from point-blank range to give Toronto a 1-0 lead in the fifth minute. Ojeda headed home an entry, played Iván Angulo, from the top of the 6-yard box to make it 1-1 in the 27th.

Edmundo Sosa broke a tie with a sacrifice fly in the eighth, Whit Merrifield followed with an RBI single and the Philadelphia Phillies topped the struggling Chicago Cubs 5-3. Trea Turner easily scored from third on Sosa’s 261-foot fly to put the Phillies ahead. All-Star Alec Bohm hit a two-run homer and finished with two hits as the Phillies won their third straight. Philadelphia backup catcher Rafael Marchán also hit a homer. Pete Crow-Armstrong drove in two runs with a pair of doubles for the last-place Cubs, who dropped their third straight. Matt Strahm (4-1) pitched the seventh and got the win.

All eyes were on Brayan Bello when he took the mound in Miami on Wednesday evening.

Andrew Abbott took a two-hit shutout into the seventh inning and reliever Fernando Cruz got Aaron Judge to ground into a pivotal double play, pitching the Cincinnati Reds past the struggling New York Yankees 3-2. Noelvi Marte hit a two-run homer and Stuart Fairchild also connected for the Reds, who handed Carlos Rodón his fourth straight loss. They’ve won consecutive one-run games at Yankee Stadium to ensure their first series victory since June 6-9. Cincinnati was 0-4-2 in its previous six series since taking three of four games from the Cubs. New York lost for the 12th time in 16 games and fell to 0-5-1 in its last six series. Abbott allowed one run and three hits in 6 1/3 innings, improving to 5-1 in his past six starts.

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MINNEAPOLIS — It felt like a big welcome-to-Minnesota party at Target Field on Wednesday, with Brooks Lee playing his first big-league game and David Festa making his first home start.

With “Welcome to the Jungle” blaring like the old days, Eric Gagné took the mound and fired a strike on the 20th anniversary of recording his 84th consecutive save for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The mark still stands as the longest such streak in major league history. The Canadian right-hander struck out 139 batters during the streak and didn't allow any of 123 inherited batters to score. Current Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was Gagné's teammate back then and helped preserve the streak. One night in Houston, Roberts robbed Lance Berkman of a potential home run in the ninth. Roberts says he's still waiting for Gagné to thank him with a steak dinner.

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Hosei Kijima scored his first goal in MLS, Eduard Löwen also scored a goal and St. Louis City beat the San Jose Earthquakes 2-0 to snap a nine-game winless skid. Löwen, on the left side, slipped a shot between a pair of defenders, past the outstretched hand of goalkeeper Will Yarbrough and into the net to give St. Louis (4-7-10) a 1-0 lead in the 28th minute. Kijima scored on a volley off a set piece to make it it 2-0 in the 41st. San Jose (3-16-2) has lost seven games in a row and is winless — with just one tie — in 10 straight.

Carson Kelly hit a grand slam and Wenceel Pérez followed with a home run to back Keider Montero’s first major league win as the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 9-2. Riley Greene and Matt Vierling hit two-run homers, and Greene, Colt Keith and Akil Baddoo tripled for the Tigers, who had lost five of six. Kelly’s homer, his sixth of the season and fourth in 10 games, came on a 1-0 fastball from David Festa in the third and put Detroit ahead 4-0.

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Kahleah Copper scored 34 points, including a late 3-pointer, and Brittney Griner added 24 points to help the Phoenix Mercury beat the Dallas Wings 104-96. Copper hit a pull-up jumper, Brittney Griner followed with a jumper that gave Phoenix the lead for good at 8-6 with 6:48 left in the first quarter. The Wings cut their deficit to 91-89 when Natasha Howard made two free throws with 4:27 left but they would get no closer. Diana Taurasi finished with 16 points and Allen scored 14 for Phoenix. Cloud added 10 points and 10 assists. Howard finished with a career-high 36 points and 11 rebounds for Dallas and Arike Ogunbowale scored 26 points.

WASHINGTON (AP) — James Wood singled home the go-ahead run in his third major league game, Luis García Jr. hit two homers and the Washington Nationals rallied to beat the New York Mets 7-5 on Wednesday night.

Teenager Benjamin Cremaschi scored late in the second half to rally Inter Miami to a 2-1 victory over Charlotte FC, extending a club-record unbeaten run on the road to eight. Inter Miami (14-3-5) maintained a two-point lead in the Supporters’ Shield race over FC Cincinnati with its fourth straight 2-1 victory despite playing all four without Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez. Inter Miami took a 1-0 lead in the 30th minute on a goal by Robert Taylor with an assist from defender Jordi Alba. Charlotte (9-8-5) pulled even in the 41st minute when Patrick Agyemang used second-year defender Jere Uronen’s fifth assist of the season and career to score his sixth goal. That was it until Cremaschi, 19, scored in the 86th.

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