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Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the first inning, drove in four runs and reached base three times as the New York Yankees completed a four-game sweep of the visiting Baltimore Orioles by pulling away for a 12-1 victory on Monday. The Yankees won for the 14th time in 16 games and just hours after longtime radio announcer John Sterling died. Sterling called games for 36 years until retiring […]

Luke Raley and J.P. Crawford homered in a five-run sixth inning as the Seattle Mariners rallied to defeat the visiting Atlanta Braves 5-4 on Monday in the opener of a three-game interleague series. The Mariners snapped a three-game skid and halted Atlanta’s three-game winning streak on a night all nine runs scored via the long ball. The major-league-leading Braves lost for just the fourth time in the past 19 games. […]

Ivan Barbashev scored a controversial go-ahead goal with 4:58 remaining in the third period, leading the Vegas Golden Knights to a 3-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks in Game 1 of their Western Conference second-round playoff series on Monday in Las Vegas. Barbashev’s goal came after the Golden Knights regained possession in the right corner when Anaheim defenseman Jackson LaCombe, who was screening Jack Eichel, and the rest of the […]

Julius Randle scored 21 points and Anthony Edwards came off the bench to hit for 18 points as the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves outlasted the San Antonio Spurs 104-102 on Monday in Game 1 of the teams’ Western Conference semifinal series. Game 2 will be contested on Wednesday in San Antonio. Games 3 and 4 will be in Minneapolis on Friday and Sunday, respectively. Minnesota was bolstered by the return of […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic and Oklahoma City Thunder guard/forward Jalen Williams have been ruled out of Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals on Tuesday night with left hamstring injuries. The teams notified the league on the injury reports they turned in on Monday. Doncic was injured in Oklahoma City about a month ago and hasn’t played since. The league scoring champion averaged 33.5 […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge hopes for a new Bronx tradition: John Sterling’s voice booming “Ballgame over! Yankees win! Theee Yankees win!” around Yankee Stadium after victories, just before the first strains of Frank Sinatra crooning “New York, New York.” “I think it’d be a nice little tip of the cap to John and what he meant — so much to this franchise and this fan base. I think […]

Armenia hosts its first bilateral summit with the European Union on Tuesday, a landmark diplomatic moment for the Caucasus mountains nation that has formally declared its ambition to join the bloc and is cautiously loosening its ties with longtime ally Russia. The EU-Armenia summit in Yerevan follows the eighth gathering of the European Political Community, which brought dozens of European leaders to the Armenian capital. The officials addressed European security […]

TAOYUAN, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said Tuesday it was a basic right for countries to hold state visits, as he returned from his three-day trip to the African kingdom of Eswatini, which his government says China tried to block. Lai was supposed to travel to the country, one of Taiwan’s 12 remaining diplomatic partners last month, but had to cancel the initial trip owing to Chinese pressure, […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks declined Tuesday, tracking losses on Wall Street after U.S. stocks retreated from record highs. Oil prices fell back after rising earlier on escalating tensions in the war between the U.S. and Iran. U.S. futures edged 0.1% higher. Regional trading was thin, with markets in Japan, South Korea and mainland China closed for holidays. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1.1% to 25,805.98. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 […]