ATLANTA (AP) — New York Mets slugger Pete Alonso will try to become the first player to win the All-Star Home Run Derby three consecutive times against a field that, barring injury or other issues, will include the St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols, Philadelphia slugger Kyle Schwarber, the world champion Atlanta Braves' Ronald Acuña Jr. and Washington's young star Juan Soto.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — New Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark declared the league "open for business," saying that while nothing is imminent all options will be considered as he takes over with conference realignment again shaking college sports.
NEW YORK (AP) — In a city of stars, the Angels' Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw will be in the spotlight July 19 at Dodger Stadium. "I think it's been a couple of years since I got to compete in an All-Star Game, and something about Dodger Stadium, too, is special," Kershaw said after pitchers and reserves were announced Sunday.
Not surprisingly only sporadically used by the Chillicothe Mudcats’ wood-bat team as he began an early transition from high school-level play to college competition this summer, 2022 Marceline High School graduate Nathan Cupp figures to be busier in the struggling Mudcats’ final two weeks of play after getting into only nine contests in the first seven.
The Missouri Department of Conservation again is offering managed deer hunts this fall at more than 100 locations throughout the state. They are accepting online applications for these hunts now, with a deadline of July 31.
CARROLL, Iowa — Partly of their own volition and partly by the grateful receipt of vitally-needed help, the Chillicothe Mudcats’ still-tenuous position in the summer college-level baseball MINK League’s postseason race improved by its virtually-maximal amount late last week.
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Two long-time Major League Baseball standouts who established themselves as stars when they started their big league careers on the opposite edges of Missouri, then spent much or all of the last decade in southern California before this season choosing, as free agents, to return to their Show-Me State diamond roots, reached career milestones while leading their respective teams to victories Sunday.
KANSAS CITY.— Kansas City Royals left fielder Andrew Benintendi has been named to his first All-Star Game as a reserve, Major League Baseball announced Sunday. Barring subsequent replacements required by circumstances developing this week, Benintendi will be the Royals’ only representative at the 92nd All-Star Game, to be played next Tuesday at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic waited. He waited for Nick Kyrgios to lose focus and lose his way.