Seattle Sounders FC players are demanding a fair share of the FIFA Club World Cup prize money the team secured when qualifying for the international tournament, and received backing from the Major League Soccer Players Association on Sunday.
Scottie Scheffler won for the third time in his past four starts, never giving up his lead Sunday to become just the second golfer to defend his title at the Memorial.
Maja Stark continued the steady play she had demonstrated all week to win the U.S. Women's Open and claim her first major championship Sunday at Erin Hills.
Wright State held off Vanderbilt in the ninth to knock out the No. 1 national seed from the NCAA tournament with a 5-4 victory in the Nashville Regional on Sunday.
Controversy struck the Women’s College World Series (WCWS) during an elimination game between UCLA and Tennessee on Sunday.
Bruins first baseman Megan Grant came up to the plate with two outs and a runner on first and crushed a pitch off Volunteers pitcher Karlyn Pickens to tie the game, or so everyone thought.
Grant rounded third and headed for home to celebrate with her teammates. She didn’t appear to touch home plate and a teammate needed to bring her back to make sure she did.
Tennessee challenged the run and umpires reviewed it to see whether she touched home plate and whether she was "assisted" back to make sure she definitely made contact with it. College softball rules specify that a runner cannot be physically assisted by a teammate to touch the plate.
"After review, the call on the field is upheld and the run will score," the umpire announced. "The runner did miss home plate and was assisted. However, that play is not reviewable, according to Appendix G."
Appendix G in the NCAA softball rulebook determines what is reviewable.
It was a huge break for the Bruins as they were able to extend the game.
Tennessee came up in the bottom of the ninth and pushed one run across the plate to win the game, 5-4. Infielder Laura Mealer singled home Taylor Pannell to win it.
The Volunteers now move onto the next round and UCLA goes home. Tennessee faces Texas in the semifinals on Monday. They need to beat the Longhorns twice to move to the championship.
UCLA’s Sofia Mujica and Alexis Ramirez each hit home runs for the Bruins in the loss.
Pickens pitched all nine innings for the Volunteers and struck out seven batters.
The Colorado Rockies made awful history on Sunday with a 5-3 loss to the New York Mets.
With the defeat, the Rockies fell to 9-50 on the season. Colorado became the first team in MLB to hit 50 losses this season and entered a league of its own when it comes to baseball futility.
The Rockies have the worst record in 59 games of any major league team in modern baseball (since 1901). The team has been swept 10 times in 20 series, tied for the most sweeps through 20 series with the 1962 Mets, the 1970 Milwaukee Brewers and the 1994 Oakland Athletics.
USA Today noted the Rockies have played the most games without earning their 10th win, with only four teams in the sport’s history having played 55 games or more games before winning at least 10. Those teams include the 1985 Louisville Colonels, 1886 Washington Nationals, 1899 Cleveland Spiders and the 1904 Washington Senators.
The Mets won Sunday’s game, 5-3, behind Pete Alonso’s three-run home run and Francisco Lindor’s go-ahead homer. Juan Soto also added a dinger to his stat sheet.
The team regained sole possession of first place in the National League East. The team has won the last 26 games in which Lindor has homered. It’s the second-longest streak of its kind since the Brooklyn Dodgers’ 29 consecutive wins when Carl Furillo hit a home run from 1951 to 1953.
The Rockies’ season isn’t getting any easier after already firing Bud Black in May. The team continues its road trip on Monday against the Miami Marlins.
The team welcomes the Mets and San Francisco Giants to town once the club returns to Denver.
