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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Defending national champion Vanderbilt and Virginia will meet for the second straight year in the College World Series finals beginning Monday night at TD Ameritrade Park. The Commodores went 3-0 in bracket play. Virginia was 3-1, securing its spot in the finals with its 5-4 win over Florida on Saturday.
Virginia will be trying to win the Atlantic Coast Conference’s first national title in baseball since Wake Forest in 1955. The Cavaliers will send Connor Jones (7-2, 3.05 ERA) to the mound against Carson Fulmer (13-2, 1.95 ERA) in Game 1. Jones went six innings and got a no-decision in a 5-3 win over Arkansas on June 13. Fulmer pitched six innings against Cal State Fullerton on June 14 and got a no-decision in a 4-3 victory.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Adam Morgan won his major league debut in surprising style, outpitching Michael Wacha and leading the Philadelphia Phillies past the St. Louis Cardinals 9-2 Sunday. Winless in the minors this year, Morgan (1-0) allowed one run and six hits in 5 2-3 innings, striking six and walking two against the team with the best record in the majors.
The 25-year-old lefty had been 0-6 in 13 starts at Triple-A this season, and was 13-28 lifetime in the minors. He was called up before the game to pitch in place of Jerome Williams, who’s out with a strained left hamstring. Morgan snapped a 25-game stretch without a win for a Phillies starter dating to May 23, a string that stretched from Memorial Day to Father’s Day. Wacha (9-3) gave up five runs and eight innings in five innings.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kendrys Morales homered on his 32nd birthday and the Kansas City Royals rallied to beat the Boston Red Sox 7-4 Saturday night. Morales hit a two-run, tie-breaking shot in a five-run fifth off Rick Porcello. It was his third career homer on a birthday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Aaron Brooks is joining the Kansas City Royals pitching staff and Yohan Pino is going back to the minors. Pino is optioned to Triple-A Omaha after going 5 1-3 innings Friday in a loss to Boston in his first big league start this season. Brooks, a 25-year-old right-hander, is making his third stint with the Royals.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer has tossed the second no-hitter in the majors this season to lead a 6-0 win over Pittsburgh. Scherzer was one strike from a perfect game until he hit Jose Tabata on the elbow with a pitch. The second shutout in Nationals history comes nine months after Jordan Zimmermann threw the first.
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — The start of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Allicat 300 was postponed by a thunderstorm Saturday night at Chicagoland Speedway. The race was rescheduled for 11 a.m. CDT today (Sunday). A storm hit the track about 50 minutes before the green flag. Austin Dillon is on the pole in a Chevrolet with a qualifying speed of 176.569 mph. He’s joined on the front row by Ross Kenseth, the 22-year-old son of the former Sprint Cup champion making his debut in a NASCAR-sanctioned race.
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — Masters champion Jordan Spieth is among four players who share the lead through three rounds of the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay. Spieth shot a 1-over 71 that leaves him 4-undeer for the tournament, tied with Jason Day, Dustin Johnson and Branden Grace. Day shot the best round of the day among the leaders, a 2-under 68.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE BASEBALL
Saturday’s scores:
Round Rock 1, Iowa 0
Omaha 5, Nashville 3
Today’s Schedule:
Omaha at Nashville, 3:05 p.m.
Iowa at Round Rock, 8:05 p.m.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Kenny Towns drove in three runs, including the winner in the seventh, and Josh Sborz pitched four innings of shutout relief as Virginia defeated Florida 5-4 on Saturday night to set up a College World Series finals rematch against Vanderbilt.
Virginia (42-23), which lost 10-5 to Florida on Friday, took two of three CWS games against the Gators (52-18) and now has won eight of its nine NCAA Tournament games. The Cavaliers open the best-of-three finals against a Vanderbilt team that beat them in three games for the championship last year.
It will be the first CWS finals rematch since Oregon State beat North Carolina in 2006-07. Sborz (6-2) ran his shutout innings streak to 23 since May 15, getting Richie Martin to ground out after Harrison Bader reached on a two-out single in the ninth. Danny Lewis (6-2) took the loss.
SOFTBALL SCORES
Atlantic 5, Webster City 4
BCLUW 2, Atlantic 0
A-D-M 7, Gilbert 1
CAM 7, Guthrie Center 1
CAM 9, Underwood 6
Earlham 5, CAM 3
Exira-EHK 10, Fremont-Mills 0
Exira-EHK 8, Griswold 5
Griswold 6, Southwest Valley 4
Southwest Valley 6, Fremont-Mills 3
CB Abraham Lincoln 1, Charter Oak-Ute 0
CB Abraham Lincoln 6, Glenwood 0
Creston 9, Keokuk 0
PCM 6, Creston 1
Essex 17, Nishnabotna 9
Missouri Valley 12, Stanton 2
Missouri Valley 13, East Mills 0
Missouri Valley 9, Shenandoah 2
Woodbine 6, Essex 0
BASEBALL SCORES
Clarinda 16, Southwest Valley 3
EHK-Exira 7, Central Decatur 2
Kuemper Catholic 8, Denison-Schleswig 7
Red Oak 19, Clarinda Academy 7
Sidney 21, Riverside 11
Treynor 9, Central Decatur 1
West Harrison 12, West Monona 1
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Randal Grichuk hit two home runs, doubled and drove in four runs, and John Lackey pitched seven strong innings to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night. Lackey (6-4) allowed one run on five hits to earn his first victory on the road this season away from Busch Stadium. He entered 0-3 with a 6.27 ERA in six road starts.
Jason Heyward had three hits with a double and two RBIs, Jhonny Peralta had three singles with an RBI, and Yadier Molina singled, doubled and drove in a run for the Cardinals, who won their seventh in nine games while beating Philadelphia for the fifth straight time. Cody Asche homered for the Phillies, who have lost 11 of 12. Aaron Harang (4-9) lost his sixth straight start for the first time in his career.
Softball Scores
Charter Oak-Ute 17, Denison-Schleswig 4
Essex 14, Nishnabotna 2
Lenox 12, Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 4
Martensdale-St Marys 14, Bedford 2
Missouri Valley 12, Whiting 0
Ogden 6, Panorama 5
Pleasantville 4, Southwest Valley 0
River Valley 21, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 8
Sioux City, East 4, Atlantic 2
Solon 4, Atlantic 0
Stanton 21, East Mills 8
West Monona 7, Westwood, Sloan 5
Baseball Scores
AHSTW, Avoca 13, Riverside, Oakland 3 (5 innings)
Ar-We-Va, Westside 8, Coon Rapids-Bayard 6 (8 innings)
CAM, Anita 22, Boyer Valley, Dunlap 6 (5 innings)
Carroll 11, Winterset 4
Denison-Schleswig 12, Shenandoah 6
EHK-Exira 17, West Harrison, Mondamin 2
Fremont-Mills, Tabor 18, Clarinda Academy 8
Glidden-Ralston 13, Woodbine 1
Lewis Central 15, Missouri Valley 0
Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 9, River Valley, Correctionville 0
Nishnabotna 16, Essex 2
Nodaway Valley 13, Interstate 35, Truro 1
Ogden 20, Panorama, Panora 4 (5 innings)
Orient-Macksburg 13, Moulton-Udell 2
Pleasantville 19, Southwest Valley 0
Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 15, Lenox 9
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 14, Glenwood 10
Stanton 11, East Mills 8
Treynor 7, Underwood 2
Tri-Center, Neola 10, Logan-Magnolia 9
Westwood, Sloan 5, West Monona, Onawa 3
Winterset 3, Carroll 2
Woodward-Granger 8, Earlham 5
Woodward-Granger 9, Adair-Casey 5
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Randal Grichuk homered and had three hits, and Kolten Wong and Yadier Molina also went deep as the St. Louis Cardinals set season highs for runs and hits in a 12-4 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night.
The Cardinals avoided their second three-game losing streak of the season while breaking out of the offensive funk that followed Tuesday’s news of a federal investigation into whether club officials illegally hacked into the Houston Astros’ player database.
The Cardinals batted .211 with five runs in the first three games after the story broke. If the investigation had any bearing on the lackluster offense, they certainly put it out of their minds against the Phillies.
St. Louis pounded out 16 hits, including six for extra bases. Jhonny Peralta doubled and had three RBIs, Mark Reynolds had a two-run double and 10 Cardinals got hits.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A boy sitting in the front row was hit by a line drive late in the game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies.
A spokesman for the Phillies says the boy was taken to a hospital for further evaluation Friday night.
The young fan was seated along the first-base line when he was struck by a sharp foul ball off the bat of Philadelphia’s Domonic Brown with two outs in the ninth inning.
Fans around the boy immediately motioned for medical help. After being helped out of the stands, the boy was transported in the arms of a man on a cart to the first-aid center on the concourse. The boy appeared to be conscious while holding an ice pack on his upper chest close to his left shoulder.
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