The A’s held on for a 5-3 win over the White Sox in Game Two of the best-of-three series. Yasmani Grandal hit a two-run homer and plated all three runs for The Sox in the defeat. Today will be the decisive game three in Oakland. Pre-game starts at one o’clock this afternoon with the first pitch at 2:10 on the home for White Sox playoff baseball 1430 WCMY.
The Marlins beat the Cubs 5-1 in Game One of their NL Wild Card series at Wrigley Field. Ian Happ homered in the fifth for the Cubs’ only run. The Northsiders will look to stay alive in the series when Yu Darvish heads to the mound in Game Two today against Miami’s Sixto Sánchez.
The Cardinals took down the Padres 7-4 in their Game One of the NL Wild Card Round in San Diego. Matt Carpenter drove in two runs and Yadier Molina drove in a run for St. Louis. Adam Wainwright will start Game Two this afternoon against San Diego’s Zach Davies.
The Lakers pounded the Heat 116-98 in Game One of the NBA Finals in Orlando.
The Broncos and Jets will square off tonight on Thursday Night Football.
On this date in 1919, the Chicago White Sox lost Game One of the World Series 9-1 to the Cincinnati Reds on purpose. Eight members of the heavily favored White Sox had conspired with gamblers to throw the game to the underdog Reds. Chicago pitcher Eddie Cicotte hit Reds’ leadoff hitter Morrie Rath with a pitch to signal to the gamblers that the fix was in. The Reds would win the series in eight games while the eight White Sox players would become known as the Black Sox after being banned for life from Major League Baseball.
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The Ottawa golf team won with a score of 177 at the triangular meet against Pontiac and Tri-Point at the Pontiac Elks Golf Course.
- Tyce Love & Drake Kaufman each led the Pirates with a score of 43
Ottawa JV Boys also won at Pontiac with a team score of 208
- Top scorer for Ottawa was Will Goetz with a 51
The Seneca Fighting Irish team shot a 386 to win the Tri-County Boys Conference.
- Noah Quigley led Seneca with the 2nd overall score of 91
- The Marquette Crusaders placed third with a 407.
The Lady Irish golf team were also winners with a score of 464 in the Tri-County Girls Conference..
- Seneca’s Rylee Stenzel earned Conference Champion with an 87.