Dodgers beat the Padres<\/p>\n
From Maddie Lee<\/a>: Andy Pages\u2019 game-winning at-bat was one of the \u201cgreatest\u201d teammate Freddie Freeman has ever seen in person. Manager Dave Roberts commended his \u201cwill and determination.\u201d Even Padres closer Mason Miller, the pitcher on the other side, tipped his cap: \u201cOutstanding job by him.\u201d<\/p>\n The Dodgers\u2019 5-4 comeback victory<\/a> was sealed with a nine-pitch battle between Pages and Miller. And the Dodgers<\/a>\u2019 young All-Star candidate beat the best closer in baseball.<\/p>\n \u201cI never thought he was going to strike me out or dominate me,\u201d Pages said through an interpreter. \u201cI was 100% certain I was going to move the ball forward.\u201d<\/p>\n Forward and in the air to right field for the go-ahead sacrifice fly in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n The Dodgers (30-19) evened the series, pulled back into the top spot in the division standings<\/a>, and handed Miller his first loss as a Padre.<\/p>\n Continue reading here<\/a> <\/p>\n Shaikin: Pitching injuries are piling up again for Dodgers. Can the starting rotation hold up?<\/a> <\/p>\n Dodgers box score<\/a> <\/p>\n MLB standings<\/a> <\/p>\n Go beyond the scoreboard <\/p>\n Get the latest on L.A.’s teams in the daily Sports Report newsletter.<\/p>\n By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Service<\/a>, which include arbitration and a class action waiver. You agree that we and our third-party vendors may collect and use your information, including through cookies, pixels and similar technologies, for the purposes set forth in our Privacy Policy<\/a> such as personalizing your experience and ads. <\/p>\n Angels walloped by the Athletics<\/p>\n Nick Kurtz had three hits and five RBIs, Brent Rooker and Zack Gelof homered and drove in three runs apiece as the Athletics beat the Angels 14-6 on Tuesday<\/a> night.<\/p>\n The Athletics scored 12 of their runs with two out.<\/p>\n Kurtz, the reigning American League rookie of the year, sparked a six-run third inning with an RBI single, keyed a two-run sixth with a two-run single and added a two-run double in a four-run eighth.<\/p>\n Reliever Justin Sterner (2-3) escaped a first-and-third, two-out jam in the fourth and earned the win for the AL West-leading A\u2019s<\/a>, who snapped a three-game skid.<\/p>\n Continue reading here<\/a> <\/p>\n Angels box score<\/a> <\/p>\n MLB standings<\/a> <\/p>\n Billie Jean King graduates<\/p>\n From Steve Henson<\/a>: Long before Billie Jean King won dozens of Grand Slam tennis titles, founded the Women\u2019s Tennis Assn.<\/a>, became part owner of the Dodgers<\/a> and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a>, she enrolled in what was then called Los Angeles State College.<\/p>\n Three years later in 1964, King left without a degree to devote full attention to her burgeoning tennis career.<\/p>\n Failing to earn the degree bothered her, and King would correct anyone who said she had graduated.<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018Don\u2019t ever say \u2018graduated.\u2019 I haven\u2019t earned it \u2014 yet,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cYet\u201d became a reality Monday when King, 82, received her bachelor\u2019s degree in history from the same school she attended more than 60 years ago \u2014 now called Cal State Los Angeles<\/a> \u2014 walking across the Shrine Auditorium stage with the rest of the Class of 2026.<\/p>\n Continue reading here<\/a> <\/p>\n This day in sports history<\/p>\n 1897 \u2014 British Open Men\u2019s Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: English amateur Harold Hilton wins 2nd Open title by 1 stroke from Scot James Braid.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2014 The second modern Olympic games open in Paris.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2014 Ten days after his Preakness victory, Whirlaway races against older horses for the first time and defeats four rivals in the Henry of Navarre Purse at Belmont Park in New York.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2014 Heavily favored Hill Prince, ridden by Bill Boland, wins the Preakness Stakes by five lengths over Middleground.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2014 Buster Mathis beats future world heavyweight champion Joe Frazer on points at trials in Flushing, NY to qualify for US Olympic boxing team; Mathis injures thumb, replaced by Frazier who wins gold medal.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2014 Damascus, ridden by Willie Shoemaker, wins the Preakness Stakes by 2\u00bc lengths over In Reality.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2014 Bee Bee Bee, a 19-1 long shot ridden by Eldon Nelson, wins the Preakness Stakes by 1\u00bd lengths over No Le Hace.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2014 Indiana\u2019s Roger Brown scores 32 points to lead the Pacers to 108-105 to win over the New York Nets and the ABA championship.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2014 Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, continues the battle with Alydar and wins the Preakness Stakes by a neck.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2014 American heavyweight boxer Larry Holmes beats countryman Tim Witherspoon by split decision to retain his WBC title at the Dunes Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2014 Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2014 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf\u2019s 66-match winning streak and takes the German Open with a 6-4, 6-3 victory. Graf\u2019s streak is the second longest in the modern era of tennis. Martina Navratilova won 74 straight matches in 1984.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2014 The 18th triple dead heat in modern thoroughbred history takes place in the ninth race at Arlington International Racecourse. All Worked Up, Marshua\u2019s Affair and Survival are timed in 1:24 4-5 over seven furlongs.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2014 Chicago Bulls Michael Jordan is named NBA\u2019s MVP.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2014 36th European Cup: Barcelona beats Sampdoria 1-0 at London.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2014 6th UEFA Champions League Final: Real Madrid beats Juventus 1-0 at Amsterdam.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2014 English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (78,217): Chelsea beats Aston Villa, 1-0; Roberto Di Matteo scores 73\u2032 winner.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2014 Nextel Cup rookie Kyle Busch becomes the youngest winner in Craftsman Truck Series history, holding off Terry Cook and Ted Musgrave in a three-lap closing sprint at the Quaker Steak & Lube 200.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2014 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro breaks down at the start of the Preakness, galloping a few hundred yards while his eight rivals pass him. Bernardini wins the $1 million race, beating Sweetnorthernsaint by 5 1-4 lengths.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2014 Roger Federer ends Rafael Nadal\u2019s 81-match winning streak on clay with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 win in the final of the Hamburg Masters. It\u2019s Federer\u2019s first clay-court title in two years.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2014 NASCAR 2016 Hall of Fame inductees: Bobby Isaac, Terry Labonte and Jerry Cook.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2014 Cloud Computing, ridden by Javier Castellano, runs down Classic Empire in the final strides to win the Preakness by a head. The 13-1 long shot runs 1 3\/16 miles in 1:55.98 and pays $28.80 to win. Derby winner Always Dreaming and Classic Empire duel throughout most of the race before Classic Empire jumps in front midway on the far turn.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2014 Sweden beats Switzerland 3-2 in a shootout for the gold medal at the world ice hockey championship in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2014 The Tradition Senior Men\u2019s Golf, Greystone G &CC: Spaniard Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez wins by 3 from American trio Joe Durant, Steve Stricker & Gene Sauers.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2014 The Vegas Golden Knights punch their ticket to the Stanley Cup Final beating the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on the road to win the Western Conference finals 4-1. The Golden Knights become the second expansion team in the NHL, NBA, NFL or MLB since 1960 to reach a championship series in their first season. The other team was the 1967-68 St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n Compiled by the Associated Press<\/p>\n This day in baseball history<\/p>\n 1919 \u2014 Babe Ruth won a game on the mound and at the plate. He hit his first career grand slam as the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns 6-4.<\/p>\n 1925 \u2014 The Cleveland Indians scored six runs in the last of the ninth to beat the New York Yankees 10-9. Tris Speaker scored the winning run from first on a single.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2014 Paul Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit four doubles in one game.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2014 Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox won his 20th consecutive game at home, the longest home park streak in the major leagues. Boston beat the Detroit Tigers, 4-2.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2014 The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Braves 4-3 in a game that featured 22 hits \u2014 all singles. The Pirates had 12 singles, the Braves 10.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2014 Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hits for the cycle and collects six RBI in a 13-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox. DiMaggio hits two home runs, a triple, a double and a single, and narrowly misses another extra-base hit when Chicago left fielder Ralph Hodgin makes a spectacular catch at the wall.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2014 In the 13th game of the season, the Milwaukee Braves surpassed their 1952 attendance of 281,278, when they were in Boston.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2014 The Detroit Tigers beat the Yankees, 13-6, to place New York in last place for the first time in 19 years.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2014 Chicago Cubs rookie Ken Hubbs had eight singles in eight trips to the plate. The Cubs swept the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-4 and 11-2.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2014 Willie Stargell hit a 535-foot homer off Montreal\u2019s Wayne Twitchell \u2014 the longest home run in Montreal\u2019s Olympic Stadium \u2014 to highlight the Pirates\u2019 6-0 victory. It was also Stargell\u2019s 407th career homer, tying him with Duke Snider on the career list.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2014 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton passes Walter Johnson to move into second place on the all-time strikeout list. Carlton\u2019s four strikeouts put him at 3,511, just 10 behind Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2014 Boston\u2019s Roger Clemens earned his first major league victory. The Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins, 5-4.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2014 Mike Schmidt belts the 535th home run of his career during 1st inning off Padres starting pitcher Andy Hawkins, moving Schmidt past Jimmie Foxx into sole possession of 8th place on the all-time home run list.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2014 Jeff Reardon got his 300th save and Steve Lyons and Jack Clark homered as the Boston Red Sox beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-0.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2014 Robin Ventura became the first major leaguer to hit grand slams in both games of a doubleheader, leading the New York Mets to a sweep over Milwaukee, 11-10 and 10-1. He had two slams in a game for the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 4, 1995.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2014 Barry Bonds hit two homers in the San Francisco Giants\u2019 11-6 loss to the Atlanta Braves, giving him a total of five in two games, becoming the 23rd player in history to do so.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2014 Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career home run list during San Francisco\u2019s 4-2, 10-inning victory over the Oakland Athletics.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2014 Boston center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury tied a major league record with 12 putouts by an outfielder in a nine-inning game, previously done by Earl Clark of the Boston Braves in 1929 and Lyman Bostock of the Minnesota Twins in 1977. He accomplished the feat in the Red Sox\u2019s 8-3 win over Toronto.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2014 Nick Swisher, Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera hit consecutive home runs for the New York Yankees in an 11-4 victory over Baltimore. All three solo shots to right field came in the second inning off Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie \u2014 with two strikes.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2014 The Chicago Cubs make their first visit to Fenway Park since the 1918 World Series.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2014 Rookie Jordan Hicks of the Cardinals ties Aroldis Chapman\u2019s record for the fastest pitch ever recorded by pumping a couple of fastballs at 105 mph while facing Odubel Herrera of the Phillies. The first one goes for a ball, and Herrera manages to foul off the second before striking out on a pitched timed at 103.7 mph.<\/p>\n Compiled by the Associated Press<\/p>\n Until next time…<\/p>\n That concludes today\u2019s newsletter. If you have any feedback, ideas for improvement or things you\u2019d like to see, email me at houston.mitchell@latimes.com<\/a>. 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