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Jose Soriano, Angels shut down Rays 8-0 for 4th straight win
9+ hour, 30+ min ago (291+ words) Jose Siri hit a two-run home run and Donovan Walton had two RBI hits to put the Angels in line for just their second series sweep of the season Sunday. Soriano (8-4) gave up three hits with two walks and five…...
Dodgers' Yamamoto loses no-hit bid on Peters' leadoff homer for the White Sox in the 9th inning
13+ hour, 41+ min ago (21+ words) The Edwardsville Intelligencer...
San Diego's Bogaerts hit on the helmet by a pitch, then Baltimore's Henderson gets hit
14+ hour, 23+ min ago (512+ words) And that was before a star Oriole was hit by a pitch, resulting in a pair of ejections in the ninth inning. Xander Bogaerts of the Padres was hit on the helmet by a pitch in the top of the…...
A's beat Rockies 6-4 as Lawrence Butler scores on a throwing error and adds an RBI single
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (308+ words) Shea Langeliers and Nick Kurtz hit back-to-back solo home runs in the fifth for the A's. Langeliers' homer, his team-leading 18th, traveled 450 feet to center field. Kurtz, who has 16 homers, hit his 471 feet to right-center. Mason Barnett (1-0) worked 1 2/3 innings for the…...
A's savor a sold-out Las Vegas homestand as fans drown out visiting chants
20+ hour, 21+ min ago (723+ words) What happened next got his attention. "The fans booed them," Butler said. "We haven't got that in all my big league years. So that was pretty cool just to have some fans behind us." Butler and his A's teammates are…...
Angels survive a ninth-inning bases-loaded scare to beat Rays 4-3
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (300+ words) Zeferjahn walked Junior Caminero on four pitches after replacing Mitch Farris with two on and two outs. He struck out Mullins swinging on a 2-2 pitch for his second save, sealing the Angels' third straight win. Aldegheri (2-1) allowed two runs " one…...
49ers mourn the sudden death of former All-Pro linebacker Aldon Smith at 36
12+ hour, 21+ min ago (483+ words) The San Francisco 49ers announced Smith's death on Saturday night. The team did not disclose a cause of death. Smith was drafted by the 49ers with the seventh overall pick out of Missouri in 2011 and made an immediate impact on the team,…...
As Bay Area hosts World Cup, empty red seats are everywhere at Levi's Stadium
18+ hour, 2+ min ago (186+ words) On an unseasonably warm June afternoon by Bay Area standards, with the temperature at kickoff around 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius), many of those vacant seats were on the east side of the stadium that typically can get very hot for…...
Folarin Balogun, who could have played for England or Nigeria, scores 2 for US in World Cup debut
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (497+ words) The 24-year-old striker scored two goals as the Americans opened with a 4-1 victory over Paraguay on Friday night in front of a rabid and star-studded red, white and blue-clad sold-out crowd of 70, 492 at So Fi Stadium. "I visualized my debut…...
Some people are making guns with 3 D printers. A new law seeks to cancel their print jobs
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (711+ words) A first-of-its-kind law in New York could force 3 D printers sold for homes and business to come equipped with technology blocking them from making guns. The new requirement, also under consideration in California, attempts to thwart the latest technique for…...