The Sea Dogs defeated the Yard Goats 17-12.

baseball

Mickey Gaspar and Tyler McDonough both hit home runs and had four RBIs, and the Portland Sea Dogs recorded season highs in runs scored and hits in a 17-12 victory over the Hartford Yard Goats on Saturday afternoon at Hadlock Field.

McDonough was 4-for-6 with three doubles in addition to his first home run of the season, while Gaspar was 3-for-4. Both players scored three times.

Matthew Lugo added three hits and three runs scored, and Nick Decker had three RBIs with a double and a single. The Sea Dogs finished with 18 hits.

Hartford's Amael Amador had 5 hits in 6 at-bats with 2 home runs and 5 RBIs.

golf

PGA: Two-time PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray died at age 30 on Saturday morning, the day after withdrawing from the Charles Schwab Cup Challenge.

Details about the circumstances of his death have not yet been released.

Murray, who has had alcohol and mental health issues in the past, has made a major turnaround this year, winning the Sony Open.

He also won the Barbasol Championship in 2017.

Champions Tour: Ernie Els birdied the final hole to shoot a 2-under 69 and share the lead with Greg Chalmers heading into the final round of the Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Chalmers, a left-handed Australian known for his putting, shot a 66 to tie Els at 10-under 203.

European Tour: Spain's Nacho Elvira was four strokes behind going into the final round of the Soudal Open in Antwerp, Belgium, bidding for his second European Tour victory.

Elvira shot a 4-under 67 to move to 18 under par. Joe Dean (66), Ross Fischer (70), Romain Langasque (68) and Niklas Norgaard (67) tied for second.

Auto Racing

Formula One: Charles Leclerc took pole position for Ferrari at the Monaco Grand Prix, ending Max Verstappen's record-tying streak of eight consecutive pole positions.

Verstappen, who shares the F1 record with the late Ayrton Senna, will start Sunday's race from sixth place for Red Bull on perhaps the toughest track in the series for overtaking.

Leclerc was 0.154 seconds faster than McLaren's Oscar Piastri and 0.248 seconds faster than his Ferrari teammate Carlos Sainz Jr. McLaren's Lando Norris was fourth, followed by Mercedes' George Russell.

Nascar: Chase Elliott held off Brandon Jones at Charlotte Motor Speedway to win his first Xfinity Series race since 2016.

Elliott becomes the 12th Xfinity winner at Charlotte in the last 12 years, although he has competed in just four Xfinity races in the last five years.

Justin Allgaier won the first two stages but his No. 7 Chevrolet crashed into the wall with 25 laps to go, ending his chances at defending the title at Charlotte.

Sam Mayer was leading the race when Cole Custer and Austin Hill were involved in a crash with 17 laps to go. Elliott pulled away at the restart. Jones was second, Sammy Smith third and Mayer fourth.

soccer

FA Cup: Manchester United won the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium, beating defending champions Manchester City 2-1.

Alejandro Garnacho put the team ahead on the half-hour mark thanks to a mistake by City defender Josko Gvardiol and goalkeeper Stephan Ortega.

Kobe Mainu then added a second in the 39th minute, sparking wild celebrations from manager Erik ten Hag, who was under close scrutiny heading into the final.

Women's Champions League: Barcelona ended a losing streak with a 2-0 win over Lyon in Bilbao, Spain, to win their third title in four years.

World Player of the Year Aitana Bommati scored in the second half and former World Player of the Year Alexia Puteras added a second in added time.

Barcelona have lost their last two finals against the French team and all four previous matches against Lyon, who remain the most successful club in women's football having won eight European titles.

tennis

Geneva Open: Kasper Ruud continued his winning streak in Switzerland, winning the Geneva Open for the third time in four years.

Ruud returned to the court less than three hours after beating Flavio Cobori in a third-set tiebreaker and won the final against Tomas Maczak 7-5, 6-3.

Strasbourg International: Madison Keys defeated Danielle Collins 6-1, 6-2 in the US Open final in France.

Keys, the fourth seed, did not drop a set in the tournament to win her eighth WTA singles title and her first of the year.

basketball

WNBA: Napheesa Collier had 15 points and 12 rebounds and the Minnesota Lynx made 14 3-pointers to hand the New York Liberty an 84-67 defeat to their second straight loss.

hockey

World championship: Switzerland defeated Canada 3-2 in a penalty shootout to advance to the final against the Czech Republic in Prague.

The match finished 2-2 with neither team able to score after ten minutes of extra time, and Sven Andrighetto scored the winner in the shootout.

Canada, the 28-time champions, will face Sweden for the bronze medal after the hosts, the Czech Republic, beat Sweden 7-3 to reach the final for the first time since 2010.

cycling

Giro d'Italia: Two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar once again outdid his rivals in the mountains to win his sixth stage out of 20, extending his already substantial lead in the overall standings to nearly 10 minutes.

The only way he can secure the overall victory is with a largely ceremonial ride in Rome on Sunday.

Pogacar completed the 114-mile stretch from Alpago to Bassano del Grappa two minutes and seven seconds ahead of Valentin Palette Paintore and Daniel Martinez. He extended his overall lead over Martinez to nine minutes, 56 seconds.

Athletics

World Record: Kenya's Beatrice Chebet set a new women's world record in the 10,000 meters at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, clocking 28 minutes, 54.14 seconds.

Chebet surpassed the previous record of 29.01.03 set by Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidei on June 8, 2021 at the FBK Stadium in the Netherlands.

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