Baseball

• Padres-W-Mets..James Shields (7-0)..Will Middlebrooks 3RBI…Padres won 7-of-11
• Padres…Travel Day..Open 7G-road trip in Cincinnati on Friday.
• Dodgers-Rockies..Sat thru 2-half hour rain-hail cold weather delay…Troy Tulowitzki 2R-HR..RBI-single for Colorado
• Dodgers-Cardinals…LA opens road trip in St. Louis…Carlos Frias-vs-Michael Wada (7-1).
• Dodgers..Place OF-Carl Crawford on 60-day DL-ongoing toe injury.
• Dodgers..OF-Yasiel Puig ready to come off DL with hamstring injury
• Angels-Tampa Bay..Mike Trout HR…John Giovotello 2R-HR…Hector Santiago give up 2HRs including Steve Souza 3R-HR bomb for Tampa.
• Angels..Travel Day..Open East Coast road trip at Yankees Stadium-Friday.
• Mariners-Diamondbacks…6-Player Trade…OF-Mark Trumbo-P-Vidal Nuno to Mariners for C-Wellington Castillo-P-Dom Leone-OF-Gabby Guerrero-2B-Jack Reinheimer…Trumbo becomes Seattle DH-1B…Nuno to bullpen…Arizona solves catching crisis…Guerrero red hot minor league talent.
• Giants-L-Pirates..Jung Kang 2R-double..Jody Mercer HR…Bucs sweep series…Pittsburgh won 11-of-13.
• Arizona-W-Atlanta…Yasmani Tomas 3H- (.331BA)…Freddie Freeman 4-RBI in Braves loss..
• Cardinals-W-Brewers…Matt Carpenter 2H-2RBI.
• Nationals-L-Blue Jays..Mark Beurhle shutout..Jays score 4R-1st inning.
• Cubs-L-Marlins..Giancarlo Stanton-Jeff Baker back-to-back HRs..Bench clearing incident-Junior Lake taunts Miami bench after HR.
• Reds-L-Phillies..Maikel Franco 3R-HR in 9th off Aroldis Chapman
• Red Sox-W-Twins..Dustin Pedroia (4H)..Eduardo Rodriguez (7inn-1R) now (2-0)…Boston wins opener
• Red Sox-L-Twins..Trevor May throws 2-hit shutout for Twins in nitecap.
• Yankees-W-Mariners..Masahiro Tanaka (7inn-1R)-first game off DL..Mark Teixeira-Garrett Jones HRs..NY sweeps series.
• Tigers-L-A’s…Tigers lose 6th in row..Billy Burns bases loaded triple for Oakland .
• White Sox-W-Texas…Chris Sale 13K-pitching performance..Jose Abreau 2R-HR..
• Indians-L-Royals…KC hits 3-doubles in row-3R off Corey Kluber…
• Orioles-L-Astros…Chris Carter 2-HRs..Astros (34-20) on season…
• Reds..OF-Marlon Byrd-fractured wrist-Hit by Pitch.
• Rockies..P-Jordan Lyles-emergency toe surgery-gone for the year.
• Rangers..DH-Josh Hamilton-sidelined leg injury.
• Brewers..OF-Khris Davis-surgery-meniscus-sidelined 6W.
• Brewers..OF-Ryan Braun leaves team-treatment tissue damage in thumb.
• Rockies..1B-Justin Morneau not cleared play-still has concussion issues.
• Cubs..OF-Jorge Soler-MRI-ankle.
• Yankees..Activate P-Masahiro Tanaka-from DL-treatment strained forearm.
• Dodgers..Ready to activate Cuban FA-2B-Hector Olivera-may start at Class A-Rancho Cucumonga.
  Red Sox..Sign FA-OF-Alejandro DeAza-Orioles

Basketball

• Golden State-Cleveland…Game 1-NBA Finals….LeBron James (27P)-vs-Steph Curry (29P)…Warriors average 11-3’s a game…shooting 40% from arc….Cavs shooting just 35%-arc….Warriors shooting 46% from floor in postseason….Cleveland 43%….Golden State with strong depth big men off bench David Lee-Harrison Barnes-Andre Igoudala plus big men Andrew Bogut and Draymond Green….Cavs depth to be tested-need strong outside shooting from JR Smith and Matt Dellavedova…Keep Tristan Thompson-Tim Mozgov out of foul trouble.
• Oklahoma City..Interviews ex-New Orleans coach Monty Williams for vacant assistant job on Billy Donovan new staff.

Football

• Chargers..Wrap up 2nd week OTA workouts..waiting to see if Eric Weddle joins team to begin his free agent season.
• Raiders..Players praise Coach Jack DelRio-culture leadership change..Raiders have had 8-coaches in 15Y.
• Colts..Sign FA-TE-Sean McGrath-ex Chiefs
  49ers..Ex-Fiancee of DE-Ray McDonald says she was victim of constant abuse-says player as alcohol problem.
• NFL..Signs deal with Yahoo-will stream on internet-Bills-Jaguars regular season game from London-“Free” to test global popularity of viewing games on internet.

Hockey

• NHL..Game 1-Stanley Cup Finals
• Blackhawks-W-Lightning..Chicago scores 2-goals in (1:58) span late in 3rd period..Lightnint tried to nurse 1-0 lead-lost game…Tampa had 1-shot on goal in 17-minutes in 3rd period trying to sit on lead..Antoine Vermette wrist shot for game winner..Corey Crawford key save on breakaway late in game…Hawks lead series (1-0).
• Pittsburgn..Stunning news-Penguins owners Mario Lemeiux-Ron Burkle putting team up for sale…saved it during bankruptcy a decade ago.
• Ducks..GM-Bob Murray not ready to commit to bring back Coach Bruce Boudreau after third straight playoff failure.
• Kings..GM-Dean Lombardi-devastated-angry over arrests of Jarrett Stoll-cocaine..Slava Voynov-domestic abuse

General

• French Open…Novak Djokovic hammers Rafael Nadel (7-5,6-3,6-1) win…snapping Raffa 39-match win streak at French…Andy Murray-Serena Williams also post wins.
• FIFA…FBI confirms it has opened probe of bribes that gave 2022-World Cup to Quatar……FIFA may pull games and ask US to host games.
• Interpol…Issues “Red Notice”…International arrest warrants for 6-FIFA execs including former Senior VP-Jack Warner at center of corruption probe.
  Reuters…Reports indicate Indictment may be forthcoming against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
• David Beckham…Soccer icon calls FIFA leadership “despicable”….Game belongs to millions of fans worldwide-not few people at the top.

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