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CHICAGO (AP) — Munetaka Murakami has a fun handshake with fellow infielder Miguel Vargas. He playfully agreed that a magic wand routine with teammate Mike Vasil helped him slam another homer. His No. 5 jersey dots the stands at Rate Field.

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After cruising through the first two rounds of the California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) Softball Championship Tournament, and entering Saturday having lost just one game all season, the College of San Mateo Bulldogs saw their quest to repeat as state champions cut short.

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Gavin Sheets homered twice and drove in four runs, Lucas Giolito won his San Diego debut and the Padres beat the Seattle Mariners 8-3 to sweep their six-game season series. Giolito, who signed a one-year contract with San Diego in April, was called up from Double-A San Antonio before the game to make his first start of the year. The veteran right-hander allowed only one hit, but was lifted after issuing three consecutive walks to begin Seattle's three-run sixth inning. Sheets connected twice off Mariners starter George Kirby and finished 3 for 3 with two walks. Ty France had three hits and three RBIs for the Padres.

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Angelina Anderson made one save for her second shutout and became the first goalkeeper to hold Portland scoreless this season as visiting Angel City played the Thorns to a 0-0 draw. Mackenzie Arnold made three saves for Portland in her fourth shutout of the year. Angel City snapped a four-game skid. Late in second-half stoppage time, Thorns midfielder Jessie Fleming sent a shot off the post. In other National Women's Soccer League action, the Utah Royals beat Racing Louisville 2-1. Mina Tanaka scored her third goal of the season, breaking a tie in the 77th minute.

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Hany Mukhtar scored three goals, his first hat trick since 2023, and Nashville SC beat Los Angeles FC 3-2. Mukhtar, the 2022 MLS MVP, became the seventh player in MLS history with at least five regular-season hat tricks. Nashville (9-1-3) leads all of MLS with 30 points this season and is unbeaten, with five wins, in its last seven games. LAFC (6-5-3) has lost three consecutive games and is winless in four straight. David Martinez scored a goal for the second consecutive game in the 22nd minute and Denis Bouanga added a goal in the 68th for LAFC. Brian Schwake had seven saves for Nashville. Thomas Hasal made his second start this season in place of Hugo Lloris (thigh) and finished with one save.

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Brittney Sykes scored a career-high 38 points, rookie Kiki Rice added 19 in her first start and the Toronto Tempo raced past the Los Angeles Sparks 106-96. Marina Mabrey had 14 points and Kia Nurse 10 in the first road win for Toronto. The Tempo were 39 of 42 from the foul line with Sykes going 15 for 15. Sykes’ previous high was 35 points in 2022 when she played for Los Angeles. Kelsey Plum had 28 for the Sparks, Dearica Hamba added 21, Nneka Ogwumike 17 and Late Martin 11. Los Angeles was 23 of 30 from the foul line as tin a game during which 59 fouls were called.

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Aaron Rai has become the first English-born player in more than a century to capture the PGA Championship. Rai, who dreamed of being a Formula 1 driver until he turned to golf, was three shots behind and approaching the turn at Aronimink Golf Club when he delivered a performance worthy of a major champion. He made a 40-foot eagle putt on the par-5 ninth during a stretch when he one-putted seven straight greens. Then he holed a birdie putt of some 70 feet across the 17th green for the clincher. The 31-year-old Rai is the first player of Indian heritage to win a major. He closed with a 5-under 65.

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Kurt Kitayama has tied the lowest final round in major championship history with a 63 at the PGA Championship. Kitayama charged up the leaderboard at Aronimink Golf Club. He became the ninth player to shoot a 63 in the final round of a major and the second to do it in the PGA Championship. Kitayama credits his success to his putting, making more than 141 feet of putts. The 33-year-old Californian started with a 5-under 30 on the front nine and finished with a birdie on the 18th. His performance follows notable Sunday 63s by Johnny Miller and Henrik Stenson.

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Roki Sasaki’s eventful major league career finally appears to be going the way most everyone expected when he joined the Los Angeles Dodgers at the start of last season. Sasaki pitched a career-high seven innings of four-hit ball in a 10-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels, turning in the longest and most dominant start of his strange tenure in blue. The 24-year-old right-hander racked up a career-best eight strikeouts with no walks while doing it all with a burgeoning confidence he lacked for most of last season, when he flamed out as a starter before becoming an improbably successful reliever.

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The All-NBA first team this season might have been decided in part by an appeals process. Successful petitions by the Los Angeles Lakers′ Luka Doncic and Detroit Pistons′ Cade Cunningham to gain eligibility for awards such as MVP and All-NBA this season — even after they fell short of the 65-game minimum — seem like they’re about to become very worthwhile. Doncic was fourth and Cunningham was fifth in the MVP voting, released Sunday night. And since the All-NBA teams are now positionless, it would seem that puts Doncic and Cunningham in position to be first-team selections when the league releases those teams in the coming days.

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Harrison Bader hit a grand slam that capped an eight-run eighth inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the sloppy Athletics 10-1 in 25-35 mph winds. Luis Arraez also homered and finished with three hits for the Giants, who took two of three games in the first series this season between the Northern California rivals. Adrian Houser allowed one run in six innings, pitching around five walks. Athletics reliever Luis Medina loaded the bases with nobody out in the eighth and the Giants leading 2-1. Rafael Devers hit an RBI single, and another run scored on the play when center fielder Lawrence Butler committed a fielding error. Daniel Susac had an RBI groundout and Jung Hoo Lee singled in a run before Bader’s wind-aided slam to right.