ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani hit two three-run homers and drove in a career-high eight runs, however Whit Merrifield led off the eleventh inning with an RBI double earlier than the Kansas Metropolis Royals held on for a 12-11 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night time.
Ohtani crushed a 423-foot homer within the sixth and a game-tying, 438-foot shot within the ninth, giving him the most important RBI sport of his five-year stateside profession. The AL MVP then set the single-game main league report for RBIs by a Japanese-born participant with a sacrifice fly within the eleventh inning.
However Ohtani’s eighth RBI wasn’t sufficient after Merrifield and Kyle Isbel drove in runs off Jose Quijada (0-2) earlier within the eleventh.
Daniel Mengden struck out Mike Trout with two Angels on base earlier than Ohtani’s flyout, and he retired Jared Walsh on a game-ending popup. Mengden earned his first save of the season and the second of his profession as Kansas Metropolis held on for its fifth victory in six video games regardless of blowing a five-run lead within the sixth and a three-run lead within the ninth.
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Carlos Santana had 4 hits and drove in a season-high 5 runs for the Royals, whereas rookie Bobby Witt Jr. had his first multi-homer sport whereas driving in a career-high 4 runs. Regardless of shedding slugger Salvador Perez to a thumb damage within the third inning, Kansas Metropolis led 6-1 halfway via the sixth earlier than the Angels’ star hitters lastly got here alive.
Dylan Coleman (2-1) stranded two Angels runners within the tenth.
Ohtani trimmed the Angels’ deficit to 6-4 within the sixth when he drove his 14th homer to right-center. Royals starter Jonathan Heasley had pitched four-hit ball into the sixth inning earlier than Ohtani’s shot chased him.
Kansas Metropolis then led 10-7 coming into the underside of the ninth after Santana’s late RBI single and Witt’s two-run homer, however Tyler Wade singled and Trout walked earlier than Ohtani drove them residence with that no-doubt blast to proper.
Jared Walsh doubled, tripled and homered whereas driving in two runs for the Angels, however fell simply wanting hitting for his second cycle in 11 days.
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Santana started his monster sport with an RBI double and a two-run homer earlier than including RBI singles within the sixth and eighth. Witt homered within the first inning, added an RBI double within the seventh and delivered a two-run homer within the ninth.
The Royals’ offense was stable early in opposition to rookie Reid Detmers, who has struggled since throwing a no-hitter final month. Witt related for his ninth homer after a 10-pitch at-bat within the first, and Santana added a two-run shot within the fourth.
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Walsh received three extra-base hits in 4 innings halfway via the sport, however could not get a success in two further at-bats. He completed a single shy of matching his first profession cycle on June 11 in opposition to the Mets.
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Two Japanese gamers had beforehand pushed in seven runs in a serious league sport. Tadahito Iguchi did it for the White Sox in 2006, and Hideki Matsui matched it for the Yankees in 2009.
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Angels interim supervisor Phil Nevin was ejected throughout a pitching change within the seventh inning after arguing vociferously with the umpiring crew. The supply of his anger was unclear.
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Ohtani (5-4, 3.28 ERA) appears to string collectively three straight mound victories within the sequence finale in opposition to Kansas Metropolis’s Daniel Lynch (3-6, 5.19). Ohtani’s solely earlier pitching begin in opposition to Kansas Metropolis was again in his AL Rookie of the 12 months season in 2018.
Sporting Kansas City striker Willy Agada, shown against reigning Leagues Cup champion Inter Miami, scored the deciding goal in the 76th minute to give Sporting a 2-1 Cup triumph over Chicago on Sunday
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Nigerian striker Willy Agada scored the deciding goal in the 76th minute to give Sporting Kansas City a 2-1 victory Sunday over visiting Chicago in the Leagues Cup.
Greek striker Georgios Koutsias opened the scoring for the Fire in the 22nd minute only for US defender Robert Castellanos of Kansas City to net the equalizer in the 39th minute.
The tournament features MLS and Mexico’s Liga MX teams in a World Cup-style event featuring three-team groups with each advancing two into knockout rounds.
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Host New York City FC edged Mexico’s Queretaro 4-3 on penalties after playing to a goalless draw. New York gets two points in the group table to one for Queretaro with FC Cincinnati yet to play.
Sunday’s matches marked the end of the first round of group matches with the second wave starting on Tuesday.
Defending champion Inter Miami, without injured star Lionel Messi, beat Puebla on Saturday in their group opener. Puebla and Tigres UANL will play on Wednesday in Houston, where Miami will face Tigres on Saturday to close their group.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Two teenagers were seriously injured after their SUV flipped on I-29 near the Kansas City Airport over the weekend.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol indicates that just before 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, emergency crews were called to the area of I-29 and I-435, near the Kansas City Airport, with reports of a single-vehicle collision.
When first responders arrived, they said they found a 2002 Chevrolet Blazer driven by Alexander D. Maxwell, 18, of Kansas City, Mo., had veered off the left side of the road where it flipped and crossed the center median.
MSHP said the SUV flipped again and slid off the west side of the road.
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First responders noted that Maxwell and his passenger, a 17-year-old were both taken to North Kansas City Hospital with serious injuries. No further information has been provided.
Add Georgia to the list, now that we’re naming names. And USC. BFN is a BFD.
At least 9.3 million people watched CU and CSU trade haymakers last September in the Rocky Mountain Showdown. You don’t think Lincoln Riley happened to be one of them?
“His DMs were ringing off the hook (in December),” Rich Nicolosi, father to Rams quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi, told me Friday. “Everyone from USC to Georgia, and everyone in between. Several in Texas. Some of those offers, most of it, (was) just B.S.”
Some of them, though? Some of them weren’t.
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“The K-State one is absolutely legitimate,” Rich said of the Wildcats’ alleged NIL push. “And there were several others.”
Which makes you wonder: What sort of dad lets his kid turn down $600,000, as Rams coach Jay Norvell recently accused the Wildcats of putting on the table, for the glitz of the Mountain West?
A dad who raised his kid right. A dad who says his kid would make the same choice again.
No receipts. No regrets.
“Brayden didn’t ever really take it seriously,” Rich said. “That’s why he was always committed to (CSU coach) Jay (Norvell). It was Jay who believed in Brayden. It was Jay who gave him a shot. He’s extremely loyal to Jay.
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“And Brayden loves CSU … (he’s) an outdoors kid, he loves hunting and fishing. He loves everything about it, and I think that tied it all into a neat little bow.”
As a redshirt freshman, BFN led the Mountain West in total offense per game (286.1 yards) and passing yards per game (288.3). As a sophomore heading to camp on Thursday, he’s shaved his 40-yard dash time down to the 4.6-second range and his 20-yard shuttle time to 4.19.
That last number, if you’re curious, is quicker than the 2024 combine times posted by Michigan’s JJ McCarthy (4.23), the No.10 overall pick in the ’24 NFL Draft, and South Carolina’s Spencer Rattler (4.37), who wound up getting taken in the fifth round by the Saints. He’s squatting 460 to 480-ish pounds, with sights on topping 500 soon.
“It’s fun to see some of the (social media posts),” Rich laughed. “Like, ‘They offered $600K for a QB2? Really?’ Maybe you’re not seeing what the NFL scouts see right now.”
The scouts see BFN, CSU’s Big Freakin’ Deal, as a 6-foot-4 RPG. They see a kid who’ll hang in the pocket until he can smell the linebacker’s chewing gum. They see guts. They see vision. They see a fast processor. They see a photographic memory. They see a guy who took honors classes in chemistry and advanced placement courses in world history.
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And yeah, they’ve seen the 16 picks from last fall. Brayden and Rich, a football coach himself, even got together to break them down: Three came on end-of-half or end-of-game heaves, another handful on third-and-forevers.
“Probably half of them were really mental mistakes, being a freshman, being new,” Rich said. “I would say he’s not really going to change his gunslinger mentality.
“And I think that’s one of the things that, when you compare him to Jordan Love, how he played for Green Bay, and had similar stats, but the NFL looks back and goes, ‘He’s not afraid to let it rip.’”
No receipts. No regrets.
BFN’s never been cowered from the stage. Never shirked a challenge. Growing up, Rich made a point to never “let” his kids, including Brayden, beat him in anything.
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Victories were earned. They even made up a fake medal out of a jar lid, a carrot at the end of the family stick, and presented it to the “Champion Of The Garage.”
Brayden won it for the first time at age 14 when he finally beat Rich in table tennis. Young BFN put the medal on, then went outside and did a ceremonial lap of honor around the neighborhood.
“From then on,” Rich laughed, “there’s nothing that I can beat him at.”
Colorado State Rams quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi (16) celebrates with fans after defeating the Nevada Wolf Pack 30-20 at Canvas Stadium November 18, 2023. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
Brayden became a 5-foot-8 underclassman being chased by 300-pound linemen at San Diego’s Torrey Pines High School. But by the time that first major growth spurt hit, in 2020, BFN was SOL — a 6-foot-ish QB with no prep football in California to play that fall thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The family moved to Texas, where young Brayden transferred into Aledo High, zipped from JV to QB1, and won a state championship within months of joining the program.
“Get him on a board game like Rummikub, you play him in anything, he instantly locks into ‘kill’ mode,” Rich said. “He’s just like his mom — he won’t let anybody win.”
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BFN grew up at Rich’s practices and games, shagging balls and joining drills, soaking it all in like a young Kyle Shanahan or a young Jim Harbaugh,
At 9, he was watching film with Rich, who showed him how to dissect defenses. At 12, his fastball was clocked at 72 miles per hour. At 15, he was throwing the rock so stinking hard that Rich decided, rather than busting up his fingers, to let someone else run routes with his new missile launcher.
Although even dad admits that a spare $600,000 sure would’ve come in handy recently. Brayden just sprung for a $3,000 bed, complete with one of those “smart” therapy mattresses that contour to your spine.
“He doesn’t care about any of that stuff,” Rich said. “We really just don’t care about that. We have a really great (adviser) who is our brand manager … he always told us, ‘Don’t try to get rich playing college football. The real money is in the NFL.’”
No receipts. No regrets.
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“I’ve seen his accountability going up, his sense of responsibility going up big time,” Rich said. “He won that (CSU) locker room last year, to be honest with you, before the season even started. People loved him. He’s got no enemies. Except for some CU Buffs fans.”
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