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HOUSTON – The Astros have spent the last month letting making the Rangers sweat. Over six head-to-head meetings, they had methodically melted the Rangers’ AL West lead with a series of emotionally draining wins, the kind that can wear down a team new to this whole playoff-race thing.

BOSTON — Wednesday night marked one of the best pitcher’s duels we’ve seen at Fenway Park this season, a heavyweight battle between 24-year-old phenoms Brayan Bello and Spencer Strider. But in the end, it was the Red Sox offense that stole the show.

There is an old baseball adage about walks. Things usually don’t end well when you start issuing them in a game.

Cleveland Guardians catcher Bo Naylor was just four years old when Kansas City Royals starter Zack Greinke made his MLB debut. Naylor, a talented youngster, got the best of the 20-year veteran on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO — All it took, apparently, to snap the Giants’ season-long losing streak was to keep going down the list of MLB’s biggest losers. They lost two of three to the reeling Pittsburgh Pirates.

Jul. 25—PHOENIX — Another day, another lead.

TONKAWA -- The Northern Oklahoma College-Tonkawa Lady Mavs basketball team ranked No. 9 in academics nationally for 2022-2023, according to information released by Head Coach Greg Krause.

Jul. 24—CHICAGO — For about a week, it looked as if the Cardinals might go on one of those runs that force the front office to take a step back and reconsider how it plans to augment the roster by the upcoming MLB trade deadline. A win streak, electrifying individual performances and a mix of nail-biting wins can feel like a wave of momentum continuing to build.