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sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Okotoks Dawgs were the first team to advance to the Division finals Thursday. The Dawgs beat the Brooks Bombers 9-2, completing a two-game sweep of the No. 4 seed to advance to the West Division finals. They’ll await the winner of the Sylvan Lake Gulls and Lethbridge Bulls with the Dawgs two wins [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb A first-round exit showed a different Medicine Hat Mavericks team than the one that found success all summer at Athletic Park. The Mavs bowed out of the WCBL playoffs with a 13-7, Game 2 loss Thursday at Regina to the Red Sox, eliminated by a two-game sweep for the first time since the WCBL [...] Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Western Canadian Baseball League Playoffs got underway Wednesday with different results on tap. Sylvan Lake vs. Lethbridge Only one of the four series was unable to get started as rain in Sylvan Lake postponed Game 1 between the Gulls and the Lethbridge Bulls. They will face a modified schedule, with Game 1 rescheduled [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Mavericks have prided themselves on an ability to bounce back throughout the season. They’ll need to embrace that identity as they try to stretch the summer a little longer. The Mavs dropped Game 1 of their first-round series with the Regina Red Sox, falling 6-2 on Wednesday at Athletic Park. They [...] Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com The 2025 season came to a close for the Medicine Hat Mavericks Thursday night. The Mavs lost 13-7 at Regina, dropping Game 2 of the first-round series with the Red Sox. It’s the first time the Mavs have been swept in the first round of the best-of-three format playoffs. A four-run first inning propelled [...] Read More »

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Miguel Andujar hit his first home run with Cincinnati, Spencer Steer and Noelvi Marte had three hits and four RBIs each, and the Reds outlasted the Pittsburgh Pirates 14-8 on Sunday to earn a split in the four-game series. Andujar, who hit a three-run shot to the rotunda in left field in [...] Read More »

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks scored in the first inning for the sixth game in a row Sunday, the longest such streak in the majors this season. Adrian Del Castillo’s three-run homer, his first of the season, put the Diamondbacks up 3-0 against the Colorado Rockies. Several teams this season had four-game streaks of [...] Read More »

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Lions safety Morice Norris was at the team’s training facility with teammates on Sunday, two days after he was taken off the field in an ambulance late in a preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person, who spoke to The Associated Press [...] Read More »

CHICAGO (AP) — Lenyn Sosa and Colson Montgomery homered and the Chicago White Sox snapped a six-game skid with a 6-4 win over the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday Sosa hit a two-run homer, his 14th, in the first and Montgomery followed later in the inning with a solo shot, his ninth. Curtis Mead and Kyle [...] Read More »

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Luke Keaschall hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning, Ryan Fitzgerald homered for his first career hit, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3 on Sunday. With two outs, Keaschall hit a fastball from Royals closer Carlos Estévez (4-4) to the first row of seats in right-centerfield for [...] Read More »