BASEBALL

Jhon Nunez singled home Jordan Betts with the winning run in the fourth inning, providing the Portland Sea Dogs with a 2-1 Eastern League victory over the Binghamton Rumble Ponies on Wednesday afternoon at NYSEG Stadium in Binghamton, New York.

Portland opened the scoring in the first when Jantzen Witte hit the first of his two singles and Josh Ockimey followed with an RBI triple to right-center field.

Binghamton tied the game with a run in the second, but Sea Dogs pitcher Mike Shawaryn settled down to retire 11 of the final 12 batters in six innings.

Portland’s bullpen dominated over the final three innings.

Adam Lau issued a leadoff walk in the seventh but retired the next six.

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Travis Lakins fanned the side in the ninth to earn the save in his first save opportunity.

CYCLING

TOUR DE FRANCE: British rider Geraint Thomas won the first summit finish of the race and claimed the yellow jersey while four-time champion Chris Froome moved up to second overall as Sky controlled numerous attacks.

Froome trails Thomas, his teammate, by 1 minute, 25 seconds.

Thomas attacked on the last of four grueling climbs, powered past longtime breakaway leader Mikel Nieve in the final kilometer, and finished 20 seconds ahead of Tom Dumoulin.

Froome crossed third, just behind Dumoulin, who moved up to third overall, 1:44 behind.

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OLYMPICS

WINTER GAMES: The International Olympic Committee has added seven events to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, creating a program of 109 gold medals.

The IOC says its executive board approved women’s monobob, Big Air freestyle skiing for men and women, plus mixed team events in short track speed skating, ski jumping, ski aerials and snowboard cross.

HOCKEY

NHL: Forward Chris Tierney re-signed with the San Jose Sharks following a season in which he set career highs in nearly every major statistical category.

SOCCER

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MLS: Real Salt Lake Coach Mike Petke was suspended an additional game and fined $10,000 by Major League Soccer for on-field misconduct during a game against Minnesota United.

Petke was fined for abusive and profane language directed at officials, uncontrollable behavior when he was ejected and public criticism of officials during a postgame press conference. Real Salt Lake also was fined $10,000 for social media posts.

TENNIS

U.S. OPEN: Two-time U.S. Open runner-up Victoria Azarenka is ranked just below the cutoff for direct entry into the year’s last Grand Slam tournament.

Azarenka, a former No. 1 and twice the champion at the Australian Open, is No. 108 this week, seven spots outside of an automatic spot in the main draw.

The U.S. Tennis Association announced that defending champion and top-ranked Rafael Nadal is one of six past male singles champions in the U.S. Open field, along with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Juan Martin del Potro and Marin Cilic.

The women’s winners with direct entry based on this week’s rankings: Serena Williams, Venus Williams, defending champ Sloane Stephens, Maria Sharapova and Samantha Stosur.


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