BASEBALL
Trevor Schwecke singled home the tying and go-ahead runs in a four-run ninth inning as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats rallied for a 6-4 win over the Portland Sea Dogs in an Eastern League game Saturday night at Hadlock Field.
Earlier, Tyler Dearden homered in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Sea Dogs a 7-6 win in the completion of a game suspended Friday night because of a thunderstorm.
The Fisher Cats tied Friday’s game with four runs in the top of the ninth and had the bases loaded with one out when the game was stopped. When the game resumed Saturday, Ryan Miller escaped the jam with two strikeouts, and Dearden led off the bottom half with a drive to center for his third home run of the season.
In the regularly scheduled game, the Sea Dogs built a 4-2 lead with the help of home runs from Nathan Hickey and Alex Binelas but couldn’t close it out.
Trevor Story, in the second game of his rehab assignment with the Sea Dogs, was 0 for 4 with four strikeouts.
AUTO RACING
INDYCAR: Josef Newgarden continued his mastery of the ovals on the IndyCar Series this season, winning the first half of a weekend doubleheader at Iowa Speedway.
It was Newgarden’s third win of the season, all on ovals, and his fifth win at Iowa Speedway. Newgarden also won at Texas Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500.
Scott McLaughlin finished second. Pato O’Ward, who along with Newgarden won in last season’s doubleheader at Iowa, was third, and Marcus Ericsson finished fourth.
XFINITY: Austin Hill survived a wild restart in the final overtime laps at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, and earned his fourth Xfinity Series victory of the season.
Josh Berry, needing a win to qualify for the playoffs, held the lead until a late wreck brought out the caution. Berry slammed into the wall off the restart and wrecked. Hill had enough fuel in the No. 21 Chevrolet to speed away and get the win.
Sam Mayer was second and Chase Elliott, winless in the Cup Series this year, finished third. Riley Herbst and Daniel Hemric rounded out the top five.
FORMULA ONE: Lewis Hamilton took his first pole position since 2021 and ended Max Verstappen’s bid for a sixth straight pole, leading qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest.
Hamilton pumped his left fist several times after placing just .003 seconds ahead of Verstappen on his last lap to secure a record-extending 104th pole, but first since Saudi Arabia in December 2021.
CYCLING
TOUR DE FRANCE: Tadej Pogačar pipped Jonas Vingegaard to take the penultimate stage – an 83-mile ride from Belfort to the mountain resort of Le Markstein.
Pogačar’s victory won’t be enough to stop his rival from winning the overall title for the second straight year. Vingegaard maintained his huge lead over two-time champion Pogačar and will surely be crowned the Tour winner after Sunday’s largely ceremonial stage ends on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
GOLF
LPGA: Cheyenne Knight and Elizabeth Szokol held off Matilda Castren and Kelly Tan by a stroke to win the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational in Midland, Michigan.
Knight and Szokol closed with a 5-under 65 in better-ball play for a 23-under total.
Castren and Tan shot a 63. They also finished second last year.
PGA: Patrick Rodgers scored eight points under the modified Stableford scoring system to take the third-round lead in the Barracuda Championship at Tahoe Mountain Club in Truckee, California.
Winless on the PGA Tour, the 31-year-old Rodgers eagled the par-5 12th and added birdies on the par-4 16th and 18th to reach 34 points, one more than Ryan Gerard, a 23-year-old former North Carolina player who has special temporary membership on the PGA Tour.
BASKETBALL
WNBA: DeWanna Bonner scored 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds, Alyssa Thomas almost had another triple-double, and Connecticut nearly blew a 20-point lead before holding on for an 86-78 win over the Atlanta Dream in College Park, Maryland.
Thomas finished with 15 points, 11 rebounds, eight assists and two steals.
• A’ja Wilson scored 35 points on 14-of-17 shooting and grabbed 14 rebounds to help Las Vegas beat the Minnesota Lynx, 98-81 in Minneapolis.
The Aces (21-2) tied a WNBA record with their fifth straight win by at least 15 points.
Wilson became just the third player in WNBA history to score at least 35 points, grab 10-plus rebounds and shoot 80% or better from the field.
TENNIS
HALL OF FAME OPEN: Teenager Alex Michelsen beat four-time tournament champion John Isner 7-6 (6), 6-4 in an all-American semifinal in Newport, Rhode Island.
The 18-year-old Michelsen, playing in his second ATP tournament after winning a challenger tour event in Chicago last week, will face No. 2 seed Adrian Mannarino, who beat fellow-Frenchman and third-seeded Ugo Humbert, 6-4, 6-3.
HORSE RACING
HASKELL STAKES: Geaux Rocket Ride won the $1 million Haskell Stakes in a mild surprise, beating Kentucky Derby winner Mage by 1 3/4 lengths at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey.
Even-money favorite Arabian Knight finished third in the race for 3-year-olds, denying trainer Bob Baffert a 10th Haskell victory.
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