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By STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Keaton Winn’s first trip to a major league ballpark also became the site of his first big league save. Winn worked four solid innings of relief Tuesday night to help the San Francisco Giants to an 11-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Mike Yastrzemski and

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Gonsolin’s velocity was down, not that it mattered. He delivered six shutout innings after getting a couple extra days of rest as the result of experiencing body soreness. Will Smith and David Peralta staked Gonsolin to an early lead with two-run homers in the

By KRIS KEEHL Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Gary Sánchez hit a three-run home run, his sixth homer since joining the Padres on May 30, and San Diego beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-3 on Tuesday night in front of a sell-out crowd. “He’s been, kind of, a guy that has set the tone for

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Venturing back into the nation’s culture wars, the Republican-controlled House is taking up legislation that GOP lawmakers say would protect gas stoves from overzealous government regulators. A bill approved Tuesday would prohibit use of federal funds to regulate gas stoves as a hazardous product, while a separate

By STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mike Yastrzemski and Patrick Bailey homered and Michael Conforto added four hits and three RBIs to lead the San Francisco Giants to an 11-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night. Keaton Winn, who had never been in a big league ballpark before being

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Hunter Renfroe’s two-run homer capped a three-run sixth inning and the surging Los Angeles Angels beat the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 7-3 on Tuesday night. Renfroe’s homer helped spoil the major league debut of Owen White (0-1), who was recalled from Double-A Frisco. White entered with one out in the fifth

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft’s planned $69 billion purchase of video game company Activision Blizzard was blocked by a federal judge Tuesday, giving more time for an antitrust review of the deal. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco ruled in support of a temporary restraining order sought by the Federal Trade Commission

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Furious Oakland Athletics fans came en masse with a single message to owner John Fisher: “SELL.” “Sell the team!” they chanted thousands of times during the A’s 2-1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak. Buddies Brian Guido

By STEFANIE DAZIO and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Los Angeles city councilman with 10 counts, including embezzlement and perjury, Tuesday in the latest criminal case to upend the scandal-plagued governing board of the nation’s second-largest city. Curren Price Jr. faces five counts of embezzlement of government funds,

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Homa knows he could walk around Los Angeles Country Club this week like he owns the place. After all, he’s returning to his hometown to play in the 123rd U.S. Open, and he’s doing it at a hallowed venue where he set the course

By PETER SMITH Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Longtime pastors of two churches — one massive and one modest-sized — made their final appeals to Southern Baptists on Tuesday, asking to have their churches returned to the denomination’s fold after being ousted for having women pastors. Rick Warren, the retired founding pastor of Saddleback

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Berry Henson always imagined moments like this. He’s at the U.S. Open, playing practice rounds with Phil Mickelson and soaking up whatever information he can get for his first major championship against the best players in the world. He just didn’t imagine it would take