BASEBALL
Spencer Jones hit a key two-run single in the fifth inning and the Somerset Patriots shortened Portland’s lead in the second half of the Eastern League’s Northeast Division with a 4-1 victory Sunday at Hadlock Field.
Anthony Ziegler was 3 for 4 with an RBI single for Somerset, which now trails the Sea Dogs by 3 1/2 games.
Ahbram Liendo scored the only run for Portland with a single in the third inning. Jhostynxon Garcia had two of the Sea Dogs’ six hits.
SMALL LEAGUE: Lathan Norton scored from second base on an overthrow at first base as Lake Mary, Florida, rallied to defeat Taiwan 2-1 in eight innings to win the Little League World Series title in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Taiwan held on to a 1-0 lead from the first inning until the bottom of the sixth inning, when DeMarcos Mieses got Chase Anderson on a base hit to shallow left field.
FOOTBALL
NFL: Joe D’Alessandris, who coached offensive linemen for nearly half a century and eventually made it to four NFL teams, has died. He was 70 years old.
The Baltimore Ravens, D’Alessandris’ employer since 2017, announced his death on Sunday. He was hospitalized earlier this month with an unspecified illness, prompting him to resign from his duties as the team’s offensive line coach.
• Los Angeles Rams linebacker Ernest Jones has been given permission to seek a trade amid an impasse over a contract extension, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.
Jones became a mainstay of the Rams defense two seasons ago, playing alongside Bobby Wagner for a year before taking on the central role in the middle of the lineup last season. Jones led the Rams with 145 tackles last year — 51 more than second-place safety Jordan Fuller — while recording 4.5 sacks and excelling as a blitzing linebacker.
• The Miami Dolphins released quarterback Mike White, making Skylar Thompson the likely replacement for Tua Tagovailoa for the 2024 season.
Thompson appeared to secure the spot as a backup when he came on as a substitute and led two touchdown drives with 190 yards passing in Miami’s loss to Tampa Bay in the final preseason game.
• Bengals star receiver Ja’Marr Chase completed his contract extension and practiced for the first time this summer, two weeks before Cincinnati opens the season against the New England Patriots.
The Bengals posted photos on social media from a closed practice showing Chase participating in the workouts.
Chase has been watching most of the workouts but has not participated as he seeks a long-term contract extension. He is in the fourth year of his rookie deal and the Bengals have already exercised a fully guaranteed fifth-year option worth $21.8 million for 2025.
CAR RACING
INDY CAR: Will Power stayed in the race for the IndyCar championship with a lights-to-flag victory at the Portland International Raceway in Oregon.
Power started second alongside pole-sitter Santino Ferrucci, but an alliance between Team Penske and the Foyt organization allowed Power and Ferrucci to form a plan for the start. Power pushed past Ferrucci in the first corner and pulled ahead by 10 seconds over points leader Alex Palou.
One of Power’s teammates, Josef Newgarden, finished third
FORMULA 1: McLaren driver Lando Norris let his Red Bull rival Max Verstappen pass on the first lap of the Dutch Grand Prix, then regained the lead and drove to his second career victory.
Verstappen finished second and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc third.
BASKETBALL
NBA: A’ja Wilson scored a point just before time expired to keep Las Vegas from blowing a 13-point quarter in Chicago. The Aces won 77-75 despite Angel Reese again grabbing 20 rebounds.
Wilson, a two-time MVP of the two-time defending champions, finished with 20 points and 18 rebounds, her 21st double-double of the season.
Reese grabbed 22 rebounds for Chicago, his best performance of the season.
• Arike Ogunbowale scored 33 points, Natasha Howard 30 and Dallas overcame a 19-point deficit in the fourth quarter to surprise the visiting Los Angeles Sparks 113-110.
FOOTBALL
ENGLAND: After being continuously booed by the home crowd for a derogatory social media post about Wolverhampton, Noni Madueke responded with a second-half hat-trick to lead the visitors from Chelsea to a 6-2 victory, their first Premier League win under new manager Enzo Maresca.
SPAIN: Brazilian teenager Endrick made history on his debut for Real Madrid when he replaced Kylian Mbappé late in the game and scored the goal deep into injury time that secured a 3-0 win over Valladolid.
With this goal, Endrick became the youngest foreign player to score for Madrid in the Spanish league at the age of 18 years and 35 days, surpassing Frenchman Raphael Varane, who was 18 years and 152 days old when he scored in 2011.
athletics
WORLD RECORDS: Armand Duplantis once again broke the pole vault world record, this time with a height of 6.26 metres (20 feet, 51/2 inches) at a Diamond League meeting in Chorzow, Poland.
Duplantis, a 24-year-old from Louisiana who competes for his mother’s native Sweden, added another centimeter to his world record, which he has broken three times this year and 10 times in his career.
• Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke a 28-year-old world record in the 3,000-meter run by more than three seconds.
Ingebrigtsen achieved a time of 7 minutes and 17.55 seconds in Chorzow, Poland, beating the previous record of 7:20.67, set by Kenyan Daniel Komen in 1996.
RIDE A BIKE
SPANISH VUELTA: Riding over the iconic peaks of the Sierra Nevada, Adam Yates took the lead to win stage 9 of the Spanish Vuelta, while Australian rider Ben O’Connor retained the overall lead ahead of the first rest day.
On a hot day in southern Spain, Yates joined the breakaway and then powered through the final climbs to take his second Grand Tour stage win.
O’Connor leads the overall standings by 3 minutes and 53 seconds ahead of three-time Vuelta winner Primoz Roglic.
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