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9:31 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Jake Bennett allowed four hits in seven innings, Tsung-Che Cheng had his first multi-RBI game and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 5-0 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory

9:28 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Alec Burleson and José Fermín homered, Michael McGreevy worked 6 1/3 strong innings and the St. Louis Cardinals snapped a seven-game losing streak against Milwaukee with a 5-1 win over the Brewers on Wednesday night

9:13 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Kayla McBride scored 23 points, and Minnesota beat the Connecticut Sun 86-80 to give Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve the WNBA record for career wins

8:52 PM on Wednesday, July 8

CJ Abrams and Luis García Jr. both hit their 20th homers of the season, and the Washington Nationals pounded the Houston Astros 8-2

8:43 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Janelle Salaun scored 26 points and the Golden State Valkyries held off the expansion Toronto Tempo 83-75 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory

8:38 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Pete Crow-Armstrong hit two of Chicago’s five home runs and the Cubs outslugged the Baltimore Orioles 9-7

8:36 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Jake Rogers and Spencer Torkelson homered and the Detroit Tigers won their fourth straight game, beating the Athletics 6-1 on Wednesday night

8:24 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Kyle Stowers homered, major league batting leader Otto López had his 40th multi-hit game and the Miami Marlins beat the Seattle Mariners 2-0

8:19 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Jonathan Aranda drove in three runs, Shane McClanahan pitched 6 1/3 innings and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees 3-0 on Wednesday night to extend their AL East lead to five games

8:18 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Brandon Woodruff has been diagnosed with a new injury to his troublesome right shoulder after exiting early from his most recent start and returning to the injured list

8:09 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Joey Bart hit a two-run home run with two outs in the eighth inning, lifting the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves to a 3-0 win over his former team after Pittsburgh Pirates starter Jared Jones pitched six perfect innings before being lifted

7:46 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Former Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier wants to play in the NBA while he fights sports gambling charges that sidelined him last season

7:36 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The Los Angeles Angels have activated center fielder Mike Trout from the injured list just in time for the All-Star Game in his beloved Philadelphia

7:22 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Belgium is done celebrating its victory over the host United States and hard at work on extending its World Cup run on American soil

7:14 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The NL East-leading Atlanta Braves broke up a combined perfect-game bid by Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers Jared Jones and Mason Montgomery in the seventh inning Wednesday night

6:57 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Residents of the rural community of Guajes de Ayala in Mexico have faced a violent attack by the La Nueva Familia Michoacana cartel

6:47 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Detroit Tigers All-Star catcher Dillon Dingler left Wednesday’s game against the Athletics with a injured right hand

6:38 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Phil Regan, who pitched for four major league teams over 13 years before spending five more decades in the game as a coach, manager and scout, has died

5:28 PM on Wednesday, July 8

A newspaper is reporting that Mark Cuban has accused Dallas Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont of freezing the team’s former majority owner out of business opportunities in a proposed move of the club out of downtown

4:31 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Dylan Cease of the Toronto Blue Jays took a no-hitter into the ninth inning on Wednesday before the Giants’ Heliot Ramos broke it up a line-drive single to center field