BASEBALL
Tyler Hill hit a grand slam in the seventh inning, and the Hartford Yard Goats completed a six-game series sweep against the Portland Sea Dogs with a 6-3 win Sunday afternoon at Hadlock Field.
The Sea Dogs wasted a strong start by Brett Kennedy, who struck out seven and allowed just three hits in six-plus innings. He didn’t give up a hit until Aaron Schunk homered with one out in the fifth, cutting Portland’s lead to 2-1.
Kennedy exited after walking the leadoff batter in the seventh. Joan Martinez issued two more walks before Hill sent a ball over the Green Monster.
Schunk added an RBI double in the eighth.
The Sea Dogs got off to a quick start, taking a 2-0 lead just three batters into the bottom of the first. David Hamilton led off with a single, stole second and scored on a double by Ceddanne Rafaela. Pedro Castellanos followed with another RBI double.
Portland scored its final run in the ninth on singles by Tyler Esplin and David Hamilton and a groundout by Rafaela.
The Sea Dogs begin a six-game road series against the Reading Fighting Phils on Tuesday.
NECBL: The Sanford Mainers scored two runs in the bottom of the 10th inning to beat the Winnipesaukee Muskrats, 5-4, in Sanford.
The Mainers (1-5) loaded the bases in the 10th, and Quinn McDaniel scored the tying run when MJ Lucas drew a walk. Grant Knipp singled home Adam Dapkewicz to end it.
Sanford sent it to extra innings when A.J. Cook scored on an error in the ninth.
SOCCER
MLS: Emmanuel Boateng scored in the 87th minute to give the New England Revolution a 2-1 victory at Sporting Kansas City.
Boateng notched his second goal of the season for the Revolution (5-5-4).
New England grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 30th minute on a goal by Gustavo Bou.
Johnny Russell scored the equalizer for Sporting KC (3-9-4) in the 52nd minute.
NATIONS LEAGUE: Portugal left Cristiano Ronaldo at home and lost its unbeaten record in 2022, as a goal after 57 seconds by Switzerland forward Haris Seferovic was enough for a 1-0 win in Geneva.
Portugal’s slip allowed Spain move into first place in the group with a 2-0 win over the Czech Republic.
• Erling Haaland scored two more goals against Sweden and also set up a goal to lead Norway to a 3-2 win in Oslo.
Norway leads its League B group with 10 points and is on course for promotion to the top tier of the competition with two games left.
AUTO RACING
INDYCAR: Josef Newgarden earned a $1 million bonus for winning at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, where his third win of the season completed a trifecta of victories on IndyCar’s different circuits.
Newgarden won on the oval at Texas and the street course in Long Beach this season before adding a win on the road course at Road America.
Newgarden is the only driver with multiple wins through eight of 17 races. He beat Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson of Chip Ganassi Racing by 3.371-seconds following two late restarts, but Ericsson reclaimed the points lead with the runner-up finish.
FORMULA ONE: Max Verstappen extended his championship lead by winning the Azerbaijan Grand Prix – his fifth victory of the season – following yet another early retirement by main rival Charles Leclerc.
Leclerc started from pole, immediately lost the lead in the first corner to Sergio Perez, Verstappen’s Red Bull teammate, then used smart strategy to cycle his Ferrari back to the front.
But Leclerc’s car started spewing smoke on Lap 20 of 51, and he had to retire for the second time in three races.
Perez finished second, while Mercedes was third and fourth with George Russell and Lewis Hamilton.
COLLEGES
BASEBALL: Freshman Jack Findlay threw five shutout innings in relief, and back-to-back home runs by catcher David LaManna and Jack Brannigan in the seventh inning sparked Notre Dame to a stunning 7-3 victory over No. 1 overall seed Tennessee in the championship game of the Knoxville Super Regional.
Notre Dame (40-15) will be making just its third College World Series appearance. The Fighting Irish’s other trips came in 1957 and 2002.
• Tanner Tredaway hit two solo home runs and two doubles, Cade Horton pitched six strong innings and Oklahoma rolled to an 11-2 victory over No. 4 overall seed Virginia Tech to win the Blacksburg Super Regional and advance to the College World Series.
• Brady Slavens hit a walk-off single to give Arkansas a 4-3 win over North Carolina as the Razorbacks swept the best-of-three super regional in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• Hunter Elliott struck out 10 in 7 1/3 shutout inniings, Jacob Gonzalez drove in the first run with an infield hit and Mississippi advanced to the College World Series with a 5-0 win over Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
TENNIS
STUTTGART OPEN: Matteo Berrettini showed signs of recapturing the form that took him to the Wimbledon final last year, as he beat Andy Murray 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 to take the title in Stuttgart, Germany, in his first tournament in three months.
The Italian hadn’t played since Indian Wells in March because of a hand injury that forced him to miss the entire clay-court swing.
NOTTINGHAM OPEN: Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil captured her first WTA title with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 victory over Alison Riske of the United States in Nottingham, England.
BASKETBALL
WNBA: Courtney Vandersloot hit a 3-pointer from the wing with 0.9 seconds left to help the visiting Chicago Sky overcome Sabrina Ionescu’s second career triple-double and beat the New York Liberty, 88-86.
Ionescu finished with 27 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists.
• Breanna Stewart finished with 25 points, eight rebounds, four assists and three steals to help the Seattle Storm fend off the Dallas Wings, 84-79 in Arlington, Texas.
• Skylar Diggins-Smith had 27 points – including a four-point play late in regulation – Shey Peddy scored seven of her 12 points in overtime and the visiting Phoenix Mercury beat the Washington Mystics, 99-90.
• NaLyssa Smith had 21 points and 14 rebounds and visiting Indiana closed the game on a 11-4 run to beat the Minnesota Lynx, 84-80.
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