The Sports Report: A brutal start seals Dodgers' loss to Brewers

From Jack Harris : Yoshinobu Yamamoto was one pitch away from a clean first inning Monday night.

Instead, it devolved into a sudden, unstoppable nightmare.

In the shortest start of his MLB career, and in an outing that somehow rivaled his disastrous debut in the majors last March in South Korea, Yamamoto missed one chance after the next to escape the bottom of the first against the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field an inning which poor defense, questionable pitch calling and bad batted ball luck all also contributed to his 41-pitch collapse.

By the time it was all over, the Brewers were leading by five runs, manager Dave Roberts was summoning a reliever just two outs into the game, and the Dodgers were well on their way to a fourth consecutive defeat, never coming close to a comeback in a 9-1 loss to open a six-game road trip.

This is a time, Roberts said afterward, as the Dodgers matched their longest losing streak of the season, for us to kind of look at ourselves and be better.

Continue reading here Clayton Kershaw grateful for weird but cool All-Star selection as Legend Pick Really impressed.

Shohei Ohtanis return to two-way role going (mostly) well a month in Dodgers box score MLB scores MLB standings DODGER STADIUM From Bill Shaikin : What would a baseball team in Los Angeles want from a retired artist and designer in New York? Janet Bennett wasnt sure.

Generations of Angelenos are familiar with her signature project.

You probably have walked right past it.

Those colorful tile mosaics that decorate the long corridors toward baggage claim in five terminals at Los Angeles International Airport? She designed them.

You might have seen them in the movies or on television: Airplane!, Mad Men and The Graduate , just for starters.

You might have memorized the trivia: When you passed the red tiles, you were halfway down the corridor.

Red means halfway was shorthand for locals in the know, just like E Ticket or the #19 sandwich.

It just says L.A.

in so many ways, said Janet Marie Smith , the Dodgers executive vice president of planning and development.

The Dodgers wanted to get in touch with Bennett because they were about to install a similar tile wall at Dodger Stadium.

Smith could not find Bennett, but she reached out to someone who had liked an article about Bennett that had been posted on LinkedIn.

Same last name, same spelling.

Smith crossed her fingers.

Continue reading here ANGELS From Benjamin Royer : Travis dArnaud knows Jacob deGrom better than any other catcher in baseball.

He caught the hard-throwing right-hander 60 times when they played together with the New York Mets, the most frequent backstop the former Cy Young Award winner has thrown to in his career.

That familiarity did dArnaud and the Angels well en route to their 6-5 victory over the Rangers (44-47) on Monday night, in which Nolan Schanuel walked off their American League West foes in the ninth inning by drawing a bases-loaded, RBI walk.

The veteran catcher ambushed deGrom in the second inning for a two-run home run, just hitting the ball hard enough 97.4 mph over the left-field wall.

DArnauds home run broke deGroms Rangers franchise-record streak of 14 consecutive starts with two or fewer runs given up and provided the Angels (44-46) with an early 3-2 lead.

Getting lucky to hit a homer against any Cy Young winner is really special, said dArnaud, who went 2-for-4 with three RBI.

Continue reading here Angels box score MLB scores MLB standings CLIPPERS From Broderick Turner : The Clippers got size and youth when they acquired John Collins from the Utah Jazz on Monday, but the team lost quality shooting and veteran leadership when it sent Norman Powell to the Miami Heat as part of a three-team, four-player trade.

The Clippers also will send a 2027 second-round pick to the Jazz and the Heat will send Kyle Anderson and Kevin Love to the Jazz as part of the deal for L.A.

to get Collins.

Sad to trade Norm and extremely excited to add John, Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank said during a videoconference with reporters.

Norm has been a huge part of our basketball team for the past three-and-a-half years.

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But this was an opportunity for us to address a different position, different skill set where we felt we needed reinforcement.

John is someone we targeted the past couple of years and we feel really, really fortunate that we were able to obtain him at this time.

Continue reading here THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY 1889 John L.

Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain in the 75th round in Richburg, Miss., for the U.S.

heavyweight championship.

Its the last bare-knuckle boxing match before the Marquis of Queensbury rules are introduced.

1922 Suzanne Lenglen beats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, 6-2, 6-0 for her fourth straight singles title at Wimbledon.

1939 Bobby Riggs beats Elwood Cooke in five sets to win the mens singles title at Wimbledon.

1941 Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits a three-run, two-out homer in the ninth inning to give the American League a dramatic 7-5 victory in the All-Star game at Detroits Briggs Stadium.

1955 Peter Thomson wins his second consecutive British Open finishing two strokes ahead of John Fallon.

Thomson shoots a 7-under 281 at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland.

1967 Billie Jean King sweeps three titles at Wimbledon.

King beats Ann Hayden Jones 6-3, 6-4, for the singles title; teams with Rosie Casals for the womens doubles title, and pairs with Owen Davidson for the mixed doubles title.

1978 Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 to win his third straight mens title at Wimbledon.

1984 John McEnroe whips Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 in 100-degree temperatures to take the mens singles title at Wimbledon.

1990 West Germany wins the World Cup as Andreas Brehme scores with 6 minutes to go for a 1-0 victory over defending champion Argentina in a foul-marred final.

1991 Michael Stich upsets three-time champion Boris Becker to win the mens singles title at Wimbledon, 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

1994 Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O.J.

Simpson.

1995 Top-ranked Steffi Graf wins her sixth Wimbledon singles title, beating Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 4-6, 6-1, 7-5.

1995 NHL Draft: Detroit Jr.

Red Wings (OHL) defenceman Bryan Berard first pick by Ottawa Senators.

1996 Switzerlands Martina Hingis becomes the youngest champion in Wimbledon history at 15 years, 282 days, teaming with Helena Sukova to beat Meredith McGrath and Larisa Neiland 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 in womens doubles.

2000 Venus Williams beats Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 7-6 (3) for her first Grand Slam title.

Williams is the first black womens champion at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1957-58.

2007 Roger Federer wins his fifth straight Wimbledon championship, beating Rafael Nadal 7-6 (7), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-2.

Is also Federers 11th Grand Slam title overall.

2010 Paul Goydos becomes the fourth golfer in PGA Tour history to shoot a 59.

Goydos puts together his 12-under, bogey-free round on the opening day of the John Deere Classic.

Goydos makes the turn at 4-under, then birdies all but one hole on the back nine at the 7,257-yard TPC Deere Run course.

2012 Roger Federer equals Pete Sampras record of seven mens singles titles at the All England Club, and wins his 17th Grand Slam title overall, by beating Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.

2014 Germany hands Brazil its heaviest World Cup loss ever with an astounding 7-1 rout in the semifinals that stuns the host nation.

Miroslav Klose scores a record-setting 16th career World Cup goal in a five-goal spurt in the first half and Germany goes on to score the most goals in a World Cup semifinal.

2016 Roger Federer loses in the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time in his career, falling to Milos Raonic 6-3, 6-7 (3), 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 on Centre Court.

The 34-year-old Federer had been 10-0 in Wimbledon semifinals, winning seven of his finals.

2018 South Korean golfer Sei Young Ki breaks the LPGA 72-hole scoring record with a 31-under par 257 in winning the Thornberry Creek Classic.

2021 San Diego Padres relief pitcher Daniel Camarena records his first MLB hit, a Grand Slam, in his second at bat against the Washington Nationals Max Sherzer.

2022 Gymnast Simone Biles aged 25, becomes the youngest person to receive the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden.

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