MIAMI (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit a tiebreaking solo home run in the eighth, Christopher Sánchez pitched eight sharp innings and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 2-1 on Thursday night.
Sánchez (6-2) allowed five hits, one run and struck out four. Philadelphia took three of four in the series.
Schwarber put the Phillies ahead in the eighth when he connected on a 1-0 sinker from reliever Anthony Bender (1-5), crushing it 428 feet to right-center. Schwarber has 23 homers on the season, only trailing Shohei Ohtani (25) for most in the National League.
Marlins right-hander Edward Cabrera had his best start of the year, limiting the Phillies to one run and two hits while striking out five in a season-high 6 1/3 innings. Cabrera received applause from Marlins fans when he walked off the mound in the seventh after throwing his 82nd pitch.
Nick Fortes opened scoring for the Marlins in the fifth when he singled in Dane Myers, who hit a leadoff double.
The Miami bullpen could not preserve the lead after Cabrera was lifted. Cade Gibson came in with one on and one out in the seventh and loaded the bases on a single, wild pitch and hit by pitch. Gibson managed to limit the damage to one run that tied it at 1.
Orion Kerkering finished for his second save of the season.
Key moment
Otto Kemp raced home from second on an infield single from Bryson Stott in the ninth but was thrown out at the plate.
Key stat
Sánchez lowered his ERA to 2.87.
Up next
Both teams start home series Friday. RHP Zack Wheeler (7-2, 2.76 ERA) is on the mound for Philadelphia against the New York Mets. RHP Janson Junk (1-0, 2.78) will go for Miami against Atlanta.
The Golden State Warriors have had over 600 players don the more than 60 jersey numbers used by their players over the more than 75 years of existence the team has enjoyed in its rich and storied history.
Founded in 1946 during the Basketball Association of America (BAA — a precursor league of the NBA) era, the team has called home the cities of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oakland, and even San Diego.
To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Warriors Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. For this article, we begin with the 12th of 27 players who wore the No. 15 jersey for the Warriors.
That player would be Golden State guard alum Bobby Lewis. After ending his college career at UNC, Lewis was picked up with the 39th overall selection of the 1967 NBA draft by the (then) San Francisco (now, Golden State) Warriors.
The Washington, District of Columbia native would play the first three seasons of his pro career with the Dubs, coming to an end when he was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1970 expansion draft.
During his time suiting up for the Warriors, Lewis wore only jersey No. 15 and put up 5.8 points, 2.6 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
The Brooklyn Nets have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over the course of their history since the franchise was founded in 1967 as a charter member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), when the team was known as the “New Jersey Americans”.
Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets before settling on the name by which they are known today, bringing their rich player and jersey history with them to the league of today.
To commemorate the players who played for the Nets over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers, Nets Wire is covering the entire history of the franchise’s jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. The 21st of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 20, which has has had a total of 28 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The second of those players wearing No. 20 played in the (then) New Jersey Americans (now, Brooklyn Nets) era, guard alum Barry Leibowitz. After ending his college career at LIU, Leibowitz was picked up with the 48th overall selection of the 1967 NBA draft by the New York Knicks.
The New Yorker instead signed with the ABA’s (defunct) Pittsburgh Pipers, and was dealt to the Americans in 1967. His stay with the team would span just 24 games of the same season, coming to an end when he was traded again, this time to the (also defunct) Oakland Oaks.
During his time suiting up for the Americans, Leibowitz wore only jersey No. 20 and put up 11.4 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
Four days after the Boston Red Sox said goodbye to Rafael Devers, the team is set to demote one of the prospects who was supposed to help replace him as a franchise player.
Boston plans to option second baseman Kristian Campbell back to Triple-A Worcester, according to MLB.com. The club has not confirmed the move, but figures to do it on Friday ahead of its game against Devers and the San Francisco Giants.
Not much has gone according to plan for the 39-37 Red Sox this season, who made headlines earlier this week when they traded away their longest-tenured player in Devers over a simmering position dispute. Somehow, Campbell was a factor in Devers’ unhappiness, with Joon Lee reporting for Yahoo Sports that Devers was upset when Campbell volunteered to cover first base for the Red Sox after Triston Casas tore his patellar tendon.
Devers outright refused to switch positions after losing third base to offseason signing Alex Bregman, but also interpreted Campbell’s offer as a slight to his own stature.
Kristian Campbell was the first of the Red Sox top prospect trio to reach the majors. He’s now headed back to the minors. (Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Rob Tringali via Getty Images
Campbell was one of three highly anticipated prospects Boston was expecting this season, alongside outfielder Roman Anthony and shortstop/third baseman Marcelo Mayer. All three players ranked in the top 15 of Baseball America’s top prospects list, but it was only Campbell who broke camp with the big-league club.
As a prospect, the 22-year-old Campbell presented a well-rounded offensive approach combined with defensive versatility. He was an unheralded talent in the 2023 MLB Draft, with the Red Sox landing him in the fourth round, but he broke out majorly in 2024, earning Baseball America’s Minor League Player of the Year Award after hitting .330/.439/.558 between High-A, Double-A and Triple-A.
For about a month, Campbell delivered on the hype. He finished April hitting .301/.407/.495 and was a major Rookie of the Year candidate, but then fell off massively. He has hit .159/.243/.222 since the calendar turned to May, with only one base hit in the past week.
While Campbell was scuffling, the Red Sox called up Anthony and Mayer. They had the trio together for a little more than a week, but will now send down Campbell to work on his offensive approach and perhaps get his confidence back up.
Four days after the Boston Red Sox said goodbye to Rafael Devers, the team is set to demote one of the prospects who was supposed to help replace him as a franchise player.
Boston plans to option second baseman Kristian Campbell back to Triple-A Worcester, according to MLB.com. The club has not confirmed the move, but figures to do it on Friday ahead of its game against Devers and the San Francisco Giants.
Not much has gone according to plan for the 39-37 Red Sox this season, who made headlines earlier this week when they traded away their longest-tenured player in Devers over a simmering position dispute. Somehow, Campbell was a factor in Devers’ unhappiness, with Joon Lee reporting for Yahoo Sports that Devers was upset when Campbell volunteered to cover first base for the Red Sox after Triston Casas tore his patellar tendon.
Devers outright refused to switch positions after losing third base to offseason signing Alex Bregman, but also interpreted Campbell’s offer as a slight to his own stature.
Kristian Campbell was the first of the Red Sox top prospect trio to reach the majors. He’s now headed back to the minors. (Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Rob Tringali via Getty Images
Campbell was one of three highly anticipated prospects Boston was expecting this season, alongside outfielder Roman Anthony and shortstop/third baseman Marcelo Mayer. All three players ranked in the top 15 of Baseball America’s top prospects list, but it was only Campbell who broke camp with the big-league club.
As a prospect, the 22-year-old Campbell presented a well-rounded offensive approach combined with defensive versatility. He was an unheralded talent in the 2023 MLB Draft, with the Red Sox landing him in the fourth round, but he broke out majorly in 2024, earning Baseball America’s Minor League Player of the Year Award after hitting .330/.439/.558 between High-A, Double-A and Triple-A.
For about a month, Campbell delivered on the hype. He finished April hitting .301/.407/.495 and was a major Rookie of the Year candidate, but then fell off massively. He has hit .159/.243/.222 since the calendar turned to May, with only one base hit in the past week.
While Campbell was scuffling, the Red Sox called up Anthony and Mayer. They had the trio together for a little more than a week, but will now send down Campbell to work on his offensive approach and perhaps get his confidence back up.
Four days after the Boston Red Sox said goodbye to Rafael Devers, the team is set to demote one of the prospects who was supposed to help replace him as a franchise player.
Boston plans to option second baseman Kristian Campbell back to Triple-A Worcester, according to MLB.com. The club has not confirmed the move, but figures to do it on Friday ahead of its game against Devers and the San Francisco Giants.
Not much has gone according to plan for the 39-37 Red Sox this season, who made headlines earlier this week when they traded away their longest-tenured player in Devers over a simmering position dispute. Somehow, Campbell was a factor in Devers’ unhappiness, with Joon Lee reporting for Yahoo Sports that Devers was upset when Campbell volunteered to cover first base for the Red Sox after Triston Casas tore his patellar tendon.
Devers outright refused to switch positions after losing third base to offseason signing Alex Bregman, but also interpreted Campbell’s offer as a slight to his own stature.
Kristian Campbell was the first of the Red Sox top prospect trio to reach the majors. He’s now headed back to the minors. (Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Rob Tringali via Getty Images
Campbell was one of three highly anticipated prospects Boston was expecting this season, alongside outfielder Roman Anthony and shortstop/third baseman Marcelo Mayer. All three players ranked in the top 15 of Baseball America’s top prospects list, but it was only Campbell who broke camp with the big-league club.
As a prospect, the 22-year-old Campbell presented a well-rounded offensive approach combined with defensive versatility. He was an unheralded talent in the 2023 MLB Draft, with the Red Sox landing him in the fourth round, but he broke out majorly in 2024, earning Baseball America’s Minor League Player of the Year Award after hitting .330/.439/.558 between High-A, Double-A and Triple-A.
For about a month, Campbell delivered on the hype. He finished April hitting .301/.407/.495 and was a major Rookie of the Year candidate, but then fell off massively. He has hit .159/.243/.222 since the calendar turned to May, with only one base hit in the past week.
While Campbell was scuffling, the Red Sox called up Anthony and Mayer. They had the trio together for a little more than a week, but will now send down Campbell to work on his offensive approach and perhaps get his confidence back up.
It’s possible Johnson’s family played a major role in the linebacker’s choice.
“They loved it,” Johnson told On3. “So that plays a big role there. Their biggest thing was just being able to feel the brotherhood and the camaraderie.
“My family’s biggest thing is their son is going to a place and wanting him to feel at home. And they felt that, that’s what they told me this weekend. So just the living situation, the school aspect and the community, obviously.”
BOOOOOOM 💥
In-state linebacker Cincere Johnson commits to Ohio State 💥
The 6-foot-3, 240-pound Johnson is the No. 70 overall pick prospect in 2026 class, according to the On3 Industry Ranking 👀
The 247Sports composite rankings placed Johnson at No. 2 among all Ohio recruits in the 2026 class. Johnson was also the No. 8 edge rusher and a top 75 prospect (No. 71 overall), like he is on On3’s overall rankings.
With Johnson, the Buckeyes have 16 commits in the 2026 recruiting class. Their class is No. 3 overall according to 247Sports.
The USC Trojans and Texas A&M Aggies are the only schools ranked ahead of the Buckeyes.
The Ohio State basketball team has started its offseason workouts as it prepares to put the pieces in place for the 2025-2026 season. It welcomed in some former players the last few days for “Vet Week,” has done a lot of five-on-five scrimmaging, gone through conditioning, and worked through many drills and skill development already.
The hope is that this year is going to be much, much better than what we’ve seen over the last three years when the Buckeyes missed the NCAA Tournament. It’ll be head coach Jake Diebler’s second year, and he sorely needs to build some momentum to turn this program around and get it where everyone believes it should be.
Diebler met with the media this week to provide an update on summer workouts, where the team stands, how the House Settlement impacts the program, and much more. We are sharing the entire video of the press conference thanks to the Columbus Dispatch, so you can get Diebler’s full comments.
“Winning Above Everything”: 7 takeaways from Ohio State coach Jake Diebler’s summer talk https://t.co/MkhP85tzdu
Dielber and his staff have a good mix of returning scorers and new blood that will need to mix together and find the chemistry and identity to make a big leap forward. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen, but we’re all here putting the optimism out in the universe hoping it all comes to fruition this season.
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President Trump speaks to the press June 18 in the Oval Office of the White House as members of Italian soccer club Juventus (from left, Timothy Weah, Weston McKennie, Daniele Rugani, coach Igor Tudor and Dusan Vlahovics) stand behind him. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)
Members of the Italian soccer team Juventus visited with President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon.
Exactly why the gathering took place remains largely a mystery.
Six of the team’s players (Weston McKennie, Timothy Weah, Manuel Locatelli, Federico Gatti, Teun Koopmeiners and Dusan Vlahovic), their coach Igor Tudor, a handful of team executives and FIFA president Gianni Infantino stopped by hours before Juventus’ FIFA Club World Cup game against United Arab Emirates’ Al Ain that night at Audi Field.
Trump was presented with a Juventus jersey and one for next year’s World Cup, which the United States will be co-host with Canada and Mexico. But as Trump took questions from the media for about 15 minutes during the event, very little soccer was discussed.
Later that night, speaking to a different group of reporters after his team’s 5-0 victory over Al Ain, Weah called the White House experience “a bit weird” and implied he and the other players weren’t given the option of declining the visit.
“They told us that we have to go and I had no choice but to go,” said Weah, a U.S. men’s national team member whose father George is a past winner of the prestigious France Football Ballon d’Or award and was the president of Liberia from 2018-2024. “So [I] showed up.”
FIFA declined to comment. The White House and Juventus did not respond to requests for comment from The Times.
While Weah said he thought his first White House visit “was a cool experience,” he added that “I’m not one for the politics, so it wasn’t that exciting.”
“When [Trump] started talking about all the politics with Iran and everything, it’s kind of like, I just want to play football, man,” Weah said.
Juventus players Weston McKennie, left, and Tim Weah take a selfie outside the White House after they and other team members met with President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
“I don’t think that Trump is the right one for the job as the president,” McKennie said at the time. “I think he’s ignorant. I don’t support him a bit. I don’t think he’s a man to stand by his word. In my eyes, you can call him racist.”
Still, during his introductory comments, Trump briefly singled out Weah and McKennie as “my American players” when he mentioned that night’s game.
“Good luck,” he said while shaking both of their hands in what had the potential to be an awkward moment. “I hope you guys are the two best players on the field.”
That’s not to say, however, that there weren’t any awkward moments. Because there were — none more so than when Trump brought up “men playing in women’s sports,” then looked over his right shoulder and asked: “Could a woman make your team, fellas? Tell me. You think?”
When no players answered, Trump said, “You’re being nice,” then turned to face the other direction and asked the same question.
“We have a very good women’s team,” Juventus general manager Damien Comolli replied.
Trump asked, “But they should be playing with women, right?”
When he got no response, Trump smiled and turned back toward the reporters.
Trump made a couple of other attempts to involve the soccer contingent in the discussion. At one point, the president used the word “stealth” when discussing U.S. military planes, then turned around and remarked, “You guys want to be stealthy tonight. You can be stealthy — you’ll never lose, right?”
The players did not seem to respond.
For the final question of the session, a reporter favorably compared Trump’s border policy to that of former President Biden and asked, “What do you attribute that success to?”
Trump looked behind him and stated, “See, that’s what I call a good question, fellas.”
Once again, the players did not appear to respond.
For the Los Angeles Lakers to acquire a good center this offseason, they may have to part ways with Austin Reaves, the undrafted guard who was the Lakers’ third-leading scorer this season.
Los Angeles is expected to attempt to trade for a center this offseason. According to Dan Woike of The Los Angeles Times, the Lakers won’t trade Reaves unless they can acquire a “top-tier big.”
Reaves averaged 20.2 points, 4.5 rebounds and 5.8 assists in 73 games for the Lakers this season while shooting 46.0% from the field, 37.7% from 3 and 87.7% from the foul line.
He told K8 News at his basketball camp in Arkansas that he wants to spend his entire career in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Lakers part ways with Austin Reaves in this NBA trade idea. Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images
It’s unknown at this time if the Lakers will keep or trade Reaves, but Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report proposed a three-team trade idea between Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Nets and New Orleans Pelicans involving Reaves:
New Orleans Pelicans receive: Austin Reaves, Rui Hachimura and Gabe Vincent.
Los Angeles Lakers receive: Nic Claxton and Cameron Johnson.
Brooklyn Nets receive: C.J. McCollum, Dalton Knecht, a 2026 first-round pick (lottery-protected, via NOP), a 2029 first-round pick (top-five-protected, via NOP) and a 2031 first-round pick (via LAL).
This trade idea sends Claxton and Johnson from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
Lakers head coach JJ Redick could start Luka Doncic, Johnson, Dorian Finney-Smith, LeBron James and Claxton if this trade idea happened.
“The Lakers, meanwhile, would get their own rim-running big in Claxton, plus a high-end shooter with some flexibility on defense in Johnson,” Buckley wrote.
Claxton appeared in 70 games for the Nets this season, averaging 10.3 points, 7.4 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.4 blocks while shooting 56.3% from the floor and 51.3% from the foul line.
Meanwhile, Johnson averaged 18.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 57 games while shooting 39.0% from beyond the arc.
The Lakers lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the 2025 playoffs in five games. Their lack of size prevented them from competing with Minnesota big men Rudy Gobert, Julius Randle and Naz Reid.
