COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Tramon Mark had 23 points and Dailyn Swain added a double-double in Texas’ 76-70 win over Texas A&M on Saturday afternoon.
Swain finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds in posting his seventh double-double this season for the Longhorns (18-11, 9-7 Southeastern Conference). Jordan Pope scored 16 and Matas Vokietaitis added 14.
The Aggies (19-10, 9-7) were led by Rashun Agee with 22 points and eight rebounds. Marcus Hill totaled 17 points and eight rebounds, while Pop Isaacs scored 14.
Texas shot 44% (27 of 62) from the field and 94% (15 of 16) from the free-throw line. Texas A&M shot 38% (23 of 60) from the field.
The Longhorns led early in the first half, but the Aggies responded with an 11-0 run to take their first lead of the game, 24-20 with 5:43 to play in the half, and went into the break up 30-29. Texas regained the lead off its first bucket in the second half and continued to push ahead.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kelvin Yeboah’s rebound goal and Drake Callender’s four saves gave Minnesota United FC a 1-0 win over Cincinnati FC on Saturday.
Callender made a host of key saves for Minnesota (1-1-0, 4 points), including a leaping save on a shot from Obinna Nwobodo in the 71st minute.
Roman Celentano also saved four shots for Cincinnati (1-0-1, 3 points), including two in the span of three minutes early in the second half.
Cincinnati had five corners in the first 25 minutes.
There were 11 added minutes after a lengthy head injury evaluation of Cincinnati captain Michael Boxall, who exited in the 77th minute for Devin Padelford.
The 2025 MLS MVP Evander, who exited the opener against Atlanta with a hamstring injury, did not play after entering Saturday as questionable.
Minnesota’s star acquisition, Columbia international James Rodríguez, is yet to debut.
The 20-degree temperature at kickoff was the coldest in FC Cincinnati’s MLS history.
Up next
Cincinnati: Will host Toronto FC next Sunday.
Minnesota: Travels to face Nashville SC on Saturday.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Shakir Mukhamadullin broke a tie midway through the third period and the San Jose Sharks snapped a five-game winless streak by beating the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 on Saturday.
Mukhamadullin beat Connor Ingram with a slap shot from the point with 10:39 to play to give the Sharks their first victory since Jan. 27 at Vancouver. San Jose had been 0-4-1 since then, starting when the Sharks blew a 3-0 lead in the third period to Edmonton before losing in overtime.
Olympic star Macklin Celebrini opened the scoring for San Jose as he got the best of his matchup against his linemate from Canada in the Olympics, Connor McDavid.
Michael Misa, Barclay Goodrow and Alexander Wennberg also scored for San Jose. Yaroslav Askarov made 20 saves.
Leon Draisaitl, Evan Bouchard, Trent Frederic and Jake Walman scored for Edmonton, while McDavid chipped in with three assists to give him an NHL-leading 103 points on the season.
Ingram made 28 saves.
The Oilers tied it wice in the opening eight minutes of the third period with Frederic making it 3-3 off a good feed from Matt Savoie early in the period and Walman answering a goal from Alexander Wennberg to tie it at 4.
But Mukhamadullin’s goal gave San Jose the win.
The Sharks controlled the play for most of the first period and built a 3-1 lead with help from a major miscue Ingram midway through the period. He left his net to retrieve his lost stick after the puck cleared his zone. But San Jose got possession and Celebrini fired the puck into an open net for the first goal of the game.
The Oilers got back within one goal in the second period when they capped a long shift in the offensive zone with a one-timer by Bouchard off a feed from McDavid.
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Hamzat Ojediran and Lucas Herrington each scored their first career MLS goal on Saturday to help the Colorado Rapids beat the Portland Timbers 2-0.
Zach Steffen stopped three shots and had his first shutout of the season for Colorado (1-1-0).
Ojediran opened the scoring in the seventh minute, when the 22-year-old midfielder ripped a straight-away shot from 35 yards that deflected off defender Finn Surman and rolled into the net.
The 18-year-old Herrington, at the back post, headed home a corner kick played in by Dante Sealy to make it 2-0 in the 53rd.
Jimer Fory was shown a straight red card in the 77th minute and Portland (1-1-0) played a man down the rest of the way.
The Rapids are 12-15-7 against Portland, 10-3-5 in Colorado.
Sep 16, 2025; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandyn Garcia against the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
Record 5-4. Change on 2025: +0.5. 5-inning record: 2-7.
Whenever a pitcher is leaving the mound with a trainer after having hit two batters and walked a third, while showing sharply lower velocity… Yeah, it’s never a good thing. Such was the situation this afternoon in Tempe for Brandyn Garcia. His fifth inning appearance was sharply curtailed, and the worst was feared. Not least because, if he went down, the only left-handed reliever left on the D-backs’ 40-man roster would be Philip Abner, and the non-roster invitees wouldn’t help much either [there’s only three, and Yu-Min Lin is already reassigned] However, it appears to have been just a stomach bug for Garcia, rather than looming Tommy John surgery. Phew.
While we make our way back from the SnakePit Fainting Couch, the D-backs notched their third consecutive win, though as has become a habit this year, it required a late comeback. A five-run eighth inning proved key, with a three-run homer by Yassel Soler the big hit. Later in the inning, Wallace Clark drove in the final run with a single. I think that might be the first hit ever in a D-backs jersey by a player born in the United Kingdom, Clark being a native of London. Arizona’s other runs came on a two-run homer by Luken Baker in the fourth inning, and a Jorge Barrosa triple the next frame. Soler also walked in addition to his home-run: Baker and Aramis Garcia each had two hits.
Mitch Bratt’s start started well, with a 1-2-3 first, but he ended up lifted in the second after allowing two runs, and also gave up a homer in the third inning, after returning. His final line: 2 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 3 K. The D-backs ended up using ten pitchers again. The other runs came off Paul Sewald – good to see him in mid-season form already – and Jonathan Loasiga, making his Arizona debut. Bryce Jarvis got the save with a clean ninth, and Abner also appeared, loading the bases but escaping without damage thanks to a pair of strikeouts. A good day for home-plate umpire Jonathan Parra: three ABS challenges, but all confirmed his call.
Tomorrow, it’s back to Salt River Fields where the Guardians will be visiting. Michael Soroka gets his second start, with a 1:10 pm first pitch. Several members of the A-bullpen are scheduled to work behind Soroka.
SEATTLE (AP) — Braeden Carrington had career highs of nine 3-pointers and 32 points, Nick Boyd added 22 points, and Wisconsin defeated Washington 90-73 on Saturday.
Carrington, who averages 7.4 points per game, played 27 minutes off the bench, making 9 of 15 3s. He was 6 for 9 from deep in the second half when he scored 23 points.
Boyd scored eight points in the first six-plus minutes of the game and the Badgers led 14-3. Washington’s Hannes Steinbach opened the scoring with a dunk but the Huskies didn’t get another field goal until Quimari Peterson’s layup with 12 minutes remaining made it 17-7.
Wisconsin (20-9, 12-6 Big Ten) led by double digits over the final six minutes of the half and it was 36-21 at the break. A 10-0 run in the middle of the second half put the game out of reach at 66-42.
Steinbach scored 22 points with 11 rebounds and Zoom Dialo had 21 points for Washington. Wesley Yates III scored three points on 1-for-17 shooting.
It was Steinbach’s 18th double-double of his freshman season, nine of them coming when he scored 20 or more points.
Nolan Winter had 13 points and nine rebounds for Wisconsin. The Badgers average more than 30 3-point attempts per game and were 17 for 38 (45%) in this one.
Washington retired Detlef Schrempf’s No. 22 jersey during a halftime ceremony.
Up next
Wisconsin: The Badgers have a home game against Maryland on Wednesday then wrap up the regular season at No. 8 Purdue on Saturday.
Washington: The Huskies stay on the West Coast to wrap up the regular season. USC visits on Wednesday before the Huskies finish at Oregon on Saturday.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Nojus Indrusaitis and Cameron Corhen each scored 16 points to lead Pittsburgh to a 72-56 victory over California on Saturday.
Pitt never trailed and built an early 10-point lead in the second half before Cal pulled within 47-44 with 13:05 remaining. Indrusaitis answered with 10 points that included two 3-pointers and a dunk during an 18-7 surge to help the Panthers pull away.
Barry Dunning Jr. added 15 points and 12 rebounds for Pitt (11-18, 4-12 Atlantic Coast Conference). Damarco Minor scored 13 points.
The Panthers have won two of their last three since ending a five-game losing streak.
Dai Dai Ames scored 11 points and Lee Dort added 10 for Cal (20-9, 8-8), which saw a three-game win streak snapped.
Dunning scored 11 points and Corhen added eight to help Pitt take a 34-26 advantage into the break. The Panthers forced 12 Cal turnovers in the first half. DeJuan Campbell scored all eight of his points in the first half for the Golden Bears. Campbell shot 0 of 2 in the second half.
Up next
Pitt: The Panthers host Florida State on Wednesday.
Cal: The Golden Bears are on the road against Georgia Tech on Wednesday.
Cincinnati Reds pitching coach/director of pitching Derek Johnson (36) wraps up a bullpen session with pitcher Hunter Greene (21) at the Cincinnati Reds player development complex in Goodyear, Ariz., on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. | Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
The bats of the Cincinnati Reds have been alive for most of Cactus League play in the early going, and that was very much still the case on Saturday. The Reds went on the road and beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-7 in their own ballpark, even doing so while television cameras were broadcasting their action for the first time in seemingly a millenium.
The Good
Matt McLain got the party started in the Top of the 1st with his first dinger of the spring, a solo shot that was part of an overall excellent 2 for 3 day that included a pair of runs scored. Elly De La Cruz smacked another double – every single one of his hits this spring, so far, has been of the extra-base variety – and Sal Stewart singled, stole a base, played 3B, and scored a run.
Michael Chavis – in camp as a non-roster guy – socked a homer, Dane Myers drove in a trio on a two-hit day as he angles to be a right-handed hitting option all across the outfield, and Blake Dunn drove in a trio and scored a run as he angles to be a right-handed hitting option all across the outfield.
Down in the bullpen, big offseason additions Pierce Johnson and Caleb Ferguson both fired scoreless frames, even though neither was completely clean.
The Bad
Lyon Richardson surrendered another run, something he’s done in every one of his appearances so far this spring. But because baseball is weirdly beautiful, he also picked up the win on the day.
Wins! Still a stat in 2026, for whatever reason!
At the plate, Christian Encarnacion-Strand made his own spring debut after dealing with hamstring issues, but was limited to just DH duties and went 0 for 3 with a K. I really, really hope there’s a CES redemption story somewhere in the near future, but I’m beginning to think that ship may well have sailed.
The Ugly
Hunter Greene made his spring debut and got shelled immediately.
He did not retire a single batter in the Bottom of the 1st before being pulled, though thanks to the fun rules of spring training play he returned to the mound for the Bottom of the 2nd to get in more work. His second frame was markedly better, but he was ultimately responsible for 4 ER on 5 H and a walk while fanning nobody.
The good news, though, is that he looked fine. His heater hit triple digits repeatedly, he just wasn’t putting hitters away in vintage mid-season form. Nothing looked like a problem, per se – just a lot of rust and getting his feet wet in an exhibition that didn’t mean a thing in the win column.
What’s Next
Cincinnati’s central Arizona road trip will continue on Sunday, this time at Hohokam Stadium over in Mesa against the Athletics. Andrew Abbott will toe the rubber, with first pitch set for 3:05 PM ET.
No, there’s no TV coverage of it. It’ll be on 700 WLW for your ears, though.
Staff writer Max Ellingsen during his first visit to T-Mobile Park. He struck out three in today’s pro debut. || | Getty Images
Don’t call it a debut. Since his family didn’t come to see this, Kade Anderson says his first game action as a member of the Mariners’ organization doesn’t count as a debut. But whatever noun you use to describe it, the adjective is “impressive.”
Using a fluid, repeatable delivery, Anderson sat 94-95 with his fastball, freezing up hitters while his slider looked sharp in the zone and induced whiffs outside it, all setting up a changeup that got some Matt Brash-esque swings and misses.
Anderson struck out the very first batter he saw on three pitches. Whiff on a fastball, whiff on a changeup, freeze on a fastball. The victim? Xander Bogaerts, hardly a guy off the backfields. Interrupted by an infield base hit that should have been an out and a full-count walk, Anderson completed the inning by striking out the side. That first inning featured 18 pitches, 13 for strikes, with seven whiffs on ten swings and a 100% first-pitch strike rate.
He came back out for the second, which opened with back-to-back hits. Since both of those runners scored after Anderson was pulled, his final line won’t jump off the page, but Anderson showed every bit of the potential that’s had us salivating since he fell to the Mariners with the third pick of last summer’s Draft.
Cal Raleigh was effusive: “Very impressive. So he can locate the ball, he can command it, he can throw off-speed in the zone for strikes. There’s not…I mean there’s going to be a learning curve, for sure, he was just a little picky around the zone, but for the most part I thought he threw the ball great, especially for the first time out.” (In an extremely Cal move, he used the opportunity to take a potshot at his bro to provide additional context on Anderson’s performance, “I think Logan gave up 10 runs in his first spring training game.”)
Perhaps because he didn’t consider it a debut, Anderson says he wasn’t nervous. “I think you’d be surprised. It’s just another game for me. And when you have that mindset, it makes it much easier on yourself, you don’t get as many nerves.” In the comments, please rank the BS on a scale of 1-10. I’m leaning toward a 4.
Unfortunately for those in attendance, as Anderson got pulled, someone called Houston Roth, who I have definitely heard of before, quickly let all the air out of the room that Anderson had just filled, letting the Padres score a decisive five runs.
But the game got interesting again as Emerson Hancock came out for the third and pitched a 1-2-3 inning, showing the extra velo he’d flashed in his relief appearances last summer. The Mariners plan to begin the season with Hancock as a depth starter, so whether he can hold that extra velo will be a key question. He kept it in his second inning of work, wherein he struck out the side in order, but lost it a bit in an attempt at a third inning. Even so, he was 94-96 in that third inning of work, which, while not 97s of his first inning, is still a couple ticks above where he’s been before.
More promising to me is his slider. He’s got an interesting history with the pitch. In 2023, he was averaging 87 with it, but only getting 30 inches of break. He made an adjustment that offseason and swapped some velo for movement, making it a much better whiff-generator in 2024 and 2025. But what he’s shown so far this spring has been a marriage of the 2023 velo with the 2024-2025 movement. It’s a promising development for a guy whose fastball is coming in harder, and whose sweeper was getting all the praise from Jerry Dipoto on the broadcast. To be sure, I’ve been burned too many times by Emerson Hancock seeming to improve, but Emerson Hancock seems to have improved.
Other Notes
In the battle for the fourth infield spot, Ryan Bliss had a bad day in the field, missing his landing on one play and showing his noodle arm in another, resulting in two infield base hits that could have been outs. He made up for it a bit with a walk at the plate. Colt Emerson was 0 for 2.
Luke Raley accounted for the Mariners’ sole run today with his first dinger of the spring, which went to the deep part of the park.
I would make fun of a new entry in the Randy Arozarena defensive canon, but it’s his birthday, so he gets a pass.
Cal Raleigh had an unremarkable day except that he’s the first man to play nine full innings this spring, prepping his body for the WBC, which he departs for this afternoon.
The first Sun Hat Award of 2026 (the award for a noteable contribution to a game I recap) goes to Hancock.
Feb 28, 2026; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts (30) greets his team upon arriving in the dugout for a spring training game against the Chicago Cub at Camelback Ranch-Glendale. Mandatory Credit: Allan Henry-Imagn Images | Allan Henry-Imagn Images
Getting built up as a starter to provide flexibility for a Dodgers pitching staff that thrives in its depth, Justin Wrobleski made his second appearance and first start this spring training against the Cubs in a split-squad day. One of the more experienced and battle-tested of the Dodgers’ young options, Wrobleski was very efficient in two scoreless innings of work against a Cubs lineup built entirely of right-handed options.
Interestingly, usually a pitcher with a pretty even split of four-seamers and sinkers, Wrobleski shelved the sinker and only tossed four-seamers when he went fastball against the Cubs, according to Baseball Savant. That’s partially due to the fact that Wrobleski saw no lefties, for whom he normally reserves most of his sinkers, but it’s still something to keep an eye on.
Edwin Diaz and Tanner Scott, the two primary pieces of the Dodgers’ bullpen, followed Wrobleski—even though it was Díaz who ran into some trouble, losing his command with a couple of walks, Scott’s scoreless frame of work brings a bit more concern, inducing only a single whiff on eight swing attempts against a Cubs team missing all of its primary hitters.
The efficiency that was present in Wrobleski’s performance was what Jackson Ferris lacked against the Texas Rangers in the other game, albeit facing a more talented lineup, including the likes of Wyatt Langford and Joc Pederson. Ferris needed 37 pitches to get the five outs and was ultimately pulled without being able to complete the second inning.
Some things there’s no rushing, including the opportunities of Dalton Rushing himself. The Dodgers’ most effective hitter on this split-squad day, Rushing, hit a two-run homer against the youngster Jack Leiter. Too good for a backup catching role or to return to the minors come Opening Day—without an opportunity available elsewhere in the lineup—Rushing is doing what he can, which is utilizing this spring to showcase his skill set. This home run was Rushing’s first extra-base hit in spring. Sadly, postseason-legend Will Klein ran into some issues late against the Cubs, blowing a lead Los Angeles had acquired due to another two-run shot, this one by Nic Senzel. In the end, Los Angeles dropped both games, losing 7-6 to the Rangers and 6-2 to the Cubs.
Next up, the Dodgers will take on the Angels on Sunday, with Landon Knack making his second appearance of spring against the left-hander Reid Detmers.
