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Brittney Sykes' career game leads Tempo to first road win over Sparks
May 17, 2026; Los Angeles, California, USA; Toronto Tempo forward Laura Juskaite (2) is defended by Los Angeles Sparks forward Cameron Brink (22) during the first half at Crypto.com Arena. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Brittney Sykes scored a career-high 38 points against her former team, rookie Kiki Rice added a career-high 19 and the expansion Toronto Tempo picked up their first ever road win in a 106-96 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks on Sunday.
Marina Mabrey scored 14 points and Kia Nurse added 10 as the Tempo (2-2) led by as many as 17 points in the second half and shot 47.5% from the floor in the game to avenge a 99-95 loss at Los Angeles on Friday.
Rice, who won an NCAA national title with UCLA last month and was the sixth overall draft pick in last month’s WNBA Draft, made her first career start in her return to Los Angeles.
Kelsey Plum scored 28 points and Dearica Hamby added 21 points with nine rebounds as the Sparks (1-3) completed their season-opening four-game homestand. Nneka Ogwumike scored 17 points and Kate Martin added 11 as Los Angeles shot 51.6% from the floor.
The teams combined to commit 59 fouls, while attempting 72 total free throws. The Tempo were 39 of 42 (92.9%) from the line, while the Sparks went 23 of 30 (76.7%). Sykes was 15 of 15 from the line after going 11 of 11 on Friday.
After falling behind 21-2 to open Friday’s game against the Sparks, the Tempo led by as many as seven points in the opening quarter Sunday and were up by 14 in the second. Toronto took a 49-40 lead into halftime behind 14 points from Sykes.
The Sparks improved their offense in the third quarter by scoring 27 points on 58.3% shooting, but the Tempo countered with 30 points of their own in the period to take a 79-67 lead into the fourth.
Toronto shot 40% from the floor in the third quarter and went 15 of 15 from the free-throw line. The Sparks were 12 of 15 from the line in the third.
A 10-3 run pulled Los Angeles within 89-83 on two free throws from Plum before Sykes answered for Toronto with five consecutive points and a 94-83 lead with 3:51 remaining as the Tempo closed out the victory.
–Field Level Media
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Dodgers blast Angels to complete three-game sweep
May 17, 2026; Anaheim, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers center fielder Andy Pages (44) runs after hitting an RBI single during the fourth inning against the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium. Mandatory Credit: William Liang-Imagn Images Roki Sasaki allowed one run on four hits over seven innings and Kyle Tucker went 3-for-5 with a double and three RBIs as the Los Angeles Dodgers completed a three-game Freeway Series sweep of the Los Angeles Angels with a 10-1 victory on Sunday afternoon in Anaheim, Calif.
Sasaki (2-3) didn’t walk a batter for the first time in 16 career starts and struck out a career-high eight batters. He threw 91 pitches, 69 for strikes, while garnering his third career victory.
Shohei Ohtani went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a run scored, Hyeseong Kim also had two hits, an RBI and two runs scored and Andy Pages drove in two runs for the Dodgers, who won their fifth straight game.
Nolan Schanuel had two hits and a run scored, Mike Trout had a double and Yoan Moncada had an RBI single for the Angels, who lost their sixth straight game and for the eighth time in nine games.
Grayson Rodriguez (0-1), obtained in a trade in the offseason from the Baltimore Orioles for outfielder Taylor Ward, made his first start since July 31, 2024, after undergoing Tommy John surgery and suffered the loss. Rodriguez, who hit 99 mph with his fastball, allowed seven runs on seven hits over 3 2/3 innings. He walked four and struck out four.
The Dodgers, who outscored the Angels, 31-3, in the three-game sweep, took a 2-0 lead in the second inning. Tucker led off with a single and advanced to third after back-to-back walks to Max Muncy and Dalton Rushing. Miguel Rojas then drove in Tucker with a sacrifice fly, and Kim followed with an RBI single.
The Dodgers broke the game open in fourth inning with five runs on five hits, including two-run singles by Ohtani and Pages.
The Angels cut the lead to 7-1 in the bottom of the fourth on a two-out ground single to right by Moncada, driving in Schanuel, who had singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch.
The Dodgers added three more runs off reliever Ryan Johnson in the ninth, highlighted by a two-run double by Tucker.
–Field Level Media
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Lottie Woad wins 2nd LPGA title in 10 months as a pro at Queen City
Lottie Woad, of Farnham, England, holds the trophy after winning the LPGA Kroger Queen City Championship fourth round at Maketewan Country Club in Cincinnati on Sunday, May 17, 2026. Lottie Woad blew the three-stroke lead she began the day with but rallied with a 1-under 69 in the final round to win the Kroger Queen City Championship on Sunday in Cincinnati.
The Englishwoman, buoyed by her 11-under combined showing in the second and third rounds, finished with a 12-under-par 268, two strokes clear of South Korea’s Haeran Ryu at 10 under.
For Woad, a 22-year-old who turned pro last July, it was her second victory in her 10 months as a professional.
“Obviously very, very happy and grateful that it is (reality),” Woad said when asked to reflect on her last 12 months, with her playing collegiately at Florida State this time last year. “This one is definitely, I think, a little sweeter than the first one because I wasn’t really expecting that. This one I’ve seen how good everyone is out there, so it’s good to win again.”
Woad began the day with a three-stroke lead over Amanda Doherty. She lost her lead with a 1-under front nine paired with Ryu shooting 5 under over the first nine holes.
But Ryu bogeyed the par-4 10th and then posted a double bogey at the par-4 13th, which gave Woad the lead back for good.
It was the sixth top-10 finish in 10 events this season for Ryu, who is still searching for her first 2026 win.
After Woad had a double bogey of her own at No. 6, she finished with two birdies, one bogey and a streak of pars in her final 12 holes.
“I think I just played pretty good tee-to-green. I hit a lot of greens, hit a lot of fairways,” Woad said. “And it’s pretty windy out there, so I think that was the key obviously to having the lead.”
Japan’s Miyu Yamashita (64) had the low round of the day to surge into solo third place at 9-under. She was 2 under on the front nine thanks to an eagle at the par-5 seventh hole and then finished remarkably well with four consecutive birdies at Nos.14-17.
“The course was really tough and the greens were especially difficult, but I’m happy I was able to put together a good score on the final day,” Yamashita said through a translator.
She added: “Really good to see my finish position become more consistent, and I want to keep doing the same moving forward.”
Ruoning Yin (66) of China finished in fourth place at 8 under. Doherty shot 1 over to fall into a tie for fifth with South Korea’s Jim Young Koo (65) at 7 under.
World No. 1 Nelly Korda (67) saw her streak of back-to-back victories snapped, but back-doored a top-10 finish with a tie for eighth at 5 under.
World No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand was the only player to shoot below par in all four rounds, posting a 1-under score Sunday to finish in solo seventh at 6 under.
–Field Level Media
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Guardians blast 6 home runs in rout of Reds
May 17, 2026; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Guardians first baseman Kyle Manzardo (9) celebrates after hitting a home run during the third inning against the Cincinnati Reds at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-Imagn Images Kyle Manzardo led a long-ball barrage with two home runs and Gavin Williams tossed six strong innings to lead the Cleveland Guardians past the visiting Cincinnati Reds, 10-3, on Sunday in the rubber game of the three-game series.
The Guardians belted six homers on the day, accounting for all 10 runs, and won for the fifth time in six games and for the eighth time in 11 games.
After opening 20-11, Cincinnati lost for the 12th time in 16 games.
Williams (6-3) stopped a personal two-game losing streak and won for the first time since April 29. The flame-throwing righty, who won five straight decisions in April, allowed just two runs and eight hits over six innings, striking out seven and walking none.
Jose Ramirez broke a 24-game homerless drought with a two-run shot in the eighth and walked twice as the Cleveland franchise belted six home runs in a game for the first time since Aug. 15, 2019 against the New York Yankees.
Cleveland jumped on top with a Chase DeLauter two-run homer in the first against Cincinnati starter Brady Singer (2-4).
Elly De La Cruz launched his team-leading 11th home run, an opposite field solo shot off Williams that cut Cleveland’s lead to 2-1 in the top of the third.
But Cleveland answered immediately in the bottom of the inning with the first of Manzardo’s two home runs, a long drive down the right-field line that hit off the foul pole and put Cleveland ahead 4-1.
After the Reds cut the lead to 4-2 on a Nathanial Lowe RBI single against Williams in the fourth, Brayan Rocchio added his fourth of the year on a hanging Singer breaking ball in the bottom of the frame for a 5-2 Cleveland advantage.
One start after taking a line drive off the right side of his right foot, Singer was charged with five runs on seven hits in four innings, including a season-high-tying three home runs for the second straight start.
Manzardo added his second homer of the game and his fourth of the season in the fifth off lefty reliever Brock Burke. Angel Martinez also had a two-run homer off reliever Connor Phillips in the seventh.
Travis Bazzana went 3-for-4 for the Guardians, while DeLauter, Manzardo and Rocchio all contributed two hits.
De La Cruz went 2-for-5, but fanned twice as the Reds struck out a dozen times.
–Field Level Media
