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Astros use active bats to cool down Brewers
May 30, 2026; Houston, Texas, USA; Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Pena (3) points towards the dugout after hitting a home run during the second inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at Daikin Park. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Jeremy Pena and Isaac Paredes capped three-run uprisings with two-run, extra-base hits to help the Houston Astros claim a 9-2 victory over the visiting Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday.
Pena finished 3-for-5 with a home run and two RBIs, while Paredes went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk. Yordan Alvarez and Jake Meyers also produced multi-hit games for the Astros, while Christian Walker clubbed his 16th homer, an opposite-field, three-run shot in the eighth.
Meyers’ run-scoring single in the bottom of the second inning plated Cam Smith and pulled the Astros even at 1-1. Two batters later, Pena drilled a two-run home run out to left field, his third home run of the season covering 392 feet and lifting the Astros to a 3-1 lead.
Brewers right-hander Brandon Sproat (1-4) stranded runners on the corners in the bottom of the first by getting Paredes to ground out to the right side of the infield. He retired seven of the next eight batters after the Pena homer, but came undone when Pena led off the fifth with a single.
Sproat departed after hitting Walker with a pitch, and Taylor Trammell greeted Brewers reliever Carlos Rodriguez with an infield RBI single that ricocheted off the glove of first baseman Andrew Vaughn. Pena barely beat the throw home from second baseman Brice Turang.
Paredes extended the Astros’ 4-2 lead when he roped a double to left that scored Walker and Trammell. Sproat was charged with five runs, six hits, and posted four strikeouts in 4? innings.
Astros right-hander Peter Lambert (4-4) labored over five innings but effectively kept the Brewers in check.
William Contreras’ RBI double in the top of the first drove home Turang and spotted the Brewers a 1-0 lead. Jackson Chourio stroked an RBI single in the fifth that pulled the Brewers to within 3-2, but Lambert stranded the bases loaded by getting Contreras to ground out to Pena at short.
Lambert surrendered two runs on five hits and three walks with three strikeouts.
The Brewers lost for just the fifth time over their last 21 games, while the Astros have won 10 of 15.
–Field Level Media
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White Sox hit three homers in win over Tigers
May 30, 2026; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago White Sox pitcher Anthony Kay (18) delivers the ball during the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at Rate Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Marton-Imagn Images Edgar Quero, Colson Montgomery and Andrew Benintendi hit home runs, as the host Chicago White Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers 7-1 Saturday.
White Sox starter Anthony Kay (5-1) gave up one run and six hits in five innings. The southpaw walked one and struck out three in 84 pitches.
The White Sox go for the sweep Sunday. The Tigers have lost three straight and have only won six games in May.
Framber Valdez (2-4) gave up four runs and six hits in six-plus innings. The southpaw walked two and struck out four in 89 pitches.
After giving up two runs in the first, Valdez only allowed two base runners until the seventh, when the White Sox broke the game open.
Quero led off with a home run for the first run, and Benintendi followed with a double.
Valdez recorded two outs, but Rikuu Nishida grounded a single to right to score Benintendi and give Chicago a three-run lead.
Montgomery hit a solo shot and Benintendi a two-run blast in the eighth for more insurance.
The White Sox jumped out 2-0 right away.
Chase Meidroth led off the game with a double and went third when Valdez walked Miguel Vargas and Montgomery back-to-back.
Meidroth scored on a wild pitch with Randal Grichuk at bat.
Grichuk lined out to third, but Vargas scored to make it 2-0 on a Quero sacrifice fly to center.
Wenceel Perez brought the Tigers back within one with a leadoff home run in the third.
The Tigers had a scoring chance in the fourth, when Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson had back-to-back one-out singles. Jahmai Jones grounded into a 5-4-3 double play to end the threat, however.
Detroit had another threat in the sixth when Matt Vierling led off with a single and Greene reached when Grichuk dropped his fly ball in right. Vierling was initially called out at second, but the call was overturned.
Grant Taylor came on with two on and none out. The right-hander struck out Torkelson, induced Jones to fly out to center and forced Perez to ground out to second to end the threat.
–Field Level Media
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Shedeur Sanders shatters record with $17.7M in group licensing income
Shedeur Sanders throws at the Browns OTA in Berea on May 27, 2026. Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders earned a record $17.7 million in group licensing income, according to an annual report filed by the NFL Players Association.
Sanders shattered the previous single-season record, which was held by Tom Brady in 2021-22 ($9.5 million).
According to Front Office Sports, Group licensing accounts for deals that involve six of more players. Common examples include jerseys and trading cards.
As a result, that $17.7 million figure does not even include his personal endorsement deals with Beats by Dre, Gatorade and others.
The rookie quarterback played in eight games (seven starts) for the Browns last season, throwing for 1,400 yards, seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He also rushed for 169 yards and a touchdown.
The next-highest earner for group licensing was fellow rookie Travis Hunter ($12.8 million) of the Jacksonville Jaguars, who was teammates with Sanders in college at Jackson State and Colorado. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes earned $8 million.
–Field Level Media
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Zachary Svajda remembers late dad after latest French Open win
May 30, 2026; Paris, France; Zachary Svajda of the United States returns a shot during his match against Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina on day seven at Stade Roland Garros. Mandatory Credit: Susan Mullane-Imagn Images Unheralded American Zachary Svajda continued his surprise French Open run on Saturday by posting a 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3 victory over No. 25 Francisco Cerundolo to reach the fourth round in Paris.
Svajda committed 18 fewer unforced errors (59-41) than Cerundolo while thriving on the clay at Roland Garros.
The run is emotional for Svajda, whose father, Tom, died of cancer last October. Saturday would have been Tom’s 61st birthday, and Svajda pointed to the sky after finishing off the victory.
“I was thinking about that,” Svajda said. “I was nervous. I know he’s proud of me, and I want to perform well and win. When I got that match, the last point, I just teared up, fell to the ground like, ‘Oh my gosh, what is happening?'”
Cerundolo of Argentina had the edge in aces (13-10) and winners (61-43), while Svajda scored well by converting 6 of 9 break points.
Svajda will next face No. 10 Flavio Cobolli, who sailed to a 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Learner Tien.
Due to a slew of upsets, Cobolli is the third-highest-seeded player remaining in the field. The Italian is also aware that not a single former champion remains in the field.
“Of course I want to think match by match,” Cobolli said. “That’s the way that I want to think this week.”
“I know that there are many possibilities to have a new Grand Slam champion. For sure, we will have a new Grand Slam champion, but I don’t want to think about this. For sure, I have now another tough match.”
Argentina’s Juan Manuel Cerundolo, who upset top-seeded Jannik Sinner of Italy on Thursday, needed five hours and 57 minutes to finish off a 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6) victory over Spain’s Martin Landaluce. The match was the third-longest in Roland Garros history.
Juan Manuel Cerundolo won 214 points to Landaluce’s 213 and held a 16-6 edge in aces. Landaluce had more winners (87-76) and also committed more unforced errors (86-71).
Italy’s Matteo Berrettini also won a lengthy match with a marathon fifth-set tiebreaker, outlasting Argentina’s Francisco Comesana 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (13) in five hours and 13 minutes.
“Francisco played an unbelievable match,” said Berrettini, who lost in the 2021 Wimbledon final. “It was an unbelievable match, I really had to find my way (through) and I gave it everything I had.”
Berrettini will face Juan Manuel Cerundolo in the round of 16.
Chile’s Alejandro Tabilo moved on with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (9) victory over 17-year-old Moise Kouame of France.
Also, Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi outlasted Belgium’s Raphael Collignon 6-4, 6-7 (5), 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (8).
–Field Level Media
White Sox hit three homers in win over Tigers
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