Sports scoreboard for Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025

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Thursday's scoreboard
CFL
Winnipeg 30 Ottawa 27
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MLB
Interleague
Baltimore 5 Seattle 3
Toronto 2 Chicago Cubs 1
Cleveland 9 Miami 4
American League
Detroit 4 Minnesota 3 (11 innings)
National League
Washington 3 Philadelphia 2
Atlanta 4 N.Y. Mets 3
Arizona 8 Colorado 2
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Rangers head to Toronto looking to spark season

Canada News.Net

5 hours ago

Canada News.Net

Rangers head to Toronto looking to spark season

(Photo credit: Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images) The Texas Rangers will be a desperate team when they visit the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night for the opener of a three-game series. The Rangers have lost six of their last seven games to leave them at .500 and 3 1/2 games removed from an American League wild-card spot. They had Thursday off after a 6-4 loss at home to the Arizona Diamondbacks -- a game the Rangers led 4-2 with two outs and none on in the ninth inning. James McCann hit a solo homer and three batters later Ketel Marte hit a three-run blast to give Arizona the rubber match of a three-game series and a 3-6 homestand for Texas. 'It's obviously not where we wanted to end this homestand,' said first baseman Jake Burger, who hit a two-run homer on Wednesday. 'For us it is having that sense of urgency to realize where we are in the standings and the race. It's go time for us.' The Rangers have had offensive problems for much of the season. 'It has to come from within,' Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. 'We have to find a way and keep things moving.' The Rangers dropped two of the three at home to the Blue Jays on May 26-28. Pitching dominated the series with Toronto outscoring Texas 4-3 over the three games. The Rangers are on the road for the next seven games. They will need to improve on their 24-35 road record to keep a playoff spot within sight. 'There's baseball left,' Bochy said. 'We've got to win games. We've got to win on the road.' The Blue Jays are 2-1 halfway through their six-game homestand after defeating the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Thursday. They continued their success at home where they are 40-20 as opposed to 31-31 on the road. Playing at home has helped Toronto's scheduled starter for Friday, Chris Bassitt (11-6, 4.17 ERA). The right-hander is 8-0 with a 2.56 ERA in 13 starts at home this season. He is 5-3 with a 3.66 ERA in 16 career games (12 starts) against the Rangers. Texas right-hander Jacob deGrom (10-5, 2.86) will face the Blue Jays for the second time this season. He took the loss on May 26 when he allowed two runs in 5 1/3 innings. In two career starts against Toronto, he is 1-1 with a 2.38 ERA. He has lost each of his last three starts overall, going 0-3 and sporting a 6.88 ERA. The Blue Jays could have George Springer (concussion) back in the lineup at some time during the series. 'He's been right in the middle of everything this year,' Toronto manager John Schneider said. 'Not just with his performance, but with what we are doing on the bases and with what the dugout feels like. Things like that.' Springer was 1-for-2 with a double and a walk as designated hitter for Triple-A Buffalo to start his rehabilitation assignment on Thursday. He said he is not sure what the next step will be. 'We're going to see what they say,' Springer said. 'I'm just going to do what I'm told. I understand that there's a plan and a process that has to be followed.' In winning the rubber match from the Cubs on Thursday, Max Scherzer allowed one run in seven-plus innings and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a two-run home run in the seventh. 'I just kept telling myself we're not going to lose this game 1-0,' Scherzer said. 'I'm not losing this game on the solo shot. Somebody's going to come through for us. I just kept repeating that in my head. And, finally, Vladdy.'

Red Sox's Lucas Giolito aims for improvements vs. Marlins

Canada News.Net

5 hours ago

Canada News.Net

Red Sox's Lucas Giolito aims for improvements vs. Marlins

(Photo credit: Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images) The Boston Red Sox, in the thick of the American League playoff hunt, will look for a bounce-back performance from right-hander Lucas Giolito when they begin a three-game series against the visiting Miami Marlins on Friday. Giolito entered his Saturday start at San Diego as one of the hottest starting pitchers in the major leagues. He was 7-1 with a 2.03 ERA in his previous 10 starts, but he ran into serious trouble in the fifth inning vs. the Padres. Boston entered the bottom of the fifth with a 3-2 lead. San Diego's Fernando Tatis Jr. led off the inning with a single before Giolito retired the next two batters. Then Giolito walked four consecutive batters, two of which forced in runs to give San Diego a 4-3 advantage. The Padres went on to win the game 5-4 in 10 innings. Although he didn't end up taking the loss, Giolito felt responsible for it. 'I know the way baseball works,' Giolito said. 'The 'L' doesn't go next to my name, but it should. That was really bad. 'I lost feel. Lost feel for my mechanics. I just couldn't make the adjustment. It's inexcusable. I truly believe that if I had just gotten out of that fifth inning, made the adjustment, then we would have won that game.' After Giolito exited the mound, Boston's bullpen held the Padres to two hits and no earned runs in 4 1/3 innings. 'We've got to trust these guys to give us 100 (pitches), at least five innings,' Boston manager Alex Cora said. 'It just didn't work. He lost it. We were one pitch away, one out away from getting out of that inning.' Giolito (8-2, 3.77 ERA) will be making his second career appearance against Miami on Friday. On June 11, 2023, he gave up a run on six hits, struck out eight and walked one in seven innings during a no-decision. Miami is scheduled to start Sandy Alcantara (6-11, 6.55 ERA). The veteran right-hander is 1-1 with a 1.38 ERA in two career starts against the Red Sox. Through two starts this month, Alcantara is 0-2 with an 8.25 ERA. The Marlins ended a four-game losing streak by winning 13-4 at Cleveland on Wednesday, but then they dropped a 9-4 decision to the Guardians on Thursday in the decisive contest of a three-game series. 'I think that we'll just come out there (in Boston) and look forward to getting a good start from Sandy (on Friday) and offensively just continue to mount innings, stress the opposition and defensively take care of the ball,' Miami manager Clayton McCullough said. 'There's not a whole lot else other than we have to try to win a few moments that we haven't won here in the last four or five days.' Miami rookie Jakob Marsee began the Thursday contest hitting .436 with three home runs, 13 RBIs and six steals in his first 13 major league games, but he went 0-for-4 in the loss. The Red Sox enter the weekend in second place in the American League East, five games behind the Toronto Blue Jays. Boston, sitting in the second of three AL wild-card positions, has 40 games remaining, 24 of which are against teams that are currently below .500.

Winnipeg Free Press

7 hours ago

Winnipeg Free Press