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Guardians open postseason Saturday

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Vinnie Pasquantino homered twice and the Kansas City Royals snapped a three-game skid with a 3-2 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday in the regular-season finale for both teams. Pasquantino hit solo homers in the fifth and eighth innings off Austin Peterson (0-1), who was recalled from Triple-A Columbus before the game. The Royals (69-93) won for just the seventh time in September, finishing last in the AL Central with 13 fewer wins than last season's third-place finish (82-80). Nate Peterson (3-4) recorded two outs in the eighth and Lucas Erceg ...

Best Pirates season since 2018

DETROIT (AP) — Konnor Griffin homered and the Pittsburgh Pirates recorded their first winning season in eight years with a 4-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday in the final game for both teams. Pittsburgh (82-80), which improved by 11 wins over 2025, hadn't finished with a record over .500 since going 82-79 in 2018. Detroit, which made the postseason the previous two years, finished 76-86, an 11-win drop from 2025. Griffin led off the game against River Ryan (0-1) with his sixth homer, and the Pirates doubled the lead in the second on an RBI single by Jake Mangum. ...

Baseball’s high and lows of 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Houston's Yordan Alvarez and Arizona's Gabriel Moreno won their first batting titles Sunday, while Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski became just the fourth pitcher since 1950 to lead the majors in ERA, strikeouts and opponents' batting average. Alvarez's .316 average was the lowest for the overall major league batting champion, below the previous mark of .325 by Dick Groat for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1960. Alvarez had the lowest for an AL winner since Carl Yastrzemski's .301 in 1968. "The batting title was something I always wanted," Alvarez said. Moreno edged ...

Ohio State moves up to fifth

(AP) — Florida made a massive jump in The Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday and landed in the top 10 for the first time in five years while four new teams joined the rankings in a major shuffle. The Gators' 24-point win over then-No. 4 Mississippi under first-year coach Jon Sumrall on Saturday earned them a 13-rung promotion to No. 8, their highest ranking since 2020 and first top-10 appearance since 2021. Texas, Georgia and Notre Dame continued to hold the top three spots, Miami was a season-high No. 4 and Ohio State moved up two spots to No. 5. Indiana, Alabama, Florida, ...

USC suspends player for Moore hit

(AP) — Oregon announced Sunday that quarterback Dante Moore sustained a concussion in a late hit by linebacker Desman Stephens during the second quarter of the Ducks' victory over Southern California on Saturday. Stephens, who was ejected from the game for targeting, was suspended for one game by USC earlier Sunday for the hit and his celebration afterward. "Dante sustained a concussion in last night's game but fortunately his MRI and CT scans came back clean and he did not suffer any additional injuries," Oregon coach Dan Lanning said in a statement. "Every concussion is different ...

ACROSS THE NATION

Xi says he’ll see Trump again soon as he wraps up US visit with a look at the Constitution WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up his state visit to Washington on Friday by announcing that he will meet President Donald Trump two more times before the end of the year, ...