The Milwaukee Brewers got three hits from J.J. Hardy and a sharp outing from Dave Bush to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 and stave off elimination in the Major League Baseball playoffs on Saturday.
The Tampa Bay Rays survived a shaky start by Scott Kazmir to beat the Chicago White Sox 6-2 on Friday and forge a 2-0 lead in their best-of-five American League divisional series playoff.
Jerry Manuel, who fell just short of taking the New York Mets to a playoff berth after taking over as manager for Willie Randolph, was given a two-year contract Friday.
Ryan Howard hit his major league-leading 48th homer, Joe Blanton pitched six effective innings and the Philadelphia Phillies moved closer to clinching the National League East title with an 8-4 victory over the Washington Nationals on Friday.
The New York Mets lost pole position in the National League wild card race after a 6-1 defeat by the visiting Florida Marlins on Friday.
The New York Mets used a Carlos Beltran RBI single in the ninth inning to beat the Chicago Cubs 7-6 on Thursday and keep pace with the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League wildcard race.
Tampa Bay rallied from a six-run deficit to beat Baltimore 11-6 and reduce its magic number to clinch their first division title to one.
The Tampa Bay Rays moved to within sight of their first American League East title by winning both games of a doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 and 7-5 on Tuesday.
Former PGA Championship winner Davis Love III, who set up a foundation to improve the lives of vulnerable children and their families, won the Payne Stewart Award on Tuesday.
Less than 48 hours after celebrating the best week of his life, Anthony Kim was back to business on Tuesday preparing for the final event of the PGA Tour's regular season.
The FedExCup playoffs limp to an anti-climatic finish at this week's Tour Championship with Vijay Singh having all but secured the glittering trophy before Thursday's opening round.
Philip Rivers threw for three touchdowns and LaDainian Tomlinson rushed for two more to lift the San Diego Chargers to a 48-29 rout of the New York Jets on Monday.
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