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Highlights of Tuesday's Major League Baseball games: Cubs 9, Brewers 7 The Chicago Cubs pounded out 14 hits, including home runs from Kyle Schwarber and Miguel Montero, as they snapped a four-game losing streak with a 9-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday in a Wrigley Field slugfest. The Cubs rallied from a 7-4 deficit with a four-run sixth keyed by Albert Almora's two-run pinch single and Jon Jay's RBI triple. Continue to Article

April 19, 2017 3:12:am EST

If last season Jake Lamb announced his arrival as a big-league player, early this year he seems determined to up his game. Lamb hit the go-ahead solo home run in the eighth inning and David Peralta added a run-scoring triple in the ninth to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night. ''He has worked very hard to be a complete hitter, has worked very hard to be a complete player,'' said Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo. Continue to Article

April 18, 2017 2:52:am EST

The Milwaukee Brewers' investment in Eric Thames is paying off in MLB, while Ivan Nova impressed in a loss for the Pittsburgh Pirates. With a third-inning home run against the Chicago Cubs on Monday, Thames has hit a homer in five straight games, matching Continue to Article

April 18, 2017 1:20:am EST

“The Phenomenon” by Rick Ankiel and Tim Brown. Excerpted from “The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life” by Rick Ankiel and Tim Brown. Copyright © 2017. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary Continue to Article

April 17, 2017 9:36:pm EST

Phoenix archaeologists say this ancient Hohokam pit home could be 2,000 years old. It was unearthed as part of the downtown development of a Fry's Food Stores supermarket. Mark Hackbarth of Logan Simpson via City of Phoenix When archaeologists dig in the dirt in a downtown Phoenix development site, they know that chances are, they will find something. But they don’t always know exactly what the earth will yield. So it was when a team of archaeologists told the developers of a Fry’s Food Store and high-rise across the street from CityScape last week that they had unearthed the remnants of a half-dozen prehistoric homes. It’s not yet certain, but archaeologists think the pit houses likely date Continue to Article

April 17, 2017 7:00:am EST