BASEBALL
Eddinson Paulino stole home and Kristian Campbell hit a sacrifice fly to lift the Portland Sea Dogs to a 2-0 win over the Binghamton Rumble Ponies in the first game of a doubleheader on Friday in Binghamton, New York.
Ryan Clifford hit a solo home run in the fourth inning and Binghamton won the second game, 1-0.
Wikelman Gonzalez pitched three innings in the opener for Portland, allowing one hit, walking two and striking out six. Christopher Troye earned the win, allowing one hit in the fourth, while Theo Denlinger allowed one hit in two innings, and Alex Hoppe pitched the seventh to earn the save.
Paulino led off the second with a single, moved to third on a single by Tyler Miller and scored on the back-end of a double steal. Marcelo Mayer had two hits for Portland.
SOCCER
COPA AMERICA: Lionel Messi will skip Argentina’s last Copa America group match against Peru on Saturday because of a right leg injury.
Messi hurt his leg in Argentina’s 1-0 victory over Chile on Tuesday that clinched a quarterfinal berth for the defending champions. The Argentina superstar received treatment on his right thigh area after getting kicked by Chile defender Gabriel Suazo in the 24th minute, but he remained in the game.
Argentina assistant coach Walter Samuel said Friday that the team will go “day to day” with Messi’s injury and monitor how it progresses.
• Argentina Coach Lionel Scaloni has been suspended for one match and will miss his team’s last Copa America group match against Peru on Saturday.
Scaloni was suspended because Argentina was late returning for the second half in its two Copa America matches, a 2-0 win against Canada and a 1-0 triumph over Chile, the disciplinary commission of CONMEBOL said.
MLS: Sporting Kansas City hired longtime New England Revolution general manager Mike Burns as its sporting director as the MLS club tries to turn around a freefall that has left it near the bottom of the Western Conference.
Burns will oversee Sporting KC’s player recruitment, roster-building strategy and development of the club’s professional player pathway program, which includes MLS NEXT team Sporting KC II and the Sporting KC Academy.
BASKETBALL
NBA: The Dallas Mavericks are trading Tim Hardaway Jr. and three second-round draft picks to the Detroit Pistons for Quentin Grimes, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
Trading Hardaway provides some financial flexibility in free agency for General Manager Nico Harrison. The 32-year-old Hardaway is owed $16.2 million next season, while the 24-year-old Grimes is due $4.3 million for the final season of his rookie contract.
Hardaway averaged 14.4 points and 1.8 assists per game in 79 regular-season games for the Western Conference champion Mavericks this season.
• The Atlanta Hawks are finalizing talks to trade high-scoring Dejounte Murray to the New Orleans Pelicans for a package expected to include two first-round draft picks, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.
The Hawks are expected to receive forward-center Larry Nance Jr. and point guard Dyson Daniels in the deal, as well as first-round picks in 2025 and 2029.
HOCKEY
NHL: The Edmonton Oilers signed goalie Calvin Pickard to a two-year contract extension with an annual average value of $1 million.
The 32-year-old Pickard was 12-7-1 with a 2.45 goals-against average and .909 save percentage in 23 games last season, including 20 starts.
He made three playoff appearances, including two starts and a win in the second round against Vancouver, as the Oilers advanced to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final before losing to the Florida Panthers.
OLYMPICS
TENNIS: Russian tennis players Karen Khachanov and Liudmila Samsonova declined to play at the Paris Olympics, the IOC said, and their next highest ranked compatriots were invited instead.
The IOC said Pavel Kotov, the 50th-ranked men’s player, and Anna Kalinskaya, ranked No. 17, were invited to join the eight-person Russian team for tennis in Paris. The players are competing as neutrals during the military invasion of Ukraine.
The tournament is at Roland Garros from July 27-Aug. 4.
The top two Russian men’s players, No. 5 Daniil Medvedev and No. 6 Andrey Rublev, had neither confirmed nor declined their invitations on the International Olympic Committee’s updated list on Friday. Rublev is reportedly not going to Paris for health reasons.
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