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Pete Alonso made history Tuesday night at Citi Field, launching career home run number three hundred against his former club in the ninth inning to tie the game and draw a curtain call from the crowd. But the Mets couldn't hold on, as Coby Mayo's inside-the-park shot in the eleventh sent Baltimore home with a seven to five win and kept the Orioles alive in the wild card race.
Meanwhile in Cleveland, the White Sox were this close to stealing one, holding a six to five lead heading to the bottom of the ninth. Brayan Rocchio had other ideas, lacing a two-out, two-strike single down the left field line to plate two runs and flip the scoreboard to seven to six, Cleveland. Another gut punch for Chicago in what has been a brutal season.
And on the tennis side, Jessica Pegula has withdrawn from the WTA five hundred Singapore Open set to begin September twenty-first. Anyone who watched her semifinal at the US Open against Sabalenka saw it coming — she looked flat, drained, and never found her footing. Rest up, because the fall hard court stretch waits for no one.
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