National Sports

HOUSTON (AP) — Jeremy Peña became the first rookie position player to win a World Series MVP award after hitting .400 in the Houston Astros’ six-game victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.

HOUSTON (AP) — Kyle Schwarber went from big bopper to bad bunter. One of the Philadelphia Phillies' most fearsome sluggers popped up foul on a two-strike bunt attempt with his team one inning from World Series elimination.

HOUSTON (AP) — For now and forever, Dusty Baker, the epic storyteller, first-class name-dropper, toothpick chewer and baseball lifer will bear a most distinguished title. World Series champion manager.

TRURO, N.S. — Jamie Lee Rattray scored twice as Team Harvey's defeated Team Sonnet 6-2 in one of two Professional Women's Hockey Players Association Gap Tour games in Truro on Saturday.

MONTREAL — The Vegas Golden Knights have started their NHL season like a well-oiled machine. Bruce Cassidy’s team has been cruising through the first three games of their five-stop Eastern Conference road trip.

TORONTO — Auston Matthews is starting to heat up. And after a rocky opening to the NHL campaign in a pressure-packed market, his Maple Leafs appear to be finding their groove.

OTTAWA — Claude Giroux faced his former team Saturday night and it wasn't the reunion he was hoping for.

TORONTO — Brittany Howard scored her second goal of the game 54 seconds into overtime to lead the Toronto Six past the Minnesota Whitecaps 3-2 on Saturday in Premier Hockey Federation action. It was the first game of the 2022-23 PHF season.

BOCA RATON, Fla.

BERLIN (AP) — Canada is sweating on the fitness of Alphonso Davies and goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau just over two weeks before the World Cup begins.