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Man, legend and baseball magnet catches two foul balls on consecutive pitches (!!) at Oakland A’s game

We're guilty of using the “you see something different every time you go to a baseball game” cliche quite often, but that's because it's true. What other sport produces such insane, unique plays like Brian Dozier's near homer that got stuck in the wall in Minnesota, or Yoenis Cespedes' homer that landed in a trash can, or a dude named Jumbo smacking a dinger into space and celebrating like a champ afterwards? The thing about those three though, is that it was players on the field providing the WTF moments. At the Oakland A's game on Sunday, it was a fan in the stands that made his submission for play(s) of the year.
In the bottom of the sixth A's shortstop Chad Pinder fouled one sky high behind home plate and a fan snatched it up, a catch good enough to get a little reaction from the crowd. Not bad, but fans catch foul balls all the time, so whatever, right? Wrong! On the VERY NEXT pitch, Pinder fouled it off in the same direction, and the fan/basebal..

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Dustin Johnson reclaims No. 1 ranking with Memphis win

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Dustin Johnson emphatically reclaimed the No. 1 ranking Sunday, holing out for eagle from 170 yards on the final hole for a six-stroke victory in the St. Jude Classic.

Johnson shot a 4-under 66 for his second PGA Tour victory this year and 18th of his career to take back the No. 1 ranking he held for 64 straight weeks before dropping down a month ago. He won the event for the second time, finishing with the eagle, three birdies and a bogey for a 19-under 261 total.

Andrew Putnam started the final round with a share of the lead for the first time in his career. He shot 72 and finished at 13 under.

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Preparing for the U.S. Open, Johnson took the lead to himself with a par on No. 1, while Putnam double-bogeyed, and cruised to the $1.18 million winner’s check. Johnson turned in the lowest score under par by a winner here since David Toms won at 20 under in 2003, and that was before the course was redesigned with par dropped from 71 to 70 af..

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Gillman, US roll in biggest blowout in Curtis Cup history

SCARSDALE, N.Y. (AP) Kristen Gillman led a U.S. singles sweep Sunday in the biggest blowout in Curtis Cup history.

Gillman, the 20-year-old University of Alabama star from Austin, Texas, beat 16-year-old Annabell Fuller 5 and 4 for the winning point to cap a perfect weekend at Quaker Ridge.

The Americans won 17-3, breaking the record for margin of victory of 11 set in a 14 1/2-3 1/2 victory at Denver Country Club in 1982. They improved to 29-8-3 in the series, rebounding from a loss in 2016 at Dun Laoghaire in Ireland.

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”I’m very proud of my players,” U.S. captain Virginia Derby Grimes said. ”They are a phenomenal group of girls. They’ve been so much fun to be around, and they just gelled and bonded.”

Passed over for the 2016 team, Gillman – the 2014 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion at age 16 – joined American Stacy Lewis (2008) and England’s Bronte Law (2016) as the only players to go 5-0-0 since the format was changed to three days in 2008.

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Players arrive for US Open with high praise for Shinnecock

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) Shinnecock Hills was a lot bigger than Graeme McDowell expected.

But not too big.

McDowell was among those who began preparing Sunday for the U.S. Open on a course where golf first was played in 1891, and where the U.S. Open was last played 14 years ago. He had never been out to the Hamptons – ”Only as far as Bethpage, if that’s even considered part of Long Island,” he said – and his imagination told it would be a golf course tucked in among high-end real estate, like Pebble Beach.

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More than the size of Shinnecock Hills was the way it played.

”It’s back to being a pure U.S. Open with serious discipline in your iron play,” said McDowell, the 2010 Open champion at Pebble Beach. ”I don’t look at it and say, `I’m not long enough to win here.’ And that excites me. I haven’t seen anything that has upset me.”

Tiger Woods, playing the U.S. Open for the first time since 2015, arrived late Sunday afternoon and teed off with Jordan Spieth. ..

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Dustin Johnson reclaims world’s top spot with St. Jude win

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Dustin Johnson is back in his spot as the world’s top-ranked golfer thanks to a dominant victory capped by an absolutely amazing hole-out for eagle.

”What a cool way to end the day,” Johnson said.

Johnson shot a 4-under 66 on Sunday making the St. Jude Classic his second PGA Tour victory this year and 18th of his career to take back the No. 1 ranking he held for 64 straight weeks before falling to No. 2 behind Justin Thomas a month ago . Johnson won the event for the second time, finishing with the eagle, three birdies and a bogey for a 19-under 261 total.

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”It means a lot,” Johnson said of reclaiming the No. 1 ranking. ”It was a long way to get there, and I held it for a long time and obviously JT took it from me for a little while. It was nice to finish like that and get it back.”

Andrew Putnam started the final round with a share of the lead for the first time in his career. He shot 72 and finished at 13 under.

”I feel like I stea..

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