Tuesday's Report: Bacon win/All-Stars; Braves, Vick, travel ball; MLB, NFL, NASCAR, Wimbledon, golf, realignment

Tuesday's Report: Bacon win/All-Stars; Braves, Vick, travel ball; MLB, NFL, NASCAR, Wimbledon, golf, realignment

Monday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

 

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Coastal Plain

Macon 5, Savannah 3, 5 innings

Pro

MLB

Atlanta 6, St. Louis 3

 

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Sports and Chicago shooting

White Sox-Twins decide to play

Moment of silence, fireworks canceled


 

Around/About Central Georgia

Macon wins shortened game with Savannah

          Weather was Macon’s friend, the Bacon getting a 5-3 five-inning win at Luther Williams Field.

          The game was called at 9:38 p.m.

          Tyler Martin had two of Macon’s five hits, and drove in two runs, as did Jarrod Belbin.

          The Bacon host Lexington County n Wednesday and Friday, with a trip to Florence on Thursday. There is an Eggs game on Saturday, with the CPL All-Star game on Sunday.

          That game will be at Holly Springs, N.C., and first since 2019. Mason Minzey and Bryce Matthews are the Bacon players on the West roster.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Weather delay doesn’t slow down Braves

Strider had some sick numbers Saturday

Moment of silence for announcer Motter

More Banana-Ball: ‘When you’re a kid, you came out to the game to have fun’

Vick sued for $1.2 million in debts

Latest realignment winners and losers

Travel ball: How important is it?

Travel ball pros and cons

 

Basketball/NBA/WNBA

Grider: ‘I’m terrified I might be here forever’

Pelicans, Williams come to five-year, $193 million terms

 Baseball/MLB

Tubing accident killed daughter of Toronto assistant

Giants lose fifth straight

Homers lead Mets past Reds

MLB at the midway point: numbers to watch

Football/NFL/USFL

Is Burrow becoming a face of the league?

Auto Racing

A look ahead to NASCAR playoffs

Andretti teammates not playing nice

Tennis

Kyrgios calmer, advances to quarters

Everything clicking for Halep

Ostapenko fumes, calls Maria lucky

Update

Navratilova ‘gutted’ to miss century Centre Court ceremony

Djokovic looks unbeatable on grass

Activists with Peng Shuai t-shirts searched

Golf

Thomas fires off at LIV players, to admit greed

College Sports

Southern Cal AD has a history of punching first in realignment fights

Women’s basketball HOFer DeMoss retiring after 45 years

Soccer

Morgan helps USWNT to good CONCACAF start

Around the nation/world

MLB games/scores

WNBA scores/games