National Sports

(Reuters) — Zach Charbonnet scored on a pair of short runs as the Seattle Seahawks defeated the visiting Houston Texans 27-19 on Monday night. Jaxon Smith-Njigba recorded his third straight 100-yard receiving game (eight catches, 123 yards) and scored on a pass from Sam Darnold as the Seahawks (5-2…

(Reuters) — Jahmyr Gibbs piled up 218 total yards and two touchdowns, including a 78-yard scoring run, as the host Detroit Lions downed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 24-9, on Monday night.

TORONTO (Reuters) — The Toronto Blue Jays not only got the big hits, but they also made the key fielding plays Sunday night to force Game 7 in the American League Championship Series.

(Reuters) — Fifteen-time All-Star forward Kevin Durant agreed to a two-year, $90 million contract extension with the Houston Rockets, his business partner Rich Kleiman told ESPN on Sunday morning.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — No. 9 Georgia has made second-half comebacks so normal that coach Kirby Smart characterized the latest example as “another day in the SEC.”

(Reuters) — Shohei Ohtani’s otherworldly performance that propelled the Los Angeles Dodgers back to the World Series has left the sporting world in awe, with players and legends alike marveling at what may have been the greatest single-game display in MLB history.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Instead of postgame orange slices there was champagne as Shohei Ohtani made one of baseball’s biggest stages look like Little League.

SEATTLE (AP) — George Kirby was in the strike zone — perhaps too much.

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed a homer on the first pitch but did not yield another run over a complete-game three-hitter as the Los Angeles Dodgers earned a 5-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday to take a 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series.

HONG KONG (Reuters) — The National Basketball Association’s games in Macau on Friday and Sunday are a test for a broader China comeback, experts and state media said, as Chinese fans descended on the world’s biggest gambling hub to get a glimpse of the sport.