Sports Digest: Fightin Phils send Sea Dogs to third straight loss

SOCCER

Carlos De la Cruz hit a tiebreaking home run in the fifth inning and Otto Kemp added a two-run homer to lead the Reading Fightin Phils to a 5-2 win over the Portland Sea Dogs in an Eastern League game Saturday night in Reading, Pennsylvania.

The Sea Dogs were held to six hits. Kyle Teel was 2 for 3 with an RBI single and two walks.

Portland dropped into second place in the Northeast Division, a half game behind Hartford.

SOCCER

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP: Lamine Yamal became the youngest player to appear in a European Championship as Spain’s new generation brushed aside Croatia’s challenge 3-0 in its opening game Saturday in Berlin.

Yamal, age 16 years, 338 days, also became the youngest to set up a goal at the tournament when he crossed for Dani Carvajal to score Spain’s third goal before the break.

Midfielder Fabián Ruiz scored one goal and set up the opener for captain Álvaro Morata in a dominant performance by Spain.

• Italy recovered from letting in the quickest goal in the tournament’s 64-year history, beating Albania 2-1 in Dortmund, Germany.

Nedim Bajrami thrilled a heavily pro-Albanian crowd by intercepting an Italy throw-in and smashing a rising shot inside the near post just 23 seconds into the match.

Within 16 minutes, the Italians were ahead, as Alessandro Bastoni headed in Lorenzo Pellegrini’s cross to the back post, and then Nicolo Barella struck home a swerving first-time shot from the edge of the area.

• Breel Embolo, who had not played for Switzerland in 18 months because of a succession of injuries, scored in added time to complete Switzerland’s 3-1 win over Hungary in Cologne, Germany.

• Poland will be without injured captain Robert Lewandowski when it faces the Netherlands on Sunday in the first game of Group D.

Lewandowski injured a thigh muscle Monday in a warm-up game against Turkey. The Barcelona forward is expected to return to action later in the group stage.

GOLF

LPGA: Grace Kim birdied four of the final six holes in the third round to take a five-stroke lead in the Meijer LPGA Classic at Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Kim shot a 6-under 66 to get to 17-under 199.

Ally Ewing followed her second-round 63 with a 71 to drop into a tie for second with Lexi Thompson, Anna Nordqvist, Allisen Corpuz and Narin An.

BASEBALL

MAJOR LEAGUES: Kyle Bradish went on the 15-day injured list because of a sprained right UCL after leaving Friday night’s loss to Philadelphia complaining about his elbow.

It’s the same injury that kept him out for a month at the start of this season, and it’s not yet clear what the severity is this time around.

• Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander was scratched from Saturday’s start against the Detroit Tigers because of neck discomfort.

The Astros are hopeful that the 41-year-old right-hander won’t need to go on the injured list. He is listed as day to day.

• The Chicago Cubs placed left-hander Jordan Wicks on the 15-day injured list because of a strained right oblique.

Wicks departed Friday’s 3-0 loss to St. Louis in the second inning. It was his first start and second appearance since returning from a strained left forearm. He was sidelined for six weeks.

COLLEGES: Mitchell Daly homered in the bottom of the 10th inning to give Kentucky (46-14) a 5-4 win over North Carolina State (38-22) in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Wildcats tied it in the bottom of the ninth on Ryan Nicholson’s homer, and Daly ended it with two outs when he launched a shot into the left-field bullpen.

SWIMMING

U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS: Gretchen Walsh set a world record in the women’s 100-meter butterfly, posting a time of 55.18 seconds in a semifinal at the U.S. Olympic trials in Indianapolis.

Walsh was more than a half-second under world-record pace at the turn and held on to eclipse the mark of 55.48 set by Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Katie Ledecky is heading to her fourth Olympics after cruising to victory in the 400-meter freestyle.

Cheered on by a crowd of 20,689 at the home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, Ledecky touched the wall in 3 minutes, 58.35 seconds.

AUTO RACING

NASCAR: Sam Mayer took the lead from Riley Herbst on the overtime restart to win an Xfinity Series race at Iowa Speedway.

It was the second win of the season for Mayer, and his sixth career win.

Corey Heim finished third. Sammy Smith and Sheldon Creed rounded out the top five.

BASKETBALL

WNBA: Rachel Banham scored 16 points to lead five Connecticut players in double figures, and the Sun cruised to an 85-67 victory over the Dallas Wings in Arlington, Texas.