Woods in the mix
ATLANTA (AP) — Tiger Woods and Justin Rose will be playing in the final pairing of the day at the Tour Championship. At 4-under-par, they share a one-stroke lead over four golfers heading into round two of the final FedEx Cup playoff tournament. Five more players are just two off the pace with 54 holes to play at East Lake in Atlanta.
Top-ranked Rory McIlroy carded a 1-under 69 playing alongside Woods on Thursday. Phil Mickelson is also among the seven golfers three shots back after 18 holes.
Cards ace returns
UNDATED (AP) — There is just one afternoon start on a full major league schedule, with the Chicago Cubs hosting a playoff-hopeful St. Louis Cardinals team that rides a four-game winning streak into the Windy City.
Chris Carpenter is set to make his 2012 debut just in time for the Cards, who currently hold the National League’s second wild card. They are two and a-half games ahead of Milwaukee. The Brewers put a five-game winning streak on the line at Washington this evening.
Carpenter was 4-0 last postseason but hasn’t pitched since winning Game 7 of the World Series against Texas. He returns less than two months after undergoing surgery to relieve a nerve ailment that caused numbness up and down the right side of his body.
Also tonight in the NL, Philadelphia is at Atlanta, Houston is home to Pittsburgh, Cincinnati entertains the L.A. Dodgers, Miami is at New York, Arizona plays at Colorado and San Francisco hosts San Diego.
Under the lights in the AL, it’ll be Minnesota at Detroit, New York home to Oakland, Baltimore playing at Boston, Tampa Bay hosting Toronto, Cleveland at Kansas City, Chicago at the L.A. Angels and Seattle home to Texas.
Cooperstown has some special guests
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The real-life inspirations for the film “A League of Their Own” are taking a trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame as part of their reunion being held in central New York.
The former players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League will be in Cooperstown today to sign autographs. The women, now in their 70s and 80s, have scheduled an exhibition softball game at Alliance Bank Stadium in Syracuse on Saturday.
The league was formed during World War II when many major league and minor league players were entering the armed services. It was disbanded in the early 1950s.
Their story was told in the 1992 film starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis, among others.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Minnesota at Detroit 6:05 p.m.
Oakland at N-Y Yankees 6:05 p.m.
Baltimore at Boston 6:10 p.m.
Toronto at Tampa Bay 6:10 p.m.
Cleveland at Kansas City 7:10 p.m.
Chi White Sox at L.A. Angels 9:05 p.m.
Texas at Seattle 9:10 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis at Chi Cubs 1:20 p.m.
Atlanta at Philadelphia 6:05 p.m.
Milwaukee at Washington 6:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati 6:10 p.m.
Miami at N-Y Mets 6:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Houston 7:05 p.m.
Arizona at Colorado 7:10 p.m.
San Diego at San Francisco 9:15 p.m.