Steve Stricker and Padraig Harrington still haven’t faced the toughest part of being Ryder Cup captains, a decision they can only hope never gets revealed. “The most uncomfortable thing I ever had to do,” said Curtis Strange, the U.S. captain at The Belfry in 2002. Stricker has played on three Ryder Cup teams and was an assistant captain three times.

After two games, Parsons is the NFL’s highest-graded rookie, the team’s best defensive player, and on Sunday he succeeded at a position he hadn’t played since high school.

Bryce Harper won games for the Phillies this year with one swing, one slide, one daring dash around the bases. Now add this save to the highlight reel: Harper fired a heater on the fly from right field that nailed a runner at home — and gave the Phillies one win to remember in a September stuffed with big games from their MVP contender. Harper threw out the tying run at the plate in the eighth inning and Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run homer to keep Philadelphia pushing in the NL East race with a 4-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.

Braves outfielder Adam Duvall has a home run taken away after baserunning mistake in win over Arizona Diamondbacks

Adam Duvall lost a home run to a baserunning miscue, but Atlanta rebounded with homers by Austin Riley, Ozzie Albies and Freddie Freeman and the Braves beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-2 on Wednesday night. Ian Anderson pitched two-hit ball in six-plus innings as Atlanta (80-70) won its fifth straight and maintained its three-game lead over Philadelphia in the NL East with 12 games remaining. The Braves got to Merrill Kelly for three runs in the first — and that could have been four, except Duvall passed Riley between first and second after his deep drive to left-center tipped the glove of Arizona center fielder Jake McCarthy and went over the wall.

Sheldrick Redwine‘s Jets tenure did not last long. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, New York is waiving the safety. Redwine was a Browns fourth-round pick in 2019 and played 27 games with eight starts for the team over his first two seasons. But Cleveland waived Redwine when reducing its roster to 53 players at the [more]