Earlier this week, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo vowed that he would "stand up and fight" after a rough week that culminated in a passer rating of 0.0 on Monday night in Denver.

On Saturday night against the Kansas City Chiefs, Garoppolo came out swinging and in the process alleviated some of the concern that followed his difficult outing against the Broncos.

Garoppolo played the entire first half, a total of 37 snaps, and finished 14-of-20 for 188 yards with a touchdown and no interceptions for a passer rating of 116.2. He also helped wipe away some of the residue of Monday's game and the five-interception practice that preceded it five days earlier.

"He got to play longer," coach Kyle Shanahan said on the game broadcast on KPIX TV in San Francisco. "He got a few more opportunities."

Garoppolo's bounce-back performance just so happened to come in the same stadium where he suffered a torn left anterior cruciate ligament on Sept. 23 of last season.

On Thursday, Garoppolo acknowledged that it would be a bit "weird" being back at Arrowhead Stadium -- a coincidence that Shanahan said would be "eerie" for his quarterback. He also wanted to focus on erasing the Denver game.

"At some point you have to move on," Garoppolo said Thursday. "You're still trying to correct those mistakes and not make the same mistakes twice, but if you just dwell on the past and dwell on that one game, you're going to get stuck there and have no success going forward. I think it's good to be hard on yourself, but at some point you have got to move forward."

After missing on his first throw and having another wiped out by a holding penalty on Kansas City, Garoppolo hit wideout Kendrick Bourne for 18 yards, the first positive gain on a throw for Garoppolo in this preseason.

From there, Garoppolo seemed to settle in and find a rhythm. On the Niners' second drive, Garoppolo completed all four of his passes for 75 yards, including a perfectly placed pass down the right sideline for a gain of 33 yards on third-and-3.

On the next play, Garoppolo floated a pass down the left sideline that running back Matt Breida made a difficult diving catch on for a 20-yard touchdown.

Before his night was over, Garoppolo even took his first sack since the injury, as Kansas City's Frank Clark dropped him for a loss of 7 yards to end the offense's third possession.

Garoppolo and the first-team offense capped their final two drives with 29- and 35-yard field goals from kicker Robbie Gould before handing over quarterback duties to backup Nick Mullens.

The 49ers went on to win 27-17.

Saturday's start likely will be the end of Garoppolo's preseason. Shanahan has previously said he does not intend to play Garoppolo or most of the starters in the preseason finale.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. – Eli Tomac capped his championship season in the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross 450 class with a victory in the season-ending TACYC Stability Cycle Ironman National from Ironman Raceway on Saturday.

The first 450 class moto saw Ken Roczen and Joey Savatgy battle side-by-side coming to the holeshot, with Savatgy just narrowly getting the advantage. However, Roczen pushed his Honda into the lead immediately and looked to open a gap on the field. Behind the lead pair, newly crowned champion Eli Tomac slotted into third aboard his Monster Energy Kawasaki, while Marvin Musquin gave chase from fourth.

The Kawasaki teammates engaged in a battle for second for a couple laps and kept Roczen within reach throughout. Eventually, Tomac made the move around Savatgy, which allowed him to settle into a rhythm to try and close in on the lead. A couple laps later Musquin got by Savatgy for third and began his quest to track down his primary rivals up front.

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The leaders found themselves mired in lapped traffic early on, which ultimately played a significant role as the moto continued. Tomac successfully closed in on Roczen and applied heavy pressure for the lead, but lapped riders put some distance between them and also allowed Musquin to close in from third.

Throughout the second half of the moto the top three sat within mere bike lengths of one another in what became the most competitive moto of the entire season. Lapped traffic continued to alter the pace of all three riders, which saw the distance between each of them fluctuate each and every lap.

With mere minutes left in the moto, Musquin was able to take advantage of Tomac’s pass on a lapper to dive to the inside and steal second. He then chased Roczen for a lap before making another impressive pass as they came to take the 2-lap board. Once by, Musquin was able to establish a bit of a gap on Roczen, but the German battled back on the final lap.

He attempted to make a pass on the final turn, but Musquin prevailed with an impressive moto win that saw him move from third to first in a matter of two laps. Roczen finished second, seven tenths back, while Tomac followed in third. Savatgy earned a career-best moto finish in fourth, with Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Zach Osborne fifth.

The 24th and final moto for the 450 class began with Savatgy once again claiming the holeshot, followed closely by Osborne and Musquin. As they battled for the position behind Savatgy, Osborne and Musquin came together which caused Musquin to crash. He was unable to return to the race, ending both his hopes of victory and securing the runner-up spot in the final championship standings.

Savatgy carried on out front, and Tomac was able to fight his way up to second. However, all attention was on Roczen as the German stormed his way from fourth to second before the completion of the opening lap. He continued to push and made the pass on Savatgy on the following lap. Tomac gave chase and was able to pass his teammate for second, while Osborne eventually dropped Savatgy off the podium with a pass for third.

Much like the first moto, Tomac closed in on Roczen and the two multi-time champions traded fast laps, separated by just a handful of bike lengths. Osborne stayed close to keep the lead duo honest. With 10 minutes left in the moto Tomac attempted to mount a challenge, trying alternate lines in his search for a way around.

After a few laps Tomac’s persistence paid off and he made the move by the German. That opened the door for Osborne to apply pressure on Roczen from third. The rookie 450 Class rider made the pass happen and gave chase for the lead.

Tomac dropped the hammer in the closing stages of the moto and stormed to his 11th moto win of the season by 8.1 seconds over Osborne. Roczen held on to finish third.

It’s the sixth overall victory of the season for Tomac (3-1), and the 23rd of his career, which gives him sole possession of fourth on the all-time 450 class wins list.

“Even though the title was clinched it was still a fun day. We came in here with the plan to do the same thing. The mindset was to attack,” said Tomac. “The first lap [in Moto 2] was chaos with Marv [Musquin’s crash] and then Kenny [Roczen] got by. He’s just so good in the early laps. I was able to stay on him and then got by. What a day and what a year.”

Roczen finished in the runner-up spot overall (2-3), while Osborne’s strong performance in the final moto landed him third (5-2).

MADISON, Ill. — For the first time in 1,181 days, Spencer Davis can call himself a winner in the K&N Pro Series again.

One week removed from leading a career-high 137 laps at Bristol Motor Speedway, the Dawsonville, Georgia native took the lead from Sam Mayer on the final green/white/checkered restart into turn one and never looked back, claiming his first victory since May 30, 2016 at Dominion Raceway.

The ultimate winning move was set up by a caution for Josh Fanopoulos blowing an engine off Turn 4. When Davis realized he’d get another shot at the win, he thanked his lucky stars.

“I saw that car blowing up and I’m like ‘someone’s shining down on us trying to get us that win.’,” Davis said. “And when we lined up, I just zoned out, didn’t listen to the spotter or nothing. Like I said in victory lane, tried to channel my inner Dale (Earnhardt).”

And that’s exactly what he did.

“Tried to intimidate (Mayer) a little bit coming to the line,” he said. “The only way you can beat him–the only way I think you can beat this car this year is to make the kid make a mistake. Being a veteran of this series, I feel like I’m exceptional at restarts […] you couldn’t have asked for a better performance right there.”

“I hit my gears better than him and got into (Turn) 1 better,” Davis said. “I know he didn’t give it to me, but it felt like it because I drove that thing in there until I saw Jesus, man. It stuck, and I came out the other end leading.”

Derek Kraus earned his second consecutive runner-up finish, with David Gilliland, Mayer and Parker Retzlaff, making his second career series start, rounding out the top five.

The finish:

Spencer Davis, Derek Kraus, David Gilliland, Sam Mayer, Parker Retzlaff, Ruben Garcia Jr., Jagger Jones, Colin Garrett, Hailie Deegan, Todd Souza, Takuma Koga, Josh Fanopoulos, Chase Cabre, Travis Milburn, Tanner Gray, Brittney Zamora, John Wood, Trevor Huddleston, Max McLaughlin.

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Robert Lewandowski scored a hat trick and Philippe Coutinho made his debut as champions Bayern Munich cruised to a 3-0 victory at Schalke on Saturday for their first win in the Bundesliga this season.

The 31-year-old Poland forward grabbed his first goal with a 20th-minute penalty and added another with a superbly taken free kick five minutes after the restart.

He completed his ninth Bundesliga hat trick in the 75th to take his season tally to five goals in two league matches.

Bayern, who stumbled to a 2-2 draw in their opener against Hertha Berlin, are on four points, two behind leaders Borussia Dortmund, who won 3-1 at Cologne on Friday.

"I can play even better. I have the potential to further improve," Lewandowski, who is close to signing a contract extension, told reporters. "You can win some matches alone, but with the team you win titles."

"The Bundesliga is no easy league and that is why we constantly have to be ready. I was ready and happy to have helped the team," he said.

The striker has now converted 24 of his 27 Bundesliga penalties while also scoring 16 goals in 19 league matches against Schalke.

His second goal looked to be a wake-up call for Schalke who grabbed control of the game and were unlucky not to be awarded a penalty for a handball by Bayern's new signing Ivan Perisic.

Their revival was short-lived, however, and Lewandowski put the game beyond them when he controlled the ball at the edge of the box before completing his hat trick with a clinical finish.

Coutinho, Bayern's biggest signing for the season, also came on in the second half for his first appearance on German soil after joining on loan from Barcelona and told reporters he was honored to play next to a "legend" like Lewandowski.

"It's amazing to play alongside him. He's a legend," Coutinho said. "He's a great player, a great guy. I have been here for three or four days, and I saw his qualities right in the training. Today, he scored a hat trick."

In his first 30 minutes of Bundesliga football, Coutinho added up 36 touches and played 28 passes from his position in Bayern's central midfield.

In front of his family attending the match at the sold-out Veltins Arena, he came close to a flying start in Bundesliga after Lewandowski set him up with a through ball, but Schalke keeper Alexander Nubel rushed out of his goal to reach the ball before Coutinho.

Still, he was delighted and said: "It was amazing. I was looking forward to my first match here. And the stadium was full. I am just very happy."

Reuters and ESPN FC correspondent Stephan Uersfeld contributed to this report.

INDIANAPOLIS -- In a shocking development, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck announced his retirement from the NFL on Saturday night, saying constant injuries have taken away his love for the game.

Luck, who turns 30 on Sept. 12, had met with Colts owner Jim Irsay earlier to tell him of the decision.

The Colts played their third preseason game Saturday night in Indianapolis against the Chicago Bears. Luck already had been ruled out of the game due to an ankle injury, but he was seen on the sideline, laughing and conversing with teammates.

After the game, Luck announced the retirement decision during an impromptu news conference; he said an official announcement wasn't planned until Sunday afternoon but changed course once news broke during the preseason game.

"I've been stuck in this process," he said, stopping several times to overcome his emotions. "I haven't been able to life the live I want to live. It's taken the joy out of this game ... the only way forward for me is to remove myself from football."

Luck's early retirement ends what started as a promising career for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 draft. He led the Colts to the playoffs in each of his first three seasons in the NFL, including back-to-back AFC South titles and the AFC Championship Game in 2014.

But his career took a turn for the worse when he suffered a shoulder injury in Week 3 of the 2015 season. He has missed 26 games, including the entire 2017 season, due to shoulder, kidney and rib injuries. It was during the 2017 season while out that Luck questioned whether he would be able to continue his career.

But Luck returned in a big way last season.

He threw for 4,593 yards and 39 touchdowns to win NFL Comeback Player of the Year and lead the Colts back to the playoffs for the first time since 2015, showing he remained one of the top QBs in the league.

But injuries hit Luck again earlier this year when he suffered a calf strain that kept him out of the team's offseason activities and minicamp. Luck only participated in three days of training camp -- none as a full participant -- before it was announced that he was shutting it down because he had difficulty moving in the pocket.

Luck said on July 30 that he wouldn't return until he was 100 percent healthy, with part of the reason being he still had "emotional scars" from the 2017 season. After not being able to get a clear diagnosis of Luck's injury, Colts general manager Chris Ballard said two weeks ago that the QB was dealing with pain in the high ankle area.

Luck told reporters Saturday night that he first started thinking about retirement two weeks ago.

"I'm in pain; I'm still in pain," he said.

It's stunning news for a Colts team that went to the second round of the playoffs last season and in the eyes of many had a Super Bowl-caliber roster in 2019.

"It's very difficult," Luck said. "I love this team, I love my teammates."

Now, the Colts will turn to Jacoby Brissett, the 26-year-old quarterback acquired from the New England Patriots in 2017.

With Luck dealing with a variety of injuries in 2017, Brissett started 15 games for Indy, throwing for 3,098 yards, with 13 touchdowns and seven interceptions.

Sportsbooks reacted quickly to the Luck news, taking the point spread on the Colts' Week 1 road game at the Chargers off the board and lengthening Indianapolis' odds to win the Super Bowl.

The Colts had been 4-point underdogs to the Chargers. The SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas moved Indianapolis' Super Bowl odds from 12-1 to 30-1.

Information from ESPN's David Purdum and Adam Schefter was used in this report.

LOS ANGELES -- With the sellout crowd at Dodger Stadium hanging on his every pitch, Kenley Jansen found himself in a jam. Bases loaded, one out, and Los Angeles clinging to a one-run lead over the Yankees in the ninth.

All that right after a bizarre twist that had both managers on the field, trying to figure out what happened during a potential game-ending double play that got reviewed.

Jansen stayed cool in the heat of the moment on a scorching day and struck out Mike Tauchman and pinch-hitter Gary Sanchez to give the Dodgers a 2-1 victory over New York on Saturday in a matchup between the teams with the best records in baseball.

"Stressful? No," Jansen said. "Just got to trust yourself in that situation. I don't lose confidence in myself."

Still, Jansen has faltered at times this season, including earlier in the week when fans booed during his sixth blown save. His 27th save was his first since Aug. 6.

"Kenley showed right there that he can still command the baseball in a big spot and make pitches," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. "I definitely don't think that was stress; that was fun."

But it was the play right before that to load the bases that left most everyone in the ballpark wondering what was going on.

There were runners at first and second with one out when Gio Urshela hit a grounder to third baseman Justin Turner, who looked to start a game-ending double play. Second baseman Max Muncy caught Turner's flip, but then got wiped out by Brett Gardner's hard slide for an apparent forceout.

"I felt like I made it, but it was so close," Gardner said. "I'm glad I was safe, but we just came up short."

Gleyber Torres, who had started the play on second base, rounded third and then headed home with Muncy down on the ground, trying to score the tying run. Instead, Torres was stopped by the umpires because time had been called.

"Ninth innings are stressful enough as they are," Muncy said, "and you add that in there and it was kind of like, `whew."

The strange sequence set off a nearly 2-minute replay review. The call at second was reversed and Gardner was ruled safe, beating the throw with a physical but legal slide.

"For me in terms of playing the game, I thought it was perfectly clean," Muncy said. "In terms of the rule they've created, I thought the only thing that was questionable was his hand reaching out and grabbing me. Other than that, it was a good play by him."

Muncy said he wasn't injured, but Gardner "got me pretty good."

Roberts challenged the slide, believing Gardner was out, while Yankees manager Aaron Boone came out, too, seemingly to seek clarification on why Torres wasn't allowed to score.

"It was a good baseball play," Roberts said of Gardner's slide.

Boone said plate umpire Gabe Morales told him Jansen had already raised his hands to call time.

"He had definitely started down the line, it didn't seem like halfway to me," Boone said of Torres. "You can see Kenley asking for time maybe about as he's getting ready to start down the line."

A day after the Yankees routed the Dodgers 10-2, the clubs played a tight game that have some fans predicting will be an October preview.

"Like I told the guys when I was on second base in the last inning, `Good luck the rest of the way and hopefully we'll see you again," Gardner said.

Roberts described the atmosphere as "two great, iconic, storied franchises. You could feel the emotion from both dugouts and the stadium."

Turner hit a two-run homer in the third. After two games without a homer, the Dodgers got their National League-leading 226th.

Aaron Judge homered for the second straight day, connecting in the fourth.

Making just his fourth career start, rookie Tony Gonsolin outlasted six-time All-Star CC Sabathia in 89-degree heat.

Gonsolin (2-1) allowed one run and two hits in five innings. Joe Kelly and Pedro Baez kept the Yankees scoreless over the sixth, seventh and eighth.

Sabathia (5-8) gave up two runs and five hits in four innings, striking out seven. It was his second start since coming off the injured list with right knee inflammation.

"Just felt way more comfortable out there and hopefully just continue to build off that," Sabathia said.

Turner's 23rd homer of the season landed in the left-field pavilion and scored Gonsolin, who had reached on an infield single off Sabathia's leg for his second career hit.

"I've always been a lifelong Yankees fan," said Gonsolin, who met Sabathia in high school. "It was pretty great to throw against all those guys."

Judge's drive was New York's 58th homer in August, tying the major league record for most in a month shared by Baltimore in 1987 and Seattle in 1999.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Yankees: RHP Dellin Betances (lat muscle) threw a 20-pitch batting practice session at the minor league complex in Tampa, Florida. ... RHP Luis Severino (lat muscle) said he felt fine after throwing a two-inning simulated game Thursday. He's scheduled for another simulated game Tuesday and then could start a minor league rehab assignment. ... 1B Luke Voit (sports hernia) homered for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre leading off Saturday's game against Lehigh Valley's Jerad Eickoff. Voit was the DH and finished 2 for 4 with a walk.

Dodgers: LHP Rich Hill (flexor tendon strain) threw a 27-pitch bullpen session. He'll do it again in a couple days and then face hitters. ... LHP Julio Urias is at the team's spring training facility in Arizona where he threw a bullpen session while serving a 20-game domestic violence suspension. He's set to return on Sept. 3, but the team is unsure whether he will start or work out of the bullpen.

UP NEXT

Yankees: RHP Domingo German (16-3, 4.15 ERA) is averaging fewer than six innings per start this season.

Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (13-2, 2.71) gave up three home runs and walked three in six innings against Toronto in his last start.

MADISON, Ill. – Oliver Askew continued his winning ways in the Indy Lights series with his seventh victory of the season Saturday at World Wide Technology Raceway.

Askew put together a dominant performance, with the 22-year-old finishing 6.7 seconds ahead of his closest competition. Askew added an exclamation point by posting the fastest lap of the race on lap 73 of the 75-lap contest.

Title rival Rinus VeeKa had to settle for second after holding off a charging David Malukas, who started fourth, in the closing stages and claim his second podium of the year for the newly reformed HMD Motorsports team.

Askew started on pole – his seventh of the year – but it was all VeeKay at the drop of the green flag, who managed to pass Askew and assume a comfortable margin with the pair seemingly content to run one-two around the 1.25-mile egg-shaped oval.

All eyes were focused mid-pack at that stage with battles between Sowery, Dalton Kellett and Robert Megennis. Lap 10 saw the only caution of the 75-lap Cooper Tires Oval Challenge of St. Louis with Toby Sowery in the second HMD Motorsports entry spinning on his own in turn two. With no contact, the race quickly resumed five laps later with the attention shifting back to the frontrunners.

With Askew in hot pursuit, VeeKay had a slight wall brush on Lap 29 but continued to maintain his lead. The pair were on their own out front with a six-second span over Malukas in third and Ryan Norman (Andretti Autosport) – last year’s race winner – in fourth. Askew, it seemed, was biding his time and made the move to pass VeeKay on the outside of turn two on lap 51. He never looked back.

“I’ve said it a lot, but I’ve just been so calm this year,” Askew said. “It’s the least anxious I’ve ever been, because I know we’ll be quick every weekend. We take every opportunity as they come. From the start, I could see he was lighter on downforce, because he was so quick on the straights. That’s what gave him the run on me in turn one. But I knew that would drop off sooner or later. I tried to stay close – we saw last year that Ryan Norman made the pass late in the race and that’s what I was thinking. His car got freer, he made a mistake, and I was set up for the end of the race.

“It was one of the most enjoyable races I’ve had – Rinus and I have raced hard against each other for three years, but we haven’t gone head-to-head like that very much. That made it really cool. It’s very different when one of us drives away, compared to having to fight for it, and this is much more satisfying. This is our third full season in cars and the more experienced we get, the more methodical we get and that shows for all three of us.”

Askew now leads VeeKay by 52 points, 349-304, as all Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires competitors head to Portland Int’l Raceway on Aug. 31-Sept. 1.

ALTON, Va. – Even Stevan McAleer didn’t think he could do it.

When he spun out of the lead in slippery conditions behind the safety car with 32 minutes remaining in the one-hour, 45-minute IMSA Prototype Challenge race at Virginia Int’l Raceway, McAleer didn’t think there was any way he’d be standing atop the victory podium spraying champagne. But his No. 43 Robillard Racing Norma M30 was fast.

That was proven earlier Saturday when the Scot put the car on the pole position. And while he surrendered the lead to Mike Skeen on the first green-flag lap in the race, McAleer remained in contention.

The spin handed the lead to Kyle Masson in the No. 19 Performance Tech Motorsports Ligier JS P3, but McAleer managed to get going again, losing only two spots. When the green flag came back out with under 13 minutes remaining, McAleer quickly got past Nikko Reger in the No. 55 Forty7 Motorsports Norma M30 and into second place, and then out-dragged Masson down the back straight to retake the lead.

A final full-course caution period bunched up the field behind McAleer, but he pulled away at the drop of the green flag to win by 1.439 seconds over Skeen. It was McAleer’s second IMSA Prototype Challenge victory of the season and his first since Sebring International Raceway in March.

“I knew we were fast,” McAleer said. “There was a couple of cars in front, but that was the quickest 360 I’ve ever done in my life. I was trying everything not to go around again because that would have been it. I came on the radio and said, ‘Just tell me Mike and Austin (McCusker) are not in front of me,’ and they said, ‘They’re behind.’ I said, ‘OK. Let’s put a little bit of a crazy last 10 minutes in and see what we can do.’”

Skeen led most of the race in the No. 23 Gilbert/Korthoff Motorsports Norma M30. He was the last one to make his pit stop, which came with 42 minutes remaining, but he rejoined the race well behind the leaders. He benefited from late full-course cautions to get close, but came home second in what was just his second IMSA Prototype Challenge race of 2019.

While the top two finishers ran the entire race solo, Masson shared the No. 19 entry with Canadian driver Dean Baker. They ended up sharing the final spot on the podium with a third-place showing.

No. 47 Forty7 Motorsports Norma M30 co-drivers McCusker and Rodrigo Pflucker came into the race with a healthy lead in the overall LMP3 championship standings, and while their eighth-place finish was not spectacular, they maintained a healthy lead with just one race remaining.

McCusker and Pflucker now lead No. 4 ANSA Motorsports Ligier JS P3 co-drivers Leo Lamelas and Neil Alberico, who fell out of the race early and finished 22nd, by 27 points, 150-123. McAleer moved from fifth to third in the standings and is 29 points behind heading to the season-ending race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta on Friday, Oct. 11.

In the Bronze Cup class, Kris Wilson – making his first IMSA Prototype Challenge start – came away with the victory in the No. 3 Jr III Racing Ligier JS P3.

“This is my maiden voyage in this car and with this team,” Wilson said. “It was great, interesting conditions. Dry on the front, wet on the back, lots of people going off, even on the pace lap.

“I’ve been in GT cars for almost 20 years now. The last time I was in a prototype was in the ‘90s, so it was a lot different than nowadays. It’s a different driving style. It’s about trying to twist my brain around and figure out how to drive this kind of car again, but I don’t know if the old prototypes were anything like these. These are just awesome. There’s so much aero and everything else.”