New York Yankees infielder Gleyber Torres continued his decimation of the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, hitting a three-run home run in the sixth inning that moved him into Major League Baseball's record books.

The home run in Game 2 of a doubleheader was his second of the game and gave him 13 total homers against the Orioles this season. The 22-year-old also hit a homer earlier in Game 1 on Monday.

The 13 dingers moved Torres into a tie with Roger Maris (1961), Joe Adcock (1956), Hank Sauer (1954) and Jimmie Foxx (1932) for second-most home runs against a team in one season in MLB history, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

Only Lou Gehrig, who hit 14 homers against the Cleveland Indians in 1936, has more home runs against an opponent in one season.

"I take all the opportunities they give and then just do damage,'' Torres said after the game.

Torres also moved into a tie with Gehrig for most home runs hit against the Orioles franchise, giving the Yankees yet another record against their division rivals. The Bronx Bombers shattered the record for most homers by a team against an opponent in one season by hitting their 49th bomb against the O's last week. They've hit 10 more in parts of three games since then. The two teams will meet for the final two times this season on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said they gave Torres the "Barry Bonds treatment" by intentionally walking him in the eighth inning.

"I've known Gleyber since he was 16 or 17 years old, so maybe it's something personal that he has," Hyde joked. "He's just a really talented guy, obviously, got a ton of tools and a bright future...we're making him look like a first-ballot Hall of Famer."

The multihomer feat in Game 2 was Torres' eighth this season, tying him with Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio for the most by a Yankees player before his 23rd birthday.

Torres is batting .283 with 26 home runs and 69 RBIs this season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

CLEVELAND -- Indians outfielder Yasiel Puig has dropped the appeal for his three-game suspension for his involvement in a brawl when he was with Cincinnati.

Puig will begin serving his ban Monday night when the Indians, who have climbed back into a tie for first in the American League Central, open a three-game series against Boston.

Puig was disciplined for his involvement in the latest benches-clearing incident between the Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates on July 30. The fracas began shortly after Puig was dealt to the Indians as part of a three-team trade that sent right-hander Trevor Bauer from Cleveland to Cincinnati.

Puig, 28, is batting .357 with one homer and six RBIs in 11 games for Cleveland. He has given the Indians an infusion of power and energy, helping their surge to catch the Minnesota Twins.

Puig is eligible for free agency after the World Series.

WASHINGTON -- The Punisher has punished again.

Cincinnati Reds rookie Aristides Aquino went deep against the Washington Nationals on Monday night, making him the first player in MLB history to hit eight home runs in his first 12 career games.

Aquino's latest blast came on a mammoth solo shot against Nats reliever Tanner Rainey. With two outs in the top of the eighth inning of Cincy's 7-6 loss, the 25-year-old Dominican native crushed a 98 mph fastball from Rainey and deposited it over the fence in right-center field, 425 feet away.

Nicknamed "The Punisher" by his brother when he was growing up, Aquino -- who appeared in one game last season -- has been pulverizing baseballs since getting called up on Aug. 1.

In 11 games since his promotion, the 6-foot-4-inch, 220-pound slugger is hitting .429 with eight home runs and 16 RBIs. All eight of his roundtrippers have come in the Reds' past nine games, and he's gone yard seven times in his past six contests, a torrid streak that helped earn him National League Player of the Week honors earlier on Monday.

It's a heady start for a player who was non-tendered this past offseason, and who wasn't considered a highly regarded prospect heading into the 2019 campaign.

"I think it's the timing," Aquino said through an interpreter. "It's the perfect timing, and God has a plan. I just want to go out there and do the best that I can do."

So far, Aquino's best has been better than anything his teammates have witnessed.

"A lot of us say we've never seen anything like it, and that would explain it," Reds manager David Bell said. "It's never happened before. We've been talking about him now, and the great thing is, with the success, just the way he's handling it, just his maturity level. He's handled it with a lot of poise, and we believe in him. We believe that he's going to keep going."

Prior to getting called up, Aquino was hitting .299 with 28 homers and 53 RBIs in 78 games with Triple-A Louisville. Previously, four hitters shared the record of seven home runs in their first 12 career games. The most recent occurrence was in June of this year, when Houston Astros rookie Yordan Alvarez accomplished the feat.

Coverage from the Games in Lima, plus results from the BMC Grand Prix meeting at Stretford and Sierre-Zinal mountain race

Coverage of the European Team Championships Super League can be found here and here, while a British Masters Championships report is here.

Other recent highlights are below.

Pan-American Games, Lima, Peru, August 6-11

World champion Yulimar Rojas won the women’s triple jump with a world-leading leap of 15.11m to also break the Games and Venezuelan records. Her final attempt was a foul by around seven centimetres but she looked to have landed at around the 15.50m world record mark. Omar Craddock won the men’s title with 17.42m.

Jamaica’s double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson won the women’s 100m title in 11.18 (-0.6m/sec), while her compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the 200m title in 22.43 (-0.1 m/sec) to break the Games record.

USA’s Mike Rodgers won the men’s 100m title in 10.09 (-0.5m/sec), while Alex Quinonez of Ecuador took the men’s 200m title in 20.27 (-1.0m/sec).

Canada’s Olympic bronze medallist Damian Warner retained the decathlon title, scoring 8513 points after leading overnight with 4490. Grenada’s Lindon Victor was second with 8240. Cuba’s Adriana Rodríguez won the heptathlon with a 6113-point PB.

Cuba’s world indoor champion Juan Miguel Echevarría leapt 8.27m to take the men’s long jump title, while his compatriot Yarisley Silva claimed her third successive pole vault title after clearing 4.75m to win ahead of USA’s Katie Nageotte and Canada’s Alysha Newman.

Cuba’s Yaime Pérez won the women’s discus with a Games record of 66.58m, while Jamaica’s Fedrick Dacres retained his men’s discus title, also with a Games record of 67.68m, and Danniel Thomas-Dodd won the women’s shot put with a 19.55m Jamaican and Games record.

Grenada’s Anderson Peters broke the Games javelin record with a throw of 87.31m, while USA’s Gwen Berry claimed victory in the hammer with a throw of 74.62m.

Brazil’s Alison Alves dos Santos claimed the men’s 400m hurdles title in a South American under-20 record time of 48.45, while his team-mate Darlan Romani’s Games record of 22.07m secured him the men’s shot put title.

Canada’s Natasha Wodak won the women’s 10,000m in a Games record of 31:55.17. Natoya Goule took the women’s 800m title in 2:01.26, while her fellow Jamaican Shericka Jackson won the women’s 400m in 50.73. USA’s Nikki Hiltz won the women’s 1500m in 4:07.14.

BMC Grand Prix, Stretford, August 10

Verity Ockenden won the women’s 1500m A race in 4:12.26 from Nadia Power with 4:13.93, while Ossama Meslek claimed victory in the men’s 1500m A race in 3:43.05 from Ben Connor with 3:45.52.

Verity Ockenden wins the women 1500m A race in 4:12.26 from Nadia Power 4:13.93 and Dani Chattenton 4:15.35 pic.twitter.com/bUGcEOPq3l

— British Milers' Club (@BritishMilers) August 10, 2019

The 800m A race winners were Elliot Giles in 1:47.28 from Alex Botterill with 1:47.72 and Ellie Baker in 2:04.43 from Jacqueline Fairchild in 2:04.87.

Kieran Clements took the men’s 5000m in 14:05.64.

Sierre-Zinal, WMRA World Cup series, Switzerland, August 11

Both the men’s and women’s course records were broken for the 31km race which features 2200m of ascent and 1100m of descent.

The fifth race in the 2019 World Mountain Running Association World Cup series saw Spain’s Kilian Jornet clock 2:25:35 to gain his seventh win ahead of Petro Mamu of Eritrea (2:26:17) and USA’s Jim Walmsley (2:31:52).

GB’s Robbie Simpson was fifth (2:33:55), Andrew Douglas sixth (2:34:56) and European mountain running champion Jacob Adkin 19th (2:40:43). Douglas’ finish continues his lead in the WMRA World Cup standings.

Switzerland’s Maude Mathys won the women’s race in 2:49:20 ahead of her compatriot Judith Wyder (2:54:20) and Italy’s Silvia Rampazzo (2:56:17).

GB’s Holly Page was eighth in 3:08:21 and Charlotte Morgan 11th in 3:11:03. Ireland’s Sarah McCormack was 13th in 3:12:45 to extend her World Cup lead.

For those who have dedicated their lives to the sport of sprint car racing, there is no greater honor than induction into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame.

It is the ultimate validation of years of hard work.

But induction doesn’t signify the culmination of giving to the sport. Instead, a new mission is added: supporting the Hall of Fame itself.

The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum sits outside turn two of Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway. Complete with a full floor of museum displays, the Hall of Fame, a movie theater and even a gift shop offering a full catalog of sprint car-related items, the building is home to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Foundation, a nonprofit tasked with helping to further the sport of sprint car racing by “promoting the future by preserving the past.”

Executive Director Bob Baker cites the inductees themselves as one of the foundation’s greatest assets.

Far and away, the most active inductee is Shane Carson. The former outlaw racer and second-generation promoter (his father, Bud Carson, is also a HoF inductee) spends much of his free time as an ambassador to sprint car racing and endlessly promoting the NSCHoF.

“There are so many inductees that do things for us,” Baker said with his usual infectious enthusiasm. “The photographers are always helping us with pictures for inductees or for a program we’re doing. Jim Chini helps us with photos, John Mahoney helps us. Mike Arthur is another photographer that helps us. Gene Marderness helps us anytime we need pictures.”

Many of the images featured on the inductee’s permanent plaques are provided from the archives of Hall of Fame photographers.

“Shirley Kear (Valentine) helps us with anything in Ohio,” Baker continued. “If we need anything in Ohio, Shirley’s usually the person we call. She helps us if we’re looking for a wing or a part or something for the raffle car. Because she’s in the parts business, she knows everybody and she’s done it for so long.

“Kenny Jacobs, just for an example, he builds things and right now he’s trying to get a bunch of car parts and engine parts together to build some kind of lamp to donate to us for our auction.

“In Washington, look at Steve Beitler. Steve invites us to his race track all the time and now he’s on our board of directors,” Baker added. “And those guys on the board have to fly to be at all these meetings on their own dime and their own hotels and everything. He’s always at our auctions.

“When I think of races, I think of Emmett (Hahn) and Lanny (Edwards) because of the Chili Bowl. I mean, they have welcomed us down there and been so gracious to us. They let us announce our poll awards and our new Hall of Fame inductees there every year.

“Bob Mays, who works over at Speedway Motors’ museum, he’s been instrumental in helping us swap cars back and forth between our museums and he knows so many people in the business — as far as the museum business goes — that if there’s something that we’re looking for that he doesn’t have he can usually find it for us.

“And, likewise with Lynn Paxton,” Baker continued. “Lynn Paxton is probably the closest ambassador for sprint car racing to Shane Carson that our sport has. He’s got the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing, he’s always promoting racing wherever he goes and he comes here to our induction banquet every year and spearheads our Friday night racing roundtable that we do with all the inductees. It’s kind of like a bench racing thing we do where they tell stories but the fans get to interact with them and talk with them.”

The Hall of Famers are great supporters of the sport as a whole.

“Whenever we’re at a trade show — it doesn’t matter if we’re at PRI or a race track — Danny Smith always stops by and buys raffle tickets and tells everybody with him to, then he tells people that he meets at the event to buy tickets,” Baker said. “He’s always very positive about the Hall of Fame and he’s always sending people to visit as they’re crossing the country. They come in and say, ‘Danny Smith told me to stop by,’ and ‘Danny Smith told me I should see you.’”

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MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Hailie Deegan has joined DGR-Crosley for Thursday’s NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Bush’s Beans 150 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.

The 18-year-old Toyota Racing Development driver will drive the team’s No. 54 Camry with primary sponsorship from iK9.

Deegan currently competes full-time in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West for Bill McAnally Racing, where she sits second in driver point standings with six races remaining in the season. Deegan also runs a part-time schedule in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and ARCA Menards Series.

“It’s awesome that we were able to work with DGR-Crosley on running the K&N East race at Bristol,” said Deegan. “They have top notch equipment and people within their organization. Every weekend they are competing for wins, and as a driver, that’s all you want — a chance to win.”

In 2018, Deegan secured her first NASCAR win as she took the checkered flag at Meridian (Idaho) Speedway becoming the first female to be victorious in the K&N Pro Series. She also went on to finish fifth in driver point standings, earning Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors. So far this season, Deegan has a career-best season going as she has two wins, five top-five finishes and two pole awards in eight races this season.

The NASCAR Next member has two previous starts at Bristol, including most recently in April of this year.

“Bristol [Motor Speedway] is one of my favorite tracks and there’s just so much NASCAR history at that track. It’s a tough track to figure out, but I feel like it really fits my driving style. The short track beating and banging always makes for an exciting race. The seat time and experience this weekend will help me be at the top of my game when I go back to race on the west coast.”

iK9, a comprehensive canine solutions provider for detection and service dogs, along with professional handler education, will adorn the sides of Deegan’s No. 54 Camry at Bristol Motor Speedway along with Monster Energy and TRD.

Deegan will be joined by DGR-Crosley teammates Tanner Gray and Ty Gibbs in the Bush’s Beans 150.

KNOXVILLE, Iowa — The names Jeff Gordon and Mark Webber were thrown around the Jason Johnson Racing camp all week during the 59th annual NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals.

However, when the dust settled Saturday night at Knoxville Raceway, David Gravel was the only name that mattered.

The 27-year-old Connecticut driver became the third first-time winner of the world’s biggest sprint car race in the past four seasons and gave the JJR operation its second victory in that same span. Jason Johnson won the Nationals with the team he built in 2016, but was killed in a crash last June at Wisconsin’s Beaver Dam Raceway.

His widow, Bobbi, decided to keep the team together and after running a limited schedule, Gravel was hired as the full-time driver.

While Gravel played a key role in keeping Johnson’s legacy alive, the $150,000 triumph was the coming out party that Gravel had been chasing.

In 2017, Gravel started on the pole aboard the CJB Motorsports entry and led until a blown engine ended his night. While he’d been a player in the Nationals A-main numerous times, he’d always come up short.

This time, Gravel, who has a reputation for driving hard, was patient and calculating in keeping the No. 41 under him throughout 50 laps of the half-mile oval.

“I put myself in position a lot of times after prelim nights and never really had anything to show for it,” Gravel acknowledged. “My best finish here was 10th. I feel like I’ve always been pretty good here, but no results to show for it. Obviously, the JJR No. 41 gets around good here and Phil (Dietz, crew chief) did a great job. It’s just a dream week.”

Gravel was patient early on, starting second and falling back to third.

“I got a bad jump and we were detuned a little bit in hot laps,” Gravel explained. “I didn’t feel fast around the top. Joey (Saldana) had a fast car in the beginning and I didn’t get too excited. I knew if I fell back to fourth or fifth that it would be hard to get back up there and contend for the win.

“I fell back to third there and then got by Joey and Aaron didn’t know where to run in three and four,” he continued. “He was running the bottom and the top and sliding himself. I was able to commit to the top and get some runs on him and it all worked out. I just let the race come to me.”

Gravel took the lead on lap 14 and held the point at the halfway fueling break. From there he was never seriously challenged, but did have some close calls in lapped traffic.

“I thought things were going to get hairy there a couple of times,” Gravel noted. “The 18 (Ian Madsen) hit the wall and protected the bottom and the 09 (Matt Juhl) pulled square out in front of me. I knew I was losing time on those laps and I don’t know if Daryn was close to me or not, but it was getting sketchy.

“I was able to recover and put those guys behind me. There were definitely some close calls. There were 25 straight laps with no yellows,” he added. “You don’t know if they are close to you or not. I just had to keep rolling, but I think I set a pace where I was kind of under control in open track and then turned it up a bit in lapped traffic.”

Gravel said he tried not to think about misfortune that dispelled him in the past.

“I was so focused on trying to make good laps. Obviously, I was thinking about it a little bit, whether or not something was going to break,” he acknowledged. “It’s a brand-new engine. It only has four or five nights on it. It’s something a little bit different. We had a shock fall off in the Capitani … and you just don’t know what can happen.

“The guys dotted their I’s and crossed their t’s. We had a stagger issue on our prelim night, but we checked everything out tonight 110 percent.”

Gravel followed Brad Sweet’s lead and became the second consecutive driver to win the Capitani Classic, his preliminary night feature and Saturday’s night’s A-main.

“I always have confidence here, but to win the Capitani and to win your prelim night just makes you feel good about yourself,” Gravel said. “It’s just a confidence booster. All three nights, we had the car pretty similar.

“A lot of times you are out there just searching, but we knew what we had. I’ve been there on Saturday searching and then you try to make it better on the break and you can make it worse.”

On his night, Gravel knew the sacrifices of those who made it happen for him.

“For Bobbi to keep this team going and Phil Dietz is busting his butt. He lost his best friend and kept this going,” Gravel said. “It made it all worth it. It just feels amazing. I am numb. I wasn’t that tired in the car but after the checkered flag I feel like I have boulders on my shoulders.

“It’s surreal. It doesn’t feel real at all.”

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SPEED SPORT has been reporting on and covering motorsports happenings from all over the world for 85 years, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in the archives to see what happened 10, 25 and 50 years ago each week.

So check out what SPEED SPORT was covering 10, 25 and 50 years ago this week in Looking Back!

10 Years Ago (Aug. 12, 2009): Joey Saldana outran his Kasey Kahne Racing teammate Craig Dollansky to win the inaugural running of the Ironman 55 at I-55 Raceway in Pevely, Mo. Saldana started fourth and chased Dollansky until the 19th circuit, when he used a slide job off of turn four to take the lead. He would lead the remaining 37 laps to take home the $20,000 top prize.

Other Happenings: Scott Dixon knocked out the competition by winning the Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course; Terry McCarl became the first three-time winner of the ASCS 360 Knoxville Nationals at Knoxville Raceway; Jimmy Mars earned $50,000 for winning the North/South 100 at Florence Speedway; Gil de Ferran, an Indianapolis 500 winner, announced his second retirement, this time from sports car racing; Tony Stewart took top honors in NASCAR Cup Series competition at Watkins Glen Int’l.

25 Years Ago (Aug. 10, 1994): More than 300,000 people watched as as the NASCAR Winston Cup Series made its debut at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with 23-year-old Jeff Gordon winning the inaugural Brickyard 400. The race attracted more than 80 entries for the 43-car field, with Gordon outrunning Brett Bodine and Bill Elliott to earn the trophy and more than $600,000 for winning the inaugural event.

Other Happenings: Kevin Doty drove the Rusty and Keith Kunz Fontana-powered Stealth to victory in the 17th Belleville Midget Nationals; Mike Wallace scored his third Busch Grand National victory of the year at Indianapolis Raceway Park; Joe Amato topped the Top Fuel field at Seattle Int’l Raceway; Billy Hagan shuttered his NASCAR Winston Cup program due to a lack of sponsorship.

50 Years Ago (Aug. 13, 1969): Lee Roy Yarbrough bumped his season-long earnings to $140,000 with a victory in the Dixie 500 at Atlanta Int’l Raceway. He had planned to use a relief driver, but instead went to a local hospital that morning to receive a shot that helped him complete the race without a relief driver. He averaged 133.001 mph in the romp, setting a race speed record.

Other Happenings: Tiny Lund was declared the winner of the Music City 200 for the NASCAR Grand Touring Series at Fairgrounds Motor Speedway when rain stopped the race early; Don White won the USAC stock car race at Wisconsin State Fair Park; Gary Bettenhausen drove his Willie Davis Chevy to victory in the 50-lap USAC sprint car race at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track.