NEW YORK -- Betrayed by his 38-year-old body -- and his forehand -- Roger Federer is done at the US Open.

Federer's upper back and neck gave him trouble, he kept missing makeable shots and he kept giving away the lead against a guy he'd never lost to. It all added up to getting beaten 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 by 78th-ranked Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals before a stunned crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday night.

"Grigor was able to put me away,'' Federer said. "I fought with what I had.''

Chasing a 21st Grand Slam title, and sixth at Flushing Meadows, Federer appeared to be flexing his upper back after some points and said afterward that he began feeling something in that area in the afternoon.

He took a rare-for-him medical timeout after the fourth set, leaving the court with a trainer. When play resumed after a break of nearly 10 minutes, Federer's form never picked up.

"He started slowing down a little bit,'' Dimitrov said. "For sure, in the end, he was not 100% of himself.''

Federer kept contributing to Dimitrov's cause, missing shots this way and that, long or wide or into the net.

The stats were staggering and showed exactly how off Federer was on this evening: 61 unforced errors, 33 on the forehand side. Compare that to his 40 total winners.

And so his two-sets-to-one lead vanished.

"Start of the fourth wasn't ideal,'' Federer said. "Start of the fifth wasn't ideal.''

Federer had been 7-0 in their head-to-head series, taking 16 of the previous 18 sets against Dimitrov, who is a decade younger and long ago was dubbed "Baby Fed'' because of his similar one-handed backhand and all-court game.

Federer is now 43-2 in his US Open career against players ranked outside the ATP's top 50. His other loss came last year in the round of 16, against the 55th-ranked John Millman.

The No. 3-seeded Federer could have become the oldest man to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since Jimmy Connors was 39 in 1991 at the US Open. He could have claimed a berth in his record 56th career major semifinal.

"Just disappointed it's over, because I did feel like I was actually playing really well after a couple of rocky starts,'' Federer said. "It's just a missed opportunity, to some extent.''

He joins Novak Djokovic on the sideline less than two months after their epic five-set Wimbledon final. Defending US Open champion and No. 1 seed Djokovic retired from his fourth-round match in New York because of a painful left shoulder.

That leaves No. 2 Rafael Nadal as the only member of the Big Three still in the draw.

Dimitrov will participate in a Slam final four for the third time, facing No. 5 seed Daniil Medvedev on Friday.

Dimitrov has struggled for much of 2019, failing to even get to a quarterfinal anywhere since Week 1 of the season. And it's been nearly 1½ years since Dimitrov reached a semifinal at any tour-level event, let alone a major.

His Grand Slam results have been trending in the wrong direction, too, from a loss in the fourth round at the Australian Open to the third round at the French Open to the first round at Wimbledon.

So his ranking, as high as No. 3 a couple of years ago, is nowhere near that now. His coaches, Andre Agassi and Radek Stepanek, aren't anywhere near Flushing Meadows, either.

They opted to stay away from the tournament. Asked why, Dimitrov hemmed and hawed.

It's certainly working so far, as Dimitrov became the lowest-ranked US Open semifinalist on the men's side since the aforementioned Connors run in 1991, when he was ranked No. 174.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

CLEVELAND -- Carlos Carrasco's return to Progressive Field didn't produce the results he wanted.

Carrasco received a standing ovation in his first appearance at home since being diagnosed with leukemia, but he gave up home runs to James McCann and Eloy Jimenez in the eighth inning that lifted the Chicago White Sox over the Cleveland Indians 6-5 Tuesday night.

Carrasco entered the game with a 5-2 lead, but gave up a three-run homer to McCann, which was followed by Jimenez's second homer of the game.

"I made a mistake," Carrasco said. "The two homers -- it was a hanging slider. That's what happened. That's what cost us the game right there."

Cleveland missed a chance to move into a virtual tie with Tampa Bay for the American League wild-card lead. The White Sox ended a season-high seven-game losing streak.

The crowd of 17,397 came to its feet when Carrasco ran through the bullpen gate and chanted "Cookie" -- the right-hander's nickname.

Carrasco (4-7) entered after Roberto Perez's three-homer in the seventh gave Cleveland a 5-2 lead. Carrasco gave up singles to Leury Garcia and Tim Anderson, but struck out Jose Abreu and Yoan Moncada.

With the fans on their feet again, McCann startled the crowd by homering into the bleachers to tie the game. Jimenez followed with a towering drive to right that cleared the wall despite a leaping attempt by Yasiel Puig.

"I thought when he got Moncada that he was OK," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "He hung a breaking ball to a guy who knows what to do with it."

The inning finally ended when Carrasco fielded Daniel Palka's high chopper and ran to first for the out. He was given another ovation when he left the field.

Francona said he wanted to use Carrasco in low-pressure situations as he returned, but Cleveland needed five relievers in Monday night's 11-3 victory.

Carrasco, diagnosed with a treatable form of leukemia in June, pitched an inning in Tampa Bay on Sunday. Carrasco said Monday that his whole body was shaking when he was on the field, but he knew his first appearance at home would be even more emotional.

"That was good, all the fans right there," Carrasco said of the reception. "As soon as I started running down to the mound. That was great. It was unbelievable."

White Sox manager Rick Renteria said even his team felt the emotion of the moment.

"It was outstanding," he said. "Even our guys were applauding him. Listen, you know what, when you realize there are things that are certainly more important than what we do and for him coming back this year after having been diagnosed, treated and gone through everything, God bless him. Good for him and happy for him."

Cleveland has lost four of five and trails Minnesota by 6½ games in the AL Central

Jimenez had an RBI double in the second and a solo homer in the seventh off Mike Clevinger. The rookie left fielder recorded his fourth career two-homer game.

Evan Marshall (4-2) got the win despite allowing Perez's home run. Alex Colome survived Franmil Reyes' flyout to deep right in the ninth for his 26th save.

Francisco Lindor homered in the first. Jimenez tied the game in the second with an RBI double. Perez broke the tie with an RBI single in the fifth, but Jimenez homered in the seventh.

TRAINER'S ROOM

White Sox: LHP Manny Banuelos sustained a bruised foot when he was struck by a ground ball in the eighth inning Monday.

Indians: RHP Danny Salazar (sore shoulder and groin) returned to his home in Tampa, Florida. Francona said Salazar experienced some physical issues while on a minor league rehab assignment and asked for some time away. Salazar made one appearance for Cleveland last month before going back on the injured list.

SWING AND A DRIVE

Jimenez said he wasn't sure he ball he hit in the eighth inning would reach the seats.

"I don't want to lie to you, I first thought I might be out at the warning track, but when I saw that Puig kept running, I was like 'Oh my God,' and when I saw it was gone, that was amazing for me," he said.

TAKING HIS CUTS

Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis missed his third consecutive game with tendinitis in his right wrist. He took batting practice on the field before the game.

UP NEXT

White Sox: RHP Ivan Nova (9-11, 4.48 ERA) has been dominant in his last eight starts, going 5-2 and allowing nine earned runs in 52 innings.

Indians: RHP Shane Bieber (12-7, 3.27 ERA) has lost his past three decisions. The All-Star Game MVP hasn't won since Aug. 9.

WASHINGTON -- A few cheering fans caught the attention of Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez as he finally began his nightly debrief with reporters.

"Thank you for staying," Martinez said.

They couldn't have been blamed for leaving early. No doubt, they're glad they didn't.

Kurt Suzuki capped the largest ninth-inning comeback in Nationals franchise history with a game-ending, three-run homer, helping Washington score seven runs in its final at-bat to stun the New York Mets 11-10 Tuesday night.

"With the at-bats everyone was putting on that inning, I didn't want to kill the rally," Suzuki said. "I wanted to come through just like everyone else was."

Mets relievers Paul Sewald, Luis Avilan and Edwin Diaz pitched through the meltdown, retiring just one batter while Washington rallied for its 20th win in 26 games. The Nationals/Expos franchise had never won a game after trailing by at least six runs in the ninth or later.

"It's been a crazy year," said Nationals veteran Ryan Zimmerman, who hit a two-run pinch double during the rally. "That's the only way to sum it up. For me, for the team, for everyone. It kind of fits into the narrative, I guess."

New York led 10-4 after scoring five runs in the top of the ninth. Wilson Ramos extended his hitting streak to 26 games and Pete Alonso crushed his 44th homer to put the Mets in position for a win over the current leaders in the National League wild-card hunt.

Mets manager Mickey Callaway lifted reliever Seth Lugo after he retired all three hitters he faced in the eighth. Lugo routinely gets six outs per outing, but Callaway said he thought the lead was safe enough to go deeper into the bullpen.

"We had a six-run lead," Callaway said. "Major league pitchers got to be able to hold that."

Sewald allowed four hits to his five batters, including Trea Turner's RBI double and Anthony Rendon's RBI single. Avilan allowed a single to load the bases, and then Diaz (1-7) relieved and allowed a two-run double to Zimmerman followed by Suzuki's blast.

"It kind of just seemed like a bad dream," Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo said. "I don't know. That's hard to do even in a Little League game I feel like, come back from [six] runs down in the bottom of the ninth against guys throwing 99 mph. I don't really have words for it."

Suzuki pointed into the home dugout before rounding first base, pumped his fist at second and was swarmed by teammates at home plate. It was his 16th homer of the season.

"The difference was that that team didn't let up at any moment," Diaz said through an interpreter. "I was throwing my pitches. I thought I was executing my fastball, my slider and it just happened to be that he got me. He was waiting on that pitch and he hit it out."

Javy Guerra (3-1) retired the only batter he faced to end the Mets' ninth.

Washington is the first team to allow five or more runs in the top of the ninth and get even more in the bottom of the inning for a walk-off win since the Red Sox on June 18, 1962, against the Washington Senators, according to Stats LLC.

New York's five-run ninth was aided when Turner forgot how many outs there were and passed on a possible double-play grounder with one out, instead throwing to first.

The game began as a duel between the most recent NL Cy Young Award winners. Washington's Max Scherzer allowed four runs and five hits while striking out seven in six innings, the longest of his three starts since coming off the injured list last month.

New York's Jacob deGrom was in firm control for much of his outing, which ended abruptly in the eighth after Rendon's infield single and Juan Soto's two-run blast to right-center pulled Washington within 5-4. In seven-plus innings, deGrom yielded four runs while striking out six.

WASHINGTON -- They are what we thought they were. The Washington Nationals' see-it-to-believe-it, come-from-way-behind-way-late, 11-10 win over the New York Mets wasn't a swing game. It didn't transform the pennant race. It didn't alter the fate of the free world as we know it. It didn't reverse the destiny of an entire organization. What it did do, however, was serve as an affirmation that a pair of NL East rivals are pretty much what we thought they were.

Let's start with New York, which entered Tuesday's game in D.C. with little to no hope of playing beyond September. Despite a white-hot stretch in which the Amazin's resurrected the ghost of their 2015 forefathers by winning 21 of 26 to become wild-card contenders, they've come crashing back to earth recently. By the time the extended Labor Day weekend officially concluded, the Mets had just a 7.5% chance of making the playoffs, according to FanGraphs. Although they weren't technically toast, they certainly seemed toast-ish. After Tuesday's miraculous meltdown, it could very well be time to bust out the knife and butter.

"When I came in here, I didn't really know what just happened," center fielder Brandon Nimmo said from the visiting clubhouse after his team scored four runs in the top of the ninth to extend its lead to 10-4 but then blew it by allowing a seven-spot in the bottom half, the last three runs coming courtesy of Kurt Suzuki's walk-off, three-run bomb against closer Edwin Diaz. "It kind of just seemed like a bad dream. That's hard to do even in a Little League game, I feel like, to come back from seven runs down in the bottom of the ninth against guys throwing 99 mph. I don't really have words for that."

Forget about words: There are barely numbers for that. Through Monday's games, home teams were 0-274 when trailing by six-plus runs entering the bottom of the ninth inning. The past five years, MLB teams were 4-1,321. Washington was 0-63 in the past decade.

In other words, the odds of the Nats doing what they did on Tuesday were roughly equivalent to the odds of Satan needing to use the defroster in his Satanmobile. Then again, these are the 2019 Mets we're talking about.

For all the goodness that has emanated from Queens this season, there has been plenty of badness. Despite Pete Alonso's epic rookie season and Jeff McNeil's solidifying his status as one of the game's best all-around hitters and J.D. Davis' becoming a cult hero and Jacob deGrom's making a serious run at a second consecutive Cy Young award, it has been hard to not focus on the things that haven't gone well. From rookie GM Brodie Van Wagenen tossing chairs during a meeting with coaches to pitcher Jason Vargas getting into a shouting match with a reporter, there has been plenty of weirdness.

But perhaps the most dysfunctional thing about the Mets this season has been the bullpen. Following the surprising offseason acquisition of Diaz, a dominant closer who was an All-Star in 2018, New York's relief corps was expected to be better. Instead, it has been one of the worst in the league. Including the latest fiasco, the Mets' pen has a 5.15 ERA, fourth-highest in the majors. Mets relievers have now blown 25 saves and are in danger of breaking the franchise's single-season record (29). Still, nobody could have predicted what went down in the District on Tuesday -- except maybe the home team.

"The boys fought. What can I say about these guys, honestly?" said manager Davey Martinez, whose club began the day having scored more ninth-inning runs than any other team in baseball, then went out and added to that cushion. "All year long, they've been down, down, down, and they come right back."

Clearly, Martinez was talking on a micro level about Washington's propensity for erasing in-game deficits. But it applies on a macro level: Back on May 24, the Nationals were 19-31 and looked like they were finished. Thanks to a 59-28 record since then (best in the majors), they're now at the top of the wild-card race and have a 99% chance of making the playoffs.

"Think positive, that's all I can tell you," said Martinez, who could barely conduct his postgame news conference because fans in the VIP club at Nats Park, which shares a glass wall with the media room, kept interrupting him with raucous cheers. It's a dynamic that hardly anyone could have imagined four months ago, when local talk radio was filled with callers demanding Martinez's job.

"If you let this game go like this, it's not going to be good," Washington's skipper said, making a roller-coaster gesture with his hand, which then turned into a flat line. "Just stay right here, and we'll be fine."

That isn't to say the Nationals don't have issues. The only reason they were in a big hole entering the bottom of the ninth was because their bullpen, which has been the worst in the NL all season, allowed five runs in the top half to turn a one-run game into what looked like a laugher.

It wasn't all the relievers' fault, though: With one out and a man on first, shortstop Trea Turner fielded a double-play grounder but threw to first because he thought there were two down -- the kind of "little things" mistake that was the norm for the Nats earlier in the season.

A couple hours before that, Max Scherzer -- Washington's ace and would-be wild-card starter -- got pummeled during a four-run fourth inning that suggested he has a ways to go before he's back to his usual Cy Young self.

"Obviously, there's things I can sharpen up," Scherzer said. "An outing like today, as much as you want to beat yourself up for it, was a step forward."

Of course, it's a whole lot easier to avoid self-flagellation when your teammates pick you up -- when they do the unthinkable and come from way behind way late in see-it-to-believe-it fashion.

"We've just got great chemistry," Scherzer said. "Got great mojo. We've really gelled together, watching this team come together and just playing good baseball. We have fun together, we all pull for each other, and it's a real treat to come to the park and compete with these guys. We've got a real good team."

In other words, the Nationals are who we thought they were.

FERNLEY, Nev. — World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series and Fernley 95A Speedway officials have reached a mutual decision to cancel the event on Sept. 15.

“Extenuating circumstances have unfortunately led us to canceling this year’s event in Fernley,” said World of Outlaws COO Tom Deery. “After much discussion and thought, we believe this is the best decision to make at this time.”

“We were looking forward to bringing the World of Outlaws to the Reno market, but in the end it’s just not right to do so at this point,” said Fernley 95A owner Dan Simpson. “We are excited about our weekly events in September and October and look forward to a bright future at Fernley 95A Speedway.”

Land speed racer Danny Thompson dropped by The Ralph Sheheen Show to share his thoughts on chasing land speed records, one of which he set in 2018 using his famous father’s 50-year old Challenger II at an average speed of 448.757 mph.

Thompson’s father, legendary car builder and racer, Mickey Thompson, set records from the Bonneville Salt Flats, to various drag strips, and even at the Indianapolis 500.

Catch this week’s full episode on SPEEDSPORT.com or listen to the audio podcast on popular apps like iTunes, SoundClould, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio and more.

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – Don Schumacher Racing drivers Tony Schumacher, Antron Brown, Leah Pritchett, Ron Capps, Jack Beckman, Matt Hagan and Tommy Johnson Jr. will help kick off the Performance Racing Industry Trade Show as special guests for the Grand Opening Breakfast on Dec. 12.

Offered exclusively for PRI Show attendees, the event features a live talk show-style program served up alongside a catered breakfast to some 3,000 industry professionals in the Indiana Convention Center’s Sagamore Ballroom just prior to the start of the three-day trade-only Show.

Emcee Ralph Sheheen of SPEED SPORT will lead a lively and entertaining discussion with the DSR team that is expected to include personal stories and accomplishments on and off the race track.

“It is an honor to have all seven Don Schumacher Racing drivers join us at the Breakfast and help kick off another amazing PRI Show,” said Karin Davidson, PRI Trade Show Director. “The drivers, along with new host Ralph Sheheen, will make for a very entertaining and unique Breakfast.”

Doors to the Sagamore Ballroom will open at 7 a.m., and the program will begin at 7:45 a.m. PRI attendees are admitted to the Breakfast free of charge, but guests are advised to arrive early, as seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.