The Philadelphia Phillies acquired infielder Brad Miller from the New York Yankees on Thursday for cash considerations.

Miller, 29, joined the Yankees organization this season after he was released by the Cleveland Indians in April. He hit .250 with a home run and four RBIs in 13 games for Cleveland.

Miller didn't appear in a major league game for the Yankees but hit .294 with 10 home runs and 29 RBIs in 41 games at Triple-A Scranton Wilkes-Barre.

Miller has a career batting average of .240 with 76 home runs and 272 RBIs in 693 games over seven major league seasons.

Six world leads at the Bislett Games, as Caterine Ibargüen and Christian Coleman are also among athletes to impress

A thrilling meeting in Oslo produced some stunning performances at the fifth stop on the IAAF Diamond League tour.

Although six world leads were set, the highlight was Karsten Warholm’s European record of 47.33 in the 400m hurdles. Greeted by the roar from the home crowd, the Norwegian took four hundredths off the mark set by France’s Stephane Diagana in 1995.

Meanwhile, Caterine Ibargüen, Selemon Barega, Christian Coleman, Mariya Lasitskene, Marcin Lewandowski and Norah Jeruto went to the top of the world rankings for 2019 in their respective events.

Since winning the world title in 2017, Warholm has been overshadowed by the achievements of Abderrahman Samba and Rai Benjamin, now the second and third fastest in history. However, with a time that puts him 13th on the world all-time list, he has shown it could be a three-way battle this year.

After blasting away from the blocks as usual, on this occasion he had the finish to match. While Kyron McMaster looked set to challenge coming into the home straight, the man from the British Virgin Islands faded to 49.12, passed also by Ireland’s Thomas Barr (49.11). Warholm’s Norwegian record had been 47.64.

The winner said afterwards: “That was unbelievable, my face said it all! I’m just so happy – it’s crazy to run a European record and it’s amazing to do it here at Bislett.

“My coach thought I would run 47.30 so he was nearly right. I’ve worked so hard during the winter with the pressure coming at me, so this is a very special feeling.”

Twenty minutes later as the final track athletes lined up, the home crowd were hopeful of a second Norwegian win. However, it was another European – Lewandowski – who surprisingly took the spoils in the historic Dream Mile.

The Pole became the first European winner of the event since 2008 as he held off the optimistically quick first 800m of 1:53.04.

Coming from nowhere in the home straight, he stopped the clock on 3:52.34 as Kenya’s Vincent Kibet was four hundredths back.

Just as in the 1500m at the European Indoors this year, Jakob Ingebrigtsen was shocked by Lewandowski. Off such a quick start he faded to 3:53.04 for sixth, more than a half a second outside his PB.

After winning with just 1.92m in difficult weather conditions in Stockholm, Lasitskene was back attempting more familiar heights. Her 2.01m put her top of the world rankings and guaranteed her a 20th Diamond League win. Erika Kinsey of Sweden was second with 1.96m.

Morgan Lake’s outdoor season started with just 1.85m for seventh as she had three failures at 1.88m.

In the 100m, Christian Coleman took a hundredth off the world lead he shared with Noah Lyles. The American was a class apart as he ran 9.85. Xie Zhenye of China was second with 10.01 and USA’s Mike Rodgers third with 10.04.

GB’s CJ Ujah ran 10.18 for sixth, one place ahead of compatriot Tommy Ramdhan’s 10.28. The third Brit, Reece Prescod, pulled up with an apparent injury and eventually crossed the line in 10.76.

“I’m pretty excited about it, it was a good run and a pretty good time – now I’ll look back at the video and critique it,” said Coleman. “It wasn’t ideal conditions but the crowd made it exciting and I came out for the victory.”

Ethiopia’s Barega passed Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei with 250m to go to win the 3000m in a world lead and PB of 7:32.17.

After slow early pace, Barega was inside 3:26 for the final kilometre. Cheptegei ran 7:33.26 as Kenya’s Nicholas Kimeli was third in 7:34.85.

Henrik Ingebrigtsen took nearly four seconds off the Norwegian record with 7:36.85 for fourth. Britain’s Andy Butchart was 10th with 7:43.57 – just over six seconds outside his PB.

Jeruto took a surprise win over world record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech in the steeplechase. She had the better finish as she stopped the clock on 9:03.71 as Chepkoech ran 9:04.30. In 14th, Britain’s Rosie Clarke took four tenths off her PB with 9:31.68.

Ibargüen found her form in the fifth round of the triple jump with a world lead 14.79m to take her 36th career Diamond League win. She had found herself behind Keturah Orji of USA, who jumped 14.53m in the second round.

World junior record-holder Sydney McLaughlin, competing in her first 400m hurdles in the Diamond League, produced a stunning finish to claw back the lead of world No.1 Dalilah Muhammad.

The winner, who hit the first hurdle badly, clocked 54.16. Muhammad, who led off the final hurdle and seemed a certain winner, clocked 54.35 for second. Meghan Beesley, who received a late call to take a lane here, was eighth in 57.13.

Christina Clemons capitalised after a false-start disqualification for Olympic champion Brianna McNeal in the 100m hurdles. The American clocked 12.69 to win from runner-up and compatriot Sharika Nelvis (12.74).

Puerto Rico’s Ryan Sanchez, who was second in Stockholm, finished well to win the men’s non-Diamond League 800m in 1:46.34.

In the shot put, world and Diamond League champion Gong Lijiao reversed her Shanghai loss to American Chase Ealey (19.51m to 19.20m).

World champion Dafne Schippers comfortably won the 200m with a season’s best of 22.56.

Johannes Vetter’s 85.27m in the first round of the javelin proved enough to win despite his retiring with a leg injury in the third round.

With 5.91m, world champion Sam Kendricks won the pole vault as world No.1 Armand Duplantis was just fourth with 5.81m.

Uganda’s Halimah Nakaayi won the 800m with 2:01.93. European indoor champion Shelayna Oskan-Clarke was seventh in 2:03.45. Her fellow Brit, Lynsey Sharp, was tripped and failed to finish.

Comment from @soskanclarke following her 2:03.45 for seventh in this evening’s @BislettGames 800m. @stuartweir @BritAthletics pic.twitter.com/6t5mUPmJu4

— Athletics Weekly (@AthleticsWeekly) June 13, 2019

Another non-League event, the women’s javelin, was won by Australia’s Kathryn Mitchell with 56.07m.

Full results can be found here.

AVON, Ind. – The Swindell SpeedLab sprint car team plans to nearly double its race count next week when NASCAR Xfinity Series star Christopher Bell pilots the car during part of Ohio Sprint Speedweek.

The team will join the Ollie’s Bargain Outlet All Star Circuit of Champions on Monday at Wayne County Speedway in Orrville, Ohio. That track also hosts the Speedweek finale next Saturday.

The remaining Speedweek tracks are Sharon Speedway in Hartford, Ohio, on Tuesday; Atomic Speedway in Chillicothe, Ohio, on Wednesday; Mansfield Motor Speedway in Mansfield, Ohio, on Thursday; and Limaland Motorsports Park in Lima, Ohio, on Friday.

“We’re excited to get to race for a week straight,” team co-owner Kevin Swindell said. “We’ve done well in a start here and there. Now we’ll get to implement little changes night by night and we can see the turnaround a lot quicker.

“We’ve been really close to winning this year, so I don’t see any reason why we can’t contend for wins during Ohio Speedweek.”

Bell has visited one of those tracks already this season, as he guided the Swindell SpeedLab team to a sixth-place run at Eldora Speedway last month.

So far, Bell has four top-five and six top-10 finishes in eight sprint car starts with the Swindell SpeedLab team this season.

“Our team has raced most of these tracks in Ohio and I think Bell has been to most (of them), so we feel comfortable rolling into each race track,” Swindell noted. “I think if we can put a decent qualifying lap down each night that will put us in a good position.

“If we’re in the ballpark, we have a chance to win, and we’re looking forward to that.”

Next weekend is an off weekend for the NASCAR Xfinity Series, which races on Sunday at Iowa Speedway. Bell currently sits second in series points behind leader Tyler Reddick.

NAPLES, Maine – Following a rare off weekend, the Pro All Stars Series North super late models and PASS Modifieds return to action Sunday at Speedway 95 for the Hopkins Milling & Paving 150.

The speedway, known as Maine’s Family Fun Track, will host the next Road To The Oxford 250 qualifier.  Courtesy of Hopkins Milling & Paving, adult tickets will be $15.

By virtue of his second PASS win of the season at Oxford Plains Speedway, Garrett Hall has shot to the top of the standings over three-time PASS North champion, D.J. Shaw, and rookie competitor Gabe Brown.  Heading back to Speedway 95 on Sunday, Hall is familiar with the Hermon, Maine, track, having won there in 2016.

“The track is bumpy, fast and fun,” says Hall.  “The high side has a little more banking on it and you can keep your momentum going up there.”

With a 24-point cushion over Shaw in the standings, Hall believes this weekend at Speedway 95, and the races leading up to the 46th annual Oxford 250 in August, are pivotal if he wants to challenge for his first PASS North title later this year.

“It’s really important because the competition is so tough and there’s 10 cars that can win every week,” said Hall.  “We’re hoping to keep the momentum going and get another win on Sunday at Speedway 95.”

While much of the attention will be on the points leaders, the leading PASS winner at Speedway 95 with three wins, Ben Rowe, will be looking to return to victory lane there for the first time in 16 years.

In addition, former PASS North champions Johnny Clark and Travis Benjamin are entered, along with defending PASS National champion Derek Griffith. Current PASS National Championship leader and Richmond winner Mike Hopkins has filed an entry, while Brown, Scott Chubbuck, Chad Dow, Andy Saunders, Gary Smith, and Bobby Therrien have also filed entries.

ROSSBURG, Ohio – Eldora Speedway officials have announced that Saturday night’s Ohio Sprint Speedweek event is being flex-scheduled due to possible weather later in the evening.

The new showtime is two hours earlier and now scheduled for 5:30 p.m.

The Eldora event is the second round of nine straight nights of racing for the Ollie’s Bargain Outlet All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1, and the 2019 edition marks the 37th time America’s original touring sprint car series have barnstormed their way across the Buckeye state.

Saturday’s schedule now has the pit area opening to competitors at 1:30 p.m., the grandstands opening to spectators at 2 p.m., the driver meetings beginning at 3:15 p.m. and hot laps on track at 4:10 p.m.

Kyle Larson is the defending race winner and has indicated his intention to return to defend his race win.

COLUMBUS, Ind. – Logan Seavey’s path to the USAC Indiana Midget Week championship revolved around consistency and a passion to try and win every one of the five races he entered with Keith Kunz/Curb Agajanian Motorsports.

Seavey took the No. 67 Mobil 1-sponsored Bullet/Toyota to a victory in the mini-series opener at Montpelier Motor Speedway on June 4, then backed that performance up with three additional podium finishes in the next four nights en route to earning the title by 36 points over teammate Tanner Thorson.

A third-place run during the final night at Lawrenceburg Speedway on June 8, combined with a flat tire for chief rival Tyler Courtney, ultimately iced the point battle in Seavey’s favor.

“We just had a good car, basically every night during the week,” Seavey told SPEED SPORT. “We struggled a little bit at Gas City (I-69 Speedway) … but other than that, we were really good at Montpelier, really good at Bloomington, good at Putnamville, and then good again Saturday night at Lawrenceburg. It comes down to having a fast race car and having confidence in what we can do as a team.

“It was good for us to go to Granite City (Tri-City Speedway in Illinois) a few weeks earlier and run well, because that was a big boost to all of us, but then to fire off the week with a win is always good and what really, I feel like, helped to propel us all the way through the five nights to the championship.”

Seavey was quick to mention that one of his team’s keys to success was a quick rebound period, and that they didn’t allow themselves to stress over things that were out of their control or in the past.

“The biggest thing was, that even though we missed out on a few wins I feel like we should have had, we never let that get us down,” Seavey noted. “Even at Gas City, when we had a bad night, we picked ourselves right back up and kept going, kept digging. … Bad nights are a part of racing and you have to recognize that sometimes, it’s just how the cycle goes. We just put our heads down and stayed focused on what we knew we could do and were capable of, and in the end it paid off for us.”

Seavey’s worst finish during the entire week was 12th at Gas City, and after that he put together runs of second, second and third – contending for the trophy each night for the remainder of the stretch despite a loaded field that averaged 30 cars during the course of the week-long endeavor.

“To be on the podium four nights out of five with USAC is huge for us, because these guys are as good as it gets and it’s as hard as it has ever been to be able to stay in the mix all the time with that series,” said Seavey. “That’s just a testament to how fast our race cars are right now, and to the fact that we’re starting to close the gap to the guys ahead of us in points.

“We had a pretty big deficit going into this week, and now we’re starting to trim away at it.”

He may have made his run through Indiana Midget Week look easy, but Seavey said it was anything but simple to string together a streak of four top-three finishes in five days.

“It’s really tough to have that kind of consistency,” Seavey pointed out. “You have to go out and run a good qualifying lap. The night we struggled, we didn’t qualify well … it’s just how USAC’s format works. If you can qualify well, even if you have a bad heat race, you can start at the front of the B (main) and then you’re right back toward the front of the feature again. Qualifying is your whole night with USAC, really.

“Being able to rip that good lap is the key, and right now we’re really doing that.”

Though he was born and raised in Sutter, Calif., Seavey has learned plenty about the racing culture of the Hoosier State and recognizes what it means to add “Indiana Midget Week champion” to his resume.

“Winning an Indiana Midget Week title is huge,” said Seavey. “There’s a lot of talented names on the list of drivers who have won that championship, and it’s pretty special for me just to win a race during the week … let alone to win the whole thing. That’s really cool and something I’ll remember for a while.

“Now we just want to take that momentum, keep moving and hopefully win back to back USAC titles.”

ST. LOUIS -- A parade 52 years in the making will finally happen Saturday in St. Louis, when the city celebrates the Blues' first-ever Stanley Cup championship.

The Blues defeated the Boston Bruins 4-1 in Wednesday's Game 7 in Boston. The Blues joined the NHL as an expansion team in 1967 and had never before won a championship.

The Blues took to Twitter Thursday to announce celebration plans. A parade will start at noon at 18th and Market Street and head east. A rally will then take place beneath the Gateway Arch.

Fans attending the celebration may want to bring an umbrella. Rain is in the forecast.