SAN FRANCISCO -- Collin Morikawa delivered a shot that will go down as one of the best in a major that hardly anyone witnessed. It set up an eagle on the 16th hole Sunday that carried him to the quietest PGA Championship victory ever.

In the first major without spectators, Morikawa finished with a bang.

He was among seven players tied for the lead on the back nine at Harding Park, and it was as wild as any Sunday in a major. Morikawa chipped in from 40 feet on the 14th hole to take the lead, and then he ended it with one swing. On the 294-yard 16th hole, he hit driver that hopped onto the green and settled 7 feet below the cup.

He made it for eagle and was on his way. Morikawa closed with a 6-under 64, the lowest final round by a PGA champion in 25 years, and took his place among the young stars taking over golf.

Just more than a year ago, he was finishing his degree at nearby California and was one of several heralded college players ready to rule. Now he has three victories, including a major, by beating a world-class lineup on the public course in San Francisco.

Dustin Johnson never got anything going. Brooks Koepka turned out to be all talk in his bid for a third straight PGA Championship. Tiger Woods was long gone before the leaders teed off.

This major was up for grabs until one swing on a hole along the shores of Lake Merced, where the tee was moved up to tempt players to drive the green or pay the price if they missed in the trees to the right or the hazard to the left.

Morikawa never hesitated. His swing was never more pure.

Dallas Mavericks stars Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis will be held out of Monday's game against the Utah Jazz, according to the NBA's official injury report.

Injury recovery is cited as the reason for both Doncic and Porzingis not playing in Monday's game, which is the first of a back-to-back for the Mavs. The injury report specifically cites Doncic's right ankle, which he sprained twice this season, and Porzingis' left knee, in which tore the ACL in February 2018.

The Mavs, who are close to being locked into the Western Conference's seventh seed, will also face the Jazz without starting forward Dorian Finney-Smith (hip).

Doncic has been sensational during the seeding schedule at the NBA's Walt Disney World campus, averaging 33.4 points, 11.6 rebounds and 11.6 assists in five games, highlighted by his 36-point, 14-rebound, 19-assist performance in Saturday's overtime win over the Milwaukee Bucks. Porzingis, who sat out a game in most back-to-backs this season, has averaged 29.4 points and 10.2 rebounds in the bubble.

The Jazz employed a similar strategy in a 119-111 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Friday, when forward Joe Ingles was the only regular Utah starter who played.

The Jazz listed All-Star shooting guard Donovan Mitchell as questionable against the Mavs due to a lower left leg peroneal strain, the injury cited for his absence against the Spurs.

Prior to Sunday afternoon's game, before the New Orleans Pelicans were eliminated from playoff contention, coach Alvin Gentry said his team needed to play like it was Game 7, with the season on the line.

But when the Pelicans took the court against the San Antonio Spurs, their lackluster effort in the opening minutes set the tone for the 122-113 loss that was ahead of them. San Antonio jumped to a 14-3 lead, and though the Pelicans briefly tied the game in the first, they played from behind most of the night.

Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson said the way the team came out of the gate was "not acceptable."

"That lack of spirit in the first half really dictates the second half," Williamson said. "If we came out better, maybe we would've had a different outcome. You just have to learn from that experience and be better."

New Orleans was officially eliminated from playoff contention when Portland beat Philadelphia 124-121 later Sunday. The Kings were also eliminated.

Gentry said he had "no explanation" for why his team didn't come out with the intensity he wanted from the beginning.

"We talked about it, and it is a Game 7. We did need to approach it like it was a Game 7," Gentry said. "Obviously, we fell behind early. Defensively, we weren't into the ball early on. I don't have an explanation for that. I wish I did. But that's the only way you're going to beat a team like that. You have to be willing to play, you have to execute, and you have to protect the basketball, and those things we struggled with today."

The Pelicans fell behind by as much as 20 points but were able to get the lead to one possession with three minutes to play. Then a quick 8-0 run by the Spurs sealed the game.

Redick, who tied a season high with 31 points and set a new season high with eight 3-pointers, said New Orleans lacked a "competitive spirit" to start. The Pelicans also fell behind early in losses in the bubble to the LA Clippers and Sacramento.

"We've had a couple games like that down here for whatever reason," Redick said. "Our group eventually picked it back up and whittled that lead back down to a one-possession game. We just didn't start the game right. For the whole first, to be honest -- not just starters, whole first half."

Williamson had 25 points on 10-of-20 shooting to go with seven rebounds. He said the team needed to be ready to come out and play, and he said it showed in games when they weren't ready.

"Every team has some kind of adversity they have to work through," Williamson said. "Ours, we have good communication. Just at times, we don't use it, and it shows. ... We just have to put ourselves in a better position to win. We can't come out like we did in the first half. Simple as that."

Gentry pointed to the Pelicans' 20 turnovers that led to 30 points for San Antonio as a reason New Orleans had such a hard time coming back. The Spurs had 22 points off Pelicans miscues in the first half.

"The one thing that I emphasized right from the start is, I said, 'Let's make sure that we have them beat us and not beat ourselves,'" Gentry said. "At the end of the day, you turn it over 20 times for 30 points, you had [as] big of [a] hand in that loss as they had playing, and that's not taking one thing away from San Antonio because they are a good basketball team. Obviously, they are a team that doesn't beat themselves."

New Orleans will finish the bubble with games against Sacramento and Orlando. The Kings defeated the Pelicans 140-125 on Aug. 7.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid left Sunday's 124-121 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers in the first quarter because of a left ankle injury and did not return.

Embiid appeared to hit his left ankle on the stanchion under the basket midway through the first quarter. After a media timeout with 6:18 to go in the quarter, Embiid slowly walked to Philadelphia's bench and sat in the assistant coach's seat immediately next to the scorers table. He appeared to be in some pain, grabbing at his left foot and grimacing as he was looked at by the team's training staff.

Embiid then was walking around and talking to players and staff, including assistant coach Ime Udoka. Embiid initially sat in his seat in the back row of Philadelphia's bench. Almost as soon as he sat down, however, he got back up and walked out of the bench area and to the locker room.

Late in the second quarter, he was ruled out for the remainder of the game. Embiid returned to the bench in the third quarter.

Embiid had two points on 1-for-6 shooting and four rebounds in 5:42 before he exited the game.

SAN DIEGO -- Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and the rest of the San Diego Padres were way too much for winless Madison Bumgarner and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Dinelson Lamet was brilliant in taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning and Tatis continued his remarkable power surge with a two-run homer off Bumgarner, who allowed four of San Diego's club-record six long balls as the Padres beat the Diamondbacks 9-5 on Sunday.

Machado homered twice off Bumgarner. Wil Myers, Francisco Mejia and Ty France also went deep for San Diego.

Lamet (2-0) had allowed only one baserunner, on a hit by pitch, until Kole Calhoun homered on a 2-0 pitch leading off the seventh. Lamet got two more outs before manager Jayce Tingler pulled him in favor of rookie Luis Patino.

Lamet retired the first 14 Diamondbacks batters, struck out 11 overall and walked none in 6 2/3 innings. The hard-throwing right-hander hit Andy Young with a pitch with two outs in the fifth but otherwise kept Arizona off the bases until Calhoun's homer.

The Padres remain the only major league team without a no-hitter, having played 8,154 games since 1969 without one.

"The saying we have is, hope is the last thing you lose," Lamet said. "I'm not out there first pitch, first hitter, thinking, 'OK, today I'm going to throw a no-hitter.' I'm going out there to get outs. I get ahead of a guy, get two strikes, I'm trying to get quick outs, I'm trying to get you out with as few pitches as possible. I'm attacking. So in my mind, the result is going to take care of itself."

Machado said Lamet had been locked in since Saturday.

"He told me yesterday, 'Hey, hold down the fort today because tomorrow I'm coming in with some gas and I'm going to put out that fire.' ... Today since the first pitch, he was ready to go," Machado said.

Lamet confirmed that conversation, saying: "Luckily, we were able to go out there and I was able to give a good effort and we won the game."

San Diego took two of three in the series and is 5-2 against Arizona this season. With the Padres leading 9-1, Diamondbacks catcher Carson Kelly pitched the eighth. He allowed rookie Jake Cronenworth's leadoff double before retiring the side.

Arizona hit a pair of two-run homers off San Diego's bullpen in the ninth.

Machado homered off Bumgarner in the first and second, and Myers also connected against the struggling left-hander, who was finished after two innings, matching his career low.

France and Mejia homered off reliever Taylor Widener in the third.

The six homers were the most the Padres have ever hit at home. It was the first time they've hit six homers in the first three innings, and just the fifth time that's happened in the majors in 20 years.

Tatis, the son of the former big league infielder, drove a 2-2 curve an estimated 418 feet into the second deck with two outs in the second, his eighth homer, for a 5-0 lead. The 21-year-old shortstop has hit five in the last four games and six in six games. He hit four in this series, including leadoff shots Friday and Saturday nights. He connected twice Saturday night.

Tatis has been on base in 17 straight games dating to his last game of 2019, on Aug. 13. He missed the rest of the season with a stress reaction in his lower back but still finished third in NL Rookie of the Year voting.

"Being 21 years old, he's a freak athlete, he's getting stronger, he's lifting, he's running, he's moving well," Tingler said. "He's able to get barrel to ball, maybe on some more pitches he hadn't been able to. He's been working on his swing, shortening that up. You see the way the ball's coming off the bat. He can leave the ballpark."

Machado homered with one out in the first and Myers hit a two-run shot with two outs. Myers' fifth homer brought in France, aboard on a walk.

After Tatis' homer, Machado connected again, his third.

France greeted Widener with a homer leading off the third, and Mejia hit a two-run drive off the right-field foul pole with two outs. They were the first of the season for both.

Bumgarner (0-3) continues to struggle with the Diamondbacks, who gave him an $85 million, five-year contract in December after he spent a decade with the San Francisco Giants, helping them win three World Series titles in five seasons.

He allowed six runs and five hits in two innings, struck out two and walked two.

Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said the 31-year-old Bumgarner exited after experiencing back spasms.

Bumgarner also lost to the Padres on opening day, 7-2.

Young hit his first career homer, a two-run shot off Patino with one out in the ninth, and Nick Ahmed had a two-run shot off Tim Hill.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Oakland Athletics and Houston Astros apparently were tired of playing nice.

So, following two quiet games at the Coliseum, true feelings seemed to come out and tempers flared Sunday, months after Houston's sign-stealing scandal was brought to light by Oakland pitcher Mike Fiers.

Things got so angry the benches cleared -- and the stands emptied too -- during Oakland's 7-2 victory over the American League West rival Astros.

The Athletics' ninth straight win was far overshadowed by what erupted in the seventh inning.

Oakland's Ramon Laureano got hit by a pitch -- for the third time in the three-game series, this one by Humberto Castellanos with one out in the seventh -- and Laureano pointed at the pitcher.

Laureano then began exchanging words with animated Astros hitting coach Alex Cintron, left first base, threw down his batting helmet and began charging toward Cintron in the first-base dugout.

Astros catcher Dustin Garneau left the bench to tackle Laureano before the A's outfielder reached Cintron, and a wild scene ensued.

"I was just trying to stop the situation before punches were really thrown and stuff got out of hand," Garneau said. "That's really what my whole goal was for that incident."

Players rushed out of both dugouts to join the fray. Players who were sitting in the seats, observing COVID-19 social distancing protocols, also rushed onto the field. Several Astros streamed out from their tunnel area.

Laureano was ejected by plate umpire Ted Barrett, and the umpiring crew could easily be heard yelling at the players to "get back to the dugout" through a ballpark with no fans.

"Ramon's not going over there for no reason," A's manager Bob Melvin said, adding of Cintron: "I think the league will know who that is, and that person will get suspended. Hopefully, that's the case. Nowadays, without fans in the stands and mikes everywhere, my guess is they know who it is."

Oakland batters were hit five times during the series, and no Houston hitters were plunked.

A's catcher Austin Allen also was ejected, and Astros manager Dusty Baker was tossed a half-inning earlier for arguing balls and strikes. Houston lost its fifth in a row overall.

Oakland realized Laureano likely faces discipline.

"Look, we understand, and you do the best you can with these things," Melvin said. "Obviously, we don't want to get into a brawl like that, and we understand the protocol. Unfortunately, it happened."

Baker said he didn't see what happened because, having been ejected, he couldn't get the game feed on his clubhouse TV.

When asked whether Cintron had crossed the line with his behavior, Baker reserved judgment.

"Who chirped first? Did Alex say something to him first or did Laureano say something?" Baker asked. "I don't know what happened. I've chirped at players before myself. Guys always say, 'Well, is it inappropriate for a coach to chirp at a guy, but are you supposed to just sit there and take it?'

"It's in the heat in the moment; we're all men out there, with high pride and anxiety and everything else. These things happen when you're on the baseball field."

Ex-Astros player Fiers didn't pitch this series. He went public to The Athletic in November about Houston's detailed sign-stealing scam. The Astros have won the past three division crowns, a World Series in 2017 and the AL pennant last year. The A's won 97 games each in 2018 and 2019 only to lose the AL wild-card game.

Matt Olson hit a three-run homer in the third inning on Sunday, and Matt Chapman connected on the very next pitch, taking the score from 1-0 to 5-0 on consecutive offerings from Astros starter Cristian Javier (1-1).

Robbie Grossman also homered, and Mark Canha contributed an RBI single.

The A's (12-4) matched the 2013 club for the best record after 16 games over the past 30 years.

A's rookie left-hander Jesus Luzardo (1-0) earned his first major league win in his second career start. His day was done after allowing back-to-back two-out walks in the sixth.

The 22-year-old Luzardo outdid 23-year-old Javier in a matchup of two top pitching prospects.

This week, Sunday Night Baseball (ESPN, 7 p.m. ET) features one of Major League Baseball's enduring rivalries between two of the original eight teams in the American League, as the Chicago White Sox host the Cleveland Indians in Guaranteed Rate Field on the South Side of the Windy City.

Even before baseball expanded each league's playoff slate to eight teams apiece, both clubs were teams with postseason potential. Now, they're scrambling to keep up with the Minnesota Twins in the AL Central and keep themselves in the thick of a crowded field of teams racing for one of those eight spots.

We asked baseball writers David Schoenfield and Bradford Doolittle some key questions to get you ready for Sunday night's game.

Two weeks in, how many American League Central teams do you think are making the postseason?

David Schoenfield: It's starting to look like three teams, primarily because the Los Angeles Angels, Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners all look pretty weak so far and nobody expects the Baltimore Orioles to keep up their .500-ish level of play.

So if we eliminate those four teams, plus the Kansas City Royals, that leaves 10 teams for eight spots. Based on the projected results the rest of the way and what we know about the on-field talent, it's also pretty easy to write off the Toronto Blue Jays and Detroit Tigers as contenders. Oh, and the Boston Red Sox's rotation is a mess, so let's knock them out as well. So, there, I've eliminated eight teams from the AL playoff race ... and, wait ... at least one of those teams will make it, since we need eight playoff teams, not seven.

The point? I don't think we have eight good teams in the AL, so the Twins, Indians and White Sox look like solid picks at this point, even if they have their flaws, such as Cleveland's offense or Chicago's rotation.

Bradford Doolittle: Three is a good bet, and four is a possibility, given how up-for-grabs the race for the eighth and final spot looks. Dave has pretty much pegged the contenders, but there will be a noncontender who gets into the AL playoffs. It could be anyone. The Twins look like they are on a higher tier than the White Sox or Indians, and look like a bona fide threat to win the AL pennant. The race for second between Chicago and Cleveland is compelling. If you gave the White Sox the Indians' rotation, you'd have one of the best teams in baseball.

Where does Shane Bieber rank among the best starting pitchers in baseball right now?

Schoenfield: Based on his first three starts, you can make the argument that Bieber is the best at this specific moment in time: 3-0, 0.83 ERA, 35 strikeouts and just three walks in 21 ⅔ innings. The only two runs he has allowed have come on two solo home runs, and two of his starts came against the Twins and Reds, a great offensive team and an OK one.

One aspect that I love about Bieber's game is that even though he has developed into an elite strikeout pitcher, he remains very efficient, allowing him to pitch deeper into games. He's averaging 3.86 pitchers per batter, which is actually below the MLB average. Jacob deGrom, by comparison, is averaging 4.26, and Gerrit Cole 4.00. Is Bieber better than those two? We probably need more than three starts to make that declaration, and he's going to beat up on a lot of weak offenses in the AL Central the rest of the way, but Bieber is looking like baseball's next great ace.

Doolittle: I'm not putting Bieber ahead of Gerrit Cole, Max Scherzer or Jacob deGrom. But given his dominance over the first couple of weeks, he's in a group on the next tier and ranks with Jack Flaherty and Walker Buehler as the young starters you'd most like to have over the next two or three years. Nate Pearson might be in that group, as well.

Luis Robert is the most exciting prospect you've seen enter the league since ________.

Schoenfield: Well ... I mean, Fernando Tatis Jr. did enter the league last season. Pete Alonso hit 53 home runs as a rookie last year. Ronald Acuna Jr. and Juan Soto were in the league that season before that.

One thing that has been impressive so far is Robert looks like he might be an elite, Gold Glove center fielder. According to Statcast metrics, he ranks in the 99th percentile in sprint speed, and his other defensive metrics are also outstanding so far. With Soto confined to a corner outfield position and Acuna playing more right field than center, Robert might be the more valuable defensive player -- and making those highlight-reel catches center fielders are famous for.

We'll see how his bat develops -- he's older than Tatis, Acuna and Soto, but it's certainly safe to say he's the latest exciting young star.

Doolittle: There is always something exhilarating about a hyped prospect living up to his advanced billing. Robert has certainly done that. But like Dave suggests, this is almost becoming the expectation. Soto, Tatis, Gleyber Torres, Acuna ... there are some really good and really young star hitters in baseball right now, and Robert looks like another one.

France's Fiona Ferro upset fourth seed Anett Kontaveit in straight sets to win the first tour-level tennis title in five months at the Palermo Open.

The tournament was the first official event for either men or women held since the season was suspended in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.

It is Ferro's second ever WTA Tour title after her Swiss Open win in 2019.

Making a name for yourself in sprint car racing is difficult enough.

But doing it during the COVID-19 pandemic was practically impossible, unless you’re Robbie Kendall and you’re winning World of Outlaws races on iRacing.

Sprint car fans around the country were introduced to Kendall in April when racing was suspended because of the pandemic and iRacing was televised nationally.

Kendall, 28, a native of Catonsville, Md., was on top of the iRacing world, winning at virtual Williams Grove Speedway and contending for other victories as well.

“When the dirt series first came out in 2017, I wanted to get it and play because I like video games,” Kendall said. “I got everything you need and played for a year. All I wanted to do was come home and play it. I like racing that much. If I could race every night of the week, I would. My mindset  was on racing and that’s what I wanted to do.”

However, life changed for Kendall and he hadn’t done much iRacing until this spring.

“I had a kid and stepped away from it a little bit until the Outlaws announced they were going to do the dirt thing and I wanted to get involved in the races,” said Kendall.

Kendall, who races a 410 sprint car in central Pennsylvania, spent about $1,500 to get set up to compete in the iRacing World of Outlaws events.

“I have a Best Buy gaming computer and I race on a 20-inch monitor,” he said. “That’s all, and I have a G29 steering wheel.”

Due to the pandemic, Kendall had extra time to practice.

“I still worked every day,” he said. “I worked from home for about a month. I’m an outside parts salesman for an International dealership in the state of Maryland. Being a salesman, I couldn’t go in anywhere. They sent us home for about a month, Now, I’m back on the road.”

His practice paid off as Kendall was a contender in nearly all of the iRacing events.

“I got on it the night before for about four hours, just messing around with set-ups and trying to get back acclimated to it, but that was about it,” Kendall noted. “When it was going on, I would get on a couple hours before the race and mess around.”

Has Kendall competed in iRacing since real racing resumed?

“Nope, I haven’t turned it on,” he said.

Real dirt may not have been flying but that didn’t keep the races from being competitive. It also helped fans cope with the pandemic when there was nothing else to do.

“I think it keeps your mind straight,” Kendall said. “Everybody likes competition. It keeps your mind in the game. You’re in a simulation, so you don’t really feel anything. Everybody’s competitive and everybody wants to win.”

iRacing’s popularity exploded as it gained interest from not only sprint car fans and drivers, but with fans of all forms of racing.

Kendall sees iRacing as a positive for sprint car racing.

“I think it was a good thing for us,” he said. “It has led up to the Outlaws being on TV. That’s a positive thing. It opened us up to a different fan base. It let more people see us and see what we do. Even NASCAR fans that didn’t really know what sprint car racing is. There was a variety of people who saw it and want to come out and check it out.”

Kendall had people from all over the country congratulating him on his success.

“That was pretty cool and I got a couple sponsors through it, too,” he said. “Any way I can help somebody out, I’m always down for it. It worked out in our favor I believe.”

Kendall earned $1,000 for his iRacing win at Williams Grove.

“I should have won the first one, but I screwed up. It was a grand to win and nothing for second,” he explained. “I was up front most of the time if I didn’t get in a wreck. I led a bunch of laps at Knoxville and faded at the end. They’ve got it as real as it can get.”

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BROOKLYN, Mich. — It had been a while since Riley Herbst had been to victory lane.

The 21-year-old from Las Vegas felt it was way too long, and Sunday he was able to rectify that. Herbst’s No 18 Monster/Terrible Hrbst/ORCA Toyota led the final 33 laps in winning the VizCom 200 at Michigan Int’l Speedway.

It was Herbst second career ARCA Menards Series win, but first at any level of NASCAR national series, or ARCA Menards, East or West since that victory at Pocono Raceway on June 9, 2017.

Herbst won that race in his sixth career start. Since, he’s made 88 starts across the various series and collected eight runner-up finishes — including a pair in the NASCAR Xfinity Series this season. Sitting in that position during the second race break, Herbst responded to his crew chief’s inquiry about changes with, “I don’t want to finish second.”

He didn’t.

Herbst powered his way alongside Bret Holmes, who led a race-high 61 laps. After the two swapped the lead, Herbst was able to move to the front and stay there. He finished 1.456 seconds ahead of Holmes.

Championship points leader Michael Self finished third, his eighth top five and 11th top 10 in 11 races. However, it was the ninth straight race he finished behind Holmes, and the gap between the two has now shrunk to just four points.

Drew Dollar finished fourth, followed by Anthony Alfredo.

The finish:

Riley Herbst, Bret Holmes, Michael Self, Drew Dollar, Anthony Alfredo, Hailie Deegan, Ryan Repko, Jason Kitzmiller, Thad Moffitt, Armani Williams, Tim Richmond, Brad Smith, Scott Melton, Kris Wright, Morgen Baird, Con Nicolopoulos, Mike Basham.