You didn't really need to see a shot Tiger Woods hit a shot to know what kind of day he was having in the second round of the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park. You didn't need to see his scorecard, either. You just had to see his face. The look of frustration was there, from the very first hole when he missed a 7-footer for birdie to when he holed out at the last for 2-over 72.

It was a struggle, mostly with his putter, occassionally with his irons. He did fight his game enough to sneak into the weekend -- for a while there on the back nine it looked like he might be watching the action Saturday and Sunday.

Here is how it all went down. Full warning: You'll see a theme emerge in a hurry -- bad, bad putting.

No. 1: Par 4, 393 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: Even

Score for the championship: 2 under

No. 2: Par 4, 466 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: Even

Score for the championship: 2 under

No. 3: Par 3, 185 Yards

Score: Bogey

Total for the day: 1 over

Score for the championship: 1 under

No. 4: Par 5, 607 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: 1 over

Score for the championship: 1 under

No. 5: Par 4, 436 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: 1 over

Score for the championship: 1 under

No. 6: Par 4, 472 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: 1 over

Score for the championship: 1 under

No. 7: Par 4, 340 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: 1 over

Score for the championship: 1 under

No. 8: Par 3, 251 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: 1 over

Score for the championship: 1 under

No. 9: Par 4, 515 Yards

Score: Bogey

Total for the day: 2 over

Score for the championship: Even

No. 10: Par 5, 562 Yards

Score: Birdie

Total for the day: 1 over

Score for the championship: 1 under

No. 11: Par 3, 200 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: 1 over

Score for the championship: 1 under

No. 12: Par 4, 494 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: 1 over

Score for the championship: 1 under

No. 13: Par 4, 472 Yards

Score: Bogey

Total for the day: 2 over

Score for the championship: Even

No. 14: Par 4, 470 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: 2 over

Score for the championship: Even

No. 15: Par 4, 401 Yards

Score: Bogey

Total for the day: 3 over

Score for the championship: 1 over

No. 16: Par 4, 336 Yards

Score: Birdie

Total for the day: 2 over

Score for the championship: Even

No. 17: Par 3, 171 Yards

Score: Par

Total for the day: 2 over

Score for the championship: Even

No. 18: Par 4, 480 Yards

In a shared locker room that needed cleaning so the next team could take over soon, there was no celebration for the Brooklyn Nets as they officially secured a playoff berth Friday with a 119-106 win over the Sacramento Kings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

While it was a bit of a formality, there was still some satisfaction for the achievement, particularly with overcoming a swarm of injuries to do it with a patchwork, starless roster to clinch it.

"It's great to punch your own ticket into the playoffs," coach Jacque Vaughn said. "I joke with the guys, I like my laundry being done, but nothing like doing your own laundry. We took care of business tonight."

The Nets are 3-2 in the NBA bubble despite stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant sitting out to recover from injuries. They are relying on a balanced attack featuring almost entirely role players. Against the Kings, Caris LeVert led the way with 22 points and Joe Harris scored 21, hitting 5-of-7 from 3.

Jarrett Allen flirted with a triple-double, posting 17 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists. He wasn't shy about wanting the round-number mark, either, openly campaigning with Vaughn to leave him in.

"I was trying to stay in," Allen said with a smile postgame. "I was trying to get JV to call a play where I handled the ball at the top and try to hit someone backdoor."

It marks back-to-back postseason appearances for the Nets, a stark improvement for a franchise that not long ago was considered to have one of the bleakest long-term outlooks in the league. But with strong front-office planning and now a star-studded roster to lean on in years to come, the Nets have an expectation to be a playoff staple.

"We want to make it a habit for this organization," LeVert said.

The Nets do still have quite a bit to play for in their three remaining games, though. While they can't mathematically move up to the 6-seed, they could fall to the 8 (they're 1½ games up on the Magic) which would mean a first-round matchup with the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Nets next play the Clippers on Sunday, follow with a crucial matchup against Orlando and finish out against the Trail Blazers.

New Orleans Pelicans rookie forward Zion Williamson will not play Friday night against the Washington Wizards.

The Pelicans listed Williamson as out (rest) on its injury report Friday afternoon.

Williamson played just under 22 minutes in the Pelicans' 140-125 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Thursday. He had 24 points on 10-for-12 shooting.

Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry noted that Williamson has not played games on consecutive days at all during his entire rookie season, "and that's the same thing here.''

"We just thought it would be best right now to do it this way, and we'll evaluate tomorrow and see what's going on," Gentry added.

Williamson's minutes have been a hot topic since the seeding games started. He left the NBA bubble in Orlando, Florida, for a family emergency July 16 and returned July 24, quarantining until July 28.

Two days later, he played 15 minutes in the Pelicans' first seeding game against the Utah Jazz. After that, he played 14 minutes against the LA Clippers before ramping it up to 25 minutes in a win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday.

Williamson missed 43 games to start the regular season because of surgery on a torn meniscus in his right knee. When he debuted in January, the Pelicans were careful with his minutes and originally said they weren't going to play him in back-to-back games.

But the Pelicans didn't have any back-to-backs before the season went on hiatus in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, and Williamson never missed any games for rest during the regular season -- although he did miss one because of a sprained ankle.

The rest day for Williamson comes at a crucial time for the Pelicans. New Orleans sits 2½ games behind Memphis for the eighth spot in the Western Conference, and two games behind the Portland Trail Blazers for the ninth seed and the right to be in the play-in tournament.

However, Phoenix and San Antonio are both ahead of New Orleans in the standings, and the Pelicans are tied with the Kings.

Gentry said he planned to start veteran JJ Redick in a three-guard lineup alongside the usual starting back-court of Jrue Holiday and Lonzo Ball, with Derrick Favors at center and Brandon Ingram at forward.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- With his team off to an 0-4 start in the NBA bubble and his daughter, Kaari Jaidyn, celebrating her first birthday hundreds of miles away, Memphis Grizzlies rookie standout Ja Morant called his parents with an admission Friday morning.

"I wasn't in a good mood at all," Morant said following a 121-92 comeback win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday. "[I] told them it was probably one of the toughest days of my life."

The win, coming after Memphis trailed the sixth-seeded Thunder by 18 points, breathed life into the Grizzlies' pursuit of the No. 8 spot in the Western Conference playoff picture -- and lifted Morant's spirits. "Kind of tough but the thing I gave her today was a win," Morant said after putting up 19 points and 9 assists to Chris Paul's 17 and 5. "So hopefully she's thankful for that and all the gifts she's got back at the house."

The irony of gifting a victory, of course, is the win increases the likelihood that Kaari will have to wait a bit longer before her dad returns from Florida. Memphis (33-37) now leads the Portland Trail Blazers (32-38) by one game for the eighth seed with three seeding games remaining for the Grizzlies -- a treacherous stretch of the best that the Eastern Conference has to offer in the Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks.

While the Grizzlies and Blazers split their two regular-season matchups -- including a 140-135 overtime win by Portland in the seeding games -- they cannot tie for eighth. Portland will end up playing 74 games and Memphis will finish with 73 as a result of the timing of the NBA hiatus and where each team was in its schedule at that point. Whichever team finishes No. 8 will have to participate in a mini play-in tournament with whichever team is No. 9 in order to earn a first-round berth against the Los Angeles Lakers, who clinched No. 1 in the West earlier this week.

The No. 9 team would have to beat the No. 8 team two games in a row in order to earn the playoff spot. The No. 8 team would have to win just once to keep its postseason berth. Portland's remaining schedule features the LA Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers, Dallas Mavericks and Brooklyn Nets.

Morant said that even when the Thunder were leading 37-19 in the first quarter, his team kept its confidence. "I don't think as a whole we never doubted ourselves, doubted what we can accomplish as a team," he said. "I feel like we all were very confident in our team and I feel like tonight we went out and played freely."

Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins adjusted his starting lineup, playing Anthony Tolliver with the first unit and bringing Brandon Clarke off the bench. "It was great, the energy on the floor," Jenkins said. "You could see the energy on the bench. Naturally happens when you're winning but we just got to harness that again."

The Grizzlies put five other players in double-digit scoring beside Morant -- including Clarke, who went 6-for-6 off the bench -- and were led by Dillon Brooks' 22 points. The players left the court at VISA Athletic Center barking like dogs, soaking in their first win since the NBA restart.

Morant, who's still considered a young pup in the league, says a dog happens to be the animal he emulates on the court. After taking a hard foul on his hip from the Thunder's Darius Bazley late in the first half, the presumptive Rookie of the Year winner stayed in the game to shoot his free throws and then closed things out after halftime. "I'm good," Morant said. "I'm a dog. A warrior. I'm fine."

CHICAGO -- Eloy Jimenez has no interest in the designated hitter job with the Chicago White Sox. He doesn't want to hear anything about a late-inning defensive replacement, either.

His team wants the same thing for him.

Jimenez was back in left field Friday against Cleveland, one night after an ugly misplay led to another round of questions over whether the talented slugger might be better off at DH.

The response from the team was the same as it has been: Just wait.

"I'm expecting that over time Eloy will fall into a good category on the defensive side and if it doesn't, we'll find ways to continue to augment his playing time out there," manager Rick Renteria said. "We're going to continue to work."

Jimenez, 23, was acquired in the July 2017 trade that sent pitcher Jose Quintana to the crosstown Cubs. There are no questions about Jimenez's bat after he led AL rookies with 31 homers, 79 RBIs and 240 total bases last year. But he remains an adventure in the field.

The White Sox were leading Milwaukee 2-1 on Thursday night when Brewers star Christian Yelich hit a drive to left in the fifth. Jimenez misjudged the flight of the ball and it dropped inside the line, just out of his reach. Then his momentum carried him into the protective netting.

By the time Jimenez regained his footing, Yelich was flying around second base and he beat the throw home for his first career inside-the-park homer -- helping propel the Brewers to a four-run inning and an 8-3 victory.

"When it came off the bat, I thought that ball was going to the warning track," Jimenez said Friday on a video conference call. "It kind of stopped and go down to the right part of the field and I tried to make the adjustment but it just didn't happen."

Jimenez's ability to play an even average left field is a major part of the plans for the White Sox, both this year and moving forward. Edwin Encarnacion signed a $12 million, one-year deal in January, and the team also wants to use the DH spot for Yasmani Grandal when he isn't behind the plate. Top prospect Andrew Vaughn is on the way, likely meaning more DH days for 33-year-old first baseman Jose Abreu as soon as next season.

Jimenez himself also wants to stay in left.

"I try to be one of the best outfielders, not just one of the best hitters," he said. "I want to be a complete player and a nine-inning player."

Jimenez has been working with first-base coach and former major league outfielder Daryl Boston on his first step in the field. He hears the talk about his defense, and it motivates him.

"People don't think I can play defense. For me, it's a challenge and I know I can play," he said. "So, it is something that I want to do for myself, first, and the people talking. And just go out and put some work [in] and play hard."

WASHINGTON -- World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg is scheduled to make his season debut for the Washington Nationals on Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles after being sidelined by a nerve problem in his pitching hand.

Strasburg missed what would have been his first two appearances of 2020 after making all 33 starts last year and then becoming the first pitcher to finish a postseason with a 5-0 record.

"The tingling in his thumb is gone, and that's a good sign. We watched him and he's throwing some really good bullpens. That was the big thing for me: Nothing in his mechanics has changed. Everything's good," manager Dave Martinez said Friday before Washington's series opener against visiting Baltimore.

"So based on a conversation with him, he feels good," Martinez added. "He wants to pitch. He's ready to pitch on Sunday."

For how long is another question.

"We're going to watch him. If he gives us 75-80 pitches, that'd be awesome," Martinez said. "But we'll keep an eye on him."

The 32-year-old Strasburg led the NL with 209 innings and 18 wins in 2019.

The status of another one of Martinez's aces, three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, was less clear when the manager spoke to reporters. Scherzer left his start in Wednesday's 3-1 loss to the New York Mets after just one inning because of a right hamstring issue.

Scherzer said that night he didn't think it was a big deal. He was going to test the leg by throwing on flat ground Friday afternoon.

"I'll touch base with him after and see how he feels," Martinez said. "He's going to be day-to-day."

If Scherzer is fine, his next turn in the rotation would be Tuesday at the Mets.

The right-hander first felt something wrong with the hamstring before his previous start, six days earlier against Toronto. But Scherzer pitched anyway in that one and ended up throwing an MLB season-high 112 pitches across 7⅓ scoreless innings.

The leg acted up again when Scherzer was doing his usual sprinting a day before Wednesday's game.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Major League Baseball has been in touch with the Oakland Athletics about their bench coach making a gesture that appeared to be a Nazi salute following a win over the Texas Rangers.

No discipline has been announced against coach Ryan Christenson, who has apologized for the gesture.

"Ryan Christenson is fully supported by everybody in our clubhouse and they know who he is. So do I. Obviously it didn't look great but that was not his intent at all. I know that for a fact," manager Bob Melvin said Friday before a game against Houston.

"He's just not that guy. I'd say he's progressive, very progressive as a person. Everybody feels bad for him right now 'cause they know who he is," Melvin added.

A short team meeting was all that the A's needed because Christenson had full support, Melvin said.

Christenson apologized late Thursday for raising his arm during the postgame celebration. He made the gesture while greeting closer Liam Hendriks following a 6-4 win over the Rangers.

Hendriks immediately pushed Christenson's arm down. Cameras showed Christenson laughing and briefly raising his arm a second time.

Christenson faced criticism after video of the gesture circulated on social media.

"I made a mistake and will not deny it," Christenson said in a statement issued through the team. "Today in the dugout I greeted players with a gesture that was offensive. In the world today of COVID, I adapted our elbow bump, which we do after wins, to create some distance with the players. My gesture unintentionally resulted in a racist and horrible salute that I do not believe in. What I did is unacceptable and I deeply apologize."

The A's called the gesture "offensive" and apologized for it.

"We do not support or condone this gesture or the racist sentiment behind it," the team said in a statement. "This is incredibly offensive, especially in these times when we as a club and so many others are working to expose and address racial inequities in our country. We are deeply sorry that this happened on our playing field."

The 46-year-old Christenson played six years in the majors from 1998 to 2003. He later spent several years coaching in the minors before becoming bench coach for the A's in 2018.

Eric Kay, a former director of communications for the Los Angeles Angels, has been charged by the Drug Enforcement Agency with illegally supplying drugs to pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who died in a hotel room in Texas last year.

Skaggs, 27, was found dead on July 1, 2019, after police responded to a report of an unconscious man in a hotel room in Southlake, Texas. He was pronounced dead at the scene after choking on his vomit with a toxic mix of alcohol and the powerful painkillers fentanyl and oxycodone in his system, the Tarrant County (Texas) medical examiner's office said last August.

Kay was arrested in Fort Worth, Texas, and made his first appearance Friday in federal court, according to Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Kay has been charged with illegal possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, a controlled substance.

"Tyler Skaggs' overdose -- coming, as it did, in the midst of an ascendant baseball career -- should be a wake-up call: No one is immune from this deadly drug, whether sold as a powder or hidden inside an innocuous-looking tablet," Nealy Cox said.

According to the criminal complaint affidavit, Skaggs sent text messages to Kay on June 30, asking for him to deliver pills to his hotel room.

Rusty Hardin, the Texas attorney representing Skaggs' family, issued a statement after Kay's arrest and court appearance.

"The family is deeply heartbroken to learn that Tyler would be alive today were it not for a pill containing fentanyl that was provided by the Director of Communications of the Angels," Hardin said. "We note that the Angels say they commissioned an independent investigation that concluded no one in management was aware that a team employee was supplying illegal drugs to Tyler. We encourage the Angels to make that report public.

"We are relieved that no one else who was supplied drugs by this Angels executive met the same fate as Tyler. While nothing will replace the loss of Tyler, we are very grateful to federal prosecutors for their diligent and ongoing work."

The seven-page autopsy showed 38 nanograms per milliliter of oxycodone, an opioid medication prescribed to treat severe pain, and 3.8 nanograms per milliliter of fentanyl, a highly concentrated painkiller that is significantly stronger than oxycodone. It also showed a blood alcohol level of 0.122%; 0.08% is considered legally impaired.

After the autopsy was released, Skaggs' family revealed through legal counsel that an unnamed Angels employee was tied to an ongoing investigation by the Southlake Police Department.

"The Angels Organization has fully cooperated with Law Enforcement and Major League Baseball," the Angels said in a statement Friday. "Additionally, in order to comprehensively understand the circumstances that led to his death, we hired a former federal prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation.

"We learned that there was unacceptable behavior inconsistent with our code of conduct, and we took steps to address it. Our investigation also confirmed that no one in management was aware, or informed, of any employee providing opioids to any player, nor that Tyler was using opioids."

If convicted, Kay faces up to 20 years in prison. Federal court records do not list an attorney representing him, and an attorney who previously spoke on his behalf did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

This weekend's three-game series between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals has been postponed after a St. Louis staff member and two players tested positive for COVID-19, MLB announced Friday.

In total, nine Cardinals players have tested positive for the coronavirus since last week, with the latest two positives coming from samples collected over the past two days.

MLB earlier said Friday's game had been postponed, allowing for additional testing and contact tracing. The league announced later that Saturday's and Sunday's games had also been postponed.

The Cardinals have not played since July 29 because of positive coronavirus tests. The team previously announced that it had returned 13 positive tests from its traveling party, with seven of them coming from players.

The Cardinals had returned to the field for light workouts Wednesday after being cleared to travel back to St. Louis from Milwaukee late Tuesday.

"Based on the information MLB has shared with us, postponing this series is a necessary step to protect the health and safety of the Cardinals and the Cubs," Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said. "Therefore, it is absolutely the right thing to do. While it's obviously less than ideal, this is 2020 and we will embrace whatever steps are necessary to promote player and staff well-being and increase our chances of completing this season in safe fashion.

"We will be ready to go on Tuesday in Cleveland. In the meantime, we wish the Cardinals personnel involved a quick and complete recovery."

MLB released its most recent testing numbers Friday. The league said there were 13,043 samples taken last week with 13 positive results for a 0.1% positive rate. During the monitoring phase, there have been 53,826 overall samples that have returned 71 positives for a 0.13% positive rate. Of those 71 positive results, 49 are players and 22 are staff.

Among the Cardinals players who confirmed they tested positive for COVID-19 were two All-Stars, catcher Yadier Molina and shortstop Paul DeJong. All-Star right-hander Carlos Martinez also went on the injured list, though no reason was given. Infielders Rangel Ravelo and Edmundo Sosa and relievers Junior Fernandez and Kodi Whitley also have been identified as testing positive.

St. Louis manager Mike Shildt said earlier this week that there was still some uncertainty about how the virus swept through the clubhouse, but the Cardinals believe it was introduced from someone asymptomatic who came into contact with the team.

Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said there has been frustration, but the team doesn't want to put people in a position to get sick.

"I don't know what our future looks like at this point. All I know is we've lost these three games and we'll take this day by day. For all the optimism we had a couple days ago, where we are today, is definitely frustrating for everyone involved," he said. "Hopefully we get through this and get back to playing baseball soon."

Before Friday's postponement, the Cardinals had already added three doubleheaders against the Milwaukee Brewers to a previously scheduled series to make up their three games postponed last weekend. Milwaukee will host doubleheaders Sept. 18 and 20 and will serve as the home team in the opener of a twin bill in St. Louis on Sept. 25.

The Cardinals will make up this week's series against the Detroit Tigers with doubleheaders Aug. 13 and Sept. 10. St. Louis had been scheduled to play the Chicago White Sox at the Field of Dreams in Iowa on Aug. 13. Those teams will play in Chicago on Aug. 14 instead.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

A six-race programme is set for Saturday

Podium 5km road racing returns on Saturday (August 8), with GB internationals Marc Scott and Jess Judd among those taking part in the six-race programme in Burnley, Lancashire.

Scott broke the European indoor 5000m best in Boston in February, clocking 13:08.87 for an Olympic qualifying time which improves on Mo Farah’s record mark. He has raced at a couple of meets in the USA since, clocking 7:47.87 for 3000m and then running a 3:35.93 1500m PB in Portland. His road 5km best is 13:45 from 2018.

READ MORE: Marc Scott breaks European indoor 5000m record in Boston

Joining Scott in the elite men’s race line up is Alex Yee, who won the 2018 UK 10,000m title and has run 13:29.18 for 5000m, plus his fellow triathlete Jonathan Brownlee, the two-time Olympic medallist, and Philip Sesemann, Dewi Griffiths, Adam Clarke, Jack Gray and ultra runner Tom Evans.

Nick Goolab holds the current UK 5km road best with his time of 13:27 recorded in Monaco in February, with that mark seeing him replace Rob Denmark and Mo Farah at the top of the British all-time rankings, with the pair having clocked 13:30 in 1996 and 2006 respectively.

That race in Monaco was won by Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei as he smashed the world 5km road record with 12:51 to take 27 seconds off the official global record mark, while France’s Jimmy Gressier ran 13:18 to improve the European record.

World University Games champion Judd ran 15:16.47 for 5000m in London last year, while she clocked 32:16 to win the Trafford 10km in March.

Joining her on the elite women’s Podium 5km entry list is 2017 British 10,000m champion and triathlete Beth Potter, who has a 15:28.3 5000m to her name, and their fellow GB internationals Jenny Nesbitt, Verity Ockenden, Mhairi Maclennan and Aly Dixon.

Nesbitt secured 5km victory at the start of this month when she ran 16:13 at the ChampionChip Ireland Running Series event in Lisburn.

Felt so damn goooood ? https://t.co/AfaFy6cAfa

— Jenny Nesbitt (@jennynesbitt) August 2, 2020

The action is set to start at 6pm with the sub-19:00 race, while the elite women’s and men’s events are scheduled for 7.45pm and 8.15pm respectively.

Due to only athletes and officials being allowed on the course for each race, organisers say the event will be streamed live here via RunningLive.