MONTREAL -- The Montreal Canadiens have agreed to a three-year contract with defenseman Brett Kulak.

The deal was announced Saturday and runs through the 2021-22 season, carrying an average annual value of $1.85 million.

The 25-year-old Kulak appeared in 57 games for the Canadiens last season and set career highs in goals (six), assists (11) and points (17).

He was acquired from the Calgary Flames last October for defensemen Matt Taormina and Rinat Valiev.

Bayern Munich secured a domestic double after beating RB Leipzig 3-0 in the DFB Pokal final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin on Saturday.

Robert Lewandowski put the Bundesliga champions in front just before the half-hour mark with a difficult header from a David Alaba cross to give Bayern the lead at half-time.

Manuel Neuer kept Bayern in front with his second big stop of the match, denying Emil Forsberg with a kick save after the RB Leipzig winger had broken free on goal.

Bayern doubled their lead in the 78th minute when Kingsley Coman took a neat first touch on a loose ball in the Leipzig penalty area to set up a left-footed shot that he blasted past Peter Gulacsi.

Lewandowski sealed Bayern's 19th German Cup soon after, outrunning his defender to a through ball and chipping Gulacsi to make it 3-0 with his 40th goal in all competitions this season.

"It was the toughest opponent we could have had and we saw that in the opening 30 minutes," said Bayern boss Niko Kovac, whose future at the club looks more secure after winning two titles in the past week.

"Manuel Neuer kept us in the game with two superb saves but overall the victory was deserved. We had tough times back in October and November so compliments to the team. To be here with two titles makes me very proud."

Kovac brought on departing club legends Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben for a final runout in front of the Bayern faithful and the two almost combined for a fourth goal in the final match of their illustrious careers in Munich.

The win sees Kovac, who won the double with Bayern as a player too, become the first head coach since Felix Magath in 2005 and 2006 to win back-to-back German Cups after his Frankfurt team beat Bayern in last year's final.

"I am very satisfied with the way we played well and won clearly," Lewandowski said. "We had the game under control and the second half we pushed a bit more and won the Cup.

"We gave everything for the double. At the end we can say that this season was very good for us."

India's fightback after being reduced to 39 for 4 was the positive Virat Kohli chose to look back after their emphatic loss to New Zealand in their first warm-up fixture at The Oval. In the absence of Vijay Shankar and Kedar Jadhav, India found a savior in Ravindra Jadeja, who top scored with a 50-ball 54 to haul India to 179.

Jadeja added 62 with Kuldeep Yadav for the eight wicket, allowing India to reach the 40-over mark, a prospect that looked unlikely when Trent Boult ran through the top order. Hardik Pandya's brisk 30 led a brief revival, only for the innings to stutter again until Jadeja guided the lower order.

"Very good," Kohli said of the lower-order contributions at the post-match presentation. "I mean, the one thing we spoke about in a tournament like the World Cup is, you could easily have your top order out for not too many, so the lower order has to look forward to that and I think Hardik [Pandya] batted really well. MS [Dhoni] absorbs the pressure really well and [Ravindra] Jadeja got a few runs as well, so I think from that point of view, we got a lot out of this game, which is what we wanted to. The lower order getting some runs that was the biggest positive."

Kohli assessed the surface wasn't as bowler-friendly in the second innings, after Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor put on a century stand to deflate India. New Zealand sealed victory with six wickets in hand and nearly 13 overs to spare.

"It's going to be very different from batting second and we saw that in this [game] in the later half of our innings as well," he said. "I think we bowled it in the right areas, they were going at about four, four-and-a-half, which I think we would take any day in a tournament where the pitches are going to be good. If we can keep hitting those areas consistently, which I think we did with the new ball and the spinners as well, we're going to be fine with that bowling attack."

Steven Smith has dismissed his reception by the Hampshire crowd as "white noise" and "water off a duck's back" after his century helped Australia to a 12-run victory over England.

Both Smith and David Warner were booed loudly by large sections of the crowd when they came out to bat and when they were dismissed, but Smith was also jeered when he reached fifty and then when he completed a sprightly hundred.

"I heard a few things as I went out to bat, but it didn't really get to me," said Smith, speaking for the first time since his return to the Australian squad. "I'm kind of just trying to keep my head down and move straight ahead and just do my job. Fortunately today I was able to score a few runs for the team and, more importantly, spend some time in the middle before our first game of the World Cup."

While players have been booed on reaching milestones before, it remains a rarity in the game, but Smith is realistic about the likelihood of similar receptions over the course of the summer.

"It doesn't bother me, it's just doing my job and I know that I've got the support of my team-mates up on the balcony and that's the most important thing. If I can make them proud out in the middle and make Australians proud as much as I can well, that's my job.

"I just blank it out. They call it white noise. When I am out there I pay no attention to the crowd and just move on with playing the game."

While fans were vocal during the match, Smith said he hadn't received any abuse from the general public since arriving in England.

"No, it's been really good I haven't copped any which is really nice. I guess everyone is entitled their opinion and how they want to treat people, but it is water of a duck's back. I'll just do my own thing and just keep working hard to play hard."

While there was booing when Smith reached his century, there was also applause - none more enthusiastic than from his team-mates standing on the dressing room balcony. Justin Langer indicated after Australia's arrival in England that there would be special attention to the mental welfare of Smith and Warner and, after the match, Nathan Lyon emphasised the importance of mutual support over what is likely to be a gruelling summer.

"Obviously you always feel for them but it's part of the game isn't it? We were expecting it," said Lyon.

"I don't think it's just Steve and David. I think when you're in a team environment away from home and away from your loved ones and family etcetera, I think the word 'care' doesn't get thrown around enough.

"I think if you can actually care about your team-mates and staff members, I think it's very important. At the end of the day we're humans. Like, we all want to be loved but it just doesn't happen like that some days so it's just all about hanging tough together. We know that the crowds are going to be ruthless over here."

If anything, Smith's year in exile looks to have had a positive effect on his batting. The familiar fidgety twitching and aggressively unorthodox batting hasn't changed, but his 116 runs at the Ageus Bowl, following scores of 89 not out, 91 not out and 76 in three previous warm-up matches, suggests he is heading into the World Cup in better ODI form than he was in before the Newlands scandal forced his absence from the game.

"I was actually a little bit disappointed with my one-day form probably the last 18 months - take out the last 12 - so it was nice to spend a bit of time out in the middle today and the practice games that we've had so far I have felt really good. Everything is going well and I'm looking forward to the first game coming now."

"I'm not reading too much into it, they're just practice games at the moment, hopefully I can keep this form for the real stuff and we'll make a judgment then. I am feeling good, I'm feeling calm at the crease and hitting the right balls I want to the boundary."

While England had a frustrating day dominated by injury concerns, stand-in captain Jos Buttler saw much to admire in Smith's innings.

"He just looked like the Steve Smith of old, didn't he?" said Buttler. "He just played well. He played good cricket shots and very in control of his innings."

"He looks the same player doesn't he? He was a class player twelve months ago and he still is so he hasn't obviously forgotten how to bat in that time, he is one of the world's best batsmen and he knows his game very well and I think that's what you saw today."

DALLAS -- Gerry Fraley, a longtime baseball writer who spent most of his career with The Dallas Morning News, has died. He was 64.

Fraley died early Saturday after a two-year battle with cancer, the newspaper reported.

After covering the Braves for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Fraley joined the Dallas paper in 1989 to cover the Texas Rangers. Fraley also wrote about football, basketball and NASCAR among other assignments for the Morning News.

Assistant managing editor for sports Garry Leavell said Fraley's versatility "is what separated him from his peers."

Former President George W. Bush, who was part of the ownership group of the Rangers before going into politics, said, "It always seemed to me that baseball was his real passion, thereby establishing a kinship and a lasting friendship."

Former baseball commissioner Bud Selig also was among those who respected Fraley's no-nonsense approach to reporting, saying, "He was fair, honest, a great reporter."

The Oakland Athletics have designated relief pitcher Fernando Rodney for assignment, the team announced Saturday.

Rodney, 42, has seen his ERA balloon to a career-worst 9.42 this season. He had returned to Oakland for 2019 after the A's exercised a $5.25 million club option.

Rodney has pitched for 10 teams in a 17-year career and ranks 18th in MLB history with 325 saves.

The A's called up left-hander Wei-Chung Wang from Triple-A Las Vegas. He has 22 games of major league experience, all with the Milwaukee Brewers.

Astros right fielder George Springer has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain after he hurt himself chasing a pop foul during Friday's game.

Springer exited the 4-3 win over the Red Sox when he sprinted in from right field while trying to catch Xander Bogaerts' pop foul in the top of the eighth inning. He clutched at his left leg as he dived feet first for the ball, which bounced in front of him, and limped off the field.

Springer, who leads the American League with 17 home runs and 43 RBIs, was playing in his first game in five days after dealing with lower back tightness.

The Astros have called up outfielder Derek Fisher from Triple-A Round Rock to fill the open roster spot. He has hit .195 for Houston over the past three seasons, appearing in two games in 2019.

After more than six years in the minor leagues, Mike Yastrzemski -- the grandson of Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski -- made his major league debut Saturday after being called up for the first time.

Yastrzemski started in left field for the San Francisco Giants and is batting seventh against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Yastrzemski, 28, was traded to the Giants in March by the Baltimore Orioles, with whom he made his first big league spring training this year.

Drafted by Orioles in 2013, Yastrzemski rose quickly in the organization before his career stalled. Three years after he was drafted, he was playing for Triple-A Norfolk but then split time between Norfolk and Double-A Bowie, never making the leap to the majors.

"It's all a learning experience," Yastrzemski said in March, prior to the trade. "Everybody's got their own path to get where they want to go; whatever path that is for me, I'm fine with it. As long as you see some light at the end of the tunnel and you put everything into it, it's rewarding in that sense."

In seven minor league seasons, Yastrzemski has a .263 average but has never hit more than 15 home runs or had more than 75 RBIs. He was hitting .316 with 12 home runs and 25 RBIs for Triple-A Sacramento this season.

His grandfather, 79-year-old Carl Yastrzemski, spent all 23 years of his major league career with the Boston Red Sox and retired having played the most games (3,308) of any player in major league history to that point. He was an 18-time All-Star, seven-time Gold Glove winner and won the Triple Crown in 1967, when he helped lead the "Impossible Dream" Red Sox to a World Series appearance.

To make room on the roster, the Giants designated outfielder Mac Williamson for assignment. Williamson was hitting .118 in 15 games this season.

The Giants have also placed right-hander Trevor Gott on the 10-day injured list with a right forearm strain and recalled righty Dereck Rodriguez from Sacramento.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

BALTIMORE -- As he angrily picked himself up off his belly in the ninth inning Thursday, Aaron Hicks put a scowl on his face and took his mind to one place: over the fence.

"I wanted to get up and hit a homer," the New York Yankees center fielder said.

About 100 feet away in his dugout, other Bronx Bombers shared that mindset, hoping after the 94-mph brushback fastball that miraculously missed hitting him -- thanks to some last-second, body-bending bailing -- Hicks might crush a ball into oblivion.

They were all looking for him to hit yet another Yankees big fly. What many of them might not have known was that a grand slam there would have been the team's 81st homer of the year, putting it practically homer-for-homer on the same pace of their torrid record-setting campaign of a year ago.

Remember the 267 home runs the Yankees hit in 2018, with the likes of Aaron Judge, a healthy Giancarlo Stanton, Didi Gregorius, Miguel Andujar and Hicks? Believe it or not, this year's B-team Bombers are not far off that pace.

If this year's team -- which will eventually get Judge, Stanton and Gregorius back from stints on an injured list currently populated by 14 Yankees -- keeps homering at this current clip, it will go yard 264 times by season's end. That would put the 2019 Yankees in a tie for second on the all-time single-season team homer list with the 1997 Seattle Mariners. Only last year's Yankees have hit more.

"It's crazy how guys come up [from Triple-A], hit a lot of homers. It's crazy, man," said outfielder Clint Frazier, who has nine home runs in an injury-shortened season, including his fifth-inning drive to left Thursday. "I don't think the league has really adjusted to some of the players yet, so you've got a ton of guys with a lot of talent, and they are making adjustments if they were pitched different than they were before.

"And, dude, we're good."

When it comes to the long ball so far this season, the Yankees certainly are. They currently have only three fewer homers than they did at this exact point last season. If they homer three times at Kansas City on Friday, they'll be step-for-step with last year's Bombers.

Four teams are currently outpacing the Yankees' 80 homers, including Minnesota, which is leading the way with 98. Still, New York this year has made it a habit of hammering pitches.

"We just put our concentration and our focus to do damage, like we did [against Baltimore]," shortstop Gleyber Torres said.

With their injured list now overflowing with pitchers, including CC Sabathia's addition early Thursday, the Yankees could stand to get several more offensive explosions. Until Sabathia returns from an anticipated week and a half of rest to let a cortisone shot settle, the Yankees will be bullpenning possibly their next two times through the rotation. All of that could heavily tax their pitching staff.

So it will be up to the position players to pick up the slack, which is exactly what they did these past four days.

All week, Camden Yards was a veritable Yankees launching pad. In all, 13 home runs left Bombers bats in the four-game series. Had three more been struck off Orioles pitching, New York would have set a record for home runs hit in a single series in franchise history. At home against the White Sox in 2007, the Yankees hit 15 bombs in a three-game set.

Still, this marked just the fifth time in Yankees history that they hit at least 13 homers in a road series.

All of this week's homers versus the O's led the Yankees to a key early-season sweep as they tried to stretch out their recently acquired division lead. Since returning home from a three-city West Coast road trip at the start of this month, the Yankees have won 15 of 19 and overtaken the Tampa Bay Rays for first place in the American League East.

"These guys, the focus each and every day is on the game and playing winning baseball, and everyone kind of pulling their weight, and the mantra of come in and do your job," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "They've really taken to that, and a lot of them really well."

The star of the past week was Torres, who had multihomer games Monday and Wednesday before being kept out of the starting lineup Thursday. He didn't have much of a rest day, though. With two outs in the ninth, Torres and fellow O's killer Gary Sanchez came up to pinch hit.

Orioles reliever Mychal Givens kept both in the ballpark this time, though, allowing Torres to draw a clutch tie-game walk before giving up a single to Sanchez. By the time Hicks came up two batters later with a chance to blow the game wide open, Torres and Sanchez were in scoring position after starting a two-out bases-loaded rally.

"You always like when they're in the lineup, but to have them sitting over there in that spot was nice," Boone said of both young hitters. "And the fact that they were ready. It's not always easy for guys that are regulars like that, that have been sitting over there all day."

"It's crazy how guys come up [from Triple-A], hit a lot of homers. It's crazy, man. I don't think the league has really adjusted to some of the players yet, so you've got a ton of guys with a lot of talent, and they are making adjustments if they were pitched different than they were before. And, dude, we're good."

Clint Frazier

Combined, Torres and Sanchez have hit 19 home runs off the Orioles this season. That's only 11 fewer than the entire Miami Marlins team has hit against every opponent it has faced this year. Of the 12 homers Torres has hit this season, 10 have come against the Orioles. Of those 10, five came in the three games he started this week in Baltimore.

After hitting his 12th homer of the season Thursday, first baseman Luke Voit joked about Torres being given an off day, saying, "Gleyber's letting us hit -- or maybe Aaron's letting the rest of us hit home runs."

While Sanchez's 15 homers in an IL-affected season lead the team, Torres and Voit each have 12. Frazier has nine, and Brett Gardner -- who had 12 homers all of last season -- is next on the list, with seven. DJ LeMahieu and Mike Tauchman have four homers apiece. Thairo Estrada and Gio Urshela, two players who began the season at Triple-A, have three and two homers, respectively.

"I'm happy for all these guys that are getting these chances, because sometimes, a lot of these guys don't get chances," Voit said.

Voit was one of those unknown players who was looking for a break last season. After a brief stay in the minors following his trade-deadline arrival in the Bronx last summer, Voit went on to homer 14 times in the final month and a half last season. Only Milwaukee's Christian Yelich had more home runs (15) within that stretch.

When spring training started, it wasn't a given that Voit would be the Yankees' Opening Day starter at first base. But he earned the job after a competition with Greg Bird, who later got sidelined with a bout of plantar fasciitis.

Before the wave of injuries set in, LeMahieu was viewed as a complementary piece, playing a rover type role to help give some of his fellow infielders occasional relief. Like Estrada and Urshela, Frazier began the year in the minors.

"Even though we have some guys that aren't the main starters, they're still able to come up here and do damage, too," Hicks said. "The guys that we have are the same as the starters we're missing, guys that hit homers. They like to drive the ball a lot.

"It also helps to have guys that are extremely hot."

With the two hottest hitters on the team on second and third, Hicks' ninth-inning plate appearance continued after that far-inside pitch. Still hunting his chance to hit a homer, he fouled off a pitch and took another two balls. That final ball led to a bases-loaded walk that brought in Torres from third with what later proved to be the game-winning run. It's the league-leading eighth bases-loaded walk he has drawn since the start of 2017. While that wasn't the ending Hicks had hoped for, it was one he welcomed.

Perhaps that play helps explain why it has seemed so hard to fathom this team being as competitive with the long ball as it was last year. Small ball, drawing walks and using speed to succeed has been the 2019 Yankees' most recognized calling card.

"That's what's making this great," Voit said. "I don't want to say it was like that last year, but we kind of relied on the three-run homer all the time. And now we're getting walks, we're moving guys over when they need to be, hitting sac flies and playing really good defense.

"It's just stepping up and doing your job and not being a selfish player."