NEW YORK (AP) — Gerrit Cole makes his second start for the Yankees since coming off the COVID-19 injured list when New York hosts Minnesota today. Cole pitched one-run ball over 5 1/3 innings against the Los Angeles Angels on Monday, allowing two hits and striking out nine. He was up to 100 mph with his fastball and said he felt strong despite a 2 ½ week break forced by his positive virus test. Fellow right-hander Kenta Maeda starts for the Twins. The Yankees beat the Twins 10-2 last night for their eighth win in a row.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Dodgers’ Max Scherzer faces the Mets’ Rich Hill today in a showdown of veteran pitchers traded at the deadline. Scherzer is 2-0 with a 2.20 ERA in three starts since being acquired from Washington. His most recent outing was also against the Mets, when he pitched two-run ball over six innings in a 14-4 win last Sunday. Hill hasn’t registered a decision in five games and has a 4.98 ERA after joining the Mets via trade from Tampa Bay.

UNDATED (AP) — There will be more major league magic at the Field of Dreams site when the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs travel to Dyersville, Iowa, for a game next season. The Reds and Cubs will play a regular-season game next Aug. 11, at a temporary venue built next to the site where the iconic 1989 baseball movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed. That follows the inaugural game at the site last week. The Chicago White Sox won a 9-8 thriller over the New York Yankees before about 8,000 fans at the temporary field in the first major league game ever played in the state.

MADISON, Ill. (AP) — IndyCar begins its final month of the season in Madison, Illinois, with its final race of the year on an oval track. Alex Palou of Spain takes a 21-point lead into tonight’s race at World Wide Technology Raceway outside St. Louis. It opens a four-race set that will close the season. The final two races are in California, where IndyCar is keeping an eye on rising COVID-19 cases.

UNDATED (AP) — Corey LaJoie will miss tomorrow’s NASCAR race at Michigan because of COVID-19 protocols. He posted “Protocols” on Twitter when Spire Motorsports announced that Josh Berry will replace him in the No. 7 Chevrolet at Michigan. In a later appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, LaJoie said he was in a mandatory seven-day quarantine for contact tracing after someone else tested positive who had been in studio with LaJoie at the start of the week to tape LaJoie’s podcast.

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