Grand Slam

Keegan Bradley had no thoughts about a course record, or the possibility of a 59, after consecutive bogeys in the middle of his opening round in the Byron Nelson Championship at Irving, Texas. Until his 136-yard wedge shot on his final hole Thursday. "It was going right at it. [A 59] crossed my mind for a second, and it would be unbelievable if I buried this," Bradley said. "But I had three feet to shoot 60. I was actually very nervous, uncomfortable over it and thank God I made it. " Bradley shot 10-under-par 60, completed by that short birdie at the 428-yard ninth hole, to break the TPC Four Seasons course record and match the best round ever at the Nelson.

ATLANTA - With Hanley Ramirez and Mark Ellis expected to return from their injuries at some point, the Dodgers figure to hit better in coming months than they are now. The recent activation of Zack Greinke moved a depleted rotation closer to full strength. But the problem that was exposed in an 8-5 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Friday night could be something that hinders them for the remainder of the season. Their bullpen is a mess. The magnitude of the issue was exposed in the opener of a three-game series at Turner Field, when Manager Don Mattingly was all but forced to leave in left-hander Paco Rodriguez to face National League home run leader Justin Upton with the game on the line.

He had just made the final out in a city where his name is booed, his jersey is reviled, and his team had been swept. His power had disappeared, his swing was spotty, and his season was a wreck. Matt Kemp would have been excused for quickly disappearing through the dugout at San Francisco's AT&T Park on Sunday night and forgetting all about an earlier promise to third base coach Tim Wallach. “But that was the neat deal about it,” Wallach said. “He was standing there waiting for me.” PHOTOS: Greatest moments in Dodger Stadium history Kemp was waiting to cross the diamond to sign an autograph for a terminally ill Dodgers fan, waiting to summon the passion necessary to pass along the hope that he now found so precious.

NEW YORK - Matt Kemp waited a long time to hit his first home run of the season - 75 homerless at-bats, plus the two minutes and 29 seconds he spent standing at third base while the umpires reviewed video of his opposite-field blast. But Kemp didn't want to talk about his two-run shot off rookie flamethrower Matt Harvey, not with the Dodgers blowing a lead in the ninth inning and falling to the New York Mets, 7-3, on a 10th-inning walk-off grand slam by Jordany Valdespin. "We lost the game," Kemp said.

Rookie Everth Cabrera hit a grand slam in the ninth inning off closer Francisco Rodriguez to give the San Diego Padres a 6-2 victory over the New York Mets on Friday night. Cabrera, who struck out three times, connected on a 3-and-2 pitch from Rodriguez (2-3) into the right-field stands to give the Padres their 11th win over New York in 14 games. The Padres tied the game in the ninth at 2-2 after Kyle Blanks led off with a walk and scored on fellow rookie Will Venable's double into the right-field corner off Rodriguez.

The crowd remained standing. Russell Martin ran up the stairs of the dugout and raised his helmet. In a season of countless lows, Martin had one of his few highs, belting a grand slam over the left-field wall that broke a sixth-inning stalemate and sent the Dodgers to a 7-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium. The home run, which came after an intentional walk to James Loney, was only the fourth for Martin and the curtain call his first. The timing was perfect.

Scott Weiss could barely suppress his panic. Perspiration glued his tuxedo shirt to his back. The forged all-access badge and tiny digital camera hung like weights around his neck as he approached the loading dock entrance. The theater at Hollywood and Highland crawled with local cops, high-priced security guards and federal agents: FBI, sheriff's deputies, LAPD bomb squad specialists and SWAT team snipers, all on high alert.

Ryan Howard and Raul Ibanez each hit a grand slam, rallying the Philadelphia Phillies to a wild 13-11 victory over the Washington Nationals on Monday night for their fifth straight win. Howard's shot to center in the fifth inning tied the score, 6-6. After the Nationals scored four times in the eighth to go up 11-7, Ibanez capped a six-run surge in the bottom half with a two-out drive to right off Joel Hanrahan (0-1).

St. Louis 13, at Cincinnati 0: Chris Carpenter hit a grand slam and drove in six runs, getting the Cardinals back on track after five losses in six games. He also threw five innings of three-hit ball for his 17th win. at San Francisco 7, Arizona 0: Tim Lincecum (15-7) struck out seven in his final start of the season for the Giants, who reportedly are close to new deals with General Manager Brian Sabean and Manager Bruce Bochy. Houston 5, at Philadelphia 3: The Phillies' Cliff Lee lost in his final start before the playoffs.

at Tampa Bay 6, Boston 2: Evan Longoria hit a grand slam and is batting 10 for 22 with 13 runs batted in against the Red Sox this season. at Toronto 8, Baltimore 4: Roy Halladay won his 10th straight decision against the Orioles and Kevin Millar drove in three runs against his former team. Halladay has not lost to the Orioles since May 4, 2005, and is 19-4 against them.

Mike Trout heard someone had fetched the ball he hit for his first career grand slam. Saturday's game had been over for half an hour, but Trout had neither the ball in his possession or any urgency to find it. "I didn't really think anything of it," he said. "It's just another home run. " Granted, Trout's rookie season was fairly amazing. But is he so jaded that a career first means nothing to him? "It's cool, I guess," he said. "I don't really have much to say about it. I'm just happy it went over.

If this keeps up - and the Angels certainly hope it will - they might have to explain to their fans why they yanked their most effective pitcher out of their starting rotation. Garrett Richards dominated the Detroit Tigers on Saturday, pitching seven innings without giving up a run or a walk. The Angels scored nine runs in the first inning - highlighted by Mike Trout's first grand slam - and rolled to a 10-0 rout at Angel Stadium. The Angels scored more runs in the first inning Saturday than they had totaled in any of their first 15 games this season.

As fans arrived at Dodger Stadium's loge-level entrance in the right-field corner Friday, many formed an impromptu line to snap photos of themselves in front of a 10-foot-high figure of the team's iconic "LA" logo. The figure is one small touch in the $100-million renovation of the stadium, where workers were still hanging signs, sweeping stairs and tinkering with wiring up until the Dodgers took the field against the Angels in their exhibition Freeway Series. "We have a lot of polishing and tweaking still to do" before the Dodgers' season opener against the San Francisco Giants at the 51-year-old stadium Monday, Dodgers President Stan Kasten said.

PHOENIX — The United States entered Saturday night's World Baseball Classic game against Italy knowing that no matter what happened, it would still need to defeat Canada on Sunday to have any chance of advancing to the second round of games. Italy, which won its first two games, had already clinched a berth. The teams played like it mattered anyway, bunting runners over and making strategic pitching changes — until the Wright guy came up in the right spot for the U.S. That would be David Wright, a Team USA veteran, who broke a tie by unloading a no-doubt-about-it-when-he-hit it grand slam with two outs in the fifth inning to provide the margin of victory in a 6-2 win before 19,303 at Chase Field.

Bob Kramer spoke of the loss he is about to suffer, admitting he has a hole in his heart. He wasn't grieving a child or a parent, just a best friend. Kramer is director of a tennis tournament that will be no more. The Los Angeles men's tennis event that has been held each summer at UCLA since 1984 will be held next summer in Bogota, Colombia. That's a pretty long commute for loyal fans and ticket buyers around Westwood. For Kramer, and his sanctioning Southern California Tennis Assn., this is much more than just a business sale.

Roger Federer opened his quest for a seventh season-ending tour title, looking like the man to beat again in the ATP finals at London. The 17-time Grand Slam champion won his record 40th match at the tournament, defeating Janko Tipsarevic, 6-3, 6-1, Tuesday in his opening Group B match. Federer lost only eight points on his serve under the roof of the O2 Arena while converting four of his nine break points in the event that features the top eight players in the world. In the other Group B match, David Ferrer beat Juan Martin del Potro, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. ETC. Steelers ' Brown probably will sit out The Pittsburgh Steelers will probably be without receiver Antonio Brown when they play host to reeling Kansas City on Monday night.

Kole Calhoun hit a tying grand slam in the fifth inning and a go-ahead double in the seventh, and Arizona State erased a four-run deficit in a 12-5 victory over North Carolina at the College World Series on Thursday. Calhoun has homered in each of the Sun Devils' College World Series games and has driven in 10 runs. Arizona State (51-13), seeded fifth nationally, plays No. 1 Texas tonight.

Reporting from Denver Sitting at his desk in the manager's office after the Dodgers' 6-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field, Manager Joe Torre had his uniform top partially unbuttoned, exposing his blue undershirt he was wearing. "In beard we trust," read the shirt, which had Casey Blake's face in the middle. "I told him I was going to wear it today," Torre said, smiling. Blake was the hero of the day as the suddenly streaking Dodgers won their fourth in a row, belting a grand slam in the eighth inning that broke a 1-1 tie. At an-bat that started out with Blake wanting to be aggressive — "I knew he was going to come right at me," he said of Rockies reliever Matt Belisle — turned into an exercise in patience.

Tennis champion Margaret Osborne duPont, the winner of 37 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles from the 1940s into the 1960s, has died in Texas. She was 94. DuPont died Wednesday in El Paso while in hospice care, Mary Skinner of VNA Hospice said. The cause was not given. An Oregon native who grew up in San Francisco learning to play tennis on the public courts of Golden Gate Park, duPont won 31 doubles and mixed doubles titles at Grand Slam tournaments from 1941 to 1962. She also won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1947, the U.S. National Championship (now the U.S. Open)

Golf fans heading to Bermuda for the 30th PGA Grand Slam of Golf in late October can get a break on tickets by buying them ahead of time. The PGA is offering two-for-one pricing for daily tickets and three-day passes until the tournament begins. The deal: The Grand Slam of Golf will take place Oct. 22-24 at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda. Tickets for individual days cost $20 each; a pass for all three days costs $50. Featured golfers include 2011 Grand Slam champ Keegan Bradley as well as Bubba Watson , Webb Simpson and Ernie Els . When: The offer is good for tickets purchased through Oct. 21. Tested: I found availability for the offer online by going to the PGA Grand Slam's website and clicking on "tickets.