News & notes

 After all the managerial strategy prior to the series, Atlanta's Brian Snitker looked like a chump on Sunday.

Ian Anderson (Shenendehowa) started the finale vs. the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, as the World Champs were looking for the sweep. Instead, Anderson was KO'd after 3 innings, as the Angels salvaged the finale, 9-1. Anderson gave up 7 runs on 8 hits, walked 3, and struck out 2, as his ERA moved back above 5 at 5.31. Local fans will see him at Citi Field next week when the Braves visit the Mets for a 5 game series.

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The Tri-City Valleycats needed 10 innings in order to sweep the Gateway Grizzlies out of town Sunday night.

The two teams were cruising along, needing just over an hour to play 5 innings, but the Grizzlies plated 5 runs in the visiting 6th inning. Tri-City answered with single runs in the 6th & 7th, and, after a rain delay in the 8th, forced overtime, where they walked off the Grizzlies, 6-5.

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Ex-Valleycat Joe Musgrove was almost halfway to his 2nd no-hitter in as many years Sunday, as he held the Mets hitless until the 5th inning.

One inning later, the roof caved in.

After San Diego took the lead in the visiting 6th, Mets slugger Pete Alonso launched a 3 run homer in the home half to put New York up for good. However, reliever Joely Rodriguez nearly flushed the lead in the 9th before being bailed out by Edwin Diaz, and the Mets salvaged the finale, 8-5. Musgrove was tagged with the loss.

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An equipment breakdown on the track led to a race at Saratoga being ruled no contest Sunday afternoon.

Seems the tractor that pulls the starting gate on to the track ran into some engine failure, creating a unexpected obstacle for the horses. All wagers on the race, the 7th, were refunded.

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While the spotlight was on David Ortiz as the highlight of this year's Baseball Hall of Fame class in Cooperstown, the Hall also welcomed posthumously a player from our area.

Bud Fowler, recognized as the first African-American professional baseball player, decades before Jackie Robinson shattered the color barrier, was inducted on Sunday, represented by fellow Hall of Famer Dave Winfield.

Photo courtesy Spectrum News.

Fowler, nee John Jackson, Jr., was born in Fort Plain, and spent some time in Cooperstown. Fowler passed away in 1913, and enters the Hall nearly 110 years later.