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In Brief: Lydia Ko wins British Open

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Lydia Ko has captured her third major title but her first in eight years by winning the Women’s British Open by two strokes at the home of golf at St. Andrews.

It capped a summer when she also took gold at the Olympic Games.

The 27-year-old New Zealander made birdie at the storied 18th hole on the Old Course to shoot 3-under 69 and finish ahead of top-ranked Nelly Korda, defending champion Lilia Vu and two-time champion Jiyai Shin.

That quartet of past or present No. 1s shared the lead at one point down the stretch.

It’s been a golden summer for Ko, who qualified for the Hall of Fame by winning the gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

JUDGE HITS 50TH HOMER OF YEAR

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his 50th home run of the season Sunday afternoon, connecting in the first inning for the New York Yankees against the Colorado Rockies.

Judge reached 50 homers for the third time in his career when he hit a 0-2 changeup from Austin Gomber into the visiting bullpen beyond the left-center field fence to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead.

Judge joined former Yankee Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Babe Ruth as the only players in major league history with three 50-homer seasons.

MAHRLEY EXITS GAME AFTER INJURY

NEW YORK (AP) — Plate umpire Nick Mahrley exited in the fifth inning of the Rockies-Yankees game when he was hit in the neck by Giancarlo Stanton’s shattered bat.

Stanton’s bat broke when he hit a bloop single to left field.

The barrel hit Mahrley on the left side of his mask, knocking it off.

Mahrley immediately fell down and was attended to by New York’s athletic training staff.

A medic came on the field and Mahrley was helped onto a stretcher as the crowd applauded.

When play resumed, crew chief Marvin Hudson took over behind the plate. The 41-year-old worked 473 games as a callup umpire.

LAKE MARY WINS LLWS TITLE

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Lathan Norton scored from second base on an overthrow at first as Lake Mary, Florida, rallied Sunday to beat Taiwan 2-1 in eight innings and claim the Little League World Series championship.

This is the first championship in nine tries for Florida, which also came from behind in its 10-7 semifinal win over Texas on Saturday, scoring five runs in its final at-bat. Taiwan was a dominant team at the LLWS from 1969, when it won its first championship, to 1996, when it claimed its 17th. But it had only made the title game once since, in 2009, a loss to California, before Sunday.

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