Mets manager Collins quits
New York Mets manager Terry Collins resigned Sunday after seven seasons and said he will take a position in the team’s front office.
“It’s been a blast, but it’s time,” the 68-year-old Collins said.
Collins announced he was stepping down after the Mets lost to Philadelphia, 11-0, finishing a 70-92 season that began with great expectations but was quickly derailed by injuries.
“It’s one of those years you want to forget, and I will. Tomorrow,” he said, saying this season left a “sour taste.”
The Mets were 551-583 overall under Collins, reaching the World Series in 2015.
HOCKEY
Freshman forward Linus Weissbach scored two goals in his debut and 11th-ranked Wisconsin edged Michigan Tech, 3-2, Sunday in the U.S Hockey Hall of Fame Game at the Kohl Center.
The game counts toward both teams records and statistics but it is exempt from the 34-game limit.
AUTO RACING Max Verstappen won the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang, while Lewis Hamilton finished second to extend his championship lead over Sebastian Vettel.
Vettel started the race from last but drove brilliantly to take fourth place and limit the damage to his title hopes. Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen did not even start, despite qualifying in second place. Moments before the race, mechanics wheeled Raikkonen’s car back to the garage but could not get it ready. SCCA National Championship Runoffs: Michael Varacins of Burlington claimed his sixth title, pulling away in the Formula V race when Andrew
Whitson of Neenah slowed. The two had swapped the lead numerous times through the first threequarters of the race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway before mechanical problems left Whitson battling to hang on to second.
NHRA: Top Fuel points leader Steve Torrence won the AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals in Madison, Ill., for his eighth victory of the season.
Torrence had a 3.684-second pass at 329.34 mph to beat Doug Kalitta in the final round. Torrence has 16 career victories.
GOLF Brooke Henderson won the weather-delayed New Zealand Women’s Open on Monday, finishing off a 3-under 69 for a five-stroke victory.
The 20-year-old Canadian led by four shots after six holes when the final round was suspended Sunday after a day of heavy rain, high wind and threatened lightning strikes. She returned Monday morning to the Windross Farm course east of Auckland and easily held off China’s Jing Yan for her second LPGA Tour victory of the season and fifth overall.
SOCCER Amirah Ali’s goal 26 seconds into overtime gave the 16th-ranked Rutgers women’s team a 1-0 victory over No. 12 Wisconsin (8-3-1, 2-2-1 Big Ten) in Piscataway, N.J.