Padres ace Darvish goes on injured list with neck stiffness
MILWAUKEE — The San Diego Padres put right-hander Yu Darvish on the 15-day injured list with neck tightness on Wednesday.
Right-hander Logan Gillaspie was recalled from Triple-A El Paso.
Darvish, 37, is 0-1 with a 4.18 ERA in five starts. He didn’t get a decision in his last outing, giving up three runs in five innings in a 6-3 win Sunday over the Dodgers in Los Angeles.
Darvish had been scheduled to start Saturday in San Diego against Toronto.
In another move, the Padres dealt right-hander Pedro Avila to the Guardians for cash.
ELSEWHERE Oregon State loses RB Martinez to portal
Oregon State running back Damien Martinez, Miami running back Henry Parrish and Pitt defensive end Dayon Hayes entered the transfer portal Tuesday as the 14-day spring window opened for college football players.
Martinez was second in the Pac-12 last season with 1,185 yards rushing.
Some players are returning to the portal after initially going in during the December window. Most notably, offensive tackle Kadyn Proctor is back in the portal and expected to return to Alabama after leaving and briefly transferring to Iowa.
In a related development, athletes will be immediately eligible to play no matter how many times they transfer — as long as they meet academic requirements — after the NCAA fasttracked legislation Wednesday to fall in line with a recent court order.
A ruling last year by a judge in West Virginia had lifted requirements for multiple-time transfers to request a waiver from the NCAA to be immediately eligible to compete.
College baseball: On Tuesday night, Rodney Green Jr. hit an RBI double and a solo homer to lead Cal (21-14) to a 6-3 win over visiting USF (17-20). Also on Tuesday, Temo Becerra’s threerun double highlighted a 10-run third inning for Stanford (15-19), which picked up a 12-8 victory over visiting Sacramento State (18-21).
The Bears and Cardinal open challenging three-game series Friday night. No. 8 Oregon State visits Stu Gordon Stadium and No. 16 Oregon will be at Sunken Diamond. Steve Kroner
Tennis: Rafael Nadal’s first tournament since January lasted only two matches with the Spaniard losing 7-5, 6-1 to Alex de Minaur at the clay-court Barcelona Open on Wednesday.
Nadal, back from an injury layoff, looked like his old self for brief moments in the secondround match but couldn’t keep up with the 11th-ranked De Minaur.
NHL: The Minnesota Wild signed goalie Marc-Andre Fleury to a one-year, $2.5 million contract extension, bringing him back for his age-40 season.
Fleury, who turns 40 on Nov. 28, is 17-14-5 in a season in which he passed Patrick Roy for second place behind Martin Brodeur on the NHL’s all-time list in career goaltending wins. Brodeur (691) is still 130 ahead of Fleury.