YANKEE-LED GROUP ACQUIRES YES NETWORK FROM DISNEY

NEW YORK >> The Walt Disney Co. is selling its stake in the YES Network to an investor group that includes Yankee Global Enterprises, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Amazon.

The deal values YES at $3.47 billion. Disney was required to sell off Fox’s regional sports networks as part of its $71 billion deal to acquire Fox’s entertainment assets. That deal closed in March.

Sinclair said it would buy 21 of the regional sports networks in May, but the 80% stake in the Yes Network was being sold separately. Yankee Global Enterprises already holds a 20% stake in the YES Network. The Associated Press reported the preliminary YES Network deal in March . YES Network airs Yankee baseball games, Brooklyn Nets basketball games, Major League Soccer’s New York City FC games and others.

— The Associated Press Cleveland 2, Detroit 0 A’s 9, Kansas City 8 Tampa Bay 9, Houston 8 Seattle at Texas

Friday’s games

A’s (Anderson 10-9) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 5-8), 7:05 p.m. Houston (Miley 13-4) at Toronto (Thornton 4-8), 7:07 p.m.

Cleveland (Plesac 7-4) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 12-6) at Detroit (VerHagen 4-2), 7:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Nova 9-10) at Atlanta (Fried 14-4), 7:20 p.m.

Seattle (Gonzales 14-10) at Texas (Allard 2-0), 8:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Means 9-9) at Kansas City (Skoglund 0-0), 8:15 p.m.

Boston (Eovaldi 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Suarez 2-5), 10:07 p.m. Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati Pittsburgh Los Angeles Arizona Giants San Diego Colorado

Wednesday’s games

Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 1 Philadelphia 12, Pittsburgh 3 Cincinnati 5, Miami 0 Washington 8, Baltimore 4 Chicago Cubs 10, N.Y. Mets 7 Atlanta 9, Toronto 4

Boston 7, Colorado 4

L.A. Dodgers 6, San Diego 4, 10 innings

Thursday’s games

Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets Cincinnati at Miami Pittsburgh at Colorado L.A. Dodgers at Arizona San Diego at Giants

Friday’s games

88 67 65 61 59 47 66 67 71 75 .652 _ .504 20 .492 21 1⁄2 .462 25 1⁄2 .440 28 1⁄2 Milwaukee (Anderson 6-3) at Chicago Cubs (Quintana 11-8), 2:20 p.m. Miami (Hernandez 3-5) at Washington (Sanchez 8-6), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 9-7) at Philadelphia (Nola 12-4), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Nova 9-10) at Atlanta (Fried 14-4), 7:20 p.m. Cincinnati (Bauer 10-11) at St. Louis (Hudson 13-6), 8:15 p.m. Pittsburgh (Agrazal 3-3) at Colorado (Senzatela 8-8), 8:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 2-1) at Arizona (Gallen 2-4), 9:40 p.m.

San Diego (Lamet 2-2) at Giants (Bumgarner 8-8), 10:15 p.m.