AUTO RACING

LONG POND, Pa. — Martin Truex Jr. pulled away off a restart with seven laps left to win the NASCAR Cup race at Pocono Raceway on Sunday and thrust himself back into the championship picture.

Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick had turned the season into a two-driver show, winning nine of the first 13 races. Each driver spent time in front and battled for the lead over the final laps until the final restart on the 2 1/2-mile track.

Truex showed why he's still a threat to win his second straight title.

Truex took the checkered flag in the No. 78 Toyota after two straight runnerup finishes in a season where he was almost an afterthought compared to the Busch-Harvick dominance.

"I think three of those guys are headover-heels better than the rest of us," Kyle Larson said.

Larson wasn't so bad, himself. He finished second Sunday, followed by Busch and Harvick. Brad Keselowski was fifth.

MLB DRAFT

DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers didn't begin their rebuild in earnest until the second half of last season.

Already, they have a chance to add the type of player who could become a centerpiece of the franchise's future.

Detroit has the No. 1 pick in the draft Monday, the result of a terrible month of September last season after the Tigers had traded Justin Verlander, Justin Upton and J.D. Martinez..

"The draft and the first round is a big pick anytime, but when you're picking first, obviously, there's more scrutiny and there's more attention to it," general manager Al Avila said. "You want to do a good job."

After trading away some of its biggest stars, Detroit dropped 24 of its final 30 games and finished tied with San Francisco for the worst record in baseball. Now, the organization has the top pick in the draft for the first time since 1997.