STANTON HAS YET TO MEET WITH MARLINS
ANGELES» Giancarlo Stanton still LOS hasn’t met with the Miami Marlins’ new leadership, including Derek Jeter, amid speculation the team will unload its most expensive player in an effort to cut payroll.
Stanton says he expects to meet with ownership after the World Series. He was in Los Angeles before Game 2 between the Astros and Dodgers on Wednesday night to accept the Hank Aaron Award as the National League’s top offensive performer. Astros second baseman Jose Altuve was the American League winner.
Stanton says he doesn’t know whether Miami will try to trade him.
If the new owners want to reduce payroll, Stanton says he doesn’t know whether he would want to stay or go to another team.
Pedroia has knee surgery.
Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia is expected to miss more than a month of the 2018 season after left knee surgery.
The team said Pedroia had surgery to restore the cartilage in his left knee and he will return to games in seven months, which would put him back in the lineup in late May.
The 2007 AL rookie of the year and the AL MVP in his second season, Pedroia played in just 105 games last season. He batted .293 with seven homers and 62 RBIs.
Girl denied golf trophy.
MASS.» A female high school student who had the best score at a boys golf tournament in Massachusetts has been denied the trophy.
Lunenburg High School student Emily Nash’s score of 75 at the Central Massachusetts Division 3 boys’ golf tournament was better than the runner-up. But Nash wasn’t awarded first place and won’t advance to next week’s state tournament because of a rule set by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association.
The rule states that girls playing on a fall boys team can’t be entered in the boys Fall Individual Tournament.
That means the 16-year-old Nash can’t compete as an individual, and her score only counted to her team’s total.
Canada whips U.S.
BOSTON» Natalie Spooner and Meghan Agosta scored 82 seconds apart at the end of the second period to lead Canada to a 5-1 victory over the United States in the second matchup between the women’s hockey powers on their pre-Olympic exhibition tour.
Laura Fortino’s short-handed goal five minutes into the second period broke a 1-1 tie and kicked off a threegoal spurt that shocked the hosts and a sold-out crowd at Boston University’s Agganis Arena. The game came three days after the Americans opened the series with a 5-2 victory in Quebec.
Footnotes.
Bradley Wright-Phillips and Sacha Kljestan scored four minutes apart early in the first half, and the New York Red Bulls cruised by the Chicago Fire 4-0 in an MLS knockout-round game. New York advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals against Supporters Shield winner Toronto FC. … A lawyer for Tom Jurich says the fired Louisville athletic director will sue the school for breach of contract if severance issues can’t be resolved. Louisville trustees voted 10-3 a week ago to fire Jurich for cause amid a federal investigation of the men’s basketball program. … Hector Trujillo, 63, a former judge who led Guatemala’s soccer federation, became the first person sentenced in the U.S. in the FIFA world soccer corruption scandal when a judge ordered him to serve eight months in prison, saying his bribe money could have been used to build soccer fields for poor children. Trujillo was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court for his June guilty plea to conspiracy and wire fraud charges. The judge also ordered $415,000 in restitution. … Defending champion Arrogate heads a full field of 14 horses for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, to be held Nov. 4. … Jim Bunch of Denver and Danny Harvanek of Littleton were voted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame. They will be inducted May 20. — The Associated Press