National Sports

ESPOO, Finland — Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Michael Marinaro of Sarnia, Ont., won Saturday's free skate to earn the silver medal in pairs on Saturday at the Filandia Open figure skating competition.

TOKYO — Canada's Denis Shapovalov was ousted from the Japan Open on Saturday with a semifinal loss to Daniil Medvedev, holding off the teenager's latest attempt to make his first tour-level final.

LOS ANGELES — With Sandy Koufax sitting in the front row, Clayton Kershaw pitched the best post-season game of his career, motivated partly by being passed over as the Dodgers' Game 1 starter.

Friday's Games MLB Post-season AL Division Series Boston 5 New York 4 (Red Sox lead best-of-five series 1-0) Houston 7 Cleveland 2 (Astros lead best-of-five series 1-0) NL Division Series Milwaukee 4 Colorado 0 (Brewers lead best-of-five series 2-0)

BOSTON — Chris Sale left the mound to a standing ovation and then waited along with anxious Red Sox fans while the Boston bullpen frittered away most of a five-run lead. Bases loaded in the sixth inning. Two runs.

EDINBURG, Texas — Nichelle Prince scored twice to help Canada beat Jamaica 2-0 on Friday night in the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying tournament.

OTTAWA — Jovan Santos-Knox recovered a fumble in overtime and held on to it as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers avoided a disastrous loss to the Ottawa Redblacks.

HAMILTON — Jordan Lyons rushed for 71 yards and a touchdown as the McMaster Marauders held on for a 27-24 win over the Queen's Gaels on Friday in Canadian university football action.

TORONTO — Deng Adel couldn't miss. Delon Wright was shooting threes. And Norm Powell was playing with more force than he has in awhile.

HOUSTON — George Springer and the Houston Astros picked up right where they left off last post-season , hitting four home runs to power past the Cleveland Indians 7-2 Friday in Game 1 of the AL Division Series.