National Sports

NEW YORK (AP) — Salvador Perez homered leading off the fourth inning to spark a four-run rally against Carlos Rodón, and the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Yankees 4-2 on Monday night to even their AL Division Series at one game apiece.

Andrés Iniesta, who scored Spain's World Cup-winning goal in 2010 and was one of the key players who made Barcelona's tiki-taka thrive for so long, announced his retirement from soccer on Tuesday.

MONTREAL — Nick Suzuki is tired of watching talented teammates pack their bags and move on to Stanley Cup contenders every spring.

TORONTO — Morgan Rielly went there first. Brendan Shanahan doubled-down. The Toronto Maple Leafs are doing something the Original Six franchise hasn't dared in quite some time — talk about hoisting hockey's holy grail.

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators enter the season facing mounting pressure to meet higher expectations under new head coach Travis Green.

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks got a taste of playoff hockey last season — now they're hungry for more.

CALGARY — Rebuild, retool, revamp, pick your term. The Calgary Flames are a team in transition heading into the 2024-25 NHL season.

EDMONTON — This summer, when Stan Bowman was hired as the new general manager of the Edmonton Oilers, he warned fans that no two editions of the team are the same.

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets are focusing on the regular season, but many of their fans will look beyond that to gauge the team’s success.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have slipped and fallen on the world’s seventh highest peak have been killed, an expedition organizer in Nepal said Tuesday.