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Strasburg, Tanaka placed on the DL
From staff and wire reports

Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg will go on the disabled list with right shoulder inflammation, manager Dave Martinez said after Washington’s 7-5 victory over San Francisco on Saturday. Martinez said there was no timetable on Strasburg’s return. The righthander left his start Friday against San Francisco after two innings and underwent an MRI Saturday morning. ‘‘I thought just the inflammation was a good thing and nothing else was wrong structurally,’’ Martinez said. ‘‘So as soon as we can get that to calm down a little bit and get him throwing a little bit, we’ll be fine.’’ Strasburg is 6-6 with a 3.46 ERA in 13 starts this year. It is his sixth trip to the disabled list in the past four seasons . . . Masahiro Tanaka was put on the 10-day disabled list by the Yankees, a day after the righthander strained both hamstrings running the bases during the Subway Series opener against the Mets. Tanaka was scoring his first major league run when he felt stiffness in both hamstrings. He was pulled after that. Tanaka is 7-2 with a 4.58 ERA in 13 starts . . . Walker Buehler has bruised ribs, but scans and X-rays showed no further damage after the Dodgers rookie righthander was lifted from his start Friday with pain in his side. Buehler said he is uncertain how much time he'll miss or if he’ll need to go on the disabled list. He was hit in the ribs by a line drive against Colorado on May 21 and made three starts after that, but the rib injury caused him to exit Friday’s game in the sixth inning . . . Pirates catcher Francisco Cervelli left Saturday’s game against the Cubs after a foul ball from Jason Heyward hit his mask and the left side of his jaw.

BASKETBALL

Sun top Lynx for 7-1 start

Courtney Williams had 22 points, Jasmine Thomas added 18, and the Connecticut Sun beat the defending WNBA champion Minnesota Lynx, 89-75, on Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena. The Sun (7-1), who are off to their best start in more than a decade, scored 9 straight points late in the fourth quarter to pull away for good. Chiney Ogwumike had 11 points and 11 rebounds, and Shekinna Stricklen also scored 11 for Connecticut. Sylvia Fowles led the Lynx with 20 points and 14 rebounds. Minnesota trailed, 44-38, at halftime but briefly took control with a 14-4 run to start the second half. The Sun quickly regained the lead with a 13-0 run and never trailed again.

FOOTBALL

Manziel leads preseason rally

Johnny Manziel was 12-of-20 passing for 88 yards and a touchdown and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats scored 30 straight points to beat the Alouettes, 30-15, in Montreal in the second and final preseason game for both teams. Manziel replaced starter Bryant Moniz with Hamilton trailing, 14-0, four minutes into the second quarter.

AUTO RACING

IndyCar’s Dixon wins again

Scott Dixon led the last 119 laps at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, winning his second consecutive IndyCar Series race and breaking a tie for the third-most career wins in open-wheel racing. Dixon got his 43rd career victory, a week after winning at Detroit to match Michael Andretti. Dixon trails only A.J. Foyt’s 67 wins and Mario Andretti’s 52 . . . Sebastian Vettel claimed the pole position in the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix with the fastest lap ever on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Vettel steered his Ferrari over the 2.71-mile track in 1 minute, 10.764 seconds to deprive Lewis Hamilton of a record seventh pole in Montreal. It’s Vettel’s fourth pole on the Ile Notre-Dame, and his first since 2013.

MISCELLANY

Racing returns to Suffolk

Princess Dream won the $50,000 Isadorable Stakes for the second straight year to highlight the return of live horse racing at Suffolk Downs this year. Princess Dream, a 5-year-old bred in Massachusetts by owner Patricia Moseley, won the 6-furlong race by 2¾ lengths with Joel Sone aboard. Moseley also had a winner in the ninth race at Suffolk (Dream Doctor) and in the first race at Belmont Park in New York (La Moneda). Racing resumes at Suffolk on Sunday with a 12-race card . . . Katie Ledecky won the 200-meter freestyle at an outdoor swim meet in Santa Clara, Calif., with the world’s fastest time this year. The five-time Olympic champion touched first in 1:54.56 in the TYR Pro Swim Series, beating her closest rival by nearly three seconds . . . Tyson Fury clowned his way through his first fight in more than 2½ years and outclassed the much shorter Sefer Seferi, who retired after four farcical rounds in Manchester, England. Fighting for the first time since claiming the world heavyweight title from Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015, Fury (26-0, 19 KOs) sporadically unloaded right hands as he showboated through the scheduled 10-round bout.

France forward Nabil Fekir’s move from Lyon to Champions League runner-up Liverpool fell through, and Lyon said in a brief statement it decided to ‘‘end negotiations.’’ Fekir, 24, reportedly had his medical with a view to a move for 65 million euros ($77 million), plus eventual bonuses.