The Dodgers’ championship season is filling a lot of shelves with fresh hardware.

The Dodgers were recognized as the top offensive team in baseball, winning the Silver Slugger team award on Tuesday. Three individuals — Shohei Ohtani, Teoscar Hernandez and Mookie Betts — also won Silver Slugger awards as the top hitter in the National League at their position.

Already a finalist for the NL Most Valuable Player award, Ohtani was named the Silver Slugger Award winner as the top DH in the NL. Hernandez joined him as one of three outfielders named Silver Slugger winners. Betts was recognized in the utility category.

Silver Slugger winners are determined by a vote of the managers in each league plus three coaches from each team.

The Silver Slugger Awards are the third each for both Ohtani and Hernandez. Ohtani was also voted the American League’s top DH in 2021 and 2023. Hernandez was voted one of the three Silver Slugger outfielders in the American League in 2020 and 2021.

Ohtani became the first player in baseball history to top 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in the same season. Along with the historic feat, he led the NL in home runs (54), RBIs (130), runs scored (134), on-base percentage (.390), slugging percentage (.646) and OPS (1.036) while finishing second in batting average (.310) and stolen bases (59).

Hernandez, signed to a one-year contract with the Dodgers after he found the free-agent market disappointing, came through with a career-high 33 home runs to go with his All-Star Home Run Derby win. He hit .272 with an .840 OPS and drove in 99 runs. He is currently a free agent.

Betts is a seven-time Silver Slugger winner. The first six came in the outfield. He is one of only 16 players in baseball history to win as many as seven Silver Slugger awards. Four of those have come with the Dodgers. Only one player in Dodgers history has won more (Mike Piazza, five).

— Bill Plunkett

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was charged with illegally carrying a gun in his vehicle during the altercation in a parking lot that led to his arrest in the Dominican Republic over the weekend, prosecutors said. The attorney general’s office in the Dominican Republic said in a statement that police found a Glock pistol with a 15-round magazine inside the Mercedes Benz that Franco was driving during what police called an altercation over a woman’s attention.

The Minnesota Twins will promote Derek Falvey to president of baseball and business operations and Jeremy Zoll to general manager as part of a front office succession plan initiated by current club president Dave St. Peter’s move into a strategic adviser role.

DEATHS

Dallas Long, USC’s three-time NCAA shot put champion who won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has died. He was 84.

He died of natural causes Sunday in Whitefish, Montana, USC said Tuesday after being informed by a family member.

Long ruled the shot put in the 1960s, winning three consecutive NCAA titles from 1960-62.

His gold-medal performance in Tokyo included a then-Olympic record throw of 66 feet, 8 1/2 inches. He earned a bronze medal at the 1960 Rome Games behind fellow Americans Bill Nieder and Parry O’Brien.

Long set the shot put world record 11 times from 1959 to 1965 and was ranked No. 1 in the world three times. His best effort was 67-10 1/4.

He was a member of USC’s 1961 NCAA championship team. His throw of 65-10 1/2 set in 1962 still ranks sixth on USC’s all-time list. His freshman mark of 63-7 set in 1959 stood until 2015.

Long was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1996.

Gerry Faust, the gravel-voiced Cincinnati high school coach who lived a dream by becoming the coach at Notre Dame, has died. He was 89.

Faust guided the Fighting Irish from 1981 through 1985, compiling a record of 30-26-1. He succeeded Dan Devine as coach of Notre Dame and preceded Lou Holtz.

He spent the next nine seasons as the head coach at the University of Akron, bringing the program from Division II to major college status. His record was 43-53-3 with the Zips.

It was as a high school coach that Faust first stepped into the spotlight.

Faust accepted an offer to build a football program at a new high school, Archbishop Moeller, in suburban Cincinnati. In 1963, Moeller’s first varsity team surprised many with a 9-1 record. In the next 17 years, Faust’s Moeller teams posted nine undefeated seasons, won 10 city championships, eight regional titles and five big-school state championships. Four times Faust teams were awarded mythical national championships, each following unbeaten and untied seasons in 1976, ’77, ’79 and ’80. The 1980 team completed a 13-0 season and capped Faust’s high school coaching record at a remarkable 174-17-2, a success rate of nearly 91%.

Faust’s first team in South Bend went 5-6 and he followed that with marks of 6-4, 7-5, 7-5 and 5-6.

TENNIS

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner made it two wins in two matches before his home fans at the ATP Finals in Turin, Italy, beating Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 in a rematch of the U.S. Open final that the Italian also won in straight sets.

Daniil Medvedev moved back into contention with a 6-2, 6-4 win over De Minaur following a temper tantrum in his previous match.

Sinner leads the group while Fritz and Medvedev are next with one win each.

The top two finishers from each round-robin group advance to the semifinals.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Undefeated Oregon stayed on top in the second batch of College Football Playoff rankings, while Tuesday’s poll shoved Georgia completely out of the bracket after its lopsided loss to Mississippi.

Led by the Ducks, then Ohio State, the Big Ten captured four of the top five spots — a string interrupted only by Texas of the Southeastern Conference, which was slotted at No. 3 and would receive a first-round bye.

College basketball

Hunter Dickinson scored 28 points and Bill Self became the winningest coach in Kansas history as the No. 1 Jayhawks pulled away from Michigan State for a 77-69 victory in East Lansing, Mich. Self improved to 591-143 in his 22nd season coaching the Jayhawks, pushing him past Phog Allen’s mark of 590-129 in 36 seasons at Kansas (3-0).

NO. 19 KENTUCKY 77, NO. 6 DUKE 72: Otega Oweh knocked down four free throws in the final 10.3 seconds and the Wildcats (3-0) claimed the first big win of Mark Pope’s coaching tenure, knocking off the Blue Devils (2-1) in Atlanta.

MISCELLANY

Canada women’s coach Bev Priestman, suspended following a drone surveillance scandal at the Paris Olympics, was fired following an independent review.

Assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joseph Lombardi were also fired as Canada Soccer released findings of the investigation.

New Zealand complained about a drone flying over practices before the start of the Olympic tournament, prompting FIFA to fine Canada Soccer $228,000 and strip six standings points from the team. Priestman, Mander and Lombardi were suspended by soccer’s international governing body for a year.

Gable Steveson, who won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, said he is coming out of retirement and will return to the University of Minnesota for a fifth and final season of college wrestling. Steveson won gold as a freestyle heavyweight in Tokyo at age 21, then won his second national title at Minnesota in 2022 before retiring.