September 2007 in Sports - 25 September 2007 (Tuesday)

25 September 2007 (Tuesday)

• Major League Baseball playoff races:
  • American League:
    • Boston Red Sox 7, Oakland Athletics 3
    • Tampa Bay Devil Rays 7, New York Yankees 6, 10 innings
    • Detroit Tigers 8, Minnesota Twins 0
      • Tampa Bay catcher Dioner Navarro's walk-off home run gives the Red Sox a 3-game lead in the AL East and keeps the Tigers mathematically alive for a wild-card spot.
  • National League:
    • Washington Nationals 10, New York Mets 9
    • Atlanta Braves 10, Philadelphia Phillies 6
      • The Mets remain 2 games ahead of the Phillies in the NL East. With the Padres and the Rockies both winning, the Phillies are now tied with the Rockies at a game back in the wild card race.
    • Florida Marlins 4, Chicago Cubs 2
    • Milwaukee Brewers 9, St. Louis Cardinals 1
      • The Brewers close to within 2 games of the Cubs in the NL Central. Also, the Brewers' Prince Fielder becomes the youngest player ever to hit 50 homers in a season, and also joins his father Cecil as the only father-and-son duo to do so.
    • Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Arizona Diamondbacks 5
      • The D-backs give the teams chasing them in the NL West a chance to close the gap.
    • San Diego Padres 6, San Francisco Giants 4
      • The Padres claw back in the top of the 9th to beat the Giants, keeping their one game lead in the wild card race intact.
    • Colorado Rockies 9, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
      • The streaking Rockies win their 9th straight, tying a franchise record. They are now tied with the Phillies at one game back in the wild card race.

• American football:
  • A grand jury in Surry County, Virginia indicts Michael Vick and three co-defendants on state charges related to a dog fighting ring operated on a Vick-owned property in the county. (AP via ESPN.com)

• Rugby union: 2007 Rugby World Cup in France
  • Pool B: Canada 12–12 Japan at Bordeaux
  • Pool C: Romania 14–10 Portugal at Toulouse