BASEBALL
Pittsburgh, USA, June 8 (Prensa Latina) The Philadelphia Phillies will seek their 45th victory in the Major League baseball regular season today, when they visit the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The team led by Rob Thompson leads the Eastern Division of the National League with 44 wins and 19 losses, and leads the Atlanta Braves by eight games (35-26) and the Washington Nationals by 16 (28-35).
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SOCCER
Warsaw, June 8 (Prensa Latina) Poland’s Arkadiusz Milik was ruled out of playing in the Euro 2024 Championship in Germany due to an injury to his right knee, the National Football Federation announced today.
Milik, forward of the Italian Juventus Turin, suffered the mishap in the match that Poland beat Ukraine 3-1 in this capital and served to prepare for the continental tournament, to be held from June 14 to July 14.
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TENNIS
Paris, June 8 (Prensa Latina) The world ranking leader and defending champion Iga Swiatek (Poland) will come out here today as the clear favorite in the final of the Roland Garros tennis tournament against the fifteenth ranked Jasmine Paolini.
Specialists expected a duel for the title of the second Grand Slam of the season between Swiatek and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (second classified) or the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (fourth), but the Italian made her own merits to reach the dispute for the crown in Philippe Chatrier center court.
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SOCCER
Guatemala City, June 8 (Prensa Latina) The Guatemalan team will go out today against the British Virgin Islands for another victory in the World Cup qualifier, just three days after the 6-0 defeat they gave to Dominica.
As visitors to the Alexandre Ogilvie Shirley stadium, with capacity for three thousand spectators, the pupils of Mexican coach Luis Fernando Tena will try to keep their foot on the accelerator within group E towards the 2026 event.
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