Sports briefs
Pitt-Cincinnati time set
Pitt’s Sept. 9 home football game against Cincinnati will kick off at 6:30 p.m. and be televised by The CW, it was announced Thursday by the Atlantic Coast Conference.
It will be the first meeting between the Panthers and Bearcats in 11 years. The teams were annual Big East foes from 2005-12.
In baseball
Austin Riley hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning, and the major league-leading Atlanta Braves stopped a four-game skid with a 7-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday.
Matt Olson hit two more homers for Atlanta, raising his NL-best total to 32. Orlando Arcia also connected.
Corbin Burnes struck out 10 in eight innings, leading the first-place team in the NL Central, the Milwaukee Brewers, to a 4-0 victory over Philadelphia.
Christian Yelich hit a three-run homer as Milwaukee closed out a 5-1 trip through Cincinnati and Philadelphia. Andruw Monasterio had two hits and scored two runs.
Andrew Abbott pitched a career-high eight innings and Luke Maile homered, sending Cincinnati to its second straight win in a 5-1 triumph over San Francisco.
Abbott (5-2) allowed one hit, struck out six and walked two in his ninth big league start. Derek Law finished the two-hitter, surrendering Wilmer Flores’ 12th homer in the ninth.
Jets deal WR Mims to Lions
The New York Jets traded wide receiver Denzel Mims to the Detroit Lions on Thursday, parting ways with the disappointing 2020 second-round draft pick who requested to be dealt last summer.
The Jets, who announced the teams agreed to terms on the trade, also sent a 2025 conditional seventh-round pick to the Lions for a conditional sixth-rounder in 2025.
New York told Mims it would release him if the Jets couldn’t find a trade partner, two people with knowledge of the situation said Wednesday. The people spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team didn’t announce its intentions.
Mims was excused from joining the team when rookies and veterans reported for training camp Wednesday.