CHICAGO (AP) — Will Warren pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning, Amed Rosario and rookie Spencer Jones each homered and the New York Yankees edged the Chicago Cubs 2-0 on Friday.
The Yankees rebounded from a pair of consecutive extra-inning losses against the White Sox on Chicago's South Side and have won six of nine overall.
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Chicago Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga delivers to a New York Yankees batter during the second inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
New York Yankees' Spencer Jones celebrates with teammates in the dugout after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
New York Yankees' Amed Rosario reacts after hitting a home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
New York Yankees' Amed Rosario watches his home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
New York Yankees pitcher Will Warren throws to a Chicago Cubs batter during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
Warren (8-5) struck out seven, walked none and retired 12 in a row before allowing consecutive singles with two outs in the seventh and being relieved by Paul Blackburn. Warren's sharp effort followed a loss at Philadelphia last Sunday when he gave up six runs and six hits in three innings.
David Bednar worked around Pedro Ramirez's single in the ninth for his 23rd save to complete a five-hitter.
The homers by Rosario and Jones were the first two hits off Cubs starter Shota Imanaga (7-9), who gave up four hits total, struck out six and walked none over 6 2/3 innings in a sixth straight solid outing.
Rosario’s 10th home run, a 450-foot blast, into Wrigley’s left-center bleachers in the fourth, ended his 15-game drought without a homer or RBI. He hadn’t gone deep since July 1 against Detroit.
Jones' fourth homer, in the fifth, traveled 418 feet to right-center.
Ramirez had two hits for the Cubs, who were shut out for the 10th time this season.
Imanaga ran his scoreless streak to 16 innings and retired the first 11 hitters Friday before Rosario teed off a center-cut sweeper. Jones connected on a down-the-middle sinker to make it 2-0.
Alex Bregman and Ian Happ singled in the seventh to end Warren's day. Blackburn got Nico Hoerner to bounce into a forceout that ended the threat. Happ originally was ruled safe at second, but the call was overturned on the Yankees' video challenge.
Yankees LHP Max Fried (4-3, 3.23 ERA) faces Cubs LHP David Peterson (6-7, 5.80) on Saturday night.
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This story was corrected to show the Cubs were shut out for the 10th time this season instead of ninth.
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Chicago Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga delivers to a New York Yankees batter during the second inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
New York Yankees' Spencer Jones celebrates with teammates in the dugout after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
New York Yankees' Amed Rosario reacts after hitting a home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
New York Yankees' Amed Rosario watches his home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
New York Yankees pitcher Will Warren throws to a Chicago Cubs batter during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched an intense barrage of ballistic missiles and drones overnight into Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring 22 civilians in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities said.
The strikes came two days after a major Russian attack killed at least 10 people and injured more than 50 others across Ukraine, as Moscow apparently looks to exploit Kyiv’s critical shortage of Western-supplied anti-ballistic missile defenses. The relentless cycle of attacks dims the potential of reaching a diplomatic end to Russia’s more than 4-year-old invasion of its neighbor.
Russia’s defense ministry said Saturday it had launched a “massive strike” against “Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities and logistics centers in Kyiv.”
A five-story residential building in the city's Solomianskyi District was damaged by falling debris and a fire broke out. Rescue workers evacuated 35 people from the upper floors of the building and two people died, with eight reported injured, including two children, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service.
In the Darnytskyi District of Kyiv, seven people were killed and another 14 injured after the attack caused fires and damage to houses, vehicles, an administrative and non-residential building, the emergency services said.
Elsewhere, emergency workers extinguished a fire in a non-residential building in the capital’s Shevchenkivskyi district. There was no additional information about earlier reports by the district mayor that people were trapped in another residential building.
Damage to commercial and residential buildings was reported in two other city districts.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pressed the United States and other Western partners over Ukraine’s need for more Patriot anti-ballistic missile defense systems to counter missile attacks from Russia.
The Ukrainian leader late Friday said he spoke to U.S. Vice President JD Vance and discussed a meeting with President Donald Trump earlier this week in Washington, which Zelenskyy described as “positive and productive.”
“The Russian air strikes on our country continue and air defense, specifically interceptors for Patriot systems against ballistic missiles, remains a top priority,” Zelenskyy said Friday in a post on Telegram.
At a NATO summit in Ankara in July, Trump said the U.S. would give Ukraine a license to make Patriot systems, but he appeared to move away from that commitment on Friday during a Cabinet meeting at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, saying he had not yet made a final decision on the matter.
From a basement shelter where she was taking cover as a second air alarm sounded for another wave, Liudmyla Nakonechna, 64, described how she was woken by loud explosions at 1:30 a.m.
“I ran into the corridor and was standing there when the bathroom door was blown off its hinges and struck me in the leg,” said Nakonechna, whose health is poor after undergoing cancer treatment. “I heard the sound of shattering glass. My balcony was covered in glass and it was completely blown apart, while the windows in my bedroom were also blown out.”
Nakonechna had not taken cover in a shelter since Russia’s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, but the stress became too much, she said.
“It’s getting worse by the day,” Nakonechna said. “Whereas before there was an attack once every two weeks, or maybe once a week, now it happens practically every day. It is incredibly hard to bear this psychologically.”
Emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following Russian missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following Russian missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following Russian missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following Russian missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
