— Host Tampa Bay evened the American League championship series at 1-1 with a 3-1 win over Cleveland on Tuesday night as Freddy Peralta pitched six shutout innings.
— The Los Angeles Dodgers face a 2-0 deficit in the National League championship series going into tonight’s game with visiting Milwaukee (Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.).
— Andrei Svechnikov scored two goals for the Carolina Hurricanes in a 4-2 win over Washington in Raleigh on Tuesday night.
— The Hurricanes announced that captain Jordan Staal will be out one to two months with a calf tear.
— In Conference USA college football games on Tuesday night, host Middle Tennessee State topped Delaware, 33-30, and Florida International fell, 27-24, at Jacksonville State.
— C-USA matchups tonight include Kennesaw State at Missouri State (CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.) and Western Kentucky at Sam Houston State (ESPN, 8 p.m.).
— Duke has been picked as the preseason favorite in ACC men’s basketball.
