SPORTS
MLB’S SECOND HALF UNDERWAY… Six games are on the schedule today as major league baseball opens its second half. The featured matchup will be a doubleheader between American League division leaders N.Y. Yankees and Houston Astros. The Yankees went a major-league best 64-28 in the first half and hold a 13-game lead over second-place Tampa Bay in the AL East. The L.A. Dodgers, with a National League-best 60-30 record, host their rivals from San Francisco in another high-profile contest.