The Toledo Blade

LOUISVILLE — A four-run top of the fifth inning created enough separation as the Toledo Mud Hens took down the Louisville Bats 5-3 in the first game of a doubleheader on Thursday. Both games slated for seven innings, the host Bats responded with a 4-3 walkoff victory in eight innings in Game 2. Toledo reliever Dariel Fregio walked the bases loaded with one out in the home half of the eighth in the second game.

CLEVELAND — After seeing the No. 1 seed in the men’s tournament losing in the quarterfinals in two out of the past three seasons, the Mid-American Conference is reshaping the brackets for the men’s and women’s basketball conference tournaments. Going forward, the top two seeds will receive a double bye into the semifinals, the conference announced Thursday in a release.

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A local real estate development company hopes to bring new life to a Toledo warehouse building while honoring its industrial roots. On Thursday, the Toledo City Plan Commission unanimously approved a local landmark designation for the Dura Building at 4500 N. Detroit Ave. The designation will help the building’s owner, IBC Inc., qualify for state and federal historic tax credits, said Julie Apt, with Thomas Porter Architects.

More than 10 years ago, Patrick and Angele McGrady donated $25,000 to Lourdes University to endow a modest scholarship fund. Now, while students displaced by Lourdes’ shutdown negotiate transfers to other institutions, Ms. McGrady is anxious about the disposition of that donation and others like it, and whether scholarship awards to former Lourdes students will be disrupted by the legal process to transfer the money.

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CHICAGO — Sal Stewart, Eugenio Suárez and Tyler Stephenson homered, and the Cincinnati Reds held off the Chicago White Sox for a 9-8 victory on Thursday. Stewart scored four times and Suárez drove in four runs as Cincinnati took the rubber game in the three-game series. Tejay Antone (2-0) pitched a scoreless inning for the win, and Julian Garcia worked a shaky ninth for his second save. Randal Grichuk had three RBIs for Chicago, which had won three of four.

DETROIT — Keider Montero pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning and the Detroit Tigers blanked the Cleveland Guardians 3-0 on Thursday despite failing to record a strikeout. The Tigers became the first team to blank an opponent without a strikeout since Rick Porcello did it to the Athletics on July 1, 2014. The feat has only been accomplished seven times since 2000. Montero (9-7) allowed one walk over 6 1/3 innings, holding the Guardians scoreless despite not recording a strikeout.

Oregon voters are set to consider a proposed charter amendment banning large data centers in the city after organizers met the signature requirement to make the ballot. LaVera Scott, director of the Lucas County Board of Elections, said supporters submitted 1,684 valid signatures. The minimum number required to make the ballot is 1,369 — or 10 percent of the votes cast in the city’s last mayoral election.