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MLB: Rays’ Cobb out of hospital

Rays pitcher Alex Cobb left the hospital and went home yesterday, one day after he was hit in the right ear by a line drive.

The Rays announced during their game against Kansas City that Cobb had been released from Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. The team said he will be placed on the seven-day concussion list.

In a message posted on his Twitter account, Cobb thanked Rays head athletic trainer Ron Porterfield and the doctors at Bayfront, and said that he “Woke up with only a minor headache.”

Cobb was struck by a liner off the bat of the Royals’ Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning of Saturday’s game, but remained conscious. He was taken off the field on a stretcher.

Teammate Matt Moore was among a group of around 15 players, which included Hosmer and former Cobb teammates and current Royals James Shields and Elliot Johnson, who went to the hospital after Saturday’s game.

AUTO RACING: Biffle gets Ford’s 1,000th win

Greg Biffle raced to his second straight Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., easily holding off Kevin Harvick after points leader Jimmie Johnson smacked the wall in the final laps yesterday. It was the 1,000th victory for Ford across NASCAR’s three national series — Cup, Nationwide and Truck.

TENNIS: Federer earns first victory of 2013

Roger Federer won his first title of the year, overcoming a sluggish start to beat unseeded Mikhail Youzhny 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 at the Gerry Weber Open yesterday in Halle, Germany.

Top-seeded Andy Murray rallied to beat defending champion Marin Cilic 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 in London to win the Queen’s Club tournament for the third time in a match delayed more than three hours by rain.

In Birmingham, England, Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova won her sixth career title, beating Croatian 16-year-old Donna Vekic 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the final of the Aegon Classic.

HORSE RACING: Verrazano wins Pegasus

Coming off a disappointing race in the Kentucky Derby, Verrazano cruised to a front-running 9 1/4 length victory in the Grade 3, $150,000 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park. Ridden by John Valazquez, Verrazano ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:41 3-5. Reporting Star, with Angel Serpa aboard, finished second and Bethel was another 4 1/4 lengths back in third.