ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A fire broke out Saturday evening at a lab building on the University of South Florida campus in St. Petersburg, prompting an evacuation, authorities said.
The fire sent plumes of billowing gray smoke from the marine science laboratory building. No injuries had been reported, university police and the local fire department said. The cause of the fire remained under investigation.
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First responders work to extinguish a fire at the University of South Florida campus Saturday, May 2, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
Onlookers watch as firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the University of South Florida campus Saturday, May 2, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
Firefighters battle a fire at the University of South Florida campus Saturday, May 2, 2026, in St. Petersburg.=, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the University of South Florida campus Saturday, May 2, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
University police said more information would be released as it became available.
First responders work to extinguish a fire at the University of South Florida campus Saturday, May 2, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
Onlookers watch as firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the University of South Florida campus Saturday, May 2, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
Firefighters battle a fire at the University of South Florida campus Saturday, May 2, 2026, in St. Petersburg.=, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the University of South Florida campus Saturday, May 2, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
DENVER (AP) — Drake Baldwin homered and drove in four runs, Chris Sale allowed one run in seven innings and the Atlanta Braves rolled past the Colorado Rockies 9-1 on Saturday night.
Austin Riley and Matt Olson also homered for the Braves, who won for the 14th time in 17 games and improved their MLB-best record to 24-10.
Sale (6-1) gave up three hits and struck out 11 batters while earning his MLB-leading sixth win. In his last four starts, the nine-time All-Star has allowed just three earned runs with 33 strikeouts and seven walks over 26 innings.
Braves right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. left in the second inning with left hamstring tightness. He was attempting to run out a grounder before he pulled up about halfway down the base path and grabbed at his left hamstring. He was replaced by Eli White in right field.
Manager Walt Weiss said after the game that Acuña will get an MRI and the team likely wouldn’t know more about the extent of the injury until later Saturday or Sunday.
Baldwin matched his single-game career high with three hits and finished a triple shy of the cycle.
Olson’s homer, a 414-foot moonshot to right field in the ninth inning, was his team-high 11th. Ozzie Albies added two hits, including his eighth double of the season, to extend his hitting streak to 14 games.
The Braves are 22-6 against the Rockies since the start of the 2022 season and have won 13 of their past 16 games at Coors Field dating to September 2021.
Brennan Bernardino (2-1) took the loss after allowing Baldwin’s two-run homer in the first inning and was pulled for Chase Dollander after just two-thirds of an inning. Dollander allowed a season-high six runs in 5 1/3 innings after giving up only four earned runs in 28 innings in six appearances in April.
Jordan Beck drove in Colorado’s lone run with an RBI double in the third.
Colorado LHP Kyle Freeland (1-2, 3.48 ERA) will face Atlanta RHP Spencer Strider, who’ll make his season debut Sunday in the final game of the series.
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Atlanta Braves’ Austin Riley gestures to the bullpen as he circles the bases after hitting a two-run home run off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Chase Dollander in the fifth inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 2, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Atlanta Braves’ Matt Olson gestures to the bullpen as he circles the bases after hitting a solo home run off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Tanner Gordon in the ninth inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 2, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Atlanta Braves’ Ronald Acuña Jr., center left, walks gingerly after being injured while running out a groundout as first base umpire Bill Miller, center right, looks on in the second inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, May 2, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Chris Sale works against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game, Saturday, May 2, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Atlanta Braves’ Drake Baldwin, right, celebrates as he crosses home plate after hitting a two-run home run off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Brennan Bernardino in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 2, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)