San Francisco Giants left-hander Robbie Ray did not opt out of the remaining two years and $50 million on his contract, sources told ESPN.

Ray, 33, returned from Tommy John surgery this year and made seven starts, posting a 4.70 ERA while striking out 43, walking 15 and allowed six home runs in 30.2 innings. His season ended after a hamstring strain in late August sent him to the injured list.

The Giants acquired Ray in a trade with the Seattle Mariners, who had signed him to a five-year, $115 million free agent contract following his American League Cy Young Award-winning 2021 season. Over his 11-year career, Ray is 77-73 with a 3.98 ERA and 1,548 strikeouts, 535 walks and 194 home runs allowed in 1,258.2 innings.

Ray will rejoin a rotation that includes ace Logan Webb and left-hander Kyle Harrison - and question marks beyond that. Right-handers Hayden Birdsong, Keaton Winn, Mason Black and Landon Roupp all took turns starting this year, and right-hander Jordan Hicks vacillated between the rotation and bullpen. Left-hander Carson Whisenhunt, the Giants' top starting-pitching prospect, could be in the mix as well.

San Francisco fired president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi following an 80-82 season and replaced him with longtime Giants star Buster Posey. With a projected payroll in the $150 million range, the Giants are expected to pursue starting-pitching help in free agency and could be in the market for Corbin Burnes, the best available starter.

New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole opted out of his contract Saturday, leaving the team with the ability to ensure he remains in pinstripes by adding an additional year at $36 million to the four years and $144 million that had been remaining on the contract, sources told ESPN.

Cole, 34, has been among the best pitchers in baseball over the course of his first five years with the Yankees, winning the American League Cy Young Award in 2023. After an elbow injury sidelined him for the first 2 months of the 2024 season, he returned to make 17 starts, posting a 3.41 ERA and striking out 99 over 95 innings while walking 29 and allowing 11 home runs.

Cole's opt-out comes days after he started a Game 5 loss in the World Series. Following four no-hit innings, the Los Angeles Dodgers scored five unearned runs off Cole, with two errors and a miscommunication between Cole and first baseman Anthony Rizzo leading to the deluge.

The Yankees have until Sunday night to invalidate Cole's opt-out by making the remainder of his deal five years at $180 million, sources said.

The expectation is that the Yankees will add the $36 million to keep Cole at the top of their rotation and ensure that they don't potentially lose multiple integral players, with star outfielder Juan Soto hitting free agency. Should New York decline its option to void Cole's opt-out, Cole would join a strong class of starting pitchers that includes Corbin Burnes and Blake Snell -- also represented by Cole's agent, Scott Boras -- Max Fried, Jack Flaherty, Walker Buehler, Yusei Kikuchi, Nick Pivetta, Luis Severino and Sean Manaea, who opted out of his deal with the New York Mets and will be a free agent, according to sources.

Before the 2020 season, Cole signed the largest free agent contract ever for a pitcher: nine years and $324 million. He finished fourth in Cy Young voting during the COVID-shortened 2020 season, second in 2021 and ninth in 2022 before winning the award in 2023, posting an AL-best 2.63 ERA with a league-high 209 innings.

An elbow injury sustained in spring training this year delayed Cole's debut until June 19. While his average fastball velocity dipped by about 1 mph from last year and 2 mph from 2022, Cole's five-pitch mix -- which includes a curveball, slider, cutter and changeup -- remained effective.

In five postseason starts this year, Cole posted a 2.17 ERA over 29 innings with 22 strikeouts, 10 walks and 1 home run allowed. Over his career, Cole is 11-6 with a 2.77 ERA in 22 playoff starts.

World number three Alexander Zverev produced a superb performance to outclass former champion Holger Rune 6-3 7-6 (7-4) and reach the Paris Masters final.

Zverev, who reached the final of the French Open in June, will face 2018 champion Karen Khachanov or local hope Ugo Humbert who meet in the other semi-final.

Sustained pressure from the baseline helped Zverev to grab an early break for a 3-1 lead but the German had to work a lot harder in the fifth game before unleashing a couple of booming serves to consolidate it.

The Roland Garros runner-up shrugged off a late double fault to wrap up the opening set on the back of 11 winners at a packed Palais Omnisports in Bercy.

A tighter second set followed as Rune ramped up the aggression by serving and volleying at times, but Zverev took control in the tie-break by racing ahead 3-0 and held his nerve from there to earn a career-high 65th win of the season.

Exeter Chiefs beat Saracens 29-12 in Saturday's top-of-the-table clash to leapfrog the visitors at the Premiership Women's Rugby summit.

Both teams won their opening four fixtures, but Saracens went into Saturday's game as league leaders having picked up two more bonus points.

But the Chiefs ended Saracens' 100% start by claiming a bonus-point victory at Sandy Park to go three points clear in top spot.

Merryn Doidge opened the scoring for the hosts before Saracens went in front through tries by Sarah McKenna and Akina Gondwe.

The Chiefs hit back through Flo Robinson and Alex Tessier kicked a penalty to give them a 17-12 lead at half-time.

They dominated the second half, with Eilidh Sinclair and Hope Rogers touching down to claim the extra point.

Round five continues on Sunday with fourth-placed Gloucester-Hartpury hosting bottom club Sale Sharks (14:00 GMT) while Leicester Tigers welcome Trailfinders Women (15:00 GMT).

Striker Harry Kane scored twice as Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich eased past visitors Union Berlin 3-0 on Saturday to provisionally open up a three-point gap at the top.

Bayern, who host Benfica in the Champions League on Wednesday, opened their account with a 15th-minute penalty by England captain Kane before Kingsley Coman curled a shot past keeper Frederik Ronnow to make it 2-0 two minutes before the break.

Union were constantly on the back foot, with the hosts having close to 80% possession at times, and could do nothing to stop Kane from stabbing in his second goal of the afternoon from close range six minutes after the restart.

Kane, who also scored a hat trick against VfB Stuttgart two weeks ago in the Bundesliga, has 11 league goals this season to top the scorers' list.

Undefeated in the league and eager to reclaim domestic dominance after last season's double by Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern have scored 32 goals and conceded seven in nine league games.

They are top on 23 points, three ahead of second-placed RB Leipzig, who take on Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.

Eintracht Frankfurt moved up to third place on 17 points following their 7-2 demolition of VfL Bochum. 

Mikel Arteta has refused to be drawn on Arsenal's title chances after his side suffered a damaging 1-0 defeat at Newcastle United on Saturday.

Alexander Isak's 12th-minute header settled a hard-fought contest at St James' Park in which Arsenal struggled to break down the hosts and registered just one shot on target.

Arsenal face the prospect of falling eight points behind defending champions Manchester City should they beat Bournemouth later on Saturday and Arteta said: "I understand that, but after eight, nine or 10 games last year we didn't [talk about the title] and we won't talk about it now.

"It's about how you react to that. We're not going to find the right words or answers to describe how we feel. We have to put it on that field on Wednesday night against Inter Milan [in the Champions League]."

Arteta suggested Newcastle made the game more physical after Isak's goal and believes his team should have coped with the task better.

"We deserved to lose today," he said. "I thought we started really well and were really dominant. We didn't defend the box well enough. Credit to them. They scored a great goal with a good ball.

"Then the game changes and you start to play a different game. You have to adapt and we didn't do that well enough. I am very frustrated.

"We got dragged into a game they are looking for constantly and we couldn't play the game that we wanted."

Alexander Isak's early headed goal lifted Newcastle to a 1-0 victory over Arsenal on Saturday at St. James' Park, as Eddie Howe's men delivered a blow to Arsenal's title chase with their first win in six Premier League outings.

Mikel Arteta's Gunners remained provisionally third in the standings on 18 points, with the two teams above them -- Manchester City and Liverpool -- playing later on Saturday. Newcastle climbed to eighth on 15 points.

"We didn't have the greatest start [to the season] performance-wise but we were still picking up results," Newcastle defender Lewis Hall told TNT Sports. "The last few weeks when we were playing better football we weren't getting results. This is something we can build on for sure."

Isak netted his third league goal of the season in the 12th minute after Newcastle worked the ball out wide to Anthony Gordon who then whipped in a pinpoint cross from the right that the 25-year-old Swede, who sneaked in between defenders Gabriel and William Saliba, leapt to head into the far corner past David Raya.

"That was massive," Isak, who has scored 12 goals in his last 12 home league games, told TNT. "A big game against a big team, I think it means a lot, a bit of a statement to us and to the fans that we can win this game."

"[Heading] is not my strongest quality," he added. "It feels good to score. The cross was amazing, I just had to jump and put my head on the ball, so credit to him."

The Magpies, who beat Arsenal by the same score last season at St. James' Park, did well to keep the visitors off the scoresheet, swarming them every time they got near the penalty area.

Declan Rice headed a cross just wide of the net in injury time in Arsenal's best chance of the day, and then held his head in his hands in frustration.

Arteta's side squandered several other chances, including Bukayo Saka's header that he sent just wide of the net from Kai Havertz's cross.

Hall also got in the way of a terrific first-half chance for Mikel Merino who volleyed the ball towards goal in a crowded six-yard box in Arsenal's only shot on target.

But Arsenal, winless in their last three league games, generated very little otherwise against a Newcastle side riding the momentum of a spirited 2-0 League Cup win over Chelsea three nights earlier.

"We are all a bit sad because we wanted to win today," Arsenal's Saliba told TNT Sports. "Unfortunately we didn't and we didn't play the game we wanted to play. We deserved to lose today I think.

"We have to stick together," he added. "Last season we had one period like this and we need to stay together and have the confidence to get out. We all believe we will come back."

Saturday's defeat means Arteta's team have lost successive away league matches for the first time since May 2022.

Lando Norris said he took no pride in winning Saturday's sprint race at the Brazilian Grand Prix after McLaren ordered teammate Oscar Piastri to move out of the lead with two laps remaining.

McLaren made the call to swap its cars in order to maximise Norris' chances in his title battle with Max Verstappen. After starting on pole position ahead of Norris, Piastri led the first 21 laps of the race before the pit wall ordered him to give the position up on lap 22 of 24.

"I'm not proud to win a race like I did today," Norris said. "I work hard to go and do a better job in quali [for Sunday's Grand Prix] later and put myself in a better position for the race.

"We want to avoid it as much as much as we can, but at the same time we sign up for this, we have to work together as a team. We get told what to do, we have a boss. We do the best we can to help each other out."

It initially seemed like Norris expected the swap to happen earlier in the race, and on Lap 7 he radioed the team to say: "I'm not sure what I'm doing here mate. I thought we spoke about this."

On Lap 16, Norris' engineer told him a swap would happen on the final lap, but that plan was abandoned on Lap 22 after Nico Hulkenberg's Haas stopped at the side of the track and it became clear a VSC would be deployed to recover it.

The swap was made successfully before the VSC -- under which overtaking is prohibited -- ensuring Norris scored eight points while Verstappen, who finished third pending an investigation, scored six points.

"We spoke through many different scenarios," Norris said of McLaren's prerace plans. "It was tough to do that much earlier because the guys behind were pretty close.

"I think there was one lap, but it's always hard to suddenly kind of plan that and execute it. So I think we did the best job we could, we won, both cars up there.

"Of course the [Virtual] Safety Car put [us] under a little bit of threat and we were lucky we didn't have to do it after. But there's always those risks in the beginning of the race, middle of the race, end of the race. It's not a straightforward thing ever. So, we planned it and we executed it well."

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Army star quarterback Bryson Daily will miss Saturday's game against Air Force with an undisclosed injury/illness, Army officials told ESPN.

With Daily sidelined, junior Dewayne Coleman will fill in at quarterback and make his first career start.

There is no timetable at this point on how long Daily might be out of the lineup, but Army officials don't think it's a season-ending setback.

Daily, one of four team captains, has been Army's starting quarterback over the past two seasons and the main cog in a Black Knights offense that has eclipsed 400 yards of total offense in all seven games this season.

He leads the nation with 19 rushing touchdowns and leads all FBS quarterbacks with 909 rushing yards. He was unable to practice this week.

The No. 21 Black Knights had a bye last weekend after beating East Carolina 45-28 on Oct. 19 to win their seventh straight game this season.

In the win over East Carolina, Daily carried the ball 31 times for a career-high 171 yards and accounted for six touchdowns (five rushing, one passing). The 6-foot, 221-pound senior has already set Army single-season records for touchdowns responsible for (26) and rushing touchdowns in seven games.

Army, off to its best start in nearly 30 years, will be one of the top contenders for the Group of 5's spot in the College Football Playoff if the Black Knights can win the American Athletic Conference championship. Army (7-0, 6-0) travels to North Texas next week for an AAC contest. The Black Knights get a bye week on Nov. 16 and then face Notre Dame on Nov. 23 at Yankee Stadium.