Rockies Manager Jim Tracy resigns

Colorado Rockies Manager Jim Tracy resigned Sunday, stepping down after the team set a franchise record for losses.

The Rockies said a search for Tracy’s successor would begin immediately, but they have no time frame for making a hire. Colorado finished last in the National League West this year with a record of 64-98.

Tracy was promoted from bench coach to manager in May 2009. He was voted the NL manager of the year that season after guiding Colorado into the playoffs.

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Ryan Moore won the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at Las Vegas for his second PGA Tour title, birdieing the 16th hole to take the outright lead and finishing with a five-under-par 66 for a one-stroke victory over Brendon de Jonge.

Tied with De Jonge and Jonas Blixt after the third round, Moore finished at 24-under 260 at TPC Summerlin.

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Bernhard Langer rallied to win the SAS Championship to take the lead in the Charles Schwab Cup points race, shooting a nine-under 63 to beat Jay Don Blake by two strokes at Cary, N.C.

Four shots back entering the round, Langer birdied the final two holes to finish at 13-under 203. The German star has two victories this year and 16 overall on the 50-and-over tour.

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South Africa’s Branden Grace won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship for his fourth European Tour title of the year, shooting a two-under 70 at St. Andrews, Scotland, for a two-stroke victory.

The 24-year-old Grace finished at 22-under 266.

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Top-seeded Novak Djokovic extended his perfect record in the China Open when he defeated third-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France, 7-6 (4), 6-2, in the final at Beijing.

On the women’s side, top-seeded Victoria Azarenka won her fifth title of the year by dominating second-seeded Maria Sharapova, 6-3, 6-1.

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Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won the Japanese Grand Prix from the pole at Suzuka to close to within four points of Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso.

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Persistent rain forced NHRA officials to postpone the completion of eliminations in the Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals at Mohnton, Pa., until Monday.

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Acclamation, the 2011 Eclipse Award winner as outstanding older male horse, won’t be able to race in next month’s $3-million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita because of a sprain in the horse’s left leg that has bothered him since August, trainer Donald Warren said.

The 6-year-old son of Unusual Heat is not expected to race again this year.

—Eric Sondheimer