Briefly: Nationals re-sign Howie Kendrick

Postseason star Howie Kendrick and the World Series champion Washington Nationals agreed to a $6.25 million, one-year contract, people with knowledge of the negotiations said Friday.

Kendrick, 36, primarily a first baseman, hit .344 with 17 homers and 62 RBI in 121 regular-season games before providing real pop in the postseason. He hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the 10th inning of Game 5 of the NL Division Series, was MVP in the National League Championship Series and delivered a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh inning of Game 7 of the World Series.

Kendrick arrived in Washington via trade in July 2017, then re-signed with the Nationals. In 2018, he tore his right Achilles' tendon in May.

• San Diego acquired outfielder Tommy Pham as part of a deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. Pham hit .273 with a .369 on-base percentage, 21 home runs and 68 RBI last year and set the Rays' franchise record with a 48-game on-base streak. The Padres also acquired infielder-pitcher Jake Cronenworth, and they gave up outfielder Hunter Renfroe, minor league infielder Xavier Edwards and a player to be named. Renfroe hit 33 homers last season.

• The New York Mets re-signed reliever Brad Brach to a one-year, $850,000 contract, encouraged by his solid showing after they added him last August. He held righthanded batters to a .194 batting average.

• The Chicago White Sox claimed hard-throwing reliever Tayron Guerrero off waivers from Miami. Guerrero, a 6-foot-8 righthander, has a 100-mph fastball.

Gary Woodland birdied his final two holes, shooting a 4-under 68 and taking a one-stroke lead in the Hero World Challenge at Nassau, Bahamas.

Patrick Reed, the leader after two rounds, shot a 74 that included a two-stroke penalty for grounding his club in a waste area. Video clearly showed his sand wedge removing sand right behind the ball — twice — during practice swings.

Skiing: Ester Ledecka, who competes in both skiing and snowboarding for the Czech Republic, won the season's first World Cup women's downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta. It was her first World Cup-level skiing victory since she won the Olympic super-G in 2018. She also won the snowboard parallel slalom that year, becoming the first athlete to win Winter Games gold medals on two different pieces of equipment.

Tennis: Former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, winner of the 2018 Australian Open, said she will retire after the 2020 Australian Open.

Figure skating: Alena Kostornaia led a Russian sweep of the top three positions in the women's short program at the Grand Prix Finals in Turin, Italy. The 16-year-old Kostornaia scored 85.45 points.

Men's skiing: Swiss racer Marco Odermatt won a World Cup super-G in Beaver Creek, Colo., becoming the first non-Austrian men's skier in five years to win on the Birds of Prey course. He won by a 10th of a second.