Baseball

Alvarez replaces Zimmermann on All-Star roster — Miami Marlins right-hander Henderson Alvarez will replace injured Washington pitcher Jordan Zimmermann on the National League roster for Tuesday night’s All-Star game at Target Field in Minnesota. Zimmermann left Friday night’s start against Philadelphia after 3 1⁄3 innings because of a right biceps injury. The roster change was announced Saturday. Alvarez, a first-time All-Star, is 6-4 with a 2.63 ERA and three shutouts in 19 starts. He pitched a no-hitter against Detroit on the final day of the 2013 regular season.

Cycling

UCI: 2-year ban for ex-Giro winner Menchov — Retired Russian rider Denis Menchov — who won the Spanish Vuelta twice and the 2009 Giro d’Italia — has been given a two-year ban and stripped of his results in three Tour de France races for anti-doping rule violations, a spokesman for the International Cycling Union confirmed on Saturday. The ruling came to light in a table of doping sanctions posted on the UCI website on June 30, but it passed largely unnoticed until Saturday. Menchov, who retired last year, is banned until April 9, 2015, and has been stripped of his results in the Tours de France in 2009, 2010 and 2012, according to the table.

— From wire reports