LOS ANGELES -- Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey was defeated by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on Tuesday in the race for the California U.S. Senate seat long held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Garvey had tried to parlay his sports celebrity into a political upset of the Los Angeles-area congressman, who rose to national prominence as the lead prosecutor in then-President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial. In a year when control of the Senate is in play, Democrats were favored to easily hold the seat in the liberal-leaning state where a Republican candidate hasn't won a Senate race since 1988, when President Ronald Reagan was in the White House. Schiff held an edge for months in campaign financing and polling over Garvey. Garvey, a former MVP and perennial All-Star who played for the  Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, called himself a "conservative moderate" who shouldn't be buttonholed into conventional political labels, an...