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MLB roundup: Dodgers walk off Rangers on Max Muncy's 3rd HR of night
Apr 10, 2026; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy (13) watches the flight of the ball on a walk-off solo home run in the ninth inning to defeat the Texas Rangers at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Max Muncy hit a two-out solo shot in the bottom of the ninth to cap his second career three-homer game, giving the host Los Angeles Dodgers an 8-7 walk-off win over the Texas Rangers.
Andy Pages homered and collected his fourth three-hit game of the season for the Dodgers, who overcame the first blown save of the season from closer Edwin Diaz (1-0). Los Angeles won for the sixth time in seven games.
The Rangers pulled even in the ninth on a two-run homer from Evan Carter and an RBI single from Ezequiel Duran with two outs. That set the stage for Muncy’s winner off Jacob Latz (0-1).
Corey Seager and Wyatt Langford also went deep for Texas, which had a three-game winning streak end.
Padres 5, Rockies 2
Gavin Sheets launched a game-ending three-run homer and San Diego walked off visiting Colorado for the second straight game.
Sheets crushed a 434-foot bomb to right-center off Juan Mejia (0-2), his second homer of the game and season, to clinch the Padres’ sixth win in seven games. Mason Miller (1-0) struck out the side in the ninth for the second straight night. The Rockies had evened the score with a pair of two-out runs in the eighth inning.
Rockies starter Tomoyuki Sugano tossed six innings, allowing four hits and two runs. San Diego’s Walker Buehler needed only 68 pitches to fire six scoreless innings, permitting three hits.
Pirates 2, Cubs 0
Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run home run, Carmen Mlodzinski threw 5 1/3 scoreless innings and visiting Pittsburgh beat Chicago.
Cubs starter Shota Imanaga held Pittsburgh hitless in his six-inning stint. The third pitch from Cubs reliever Caleb Thielbar (1-1) in the seventh was singled to right by Ryan O’Hearn. Reynolds blasted the next pitch for his third homer of the season.
Pittsburgh’s Mason Montgomery (1-0) struck out two batters in relief. Dennis Santana pitched a perfect ninth inning for his first save. Ian Happ produced two hits and Carson Kelly had a single and three walks for the Cubs.
Diamondbacks 5, Phillies 4
Ketel Marte and James McCann each drove in two runs as visiting Arizona beat Philadelphia for its fifth win in six games.
Michael Soroka (3-0) allowed four runs in 5 2/3 innings, striking out 10. Paul Sewald worked around a two-out triple in the ninth to register his fourth save.
Brandon Marsh hit a three-run home run for the Phillies, who have lost three in a row. Jesus Luzardo (1-2) was charged with five runs in 4 2/3 innings.
Tigers 2, Marlins 0
Keider Montero tossed six strong innings and three relievers completed the shutout as host Detroit snapped a five-game losing streak by blanking Miami.
Montero (1-1) allowed just two hits and a walk while recording seven strikeouts. Kenley Jansen recorded his second save of the season and the 478th of his career, tying him with Lee Smith for third place on the all-time list.
Javier Baez homered, Spencer Torkelson drove in the other run with a single and Colt Keith had two hits for the Tigers. Marlins starter Chris Paddack (0-2) gave up two runs and seven hits in six innings.
Braves 11, Guardians 5
Ronald Acuna Jr., Matt Olson and Michael Harris II each hit home runs in the sixth inning as Atlanta picked up a win over visiting Cleveland.
Atlanta sent 10 batters to the plate, pounded out seven hits and scored six runs in the decisive sixth inning. Reliever Tyler Kinley (2-0) picked up the win with a scoreless sixth inning.
Cleveland starter Slade Cecconi (0-2) threw 5 1/3 innings and yielded seven hits and, five runs (four earned).
Nationals 7, Brewers 3
James Wood highlighted a four-run ninth inning with a run-scoring double as Washington came from behind to beat host Milwaukee.
The Nationals used three bunts and a hit by pitch off Brewers closer Trevor Megill (0-2) to spark an unusual winning rally. PJ Poulin (1-0) tossed a perfect eighth inning. Nationals starter Jake Irvin gave up two hits and three runs in five innings.
The Brewers announced Chad Patrick as their starter, but switched up and used Aaron Ashby as an opener. Ashby gave up two runs in the first but settled down to go 2 1/3 innings, allowing three hits and the two runs.
Angels 10, Reds 2
Jorge Soler belted a grand slam and Jack Kochanowicz allowed one run over seven innings, fueling visiting Los Angeles to a victory over Cincinnati.
Zach Neto launched a two-run homer, Josh Lowe also went deep and Yoan Moncada had an RBI single while reaching base four times for the Angels, who ended a two-game skid. Kochanowicz (2-0) permitted just two hits.
Elly De La Cruz belted a solo homer for the Reds, who lost their third straight game. Chase Burns (1-1) yielded five runs in 5 1/3 innings.
Blue Jays 10, Twins 4
Brandon Valenzuela hit his first career home run, a two-run blast that capped a five-run fourth inning, and Toronto defeated visiting Minnesota.
Daulton Varsho added a solo shot and a double for the Blue Jays while Vladimir Guerrero had three hits, including two doubles, and an RBI. Davis Schneider contributed two hits and two RBIs as Toronto won its second straight after losing six in a row.
Ryan Jeffers hit a three-run home run and added two singles for the Twins, who had won their four previous games. Brooks Lee added a solo shot.
Athletics 4, Mets 0
A quintet of pitchers combined on a six-hit shutout for the visiting Athletics, who continued their surge with a win over New York.
Shea Langeliers laced a third-inning run-scoring single before Jeff McNeil (single) and Denzel Clarke (two-run single) added RBI hits in the ninth for the A’s, who have posted two straight shutouts and have won four of their past five. Reliever Jack Perkins (1-0) got the win after throwing 2 1/3 innings.
Clay Holmes (2-1) gave up one run in 5 1/3 innings for the Mets, exiting due to a left hamstring injury.
Royals 2, White Sox 0
Kris Bubic allowed two hits and struck out a career-high 11 over seven stellar shutout innings, and Carter Jensen clubbed a solo home run as Kansas City snapped a three-game skid with a victory over visiting Chicago.
Bubic (2-1) didn’t yield a hit until Lenyn Sosa led off the fifth inning with a double. The other hit Bubic surrendered came via Derek Hill’s single to open the sixth, as he went on to match the longest outing of his career.
White Sox starter Davis Martin (2-1) gave up two runs and seven hits without a walk over seven innings.
Cardinals 3, Red Sox 2
Dustin May pitched six solid innings as St. Louis edged visiting Boston.
Jordan Walker went 2-for-4 with a run for the Cardinals, who won thir third straight game. Jose Fermin knocked in the decisive run in the fifth inning. May (1-2), who entered the game with a 15.95 ERA through two starts, allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits.
Wilyer Abreu went 2-for-4 and Trevor Story drove in a run and stole home for the Red Sox, whose two-game winning streak ended.
Rays 5, Yankees 3
Yandy Diaz started an early comeback with a two-run homer to spoil Luis Gil’s season debut and spark Tampa Bay to a victory over New York in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Seeking more production, Rays manager Kevin Cash moved Diaz to the cleanup spot and elevated Chandler Simpson to the leadoff position. Simpson drove in two runs. Steven Matz (3-0) threw five innings of two-run ball, and Bryan Baker escaped a ninth-inning jam for his second save.
Gil (0-1) needed 88 pitches to get through his four-inning stint, allowing three runs. Ben Rice homered for the Yankees, who lost their third game in a row.
Mariners 9, Astros 6
Randy Arozarena hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the fifth inning and Seattle snapped a five-game skid with a victory against visiting Houston.
Mariners starter Emerson Hancock (2-1) overcame one shaky frame to pitch five innings and allow three runs. Andres Munoz worked around two walks in the ninth for his first save.
Yordan Alvarez hit a three-run homer for the Astros, who lost their fifth in a row. Reliever Ryan Weiss (0-2) yielded Arozarena’s blast.
Giants 6, Orioles 3
Willy Adames, Casey Schmitt and Jung Hoo Lee combined for four runs, five RBIs and seven extra-base hits as San Francisco won at Baltimore.
Adames and Lee each provided a homer, double and two RBIs while Schmitt drilled three doubles, scored twice and knocked in a run. Landen Roupp (2-1) permitted one run on five hits over six innings.
Gunnar Henderson hit a two-run homer, his third long ball in the past four games, and Adley Rutschman went 3-for-5 with two doubles for the Orioles, whose three-game winning streak ended. Shane Baz (0-1) gave up three runs in five innings.
–Field Level Media
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Knicks and Nuggets Blow Big Leads: What Went Wrong in Game 2?
Roughly 5,000 feet of elevation separate Denver and New York City.
Still, gravity works the same regardless of where one stands. Just ask the NBA teams in both towns.
“You get too high, and you get, I don’t want to say cocky, but feeling yourself,” Nuggets guard Tim Hardaway Jr. said.
That sensation went south on either side of the country Monday night.
After squandering sizable leads that would have cemented commanding 2-0 advantages in their respective first-round playoff series, the Nuggets and Knicks now find themselves bracing for a fight.
Should their opponents ultimately have their number, Denver and New York will look back with disdain on 19 and 14. Those were the Game 2 cushions the teams coughed up as the No. 3 seeds in the Eastern and Western Conference.
“It’s a game we should’ve won,” Knicks guard Josh Hart said. “In the playoffs, we can’t give away games.”
Be that as it may, the Knicks did just that against the Atlanta Hawks. They controlled the outcome for much of the night and took a 12-point edge into the fourth quarter after leading by as many as 14.
Then New York shot 5-for-22 from the floor in the final 12 minutes compared to 10-for-15 for Atlanta. Fighting through vulgar chants from the Madison Square Garden faithful, Hawks star CJ McCullom scored six straight points down the stretch during one key sequence on the way to a game-high 32.
“In that fourth quarter, you could tell [the Hawks] were playing with a level of desperation,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said. “There were four 50-50 balls, and they got three of the four. We always use that stat to gauge the level of aggression in a game. In that fourth quarter, their aggression stepped up.”
New York’s melted at the same time. How many late possessions saw the Knicks pass or hold the ball around the perimeter before settling for subpar looks from 3-point range? The Knicks went 3-for-11 from deep as part of their flop.
Denver led the Minnesota Timberwolves by 19 points early in the second quarter before crumbling. The Nuggets still were ahead by three points to start the fourth quarter but a combined 2-for-12 shooting effort from pillars Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray in the final 12 minutes took a toll.
“I feel like we had the game in hand, and then we just didn’t make our shots,” Murray said.
As with the Knicks and Hawks, the reversal of fortunes stemmed both from the hosts’ miscues and an outstanding effort from a visiting player, as Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards had 30 points.
“Great leadership, positive,” Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said. “He recognized he needed to get into attack mode and get downhill a little bit more. He did that.”
The Knicks and Nuggets no doubt sensed the need to amp up their own urgency as things started slipping away Monday.
That neither could act upon it didn’t signal the end for either New York or Denver, of course. But now there’s unnecessary added weight for the climb back to the top.
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Pistons seek return to identity vs. Magic after Game 1 shocker
Apr 19, 2026; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Detroit Pistons forward Tobias Harris (12) is defended by Orlando Magic guard Desmond Bane (3) in the second half during the 2026 NBA Playoffs at Little Caesars Arena. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images After an exceptional regular season, this wasn’t the start to the NBA playoffs that the Detroit Pistons envisioned.
Reeling from a stunning Game 1 loss in which only two players reached double figures, the Eastern Conference’s top seed heads into Game 2 Wednesday against the visiting Orlando Magic facing early pressure to reset the best-of-seven series.
The eighth-seeded Magic controlled the opener from the start, never trailing and leaning on a balanced offensive attack. Paolo Banchero led the way with 23 points while Franz Wagner scored 11 of his 19 in the fourth quarter to help close out the 112-101 win.
For Detroit, the issue wasn’t just the loss — it was how it happened. The Pistons never established their defensive identity and struggled to find consistent offense beyond star guard Cade Cunningham, two areas that will be central entering Game 2.
“It starts, always, with us defensively,” said Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff. “When you go back and watch the film of that (game), we weren’t ourselves defensively. The telling tale is typically when we play them, they go to the free-throw line a ton.
“… We went 38 (times) but they went 19. So that means we weren’t playing our brand of basketball, being physical, being handsy, being aggressive. That kind of sets the tone for us.”
Offensively, the Pistons leaned on Cunningham, who scored 39 points, but got little other support — scoring their fewest points in nearly three months, since a loss to the Phoenix Suns on Jan. 29. Detroit will need more help from All-Star center Jalen Duren, who was held to just eight points and seven rebounds in Game 1.
“They came out ready from the jump,” Duren said. “We didn’t really meet their intensity. They’ve been playing with their backs against the walls the last few weeks, so they were already kind of already rolling. I think we just got to do a better job meeting that intensity.”
Duren said the Pistons remain confident despite the loss, which extended their home playoff losing streak to 11 games, the longest in NBA history.
“We know the type of team we are,” Duren said. “We feel like we’re the better team. We know that we’ve just got to make adjustments and come out smarter, come out playing harder.”
Orlando coach Jamahl Mosley said he has talked to his team about not becoming too overconfident coming off Sunday’s win.
“It’s one game at a time,” Mosley said of his message to the team. “It’s the reality that, yeah, you did get the Game 1 win, but now you have to go and figure out how to get a Game 2 (win). There’s going to be, obviously, the positive talk about what you’ve done, and thinking there’s reasons to celebrate, but at the end of the day, it’s one game, and that’s the most important piece that we’ve talked about: just taking it one game at a time.”
Banchero said the team has received the message, and he believes the key for the Magic is to play defense like they did in the opener.
“I thought we were on a string, just communicating, talking out coverages,” Banchero said. “I think it’s just going to continue to take that, being aggressive, being the aggressors on defense and just not trying to give them much. Obviously they’re going to make shots, but just not trying to give them any free looks.”
–Field Level Media
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Lynx star Napheesa Collier (ankle) targets June for on-court work
Mar 2, 2026; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Unrivaled Co-founder Napheesa Collier at Barclay’s Center. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images The Minnesota Lynx said Tuesday that star forward Napheesa Collier’s rehab from left ankle surgery is “progressing as expected,” and she could resume on-court activities in early June.
The team plans to release updates on Collier’s progress when available.
The timeline means Collier will miss, at minimum, the first month of the WNBA season, which begins May 10 for the Lynx.
Collier underwent surgery on her ankle on March 24 after sustaining a severe injury during the 2025 playoffs. Per reports at the time, she sustained a Grade 2 tear of three ligaments in the ankle and a muscle in her left shin on a collision during Game 3 of the playoff semifinal series vs. Phoenix.
Collier, 29, averaged a career-high 22.9 points and shot 40.3% from 3-point range to go with 7.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.5 blocks per game last year. The back-to-back WNBA Most Valuable Player runner-up, Collier is a five-time All-Star and earned MVP honors in the 2024 Commissioner’s Cup final and the 2025 All-Star Game.
–Field Level Media
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