Payton Pritchard scored a career-playoff-high 32 points off the bench and the Boston Celtics took a 3-1 series lead with a convincing 128-96 road victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night.

Jayson Tatum made five treys and recorded 30 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds and Jaylen Brown added 20 points and seven rebounds as the second-seeded Celtics moved one victory away from winning the Eastern Conference first-round series. Game 5 is Tuesday in Boston.

Pritchard made six 3-pointers and was 12-of-21 from the field while Boston knocked down a franchise-playoff-record 24 treys to help finish off a second straight victory in Philadelphia.

Joel Embiid played for the first time in the series for the seventh-seeded 76ers after undergoing an appendectomy two-plus weeks ago. He scored 26 points on 9-of-21 shooting and collected 10 rebounds and six assists while playing 34 minutes.

Tyrese Maxey scored 22 points and Paul George added 16 for the 76ers.

The Celtics made more 3-pointers than 2-point baskets (18) for the second straight game. Boston shot 48.3% overall and 45.3% from 3-point range.

Embiid was cleared shortly before tipoff and was aggressive at the outset by scoring the 76ers’ first eight points. He wore a brace underneath his jersey to protect his midsection.

Philadelphia made 41.2% of its field-goal attempts, including 9 of 30 (30%) from behind the arc. Quentin Grimes scored 12 points off the bench.

Pritchard began making an impact with 13 first-quarter points, including a quarter-ending 3-pointer to give Boston a 34-18 lead.

Pritchard knocked down another trey to make it 40-19 with 8:51 left in the half. He had 18 at the break as the Celtics led 56-38.

Boston kept the assault going in the third quarter when Brown scored six straight points and Tatum added a trey as Boston’s lead grew to 69-43 with 7:57 left in the third quarter.

Pritchard scored the final four points of the period as the lead sat at 95-74 entering the fourth quarter.

Tatum’s four-point play capped a 9-0 run to start the fourth and pushed the lead to 30. Boston’s advantage topped out at 32 as it cruised to the finish.

–Field Level Media

The New York Yankees are planning to call up outfielder Jasson Dominguez, multiple outlets reported Sunday.

A product of the Dominican Republic, Dominguez saw extended action for the Yankees in 2025 and produced during Spring Training before New York optioned him to the minors on March 20.

The 23-year-old’s 2025 line included a batting average of .257 with a .331 on-base percentage and a .388 slugging percentage over 429 plate appearances. He totaled 47 RBIs, 10 home runs and 23 stolen bases.

Over 22 games with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this spring, Dominguez notched 13 RBIs and three home runs with a .306 batting average.

New York has a roster opening after right-hander Luis Gil was optioned to Triple-A on Sunday, though Dominguez could also be seen as a potential replacement for outfielder Giamcarlo Stanton, who is dealing with a calf injury.

Dominguez is expected to join the roster before Monday’s road matchup with the Texas Rangers.

–Field Level Media

Lane Thomas hit a three-run, walk-off homer in the 10th inning, after Jac Caglianone clubbed a tying two-run shot in the ninth, and the host Kansas City Royals rallied past the Los Angeles Angels 11-9 on Sunday to complete a three-game series sweep.

In a contest whose start was moved up roughly three hours due to predicted severe weather, Kansas City trailed 6-0 after two innings and 8-5 entering the bottom of the ninth.

The Royals’ Vinnie Pasquantino laced a two-out triple and scored on Salvador Perez’s single. With Drew Pomeranz on the mound, Caglianone then sent a towering drive just inside the right-field foul pole to tie the game at 8.

With two out in the 10th and runners on first and third of a 9-8 game, Thomas capped the improbable comeback by sending a pitch from Joey Lucchesi (0-1) over the left-field wall. Automatic runner Carter Jensen and Maikel Garcia, who had walked, also scored.

Bobby Witt Jr. and Isaac Collins also homered for the Royals, who are 4-1 since an eight-game skid.

Losers in seven of eight, the Angels wasted no time getting to Royals starter Seth Lugo. Zach Neto opened the game with the first of his three hits, then Mike Trout sent a drive off and over the top of the left-field wall for a 2-0 lead. It was the first homer allowed this season by Lugo, who yielded seven runs and a career-high 14 hits over 6 1/3 innings on Sunday.

The Angels added on in the second with Adam Frazier’s RBI double and another two-base hit from Neto that scored two. Jorge Soler’s one-out RBI single capped the four-run inning.

Kansas City got on the board in the fifth on Collins’ RBI single to center. In the sixth, with a man on, Witt’s first 2026 homer came Angels starter Reid Detmers, who exited with no outs in that inning, made it 6-3.

Los Angeles got an RBI single from Jo Adell in the seventh, but Collins homered just off the right-field foul pole in the bottom of the frame. After a rain delay of nearly two hours interrupted the seventh, Pasquantino’s sacrifice fly made it 7-5 when play returned.

Los Angeles added a run in the ninth when Oswald Peraza scored from third on a passed ball by Jensen.

–Field Level Media