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Returning to form, Rangers' Nathan Eovaldi takes on D-backs
Apr 29, 2026; Arlington, Texas, USA; Texas Rangers pitcher Nathan Eovaldi (17) pitches against the New York Yankees during the fourth inning at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Nathan Eovaldi appears to have turned the corner following a rocky start to the season.
The right-hander will look to take another step forward on Monday when the Texas Rangers open a three-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Arlington, Texas.
The Rangers had lost five of their previous six games before registering back-to-back shutouts against the formerly white-hot Chicago Cubs. The latter team was riding high on the strength of its second 10-game winning streak of the season before dropping 6-0 and 3-0 decisions over the weekend.
Eovaldi (4-4, 4.15 ERA) surrendered 23 runs and nine homers en route to losing four of his first six starts before bouncing back in a big way in a pair of outings against one of his former teams, the New York Yankees. He scattered four hits over seven scoreless innings on April 29 before yielding one run on three hits over eight frames last Wednesday.
“He had such a good game plan, such a good feel for swings,” Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said. “He has a game plan but also can navigate a game on his own as good as anybody, based on what he’s seeing.”
Eovaldi, 36, is 3-1 with a 4.17 ERA in 11 career appearances (eight starts) against Arizona.
Right-hander Michael Soroka (4-2, 4.14) will look to snap a two-start losing streak when he takes the mound for the Diamondbacks.
Soroka was gashed for eight runs on 10 hits in three innings of a 13-1 shellacking by the Milwaukee Brewers on April 30. He pitched much better on Wednesday, yielding just one run on seven hits in 6 1/3 innings of a 1-0 setback to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Soroka, 28, sizzled in his lone career appearance versus Texas, scattering two hits over six scoreless innings to pick up the victory last June while with Washington.
He’d be wise to pitch carefully around Josh Jung, who collected consecutive three-hit performances for Texas on the heels of an 0-for-12 effort in his previous three games. Jung was riding high on a 13-game hitting streak before that.
While Jung consistently is finding success at the plate, the same cannot be said for Corey Seager. The latter is 0-for-14 with six strikeouts in his last four games to see his batting average slip to .193 for the season.
Perhaps Seager’s workload is slowing him down. After all, he has started 19 consecutive games without an off day.
“Corey and I talk every day about how he feels and where he’s at physically, but the other part of this is, you’re trying to win a series, right?” Schumaker said before Sunday’s game. “He’s still our best player. I don’t care what he did yesterday or the day before. It means something to us when you see him in the lineup. We do have a day circled here soon.”
The Diamondbacks lost seven of eight games before capturing the final two contests of a three-game series versus the New York Mets. Arizona allowed a total of two runs on seven hits in its last two games.
Making his second start in the majors, Ryan Waldschmidt recorded his first three career RBIs on two hits in the Diamondbacks’ 5-1 victory over the New York Mets on Sunday. He also made a dazzling catch in the fifth inning to preserve Eduardo Rodriguez’s no-hit bid.
“I took off for it, I knew I was getting close to the fence, but I was going to do whatever I could to catch that ball,” Waldschmidt said. “I was going full speed into the wall, catch or not. I’m glad I was able to make that catch for him and keep that thing going.”
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Canadiens clobber Sabres in Game 3, grab series lead
May 10, 2026; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens forward Alex Newhook (15) celebrates with teammate defenseman Lane Hutson (48) after scoring a goal against the Buffalo Sabresduring the first period in game three of the second round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images Cole Caufield broke a five-game scoring drought with a tiebreaking power-play goal as the Montreal Canadiens throttled the visiting Buffalo Sabres 6-2 in Game 3, taking a 2-1 best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series lead on Sunday night.
A 51-goal scorer in the regular season, Caufield, who also posted an assist, had not found the net since Game 5 of the first round against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Alex Newhook tallied twice and Juraj Slafkovsky notched his fourth postseason power-play goal. Zachary Bolduc and Kirby Dach also scored, Lane Hutson had two helpers and Jakub Dobes made 26 saves.
The Sabres’ Tage Thompson and Rasmus Dahlin produced a goal and an assist apiece. Alex Lyon stopped 31 shots.
Referring to his Game 2 performance as an “absolute disaster,” Thompson quieted the crowd in the NHL’s largest arena when Dobes moved far out to meet Dahlin’s blast, which went wide and clanged off the end boards.
Thompson corralled the puck on the hard rebound and potted an easy marker through the vacated crease just 53 seconds in.
Newhook, who registered the Game 7 series-winner in Tampa, cashed in by bouncing one off Buffalo defenseman Conor Timmins at 15:31 to square the contest.
Caufield missed a tap-in during an early second-period power play, but he found redemption after Hutson drove through the left circle on a power play and put the puck on Caufield’s stick for a 2-1 lead at 6:05.
The home side’s fourth line made it 3-1 when Joe Veleno fed a pass back to a trailing Bolduc, who beat Lyon at 10:43.
After Buffalo’s Beck Malenstyn went off for a hard interference collision with Dobes, Hutson slipped a pass through the slot that clipped Slafkovsky for a second power-play goal at 12:17 to make it 4-1.
Dahlin answered with his own man-advantage marker 16 seconds after Dach was penalized for holding Josh Doan’s stick at 14:30.
The Sabres put together a furious push on a power play and followed it up in the third, but a Montreal 2-on-1 rush ended with Dach finding the puck and firing in his fourth goal of the playoffs for a 5-2 lead at 8:46.
Newhook put the match away with his fifth postseason marker when he was awarded one after being fouled on a breakaway toward an empty net at 15:14.
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Gage Workman's clutch HR in Tigers debut sinks Royals
May 10, 2026; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Detroit Tigers right fielder Wenceel Pérez (46) scores during the second inning against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: William Purnell-Imagn Images Gage Workman hit his first major league home run, a tiebreaking, pinch-hit, two-run shot in his Tigers debut, and visiting Detroit snapped a five-game losing streak with a 6-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday night.
Workman was called up from Triple-A Toledo on Sunday after Kerry Carpenter was placed on the injured list with a left shoulder sprain.
Matt Vierling drove in two runs and Hao-Yu Lee and Wenceel Perez drove in one run apiece. Riley Greene reached base four times and scored a run.
Enmanuel De Jesus (2-0) tossed 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. Kenley Jansen got the last three outs for his seventh save.
Maikel Garcia had three hits, a run and an RBI to lead the Royals. Vinnie Pasquantino added two hits and drove in a run and Bobby Witt Jr. had two hits and scored a run.
Greene led off the second inning with a single and Perez hit into a fielder’s choice. Spencer Torkelson struck out but Lee hit an opposite-field triple to bring Perez. Zack Short drew a walk before Vierling doubled off the left-center-field wall, bringing home both runners.
Detroit also had two baserunners with no outs in the third but Noah Cameron retired the next three batters. Kansas City then chipped away in the bottom of the inning.
Garcia smacked a double to right and Witt reached on an infield hit. Pasquantino slapped an opposite-field single to knock in Garcia and Carter Jensen hit a sacrifice fly to score Witt.
The Royals knotted the score in the fourth. Jac Caglianone led off with a double. Drew Anderson struck out the next two but Garcia singled to center to knock in Caglianone and make it a 3-all game.
The Tigers left two more runners on in the fifth but took a 5-3 lead in the sixth. Torkelson singled off Nick Mears (2-2). One out later, Workman pinch hit for Short and drilled a slider over the right field wall.
Detroit made it 6-3 in the seventh. Greene doubled to right with one out and scored on Perez’s single to center.
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Wolves win after Spurs' Victor Wembanyama ejected, even series
May 10, 2026; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) commits a level two flagrant foul against Minnesota Timberwolves center Naz Reid (11) in the second quarter of game four of the second round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs at Target Center. Wembanyama had to leave the game. Mandatory Credit: Bruce Kluckhohn-Imagn Images Anthony Edwards scored 16 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter and the Minnesota Timberwolves took advantage of Victor Wembanyama’s ejection in the second quarter to post a 114-109 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night in Minneapolis and tie the Western Conference second-round series at two games apiece.
Naz Reid contributed 15 points and nine rebounds off the bench for Minnesota. He also took an elbow from Wembanyama into his chin on the play in which the Spurs’ star was ejected.
Jaden McDaniels scored 14 points, Julius Randle scored 12 and Rudy Gobert had 11 points and 13 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Ayo Dosunmu added 10 points for Minnesota.
De’Aaron Fox and reserve Dylan Harper scored 24 points apiece and Stephon Castle added 20 for the Spurs. Devin Vassell tallied 14 points for San Antonio. Wembanyama had four points, four rebounds and no blocks in 12-plus minutes.
Game 5 is Tuesday in San Antonio.
The Spurs trailed by seven before Harper made two free throws with 29.1 seconds left and Julian Champagnie hit two with 20.6 seconds remaining to bring San Antonio within 112-109.
Dosunmu answered with two free throws with 9.8 seconds left as Minnesota closed it out.
Earlier, Wembanyama grabbed a rebound and was trying to protect the ball from two Timberwolves when he turned and unleashed a vicious right elbow into the chin of Reid and was called for a foul with 8:39 left in the first half.
The officiating crew studied views of the play before upgrading the foul to a flagrant 2, which is an automatic ejection. Crew chief Zach Zarba said, “There was windup, impact and follow-through above the neck of an opponent.”
Minnesota led 60-56 at the break. Edwards scored 18 in the half while Castle led San Antonio with 14 first-half points.
Despite the loss of Wembanyama, the Spurs scored 20 of the first 28 points in the third quarter and led 76-68 after a basket by Vassell with 4:33 left in the period.
San Antonio’s Keldon Johnson drove for a hoop with 21.9 seconds remaining for an 84-80 advantage entering the final stanza.
Fox buried a 3-pointer to give San Antonio a 94-86 lead with 8:51 left in the contest before Edwards scored 12 points during the Timberwolves’ 14-5 run.
Edwards started the burst with a jumper and he soon scored five consecutive points on a short floater and a long straightaway 3-pointer to cut the Minnesota deficit to three with 7:10 remaining. He later canned two free throws with 5:51 left to bring the Timberwolves within 97-95 before drilling a 3-pointer 39 seconds later to give Minnesota a one-point edge.
Gobert later delivered a thunderous dunk to give the Timberwolves a 107-101 lead with 1:56 to play.
Minnesota shot 44.7% from the field, including 10 of 27 from 3-point range.
The Spurs made 47.7% of their attempts and hit just 6 of 26 from behind the arc.
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Canadiens clobber Sabres in Game 3, grab series lead
Gage Workman's clutch HR in Tigers debut sinks Royals
