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MLB roundup: Nationals storm back from 6-run deficit to top Mets
Apr 27, 2025; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Washington Nationals second baseman Luis Garcia Jr. (2) is doused with water by first baseman Josh Bell (19) after a walk-off hit against the New York Mets at Nationals Park. Mandatory Credit: Brad Mills-Imagn Images CJ Abrams scored on Pete Alonso’s throwing error in the ninth inning and the Washington Nationals rallied from a six-run deficit for an 8-7 win against the visiting New York Mets on Sunday.
Alex Call doubled leading off the ninth against Ryne Stanek (0-2) and pinch runner Jacob Young went to third on a groundout. Abrams singled to right to score Young with the tying run before James Wood walked. Luis Garcia Jr. hit a grounder to Alonso, whose throw eluded Stanek covering first.
Jorge Lopez (3-0) got the final out in the top of the ninth.
Juan Soto, Luis Torrens and Mark Vientos each had two hits for New York, which lost for just the second time in the past 10 games.
Riley Adams hit a three-run shot to pull the Nationals within 7-6 in the seventh, and Dylan Crews also homered for Washington.
Yankees 11, Blue Jays 2 (Game 1)
Austin Wells capped a six-run third inning with a bases-loaded double off a frustrated Kevin Gausman as host New York rolled to a rout over Toronto in the opener of a doubleheader.
Wells gave New York a 6-1 lead with a double off the base of the right-center field fence on a full-count fastball, knocking Gausman out of the game. Gausman (2-3), who allowed six runs on three hits in 2 2/3 innings, was ejected as he walked off the field. Addison Barger had two hits and an RBI for Toronto, which has lost six of seven.
New York’s Max Fried (5-0) allowed one run on six hits in six innings and has won seven straight decisions dating back to last season. Anthony Volpe homered and drove in two, Jazz Chisholm Jr. also had two RBIs and Aaron Judge had two hits to extend his on-base streak to 23 games and ended the game with a .412 batting average.
Yankees 5, Blue Jays 1 (Game 2)
Aaron Judge hit a tiebreaking homer to highlight a three-run sixth inning as host New York beat Toronto to complete a doubleheader sweep.
A day after his 33rd birthday, Judge ended a nine-game homerless drought by lining a first-pitch cutter from Toronto starter Chris Bassitt (2-2) into the right-center field seats. Judge extended his on-base streak to 24 games and ended the doubleheader with a major-league-leading .406 batting average. Trent Grisham hit Bassitt’s third pitch of the game for a homer.
Anthony Santander broke an 0-for-25 skid with a tying homer off New York starter Clarke Schmidt in the third. Toronto lost for the seventh time in eight games and was held to three hits. Bassitt allowed four runs on six hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Mariners 7, Marlins 6
Logan Evans pitched five solid innings to win his major league debut and Cal Raleigh hit his American League-leading 10th home run as Seattle defeated visiting Miami.
J.P. Crawford also went deep for the AL West-leading Mariners, who won their sixth consecutive series. Evans, called up from Triple-A Tacoma after M’s ace Logan Gilbert went on the 15-day injured list, allowed two hits, walked three and struck out three.
Ramirez homered twice to cap a remarkable first week in the majors. Ramirez went 9-for-19 with four doubles, three home runs and five RBIs with a 1.682 OPS.
Phillies 3, Cubs 1 (10 innings)
Trea Turner went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and Aaron Nola threw seven solid innings as visiting Philadelphia defeated Chicago in 10 innings.
Nola allowed one run on three hits. Jose Alvarado (3-0) struck out one in a clean ninth inning to earn the win, and Jordan Romano did the same in the 10th for his second save of the season. The Phillies took the final two games of the three-game series.
Cubs reliever Julian Merryweather (0-1) allowed two runs (one earned) on one hit in two-thirds of one inning. Starter Jameson Taillon gave up one run on five hits in seven innings.
Rays 4, Padres 2
Taylor Walls homered and Zack Littell got his first win after five straight losses as Tampa Bay completed a three-game sweep of host San Diego, handing the Padres their fourth straight loss.
Chandler Simpson scored the tiebreaking run in the top of the fifth inning when he scampered home from third on a wild pitch by Randy Vasquez (1-3). Simpson added insurance in the ninth when he stroked a two-out RBI single to left that scored Travis Jankowski, finishing a 3-for-4 game.
Littell lasted five innings, permitting five hits and two runs. Four relievers worked hitless ball over the last four innings, with Pete Fairbanks pitching the ninth for his sixth save and second in as many nights.
Red Sox 13, Guardians 3
Ninth-place hitter Ceddanne Rafaela hit a three-run homer and had five RBIs, while Rob Refsnyder and Rafael Devers also went deep during Boston’s road rout of Cleveland.
Rafaela, whose towering homer to left-center field in the seventh made it 12-3 and capped his productive day, was one of six players with at least two hits for Boston, which outscored Cleveland 20-6 in winning the last two of this three-game set. The Red Sox’s Jarren Duran had four hits with an RBI, while Refsnyder and Kristian Campbell each drove in two.
In his second start, Boston’s Brayan Bello (2-0) yielded six hits and three walks, but only Nolan Jones’ three-run homer in his sixth and final inning. Meanwhile, Logan Allen (1-2) allowed seven runs, nine hits and three walks over 4 1/3 innings for Cleveland, which committed four errors and some poor baserunning while dropping its first 2025 home series.
Giants 3, Rangers 2
Heliot Ramos led off the bottom of the ninth inning with a “Little League home run,” taking advantage of two Texas throwing errors to circle the bases on an infield single and hand host San Francisco a walk-off win.
Ramos chopped reliever Luke Jackson’s first pitch between the mound and third base, where Jackson bare-handed it and threw it past first baseman Jake Burger. Burger chased down the ball in foul territory down the right field line, but his attempt to gun down Ramos streaking for third was off-line, allowing the Giant to dash home.
Camilo Doval (2-1), who needed just 10 pitches to retire the Rangers in order in the top of the ninth, was credited with the win. Jackson (0-3) took the loss. Marcus Semien hit a two-run single for Texas. San Francisco’s Wilmer Flores drew a bases-loaded walk and Christian Koss hit an RBI single.
Tigers 7, Orioles 0
Tarik Skubal struck out 11 in six dominant innings and host Detroit completed a three-game sweep of Baltimore. Skubal (3-2) held the Orioles to four hits without a walk in a 91-pitch effort.
Gleyber Torres drove in three runs while Javier Baez scored two runs and knocked in two more as Detroit won its fourth straight game. Jace Jung and Dillon Dingler had the other Tigers RBIs.
Baltimore starter Dean Kremer (2-4) gave up five runs and four hits in 5 2/3 innings. The Orioles have dropped six of their last seven games.
Astros 7, Royals 3
Yordan Alvarez and Jeremy Pena drove in three runs apiece and Chas McCormick went 3-for-4 with three runs as Houston avoided a sweep in Kansas City.
Alvarez put the Astros up with a three-run home run, his third of the season, that went 436 feet to center field. Houston starter Hunter Brown (4-1) pitched six innings, allowing an earned run on seven hits and striking out nine.
Jonathan India reached three times, going 2-for-3 with a walk, a run and an RBI on a sacrifice fly for the Royals. Salvador Perez went 2-for-4 for his third multi-hit game in his last four starts.
A’s 3, White Sox 2 (10 innings)
Luis Urias hit a two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Athletics a walk-off victory over Chicago in the rubber game of their three-game series in West Sacramento, Calif.
Urias hit the first pitch he saw from reliever Jordan Leasure (0-2) an estimated 398 feet over the left field fence, driving in ghost runner Jacob Wilson and giving the Athletics their fourth win in the last five games.
Brent Rooker went 2-for-3 with a double, walk and RBI for the Athletics, who won back-to-back home series for the first time this season. Joshua Palacios went 2-for-4 with a home run for Chicago, which finished its 10-game road trip 3-7.
Twins 5, Angels 0
Joe Ryan threw seven scoreless innings, Ryan Jeffers and Ty France each drove in two runs, and Minnesota beat Los Angeles in Minneapolis to complete a three-game sweep.
Ryan (2-2) allowed just four hits, struck out 11 and walked one as the Twins handed the Angels their fifth loss in their last six games.
Los Angeles’ Jose Soriano (2-4) allowed five hits over five innings, surrendering four runs (three earned), striking out four and walking one. Luis Rengifo was the only Angel to muster two hits.
Brewers 7, Cardinals 1
Jose Quintana tossed five solid innings and Christian Yelich had two hits and two RBIs as Milwaukee avoided a three-game sweep with a win over host St. Louis.
Quintana (4-0) allowed one run on five hits on Sunday and over four starts has yielded three runs in 23 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out six. Brice Turang, William Contreras, Sal Frelick, Rhys Hoskins and Caleb Durbin each drove in a run for the Brewers, who snapped a four-game losing streak.
Brendan Donovan doubled in a run and Lars Nootbaar had two hits and a run for the Cardinals, who had won three of their last four games.
Reds 8, Rockies 1
Nick Lodolo tossed seven innings of two-hit ball, Noelvi Marte had three hits and three RBIs and Cincinnati beat Colorado in Denver to sweep the three-game series.
Cincinnati totaled 14 hits and has matched a season high with four straight wins. Lodolo (3-2) got through 5 2/3 innings without giving up a hit until Jordan Beck legged out an infield single to shortstop. Lodolo struck out nine in his longest outing of 2025.
Kyle Farmer singled in the seventh and Alan Trejo, acquired from Texas on Saturday, led off the eighth with a single and scored on Beck’s sacrifice fly. Right-hander Bradley Blalock, (0-1) who was recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque to make the start, allowed six runs on seven hits in four-plus innings.
Diamondbacks 6, Braves 4
Geraldo Perdomo homered, Brandon Pfaadt won his National League-leading fifth game and Arizona avoided a three-game series sweep with a victory over Atlanta in Phoenix.
Josh Naylor had two doubles among his three hits along with two RBIs and Corbin Carroll had the first two-triple game of his career for the D-backs, who had lost four in a row and six of eight. Pfaadt (5-1) gave up three runs (two earned) and nine hits in six-plus innings, leaving with a 4-2 lead three batters into the seventh inning after a season-high 100 pitches.
Alex Verdugo had four hits and two RBIs and Marcell Ozuna had two hits and an RBI for Atlanta, which had won seven of eight.
Dodgers 9, Pirates 2
Andy Pages continued his hot streak with four hits, a home run and a career-high four RBIs as Los Angeles withstood the early injury departure of starter Tyler Glasnow to beat visiting Pittsburgh.
Pages delivered an RBI single in a four-run first inning and a two-run homer in a three-run fifth as the Dodgers overcame an early 2-0 deficit to win their second consecutive game after dropping four of five. He had 10 hits in the three-game series.
Glasnow gave up back-to-back home runs to the Pirates’ Andrew McCutchen and Enmanuel Valdez in the first inning, then left the game with right shoulder discomfort after warming up for the second. He also departed his previous start with lower leg cramps. McCutchen had four hits, while starter Bailey Falter (1-3) gave up seven runs (five earned) on eight hits in 4 1/3 innings for Pittsburgh.
–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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