Paige Bueckers scored a game-high 24 points, Arike Ogunbowale added 22 and Jessica Shepard notched a triple-double to boost the visiting Dallas Wings to a 99-89 victory against the Chicago Sky on Wednesday.

Dallas (3-2) kicked off a three-game road trip by spoiling the Sky’s home opener, limiting the hosts to 5-for-21 shooting (23.8%) from 3-point range.

Shepard went 6-for-7 from the floor en route to 18 points, sparking a 50% effort for the Wings, who outscored the Sky 62-51 after halftime. She added 12 assists and 10 rebounds.

It was the first triple-double of the WNBA season and the second of Shepard’s career.

The Sky (3-2) fell despite a 24-point, 11-rebound effort from Kamilla Cardoso. Natasha Cloud added 21 points and eight rebounds.

Skylar Diggins (15 points), Gabriela Jaquez (12) and Rachel Banham (10) followed in double figures for Chicago. Azzi Fudd had 12 points for Dallas.

The Wings led by nine early in the fourth quarter, but Elizabeth Williams’ layup trimmed Chicago’s deficit to six with 5:38 remaining. A 6-0 run pulled the Sky within 87-84 at the 2:32 mark before Ogunbowale stunted the rally with successive treys.

Dallas scored 12 of the game’s final 17 points to pull away.

Chicago led by as many as 11 points in the first half, surging to a 22-11 advantage on Banham’s four-point play late in the opening quarter.

Cardoso (12 points) and Cloud (nine) paced Chicago in the first 20 minutes, and the Sky were up 38-37 at halftime. Bueckers scored nine before the break.

Several injured Sky players showed support to newcomer Rickea Jackson (knee) by wearing the forward’s jersey on the bench. An offseason acquisition from Los Angeles, Jackson led Chicago in scoring through four games before tearing her left ACL during a Sunday win at Minnesota, sidelining her for the rest of the season.

Dallas stopped a six-game losing streak against Chicago, defeating the Sky for the first time since May 15, 2024.

–Field Level Media

Trey Yesavage pitched six stellar innings of two-hit ball to outduel Cam Schlittler and the visiting Toronto Blue Jays scratched across two runs in the seventh for a 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees Wednesday night.

Following a two-hour, 11-minute rain delay, the Blue Jays won for the sixth time in their past 16 games after losing a pair of one-run games to start the four-game series.

After pitching 5 1/3 hitless innings against the Yankees in Game 2 of the ALDS in Toronto, Yesavage (2-1) allowed two hits and struck out eight.

Yesavage allowed a bloop double to Trent Grisham in the second before striking out Ryan McMahon on a foul tip to end the inning. He allowed a two-out single to Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the fourth and retired Paul Goldschmidt on a pop up.

Yesavage struck out Aaron Judge three times by getting him via fastballs in the first and fourth before whiffing the slugger on a slider in the sixth. Judge struck out four times and is 1-for-11 in the series with seven strikeouts.

Schlittler (6-2) allowed two runs on eight hits in six-plus innings. The right-hander struck out seven and issued both walks in the seventh when the Blue Jays took a 2-0 lead.

Ernie Clement started the seventh with an infield dribbler halfway down the third base line and Jesus Sanchez followed with a walk. After Goldschmidt and Austin Wells converged on Brandon Valenzuela’s bunt single, Gimenez fouled off six pitches before capping an 11-pitch plate appearance with a walk.

Gimenez’s walk was confirmed via ABS after Wells challenged and Jake Bird replaced Schlittler.

Sanchez was thrown out at the plate by McMahon on a grounder to third and Guerrero lifted a sacrifice fly to the warning track in right on the next pitch.

Jeff Hoffman stranded two in the seventh after Mason Fluharty allowed singles to Chisholm and Goldschmidt. Tyler Rogers pitched a 1-2-3 eighth and Louie Varland struck out Amed Rosario with a runner on to secure his sixth save.

The Yankees lost for the eighth time in their past 12 games and were blanked until Goldschmidt’s soft RBI grounder to Varland. New York also lost Grisham to left knee discomfort after the fourth.

–Field Level Media

Kennedy Burke made a three-point play with 2.8 seconds remaining as the Connecticut Sun earned their first victory of the WNBA season, defeating the host Seattle Storm 80-78 on Wednesday night.

Seattle’s Natisha Hiedeman missed a 3-pointer before the final buzzer.

Rookie Charlisse Leger-Walker, who started her collegiate career at Washington State before capping it with an NCAA championship at UCLA this spring, had 16 points and three assists to lead the Sun, who snapped a five-game skid.

Burke and Nell Angloma added 15 points apiece and Raegan Beers had 10 points and a game-high eight rebounds for Connecticut (1-5).

Hiedeman led Seattle (1-4) with 20 points and five assists. Mackenzie Holmes

added 18 points and six rebounds, Jade Melbourne scored 11 and Zia Cooke had 10.

Both teams were without their starting centers. Connecticut’s leading scorer Brittney Griner did not play with a right rib injury, and Seattle’s top scorer Dominique Malonga was still recovering from a concussion.

Melbourne’s driving layup with 59 seconds left put the Storm up 76-75, their first lead since late in the second quarter. Holmes added two free throws with 41 seconds remaining in regulation to extend the lead to three.

Aaliyah Edwards made a driving layup with 32 seconds left to pull the Sun within 78-77 before Burke’s winning play.

Trailing 63-59 after three quarters, the Storm pulled within one on a three-point play by Lexie Brown with 9:32 left.

A free throw and a 3-pointer by Burke gave the Sun a five-point edge.

Seattle tied it at 67-all on a pair of free throws by Melbourne with 5:50 to go.

Leger-Walker broke the tie on a jumper with 5:36 left, and Edwards followed with a jumper the next time down the court to make it 71-67.

A driving layup by Ashlon Jackson gave the Sun a six-point lead with 3:42 remaining.

Hiedeman made a deep 3-pointer with 3:17 left to pull Seattle within 73-70 and Melbourne added two free throws at the 2:02 mark to make it a one-point game.

Leger-Walker responded with a floating jumper before Hiedeman answered with a layup.

The Sun led 29-23 after the first quarter and 46-41 at the half.

–Field Level Media