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Senators hand Lightning first loss of season
Oct 4, 2024; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper looks on against the Carolina Hurricanes during the second period at PNC Arena. Mandatory Credit: James Guillory-Imagn Images Drake Batherson scored twice and added an assist as the Ottawa Senators edged the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning 5-4 on Saturday afternoon.
Josh Norris, Brady Tkachuk and Noah Gregor also scored for the Senators, who won for the second time in three outings. Jake Sanderson added three assists and Claude Giroux had a pair of assists.
Goaltender Anton Forsberg made 25 saves.
Nikita Kucherov scored and added an assist, and Nicolas Paul, Jake Guentzel and Mitchell Chaffee had the other Lightning goals. Anthony Cirelli added two assists.
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 23 shots for Tampa Bay, which lost for the first time this season in four games.
Gregor gave Ottawa a 5-3 lead at 6:17 of the third, finishing off a 2-on-1 short-handed break with Shane Pinto for his first of the season.
Chaffee pulled the Lightning to within one at 8:11 of the final period, re-directing a Nick Perbix pass past Forsberg for his first of the season.
Trailing 2-0, the Lightning responded in the second period.
Kucherov got Tampa Bay on the board, one-timing a Ryan McDonagh feed past Forsberg glove-side for his NHL-leading seventh goal of the season.
Paul tied it at 10:39, putting home a loose puck past Forsberg for his first of the season.
Batherson gave Ottawa a 3-2 lead, out-waiting Vasilevskiy and tucking a shot past the Tampa Bay goaltender for his second of the game and third of the season.
Tampa Bay tied it again at 18:13 of the second as Guentzel knocked a bouncing puck short-side past Forsberg for his first goal with the Lightning.
The Senators responded 43 seconds later on a power play as Tkachuk poked in the rebound off Sanderson’s point shot for his second of the season.
Ottawa outshot Tampa Bay 8-6 in the opening 20 minutes and led 2-0.
The Senators had a two-man advantage for 1:21 early in the first and cashed in.
Batherson opened the scoring at 1:50, one-timing a Giroux pass up and over the shoulder of Vasilevskiy for his second goal of the season.
Norris doubled the lead at 13:21 of the opening period, putting a Giroux feed past Vasilevskiy short-side for his third of the season.
Ottawa No. 1 goaltender Linus Ullmark remained out of the lineup with an injury. Mads Sogaard backed up Forsberg.
–Field Level Media
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Pete Alonso helps power Orioles past Marlins
May 6, 2026; Miami, Florida, USA; Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman (35) congratulates Pete Alonso (25) on his three-run home run in the first inning against the Miami Marlins at loanDepot Park. Mandatory Credit: Jim Rassol-Imagn Images Pete Alonso hammered a three-run home run and Adley Rutschman smacked two run-scoring doubles as the Baltimore Orioles beat the host Miami Marlins 7-4 on Wednesday night.
It’s the second victory in a row following a five-game skid for the Orioles, who will go for a series sweep on Thursday.
Orioles starter Brandon Young (3-1) worked six innings, allowing three runs on four hits and three walks with five strikeouts. Rico Garcia pitched the ninth for his second save as four pitchers combined on a six-hitter.
Baltimore won despite being limited to seven hits, though the Orioles drew seven walks. Taylor Ward picked up three of the walks and scored three runs.
Jakob Marsee drove in two runs, but the Marlins lost their fourth game in a row and for the fifth time in six games.
Marlins starter Eury Perez (2-4) lasted five-plus innings and was charged with a season-high five earned runs on four hits and five walks with six strikeouts.
Dax Fulton entered to pitch for Miami in the sixth inning in his major league debut, striking out Dylan Beavers and Coby Mayo as the first batters he faced with two runners on base.
Both teams scored in the first inning.
Alonso’s seventh homer of the season was a three-run blast that came with one out after Ward walked and Rutschman was hit by a pitch.
The first two Marlins were retired before two runners reached base and Marsee knocked them in with a double on an 0-2 splitter. Owen Caissie’s single drove in Marsee.
The Orioles went back ahead in the fourth on Beavers’ two-out double. Rutschman doubled in Ward in the fifth with two outs.
Rutschman’s seventh-inning double stretched the lead to 6-3.
The Marlins got a run in the seventh, with pinch hitter Otto Lopez doubling and scoring on Xavier Edwards’ groundout.
–Field Level Media
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Royals' Cole Ragans leave game with triceps, elbow soreness
Apr 26, 2026; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals pitcher Cole Ragans (55) pitches during the first inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Kansas City starting pitcher Cole Ragans left the Royals’ Wednesday game against the Cleveland Guardians after the third inning due to left triceps and elbow soreness, the team announced.
Ragans gave up no runs and a hit while striking out four and walking two. He threw 58 pitches. He is 1-4 with a 4.84 ERA in eight starts this season, with 45 strikeouts and 23 walks in 35 1/3 innings.
An All-Star in 2024, Ragans, 28, was drafted in the first round in 2016 by the Texas Rangers. He was traded to Kansas City in 2023 in a deal that sent closer Aroldis Champman to Texas.
Ragans is 22-24 overall in his career with a 3.76 ERA in 91 appearances (74 starts).
–Field Level Media
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Healthy Sonny Gray pitches Red Sox to sweep of Tigers
May 6, 2026; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Boston Red Sox pitcher Sonny Gray (54) delivers in the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park. Mandatory Credit: David Reginek-Imagn Images Sonny Gray pitched five scoreless innings in his return to action and the visiting Boston Red Sox completed a three-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers with a 4-0 victory on Wednesday night.
Gray (3-1) came off the injured list and gave up four hits while recording two strikeouts. Gray strained his right hamstring in a start last month against the Tigers.
Tyler Samaniego struck out three in two innings. Zack Kelly and Greg Weissert each pitched an inning to complete the shutout.
Masataka Yoshida had two hits and scored a run. Caleb Durbin supplied an RBI double.
Detroit starter Jack Flaherty (0-3) gave up four runs, two earned, in five innings while recording a season-high 10 strikeouts. Riley Greene led the offense with two hits.
Flaherty struck out the first five batters he faced. The Tigers threatened in the bottom of the inning as Greene led off with a double and Zach McKinstry and Spencer Torkelson drew two-out walks. Jace Jung, just recalled from Triple-A Toledo on Wednesday, then hit a sinking liner that right fielder Wilyer Abreu snared with a sliding grab.
Boston took the lead in the third. Marcelo Mayer reached on an infield hit and Flaherty hit Carlos Narvaez with a pitch. Durbin then smacked a double to left, scoring Mayer. One out later, Willson Contreras hit a sacrifice fly to bring in Narvaez.
Detroit had a pair of baserunners in the bottom of the inning as Matt Vierling and Greene hit singles. Dillon Dingler flied out to center, ending the threat.
The Red Sox pushed their lead to 4-0 in the fourth. Masataka Yoshida had a one-out single and Ceddanne Rafaela drew a walk. With two out, third baseman Colt Keith made an error on a Narvaez grounder, allowing both runners to score.
In the seventh, Boston loaded the bases on three walks by Drew Anderson.
Brant Hurter retired the next two batters on a strikeout and groundout to leave the runners stranded.
Kelly issued two one-out walks in the eighth, then struck out Greene and Dingler.
–Field Level Media
Pete Alonso helps power Orioles past Marlins
Royals' Cole Ragans leave game with triceps, elbow soreness
