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SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6 in 12 innings on Mother’s Day as rookie catcher Jesús Rodríguez delivered a walk-off single a day after the team traded Patrick Bailey and put ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama was ejected after throwing an elbow that hit Minnesota Timberwolves forward Naz Reid in the chin.

The teams were in the second quarter of Game 4 of their best-...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The old adage in baseball is that a pitcher doesn’t look at the opposing hurler because he only has to focus on the hitters.

But Chicago Cubs starter Jameson Taillon ignored conventional wisdom ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — It seemed like the same tired story.

Instead, it was the same thriller.

The San Diego Padres pushed their offensive lethargy as long as possible without paying for it Sunday, tying the game with two outs in...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers lost the rubber match to the Atlanta Braves, who pulled into sole possession of the best record in the majors.

The 7-2 loss, however, didn’t have any bearing on how the Dodgers ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — This isn’t how home-court advantage is supposed to work. It’s supposed to benefit the team wearing the hometown colors, not the players visiting so-called hostile territory.

But New York is only a 90-...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid’s status was in doubt before the Philadelphia 76ers’ season ended with a 144-114 loss to the New York Knicks in Game 4 of their second-round series.

That has been the case since he missed ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Maybe it needed to end this way.

Now, there can be no misconceptions about who the Philadelphia 76ers are. Not after the Mother’s Day spanking the New York Knicks administered to them on Sunday ...Read more

CHICAGO — The team that scored 12 runs Friday night was limited to one run … again … Sunday.

And this time it couldn’t be blamed on facing a left-handed starting pitcher. Nope, they just faced a really good right-...Read more

A day after Byron Buxton supplied all the offense for the Minnesota Twins in a one-run victory over the Cleveland Guardians, the rest of the Twins’ lineup decided to pinch in.

The bottom three hitters in the Twins ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It was Game 41, the quarter pole of the season, and a time when front offices across baseball often begin to make judgments about the rosters they’ve built.

OK, so about the Phillies ...

“You know,�...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles’ luck wouldn’t seem to turn. Knotted in a 1-1 game with the Athletics, they kept barely missing the clutch hit they needed to take the lead.

Weston Wilson hit a liner down the right...Read more

BOSTON — Last month, Junior Caminero made a promise to his mother, Yeudy, that he’d hit a homer on her birthday, and he did, helping the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Chicago White Sox.

Sunday, wearing a pink belt, socks, ...Read more

TORONTO — That was the José Soriano the Los Angeles Angels got used to seeing in the first month of the season.

After Soriano had a pair of disappointing games, his performance in the Angels’ 6-1 victory over the ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Vegas Golden Knights will need to try and take a commanding series lead over the Anaheim Ducks without their captain.

Mark Stone will not play in Game 4 at the Honda Center on Sunday due to a lower...Read more

LOS ANGELES — They possessed a halftime lead with one of the most accomplished playoff players in NBA history.

They lost by 23.

They possessed the best scorer in NBA history at the controls of a sizzling offense in a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — I swear, if Luka Doncic was playing, this second-round series against the Oklahoma City Thunder would be going differently.

The Los Angeles Lakers wouldn't be losing …

… second halves by so much.

But...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls just landed the first win of the Bryson Graham era without playing a single game.

The Bulls jumped five spots in the NBA draft lottery to land the No. 4 pick, a position that will give them a...Read more

Television viewers outside of Georgia didn’t have many reasons to care about the Atlanta Braves in the mid-1970s. The team was terrible and its games were largely unavailable to anyone whose “rabbit ears” antenna ...Read more