Much like Sunday afternoon’s contest, a pitcher’s duel broke out in Flushing Monday evening, this time with Adrian Houser matching up with the Pirates’ Martin Perez. Both starters pitched around some trouble early, with Houser stranding two runners in both the second and third innings. This time, the zeroes ceased in the sixth inning, with the Pirates breaking through for three runs in the top of the frame. Ke’Bryan Hayes led off with a walk, advanced to second on a force out, and game around to...
The Astros have been in the ALCS in each of the last seven seasons, winning four pennants and two titles. But they fired GM James Click after the 2022 season and last year their 90 wins were their fewest wins in a full season since 2016. This year, the Astros have stumbled out of the game, falling to a four-game sweep at the hands of the Yankees to start the season. They’ve won four of seven since then, including a no-hitter by Ronel Blanco, who the Royals will fortunately miss this series. Jose...
The Atlanta Braves will be looking to secure a series win Thursday afternoon when they wrap up a weather shortened three-game series against the New York Mets. The Braves dropped the opener Monday, but held on Tuesday to secure a 6-5 win. Wednesday’s game was postponed until September due to the threat of inclement weather. Both teams elected to push back their Wednesday starters for Thursday’s game. Young right-hander Allan Winans will make his season debut for Atlanta while New York will go...
The Pittsburgh Pirates were walked-off by Nick Castellanos and the
NEW YORK -- Less than two weeks ago, as the Mets fell to 0-5 and were on the brink of losing half a dozen straight to start the season, it might have seemed as if the baseball gods had no interest in helping them. It was Murphy’s law in full
New Jersey is in Toronto taking on the Maple Leafs to wrap up a home and home series and the season series against the Leafs. You can watch on MSGSN2 or listen on the Devils Hockey Network. Read below for your game preview and pre-game story below, [presented by Cuttler Produce](https://cuttlerproduce.com/).## PRE-GAME STORY TORONTO, Ont. - The Devils are in Toronto to play the Maple Leafs one more time this regular season. They will be without forward Tomas Nosek who is unavailable...
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After a long Sunday at Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Dodgers will try to put their first series loss of 2024 behind them, heading to Minneapolis to play the Twins for three games at Target Field. It’s the first interleague series of the season for the Dodgers. After a run of facing left-handed starting pitchers in their last nine games, the Dodgers will face three-Twins right-handers in the games in Minnesota. Starting in the middle game for the Twins is Louie Varland, younger brother of Dodgers...
J.D. Martinez, whom the Mets signed to a one-year contract, won't join the
The Western Conference's third-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves (56-26) and
Are you ready for some postseason? We got a little taster on the season’s final weekend, with that resembled playoff environments. That was particularly true in the jumbled Western Conference standings, where the , , , and were locked in a series of huge games that determined spots six through 10 in the West hierarchy. Advertisement And now, we exhale. There are no games Monday, but we get two big play-in games on Tuesday and Wednesday before the final play-in for each conference on Friday;...
Back before Juventus’ season went into a tailspin a couple of months ago, their cushion over the rest of the top four contenders was so plentiful that you might have thought they could be close to wrapping up their spot in next season’s Champions League right about now. But because things went from great to, well, the opposite very much in a hurry, that breathing room over the rest of the chasing pack is now virtually gone. So now, with seven games remaining in the 2023-24 season, any potential...