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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander pours in 47 to lead Thunder past Pistons in OT
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 47 points to lift the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 114-110 overtime win over the short-handed Detroit Pistons at home Monday.,The win was a critical one for the Thunder, who stayed 2 1/2 games ahead of San Antonio for the top spot in the Western Conference and reached th...
LeBron James' 125th triple-double takes Lakers past Wizards
LeBron James posted the 125th triple-double of his career while leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a comprehensive 120-101 win over the visiting Washington Wizards on Monday.,James compiled 21 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists to become, at 41 years, 90 days, the oldest player to notch a triple-doub...
Cal Raleigh’s walk-off single lifts Mariners past Yankees
Cal Raleigh's walk-off single in the ninth inning gave the Seattle Mariners a 2-1 victory against the visiting New York Yankees on Monday night in the opener of a three-game series.,Leo Rivas led off the bottom of the ninth by grounding a single to right off Paul Blackburn (0-1). With one out, Brend...
Giants get first homer of season, edge Padres for first win
Harrison Bader homered and Landen Roupp pitched six scoreless innings Monday night as the visiting San Francisco Giants gave manager Tony Vitello his first major league win, a 3-2 decision over the San Diego Padres.,Roupp (1-0) allowed only two hits and two walks while striking out seven, in his fir...
Ducks F Cutter Gauthier leaves with upper-body injury
Anaheim forward Cutter Gauthier left the Ducks' Monday game against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first period after sustaining an upper-body injury.,Gauthier appeared to take a cross-check to the back from Maple Leafs defenseman Jake McCabe halfway through the opening frame.,The incident occurred ...
Avalanche score 5 goals in 1st period on way to rout of Flames
Nazem Kadri scored two power-play goals 1:06 apart in the first period, Nathan MacKinnon scored his NHL-leading 49th goal and added two assists, and the Colorado Avalanche routed the Calgary Flames 9-2 in Denver on Monday night.,Parker Kelly and Jack Drury had a goal and two assists each and Gabriel...
Joyce Edwards, No. 1 South Carolina rout TCU, charge into Final Four
Joyce Edwards scored six of her game-high 24 points during a fourth-quarter deluge that sent Sacramento 4 Region No. 1 seed South Carolina to its sixth consecutive Final Four with a 78-52 rout of No. 3 seed TCU on Monday.,The Gamecocks (35-3) led the Horned Frogs throughout the third quarter but cou...
Evan Mobley powers Cavaliers past Jazz
Evan Mobley scored a season-high 34 points, collected 17 rebounds, and blocked three shots to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 122-113 victory over the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City on Monday night.,Donovan Mitchell added 34 points to help Cleveland (47-28) win its fifth consecutive road game. James ...
As Kraken battle for playoff spot, Oilers eye division title
The Edmonton Oilers will continue their late push for a possible Pacific Division championship on Tuesday when they host the Seattle Kraken.,Edmonton (37-28-9, 83 points) comes into the contest with just its second three-game winning streak of the season. The Oilers, who entered Monday's play in sec...
Avalanche D Cale Makar exits game due to upper-body injury
Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar sustained an upper-body injury late in the second period against the Calgary Flames on Monday in Denver and did not play in the third period.,Makar, who finished with three assists, took a hard hit from Adam Klapka late in the second, finished the shift and p...
Wolves ride Ayo Dosunmu's triple-double to win over Mavs
Ayo Dosunmu recorded his second career triple-double, finishing with 18 points, a career-high 15 rebounds and 12 assists to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 124-94 road rout of the Dallas Mavericks on Monday.,With All-NBA guard Anthony Edwards coming off the bench and limited to 22:37 of playing...
Clippers prep for two matchups with potential play-in foe Portland
The Los Angeles Clippers ride a five-game winning streak into a potential play-in round preview on Tuesday, as they welcome the Portland Trail Blazers to Inglewood, Calif., for the first of two late-season matchups between the teams.,Los Angeles (39-36) moved to the right side of .500 and within str...
WTA Roundup: Yulia Putintseva wins in Charleston; will face defending champ Jessica Pegula
Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva won a tough first set tie-breaker and went on to defeat New Zealand's Lulu Sun, 7-6 (6), 6-2 on Monday in the first round of the Charleston Open.,There were no breaks of serve in the first set and none through nine points of the tie-breaker. Sun got a mini-break and ear...
Suns take control in 4th to roll over Grizzlies
Devin Booker scored 36 points in the first three quarters and Jalen Green added 21 points and six boards to lead the visiting Phoenix Suns to a 131-105 victory Monday night over the Memphis Grizzlies.,Booker made 16 of 24 shots and finished with five assists. Green was 9-of-18 shooting.,The Suns (42...
Jose Altuve's 2 HRs, 4 hits power Astros to blowout of Red Sox
Jose Altuve slugged two home runs and Lance McCullers Jr. carried a shutout bid into the seventh inning of his season debut as the Houston Astros claimed the opener of their three-game series with the visiting Boston Red Sox 8-1 on Monday.,Yordan Alvarez and Brice Matthews added home runs for the As...
Victor Wembanyama goes for 41 as Spurs roll past Bulls
Victor Wembanyama continued his brilliant play by racking up 41 points and 16 rebounds while helping the host San Antonio Spurs to a 129-114 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Monday in a late season interconference clash.,The Spurs (57-18) won for a league-leading ninth straight outing and kept pace...
Rockies explode for 7-run inning, rout Jays for first victory
Troy Johnston hit a two-run homer to ignite a seven-run sixth inning Monday night and the visiting Colorado Rockies defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 14-5.,Ezequiel Tovar had three hits and three RBIs and TJ Rumfield added three hits and two RBIs to help Colorado win for the first time in four games th...
Bo Bichette breaks through for new club as Mets defeat Cardinals
The slumping Bo Bichette had a pair of RBIs and the visiting New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 in the opener of a three-game series Monday.,Bichette, who was 1-for-14 and heard boos at Citi Field during the Mets' season-opening series against the Pittsburgh Pirates, had an RBI groundout...
9th-inning rally propels Rays to win over Brewers
Nick Fortes doubled home the go-ahead run in the ninth inning to give the visiting Tampa Bay Rays a 3-2 comeback victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday in the opener of the three-game series.,Tampa Bay's Jonny DeLuca, who tied it 2-2 with a leadoff homer in the seventh, battled back from a 1-2...
Cubs' big hits back up Edward Cabrera in winning team debut vs. Marlins
Edward Cabrera pitched six innings of one-hit ball and Ian Happ homered for the third straight game to lift the Chicago Cubs to a 7-2 victory against the visiting Los Angeles Angels on Monday.,Carson Kelly and Moises Ballesteros both contributed two-run singles for the Cubs, who out-hit the Angels 9...