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Wild take series lead with 5-2 win over Knights
Kirill Kaprizov scored a pair of goals to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 5-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 3 of their Western Conference quarterfinals series on Thursday night in Saint Paul, Minn.,Matt Boldy and Marco Rossi each finished with a goal and an assist for Minnesota, which took ...
A's use walk-off rally to beat Rangers, clinch first home series win
Jacob Wilson singled in Luis Urias with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give the Athletics a 4-3 walk-off victory over the Texas Rangers in the rubber match of their three-game series in West Sacramento, Calif.,The A's trailed the Rangers 3-2 entering the ninth against reliever Luke Jackson (...
Christopher Morel, Rays outslug D-backs in 10th inning
Christopher Morel hit a two-run homer to cap Tampa Bay's three-run 10th inning and the Rays beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-4 in Phoenix on Thursday, their second straight extra-inning victory.,Morel's long ball followed a run-scoring double by Junior Caminero off J.P. Feyereisen (0-1). The Rays tie...
Thunder rally past Grizzlies to take 3-0 series lead
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, Jalen Williams had 26 and Chet Holmgren added 24 -- including 23 in the second half -- to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to an improbable 114-108 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday to take a 3-0 lead in their Western Conference first-round series.,Th...
Thunder rallies past Grizzlies to take 3-0 series lead
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, Jalen Williams had 26 and Chet Holmgren added 24 -- including 23 in the second half -- to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to an improbable 114-108 win over the Memphis Grizzlies to take a 3-0 lead in their Western Conference first-round series.,The Thunder ov...
Kawhi Leonard leads Clippers' rout of Nuggets for series lead
Kawhi Leonard recorded 21 points, 11 rebounds and six assists and the Los Angeles Clippers took a 2-1 series lead with a convincing 117-83 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night at Inglewood, Calif.,James Harden had 20 points -- all in the first half -- to go with nine assists and six reb...
Pavel Buchnevich's hat trick helps Blues cut Jets' series lead
Pavel Buchnevich netted a hat trick and added an assist for the St. Louis Blues in a 7-2 win against the visiting Winnipeg Jets in Game 3 of their Western Conference first-round series on Thursday night.,Cam Fowler had a goal and four assists, Robert Thomas notched three assists and Jordan Binningto...
Zach Neto’s 8th-inning homer propels Angels past Pirates
Zach Neto's home run leading off the bottom of the eighth inning snapped a tie and lifted the Los Angeles Angels to a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates Thursday night in Anaheim, Calif.,Neto was a triple shy of the cycle, hitting a double in the first inning and a single in the fifth. The Ange...
Wild take series lead with 5-2 win over Golden Knights
Kirill Kaprizov scored a pair of goals to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 5-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 3 of their Western Conference quarterfinals series on Thursday night in Saint Paul, Minn.,Matt Boldy and Marco Rossi each finished with a goal and an assist for Minnesota, which took ...
Knicks hold off Pistons for 2-1 series edge
Karl-Anthony Towns scored 31 points and Jalen Brunson added 30, including 12 in the fourth quarter, to give the visiting New York Knicks a 118-116 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Thursday in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series.,OG Anunoby put up 22 points for the Knicks...
Leafs take 3-0 series lead vs. Senators on latest OT win
Simon Benoit scored at 1:19 of overtime to lift the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-2 win against the Ottawa Senators in Game 3 on Thursday and a commanding 3-0 lead in their first-round series.,Auston Matthews won a faceoff and send the puck back to the defenseman, who fired it from the left po...
Joao Fonseca, 18, wins Madrid opener with Tommy Paul up next
Brazilian 18-year-old Joao Fonseca took down Danish qualifier Elmer Moller 6-2, 6-3 in a tidy 73 minutes in the first round of the Mutua Madrid Open on Thursday in Spain.,Fonseca outstripped Moller 5-0 in aces and pushed Moller to break point 13 times. Though Moller managed to save nine of those, he...
Orioles hold Nationals' offense in check, salvage Game 3
Cade Povich and three relievers combined on a five-hitter and the visiting Baltimore Orioles beat the Washington Nationals 2-1 on Thursday night to salvage the finale of the three-game series.,Ryan O'Hearn and Cedric Mullins provided RBI singles for Baltimore, which had lost three straight.,After a ...
Nate Schmidt, Sergei Bobrovsky stake Panthers to 2-0 series lead over Lightning
Nate Schmidt's early goal held up as the winner and goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky posted the shutout as the visiting Florida Panthers claimed a 2-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday in their Eastern Conference first-round series.,Florida, the defending Stanley Cup champions, lead the be...
Orioles hold Nationals offense in check to salvage Game 3
Cade Povich and three relievers combined on a five-hitter and the visiting Baltimore Orioles beat the Washington Nationals 2-1 on Thursday night to salvage the finale of the three-game series.,Ryan O'Hearn and Cedric Mullins provided RBI-singles for Baltimore, which had lost three straight.,After a ...
Haeran Ryu, Yan Liu tied for first-round lead at Chevron
Haeran Ryu of South Korea and Yan Liu of China carded bogey-free rounds of 7-under-par 65 before play was suspended on the first day of the Chevron Championship, the first LPGA major of the season, on Thursday in The Woodlands, Texas.,Ryu and Liu have a two-shot lead over South Korea's Hyo Joo Kim (...
Isaiah Salinda, Kevin Velo shoot record 58 to open Zurich Classic
Isaiah Salinda and Kevin Velo set the four-ball record at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with their 14-under-par 58 to take the first-round lead on Thursday at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La.,Playing the best-ball format, Salinda and Velo were a white-hot 12 under through their first 11 holes -- a...
Royals sweep doubleheader with lowly Rockies
Michael Lorenzen threw six quality innings and Salvador Perez tallied three hits and a pair of RBIs, helping the host Kansas City Royals post a 6-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies in the second half of a doubleheader on Thursday.,Lorenzen (2-3) allowed just one run on five hits, striking out seven...
Giants grab late inning comeback win vs. Brewers
Pinch-runner Christian Koss trotted home from third base when left fielder Christian Yelich dropped Willy Adames' flyball to cap a two-run, eighth-inning rally Thursday afternoon that lifted the San Francisco Giants to a 6-5 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.,Benefitting from two runs scoring on a ...
Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff escape with three-set wins in Madrid
Polish No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek and American No. 4 Coco Gauff bounced back from first-set defeats to win their respective matches in the second round of the Mutua Madrid Open on Thursday in Spain.,Swiatek, the defending champion in Madrid, rallied past Filipina teenager Alexandra Eala 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. E...