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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 52 LOOK WHO'S TALKING THIS WEEK'S GUESTS STEPHEN COLBERT 11:35 p.m. / CBS Monday: Steve Carell (above), Paul Simon Tuesday: Jennifer Hudson, Marisa Abela Wednesday: George Stephanopoulos, Michelle Buteau LATE NIGHT SETH MEYERS 12:35 a.m./ NBC Monday: Jimmy Kimmel, Nicola Coughlan Tuesday: Ed O’Neill, Nikki Glaser Wednesday: Quinta Brunson (above) WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE 3:30 a.m. / Bravo Monday: Barbara “Barbie” Pascual, Paris Field Tuesday: Lisa Vanderpump (above), Gordon Ramsay Wednesday: Andra Day, Cecily Strong Sunday May 12, 2024 Evening SP C F 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 2 WCBS 222 News 60 Minutes The Equalizer: The Big Take Tracker: Off the Books CSI: Vegas: Heavy Metal CBS 2 News at 11PM (11:35)CBS 2 News 4 WNBC 444 NBC Nightly News American Ninja Warrior: ANW Womenís Championship American Ninja Warrior: Womens Championship News 4 New York at 11 News4 NY 5 WNYW 555 (4:30)MLS Soccer Live. 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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 53 Sunday Break TV 8 THINGS TO WATCH THIS WEEK 5BRONX ZOO ’90 Thursday, Peacock SERIES PREMIERE Inspired by the articles of New York Post columnist Joel Sherman, “Bronx Zoo ’90” details one of the New York Yankees’ worst seasons in history, mired by crime and chaos. By SAMANTHA NUNGESSER J ESSE SOLOMON — a.k.a. “Summer House‘s” newest Tall King — has made quite a mark on the Hamptons share house crew this season. Having come a long way since he shamelessly hit on a taken Paige DeSorbo, Solomon — a two-time cancer survivor — is now focused on his upcoming five-year checkup, which he describes in the show as a “big deal in the cancer community” since the chances of the disease coming back after five years “are extremely low.” Solomon recently stopped by DECIDER’s offices, where he dished on his friendship with West Wilson, the newest episode of “Summer House” and the “spicy” Season 8 reunion which had everyone “yelling at each other from the jump.” Check out the full interview below. DECIDER: Everyone has been loving you on Summer House. How have you been handling your newfound reality TV fame? JESSE SOLOMON: Just another day in the life. I would say it’s fun. People want to meet you and say hi to you and you say hi back. [I’m] making so many new friends. You and West have become quite the dynamic duo. What is it you cherish most about your friendship? He’s just so funny. He’s very enough to open up? It was by accident. I wasn’t trying to open up. I had bottled up the emotion for long enough that I just – [when] West asked me if I was okay, it just kind of poured out of me. But yeah, I’m a very happy guy. I’m so blessed that I live a good life. And that’s the one thing that kind of just like wears on me. So West is a good friend for doing that – for hugging me and listening to me cry. You guys recently shot the reunion. What can you tease about that? It’s spicy. I don’t know how it compares to other reunions, but I was shocked at how juicy it was. Everybody’s just immediately yelling at each other from the jump and I was just like, “This is crazy!” It was fun, though, and everybody kind of aired their grievances and I think we left better people for it. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. “Summer House” airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo and stream the next day on Peacock. Bryan Bedder/Bravo witty and quick and is down to earth. So I think he’s a real genuine friend [and] not only would he go out and have fun with you, but he’ll support you when you’re down. He’s [a] dynamic, multi-faceted friend. You’re noticeably more quiet in the new episode due to your five-year checkup – and understandably so. You do eventually break down to West and you say that you’ve never gotten emotional like this before. What finally made you feel safe 4BRIDGERTON Thursday, Netflix Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan, right) is finally ready to take a husband — preferably one who will provide her with enough independence to continue her double life as Lady Whistledown. But her secret identity — and her rift with her best friend — complicates matters as new and old feelings arise. Only the first four episodes of Season 3 will premiere, with the second half airing June 13. 6RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE ALL STARS Friday, Paramount+ The Season 9 premiere will show queens Angeria Paris VanMichaels, Gottmik, Jorgeous, Nina West, and more competing for the crown once again. The Bravo newcomer has been partying it up with Carl Radke, Craig Conover, and Kyle Cooke. 8VANDERPUMP RULES Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Bravo Ariana Madix (left), Tom Sandoval, and the rest of the “Vanderpump Rules” cast will reunite for the Season 10 reunion to discuss Scandoval and the tumultuous events that left the cast more fractured than ever before. An extended and uncensored version of the reunion will be available to stream next day on Peacock. 3SPACEY UNMASKED Monday, Max A new documentary featuring testimonies from 10 men who claim they were sexually assaulted by the Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey (right) will air on Investigation Discovery and Max. ‘SPICY’ SUMMER 2INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Sunday 9 p.m. on AMC Jacob Anderson (left) returns as vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac who is now on the run with teen vampire Claudia (Delainey Hayles) after Season 1’s bloody turn of events. 7TRACKER Sunday at 9 p.m. on CBS “Supernatural” star Jensen Ackles joins Justin Hartley (above left) on the penultimate episode of “Tracker” Season 1. Colter (Hartley) is forced to team up with his estranged brother, Russell (Ackles), who enlists his help to track down a former army buddy who’s gone missing after several weeks of paranoid behavior. “Summer House” star Jesse Solomon dished on all things Season 8 – including the “spicy” cast reunion. Jason Merritt/Radarpics/Shutterstock for Invincible

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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 55 THE WEEKíS WINNERS LOSERS FTX CUSTOMERS Crypto exchange has raked in billions of dollars more than it needs to fully pay back customers, less than two years after imploding on Sam Bankman-Fried’s watch. ROYAL CARIBBEAN Cruise giant is looking to hire as many as 10,000 workers worldwide this year to staff its ships as demand soars. BOCA RATON, FLA. Watch out Wall Street. This once-sleepy city is surging with new office development and amenities to support it. KIM GODWIN ABC News president stepped down after she was caught “badmouthing” her new boss — the “last straw” in a “confluence” of bad decisions, sources told The Post. PLANET FITNESS Chain admits it suffered a big drop in new memberships amid controversy involving a transgender customer using the women’s bathroom. SUNDAR PICHAI Google CEO grilled by rank and file over cost-cutting and a lack of pay raises. R EMEMBER Byron Allen? You know, the voluble media executive who got Paramount shareholders all juiced up when he said he wanted to buy the company from Shari Redstone for a cool $30 billion. Sounded like a great deal since Paramount’s market cap at just below $10 billion reflects the melting ice cube of much of its programming. Well, he’s nowhere to be found these days in the merger talks because no one seems to think he has the money except Byron himself. Then there was that convoluted thing offered by David Ellison, the rich-kid son of tech billionaire Larry Ellison. He runs a decent movie studio named Skydance and wants to write Shari a check for just $2 billion for her controlling stake, which in a normal world wouldn’t make sense but this is major media and weirdness rules. Shari owns Paramount through some tangled structure that includes so-called controlling shares as opposed to the common stock. Those investors are the bag holders under this scenario because they get next to nothing. Now they’re threatening to sue, causing enough agita in Redstone’s orbit that her CEO, Bob Bakish, went nuts and got himself axed. Shari, I am told, still loves this deal (David is offering more than twice as much as her stake is actually worth), but its dog-with-fleas quality is so profound that Paramount was forced to let Skydance’s exclusivity on negotiations lapse so they whether without the Saudis these guys have the money because Sony certainly doesn’t — with just around $10 billion in cash laying around its balance sheet. So, what’s going to happen next? That was the question I had for some savvy media executives while trolling for stories at this past week’s Milken Institute conference in Beverly Hills. When I asked the aforementioned Byron Allen, he threw up his hands and said, “It’s up to Shari.” I then got the feeling he wasn’t too keen on any follow-ups so I didn’t press the issue. Another top media executive reminded me of the whole Les Moonves situation. Moonves was once the king of all media, having steered CBS when it was a separate company in the Redstone empire to record profits and hit shows. Before he was ousted as CEO in a 2018 #MeToo scandal, he unsuccessfully sought to wrest CBS from Shari’s control through a shareholder lawsuit. He thought Shari didn’t understand the TV business and CBS would fetch a higher price back before the ice cube of his programming began melting. “Les was right . . . he saw the s--tshow coming and didn’t think Shari could manage it,” the exec said. Yet, this executive still thinks Shari will prevail. Despite her operational deficiencies, she inherited her father’s legendary determination and usually gets what she wants. She wanted Moonves out so she could formally merge the two media companies she controlled (Viacom and then CBS into one) and consolidate power, and did it. She will play a long game with the common shareholders in court because nothing will stop her from getting that $2 billion, the exec says. No way, counters a third top media executive, a CEO of a rival company whom I snagged as he was rushing into a Milken panel discussion. He told me he thinks nothing will happen. In fact, the current post-Bakish management structure — three execs who will occupy what must be a very large “Office of the CEO” — will remain in place for the foreseeable future because no deal will get done given the hurdles I outlined. The troika, Chris McCarthy, George Cheeks and Brian Robbins, are known in the Wall Street analyst community derisively as the “hydraheaded monster.” If they don’t do something to stop Paramount from imploding, they will soon be known even more derisively as the “Three Stooges.” can explore other offers. Next up: Apollo, the rapacious private equity firm that wouldn’t overpay for a cup of coffee. They have made a strangely worded “informal offer” to buy the company for $26 billion in a partnership with Japanese media conglomerate Sony. Sounds good until you start parsing through the numbers and other factors. Much of the money goes to pay off Paramount’s $14 billion-plus in debt. Then they plan to break the whole thing up, something Shari would like to avoid since it was her late father, media-merger icon Sumner Redstone, who cobbled together the once-storied franchise that combines seminal brands like CBS and MTV with a top-notch movie studio. Business, not nostalgia The Apollo people aren’t much for nostalgia, however. Shares of Paramount have declined more than 70% over the past five years because Paramount’s brands are increasingly un-seminal in an era of cord cutting. Sony-Apollo believe that pieces of Paramount are worth more than the company as a whole and they may be right. But before Paramount’s remaining bag holders get their hopes up, consider: Sony is owned by the Japanese and Apollo does plenty of business with the Saudis, two big strikes against this deal when it goes before the deal-hating Biden regulatory apparatus, which looks down on foreign ownership, particularly of US media assets. Apollo says there is no Saudi money involved (the Biden regulatory cops are said to be less inclined to approve Saudi ownership than Japanese). Still, plenty of smart Wall Street analysts question WHAT’S THE DEAL, SHARI? Paramounting intrigue Getty Images Charles Gasparino PostBusiness †≠ffi Ä  Ç É  Ç  Ñ 
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Provide assis- tance w/ routine healthcare tasks or activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, or ambulation .Help w/ tasks such as prep’g meals, doing light housekeeping, & doing laundry depending on patient’s abilities. Req. HS Diploma & 2 yrs. exp. as Certified Home Health Aide. Req. NYS Home Health Aide Cert. $3Ç,939/yr. Send resume to\ Ideal Home Health Inc., 261Ç East 16th St, 2nd l, Brooklyn, NY 1123x. fflandscaping & roundskeeping Workers (multiple positions), Mattituck, NY\ ollow planned landscaping designs to det where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage. Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, axes. Main or repair tools, equip, or struct, such as bldgs, greenhouses, fences, benches, using hand/power tools. Prune/trim trees, shrubs, hedges, using shears, pruners, chain saws. Mix & spray, spread fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides onto grass, shrubs, trees, using hand/automatic sprayers/ spreaders. Mail resumes to Octavio fflandscaping Inc, 1Ç90x Main Road, Mattituck, NY 119x2. Preparation Cook q New York, NY\ Prepare a variety of foods, including meats, vegetables and desserts by washing, peeling and cutting for cooking and serving. High school diploma req’d. $33,280/yr. Send ltr/ res to My reen Corner Inc. 3 Clinton St., New York, NY 10002. Attn\ Amine Sadki. Admerasia Inc., NYC seeks Integrated Media Planner. Req. MS in mass comm. integrated marketing or related fields. Salary $Ç68ÇÇ/yr. Mail resume to x20 W 2Ç St, Rm 601, NYC 10001 eneral Manager needed for NYC Italian upscale restaurant to plan & coordinate the front of house activi- ties. Salary\ $101,130/yr. Req. 2 yrs of exp in the job off or as Restaurant Manager, loor Manager or closely rel at a full-service restaurant. Rel exp must incl\ Exp mgmt of personnel, incl hiring, training, and firing; & mgmt of banking and accounting functions, Resumes\ Attn\ T. ffleo, Eighty Third and irst fflfflC d/b/a elice 83, 9x0 Third Ave., Ste x00, New York, NY 10022. Ref ›102 Auto lass Mechanic. Requirements\ High School Diploma plus 2 years progressive experience. Range $x8K- $60K per year. Cfl Auto lass Inc., Staten Island, NY. Resume to abcglassusa@aol.com Nanny q NY NY - /T 6 mos exp to prvd chldcare in a prvt household. $326x6/YR. Resume to { W {3rd St Ste 30x NY NY 10036 Attn\ amily Shah Pet roomer BKfflYN NY /T 6 mos exp to dlver cstmer svce to pet own- ers. Provide cosmet care for pets. $33,13{/YR. Resume to Brooklyn Pet Spa 31Ç latbush Ave BKfflYN NY 1121Ç Attn\ Mr ffleite Nanny, Briarcliff Manor family. Mail resume to\ fl. Brandel, 12{ Quinn Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10x10 Senior fflead Monitoring Engineer (NY, NY)\ Monitor & analyze CBTC systems’ performance, incl train control, signaling, communication, & associated s/ware; identify & address performance issues, anomalies, & deviations from expected system behavior; dvlp plans to optimize system efficiency, reliability, safety, & passenger exp; conduct site inspections to identify defects, malfunctions, & deviations from system reqmts; doc & report identified issues to the dsgn & dvlpmt teams, ensuring accurate & timely defect resolution; perform impact analysis of the effects of defects on system performance, safety, & operational efficiency; provide technical exper- tise & support to dsgn, dvlpmt, & field teams throughout CBTC system lifecycle; address interdisciplinary engg issues & ensure system integration & compatibility. Participate in dsgn reviews, testing activities, & system integration efforts to validate & optimize system performance; contribute to dvlpmt & refinement of engg stds, best practices, & guidelines related to CBTC systems; pro- vide recommendations based on data analysis to improve system per- formance, reliability, & safety; & pro- vide communicate w/ stakeholders by addressing inquiries, providing updates, & ensuring alignment be- tween technical teams & project objectives. Must have a Bachelor’s Deg in Electrical Engg, or rltd, or foreign equiv, plus x yrs as Monitoring Engi- neer, Test & Commissioning Engi- neer, or Systems Verification & Validation Engineer or Mgr, for railway systems. Must have 3 yrs exp working w/ CBTC signaling, I2S specs, & project engg; Splunk, Wireshark decryptor, & .bat Batch files; & TCP/IP & UDP n/works. Regular travel to client sites reqd in various states in US. Site visits range from 1-3 mos, depending on project. Salary range $131,290 - $1{0,000/yr. E-mail CVs to IKOS Consulting, Inc., Attn. Madeleine Philpott, Int’l Recruitment, Email\ mphilpott@ikosconsulting.com Operations Research Analyst for VaynerMedia, fflfflC in NY, NY\ Analyze complex data & investigate any integration issues by using mathematical & analytical methods & through building complex queries. Reqs\ Mstr’s ³ 2 yrs exp. $8Ç,19{-$11x,000/ yr. Send resume via email to\ hiring@ vaynermedia.com Ref. flob ID KS Archstone Builders fflfflC, one of the leading construction mgmt firms, is seeking candidates for a fflegal Compliance Specialist position to consult with legal counsel & report to mgmt on compliance matters; monitor, research & analyze local, city, state & fed laws & regs for compliance & of changes that require modification of constr. methods/procedures; review, track & maintain co. records to ensure compliance; draft & review proj- ect contracts for approval; resolve any ambiguities of contract terms/ conditions & mitigate risks & liabilities; analyze & interpret contract provisions & confer with legal counsel; review with legal counsel dis- pute resolution options available. Must have a fl.D. or irst Prof. Degree in fflaw (fflffl.B.); 6 mths of exp as fflegal Intern, or fflegal Compliance Specialis t/Officer; 6 mths of exp researching & analyzing city & state bldg codes & OSHA regs; 6 mths of exp drafting & analyzing constr. contracts, & tracking & maintaining co. records to ensure compliance with city, state & fed reqmts; & 6 mths of exp prep. & filing applications & reports with government agencies to obtain permits, licenses & certificates. Salary range\ $10x,000 to $11x,000 per an- num. Please mail resume & cover let- ter to\ Archstone Builders fflfflC, 2{2 W. 30th Street, Suite 1003, New York, NY 10001. Pls. ref\ fflCS-1. Business Manager- Port Washington, NY- assist CEO in bus. operations by mkt research, identifying new biz opportunities, recommending biz decisions, formulating strategies, etc; manage finance, review sales reports, manage cross-functional teams, foster collaborative & highperformance work envrmt, etc. $Ç2,ÇÇ9/yr. BA in biz admin, biz mgmt, or equivalent ³ 2 yrs exp in same or similar position. Send cv to Autel US, 36 Harbor Park Dr, Port Washington, NY 110x0 Public Relations Specialist. Conceptualize and execute successful integrated communications strategies, with an understanding of data analysis technologies and market research tools in order to support communities in New York City in preserving their historic neighborhoods, buildings and public spaces. Utilizing understanding of visual design principles, craft engaging stories using journalistic principles; Build relations with elected officials and the media. Design communica- tions materials using Adobe Creative Suite; analyze public data to understand audiences across New York City from a demographic, psychographic, and behavioral perspectives; conduct interviews and take photographs for articles. Req’s Mas- ters Deg in any Public Relations, flournalism, Communications or Business. {0 hrs/wk (9am-xpm-Mon- ri). flob loc New York, NY. Send resume to Historic Districts Council, 232 East 11th Street, New York, NY 10003 and specify flob›202{PRS. EOE. Information Management Specialist (Brooklyn, NY)\ Conduct business data analytics, project cost estimating to advise on project bidding/ business dvlpmt. Dsgn/implmt scal- able central d/base system integrated & synchronized w/ project mgmt systems using SQffl, Tableau, to support project bidding, budgeting & fin’l process w/ knowl of finance & operations mgmt. MS ³ 1 yr rltd exp. Pay $11Ç,Çx0/Yr. Contact ProH Development at info@prohd.us Marketing Specialist q lushing, NY\ Research market conditions for the retail banking industry; identify tar- get customers and collect data on customer preferences; assess rival businesses on offered services, financial products, and customer satisfaction; and measure effectiveness of marketing and report to the management in aiding them to create marketing plans. Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field. $x6,Ç8{/yr. Send ltr/res to Hana Bank USA, National Association, 201 Main St., ort fflee, Nfl 0Ç02{. Attn\ Haemi Kim. American Century Investment Management seeks Sustainable Research Analyst in New York, NY to perform daily execution on research pipeline across equity and fixed-income strategies using proprietary ES research and assessment tools and third-party data providers. Require- ments\ bachelor’s degree or equivalent in inance, Economics, or relat- ed and 1 year of work experience. Demonstrated ability with ES risk issues and financial materiality, Bloomberg Terminal, and third-party ES data platforms. Work from home available within a commuting distance. Resumes to D. Bloss at DebbieÚBloss@americancentury. com. or NY-based candidates, salary range is $ 100,000 - $110,000. Actual offers based on various factors including location, skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Eligible for cash incentive pro- viding the potential to earn more. Equal Opportunity Employer. Designer, Interior Structure & Decoration q New York, NY\ Plan and exe- cute variety of interior renovations for a deli store, including menu and catering display boards, food display cases, and all other store’s seasonal interior projects; ensure that the store’s interior design supports the brand image of the store. Bachelor’s in Interior Design, or a related field req’d. ${x,926/yr. Send res/ltr to {8 Rockefeller Corp., {8 W {8th St., New York, NY 10036. Attn\ Byung Ho fflee. Manager, Imports & Distribution (NY, NY)\ Source perishable foods in Sin- gapore & other foreign mkts for import; oversee storage & distribution to gourmet restaurants & shops throughout the U.S. Travel {-x times /month domestically and 3-{ times/ yr internationally. Reqs\ { yrs exp. as ine oods Mgr or similar. Salary\ $10{,998/yr. Mail CV & references to Chris Poron at Plantin I Kavari, 9 E. {Ç St., Ste 3, NY, NY 1001Ç. Project Architectural Drafter - Reside ntial/Commercial (NY, NY) - Draft & revise surveys & construction plans using CAD. Plan & dvlp architectural residential/commercial projects. Reqmts\ Master’s deg in Architec- ture. Course of study must incl Integrated Bldg System, Design { Integrated Context & Envrmtl control. 6 mos of exp in offered role or as flr. Draftsman, Architectural Dsgnr or rltd role producing exterior rendering for architecture projects; dvlpg dsgns, prgms analysis, & zoning analysis based on the most recent research findings on climate, typolo- gy, & context; bldg the massing & detailed 3D models in architecture s/ware using Rhino, Sketchup & Revit; & supv’g on-site construction. Salary\ $69,{30. Mail Resume to ischer³Makooi Architects, PfflfflC, Attn\ PAD001, 2x9 W 30th St, Ste {01, NY, NY 10001. 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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 57 Skenes tops 100 mph 17 times in MLB debut By WILL GRAVES PITTSBURGH — The moment hardly looked too big for Paul Skenes. The top-ranked pitching prospect in baseball had a promising major league debut for the Pirates, working into the fifth inning against the Cubs on Saturday while offering a glimpse of what may be to come. Skenes was charged with three runs in four-plus innings. He struck out seven, throwing 17 pitches of 100 mph or more. He also walked two and gave up a homer to Nico Hoerner in the fourth that just reached the first row of bleachers beyond the left-field wall. As he walked off the field, the mustachioed 21-yearold received a loud ovation from a near-sellout crowd that included his more-famous girlfriend, LSU gymnast and social media influencer Livvy Dunne. Skenes became the first Pirates pitcher aged 21 or younger to record at least seven strikeouts in his major league debut since Nick Maddox fanned 11 against the Cardinals in 1907 — 95 years before Skenes was born. The Pirates teased Skenes’ call-up on Wednesday after he breezed through seven starts at Triple-A Indianapolis. His arrival gave PNC Park a playoff-like atmosphere, or at least as much as it can feel like the playoffs in mid-May for a team that hasn’t reached the postseason since 2015. Fans lined up two and three deep behind the Pirates’ bullpen beyond the center field fence to try and catch some of Skenes’ pregame routine. Nearby, the team store under the left field bleachers did a brisk business, with some ponying up $200 for jerseys with Skenes’ No. 30 stitched on the back. — AP Former Yankee Rortvedt shines with the Rays By GREG JOYCE ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ben Rortvedt saw the writing on the wall towards the end of spring training that his time would soon be up with the Yankees. As long as Jose Trevino and Austin Wells stayed healthy, they were going to be the catchers the Yankees brought north, and with Rortvedt out of minor league options, he expected to be moved. But Rortvedt has taken his new opportunity and run with it, at least in the early going. After being traded to the Rays as part of a three-way deal that landed the Yankees Jon Berti on the eve of Opening Day, Rortvedt has gotten off to a strong start. Through Saturday’s 7-2 win over the Yankees, in which he drew a pair of walks as a pinch-hitter, he is now batting .333 with a .828 OPS in 27 games as part of a catching tandem. “I think there’s a lot of components,” Rortvedt said after catching up with many of his former teammates on Friday. “I think it’s just me going through the struggles that I have, learning about myself as a player, failing, learning what player I want to be, what player I think I can be, and just trying to show up and be the same player every day, not chasing results. Really showing up and trying to contribute to the team.” Rortvedt’s biggest impact as a Yankee was catching Gerrit Cole down the stretch last season on the way to the AL Cy Young award, with Jose Trevino injured. Beyond that, Rortvedt struggled to carve out a role for himself because of injuries and then struggling to hit when he was healthy. “He was tough for us to lose — and we didn’t necessarily want to lose him to the Rays,” manager Aaron Boone said. “He can really catch and throw. He’s gifted back there physically, the receiving part of things, obviously a great arm. I think he’s worked really hard at his hitting, too. “Excited that at least he’s getting a real opportunity and he’s healthy for the most part. That was a little bit of a struggle when he was in Minnesota and then even the first couple years with us, he was pretty banged up with different things. But he’s talented.” ➤DJ LeMahieu (non-displaced foot fracture) faced live pitching Saturday for the first time since his rehab assignment lasted just one inning on April 23. The veteran infielder took at-bats against rehabbing right-hander JT Brubaker at the Yankees’ player development complex in Tampa and “had a good day of work,” according to Boone. The plan is for LeMahieu to take live batting practice again on Tuesday in Tampa, after which he could be ready to try a rehab assignment again. ➤Tommy Kahnle (shoulder) made his second rehab appearance on Saturday with Single-A Tampa, throwing a scoreless inning with one strikeout on 15 pitches. He then threw another 10 pitches in the bullpen, Boone said, adding that “it went well.” YANKEES NOTES LIFE AFTER NEW YORK: Ben Rortvedt and Rays pitcher Pete Fairbanks celebrate their win over the Yankees on Saturday. AP Production Manager (Bronx, NY) sought by Tomoe ood Services, Inc., to oversee bus. activities dedicated to the wholesale & distribution of flapanese & other specialty meat products, incl flapanese wagyu cuts, & special shabu shabu, suki yaki & yaki niku specialty cuts. ormulate policies & procedures for expanding new customer mkts, increase sales & profit margin, etc. Reqs Bachelor’s (or foreign equiv) deg in Econ, Mgmt, or rltd & 2 yrs of work exp in the job offd. Salary\ $109,038.2{/yr. Email resume at info@ tomoefoodnyc.com Attn\ Miho Homma, Office Manager Executive Director - Ronald S. fflauder Impact Initiative. Dvlp new flewish educ’l initiatives. Prep manuals to train instructors at flewish Day Schools. Dvlp cutting edge mental health resources & protocols for students & teachers at flewish Day Schools. Partner w/ flewish day schools & funders in pilot cities to dvlp targeted & strategic solutions for transforming enrollment trajec- tories & creating a thriving flewish educ’l syst. Collab w/ local leaders, thinkers, & expert consultants to formulate bold strats & implmnt datadriven methodologies. Work closely w/ ea pilot city to test, study, & iter- ate strats. Provide customized sppt to pilot cities. Cultivate partnerships & secure broad buy-in by recruiting local funders & leaders to sppt initia- tive. Manage partner city data collec- tion structures to facilitate resource, idea, & solution-sharing among pilot partners. Req Bachelor’s in Psycholo- gy & 3 yrs exp in nonprofit prgm & proj dvlpmnt. $8x,000-${x0,000/yr. Send resume to\ RSffl Investments II Corporation, Ç6Ç ifth Ave, Ste {200, New York, NY 101x3. Sr. rowth Marketing Managers needed /T in New York, NY to develop effective creative strategy for digital advertising by building partnerships with influencers, overseeing content production process, and managing paid media by buying across multiple customer acquisition channels including, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat. Bachelor’s in Business or Marketing plus Six (6) months experience as rowth Marketing Manager required. Maxi- mum annual salary of $11ÇK. Mail resume to CEO of Breuer Premium Pet ood Company, Inc. d/b/a Spot & Tango at 91 fflong Ridge Road, Bedford, NY, 10x06. Restaurants eneral Manager needed to plan & coordinate front of house activities of all restaurants located within the company’s NYC inancial Dist. location. Salary\ $101,130.00/yr. Req. { yrs of exp in the job offered or as loor Manager, Asst. Manager or closely rel. Rel exp must incl\ Exp mgmt of personnel, incl hiring, training, and firing; & mgmt of banking and accounting functions, & mgmt of both full- service and quick service Italian Res- taurant. Resumes\ Attn\ Niki Shah, Eataly NY fflfflC, {3 West 23rd Street, Çth loor, New York, NY 10010. Ref ›103 Head Cook. Create menus & specials that offer unique blend of flavors to cater to diverse palates. Oversee food prep’n process; ensure quality & var. Supervise or coord activs of cooks, kitchen staff, or any workers engaged in food prep’n process. Train & instruct cooks or other work- ers in prep’g, cooking, garnishing, or presenting food. Ensure authentic, on-trend, & precisely executed culinary standards & techniques. Be fully in charge of planning orders of equip or ingredients accord’g to identified shortages. Req High School Diploma & min x yrs exp as Cook or in rltd field. At least 1 cert in culinary arts or rltd field. $91,000/yr. Send resume to\ DflB Restaurant Corp., 82x Surf Ave, 2nd l, Brooklyn, NY 1122{. Chef, flapanese Specialty (NY, NY)\ Prep, season & cook a variety of flap- anese cuisine per restaurant menu, such as Okonomiyaki, Yakimeshi, Rice Balls, Yaki Udon/Soba. Plan menu. Estimate food consumption. Portion & garnish dishes. 2 yr exp. Pay\ ${{,Ç20/Yr. Contact Tomi New York, Inc. at tomiya239@gmail.com Computer/IT\ Kinship Partners, Inc. (New York, NY). Database Architect\ Design strategies for enterprise databases, data warehouse systems, and multidimensional networks. Set standards for database operations, programming, query processes, and security. Model, design, and con- struct large relational databases or data warehouses. Create and opti- mize data models for warehouse infrastructure and workflow. Integrate new systems with existing warehouse structure and refine system performance and functionality. Requires MS in Comp Sc, Data Sci, Engg, Math, Sci, IT, Comp Apps, MIS, CIS, Acct, Comm or Bus Adm w/ 1 yr exp in the field & exp w/ several programming languages and tools. $11Ç,Ç{9/yr. Apply at recruit@ kinship.co. Engineering Consultant - Senior Quality Engineer (NY, NY) Dvlpg & verifying dsgn docs & determining project resources; consulting on electrical & civil construction & installations after inspection; review- ing & consulting on project plans, items & inputs, installation & mainte- nance manuals, & resolving techn’l issues; reviewing drawings, issuing & following-up on NCRs, & recommending modifications; conducting Qlty Assurance & Control, monitoring progress, & ensuring compliance w/ client & techn’l specs, & federal, state, & local laws; Authorizing work stoppages. Reqs a Master’s Deg in Civil Engg, Electrical Engg, or similar, plus 2 yrs exp as a Qlty Engineer for railway projects, & 18 mos of Sched’g, Estimation, Subcontractor Coord’n, CWPs, Dsgn Mgmt, Docs Control & Mgmt; conducting Testing & Commissioning, Internal/External Audits, Material Audit, Special & Hold Point Inspections, NCRs, QWPs, Qtrly Assessments, Mthly Qlty Reports; & of using ProjectWise, ClearQuest, SharePoint, Asite, Plantswift, Bluebeam, MS Office, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, STAAD Pro, Pri- mavera P6, & MS Project. Regular travel to client sites reqd in various US states, ranging from 1-3 mos, de- pending on project. Salary is $90,293 - $120,000 per yr. E-mail CVs to IKOS Consulting, Inc., Attn. Madeleine Philpott, International Recruitment, mphilpott@ikosconsulting.com. flava ull Stack Developer, Brooklyn, NY. Develop full-stack applications with necessary technologies to support electrical products/services, col- laborate with electrical engineering teams, develop/maintain web-based user interfaces and back-end serv- ices for electrical products, services, troubleshoot and resolve software defects and issues, ensure scalable, secure application, ensure software meets functional and non-functional requirements, thoroughly tested. Maintain existing software applications, provide technical support to electrical engineering team and end- users. Required\ Master’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engi- neering/Electrical Engineering plus 2 years of experience or Bachelor’s and x years of post-baccalaureate progressive experience. Salary from $169,229.00 to $169,229.00/yr. Mail resume/cvr letter to alaxy Electric Corp, 161 Bay 11th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Attn\ Steljan Barolli. Database Architect, needed by Cyber Consulting Inc., Plainview, NY to dvlp, dsgn, systs integrate, test, maint oltp, olap, nosql & cloud dtbases & training to end users. Knowl of dtbase admin & hands on exp req’d in oltp, olap, nosql & cloud dtbases. $168,8x{/yr. Send resume to Cyber Consulting, Inc, 60x Old Country Rd, Plainview, NY 11803. Data Engineers (NY, NY) q Desn & devlp data mgmt s/w apps. Req MS in CS, Data Sci, Businss Analytcs, or Data Analytcs ³ skills & knowldg in Python, AWS, SQffl, Tableau, Data Mining. Req 100¯ travel to unanticptd client locatns in US. Allow telecommtg. $1{2.6kH$1xxk/yr. Email rjs to HR, Mitchell/Martin at VIV00{@itmmi.com COLLECTIBLES 19  A- Afflffl CA,DAnd All Other Sports Cards, Cert. Memorabilia & raded Vintage Cards. Prefer Pre-1980 Paying Top Dollar $$$ small or large collections Call Henry 91Ç-2Ç3-23x3 DOGS fiAffl/ - P1PP - Adorable males and females, toy or teacup sizes, shots and papers. 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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 58 AL Standings East W L Pct. GB *WGB L10 Streak Home Away Baltimore 26 12 .684 — — 8-2 W-3 14-7 12-5 Yankees 26 15 .634 1½ +2 7-3 L-1 13-6 13-9 Boston 20 19 .513 6½ 3 4-6 W-1 8-10 12-9 Tampa Bay 20 20 .500 7 3½ 6-4 W-1 14-11 6-9 Toronto 18 21 .462 8½ 5 4-6 W-1 9-8 9-13 Central W L Pct. GB *WGB L10 Streak Home Away Cleveland 24 16 .600 — — 4-6 L-3 12-6 12-10 Minnesota 23 16 .590 ½ — 7-3 L-1 11-8 12-8 Kansas City 24 17 .585 ½ — 6-4 L-1 15-8 9-9 Detroit 20 19 .513 3½ 3 4-6 W-1 9-10 11-9 Chicago 12 28 .300 12 11½ 6-4 W-4 8-12 4-16 West W L Pct. GB *WGB L10 Streak Home Away Texas 22 19 .537 — — 6-4 L-2 10-9 12-10 Seattle 21 19 .525 ½ 2½ 4-6 L-1 12-9 9-10 Oakland 19 22 .463 3 5 5-5 W-1 10-13 9-9 Los Angeles 15 25 .375 6½ 8½ 4-6 W-1 5-13 10-12 Houston 14 25 .359 7 9 4-6 L-1 7-12 7-13 *WGB: Games behind third-place team in wild-card race Saturday Tampa Bay 7, Yankees 2 Toronto 10, Minnesota 8 Boston 4, Washington 2 Baltimore 5, Arizona 4, 11 inn. Detroit 8, Houston 2 White Sox 3, Cleveland 1 Colorado 8, Texas 3 L.A. Angels 9, Kansas City 3 Oakland 8, Seattle 1 Sunday Yankees at Tampa Bay, 1:40 Arizona at Baltimore, 1:35 Washington at Boston, 1:35 Minnesota at Toronto, 1:37 Houston at Detroit, 1:40 Cleveland at White Sox, 2:10 Texas at Colorado, 3:10 Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 4:07 Oakland at Seattle, 4:10 Monday Toronto at Baltimore, 6:35 Miami at Detroit, 6:40 Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10 Washington at White Sox, 7:40 Cleveland at Texas, 8:05 Oakland at Houston, 8:10 St. Louis at L.A. Angels, 9:38 Kansas City at Seattle, 9:40 NL Standings East W L Pct. GB *WGB L10 Streak Home Away Philadelphia 28 12 .700 — — 9-1 W-2 15-7 13-5 Atlanta 24 12 .667 2 +6 5-5 W-4 13-4 11-8 Washington 19 19 .500 8 — 5-5 L-1 7-10 12-9 Mets 18 20 .474 9 1 4-6 L-2 9-12 9-8 Miami 10 31 .244 18½ 10½ 3-7 L-5 5-17 5-14 Central W L Pct. GB *WGB L10 Streak Home Away Milwaukee 24 15 .615 — — 6-4 W-3 10-7 14-8 Chicago 23 17 .575 1½ +3 5-5 L-1 13-6 10-11 Pittsburgh 18 22 .450 6½ 2 4-6 W-1 9-11 9-11 Cincinnati 17 22 .436 7 2½ 1-9 L-1 9-13 8-9 St. Louis 15 24 .385 9 4½ 1-9 L-7 6-11 9-13 West W L Pct. GB *WGB L10 Streak Home Away Los Angeles 27 14 .659 — — 8-2 W-1 15-8 12-6 San Diego 21 21 .500 6½ — 7-3 L-1 9-13 12-8 Arizona 18 22 .450 8½ 2 5-5 L-2 9-10 9-12 San Francisco 18 23 .439 9 2½ 4-6 W-1 10-8 8-15 Colorado 11 28 .282 15 8½ 4-6 W-3 8-12 3-16 *WGB: Games behind third-place team in wild-card race Saturday Atlanta 4, Mets 1 Boston 4, Washington 2 Philadelphia 8, Miami 3 Pittsburgh 10, Cubs 9 Baltimore 5, Arizona 4, 11 inn. San Francisco 5, Cincinnati 1 Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 3 Colorado 8, Texas 3 L.A. Dodgers 5, San Diego 0 Sunday Atlanta at Mets, 7:10 Arizona at Baltimore, 1:35 Cubs at Pittsburgh, 1:35 Washington at Boston, 1:35 Philadelphia at Miami, 1:40 St. Louis at Milwaukee, 2:10 Texas at Colorado, 3:10 Cincinnati at San Francisco, 4:05 L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 4:10 Monday Philadelphia at Mets, 7:10 Miami at Detroit, 6:40 Cubs at Atlanta, 7:20 Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 7:40 Washington at White Sox, 7:40 St. Louis at L.A. Angels, 9:38 Cincinnati at Arizona, 9:40 Colorado at San Diego, 9:40 L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 9:45 Phillies 8, Marlins 3 Philadelphia AB R H BI BB SO Avg Merrifield 3b 5 1 1 0 0 1 .224 Realmuto c 4 1 1 1 1 1 .274 Stubbs c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .136 Harper 1b 5 0 0 0 0 3 .260 Bohm dh 5 1 2 0 0 2 .343 Castellanos rf 3 2 1 0 1 2 .209 Stott 2b 5 1 2 4 0 0 .257 Sosa ss 3 1 1 0 1 1 .282 Pache lf 4 1 3 1 0 1 .269 Rojas cf 3 0 1 2 0 1 .236 Totals 37 8 12 8 3 12 Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg Chisholm cf 5 0 2 0 0 2 .243 De La Cruz dh 4 0 1 0 0 2 .270 Burger 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .195 Bell 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .200 J.Sánchez rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .225 Gordon lf 4 0 3 0 0 0 .221 Bruján ss 4 2 2 1 0 0 .268 Lopez 2b 3 1 2 2 0 0 .320 Fortes c 4 0 0 0 0 1 .122 Totals 35 3 11 3 1 8 Philadelphia 000 004 040 — 8 12 0 Miami 000 010 002 — 3 11 1 E: Gordon (2). LOB: Philadelphia 7, Miami 7. 2B: Merrifield (3), Lopez (2). 3B: Stott (2). HR: Bruján (1), off Walker; Lopez (2), off Ruiz. RBIs: Realmuto (15), Stott 4 (23), Pache (3), Rojas 2 (12), Bruján (6), Lopez 2 (4). SB: Rojas (9), Bohm (2). CS: Chisholm (2), Bruján (3). S: Rojas. RISP: Philadelphia 5 for 10; Miami 0 for 7. Runners moved up: De La Cruz. Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Walker, W, 3-0 6.0 8 1 1 1 4 86 4.82 Strahm, H, 4 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 16 1.17 Hoffman 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1.06 Ruiz 1.0 2 2 2 0 2 18 4.50 Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Luzardo, L, 0-3 5.2 4 2 2 1 8 79 5.97 Maldonado 0.1 2 2 2 1 0 21 2.16 Smith 1.1 4 4 3 1 3 37 4.12 Soriano 1.2 2 0 0 0 1 23 9.26 T: 2:36. A: 13,210 (37,446). Rays 7, Yankees 2 Yankees AB R H BI BB SO Avg Volpe ss 4 0 3 2 0 1 .268 Soto rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .316 Judge dh 3 0 0 0 0 1 .228 Verdugo lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .243 Berti 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .294 Rizzo 1b 3 1 0 0 1 0 .260 Wells c 2 1 1 0 0 0 .200 Torres ph-2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .207 Cabrera 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .252 Trevino ph-c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .282 Grisham cf 1 0 0 0 1 0 .069 Totals 31 2 5 2 2 4 Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB SO Avg Díaz 1b 4 3 3 2 0 0 .250 Arozarena lf 3 2 2 4 1 0 .154 Rosario 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .299 Paredes 3b 3 0 2 1 0 0 .301 H.Ramírez dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .276 DeLuca rf 1 0 0 0 1 0 .280 Palacios ph-rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .276 Caballero ss 4 0 0 0 0 4 .250 Jackson c 2 0 0 0 0 2 .077 Rortvedt ph-c 0 1 0 0 2 0 .333 Siri cf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .165 Totals 30 7 8 7 5 8 Yankees 020 000 000 — 2 5 0 Tampa Bay 103 000 30x — 7 8 0 LOB: New York 6, Tampa Bay 5. 2B: Wells (5), Díaz 2 (8), Paredes (6), Arozarena (4). HR: Díaz (2), off Cortes; Arozarena (7), off Cortes. RBIs: Volpe 2 (20), Díaz 2 (18), Arozarena 4 (17), Paredes (21). SB: Volpe (8). SF: Paredes. RISP: New York 1 for 4; Tampa Bay 4 for 8. DP: New York 1 (Verdugo, Cabrera, Verdugo). Yankees IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cortes, L, 1-4 5.1 5 4 4 3 5 89 4.02 Santana 1.0 2 3 3 1 1 24 4.58 Hamilton 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 7 2.79 Tonkin 1.0 0 0 0 1 2 28 0.00 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Littell, W, 2-2 5.2 4 2 2 2 3 80 3.02 Cleavinger, H, 3 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 19 1.84 Adam, H, 8 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 7 1.56 Maton 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 11 5.52 Fairbanks 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 11 7.88 T: 2:27. A: 21,308 (25,025). Red Sox 4, Nationals 2 Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg Young cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .275 Abrams ss 4 0 2 0 0 0 .271 García 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .307 Meneses 1b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .220 Winker dh 3 0 0 0 1 3 .238 Ruiz c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .145 Rosario lf 2 1 1 1 1 0 .167 Lipscomb 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .242 Robles rf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .250 Totals 29 2 4 2 2 12 Boston AB R H BI BB SO Avg Duran cf 3 0 1 1 0 0 .265 Refsnyder ph-lf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .341 Abreu rf 3 1 1 1 0 0 .284 González ph-ss 1 1 0 0 0 0 .273 O'Neill lf-rf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .271 Devers 3b 4 0 2 2 0 2 .288 Grissom dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .120 Smith 1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .167 McGuire c 3 0 1 0 0 0 .273 Hamilton 2b 3 1 0 0 0 0 .200 Rafaela ss-cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Totals 31 4 6 4 1 7 Washington 010 010 000 — 2 4 2 Boston 001 010 02x — 4 6 1 E: Lipscomb (6), Abrams (4), Hamilton (4). LOB: Washington 3, Boston 4. 2B: Duran (9), Devers (8). HR: Meneses (1), off Criswell; Rosario (4), off Criswell; Abreu (3), off Irvin. RBIs: Meneses (19), Rosario (8), Abreu (14), Duran (16), Devers 2 (14). SB: Hamilton (4). CS: Robles (1). . RISP: Washington 0 for 1; Boston 2 for 6. DP: Boston 2 (Rafaela, Smith; McGuire, Rafaela, Smith). Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Irvin 7.0 4 2 2 0 6 103 3.55 Garcia, L, 0-2 1.0 2 2 2 1 1 18 6.35 Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Criswell 5.0 3 2 2 1 9 79 2.10 Bernardino 1.1 1 0 0 0 1 14 0.53 Slaten 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 11 1.74 Martin, W, 2-1 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 13 4.40 Jansen, S, 6-7 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 16 2.84 T: 2:13. A: 30,995 (37,755). Blue Jays 10, Twins 8 Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO Avg Julien 2b 4 1 2 0 1 2 .215 Larnach dh 5 0 2 1 0 2 .350 Jeffers c 5 1 1 1 0 3 .292 Kepler rf 5 1 2 0 0 1 .329 Correa ss 4 2 2 1 1 0 .286 Kirilloff lf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .219 Castro cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .271 Santana 1b 4 2 2 3 0 0 .203 Miranda 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .280 Totals 39 8 13 7 2 12 Toronto AB R H BI BB SO Avg Schneider lf 4 3 3 2 0 1 .287 Kiermaier cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .224 Varsho cf-lf 3 1 1 1 2 0 .222 Guerrero 1b 5 1 4 3 0 0 .272 Turner dh 5 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Jansen c 5 2 3 2 0 0 .315 Bichette ss 5 1 1 1 0 1 .200 Kiner-Falefa 2b 5 1 2 0 0 0 .284 Biggio rf 2 1 1 0 1 1 .205 Springer ph-rf 0 0 0 0 1 0 .206 Clement 3b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .269 Totals 38 10 16 10 4 3 Minnesota 313 100 000 — 8 13 0 Toronto 012 032 20x —10 16 1 E: Schneider (1). LOB: Minnesota 6, Toronto 9. 2B: Santana (5), Castro (10), Correa (6), Kepler (8), Schneider (8), Varsho (8). HR: Santana (6), off Gausman; Jeffers (9), off Pop; Bichette (2), off Woods Richardson; Schneider (4), off Woods Richardson; Jansen (4), off Sands. RBIs: Correa (10), Kirilloff (11), Larnach (12), Santana 3 (18), Jeffers (30), Bichette (13), Varsho (17), Guerrero 3 (19), Schneider 2 (15), Jansen 2 (6), Clement (7). SB: Julien (4), Schneider (2), Guerrero (1). SF: Schneider. RISP: Minnesota 5 for 12; Toronto 5 for 9. Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Woods Richardson 4.1 8 5 5 1 2 91 3.24 Sands 1.1 3 3 3 0 1 28 4.08 Okert, BS, 1-5 0.1 1 0 0 1 0 11 3.86 Jackson, L, 1-2 0.1 2 2 2 0 0 10 6.87 Thielbar 0.1 1 0 0 2 0 25 6.23 Staumont 1.1 1 0 0 0 0 21 0.00 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gausman 3.0 10 7 6 2 6 86 4.95 Pop 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 16 3.18 Richards 2.0 0 0 0 0 2 18 2.84 Swanson, W, 1-2 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 913.50 García, H, 5 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 9 0.63 Romano, S, 6-6 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 16 4.15 T: 3:08. A: 35,069 (39,150). Braves 4, Mets 1 Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg Acuña rf 4 0 0 1 1 2 .252 Albies 2b 5 0 0 0 0 0 .278 Riley 3b 3 1 0 0 1 2 .241 Olson 1b 4 0 0 0 0 4 .195 Ozuna dh 4 1 2 0 0 1 .319 d'Arnaud c 3 0 1 0 1 0 .270 Harris cf 3 1 3 1 0 0 .264 Arcia ss 3 1 1 2 1 0 .263 Kelenic lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .272 Totals 33 4 7 4 4 10 Mets AB R H BI BB SO Avg Nimmo lf 1 0 0 0 1 0 .228 Taylor lf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .276 Marte rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .255 Narváez c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .186 Lindor ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .207 Alonso 1b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .215 Martinez dh 4 1 1 1 0 0 .267 McNeil 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .238 Bader cf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .274 Baty 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .244 Nido c 1 0 0 0 1 0 .205 Stewart ph-rf 0 0 0 0 1 0 .185 Totals 29 1 2 1 6 8 Atlanta 002 100 001 — 4 7 0 Mets 000 000 001 — 1 2 1 E: Lindor (3). LOB: Atlanta 7, New York 7. 2B: Ozuna (7). HR: Arcia (4), off Scott; Martinez (1), off Iglesias. RBIs: Arcia 2 (15), Harris (14), Acuña (10), Martinez (3). RISP: Atlanta 1 for 8; New York 0 for 4. DP: New York 2 (Lindor, McNeil, Alonso; McNeil, Lindor, Alonso). Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Fried, W, 3-1 7.0 0 0 0 3 5 109 3.57 Jiménez, H, 9 1.0 0 0 0 2 2 30 1.69 Iglesias 1.0 2 1 1 1 1 25 2.76 Mets IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Scott, L, 0-1 6.0 6 3 3 2 8 91 2.84 Reid-Foley 2.0 0 0 0 0 2 23 0.00 J.López 1.0 1 1 1 2 0 25 2.41 T: 2:45. A: 38,919 (42,136). Orioles 5, D’backs 4, 11 inn. Arizona AB R H BI BB SO Avg Marte dh 4 1 1 2 0 0 .294 Carroll cf 4 0 0 1 0 1 .195 Gurriel lf 5 0 2 1 0 0 .245 Walker 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .273 Grichuk rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .273 Pederson ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .299 McCarthy rf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .295 E.Suárez 3b 4 0 0 0 1 1 .222 Moreno c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .242 Alexander 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .263 Newman ss 4 2 2 0 0 1 .197 Totals 38 4 7 4 1 6 Baltimore AB R H BI BB SO Avg Henderson ss 4 1 2 1 1 0 .278 Rutschman c 5 0 0 0 0 1 .306 McKenna pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .375 McCann c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .224 O'Hearn dh 4 0 1 1 1 0 .294 Mountcastle 1b 5 1 3 0 0 1 .288 Santander rf 4 1 1 1 1 1 .217 Cowser cf-lf 5 1 1 0 0 1 .265 Westburg 3b 5 0 4 2 0 0 .301 Kjerstad lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .143 Mullins cf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .192 Mateo 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .250 Totals 40 5 13 5 3 6 Arizona 002 020 000 00 — 4 7 0 Baltimore 011 010 010 01 — 5 13 0 No outs when winning run scored. LOB: Arizona 7, Baltimore 10. 2B: Gurriel (8), Newman (3), Mountcastle 2 (11), Westburg (8). 3B: Newman (1), Mountcastle (1). HR: Marte (9), off Means; Henderson (12), off Nelson; Santander (7), off Ginkel. RBIs: Marte 2 (21), Carroll (14), Gurriel (24), Westburg 2 (26), O'Hearn (13), Henderson (27), Santander (25). SB: Westburg (5). SF: Carroll. RISP: Arizona 2 for 13; Baltimore 3 for 15. Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nelson 4.2 10 3 3 0 3 87 5.33 Thompson 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 13 1.10 Mantiply, H, 2 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 9 3.31 Ginkel, BS, 5-8 1.0 1 1 1 0 0 9 3.31 Sewald 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 26 3.00 Jarvis, L, 0-2 1.0 1 1 0 2 1 17 4.91 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Means 4.2 6 4 4 0 3 89 3.09 Baumann 2.1 1 0 0 0 0 22 4.02 Akin 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 17 3.12 Cano 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 19 1.80 Coulombe 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 15 2.40 Kimbrel, W, 4-1 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 11 4.11 T: 3:11. A: 27,882 (45,971). Tigers 8, Astros 2 Houston AB R H BI BB SO Avg Altuve 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .317 Kessinger ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Peña ss 3 1 2 0 0 0 .345 Alvarez dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .252 Bregman 3b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .201 Singleton 1b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .218 Diaz c 4 0 2 1 0 0 .273 Meyers cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .236 Dubón lf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .274 Loperfido rf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .304 Totals 34 2 8 2 2 9 Detroit AB R H BI BB SO Avg Greene lf 4 1 1 1 1 1 .254 Canha rf 3 1 1 4 2 1 .242 Pérez cf 4 1 1 0 1 1 .282 Carpenter dh 5 2 2 3 0 1 .275 Vierling 3b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .277 Keith 2b 4 1 2 0 0 1 .174 Torkelson 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .224 McKinstry ss 3 1 0 0 1 0 .220 Rogers c 4 1 2 0 0 2 .210 Totals 36 8 11 8 5 9 Houston 000 200 000 — 2 8 1 Detroit 070 100 00x — 8 11 0 E: Peña (6). LOB: Houston 8, Detroit 9. 2B: Meyers (3), Peña (6), Pérez (2), Keith (3). HR: Canha (6), off Javier; Carpenter (4), off Javier; Carpenter (5), off Brown. RBIs: Bregman (13), Diaz (17), Greene (18), Canha 4 (20), Carpenter 3 (18). SB: Pérez (3), Keith (3). Runners left in scoring position: Houston 3 (Altuve, Dubón, Bregman); Detroit 5 (Torkelson, Canha, Vierling 3). RISP: Houston 2 for 11; Detroit 3 for 13. Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Javier, L, 2-1 1.1 5 7 7 4 0 50 4.01 Scott 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 9 2.65 Brown 5.0 5 1 1 0 7 85 7.79 Dubin 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 27 7.59 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Skubal, W, 5-0 6.1 7 2 2 2 7 97 2.02 Miller 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 9 4.41 Holton 2.0 1 0 0 0 2 25 3.60 T: 2:41. A: 27,140 (41,083). White Sox 3, Guardians 1 Cleveland AB R H BI BB SO Avg Florial lf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .184 Fry ph-lf 1 0 0 0 1 1 .303 Giménez 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .241 Ramírez 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .239 J.Naylor 1b 4 1 1 1 0 0 .275 Brennan rf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .252 Laureano cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .149 B.Naylor c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .182 Manzardo dh 3 0 1 0 0 1 .176 Arias ss 3 0 1 0 0 1 .244 Totals 31 1 4 1 1 9 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg Pham cf-rf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .309 Sheets rf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .241 Ortega cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Vaughn 1b 4 1 2 0 0 1 .204 Jiménez dh 3 0 1 0 1 0 .216 Shewmake pr-dh 0 0 0 0 0 0 .138 Benintendi lf 3 0 0 1 0 1 .194 Ramos 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .269 DeJong ss 4 1 1 0 0 3 .252 Lopez 2b 3 1 1 1 0 0 .204 Maldonado c 3 0 1 1 0 1 .106 Totals 30 3 7 3 3 6 Cleveland 000 100 000 — 1 4 1 Chicago 020 000 01x — 3 7 0 E: Brennan (1). LOB: Cleveland 4, Chicago 7. 2B: Manzardo (1), Lopez (2), Jiménez (3). HR: J.Naylor (11), off Clevinger. RBIs: J.Naylor (30), Lopez (1), Maldonado (4), Benintendi (14). SB: Pham (1). SF: Benintendi. RISP: Cleveland 0 for 2; Chicago 1 for 9. Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA McKenzie, L, 2-3 6.2 4 2 1 3 5 91 3.54 Smith 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 5 2.45 Barlow 1.0 2 1 1 0 1 20 2.79 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Clevinger 4.2 4 1 1 0 5 73 5.40 Hill, W, 1-0 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 15 2.63 Shuster, H, 1 2.0 0 0 0 1 2 27 2.57 Brebbia, S, 1-1 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 14 4.38 . T: 2:16. A: 26,152 (40,241).

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Williams 38:20 7-12 1-2 0-6 8 2 16 Holmgren 34:57 5-9 3-5 2-8 3 3 13 Giddey 13:24 4-8 0-0 0-2 1 1 9 GilgeousAlexander 42:00 10-23 9-10 2-10 6 5 31 Wiggins 21:57 3-7 0-0 0-4 0 0 6 Joe 19:28 5-7 0-0 0-2 2 1 13 Wallace 14:09 1-3 0-0 1-1 0 1 3 Jay.Willia ms 13:10 0-2 2-2 0-4 1 3 2 Hayward 3:01 0-1 0-0 0-2 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 38-81 15-19 6-41 23 22 101 Percentages: FG .469, FT .789. 3-point goals: 10-30, .333 (Joe 3-4, GilgeousAlexander 2-3, Dort 2-7, Jal.Williams 1- 2, Wallace 1-3, Giddey 1-4, Holmgren 0- 2, Jay.Williams 0-2, Wiggins 0-3). Team rebounds: 7. Team turnovers: 1. Blocked shots: 11 (Gilgeous-Alexander 5, Holmgren 4, Dort, Jal.Williams). Turnovers: 13 (Gilgeous-Alexander 5, Jal.Williams 3, Dort 2, Holmgren, Joe, Wiggins). Steals: 7 (Dort 2, GilgeousAlexander, Holmgren, Jay.Williams, Joe, Wiggins). Technicals: None. Dallas Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Jones Jr. 35:53 1-10 1-1 2-4 1 2 3 Washington 40:14 11-23 0-0 2-6 2 4 27 Gafford 19:31 4-5 0-2 1-5 3 1 8 Doncic 39:34 7-17 7-10 3-15 5 1 22 Irving 40:48 10-17 0-0 2-5 7 2 22 Lively II 27:14 2-7 8-12 3-8 1 3 12 Hardaway Jr. 15:58 3-9 0-0 0-2 1 0 8 Green 15:01 1-3 0-0 1-1 1 3 3 Exum 5:47 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 39-91 16-25 15-48 21 16 105 Percentages: FG .429, FT .640. 3-point goals: 11-33, .333 (Washington 5-12, Hardaway Jr. 2-5, Irving 2-6, Green 1-3, Doncic 1-4, Jones Jr. 0-3). Team rebounds: 12. Team turnovers: 1. Blocked shots: 2 (Gafford, Irving). Turnovers: 13 (Doncic 4, Irving 4, Jones Jr. 2, Gafford, Green, Lively II). Steals: 7 (Doncic 2, Jones Jr. 2, Green, Hardaway Jr., Irving). Technicals: None. Oklahoma City 23 29 26 23—101 Dallas 26 25 31 23—105 A: 20,325 (19,200). T: 2:25. NHL Playoffs- Game 4 Hurricanes 4, Rangers 3 Rangers 1 1 1— 3 Carolina 3 0 1— 4 First Period: 1, Carolina, Kuznetsov 3, 1:51. 2, Carolina, Noesen 4 (DeAngelo, Teravainen), 6:33. 3, Rangers, Cuylle 1 (Gustafsson, Kakko), 8:06. 4, Carolina, Aho 3 (Burns, Guentzel), 15:29. Penalties: Staal, CAR (Tripping), 17:30. Second Period: 5, Rangers, Goodrow 2 (Schneider, Vesey), 12:43. Penalties: Zibanejad, NYR (Holding Stick), 6:06; Trocheck, NYR (Roughing), 19:46; Burns, CAR (Roughing), 19:46. Third Period: 6, Rangers, Lafreniere 4 (Trouba, Zibanejad), 2:04. 7, Carolina, Skjei 1 (Svechnikov, Teravainen), 16:49 (pp). Penalties: Lindgren, NYR (Tripping), 16:17. Shots on Goal: Rangers 8-12-5—25. Carolina 10-13-8—31. Power-play opportunities: Rangers 0 of 1; Carolina 1 of 2. Goalies: Rangers, Shesterkin 7-1-0 (31 shots-27 saves). Carolina, Andersen 5- 3-0 (25-22).A: 19,074 (18,680). T: 2:21. Giants 5, Reds 1 Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg Friedl cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .182 De La Cruz ss 3 1 1 1 0 0 .272 Ford dh 2 0 0 0 0 0 .100 Fairchild ph-dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .194 -Capel ph-dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Steer 1b-lf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .248 Fraley rf 4 0 3 0 0 0 .304 Stephenson c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .216 Candelario 3b-1b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .212 Benson lf 2 0 1 0 0 0 .202 Espinal ph-3b 1 0 1 0 1 0 .173 India 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .210 Totals 31 1 8 1 3 7 San Francisco AB R H BI BB SO Avg Estrada 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .248 Wade 1b 3 1 1 0 0 1 .341 Bailey c 3 1 1 1 0 0 .280 Flores dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .198 Ramos rf-lf 3 1 0 0 1 2 .250 Chapman 3b 4 1 2 4 0 1 .213 Conforto lf 2 0 1 0 0 1 .280 Yastrzemski pr-rf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .221 Schmitt ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Fitzgerald cf 3 1 1 0 0 0 .277 Totals 31 5 7 5 1 9 Cincinnati 000 100 000 — 1 8 1 San Francisco 400 000 10x — 5 7 0 E: De La Cruz (8), Bailey (3). LOB: Cincinnati 9, San Francisco 5. HR: De La Cruz (9), off Black; Chapman (5), off Lodolo. RBIs: De La Cruz (21), Chapman 4 (18), Bailey (11). SB: Fraley (6). SF: Bailey. RISP: Cincinnati 0 for 4; San Francisco 1 for 5. DP: San Francisco 1 (Schmitt, Estrada, Wade). Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lodolo, L, 3-2 6.0 5 4 4 1 6 98 3.34 Suter 1.0 2 1 1 0 2 25 4.18 Farmer 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 20 2.53 San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Black 4.1 4 1 1 2 2 78 6.23 Ta.Rogers, W, 1-1 0.2 0 0 0 0 2 12 3.77 Walker, H, 4 1.0 2 0 0 0 1 11 2.14 Miller, H, 5 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 20 4.66 Ty.Rogers 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 10 2.55 Hjelle 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 16 3.09 T: 2:35. A: 37,321 (41,915). Brewers 5, Cardinals 3 St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg Donovan lf 5 0 0 0 0 0 .209 Nootbaar cf-rf 5 0 3 2 0 1 .198 Goldschmidt 1b 5 0 1 0 0 4 .190 Arenado 3b 5 0 0 0 0 1 .270 Burleson rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .255 Siani cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .232 Carlson ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Herrera c 4 1 2 0 0 2 .253 Carpenter dh 4 1 2 0 0 2 .357 Gorman 2b 3 1 2 1 1 1 .192 Winn ss 4 0 2 0 0 0 .275 Totals 39 3 12 3 1 11 Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg Turang 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .302 Contreras c 2 1 1 0 2 1 .342 Adames ss 4 1 1 0 0 1 .265 Bauers lf-rf 2 1 1 1 1 1 .231 Hoskins 1b 3 1 1 3 1 0 .233 Frelick rf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .241 Chourio ph-lf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .217 Sánchez dh 3 0 0 1 0 2 .206 Dunn 3b 2 1 1 0 0 1 .225 Ortiz ph-3b 2 0 1 0 0 0 .263 Perkins cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .223 Totals 29 5 6 5 5 9 St. Louis 000 021 000 — 3 12 0 Milwaukee 001 001 30x — 5 6 0 LOB: St. Louis 10, Milwaukee 8. 2B: Carpenter (1), Gorman (6), Contreras (13), Dunn (2). HR: Hoskins (9), off Kittredge. RBIs: Nootbaar 2 (11), Gorman (14), Bauers (17), Sánchez (10), Hoskins 3 (26). SB: Bauers (4). S: Turang. RISP: St. Louis 2 for 10; Milwaukee 1 for 9. St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gibson 5.0 3 2 2 4 7 104 3.67 Romero, H, 12 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 21 1.42 Kittredge, L, 0-2, BS, 0-2 0.2 2 3 3 1 0 18 2.87 Fernandez 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 19 2.08 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peralta 6.0 8 3 3 1 8 100 3.63 Milner, W, 1-0 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 16 1.96 Hudson, H, 4 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 13 0.81 Megill, S, 4-4 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 19 0.93 T: 2:50. A: 34,028 (41,700). Pirates 10, Cubs 9 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg Tauchman dh 4 1 2 2 1 1 .279 Suzuki rf 5 1 2 1 1 2 .313 Bellinger cf 4 0 0 1 2 1 .257 Morel 3b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .220 Madrigal ph-3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .208 Happ lf 4 1 0 0 0 1 .225 Hoerner ss 3 2 1 2 1 1 .272 Busch 1b 2 1 0 1 3 2 .250 Mastrobuoni 2b 4 2 3 1 1 0 .167 Gomes c 4 1 1 1 1 3 .203 Crow-Armstrong pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .227 Totals 35 9 10 9 10 13 Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg McCutchen dh 4 2 2 1 1 1 .187 Reynolds lf 4 0 1 0 1 2 .240 Joe 1b 5 1 1 3 0 1 .284 Tellez 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .194 Cruz ss 4 2 2 1 0 0 .268 Olivares rf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .214 Suwinski rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .171 Gonzales 2b 3 1 0 0 1 0 .143 Grandal c 4 2 2 3 0 0 .235 Triolo 3b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .213 Taylor cf 4 2 2 2 0 1 .234 Totals 34 10 11 10 5 7 Chicago 000 170 001 — 9 10 0 Pittsburgh 004 231 00x —10 11 0 LOB: Chicago 12, Pittsburgh 5. 2B: Tauchman (9), Mastrobuoni (1), Cruz (6), Reynolds (9). HR: Hoerner (2), off Skenes; Joe (4), off Steele; Cruz (6), off Steele; Taylor (1), off Steele; Grandal (1), off Thompson; McCutchen (4), off Lovelady. RBIs: Hoerner 2 (12), Busch (20), Mastrobuoni (2), Gomes (4), Tauchman 2 (12), Suzuki (14), Bellinger (20), Joe 3 (18), Cruz (16), Taylor 2 (8), Grandal 3 (3), McCutchen (8). SB: Morel (4), Suzuki (1), Tauchman (3), Crow-Armstrong (3). CS: Morel (2). RISP: Chicago 4 for 13; Pittsburgh 2 for 7. Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Steele 4.0 6 6 6 2 3 74 4.73 Thompson, L, 1-1 1.0 2 3 3 2 2 38 4.97 Lovelady 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 13 6.75 Cuas 2.0 1 0 0 1 2 33 9.00 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Skenes 4.0 6 3 3 2 7 84 6.75 Nicolas 0.2 0 4 4 3 2 23 7.71 Fleming, BS, 1-2 0.0 1 1 1 1 0 11 3.50 Holderman, W, 1-0 1.1 0 0 0 3 1 27 0.82 Chapman, H, 8 1.0 1 0 0 1 2 27 4.15 Stratton, H, 2 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 11 4.19 Bednar, S, 7-10 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 16 9.64 T: 2:56. A: 34,924 (38,753). Rockies 8, Rangers 3 Texas AB R H BI BB SO Avg Semien 2b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .280 Seager ss 4 0 1 0 1 0 .240 Lowe 1b 2 0 1 1 2 0 .315 García rf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .253 Smith 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .284 Heim c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .297 Jankowski lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .239 Duran dh 4 1 2 0 0 1 .294 Taveras cf 4 2 2 1 0 1 .256 Totals 34 3 8 3 3 7 Colorado AB R H BI BB SO Avg Tovar ss 4 0 1 0 0 2 .266 Rodgers 2b 5 0 2 0 0 2 .258 McMahon 3b 5 2 4 1 0 0 .303 Díaz dh 5 1 2 1 0 0 .320 Bouchard rf 3 1 0 0 0 3 .245 Montero 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .205 Doyle cf 2 1 1 0 2 0 .288 Stallings c 4 1 1 2 0 3 .326 Goodman 1b 3 1 1 1 0 1 .111 Blackmon ph 1 0 1 2 0 0 .248 Cave rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .216 Beck lf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .167 Totals 36 8 14 7 2 13 Texas 000 020 100 — 3 8 1 Colorado 001 001 60x — 8 14 0 E: García (3). LOB: Texas 8, Colorado 8. 2B: Doyle (9), Díaz (8), Blackmon (7). HR: Taveras (3), off Bird; Goodman (2), off Heaney. RBIs: Semien (29), Lowe (11), Taveras (10), Goodman (4), McMahon (21), Díaz (21), Stallings 2 (9), Blackmon 2 (17). SB: Taveras (4), Doyle (6). CS: Tovar (1). SF: Semien. S: Tovar. RISP: Texas 1 for 4; Colorado 4 for 12. Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Heaney 5.0 8 2 2 0 8 85 4.39 Leclerc, BS, 1-3 1.2 1 1 1 1 4 33 5.40 Robertson, L, 2-1, BS, 1-4 0.0 2 4 4 1 0 22 2.61 Winn 1.1 3 1 1 0 1 23 6.17 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Feltner 6.0 5 2 2 2 4 84 5.20 Bird 0.2 2 1 1 1 0 19 5.40 Kinley, W, 2-0 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 19 9.64 Mears 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 8 5.17 T: 2:48. A: 37,527 (50,144). Dodgers 5, Padres 0 Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg Betts ss 5 0 0 0 0 1 .335 Ohtani dh 3 1 0 0 1 0 .352 K.Hernández ph-dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .208 Freeman 1b 3 1 2 1 1 0 .309 Smith c 3 1 0 0 1 1 .315 Muncy 3b 3 1 0 0 1 1 .242 T.Hernández lf 4 1 1 4 0 2 .258 Pages rf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .298 Lux 2b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .188 Outman cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .153 Totals 32 5 5 5 6 10 San Diego AB R H BI BB SO Avg Arraez 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .357 Tatis rf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .256 Profar lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .321 Machado dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .238 Bogaerts 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .204 Solano 3b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .400 Kim ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .209 Azocar cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .298 Higashioka c 2 0 0 0 0 1 .182 Campusano ph-c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .281 Totals 33 0 6 0 0 6 Los Angeles 100 004 000 — 5 5 0 San Diego 000 000 000 — 0 6 0 LOB: Los Angeles 6, San Diego 7. 2B: Freeman (12), Solano (1). HR: Freeman (4), off Waldron; T.Hernández (11), off De Los Santos. RBIs: Freeman (23), T.Hernández 4 (33). SB: Pages (1). RISP: Los Angeles 1 for 11; San Diego 0 for 6. Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Paxton, W, 5-0 6.0 4 0 0 0 4 95 2.58 Varland 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 13 2.25 Yarbrough 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 15 2.61 Feyereisen 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 14 9.00 San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Waldron, L, 1-5 5.1 2 2 2 2 6 82 5.49 Morejon 0.1 0 2 2 2 0 11 3.38 De Los Santos 0.1 1 1 1 0 1 7 3.52 Brito 2.0 2 0 0 2 2 40 4.43 Kolek 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 12 3.20 T: 2:36. A: 46,701 (40,222). NBA Playoffs- Game 3 Celtics 106, Cavaliers 93 Boston Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Brown 40:39 13-17 0-2 2-9 3 4 28 Tatum 41:57 11-25 9-9 1-13 6 2 33 Horford 38:45 1-7 0-0 3-7 2 3 2 Holiday 37:40 7-10 1-2 2-8 5 1 18 White 36:54 4-13 1-1 0-3 3 1 12 Pritchard 22:20 2-4 0-0 1-3 3 1 5 Hauser 9:56 2-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 6 Kornet 7:51 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 Brissett 1:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Mykhailiuk 1:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Springer 1:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Walsh 0:56 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 41-80 11-14 9-44 22 14 106 Percentages: FG .512, FT .786. 3-point goals: 13-34, .382 (Holiday 3-4, White 3- 8, Brown 2-3, Hauser 2-3, Tatum 2-8, Pritchard 1-2, Horford 0-6). Team rebounds: 7. Team turnovers: 1. Blocked shots: 4 (Holiday, Kornet, Tatum, White). Turnovers: 11 (Tatum 5, Brown 2, Hauser, Holiday, Pritchard, White). Steals: 3 (Brown, Tatum, White). Technicals: None. Cleveland Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Okoro 17:46 1-7 0-0 0-1 1 0 2 Strus 37:27 2-8 0-0 0-5 2 4 6 Mobley 37:06 7-11 3-3 3-8 1 1 17 Garland 37:51 6-15 2-2 0-3 6 3 15 Mitchell 43:24 12-22 2-3 0-6 3 2 33 LeVert 29:37 6-12 2-2 2-6 1 0 15 Wade 16:48 2-6 0-0 1-3 3 2 5 Merrill 10:53 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Morris Sr. 4:36 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Thompson 4:31 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 2 0 Totals 240:00 36-84 9-10 7-35 17 14 93 Percentages: FG .429, FT .900. 3-point goals: 12-36, .333 (Mitchell 7-12, Strus 2- 6, LeVert 1-3, Wade 1-4, Garland 1-6, Mobley 0-1, Okoro 0-4). Team rebounds: 5. Team turnovers: None. Blocked shots: 2 (Garland, Wade). Turnovers: 8 (Mobley 3, Garland 2, LeVert, Okoro, Strus). Steals: 4 (Mitchell 2, Mobley, Okoro). Technicals: None. Boston 30 27 27 22—106 Cleveland 28 20 21 24— 93 A: 19,432 (19,432). T: 2:11. Athletics 8, Mariners 1 Oakland AB R H BI BB SO Avg Toro 2b 5 1 2 1 0 2 .293 Nevin lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .260 1-Ruiz pr-lf 0 1 0 0 0 0 .229 Bleday cf 4 1 1 2 0 0 .241 Rooker dh 4 1 2 1 1 1 .284 Soderstrom 1b 3 0 1 0 0 2 .333 Davis ph-1b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .216 McCann c 3 0 0 0 0 2 .353 Langeliers ph-c 0 1 0 0 1 0 .212 Schuemann ss 4 0 1 3 0 1 .200 Butler rf 2 1 0 0 2 1 .184 Harris 3b 3 2 1 0 1 1 .172 Totals 34 8 9 7 5 12 Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg Rojas 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .347 Rodríguez cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .247 Haniger rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .209 Raleigh c 3 1 1 1 0 1 .215 Garver dh 3 0 0 0 0 2 .167 Polanco 2b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .186 France 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .242 Raley lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .240 Moore ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .218 Totals 29 1 3 1 0 7 Oakland 002 000 033 — 8 9 0 Seattle 010 000 000 — 1 3 0 LOB: Oakland 6, Seattle 1. 2B: Soderstrom (1), Nevin (3), Schuemann (3), Polanco (2). HR: Bleday (5), off Bazardo; Raleigh (10), off Estes. RBIs: Toro (16), Rooker (25), Schuemann 3 (6), Bleday 2 (17), Raleigh (23). SB: Butler (3), Rooker (2). CS: Rodríguez (3). S: Bleday, Ruiz. Runners left in scoring position: Oakland 4 (Butler, Harris, Soderstrom, Schuemann); Seattle 1 (Raley). RISP: Oakland 4 for 12; Seattle 0 for 2. Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Estes, W, 1-0 5.0 2 1 1 0 5 61 1.80 Spence, H, 1 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 17 3.65 Adams, H, 11 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 14 1.32 Erceg 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 12 3.38 Kelly 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 11 3.04 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA B.Miller, L, 3-3 6.0 5 2 2 2 9 96 2.66 Stanek 1.0 1 1 1 0 0 17 3.55 Speier 1.0 1 2 2 2 2 21 3.55 Bazardo 1.0 2 3 3 1 1 2212.00 T: 2:21. A: 32,398 (47,929). NHL Playoffs- Game 3 Stars 4, Avalanche 1 Dallas 1 1 2— 4 Colorado 0 1 0— 1 First Period: 1, Dallas, Stankoven 1 (Heiskanen), 18:39. Second Period: 2, Colorado, Rantanen 3 (Toews, MacKinnon), 10:24. 3, Dallas, Seguin 2 (Steel, Dadonov), 15:13. Third Period: 4, Dallas, Seguin 3 (Duchene), 18:23 (en). 5, Dallas, Stankoven 2 (Robertson, Hintz), 19:32 (en). Shots on Goal: Dallas 5-8-10—23. Colorado 11-11-7—29. Power-play opportunities: Dallas 0 of 1; Colorado 0 of 3. Goalies: Dallas, Oettinger 6-4-0 (29 shots-28 saves). Colorado, Georgiev 5- 3-0 (21-19). A: 18,131 (18,007). T: 2:25.

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 60 ACTION ACTION TOP PLAY Pacers win is Indy cards By JACOB WAYNE actionnetwork.com Friday night, the Knicks and Pacers delivered another exhilarating installment in arguably the best playoff series thus far. The Pacers held on for a 111-106 win at home despite the Knicks hitting a blistering 51.9 percent clip from 3-point range. Looking ahead to Game 4, I expect a more decisive win for Indiana. Donte DiVincenzo has been superb for the Knicks in this series, scoring 25-plus points in all three games and shooting 56.3 percent from deep. The Pacers sent constant help against Jalen Brunson, holding him to 26 points on 10-for-26 shooting (38 percent), but they sacrificed more open 3s than they would have liked. Tyrese Haliburton had the final say in Game 3, finishing with 35 points and seven assists. The Knicks’ short rotation is getting incredibly taxed due to their unfortunate injury luck. I’m banking on regression from Alec Burks and Miles McBride after they combined for 24 points on 50 percent shooting. I like Indiana as the deeper, healthier team in Game 4, particularly as they thrive off the energy of their home fans. With the Knicks expected to cool down from long range, bank on a statement Pacers win Sunday. THE PLAY: Pacers -5.5 Jacob Wayne analyzes the NBA for Action Network. SPORTS SHORTS SOCCER: Red Bulls defeat Revolution Lewis Morgan had an early goal and picked up an assist late to lead the Red Bulls to a 4-2 victory over the New England Revolution at Red Bull Arena on Saturday night. New York (5-2-5) took a 2-1 lead into halftime on a penalty-kick goal by Emil Forsberg in the 43rd minute. Elias Manoel scored in the 84th minute, and Cameron Harper secured the win for the hosts with a third-minute stoppage-time goal. In Toronto, rookie Malachi Jones scored his first Major League Soccer goal in the 44th minute as New York City FC defeated Toronto FC, 3-2. Santiago Rodriguez converted a penalty kick, Andres Perea also scored and Hannes Wolf had two assists for NYCFC (5-5-2, 14 points), which won for the first time on the road this season. Goalkeeper Matt Freese made nine saves. MLB: Orioles top D’backs in extras Jordan Westburg flicked a game-ending single inside the right-field line in the 11th inning for his fourth hit of the day, and the Orioles beat the Diamondbacks, 5-4, in Baltimore. In Toronto, Ernie Clement broke an 8-all tie with a bases-loaded single in the seventh inning, and the Blue Jays overcame a six-run deficit to beat the Twins, 10-8. In Boston, Rafael Devers hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth inning to lift the Red Sox to a 4-2 victory over the Nationals. In San Diego, Teoscar Hernández hit a grand slam, and the Dodgers defeated the Padres 5-0. James Paxton tossed six scoreless innings to remain undefeated. GOLF: Schauffele leads Rory by 1 Xander Schauffele has gone 38 tournaments without a win on the PGA Tour. Rory McIlroy is doing his best to make sure Schauffele’s painful drought continues. McIlroy shot a bogey-free 4-under 67 on fast greens to pull within a stroke of Schauffele with 18 holes remaining in the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C. In Clifton, N.J, Madelene Sagstrom and Rose Zhang left Nelly Korda and everyone else way behind in the Cognizant Founders Cup. Trying to win a record sixth straight LPGA Tour event, Korda was 11 shots behind Sagstrom and 10 back of twotime NCAA champion Zhang with a round left at Upper Montclair Country Club. In Myrtle Beach, S.C., Chris Gotterup shot a 6-under 65 to push his lead to four strokes with a round left in the PGA Tour’s inaugural Myrtle Beach Classic. ETC.: Stars whip Avs in Game 3 In Denver, Tyler Seguin scored two goals — including the go-ahead one — to propel the Stars to a 4-1 win over the Avalanche, giving Dallas a 2-1 series lead. Game 4 is Monday night in Denver. The Patriots named Eliot Wolf their executive vice president of player personnel on Saturday. Wolf, 42, has 20 seasons of NFL experience, including the past four as director of scouting for the Patriots. In St. Louis, heavyweight Derrick Lewis recorded a knockout 49 seconds into the third round to defeat Rodrigo Nascimento in the main event of UFC Fight Night. Lewis is now 28-12 in his career with 15 knockouts, the most in UFC history. Pitching Form (Game time) 2024 '24 vs OPP CAREER LAST 3 STARTS W-L ERA *REC W-L ERA vs OPP W-L IP ERA Yankees Gil (R) 3-1 2.92 5-2 1-0 0.00 1-0 2-0 17.1 3.12 Rays Alexander (L) (1:40pm) 1-1 4.96 2-2 0-0 0.00 0-1 0-1 13.1 3.44 Braves Elder (R) 1-1 5.28 2-1 2-0 3.97 2-0 1-1 15.1 5.28 Mets Severino (R) (7:10pm) 2-2 2.92 2-5 0-1 6.75 1-1 0-1 19.0 3.79 D'Backs Gallen (R) 4-2 2.84 4-3 0-1 8.44 0-1 1-2 16.0 4.50 Orioles Kremer (R) (1:35pm) 3-2 3.57 4-3 0-0 0.00 0-0 3-0 18.1 1.96 Nationals Gore (L) 2-3 3.44 3-4 — — — 0-2 14.0 3.21 Red Sox Bello (R) (1:35pm) 3-1 3.04 4-1 — — — 2-1 16.2 1.62 Rangers Hendricks (R) 0-3 12.00 — — — — ——— Rockies Hudson (R) (3:10pm) 0-6 6.35 1-6 0-0 0.00 1-0 0-2 12.2 8.53 Twins Ober (R) 3-1 4.42 3-4 0-1 3.60 1-2 2-0 18.1 3.93 Blue Jays Manoah (R) (1:37pm) 0-0 13.50 0-1 0-0 0.00 2-0 1-1 14.2 7.98 Astros Verlander (R) 1-1 4.43 1-3 1-1 1.80 3-3 0-1 16.1 4.96 Tigers Flaherty (R) (1:40pm) 0-2 3.86 3-4 0-1 3.86 0-1 0-1 17.2 3.06 Guardians Allen (L) 3-2 6.41 4-4 0-0 11.25 1-2 0-2 12.2 9.24 White Sox Soroka (R) (2:10pm) 0-4 6.34 1-7 0-0 9.82 0-0 0-1 14.1 4.40 Royals Lugo (R) 5-1 1.74 5-3 0-0 1.50 0-0 2-0 20.2 1.31 Angels Sandoval (L) (4:07pm) 2-5 4.85 3-5 1-0 0.00 1-0 1-2 17.2 2.55 Athletics Wood (L) 1-2 5.30 4-4 0-0 0.00 0-2 1-0 15.2 1.72 Mariners Castillo (R) (4:10pm) 3-5 3.35 3-5 2-0 1.38 3-2 2-1 19.2 1.83 Cubs Hendricks (R) 0-3 12.00 — — — — ——— Pirates Keller (R) (1:35pm) 3-3 4.41 4-4 2-0 4.61 4-4 1-1 19.0 3.79 Phillies Wheeler (R) 4-3 1.64 4-4 0-0 3.00 10-4 3-0 18.0 0.50 Marlins Garrett (L) (1:40pm) 0-0 0.00 0-0 1-0 5.40 2-1 1-1 16.0 2.25 Cardinals Mikolas (R) 2-5 6.43 2-6 0-1 9.64 9-6 1-2 15.2 6.32 Brewers Wilson (R) (2:10pm) 2-1 2.40 2-2 1-0 0.00 1-3 0-1 16.1 1.65 Reds Montas (R) 2-3 3.55 3-3 0-0 0.00 0-0 0-2 8.2 6.23 Giants Harrison (L) (4:05pm) 3-1 3.20 6-2 1-0 0.00 1-0 1-0 18.0 0.50 Dodgers Buehler (R) 0-0 6.75 1-0 0-0 0.00 6-0 0-2 10.1 9.58 Padres Darvish (R) (4:10pm) 2-1 2.94 5-2 0-0 3.12 4-5 2-0 15.0 1.80 * REC: Won-lost record of pitcher's team in games he has started. Mother of the Year? Donna Kelce for supporting her son Travis while her other son Jason danced shirtless in front of Taylor Swift? No. Ilhan Omar who was proud of her daughter after she was arrested at Columbia University. No. Mama Kamala Harris for making sure Sleepy Joe Biden made it back to the White House safely every night? No. All worthy, but the runaway winner was South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who shot her dog because she believed her kids were in danger. Congratulations, Kristi! Spending the day with Mama and Mrs. Stitches, and hoping the Red Sox pay for the flowers. Sox lost for us Friday, but Brayan Bello is back from his 15-day rehab with the Portland Sea Dogs. The Nats Mackenzie Gore has given up 39 hits in 34 innings. This sick sea dog will play $50 on the Red Sox. -$ Oh Mama! The O’s were down 4-3. Anthony Santander’s homer tied it. Jordan Westburg’s hit won it. Final 5-4. A winner. 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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 61 ACTION ACTION ODDS & ENDS NBA Sunday Knicks at Pacers Game 4 FULL-GAME MONEYLINE ODDS Knicks +190 Pacers -250 FIRST FIELD GOAL ODDS Jalen Brunson +500 Myles Turner +525 Pascal Siakam +550 Tyrese Haliburton +725 Josh Hart +825 OG Anunoby +850 Andrew Nembhard +850 Aaron Nesmith +900 Donte DiVincenzo +1000 Isaiah Hartenstein +1150 POINTS O/U Jalen Brunson 32.5 Donte DiVincenzo 23.5 Pascal Siakam 21.5 Tyrese Haliburton 21.5 Myles Turner 17.5 Josh Hart 14.5 Aaron Nesmith 10.5 Isaiah Hartenstein 10.5 T.J. McConnell 10.5 Andrew Nembhard 9.5 Obi Toppin 8.5 Isaiah Jackson 4.5 Ben Sheppard 4.5 REBOUNDS O/U Josh Hart 13.5 Isaiah Hartenstein 9.5 Pascal Siakam 8.5 Myles Turner 7.5 Donte DiVincenzo 4.5 Aaron Nesmith 4.5 Tyrese Haliburton 4.5 Isaiah Jackson 3.5 Obi Toppin 3.5 Jalen Brunson 3.5 Andrew Nembhard 2.5 T.J. McConnell 2.5 Ben Sheppard 1.5 3-POINTERS O/U Donte DiVincenzo 4.5 Tyrese Haliburton 3.5 Jalen Brunson 2.5 Myles Turner 1.5 Aaron Nesmith 1.5 Obi Toppin 1.5 Josh Hart 0.5 Pascal Siakam 0.5 Andrew Nembhard 0.5 T.J. McConnell 0.5 Ben Sheppard 0.5 ASSISTS O/U Tyrese Haliburton 8.5 Jalen Brunson 6.5 Josh Hart 5.5 Isaiah Hartenstein 4.5 Andrew Nembhard 4.5 T.J. McConnell 4.5 BET SMART By NICK STERLING actionnetwork.com It’s throwback weekend for the NASCAR Cup Series with the annual spring race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway. It will be tough to replicate last week’s thrilling finish at Kansas, but Darlington typically produces great racing. Caesars Sportsbook has Kyle Larson as the favorite (+400) to defend his win last season at the track known as the Lady in Black. He’s joined by past Darlington winners Denny Hamlin (+450), Martin Truex Jr. (+650) and William Byron (+800). Follow along with my favorite bets by watching Sunday’s Goodyear 400 race at 3 p.m. on FS1. Martin Truex Jr. to win (+700, BetMGM) The dominance of Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson has overshadowed an excellent season for Truex. He has been the most consistent drivers, and that first victory of 2024 is right around the corner. Truex is a two-time winner at Darlington, but that easily could be higher. He has led 28-plus laps in five of the past seven races. He had an issue while leading late in the race during the 2020 and 2022 playoff events. Truex led the most laps in last year’s Spring race before a late crash while running third. Bad luck has led to poor finishes, but Truex is always fast at Darlington. That speed could lead to his first triumph of the season. Kyle Larson top-three finish (+140, bet365) Larson is still riding the high of winning last week’s Kansas race in the closest finish in Cup Series history. Larson has a great chance to score his thirdstraight top-three finish. Like Truex, he has had the speed, but issues have prevented a great finish. If you take out races with an incident, Larson has five straight top-three finishes at Darlington, including a win in last year’s playoff race. He had top-five speed in the past two spring Darlington races but crashed while running top-three. Larson has done a much better job avoiding issues in 2024. It’s never a bad idea to back Larson, especially at Darlington. William Byron top-five finish (+150, bet365) Byron could use a good run after back-to-back finishes outside the top 20. Thankfully, he returns to a track that has brought him good fortune. He took advantage of late carnage to win last year’s spring race. He would’ve won this race in 2022 without Joey Logano putting him in the wall with two laps to go. Overall, Byron is No. 1 in speed rankings over the past four Darlington races. Without the issue with Logano, he’d have four straight finishes of eighth or better at the track. Byron needs a strong run after the past two races. I expect a strong performance from the No. 24 Chevy. Erik Jones top-10 finish (+175, bet365) Jones returns this week after missing two races with a back injury. He was ready last week but opted to play it safe and return for Darlington. That decision could pay dividends, as the Lady in Black is among his best tracks. He opened his Darlington career with six straight finishes of eighth or better. He has two wins at the track, including the 2022 playoff race. Jones struggled in last year’s spring race, but his other three starts at Darlington in the Next-Gen era have yielded top-10 speed. I should also mention he’s never finished outside the top 10 in a Toyota at Darlington. Jones may be a risky pick in his first race back, but his potential is too good to pass up. Nick Sterling analyzes NASCAR for Action Network. Getty Images Wednesday Wednesday Today D.C. 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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 62 MLS EAST W L D Pts GF GA Inter Miami CF 8 2 3 27 35 20 Cincinnati 7 2 3 24 15 10 Red Bulls 5 2 5 20 20 18 Toronto FC 6 5 1 19 16 17 NYCFC 5 5 2 17 14 14 Charlotte FC 5 5 2 17 13 13 D.C. United 4 3 5 17 19 19 Columbus 3 2 6 15 13 11 Philadelphia 3 3 5 14 21 19 Atlanta 3 5 3 12 16 14 Orlando City 3 5 3 12 14 20 CF Montréal 3 5 3 12 15 23 Nashville 2 4 5 11 14 19 Chicago 2 6 4 10 12 22 New England 2 8 1 7 9 22 WEST W L D Pts GF GA Real Salt Lake 6 2 4 22 20 11 Minn. United 6 2 2 20 17 11 LA Galaxy 5 2 5 20 23 19 Vancouver 5 3 3 18 18 13 Los Angeles FC 5 4 3 18 22 19 Colorado 5 4 3 18 20 18 Houston 5 4 2 17 11 11 Austin FC 4 4 4 16 15 15 St Louis City 3 1 7 16 18 15 FC Dallas 3 6 2 11 12 16 Sporting K.C. 2 5 5 11 19 21 San Jose 3 8 1 10 20 28 Seattle FC 2 5 4 10 13 13 Portland 2 5 4 10 20 23 Note: 3 pts. for win, 1 for tie Saturday Red Bulls 4, New England 2 NYCFC 3, Toronto FC 2 D.C. United 3, Atlanta 2 Charlotte FC 1, Nashville 0 Miami 3, CF Montréal 2 Orlando City 3, Philadelphia 2 Cincinnati 2, Columbus 1 FC Dallas 2, Austin FC 1 Houston 2, Sporting K.C. 1 St Louis City 3, Chicago 1 San Jose 3, Colorado 2 Salt Lake 2, LA Galaxy 2 Los Angeles FC 3, Vancouver 0 Sunday Seattle FC at Portland, 4:45pm NWSL W L T Pts GF GA Orlando 6 0 3 21 15 7 Kansas City 5 0 3 18 21 12 Washington 6 3 0 18 18 12 Portland 5 3 1 16 21 14 Chicago 4 3 1 13 11 11 North Carolina 4 4 0 12 12 10 Gotham FC 3 2 2 11 5 5 San Diego 3 3 1 10 7 6 Angel City 3 3 1 10 9 11 Louisville 1 2 5 8 11 9 Seattle 2 6 1 7 7 14 Bay FC 2 7 0 6 13 20 Houston 1 4 3 6 7 16 Utah Royals FC 1 6 1 4 5 15 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday Orlando 1, Bay FC 0 Portland 4, Seattle 0 Sunday Utah Royals FC at Chicago, 5:30pm North Carolina at Kansas City, 6pm Houston at Angel City, 7:30pm Gotham FC at San Diego, 7:30pm Soccer English Premier League Manchester City 4, Fulham 0, West Ham United 3, Luton Town 1 Crystal Palace 3,Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Brentford 2, AFC Bournemouth 1 Everton 1, Sheffield United 0 Newcastle United 1, Brighton & Hove Albion 1 Tottenham Hotspur 2, Burnley 1 Chelsea 3, Nottingham Forest 2 German Bundesliga RB Leipzig 1, Werder Bremen 1 SC Freiburg 1, TSG Heidenheim 1846 1 Borussia Monchengladbach 1, Eintracht Frankfurt 1 FC Cologne 3, FC Union Berlin 2 Mainz 3, Borussia Dortmund 0 Italian Serie A Bologna 2, Napoli 0 AC Milan 5, Cagliari 1 Spanish LaLiga Mallorca 1, Las Palmas 0 Villarreal 3, Sevilla 2 Real Madrid 4, Granada 0 Athletic Bilbao 2, Osasuna 2 ACTION ACTION Post Time: 1:05 p.m. vcangialosi@nypost.com Lock of the Day Khali Mafic (2nd) Lock Record: 2 for 6 (33%) Belmont at the Big A Analysis by Vic Cangialosi Meet Record: 15/64 $104.70 6 fur(T); $175,000; Soaring Softly; 3YO(f) The stake is the Grade 3 Soaring Softly. KODIAC WINTERGREEN made her 3YO debut in the slop and ran 3rd in the Limestone. Graduated on the lawn at Saratoga last year then 3 lengths short in the Juvenile Fillies. VALUE AREA scored in the mud in April. Again if we're off turf. GOLDEN GHOST was a couple of lengths shy in a 125k at Gulfstream. Davis picks up the mount for Casse. PIPSY Irish filly makes US/seasonal debut. Went 2 for 3 last year. Ridden by Prat who won the Man O War yesterday. BARAYE moves to a stake off an allowance win at Keeneland. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Tiger Belle(IRE),123 T McCarthy 4-12-x Joseph 20-1 2 Buttercream Babe,118 R Vazquez 7-5-4 Maker 10-1 3 Baraye,118 J Alvarado 1-2-2 Ward 9-2 4 El Terreno,118 J Rosario 7-1-1 Clement 5-1 5 Kairyu(IRE),123 K Carmouche 9-x-x DeVaux 8-1 6 Kodiac WintergreenIRE,118 L Saez 3-4-1 Arnold 6-1 7 Amidst Waves,120 J Velazquez 10-2-1 Weaver 5-1 8 Golden Ghost(GB),118 D Davis 6-7-1 Casse 10-1 9 Pipsy(IRE),120 F Prat x-x-x Walden 4-1 10 Independenceavenue,118 M Franco 8-1-1 Delacour 12-1 11 Caress,118 J Alvarado 3-3-5 Weaver 20-1 12 Artemis Sound,118 J Lezcano 4-1-2 Pletcher 15-1 13 Marco T.,118 M Franco 1-3-2 Clement 10-1 14 Value Area,118 Rider TBA 1-3-1 Pletcher 2-1 1 1/16 miles(T); $45,000; mdn clm($40,000); 3up ALL GOOD HERE moves lower off the layoff for Clement. Beat a neck last turf start. WISECRACKER MTO. AIR FORCE CROSS makes grass debut for Maker. 8th, then 3rd on dirt. Saez on the wildcard. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Impulsive Spending(L),125 E Ruiz 5-10-9 Arenas 12-1 2 In My Shadow(L),125 L Rivera, Jr 9-6-4 C Martin 15-1 3 Unaudited(L),118 R Vazquez 6-11-5 Maker 8-1 4 Podere(M),118 R Maragh 8-5-x James Bond 20-1 5 Air Force Cross(L),118 L Saez 3-8-x Maker 8-1 6 Unaffected(L),125 T McCarthy 8-10-2 Sanchz-Pinero 20-1 7 Feline Treasure(L),118 M Franco 8-7-x Sells 12-1 8 Awesome Force(L),125 L Luzzi 6-6-9 DiPrima 12-1 9 Specialagentjonson(M),118 J Gomez 9-6-5 Nevin 15-1 10 All Good Here(L),125 J Rosario 7-2-7 Clement 7-5 11 Malibu Margarita(L),118 F Prat 7-5-5 Rodriguez 8-1 12 Dancinginthepark(L),118 J Velazquez x-x-x Morley 12-1 13 Road Soda(L),118 M Franco 9-13-x Rodriguez 15-1 14 Your Mission(L),125 L Saez 4-4-6 Bernardini 4-1 15 Charming Jim(L),125 T McCarthy 6-3-9 Hennig 6-1 16 Wisecracker(M),118 J Lezcano 6-6-6 Rice 7-2 PLAY OF THE DAY Eastern Star (8-1) finished a neighborhood fourth, but Midtown Lights ($22.60) won at a price. War Terminator scratched. Profit on the day: +$71.40. Keeping it simple on Mother’s Day. Play $30 to win on Khali Magic in Race 2. — Vic Cangialogi 6 fur; $65,000; alw; 3YO Happy Mother's Day. And happy mudders day. Rain in the forecast. IRIDESCENT ran home a length short with similar then a dozen lengths short in the Gold Fever. REMEMBER THE NAME has won 2 of last 3. The loss was to Iridescent in January. COLLECTED SPECIAL walked home last of 6 after winning previous pair. He's fast but so are top 2. Rider change to Franco. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 2 Retail Man(L),120 L Luzzi 5-6-1 Ryerson 12-1 3 In a Minute(L),120 D Davis 7-2-1 Ryerson 8-1 1 a-Stormquist(L),120 K Carmouche 2-6-3 Rice 5-2 1A a-Remember the Name,122 J Lezcano 1-4-1 Rice 5-2 4 Muazarah(L),120 L Saez 5-3-1 Potts 6-1 5 Iridescent(L),122 R Vazquez 7-3-2 Jacobson 7-5 6 Collected Special(L),122 M Franco 6-1-1 Atras 3-1 1 mile; $85,000; alw; 3up(f) The front running KHALI MAGIC has won 2 of her last 3. Claimed by Gustavo Rodriguez after missing by a length. Not a lot of speed in the field and Gomez was aboard for the W's. CINDERELLAS CAUSE has powered off the pace to win her last pair by a combined 13 lengths Lost twice to top pick here this winter. Ready for rematch. SARATOGA KISSES won by 3/4 of a length. Her 1st win from 8 starts at Aqueduct. Competitively spotted for another. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Racing Colors(L),124 H Harkie 5-2-1 Follett 8-1 2 Amity Island(L),122 R Mitchell 7-9-2 Persaud 20-1 3 Khali Magic(L),124 J Gomez 3-1-1 Rodriguez 7-5 4 Saratoga Kisses(L),124 D Davis 1-6-4 Ryerson 4-1 5 Harlan's Bond(L),122 F Prat 5-2-3 Donk 6-1 6 Cinderella's Cause(L),122 M Franco 1-1-3 Kantarmaci 9-5 6 1/2 fur; $102,000; alw; 3up(f) Looking for FRAU DIABLO to rebound. Scored 2 back then a tired 2nd after zipping thru a quick opening 1/4. Won only start at this shorter distance. MOSIENKO ran 2nd in a 3-horse race last out. Defeated comparable in December. Prat on the M/L favorite. IM BUZZY ran 3rd behind EVERYONELOVESLINDA a couple of weeks ago. Im Buzzy won 4 straight previously and beat Everyoneloveslinda. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Everyoneloveslinda(L),123 E Cancel 1-2-2 Rice 3-1 2 Mosienko(L),121 F Prat 2-5-1 Lalman 2-1 3 I'm Buzzy(L),121 E Ruiz 3-3-1 Reynolds 6-1 4 Starship Defiant(L),123 R Vazquez 3-3-3 Jacobson 9-2 5 Frau Diablo(L),123 D Davis 2-1-2 Maker 3-1 6 My Flicker(L),125 M Franco 1-5-3 Russell 8-1 1 mile; $45,000; clm($35,000); 3up The PINEAPPLE MAN moved with allowance after a handy claiming win and finished last of 7. Rebounds. Rider change to McCarthy. MAGIA NERA won by a 1/2 length last month. His 1st win from 7 starts at the Big A. Well spotted for repeat. HARVARD was outrun making two turns. 3rd best racing a mile previous start. Hasn't won since 2021. Is today the day? NINETEEN OYSTERS rallied to be 2nd then 3rd. Stretches to a mile but did not perform well in lone try at distance. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Nineteen Oysters(L),124 K Carmouche 3-2-1 Atras 5-1 2 Harvard(L),124 R Vazquez 4-3-5 Jacobson 7-2 3 Big Save(L),124 O Hrndz Mreno 6-2-3 Jones 20-1 4 Mo Rewards(L),117 F Martinez 6-4-5 Maker 6-1 5 Magia Nera(L),126 M Franco 1-2-2 David 2-1 6 Best Bet(L),126 R Maragh 6-1-3 Rodriguez 8-1 7 Ski Country(L),124 L Rivera, Jr 5-5-1 Nevin 8-1 8 Pineapple Man(L),124 T McCarthy 7-1-7 Giangiulio 6-1 6 fur(T); $65,000; alw; 3up(f) Four of the last five races are on the turf. LINARITE was narrowly defeated twice here in the fall before heading home for the winter. Makes seasonal for Donk. May need a race. Johnny V will know. COOLCALM COLLECTED moves off a claiming win if we're off turf. LATEST EDITION runs off the layoff for Morley. Finished 4th behind Linarite last October. Only win was earned via DQ. QUICK POWER NAP Board hitter 7 of 9 on grass. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 River Tay(IRE)(L),123 K Davis 4-8-1 B Brown 6-1 2 Ben's Sunny Island(L),123 J Gomez 8-3-1 Rodriguez 8-1 3 Latest Edition(L),123 D Davis 4-5-10 Morley 3-1 4 Linarite(L),123 J Velazquez 3-2-4 Donk 2-1 5 Roja Ligera(L),123 H Harkie 6-3-6 Follett 20-1 6 Atmidnight(L),118 L Luzzi 4-6-4 Saville 6-1 7 Quick Power Nap(L),123 F Prat 9-7-1 Rodriguez 9-2 8 Devilly(L),125 E Ruiz 7-5-5 Ferraro 15-1 9 Coolcalm Collected(L),123 D Davis 1-8-4 Hills 8-5 10 Will Be Famous(L),123 L Rivera, Jr 3-7-2 Toscano 2-1 11 Maggie(L),123 Rider TBA 5-6-6 Handal 8-1 1 1/16 miles(T); $47,000; mdn clm($40,000); 3up Wide open. BOLD DPLATA Dirt to turf for Terranova. One start on grass. A wide 5th of 12 at the Spa last summer. DON VINO VICI MTO. Neck short racing a mile here in March. STATES UNITED makes turf debut for Dutrow after offering little thru 4 starts on dirt. 1st time lasix. Saez replaces Gomez who moves to NO SURRENDER for Rudy Rodriguez. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 2 Pappou's Laugh(L),118 L Rivera, Jr 6-6-x C Martin 20-1 3 No Surrender(L),125 J Gomez 3-2-2 Rodriguez 8-1 4 Dangerous Driver(L),118 E Cancel 11-3-2 Jimenez 12-1 5 States United(M),118 L Saez 5-4-4 R Dutrow 8-1 6 Bolt d'Plata(L),125 T McCarthy 3-4-3 Terranova 4-1 1 a-Piccata Prince(L),118 E Ruiz 7-5-8 Bernardini 20-1 7 Conniving(L),118 L Luzzi 2-2-5 Figueroa 10-1 8 Guile(L),118 R Maragh 5-5-x Ribaudo 10-1 9 Noble One(L),118 O Hrndz Mreno 5-8-3 Pregman 30-1 10 El Alacran(L),118 J Velazquez 11-3-3 Morley 9-2 11 Big Night Out(L),125 K Davis 7-6-4 Tagg 5-1 12 Be There(L),125 F Prat 9-8-6 Abreu 8-1 13 Pujol(M),125 L Rivera, Jr 11-7-x Ibrahim 15-1 14 Transcendental(L),118 M Franco 4-8-6 Thomas 5-1 1A a-Comanche Peak(L),118 F Martinez 8-10-x Bernardini 20-1 15 Don Vino Vici(L),118 K Carmouche 4-2-2 Atras 9-2 6 fur; $80,000; alw; 3up HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPS showed the way in a stallion stake but was KO'd a 1/2 mile from home. Easy wire-to-wire maiden breaker previously. Counterpunches. Saez on; blinkers on. ROLLIN IN DOUGH won at 1st asking then 2nd to a next out winner. Franco was at the wheel for the win. STARQUIST was 5th of 7 after an 11 month layoff. Better 2nd off the shelf. INDEPENDENT PAUL Runnerup twice here in April. Capable. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 1 Independent Paul(L),123 R Vazquez 2-2-4 Jacobson 4-1 2 Graywing(L),123 T McCarthy 2-3-3 Englehart 12-1 3 Starquist(L),123 R Maragh 5-6-4 Kimmel 8-1 4 Rock the Weekend(L),123 J Gomez 6-5-1 Shivmangal 12-1 5 On the Hill(L),123 K Carmouche 5-9-4 James Bond 6-1 6 Camm' Duke(L),123 D Davis 2-8-4 Ryerson 12-1 7 Heavyweight Champs(L),120L Saez 6-1-5 Rodriguez 3-1 8 Rollin in Dough(L),123 M Franco 2-1-x Thomas 2-1 FIRST-1 mile; $42,000; clm($16,000); 4up 2 Blake B. (Franco) 4.90 2.90 2.20 1A Funkensten (CamchoJr.) 3.00 2.10 6 Cheeky Tico (Luzzi) 2.90 • $1 Exacta (2-1) $4.75 • $0.1 Superfecta (2- 1-6-3) $7.60 • $0.5 Trifecta (2-1-6) $7.00 SECOND-1 1/16 mile; $175,000; Beaugay; 4pf 2 Neece Mre (Rosro) 17.80 3.90 3.00 5 Whtebeam (GB) (OrtzJr.) 2.50 2.10 3 Sprt And Glory (IRE) (Lezcno) 2.60 Scr: Movie Moxy, Bustin Bay, Ocean Gateway • $1 Daily Double (2-2) $33.50 • $1 Exacta (2- 5) $23.40 • $1 Quinella (2-5) $6.60 • $0.1 Superfecta (2-5-3-1) $17.92 • $0.5 Trifecta (2- 5-3) $31.50 THIRD-1 mile; $75,000; mdn spl wt; 3up 1 Russan Relm (Dvs) 5.20 2.80 2.40 5 Iron Man Ira (Ortiz,Jr.) 3.90 3.30 9 Sorority Prank (Davis) 7.40 • $1 Pick 3 (2-2-1) $86.25 • $1 Daily Double (2-1) $37.50 • $1 Exacta (1-5) $9.80 • $0.1 Superfecta (1-5-9-3) $47.50 • $0.5 Trifecta (1- 5-9) $37.37 FOURTH-6 fur; $175,000; Runhappy; 4up 6 Joy Frshwtr (Lzcn) 7.80 3.40 3.10 4 Nnetyprcntmdd (OrtzJr.) 3.60 3.30 5 Twenty Four Mamba (Davis) 5.50 Scr: Stage Left • $1 Pick 3 (2-1-6) $125.50 • $1 Daily Double (1-6) $7.60 • $1 Exacta (6-4) $11.60 • $1 Quinella (4-6) $7.10 • $0.1 Superfecta (6-4-5- 1) $8.62 • $0.5 Trifecta (6-4-5) $20.37 FIFTH-6 fur; $65,000; soc($35,000); 3up 10 Pwr Attck (Crmch) 8.20 4.40 3.50 1 Borletti (IRE) (Ortiz,Jr.) 3.90 3.20 5 Kant Beat the Rock (Vazquez) 5.90 Scr: War Terminator, Giant's Fire, Lookin' Super, Marathoner, High Heat, Good Reunion • $1 Pick 3 (1-6-10) $49.50 • $0.5 Pick 4 (2-1- 6-10) $419.00 • $0.5 Pick 5 (2-2-1-6-10) $1085.00 • $1 Daily Double (6-10) $19.70 • $1 Exacta (10-1) $20.90 • $0.1 Superfecta (10-1- 5-9) $92.50 • $0.5 Trifecta (10-1-5) $70.87 Winner picked by Vic C SIXTH-1 mile 1 fur; $200,000; Peter Pan; 3YO 6 Antqurn (Velzquz) 13.80 5.30 3.50 3 The Wne Steward (Saez) 3.00 2.30 1 Protective (Ortiz,Jr.) 3.00 Scr: Lonesome Boy, Tuscan Gold • $1 Pick 3 (6-10-6) $142.50 • $1 Daily Double (10-6) $43.25 • $1 Exacta (6-3) $15.20 • $0.1 Superfecta (6-3-1-2) $18.55 • $0.5 Trifecta (6- 3-1) $26.12 • $1 Pick 3 (6-10-6) $142.50 • $1 Daily Double (10-6) $43.25 • $1 Exacta (6-3) $15.20 • $0.1 Show (6-3-1-2) $18.55 • $0.5 Trifecta (6-3-1) $26.12 SEVENTH-1 3/8m; $400,000; Man O’War; 4p 8 Slvr Kntt (GB) (Prt) 10.20 5.20 2.80 1 Ohan Honor (Crmouche) 9.30 4.40 9 Nations Pride (IRE) (Dettori) 2.40 • $1 Pick 3 (10-6-8) $146.00 • $1 Daily Double (6-8) $26.50 • $1 Exacta (8-1) $26.00 • $0.1 Superfecta (8-1-9-5) $19.77 • $0.5 Trifecta (8- 1-9) $29.12 EIGHTH-6 fur; $75,000; mdn; 3up (f&m) 7 Carol T (Cancel) 49.00 18.00 7.10 3 Granadilla (Ortiz,Jr.) 3.70 2.70 4 Mulkey (Franco) 2.40 Scr: Nikki Brainburst • $1 Pick 3 (6-8-7) $772.00 • $0.5 Pick 4 (10-6- 8-7) $2670.25 • $0.5 Pick 5 (6-10-6-8-7) $5068.00 • $1 Daily Double (8-7) $125.25 • $1 Exacta (7-3) $97.50 • $0.1 Superfecta (7-3-4- 8) $118.40 • $0.5 Trifecta (7-3-4) $148.75 • $1 Pick 3 (6-8-7) $772.00 • $0.5 Pick 4 (10-6-8-7) $2670.25 • $0.5 Pick 5 (6-10-6-8-7) $5068.00 • $1 Daily Double (8-7) $125.25 • $1 Exacta (7- 3) $97.50 • $0.1 Show (7-3-4-8) $118.40 • $0.5 Trifecta (7-3-4) $148.75 NINTH-1 1/16 mile; $102,000; alw; 3up 3 Rnnngwscssrs (Rsr) 12.80 5.40 3.40 1 Belouni (FR) (Prat) 2.60 2.10 6 Ocean Atlantique (Saez) 2.70 Scr: Alternate Reality, Power Seeker, Optic Way, Synthesis, Costa Terra • $1 Pick 3 (8-7-3) $1582.00 • $1 Daily Double (7-3) $234.25 • $1 Exacta (3-1) $15.20 • $0.1 Superfecta (3-1-6-8) $23.22 • $0.5 Trifecta (3- 1-6) $24.00 • $1 Pick 3 (8-7-3) $1582.00 • $1 Daily Double (7-3) $234.25 • $1 Exacta (3-1) $15.20 • $0.1 Show (3-1-6-8) $23.22 • $0.5 Trifecta (3-1-6) $24.00 TENTH-1 mile; $100,000; alw; 3up(f) 7 Midtown Lights (Frnco) 22.60 7.80 5.40 5 Broderie (Ortiz) 5.60 4.50 8 Patty Cakes (Carmouche) 5.30 Scr: Belle of the Ball • $1 Daily Double (3-7) $61.25 • $1 Exacta (7- 5) $44.50 • $0.5 Trifecta (7-5-8) $153.75 Winner picked by Vic C ELEVENTH-1 1/16 miles; $45,000 clm; 3up(f) 10 Brooklyn Dantz (Luzzi) 30.40 10.60 6.10 11 Rainingathebeach (Prat) 5.90 4.70 16 Lucky and Gorgeous (Ruiz) 3.10 Scr: Rozay Summer, Practical Royalty, Adult Entertainer, Holder Close, Lem Me Drink, Bossy Jeans, Alotta Jays, Troubled Luck, Dramatic Effect • $1 Daily Double (7-10) $117.25 • $1 Exacta (10-11) $58.00 • $0.5 Trifecta (10-11-16) $114.62 Aqueduct Results

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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 65 Amazin’s seemingly pause Senga rehab By MARK W. SANCHEZ The Mets are not categorizing Kodai Senga’s situation as a setback, but the rehabbing ace’s progress appears to have been paused. Senga built up to facing hitters in a live batting-practice setting, first on April 29 and again last Sunday, which often is the last step before a pitcher begins a rehab assignment. A third live BP or a stint in the minor leagues is not yet scheduled, though, manager Carlos Mendoza said, because Senga is still working through mechanical issues. Senga threw a bullpen session Friday and was set to play catch Saturday, after which Mendoza said the Mets would figure out the next step. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s got to throw a couple more bullpens before we either put him in a live BP setting or [before] he’s going to go down and start facing real competition obviously in the minor leagues,” Mendoza said before the Mets lost, 4-1, to the Braves at Citi Field on Saturday. “I do feel like this is a guy that knows himself better than anybody. I think we just got to continue to play it slow and give him the time he needs. “If he needs two extra days before he throws another bullpen, so be it.” Senga was shut down in late February with a right shoulder capsule strain and is not eligible to be activated from the 60-day injured list until May 27. It has become apparent that he will not be ready when eligible, and the Mets’ rotation has performed well without its ace. Mendoza said he doesn’t want “any type of setback” with the 31- year-old, who graduated from no-throw to throwing on flat ground to mound work and then to face hitters, and now may be limited to bullpen sessions. “I’m kind of learning the person here,” Mendoza said. “He’s very meticulous in how he goes about his business and his mechanics and the way the ball’s coming out of his hand. And I do feel like he’s still searching for that.” The Mets would not want Senga to face hitters without him feeling confident with his delivery, Mendoza said, for health reasons. ➤ Mets stadium operations were ready for Christian Scott’s Queens debut, in which he went six innings and gave up three runs on six hits and two walks while striking out eight. Strikeouts by the rookie were punctuated by “Great Scott!” graphics on the scoreboard, inspired by “Back to the Future.” ➤David Peterson, who pitched 3 2/3 shutout innings with Low-A St. Lucie on Wednesday, next will pitch Tuesday with Double-A Binghamton. “He’s getting close,” Mendoza said of Peterson, who is built up to 63 pitches after offseason hip surgery. Raley awaits word on ‘complex’ elbow issue By MARK W. SANCHEZ Next up for Brooks Raley is a visit to Texas on Tuesday to see Dr. Keith Meister. Beyond that, the Mets lefty doesn’t know what awaits. He is hoping the doctor’s appointment will clear up a lot of questions. Raley, who has been on the injured list since April 21, said he has received several different opinions on his throwing elbow and his situation is “a little more complex.” The Post’s Joel Sherman reported last week that Raley has at least a fraying of a ligament in the elbow. Raley acknowledged that he has heard the same, and has heard other potential diagnoses from doctors. “I’ve heard other damage — spurs, things like that,” Raley said Saturday in his first public comments since the fears about his elbow became pronounced. “I think it’s a little more complex.” Raley mentioned both the internal brace procedure and Tommy John as at least possibilities if Meister believes a surgery is necessary. Such developments would be crushing for a pitcher who turns 36 next month, was drafted back in 2009 — the same year as Stephen Strasburg — and had emerged as a quality arm in the back of the Mets’ bullpen. Raley last pitched on April 19 in Los Angeles, which followed a homestand when his elbow began to bother him, and it “got gradually worse,” he said. 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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 66 By MARK CANNIZZARO Where do we start? If you’re intent on locking in on one central story at the 2024 PGA Championship this week at Valhalla in Louisville, Ky., good luck with that. “The gods of script writing have shone a very bright light on the PGA Championship for years,’’ CBS commentator Jim Nantz said. “They have put on some of the most exciting majors of all. And Valhalla has produced some memorable and epic events there — Tiger [Woods] and Bob May, Rory [McIlroy] edging out Rickie [Fowler] and Phil [Mickelson] at the end in darkness in 2014, the [2012] Ryder Cup. “I kind of feel like Valhalla is charmed and just has this ability to produce high drama, so I can’t wait to see what it’s going to be this time.’’ You could focus on world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who enters this week having won four of his last five starts, including his second Masters green jacket. Scheffler has finished no worse than in a tie for 17th in his 10 tournaments this year. The only tournament he didn’t win in the past five he finished runner-up. Oh yes, Scheffler also enters the week having taken this week’s Wells Fargo Championship off to be with his wife, Meredith, who’s expecting the couple’s first child any minute. If she doesn’t give birth before Thursday’s opening round, but does during the tournament, Scheffler is on record saying he’d leave immediately. So, there’s that drama lurking. There, too, is always McIlroy drama. The Northern Irishman last won a major championship 10 years ago at — you guessed it — Valhalla. That was McIlroy’s second consecutive major championship, having won the British Open the month before. And, at that time, the assumption was that McIlroy would coast to doubledigit career majors. Instead, he’s stuck on the same four he had when he left Valhalla a decade ago. And it’s not as if McIlroy has lost his game since Valhalla. In the 35 majors McIlroy has played since Valhalla 2014, he’s finished in the top 10 23 times and in the top 5 11 times. He’s finished eighth and tied for seventh in his last two PGA Championships. Shifting from the McIlroy storyline, we bring you to LIV Golf and the 16 players representing the controversial Saudi-backed tour that’s poached some of the best players in the world from the PGA Tour. At the head of the LIV Golf list this week is Brooks Koepka, who happens to be the defending champion and a three-time PGA Championship winner. Oh yes, and Koepka is fresh off winning the latest LIV tournament — right on cue — as he tries to cement his reputation as one of the sport’s great big-game hunters and bag a fourth PGA and a sixth career major. Also among the LIV contingent is Jon Rahm, the former world No. 1 who’s had a rather quiet run on the Saudi circuit. Rahm is coming off a disappointing Masters. Mickelson, three years removed from his remarkable PGA win at Kiawah Island, and Bryson DeChambeau will also be taking their shots at Valhalla, as will Cam Smith, who was ranked No. 2 in the world before signing with LIV. Two other huge stories lurking this week involve a pair of best friends — Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth. Thomas is a native of the Louisville area and desperately wants to win in front of his family and friends in his hometown. Though his form has been inconsistent for a while, Thomas does have two major championships on his résumé — and both of them are PGA Championships. Spieth, whose form also has been erratic of late, needs a PGA Championship title to complete the career grand slam, something only five players in the history of the game have accomplished. Spieth won the Masters and U.S. Open in 2015 and the British Open 2017, so this will be his eighth attempt at history. A year ago at Oak Hill, Michael Block, then an unknown club pro from Mission Viejo, Calif., was arguably the bigger rock star for the week other than Koepka, who was the one to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy. Big names, big stories throughout field at Valhalla SWING TIME: Rory McIlroy (from left), Scottie Scheffler and Brooks Koepka may be at the center of the biggest storylines entering the PGA Championship, but there are plenty of players to keep an eye on as they chase the Wannamaker Trophy. Getty Images (2); Reuters

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 67 ONE OF the broadcast voices you’ll hear describing the action at the PGA Championship this week at Valhalla will be a familiar one. It will be an informed voice, a respected voice, a comfortable voice. Dottie Pepper’s voice from inside the ropes at PGA Tour events has become almost as much a fabric of CBS golf telecasts as Jim Nantz’s presence, and that’s the best compliment you can hand her. Her voice blends into the broadcast beautifully and is authoritative as it is empathetic. Pepper — a 17-time winner, including two majors, on the LPGA Tour — has flourished in a job that used to be very much a man’s world. She’s done it so well that no one views her as a woman describing strategy of the men on the PGA Tour. She’s simply viewed as a sharp and knowledgeable analyst who’s been there and done that, and who understands what’s going through those players’ minds. Pepper, who began her broadcast career in 2004 as the lead LPGA analyst for the Golf Channel, has been with CBS as an oncourse reporter since 2016, and in 2020 she was named the lead on-course reporter, meaning she follows the leaders. “I knew that we were immediately upgraded to a higher level as a team by just having her presence, her professionalism,’’ Nantz said. “I don’t think people think of her as being a woman on a men’s broadcast. She is so respected. She’s walking down the fairway always with the final pairing. People are chanting her name. “Nobody thinks about all the groundbreaking, pioneering stuff anymore. People just think of her as an excellent broadcaster. I know the players have nothing but the ultimate respect for her. She knows them all — the caddies, the coaches, agents and the players. They’re honored to have her in their presence.’’ What Pepper does inside the ropes with a microphone is a gift as rare as the one that helped her win all those tournaments as a player. “She works harder than anybody,’’ Nantz said. “She has the sense of timing, the empathy in her voice when things go bad. She knows how to reflect the situation — highs and lows, triumph and tragedy. She can definitely feel the moment and give a sense of that to the viewer.’’ Nantz recalled walking the practice range to speak to players and gather some nuggets for the broadcast at an LPGA Championship years ago, when Pepper was in the prime of her career, and being nervous introducing himself to her. “I honestly was a little scared, maybe even intimidated to go up to her, but I did,’’ he said. “She could not have been nicer. It was in the middle of a warm-up session before around at a major championship, and she was just super. I can’t give you specifics on what she told me back then, but she knew what I was looking for.’’ Pepper laughed at that Nantz recollection when it was relayed to her. “I wanted a Plan B, and my thought over time was that it’d be really cool to be able to be a broadcaster,’’ Pepper said. “I was thinking local sports. I would have been very happy doing local sports where I live in the Capital Region [near Albany, N.Y.].’’ She did better than that, of course. Judy Rankin, the 26-time winner on the LPGA Tour and a pioneer for women in broadcasting, somewhat unwittingly got Pepper into her career second act. With the 1999 U.S. Women’s Amateur being played in Asheville, N.C., which is near where Pepper was living at the time, Rankin told her producer, “I think Dottie Pepper could do this. I think she’d be a great oncourse person for us.’’ Pepper — whose father, Don, played for the Detroit Tigers — was still in the midst of her playing career, but the LPGA was off that week. “They took her on, and I have often times called that my claim to fame, that I got Dottie Pepper into television,’’ Rankin said. “She got it from the get-go. She has a very organized mind.’’ Pepper is forever grateful for Rankin’s foresight. “I wasn’t really looking to get into broadcasting at that point, because I’d won a major championship earlier that season. I was still playing golf,’’ Pepper recalled. “But she thought it would be a good opportunity. I had always hoped to get into doing this, but it wasn’t the forefront of what I was looking for at that time. “But there were greater powers that be thought that was a good time to start thinking about it.’’ Pepper, too, is forever grateful for the path that Rankin paved for her and other women in broadcasting. “If Judy hadn’t done the job she did, there wouldn’t have been an opportunity for me or anybody else who has gone forward in broadcasting as a female — and I’m not talking just about golf,’’ Pepper said. “She really was really transcendent beyond the game of golf. If Judy Rankin hadn’t been as good as she is none of us would have had the opportunities that we did.’’ To Pepper’s credit, she seized her opportunity and has become elite in her field — same way she was as a player. “One of the greatest pieces of advice I ever got from one of my producers a long time ago was, ‘We don’t want your perspective as a woman, we want your perspective as a golfer,’ ” Rankin said, “and that’s what Dottie does extremely well.” None better than LPGA great inside ropes at the PGA Mark Cannizzaro DOTTIE ON THE SPOT: Dottie Pepper, a 17-time winner on the LPGA Tour, has emerged as a trusted voice as CBS’s lead on-course announcer. She will be following the leaders at Valhalla. USA TODAY Sports The PGA Championship éff î Ä ffl°fflflì ç  ffifffl ffl† ff† ààÉ ïff
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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 68 WHY IS it that the most astute fans so often know before the GMs, managers, coaches and assigned media experts? Even many progressive, analytically wishful know by now that they fell for and advocated nonsense, as MLB has been reduced to a primitive exercise of trying to hit home runs or striking out, and pitchers assigned to one half-inning before being returned to the bullpen or to Syracuse, Scranton or Modesto. Fundamental, functional strategy has vanished. And that brings us to the bottom of the ninth of tie games, now often followed by speed-it-up legislated runners at second base to begin extra innings. But even artificial additives seem to escape common sense and easily applied strategies. Reader Sam Agami still can’t figure out what Aaron Boone was or wasn’t thinking a week ago Friday at the Stadium against the Tigers. At 1-1 in the bottom of the ninth, the Yankees had Alex Verdugo on third and Giancarlo Stanton on second when Boone replaced Stanton with pinch runner Taylor Trammel. Trammel is faster — or at least runs harder — than Stanton. So it seemed to make sense. Except for the fact that it didn’t, as Stanton wouldn’t have even had to move — and he’s good at that! As Agami noted, if Verdugo scores from third, the game is over. If the game enters, say, the 11th, Trammel would be batting for Stanton. Agami: “Must be some genius analytics beyond my mental capacity.” Reader Ron Eckstein doesn’t get it, either: “In the bottom half of extra innings with the assigned runner on second, wouldn’t it make more sense to walk the first batter setting up a double play or force at any base? “If the score is tied, the winning run is on second base, anyway. “I’ve never seen that happen or even mentioned by announcers. Seems to be a simple, logical strategy.” Wednesday, Tigers at Cleveland, 4-4 bottom of the 10th. The Guardians move the automatic runner to third on a — holy Gino Cimoli! — sacrifice bunt. But still the Tigers leave first base open, thus the infield must play in. The game ends with a single up the middle. No chance for a double play because Detroit eliminated it as a matter of odd choice or professional neglect. READER Gary Siegel has a question for ESPN’s Stanley Cup telecast producers and directors: “Isn’t it more important to stick with the puck rather than show players returning to the bench?” I can answer that: With ESPN, you never know. ➤ MLB’s new “City Connect” uniforms are so clearly what Nike designed them for: to covet street-gang appeal, for MLB to better compete for the menace trade. Or do you think by now that Nike and its sports partners don’t by now know exactly what they’re doing, why, for how much and for whom? Come to think of it, I’m surprised that Nike and its Chinese Communist Party business partners haven’t yet produced highly flammable USA, UK and Israeli flags for the pro-Hamas to burn. The swoosh, as it is sacred, would be made of asbestos. ➤As professional political lobbyists will tell us, bribes come in many forms, from winks and nods to as much as you can stuff in a duffel bag. The PGA is paying — giving — Tiger Woods roughly $100 million and Rory McIlroy about $50 million essentially for not bolting for Saudi Government money. Just in time, too, as both have bills piling up. Wonder how, say, minitours grad Wilson Furr, No. 196 on the PGA winnings list at 80 grand, feels about that? ➤Stats Amore!: In Tigers-Guardians on Wednesday, 10 players were in the lineup who were batting .194 or under. ➤ While U.S. colleges fall all over one another to recruit tennis players from countries as far flung as New Zealand, the current highest ranking U.S. pro is Taylor Fritz, at No. 13. ➤In 116 at-bats, Cardinals DH Nolan Gorman has struck out 43 times and is batting .172. Ahh, but he has hit four home runs! Through 2 ¹/2 seasons, Gorman has struck out 294 times in 805 at-bats — 37 percent of his at-bats! — but he has hit 45 homers, thus, as noted at the start of this column, that’s all that matters. Mushnickphilip@gmail.com ‘Connect’ to whom, MLB? Lot of bleeping bleeps go unbleeped nowadays WAY OFF BASE HERE’S hoping that rock bottom isn’t so unforgiving that it doesn’t permit any bounce. Seems everyone with a voice is now eager to be heard as a crude, vulgar slug. Class? Soon few will know what it is to recognize it, let alone to practice any. This televised Tom Brady roast was just another exercise in confusing humor with unclever, put-down, don’t forget to shout “F---!” social vandalism. That “comedian” Kevin Hart, thrust upon the commercial sports landscape, including sports sucker-gambling, for no apparent reason than that he shouts “F---” a lot — he’s more of a curiosity than comic — was the first of many clues. Why celebrities and famous athletes would go to such lengths to be seen and heard as having a head filled with sixthgrade naughty boy thoughts and put-downs never ceases to befuddle. And I’m not easily fuddled. But they seem to line up to be seen in the lowest available, allowable light as the “coarsening of America,” as former ESPN anchor Bob Ley called it, continues its noupside descent. You can’t even bring kids to a daytime sports championship parade and ceremony without prepping them to hear lowestrung expletives shouted into microphones. And the violators escape due to diminished social standards that would cast the plaintiffs as out of step with modernity. And none of the commissioners even give calling for common decency a shot. What?! And risk offending the most offensive? Look who Roger Goodell invites to “entertain” at halftime of Super Bowls? He’s going to advocate for public civility? WFAN’s Evan Roberts has become an obligatory drive-time radio lowlife given to calling people “s– -mbags” and urging Knicks fans in the Garden to cuss out the Pacers during player introductions. Not only would Roberts be appalled if his kids were seated near those who took his antisocial prompts, he’s not particularly convincing as someone who would normally use vile language, as he was likely raised better and is unaccustomed to playing a lowlife on the air. In a visceral but practical sense, would Roberts, the father of two young children, urge his kids to be a public lowlife, especially for a living? Not a chance! Thus we must conclude that Roberts’ classless, Dumpster-drawn act is just that — an act to attain the status of what it takes to be a WFAN radio star, these low and loathsome days. Think how backwards that is: “But I’d never act that way in private!” Albert Brooks, the actor/comedian, tells of bombing out in front of a crowd of young adults until he had an idea: He’d shout an expletive. He did, and he immediately won the crowd and the night. It was that easy. EQUAL TIME fifffflffiflffffl GET OUTTA THERE! Aaron Boone greets Giancarlo Stanton on his way back to the dugout. Last week, Boone pulled Stanton for a pinch runner on second base in the ninth inning of a tie game, when the winning run was on third. Those kind of thoughtless decisions seems to be growing in MLB, writes Phil Mushnick.

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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 70 Daboll has ‘a lot of confidence’ in DB Flott By PAUL SCHWARTZ There is an opening in the Giants’ starting lineup as a perimeter cornerback to play across from Deonte Banks and it sounds as if there is a favorite to take that spot, at least this early in the process in the spring. “Look forward to working in phase three and training camp,’’ coach Brian Daboll said Saturday on the second day of rookie minicamp. “But I’ve got a lot of confidence in Flott.’’ That would be Cor’Dale Flott, who is entering his third year with the Giants. Daboll rarely, if ever, unsolicitedly brings up a name of a player when the question is about the depth chart. So, Daboll clearly is high on what Flott can bring to the defense. Flott, a 2022 third-round pick from LSU, has appeared in 25 games his first two seasons, starting 13. He mostly has played in the slot but now it appears he will be groomed as an outside corner. Other options include Nick McCloud and Tre Hawkins. Rookie Dru Phillips, a third-round pick from Kentucky, could have the inside track as the slot corner. ➤TE Theo Johnson, a fourth-round pick from Penn State, said he has “heard stuff’’ regarding Darren Waller’s possible retirement. If Waller is indeed giving up football — that is the strong indication — Johnson has a direct pathway to significant playing time in his first season. “Not sure what’s gonna happen,’’ Johnson said. “We’ll see how it shakes out. ➤There are more than 50 players attending this rookie camp on a tryout basis. That is a large group. “You don’t want anybody to slip through the cracks so you bring in as many people as you can to give them an opportunity,’’ Daboll said. “Maybe you sign one, maybe sign two, maybe you don’t sign any. I think it’s good for those guys to get an opportunity and for us to get eyes on ’em, doing some of our stuff. If there’s someone we think is worth bringing up and signing that’s what we’ll do.’’ Daboll, asked if he can remember a tryout player making a big impact, immediately brought up cornerback Malcolm Butler, who went undrafted and became a starter for the Patriots. ➤This is not a promising update: CB Aaron Robinson “is still working with the rehab guys,’’ during the voluntary workout program, according to Daboll. Robinson, a third-round pick in 2021, made it into only 11 games his first two seasons and spent all of 2023 on injured reserve following knee surgery. ➤Two rookies attending this camp as tryouts are relatives of players on the Giants’ roster. Chaz Neal, a 6-foot-9, 315-pound offensive tackle from Florida A&T, is a cousin of OT Evan Neal. Isaac Hodgins, a defensive tackle from Oregon State, is the younger brother of WR Isaiah Hodgins. GIANTS NOTES By PAUL SCHWARTZ Rookies arrive with all sorts of expectations thrust upon them, based on how high they were selected in the NFL draft, what level of prospect they are considered to be and how ready they are to compete at the next level. Their height, weight, speed and strength are all part of evaluating their readiness. Their maturity, ability to accept coaching and tolerance for discomfort — physical and mental — are all ingredients coaching staffs use to figure out which of the youngsters might be immediate contributors. Factoring in all these measurables, the Giants anticipate Tyler Nubin will be able to handle what is thrown at him early and often. After five years in college and 48 games at Minnesota, Nubin has loads of experience and earning a starting role in Year 1 with the Giants is a workable plan. There is something else about Nubin, though, that separates him from most newcomers. Not long after the Giants took him in the second round, general manager Joe Schoen’s first comments described Nubin as “a guy with high character, leadership’’ and added this: “Culture changer at the University of Minnesota and he’s going to bring that type of mentality here.’’ Labeling an NFL novice in that way is unusual. The Giants are serious about Nubin as more than a ball-hawking defensive back. They view him as someone who is charismatic and will rise to be a team captain, sooner rather than later. This is heady stuff and Nubin is not prepared to anoint himself as someone others will follow. He is taking in his first action with the Giants, participating the past few days in a rookie minicamp, trying to stand out without forcing himself on anyone. “Right now, I’m just trying to learn as much as possible, be as vocal as I can, try to put myself and everybody else in positions to succeed,’’ Nubin said. “So just being able to learn and be a sponge and soak up as much as possible and be able to give that to other guys, that’s my main goal right now.’’ What about assuming a leadership role as a rookie? “I think everybody can be a leader,’’ he said. “Everybody can be a leader on a football team no matter who you are.’’ Cornerback Dru Phillips, another member of the 2024 draft class, met Nubin at the team facility the day after both were selected by the Giants. They went to dinner together and the Giants hope these two will play alongside each other in the secondary for years to come. One day into the rookie camp, Nubin already made an impression on his new teammate. “He’s good. He’s vocal,’’ Phillips said. “I know I took my time in the playbook, but you hear him a lot of times in the back end he’s yelling it. Sometimes you almost can’t hear yourself calling out the plays. I can tell he’s going to be a great player because of his knowledge and how he communicates on the field.’’ That is a solid start. Nubin at 6-foot-1 and 199 pounds looks the part and his 13 interceptions for the Golden Gophers bode well for his athletic ability, instincts and preparation. With Xavier McKinney gone — he signed with the Packers — a spot is open at safety opposite Jason Pinnock and Nubin will be afforded every opportunity to gain that spot. Along the way, the Giants’ coaching staff thinks it likely that Nubin will win friends and influence people as he grows into a leadership role. It takes more than two days at rookie camp for that to happen. “Yeah, I would say it’s too early,’’ coach Brian Daboll said. “We did a lot of research obviously before the draft. I’ve talked to him for a few minutes since he’s been here.’’ And? Is there a leader inside Nubin waiting to emerge? “You know, all points say yes,’’ Daboll said. “The signs lead to yes. Again, he’s got a lot to learn, and I would say learning the information and how we do things is the most important right now.’’ Schoen listed Nubin’s “leadership, the character, the smarts, ability to communicate out there’’ as “elite at those types of things.’’ As he develops as a player, the Giants are eager to see how Nubin develops as someone they can build around. paul.schwartz@nypost.com FAST TRACK INTANGIBLES: When the Giants selected Tyler Nubin — seen here at rookie camp on Friday — in the second round of the draft, general manager Joe Schoen said that they did so because of the “high character, leadership” that the defensive back displayed at Minnesota. AP

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 71 No harm, no foul By STEFAN BONDY INDIANAPOLIS — Jalen Brunson wasn’t fouled, after all. But there will be no review of the controversial no-call on a probable goaltend. The league determined the referees only flubbed one call in its two-minute report of Friday’s Game 3, when Pascal Siakam should’ve been whistled for an offensive foul with 1:57 remaining. But on New York’s final important possession, Brunson only absorbed “marginal contact” from Andrew Nembhard before launching an errant potential tying trey with 9.3 seconds left, the league said. “Nembhard’s (IND) hand comes down and marginal contact occurs with Brunson’s (NYK) arm prior to his upward shooting motion,” the report read. It was one of a few plays that upset the Knicks in the fourth quarter of the 111-106 defeat to the Pacers on Friday. Another was a block from Myles Turner on Josh Hart’s layup attempt, with replays showing it was probably goaltending. But since the play occurred with 2:03 remaining, it wasn’t part of the league’s twominute report. “I know it was a goaltend. I saw it,” Hart said. “It was a goaltend. But they obviously didn’t call it.” ➤OG Anunoby was officially ruled out of Sunday’s Game 4 while the Pacers added a few new injuries to their report. Tyrese Haliburton, who limped out of his postgame presser Friday, is listed as “questionable” with lower back spasms, a sacral contusion (bruised tailbone) and right ankle sprain. Aaron Nesmith, who was used as the Brunson stopper in Game 3, is also “questionable” with shoulder soreness. Brunson, who has been battling a sore foot, was not listed on the injury report. ➤The Knicks have no pingpong balls in the draft lottery but there’s peripheral interest and the NBA world will be watching Sunday’s drawing, which is happening in Chicago just before tipNBA: Refs right about Brunson play KNICKS NOTES Tatum, Celts bounce back vs. Cavaliers in Game 3 Associated Press Jayson Tatum scored 33 points, Jaylen Brown added 28 and the Celtics looked more like themselves after stumbling at home, beating the Cavaliers 106-93 in Game 3 on Saturday night in Cleveland to take a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals. The top-seeded Celtics didn’t mess around after dropping Game 2 on their home parquet floor by 24. That lackluster performance — Boston was favored by double digits — was reminiscent of the first round, when the Celtics lost Game 2 against Miami before winning three in a row to eliminate the Heat. “We just wanted to bounce back,” said Tatum, who added 13 rebounds. “Disappointing loss the other night, coming into a hostile environment on the road. It was a good test for us to see how we respond.” Tatum scored on a three-point play and the Celtics opened the second half with 14 straight points to take a 23-point lead. That was way too much for the Cavs, who overcame a 22- point deficit in the fourth quarter to stun Boston in March. Donovan Mitchell scored 33 points for Cleveland, but the AllStar guard aggravated a left knee injury in the fourth quarter and was labored. With Boston up 13 and in control, Mitchell left the court with 1:19 left and walked directly to the locker room. Game 4 is Monday night in Cleveland. Mavericks 105, Thunder 101 In Dallas, Kyrie Irving scored 22 points, including a running left-hander in the lane in the final minute to help Dallas hold on, and the Mavericks beat the Thunder for a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference semifinals. Luka Doncic also had 22 points to go with 15 rebounds, and P.J. Washington scored 27, just two shy of his playoff high from the previous game. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 31 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks, but was called for a charge with Doncic defending on a drive with 29 seconds left and the Thunder trailing by five. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GOALTENDING? The NBA determined that Jalen Brunson wasn’t fouled on this 3-point attempt with 9.3 seconds left on Friday, but did not review the likely goaltending by Myles Turner on Josh Hart since it happened with 2:03 left — and thus was not subject to scrutiny in the league’s two-minute report. N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg off against the Pacers in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semis. The Pistons and Wizards have the best odds of getting the top pick, followed by the Hornets, Trail Blazers and Spurs. Why is that important to the Knicks? They own both the Pistons’ and Wizards’ picks in 2025, but they’re protected. With the Wizards, the 2025 pick is top-10 protected. The Pistons’ pick? Top-13 protected. Although it’s impossible to predict, a lottery victory for either the Pistons or Wizards could net them a star in the draft and push those teams to a better record next season — thereby increasing the chances their 2025 picks convey to the Knicks. If the Wizards pick doesn’t convey in 2025, it becomes top-8 protected in 2026. If the Pistons pick doesn’t convey in 2025, it becomes top-11 protected in 2026. In this upcoming draft, the Knicks have the 24th and 25th picks, with the former courtesy of the Mavericks as the final payment of the Kristaps Porzingis trade. The 2024 draft class is considered weak without a consensus No. 1 pick, although Alex Sarr of the NBL is getting the most traction. ➤The first adjustment to Anunoby’s absence didn’t work out. Precious Achiuwa started in the power forward spot but only logged 22 minutes in the Game 3 loss, sitting the entire fourth quarter after going scoreless in 11 minutes of the third. Overall, Achiuwa scored just five points with two turnovers and a teamworst net rating of negative-14.6 — though he did have four offensive rebounds and three blocks. Miles McBride got the bulk of the fourth-quarter minutes as the fifth starter alongside Brunson, Hart, Donte DiVincenzo and Isaiah Hartenstein. But the Knicks went cold in that final period, managing just 16 points on 21 percent shooting. Typically Anunoby would be in the game during that stretch and he’s been one of the best fourthquarter performers in the playoffs for the Knicks. NBA PLAYOFFS ROUNDUP

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 72 SO FAR this spring we’ve had two different sets of four: four straight nights when the Knicks and the Rangers alternated games over the course of four straight nights at Madison Square Garden. It will not surprise you to learn that the teams went 4-0 the first time (the Knicks taking care of the 76ers while the Rangers did likewise to the Capitals) and 4-0 the second time (the Rangers grinding past the Hurricanes and the Knicks grimacing past the Pacers). I’m often asked by reporters and talk-show hosts and out-of-town friends: Where’s the best place to watch a big game in Greater New York. And the fact is, there aren’t too many terrible options (well … maybe one terrible one. We’ll get to that one soon enough). But this is how I always rank them: 1A. MSG, Knicks 1B. MSG, Rangers Honestly, the one that gets the edge is probably due to your own personal favorite, because even 56 years after the fourth version of the Garden was built, it’s a place that gets louder than any other in New York (now that the acoustical wonders of Old Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium are gone, anyway). Each experience is unique. The extended chant, and accompanying towel waving, after the Rangers score a goal never fails to astound in its length and gravity. And when the Knicks hit a big shot at the end of a playoff game, there is no singular sound quite like it anywhere else in New York. The fact it’s the been the last sporting playpen on Manhattan Island since the Mets abandoned the Polo Grounds in 1963 helps, too. 2. Citi Field The sad truth of the Mets is that they’ve hosted a total of just 11 home playoff games in the 15 years since the place opened for business in 2009, and the results haven’t exactly been satisfying: five wins, six losses. But every one of those games at least hinted at the way Shea used to feel, without the requisite lowerstands rocking that always made you feel Shea was about to collapse in big moments. 3. Yankee Stadium The acoustics in the new place simply aren’t what they were across the street — when a crowd of 20,000 could still sound like 55,000 and a crowd of 55,000 might leave you asking friends to repeat themselves for three weeks, it’d maul your eardrums so much. Though the thunder isn’t as loud, it’s still the most end-to-end engagement of any fan experience in town, from roll call at the start to throwing home run balls back to “New York, New York” at the end. 4. UBS Arena It’s a beautiful building, and when the Islanders are playing a big game there, it’s hard not to get chills when the fans all rise to sing along to the national anthem. It follows that this should eventually become a tough place for a playoff foe to play, just not yet (2-3). 5. Red Bull Arena The hidden gem of area arenas and stadiums. Even if you are only a moderate soccer fan, it’s worth the trip to Harrison, N.J. 6. Barclays Center There were a few moments during the 2021 playoffs when it was hard to hear yourself think as the Nets came ever so close to the Eastern Conference finals. But its primary tenant is the Nets, and its secondary tenant, the Islanders, couldn’t run away fast enough. 7. Prudential Center There’s nothing at all wrong with The Pru, especially when the Devils and Rangers electrified the place for four games last spring — though it suffers from not having an NBA team. If Seton Hall ever rose to tough-ticket status, that could change things. 8Y. MetLife Stadium, Giants 8Z. MetLife Stadium, Jets There are few things Jets and Giants fans can agree on. One is how fundamentally underwhelming MetLife is, which has been a virtual consensus since the day its doors opened in 2009. Part of this is the architecture: It looks like a stack of Venetian blinds. Part is stadium envy: It’s impossible to believe the Cowboys could have built the palace they play in at the exact same time this was. And it hasn’t helped that in 15 years of life, the building has hosted exactly one playoff game — Giants 24, Falcons 2 on Jan. 8, 2011 — and all that did was remind all 79,909 that they weren’t in Giants Stadium any longer. Joel Tanenbaum: When OG Anunoby is out, Josh Hart vows to play 96 minutes. Vac: As my old man used to say: If he couldst, he wouldst. Phil MacDonald: Kevin Durant the coach killer does it again. Vac: This does beg the question: Whatever would happen if Jason Kidd — the original coach-killer extraordinaire — actually, you know, COACHED Durant, who has actually shattered all of Kidd’s coach-killing records? @MitchVisiob84: Cleveland gets the first pick when generational local comes around. New Orleans gets it after its generational talent demands out. San Antonio gets gifted multiple No. 1s to stay relevant. But yeah, the Knicks finally got some calls in their favor. World on fire. @MikeVacc: Preach, Brother Mitch. Preach. Alan Hirschberg: Rick Pitino said of Seton Hall transfer Kadary Richmond: “He’s a jump shot away from playing for the Knicks.” If he really wanted to play for the Knicks, he’d be transferring to Villanova. Vac: It was sitting there for all of us, but it was Alan who pounced. Well done. EVERY SUNDAY MIKE VACCARO RESPONDS TO READERS’ QUESTIONS AT VAC@NYPOST.COM AND @MIKEVACC ON X fflfl mvaccaro@nypost.com OPEN MIKE SAVAGE GARDEN I CAN tell you from experience: One of the great challenges during the pandemic was generating sports content with no sports being played. My pal Joel Sherman rose to this with his brilliant series revisiting the epically brutal 1990 Yankees, out of whose dust a dynasty was born, and May 16 you can see the adaptation of that stunning work on Peacock, titled “Bronx Zoo ’90.” ➤ Our guy Jay Horwitz took a temporary leave from baseball on his latest “Amazin’ Stories” podcast and asked Earl Monroe to talk about Jalen Brunson. “Jalen has great moves, his footwork is tremendous,” Monroe says, which coming from Pearl is like Billy Joel telling a kid on a keyboard he can tickle the ivories a little bit. ➤ I’m a Long Island kid, where most babies get their first lax stick in the cradle, so this is big news: New York State is guaranteed a championship. Starting next Friday, the Albany Firewolves and Buffalo Bandits begin their best-ofthree National Lacrosse League championship series at Albany’s MVP Arena ➤ I wish William Goldman could’ve seen these Knicks. He endured a lot of years of Arron Afflalo and Langston Galloway and Jerome James. This would’ve been a fair payoff. OUR HOUSE! A fan cheers on the Rangers during a recent playoff game at Madison Square Garden. Mike Vaccaro says the Garden is the best home venue in all of New York sports. N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg

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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 76 By MARK W. SANCHEZ The Mets, who have struggled to hold opposing base runners all year, allowed an embarrassing steal Saturday: The Braves stole what was supposed to be Christian Scott Day and turned it into a nearly historic afternoon for Max Fried & Co. Fried and two Atlanta relievers far outshined the home debut of the promising rookie and recorded 26 outs before J.D. Martinez spoiled their bid at history. Martinez’s two-out home run in the ninth provided the Mets with a hit, a run and a sidestep of humiliation. It did not allow the Mets a win, though, falling 4-1 to the Braves in front of 38,919 whose silence eventually turned into boos at Citi Field. As Fried (seven innings), Joe Jimenez (the eighth inning) and Raisel Iglesias (the ninth) tried to cobble together the 15th no-hitter in franchise history, the Mets were pretending they did not know the stakes. “We don’t talk about that. We let you [media] talk about that,” Martinez said. “We just focus on the game.” Martinez’s blast to right field off Iglesias — his first homer as a Met — avoided the Mets being no-hit for the ninth time in their history. They have tallied at least one hit in every game since Oct. 3, 2015, when then-National Max Scherzer did the honors, a streak that somehow lives on. Still, the Mets (18-20) have dropped the first two games of an intriguing, seven-game stretch against the class of the NL East that might be revealing that Carlos Mendoza’s group is indeed playing for a wild card and not the division. The Braves have played as if they are in a different stratosphere. The Mets have scored three runs on six hits in 18 innings against Atlanta pitching the past two days. Fried pitched seven dazzling innings in which he walked three, struck out five and was taken out because manager Brian Snitker valued his 109 pitches more than his zero hits allowed. “You don’t want to get no-hit,” said Brandon Nimmo, who watched the late innings from afar after being pulled with right intercostal irritation. “It’s something that every team is trying to avoid every single game. But the thing was, I felt like we had good at-bats throughout the game. “There were some balls that were pretty unlucky. J.D. and Pete come to mind.” Pete Alonso’s 405-foot drive into deep center in the second inning would have been a home run in six major league parks, according to Statcast — but not at Citi Field, where it went down as a very long out. In the seventh, Martinez drilled a Fried four-seamer to deep center, but the speedy Michael Harris II made a nice running grab before smacking into the wall. After a game that featured Scott making his first start in Queens, much of the talk was about the opposing starter. “He just mixed very well,” Martinez said of Fried. “He’s tough because you don’t know which way his ball’s going to go — if it’s going to come in, if it’s going to go away, BRAVES 4 METS 1 Boxscore Page 58 Nimmo exits early with side discomfort By MARK W. SANCHEZ The Mets lost a game — nearly in historic, embarrassing fashion — but they are hoping they did not lose something much more significant: their leadoff hitter and arguably best position player up to this point. Brandon Nimmo was pulled Saturday after four innings with right intercostal irritation after successfully stopping a swing but feeling something in his side in the process. Nimmo, during a third-inning at-bat that would end in a walk, began his swing but quickly decided against it, then grabbed at his right side. “Little bit of something uncomfortable, something that’s not supposed to be there,” Nimmo said after the 4-1 loss to the Braves at Citi Field in which the Mets were no-hit until two outs in the ninth. “The closest resemblance I can give you is just a little bit of too much of a stretch.” Nimmo finished the at-bat and played left field in the fourth, but on a chilly afternoon he said his side began to stiffen. He talked with trainers and manager Carlos Mendoza, and Tyrone Taylor entered in his spot for the fifth. Nimmo was not sent for testing and felt he caught the irritation before it became something worse. Still, the Mets won’t know for sure until Nimmo wakes up and sees how his body responds. Oblique injuries are notoriously tricky. “I’m not too concerned, but every time you talk about that rib area, obviously,” Mendoza said, trailing off. “I think we caught it early, hopefully.” Nimmo’s .779 OPS is the best among Mets regulars, and after a slow start in which a lot of hard contact found gloves, the 31-year-old has been the club’s most reliable bat. In the past week, Nimmo is 9-for-29 with five walks, three homers and two doubles. Nimmo said there is a possibility that he recovers in time for Sunday’s series finale. Even if he’s not in the lineup immediately, he feels he averted what might have been a far worse fate. More Mets / Page 65

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 77 T HIS felt like the lowest moment of the 2024 Mets season so far — and they began the season winless in five games. Because it began with such a high. With Christian Scott wearing a pair of silver headphones and youthfully and unselfconsciously bopping to his rap mix at his locker. It began with the anticipation of his first Citi Field start and his first two innings of power and dominance only heightened the imagination. That brought swelling ovations from the home crowd. And it ended with the Mets nearly being no-hit by Max Fried and company. It ended with a 4-1 loss — their 12th in the last 18 games. It ended with the Braves serving one of those large reminders — as they seemingly do annually — that the Mets are not in their weight class. That brought persistent booing over the final three frames. Scott acquitted himself fine over six-plus innings. He has a fastball that really plays and a confidence that won’t quit and some day that might be part of a formula that helps the Mets outdo Atlanta. Just not today. Probably not in 2024. Again. The Mets kind of knew this coming into this season. That they were playing the long game, refusing to clog future payrolls or rosters, but still insisting that they were good enough to make the playoffs. One-quarter of the way through this year, they are seven games behind Atlanta and nine behind the Phillies, the two teams with the NL’s best records. The two clubs that along with the Dodgers form the SuperPowers of the league. The Mets are not members of the NL East this year when it comes to thinking of the playoffs. They are with all the teams that are going to finish behind the Dodgers in the NL West and the non-division winners in the NL Central. For now, at 18-20, they are remarkably meh. They have scored 164 runs and given up the same. They are in the wild-card hunt because behind the NL SuperPowers, there is a swamp of these kinds of clubs. “We have one of those teams right now that we can look really good for a stretch and we can look not so good for a stretch, depending on the quality of our starts and if the offense is clicking in a given week,” Adam Ottavino said. “We have had games where we look really good in both areas and times when we don’t. I think we are right where we should be record-wise based on how we have played.” The Mets had been at breakeven before the Braves won the first two games of what is a seven-game run against just Atlanta and Philadelphia that could veer this season into a bad direction. On Friday night, Jose Quintana could not contain the Braves’ power. On Saturday, the Mets could not solve Fried, who no-hit them for seven innings. There were a few walks and a few hard-hit balls, but it was not until J.D. Martinez launched his first Mets homer with two outs in the ninth off Raisel Iglesias that the Mets managed a hit and avoided becoming the first no-hit victim of the Braves in 30 years. In his pregame session with reporters in the Citi Field press conference room prior to Saturday’s game, Mendoza spoke at his table while a muted TV played nearby replaying the top of the third from the evening before. That was when the Braves hit three homers in four batters against Quintana. The gist of Mendoza’s press conference was about Kodai Senga and Scott, two pitchers who might not be able to help the Mets’ near impossible chances to overtake the Phillies and Braves in 2024, but hold a substantial meaning as to whether the Mets can actually get to the 80-something wins that will be needed to land a wild card. In the most idealized version, Scott will prove real, Senga will rejoin the rotation in a month in a form similar to the second half of last season and Luis Severino will stay healthy and in his current state to provide the Mets a big rotation threesome. But Mendoza sounded ambiguous and perhaps a bit mystified about Senga slowing down his shoulder rehab because he feels out of sorts mechanically. Scott, though, was encouraging. He went 1-2-3 in a nine-pitch first that had four swings and misses. But after a scoreless second that included his third strikeout of this game, Scott allowed Michael Harris II to end a 0-for-29 streak with a single and on a 2-0 fastball Orlando Arcia smacked a two-run homer. Harris added an RBI single in the fourth. Scott responded by retiring the next seven batters before going walk, single to open the seventh and get lifted. Scott through two major league starts and 14 strikeouts (only Matt Harvey with 18 had more for the Mets in his first two starts) does not seem overwhelmed by being in the majors. The tout on him was he was Grade A in both sweeper and swagger, and so far both have been overt. It didn’t stop a familiar condition for a Mets pitcher over the years — a loss to the Braves. But the Mets can’t think of themselves in the Braves’ division or class in 2024. The same with the Phillies. They are trying to be atop the next level and find a way into the playoffs where short-series surprises can happen. It is more difficult to see how they get there unless the first two starts by Scott are a preview of what he can offer the rest of the way. joel.sherman@nypost.com Still time to see where Amazin’s belong in NL Joel Sherman JURY’S OUT: It remains to be seen whether J.D. Martinez, watching his solo homer that broke up the Braves’ no-hit bid in the ninth inning, and the Mets have what it takes to compete for a playoff spot. Robert Sabo if it’s going to go down, if it’s going to go up. He’s a really good pitcher.” The Mets only got to Iglesias, who allowed two, two-out hits — after Martinez’s homer, Jeff McNeil walked and Harrison Bader reached on an infield single — but Brett Baty flew out to end it. Overshadowed was the home debut of Scott, who pitched well if not dominantly. In his second major league start, the 24-year-old allowed three runs on six hits and two walks with eight strikeouts in six-plus innings. The righty cruised through two innings before stumbling in the third, when Orlando Arcia smoked a two-run home run that hooked just fair down the leftfield line for the only runs Atlanta would need. Scott bemoaned the two pitches previous to the four-seamer that was launched over the wall. “Threw a 2-0 fastball to Arcia in, right where I wanted it, but good hitters are going to do that in hitters counts,” said Scott, who is the first Mets pitcher since Steven Matz to record back-to-back quality starts to begin his MLB career. He gave up another run in the fourth, when Harris cracked an RBI single, but otherwise Scott held his own against one of the best offenses in baseball. Scott was a positive. The mini rally the Mets stacked together after 26 hitless outs was a positive. 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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 78 Cortes struggles with fastball as Rays duo strike to sink Yanks By GREG JOYCE ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Nestor Cortes spent the first three innings Saturday pitching without an important ingredient to his success. By the time he found it, the damage was already done. Cortes had trouble commanding his four-seam fastball, and notably left two over the heart of the plate that the Rays turned into home runs on the way to a 7-2 win over the Yankees at Tropicana Field. “It’s tough to pitch in this league without a fastball, that’s for sure,” Cortes said after giving up four runs across 5 ¹/3 innings. “I felt like every time I would try to throw a fastball in the zone, it was getting hit. I think I wasn’t able to establish it early. That’s why when I would go back to it again, it was getting hit hard.” Yandy Diaz and Randy Arozarena, who entered the day off to quiet starts, ganged up on Cortes and then came back for more against the Yankees’ bullpen. They both homered off Cortes and combined to go 5-for-7 with three doubles, two home runs, five runs and six RBIs to even the series ahead of Sunday’s rubber game. “You know what they’re capable of,” manager Aaron Boone said. “They’re really good hitters. Obviously they made a big difference in them winning the game today.” The Yankees (26-15) got a three-hit day from Anthony Volpe, but only two other hits from the rest of the lineup. With the Yankees trailing 4-2 in the seventh inning, Juan Soto looked like he might put them ahead with a three-run home run, but his deep fly ball came up just short of the center-field wall. The Rays (20-20) then broke the game open in the bottom of the inning against reliever Dennis Santana, with Diaz and Arozarena right in the middle of it. For Cortes, Diaz’s big day was all too familiar. The first baseman entered the game batting .370 with a 1.097 OPS against the Yankees’ lefthander, a trend that continued on Saturday as Diaz crushed his first pitch of the game for a home run. Cortes issued a pair of walks through the first two innings that did not lead to further trouble, but the third one did. Cortes walked No. 9 hitter Jose Siri to lead off the third inning — unable to find the strike zone with his fastball — which Diaz followed by ripping a double off the base of the leftfield wall. Arozarena came up next and jumped on a fastball down the middle for a three-run home run that put the Rays back up 4-2. “Just struggled with his fastball command and really getting it to that top rail early on,” Boone said. “I thought he righted the ship a little bit and got it going in the middle of the game. But just early on, he seemed to have a hard time getting that fastball to the top rail like he normally does so well. A lot of pitches that shot up there that were getting away from him a little bit.” Cortes said he made a mechanical adjustment with his delivery after the third inning to get more behind his fastball, which allowed him to settle in. But by that point, it was too late. Faced with an early deficit, the Yankees had come back to take a lead in the second inning against tough righthander Zack Littell. Anthony Rizzo drew a four-pitch walk and Austin Wells shot a double to the gap before Trent Grisham loaded the bases with a two-out walk. Volpe then lofted a single to left-center to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead, though the opportunity to add on was quickly erased when Grisham took a wide turn around second base and was eventually tagged out in a rundown. “Just a mistake,” Boone said. “I don’t think he saw the ball well off the bat and probably thinking maybe there’s a play at the plate, which obviously there wasn’t.” gjoyce@nypost.com RAYS 7 YANKEES 2 Boxscore Page 58 By GREG JOYCE Arozarena came up next and SUN BURNT: Randy Arozarena, scoring on a sac fly around Yankees catcher Austin Wells in the seventh inning, and the Rays teed off on Nestor Cortes (right) in Saturday’s 7-2 loss. AP; Getty Images

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If they all stay healthy over the next month, it would not be surprising to see the Yankees send Dominguez to Triple-A once his rehab assignment is up. “Hopefully it is a tough decision at that point, because good things are happening here,” manager Aaron Boone said Saturday at Tropicana Field. “We’ll cross that bridge when we get there.” Dominguez crushed his September call-up last season, but it lasted only eight games before he landed on the IL with a UCL tear that required surgery after posting a .980 OPS with four home runs while starting all eight games in center field. Before his MLB debut, the top prospect had played just nine career games at Triple-A. “I always feel like I’ve been one of the high guys on Jasson,” Boone said. “Going back to last spring, I’m like, this guy’s a big-leaguer. There’s no doubt in my mind he’s going to have a really good major league career. … Now, when does that happen? When does he really take off and pop and all that? That always is an unknown and remains to be seen. Everyone’s trajectory is different. But I am confident in the person and the talent.” Plenty of things could happen before the Yankees have to make a call on Dominguez that could change their plans. For now, they are just happy that the rehab process to this point has gone as well as could have been expected. Boone even said that Dominguez is “ready to go” defensively — he was expected to throw to bases for the first time on Saturday at the club’s player development complex — but the Yankees are easing him into action. “It seems like there’s been very few hiccups along the way,” Boone said. “It’s been smooth, he hasn’t been rushed.” By GREG JOYCE ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Patiently, deliberately and encouragingly, the buildup continues for Gerrit Cole. On Saturday at Tropicana Field, the Yankees ace threw his third bullpen session since being shut down in March with nerve inflammation and edema in his right elbow, throwing 29 pitches, 13 of which were breaking balls. After throwing 15 pitches (all fastballs) in his first bullpen session last Saturday and then 20 pitches (mostly fastballs) on Tuesday, Cole continued to increase the volume and take another step toward a potential return that could come around the beginning of July. “We’re making good progress,” Cole said. “Fastball profiles were good and location was good. The velocity was where we wanted it [averaging 89.5 mph]. A lot of strikes.” The Yankees and Cole have repeatedly declined to put a timetable on his return, taking each step of the rehab process as it comes. But Cole on Saturday indicated he would need at least a couple more bullpen sessions before he would be ready to advance to facing live hitters. A handful of live sessions would then be followed by a rehab assignment, if everything continues to go as planned. “Some of [the bullpen sessions] are a mixture of adding volume, adding intensity,” Cole said. “I’ve already kind of feathered in the breaking ball percentage or the offspeed percentage that’s relatively similar to what a game would be like. Allocating 55-60 percent fastballs, maybe just a tick on the high side at this [stage]. Then I would say we’re pretty much at full size at this point. “So the next couple will be trying to progress to two ups, so that we can get to hitters. Gotta add the volume and intensity, feather that in strategically. I’m not sure how many more till we face hitters.” As long as he recovers well from Saturday, Cole’s next bullpen session could come Tuesday at the Yankees’ player development complex in Tampa. Cole would throw in the club’s pitching lab, which would allow him to receive biokinetic feedback. “It’s just a little bit more information,” he said. “Just a way to cross-reference the data with the Hawk-Eye [tracking system]. A little bit more precision, so it’s just more information.” Cole’s rehab process has gone well overall since he started playing catch again on April 8 following a three to four week shutdown. He had only made one Grapefruit League start before being diagnosed with the elbow issue, which came after he was not recovering well between outings, so the Yankees plan to give Cole the equivalent of a full spring training (six weeks) to ramp up his workload responsibly. Even without the reigning AL Cy Young winner, though, the Yankees rotation has pitched well to start the season. The group entered Saturday having posted a 3.36 ERA, the seventhlowest mark in the majors, which was lowered after Clarke Schmidt tossed 6 2/3 shutout innings against the Rays on Friday night. “It’s fun to watch,” Cole said. “Big one [Friday] night for Clarke. They’re all just pulling the car together. They’re doing a great job pitching together as a group and communicating. Paying attention, feeding off one another, being competitive. They’re all improving in their own ways. They’ve been a real strength for us.” While Cole has been sidelined, he has remained an important voice for his fellow pitchers, often giving them feedback and advice during or after starts or bullpen sessions. That included Friday, when he watched Luis Gil’s bullpen session and then spent time with him going through some mechanical suggestions. “We want to make sure we’re breaking our hands in a consistent spot,” Cole said of the motion of a pitcher’s throwing hand leaving the glove during the delivery. “Oftentimes as pitchers, we talk about the top of the leg lift. That can be a little bit individualized, in terms of some guys don’t necessarily break right at the top. I don’t break right at the top. But some of [Gil’s] deliveries kind of get a little bit inconsistent if his break isn’t great. “So just working on trusting that. Trusting that when the ball is out early, you have to do less and it comes out hot, comes out where you want it to.” Cole’s pitch count rises in latest bullpen session WELCOME SIGHT: Yankees ace Gerrit Cole delivers a pitch during his bullpen session before Saturday’s loss at Tropicana Field. AP More Yankees / Page 57

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 80 INDIANA PACERS NEW YORK KNICKS I NDIANAPOLIS — This has always been a hell of a city to try to find a playoff basketball win. Back in the day, old Market Square Arena used to shimmy and shake from an hour before tip-off, the P.A. announcer exhorting “Pacer people!” to make matters especially difficult for a visitor. Market Square Arena was also the last place where Elvis Presley ever performed a concert, back on June 26, 1977, so it had seen some things. The Knicks would come here, take a look around, hear all those sound effects mimicking the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. One time it moved Patrick Ewing to say, “I don’t know that I feel a lot of hate in most cities. But I feel hate here.” Gainbridge Fieldhouse is a worthy successor, an architectural marvel that tries to incorporate Indiana’s bandbox basketball heritage into a modern NBA facility. It was the perfect setting for a hyperintense Game 3 on Friday night. Maybe Indy can’t match New York Ben Stiller-for-Chris Rock-forSpike Lee but Edgerrin James was there, and Roy Hibbert. And at the end, they weren’t going to allow the Knicks to steal a perfectly stealable game. In theory, there should be no carryover. If you look at it from 30,000 feet with a cold, dispassionate set of eyes, the Knicks are 6-3 in these playoffs, and two of those losses — Game 5 against Philly, Game 3 Friday against Indiana — they essentially lost because someone knocked down a 30-foot prayer. The Knicks are, even diminished, the perfect road team. They are unmoved by hostile environments. They are unaffected by big leads. There was every reason for them to get their doors blown off Friday, and instead the prevailing sense when it was over was they’d let something besides a nine-point fourth quarter lead slip away from them. Here, too, they are also not a team to dwell, which serves as a terrific antidote to the road. After Tyrese Maxey tried to break their spirits in Game 5 of Round 1, the Knicks simply took it to the Sixers at Wells Fargo Center. And now, having had a day and a half to recover from the Pacers’ 111-106 win in Game 3, they’ll get another crack in the heart of downtown Sunday. “For us it’s all about mindset,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “We aren’t worried about things we can’t control so we focus on the things we can. Don’t worry about the outside attention, the outside noise.” It will be noisy Sunday afternoon, there’s no question about that. It will be 17,274 people inside, with only a handful of Knicks fans to lend their voices to the cause. And the Pacers are on a nice roll at home, too. When they lost here to Cleveland, 108-103, on March 18, it left them with a most pedestrian 21-15 record at home. But that was the most recent time they’ve fallen here. They won five straight to end the season — notably against the Lakers, Thunder and Heat — then took all three games here in the opening series against Milwaukee, then Friday night against the Knicks. That’s nine straight, and though they certainly looked shaky and vulnerable Friday — and may have a hobbled Tyrese Haliburton leading the charge Sunday — they have found a way to make their home court work for them. Look, the Knicks still have two home games. They still get Game 7, if it goes that far, which is the reason they worked so hard and ran through the tape in Game 82. They have a cushion. But we’ve also seen what can happen in these series. Back in the ’90s, in back-to-back years, the Knicks took early 2-0 leads by holding serve at home (’93 against the Bulls, ’94 against these Pacers) Mike Vaccaro HART OF THE MATTER: Josh Hart, Isaiah Hartenstein and the Knicks nearly stole Game 3 at a raucous Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Seemingly impervious to hostile fans, they won’t be intimidated in Game 4. Getty Images (2); AP

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 81 INDIANA PACERS NEW YORK KNICKS By PETER BOTTE INDIANAPOLIS — Knowing that Jalen Brunson was at less than full strength, Donte DiVincenzo went off for the most points he’s ever scored in an NBA playoff game Friday night. Still, DiVincenzo wasn’t reveling in his career postseason-high 35 points after the Knicks fell short in their Game 3 loss to the Pacers. “We took an L. That’s how I viewed it. It doesn’t mean anything,” DiVincenzo said. “Going into the next game, I’ve gotta be better in other categories. And that’s what I’m gonna watch.” The banged-up Knicks had a day off ahead of Game 4 on Sunday, and that probably was a good thing with Brunson playing through a sore foot in Game 3. DiVincenzo, who only has missed one game all season, also appeared to be moving gingerly after Friday’s game. “Nah, I landed on my back. I’m fine,” said DiVincenzo, who played 44 minutes for the third straight game in the series. “Just a little in the moment, got back up.” DiVincenzo has picked himself up after some slumping moments in the first round against the 76ers, with an average of 29.3 points per game against Indiana. He nailed 7 of 11 from 3-point range in Game 3 to boost his shooting percentage from beyond the arc in the first three games to a whopping 56.3 (18- for-32). “I think he said it before, if he’s going to play he’s fine. My mindset is not, ‘Oh he’s questionable, he might be banged up, we need to do X, Y and Z,’ ” DiVincenzo said of Brunson. “Every game just has the mindset of being aggressive, just taking what the defense gives you. “And [Friday] from the 3-point line it was falling. Just trying to be aggressive to make them react. That’s all. That’s all my mindset was.” DiVincenzo buried big shots to help the Knicks win Game 2 and Game 6 in the first round against the 76ers, but he dipped offensively — shooting 39.3 percent (11-for-28) and totaling just 30 points — in the other four games. After Friday’s loss, DiVincenzo credited veteran guard Alec Burks, who scored 14 points in his first extended action of the postseason, with helping him maintain his confidence during those struggles. “Kind of just kept building me up, just always telling me it comes back around,” DiVincenzo said. “He’s been around the league for a long time. He knows how these things go. And he has the most confidence in me. ... My confidence is always high — but there’s always different moments throughout a series and throughout seasons where you can always get picked up and he was the first one to pick me up.” Losing board battle a losing recipe By PETER BOTTE INDIANAPOLIS — One of the Knicks’ great strengths all season has been offensive rebounding, but losing that battle contributed to their loss in Game 3 against the Pacers. The Pacers finished with 13 offensive boards, including six by center Myles Turner, and one by Aaron Nesmith that led to Andrew Nembhard’s tiebreaking 3-pointer with 17.1 seconds remaining. “I think the fourth quarter, we lost by 10 [points], so I think that was the biggest thing: We had a couple of rebounds we didn’t get at the end,” Knicks center Isaiah Hartenstein said after the game. “It’s still a close game. We could have won that game. But some small key details we just have to fix.” The Knicks finished third in the NBA in fewest second-chance points allowed (12.3 per game) during the regular season, but they were 13th in that category in the playoffs through Friday night (13.4). They also have led the league in offensive rebounding in both the 82-game slate and the postseason, but the Pacers held a 13-10 advantage in their first win of the series. “For sure. I think that’s what we pride ourselves on, the identity for us,” Donte DiVincenzo said. “We knew that was going to be a point of emphasis for them coming into the game. “We’ll go back, look at the film and see how we can clean up a few things. Ultimately just compete harder and I think it goes a different way for us.” Of course, the Knicks were missing three key frontcourt players — Mitchell Robinson, Julius Randle and OG Anunoby — and that trio also will be out for Game 4 on Sunday. Precious Achiuwa moved into the starting lineup, and Hartenstein played a personal playoffhigh 39 minutes in Friday’s game. “You don’t really wanna make excuses like that,” Hartenstein replied when asked if the shorthanded Knicks were “gassed” in the fourth quarter. “At the end of the day, we just have to get those rebounds. We normally get those rebounds at the end, so that’s an easy fix.” Josh Hart grabbed a game-high 18 boards to become the first Knick since Patrick Ewing (1999) to have at least 15 in back-to-back playoff games. Still, the Knicks were outrebounded 15-10 in the fourth quarter, including 5-3 on the offensive glass. “Yeah, they got a couple. I wouldn’t say it’s extra frustrating, but they knew what they should have done better,” Hart said. “I’m not going to say it’s extra, but we have to be better. We have to be more sound, especially on long shots. You gotta know there’s going to be long rebounds.” Asked what separated the two teams in the fourth quarter, guard Miles McBride added, “Secondchance opportunities. Obviously, that last play when [Nembhard] hit the 3 was a second chance. So I think we just gotta finish our defense. Sometimes I think the ball just takes a long bounce. In that case, we just have to be sharper, we have to just absolutely leave no doubt. Make sure that everybody’s accounted for it, and finish the play.” pbotte@nypost.com then let them gain confidence by beating them twice on their home courts, then carrying that momentum to Game 5 at the Garden. The Knicks survived in ’94, in ’93 they did not. That, as much as anything, is why Game 3 stings. The Knicks had their eyeballs fixed on stealing an unlikely game. They didn’t. They allowed the Pacers to believe they are right back in the series. They shouldn’t be. But if they can win a 10th straight home game Sunday, they will be. And it’ll be down to a best two-of-three. It’s good that there would be two bookend games at the Garden in that scenario, better that Game 7 would be there. But best of all if that game is never needed. The Knicks can see to that starting Sunday. mvaccaro@nypost.com More Knicks / Page 71 HIGH STANDARDS: Despite pouring in a career playoff-high 35 points, Donte DiVincenzo says he could have done more to help the Knicks win. N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 82 INDIANA PACERS NEW YORK KNICKS PAIN OF THEIR By STEFAN BONDY INDIANAPOLIS — The war of attrition was present in the postgame press conference from Tyrese Haliburton, who grabbed both rails to get himself down the steps and hobble away after the interview, stage left. “It was my ankle,” Haliburton said. “I rolled my ankle on that steal with the layup in the fourth, and I landed on my tailbone there on that and-one. So just my overall body right now I’m hurting, but I mean they got guys hurting too, so we got to understand everybody’s hurting right now.” Jalen Brunson is among those ailing. The powerful explosion was absent from his cutting in Friday night’s Game 3 loss, and the obvious explanation, though Brunson wouldn’t admit it, is the mysterious “sore right foot,” as described by the injury report. Soreness is a symptom, not an injury, but the Knicks haven’t explained why it’s there, and Brunson is never shorter with answers than when he’s talking about his health. “If I’m out there, I’m playing,” he said. “There’s no excuse whether I’m hurting or not. If I’m hurting, I’ll come out.” Wounded or not, the Eastern Conference semis, as billed prior to its start, has been about the point guards. Brunson utterly dominated Game 1 while Haliburton disappeared. The Knicks won. Haliburton resurfaced in Game 2, but Brunson was again the hero after riding the emotional wave of his Willis Reed tunnel moment. In Game 3, Haliburton was the better player, without much debate, even if he shrunk on the night’s biggest possession by passing on the potential gamewinner to give Andrew Nembhard a very difficult shot. The Pacers made a key defensive adjustment on Brunson (more on that later), and won. Haliburton downplayed the individual matchup, an understandable reaction considering the point guards rarely guard each other. “I mean, I don’t think it’s as much about me versus [Brunson] as much as it is our teams versus each other. It’s not about that,” Haliburton said. “It’s just doing what you have to do to win. He’s doing what he has to do for his team to win games, and I got to do that as well to get my team the best chance to win. “So it’s less about the matchup and who’s scoring or who’s doing what. That’s for y’all to talk about. We’re just trying to win games.” Winning Game 4 on Mother’s Day, for the Knicks, is a battle on multiple fronts. There’s the consistent angle of overcoming injuries, which will be prominent again. OG Anunoby (strained hamstring) is out despite traveling with the team to Indiana. Precious Achiuwa started in his spot but was ineffective and benched the entire fourth quarter, with Miles McBride getting those minutes down the stretch as the Knicks went small. The other important adjustment is to get Brunson going after a flat Game 3. Some of that was about Brunson not moving with his usual confidence because of the foot pain. But he also had problems navigating around defender Aaron Nesmith, who shifted onto Brunson as the primary defender for Game 3 and gave him fits as a bigger, stronger body. When Nesmith was the primary defender, Brunson shot just 6-for-16 with four turnovers and zero assists Friday. Those are brutal numbers. “Every game is going to have different things going on. We can’t give New York a recipe of the same thing over and over again,” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said. “So the idea was just change the matchup, get a little more size, and Aaron did as good a job, I think, as you can possibly do.” Brunson gave Nesmith props while also looking forward to fixing the issues. “He played really well. Played great defense,” Brunson said. “Just gotta give him a lot of credit. Just didn’t do Star point guards can’t shake injuries — or their importance in deciding Game 4 and series SORE SUBJECTS: Knicks star point guard Jalen Brunson and his Pacers counterpart, Tyrese Haliburton, are both banged up heading into Game 4. But neither is about to use that as an excuse ahead of the pivotal Sunday afternoon showdown. AP

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 83 INDIANA PACERS NEW YORK KNICKS EXISTENCE By BRIAN LEWIS INDIANAPOLIS — It’s hard to pick out which body part is hurting Tyrese Haliburton the most. Foot? Back? Hamstring? But there’s clearly nothing wrong with his heart. The Pacers star has shown plenty of that in bouncing back from his offensive funk and lifting Indiana back into this Eastern Conference semifinals series. The sight of Haliburton driving with abandon to power Friday’s 111-106 Game 3 win over the Knicks, then having to steady himself on the rails as he gimped up and down to the postgame podium, told the tale better than words could. “My just overall body right now,” Haliburton said. “I’m hurting. But they’ve got guys hurting, too. We’ve got to understand that everybody’s hurting right now. Thank God we’ve got a day in-between. I’m young, and I’ll heal up and be ready on Sunday.” Indiana goes into Sunday’s 3:30 p.m. Game 4 matinee trailing 2-1 in the best-of-seven series. It could’ve easily been 3-0 if not for Haliburton, who had 35 points, seven assists and two steals. “Just getting downhill,” Haliburton said, shrugging. “Being aggressive, being who I am.” But Haliburton, who has been dealing with a bad back, took a hard fall on his tailbone with 9:25 to play. Then he had a steal and layup with 7:42 left, but rolled his ankle avoiding Josh Hart on the finish. He didn’t score again, missing his final three shots. Haliburton is officially listed as questionable for Sunday with a number of ailments: low back spasms, sacral contusion (essentially a back bruise) and a right ankle sprain. “He got banged up,” Carlisle said. “The hope is he’s going to be OK for Sunday. I think it’s going to be hard to keep him out of the game.” Indiana doesn’t just need the NBA assist champ. They need him aggressive in Game 4 and beyond, the same way he was in Game 3. Haliburton had his most points and shots (26) since a Nov. 30 loss in Miami, before the hamstring injury that has been a clear line of demarcation for his season. The All-Star has been a shadow of his former self since that Jan. 8 strain. “Whether he’s scoring a lot of points or not,” Carlisle said, “his aggression is going to be important in every game.” The Pacers need it. brian.lewis@nypost.com By BRIAN LEWIS INDIANAPOLIS — The Pacers can’t stop Jalen Brunson. But they’re going to have to use a mix of different defenses and different defenders to try to contain him. In their Game 3 win over the Knicks, that meant using Aaron Nesmith, who did yeoman’s work in slowing Brunson. What that means for Sunday’s Game 4 matinee at Gainbridge Fieldhouse remains to be seen. “Every game is different,” Indiana coach Rick Carlisle said. “You can’t give New York a recipe of the same thing over and over again. They’re going to adjust. Brunson is too great a player. “So, the idea was to change the matchup and get a little more size, and Aaron did as good a job as you can possibly do. Brunson is so good. He’s the best scorer in the playoffs, I believe. … So that helped, and Game 4 could look completely different.” Carlisle isn’t going on a limb. Brunson’s 34.6-point average and 311 points total both lead all postseason scorers, and much of that has come at the expense of Carlisle’s defensively deficient Pacers. Andrew Nembhard started against Brunson in both games at the Garden, both Pacers losses. After watching his shooting guard get overwhelmed and his defense cough up 24 second-half points to a hobbled Brunson in Game 2, Carlisle had seen enough and switched to Nesmith in the must-win Game 3. It worked, as Nesmith held him more than eight points under his playoff average. More importantly, he made Brunson work, shooting just 10-for-26. It was his lowest-scoring effort since Game 2 of the first round and his most inefficient outing against the Pacers. “He’s one of those tough guys that we have on the team. And he does it all,” Pascal Siakam said. “He’s not scared of the matchups, and we put all that trust in him, and he’s going to fight his butt off every possession. These guys, sometimes [the star] is going to make shots. It’s hard. So I think you just do your best, and I think he did it great [Friday]. And obviously we’re gonna need a lot from him for sure.” At 6-foot-6 with a 6-10 wingspan, Nesmith offered more size than Nembhard or 6-1 backup guard T.J. McConnell. In the first-round series win over Milwaukee, Nesmith had guarded the Bucks’ 6-7 Khris Middleton. Brunson posed a different challenge. “Aaron did an amazing job, speeding [Brunson] up at times, not fouling him, and being super competitive on that side of the floor,” Nembhard said. Nesmith’s efforts may have taken a toll in the fourth quarter, when a hobbled Brunson shot just 2-for-7 and finished minus-11. “[Brunson’s] a tough cover, as talented as he is as a player. The things that he can do — 3s, layups, floaters — he has it all,” Siakam said. “So it’s a team effort, just trying as hard as you can to make it tough on him.” the things that I normally know I can do, no matter who’s guarding me, but he did a really good job. Hat’s off to him, and I just gotta be better. I gotta make the correct adjustments and be ready for Sunday.” If the adjustments unlock MVPlevel Brunson, there’s a much better chance the Knicks win the game. If Haliburton goes off, the Pacers are in a good spot to tie the series at 2. Both are dealing with injuries. Both have dictated the success and failures of their teams in the playoffs. 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New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 84 fifffflffiflff fflfflfiff  ffiffl fflffffl RALEIGH, N.C. — Thursday night’s hero was one of Saturday night’s goats for the Rangers. Two nights earlier inside a PNC Arena that wreaked of desperation, it was Artemi Panarin delivering a dagger to the hearts of the Hurricanes, scoring the game-winning goal in overtime for a 3-0 series lead for the Rangers. That came minutes after Panarin stood in front of his teammates in the cramped PNC Arena visitors’ dressing room at the end of regulation urging them not to be discouraged by the fact that Carolina had just tied the game with a six-on-five goal and to remain “resilient’’ in OT. Saturday night’s deflating 4-3 Rangers loss to Carolina in Game 4 at PNC Arena in a game in which they clawed back from a pair of two-goal deficits to have the game tied at 3-3 in the third period quickly devolved into quite a different story for them — and Panarin in particular. With the Hurricanes already up 1-0 on an Evgeny Kuznetsov unassisted goal just 1:51 into the game that proved to be the first punch to the Rangers’ chin, Panarin was slightly late to get to a puck former Rangers defenseman Tony DeAngelo got near the blue line. That helped lead to a Stefan Noesen goal with Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba unable to clear Carolina’s Jordan Staal from the goal crease and a 2-0 Hurricanes lead at 6:33 of the first period. Carolina center Martin Necas took the freed puck and fired a shot on Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin and Noeson buried the rebound. After the Rangers cut the Carolina lead to 2-1 just 1:33 after the Noesen goal, Panarin appeared to get onto the ice for his shift a split-second late and then took a bad angle on Hurricanes center Jake Guentzel behind the Rangers net. Moments later, Guentzel fed Sebastian Aho the puck in the slot with Panarin now shielded out by Aho in front of the net and Aho beat Shesterkin high over his left shoulder for a stunning 3-1 Carolina lead. It was the first time in this postseason the Rangers trailed by more than one goal. “We didn’t play well enough on defense,’’ Rangers coach Peter Laviolette said in a TV interview with TNT between the first and second periods. “You make a mistake early and [the puck] is in the back of the net. You don’t pick up defensively and it’s in back of net.’’ To be clear: Panarin was hardly the sole reason the Rangers lost Game 4 and now must try to close out this series Monday night at the Garden to avoid a second trip to North Carolina. But, two nights after he was the difference maker in the Rangers Game 3 win, he played a part in setting the Rangers up for early adversity _ even if they were subtle mistakes on his part. “We dug ourselves a hole early,’’ Laviolette said after the game. “The [chances] that we gave up were pretty noisy. We’ve got to come out a little bit sharper than that. There were some things defensively I thought we could have been a little better with in the first period.’’ Asked specifically about Panarin’s errors, Laviolette, who never calls out his players in public, deflected any blame. “Listen, they’ve got a good team out there, too, they’ve got strong players, too,’’ the protective coach said. “[Panarin] just managed to get caught on the wrong side of [Guentzel on the Aho goal] and you lose him for a second and ... it’s not just [Panarin]. We could have been a little bit tighter with what we were doing, whether it was puck decisions or the coverage a little quicker to close.’’ The last thing the Rangers wanted to do Mark Cannizzaro ark Cannizza

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 85 fifffflffiflff fflfflfiff  ffiffl fflffffl By MOLLIE WALKER RALEIGH, N.C. — After playing in his first game back from a suspected concussion that sidelined him for the past six months, Filip Chytil was not available for the Rangers’ 4-3, Game 4 loss to the Hurricanes due to what the team described as “illness.” Chytil was not on the ice for the morning skate on Saturday at PNC Arena, but head coach Peter Laviolette classified the Czech forward as a game-time decision. He ultimately did not dress. “He felt great [Friday], went to the team meal,” Laviolette said of Chytil, who was glowing during his postgame interview on Thursday. “Woke up this morning and didn’t feel well.” The Rangers’ bench boss wouldn’t reveal much beyond that, declining to address whether Chytil’s illness was connected to the suspected concussion he had just returned from. With Chytil unavailable, Jonny Brodzinski drew back into the lineup for the first time since April 11. Instead of serving as a placeholder for Chytil during morning skate, the 30-year-old forward took reps on the fourth line alongside Jimmy Vesey and Barclay Goodrow, and that’s where he played in the game, logging 8:49 on ice. The third line pre-Chytil, with Will Cuylle, Alex Wennberg and Kaapo Kakko, was reunited. Matt Rempe took the ice for warm-ups, but did not take line rushes and was ultimately a healthy scratch for a second straight game. There’s always a chance it’s a pure coincidence, but Chytil not being able to get on the ice the second morning after playing his first game back from what is believed to be his fourth documented concussion is not an encouraging sign for the 24-year-old. The Rangers have always maintained that Chytil’s health is of the utmost importance and the organization will surely navigate the situation accordingly. Chytil, who was medically cleared on April 12 before the playoffs officially began, has been a full participant in practice ever since. He had been ramping his game up and reportedly advocating for himself to play. Laviolette ultimately reinserted Chytil in the lineup for Game 3, which resulted in a 3-2 overtime win and a 3-0 series lead for the Rangers. ➤Through Game 4, Mika Zibanejad has totaled 13 points by way of three goals and 10 assists through eight playoff games, tied for the third-most in the NHL. Return brief as Chytil sits with illness RANGERS NOTES in Game 4 was allow the Hurricanes to muster any hope early in the game. “We wanted to rely on relentless pressure, and we had to do it in the first period or we weren’t going to be playing anymore,’’ Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour told TNT during the second-period intermission. The shaky start for Panarin, who was not made available to reporters after the game, was somewhat ironic when you listen to the words from Carolina center Martin Necas before the game when he was asked about the Rangers’ leading scorer. “He’s one of those players, like in the last game [Thursday], you could hardly notice him the whole game and there were two plays he makes and it’s game over,’’ Necas said. “With these players, you’ve really got to know where they are and if you don’t, that’s what happens.’’ On this night, it was the Hurricanes who got the better of Panarin, not the other way around. mcannizzaro@nypost.com ART’ CRITIC: Artemi Panarin is the reason the Rangers entered Game 4 with a 3-0 series lead, and he isn’t why they failed to complete the sweep of the Hurricanes on Saturday. But his miscues in the first period that led to a goal certainly did not help. Getty Images By MOLLIE WALKER RALEIGH, N.C. — The Rangers’ and Hurricanes’ second-round playoff series is doubling as a Drury family affair. With Blueshirts president and general manager Chris Drury in a suit looking down on the game from his private booth in the press box, his nephew, Jack Drury, is donning a Carolina jersey and skates on the other side of the ice. The hockey-centric family is going about it how most would, but still with familial pleasantries. “He sent me a text after our last series,” Jack Drury told The Post with a smile after the Canes’ practice on Friday. “We both just kind of said, ‘Good luck, and we’ll talk in a few weeks.’ ” Jack Drury is the son of Chris Drury’s brother, Ted, who enjoyed an eight-year NHL career of his own with the Flames, Whalers, Ducks, Islanders and Blue Jackets. The Drury brothers overlapped for just four seasons before Ted retired in 2007, which is the same year Chris started with the Rangers. The 24-year-old forward, whose Hurricanes won 4-3 in Game 4 on Saturday, said his uncle used to give him hockey tips and tricks when he was younger, but that starts to fade whenever a player gets older. Still, Jack Drury maintains that Chris Drury had a major influence on his hockey career. “I remember his tenacity, how hard he played,” he said of what he remembers about Chris’ playing days. “Good on faceoffs. When he was in the Olympics in Vancouver, I remember getting to go watch and that was one of my best childhood memories. Very grateful for getting to watch him and the influence he’s had on me.” The younger Drury is coming off his first full NHL season, over which he scored eight goals and dished 19 assists through 74 games. After appearing in just two games in 2021-22, Drury played 38 games for Carolina last season. “I’ve liked his year,” Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Amour said of Drury earlier in the playoffs. “It started out, he was probably not in that role as much, and he earned it. I guess that’s the simplest way to put it. Every time you put him there, good things happen, and again the other night. “We know what we’re getting. You’re getting that consistent effort, and he can make plays. This time of year, it’s all about that. That consistency. At the end of the day, he’s earned the ice time.” No matter how this series swings, Jack agreed the next Thanksgiving should be OK. Drury’s nephew makes series a family affair IT’S ALL RELATIVE: The Hurricanes’ Jack Drury (right), nephew to Rangers general manager Chris Drury, checks Mika Zibanejad during the second period of Game 4. Jason Szenes

New York Post, Sunday, May 12, 2024 nypost.com 86 fifffflffiflff fflfflfiff  ffiffl fflffffl By MOLLIE WALKER RALEIGH, N.C. — Even though it still looked possible until Saturday evening, the Rangers were never going to go 16-0 in the playoffs. And so, for the first time in a month, the Blueshirts lost 4-3 in Game 4 of their second-round series against the Hurricanes at PNC Arena, where they failed to capitalize on their first opportunity to close out Carolina in front of a healthy representation of New York transplants in the South. The Rangers will get their next chance to advance in Game 5 on Monday at the Garden. “Gotta win one game at home,” Adam Fox said. “They’re not going to go down easy and just give us that fourth win. Definitely going to have to earn it, but I think this group has shown all year how resilient we are. I’m pretty confident in how we’ll respond.” For a third straight game, there was a tie to be broken in the third period. The elusive power-play goal that had evaded the Hurricanes all series resulting in an 0-for-16 stretch came at the most opportune moment to keep their season alive. With Ryan Lindgren in the box for tripping, former Ranger Brady Skjei blasted a one-timer from the top of the zone that went bar down and in to help the Canes stave off elimination and avoid getting swept in a playoff round for a second straight year. It ended goalie Igor Shesterkin’s streak of 30 consecutive playoff starts without allowing more than three goals, dating to Game 5 of Round 1 in 2022, in addition to preventing the Rangers from becoming the first team of the four-round best-of-seven postseason era to go 8-0 to start. “Obviously, tough time to give up the first one,” Barclay Goodrow said of the Rangers’ penalty kill. “I think if we’re able to kill that off, we gain momentum and obviously the game is a whole different story. Just got to regroup and get it back on Monday.” The Rangers were more on their toes in the second period than on their heels, like they were in a first period that felt like a tug-of-war the Hurricanes got the better of. Down 2-0 and then 3-1 by the start of the second period, marking their largest deficit of the postseason, the visitors truly never looked out of the game. After Will Cuylle converted on a breakaway to get his team on the board, the Rangers generated chances in all different facets: in transition, after sustained zone time and from long range. Only one was converted in the middle frame, however, when Goodrow tipped in a Braden Schneider wrister from the top of the zone to cut the Rangers’ deficit to one. But Alexis Lafreniere, who was buzzing all night long as one of the Rangers’ most consistent forwards, delivered in a big spot Rangers no longer perfect as Canes force series back to MSG for Game 5 CANES 4 RANGERS 3 Game 4 Sum., P. 59

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Fox, who took a legon-leg from Nick Jensen in Game 4 of the Washington series on April 28, has not seemed entirely up to par throughout this series and appeared to labor at times in the match. There should not be undue concern over this one in which the Rangers seemed disconnected early while committing a bevy of coverage errors, both forced and unforced. They fell behind 2-0 at 6:33 of the first and were down 3-1 by the end of the period. But then the Blueshirts dug in because that is what they do. They persevered and tied the score 3-3 at 2:04 of the third on a bankshot by Alexis Lafreniere, who was the best player on the ice by miles and miles only to have Brady Skjei win it on a power-play clapper from the right point at 16:49 with Ryan Lindgren in the box having tripped Jordan Martinook 32 seconds earlier. It was, of course, the first power-play goal the Blueshirts had allowed in the series after snuffing the first 16 man-advantages, and it came from Skjei, the one-time Ranger who was sent to the Canes in exchange for a firstrounder at the 2020 deadline so that the club would have enough cap space to extend the then-pending free agent Chris Kreider. Mika Zibanejad, who played with force, did not dwell on Skjei’s rocket. Neither did he dwell on the hole into which his team leaped in the opening minutes. Instead, No. 93 focused on the way the club reacted to the first (two) multiple-goal deficits it has faced in the tournament. “We know we are playing a very good team. I think it’s better to look how we responded,” Zibanejad said. “That’s not what you want, you always want to have a good start, but it was pretty calm after the first and we worked ourselves back in the game. “We can take that into the next one on Monday.” Artemi Panarin didn’t have his best night — that is putting it kindly — and neither did Chris Kreider. Vincent Trocheck was a target throughout and was stifled. The power play got only one opportunity late in the first period and did nothing with it. They’re allowed. So you move on from this one. But there is a matter of concern for the Rangers and the concern is centered on Filip Chytil, who was unable to make the game after he woke up Saturday morning with an “illness.” Chytil had seemed to make a triumphant Game 3 return on Thursday following a 188-day absence related to postconcussion issues. He was ebullient after the match. The Rangers were going to have their best lineup available. Now, and at least for this game, not. “He felt great [Friday], went to the team meal,” head coach Peter Laviolette said hours ahead of the match. “Woke up this morning and didn’t feel well.” Red flag alert. Maybe this is coincidental. Maybe Chytil caught a bug and will be back when the team next skates. But there is a history of NHL teams using “flu-like symptoms” as a euphemism for “concussion.” We wait. And if a bad thing is happening to a good person who is universally beloved by his teammates, that is just something the Rangers will have to navigate. It presents another obstacle. It presents another challenge. With Laviolette concerned either about his players’ ice time or the way Matt Rempe is officiated, the Rangers inserted Jonny Brodzinski into the lineup for the first time this tournament. No. 22, who set a screen on Barclay Goodrow’s deflection of Braden Schneider’s right point drive to bring the club within 3-2 late in the second, played a sum of 8:49 that included four shifts worth 3:01 in the third. Obviously there is some trust there. It will be interesting to see whether Brodzinski remains in the lineup or whether Rempe, with the last change, gets back in at what will surely be a raucous Garden on Monday when the Rangers seek to finish the job. I’d think Brodzinski. The Blueshirts have taken it day by day throughout the season and the tournament. That is a hallmark of their mentality. Now, there is at least one more day to navigate before they can end this series. Three down. Still one to go. lbrooks@nypost.com Larry Brooks once again to knot the game at three-all early in the third period. Just like every other game this series, it came down to one play and the Rangers found themselves on the losing side of it for the first time this postseason. Heading back north to the New Yorkers who are still holding it down in Manhattan, the Rangers will look to finish what they started. “There’s a lot that goes into [going home] that can work in your favor,” head coach Peter Laviolette said. “We got to make sure we take care of what we do on the ice. Certainly, the fans. Even the ones here in the building tonight, we can hear them. We’re going back home to our building that’s been so good, so strong. Our fans are incredible. To have that energy in the building behind us will be important.” mwalker1@nypost.com CAN’T WIN ’EM ALL: Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin reacts after allowing one of Carolina’s four goals in Saturday’s loss to the Hurricanes in Game 4, as Brady Skjei’s power-play blast (inset) late in the third period proved to be the difference. It marked the Rangers’ first loss of the postseason after seven consecutive wins. Jason Szenes; Getty Images A first bump in the road for Blueshirts

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