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Nathan Ruiz / Baltimore Sun:
Orioles outfielder Austin Hays exits game vs. Red Sox with right hand injury after failed bunt — Orioles left fielder Austin Hays left Tuesday night's game against the Boston Red Sox after the third inning with a bruised right hand, which seemingly stemmed from a failed bunt attempt in the bottom half of that frame.
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Jacob Calvin Meyer / Baltimore Sun:
Orioles rally again, beat Chris Sale and the Red Sox, 5-4, for 7th straight win — On back-to-back days, the Orioles faced left-handed starting pitchers who have dominated Baltimore in their careers. — The way the Orioles performed in the first game, despite winning 2-1 on a walk-off wild pitch …
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LaMond Pope / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago White Sox drop 9 games under .500 with their 5th straight loss, falling 5-2 to the Toronto Blue Jays — TORONTO — Luis Robert Jr. ran back to the center-field wall, jumped and made a remarkable catch to rob Matt Chapman of a home run in the fourth inning Monday at Rogers Centre.
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Ira Winderman / Sun-Sentinel:
Winderman's view: A better Bam still needed even after Butler's bombast — MIAMI — Observations and other notes of interest from Monday night's 119-114 NBA playoff victory to the Milwaukee Bucks: — Imagine how much easier this could have been if Jimmy Butler had a co-star.
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Ira Winderman / Sun-Sentinel:
Jimmy Butler's 56 points power Heat past Bucks 119-114 and to stunning 3-1 series lead — MIAMI — In a building where Dwyane Wade dazzled, Shaquille O'Neal dominated and LeBron James devastated, Jimmy Butler outdid them all Monday night. — Scoring 56 points, the most in Miami Heat playoff history …
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Dave Hyde / Sun-Sentinel:
‘The Big One’ era continues as Jimmy Butler makes history in Heat's win — Here's the thing about history: It's hard to see it coming. Monday night's drama began, undramatically enough, with Jimmy Butler making a pedestrian 20-foot shot with just over five minutes left in a troubled game.
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Gary Phillips / New York Daily News:
Sonny Gray, Joey Gallo return to hurting Yankees in loss to Twins — MINNESOTA — The year is 2023, and Sonny Gray and Joey Gallo are still hurting the Yankees. — The difference now is that the two are wearing Twins uniforms instead of pinstripes. Gray and Gallo flopped during …
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Gary Phillips / New York Daily News:
Yankees Notebook: Aaron Boone unsurprised by Joey Gallo's success — MINNESOTA — Joey Gallo struggled while playing under Aaron Boone in New York, but the Yankees manager is far from shocked that the slugger has had some success over his first 12 games with the Twins.
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Gary Phillips / New York Daily News:
Yankees Notebook: Carlos Rodon plays catch
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Dennis Waszak Jr / Associated Press:
After 6 weeks of waiting, Green Bay Packers trade QB Aaron Rodgers to New York Jets — After six weeks of waiting, Aaron Rodgers is leaving behind his brilliant legacy in Green Bay and heading to the bright lights — and massive expectations — of the Big Apple.
Nathan Ruiz / Baltimore Sun:
Orioles promote 2022 No. 1 draft pick Jackson Holliday to High-A Aberdeen after he hit .392 at Delmarva — At his introductory news conference last summer, first-overall draft pick Jackson Holliday said he wanted to be in the majors with the Orioles “as fast as possible.” He got one step closer Monday.
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Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Beth Murphy, the Murphy's Bleachers owner who battled the Chicago Cubs over the Wrigleyville rooftops, dies at 68 — Beth Murphy, owner of Murphy's Bleachers, a popular bar among Chicago Cubs fans, was as well-known in Wrigleyville as some of the players. — Murphy's battles with the Cubs …
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Jake Seiner / Associated Press:
Manfred: ‘Sorry’ for Oakland fans; A's can compete in Vegas — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says he feels “sorry for the fans in Oakland” about the Athletics' plans to relocate to Las Vegas but denies claims by Oakland's mayor that the franchise used negotiations with the city as leverage.
Stefan Bondy / New York Daily News:
Knicks take control of playoff series after Jalen Brunson's dominance and Julius Randle's benching — Jalen Brunson was better than Donovan Mitchell. — It might be a simplistic view of Sunday's pivotal Game 4, but it was also the main reason the Knicks left MSG with a 3-1 series lead and full control of the first round.
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Stefan Bondy / New York Daily News:
Struggling Julius Randle watched pivotal Knicks victory from the end of Knicks bench
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