Sports News

9:22 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami tied a Major League Baseball rookie record by homering in his fifth straight game, crushing a 451-foot shot to right-center field against the Arizona Diamondbacks for his 10th homer of the season

9:16 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Hunter Goodman had two doubles and a homer, TJ Rumfield knocked in two runs and Tomoyuki Sugano struck out four in 5 2/3 innings as the Colorado Rockies defeated the San Diego Padres 8-3

9:15 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Pittsburgh Pirates star Oneil Cruz rocketed a cut fastball from Jalen Beeks left over the middle of the plate off the top of the right-field foul pole measured at 432 feet

9:14 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Dan Vladar skated away gripping his right arm after a collision with the Penguins

9:11 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Dániel Gazdag and Diego Rossi each scored to help the Columbus Crew beat the LA Galaxy 2-1 in a game delayed for over two hours due to weather

9:02 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Patrick Bailey broke up a scoreless game with a three-run homer in the sixth inning after Shohei Ohtani left the mound, and the San Francisco Giants sent the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers to their fourth loss in five games with a 3-0 win

8:55 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Rodrigo De Paul and Luis Suárez scored less than two minutes apart late in the second half, and Dayne St. Clair earned his second clean sheet of the season as Inter Miami beat Real Salt Lake 2-0

8:44 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Oklahoma City Thunder guard/forward Jalen Williams left in the third quarter of Wednesday night’s playoff game against the Phoenix Suns with a left hamstring injury

8:25 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Ben Wallace and Rick Mahorn watched the Detroit Pistons pound the Orlando Magic in the paint and meet them at the rim in a 98-83 win that tied their first-round series at a game apiece

8:04 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Oneil Cruz had the hardest-hit homer in the majors this season, a three-run shot off the top of the right-field foul pole in the ninth inning that powered the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-4 win over the Texas Rangers

8:01 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Minnesota Wild right wing Matt Boldy was sidelined for about half of the first period of Game 3 of the first-round NHL playoff series against Dallas after face-planting on the ice following a hit to the head from Stars captain Jamie Benn

7:17 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Mark Vientos blooped a tiebreaking single in the eighth inning and the New York Mets snapped their 12-game losing streak, beating the Minnesota Twins 3-2 after getting one superstar back only to see another exit with a similar injury

7:11 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Trevor Zegras, Rasmus Ristolainen and Nick Seeler scored three goals on four shots in the second period, pushing the Flyers to the brink of a sweep with a 5-2 Game 3 win against the Penguins

6:56 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Cade Cunningham had 27 points, 11 assists and six rebounds to lead the top-seeded Detroit Pistons to a 98-83 win over the eighth-seeded Orlando Magic, evening their first-round series and ending the longest home losing streak in NBA playoff history

6:35 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Shohei Ohtani’s career-best 53-game on-base streak ended on a night he pitched six scoreless innings

6:07 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Flyers and Penguins put a squeeze on the penalty box in Game 3 of the playoff series — try, 11 total players cramped inside their designated punishment areas

6:07 PM on Wednesday, April 22

No sooner did the struggling New York Mets get a star player back than another one went down with a similar injury

4:15 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd has returned from a strained left biceps

3:42 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The struggling Philadelphia Phillies have placed catcher J

2:51 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Juan Soto was back in the New York Mets’ lineup Wednesday night — and boy did they need him