Sports News

8:47 PM on Monday, April 20

The offense that came so easily for the Pittsburgh Penguins during the regular season has vanished early in the playoffs

7:57 PM on Monday, April 20

CJ McCollum scored 32 points and the Atlanta Hawks rallied late to stun the New York Knicks 107-106 on Monday night, tying their first-round playoff series at one game apiece

7:31 PM on Monday, April 20

Timberwolves coach Chris Finch hasn’t gotten over the free-throw disparity in his team’s series-opening loss to the Denver Nuggets

7:29 PM on Monday, April 20

Colin Rea pitched into the seventh inning and the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 for their sixth consecutive win

7:26 PM on Monday, April 20

The Edmonton Oilers got a boost in Monday’s opener of their first-round playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks with the return of Leon Draisaitl

7:18 PM on Monday, April 20

The Carolina Hurricanes and Ottawa Senators are heading to overtime tied at 2-2 in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series

7:17 PM on Monday, April 20

Dan Vladar stopped 27 shots as the Philadelphia Flyers shut out the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0 to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round series

7:00 PM on Monday, April 20

Agustín Ramírez homered and Max Meyer pitched effectively into the sixth inning to lead the Miami Marlins to a 5-3 victory over St. Louis, snapping the Cardinals’ five-game winning streak

6:50 PM on Monday, April 20

Donovan Mitchell scored 30 points, James Harden added 28 and the Cleveland Cavaliers held on for a 115-105 victory over the Toronto Raptors for a 2-0 lead in their Eastern Conference first-round series

6:41 PM on Monday, April 20

Matt Olson had three RBIs, Bryce Elder struck out six in 6 2/3 innings and the Atlanta Braves won their sixth straight game with a 9-4 victory over the Washington Nationals

6:36 PM on Monday, April 20

Rookie Sal Stewart homered, doubled, stole a base and scored twice as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-1 for their fourth straight win

6:33 PM on Monday, April 20

Isaac Paredes hit his first two home runs of the season and Christian Walker also went deep as the Houston Astros beat the Cleveland Guardians 9-2 for just their third victory in 15 games

6:05 PM on Monday, April 20

Backup Mouhamed Gueye bruised his right hip early in Game 2 of the playoffs Monday night, but was able to return late in the first half for an Atlanta Hawks team in need of healthy big bodies against the New York Knicks

5:59 PM on Monday, April 20

Ronald Acuña Jr. left the Atlanta Braves’ game against Washington in the sixth inning after Nationals starter Jake Irvin hit him with a pitch for a second time

5:50 PM on Monday, April 20

A mechanical issue with their charter plane forced the Toronto Blue Jays to bus from Phoenix to Southern California on Sunday night, a six-hour drive on a dark desert highway that got the team to its Orange County hotel at around 12:30 a.m. Toronto manager John Schneider said he was informed by Blue Jays traveling secretary Rodney Hiemstra of the mechanical problem at about 4 p.m. on Sunday, as the Blue Jays were finishing a 10-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks

4:50 PM on Monday, April 20

Los Angeles Dodgers closer Edwin Díaz will undergo surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow and is expected to miss about three months

4:40 PM on Monday, April 20

San Francisco 49ers star linebacker Fred Warner has started the offseason program with no limitations from the ankle injury that sidelined him for most of last season

4:35 PM on Monday, April 20

Draymond Green doesn't expect Steve Kerr to return as coach of the Golden State Warriors

3:59 PM on Monday, April 20

Cubs manager Craig Counsell thinks a Major League Baseball rule that allows the Los Angeles Dodgers to carry 14 pitchers because of Shohei Ohtani is “bizarre.”

11:40 AM on Monday, April 20

Pinch hitter Ceddanne Rafaela had a tiebreaking, two-run single in the seventh inning and the Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 8-6 to salvage a split of their four-game series in Boston’s annual Patriots’ Day game