KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ryan Mountcastle hit two-run homers in consecutive innings and finished with five RBIs to lead the Orioles to a 11-7 win over the Kansas City Royals. Adley Rutschman had four hits and drove in a run for Baltimore, which won for the 16th time in its last 20 games. Tyler Wells earned the win by allowing three hits over six innings. They were all homers: Bobby Witt Jr.’s leadoff shot, a two-run homer by MJ Melendez later in the first and a solo home run by Salvador Perez, who added a two-run shot off Mike Baumann in the seventh. Ryan Yarbrough took the loss for the Royals.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Taylor Ward capped a four-run first inning with a three-run homer, Patrick Sandoval combined with three relievers on a four-hitter and the Los Angeles Angels beat St. Louis 5-1 to extend the Cardinals’ losing streak to four. St. Louis has lost seven of its last 10 games and is 0-10 in series openers. On a night when Shohei Ohtani was given his second game off of the season, Mike Trout walked against Steven Matz with one out in the first, Hunter Renfroe singled and Anthony Rendon hit a go-ahead single.
DENVER (AP) — ElĂas DĂaz homered and drove in the go-ahead run with an eighth-inning single, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 on Tuesday night. Rookie shortstop Ezequiel Tovar hit his first major league home run for Colorado, which has won its last two home games after dropping seven straight at Coors Field.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bryce Harper defied the odds and returned 160 days after having Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. The Philadelphia Phillies slugger is trying to stress something else now that he is back in the lineup — patience. Harper went 0 for 4 and struck out three times in the Phillies’ 13-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers Tuesday night. While the two-time NL MVP was pleased to be back in what many consider to be a miraculous turnaround, there were positives and negatives to take from the first night back.
DETROIT (AP) — New York Mets star pitchers Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer are returning to the mound in Detroit against a team both of them played for. The 40-year-old Verlander is scheduled to make his Mets debut on Thursday against the Tigers, who drafted the right-hander No. 2 overall in 2004 and traded him to Houston in 2017. Verlander’s season-opening start was delayed due to a back injury. The 38-year-old Scherzer is due to pitch Wednesday for the first time since April 19, when he was ejected for violating MLB’s foreign substance policy. He was suspended for 10 games.
UNDATED (AP) — The College Football Playoff released a schedule for the 12-team format that will be used in the 2024 and 2025 seasons, which will feature New Year’s Day quarterfinal tripleheaders but no games played on Saturday. The first-round games will be played the third week of December, with one game on Friday night and three on Saturday. The quarterfinals in the new expanded format will be held on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. The first Jan. 1 tripleheader will be held at Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowls after the 2024 regular season.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA's newest academic progress rate score is steady at 984. That's despite slight decreases in men's basketball, football and women's basketball. Each athlete on each team receives one point each semester they are academically eligible and each semester they remain in school or graduate. The cutline is 930. The NCAA attributes the declines in men’s and women’s basketball and football scores to more players being ineligible to compete during the 2021-22 season instead of those leaving school.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anthony Davis had 30 points, 23 rebounds, five assists and four blocked shots, LeBron James added 22 points and 11 rebounds dueling with Stephen Curry in their latest postseason showdown, and the Los Angeles Lakers held off a late flurry by the Golden State Warriors to win an entertaining Game 1 in the Western Conference semifinals 117-112. Jordan Poole missed a 3-pointer to tie it with 9.7 seconds left as the Warriors’ rally in the closing minutes fell short. Curry’s 3 with 1:38 left tied the game, then D’Angelo Russell answered right back before Davis blocked a shot by Curry moments later. James missed the first of two free throws with 1:05 to go.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson scored 30 points and keyed the run the New York Knicks needed just in time to get by a Miami Heat team playing without Jimmy Butler, evening the Eastern Conference semifinals at a game apiece with a 111-105 victory. Julius Randle returned from a sprained left ankle that sidelined him in Game 1 with 25 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, and RJ Barrett scored 24 points for the No. 5-seeded Knicks. Josh Hart finished with 14 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists. Caleb Martin scored 22 points in place of Butler for the Heat, who host Game 3 on Saturday afternoon.
MEMPHIS (AP) — The Memphis Grizzlies have no plans to bring Dillon Brooks back to the team when he hits free agency this summer. Brooks was offered an extension last year but turned it down. Now the Grizzlies are ready to move on without him according to a person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither the team nor Brooks released details publicly. The Athletic first reported the Grizzlies’ decision. It was subsequently confirmed by ESPN. Brooks led the NBA in technicals this season. He also called LeBron James old before the Lakers ousted Memphis in the first round of the playoffs.
DALLAS (AP) — Joe Pavelski became the oldest player ever with a four-goal game in the NHL playoffs, and did it in his return two weeks after going into concussion protocol. That still wasn’t enough for the Dallas Stars. The 38-year-old Pavelski scored all four of their goals, including two in the third period to force overtime. But the Stars lost 5-4 to Seattle in Game 1 of their second-round series on Tuesday night. Stars coach Pete DeBoer says he's ashamed that the team wasted such an epic performance.. He says Pavelski tried to drag them to a win.
PARIS (AP) — Preparations in France for the 2024 Olympic Games had been going largely smoothly. That is starting to change. Olympic contestation is picking up online and starting to spill onto streets, because protesters are linking the Paris Games to unpopular pension reforms pushed through by French President Emmanuel Macron. A band of Olympic opponents who call themselves “un-volunteers" are surreptitiously working to infiltrate and disrupt next year’s Games by signing up as would-be Olympic volunteers. There also are small and sporadic protests targeting Olympic preparations. Olympic organizers say polling shows enduring strong support for the Paris Games. But critics of Macron want to disrupt the show to retaliate for his raising of France’s retirement age from 62 to 64.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Rory McIlroy says he needed “a reset” after missing the cut at the Masters. That’s why the world’s third-ranked player didn’t touch his golf clubs for more than two weeks. Instead, McIlroy went on vacation with his wife, Erica, to celebrate their anniversary and withdrew from the PGA Tour event at Hilton Head. That move may cost him $3 million because he skipped a second of the tour's new designated events. But McIlroy says he needed to reassess his life after it had become “consumed” by golf, including the conflict between the PGA Tour and Saudi-funded LIV Golf.
TUESDAY SCORES
INTERLEAGUE
N-Y Mets at Detroit 1:40 p.m. (Postponed)
Final Tampa Bay 4 Pittsburgh 1
Final L.A. Angels 5 St. Louis 1
Final San Francisco 2 Houston 0
Final Texas 6 Arizona 4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final N.Y. Yankees 4 Cleveland 2
Final Boston 7 Toronto 6
Final Chicago White Sox 3 Minnesota 2
Final Baltimore 11 Kansas City 7
Final Seattle 2 Oakland 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Atlanta 6 Miami 0
Final Washington 4 Chicago Cubs 1
Final Colorado 3 Milwaukee 2
Final Cincinnati 2 San Diego 1
Final L.A. Dodgers 13 Philadelphia 1
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
Final New York 111 Miami 105 Series tied 1-1
Final L.A. Lakers 117 Golden State 112, Lakers lead series 1-0
Wednesday, May 3
Philadelphia at Boston, 8 p.m., Phily leads 1-0
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Final Florida 4 Toronto 2, Florida leads series 1-0
Final OT Seattle 5 Dallas 4, Seattle leads series 1-0
Wednesday, May 3
New Jersey at Carolina, 7 p.m. Game 1
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