Why Deandre Ayton Is Pivotal To Lakers' Hopes Against The Thunder

Can nan Lakers hit nan Thunder?

From Broderick Turner: Lakers halfway Deandre Ayton bounced crossed nan tribunal aft believe Monday wearing each black, his chains swaying, his temper jovial arsenic he approached nan media to talk astir his domiciled successful nan Western Conference semifinals.

His spirits were precocious for what lies up for nan Lakers arsenic they prepared to look nan champion squad successful nan NBA, nan defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

Lakers coach JJ Redick said nan play of his halfway “changes our ceiling nan most.”

Simply put, Ayton’s high-level of play will beryllium paramount for nan Lakers erstwhile they statesman nan best-of-seven bid Tuesday nighttime successful Oklahoma City.

“Everything has been beautiful solid, conscionable staying successful my domiciled and conscionable doing much successful my role,” Ayton said. “This is nan playoffs, truthful everybody tin do more, everybody has different level. And this is nan 2nd information coming in, truthful I deliberation we each merit that small spot of summation of assurance from what we’ve done truthful acold and nan result from nan adversity we’ve faced.

“I consciousness for illustration that’s wherever we are correct now and I deliberation that’s what’s motivating me, arsenic well, coming into these games. Just seeing, listening and being dialed successful and seeing nan results of it.”

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Lakers playoff schedule

Second round
All times Pacific

Tuesday astatine Oklahoma City, 5:30 p.m., NBC/Peacock
Thursday astatine Oklahoma City, 6:30 p.m., Prime Video
Saturday astatine Lakers, 5:30 p.m., ABC
Monday astatine Lakers, 7:30 p.m., Prime Video
*Wed., May 13 astatine Oklahoma City, TBD
*Saturday, May 16 astatine Lakers, TBD
*Monday, May 18 astatine Oklahoma City, TBD

*-if necessary

Dodgers win, but Ohtani is slumping

From Maddie Lee: It was nan cleanable clip for Shohei Ohtani to measurement up to nan plate. The Dodgers’ discourtesy was rolling again, fresh to make a connection pinch a third-inning rally against nan Astros. They loaded nan bases and turned complete nan batting order.

Then Ohtani chased a sinker disconnected nan sheet and chopped a slow bouncer to Astros 3rd baseman Isaac Paredes, giving Paredes an easy play astatine second. A acold departure from nan eye-popping exit velocities that Ohtani’s plaything usually produces, nan run-scoring grounder was soft capable to debar a double play.

In nan Dodgers’ 8-3 win Monday against nan Astros, Ohtani’s hitless streak stretched to 5 games, his longest specified skid since 2022, erstwhile he besides went 5 games without a deed (May 24-28).

Manager Dave Roberts had planned to person Ohtani transportation and deed Tuesday. But during Monday’s game, he decided to alteration course. Ohtani will conscionable transportation Tuesday.

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Angels suffer again

Munetaka Murakami deed his 14th homer and Miguel Vargas besides went heavy arsenic nan Chicago White Sox hit nan Angels 6-0 Monday night.

Murakami’s two-run blast successful nan 4th inning kept nan Japanese rookie tied pinch New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge for nan awesome convention lead successful location runs. Murakami besides deed his first double of nan play successful nan sixth, singled and scored successful nan eighth, finishing 3 for 4 pinch 2 RBIs and 3 runs scored.

Davis Martin gave up 5 hits successful 7 shutout innings, pinch 10 strikeouts and nary walks. He improved to 5-1 and lowered his ERA to 1.64. The right-hander escaped his only jam successful nan seventh, getting Josh Lowe to alert to heavy halfway pinch runners connected first and third.

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Ducks suffer Game 1 to Vegas

From Kevin Baxter: T-Mobile Arena sits conscionable disconnected nan Las Vegas Strip, not acold from a faux Manhattan skyline, a pyramid and a casino made to look for illustration a castle.

The statement separating illusion from reality tin beryllium a bladed 1 successful Sin City, wherever nan Ducks opened nan 2nd information of nan playoffs Monday intent connected proving their first-round victory complete nan Edmonton Oilers was much than a facade. It didn’t spell well, pinch Brett Howden’s extremity early successful nan 2nd play and Ivan Barbashev’s tiebreaking tally precocious successful nan 3rd play giving nan Vegas Golden Knights a 3-1 victory successful nan best-of-seven series.

Mitch Marner added an empty-net extremity pinch six seconds to play to extremity immoderate dream of a Ducks comeback. Mikael Granlund scored for nan Ducks pinch six minutes near successful nan game.

But nan crippled turned connected what nan Ducks thought was a missed icing telephone conscionable up of Barbashev’s goal, which came 65 seconds aft Granlund tied nan score.

“Clearly I disagreed pinch nan call. Clearly it was icing,” Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. “That was nan play for me. We had conscionable scored. It was a immense call. And an easy call.”

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Ducks playoffs schedule

Second round
All times Pacific

Monday astatine Vegas, 6:30 p.m, ESPN
Wednesday astatine Vegas, 6:30 p.m., TNT, truTV, HBO MAX
Friday astatine Ducks, 6:30 p.m., TNT, truTV, HBO MAX
Sunday astatine Ducks, 6:30 p.m., ESPN
*Tuesday, May 12 astatine Vegas, TBD, ESPN
*Thursday, May 14 astatine Ducks, TBD, TNT, truTV, HBO MAX
*Saturday, May 16 astatine Vegas, TBA, ABC aliases ESPN

*-if necessary

This time successful sports history

1908 — 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens aboard 66-1 chance Stone Street wins successful muddy way conditions; 2:15.20 slowest Derby successful history.

1934 — Cavalcade wins nan Kentucky Derby by much than 3 lengths complete Discovery. It’s his 3rd triumph successful little than 2 weeks.

1951 — 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins successful 2:02.6.

1966 — The Montreal Canadiens hit nan Detroit Red Wings 3-2 to triumph nan Stanley Cup successful six games.

1969 — The Boston Celtics hit nan Lakers 107-102 successful nan seventh crippled to triumph nan NBA title for nan 10th clip successful 11 years. Player-coach Bill Russell and Sam Jones discontinue arsenic players.

1969 — Milwaukee Bucks motion #1 NBA Draft pick, prima UCLA halfway Lew Alcindor.

1973 — Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, wins nan Kentucky Derby pinch a grounds clip of 1:59.2. Secretariat thumps Sham by 2½ lengths and goes connected to triumph nan Triple Crown.

1990 — 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins successful 2:02.

1993 — Canisius thumps Niagara 11-1 successful softball to group an NCAA Division I grounds pinch 34 consecutive wins.

2001 — Monarchos wins nan Kentucky Derby carrying Jorge Chavez crossed nan decorativeness statement successful 1:59 4-5, only two-fifths of a 2nd disconnected nan way grounds group by Secretariat en way to nan Triple Crown successful 1973. Monarchos finishes a dominating 4¾ lengths complete Invisible Ink.

2007 — Street Sense, ridden by Calvin Borel, roars from next-to-last successful a 20-horse section to triumph nan Kentucky Derby by 2 1-2 lengths complete Hard Spun.

2007 — Floyd Mayweather Jr. thumps Oscar De La Hoya successful 1 of nan richest fights. Mayweather, pinch superb protect skills and superior speed, wins a 12-round divided determination and nan WBC 154-pound title successful his first conflict astatine that weight. The sellout crowd of 16,200 astatine nan MGM Grand Garden successful Las Vegas sets a grounds $19 cardinal gate.

2012 — I’ll Have Another catches Bodemeister down nan agelong and pulls distant successful nan last furlong to triumph nan Kentucky Derby. Jockey Mario Gutierrez, riding successful his first Derby, guides nan 3-year-old colt to a 1½-length triumph successful beforehand of a Derby-record crowd of 165,307.

2012 — English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (89,102): Chelsea thumps Liverpool, 2–1; Didier Drogba scores victor for Blues’ 7th title.

2013 — LeBron James is nan overwhelming prime arsenic nan NBA’s Most Valuable Player. The Miami prima gets 120 of 121 first-place votes, giving him nan grant for nan 4th time.

2017 — Corey Perry scores 6:57 into nan 2nd overtime aft nan Ducks rally from a three-goal shortage successful nan last minutes of regulation, completing a spectacular 4-3 comeback triumph complete nan Edmonton Oilers. Rickard Rakell scores nan tying extremity pinch 15 seconds near successful regularisation to headdress a stunning series of 3 goals successful conscionable complete 3 minutes, each pinch goalie John Gibson pulled for an other attacker.

2018 — Justify splashes done nan slop to triumph nan Kentucky Derby by 2½ lengths, becoming nan first colt successful 136 years to deterioration nan roses aft not racing arsenic a 2-year-old. The colt that began his racing profession successful February improves to 4-0 and gives trainer Bob Baffert his 5th Derby victory. Jockey Mike Smith earns his 2nd Derby triumph arsenic nan 5-2 favourite successful nan section of 20.

Compiled by nan Associated Press

This time successful shot history

1904 — Cy Young of nan Red Sox sounded a cleanable crippled against nan Philadelphia Athletics, beating Rube Waddell 3-0. Having sounded 9 hitless innings successful 2 erstwhile efforts, he ran his drawstring of hitless innings to 18.

1917 — Ernie Koob of nan St. Louis Browns sounded a no-hitter against nan Chicago White Sox for a 1-0 triumph successful St. Louis.

1925 — Manager Ty Cobb of nan Detroit Tigers deed 3 homers, a double and 2 singles against nan St. Louis Browns.

1925 — Shortstop Everett Scott of nan New York Yankees was benched, ending his streak of 1,307 consecutive games played that started while playing for nan Boston Red Sox. Scott, who gave measurement to Pee Wee Wanninger, had nan longest playing streak earlier Lou Gehrig.

1933 — Pepper Martin of nan St. Louis Cardinals deed for nan rhythm and scored 4 runs successful a 5-3 triumph complete nan Philadelphia Phillies.

1939 — Sam Chapman of nan Philadelphia Athletics deed for nan rhythm successful a 10-5 triumph complete nan St. Louis Browns. Chapman completed nan rhythm pinch a azygous successful nan ninth.

1955 — Brooklyn Dodgers rookie Tom Lasorda makes his first awesome convention commencement arsenic he he throws 3 chaotic pitches successful 1 inning, tying a awesome convention record. After his pitching career, Lasorda will bask acold much occurrence arsenic a Hall of Fame manager.

1962 — Bo Belinsky of nan Los Angeles Angels hit nan Baltimore Orioles 2-0 pinch a no-hitter astatine Dodger Stadium. Belinsky struck retired 9 and walked four.

1975 — The Oakland Athletics merchandise pinch-runner Herb Washington, ending his different awesome convention career. Curiously, Washington played successful 105 awesome convention games without batting, pitching, aliases fielding. He collected 31 stolen bases and scored 33 runs.

1978 — Pete Rose became nan youngest and 14th subordinate pinch 3,000 hits erstwhile he singled against Montreal’s Steve Rogers astatine Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium.

1980 — National League president Chub Feeney suspended Pittsburgh’s Bill Madlock for 15 days and fined him $5,000 for shoving his mitt successful nan look of location sheet umpire Gerry Crawford.

1999 — Colorado became nan first squad successful 35 years and nan 3rd this period to people successful each inning successful a 13-6 triumph complete nan Chicago Cubs. The past clip a squad scored successful each 9 innings was besides astatine Wrigley Field, erstwhile St. Louis hit nan Cubs connected Sept. 13, 1964.

2000 — St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire hits nan longest location tally successful nan 30-year history of Cinergy Field, but nan 473-foot changeable is not capable arsenic Ken Griffey, Jr.’s location tally leads nan Cincinnati Reds past St. Louis, 3-2.

2003 — Matt Stairs of nan Pittsburgh Pirates hits a location tally disconnected Houston Astros pitcher Wade Miller which is estimated astatine 461 feet, making it nan longest successful nan history of Minute Maid Park.

2004 — Mike Piazza group a awesome convention people for homers arsenic a catcher, hitting No. 352 successful nan New York Mets’ 8-2 triumph complete nan San Francisco Giants.

2004 — Roger Clemens of nan Houston Astros moves past Steve Carlton for 2nd spot connected nan strikeouts database pinch his 4,137th successful Houston’s 6-2 triumph complete nan Pittsburgh Pirates.

2006 — At Citizens Bank Park, Omar Vizquel of nan San Francisco Giants plays his 2,302nd crippled astatine shortstop, catching Cal Ripken, Jr. for third-most each time. Vizquel is now down Hall of Famers Luis Aparicio (2,581) and Ozzie Smith (2,511). He will yet walk both.

2015 — Bartolo Colon became nan first pitcher successful astatine slightest 100 years to hit nan aforesaid force pinch 7 different teams, stopping Baltimore erstwhile again and starring nan New York Mets to a 3-2 triumph complete nan Orioles.

2018 — In pitching a cleanable 9th inning successful a 6-5 triumph against nan Rangers, Craig Kimbrel of nan Red Sox becomes nan 29th man to grounds 300 saves. He is nan youngest to scope nan people astatine 29 (Francisco Rodriguez was 31) and has needed nan fewest games, 494 (Mariano Rivera had done truthful successful 537 games) and prevention opportunities (330, compared to 335 for Joe Nathan) to do so.

Compiled by nan Associated Press

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