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Former cricketer's joke about Krunal Pandya's cramps ignites fan backlash.
The Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the New York Mets 5-1, with Eduardo Rodriguez nearly achieving a complete game. The Mets struggled offensively, scoring only one run for the second consecutive game.
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[Arizona Sports] Eduardo Rodriguez nearly earns complete game in win vs. Mets â Torey Lovullo and starting pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez made a deal after the eighth inning of Rodriguezâs gem during a 5-1 win over the New York Mets on Sunday. Rodriguez had thrown 91 pitches and held the Mets to one run, so he asked to go back out for 10 more pitches to try and earn his first career complete game. Lovullo obliged. A strikeout and a bloop single later, Lovullo predictably heard the ire of booing fans at Chase Field as he collected the baseball from Rodriguez at 100 pitches, and Rodriguez received a standing ovation for a series-clinching performance. [Dbacks.com] Not satisfied with an 8-inning gem, E-Rod talks his way into starting the 9th â The 33-year-old spun 8 1/3 dominant frames, not allowing a hit until the sixth inning. He scattered four knocks â none of which registered as hard-hit (95-plus mph) per Statcast â and walked three, but allowed just one run. His outing marks the sixth consecutive game in which a D-backs starter has gone at least six innings, the longest current streak in the Majors. âYou see a guy on the mound that doesnât give you a lot of emotion,â bench coach Jeff Banister said of Rodriguez pregame. âBut under the hood, this guy is competing as much as anybody that weâve got on the field.â â The Mets disrespected all mothers on their day by not playing nice. A no-show lineup has become the norm, but Sunday they added shoddy defense â or run prevention, if you prefer â into the equation and departed the desert with sand in their pants in a 5-1 loss to the Diamondbacks. It was a second straight game the Mets (15-25) scored only one run after scoring only once in nine innings Friday before adding two in the 10th to win. The Mets lost the series, completing a 5-4 road trip that also included stops in Anaheim and . , the teamâs best hitter, went 4-for-33 (.121) on the road trip with one homer.
The final score was 5-1 in favor of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Eduardo Rodriguez was the starting pitcher for the Diamondbacks.
The Mets scored only one run in their last two games against the Diamondbacks.
Torey Lovullo battled an illness but managed the game after being cleared by a team doctor.
Former cricketer's joke about Krunal Pandya's cramps ignites fan backlash.
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[Dbacks.com] McCannâs wife Jessica the glue that holds it all together â Thereâs not a day that goes by that the Diamondbacks catcher doesnât marvel at what sheâs done to hold their family together. âFor lack of a better term, mothers married to professional baseball players are essentially single parents for nine months out of the year,â McCann said. âItâs been especially tough for her recently since the boys have started school. It used to be that they were at least with me full-time. Now theyâre back home. And when theyâre home, I mean, sheâs truly the definition of a single parent. Sheâs home alone and taking the kids to school, sports, birthday parties, you know, everything by herself.â [SI] What D-backsâ Huge Series Win vs Mets Told Us â And What it Didnât â Lovullo has tried to avoid taking credit for the turnaround of the rotation, but itâs a fact that the starting pitcher group has performed at a high level since their âone-wayâ meeting with their manager. That continued in a massive way against the Mets. [But] How much success was owed to Metsâ struggles? Itâs a good sign that the D-backsâ pitching was able to capitalize on poor offense. Itâs also worth noting they held Juan Soto and Bo Bichette to a combined 0-for-20 in the series. But the Metsâ offensive track record does put a bit of an asterisk on the overall pitching results. [AZ Central] Lovullo dealing with illness, but not missing work â For a while Sunday morning, it was unclear whether Lovullo was going to be able to manage the game. Battling an illness, he did not do his usual pregame session with reporters and did not decide he was managing until less than an hour before the game. âRough morning â real early this morning all the way up until about 7:30, 8 oâclock,â Lovullo said, adding that he decided to manage after a team doctor assured him he wouldnât get anyone sick. The club announced about 20 minutes before first pitch that Lovullo would manage. Bench coach Jeff Banister said he found out around 6:30 a.m. that Lovullo was not feeling well. Banister was ready to step in for Lovullo.
[MLB] Here are MLBâs top Motherâs Day moments â Each Motherâs Day, players swing pink bats and don pink gear to pay tribute to mom. They also sometimes honor mom with a memorable moment, like when Brandon Nimmo talked about his mom during an interview and cranked a walk-off bomb several innings later. Hereâs a look at that special home run and a few other recent Motherâs Day memories. [New York Post] Yasiel Puig homers twice in debut for Canadian baseball team weeks before facing possible prison sentence â Puig signed with the Maple Leafs of the Canadian Baseball League late last month and Sunday was his first game with the semi-pro team. All of this occurred 20 days out from a sentencing hearing slated for May 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. He was found guilty of obstruction of justice and providing false statements to federal investigators who had been looking into an illegal sports gambling operation. He is potentially facing 15 years in jail, though he could receive a more lenient sentence for the situation. [AP] Turangâs homer off Bednar in 9th helps Brewers complete sweep with 4-3 win over Yankees â Brice Turang homered off David Bednar with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers completed a three-game sweep of the New York Yankees with a 4-3 victory Sunday. Milwaukee had not swept the Yankees in a series of at least three games since August 1989. The Brewers improved their interleague record since 2022 to a major league-best 116-65. They are 14-7 against American League teams and 8-9 against National League squads this season. [*Fun fact: Brewers reliever Aaron Ashby currently leads all MLB pitchers in wins, with seven*]