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Jun. 6—OKLAHOMA CITY — Through eight games of NCAA Tournament play, and 49 innings of softball, not a single team has tried to steal a base on No.

ALVA -- The Ponca City Wildcats summer baseball team’s game against Enid was suspended in the third inning Tuesday night due to weather. The two teams were playing at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Enid was leading 4-1 at the time of the suspension.

The Kansas City Royals turned to wily veteran Zack Greinke against the upstart Miami Marlins. And for a while, Greinke, with two decades of majorleague experience, reached deep into his bag of tricks to stymie the vibrant group.

Erik Spoelstra likes to say that his players don’t get “sick at sea.” But what the Heat has been achieving during the fourth quarter of playoff games isn’t just impressive - it’s historically The Heat entered Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday having outscored teams by 90 points in the fourth quarter over 20 playoff games. In NBA history, only two teams have outscored opponents by more points in the fourth quarter of a single NBA postseason: the 2007 Cleveland Cavaliers, who were a plus 99, and the 2020 Heat team that advanced to the NBA Finals - against the Lakers - in the Disney bubble.

Jun. 6—ARLINGTON, Texas — The Cardinals’ bats produced as many runs on Tuesday night as they had in their previous two games combined, and they hit three home runs in a game for the 13th time this season. None of it was enough to overcome the prodigious offensive attack of the Texas Rangers.

PHILADELPHIA — Aaron Nola has always struggled with allowing the home run. It’s the price of a being pitcher who tries to throw strikes. Keeping his pitches in the zone allows him to pitch deeper into games, but it also makes him susceptible to the long ball. On Monday night, in the Phillies’ 8-3 win over the Tigers, that cost him a historic feat.

MIAMI — As a series shifts, it feels as if the tectonic plates have as well. The Nuggets are finally losers of a home playoff game, vulnerable for the first time this postseason after three 2-0 series leads.

The Kansas City Royals attempted to mortgage a fourrun lead on the success of “bulk” pitcher Mike Mayers on Monday night. But the Miami Marlins denied another profitable transaction at LoanDepot Park.