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OAKLAND — Baseball, with all its oddities and weird hops and randomness over the course of a 162-game regular season, can and often will provide something different each night. Good luck finding one outing that directly mirrors another.

PHOENIX — In this same building, at the Nuggets’ most vulnerable moment of the first two rounds of their prove-it playoffs, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope issued a promise. “We’re making it out of this series,” the 30-year-old former NBA champion said, speaking for a team still chasing its first.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Royals pitcher Brady Singer reverted to his 2022 form on Thursday afternoon. Singer, who showed his breakout potential with a 3.23 ERA last season, turned in a sterling effort in the Royals’ 4-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

May 12—The 76ers crumbled under the bright lights. Their trust in one another came into question.

May 11—CHICAGO — It did not take long Wednesday night for the Cardinals’ Jordan Montgomery to realize his change-up and curveball had abandoned him and all he could do was make the most of the pitches he had left.

May 11—Oklahoma centerfielder Jayda Coleman showed no signs of slowing down to open up the season coming off two impressive campaigns to begin her career. It took 35 games before Coleman failed to reach base at any point in a game this season.

May 10—Oklahoma head coach Patty Gasso knows that in order for a team to experience a deep postseason run, it needs to be able to to win games in a variety of ways. The top-ranked Sooners have found plenty of ways to win en route to a 49-1 regular season record and a program-record 42-game winning streak, but Gasso still sees room for improvement.

CHICAGO — Turns out a winning streak, like that other elusive critter momentum, can only go as far as the next day’s starting pitcher takes it. The Cardinals, on the brink of their first sweep of the season, tripped on the mound when starter Jordan Montgomery could not continue his mastery of the archrival Cubs.