These days, it seems like there’s nothing Shohei Ohtani can’t do (that is, except make the Angels win enough games to quiet trade rumors). So it should have come as no surprise that, when the two-way superstar strode to the plate on Monday night against the Yankees with two outs and a runner on first base and his team trailing by two runs in the seventh inning, Ohtani once again delivered.
The league leader in home runs crushed a ball over the center field wall for a dramatic, game-tying homer off of Michael King to even the score at 3–3.
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Ryan Noda barely swiped the dirt after striking out on Monday night in Oakland, but it was enough to trigger the ejection.
Isaiah Mobley had 28 points and 11 rebounds to help the Cleveland Cavaliers capture the NBA 2K24 Summer League championship with a 99-78 victory on Monday over the Houston Rockets.
Most rain delays in baseball are boring affairs. The tarp comes out. The local meteorologist jabbers on the Jumbotron. Your regional sports network trots out a replay of somebody’s 15-strikeout outing from 2006.
Sometimes, however, a magical occurrence elevates a weather stoppage and garners the attention of the baseball world.
Such an event took place in rainy Cincinnati Monday evening, as the Queen City grappled with a downpour that eventually forced the Reds’ contest against the Giants to be suspended with one out in the top of the eighth inning.
The pitcher’s mound at PNC Park felt like Pluto to rapper Wiz Khalifa, who participated in Monday’s ceremonial first pitch, reportedly high on mushrooms.
Khalifa wanted to relish the moment, set before the Pittsburgh Pirates’ home game against the Cleveland Guardians.
Wiz Khalifa waves to the crowd. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)
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Khalifa’s highlight went viral for the rapper’s trippy preparation for the pitch.
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Pittsburgh native @wizkhalifa threw out the first pitch at the @Pirates game!
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Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde get together to recap a hectic weekend of college football media days.
On the heels of a historic women’s final victory at Wimbledon, 2023 champion Markéta Vondroušová has announced to the world one of the special ways she plans to commemorate winning her first major title.
BBC reported Monday that Vondroušová, the first unseeded woman to win Wimbledon, and coach Jan Hernych intend to get matching strawberry tattoos–a nod to the tournament’s signature food. The decision comes after the 24-year-old revealed following Saturday’s final she planned to honor a pre-Wimbledon bet with Hernych, Vondroušová’s coach since 2018.
The Astros beat the Phillies to win the World Series last fall, and the Aces beat the Sun in the WNBA Finals last season.
College baseball sickos may already know the name Arturo Disla. Others likely do not.
But you should. He may be the most electric player in the sport!
Arturo Disla is a rising junior who plays first base for Wayland Baptist University. The private university totals just under 10,000 students at 11 campuses in five Texas cities, six states, American Samoa and Kenya.
Its main campus, founded in 1908, is located in Plainview, Texas and houses about 900 students. Disla is among them and he is hard to miss.
Ahead of Monday night’s game against the Yankees, Angels manager Phil Nevin told reporters that two-way star Shohei Ohtani is on track to make his next scheduled pitching start on Friday against the Pirates, per ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez. Ohtani has exited each of his past two outings on the mound due to a blister on the middle finger of his right hand.
After completing six or more innings in 10 of his 12 starts from April 21 to June 27, Ohtani has only managed five frames in his last two trips to the mound.