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May 8 - The Detroit Tigers are coming off a needed offensive breakout that evened their three-game series with the Cleveland Guardians. Now, they hope to build on that strong offensive performance and finally give Reese Olson some deserved run support on Wednesday in the series finale at Cleveland. The Tigers entered Tuesday mired in a four-game losing streak during which they totaled seven runs. After going 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position during a 2-1 loss to the Guardians on Monday, Detroit went 5-for-11 in those situations and matched...

Tatum’s 100th career playoff game was a dud — an ostensible gift from the Basketball Gods for the Cleveland Cavaliers. It hardly mattered or slowed down the Green. Even with Tatum struggling by his lofty superstar standards, the Celtics pasted the Cavaliers, 120-95, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Tuesday night at TD Garden. The rest of the Eastern Conference teams should swap scouting reports for prayer hymnals. If the Celtics are going to play like this on a night when Jayson Tatum was a mere mortal...

Brown got dressed first, and as he walked past Tatum’s stall to leave, he tapped his fellow All-Star on the shoulder. Tatum turned around. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown were the last two Celtics remaining in the locker room late Tuesday night. Both were calm and quiet, giving no indications that they’d just rolled to another playoff win. Tomorrow will bring just another practice at the Auerbach Center. But for the Celtics, there will be little to distinguish it from their 120-95 win over the Cavaliers in Game 1 of...

Brown’s 3-point flurry in the fourth allowed the Celtics to pull away from the Cavaliers, 120-95, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Celtics led for the final 40 minutes paced by Brown, who led Boston with 32 points, and Derrick White, who added 25 and seven 3-pointers. With the ball about three-quarters to the basket, Brown turned around and headed back on defense. The ball felt pure coming out of his hands and he was convinced it was a bucket. He was right. His confidence was brimming...

Kristaps Porzingis’ absence could prove costly for the Celtics if his injury lingers deep into the NBA postseason. But so far, Boston hasn’t missed its unicorn big man. The Celtics demolished the Heat in their first game after Porzingis’ calf strain, then followed that up with a 25-point laugher in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, walloping the Cavaliers 120-95 Tuesday night at TD Garden. Porzingis can thank a strong shift off the bench from backup center Luke Kornet, who delivered what head coach Joe Mazzulla called a “tremendous”...

Jaylen Brown flipped a long pass from the right block out to Jayson Tatum early in Tuesday’s third quarter. It was the kind of pass, high-arching and hopeful, that finds a home on a Tuesday night in the regular season, but rarely, if ever, in the second round of the playoffs. Sure enough, there was Isaac Okoro, Cleveland’s sharpest defender, swatting Brown’s pass out of the air and into the backcourt. Okoro’s deflection triggered a two-man race, him and Tatum sprinting away from the action. Tatum won, tracking the ball...

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May 8 - Juan Soto recorded his fourth three-hit game this season yet wasn't part of the three-homer barrage that carried the New York Yankees to a 10-3 win over the visiting Houston Astros on Tuesday. The Yankees won for the fifth time in six games. They extended their winning streak over Houston to eight consecutive games by battering Astros right-hander Justin Verlander (1-1), who entered his fourth start having allowed just four run runs. By the end of the first inning, the Yankees had tallied three and kept pouring...

Jaylen Brown poured in 32 points to lead the Celtics and Derrick White hit 7 of 12 3-pointers and scored 25 points. After registering three wire-to-wire wins in their first-round win over the Heat, the Celtics led for the final 40 minutes on Tuesday. The Celtics were hardly perfect, Cleveland star Donovan Mitchell had a strong offensive game, and none of it mattered, as Boston rolled to a 120-95 win to take a 1-0 series lead. The sentiment entering these playoffs was that the Celtics were unlikely to face a...