There is always baseball happening almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves. Don't worry, we're here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn't have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball: Trout goes yardagain On Monday, Angels center fielder Mike Trout hit a pair of homers, giving him four for the season. And on Tuesday, also against the Yankees, Trout went yard yet again. He picked up his fifth long ball of the year in the first inning against New York starter Ryan Weathers, hitting a 94.7 mph four-seam fastball down in the zone 432 feet to center. Trout crushed this one. The Angels would hit five dingers to beat the Yankees, 7-1, with four of those homers and five of those runs coming against Weathers including in a back-to-back-to-back sequence following Trouts homer, where right fielder Jo Adell and designated hitter Jorge Soler also went deep. Per MLBsSarah Langs, that was the sixth time in his career that Trout has been part of a back-to-back-to-back homer run, tied for the most since at least 1961. Or, to put it another way, as far back as there is reliable play-by-play data for. The players Trout is tied with? Hall of Fame third baseman Adrian Beltre, and former outfielder J.D. Drew. Which means that, should Trout have another back-to-back-to-back sequence in his career, hell be alone atop that particular all-time leaderboard. On top of that, Trout is off to a great start to the year: sure, hes batting just .222, but his batting average on balls in play is unsustainably low, so thats more likely a blip than a continuation of last seasons uneven performance. More importantly, hes got a .388 on-base percentage and is punishing plenty of pitches, as hes slugging .508. He might not be hitting everything to where they aint just yet, but hes constantly driving the ball, hard. Jansen moves up the all-time list Another bit of history was made last night, as Tigers closer Kenley Jansen, in his 17th season in the majors, recorded the 479th save of his career. He is not only the active leader in saves, but now ranks third all-time, behind only Hall of Famers Trevor Hoffman and Mariano Rivera. It wasnt a gimme save by any means, either: Jansen came in to protect a 2-1 Tigers lead over the Royals in the ninth, one earned in the bottom of the eighth when catcher Dillon Dingler doubled in rookie infielder Kevin McGonigle, who got the start at third base on Tuesday. Jansen had to face the heart of the Royals order, with number-three hitter and left fielder Lane Thomas leading off the frame with a single before stealing second. Catcher Salvador Perez grounded out but moved Thomas 90 feet from tying the game; thats as close as Kansas City would get to forcing extras, however. First baseman Vinnie Pasquantino grounded out without advancing Thomas, and then right fielder Starling Marte harmlessly flied out to center. Save No. 479 was in the books, breaking a tie with Lee Smith for the third-most ever. Jansen has had a hell of a career. In 931 career innings and 938 games the most among active pitchers he has racked up those 479 saves while pitching for five different teams, including four different ones in the last four seasons. Hes been remarkably consistent, as well: he struck out 13.7 batters per nine as a 22-year-old rookie with the Dodgers, and until last season was still whiffing double-digit batters per nine. He made an All-Star team at 35 with the Red Sox in 2023, and this season is off to a strong start outside of allowing a home run. Getting any higher up the leaderboard seems unlikely, barring Jansen not only deciding to refuse to hang em up for a while yet but also continuing to pitch at a high level for another four years, minimum Hoffman has a 122-save lead on him but hey. Well see how 2026 goes for the 38-year-old mainstay. Dodgers push Mets losing streak to seven Things arent going the Mets way right now, thats for sure. The last game that star outfielder Juan Soto played in was on April 3 he went to the IL a couple of days later with a calf strain. While New York managed to win the first three games without his tremendous bat in the lineup, since then, the Mets have dropped seven in a row, including a 2-1 defeat against the Dodgers on Tuesday. New York has been outscored 36-10 in this stretch, and while the pitching has settled down and allowed just one, four and two runs in the last three contests, the Mets were shutout twice and scored a single run in the other. The only reason the Mets werent shut out a third game in a row was because shortstop Francisco Lindor hit a leadoff home run off of Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Tuesday. Thats right, the Mets scored on the third pitch of the game, a 95.3 fastball middle-middle that Lindor punished, and then did nothing the rest of the way. They picked up just three more hits against Yamamoto, who lasted 7.2 innings in part because he gave up just one walk, and had a stretch where he retired 18 Mets in a row. The Los Angeles bullpen then blanked the Mets the rest of the way, with no baserunners nor runs allowed. Now, the Mets pitching was rolling, too: New York held the Dodgers to just one run on a ground out in the first for seven innings, with Nolan McLean going seven innings with just two hits allowed and two walks he was every bit as dominant as his counterpart. New Yorks bullpen faltered, however, with Brooks Raley coming on in relief and immediately walking pinch-hitter Miguel Rojas, then giving up a single to score him against right fielder Kyle Tucker following an intentional walk to DH Shohei Ohtani. New York just cant seem to get everything working at the same time, but hey, Juan Soto wont be gone forever. Marlins play pinball to get the out The important thing is that the Marlins got the out in the end. This play is perfectly legal, and also extremely funny. Well, not if youre on the Braves, but hey, Atlanta won in the end so its all good now, right? Anyway: ping ping ping. Second baseman Ozzie Albies hit a ball right back up the middle against Marlins starter Max Meyer, which went directly under his glove while taking a couple of bounces on the mound. It then struck the glove of shortstop Otto Lopez in mid-air and changed direction, toward second baseman Xavier Edwards, who managed to corral it with a snag and make the throw to first just in time, with a little help from Liam Hicks stretching to receive it. Its incredible that baseball has been played for as long as it has, and you still see something like this just happen on a random Tuesday in April. Denzel Clarke is still robbing dingers More predictable than the Marlins defensive plays? Athletics center fielder Denzel Clarke, and what hes going to do when a fly ball tries to become a homer on his watch. And hey, that wasnt the only defensive gem for the As on Tuesday. Check this move by shortstop Jacob Wilson to make the mid-air, mid-spin throw in time to get the out. Beautiful stuff. And the As would end up winning against the Rangers, 2-1, thanks very much to this kind of defensive performance from these players. Inside-the-park grand slam! This is the minors, not the majors, but its worth shouting out here. Inside-the-park homers are rare, sure, but they happen a few times per year. An inside-the-park grand slam, though? Oh yeah, thats the good stuff. Heres a clip of that very thing from Tuesdays Oklahoma City Comets game against the Albuquerque Isotopes, a Triple-A matchup in the Pacific Coast League. That was left fielder and leadoff hitter Zach Ehrhard with the drive to center that ricocheted off the wall just right to give the outfielders trouble, and allow for him to just keep on running all the way home. The Comets a Dodgers affiliate wound up winning 9-6. Schultz debuts The White Sox rolled out rookie left-hander Noah Schultz to start last nights game against the Rays, and it was a bit of a mixed bag for the southpaw. However, hes a well-regarded pitcher who stands 6-foot-10, so some patience is warranted. The Rays also just had it going on Tuesday, too: they scored four runs off of Schultz in his 4.1 innings of work, and then another four off of the Chicago bullpen. The Rays ended up winning 8-5, pushing the White Sox to 6-11, but its worth pointing out that most of Schultzs trouble came in the first, where he allowed three of those four runs and two of his four walks. As with most things White Sox, its going to be a work in progress, but at least there might actually be some. Blue Jays make it happen in extras It took 10 innings to do it, but the Blue Jays defeated the Brewers. Milwaukee was in control for much of the game, as they were in the lead from the fourth inning until midway through the ninth, when Toronto finally did better than a run here and there by scoring three in the same frame. Third baseman Kazuma Okamoto tied the game at four with a single to left, then shortstop Andres Gimenez knocked another run in with a ground out. Second baseman Ernie Clement would add another run on a single to left, giving the Jays a 6-4 lead heading into the bottom of the ninth. The Brewers, though, were not done: Milwaukee scored two to tie things back up and force extras, thanks to second baseman Brice Turang (RBI single) and left fielder Brandon Lockridge who had entered earlier as a pinch-runner hitting an RBI double. Toronto had another three runs in them in the top of the 10th, however, starting with first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. ripping an RBI double to left to drive in Clement. DH Ernie Straw who also entered originally as a pinch-runner would double home both Guerrero and outfielder Jesus Sanchez to make it 9-6. The Brewers only managed one run in the bottom of the inning, and Toronto would get the come-from-behind, extra-innings W. Guardians just miss, Cardinals win That wasnt the only extra-innings thriller. The Guardians and Cardinals had a back-and-forth affair, too. With the game tied up 2-2 in the eighth all four runs scored on solo home runs, all in the first three innings Cleveland reopened the scoring on a double by right fielder George Valera. Outfielder Angel Martinez would then open things up more with a two-run double, but that wasnt enough. Cardinals second baseman JJ Wetherholt struck back in the bottom of the eighth with his second dinger of the day and then St. Louis would tie things up in the bottom of the ninth while down to their last out, on an RBI double off the bat of DH Yohel Pozo. Still tied up 5-5 in the bottom of the 10th, the Cardinals got a gift when Guardians reliever Tim Herrin threw a wild pitch, moving Thomas Haggese, the runner placed on second to begin the frame, over to third. Center fielder Nathan Church, who had come into the game earlier to replace a pinch-runner in the field, launched a flyball to center,just deep enough to score Haggese. And that "just" is no exaggeration: look how close this play at the plate was. The Guardians lost bythat much, but credit to the Cardinals for fighting back late. Buxton, Abel power Twins The Twins blanked the Red Sox, 6-0, for two reasons. The first was the performance of starting pitcher Mick Abel, who struck out 10 for Minnesota in a dominating seven-inning, four-hit, no-walk affair. The second was center fielder Byron Buxton, who went 4-for-5 from the leadoff spot with two solo homers and four runs scored. The first came on a Sonny Gray pitch right down the middle, but the second one, Buxton golfed that a bit 438 feet to left-center. Absolutely crushed. Buxton had a slow start to the year, but hes course-correcting in a hurry the last few days. Duck! If you respond with "Where?" then youre going to get hit with the throw. Unlike Rangers first baseman Jake Burger, who hit the deck to avoid that fate on a throw from lefty pitcher MacKenzie Gore. Getting his head down was actually heads up. You can call that one "ground beef". Since Jake Burger drove in the Rangers only run on Tuesday, you could say he was on a roll. Alright sorry, were done.Well done that is.

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It has been less than a week since Carlos Ulberg shocked the world to become the UFC light heavyweight champion, but the belt is no longer in his possession. 'Black Jag' beat Jiri Prochazka in the curtain closer at UFC 327 by knockout despite being incredibly compromised. Early reports state that the 35-year-old suffered an ACL tear from a misstep during his fight on Saturday, which could keep him out for the better part of a year. Expected to be out for a lengthy time, and an interim title fight likely being made to find a stand-in champion in his absence, it seems the newly-crowned light heavyweight king has taken the losing his belt news too literally.Earlier this week, Carlos Ulberg revealed that following his title-winning knockout, the celebrations were colossal. A gathering with family and friends then led to a Miami nightclub, where he accidentally misplaced the gold he had just won."I've lost the belt," Ulberg told Fox Sports Australia. "I don't know exactly where it is. Initially, after winning, the plan was to not have a drink. But you know how these things go, right? First, someone gives you a champagne to celebrate. Then one thing leads to another, and you're doing shots. So it's, 'OK, I'll have another, and another, and another.'""We've got a big group of boys over here in Miami and, when the fight was done, we all went out to the afterparty at a nightclub. Then after that, it was back to one of the boys' apartments, and we all hung out there. I didn't want to be carrying the belt around, so I think it's still there at the apartment somewhere. One of the boys probably has it in bed with him."Making light of the situation, Carlos Ulberg believes the issue will be resolved and that his championship will be returned to him before he heads back to his home country for a hero's welcome.Ulberg has decided to remain in the United States for scans and, if necessary, will opt to have surgery before planning his return to New Zealand. If all goes well for the new king of the 205ers, he will stay in Las Vegas and utilize the UFC PI for a few weeks during his stay."My knee is really swollen, so I'll stay in the U.S. for scans and then, if I need to go under the knife, I will," Ulberg continued. "I think I'll fly to Las Vegas in the next few days and see doctors there. Then I can do physio at the UFC Performance Institute and get looked after by the guys there. That's the plan. Get the knee sorted in Las Vegas and hang around for a few weeks...""Well, I've been hobbling around everywhere. So my knee isn't really wanting to forgive me right now. It's all been a crazy, crazy whirlwind and I'm just going with it."This isn't the first time Carlos Ulberg has dealt with an injury throughout his career in combat sports. Before dropping the ring for the octagon, Ulberg suffered a broken hand in kickboxing. Much more inexperienced as an athlete at the time, he would go on holiday without addressing the issue, which won't be the case this time around."It's been a bit like when I was kickboxing and broke my hand during King of the Ring. It was in the second fight on the night where I fought three times. Then, after fighting, I'd actually booked a holiday that weekend, so still went away. It was only after getting back that I went and saw a doctor who said, 'You need surgery...' I think that's what we're facing now."View this post on Instagram

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Flyers fans could have been excused for thinking they entered some kind of time warp as they grabbed their Let's Go Flyers rally towels on their way into the arena.The Grateful Dead cover band Splintered Sunlight jammed out to hits from the 1970s and graybeards old enough to remember the Flyers' Stanley Cup victories swayed in their tie-dyed T-shirts. Just down the concourse, Flyers Hall of Famer Joe Watson signed copies of his autobiography and all-time great Bobby Clarke was all smiles as he filled his cup soda, not Stanley at the press box fountain station.The good old days.The Flyers remained tethered for decades to the glory days like a dog on a leash because, well, what was there to really celebrate?At last, plenty and an unbridled optimism that even better seasons were ahead.The youth moment skated at full blast on the ice Tuesday night in a 4-2 win over Montreal a day after the Flyers clinched their first playoff berth since 2020 and their first home playoff series since 2018.Philadelphia's first goal was scored by 19-year-old sensation Porter Martone, who just weeks ago starred at Michigan State and now could be a dangerous weapon in the first-round series against Pittsburgh. Martone deflected a point shot from Matvei Michkov, the 21-year-old Russian who navigated an uneven first half of the season only to heat up as the games heightened in importance down the stretch.Michkov scored the Flyers' third goal unassisted (20th overall) as one fan raised a We Want More! sign.Architects of the lengthy rebuild, general manager Danny Briere and team president Keith Jones, could bask in the credit tossed their way from social media to talk radio to even the written word for never wavering from their plan to build a playoff team through the draft and shrewd acquisitions for 20-somethings over making moves for quick-fix veterans with no long-term fit.Take a look at the clincher against Carolina: 2020 first-round pick Tyson Foerster, still just 24, scored the shootout winner that ignited pandemonium on the ice and in the stands.Just how young are the Flyers?Their last home playoff series came in the Year 2018 BG.Before Gritty.Gritty, the wild-haired, googly-eyed, fuzzy faced mascot, got his playoff reps in Tuesday night when he hurled a cake into the face of an unsuspecting (ahem) fan dressed in Penguins gear.Gritty smashed dessert. Dan Vladar, the goalie who won the Bobby Clarke Trophy as the teams most valuable player, spilled the tea.Briere, who sparked the Flyers to their last Stanley Cup Final appearance in 2010, had publicly downplayed playoff possibilities all season.He had a more upbeat message inside the Flyers' locker room.He told us at the beginning of the year, I hope hes not going to get mad at me, but he said the goal is to make the playoffs, Vladar said. There was always a belief in this room. Obviously, we knew that, even if it was the media or outsiders who didnt really believe in us, we always had the belief here since Day 1.Flyers captain Sean Couturier was once a key cog in rebuilding back when he was the eighth overall pick in the 2011 draft. Couturier made his debut that season and has largely remained a steady presence in the lineup save for injuries that cost him the 2022-2023 season and is the only Flyer still here from their last home playoff series victory against, yes, the Penguins in 2012.You want things to turn around, Couturier said. I think that the management, the organization has done a great job of being patient and building assets and putting us in a great spot here for now and the future.The now actually seemed dire before the Olympic break when the Flyers lost 11 of their last 14 games before the shutdown and dropped one more once play resumed. Whatever defensive adjustments coach Rick Tocchet made during the layoff worked. The Flyers' season caught fire when they won three straight road games against the Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks and they ended the season on an 18-6-1 tear that propelled them to 98 points and into third place in the Metropolitan Division.Who knows, maybe it was the suburban Philadelphia family that gifted Pope Leo XIV his own customized Flyers jersey that truly the blessed the team.The regular-season finale served more as a joyous pep rally than a game with any real consequences. The fans dancing to the Dead cover band cheered as the singer paused during Jack Straw after he hit the lyric sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky in appreciation of the NFL team across the street.The rest of the night belonged to the orange and black.Gritty once issued a warning to the Penguins: Sleep with one eye open tonight, bird.Led by one of the youngest teams in the NHL, the Flyers are going into the playoffs with eyes wide open and ready to prove to their fans, dont you worry any more.___AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl

A football referee was shot dead in front of players and spectators during an amateur league match in Ecuador on Sunday, after multiple armed attackers invaded the pitch and opened fire.Javier Ortega, 48, a well-known official in the local amateur football scene, was targeted mid-game in Pasaje, a town in El Oro Province. Eyewitnesses reported that several unidentified gunmen approached Ortega during play before shooting him.The 48-year-old collapsed on the field as horrified onlookers watched. Despite emergency services arriving promptly, medical personnel were unable to save him, and he was declared dead at the scene.The perpetrators fled the sports ground immediately after the attack, with police now treating the killing as a potential targeted hit.A police spokesperson described the incident as "a cold-blooded crime committed in a space meant for community and sport."Officers are examining mobile phone footage captured by those present and conducting interviews with witnesses to identify those responsible.Local authorities sealed off the area following the shooting to allow forensic investigators to examine the scene.The investigation remains active, though no arrests have been made thus far. Detectives continue to pursue leads as they work to establish a motive for the killing.Refereeing organisations have responded with fury to the killing, demanding enhanced security measures at grassroots fixtures. Proposals include better lighting at venues, increased security presence, and community mediation programmes.A football official paid tribute to the victim, stating: "Javier was a dedicated official, to lose a life over a game of football is unacceptable."The tragedy has intensified existing concerns about violence infiltrating amateur football across Ecuador. The country has experienced escalating brutality in recent years, with gangs reportedly connected to Mexican and Colombian cartels driving much of the bloodshed. Ecuador recorded its highest-ever homicide rate in 2025, reaching 51 deaths per 100,000 residents.The match was abandoned immediately as terrified players and supporters scrambled to safety. The organising club has since halted all future fixtures until further details emerge about the circumstances surrounding the attack.In Ortega's neighbourhood, mourners have lit candles as family and friends seek answers from authorities about his death. The killing has left fellow officials and players in his local league devastated.Community groups have arranged meetings with municipal representatives to discuss measures aimed at preventing similar incidents at local sports venues. Local officials have offered their condolences and confirmed their cooperation with the ongoing police investigation.Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

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