NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 14: A.J. Ewing #9 of the New York Mets looks on after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning against the Atlanta Braves at Citi Field on June 14, 2026 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Ishika Samant/Getty Images) | Getty Images
The Mets and Freddy Peralta had a wonderful day at the ballpark, continuing the good vibes for orange and blue New York teams this weekend (congratulations to the Knicks!!!!), beating the Braves 8-1 to take the weekend series against their division rivals.
The first inning was a rocky one for Peralta, which is not suggested in his five inning, one run box score performance. He loaded the bases with one out, before surrendering a sacrifice fly to Old Friend Dom Smith. That one run would be the only run for the Braves.
The Mets struck back right away, scoring four runs in the bottom of the first. Carson Benge walked to lead off the inning, and Bo Bichette singled to put two on with no outs. After Juan Soto inexplicably attempted and failed to bunt for a hit, giving the Braves a free out, Jared Young hit an RBI single to tie the game at one. A.J. Ewing hit a well stuck double into the left field corner. Mike Yastrzemski threw the ball in and it hit the pole that holds up the protective screen, allowing Ewing to get to third and Young to score from first. Brett Baty singled him home, putting a four spot on Bryce Elder to make it 4-1 after one.
The next three innings were very ho hum, with both teams putting up zeros in the second, third and fourth innings. The Mets added two more in the fifth, when Ewing and Marcus Semien hit back to back home runs, chasing Elder from the game. The Mets added two more insurance runs in the eighth, both on a Juan Soto single.
The Mets bullpen had a strong showing, putting together as Cionel Perez, Daniel Durate, AJ Minter, and Huascar Brazoban combined for four hitless innings, allowing two base runners in that span (two walks). Overall, the Mets put together a very nice series against the division-leading Braves, as they stay in shouting distance of a Wild Card spot, miraculously.
Big Mets winner: A.J. Ewing, +22% WPA Big Mets loser: No one 🙂 Mets pitchers: +34% WPA Mets hitters: +16% WPA Teh aw3s0mest play: A.J. Ewing’s two run double in the first, +16.3% WPA Teh sux0rest play: Matt Olson single to load the bases in the first, -7.5% WPA.
The Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers went to overtime three times in the first four games. The Oilers won Games 1 and 4 while the Panthers won Game 2 in double overtime. Games 5 and 6 were settled in regulation as the Panthers beat the Oilers for the second year in a row.
There won't be any more 3-on-3 play. It is 5-on-5 instead, just like in regulation play. There won't be any more shootouts. There is sudden death, and it could last a very long time.
This postseason, there have been 22 overtime games, including four double-overtime games.
Here's what to know about playoff hockey overtime, including the format, longest games and 2026 results.
How does OT work in NHL playoffs?
If the score is tied after three periods, the teams go to the dressing rooms for 15 minutes while the ice is resurfaced. Overtime periods last 20 minutes or until someone scores. It's 5-on-5 play (barring penalties). If no one scores in the first overtime, the process repeats and continues until someone scores. The teams change sides for each overtime period. The first overtime is the long change to get back to the bench.
The NHL Situation Room reviews all goals to make sure they are legally scored, such as the goal that ended Game 4 of the Anaheim-Edmonton series or the overturned goal in Game 4 of the Vegas-Utah series.
A crazy goal to end a crazy Game 3 in double overtime Shea Theodore launches a slapshot that smacks the endboards, bounces back, and goes off of Brandon Bussi's skate--IN MID-AIR, MIND YOU--and into the net#SoundTheSiren#ForgedInFire#NHL#StanleyCuppic.twitter.com/owiUGMzBBJ
— Queen of the Puck (@rbarkleyhockey) June 7, 2026
May 12:Golden Knights 3, Ducks 2. Pavel Dorofeyev scored the winning goal just over four minutes into the first overtime period to give Vegas a 3-2 series lead over Anaheim.
April 28:Bruins 2, Sabres 1. David Pastrnak scored at 9:14 of the first overtime to cut the Bruins' series deficit to 3-2.
April 27:Golden Knights 5, Mammoth 4. Shea Theodore scored at 19:08 of the first overtime to tie the series at two games apiece.
April 26:Ducks 4, Oilers 3. Ryan Poehling scored 2:29 into the first overtime to give Anaheim a 3-1 series lead.
April 25:Wild 3, Stars 2. Matt Boldy scored at 19:31 of the first overtime as the Wild tied the series 2-2.
April 24:Canadiens 3, Lightning 2. Lane Hutson scored at 2:09 of the first overtime, giving Montreal a 2-1 series lead.
April 22:Stars 4, Wild 3. Wyatt Johnston scored at 12:10 of the second overtime, giving Dallas a 2-1 series lead.
April 21:Avalanche 2, Kings 1. Nicolas Roy scored the winning goal at the 12:16 mark of the first overtime, giving Colorado a 2-0 series lead.
April 21:Lightning 3, Canadiens 2. J.J. Moser scored at 7:12 in the first overtime to tie up the series at a game apiece. It was Moser's first career NHL playoff goal.
April 20:Hurricanes 3, Senators 2. Jordan Martinook scored at 13:53 of the second overtime. He was stopped on a penalty shot in the first overtime.
April 19:Canadiens 4, Lightning 3. Juraj Slafkovsky scored at 1:22 of the first overtime, completing a hat trick.
Longest Stanley Cup Final games
Eight Stanley Cup Final games have gone to the third overtime. The Edmonton Oilers were part of the longest game when Petr Klima scored at 15:13 of the third overtime for a 3-2 win against the Boston Bruins in the 1990 Final.
What are the longest NHL playoff overtime games?
1 - Six overtimes (116 minutes, 30 seconds of overtime) in the 1936 semifinals. March 24, 1935. Detroit 1, Montreal Maroons 0. Mud Bruneteau scored the winner.
2 - Six overtimes (104 minutes, 46 seconds of overtime) in the 1933 semifinals. April 3, 1933. Toronto 1, Boston 0. Ken Doraty scored the winner.
3 - Five overtimes (92 minutes, 1 second of overtime) in the 2000 conference semifinals. May 4, 2000. Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1. Keith Primeau scored the winner.
4 - Five overtimes (90 minutes, 27 seconds of overtime) in the 2020 first round. Aug. 11, 2020. Tampa Bay 3, Columbus 2. Brayden Point scored the winner.
5 - Five overtimes (80 minutes, 48 seconds of overtime) in the 2003 conference semifinals. April 24, 2003. Anaheim 4, Dallas 3. Petr Sykora scored the winner.
6 - Four overtimes (79 minutes, 47 seconds of overtime) in the 2023 conference finals. May 18, 2023. Florida 3, Carolina 2. Matthew Tkachuk scored the winner.
Milwaukee Brewers infielder Cooper Pratt fields a ground ball during spring training workouts Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at American Family Fields of Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona. | Dave Kallmann / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
It is time. The Milwaukee Brewers are promoting shortstop prospect Cooper Pratt to the major leagues. Pratt signed an 8 year contract extension with the Brewers worth north of $50MM back in April. Now, at long last, he will arrive in Milwaukee.
Pratt was removed from the Nashville Sounds game on Sunday in the 6th inning and, as Spencer Michaelis first reported, was giving hugs to his teammates in the dugout, a sure sign that a promotion was imminent. MLB’s Adam McCalvy later confirmed that Pratt was officially getting the call.
Cooper Pratt was hitting .241 with six doubles, four triples, six homers, 17 stolen bases, and a .735 OPS on the season in Nashville. He started off slow, but has been much better over the last several weeks.
Pratt brings gold glove-level defense at shortstop and is likely going to be playing at shortstop quite regularly for the Brewers going forward.
A corresponding move has not yet been announced, but it has been speculated that it will have something to do with Luis Rengifo. Ken Rosenthal reported a few weeks ago that June 15th was a date to circle because it’s the first day teams can trade free agents in the first year of their deals. Perhaps the Brewers have a trade lined up for Rengifo, we shall see. Also a DFA isn’t out of the question for him.
Rengifo also had the trainer check on him twice during Sunday’s game, once for his wrist after an awkward fall and once after fouling a ball off his shin. An IL stint could also be a possibility.
David Hamilton has been solid of late and Joey Ortiz is still a strong defender. Ortiz could slide into more of a utility role and has played third base in the past.
The Brewers are off on Monday, so that would mean Pratt’s debut is slated to come on Tuesday night against the Cleveland Guardians.
SAN FRANCISCO — Two bloops, a bunt and a blast from Matt Chapman produced more runs in the fifth inning Sunday afternoon than the Giants had scored in their previous two games.
That was all the Giants needed behind Logan Webb, who continued to dazzle in his fourth start back from a bout with bursitis in his push-off knee, to beat the Cubs, 5-1.
Giants starting pitcher Logan Webb dazzled Sunday, allowing no earned runs in eight innings against the Cubs. Getty Images
Webb has allowed two earned runs over 27 ⅓ innings since returning from the injured list and none to the Cubs on Sunday over eight innings, scattering seven hits and striking out seven.
“Even if it doesn’t go well with a hitter, he makes it fun by seeing how he’s going to respond,” manager Tony Vitello said. “Because I think one of the areas where he might be a little undervalued is just how dang good he is when something goes wrong.”
Vitello leaned on that quality in Webb when he went to the mound with two outs in the eighth inning. An error allowed the Cubs to get on the board and left two runners on base with Webb’s pitch count climbing over 100.
It turned into a quick visit: Webb remained in the game.
“Willy [Adames] was basically ready to grab me by the jersey saying, ‘Let this guy do his thing,’” Vitello said.
Webb was more convicted in his answer than when Vitello asked him about coming out after eight innings, at 99 pitches, in his previous start. That time, Vitello opted to hand the game over to Keaton Winn, who allowed three runs in a 4-3 loss.
“You could tell right away: He didn’t put his arm out or anything. You could kind of see in his face that he was going to ask me,” Webb said. “I probably said some cuss words, but in the end, I said ‘I’m good.’ All the guys behind me were going, ‘Eff yeah, let’s go’ and Tony walked off the mound.”
Moments after the mound visit, Webb’s mouth was agape with both arms raised in the air.
Vitello’s decision to stick with Webb almost immediately backfired when the very next batter, Michael Busch, lined his 106th pitch of the afternoon into the right field corner. It appeared destined to drive in two more runs.
“It was almost a terrible decision,” Webb joked.
But Jung Hoo Lee gave chase and tracked down the ball before crashing into the wall, leaving Webb amazed and the 40,000-plus on hand chanting Lee’s name.
“I just knew that Webby wanted to finish that inning bad,” Lee said through a team interpreter. “I wanted to really help out. … I just really wanted to [make] the catch for Webby.”
The catch preserved the lead that Lee helped build in the fifth.
After having his 18-game hit streak broken Friday, Lee was back in the hit column with a 2-for-4 effort, including a broken-bat bloop single to begin the fifth. Daniel Susac bunted him over to second, where he was in position to score when Drew Gilbert, the No. 9 hitter, found more open territory with a shallow flare down the left field line.
Giants leadoff batter Matt Chapman (right) celebrates with teammate Bryce Eldridge after Chapman homered Sunday. AP Photo/Scott Marshall
That was enough to open a 1-0 lead, and Chapman quickly made it 3-0 with a line drive over the center field wall for his seventh homer of the season — and sixth this month.
Looking the part of a leadoff hitter, Chapman drew his first of two walks and scored his second run of the game on a single from Bryce Eldridge in the seventh to make it 4-0.
It was Chapman’s first time hitting leadoff in three seasons with the Giants and only the third time he had batted first in 1,221 games at the big-league level.
Vitello had tried Luis Arraez in the top spot with Eldridge batting second the past two days but shifted each player down a slot with Chapman occupying the top of the order.
Something about this configuration worked: It produced more than one run for the first time since Wednesday. The Giants had been held to one run in their two losses to begin the series.
Vitello and president of baseball operations Buster Posey set four runs as a reasonable target. The Giants are 22-7 when scoring that many and 7-36 when failing to reach that mark.
“A lot of those days where we’ve done that, it’s been 7-8-9 getting on base or driving the ball,” Vitello said. “Jung Hoo’s going to compete for a batting title, so to have him down there is interesting, but it benefited us.”
Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman makes a play against the host Giants on Sunday. Bregman went 2-for-4. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect
What it means
Rather than opt for a traditional leadoff hitter, Vitello has tried to use the top spot of the lineup to maximize the number of at-bats for their hottest hitter.
For a while, that was Casey Schmitt, who’s found himself in a bit of a slump (5-for-34) and never quite profiled as a leadoff man with his aggressive approach.
Lately, it’s been Chapman.
Who’s hot
Dating back to May 17, Chapman is batting .344 (31-for-90). His home run was his 14th extra-base hit in that span. His two RBIs gave him 24 in 26 games, and he’s scored 19 runs.
Who’s not
The Giants are still waiting for their Big Three infielders to get hot at the same time.
As Chapman has heated up, the Giants have gotten little from Rafael Devers or Adames, who combined to go 5-for-43 (.116) over the course of the six-game homestand.
Up next
The Giants board a charter flight to Atlanta, where they have the day off Monday before beginning a six-game road trip with three against the NL East-leading Braves.
Adrian Houser, Robbie Ray and Landen Roupp are lined up to start the first series of the trip.
Saturday’s Game 5 victory that sealed the first Knicks championship since 1973 was an emotional moment for fans everywhere, many of whom have been waiting their entire lives for a championship.
On Sunday morning, Joe Benigno joined WFAN to share a message to Knicks fans who have been waiting patiently for this moment for many years.
“All the pain, all the disasters. Oh my God, all the ghosts are buried now. The dragon has been slain. It’s unbelievable,” he said. “All of that, all the pain, all the suffering, all the aggravation. It’s gone. It’s over. We are world freaking champions.”
Benigno joined WFAN to share a message to Knicks fans who have been waiting for this moment.
Joe Benigno's message to long-suffering Knicks fans now that the wait is finally overpic.twitter.com/h5ZihQaOFd
Benigno, a longtime Knicks fan, is referring to the years where the team was at the bottom of the barrel.
Since the arrival of now-captain Jalen Brunson in 2022, however, the team has had a magical turnaround from irrelevancy to playoff contenders the past four seasons.
Beyond the historic finals win that brought the Knicks their third championship in franchise history, the team had an incredibly dominant playoffs. They went 16-3 and won their last nine road games in a row.
Their 13 consecutive wins, stretching across sweeps of the 76ers and Cavaliers and into the finals against the Spurs, is the second longest winning streak in the history of the NBA playoffs.
Knicks celebrate after defeating the Spurs to win the NBA Championship. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
In the finals, the Knicks overcame double-digit deficits in each of the five games, winning every one outside of the Spurs’ Game 3 victory.
Benigno’s podcast, appropriately titled “Oh the Pain,” has been a succinct description of his experience rooting for his New York sports teams over the years.
It’s tremendously alienating. I’ve had plenty of time to reckon with this inevitable championship for the Knicks, not just a great team but the clear Team of Destiny for weeks now, but it’s still hard to swallow.
I am not actually happy for the innumerable Knicks fans around me. I am not quite “happy for the city” either, a begrudging middle ground that, as a born-and-raised Manhattanite who roots for the Yankees, Giants, and even the Rangers with an incurable case of New York Exceptionalism that would disgust the many New Jerseyans that visit this site, I thought I could get to. No. I am an outsider in my own home. This, of course, is the true essence of Nets fandom…
I love my friends….
I’ll say it so you don’t have to: It doesn’t really matter that the New York Knicks are champions, not as it pertains to Brooklyn’s on-court success. Of course, those future Knicks picks might not be so valuable…
…but that’d still be the case even if Victor Wembanyama made eye-contact with Stephon Castle before throwing that pass. You, Nets fan, are still allowed or even encouraged to be excited for a future with Egor Dëmin and whoever the team drafts at No. 6 overall in ten days.
Regarding the rest, there’s little to be done. If there is anything, anything at all surprising about Fort Greene/Downtown Brooklyn/Park Slope drowning in blue-and-orange ecstasy…
Chris DeMarco said the city’s vibes were “incredible” last night. He watched the game from a restaurant in Park Slope. After the Knicks won, he walked around for an hour to soak in the scene before going home.
…it’s that any of us lived long enough to see the Knicks win another title. As Ock Sportello told me, this would be easier to accept if the franchise were an indomitable, Laker-esque force rather than a tortured soul with The Greatest City in the World and, therefore, the moral arc of history behind them. LeBron James told Cleveland that his crowning achievement was for them. He wasn’t exactly lying, but we all know that 2016 as The LeBron Title. Kawhi Leonard put a whole nation in The North on his back in 2019; alas, that is The Kawhi Title.
But 2026 is The New York Title. Jalen Brunson cemented his place in NBA history, of course, but he also cemented his place as a contender for the most beloved athlete in NYC history, simply a different plane of existence. I will always remember his 45-point NBA Finals closeout game; many more will remember what felt like eight million New Yorkers partying on the streets until the sun came up, from the true die-hards to the property-destroying streamers to the Kips Bay transplants singing their “Empire State of Mind” transplant anthem because it’s something to do on a Saturday night and hey, New York is about all those things.
So does it matter that the Knicks are growing their fanbase faster than the Nets? Does it matter that this mode of achievement is inaccessible for your favorite team despite also playing in New York City?
“No” is a very reasonable, healthy answer. We’ll all rejoice when the Brooklyn Nets are one day competitive again, perhaps an evil thorn in New York’s side just as they were in the mid 2000’s. I was in the building for Nets-Bucks Game 5 in 2021; the crowd was packed, loud, and very pro-Nets, a low bar but cleared nonetheless. I enjoyed not just the talent on that team, but I loved the vibe. Their best players were hired guns, mercenaries who, under cover of darkness, joined forces in Brooklyn of all places to wreak havoc on the NBA. It fit.
Admittedly, cold villainy is a difficult vibe for a franchise to lean into — I’m not writing this to ask the Nets for anything in particular, maybe other than more Josh Minott quotes. But as Ock Sportello explains: “My grievance, ultimately, is not with the Knicks for reminding me that I will never be a New Yorker, but for the Nets for attempting to convince me that that is something to be ashamed of.”
As a New Yorker, my shame is slightly different, though still distinctly Nets-flavored. I root for the team that moved here and immediately shed any trace of their New Jersey past when I wouldn’t tolerate that quality in a friend. It is the irrepressible feeling that Mikal Bridges was justified in committing the Nets’ cardinal sin, openly pining for a trade across the river, which allowed him to better his life and career and become a local legend. He won.
When I woke up on June 25, 2024, I did not think I’d be standing alone at the Belmont LIRR station at 2 A.M. on June 26, so I did not throw a hoodie in my backpack. Of course, I did not know the Nets were going to make a franchise-altering trade during the fourth quarter of the Commissioner’s Cup Final between the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx, moved to UBS Arena from Barclays Center so as not to interfere with next day’s NBA Draft.
But I couldn’t tell if I really was cold, or if it was coffee jittters, or if the Six-Pick Mik trade(s) had given me goosebumps all by itself. In any case, I called anybody I figured would be awake, excitedly explaining that the Nets had saved themselves from mediocrity. That the next two years would be painful, but perhaps Cooper Flagg or Ace Bailey or AJ Dybantsa or Darryn Peterson could be in black-and-white.
As you all know, that didn’t happen. Lottery luck was never guaranteed. Such is life. Brooklyn still owns future picks from that deal, and they do have flexibility; not every trade or signing or draft pick reaches its ideal outcome. But only the Nets could make one of the great trades in franchise history, setting themselves up to tank for a two-year period that produces the #8 pick, the #6 pick, and said trade being mocked by a rival team as they accept their Larry O…
Jun 14, 2026; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Blue Jays second base Davis Schneider (36) fields a ground ball in the second inning against the New York Yankees at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: Gerry Angus-Imagn Images | Gerry Angus-Imagn Images
Yankees 8 Blue Jays 3
This one had everything, other than a Jays’ win, of course.
John Schneider got ejected. It kind of pissed me off, because the Yankees José Caballero complained for a long time about a pitch clock thing (I guess) and the umpire let him complain and complain. John comes out on a balk call, and he was ejected in record time.
The balk? Well…..I generally think that if there is a balk, all the umpires will call it. This one, only the plate umpire did. I think he felt that Jeff Hoffman started towards the plate, then turned to second. John came out for, let’s say, an explanation, but the umpire decided not to explain. Course John may not have asked nicely.
The game? Well, it was tied going into the ninth, but Braydon Fisher didn’t ‘have it’ today. He got a strikeout, then gave up a single. Then, on a full count pitch, Uncle Ben Rice homered. After a walk and a fly out, Tommy Nance came in.
He didn’t do any better. A walk and a José Caballero home run put an end to any hope of a come back in the bottom of the inning.
Patrick Corbin wasn’t great, giving up a lot of hits (7) while not all that many runs (2) in 3.2 innings.
Spencer Miles gave up a run in his 2.2,
Mason Fluharty got the last two outs of the seventh.
Jeff Hoffman gave up a leadoff walk, had that runner steal and committed the rather weird balk, talked about above, but got two strikeouts with the runner on third to get out of the inning.
Offensively? Well, as seemingly always is the case, we didn’t score as much as we should have.
We got:
A run in the third: Nathan Lukes and Alejandro Kirk started the inning with singles, but Yohendrick Piñango hit into a double play. Kazuma Okamoto singled in the run.
A run in the fourth: Ernie Clement led off with a single. After outs by Davis Schneider and Charles McAdoo, George Springer and Nathan Lukes each singled to bring around Lukes.
In the sixth Schneider homered.
We did have 11 hits (with the one home run) so, yes, we should have scored more. Nathan Lukes, who seemed to have hit a cold spell in the last little bit had 3 hits, including a double. Having two hits were Springer, Okamoto (with a double), and Schneider (with a walk, along with the home run, bringing his average up 22 points, three more games like that and he’ll make it to the Mendoza line),
Piñango, Sánchez (with a walk) and McAdoo had 0 fors. McAdoo looked very over matched. His batting average has dropped to .167. I’m afraid, he really isn’t impressing me, but it’s just 24 PA. Sanchez is also the most worrying outfielder since Corey Patterson. Today he seemed to be trying out for the World Cup on one ball in the outfield.
Jays of the Day: Davis Schneider (0.22 WPA), Hoffman (0.17), Okamoto (0.11) and Lukes (0.09).
Other Award: Fisher (-0.42), Lips (-0.18), and McAdoo (-0.15)
Tomorrow is an off-day. I don’t know about anyone else but I could use one. Tuesday the Jays will be in Boston, for the start of three against the Red Sox.
Ewing finding his form and earning Mendoza's trust
Ewing starred in Sunday's win, going 3-for-5 with a homer, a double, and two RBI.
It was a much needed power surge for Ewing, who bumped up his OPS today to a respectable .720 mark after going hitless in three of his last four appearances.
His manager took notice and made sure to give him his vote of confidence after the game.
"It's impressive how he's handling himself, especially after a couple of hard games," said Mendoza.
Ewing and fellow rookie outfielder Carson Benge have been in the headlines throughout the season, and though it's still only June, Mets fans are rightfully optimistic that both of these young players have a bright future in Queens ahead of them.
"He's kinda like Carson; whether it's an 0-for or going through a tough stretch, [they have] the ability to remain consistent... he's a mature guy who is learning, adjusting, and developing at the big league level," Mendoza said.
Freddy Peralta and the Mets are trending in the right direction
Mendoza also made sure to shout outPeralta, who continues to provide solid, reliable performances on the mound as the team's pitching staff continues to deal with injury issues.
"He was aggressive with that fastball, but made some good adjustments. He wasn't too predictable today."
Peralta took the win today, pitching five full innings and allowing just four hits and one earned run on 90 pitches.
When Peralta was asked about how he viewed his performance in the victory, he showed love to his catcher.
"I have to give credit to Luis [Torrens]... he was amazing, giving me confidence behind the plate," the righty said.
"I was feeling really good in general," Peralta continued. "I was able to use not only the changeup but also the curveball today... Obviously I was looking forward to at least throwing six [innings], but stuff happens."
Finally, with the Mets still just a handful of games out of an NL Wild Card spot, Peralta spoke on what it means to win a series against the current leaders in the NL standings, the 46-25 Atlanta Braves.
"It's huge, it tells us how good we are."
Mendoza, Peralta and the rest of the Mets will be eager to continue righting the ship before it's too late.
Tobias Myers will start the Mets' series opener against the Cincinnati Reds
Following the Mets' 8-1 thrashing of the Atlanta Braves to take two of three at home,Mendoza revealed to the media that Tobias Myers will start the team's game Monday night in Cincinnati.
"Tobias will go. I think 40 pitches, but he's going to go. We've got that pitch count in mind," said the skipper.
Myers was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse on May 30 to manage the team's bullpen depth, but also with the plan of converting him to a starting pitcher while in the minors.
Mets GM David Stearns recently remarked on how one of the biggest things the righty pitcher brings to the table is his ability to help the team "in a variety of ways".
Now, the Mets are taking full advantage of Myers' versatility, calling on him to rejoin the big league roster to kick off a six-game road trip, first with a three-game set against the Reds, then another three-game series against their bitter rivals, the Philadelphia Phillies.
Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin is likely to be on the move at some point during the offseason after his highly-publicized reported trade request that broke earlier this month.
In the initial stages of the fallout of the trade request, Larkin's preferred three destinations appeared limited to the Vegas Golden Knights, Florida Panthers, and Minnesota Wild - all of whom have Team USA forwards Larkin played with during last year's Four Nations Face-Off and the 2026 Winter Milan Olympics.
Since then, reports have indicated that Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman approached Larkin's representation with the request of expanding his trade team list, which they were apparently receptive toward.
In the meantime, a new club in the Western Conference has emerged as a potential trading partner with the Red Wings.
Could a deal with the San Jose Sharks make sense for Detroit, especially if they were to land 2025 second overall pick Michael Misa in return?
According to Sharks beat writer Max Miller of Sharks Hockey Digest, San Jose could very well show interest in Larkin, but wondered if it would ultimately be best for their long-term roster construction.
"Adding a consistent 30-goal center with strong defensive ability wouldn’t hurt the Sharks, but it would raise questions about other areas," Miller wrote. "Michael Misa is still 19 years old and is projected to become the No. 2 center behind Macklin Celebrini. Alexander Wennberg just signed a three-year extension. Pushing those two down the lineup to add Larkin doesn’t seem like the right thing to do."
Miller then said he believes Sharks GM Mike Grier, who keeps his cards close to the vest as is Yzerman's tendency, will at least be placing a call to Detroit.
"I believe Grier will at least call the Red Wings to see what the asking price for Larkin is," he said. "That doesn’t mean the San Jose Sharks are truly interested in acquiring the gold medalist. Since taking over as GM, Grier has kept his interests close to his chest. That hasn’t stopped many reports linking the Sharks to various trade rumors."
The Sharks, led by 2024 first overall pick Macklin Celebrini, are a team on the rise that just missed out on the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season, but could soon be a force in the Western Conference.
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If you think about it, the two teams in this Stanley Cup Final are perfect foils of each other.
At one end of the ice, you have a team that has known nothing but heartbreak and humiliation for two decades. After winning the Stanley Cup in 2006, the Carolina Hurricanes went on to make the playoffs just once over the next 12 years. They’ve qualified for the postseason in each of the last eight seasons, but in each one, they’ve suffered the pain of never enough.
At the other end of the ice, you have a team that has enjoyed unparalleled success before celebrating its tenth birthday. The Vegas Golden Knights have missed the playoffs just once in their nine-year history and boast the most postseason wins since 2018. This is their third trip to the Stanley Cup Final, and they have already won it once.
These teams are opposites in every single way. The Hurricanes prioritize drafting and developing prospects; the Golden Knights prefer to use theirs as trade bait. The Hurricanes have been accused of being afraid to take the big swing; the Golden Knights have earned a reputation as a team that does the exact opposite.
And yet, they are both the same where it matters most: they are both in search of their second Stanley Cup in franchise history.
Down 3-2 in the series, the Golden Knights sit just one loss from their Stanley Cup dreams coming to an end. This is the first time they have faced elimination this postseason. However, this is a group that refuses to go gently into that good night. If they go down, they’ll go down swinging.
This Golden Knights team is stacked with players who have won before; the Hurricanes claim just two Stanley Cup Champions. The Golden Knights hope that their veteran locker room will give them an edge over a Hurricanes team that is, for the most part, fairly new to this stage.
“I think it definitely helps,” said forward Mitch Marner. “I mean, I think a lot of guys in this room have played some massive games throughout their lifetime. So, you lean on that to stay calm, stay in the moment.”
Defenseman Jeremy Lauzon mentioned Brayden McNabb, Mark Stone, Jack Eichel, and Marner as veteran players who are leading the way.
“Leaning on those guys kind of comes naturally,” Lauzon said. “You don’t think about leaning on those guys, but when you’re out there, they make plays that change momentum during the game and boost our confidence within the group. I think for an elimination game, [they offer] something that’s really important for our group to have.”
The Knicks’ playoff run began with a Festivus of their own.
Head coach Mike Brown met individually with each of his five starters — Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart — and then all of them collectively for them to air their grievances before the Knicks entered the postseason, according to SNY.
Knicks head coach Mike Brown (l.) and guard Jalen Brunson (11) talks to a referee during Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Spurs on June 13, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
The meetings were conducted for the players to get lingering issues off their chest, and Brunson’s dad Rick, one of the Knicks’ assistant coaches, told SNY that those meetings “were pivotal to New York’s playoff success.”
After the Knicks fell behind 2-1 in the first round against the Hawks, they reeled off 13 straight victories as part of a surreal run to their first NBA championship in 53 years, culminating with Saturday’s 94-90 win over the Spurs in Game 5 to win the NBA Finals 4-1.
Mike Brown is interviewed by ESPN’s Ernie Johnson during the Knicks’ trophy ceremony on June 13, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
Jalen Brunson was unanimously voted NBA Finals MVP after carrying the Knicks in the finale with 45 points on 14-for-27 shooting while going 13-for-15 from the free-throw line.
Brown, the 56-year-old in his first season with the club, set the tone from the outset by having everyone put their commitment in writing.
“The buy in. It was a contract that I had everybody sign opening dinner night and I still have it framed,” Brown told MSG Saturday night. “Everybody’s signature from Mr. Dolan to Leon Rose, all the coaches, all the players, all the staff that was there that night signed it and basically it was about committing to sacrifice, having a competitive spirit, being connected, believing in each other in the process while holding everybody accountable — even myself. I’m not above the law, I’ve gotta be held accountable too.
“I told everybody that night, if you’re not gonna abide by this, I’d have more respect for you to not sign it than to sign it and BS your way through the night and BS your way through this and everybody bought in from Day 1. And that speaks volumes to all of these guys as individuals and especially the leadership on this team, starting with Jalen Brunson.”
Jun 13, 2026; San Antonio, Texas, USA; San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) speaks to the media after the New York Knicks defeat the Spurs during game five of the 2026 NBA Finals at Frost Bank Center. Mandatory Credit: Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images | Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images
I must admit, the way this series has gone, I felt pretty certain heading into the fourth that San Antonio was going to lose this game. Simply put, the Spurs showed time and again that they could play well enough to hold a lead against the Knicks late in the game, but inevitably that edge would wither away in the face of missed opportunities, mistakes, and poor composure. In short, these contests against New York really do seem to have come down to the advantage earned through experience, as the Knicks consistently exhibited an ability to outperform San Antonio at the most critical times.
Despite it’s disappointing ending, we would be remiss to overlook how amazing this season has been. Back in October, the Spurs were expected to be a fringe playoff team that would be thrilled to get past the play-in and go down fighting in the first round. Instead, they won 62 games and marched through a series of tough Western Conference opponents. Replicating that feat next year won’t be easy, but the core of this team is still well within the age range in which substantial year-over-year improvements are the norm, so we have every reason to believe that next year’s squad will be even more impressive. In the meantime, let’s review our last box score of the season:
Note: Now that we’ve moved into the postseason, the reference period used for grading changes from the set of regular season games since 2012-2013 to the set of postseason games since 2012-2013. Unless otherwise noted below, this set DOES include play-in games. As of the end of June 13 2026, this group include 1,206 games.
Factors that decided the game
This was yet another game in which many key battles were essentially draws. For example, New York edged out the Spurs in defensive rebounds (+2), but San Antonio had a +1 edge on the offensive glass. Similarly, the Knicks had one more turnover than the Spurs, but San Antonio’s edge in points off of turnovers was just +3 (certainly an advantage, but unlikely to swing a game).
Shooting volume and efficiency from the field was similarly balanced. The Spurs did have a key edge in overall FG% (+2.74 percentage points), which would normally provide a sizeable advantage in terms of winning. Though San Antonio did make two more field goals than New York, both teams had exactly the same performance from distance (12-of-37), and the broader context is that neither team shot well from the field.
Because points from the field were so scarce, the free throw line played a dominant role in this game, and unfortunately this was the one area where the Knicks clearly outplayed San Antonio. In addition to having a FTA margin of +9 (part of which can be explained by fouling at the very end of the game), New York enjoyed a FT% differential of +8.27 percentage points. As a result, they outscored the Spurs by eight from the charity stripe, which ultimately proved decisive.
Rare Box Score Stats
It is EXCEPTIONALLY rare in the modern NBA for a team to win a postseason contest with the dismal shooting efficiency that New York achieved last night. In fact, there has been only ONE other postseason game since 2012-2013 in which the winning team logged FG%, 3P%, and FT% values at least as bad as 35.63%, 32.43%, and 71.43%, respectively. That other occasion was a May 11, 2013 game in which Indiana beat the Knicks 81-72 in the Eastern Conference Semis.
Of course, New York was able to win with these terrible percentages because the Spurs were even less efficient. In fact, since 2012-2013, just three teams have lost by no more than four points while recording FG%, 3P%, and FT% values at least as bad as 38.37%, 32.43%, and 63.16%, respectively. On average during this period, a postseason loser with a shooting percentage line that bad in all dimensions loses by about 21 points.
Although both teams were woefully inefficient from the field, I must grudgingly admit that Jalen Brunson was exceptional, as he scored 45 points on very good efficiency and accounted for nearly half of his team’s points. In fact, since 1996-1997, only 18 other players have put together a playoff performance in which they scored at least 47.87% of their team’s points.
What are Team Graded Box Scores?
Very briefly, these box scores grade winner-loser differentials for basic box score statistics, with the grade being based on the winning team’s differential relative to other NBA winners during a defined reference period. Think of it like a report card for understanding how a given winner performed relative to other winners. The reference period used runs from the start of the 2012-2013 season to the latest date of play, including only games in the same season category (i.e., regular season and playoff games are not compared to each other).
Data Source: The underlying data used to create these box scores was collected from Basketball Reference. In all cases, the data are collected the morning after the game is played. Although rare, postgame statistical revisions after data collection do occur and may affect the results after the fact.
Spike Lee looks on before Game Five of the 2026 NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks at Frost Bank Center on June 13, 2026 in San Antonio, Texas.
Spike Lee saw one championship and immediately started thinking about the next one.
After the Knicks clinched their first NBA Finals championship since 1973 on Saturday night, the longtime fan was asked his thoughts.
The Knicks superfan has been a season ticket holder since 1985, which also happened to be Patrick Ewing’s rookie season.
He has become so well-recognized as one of the most passionate celebrity Knicks fans that folks online, including actor Kevin Hart, have called for Lee to receive a championship ring from the team.
Hart posted a video to Instagram and Facebook Sunday morning saying that the Knicks should give the filmmaker a ring.
“Give @officialspikelee a CHAMPIONSHIP RING DAMN IT!!!!!!!! Congrats Knicks and Congrats New York!!!!! Long overdue,” Hart captioned his video.
Spike Lee looks on before Game Five of the 2026 NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks at Frost Bank Center on June 13, 2026 in San Antonio, Texas. Getty Images
Lee’s Knicks roots run deep. Despite being born in Atlanta, his family moved to Brooklyn when he was young, and later received his masters in film and television from New York University.
The 69-year-old said in a recent CNN interview that he would trade his honorary Oscar for a Knicks title.
Here’s the latest on the Knicks’ historic 2026 NBA Finals win
Fortunately, Lee won’t have to worry about that anymore.
The Knicks ended their 53-year championship drought on Saturday night with a 94-90 victory over the Spurs in Game 5.
They trailed by double digits in all five games and came back to win the four they needed to clinch their third championship in franchise history.
If Lee’s wish of back-to-back championships comes true, the Knicks could be on their way to building a dynasty on the back of their captain and reigning Finals MVP, Jalen Brunson.
Since Brunson’s arrival in 2022, the Knicks have won at least one playoff series every season. In the 21 seasons prior, they had won just one.
SAN FRANCISCO — No moves a manager makes will be scrutinized as heavily or as frequently as the daily decisions when it comes to his bullpen.
So far, Tony Vitello has mostly skated scot-free.
He hasn’t tried to signal for a reliever despite nobody warming, a la Gabe Kapler during his first games leading the Phillies. And he hasn’t called for a reliever whose name wasn’t on the lineup card, like Kapler did in his second try at managing with the Giants.
Keaton Winn was placed on the injured list Sunday with a strain in his right elbow, with the Giants calling up Tristan Beck to take his place in the bullpen. D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images
Whatever performance issues there have been — and they have been abundant — fall less on the manager than the hand of cards he was dealt by his bosses upstairs in the front office.
As far as optics go, the first-year manager’s worst sin had been causing a little confusion during one change, leading bullpen coach Jesse Chavez to shrug both hands above his shoulders.
That is, until this week.
Keaton Winn was placed on the injured list Sunday with a strain in his right elbow, with the Giants calling up Tristan Beck to take his place in the bullpen.
Winn hadn’t appeared in a game since Vitello summoned him for a third contest in a row Monday night, surrendering three runs in the ninth of a 4-3 loss. The decision, it would appear, not only cost the Giants the game but came with more dire consequences.
After all, this isn’t college baseball, where coaches regularly ride their best pitchers until their arms fall off. This is Major League Baseball, where each arm comes with a seven-figure insurance policy and pitchers’ health is closely managed like the commodities they are.
Club sources said nobody among the Giants’ coaching or medical staff relayed any concerns to manager Tony Vitello about Winn’s availability in their daily pregame meeting Monday. Christopher Hanewinckel-Imagn Images
However, it doesn’t all fall on Vitello’s shoulders. This was an organizational failure.
Winn, first and foremost, gave Vitello the green light to use him for a third game in a row, even though it was something he had never done before in the minors or as a big leaguer.
Club sources also said nobody among the coaching or medical staff relayed any concerns to Vitello about Winn’s availability that night in their daily pregame meeting.
Logan Webb, who was at 99 pitches and firing on all cylinders, didn’t demand the ball for the ninth, despite flying ahead of the club as one of the only players to avoid a 4 a.m. arrival from Chicago that morning. He would later privately express regret about not being more assertive when Vitello approached him about the ninth, another club source said.
While the Giants were optimistic that Winn would require no more than “a handful of days down, at the most,” per Vitello, the right-hander has experienced elbow problems in the past as a pro, including Tommy John surgery in 2021 and another procedure that ended his 2024 season.
It’s not hard to draw a straight line from Winn’s heavy workload and the decision to call on him for a third day in a row to the elbow discomfort that cropped up in the days since.
Any regrets from Vitello, however, had more to do with the three runs Winn surrendered in the loss than whatever possible effect the outing had on his health.
“I think more than anything we just wish we would have done anything differently to win the game,” Vitello said. “Anytime we have a guy that’s available down there, it means he’s available to go and feels good to go.”
Winn hadn’t appeared in a game since Vitello summoned him for a third contest in a row Monday night, surrendering three runs in the ninth of a 4-2 loss. Getty Images
Before every game, Vitello holds a meeting with his pitching coaches and medical staff to determine who is and isn’t available that day. Winn, in the past, has passed along when he wasn’t feeling physically up to pitch, but he didn’t raise any issues Monday, Vitello said.
One arm ruled out through the pregame process was Caleb Kilian, who had also pitched the previous two games in Chicago — but had only thrown 23 pitches between them, compared to 41 exhausted by Winn in the same games.
While Kilian became the first to be formally named the closer by Vitello on Friday, Winn had been regarded as the Giants’ closer internally up until his Monday outing, a club source said.
“At the end of the game, if we got to him, that’s who we were going to use,” Vitello said.
The decision came down to asking Winn to push his body to new limits or Webb to push his pitch count into uncomfortable territory in only his third start back from the injured list.
Vitello asked Webb: “Are you good?”
Webb responded: “It’s up to you. It’s your decision.”
A manager is only as good as the players on his roster and the information at his disposal, but part of the job also means bearing the brunt of the blame when decisions go awry.
Vitello was asked if he saw a correlation between Winn’s usage and his elbow pain.
“I think part of it is the nature of the split-finger, to be honest with you,” he said.
It’s impossible to know whether Webb would have been able to go the distance, though the smart money is on yes. Either way, Winn was put in a position he wasn’t able to handle.
Now, the Giants can only sit and wait and hope a third elbow surgery isn’t in his future.
The Sox up-the-middle duo of Colson Montgomery and Chase Meidroth came up clutch yet again. | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images
Another Sunday, another opener against a lineup that I do not like the White Sox facing.
In tense but rewarding fashion, my worries went for naught, as an explosive six-run sixth inning broke the spell of Dodgers pitching on the Sox offense, leading them to a 6-4 comeback win that pushes the Sox back to a season-best six games better than .500, at 38-32.
If things go well, we are perhaps a week or two out from the 2026 White Sox surpassing their entire record-setting win total from 2024. Get out your pots and pans, folks.
I spent the entire first half of the game waffling over whether Will Venable’s planning and execution of the opener/bulk man strategy was well-conceived. I’m on the record as being extremely skeptical of the current coaching staff’s preoccupation with seemingly arbitrary platoon matchups. Erick Fedde has a reverse platoon split this season, and has been more or less neutral over the course of his career. If you stripped the names away and purely showed me the numbers, I probably would have said that using an opener was a pointless endeavor.
But as some of my colleagues pointed out, the typical scenario doesn’t account for the fact that the run of lefty hitters this would be employed against includes Shohei Ohtani, MLB RBI leader Andy Pages, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy, Kyle Tucker and former Top 3o prospect Dalton Rushing, almost in that order. The worst hitter in that group is second in the NL in rWAR. It’s a gauntlet straight out of Out of the Park Baseball.
Still, I thought that if Fedde, who entered the game with a 4.69 ERA (roughly 10% worse than league average), is going to take the bulk of the innings for the afternoon, it probably doesn’t matter whether he starts the game on the mound or appears in the fourth inning — he’s still going to have to get through that modern-day Murderer’s Row twice.
The latter is what we got. Bryan Hudson was tasked with handing the opening trio of Ohtani, Pages and Freeman. For the second straight week, a Sox opener failed to fully justify the platoon advantage. Freeman is undoubtedly worse against lefties than righties. That knowledge was still of little comfort when the future Hall-of-Famer drilled one into the right field bleachers for a 1-0 Dodgers lead:
Fortunately, most of my concerns turned out to be moot. The fact that Fedde only had to face Ohtani and Freeman once in his 3 1/3 innings of work gave the Sox offense critical time to engineer yet another thrilling comeback.
Part of why it happened is that Sean Newcomb was pretty nasty, and he continues to live up to the $4.5 million deal he signed last offseason. The only baserunner he allowed in 2 1/3 innings was self-inflicted, striking out four of the other six batters he faced. Getting Freeman out this time to conclude that stretch set up Fedde to finally enter the game to face Mookie Betts with one out in the fourth inning. When it looked like the Sox were on the verge of falling into an early hole, Newcomb was outstanding in keeping the Dodgers offense at bay long enough for Sox hitters to settle in.
While the Sox had to expend a lot of brainpower trying to navigate the opposing lineup with the state of their pitching staff, the Dodgers had no such concerns. Emmet Sheehan came out dealing for the former Brooklynites, sitting 95 mph on his rising heather and commanding three secondary pitches quite well. He lasted until the fifth inning before allowing a base knock, a double down the line from Colson Montgomery.
Through five innings, we were looking at a grand total of two hits for the Sox over their prior 18 innings. Sheehan looked untouchable.
In perhaps another vindication of the opener strategy, it was the third time through the lineup that turned out to be Sheehan’s undoing. Sheehan’s control took just the slightest dip as his pitch count climbed, and after hitting the ball hard into outs the first time through, Sox hitters simply didn’t miss when they got their third look. They homered three times in the sixth inning, chasing Sheehan from the ballgame and turning a 1-0 deficit into an improbable 6-1 lead.
As has often been the case this spring, the critical spark for the Pale House came courtesy of Sam Antonacci, who led off the sixth by slamming his second home run of the season, and the first one that actually flew over the fence. It wasn’t a cheap one — at 105 mph and 415 feet, Statcast tells us that it would’ve left the yard in every ballpark in The Show.
It wasn’t just Antonacci that suddenly began seeing Sheehan like he got a new pair of glasses. Momentum built, as Miguel Vargas smoked a single and double at triple-digit velocities. Benintendi’s double gave the Sox a 2-1 lead, and Colson Montgomery subsequently doubled it. Sheehan had already failed to sneak fastballs by Colson earlier in the game to the tune of that postgame show-cancelling double, and the Sox shortstop didn’t miss even in the slightest again, with his towering blast also breaking 400 feet.
Finally, Chase Meidroth joined the party with an opposite field wall-scraper, his sixth longball of 2026. It was the first oppo homer of Meidroth’s career — all 10 of his previous dingers had come to the pull side. At the end of the inning, it was a 6-1 Sox lead, and the Dodgers lineup had to deal with Grant Taylor.
While I initially thought from his pitch mix that Fedde probably would not even pitch in a traditional bulk man — how funny that phrase would have felt a decade ago — role. He threw pretty much no fastballs his first time through the order, relying almost entirely on his sweeper and changeup. That’s not the pitch mix of someone who’s concerned about establishing the fastball in order to take advantage of their secondary stuff the second and third time through the order.
To some degree, that was a correct assessment. Fedde finished with 2 2/3 innings of work, just an out more than what Newcomb recorded as an “opener.” But despite allowing three hits and two walks in his brief time in the game, Fedde got outs where it counted. The grand sixth inning comeback simply would not have been possible had he not displayed the guts to keep his team in the game.
The Dodgers did have an opportunity to mount a comeback against Taylor. Dalton Rushing came home to score after a double to lead off the inning, but that was the only baserunner that Taylor ceded.
It seems worth noting that the Sox coaching staff seems to be stepping up the 24-year-old’s workload as of late. The Dodgers tacked on another run on a Mookie Betts dinger during Taylor’s second inning of work, swelling his ERA all the way up to 2.18. It’s third time in his last four outings that Taylor has been trusted to work multiple innings, bringing his innings total to 36 2/3 on the season, on pace to fall a few innings short of the stated goal of a century.
Despite today’s bumpy outing, his strikeout-to-walk ratio of 51:9 remains impeccable.
Los Angeles relievers largely did their job in keeping Sox bats quiet the rest of the way. After lefty Jack Dreyer was victimized by Meidroth, Blake Treinen and Jonathan Hernandez took care of business in the seventh and eighth. That left the ball in the hands of Seranthony Domínguez to close things out.
I suffered a few moments of true despair as Domínguez issued a four-pitch walk to begin the inning and the dread of a full last-minute recap rewrite arrived like a sudden thunderstorm. As the clouds crept closer with a double and a four-pitch walk, infield defense bailed out the team for what feels like the 10th time this year. A heads up 4-6 putout on a sliding snag up the middle by Chase Meidroth got the Sox within an out, and Domínguez managed to shut the door with a dramatic punchout of Freddie Freeman to secure the dramatic victory and series win.
That makes consecutive series wins against two of the three occupants of first place in the National League. It may be safe to say that critics can no longer point to the state of the AL Central in writing off the potential of this Sox squad. Bob Nightengale reported today that Chris Getz and Co. may be aggressive at the trade deadline. If these South Siders can pull off another two wins in the Bronx against the Yankees, it may be time to take the training wheels off and commit to the idea that they could actually do something in 2026, arriving early or no.
That first game in New York begins at 6:05 p.m. CT, with the South Siders off tomorrow before starting their road trip with a bona fide ace-off as Gerrit Cole steps up for the Yankees against the unstoppable Davis Martin. It’ll be followed up by old friend Carlos Rodón, and with Tarik Skubal lined up to go for Detroit on Friday, the Sox are ready for perhaps their single most challenging week of the season. Win or lose, we’ll see you there!
