SAN FRANCISCO — When Jordan Hicks finally hit free agency, several suitors viewed him as a starter and several as a late-innings reliever. The Giants never wavered. They told Hicks he would start in San Francisco, and he signed a four-year, $44 million deal.
“My whole life this has been the dream,” Hicks said a few weeks later. “I’m fully embracing this.”
In the second month of the second season, Hicks finds himself back in the bullpen. His ERA jumped to 6.55 last Wednesday, and on Saturday, manager Bob Melvin announced that Hayden Birdsong will take that rotation spot. Hicks said he understands, and he’s ready to transition back.
“For me, I’m just going to live with it (and) take ownership,” he said Sunday morning. “I didn’t have the greatest start to the season as I wanted, but I’ll move on and help the team in the bullpen.”
Hicks will join what right now is the best group of relievers in baseball. Four pitchers got through the final four innings Saturday on just 34 pitches, lowering the group’s ERA to 2.59. Initially, Hicks will serve as a sort-of long man given that he is stretched out to throw 100 pitches if needed, but over time that role will change.
Hicks said he’s ready to do “whatever the team needs” and mentioned adjustments he has been working on the last few days. While he’s among the league leaders in groundball rate, he is not getting as much swing-and-miss as you would expect from someone who sits in the upper nineties, and that would be one area to improve on as a reliever.
Hicks is averaging 97.2 mph with his sinker, but he’s not sure if there will be the usual uptick that comes with moving to the bullpen. He spent all offseason conditioning himself to go full throttle for six or seven innings.
“I was already up to 101 as a starter. I don’t really know, to be honest — we’ll see,” Hicks said when asked what his velocity might look like. “I don’t think that’s something I can predict if I’m going to go out there and throw 103. It’s been two years since I did that. I have no idea. I’m just going to go out there and get the job done.”
The job description has changed, but Hicks still has two years left on his contract, and at some point the Giants will have to make a decision on his long-term outlook. In addition to Landen Roupp and Birdsong, they have Kyle Harrison, Carson Whisenhunt and other young pitchers in the wings, and Logan Webb and Robbie Ray are signed past this season. Asked if he still wants to be a starter down the line, Hicks said right now he’s focused on helping the team.
“I have not given up on myself,” he said. “If the opportunity presents itself I’ll happily take it, but at the same time I really don’t have much control of the situation. Yeah, I want to be a starting pitcher. That’s always what I’ve wanted to do in the big leagues. It’s just not the time right now.”
That’s what we’ll get on Sunday when the Florida Panthers face off against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena.
It will mark only the fifth time in Panthers franchise history that they will play in a Game 7.
I’m sure we all remember the most recent one, against the Edmonton Oilers last June.
That was a fairly big game, being the Stanley Cup Final and all.
Overall, the Panthers have gone 3-1 when facing a winner-take-all Game 7, including a 2-0 mark when on the road.
Other than the Oilers, Florida’s Game 7 victories have come against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1996 Eastern Conference Final and the Boston Bruins during the first round in 2023.
Those were both on the road.
The loss was in 2012 against the New Jersey Devils, a game that ended in double overtime after the Cats erased a two-goal third period deficit, in a series that was Florida’s first playoff appearance in 12 years.
In addition to the two Game 7s Florida has played under Head Coach Paul Maurice, the Panthers hold an 8-7 record in games where they can eliminate an opponent since Maurice took over three seasons ago.
Conversely, Florida has gone 4-1 under Maurice when facing elimination.
Three of those wins came against the Boston during that first round series in 2023 when the Panthers came back from a 3-1 series deficit, and the other was in Game 7 against Edmonton last June.
We’ll see how this one plays out in what should be an electric environment in Toronto.
Photo caption: Apr 30, 2023; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Florida Panthers left wing Matthew Tkachuk (19) reacts on the winning goal during overtime in game seven of the first round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images
Phillies officials walked past a group of reporters in hushed tones in the tunnel outside the home clubhouse after Saturday night’s win.
A morning later, the secrecy made more sense.
Jose Alvarado has been suspended for 80 games without pay and will not appeal after testing positive for exogenous Testosterone. He took a supplement over the offseason to lose weight and was seemingly unaware that it contained a banned substance.
To make matters even worse, Alvarado will also be ineligible for the 2025 playoffs. He’ll be able to pitch in regular-season Games 126 through 162 and that’s it. He’s already left town.
Even with Alvarado, the Phillies already needed more relief help. It has stuck out as their top need, one that was likely to be addressed at the trade deadline.
But the trade deadline is 10 weeks away. Sunday’s news could and perhaps should expedite the Phillies’ process of finding another high-leverage reliever.
It won’t be easy. Top relievers are hardly ever traded this far out from the deadline and you’d have to overpay to complete a deal soon.
Want Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley? Well, it’s going to cost more than a rental ordinarily would, especially now.
Want A’s closer Mason Miller, who isn’t a free agent until after 2028? Well, it might very well cost both Aidan Miller and Justin Crawford, the Phillies’ top two position player prospects.
The reason sellers hang on to their top trade candidates until close to the July 31 deadline is because demand doesn’t decrease, it typically increases. Bidding wars ensue. Acquisition costs rise.
“I can’t even answer that yet. That’s still a while away,” president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said when asked how the Alvarado news will affect the Phillies’ trade deadline.
“It would be like if we had an injury. If you had an injury and knew a guy was going to be out for a while, well how do you deal with it? You talk about a lot of different things and there’s short-term and long-term.”
The Cardinals, the A’s, the Rays with Pete Fairbanks, the Orioles with Felix Bautista and Yennier Cano, the Nationals with Kyle Finnegan, they all have little incentive to act now unless they’re bowled over.
These teams all know the Phillies are in win-now mode, lost their best reliever and won’t want to waste a year in the primes of Bryce Harper, Zack Wheeler, Kyle Schwarber and the rest. Dombrowski was asked Sunday about that lack of leverage.
“If you make somebody the right offer, I don’t think that will make a difference,” he said.
“We’ve already been talking to people so it’s not gonna force anything different. There are very few clubs in position that they want to make trades right now to get rid of players. Most clubs are in a postseason race at this time. We’ve already done a lot of work and have information that we’ve been gathering behind the scenes well before this.”
Alvarado provided so much to the Phillies’ bullpen. He was their primary closer but also the reliever they’d use if a dangerous left-handed section of a lineup was due up in the eighth inning. His mere presence is unsettling to opposing managers and hitters who have almost no time to react to his 100 mph average fastball, 99 mph sinker and 94 mph cutter.
Alvarado showed up in spring training this year already throwing triple-digits. He said several times in March and April that he’s never felt better, that there’s nothing about his routine he wanted to change. He was on track to make his first All-Star team. He had by far the lowest walk rate of his career, 1.8 per nine innings compared to 4.9 prior. Now it’s all washed away.
In the short term, Alvarado’s absence drastically increases the importance of lefty Matt Strahm and right-handers Jordan Romano and Orion Kerkering. Strahm dealt with a left shoulder impingement in spring training and pitched with lower velocity early this season but was sharp Saturday night. Manager Rob Thomson remarked after the game that it was the best Strahm’s stuff has looked in 2025.
Romano is trending in the right direction as well. He’s made seven straight scoreless appearances, four of them 1-2-3. Romano has picked up two saves during that run and figures to be the primary closer moving forward unless Thomson uses him in the eighth inning against a right-handed pocket and saves Strahm for the ninth.
Tanner Banks goes from being the third lefty in the bullpen to the second. He’s held left-handed hitters to 5-for-28 (.179) on the season.
“We’ve had big injuries in the past — Harper, Schwarber, J.T. (Realmuto) — and guys pick it up, that’s what they do around here,” Thomson said.
“It’s a loss, no doubt. It’s really out of our control. We’ve just got to move on. We’ve got really good pieces here that can pick up the slack.”
Teenager defeated Luke Humphries in Friday exhibition
Luke Littler has revealed his van was vandalised while the world champion was participating in an exhibition event in Norwich.
The 18-year-old defeated rival Luke Humphries in the MODUS Icons of Darts event in the city on Friday night but returned to his vehicle to discover the rear window had been smashed.
The Phillies were dealt an unexpected blow Sunday with the news José Alvarado has been suspended without pay for 80 games by MLB after testing positive for exogenous testosterone.
What’s more devastating is that his violation also makes him ineligible for the postseason.
The club learned about the suspension prior to the series finale against the Pirates and issued the following statement:
“The Phillies fully support Major League Baseball’s Joint Prevention and Treatment Program and are disappointed to hear today’s news of José’s violation.”
The Phillies will now be without one of their most reliable arms out of the bullpen — and one of the most dominant relievers across the sport.
“To me, I end up treating it like an injury,” said president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski. “Because you need to replace somebody for 80 games and then hopefully into the postseason, he’s not eligible for that time period.
“It’s not something he did knowingly, I believe that, the way he talked to me. Basically the system is a very stringent system in the sense that you’re responsible for what goes into your body. That’s what it really comes down to.
“I know what he was doing, he was trying to take a weight-loss reduction, he’s always been self-conscious of his weight and working hard on it. Something he took gave a positive result, but ultimately it’s a situation where if it happens, you’re still responsible for it.”
Alvarado was not at Citizens Bank Park and unavailable to comment on the suspension. Through his 20 games in 2025, he was 4-1 with a 2.70 ERA. He would be able to return August 19 against the Mariners.
The Montreal Canadiens had a good season and capped it off
with an unexpected playoff appearance, but that doesn’t mean the rebuild is
over—far from it. To be genuine contenders, however, it may be time to acquire
something besides prospects and very young players.
Numerous rumours throughout the season have suggested that
the New York Islanders may be open to trading Noah Dobson. The 25-year-old,
six-foot-four, 200-pound defenseman has shown what he can do in this league in
the past. He has played for parts of six seasons on Long Island, for 388 games,
in which he gathered 230 points and 118 penalty minutes.
In 2023-24, he reached a career-high of 70 points in 79
games, not far off a point-per-game pace that is quite impressive for a blueliner,
but he fell back to earth this season when he could only muster 39 points in 71
games.
He’s just played the third year of his three-year contract
with a $4M cap hit. In February, he moved from Maloney & Thompson sports
management to Wasserman Hockey, where his agents will be Judd Moldaver and
Olivier Fortier. The latter will be leading the way. Fortier has two players contracted
with the Canadiens: Owen Beck and Joshua Roy, both of whom are ELC contracts.
He’s the agent who got Alexis Lafreniere a seven-year extension with a $7.45M
cap hit annually. All of his clients, apart from Beck, are French-Canadians.
Interestingly, Fortier is a former Canadiens prospect. The
organization drafted him in the third round in 2007, but when he realized his
NHL dream wouldn’t come to fruition, he gave up hockey to study law and joined
Momentum Hockey, a Quebec-based agency that joined Wasserman Hockey last September.
While Dobson will be an RFA soon, I think Kent Hughes would
rather make a trade with the Islanders than sign the defenseman to an offer
sheet. The Canadiens’ GM has traded with
the Isles in the past, although business must be slow for the New York outfit as
the search for a new GM to replace Lou Lamoriello continues.
The Canadiens currently hold two consecutive first-round
picks at the 2025 draft, picking 16th and 17th. Hughes has
already shown he’s not opposed to trading draft picks or young talent to fill a
need. Hughes sent Alexander Romanov to the Islanders in his first draft at the
helm for two picks: their first-round pick (at 13 overall) and a fourth-round
pick (98th overall). Hughes then flipped those to the Chicago
Blackhawks for Kirby Dach in his search for the ever-elusive second-line
center.
Dobson’s profile fits the kind of projects Hughes likes to
take on, although he could be a bit more expensive, having already shown he can
succeed offensively in the NHL. A smooth skater and a player with a knack for
launching an attack, he spent an average of over 23 minutes on the ice this
season in New York. He would make an excellent partner for Lane Hutson and
immediately shore up the Canadiens’ defense, especially with David Savard’s
departure.
Would Hughes be able to sell him a “show me” deal like he
did with Kirby Dach and Alex Newhook? Maybe, although the agency swap may mean
he’s looking for a longer-term deal, if there’s anyone who can sell the
Canadiens’ rebuild to a player, it’s Hughes. However, Dobson’s situation is
particular, as he’ll be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2025-26
season, unless he signs a long-term pact. It remains to be seen if the Isles'
new management wants to move Dobson, but the offer sheet remains an option if
they don't.
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SAN FRANCISCO — With a walk-off walk Saturday night, Wilmer Flores took over the MLB lead in RBI. He also might have had the plate appearance of the season.
Flores fouled off two-strike 103.5 and 102.9 fastballs and a slider before taking a 102.2 mph fastball from Mason Miller to end the game. Overall, he saw seven pitches from Miller that were at least 102 mph, and that put him in rare air.
According to Sportradar, the seven pitches at 102 mph or above are tied for the most a hitter has seen in one plate appearance since detailed velocity tracking began in 2009. Seattle’s Josh Rojas saw seven pitches at 102-plus from Los Angeles Angels reliever Ben Joyce last year, but that at-bat ended in a strikeout. Flores kept battling until Miller threw a fourth ball, giving the Giants a 1-0 win.
“It’s pretty good stuff. I was just waiting and hoping to make contact somehow,” Flores said Saturday. “As the at-bat went longer, I was seeing the fastball a little better, but it’s just a different fastball. I think I was just lucky to foul it off.”
Flores fell behind 1-2, but then fouled off a 103.5 mph fastball. After taking 103.9 — the fastest pitch by anyone in MLB this season — he fouled off a 102.9 mph fastball. Miller tried to change it up with a slider, but it was up and Flores fouled it off. Another slider down and away was close, but Flores held up.
“Two-two, I put my best swing on it and still fouled it off — I think it was up,” Flores said. “The slider I took, it was away. I think it was a ball coming out of the hand, but I was able to hold up.”
Miller tried another fastball but it was low all the way, and Flores got his walk-off. With the walk, Flores moved to 42 RBI on the year, one ahead of Aaron Judge for the MLB lead. He has had a lot of impressive moments at the plate through two months, but Saturday’s will be hard to top.
“Wilmer’s at-bat was incredible,” manager Bob Melvin said. “You’re 3-2 and you know you’re going to get a fastball and you’re going to have to start really early to get to it with a guy throwing 103, 104 mph. For him to take that pitch was kind of vintage Wilmer stuff. Even the 2-2 slider, to lay off that. It’s just an incredible at-bat. Yeah, the right guy at the plate.”
Blues call up Max King to start on bench in Game 1 against Maroons
Payne Haas to undergo a scan that will decide if he plays in Origin I
Laurie Daley has delivered a selection shock with Max King to make his State of Origin debut as the NSW coach also sweats on a Payne Haas quad injury.
Daley confirmed his side for the series opener on Sunday, with Dylan Edwards retaining the fullback role and Mitch Moses to partner Nathan Cleary in the haves.
Giannis Antetokounmpo made it clear he’s a big fan of Warriors superstar Steph Curry.
At this point, who isn’t?
The Bucks superstar, who reportedly is “open” to leaving Milwaukee via trade this offseason, took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to do a Q&A and praised Curry on numerous occasions in response to fans’ questions.
— Giannis Antetokounmpo (@Giannis_An34) May 18, 2025
Antetokounmpo and Curry have shared a mutual respect for years, but the Golden State point guard isn’t the only one in the Warriors organization who is a fan of the “Greek Freak,” as team CEO Joe Lacob reportedly has dreamed of one day pairing Curry and Antetokounmpo together on the Warriors.
While Golden State reportedly is unlikely to pursue a blockbuster Antetokounmpo trade this offseason, if he were to become available, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst believes the Warriors, at the very least, have the assets to make the Bucks a competitive offer, although likely not enough to win a potential bidding war.
“Yes, there is a package that the Warriors could use,” Windhorst said Friday on “Get Up.” “They have some future draft picks. They have interesting young players. Like last year, Brandin Podziemski was off limits. Who knows if that’s going to be the case this year? But they can’t win a bidding war.”
While trading for Giannis might be a pipe dream for the Warriors, it’s not completely unrealistic that the two-time NBA MVP would want to force his way to Golden State and play alongside Curry.
Wednesday’s all-English Europa League final in Bilbao is a huge game that shows football still has a sense of humour
The best thing about football is what a silly, mercurial game it is. You can have all the money or political clout in the world. You can put in place meticulously thought-out projects. You can think and prepare and invest and plan, and football will still spit out a Europa League final between Tottenham and Manchester United. Strategise that.
Thousands will travel to Bilbao without tickets, many will end up sleeping rough, the phone network may collapse. It will be chaotic and anarchic and at its heart will be a game between two teams desperate for victory, whose presence in the final is utterly bewildering. And in that bonkersness may lie brilliance.
The Florida Panthers are gearing up for what should be one heck of a night.
Sunday will be Game 7 between the Panthers and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
It will be the biggest hockey game played in Toronto in decades, and Scotiabank Arena will be an absolute madhouse.
For the Panthers, they have been through these kind of stressful postseason situations several times over the past few years.
That experience goes a long way when it comes to preparing for a winner-take-all Game 7.
“From going through it together countless times, it’s comforting,” said Panthers forward Sam Reinhart. “You know what you’re going to expect out of the guy next to you, and that’s his best at a time like this. We’re excited for another opportunity to play in another big game like this.”
"The messages, chemistry, intensity and how we prepare for it is all the same,” added Cats defenseman Aaron Ekblad. “Nothing changes. It’s getting our bodies ready and feeling the best we can coming into it.”
Don’t be surprised to see a bit of a different look when the Panthers take the ice.
Florida Head Coach Paul Maurice rarely tweaks the roster after playoff wins, but he will often use losses to move players in and out of the lineup.
The infusion of players like Evan Rodrigues, who has been day-to-day while battling an injury, and skilled rookie Mackie Samoskevich, could provide a boost to the Cats.
Here are the Panthers projected lines and pairings for Game 6 against the Maple Leafs:
Photo caption: Photo caption: May 14, 2025; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Florida Panthers forward Eetu Luostarinen (27) and defenseman Seth Jones (3) congratulate defenseman Niko Mikkola (77) on his goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs during the second period of game five of the second round of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Scotiabank Arena. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images
Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw delivers during the first inning of an 11-9 loss to the Angels at Dodger Stadium on Saturday. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)
Clayton Kershaw paused halfway up the dugout steps Saturday and bowed his head. The jog he was about to make to the mound at Dodger Stadium would be the first steps of what is likely the final chapter of his spectacular career.
A moment of silent reflection was in order.
“I don't like the word emotional, but there's definitely some thoughts. It's just special,” Kershaw said of his first outing of the season, an uneven four-inning stint in the Dodgers’ 11-9 loss to the Angels. “You get a little bit older, you just learn to appreciate that more. It was different.”
Kershaw threw his last pitch in August at Phoenix’s Chase Field; Corbin Carroll hit it over the right-field wall. Kershaw then walked off the mound and was put on the injured list with a bone spur on his left big toe.
The first pitch of his latest comeback came at 6:10 p.m. Saturday, a high fastball that Zach Neto took for a ball. The rest of the inning went downhill from there, with Kershaw giving up three runs on three hits and two walks in the first inning.
He recovered nicely, though, allowing two runs and two hits over the next three innings while striking out two over four innings in a wild game the Angels won behind a career-high five RBIs from catcher Logan O’Hoppe.
“I love getting back out there. It's a special thing to get to go back and pitch at Dodger Stadium,” Kershaw said. “Obviously, I wanted to pitch better. I need to pitch better going forward. But I think there's some glimpses of some of my stuff being there, which is good. The problem tonight was just command.
“But, you know, first one back and just to be back out here at Dodger Stadium was special for me, regardless of the outcome.”
Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw wipes his face during the third inning of an 11-9 loss to the Angels on Saturday night. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)
A three-time Cy Young Award winner, Kershaw, 37, is the Dodgers’ all-time leader in strikeouts and is 30 shy of becoming the 20th pitcher in big-league history to reach 3,000. His 212 career wins is second in franchise history behind only Don Sutton’s 233 and his 2.50 ERA ranks third. He also ranks third in starts (430).
But he’s spent almost as much time on the injured list as he has in the Dodgers' rotation over the last five seasons and the list of injuries includes so many body parts, it reads like a page out of "Gray’s Anatomy". There’s the toe, which kept him off the opening day roster. Last season it was knee, toe and shoulder injuries. In 2023, it was his left shoulder. The year before that, his back and pelvis and before that it was his forearm, elbow and back again.
Last season was clearly the most painful, though. Kershaw made seven starts and pitched just 30 innings, both career lows, and missed the World Series. Days after the team’s victory parade, he underwent surgery for a torn meniscus in his left knee and another on his left foot that left him on crutches and in a walking boot for two months.
"The superstar players that I have been around, there's always something that fuels them and they need that,” Roberts said. “Him not being a part of that last year, I know that that's fueling him.”
Logan O'Hoppe hits a three-run home run off Dodgers reliever Kirby Yates in the seventh inning Saturday. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)
With Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, Kershaw’s high school teammate, looking on, Kershaw struggled through a 38-pitch first inning, giving up a bases-loaded single to O’Hoppe and an RBI double to Matthew Lugo. But the Dodgers needed just four batters to match that with Andy Pages belting a three-run homer, his ninth of the season, to dead center in the bottom of the inning.
After Kershaw retired the side in order in the second, Taylor Ward put the Angels (19-25) back in front in the third, hitting his 11th home run. A walk, a double and a sacrifice fly from Neto extended the lead in the fourth before Kiké Hernández pulled a run back for the Dodgers with a lead-off homer, his seventh, in the bottom of the fourth.
Kershaw was done by then, having thrown 83 pitches, nearly half of them in the first inning.
“The stuff overall, I was impressed with,” Roberts said. “The velocity was more than it's been in quite some time. At times the slider was good. At times the curve ball was good. He mixed in a lot of change-ups, which was good.
“The command just wasn't consistent. He got to a lot of two-strike counts and couldn't put hitters away, where typically that's his hallmark.”
The Dodgers went in front for the first time in the sixth, turning three walks, two hits, a stolen base, a wild pitch and a ground-ball double play into three runs and 7-5 lead that O’Hoppe erased with his 10th homer, highlighting a five-run Angel seventh inning.
Five players — O’Hoppe, Luis Rengifo, Lugo, Nolan Schanuel and Kevin Newman — had two hits each for the Angels, who will try to sweep the three-game series Sunday afternoon.
For the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman matched a season high with four hits and is batting .407 in May, raising his league-leading average to .375. Pages, Hernández and catcher Dalton Rushing each had two hits.
Notes:Shohei Ohtani, who went hitless in six at-bats for the first time since 2019, threw 50 pitches in his most extensive bullpen session since undergoing a second surgery on his right elbow in 2023. The up-and-down session, in which Ohtani simulated a break between innings, was his second in a week. ... To make room for Kershaw on the 26-man roster the Dodgers optioned right-hander Ryan Loutos to the minors. To create space on the 40-man roster, the Dodgers moved Snell to the 60-day injured list.
The Florida Panthers still have some work to do if they want to reach the conference final.
A win on Sunday night in Game 7 will punch Florida’s ticket to Raleigh, where the Carolina Hurricanes are waiting to find out who they’ll be matched up against.
Late Saturday, after the Dallas Stars knocked out the Winnipeg Jets to advance to the Western Conference Final, the NHL released the full schedule for both conference finals.
As we still don’t know if it will be Florida or Toronto facing the Hurricanes, the league released two options for the Eastern Conference.
Should Florida advance, Game 1 against Carolina would be Tuesday night at 8 p.m. from Lenovo Center in Raleigh.
Home games for Panthers fans to attend would be on Saturday, May 24, Monday, May 26 and Friday, May 30.
Photo caption: May 18, 2023; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Florida Panthers left wing Matthew Tkachuk (19) reacts after scoring the game winning goal against the Carolina Hurricanes during the fourth overtime period of game one in the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs at PNC Arena. Mandatory Credit: James Guillory-Imagn Images
