Summer McIntosh of Canada led all the way in winning the 400m individual medley at the Pan Pacific Championships on Thursday night, bouncing back after a runner-up finish in the 200 freestyle.
Australia led all but 150 meters of the women’s 4x200 freestyle relay, with the team of Inez Miller, Lani Pallister, Hannah Casey and Milla Jansen winning in 7min 42.40sec to lower the country’s championship mark of 7:44.12 set at the 2018 Pan Pacs.
LOS ANGELES — The sound of trumpets are now the sound of alarm for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Oh, dear. Here comes closer Edwin Diaz again.
The pain and suffering continued Thursday night, Aug. 13 when he blew his third save since last week and the Dodgers lost to the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 in the first game of a crucial, four-game series.
Diaz entered in the bottom of the ninth to the sound of the signature trumpets with the Dodgers leading 4-2 thanks to Max Muncy’s pinch hit, three-run homer in the bottom of the sixth.
But Diaz heard loud boos from the crowd when he neutralized Muncy’s heroics. He left the field with two outs, the score tied 4-4 and though his status as the Dodgers’ closer appears to still be secure, Diaz is undeniably feeling the heat from the fans.
Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia allowed the final run, but the Dodgers losing this night belonged to Diaz.
Forget about the saves Diaz was supposed to be racking up for the Dodgers. Is there any saving Diaz from himself?
He’s complained that his sinker’s not sinking. But guess what is sinking? Diaz’s stock.
On Thursday, he did earn some credit – for the loss. He is now 2-2 this season but also a massive disappointment.
In the offseason, the Dodgers signed Diaz to a three-year deal worth $69 million and prepared the trumpet intro for the three-time All-Star.
By mid-July he went on the injured list when loose bodies − fragments of bone and cartilage − were found in his elbow. Surely the Dodgers hoped that might explain Diaz’s early struggles.
Diaz had a 10.50 ERA in seven appearances before he ended up on the injured list with his elbow injury.
But when he returned from elbow surgery in late July, it soon became apparent that the Dodgers may have fixed his elbow but not his problems on the mound. Diaz's ERA has ballooned to 11.57 and he's given up the lead in the ninth in three of his past four outings.
There was no tougher gut punch than Thursday against the Brewers. In 2/3 innings pitched, he gave four consecutive hits and was charged for three earned runs, rendering his two strikeouts immaterial.
"This game hurts, it matters, but (Diaz has) got to find his way and he's got to have a runway to find his way," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said postgame.
Though Roberts stood by his guy — "I definitely don't think that he would have gotten here to this point if he were a guy that would spiral," Roberts said — with the playoffs two months away, arguably the Dodgers' biggest problem has been exposed.
Edwin Diaz cannot be trusted to save games, no matter how loud those trumpets play.
Dodgers pitcher Edwin Díaz walks off the mound after giving up the tying run in the ninth inning of a 5-4 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers at Dodger Stadium on Thursday night. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
The second pitch Edwin Díaz threw Thursday night sailed above the strike zone, at about eye-height on Milwaukee’s William Contreras. It was an early indicator that the Dodgers closer was about to have a brutal ninth inning.
By the end of his third blown save in four appearances, even Díaz wasn’t sure what his role would be going forward.
“Now I’ve just got to see what they want to do,” he said after the Dodgers’ 5-4 loss to the Brewers. “I want to do the best thing for the team. At the end of the day, if they give me the ball in the ninth I will try to do my job. If they give me the ball in another inning, I will try to do my job. Got to get better, be consistent.”
Manager Dave Roberts, however, as he looked at the state of his bullpen, wasn’t ready to take the closer title from Díaz.
“Give me another option,” Roberts said. “To be quite honest, none of those guys really are throwing the baseball great. So that’s just kind of the way it is.”
The series opener between the Dodgers and Brewers, two of the top teams in the National League, saw Roki Sasaki give up just two runs over six innings despite battling command issues. It included a record-setting go-ahead home run from Max Muncy, No. 131 at Dodger Stadium, breaking a tie with Eric Karros for the most all-time at Chavez Ravine.
Then Díaz, who has been working through an evolving set of issues since returning from the injured list (arthroscopic elbow surgery) a couple weeks ago, took over with a two-run lead. And the game went sideways.
The Dodgers (73-49) fell two games back of the Brewers (75-47) and half a game behind the Braves (73-48).
“A loss is a loss, but there’s certain losses that are more costly,” Roberts said. “And when you use five relievers and you lose a game, that’s costly.”
Dodgers pitcher Edwin Díaz reacts after giving up the tying run in the ninth inning against the Brewers on Thursday. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Though Díaz’s command issues flared early, he struck out Contreras to begin the inning. Then he gave up four consecutive singles.
“I think my fastball command today — I was throwing strikes, but right in the middle,” Díaz said. “Every big league hitter can hit it right in the middle, [even if you] throw 200 miles an hour. I’ve got to get better at that.”
Milwaukee’s Joey Ortiz and David Hamilton both hit center-cut fastballs to put runners on the corners for the top of the order.
Then Jackson Chourio’s and Garrett Mitchell’s RBI singles — to cut the Dodgers lead to one run and to tie the score, respectively — came on sliders. That was the pitch Díaz struggled to get a feel for in Arizona last weekend.
“I think it was better today,” he said. “I think I made good ones. When you miss your fastball in the middle, they see better pitches.”
Díaz then struck out right-handed hitting Gary Sánchez on three pitches, but Roberts had seen enough. He turned to left-hander Alex Vesia.
With two outs and runners on first and second, Vesia got Jake Bauers to hit a ground ball to the right side of the field, but it found a hole to drive in the go-ahead run. And the Dodgers offense didn’t counter in the bottom of the ninth.
“It’s frustrating because I know my ability,” said Díaz, who has an 11.57 ERA since joining the Dodgers last offseason on a three-year, $69-million deal. “I know what I can do on the mound. To not be able to do it sucks. I’ve just got to come tomorrow and try to keep getting better.”
The Dodgers’ bullpen situation has flipped dramatically since his return from injury. Less than three weeks ago, Roberts said his high-leverage relievers made up “as big a trust tree as we’ve had in quite some time.”
When pressed Thursday on why he planned to stick with Díaz in save situations, Roberts’ tone had changed.
“Who’s the other option?” Roberts said. “You look back at the last week, and guys have struggled. ... Everyone’s got a role, they all have jobs to do, and they all have to do their job. That’s it.”
One factor has been health. Brock Stewart (right shoulder discomfort) and Will Klein (right elbow loose bodies) have been placed on the IL since Roberts’ “trust tree” comments.
Then there’s the issue of performance.
Scott (2.25 ERA, 16 saves), who served as the closer in Díaz’ three-month absence, has been dealing with inconsistent velocity. But he has three straight holds. On Thursday, he faced only Christian Yelich, who hit a long fly ball into the left-field corner, but Kiké Hernández made the catch before running into the wall.
Vesia surrendered two runs in ⅔ of an inning against the Chicago Cubs on Aug. 4, but he had held opponents hitless with three walks over three appearances before facing Milwaukee.
Evan Phillips seemed to have righted the ship after a rocky return from the IL, but he gave up two earned runs in ⅓ of an inning Tuesday.
What about taking a closer-by-committee approach?
“We’ve got to get other guys on track to even have that be even a valid conversation, to be honest with you,” Roberts said.
So, Díaz will continue working to regain his effectiveness on the mound, without changing roles.
“He’s got to find his way,” Roberts said. “And he’s got to have a runway to find his way. But then it gets to a point where — I’m not there yet, but ... I’m betting on the fact that the stuff will kind of right, and he’ll figure it out.”
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With no power to speak of—finishing the game with nothing but singles in their 10 hits—the Brewers took advantage of Edwin Díaz’s struggles to mount a late comeback and beat the Dodgers 5-4 in one of these teams’ most excruciating losses of the season.
While Roki Sasaki has never been confused with a starter who relentlessly pounds the zone, even by his standards, this performance against the Brewers came with worse command than he was comfortable with. Through his first five frames, Sasaki walked the same number of batters as he had innings. Although his ability to pitch out of trouble to prevent a blowup should be applauded, there was probably a healthy contribution from a Brewers offense that couldn’t generate any power against him.
Both runs that Sasaki allowed came in the third inning, when control of the baseball eluded him to the point of walking three batters in a single frame. Joey Ortiz and David Hamilton came up to the plate with one out and the bases loaded, and each walked in a run, receiving a combined single strike in their respective plate appearances.
With the Dodgers silent early on against lefty Shane Drohan, they counted on the struggles of the Brewers’ stars to stay in this game. Firstly, in that third inning, the damage to Sasaki could’ve been worse, but amidst his struggles, the Dodgers starter rather easily punched out William Contreras with the bases loaded before walking in the two runs.
Eric Karros mentioned in the Dodgers broadcast that through this cold stretch with the bat, Contreras has seen the defensive side of his game also falter, and that came into play for the Dodgers’ first run. With a runner at second and two outs, Ben Rortvedt knocked a single into left field, and even with Shohei Ohtani coming up to hit, Miguel Rojas got the aggressive send sign. Rojas should’ve been out at the plate after Jackson Chourio made a good throw, but Contreras hurried the tag and couldn’t hold on to the ball; this allowed the Dodgers to score their first run and make it a 2-1 matchup in the fifth.
The Brewers’ most accomplished player and in the middle of a lousy campaign, Christian Yelich, much like Contreras, also helped out Sasaki in this game. Far from his best form, Sasaki was sent out there for the sixth to try to squeeze out one more inning that started with Andrew Vaughn reaching safely for the third straight time. Yelich was next, and with the Brewers’ last chance to do damage before the Dodgers went to the bullpen, their star left-handed hitter grounded into an easy double play. Eventually, Sasaki completed the six innings of two-run baseball, a great line given the context of this performance.
Milwaukee also tried to extend their starter to complete six full innings, a decision that would come back to haunt them with the Dodgers turning this game around in the sixth. Refusing to miss time after his injury scare on Wednesday, Freddie Freeman delivered a magnificent at-bat, overcoming a 0-2 count to earn a nine-pitch walk on an overturned 3-2 strike call. Freeman joined Tommy Edman, who also had walked to lead off the inning, on the basepaths, and that was enough for Pat Murphy to turn to Antonio Senzatela in the bullpen.
Pinch-hitting for Miguel Rojas with two outs, Max Muncy did what he has done many times recently, hitting a clutch homer to hand the Dodgers the lead. This one was a three-run shot, simply destroying a high heater from the former Rockies starter-turned-relief weapon for the Brew Crew.
The saying that when it rains, it pours certainly applied to Yelich, as he was without luck on his side late in this one. Tanner Scott was brought in relief to face the former MVP with one on and two out in the eighth. Representing the tying run, Yelich got a hold of one down the left field line that very nearly went out but was ultimately caught by Kiké Hernández right at the wall.
What’s further impressive about that defensive play is that Kiké had already made a good one at third earlier in the game. And as long as he is providing this type of versatility with defensive contributions all over, the team will make do without his offensive production.
That minor scare with Scott turned out to be a preview of what was to come in the ninth. In a tightly contested matchup, a team functioning like a well-oiled machine cannot afford to have one of its integral pieces struggling in the manner that Edwin Díaz has, ultimately leading to a blown save in the ninth. Blowup outings here and there can be explained, but what’s baffling about Díaz right now, as he allowed four straight hits (all singles) to give up the lead, is that the stuff just isn’t performing as you’d expect. Too often he located the pitch well and didn’t get the result you’d assume, like in this Chourio RBI single.
Díaz blew the save and left a mess for Alex Vesia with two on and two out against Jake Bauers. Vesia threw a 1-2 slider that didn’t break enough, and Bauers squeezed it past the infield for an RBI single to give the Brewers the 5-4 lead. In typical Brewers fashion, they came back in this one with nothing but singles.
Phenomenal this season and coming off 5.2 scoreless innings in a low-scoring win against the Diamondbacks, Yoshinobu Yamamoto will lead the Dodgers against the Brewers on Friday night, aiming to pitch back-to-back scoreless games for the first time this season. Milwaukee will send yet another one of their young starters in Robert Gasser. The first pitch comes your way at 7:10 p.m. (PT).
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 12: Jarred Kelenic #25 of the Texas Rangers reacts after striking out swinging during the eighth inning against the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on August 12, 2026 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Ryan Sirius Sun/Getty Images) | Getty Images
The Texas Rangers scored zero runs but the Anaheim Angels scored seven runs.
I hadn’t thought much about the Rangers all day. I hadn’t even really paid attention to the lineup when I was putting up the GDT. BZZR is finally on Roku (I can finally uninstall Poob!) so I got that working a few minutes before first pitch.
As soon as the game loaded up, Rangers Sports Network was showing a graphic featuring tonight’s lineup. I did a double take as my eyes darted to the bottom of the order and I saw that Nicky Lopez was Texas’ No. 7 hitter.
It dawned on me then that, despite being in the race for a division title in potentially the worst division since the strike of ‘94 seemingly rescued us from Texas’ first ever division title coming with a below .500 record, and coming into the night holding an American League Wild Card spot, the Rangers aren’t even that much better than the Angels.
Not when Nicky Lopez is batting seventh. Not when Austin Wynns is making another start for this club and he isn’t even the No. 9 hitter.
Not when Jacob deGrom can’t even go more than two innings because he’s hurt or really wishing he’d taken that trade to Atlanta. Not when the club can only muster two hits through the first six innings and just five all night, none for extra bases. Not when the team won’t use a challenge on a pitch fully in the strike zone. Not when a bases loaded comebacker to the mound doesn’t turn into an out.
The Rangers went 1-6 against the Angels in Anaheim this season. They’ve gone 3-7 against them in total. They will have a losing record against them this year. There’s only like 40 games left this season and victories against the Rangers have contributed to like 15% of Anaheim’s entire win total.
The Angels are pretty bad — they had the worst record in baseball until winning tonight — but sitting here in mid-August, the Rangers aren’t much better if they are at all.
Player of the Game: The Roku feed was pretty smooth.
Up Next: The Rangers fly up to Sacramento for the next round of shameful beatings beginning in the middle of the night tomorrow night.
The Dodgers couldn’t hold onto a late lead on Thursday night against the Milwaukee Brewers.
But with a history-making swing, Max Muncy at least gave one.
Summoned from the bench for a pinch-hit at-bat in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Dodgers’ veteran third baseman belted a towering three-run, go-ahead homer off Milwaukee right-handed reliever Antonio Senzatela.
It would only go down as a footnote on the night, with the Dodgers losing 5-4 after Edwin Díaz’s three-run blown save in the top of the ninth.
In franchise’s record books, however, the drive catapulted Muncy to the top of a notable list.
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Max Muncy hits a three-run home run during the sixth inning. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
“You did it Munce! You did it!,” said Karros, who was serendipitously calling the game on the team’s SportsNet LA broadcast.
“What a career. You just can’t imagine, especially if you’re Max Muncy, you can’t imagine that this is how things would end up.”
Indeed, Muncy would have once been an unthinkable candidate to become Dodger Stadium’s home run king, having joined the team on a minor-league contract a decade ago before blossoming into an unexpected star.
Yet, over his Dodgers career, his power has remained consistent –– there through injuries and positional changes and mechanical struggles that have led to more than a down seasons overall for the three-time All-Star.
“Definitely not a spot I ever thought I’d be in,” he said earlier this year.
Muncy had been chasing down Karros’ record for most of this season, in which the 35-year-old has had a resurgent campaign that earned him a trip back to the Midsummer Classic.
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Max Muncy watches his bomb leave the field. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
With 23 long balls, Muncy trails only Shohei Ohtani for most on the team. He is also batting above .250 for the first time since 2019, and on the verge of recording his most wins above replacement (he entered Thursday at 3.4, according to Baseball-Reference) since 2021.
Despite that, eclipsing Karros’ mark had required patience.
Things have gone better on this homestand, however.
With Thursday’s blast –– which came on the sixth pitch of an at-bat that saw Muncy just miss an earlier home run on a fly ball that sailed wide of the right-field foul pole –– Muncy is hitting 4-for-12 this week with seven RBIs.
Tim Anderson ended the first Field of Dreams game with a two-run, walk-off shot that magically disappeared into the right-field corn, and for five years, that has been the sentimental argument for playing baseball in Iowa. Nothing since has come close to that drama.
Thursday night at least they tried.
MLB brought out 26 Hall of Famers to appear out of the corn stalks, the most at one game since the 2008 All-Star Game. Players from both teams read the monologue from the movie reminding everyone of how baseball is the constant through the years in America. Brand-new Hall of Famers Andruw Jones and Jeff Kent threw out the first pitches to Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez and Joe Mauer.
Dyersville has about 4,500 people living there. Thursday night close to twice that many were at the game on the outskirts of downtown, waxing poetic about the town's new tourist attraction.
The game started out with drama, Kyle Schwarber launching the third pitch of the game into the cornfield. The Twins couldn't keep up as Schwarber hit two homers and Brandon Marsh had one and Philadelphia won 7-1.
Here is who came out of Dyersville Thursday night winners and who left as losers.
Winners
Kyle Schwarber
His first at-bat ended up with a 369-foot, lead-off home run. In the fourth inning he did it again with a little help from Twins right fielder Luke Keaschall, who had it bounce off his glove and into the corn. Aaron Judge is the only other player to homer twice in this game. Judge did it in 2021 and left as a loser. Schwarber left as the game MVP, rewarded with a hot dog and cob of corn.
Brandon Marsh
He reached base four times, going 2-for-2 with two walks, stole a base and drove in two runs. His seventh-inning home run off Travis Adams was his 17th of the season, a career high with 40 games still to play.
Aaron Nola
Nola went five innings, holding the Twins to one run and he struck out a season-high nine. He came in 3-9 with a 5.47 ERA in a season that has been a grind.
Dyersville
A lot has happened since MLB was last in Iowa. A plan for an $80 million development with nine ball fields, an amphitheater, a boutique hotel and an RV park ran into cost overruns and supply chain issues. Dyersville Events, a local nonprofit, bought the whole site for $27 million in 2024 and cut the plan down to a permanent ballpark and youth fields.
The ballpark they played the 2021 and 2022 Field of Dreams games on was temporary, this new permanent stadium opened in June and next summer will host a Northwoods League collegiate wood-bat team. According to the Des Moines Register, the stadium will get another MLB game in 2027, if the labor strife doesn't wipe out the season.
LOSERS
Taj Bradley
He's been one of the Twins' most reliable players and he just didn't have it Thursday. He went four innings and gave up five runs on seven hits, including Schwarber's two homers. His ERA climbed to 3.98.
The Twins' bats
They went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on. They struck out 12 times on the night, three from Kody Clemens. Eight hits, one run, and Minnesota dropped to 60-63 with the season leaking away.
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens
Bonds was there as part of the Netflix pregame show. Clemens was there to see his son play for the Twins. Both watched as 26 Hall of Famers, many of them their peers, came out of the corn field and were honored for their part in the history of the game. And both know they will likely never get that love from the sport. Their time on the writers' ballot for the Hall of Fame ran out in 2022 and the eras committee passed the same December. The committees can come around again, but nobody expects the answers to change.
Luke Keaschall
Sure he had the Twins' only offense, hitting the home run that put them on the board. He also gave one away in the fourth inning. He had his glove on Schwarber's' second homer, but he helped it get over the fence.
LOS ANGELES — Max Muncy picked an ideal moment to become the all-time leader in home runs hit at Dodger Stadium.
Entering the game in the sixth inning as a pinch hitter, Muncy slugged a three-run blast that propelled the Dodgers to a 4-2 lead Thursday night against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Adding to the drama, the Dodgers third baseman hit a 3-2 pitch with two outs over the wall in right center. The crowd of 46,105 erupted in celebration. Unfortunately for Muncy and Co., the lead did not hold.
Still, it was Muncy’s 131st home run at Dodger Stadium, moving him past retired Dodgers star Eric Karros, who had 130 home runs at the Los Angeles park that opened in 1962.
An England Test hopeful has had his preparation for the upcoming series against Pakistan derailed in controversial fashion, after a string of dubious umpiring decisions during the first day of a warm-up match.
DYERSVILLE, IA - AUGUST 11: Ben Cowles #8 of the Iowa Cubs rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run in the fifth inning during the MiLB Field of Dreams game between the St. Paul Saints and the Iowa Cubs at MLB Field at Field of Dreams on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 in Dyersville, Iowa. (Photo by Geoff Stellfox/MLB Photos via Getty Images) | MLB Photos via Getty Images
Kohl Franklin had a very good start as he works his way back from missing almost two years. Franklin allowed just one run on three hits over four innings. The one run came on a home run by the first hitter of the game, Walker Jenkins, the Twins’ top prospect. Franklin walked two and struck out three.
Evan Taylor pitched the next two innings and got the win because Franklin didn’t go five innings. But Taylor did not allow a run. He gave up two hits, walked none and struck out two.
The I-Cubs struck back with six runs in the bottom of the first inning, thanks to three Iowa home runs. First, DH Owen Miller tied the game with a solo home run, his seventh of the year. Miller went 1 for 4 and was hit by a pitch. He scored twice.
Next up, third baseman Ben Cowles hit a three-run home run to give Iowa the lead for good. But Cowles wasn’t done, as he hit a solo home run in the fifth inning as well. Cowles went 3 for 3 with a walk and the two home runs. he had five total runs batted in.
Catcher Ethan Hearn hit the third and final home run of the first inning with the bases empty. Hearn went 1 for 3 with a walk and two runs batted in. He has six home runs this year, two with the Cubs.
Cowles solo home run in the fifth inning was a back-to-back blast with left fielder Greg Jones’ solo shot. That was Jones’ second Iowa home run and third overall. Jones went 2 for 4 with a walk and two steals. He scored three times.
Second baseman Ed Howard was 2 for 4 with one run scored.
Starter Brody McCullough was sharp as he allowed just one run on three hits over five innings. McCullough struck out eight Trash Pandas and walked none.
Daniel Palencia then pitched the sixth inning in a rehab assignment and did much better than the last time out. Palencia didn’t strike anyone out, but he did retire the side in order on three ground outs. Palencia threw ten pitches, eight for strikes.
The win went to Yenrri Rojas, who threw two scoreless innings after Palencia. Rojas allowed just one hit. He struck out two and walked no one.
Catcher Miguel Useche hit a three-run double in the seventh inning. Useche went 2 for 4.
Right fielder Alex Ramírez went 3 for 5. He drove in one run and scored one run.
Shortstop Karson Simas was 3 for 4. He scored one run and had one RBI.
Nazier Mulé started and took the loss after he was rocked for eight runs on six hits over 3.2 innings. One of the eight runs was unearned. Mulé walked three and struck out three.
Catcher Logan Poteet clubbed a solo home run in the second inning, It was his fifth with South Bend and 19th overall. Poteet went 2 for 4 and scored twice.
Third baseman Matt Halbach homered with the bases empty in the seventh inning. It was Halbach’s tenth home run this year. Halbach was 2 for 4.
First baseman Josiah Hartshorn was 2 for 4 with two RBI.
Center fielder Alexey Lumpuy went 2 for 4 with a stolen base. Lumpuy scored one run.
Ninth-round pick Chase Meyer made his prod debut a successful one, going 3.1 innings and allowing just one run on three hits. Meyer struck out six and walked three.
Tenth-round pick Luke Alwood’s second pro appearance was a strong as the first one. He’s now 2-0 in two appearances after surrendering no runs on just one hit over three innings. Alwood struck out five and walked one.
Shortstop Corey Nunez went 3 for 4 with a double and a walk. He scored two runs and drove in two.
Right fielder Ethan Conrad was 2 for 5 with a triple and an RBI single. He scored once.
Center fielder Caden Sorrell went 2 for 5. He scored twice and drove in one.
Second baseman Juan Cabada got his first two hits in Low-A, going 2 for 5 with a double. He scored one run and drove in one.
Catcher Jose Silva was 2 for 4 and was hit by a pitch. Silva scored twice and had one RBI.
The Warriors will play their first home game Oct. 23 against the Memphis Grizzlies, and it will be the only time they play inside their own arena for the first five games on their schedule.
They also close the season with seven of their final nine games on the road, a stretch that includes two dates with LeBron James and the 76ers as well as the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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The veteran roster will have to travel approximately 46,000 miles and navigate 15 back-to-backs. As long as Curry’s around, so will be the spotlight: Golden State will be featured on national television 28 times, including games on Christmas and Presidents Day.
These are the biggest dates on the Warriors’ 2026-27 schedule:
Oct 21: Opening Night
It’s practically becoming a tradition.
For the second year in a row and the third time since 2021, the Warriors will open their season against the Lakers in Los Angeles. They also hosted their Western Conference rivals to begin the 2022 season. But this year, the matchup comes with a twist.
It won’t involve LeBron James.
These are Luka Doncic’s Lakers now.
Curry went 7-9 in regular-season matchups against the Lakers during James’ run starting in 2018. Now he’ll have a different kind of test in a team built around Doncic and Austin Reaves.
Golden State started strong last season, beating the Lakers on Opening Night and winning four of their first five. It will be more difficult this year for the same reason things fell apart last year.
While all indications are Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody are doing well in their recoveries from knee surgeries, the Warriors won’t have either wing for at least the first portion of their schedule.
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Oct. 23: The home opener
Not only Yaxel Lendeborg’s regular season home debut, the No. 11 overall draft pick’s first showdown with a fellow lottery selection in the Grizzlies’ Cam Boozer, taken fourth overall.
With the Warriors’ injury situation and general age of the roster, they need the 23-year-old rookie — one of the oldest players in the draft class — to be rotation-ready from the jump.
Lendeborg has looked like an instant contributor so far, taking home Summer League MVP, but he’ll have a chance to really prove himself in one of the only one-on-one matchups he’ll get against a big man taken ahead of him this past June.
Nov. 6: Moving up the leaderboards
Entering his 17th season, the Curry money machine keeps whirring and the Warriors keep announcing sellouts. In their fifth home game of the year, they’ll make some history.
It should go down as the 611th consecutive home game they’ve played in front of a sold-out crowd, surpassing the Chicago Bulls for the fifth-longest streak in NBA history.
Fittingly, their opponent will be the Miami Heat, the only team with an active streak that dates back further (683 games, since April 2010).
The Warriors’ streak began on Dec. 18, 2012, at Oracle Arena in Oakland. The Bulls’ spanned the duration of the Michael Jordan-era dynasty, running from Nov. 20, 1987, to Nov. 3, 2000.
Next up: The Boston Celtics’ 662-game streak from 1980 to 1995. The Mavericks hold the all-time record at 1,005 games, which came to an end last season.
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Dec. 4-11: NBA Cup
The Warriors’ competition in the group stage round was announced earlier this week. They’ll host the Lakers in their first NBA Cup qualifier Oct. 30, visit the Spurs on Nov. 13, host Kings on Nov. 25 and meet the Blazers on the road Nov. 27 as part of Group C.
If they advance, they’ll play in the knockout rounds from Dec. 4-9. If they do not, they will play regular season games from Dec. 6-10.
Dec. 25: Christmas Day, Pt. XVI
If there is one upside to the Curry era coming to a close, at least for Warriors staffers, it is that they will finally get to spend Christmas with their families. It’s not that time yet.
For the 14th year in a row and the 16th time in the past 17 seasons, Curry and the Warriors will be featured as one of the five games on the NBA’s biggest day of the regular season.
They will tip off at 7:30 at home against the Nuggets in a redux of their 2023 matchup, which they lost 120-114 in Denver. Golden State is 16-19 all-time on the holiday.
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is seen in the second half against the Los Angeles Clippers during the play-in rounds of the 2026 NBA Playoffs at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Imagn Images) IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect
Jan. 30-Feb. 13: A big test
General manager Mike Dunleavy heavily implied that the Warriors will seek to make in-season upgrades to their roster, and they’ll have no better time to evaluate their needs than the stretch immediately leading up to the Feb. 11 trade deadline.
First, they’ll host the defending Western Conference champion Spurs for their only two meetings outside of the NBA Cup on Jan. 30 and Feb. 1. Then, they set out on their longest road trip of the season — six games in three time zones from Feb. 3 to 13 — that ends in a meeting with the defending champion Knicks at Madison Square Garden two days after the deadline.
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The Warriors were spurned in their pursuit of a generational pairing of Steph and LeBron.
Like many love interests gone afoul, space and time just might be the best cure.
In which case, good news: The Warriors won’t have to even think about LeBron until March, and they’ll get their only two matchups out of the way in the span of a week (March 24 at home, March 31 in Philadelphia).
James signed a two-year contract with the Sixers, so hopefully we’ll get to see him and Curry share the court at least two more times next season. But James is 41, Curry is 38 and both players missed a large portion of last season, so you never know when it might be the final time.
Apr. 8-9: A tough close
One of the most daunting stretches of the Warriors’ schedule comes at the very end. That might be good news for a team that will be counting on two key players returning from serious injuries, which could take some time, but it will be a challenge as they attempt to lock down a top-six seed and avoid the play-in tournament in the waning days of the regular season.
The Warriors host the Jazz in Game 82, but they will play seven of their eight games before that on the road, capped off with the final back-to-back of the season — both in Oklahoma City.
They probably won’t be able to unpack their bags for the final two weeks of the season.
Hurricanes goalie Brandon Bussi has incredibly sentimental plans for his day with the Stanley Cup on Wednesday, as the first Suffolk County native ever to win the prestigious trophy is bringing it to where it all began for him as a little boy — The Rinx ice arena in Hauppauge.
“The Rinx is the first place I ever put my goalie gear on,” Bussi told The Post.
“I was on the ice for a clinic. I wish I could tell you what day of the week it was.”
The 27-year-old who first made the NHL in October — and wowed the hockey world with a title-clinching, 3-0 shutout against the Golden Knights in Game 6 of the final — will have the Cup on public display from 10:15-11:45 a.m.
He’s also being recognized as the inaugural Suffolk sports person of the year by the county’s sports hall of fame at the rink.
“It’ll be cool for me to see the next generation of hockey players because winning the Stanley Cup is their dream too,” Bussi said.
Hurricanes goalie Brandon Bussi is bringing the Stanley Cup to where it all began for him as a little boy — The Rinx ice arena in Hauppauge, LI. Robert Sabo for New York Post
“Hopefully there will be a few people there who have the opportunity that I have now.”
Bussi, a Sound Beach native, also has special plans for the Cup in the evening.
He will honor the first-ever Long Islander to hoist it, defenseman Rob Scuderi of Syosset in Nassau County, by bringing the Stanley Cup to Bracco’s on the Nautical Mile in Freeport — where Scuderi celebrated after winning with the Penguins in 2009 and the Kings in 2014.
“I thought that was a cool little way of tying the whole day together,” Bussi said, “having the opportunity to bring it back there.”
The retired stay-at-home defenseman was overwhelmed by the gesture of tribute.
“He asked me what I did, and I kind of threw it out there,” said Scuderi, who played at St. Anthony’s High School in South Huntington in the mid-1990s.
Mark Jankowski and Brandon Bussi of the Carolina Hurricanes hug after winning in Game 6 of the 2026 Stanley Cup Final against the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0 at T-Mobile Arena on June 14, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Getty Images
“It was incredibly generous to him to think of me at a time when really it’s easy to be a little bit selfish … that shows a lot from him,” Scuderi said.
Scuderi, now an assistant with the Predators, originally chose the waterside watering hole in 2009 because the stretch of restaurants and bars along the mile held a special place in his heart as he was raised on the island.
“I think it’s very important to share that cup with the community that you grew up in,” added Scuderi.
Bussi and the Cup will be at the seafood lover’s paradise from 6-9 p.m. — and the champ is ready to party before the preseason.
“I can’t let it all out, right? There’s got to be a little bit of excitement for the day,” he said. “But I’m sure there’ll be certain foods or drinks that end up in the cup.”
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The Utah Jazz regular season schedule was released today. The Jazz did a great job with the reveal, with this amazing video featuring Thurl Bailey.
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Some quick notes of interest. The return of Walker Kessler is just three games into the season (10/25). It’ll be after their first game in Memphis (10/21) and their home opener against the Pelicans (10/23). The Jazz will have 6 national games: Four on NBC, one on ESPN, and one on Prime. The Prime game is probably the most interesting because it’s the first time Darryn Peterson and AJ Dybantsa will face off. It’s also interesting because it’s the last scheduled national game of the regular season for the Jazz. It’s game 61, and by that time both Peterson and Dybantsa should be acclimated to the league. Personally, that’s the one I’m looking forward to most.
It’s an exciting day for Jazz fans as it’s the first step towards a new season. What are the games you are looking forward to most?
Ben Shelton broke onto the scene by winning his first-ever ATP Masters 1000 championship a year ago in Toronto.
He earned his second crown at that level by successfully defending his Canadian title on Thursday, defeating fellow American Brandon Nakashima 6-3, 7-6 (4) to win the National Bank Open in Montreal.
The three-time All-Star has agreed to return to Los Angeles on a two-year, $13.2 million contract with a player option in the second season, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.
The reunion comes after Beal declined his $5.62 million player option earlier this offseason, a somewhat surprising decision considering how little he was able to show during his first year in Los Angeles.
Bradley Beal #0 of the Los Angeles Clippers reacts against the Phoenix Suns in the first half at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. (Getty Images North America) Getty Images
Beal appeared in only six games before a hip injury ended his 2025-26 season. He averaged just 8.2 points and 1.7 assists in 20.2 minutes per game, by far the smallest sample of his 14-year NBA career.
That brief stint looked nothing like the player who once averaged 31.3 points per game for Washington or even the version who produced 17.0 points per game during his final season in Phoenix.
The Clippers are betting there is still something useful left.
Beal returns to a roster undergoing significant change. Los Angeles has added Darius Garland and No. 5 overall pick Keaton Wagler to its backcourt mix, while Kawhi Leonard’s future remains unresolved amid the NBA’s investigation into alleged salary-cap circumvention involving Leonard and the Clippers.
Bradley Beal of the LA Clippers looks on during a game against the Dallas Mavericks on April 7, 2026, at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California. (NBAE) NBAE via Getty Images
That uncertainty makes Beal’s return a relatively low-cost attempt to stabilize the backcourt.
If healthy, the 33-year-old could compete for starting minutes alongside Garland while providing another ball-handler and scorer. His availability remains the larger question, however, as Beal has not played more than 60 regular-season games since 2018-19.
After getting only six games from their investment last season, the Clippers are willing to try again.
This time, both sides will be hoping Beal’s second season in Los Angeles lasts considerably longer than his first.
