Jun 25, 2026; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (27) sets up to catch a fly ball hit by Texas Rangers center fielder Wyatt Langford (not pictured) during the seventh inning at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images | John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images
Rangers 6 Blue Jays 5
Well, they made it close.
A terrible night for Kevin Gausman, for the second start in a row. Tonight he gave up a run in the first and five more in the third, and that was pretty much the game. He did work his way through six innings.
And Simeon Woods Richardson pitched the last three innings, without giving up a run. Pretty soon he’s going to earn a change to be more than just a mop up guy. 10 innings and he still hasn’t given up a run as a Blue Jay.
Offensively? We didn’t score until the fifth inning, putting up three runs with back-to-back singled to start the inning by Kazuma Okamoto and Alejandro Kirk. A Nathan Lukes walk loaded the bases. Then a sac fly by Davis Schneider and a Myles Straw double brought in our runs.
And we got two more in the ninth. Ernie Clement singles and, after a Vladimir Guerrero strikeout, Okamoto hit his 18th home run of the season. But Kirk ground out and Brandon Valenzuela struck out and that was the game.
We only had six hits and one walk, so there weren’t many base runners. Clement and Okamoto had two hits each. Kirk and Straw had one each.
Just another one of those days where we didn’t hit enough. One for three with RISP but we didn’t have enough RISP. It seems to be the story of the season to this point.
Jay of the Day? Straw was the only one getting the number (0.10 WPA). Let’s give an honourable mention to Okamoto.
Other Award: Gausman (-0.29) and Vlad (-0.10).
Tomorrow we have Patrick Corbin (2-3, 4.73) against Nathan Eovaldi (7-7, 4.24). As I say too often, a win would be nice.
Jun 25, 2026; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler (31) looks on as Boston Red Sox third baseman Caleb Durbin (5) hits a two run home run in the fifth inning at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images | David Butler II-Imagn Images
Good news! Apparently whatever ailment preventing the Red Sox from playing competent baseball at Fenway Park this year is contagious. The New York Yankees may have the best record in the American League, but tonight they put on a total clown shown and gifted away a rather amusing victory with a big, fat bow on it.
The Red Sox of course were still the Red Sox, going 1-12 with runners in scoring position and failing to score a single earned run, but for one night, their shortcomings were dwarfed by their opponent. If you go by official errors, the Yankees were charged with four, but it you watched the whole thing play out, it felt like they had twice that many.
It started early and often with two mistakes in the first inning: First Austin Wells got nailed on catcher’s interference, and then Cam Schlitter threw a ball into centerfield to set up a second and third situation for the Sox. Even though these two errors didn’t amount to anything, it was a major harbinger of things to come.
In the second inning, the Yankees started things off by letting this pop up drop (which was generously ruled a hit):
Once again, the Red Sox didn’t score – And they even failed to score again in the third and fourth innings despite another pop up dropping in foul territory.
However, in the bottom of the fifth, the flood of mistakes finally caught up with New York and the game turned rather quickly. On another night, the ball below becomes an inning ending double play, but with the circus in town, it went right through Amed Rosario’s legs to get the Red Sox on the board.
Later in the inning, Jarren Duran recorded a sac fly on a shallow fly ball to left field thanks in part to a very unimpressive throw from Jose Caballero. (To be fair and give the Red Sox some credit, they fully expected a throw like this and challenged his arm.)
Then came the big blow. In an inning that should have been over, the Yankees proved the even against the 2026 Red Sox, if you keep making enormous blunder after enormous blunder, you’re eventually going to pay the piper in this league. Here, it happened in the form of a Caleb Durbin home run down the left field line. It was definitely a Fenway home run, but the Yankees fully earned this one with the way they played all night, and so did Durbin for that matter getting back in the lineup one day after dislocating his pinky.
That homer turned out to be all the runs the Red Sox needed, but the Yankees were not done handing out gifts. Here’s Yerry De los Santos trying to field a bunt in the eighth:
Connelly Early: This is the other main story from the game that kind of got buried in the Yankee calamity. Early survived a shaky first inning, showed steady improvement the deeper he worked into the outing, and his fastball was touching 95mph. Great night for him in both the micro and the macro.
Garrett Whitlock: Nice bounce back outing after some shakiness in Colorado. He put up an easy, stress free zero in the top of the eighth.
Three Duds
Marcelo Mayer: 0-4 with two strike outs that also included a pop up with the bases loaded and nobody out in the bottom of the eighth inning. If he had a halfway decent night with the bat, the Red Sox probably score ten runs given all the ducks he left on the pond.
Greg Weissert: Nearly set the game on fire in the seventh inning. Needed Danny Coulombe to get Ben Rice to clean up his jam.
Earthquakes: Normally, the third dud would go to either Wilyer Abreu or Willson Contreras, who went a combined 0-8 with three strikeouts from the three and four spots in the lineup. However, given what’s happening in their home country right now, they get a total pass for this one.
Pick whatever Yankee error was your favorite. Their incompetency powered the Red Sox win with Boston failing to score a single earned run all night. Let’s just hope the Yankees saved some errors for the rest of the series.
All-time greats have questions to answer in SW19 while Raducanu and Draper have to show they can stay fit
Serena Williams left it until the last minute to take the final available singles wildcard at Wimbledon and dramatically escalate her comeback from retirement. It is hard to imagine this was all part of her master plan. If she knew she was ready to compete against the best in the world from the beginning of the grass court season, Williams would have surely tested the waters at Queen’s Club or in Berlin, rather than playing doubles. But here she is, unable to resist the pull of Wimbledon, where she has won seven times in singles. Williams’s career has been filled with so many magical moments and at 44 years old, after four years of retirement, she is back at SW19 attempting to create a few more magical moments.
For what felt like the millionth time this season, the Mets made some mistakes in Thursday’s loss to the Chicago Cubs that cost them the game.
Tied 0-0 entering the sixth inning, Freddy Peralta, who had been cruising over the first five innings, got Dansby Swanson to hit a routine grounder to shortstop Ronny Mauricio. The ball was hit right to Mauricio and all he had to do was make the throw to first base for the first out of the inning.
Instead, Mauricio made a low throw and the ball skipped to first baseman Mark Vientos, who couldn’t handle it for a throwing error charged to the shortstop.
The error paved the way for Chicago’s three-run inning, all of which were unearned, and forced Peralta to throw 30 pitches before getting pulled with two outs in the frame.
Not only was manager Carlos Mendoza unhappy after the game with the error because of how routine the play was, the point in time at which it happened also bothered him, not to mention it came on the heels of a game where New York made six errors.
“Especially the leadoff one there – it’s a completely different inning, especially for Freddy’s outing there,” Mendoza said. “It’s just routine plays that are costing us. At this level, you expect to make plays like that, those are routine plays. You understand that they’re not gonna be perfect, but those are as routine as it gets and teams are making us pay for it, especially the past few nights.
Prior to the error, Peralta had kept the Cubs scoreless for five innings and pulled a complete 180 following his season-worst start against the Philadelphia Phillies the last time out. Of course, it’s impossible to say what would’ve happened had the error not happened, but at the very least, it forced Peralta to throw more pitches and ended his night prematurely.
Nevertheless, the right-hander knows mistakes are part of the game and felt he should’ve done more to pick up his defender.
“It happens. I was just trying to calm myself and make my pitches and try to get a ground ball for the double play,” he said.
The Mets, officially at the halfway point of the season, have now lost six straight games, are a season-low 13 games below .500 and their season is on life support.
So, what, if anything, can be done about it?
“I cannot speak for everybody, but what I can say and what I feel is just, losing is no fun,” Peralta said. “And at the end of the day, I know we need to win and that we have a team that is supposed to win. What I can say is we’ve been trying and we’ve been working really hard to get through this and trying to make adjustments.
“Right now we just need to keep trying and play better, myself too. We all need to play better and just try to come back and remind ourselves that we are big leaguers and we are great at this game. We just need to put everything together and try to put up a W every day.”
2005 Draft Revisionist History—May 22, 2026 - VOL. 79, Issue. 11 - Jared Clinton
HERE’S A HORRIFYING THOUGHT for Kings faithful: Kopitar in Anaheim Ducks colors. But if the chance arose for a 2005-draft mulligan, that’s exactly where Los Angeles’ all-time scoring leader would have ended up. And a one-two punch of Kopitar and Ryan Getzlaf down the middle could have ushered in an era of Ducks dominance.
If each club, with the gift of hindsight, selected the best available player, there’s also an interesting conundrum in Carolina. At the time, the Hurricanes couldn’t have known a 22-year-old Cam Ward was about to put forth a Conn Smythe-winning performance as Carolina captured the 2006 Stanley Cup. But if he had, and Price was waiting in the wings, how would the Canes have addressed their crease?
Price in Carolina could have also opened the door for Tuukka Rask in Bleu, Blanc et Rouge. Having spent his career in Boston – by way of the Maple Leafs, as Toronto fans surely recall – the thought of Rask as a Hab will give many a Bruins fan a migraine.
And it’s not just Price and Rask who make for interesting re-draft fodder. The 2005 draft has a claim to producing the best goalie crop in post-lockout history. Five keepers, each of whom would be first-round selections in a do-over, produced 150-plus wins, and four eclipsed the 200-win plateau, the most of any draft since the lockout.
Here’s how the 2005 draft would look if every team owned a crystal ball. Where the player was actually picked is in parentheses.
Victor Cruz popped the question for a celebratory Thursday night.
The Giants legend and Super Bowl champion proposed to Orange Calderon, an artist, record producer and DJ, who shared photos of the moment on Instagram.
“Mrs. Cruz” has a nice to it,” she wrote as the caption.
Cruz, 39, picked out a big oval-cut diamond for the next step in the relationship that started to take form last year.
The couple was spotted at various public events that sparked dating rumors, including arriving together at Coachella in April and have various recent travel social media posts together.
Victor Cruz and Orange Calderon at Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Instagram @orangecalderon
Cruz, a Knicks fan, was also seen with the musical artist on celebrity row throughout the historic season that was capped off by an NBA title — a first in 53 years.
He was in attendance for Game 4 of the NBA Finals, witnessing OG Anunoby’s show-stopping game-winning tip-in that gave the Knicks a commanding 3-1 series lead.
“Still not over this! @nyknicks,” Cruz wrote on Instagram after the game.
Victor Cruz and Orange Calderon at Game 4 of the NBA Finals series between the Knicks and Spurs. Instagram @orangecalderon
The engagement comes five years after Cruz’s split from ex-girlfriend, actress Karrueche Tran, in February 2021.
The two were an item for three years before calling it quits due to long distance. At the time, Cruz lived in New Jersey with his daughter, Kennedy, while Tran was in Los Angeles.
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The St. Louis Blues have reportedly tried to trade for a big-name player, as Jeff Marek reports that they attempted to acquire Dallas Stars forward Jason Robertson, but the player was not willing to sign with the Blues.
Marek mentioned that the Blues offered a package that included multiple first-round picks, but the deal did not go through because Robertson preferred not to sign in St. Louis.
This report comes after Elliotte Friedman revealed that the Seattle Kraken had a trade in place for Robertson and had offered him an eight-year, $15 million contract, but they, too, were denied.
Frank Seravalli also mentioned that the Toronto Maple Leafs attempted to be involved in the Kraken-Stars deal by offering Matthew Knies to the Stars in hopes of landing the Kraken’s seventh-overall pick.
Robertson has reportedly turned down offers from the Blues and Kraken and has also told the Ottawa Senators he would not be willing to sign there.
The 26-year-old has also declined offers from the Stars, but those contract offers were likely less than what the Blues and Kraken could offer.
Following Robertson’s denial, several reports link the Blues to Anaheim Ducks center Mason McTavish. The Ducks are looking for a first-round pick, and Pierre LeBrun has noted that both the Blues and New York Rangers have submitted offers to the Ducks.
GM Doug Armstrong has mentioned that they might not sit on their first four round picks, and as the draft inches closer, Armstrong’s activity on the trade market ramps up.
Earlier today, Andy Strickland reported that the Blues are looking to move up in the draft, potentially as high as second overall.
Lots of moving parts and plenty of action are expected to come from the Blues.
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With the league moving to 84 regular season games, the preseason is cut down to just four games. In which case, most NHL clubs will host two games and have two road games.
That is the case with the Predators, as they have two home-and-home series against the Tampa Bay Lightning and Carolina Hurricanes.
The first game is set to be on Sept. 20 at 4:00 p.m. CT against the Lightning on the road. They will then host them at home on Sept. 22 at 7:00 p.m. CT.
Their two games against the Hurricanes are the same setup. They will play a game on the road on Sept. 24 at 6:00 p.m. CT and their last game is set for Sept. 26th at home at 2:00 p.m. CT.
This is the first big step in the offseason. Preseason schedules are always released ahead of the NHL Draft. Which kicks off tomorrow night, June 26.
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Smokies pitcher Dawson Netz (34) pitches during a minor league baseball game between the Knoxville Smokies and the Chattanooga Lookouts at Covenant Health Park in Knoxville, Tenn., on April 21, 2026. | Angelina Alcantar/News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Right-hander Grant Kipp was promoted from Double-A Knoxville to Triple-A Iowa.
Right-hander Kenten Egbert went back down to High-A South Bend after his one game in Iowa.
Corbin Martin started this game as a kind of hybrid opener/bullpen game and he got the loss after giving up two runs on one hit and one walk over 1.2 innings. Martin struck out two.
Iowa managed just six hits in this game and all of them were singles. Third baseman James Triantos singled home right fielder Kevin Alcántara with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Triantos was 2 for 4. Alcántara went o for 3 with a walk.
Here’s at least a defensive highlight, courtesy of center fielder Brett Bateman.
Dawson Netz kept the Barons off the board for six innings, giving up just two hits. Netz struck out two and walked just one.
Catcher Owen Ayers connected for a solo home run in the top of the first inning. It was Ayers’ 20th home run this year and 14th with the Smokies. Ayers went 2 for 3 with a walk.
In the seventh inning, shortstop Ed Howard smacked his first home run of the year off the scoreboard with a man on. Howard went 1 for 4.
Second baseman Hayden Cantrelle doubled twice in a 3 for 4 night. He scored twice and had one run batted in.
Mason McGwire got the start and the loss after giving up four runs on seven hits over four innings. McGwire walked two and struck out four.
South Bend managed just four hits. Third baseman Matt Halbach and left fielder Jose Escobar hit back-to-back doubles in the fifth inning for the only Cubs run. Both players were 1 for 4.
Kaleb Wing started this game, but only threw 18 pitches and one inning. Wing allowed no runs and no hits. He walked one and struck out two. I didn’t see any injury on the mound, but who knows if he mentioned something in the dugout between innings. I didn’t see any hugs either, although it was the away broadcast and they weren’t focusing on the Pelicans dugout.
David Bracho threw the next three innings and allowed three runs on seven hits. Bracho walked two and struck out two.
Next up was Edwardo Melendez, who allowed one run on two hits over three innings. Melendez walked two and struck out three.
Emilio Ramos pitched the eighth and ninth inning, did not give up a hit or a run and got the win. Ramos did walk one while striking out two.
Second baseman Alexis Hernández had a big day, going 3 for 5 with two doubles. The second double, in the top of the ninth, scored Alexey Lumpuy which broke a 4-4 tie and ended up being the winning run. Hernández had two total RBI and he scored once.
Center fielder Lumpuy went 1 for 4 and was hit by a pitch. He also stole one base.
Catcher Jairo Diaz was 2 for 4. He scored one run and drove one in.
Just when it seemed like the Mets might quiet the noise — around their manager, around their president of baseball operations, around everyone in the clubhouse associated with this dismal season spiraling toward the trade deadline — for one night, they still found a way to lose. Just when the offense was actually able to fix the latest mess that the defense made to give them a chance in extras, it still wasn’t enough.
This time, less than 24 hours after the Mets and Cubs made a trade in what might be a summer full of them, the centerpiece of the two clubs’ last major deal issued a reminder of why it aged so poorly for his former team. Pete Crow-Armstrong — the former Mets prospect sent to Chicago in the 2021 Javier Báez deal — doubled home the winning run for the Cubs in the 10th off Brooks Raley. Eric Wagaman, Brett Baty and Carson Benge couldn’t find a way to get Ronny Mauricio home in the bottom of the frame. And it sent the Mets to a 4-3 loss as their losing streak extended to six and they inched closer to the seemingly inevitable decision to sell at the deadline.
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That’s the reality,” Carlos Mendoza said when asked about that after the season hit its official midway point one night after David Peterson was traded to Chicago. “Especially if we don’t start playing better. Obviously, we gotta be honest here. But we can’t be thinking about what-if. Our job is to do what we need to do now.”
This time, the Mets (34-47) found a way to punch back after a pair of errors by Mauricio — or, if the fans at Citi Field had any say in the official scoring, Mark Vientos — and Benge gave the Cubs a three-run lead. Wagaman first stepped into a fastball on the first pitch from Ethan Roberts and sent it over the left field fence and then, Jared Young sent a curveball from ex-Met Phil Maton over the right field fence.
Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong (4) follows through on an RBI double against the New York Mets during the tenth inning at Citi Field on June 25, 2026. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect
But until that point, Thursday had started to unfold as the worst type of encore for the Mets one night after they committed six errors in a game. Mauricio one-hopped a throw that Vientos couldn’t scoop, leading to one Cubs run. After Mauricio’s error, fans at Citi Field brought back the “Pete Alonso” chants from Wednesday. They blamed Vientos for allowing Dansby Swanson to reach base more than Mauricio, who was starting at shortstop and playing in his first game since May 2. Swanson then advanced to second on a groundout and came around to score when ex-Met Michael Conforto lined a single to right field.
One out later, the Mets defense cratered again. Alex Bregman lined a ball up the right field line, but Benge couldn’t time the bounce off the wall. Conforto scored on the play. Bregman ended up on third, making it easy to score when Ian Happ singled. When it all added up at the end of the frame, Freddy Peralta — cruising to that point — had allowed three unearned runs.
Carson Benge3 reacts after he grounds out to end the 10th inning. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
“It’s just routine plays that are just costing us,” Mendoza said. “At this level, you expect to make plays like that. Those are routine plays. You understand that they’re not gonna be perfect, but those are routine as it gets.”
The Mets had their chances, though. They loaded the bases in the third inning before Vientos fouled out. Had runners on first and second the next frame, too, with Mauricio’s double keying it all, before Baty grounded out. Loaded the bases again in the sixth after Wagaman’s blast, with Juan Soto grounding out, too.
Freddy Peralta walks back to the dugout after the top of the fifth inning. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
Peralta recovered from his 10-run outing to cruise through five innings before the defense ruined his final two-thirds of a frame. He struck out five batters, walked another one and allowed five hits in an outing that, if nothing else, could boost the pending free agent’s trade value when the end of July arrives.
“Everybody in here’s frustrated,” Wagaman said. “I think we know what our record is. … We can’t get all those wins back in one day. We just have to start stacking them and take it day by day.”
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But then Crow-Armstrong delivered some more misery for his former team. And as the Peterson trade showed, the Mets could be rapidly running out of time with the current group.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 25: Juan Soto #22 of the New York Mets reacts after grounding out with the bases loaded to end the sixth inning against the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field on June 25, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images) | Getty Images
The Mets continue to set records that nobody wants as they left 14 runners on base, a season high, and allowed four more unearned runs in tonight’s loss, 4-3 to the Cubs.
After allowing a leadoff single to Pete Crow-Armstrong in the first inning, Freddy Peralta retired the next ten hitters and seemed on track to keep his pitch count lower in the early innings. The Mets’ offense struggled more. After Juan Soto walked in the first, Francisco Alvarez walked in the second, and Carson Benge and Soto walked again in the third, they were stranded every time. Bo Bichette was also stranded in the third inning after tapping a single past Nico Hoerner. In the fourth inning, Michael Busch smacked a single that got away from Mark Vientos, who had to crawl after it to recover. A wild pitch moved Busch to second base, but Peralta was able to come back to strand him there as well. Ronny Mauricio was also stranded on a double that he into right field. Juan Soto also tapped a single into left field at the bottom of the fifth inning and then went nowhere.
At the top of the sixth inning, the Mets defense struck again as Dansby Swanson reached first base on a throwing error from Mauricio to Vientos. Michael Conforto drove an RBI single into right field, and Alex Bregman started with a double that bounced off the wall in right field, but it went through Benge’s legs, and Bregman reached third on the error that also allowed Conforto to score. Ian Happ followed up with another RBI single, bringing the total to three unearned runs, and Hoerner worked a walk before Austin Warren came in to replace Peralta. Warren struck out Pedro Ramírez for the final out.
A. J. Ewing walked to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning, and after two outs, Eric Wagaman came in to pinch-hit for Melendez when the Cubs brought in left-handed reliever Hoby Milner. Wagaman, always here to surprise, drilled a two-run home run into left field. Baty was inspired, and hit a single, also into left field. Benge lined a single into center field to move Baty to third. The Cubs brought in Phil Maton next, who hit Bichette and loaded the bases for Soto. Soto grounded out, the first time he did not reach base in this outing, and the second time the Mets left the bases loaded. The inning ended with the score Cubs 3, Mets 2.
Mets’ pinch-hitting continued to come through in the bottom of the seventh, as Jared Young, hitting for Vientos, hit a home run into center field to tie the game. Ewing singled and stole second, but was once again stranded in scoring position. Luke Weaver came out for the top of the eighth and struck out the side. Devin Williams kept the game tied in the top of the ninth. Then, Jared Young walked, and Francisco Alvarez reached on an error by Swanson. Unfortunately, Ewing flied out for the second out to bring up Ronny Mauricio, who grounded out on the first pitch he saw to send the game to extra innings for the 13th time this year.
Miguel Amaya was the Cubs’ extra runner at the top of the tenth inning, and Brooks Raley was the Mets’ pitcher. Crow Armstrong ripped a double that bounced down to the right corner and drove in Amaya. Raley minimized the damage to just one run, and it was the Mets’ turn to try. Mauricio started the inning at second base, but even with the extra help, the Mets hitters could not get anywhere. The game ended there; the Mets endured their sixth loss as the Cubs swept the season series.
The Mets see the Phillies at home starting tomorrow at 7:10 PM ET. Zach Thornton is likely to face off against Zack Wheeler.
Big Mets winner: Jared Young, +29% WPA Big Mets loser: Carson Benge/Ronny Mauricio, tied at -18% WPA Mets pitchers: +14% WPA Mets hitters: -64% WPA Teh aw3s0mest play: Jared Young’s home run, +23.7% WPA Teh sux0rest play: Pete Crow-Armstrong’s RBI double in the 10th, -29.0% WPA
If new reports come to fruition, the Philadelphia Flyers could be down another important trade target at the center position without ever getting greatly involved in the matter.
Based on what was already reported throughout the week, the Flyers have some degree of interest in centers Shane Wright, Mason McTavish, Dylan Cozens, Ridly Greig, and Shane Pinto, though they aren't the only ones, and no such trades have been either way so far.
However, when it comes to McTavish, a division rival has entered the chat and is pushing to get a trade over the line.
According to ESPN NHL insider Emily Kaplan, the Anaheim Ducks are weighing two offers for the 2021 No. 3 overall pick at the moment, including one from the Flyers' Metropolitan Division rival New York Rangers.
The other offer could always be the Flyers, of course, but their interest in McTavish in recent weeks has felt lukewarm at best.
McTavish, 23, has five seasons remaining on his new contract at a $7 million cap hit, and it's worth noting that he regressed from a promising 52-point campaign in 2024-25 to just 41 last season: a full-season career-low.
The Flyers have already experienced some success by buying low on former top Ducks draft picks and giving them free rein and opportunity in Philadelphia.
Trevor Zegras looks like a whole new player, and Jamie Drysdale, who was widely considered a bust or trending towards one when the Flyers picked him up, has blossomed into a perfectly viable second-pair puck-mover.
It should go without saying that the Flyers are aware of the success they have had in that vein to this point, though the NHL trade market this year largely favors sellers, and the Flyers are trying to buy, not sell.
Among the Flyers' top trade chips are their glut of wingers and veteran defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen (the Ducks have no RHD under contract for the 2026-27 season), though it is unclear how valuable those pieces are relative to the market right now.
As for the Rangers, it is assumed that 24-year-old right-shot defenseman Braden Schneider, a pending RFA, could be one such target for the Ducks as they attempt to take McTavish off the market.
Like the Flyers, the Rangers and Ducks have an open dialogue for trade talks, too.
This time last year, longtime Rangers forward Chris Kreider was a new face joining the Ducks, and Jacob Trouba was traded for Urho Vaakanainen and a 2025 fourth-round pick in Dec. 2024.
Ultimately, it may come down to the Rangers' trade offer appealing to the Ducks more, whatever it includes, whereas the Flyers seem content staying out of any trade scenarios that they would clearly lose on paper.
INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 14: Anthony Dell'Orso #3 of the Arizona Wildcats celebrates his three pointer, to take a 60-59 lead, during a 69-65 Arizona Wildcats win over the UCLA Bruins at Intuit Dome on November 14, 2025 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) | Getty Images
Former Arizona guard Anthony Dell’Orso will get a shot at NBA Summer League next month.
The Sacramento Kings have added Dell’Orso to their Summer League roster, ESPN’s Olgun Uluc reported Thursday. Dell’Orso played his last two years of college basketball at Arizona, where as a senior he averaged 8.5 points on 40.6 percent shooting.
Anthony Dell’Orso will play for the Sacramento Kings in the 2026 NBA Summer League, sources told ESPN. The 6'6 wing out of Melbourne averaged 8.5 ppg, 2.0 rpg, and 1.8 apg as a senior at Arizona.
Dell’Orso began his career at Campbell, then transferred to the UA in 2024. A native of Melbourne, Australia, the 6-foot-6 guard played a sixth man role for Arizona last season after starting the majority of the 2024-25 season for the Wildcats.
Dell’Orso added significant weight between his junior and senior seasons and emerged as one of Arizona’s top perimeter defenders. As a shooter, Dell’Orso is known to be streaky. His best game of the season came in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals against Iowa State, when he scored 29 points on 10 of 14 shooting including 6 of 9 from three-point range.
Dell’Orso’s home country of Australia has produced a steady stream of NBA players over the past few decades, but this year was a rare exception where no Aussies were drafted.
For the first time since 2023, the NBA Draft has wrapped up without a single Aussie hearing their name called. 🇦🇺❌
Despite massive seasons in the college system, our top homegrown prospects Oscar Cluff, Anthony Dell'Orso, and Max MacKinnon all missed out across the 60 picks. 😔… pic.twitter.com/TTrRlPz0Vf
— BASKETBALL NEWS AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 (@AusBballnews) June 25, 2026
Dell’Orso is the fifth Arizona player from the 2025-26 squad to get a chance with an NBA team, joining draft picks Brayden Burries (10th overall to the Milwaukee Bucks), Koa Peat (30th overall to the Phoenix Suns) and Jaden Bradley (50th overall to the Toronto Raptors), as well as undrafted free agent Tobe Awaka, who signed a two-way deal with the Chicago Bulls.
Jun 25, 2026; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler (31) looks on as Boston Red Sox third baseman Caleb Durbin (5) hits a two run home run in the fifth inning at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images | David Butler II-Imagn Images
The Yankees and Red Sox entered this four-game series at Fenway Park on opposite sides of the spectrum, as they had the best record in the American League at 48-31 while Boston entered dead last at 32-46. Nonetheless, the script was flipped on Thursday night with New York looking the part of a shakier team for at least one night. Led by a tough game from Amed Rosario at third, the Yanks committed a season-high four errors. All of the six Red Sox runs were unearned, but they count on the scoreboard all the same.
Final score in the series opener: 6-3, Boston. The loss dropped New York to 4-2 against its longtime rivals this season with three games over the weekend still remaining.
Wasting no time, leadoff hitter Paul Goldschmidt doubled off Boston starter Connelly Early. It looked like the lefty might work around the early trouble, but with two outs Jasson Domínguez, batting from the right side, singled up the middle to score Goldschmidt and give the Yankees an early 1-0 lead.
That score would hold for the next few innings as both starters sweated their way through a muggy summer night. Then, in the top of the fourth, José Caballero turned on a breaking ball and dropped it into the Green Monster seats in left field to double the Yankees’ lead to 2-0.
The Red Sox stranded four runners through the first three innings, but they made Cam Schlittler work. A catcher’s interference call on Wells, a pickoff error for Schlittler, and a missed popup between the batterymates all led to extra pitches.
In the bottom of the fourth, a ground-rule double off the bat of former Yankees first-round pick Anthony Seigler put runners on second and third with one out. Schlittler responded by striking out Carlos Narváez–another former Yankees prospect–and Marcelo Mayer, both swinging, to end the threat.
Boston again got the bases busy to start the bottom of the fifth when Masataka Yoshida walked and Ceddanne Rafaela singled up the middle. Wilyer Abreu popped one up on in foul territory that Rosario made a leaping attempt for, but it ticked off his glove (though it was not an error). Schlittler again responded, striking out Abreu looking for his eighth strikeout of the night. He then got the groundball he wanted, but it skipped through Rosario’s legs to score a run and put runners on second and third. This time, Rosario was charged with an E5.
A sacrifice fly off the bat of Jarren Duran tied the game at 2-2. Then, yet another erstwhile Yankees prospect, Caleb Durbin, lofted a two-run home run off the top of the Green Monster down the left-field line to give Boston a 4-2 lead at the end of the fifth.
The fifth was Schlittler’s last inning as Paul Blackburn came on in relief. Schlittler’s final line was five innings, four runs, none earned, and nine strikeouts. I suppose it was not a full defensive meltdown, but it sure felt like the ball found all the wrong guys as intentionally as possible.
Boston relieved Early in the seventh with another former Yankee, Greg Weissert. The Yankees put two runners aboard after Jazz Chisholm Jr. walked and Austin Wells singled. Jazz then stole third, and after a lengthy at-bat, Goldschmidt grounded out softly to score him and trim Boston’s lead to 4-3. The Red Sox then turned to Danny Coulombe with two outs in the seventh, clinging to a one-run lead. Coulombe got Ben Rice to ground out to end the inning.
Keeping with the evening trend, Boston handed the ball to yet another former Yankees prospect, Garrett Whitlock. Whitlock worked a clean eighth inning, and the Yankees’ chances were fading faster than tea tossed into Boston Harbor.
The bottom of the eighth saw the wheels begin to come off as the Yankees handed the ball to Yerry De los Santos, who walked the leadoff hitter, gave up a single, and then committed an error on a sacrifice bunt. After recording one out–and nearly scoring another run on a wild pitch, which took a friendly carom and forced the runners to freeze–the Yankees turned to Ryan Yarbrough hoping to escape with a chance.
Yarbrough ran a pitch inside that hit pinch=hitter Nate Eaton. After review, it was determined that one stitch on the ball had clipped the button on his jersey just enough to give him first base and force in a run. Then a botched double play by Anthony Volpe that resulted in only one out made it 6-3 Boston.
Somehow, Boston still had more former Yankees in reserve and turned to another one, Aroldis Chapman, for the save opportunity. The Yankees brought the tying run to the plate with one out. Aaron Boone called on the right-handed Max Schuemann, but Chapman got him to fly out to right.
Down to their final out, the Yankees’ hottest hitter, Goldschmidt, put the ball in play and was rewarded with an infield hit to load the bases. However, the threat was for naught as Chapman fielded Rice’s swinging bunt and threw him out to end the game.
The Yankees dropped a game without allowing an earned run. Ugly. The good thing about baseball, though, is there is almost always tomorrow. New York will look to even the series on Friday night at Fenway, where Will Warren is scheduled to face Payton Tolle at 7:10 p.m. ET.
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