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THIS DAY IN SPORTS 1987 — Danny Harris defeats Edwin Moses in the 400 hurdles at a meet in Madrid, ending the longest winning streak in track and field. Moses, had won Numbers Game 122 consecutive races dating to Aug. 26, 1977. C4 Antelope Valley Press, Friday, June 4, 2021 WNBA results | Thursday Major League Baseball results | Thursday Aces 94, Liberty 82 to ‘Get the ball to A’ja Wilson’ and Braves 5, Nationals 1 field seats, his 10th this season. Stadium since the start of last the New York Yankees with a 5-1 on Thursday to finish a franchise- NEW YORK — With the Las Vegas that was the end of the game.” ATLANTA — Dansby Swanson Atlanta had two hits off Corbin season. win over the Houston Astros on worst 0-9 trip for the Rangers and lead down to one and just under Wilson finished with 30 points kept up his power surge with a (3-5) in five scoreless innings New York fell 4 1/2 games back Thursday. extend their longest losing streak two-run homer in Atlanta’s four-run 4 minutes left, Aces coach Bill and 13 rebounds and the Aces before finding success against the of Tampa Bay and has dropped Christian Arroyo’s first home run since 2003 to nine games. Laimbeer was angry with the way sixth inning, and the Braves beat left-hander in the sixth. seven of 10 entering a weekend of the season, a three-run drive in beat the New York Liberty 94-82 on Patrick Corbin and the Washington Miami at Pittsburgh, late his team was playing and called a Rays 9, Yankees 2 series against the rival Red Sox. the first inning, helped the Red Thursday night. Nationals 5-1 on Thursday. timeout. NEW YORK — Ryan Yarbrough Meadows homered three times Sox avoid a four-game sweep. His Arizona at Milwaukee, late Jackie Young added 16 points Left-hander Tucker Davidson, The Aces responded by scoring ended a 24-start winless skid with in the series, including a go-ahead, homer gave the Red Sox more Minnesota at Kansas City, late 14 of the next 15 points — the first and Dearica Hamby had 13 for Las recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett for two-run drive off Cole in the fourth runs than they’d managed in the his second start this season, gave Tampa Bay’s first complete game four by A’ja Wilson — to put the Vegas (6-3). inning. He added a three-run previous two games combined in a Detroit at Chicago White Sox, up one hit in 5 2/3 innings with in more than five years, Austin game away. Chicago at Phoenix, late double off Nick Nelson in the series where the offense struggled late five walks and five strikeouts. Meadows homered off shaky “I called timeout to yell at them Indiana at Los Angeles, late seventh. mightily. Swanson extended his hitting Yankees ace Gerrit Cole and drove Cincinnati at St. Louis, late streak to a career-best 12 games. in five and the Rays beat New York Red Sox 5, Astros 1 Rockies 11, Rangers 6 Seattle at L.A. Angels, late 9-2 Thursday. HOUSTON — Martín Pérez DENVER — Austin Gomber He has five homers in that stretch, Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, including in back-to-back games The AL East-leading Rays pitched 7 2/3 scoreless innings, pitched six shutout innings, Charlie Planner against Washington. The homer salvaged a four-game split, and the Boston Red Sox headed Blackmon homered and the late landed about halfway up the left- improving to 10-3 at Yankee into their first matchup against Colorado Rockies beat Texas 11-6 N.Y. Mets at San Diego, late COMING UP IN SOCAL CLIPPERS (National Basketball Association) NBA playoff results | Thursday NHL playoff results | Thursday ■ Playoffs, Today at Dallas, 6 p.m., ESPN/BSSoCal ■ Playoffs, Sunday vs. Dallas, 12:30 p.m., ABC FIRST ROUND Damian Lillard finished with 28 points SECOND ROUND Mathew Barzal scored the tying goal late in Nuggets 126, Trail Blazers 115 and 13 assists for the sixth-seeded Bruins 2, Islanders 1, OT the third period for New York, and Varlamov Denver wins series 4-2 Blazers. They led by 14 points in the Boston leads series 2-1 — making his second straight start after Ilya LAKERS (National Basketball Association) PORTLAND, Ore. — Nikola Jokic had third quarter but couldn’t stave off UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Brad Marchand scored Sorokin went in four straight games — finished ■ Playoffs, Saturday at Phoenix, TBD, SpectrumSN 36 points and the Denver Nuggets elimination. Monte Morris hit a buzzer- 3:36 into overtime and the Boston Bruins beat with 39 saves. eliminated the Portland Trail Blazers beating 3-pointer to close Denver to the New York Islanders 2-1 Thursday night in Game 4 is Saturday night at Nassau in six games with a 126-115 victory 101-98 heading into the last period. Game 3 to take the lead in the second-round Coliseum. Boston got its first power play 1:38 ANGELS (Major League Baseball) Thursday night. Jokic hit a 3-pointer to put Denver ahead playoff series. into the third period and mustered five shots ■ Today vs. Mariners, 6:38 p.m., BSW Michael Porter Jr. added 26 points, 108-106 and Denver stretched it to 117- In the extra period, Charlie McAvoy brought on goal during the advantage, but couldn’t ■ Saturday vs. Mariners, 7:07 p.m., BSW including 22 in the opening quarter, for 108 on Austin Rivers’ 3 with 3:52 left. the puck up ice along the left side and passed beat Varlamov. ■ Sunday vs. Mariners, 1:07 p.m., BSW the third-seeded Nuggets. They await Portland tired to catch up, getting to to Marchand, who skated along the boards Bruins defenseman Brandon Carlo was the outcome of the first-round series 121-115 on CJ McCollum’s layup, but and fired a sharp-angle shot into the top right helped off the ice after a hard hit by Cal DODGERS (Major League Baseball) between the Phoenix Suns and Los Aaron Gordon hit a 3-pointer that all corner past Islanders goalie Semyon Varlamov. Clutterbuck near the end boards to Rask’s right ■ Today at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m., SportsNetLA Angeles Lakers. but sealed it for Denver with less than a Craig Smith also scored for Boston, and a little more than six minutes into the third. It ■ Saturday at Atlanta, 4:15 p.m., FOX Denver advanced to the Western minute to go. Tuukka Rask stopped 28 shots — including five left Boston with five defensemen.. ■ Sunday at Atlanta, 10:20 a.m., SportsNetLA/MLB Conference semifinals for the third Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, late in overtime, as the Bruins took a 2-1 lead in the Carolina at Tampa Bay, late LAFC (Major League Soccer) straight season. Phoenix leads series 3-2 best-of-seven series. Tampa Bay leads series 2-0 ■ June 19 vs. Houston, 8 p.m., UniMas/Twitter ■ June 23 vs. Dallas, 7:30 p.m., ESPN+ ■ June 26 at Kansas City, 2:30 p.m., ESPN TENNIS MOTORSPORTS MLB NHL NBA French Open Results NASCAR Cup Series AMERICAN LEAGUE NHL Daily Playoff NBA Daily Playoff Daily Thursday GALAXY (Major League Soccer) Schedule-Winners West Division Glance Glance At Stade Roland Garros, Paris Feb. 9 — Busch Clash at DAYTONA (Kyle W L Pct GB ■ June 19 vs. Seattle, 6 p.m., SpectrumSportsNet Purse: €16,404,509 FIRST ROUND x-if necessary Busch) Oakland 33 25 .569 _ (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) PLAY-IN ■ June 23 at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m., SpectrumSN Surface: Red clay Feb. 11 — x-Bluegreen Vacations Duel 1 Houston 31 25 .554 1 Saturday, May 22 Play-in First Round PARIS — Results Thursday from French at DAYTONA (Aric Almirola) ■ June 26 at San Jose, 7 p.m., UniMas Open at Stade Roland Garros (seedings in Seattle 28 29 .491 4½ Tampa Bay 6, Florida 2 Eastern Conference Feb. 11 — x-Bluegreen Vacations Duel 2 Angels 25 30 .455 6½ N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 1 parentheses): at DAYTONA (Austin Dillon) Tuesday, May 18 SPARKS (WNBA) Men’s Singles Texas 22 36 .379 11 Toronto 5, Montreal 1 Indiana 144, Charlotte 117 Feb. 14 — DAYTONA 500 (Michael East Division Vegas 4, Minnesota 0 ■ Saturday vs. Chicago, noon, ABC Second Round McDowell) Boston 118, Washington 100 Matteo Berrettini (9), Italy, def. Federico Coria, Sunday, May 23 Feb. 21 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 253 At W L Pct GB Western Conference ■ June 10 at Wash., 4 p.m., SpectrumSN/CBSSN Argentina, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. Nashville 4, Carolina 3, 2OT, series tied 2-2 DAYTONA (Christopher Bell) Tampa Bay 36 22 .621 _ Wednesday, May 19 Kwon Soon Woo, South Korea, def. Andreas Colorado 5, St. Louis 2, Colorado wins series ■ June 12 at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Feb. 28 — Dixie Vodka 400 (William Boston 33 23 .589 2 Memphis 100, San Antonio 96 Seppi, Italy, 6-4, 7-5, 7-5. 4-0 Byron) New York 31 26 .544 4½ L.A. Lakers 103, Golden State 100 Diego Schwartzman (10), Argentina, def. Boston 3, Washington 1, Boston wins series March 7 — Pennzoil 400 presented by Toronto 29 25 .537 5 Play-in Second Round Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. 4-1 ON TV TODAY Jiffy Lube (Kyle Larson) Baltimore 19 37 .339 16 Eastern Conference Lorenzo Musetti, Italy, def. Yoshihito Nishioka, Winnipeg 5, Edmonton 4, OT March 14 — Instacart 500 (Martin Truex Thursday, May 20 Japan, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2.