Thursday’s 6-pack:
All-time leaders in stolen bases for Nationals/Montreal Expos:
635— Tim Raines
266— Marquis Grissom
253— Andre Dawson
192— Trea Turner
187— Delino DeShields
139— Rodney Scott
Quote of the Day
“Amazing. Amazing. We love playing in front of our fans. We love being here. They deserve high-stakes, high-level basketball, and we’re giving them that right now.”
Pacers’ star Tyrese Haliburton
Thursday’s quiz
In the great TV show
M*A*S*H, what state was Radar O’Reilly from?
Wednesday’s quiz
Of all the active major leaguers right now, Freddie Freeman has the most career hits.
Tuesday’s quiz
Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle played college basketball for Virginia; he started his college career at Maine, before transferring to the Cavaliers.
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— Pacers 116, Thunder 107
Bennedict Mathurin (+16) scored 27 points in 22:00 off the bench.
Pacers outscored Oklahoma City 21-11 over the last 8:00.
Indiana leads series, 2-1; Game 4 is Friday in Indianapolis.
— In the history of the NBA Finals, when the series was tied 1-1, the team that won Game 3 has gone 33-8 in those series.
— According to the Interweb, the New York Knicks franchise is worth $7.5B, the 2nd-most valuable franchise in the NBA (Golden State is worth $8.8B).
Knicks made the Eastern Conference finals this year for the first time since 2000, they did really well. People should be optimistic. But here is where it gets dicey.
They fired their coach, Tom Thibodeau, and seem to be clueless about who they’re going to replace him with. What the hell is going on?
Thibodeau was 226-174 in five regular seasons in New York, 24-23 in playoff games, with this year his biggest success, but he got fired, which is their business, but if you fired a successful coach, you damn well better have a new coach right there, ready to replace him.
Maybe Michael Malone, who won the NBA title two years ago in Denver? He was an assistant for the Knicks from 2001-05.
— Four other NBA teams have already rejected the Knicks’ request to interview their current head coach to move to Manhattan.
— USC Trojans recently named former NBA guard Earl Boykins an assistant coach; the 5-foot-5 Boykins played 13 years in the NBA. He is the shortest player in NBA history to score 30+ points in a game. He was an assistant coach at UTEP the last four years.
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Famous birthdays, June 12th:
Timothy Busfield, 68
Rory Sparrow, 67
Tim DeKay, 62
Rick Hoffman, 55
Ryan Klesko, 54
Kerry Kittles, 51
Antawn Jamison, 49
Dallas Clark, 46
Andre Davis, 46
Jrue Holiday, 35
Sean Newcomb, 32
Aaron Civale, 30
— Mets 5, Nationals 0
David Peterson threw a 106-pitch complete game.
Brandon Nimmo homered twice.
Pete Alonso has 20 RBI in his last ten games.
Mets are 26-7 at home, 18-17 on the road.
— Dodgers 5, Padres 2
Teoscar Hernandez hit a 3-run homer in 6th inning.
This was the first series between the rivals this season.
Teams play again next week in Los Angeles.
— Guardians 11, Reds 2
Carlos Santana hit a grand slam.
Jose Ramirez extended his on-base streak to 37 consecutive games.
Loss snapped Cincinnati’s 5-game winning streak.
— Braves 6, Brewers 2
Schwellenach pitched a complete game.
Acuna/Harris both homered for the Braves.
This was Atlanta’s first series win in their last seven series.
— Angels 6, A’s 5
A’s led 3-0 after the fifth inning.
A’s lost their 14th consecutive road game.
Angels won seven of their last nine games.
— Astros 10, White Sox 2
Christian Walker homered, drove in four runs.
Jose Altuve had two hits, including the 2,300th hit of his career.
White Sox slipped to 7-27 on the road
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— Twins 6, Rangers 2
Byron Buxton hit a 479-foot home run.
David Festa got the win, giving up three hits in 6 IP.
— Red Sox 4, Rays 3
Rookie Mayer homered twice for the Red Sox.
Boston hit four solo home runs.
Only third time in last 19 games that the Rays’ pitcher allowed more than 3 earned runs.
— Red Sox promoted their #1 prospect Roman Anthony to the majors this week; apparently his family isn’t very original with names:
His grandfather is Anthony Anthony
His father is Anthony Anthony
One of his brothers is also Anthony Anthony.
— If the baseball playoffs started today (they do not):
AL: New York, Tigers, Astros. Wild Cards: Blue Jays, Twins, Rays
NL: Mets, Cubs, Dodgers. Wild Cards: Giants, Phillies, Padres