MLB  – Major League Baseball
Yesterday

  Los Angeles Dodgers 11, Chicago White Sox 9

Tigers and Cubs were off

Dodgers 11, White Sox 9 – After 2-strike intentional  walk, Muncy powers Dodgers

  Max  Muncy broke open the game with a three-run homer in the sixth inning after  White Sox manager Tony La Russa ordered an intentional walk to Trea Turner with  a 1-2 count, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago 11-9. Muncy had five  RBIs in his return after missing 11 games with left elbow inflammation. Los  Angeles trailed 4-0 before a six-run fifth and was ahead 6-5 when Freddie  Freeman hit an RBI single off Bennett Sousa. Sousa bounced an 0-2 slider for a  wild pitch that allowed Freeman to take second and La Russa wanted a  left-on-left matchup.

Tonight

  Chicago  Cubs (Miley 1-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Severino 4-1), 7:05 p.m.

  Toronto  (Berríos 4-2) at Detroit (Rodriguez 0-1), 7:10 p.m.                WSJM/WCSY 6:50

  Texas  (Otto 4-2) at Chicago White Sox (Martin 0-2), 8:10 p.m.

MLB  – Contreras, Cubs avoid arbitration, agree to $9.625M contract

  Catcher  Willson Contreras and the Chicago Cubs avoided an arbitration hearing by  agreeing to a one-year contract for $9.625 million. The agreement is at the  midpoint between the $10.25 million the 30-year-old Contreras had asked for and  the $9 million the Cubs had offered when figures were exchanged. Contreras hit  .237 with 21 homers and 57 RBIs in 128 games last season. He led National  League catchers in assists for the third time. The two-time All-Star is batting  .277 with 10 homers and 23 RBIs this season.

NHL  – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals
Last Night

  Tampa Bay Lightning 3, New York Rangers 1                      (TBL  Leads 3-2)

Lightning 3, Rangers 1 – Palat scores late, Lightning  beat Rangers 3-1 in Game 5

  Ondrej  Palat scored on a deflection with 1:50 remaining to break a tie and lead the  Tampa Bay Lightning to a 3-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday  night for a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference final. Mikhail Sergachev and  Brandon Hagel also scored to help the two-time defending champion Lightning get  their third straight win, the first by a road team in this series. Andre  Vasilevskiy stopped 24 shots. Ryan Lindgren scored for New York, which had won  eight straight at home. Igor Shesterkin finished with 24 saves. Game 6 is  Saturday night in Tampa.

NBA  – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals
Tonight

  Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m.         (BOS Leads 2-1)

NBA  – Curry’s diagnosis for Game 4 of finals: ‘I’m going to play’

  Golden  State Warriors star Stephen Curry says there’s no doubt that he’ll play in Game  4 of the NBA Finals against Boston. The two-time NBA MVP injured his ankle late  in Game 3. Boston won 116-100 to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.  Curry says the injury is the same one he sustained in a late-season game  against the Celtics. He missed the last 12 games of the regular season, but he  says this injury isn’t as bad. Game 4 is in Boston on Friday night before the  series returns to San Francisco. 

NCAAFB  – Grandson of retired Michigan coach commits to Notre Dame

  The  grandson of retired Michigan coach Lloyd Carr has committed to playing football  at Notre Dame in 2024. Saline High School quarterback CJ Carr announced his  decision Thursday night. Carr chose the Fighting Irish over the Wolverines,  Georgia, LSU, Wisconsin and Michigan State. His father was a backup quarterback  at Michigan and his mother also graduated from the school. Maternal grandfather  Tom Curtis was an All-America defensive back for the Wolverines in 1969. Carr  says he always planned to leave the state for college and is excited about  Marcus Freeman’s program and Tommy Rees’ offense at Notre Dame.




WNBA  – Women’s National Basketball Association
Tonight

  Chicago Sky at Connecticut Sun, 7:00 p.m.

  New York Liberty at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m.

Golf – LIV/PGA – PGA Tour says Saudi-paid players no  longer eligible for tour

  The PGA Tour says members who are playing in the  Saudi-funded league in London are no longer eligible to play tour events.  Commissioner Jay Monahan sent a memo indicating the sanctions against Dustin  Johnson, Phil Mickelson and 15 other players. The memo went out a short time  after the LIV Golf Invitational outside London began with a 48-player field.  The decision includes the Presidents Cup. Monahan says even if players resigned  their membership, they are not eligible as nonmembers to get sponsor exemptions  to tournaments. The USGA already said players can still play the U.S. Open next  week. LIV Golf is run by Greg Norman and funded by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign  wealth fund. It responded to the PGA Tour’s decision by calling it vindictive  and divisive.

Golf – PGA – Clark leads in Toronto

  Wyndham Clark started the week with a late charge to  play his way into the U.S. Open in a qualifier, and then he stayed hot Thursday  in the RBC Canadian Open for a 7-under 63 to take the first-round lead.  Clark opened with five birdies in nine holes  and kept bogeys off his card at St. George’s Golf and Country Club for the  third round of his PGA Tour career at 63 or lower.  Matt Fitzpatrick was a stroke back, and Doug  Ghim and Harold Varner III followed at 65.

Tennis  – Wimbledon – Wimbledon record prize money at full-capacity tournament

  Wimbledon  will offer a record total of $50.5 million in player compensation but the  singles champions will receive less than the pre-pandemic amount. The All  England Club says prize money excluding per diems totals a record $48.8  million. The men’s and women’s singles winners will each earn $2.5 million,  14.9% less than in 2019. The overall prize money is an 11% increase over last  year, when capacity was reduced because of coronavirus restrictions, and a 5.4%  increase over 2019. The oldest Grand Slam tournament begins June 27 and  organizers highlighted plans for the grass-court competition to be at full  capacity for the first time in three years.

NCAASFB  – Oklahoma beats Texas, repeats as softball national champs

  Kinzie  Hansen and Grace Lyons hit three-run homers, Jayda Coleman made two spectacular  defensive plays and No. 1 seed Oklahoma defeated unseeded Texas 10-5 to win its  second straight Women’s College World Series title. The Sooners claimed the  best-of-three series 2-0 after winning Game 1 16-1. Jocelyn Alo, the two-time  USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year who had been dominant throughout the  World Series, hit a hard single in her final at-bat in the sixth inning. She  ends her career with a Division I record 122 home runs. It was Oklahoma’s sixth  overall championship and fifth in the past nine World Series.

Athletics – Info gathered from new law leads to 4-year  doping ban

  Information from the first case to be prosecuted under  a new law designed to criminalize widespread doping conspiracies has been used  to level a four-year ban on a triple jumper from Georgia. The U.S Anti-Doping  Agency announced the sanction for 27-year-old Sabina Allen, who competes for  Jamaica. Allen tested positive for two prohibited substances after finishing  first at a low-level event in California last May. Evidence for the case came  from a criminal case against Eric Lira. He was charged under the Rodchenkov  Antidoping Act, which was passed to go after people and organizations that fund  and promote international doping schemes.

NFL – State lawmakers table measure aimed at luring  Commanders to Virginia

  The Virginia General Assembly is tabling for the year  legislation intended to lure the Washington Commanders to Virginia. That’s  according to a top state lawmaker who sponsored one version of the legislation.  Democratic Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw  said in a brief interview that there were too many issues to be resolved and  controversies surrounding the NFL team for the legislation to proceed. He says  it could be reintroduced next year.  The  team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  The development came a day after an assistant  coach for the team issued an apology for a comparison he made on social media  between the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the  protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.

MILB – Midwest League Baseball
Yesterday

  Great Lakes Loons 6, Dayton Dragons 5 – Game 1 (8  Innings)

  Great Lakes Loons 4, Dayton Dragons 3 – Game 2

  Lansing Lugnuts 16, West Michigan Whitecaps 2

  South Bend Cubs 2, Cedar Rapids Kernels 0

Tonight

  Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 5:35 p.m.  (DH)

  Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m.

  Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m.

MHSAA – High School Sports
Last Night
Baseball – Regional Semifinals
Division 2 at Edwardsburg

  Vicksburg 5, Berrien  Springs 4

Division 3 at Centreville

  Buchanan 11,  Climax-Scotts 0

Division 3 at Bangor

  GR Covenant Christian  3, Watervliet 1

Division 4 at Kalamazoo College

  Gobles 6, Michigan  Lutheran 3

Division 4 at Decatur

  Decatur 8, Colon 1

Division 1 at Coldwater

  Battle Creek Lakeview 2,  Ann Arbor Skyline 1

Girls Soccer – Regional Finals
Division 1 At Caledonia

Portage Central 1, Hudsonville  0

Division 3 at Otsego

  Hudsonville Unity  Christian 5, Otsego 0 

Tonight
Girls Soccer – Regional Finals
Division 4 at Portage Northern

  Our Lady of the Lake  vs. Kalamazoo Christian, 6:30 p.m.

Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek

  Gull Lake vs. Zeeland  West, 6:30 p.m.

Boys Golf – State Finals (Today and Saturday) (All  start at 9:00 a.m.)
Division 2 at The Meadows, GVSU
Team Qualifiers

  Gull Lake

  Mattawan

Vicksburg

Individual Qualifiers

  Jacob Marohn (Lakeshore)

Division 3 at The Fortress, Frankenmuth
Team Qualifiers

  Coloma

  Schoolcraft

  Vicksburg

Individual Qualifiers

  Parker Lanning (Watervliet) 

Division 3 at Forest Acres West, MSU.
Team Qualifiers

  Kalamazoo Christian

  Kalamazoo Hackett

Individual Qualifiers

  Elijah Janowiak (Saugatuck)

Saturday
Baseball – Regional Final/Quarterfinal
Division 1 at Coldwater

  Brighton vs.  Northville, 10:00 a.m.

  Battle Creek Lakeview  vs. Monroe, 12:30 p.m.

Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m.

Division 1 at Mt. Pleasant

  Midland vs. Mattawan,  10:00 a.m.

  Grandville vs. Forest  Hills Northern, 12:30 p.m.

  Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m.

Division 2 at Hope College

  Hamilton vs. Charlotte,  10:00 a.m.

  Vicksburg vs. Grand  Rapids Christian, 12:30 p.m.

  Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m.

Division 3 at Adrian College

  Buchanan vs. Onsted,  10:00 a.m.

  Clinton vs. Hudson,  12:30 p.m.

  Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m.

Division 4 at Kalamazoo College

  Gobles vs.  Britton-Deerfield, 10:00 a.m.

  Decatur vs. Whitmore  Lake, 12:30 p.m.

  Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m. 

Softball – Regional Semifinal/Final
Division 1 at Portage Northern

  Mattawan vs. Holt,  10:00 a.m.

  Coldwater vs. DeWitt,  12:00 p.m.

  Regional Championship, 2:00 p.m.

Division 2 at Wayland

  Wayland vs Vicksburg,  10:00 a.m.

  Lakeshore vs. Otsego,  12:00 p.m.

  Regional Championship, 2:00 p.m.

Division 3 at Parchment

  Watervliet vs.  Centreville, 10:00 a.m.

  Buchanan vs. Parchment,  12:00 p.m.

  Regional Championship, 2:00 p.m.

Division 4 at Mendon

  River Valley vs.  Athens, 10:00 a.m.

  Kalamazoo Christian  vs. Mendon, 12:00 p.m.

  Regional Championship, 2:00 p.m

MLB – Major League Baseball 
 Yesterday 
 Los Angeles Dodgers 11, Chicago White Sox 9 
Tigers and Cubs were off
Dodgers 11, White Sox 9 – After 2-strike intentional walk, Muncy powers Dodgers 
 Max Muncy broke open the game with a three-run homer in the sixth inning after White Sox manager Tony La Russa ordered an intentional walk to Trea Turner with a 1-2 count, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago 11-9. Muncy had five RBIs in his return after missing 11 games with left elbow inflammation. Los Angeles trailed 4-0 before a six-run fifth and was ahead 6-5 when Freddie Freeman hit an RBI single off Bennett Sousa. Sousa bounced an 0-2 slider for a wild pitch that allowed Freeman to take second and La Russa wanted a left-on-left matchup.
Tonight 
 Chicago Cubs (Miley 1-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Severino 4-1), 7:05 p.m. 
 Toronto (Berríos 4-2) at Detroit (Rodriguez 0-1), 7:10 p.m.                WSJM/WCSY 6:50 
 Texas (Otto 4-2) at Chicago White Sox (Martin 0-2), 8:10 p.m.
MLB – Contreras, Cubs avoid arbitration, agree to $9.625M contract 
 Catcher Willson Contreras and the Chicago Cubs avoided an arbitration hearing by agreeing to a one-year contract for $9.625 million. The agreement is at the midpoint between the $10.25 million the 30-year-old Contreras had asked for and the $9 million the Cubs had offered when figures were exchanged. Contreras hit .237 with 21 homers and 57 RBIs in 128 games last season. He led National League catchers in assists for the third time. The two-time All-Star is batting .277 with 10 homers and 23 RBIs this season.
NHL – National Hockey League – 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Conference Finals 
 Last Night 
 Tampa Bay Lightning 3, New York Rangers 1                      (TBL Leads 3-2)
Lightning 3, Rangers 1 – Palat scores late, Lightning beat Rangers 3-1 in Game 5 
 Ondrej Palat scored on a deflection with 1:50 remaining to break a tie and lead the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 3-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday night for a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference final. Mikhail Sergachev and Brandon Hagel also scored to help the two-time defending champion Lightning get their third straight win, the first by a road team in this series. Andre Vasilevskiy stopped 24 shots. Ryan Lindgren scored for New York, which had won eight straight at home. Igor Shesterkin finished with 24 saves. Game 6 is Saturday night in Tampa.
NBA – National Basketball Association – 2022 NBA Finals 
 Tonight 
 Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 9:00 p.m.         (BOS Leads 2-1)
NBA – Curry&#8217;s diagnosis for Game 4 of finals: &#8216;I&#8217;m going to play&#8217; 
 Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry says there&#8217;s no doubt that he&#8217;ll play in Game 4 of the NBA Finals against Boston. The two-time NBA MVP injured his ankle late in Game 3. Boston won 116-100 to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Curry says the injury is the same one he sustained in a late-season game against the Celtics. He missed the last 12 games of the regular season, but he says this injury isn&#8217;t as bad. Game 4 is in Boston on Friday night before the series returns to San Francisco. 
NCAAFB – Grandson of retired Michigan coach commits to Notre Dame 
 The grandson of retired Michigan coach Lloyd Carr has committed to playing football at Notre Dame in 2024. Saline High School quarterback CJ Carr announced his decision Thursday night. Carr chose the Fighting Irish over the Wolverines, Georgia, LSU, Wisconsin and Michigan State. His father was a backup quarterback at Michigan and his mother also graduated from the school. Maternal grandfather Tom Curtis was an All-America defensive back for the Wolverines in 1969. Carr says he always planned to leave the state for college and is excited about Marcus Freeman&#8217;s program and Tommy Rees&#8217; offense at Notre Dame.
 

WNBA – Women&rsquo;s National Basketball Association 
 Tonight 
 Chicago Sky at Connecticut Sun, 7:00 p.m. 
 New York Liberty at Indiana Fever, 7:00 p.m.
Golf – LIV/PGA – PGA Tour says Saudi-paid players no longer eligible for tour 
 The PGA Tour says members who are playing in the Saudi-funded league in London are no longer eligible to play tour events. Commissioner Jay Monahan sent a memo indicating the sanctions against Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and 15 other players. The memo went out a short time after the LIV Golf Invitational outside London began with a 48-player field. The decision includes the Presidents Cup. Monahan says even if players resigned their membership, they are not eligible as nonmembers to get sponsor exemptions to tournaments. The USGA already said players can still play the U.S. Open next week. LIV Golf is run by Greg Norman and funded by Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s sovereign wealth fund. It responded to the PGA Tour&rsquo;s decision by calling it vindictive and divisive.
Golf – PGA – Clark leads in Toronto 
 Wyndham Clark started the week with a late charge to play his way into the U.S. Open in a qualifier, and then he stayed hot Thursday in the RBC Canadian Open for a 7-under 63 to take the first-round lead.  Clark opened with five birdies in nine holes and kept bogeys off his card at St. George&rsquo;s Golf and Country Club for the third round of his PGA Tour career at 63 or lower.  Matt Fitzpatrick was a stroke back, and Doug Ghim and Harold Varner III followed at 65.
Tennis – Wimbledon – Wimbledon record prize money at full-capacity tournament 
 Wimbledon will offer a record total of $50.5 million in player compensation but the singles champions will receive less than the pre-pandemic amount. The All England Club says prize money excluding per diems totals a record $48.8 million. The men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s singles winners will each earn $2.5 million, 14.9% less than in 2019. The overall prize money is an 11% increase over last year, when capacity was reduced because of coronavirus restrictions, and a 5.4% increase over 2019. The oldest Grand Slam tournament begins June 27 and organizers highlighted plans for the grass-court competition to be at full capacity for the first time in three years.
NCAASFB – Oklahoma beats Texas, repeats as softball national champs 
 Kinzie Hansen and Grace Lyons hit three-run homers, Jayda Coleman made two spectacular defensive plays and No. 1 seed Oklahoma defeated unseeded Texas 10-5 to win its second straight Women&rsquo;s College World Series title. The Sooners claimed the best-of-three series 2-0 after winning Game 1 16-1. Jocelyn Alo, the two-time USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year who had been dominant throughout the World Series, hit a hard single in her final at-bat in the sixth inning. She ends her career with a Division I record 122 home runs. It was Oklahoma&rsquo;s sixth overall championship and fifth in the past nine World Series.
Athletics – Info gathered from new law leads to 4-year doping ban 
 Information from the first case to be prosecuted under a new law designed to criminalize widespread doping conspiracies has been used to level a four-year ban on a triple jumper from Georgia. The U.S Anti-Doping Agency announced the sanction for 27-year-old Sabina Allen, who competes for Jamaica. Allen tested positive for two prohibited substances after finishing first at a low-level event in California last May. Evidence for the case came from a criminal case against Eric Lira. He was charged under the Rodchenkov Antidoping Act, which was passed to go after people and organizations that fund and promote international doping schemes.
NFL – State lawmakers table measure aimed at luring Commanders to Virginia 
 The Virginia General Assembly is tabling for the year legislation intended to lure the Washington Commanders to Virginia. That&rsquo;s according to a top state lawmaker who sponsored one version of the legislation.  Democratic Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw said in a brief interview that there were too many issues to be resolved and controversies surrounding the NFL team for the legislation to proceed. He says it could be reintroduced next year.  The team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  The development came a day after an assistant coach for the team issued an apology for a comparison he made on social media between the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
MILB – Midwest League Baseball 
 Yesterday 
 Great Lakes Loons 6, Dayton Dragons 5 – Game 1 (8 Innings) 
 Great Lakes Loons 4, Dayton Dragons 3 – Game 2 
 Lansing Lugnuts 16, West Michigan Whitecaps 2 
 South Bend Cubs 2, Cedar Rapids Kernels 0
Tonight 
 Lansing Lugnuts at West Michigan Whitecaps, 5:35 p.m. (DH) 
 Cedar Rapids Kernels at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m. 
 Great Lakes Loons at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m.
MHSAA – High School Sports 
 Last Night 
 Baseball – Regional Semifinals 
 Division 2 at Edwardsburg 
 Vicksburg 5, Berrien Springs 4
 Division 3 at Centreville 
 Buchanan 11, Climax-Scotts 0
Division 3 at Bangor 
 GR Covenant Christian 3, Watervliet 1
 Division 4 at Kalamazoo College 
 Gobles 6, Michigan Lutheran 3
Division 4 at Decatur 
 Decatur 8, Colon 1
Division 1 at Coldwater 
 Battle Creek Lakeview 2, Ann Arbor Skyline 1
Girls Soccer – Regional Finals 
 Division 1 At Caledonia 
Portage Central 1, Hudsonville 0
 Division 3 at Otsego 
 Hudsonville Unity Christian 5, Otsego 0 
Tonight 
 Girls Soccer – Regional Finals 
 Division 4 at Portage Northern 
 Our Lady of the Lake vs. Kalamazoo Christian, 6:30 p.m.
 Division 2 at Battle Creek Harper Creek 
 Gull Lake vs. Zeeland West, 6:30 p.m.
Boys Golf – State Finals (Today and Saturday) (All start at 9:00 a.m.) 
 Division 2 at The Meadows, GVSU 
 Team Qualifiers 
 Gull Lake 
 Mattawan 
Vicksburg
Individual Qualifiers 
 Jacob Marohn (Lakeshore)
 Division 3 at The Fortress, Frankenmuth 
 Team Qualifiers 
 Coloma 
 Schoolcraft 
 Vicksburg
Individual Qualifiers 
 Parker Lanning (Watervliet) 
Division 3 at Forest Acres West, MSU. 
 Team Qualifiers 
 Kalamazoo Christian 
 Kalamazoo Hackett
Individual Qualifiers 
 Elijah Janowiak (Saugatuck)
Saturday 
 Baseball – Regional Final/Quarterfinal 
 Division 1 at Coldwater 
 Brighton vs. Northville, 10:00 a.m. 
 Battle Creek Lakeview vs. Monroe, 12:30 p.m. 
Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m.
Division 1 at Mt. Pleasant 
 Midland vs. Mattawan, 10:00 a.m. 
 Grandville vs. Forest Hills Northern, 12:30 p.m. 
 Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m.
Division 2 at Hope College 
 Hamilton vs. Charlotte, 10:00 a.m. 
 Vicksburg vs. Grand Rapids Christian, 12:30 p.m. 
 Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m.
Division 3 at Adrian College 
 Buchanan vs. Onsted, 10:00 a.m. 
 Clinton vs. Hudson, 12:30 p.m. 
 Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m.
Division 4 at Kalamazoo College 
 Gobles vs. Britton-Deerfield, 10:00 a.m. 
 Decatur vs. Whitmore Lake, 12:30 p.m. 
 Quarterfinal, 3:00 p.m. 
Softball – Regional Semifinal/Final 
 Division 1 at Portage Northern 
 Mattawan vs. Holt, 10:00 a.m. 
 Coldwater vs. DeWitt, 12:00 p.m. 
 Regional Championship, 2:00 p.m.
Division 2 at Wayland 
 Wayland vs Vicksburg, 10:00 a.m. 
 Lakeshore vs. Otsego, 12:00 p.m. 
 Regional Championship, 2:00 p.m.
Division 3 at Parchment 
 Watervliet vs. Centreville, 10:00 a.m. 
 Buchanan vs. Parchment, 12:00 p.m. 
 Regional Championship, 2:00 p.m.
Division 4 at Mendon 
 River Valley vs. Athens, 10:00 a.m. 
 Kalamazoo Christian vs. Mendon, 12:00 p.m. 
 Regional Championship, 2:00 p.m

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MLB  – Major League Baseball   Yesterday    Los Angeles Dodgers 11, Chicago White Sox 9 Tigers and Cubs were off Dodgers 11, White Sox 9 – After 2-strike intentional  walk, Muncy powers Dodgers   Max  Muncy broke open the game with a three-run hom...