Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte: Homers in three-hit effort
Marte went 3-for-4 with a two-run home run, a walk and two total runs scored in Saturday’s 5-4 win over the Rockies.
Marte’s power has come back in a big way this week with three homers over his last five games. This was his sixth multi-hit effort over his last nine contests, a span in which he’s batting .432 (16-for-37) with six extra-base hits and nine RBI. The second baseman is batting .251 with a .748 OPS, eight homers, 24 RBI, 29 runs scored, eight doubles, two triples and no stolen bases over 48 contests. He continues to regularly hit leadoff for the Diamondbacks.
Diamondbacks’ Paul Sewald: Secures 12th save
Sewald struck out one in a perfect inning to earn the save in Saturday’s 5-4 win over the Rockies.
Sewald has three saves and a win over his last four outings, which includes four scoreless innings and a 3:1 K:BB. The closer is clicking, aside from a handful of shaky outings, which have mainly come in non-save situations. He’s posted a 3.72 ERA, 0.78 WHIP and 22:6 K:BB while converting 12 of his 13 save opportunities over 19.1 innings this season.
Diamondbacks’ Zac Gallen: Collects third win
Gallen (3-4) allowed three runs on six hits and two walks while striking out six over 5.1 innings to earn the win Saturday over the Rockies.
Gallen had a fair performance to pick up consecutive wins for the first time this season. He’s now allowed just five runs over his last 11.1 innings after opening May with three poor starts. The veteran right-hander is at a 4.80 ERA, 1.44 WHIP and 40:17 K:BB through 54.1 innings over 11 starts this season, numbers largely in line with what he displayed in a down year in 2025. His next start is projected to be on the road in Seattle.
Diamondbacks’ Lourdes Gurriel: Hoping to return when eligible
Gurriel‘s hamstring injury is believed to be fairly minor, Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic reports. Manager Torey Lovullo said Saturday the hope is Gurriel will be able to return from the injured list when first eligible.
Gurriel injured his hamstring while sliding to make a catch in the outfield Friday, leading to his placement on the 10-day IL. It sounds like both the player and team expect him back when he’s first eligible to return on June 2, but in the meantime, Tommy Troy will get a look in left field for the Diamondbacks.
Si Woo Kim began Saturday at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson with a five-shot lead, but as he walked off TPC Craig Ranch after his third round he suddenly had much closer company at the top of the leaderboard.
A 3-under 68 to reach 21 under was not enough for Kim to extend his advantage on a soft, gettable golf course in ideal conditions on Saturday afternoon, as the inclement weather that pushed tee times up never materialized. With players treated to perfect scoring conditions, there were once again plenty of low rounds on the course, with Scottie Scheffler producing one of them to pull within two shots of Kim’s lead.
Scheffler is tied with Wyndham Clark in second place at 19 under heading into Sunday’s final round after they both shot matching 6-under 65s from the penultimate group, drafting off each other to pull closer to Kim. Scheffler, aiming for back-to-back wins at the Byron Nelson, got off to a bit of a slow start, as he was even for his round after a bogey on No. 4. He quickly righted the ship and got himself rolling with six birdies in his next nine holes to march up the leaderboard, leaning on his always excellent ball-striking and some quality putting on the new greens at TPC Craig Ranch.
With that performance, Scheffler earned himself a spot in the final pairing alongside his good buddy Kim on Sunday afternoon. That will be a very comfortable final round group for the two who play together often at Royal Oaks Country Club about 30 minutes away from TPC Craig Ranch. Kim got the better of that pairing in the first two rounds, and while plenty of players may feel the pressure of being paired with the World No. 1, it will feel extremely normal for Kim who won’t likely wilt under that spotlight.
That said, Kim will need to avoid another rough patch like he had in the middle of his third round, as he made three bogeys in a four-hole stretch from No. 8 to No. 11 that opened the door for Scheffler and Clark to join him at the top of the leaderboard. He was able to stabilize things from there and restore some order with a pair of late birdies to move back into the lead, but that big cushion he enjoyed on Friday night is much more tenuous after a busy Saturday in McKinney, Texas.
The leader
1. Si Woo Kim (-21)
Kim’s mid-round stumble is really the difference going into Sunday. He got a bit overly aggressive with his iron play and paid the price. That will be his challenge in the final round, as his aggression in attacking flags can get him into trouble, and with the always steady Scheffler right alongside, any mistakes are almost guaranteed to be punished. He can’t get too conservative because the scoring has been so good this week that he’ll need to keep pushing that lead into the mid-20s under par, but finding the right balance between trying to score and not taking on unnecessary risk will be critical for Kim to get his fifth career PGA Tour win.
Sunday contenders
T2. Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham Clark (-19) T4. Sungjae Im, Stephan Jaeger, Tom Hoge (-17) 7. Zach Bouchou (-16) T8. Brooks Koepka, Max Greyserman, Keith Mitchell, Jackson Suber (-15) T12. Blades Brown, Tony Finau, Erik Van Rooyen, Kensei Hirata (-14)
With the lead at 21 under and Scheffler at 19 under, it’s hard to imagine the winning score not ending up at 24 under by the end of Sunday. We’ve seen some rounds in the 60-62 range this week, and that might be necessary for someone like Brooks Koepka to win this thing. Koepka put together a very solid round of golf and he’ll be kicking himself for not producing more on Friday when everyone was going crazy low around him.
Clark is within six shots of the lead coming into a final round for the first time since the American Express (which Scheffler won) in what’s been a brutal season for him. However, he’s found a putter that’s working and leads the field on the greens, which has him brimming with confidence and he looks much more like the guy who was a threat every time he teed it up a few years ago.
Im held his nerve well in the final pairing on Saturday and will be able to go out a few groups ahead of Kim and Scheffler to see if he can’t post a number. Jaeger and Hoge have been hanging around the leaderboard all week and are both very comfortable in the state of Texas. Hoge played college golf at TCU, while Jaeger got his first career win two years ago in Houston — holding off Scheffler in the process. They might be able to fly a bit under the radar on Sunday as they try to shoot some low numbers and threaten the leaders.
Then there’s Blades Brown, whose Saturday 65 vaulted him from T38 into T12 on the leaderboard. While it’s unlikely the 19-year-old shoots what’s needed to win on Sunday, he’s now firmly inside the number (solo 21st) he needs to earn special temporary exempt status for the rest of the season, as he looks to cement his PGA Tour card. He’ll need one more solid round to get there, but if so, he’ll become a fixture on Tour for the rest of the summer.
Updated 2026 CJ Cup Byron Nelson odds, picks
Odds via FanDuel Sportsbook
Si Woo Kim (11/10)
Scottie Scheffler (27/20)
Wyndham Clark (7-1)
Sungjae Im (27-1)
Stephan Jaeger (35-1)
Tom Hoge (55-1)
Brooks Koepka (100-1)
Scheffler is almost at a coin flip with Kim now, which feels about right. That final pairing will be a blast to watch on Sunday and it’d be fairly shocking if one of those two aren’t the winner. I’m a little worried about how Clark’s putting holds up in the final round given that’s carried him so much of the week, but if he can keep it rolling, he’s very much alive at 7-1. It’s not impossible for someone to shoot a 62 and win this thing from further back, and if I had to guess who could pull that off I’d actually go with Jaeger for a sprinkle.
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CLEVELAND (AP) Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Mikal Bridges added 22 and the New York Knicks moved within one game of their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999 with a 121-108 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night.
The Knicks can wrap up the Eastern Conference Finals and sweep their second straight series with a win on Monday night. Knicks fans – who were boisterous throughout the night – were chanting “Knicks in four” as the final seconds of Game 3 ticked away.
New York is the seventh team in NBA history to win at least 10 straight during a postseason run. The last team to do it was the Boston Celtics, who also went on a 10-game run on their way to the 2024 title. Cleveland, San Antonio and the Los Angeles Lakers have done it twice.
All but one of the Knicks’ wins have been by double digits, with an average margin of victory of 22.5 points.
“We’ve just have to keep our mind on the task at hand. The game is over and we found a way to win. We have to execute at a high level in Game 4,” said Karl Anthony-Towns, who had 13 points, eight rebounds and seven assists.
OG Anunoby had 21 points as New York led the entire game. The Knicks not only made 55.8% of their shots from the field, they also had 11 3-pointers and were 24 of 27 from the foul line.
Evan Mobley scored 24 points, Donovan Mitchell had 23 points and James Harden added 19 for Cleveland. The Cavaliers were 12 of 41 on 3-pointers and 12 of 19 from the foul line.
Not even an appearance by the superstar couple of Taylor Swift and Cleveland Heights native Travis Kelce could spur the Cavs to a win.
“I think their physicality and energy, we couldn’t get to that level to combat it,” Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said. “They’re on a hell of a run. We haven’t been able to stop the momentum. We had one chance in that first game I thought to stop it, but they haven’t been able to halt their momentum.”
New York led 91-82 at the end of the third quarter but put it out reach in the fourth when Landry Shamet made three 3-pointers in a 99-second span to make it 105-94.
“Our guys were locked in from the beginning of the game and it showed from the first few minutes of the game. We got a lot of great contributions,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said. “I thought throughout the whole game we did a good job trying to play fast. We don’t want to go against their set defense all the time, so we’ve got to keep trying to play fast. And then our guys did a better job in the second half trying to defend without fouling.”
The Knicks made their first four shots en route to a 9-1 lead less than two minutes into the game. New York was 12 of 17 from the field in the quarter and was up 37-27 after 12 minutes.
Cleveland rallied to tie it at 50-all on a jumper by Harden before the Knicks countered with a 10-1 run. They went into halftime with a 60-54 advantage.
Brunson had six of his 12 points during an 8-1 run midway through the third quarter as the Knicks extended their lead to 83-70 with 3:41 remaining.
“It’s the next-man-up mentality and the guys found me a few times. We knew we were going to get a real good punch from that team, and we weathered their best punches tonight,” Shamet said.
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This story has been updated to reflect that Evan Mobley led the Cavaliers with 24 points and James Harden scored 19.
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The New York Knicks playoff win streak at nine has now surpassed their best win streak of the regular season. They are up two games to none on the Cavaliers, but Cleveland has had its moments. Game one they of course blew, and game two was about missed wide open looks from beyond the arc. They went 9 of 35 as a team, and also missed ten free throws. In a desperation game at home, look for Cleveland to finally gain a win.
The Knicks nine-game postseason win streak has seen many players step up, including Mikal Bridges. Bridges is averaging 18.7 PPG over the last 7 postseason games, but also 3 assists and 3.9 rebounds, for a PRA average of 25.6 per game. He’s gone over this prop total in all seven of them, while averaging over 33 min per game. Bridges has played 42 and 40 min in the first two games.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The Carolina Hurricanes knew they had to play more to their style to get back into the Eastern Conference Final series against Montreal.
They got that most of Saturday night for Game 2, along with a huge performance from offseason addition Nikolaj Ehlers.
Ehlers got loose up the center of the ice and popped the puck past Jakub Dobes at 3:29 of overtime to lift the Carolina Hurricanes past the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 on Saturday night to level the Eastern Conference Final at one game apiece.
Ehlers scored twice for the Eastern Conference’s top seed, the first with a highlight-reel individual effort in the second period against two Montreal defenders.
And when the game went to OT, the guy the Hurricanes landed as a sought-after free agent carried them to the finish line.
“He’s a special talent,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said, “and it was on full display tonight.”
The winning sequence started with a retreating Jalen Chatfield bouncing the puck back into the neutral zone to Mark Jankowski. Jankowski had a quick redirection to Ehlers entering the zone at full speed for a clean look at Dobes for the sudden winner.
“We didn’t get a second breath,” said Dobes, who had 23 saves. “It was over pretty quick.”
As the puck hit the net, that sent a tense home crowd into a relieved but jubilant roar – along with a screaming Ehlers.
“I can barely talk right now, but I was yelling pretty loudly after that OT winner,” Ehlers said.
“It was a great pass … and then just try to get some speed and get the puck off my stick as quick as possible and try to surprise the goalie,” Ehlers said. “Seeing that go in, seeing how the fans reacted was pretty cool.”
Eric Robinson also scored for Carolina, which improved to 4-0 in overtime in the playoffs – including 3-2 home wins in extra time during Game 2 in all three playoff series so far.
Carolina was facing massive pressure to regroup from Thursday’s 6-2 loss in the series opener that only magnified the team’s long-running troubles in the Eastern Final. Now the series is level as it shifts to Canada for Monday’s Game 3.
Josh Anderson scored twice for the Canadiens, the second coming at the 12:51 mark of the third period to ultimately force the overtime at 2-2.
The Canadiens won Game 1 by jumping on a Carolina team coming off an 11-day break after sweeping through the first two rounds – the longest wait to start a series in more than a century – for four goals in the opening 11 1/2 minutes. Montreal repeatedly got loose for clean breakouts and breakaways for high-danger chances against Frederik Andersen in that one.
But Carolina looked much closer to its earlier playoff form with is aggressive forecheck and defensive pressure, holding Montreal to 12 shots on goal and giving up far fewer of those quick transition chances the Canadiens kept burying in Game 1.
“It’s hard to go 200 feet and produce offense unless you execute a little bit through that pressure,” Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said. “I felt today we weren’t terrible, we just weren’t as good” as Thursday.
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The Hurricanes were clearly rusty in Game 1 as Frederik Andersen had been historically good in these playoffs before getting shelled in the opener. I expect good Fred tonight in Game 2. He hadn’t allowed more than two goals in any other postseason game. And if that happens again, this certainly should cash. It’s our only 6.5 on the board.
PHOENIX (AP) Ketel Marte hit a two-run homer and scored twice in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 5-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.
Nolan Arenado had a two-run double and Marte finished with three of Arizona’s 11 hits. Zac Gallen (3-4) gave up three runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out six and walked two.
Kevin Ginkel worked a hitless inning before Paul Sewald pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 12th save.
Arizona has won seven of its last nine games.
TJ Rumfield hit a solo homer and had three hits for Colorado.
Geraldo Perdomo opened the scoring with an RBI single in the third, and Arenado’s double made it 3-0. After the Rockies scored twice in the fourth, Marte hit his eighth home run to right field in the bottom half to extend the lead to 5-2.
Troy Johnston hit an RBI single for the Rockies. Ezequiel Tovar and Sterlin Thompson each had a run-scoring groundout. Rumfield’s homer off Brandon Pfaadt cut it to 5-4 in the eighth.
Colorado starter Michael Lorenzen (2-7) was tagged for eight hits and five runs in five innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Rockies LHP Jose Quintana (2-2, 4.08 ERA) faces RHP Ryne Nelson (1-3, 5.19) in the finale of the three-game series Sunday.
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Colorado pulled the upset in the desert on Friday night, which for Saturday’s purposes makes me like this more. If the Rockies’ Michael Lorenzen (2-6, 7.03 ERA) isn’t the worst starting pitcher in the majors, I’m not sure who is. The Snakes obliterated him last Sunday in Denver. Arizona’s Zac Gallen a couple of years ago was in the conversation as one of the best right-handers in the majors. He’s not that guy lately at 2-4 with a 4.78 ERA, but he’s still the Blair to Lorenzen’s Natalie if we are talking “The Facts of Life” metaphors.
Diamondbacks’ Ryan Waldschmidt: Records steal in loss
Waldschmidt went 2-for-3 with a stolen base in Friday’s 3-2 loss to the Rockies.
Waldschmidt had three multi-hit efforts over his last five games, going 7-for-14 (.500) with three walks and three steals in that span. The outfielder has taken on a starting job in center field this month, and his bat has been a big reason why. He’s hitting .326 with an .815 OPS, six RBI, seven runs scored, four steals and four doubles over his first 14 big-league games. He’s still looking for his first home run, but his calling card in the minors was plate discipline more than power.
Diamondbacks’ Michael Soroka: Sharp in no-decision
Soroka allowed one run on four hits and a hit batsman while striking out two without walking a batter over six innings in a no-decision Friday versus the Rockies.
Soroka didn’t have his best strikeout stuff, but he gave the Rockies little to work with. He’s allowed just four runs over 24.1 innings in May, adding a 21:5 K:BB this month. Soroka has given up two runs or fewer in eight of his 10 starts overall, pitching to a 3.27 ERA, 1.25 WHIP and 57:14 K:BB through 55 innings. This is the closest he’s looked to his promising early years before injuries ravaged his career, but durability remains the biggest question for the right-hander. He’ll look to keep rolling with a projected road start in San Francisco next week.
Gurriel was removed from Friday’s game against the Rockies with left hamstring tightness.
Gurriel was taken out of the game after making a sliding catch in left field. It’s not immediately clear how serious his injury is, but the Diamondbacks may provide more details in the near future. Jorge Barrosa entered the game as Gurriel’s replacement and would be the favorite to work as Arizona’s left fielder in any future games the latter has to miss.
A wholesale renovation at TPC Craig Ranch hasn’t been enough to keep the PGA Tour’s best from laying siege to the golf course at the 2026 CJ Cup Byron Nelson. That onslaught continued on Friday when Si Woo Kim posted a 60 to jump into a five-shot lead.
Kim has had a tremendous 2026 campaign and has long been known as one of the most aggressive players on the PGA Tour, and that combination of form and willingness to attack flagsticks on a soft and gettable golf course created the perfect storm on Friday. Kim got off to a flying start with six birdies on his front nine to go out in 30, putting the vaunted 59 number firmly in play given the scoring we’d already seen in the second round.
Still, one of the hardest things in golf is keeping that kind of momentum going after making the turn, but Kim never let his foot off the gas. Kim added five birdies in his first six holes on the back nine to put himself -11 thru 15 on the par 71 layout, needing just one birdie in his final three holes to enter rare air.
After a great drive and quality approach, he had his birdie putt slide just by the left edge to keep him at 11 under, but the 132-yard par-3 17th awaited with a great opportunity to get the birdie he needed. Adrenaline may have gotten the best of him on the tee, as he flew his pitching wedge too far into the backstop long and left of the flag and got hung up just on the edge of the fairway cut above the green. That left him a downhill swinger from right to left, which he buried dead center with perfect pace to reach 12 under on his round with one hole to go.
With that birdie, all Kim needed was a par at the last to post the 16th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history, while a birdie could match Jim Furyk for the lowest round in PGA Tour history. Unfortunately for Kim, it wasn’t meant to be. After splitting the fairway, he had 200 yards in and pulled a 6 iron, and much like his tee shot on the 17th he was a bit too juiced up and pulled it just long and left to create a challenging up-and-down.
He clipped his chip too well and had it check and stop before it got to the hill, and he saw his par attempt slide by on the low side, cleaning up for his lone bogey of the day to shoot a 60. While it’s hard to be disappointed by an 11-under round of golf, Kim will feel like he let a chance to etch his name in PGA Tour history get away from him. Still, he will take a five-shot lead into the weekend at 18 under in search of his fifth career win — but first since 2023.
Kim’s 134 (64-60) is tied for the second-lowest 36-hole score in PGA Tour history, trailing only Justin Thomas’s 133 at the 2017 Sony Open — and tied with Scottie Scheffler last year for the lowest in tournament history.
While Kim has opened up a sizable lead, given the names chasing him, most notably including Scheffler, there won’t be any time this weekend to try and coast to a victory in his adopted home of Texas. Weather will be a factor on the weekend, with Saturday’s third round tee times being moved up with players going off in threesomes off split tees due to projected inclement weather in the afternoon, and Kim will have to battle the elements, himself and some stiff competition behind him to capture that fifth career victory.
Weekend contenders
T2. Scottie Scheffler, Sungjae Im, Wyndham Clark, Kensei Hirata (-13) T6. Jordan Spieth, Keith Mitchell, Tony Finau, Tom Hoge, Jackson Suber Tyler Duncan (-12) T12. Taylor Moore, Zach Bouchou, Chan Kim, Seamus Power (-11) T16. Brooks Koepka and six others (-10)
It’d be hard to draw up a much better leaderboard going into the weekend than this at the Byron Nelson. Just about every big name that is in the field is in serious contention after two rounds of play.
Scheffler and Kim play a lot together in Dallas and seemed right at home paired together (along with Brooks Koepka) in the first two rounds. Scheffler was able to draft a bit off Kim’s incredible play on Friday, catching fire himself on the back nine with three birdies and an eagle in a four-hole stretch from No. 11 to No. 14 to surge into a share of second with a 63. Scheffler will spend the weekend trying to break out of his runner-up streak, as he’s finished second in three of his last four events, but he will need something special on the weekend to reel in Kim.
Sungjae Im and Jordan Spieth played the role of Kim and Scheffler in the early wave, with Im closing out his round in style by making a hole-in-one on the 7th and then an eagle on the 9th after starting the day on the back nine.
That flurry to close got Im into the clubhouse with a 10-under 61, besting Spieth’s 9-under 62 in the same pairing. Those two surged into the top 10 with their efforts in the second round and head into the weekend looking to snap lengthy winning droughts. Im hasn’t won on the PGA Tour since 2021, while Spieth is still chasing his first win since he picked up the 13th victory of his career back in 2022. Both have been trending in the right direction of late, but they also have struggled with putting together four complete rounds to truly give themselves a chance at a victory.
Koepka was the story from the first round. After somehow managing to shoot 8 under despite missing 11 fairways in his first round, he wasn’t so lucky on Friday and watched Kim and Scheffler dart past him on the leaderboard. His 2-under 69 was still good enough to keep him in the top 20, but he’s now eight shots behind Kim and three shots behind Scheffler heading into the weekend. While the rough this week isn’t much of a penalty, Koepka found a few too many fairway bunkers and left himself some poor angles that kept him from keeping pace with his playing companions.
The tournament inside the tournament
The cut line this week didn’t capture many notables in the field — although, a 6 under cut is rather incredible to look at — but the drama outside those at the very top chasing Kim is the effort of Blades Brown, who turned 19 years old on Thursday, trying to earn special temporary exempt status this week. Brown has been playing some great golf this year and after a top 10 at Myrtle Beach two weeks ago, he earned his spot in the field and needs a solo 21st finish or better to get exempt for the rest of the season — which means he can take unlimited sponsor exemptions. That’s a huge deal for a young player, and after two rounds of play, Brown is T38 at 8 under for the week. He’ll need to pile up the birdies as the weekend wears on if he’s going to climb into that top 20 conversation to earn status.
Updated 2026 CJ Cup Byron Nelson odds, picks
Si Woo Kim (2/3)
Scottie Scheffler (13/5)
Jordan Spieth (20-1)
Sungjae Im (25-1)
Wyndham Clark (25-1)
Keith Mitchell (33-1)
The things working in Kim’s favor this week are the fact that he’s as aggressive as it gets when trying to make birdies on a golf course that invites and rewards that kind of play. He’s also comfortable playing with Scheffler (and Spieth), which is a good thing given he very well could find himself in a final pairing on Sunday with the World No. 1. The bad news is Scheffler loves playing with Kim too, as they feed off each other and typically when that happens, Scottie ends up getting the better of it. I think at this point, even facing a five-shot deficit, my money would be on Scheffler — who is in second going into the weekend but now has longer odds than when the tournament started. The heart says Spieth or Kim, but the head says Scheffler.
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