Across two very different games, Dodger Stadium was home to heroes delivering clutch hits, great plays and moments neither club will ever forget. Here’s how it all went down.
Anthony (Lionheart) Smith forced second-ranked Volkan (No Time) Oezdemir to tap out for the victory in the light heavyweight UFC main event in Moncton, N.B., on Saturday night. Smith improved to 31-13-0 after his rear-naked choke caused Oezdemir (15-3-0) to submit at 4:26 of the third round. “My name is Anthony Smith and I want a title shot,” he told the crowd following the win.
Rajon Rondo passed up a clear path to the basket with the Lakers trailing San Antonio by three points with 15.9 seconds left on Saturday. Rondo tried to find an open 3-point shooter, but it didn’t work out, and the Spurs held on for a 110-106 win.
Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo caught an elbow to his head from the Magic’s Aaron Gordon and played a season-low 19 minutes, but he finished with 21 points as Milwaukee improved to 6-0.
Rich Hill was dealing, and then he was gone from Game 4. Soon after, the Dodgers’ lead disappeared for good. But that doesn’t mean L.A.’s manager’s decision was a simple call.
After suffering the longest loss in World Series history, the Red Sox piled up nine runs against the Dodgers’ bullpen to gain a 3-1 lead.
Chris Sale’s words were loud, not polite, and they helped propel the Red Sox to a come-from-behind Game 4 win. David Price, not Chris Sale, will start Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday in Los Angeles, manager Alex Cora announced.
The Packers are playing the Rams in Los Angeles for the first time since 1978, and they’ll encounter the last undefeated team this season in the NFL.
Scoring all nine of their runs from the seventh inning on — with four RBIs, including a homer, from Steve Pearce — the short-on-sleep-but-long-on-life Red Sox deflated and defeated the Dodgers in Game 4 on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium to open up a commanding 3-1 advantage in the best-of-seven World Series. The Dodgers took a 4-0 lead into the seventh, courtesy of a four-run sixth — capped by Yasiel Puig’s resounding three-run home run — and Rich Hill’s 6 1/3 innings, during which he allowed only one hit and struck out seven. Mitch Moreland got the huge Boston rally started with a three-run blast off Ryan Madson.
The Red Sox’s pitching plan was ripped to pieces by the mind-bending, time-shredding exercise that was the 18-inning Game 3 of this World Series. But their relentlessness remained very much intact. Scoring all nine of their runs from the seventh inning on, with four RBIs from Steve Pearce, the short-on-sleep-but-long-on-life Sox deflated and defeated the Dodgers, 9-6, in Game 4 on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium and are back in a commanding and mathematically momentous position in this best-of-seven set.
