“THE SCOREBOARD” INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL SCORES https://www.maxpreps.com/in/baseball/scores/?date=4/29/2026 ============================================ INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL SCORES https://www.maxpreps.com/in/softball/scores/?date=4/29/2026 =========================================== INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS VOLLEYBALL SCORES https://www.maxpreps.com/in/volleyball/boys/scores/?date=4/29/2026 ================================================ INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS LAX SCORES https://www.maxpreps.com/in/lacrosse/girls/scores/?date=4/29/2026 ============================================== INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS LAX SCORES https://www.maxpreps.com/in/lacrosse/scores/?date=4/29/2026 ===================================== COLLEGE BASEBALL SCORES PURDUE 5 SOUTHERN INDIANA 1 NOTRE DAME 16 MILWAUKEE 2 https://d1baseball.com/scores/?date=20260429 ================================================= COLLEGE SOFTBALL SCORES NOTRE DAME 9 DEPAUL 8 ILLINOIS 6 VALPARAISO 3 INDIANA 8 EVANSVILLE 0 https://d1softball.com/scores/?date=20260429 ============================================= MEN’S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL SCORES NO GAMES SCHEDULED ================================================= DIVISION 1 MEN’S LAX SCORES NO GAMES SCHEDULED ================================================= DIVISION 1 WOMEN’S LAX SCORES NO GAMES SCHEDULED ================================================= NBA SCORES/ NBA PLAYOFF SCHEDULE ============================================== NHL PLAYOFFS/SCHEDULE > EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND (1) DETROIT VS. (8) ORLANDO GAME 1: MAGIC 112, PISTONS 101 GAME 2: PISTONS 98, MAGIC 83 GAME 3: MAGIC 113, PISTONS 105 GAME 4: MAGIC 94, PISTONS 88 GAME 5: PISTONS 116, MAGIC 109 GAME 6: DETROIT AT ORLANDO | FRIDAY MAY 1 (7 ET, PRIME VIDEO) GAME 7: ORLANDO AT DETROIT | SUNDAY MAY 3*MAGIC LEAD SERIES 3-2 (2) BOSTON VS. (7) PHILADELPHIA GAME 1: CELTICS 123, 76ERS 91 GAME 2: 76ERS 111, CELTICS 97 GAME 3: CELTICS 108, 76ERS 100 GAME 4: CELTICS 128, 76ERS 96 GAME 5: 76ERS 113, CELTICS 97 GAME 6: BOSTON AT PHILADELPHIA | THURSDAY APRIL 30 (8 ET, NBC/PEACOCK) GAME 7: PHILADELPHIA AT BOSTON | SATURDAY MAY 2*CELTICS LEAD SERIES 3-2 (3) NEW YORK VS. (6) ATLANTA GAME 1: KNICKS 113, HAWKS 102 GAME 2: HAWKS 107, KNICKS 106 GAME 3: HAWKS 109, KNICKS 108 GAME 4: KNICKS 114, HAWKS 98 GAME 5: KNICKS 126, HAWKS 97 GAME 6: NEW YORK AT ATLANTA | THURSDAY APRIL 30 (7 ET, ESPN) GAME 7: ATLANTA AT NEW YORK | SATURDAY MAY 2*KNICKS LEAD SERIES 3-2 (4) CLEVELAND VS. (5) TORONTO GAME 1: CAVALIERS 126, RAPTORS 113 GAME 2: CAVALIERS 115, RAPTORS 105 GAME 3: RAPTORS 126, CAVALIERS 104 GAME 4: RAPTORS 93, CAVALIERS 89 GAME 5: CAVALIERS 125, RAPTORS 120 GAME 6: CLEVELAND AT TORONTO | FRIDAY MAY 1 (7:30 ET, PRIME VIDEO) GAME 7: TORONTO AT CLEVELAND | SUNDAY MAY 3*CAVALIERS LEAD SERIES 3-2 > WESTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND (1) OKLAHOMA CITY VS. (8) PHOENIX GAME 1: THUNDER 119, SUNS 84 GAME 2: THUNDER 120, SUNS 107 GAME 3: THUNDER 121, SUNS 109 GAME 4: THUNDER 131, SUNS 122 THUNDER WIN SERIES 4-0 (2) SAN ANTONIO VS. (7) PORTLAND GAME 1: SPURS 111, TRAIL BLAZERS 98 GAME 2: TRAIL BLAZERS 106, SPURS 103 GAME 3: SPURS 120, TRAIL BLAZERS 108 GAME 4: SPURS 114, TRAIL BLAZERS 93 GAME 5: SPURS 114, TRAIL BLAZERS 95 SPURS WIN SERIES 4-1 (3) DENVER VS. (6) MINNESOTA GAME 1: NUGGETS 116, TIMBERWOLVES 105 GAME 2: TIMBERWOLVES 119, NUGGETS 114 GAME 3: TIMBERWOLVES 113, NUGGETS 96 GAME 4: TIMBERWOLVES 112, NUGGETS 96 GAME 5: NUGGETS 125, TIMBERWOLVES 113 GAME 6: DENVER AT MINNESOTA | THURSDAY APRIL 30 (9:30 ET, ESPN) GAME 7: MINNESOTA AT DENVER | SATURDAY MAY 2*TIMBERWOLVES LEAD SERIES 3-2 (4) LOS ANGELES VS. (5) HOUSTON GAME 1: LAKERS 107, ROCKETS 98 GAME 2: LAKERS 101, ROCKETS 94 GAME 3: LAKERS 112, ROCKETS 108 (OT) GAME 4: ROCKETS 116, LAKERS 96 GAME 5: ROCKETS 99, LAKERS 93 GAME 6: LOS ANGELES AT HOUSTON | FRIDAY MAY 1 (9:30 ET, PRIME VIDEO) GAME 7: HOUSTON AT LOS ANGELES | SUNDAY MAY 3*LAKERS LEAD SERIES 3-2 * = IF NECESSARY ============================================== NHL PLAYOFFS EASTERN CONFERENCE BOSTON BRUINS (1WC) VS. BUFFALO SABRES (1A) BUFFALO LEADS SERIES 3-1 GAME 1: BUFFALO 4, BOSTON 3 GAME 2: BOSTON 4, BUFFALO 2 GAME 3: BUFFALO 3, BOSTON 1 GAME 4: BUFFALO 6, BOSTON 1 GAME 5: BOSTON 2, BUFFALO 1 (OT) GAME 6: BUFFALO AT BOSTON — 7:30 P.M. ET, FRIDAY, MAY 1 (ESPN, SN360, TVAS2, NESN, MSG-B) *GAME 7: BOSTON AT BUFFALO — SUNDAY, MAY 3 TBD *- IF NECESSARY COMPLETE COVERAGE OF BRUINS-SABRES SERIES MONTREAL CANADIENS (3A) VS. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING (2A) MONTREAL LEADS SERIES 3-2 GAME 1: MONTREAL 4, TAMPA BAY 3 (OT) GAME 2: TAMPA BAY 3, MONTREAL 2 (OT) GAME 3: MONTREAL 3, TAMPA BAY 2 (OT) GAME 4: TAMPA BAY 3, MONTREAL 2 GAME 5: MONTREAL 3, TAMPA BAY 2 GAME 6: TAMPA BAY AT MONTREAL — 7 P.M. ET, FRIDAY, MAY 1 (ESPN2, SN, CBC, TVAS, THE SPOT) *GAME 7: MONTREAL AT TAMPA BAY — SUNDAY, MAY 3 TBD *- IF NECESSARY COMPLETE COVERAGE OF CANADIENS-LIGHTNING SERIES OTTAWA SENATORS (2WC) VS. CAROLINA HURRICANES (1M) CAROLINA WINS SERIES 4-0 GAME 1: CAROLINA 2, OTTAWA 0 GAME 2: CAROLINA 3, OTTAWA 2 (2OT) GAME 3: CAROLINA 2, OTTAWA 1 GAME 4: CAROLINA 4, OTTAWA 2 COMPLETE COVERAGE OF SENATORS-HURRICANES SERIES PHILADELPHIA FLYERS (3M) VS. PITTSBURGH PENGUINS (2M) PHILADELPHIA WINS SERIES 4-2 GAME 1: PHILADELPHIA 3, PITTSBURGH 2 GAME 2: PHILADELPHIA 3, PITTSBURGH 0 GAME 3: PHILADELPHIA 5, PITTSBURGH 2 GAME 4: PITTSBURGH 4, PHILADELPHIA 2 GAME 5: PITTSBURGH 3, PHILADELPHIA 2 GAME 6: PHILADELPHIA 1, PITTSBURGH 0 (OT) COMPLETE COVERAGE OF FLYERS-PENGUINS SERIES WESTERN CONFERENCE LOS ANGELES KINGS (2WC) VS. COLORADO AVALANCHE (1C) COLORADO WINS SERIES 4-0 GAME 1: COLORADO 2, LOS ANGELES 1 GAME 2: COLORADO 2, LOS ANGELES 1 (OT) GAME 3: COLORADO 4, LOS ANGELES 2 GAME 4: COLORADO 5, LOS ANGELES 1 COMPLETE COVERAGE OF KINGS-AVALANCHE SERIES MINNESOTA WILD (3C) VS. DALLAS STARS (2C) MINNESOTA LEADS SERIES 3-2 GAME 1: MINNESOTA 6, DALLAS 1 GAME 2: DALLAS 4, MINNESOTA 2 GAME 3: DALLAS 4, MINNESOTA 3 (2OT) GAME 4: MINNESOTA 3, DALLAS 2 (OT) GAME 5: MINNESOTA 4, DALLAS 2 GAME 6: DALLAS AT MINNESOTA — 7:30 P.M. ET, THURSDAY, APRIL 30 (TNT, TRUTV, HBO MAX, SNE, SN360, TVAS, FDSNWI, FDSNNO, VICTORY+) *GAME 7: MINNESOTA AT DALLAS — MAY 2 TBD *- IF NECESSARY COMPLETE COVERAGE OF WILD-STARS SERIES UTAH MAMMOTH (1WC) VS. VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS (1P) VEGAS LEADS SERIES 3-2 GAME 1: VEGAS 4, UTAH 2 GAME 2: UTAH 3, VEGAS 2 GAME 3: UTAH 4, VEGAS 2 GAME 4: VEGAS 5, UTAH 4 (OT) GAME 5: VEGAS 5, UTAH 4 (2OT) GAME 6: VEGAS AT UTAH– 10 P.M. ET, FRIDAY, MAY 1 (ESPN, SN, SN360, TVAS2, UTAH16, SCRIPPS) *GAME 7: UTAH AT VEGAS — SUNDAY, MAY 3 TBD *- IF NECESSARY COMPLETE COVERAGE OF MAMMOTH-GOLDEN KNIGHTS SERIES ANAHEIM DUCKS (3P) VS. EDMONTON OILERS (2P) ANAHEIM LEADS SERIES 3-2 GAME 1: EDMONTON 4, ANAHEIM 3 GAME 2: ANAHEIM 6, EDMONTON 4 GAME 3: ANAHEIM 7, EDMONTON 4 GAME 4: ANAHEIM 4, EDMONTON 3 (OT) GAME 5: EDMONTON 4, ANAHEIM 1 GAME 6: EDMONTON AT ANAHEIM — 10 P.M. ET, THURSDAY, APRIL 30 (TNT, TRUTV, HBO MAX, SN, SN360, CBC, TVAS, KCOP-13, VICTORY+ ) *GAME 7: ANAHEIM AT EDMONTON — SATURDAY, MAY 2 TBD *- IF NECESSARY COMPLETE COVERAGE OF DUCKS-OILERS SERIES ============================================ MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SAN FRANCISCO AT PHILADELPHIA POSTPONED HOUSTON AT BALTIMORE POSTPONED CHICAGO WHITE SOX 3 LA ANGELS 2 (10) CLEVELAND 3 TAMPA BAY 1 SEATTLE 5 MINNESOTA 3 TEXAS 3 NY YANKEES 0 TORONTO 8 BOSTON 1 MIAMI 3 LA DODGERS 2 CHICAGO 5 SAN DIEGO 4 ST. LOUIS 5 PITTSBURGH 4 COLORADO 13 CINCINNATI 2 WASHINGTON 14 NY METS 2 ATLANTA 4 DETROIT 3 ARIZONA 6 MILWAUKEE 2 LAS VEGAS 5 KANSAS CITY 2 ============================================== MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL MEMPHIS 3 INDIANAPOLIS 0 FORT WAYNE 7 SOUTH BEND 4 ============================================== WOMEN’S PRO VOLLEYBALL SCORES NO GAMES SCHEDULED ===================================== UFL SCORES NO GAMES SCHEDULED =================================== MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER NO GAMES SCHEDULED =================================== MAJOR NATIONAL HEADLINES/RELEASES NBA NBA ROUNDUP: ROCKETS, PISTONS STAY ALIVE WITH GAME 5 WINS Jabari Smith Jr. scored 22 points and Tari Eason added 18 as the Houston Rockets fought off elimination for a second consecutive game and crawled back into their first-round playoff series with a 99-93 road victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 on Wednesday. Alperen Sengun scored 14 points with nine rebounds and eight assists while Amen Thompson added 15 points for the Rockets, who now trail 3-2 in the best-of-seven Western Conference series after falling into a 3-0 hole. No NBA team has rallied back from a 3-0 deficit to win a playoff series. The consecutive Rockets victories have come without star Kevin Durant (ankle), who has only played in Game 2. Austin Reaves scored 22 points off the bench in his return from an oblique injury and LeBron James added 25 points for the Lakers. Deandre Ayton scored 18 points and grabbed 17 rebounds for Los Angeles, which will get a third chance to clinch the series on Friday at Houston. The Lakers continue to be without star Luka Doncic (hamstring). Pistons 116, Magic 109 Cade Cunningham poured in a career-playoff-high 45 points as top-seeded Detroit stayed alive with a victory over visiting Orlando in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference first-round series. Tobias Harris supplied 23 points and eight assists for the Pistons, who trail 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. Ausar Thompson contributed six points, 15 rebounds, six assists and five steals. The Magic’s Paolo Banchero countered Cunningham with a career-playoff-best 45 points to go along with nine rebounds and seven assists. Anthony Black had 19 points for eighth-seeded Orlando. Franz Wagner sat out due to a calf strain. Cavaliers 125, Raptors 120 Dennis Schroder scored 11 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter and James Harden finished with 23 points, rallying Cleveland to a 3-2 lead over visiting Toronto in an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series. The Cavaliers, who trailed by 12 points on multiple occasions, have won all three of their home games so far. Evan Mobley had 23 points and nine rebounds, and Donovan Mitchell scored 19 for Cleveland. Harden also had nine rebounds, five assists and six turnovers in a series-high 39:45 minutes. RJ Barrett paced the Raptors with 25 points and Ja’Kobe Walter scored a career-playoff-high 20 points and made 6 of 14 3-point attempts. Raptors forward Brandon Ingram injured his right heel in the second quarter and did not return. ===================================== NHL NHL ROUNDUP: FLYERS KO PENGUINS WITH OT WIN IN GAME 6 Cam York scored at 17:32 of overtime, propelling the Philadelphia Flyers into the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs with a 1-0 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 on Wednesday. After winning the first three games of the best-of-seven series, the Flyers lost Games 4 and 5 and struggled to find their offensive footing for much of Game 6. However, York’s first career playoff goal came at the perfect time, sending Philadelphia into a second-round matchup with the Carolina Hurricanes. Following a faceoff win in the offensive zone, York unleashed a wrist shot from the right point that got through traffic, hit off the right post, and skipped past Arturs Silovs. The Pittsburgh goalie finished with 31 saves, while Dan Vladar turned aside 42 shots for his second shutout of the series. Late in overtime, a shot by Philadelphia’s Porter Martone toward an open net was somehow stopped by Silovs’ stick that was lying on the ice. However, the Flyers won the game less than a minute later. Golden Knights 5, Mammoth 4 (2 OT) Brett Howden scored a short-handed goal at 5:28 in the second overtime as Vegas took a 3-2 lead in its Western Conference first-round playoff against Utah in Las Vegas. The Golden Knights’ Pavel Dorofeyev scored a hat trick, including a 6-on-5 goal with 52.7 seconds left in regulation to force overtime. Shea Theodore had a goal and an assist and Jack Eichel logged two assists for Vegas. Carter Hart finished with 34 saves. John Marino, Lawson Crouse, Dylan Guenther and Michael Carcone scored goals and Clayton Keller had two assists for Utah. Karel Vejmelka made 31 saves. Canadiens 3, Lightning 2 Alexandre Texier netted a tiebreaking goal early in the third period as visiting Montreal took control of its Eastern Conference first-round playoff series by holding off Tampa Bay in Game 5. The Canadiens grabbed a 3-2 edge in the best-of-seven series, and they head home to Montreal for Game 6 on Friday. Canadiens goalie Jakub Dobes wound up with 38 saves. Brendan Gallagher and Kirby Dach also scored for Montreal. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 21 saves for the Lightning, who got goals from Dominic James and Jake Guentzel. ================================= MLB MLB ROUNDUP: BRAVES WALK OFF TIGERS IN COMEBACK STUNNER Matt Olson delivered a long, two-run, walk-off homer in the ninth inning against closer Kenley Jansen to lift the Atlanta Braves to a 4-3 win over the visiting Detroit Tigers on Thursday. Ozzie Albies opened the inning with a walk and Olson followed with his ninth homer, a 397-foot shot to right-center field that landed in the Atlanta bullpen. It was the second straight outing in which Jansen (0-2) has allowed a walk-off homer. The win extended Atlanta’s winning streak over Detroit to 10 games. The winning pitcher was Reynaldo Lopez (2-1), who worked the final two innings of scoreless relief. He allowed no hits and struck out two. Sports The loss ruined a fine effort from Detroit starter Tarik Skubal, who only allowed a two-run homer to Albies in the first inning. Skubal gave up five hits, did not walk a batter and struck out seven over seven innings. Rangers 3, Yankees 0 Nathan Eovaldi pitched seven strong innings against one of his former teams as Texas blanked New York in Arlington, Texas. Eovaldi, who pitched for the Yankees in 2015-2016, allowed four singles and tied a season best with seven strikeouts. He walked one and threw 70 of 102 pitches for strikes. Josh Jung hit a two-run single in the fifth and Sam Haggerty added an RBI single in the seventh for the Rangers. Ben Rice had three hits for the Yankees, who went 7-2 on their nine-game road trip and lost for only the second time in their past 12 games. Nationals 14, Mets 2 Brady House hit his first career grand slam to cap a seven-run fourth inning for visiting Washington, which extended New York’s woes in the middle game of a three-game series. Curtis Mead homered and finished with a career-high four hits for the Nationals, whose 14 runs were a season high. he Mets have lost 16 of their last 19, their worst 19-game stretch since New York dropped 16 of 19 from May 26 through June 15, 2018. Mets starter David Peterson (0-4) was on the verge of limiting the Nationals to one run in the fourth via Joey Wiemer’s RBI infield single before the left-hander issued a bases-loaded walk to James Wood. Sean Manaea entered and plunked Mead to bring home Wiemer. House homered to left-center two pitches later. White Sox 3, Angels 2 (10 innings) Colson Montgomery lined a walk-off single to center field in the 10th inning and Austin Hays had two hits as host Chicago downed Los Angeles to finish off a three-game sweep. White Sox reliever Seranthony Dominguez (2-3) worked a scoreless 10th, stranding the automatic runner at third base. Starter Erick Fedde pitched seven sharp innings, striking out a season-high six against zero walks. The right-hander scattered five hits but proved susceptible to the long ball, yielding solo home runs to Vaughn Grissom and Mike Trout. The Angels have lost six straight and 10 of 11. Four L.A. relievers kept the team afloat after starter Yusei Kikuchi sustained an early injury, contributing a combined seven innings of four-hit, two-run ball before extra innings. Drew Pomeranz (0-3) allowed one hit and an unearned run in 1/3 of an inning while walking two. Marlins 3, Dodgers 2 Sandy Alcantara went six strong innings, Javier Sanoja had a go-ahead bloop single in the eighth inning and Miami won its first road series of the season in Los Angeles. Liam Hicks and Esteury Ruiz hit home runs as the Marlins took two of three from the two-time defending champion Dodgers. Alcantara gave up two runs on seven hits over six innings, while left-hander Andrew Nardi (2-1) pitched a scoreless seventh and Calvin Faucher pitched the ninth for his first save. Tyler Glasnow gave up two runs on three hits over 5 2/3 innings, while Alex Call and Dalton Rushing drove in runs for Los Angeles, which has won just one of its past four series and is 5-7 since April 18. Cardinals 5, Pirates 4 Andre Pallante (3-2) allowed a run and five hits over six innings, Alec Burleson homered and St. Louis held on for a win at Pittsburgh. Ivan Herrera went 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI for the Cardinals, who have won the first three games of the four-game series. Riley O’Brien earned his eighth save when left fielder Nathan Church leaped at the wall to snare Nick Gonzales’ long drive with a runner on for the final out. Spencer Horwitz homered for the Pirates, who lost their fourth straight. Bubba Chandler (1-3) gave up three runs on three hits in five innings. Mariners 5, Twins 3 Cole Young hit a two-run single in the ninth inning as Seattle rallied past Minnesota and took two of three in the series at Minneapolis. The game-winning hit capped a 2-for-4, three RBI game for the Mariners’ second baseman. J.P. Crawford hit his second home run of the season for the Mariners as part of a 2-for-3 game with two walks and Dominic Canzone went 2-for-4. Andres Munoz struck out two in the ninth to earn his sixth save of the season. Ryan Jeffers, Brooks Lee, Trevor Larnach and Kody Clemens had two hits each for the Twins, who had 12. Guardians 3, Rays 1 Gavin Williams tossed 7 2/3 stellar innings and Chase DeLauter drove in a pair of runs to help Cleveland beat Tampa. Williams (5-1) earned his fourth straight win, allowing one unearned run on five hits, striking out nine and walking none. Brayan Rocchio went 3-for-4 and Daniel Schneemann had two hits for Cleveland, which snapped a four-game losing streak. Cade Smith worked around Yandy Diaz’s leadoff single in the ninth to secure his seventh save in nine tries. Drew Rasmussen (2-1) threw five innings of three-run (two earned) ball for Tampa, which saw its six-game winning streak come to an end. Blue Jays 8, Red Sox 1 Ernie Clement hit a two-run homer and host Toronto beat Boston in the rubber match of a three-game series. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had three singles and a walk for the Blue Jays, who completed a 4-2 homestand. Brandon Valenzuela contributed two hits with a homer and a walk. Willson Contreras had two hits, including a homer, for the Red Sox. Wilyer Abreu added two hits and a walk. Second-year infielder Marcelo Mayer singled as a pinch hitter in the seventh to extend his hit streak to a career-best eight games. Rockies 13, Reds 2 Hunter Goodman went 3-for-4 with two homers, three RBIs and four runs as Colorado cooled off host Cincinnati, which had won eight of its previous 10 games. Brett Sullivan doubled twice among his three hits and had three RBIs for the Rockies, who out-hit the Reds 15-10. Brenton Doyle, TJ Rumfield and Willi Castro each had two hits and Ezequiel Tovar singled in two runs to help Colorado win for the fourth time in its past five games. Starter Tomoyuki Sugano (3-1) allowed four hits over 5 1/3 scoreless innings. Will Benson hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth for Cincinnati. Starter Brandon Williamson (2-3) allowed four runs on four hits over three innings. Cubs 5, Padres 4 Pete Crow-Armstrong homered and drove in three runs for the second time in as many games, fueling Chicago to a victory at San Diego. Matt Shaw belted a solo homer among his three hits for the Cubs, who won the final two contests of the three-game series to improve to 12-3 in their past 15 games. Jameson Taillon (2-1) allowed three runs in seven innings, and Hoby Milner got the last out for his first save. Miguel Andujar and Nick Castellanos went deep for the Padres. Reliever Adrian Morejon (2-1) yielded one run in two-thirds of an inning. Diamondbacks 6, Brewers 2 Nolan Arenado had a three-run homer and Ildemaro Vargas extended his season-opening hitting streak to 22 games as Arizona evened the series with a victory over Milwaukee. Arizona erased a 2-0 deficit with four runs in the fourth off starter Brandon Sproat (0-2) on a solo homer by Adrian Del Castillo and Arenado’s three-run shot. The Diamondbacks added two in the ninth on back-to-back solo homers by Ketel Marte, his fifth, and Corbin Carroll, his fourth. Kevin Ginkel (1-1) got the win with 1 1/3 scoreless innings. Juan Morillo, Taylor Clarke and Paul Sewald finished with a scoreless inning apiece. ======================================= INDIANA HEADLINES/RELEASES PREP BASEBALL INDIANA NEWS: https://www.prepbaseballreport.com/indiana ================================== INDIANS BASEBALL MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Ronny Simon and Rafael Flores Jr. each hit a three-run home run in Game 2 as the Indianapolis Indians split a 7.0-inning doubleheader with the Memphis Redbirds on Wednesday afternoon at AutoZone Park. The Indians lost Game 1, 3-0, but rallied for a 9-0 win in Game 2. With the help of three consecutive bunts, the Indians (11-18) plated their first runs of the day in the fifth inning of Game 2. Endy Rodríguez led off the inning with a double. Termarr Johnson started the bunt party on a sacrifice, but a throwing error by Redbirds (19-10) pitcher Matt Pushard (L, 1-1) allowed Rodríguez to score and Johnson to advance to second. Alika Williams then hit a bunt single to put runners on the corners and Tyler Callihan plated Johnson with a sacrifice bunt. A throwing error by catcher Jimmy Crooks allowed Callihan to reach safely on the play. Simon broke things open 5-0 with a three-run home run to follow, his second of the season. Indy tacked on one insurance run in the sixth inning before Flores blasted a three-run homer to right field in the seventh. Joe La Sorsa tossed 2.0 scoreless innings as the opener with Brandon Neeck (W, 2-1) tossing 2.0 shutout of his own, logging four strikeouts. Brandan Bidois (2.0ip) and Beau Burrows (1.0ip) covered the remainder of the game. The Indians fell in Game 1, 3-0, with Bligh Madris’ two-run home run in the third inning serving as the winning runs. The Redbirds tacked on an insurance run in the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly. Nick Cimillo went 2-for-2 for Indy in the contest. Indianapolis grounded into four double plays. Antwone Kelly (L, 1-4) threw his second career complete game with 6.0 innings of three-run ball, last tossing a full game in Game 2 of a doubleheader on June 12, 2024, with Single-A Bradenton at Dunedin (also 6.0ip). Bruce Zimmermann (W, 3-0) logged 5.1 scoreless innings for Memphis and gave way to Max Rajcic (S, 2) who recorded the final five outs. Indianapolis and Memphis continue their six-game series on Thursday night at 7:45 PM ET. RHP Thomas Harrington (0-3, 4.57) will take the mound for the Indians while the Redbirds have not yet named a starting pitcher. ======================================= INDIANA SOFTBALL BLOOMINGTON, Ind. ––– Indiana took care of business from start to finish on Wednesday (April 29), defeating Evansville, 8-0 in six innings at Andy Mohr Fied. The Hoosiers are on a two-game win streak following a weekend series in Ann Arbor. The win over Evansville is Indiana’s 21st win by run rule of the 2026 season. Indiana’s regular season record now stands at 38-13 (14-7 B1G). INDIANA 8, EVANSVILLE 0 KEY MOMENTS • The Hoosiers had a hot defensive start with a 1-2-3 first inning in the top of the first that segued into a hot start with the bats in the bottom of the inning. Leadoff hitter Aly VanBrandt hit a solo homer to right field before an Alex Cooper double to left field. • Then, Senior Avery Parker continued her dominance at the plate, powering a home run to deep center field to move the score to 3-0. • Madalyn Strader doubled to left center field, putting a runner on the bases for designated player Brooke Mannon. A fielding error from shortstop allowed Mannon to reach first and Strader to score. IU extended its lead 4-0. • In the bottom of the third, a stolen base followed by an error allowed Strader to score, moving the score to 5-0. • Following a single by Strader, senior Ellie Goins doubled to shallow center field. The double scored Strader and extended Indiana’s lead to 6-0 in the bottom of the fourth. • Ella Troutt entered for relief at the top of the sixth inning and was in and out of the frame in four batters. • A double from Cooper and a walk for Josie Bird in the bottom of the sixth frame put two Hoosiers in scoring position. • Strader’s sacrifice fly scored pinch runner Peyton Drummond, extending Indiana’s score 7-0. • A walk-off single from Goins to shortstop scored pinch runner Jada Ellison, securing IU’s 8-0 run rule win in the bottom of the sixth inning. NOTABLES • Avery Parker continued her dominant offensive performance with her 18th home run of the season and the 52nd of her career. • With the win, junior Taylor Hess moves her record to 10-2. • Five Hoosiers recorded at least one RBI: VanBrandt, Parker, Strader, Goins and Mannon. • The win is Indiana’s 21st run rule win of the 2026 campaign. • Indiana finished the season with an 8-0 record against in-state opponents. UP NEXT Indiana will close out the regular season with a home series against Illinois this weekend from Friday through Sunday (May 1-3). =================================== PURDUE WOMEN’S GOLF WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Women’s Golf learned its postseason destination Wednesday (April 29), watching the selection show for the 2026 NCAA Women’s Golf Championships on Golf Channel. Earning their 11th straight regional berth in the fourth season under head coach Zack Byrd, the Boilermakers are headed to the Tallahassee Regional at Seminole Legacy Golf Club (May 11-13). Purdue is the No. 7 seed for the regional tournament, which consists of 54 holes of stroke play. The top five teams and the top individual (not on an advancing team) will advance from the regional site to the NCAA Championships, which will be held at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California (May 22-27). The Boilermakers have outperformed their seeding each of the past two seasons to advance to the national stage. The Boilermakers earned an NCAA Regional berth for the 28th time out of the 29 renditions of the NCAA Championships. Purdue advanced to the championships stage 20 of those times, including three of the past four seasons. Last year, the Boilermakers entered the NCAA Lubbock Regional as the seventh seed before beating No. 19 Texas A&M (fourth seed) in a 5-on-5 playoff to secure a trip to the national championships. In 2010, Purdue captured the national championship with the second-lowest four-round team score in NCAA Championships history. The Boilermakers earned a trip to the postseason after a strong 2025-26 campaign that features the Old Gold and Black playing their best golf at the right time. Purdue has finished in the Top 3 in each of the last three tournaments, starting with a title defense at the Coach Mo Classic. Winning the event for the second straight year marked the sixth victory under Byrd and assistant coach Lauren Guiao, the most in a four-year span since winning 10 from 2011-14. Purdue followed up the win with a runner-up performance at the Boilermaker Spring Classic before finishing third at the Big Ten Championships. The third-place showing was the Boilermakers’ best finish at the conference tournament since 2019. NCAA Tallahassee Regional 1. #3 Florida 2. #9 Wake Forest 3. #15 UCLA 4. #25 Florida State 5. Eastern Michigan 6. Kentucky 7. Purdue 8. Clemson 9. ULM 10. North Florida 11. Little Rock 12. UTRGV ===================================== NOTRE DAME SOFTBALL SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The University of Notre Dame softball team (25-27, 11-13 ACC) stormed back to knock off DePaul in walk-off fashion, 9-8, in the regular season finale at Melissa Cook Stadium on a chilly Wednesday evening. Olivia Levitt played hero for the Irish, lining a ball into left field with the bases loaded in the seventh to extend Notre Dame’s winning streak to six games. The Irish came back after being down seven runs going into the bottom of the sixth. Notre Dame put up a six spot in the sixth inning before two runs with no outs in the bottom of the seventh secured the 25th win of the year. Notre Dame improves to 18-0 this season when scoring six or more runs in a game Levitt, who entered the game as a defensive substitute in the top of the sixth, recorded her 24th and 25th RBI on the game-winning hit, a career-high and the third-most on the squad this year. The junior continues to swing a hot bat after hitting a pinch-hit home run Sunday against Boston College. The sixth inning was the turning point tonight. After Kami Kamzik, who picked up the win, threw a scoreless inning, the bats came alive. Down 8-1 in the inning, Lily Hagan led off the frame with a no-doubt home run to left field that landed on the top row of the bleachers, her ninth of the year. It’s now back-to-back homers for Hagan, who has been on a tear the past week, posting multi-hit games in four of her last five games. Notre Dame manufactured five runs after that with walks, Blue Demons’ errors and base hits. The Irish went six batters straight without committing an out, as Christina Willemssen, Mickey Winchell, Ava Zachary and Hayden Kyne all produced run-scoring singles to put the Irish right back in the ballgame, 8-7 DePaul after six innings before winning the game in the seventh. In her last game at Melissa Cook Stadium, Mickey Wichell reached base four times, two from singles and two from walks. The senior scored a pair of runs, drove in a run and stole a base, leaving a lasting legacy in center field the past four years for Notre Dame. Micaela Kastor made the start in her final home game for the Irish, striking out two in 2.1 innings pitched. Fellow senior Paige Cowley pinch hit in the game, reaching second on an error in the middle of the six-run sixth inning. Ashley Marietta pinch ran late in the sixth inning to cap off her lone regular season with Notre Dame. The Irish flip the page to the ACC Softball Championship, which begins Wednesday, May 6th in Charlottesville, Virginia. =================================== NOTRE DAME BASEBALL SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Notre Dame baseball team took a 16-2 (7 innings) win over visiting Milwaukee on Wednesday night at Frank Eck Stadium. Aiden Zerr closed the door on the Panthers in the top of the first with a strikeout to force Milwaukee into stranding a runner on third base. Drew Berkland then led off the bottom of the first with a walk, and Bino Watters singled through the right side to put runners at the corners. Two batters later, Dylan Passo used a sacrifice fly to drive in Berkland for the 1-0 lead. Parker Brzustewicz started the bottom of the second with a double to left-center field. Mason Barth flared a single to right field to put runners on the corners, and Jamie Zee drilled a deep single off the left field wall to plate Brzustewicz. Drew Berkland then went the other way with a three-run homer to right for a 5-0 Irish lead. Zerr made quick work of the Panthers in the third with a three-up, three-down effort on the hill. Evan Clark then added a shutout effort in the top of the fourth for the Irish. Drew Berkland singled and moved to second on an error, and Mark Quatrani drove in Berkland with an opposite-field single to right field for a 6-0 advantage. Dylan Passo kept the inning going with a two-out double to right-center, and Jayce Lee drove in the pair with a single to right field for an 8-0 lead. Parker Brzustewicz drew a walk, and Mason Barth bounced a single up the middle to drive in Lee to make it 9-0. The Panthers used a double to drive in two runs in the top of the fifth for a 9-2 score. The Irish came right back with a three-spot in the bottom of the fifth. Drew Berkland hit a single to right and capitalized on an error to get to third. Bino Watters and Mark Quatrani laced back-to-back doubles as Berkland and Watters scored. Dylan Passo then added a single to left field to drive in Quatrani for the 12-2 Irish lead. Dylan Singleton then struck out the side in the top of the sixth to get the Irish back up to bat quickly. Mason Barth led off with a single, and Jamie Zee hit a double to drive in Barth. Brandon Logan drew a one-out walk, and Caleb Ricks drove in Zee and Logan with a triple to the right-center gap. Troy Reader used a sacrifice fly to left field to drive in Ricks for a 16-2 lead. Singleton then closed out the game with a pair of strikeouts on either side of a Shane Miranda to Jamie Zee caught stealing attempt at second base. Ten different players registered a hit as the Irish compiled 22 hits – the first 20-plus hit effort by the baseball team since February 2022. Drew Berkland went 3-for-3 with a home run, three RBI and four runs scored. Mark Quatrani was 3-for-4 with a double, a run and two RBI. Jayce Lee was 3-for-5 at the dish with a double, two RBI and a run. Mason Barth added a 3-for-4 showing at the plate with two runs and an RBI. Bino Watters, Dylan Passo, Parker Brzustewicz and Jamie Zee all collected three hits on the night as each of the four Irish players posted a double and scored at least once. Jonathan Holt tallied the first hit of his collegiate career, and Caleb Ricks posted the first triple of his Irish career. Troy Reader drove in a run with a sacrifice fly on the night, and Brandon Logan scored a run. Aiden Zerr started and went 3.0 innings with two strikeouts and no runs on the night. Evan Clark picked up the win in relief with a strikeout in a shutout inning. Kellan Klosterman went 1.0 on the bump and struck out two, and Dylan Singleton went the final 2.0 innings on the mound and struck out five. The Irish (21-20) continue their homestand this weekend when they host Stanford for a three-game ACC series starting on Friday at 6:30 p.m. ET. ===================================== IU INDY WOMEN’S GOLF INDIANAPOLIS – IU Indianapolis women’s golf senior Yanah Rolston has been assigned to compete as an individual at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional to open postseason play this season. Rolston is coming off an individual medalist finish at the Horizon League Championships with a 10-over 229 (76-79-74). She rallied for the individual title, winning in a one hole playoff over Detroit Mercy’s Ariel Chang. NCAA Regional play will run from May 11-13 with a practice round on May 10. The NCAA Championships will take place at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., on May 22-27. Rolston enters the postseason with a 78.83 stroke average this season with three top-10 finishes. For her career, she’s played 94 rounds with a 79.46 scoring average. She owns seven career top-10 finishes with a career-high three this season. ==================================== SOUTHERN INDIANA BASEBALL WEST LAFAYETTE, Ky. – University of Southern Indiana Baseball finished its road swing with a 5-1 loss at Purdue University Wednesday at Alexander Field in West Lafayette, Indiana. USI is 23-22 overall, while Purdue goes to 29-15. The Screaming Eagles and the Boilermakers were scoreless through the first three frames, but Purdue got on the board with a home run in their half of the fourth inning. USI got the tally back in the top of the fifth when graduate leftfielder Jesse Velders scored on a sacrifice fly by graduate centerfielder Khi Holiday. The score would remain tied, 1-1, until the bottom of the sixth when the Boilermakers scored three times to lead, 4-1. Purdue would add one more in the seventh to close out the 5-1 final score. Graduate leftfielder Jesse Velders led USI with a pair of hits and a run scored, while graduate centerfielder Khi Holiday had a hit and a RBI. On the mound, senior right-hander Mason Bell picked up the loss in relief. Bell (0-1), one of 10 USI hurlers, pitched two-thirds of a frame, allowing three runs on two hits and one walk. Up Next for the Screaming Eagles: The Screaming Eagles, 6-12 in the Ohio Valley Conference, return to the friendly surroundings of the USI Baseball Field this weekend when they host Tennessee Tech University for a three-game series. The games are slated for 6 p.m. Friday; 4 p.m. Saturday; and 1 p.m. Sunday. The TTU Golden Eagles are 16-30 overall and 4-14 OVC after losing two of three from Western Illinois University last weekend and defeating Lipscomb University Tuesday, 15-5. TTU is 4-6 in its last 10 games. The Golden Eagles lead the all-time series, 5-4, after winning all three games last year in Cookeville, Tennessee. ==================================== INDIANA COLLEGE SPORTS WEB SITES UINDY ATHLETICS: https://athletics.uindy.edu/ MARIAN ATHLETICS: https://muknights.com/ INDIANA WESLEYAN ATHLETICS: https://iwuwildcats.com/ EARLHAM ATHLETICS: https://goearlham.com/ WABASH ATHLETICS: https://sports.wabash.edu/ FRANKLIN ATHLETICS: https://franklingrizzlies.com/ ROSE-HULMAN ATHLETICS: https://athletics.rose-hulman.edu/ ANDERSON ATHLETICS: https://athletics.anderson.edu/landing/index TRINE ATHLETICS: https://trinethunder.com/landing/index BETHEL ATHLETICS: https://bupilots.com/ DEPAUW ATHLETICS: https://depauwtigers.com/ HANOVER ATHLETICS: https://athletics.hanover.edu/ MANCHESTER ATHLETICS: https://muspartans.com/ HUNTINGTON ATHLETICS: https://www.huathletics.com/ OAKLAND CITY ATHLETICS: https://gomightyoaks.com/index.aspx ST. FRANCIS ATHLETICS: https://www.saintfranciscougars.com/landing/index IU KOKOMO ATHLETICS: https://iukcougars.com/ IU EAST ATHLETICS: https://www.iueredwolves.com/ IU SOUTH BEND ATHLETICS: https://iusbtitans.com/ PURDUE NORTHWEST ATHLETICS: https://pnwathletics.com/ INDIANA TECH ATHLETICS: https://indianatechwarriors.com/index.aspx GRACE COLLEGE ATHLETICS: https://gclancers.com/ ST. MARY OF THE WOODS ATHLETICS: https://smwcathletics.com/ GOSHEN COLLEGE ATHLETICS: https://goleafs.net/ HOLY CROSS ATHLETICS: https://www.hcsaints.com/index.php TAYLOR ATHLETICS: https://www.taylortrojans.com/ VINCENNES ATHLETICS: https://govutrailblazers.com/landing/index ========================================================= “SPORTS EXTRA” TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY 1887: The Philadelphia Quakers beat the New York Giants, 19 – 10, in the first game played at the National League Park located at Broad & Huntingdon Street in Philadelphia that will later be known derisively as the “Baker Bowl”. In front of nearly 10,000 at Recreation Park in Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys (later to be known as the Pirates) defeat the defending league-champion Chicago White Stockings, 6 – 2. 1900 – Brothers Joe, Jim, and Tom Delahanty, playing their third year together with the Allentown Peanuts, open the Atlantic League season by banging out a family total of 11 hits for 20 total bases. 1903 – The New York Highlanders win their home opener at Hilltop Park, 6 – 2, over the Washington Senators. 1919 – At National League Park, Joe Oeschger of the Philadelphia Phillies and Burleigh Grimes of the Brooklyn Robins pitch complete games in a 9 – 9, 20-inning tie. Both teams score three runs in the 19th inning. Oeschger gives up 22 hits and walks five, while Grimes allows 15 hits and walks five. 1922 – Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitches a 2 – 0 perfect game against the Detroit Tigers. Robertson, a 26-year-old rookie, becomes the third pitcher in the modern era to hurl a perfect game. 1923 – The New York Yankees sign 20-year-old prospect Lou Gehrig to a contract paying him a salary of $2,000 and a bonus of $1,500. Yankees scout Paul Krichell had watched the Columbia University star blast a 450-foot home run against New York University two days earlier. 1925 – All eight major games scheduled today in the American League and National League are postponed due to weather, a record. 1940 – Picked up off the scrap heap by the Brooklyn Dodgers just months after being given his unconditional release by the Double-A Milwaukee Brewers, starting pitcher Tex Carleton throws a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field. Aside from making Brooklyn GM Larry MacPhail look like a genius, the 3 – 0 masterpiece maintains both Carleton’s and the Dodgers’ perfect start to 1940: Carleton at 2-and-0 and the Dodgers at a record-tying 9-and-0. 1944 – In the first game of a doubleheader split, first baseman Phil Weintraub collects 11 RBI and player-manager Mel Ott scores six runs, drawing five walks as the New York Giants defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 26 – 8. Brooklyn wins the nightcap, 5 – 4, in a game shortened due to darkness. 1946 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians strikes out 11 and pitches his second of three career no-hitters, his first since returning from a three-and-a-half year stint in World War II. Feller defeats the New York Yankees, 1 – 0, on Frankie Hayes’ home run in the 9th inning. 1949: At Wrigley Field, Rocky Nelson of the St. Louis Cardinals hits an “inside-the-glove” two-run home run to turn a 9th-inning, 3 – 2 Chicago Cubs lead into a 4 – 3 Cardinals victory. Cubs center fielder Andy Pafko catches a blooper that is strewn with paper cups, and umpire Al Barlick calls Nelson safe on a supposedly “trapped” catch. Pafko starts arguing with Barlick, and forgets to call time. Nelson circles the bases, for perhaps the only “inside the glove” home run in history. Eduardo Reyes hits four doubles in a game, the first Mexican Leaguer to do so. 1952 – Ted Williams plays his final game before leaving for military duty in Korea. In his last at-bat on “Ted Williams Day” at Fenway Park, he blasts a game-winning, two-run home run against Dizzy Trout of the Detroit Tigers. The home run gives the Red Sox a 5 – 3 victory. 1958 – Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox becomes the tenth major league player to tally 1,000 extra-base hits in the 10 – 4 loss to the Kansas City Athletics at Fenway Park. 1961 – Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hits four home runs against the Milwaukee Braves in the Giants’ 14 – 4 victory at County Stadium. Mays becomes just the ninth player in major league history to hit four homers in one game. 1963 – The Brazilian national team will finish the 1963 Pan American Games 2-6 but they score a big upset today, topping Silver Medal-bound Team USA to cost them a shot at a Gold. In the 9th, Joao Odashima singles in Jose Ouba to tie it at 3. In the 10th, Brazilian hurler Julio Toyonaga triples off Barry Bruckner then scores on a wild pitch to win it. 1966 – California Angels outfielder Rick Reichardt hits two home runs in the 8th inning to help California beat the Boston Red Sox, 16 – 9. 1967 – Steve Barber and Stu Miller of the Baltimore Orioles combine on a no-hitter, but still lose the game to the Detroit Tigers, 2 – 1. A wild Barber gives up ten walks in 8 1/3 innings before giving way to Miller, who pitches one-third of an inning. 1969 – Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds strikes out 13 en route to a 10 – 0 no-hitter over the Houston Astros at Crosley Field. Bobby Tolan has four RBI in support of Maloney, who records his second career no-hitter after pitching a ten-inning masterpiece against the Cubs in 1965. 1970 – Chicago Cubs outfielder Billy Williams becomes the first player in National League history to play 1,000 consecutive games in the 9 – 2 loss to the Atlanta Braves at Fulton County Stadium. 1977 – Ron Cey of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a 7th-inning home run in the 6 – 4 victory over the visiting Montreal Expos. Cey finishes the month with an April major league record 29 RBI (since broken) as the red-hot Dodgers improve to a 17-3 start under new manager Tommy Lasorda. 1979 – Alexandria Mariners third baseman Gary Pellant homers from both sides of the plate in the 7th inning of a 20 – 7 win in the Carolina League. It is only the second time in Organized Baseball history that a player has accomplished this feat. 1985 – Dale Murphy of the Atlanta Braves has two RBI in the 8 – 4 win over the Cincinnati Reds to tie Ron Cey’s 1977 major league record for 29 RBI in April. 1986 – The Seattle Mariners strike out 16 more times in a 9 – 4 loss to the Boston Red Sox, to set a major league record of 36 strikeouts in two consecutive games. 1988: Dave Winfield drives in his 28th and 29th runs of the season in the Yankees’ 15 – 3 rout of Texas, tying the major league record for RBI in April. The New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds hook up in a wild game at Riverfront Stadium that the Mets pull out, 6 – 5, on a delayed call by first base umpire Dave Pallone. The call results in a $10,000 fine and 30-day suspension of Reds manager Pete Rose when Pallone accidentally pokes Rose in the cheek and Rose shoves Pallone twice during the argument which follows. 1989 – The Toronto Blue Jays acquire pitcher Al Leiter from the New York Yankees in exchange for veteran outfielder Jesse Barfield. Leiter will miss most of the next four seasons to arm injuries but will contribute significantly to the Jays’ World Championship in 1993, winning 9 of 15 decisions as a spot starter and long reliever. 1994 – Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter finishes April with 31 RBI to set a major league record for the month. Colorado Rockies first baseman Andres Galarraga finishes with 30 RBI to set the National League record. 1996 – Jeff King of the Pittsburgh Pirates becomes the third major leaguer to hit two home runs in one inning twice in his career in the 10 – 7 victory over the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium. King first accomplished the feat a year earlier on August 8th. King joins Willie McCovey and Andre Dawson in the exclusive club. 1997: Tino Martinez, who got off to a painfully slow start with the Yankees last season, finishes April with 34 RBI to set a major league record for the month. The Atlanta Braves have no trouble getting used to their new stadium or their two new outfielders, Kenny Lofton and Michael Tucker, as they become the first team to ever finish April with 19 wins. Atlanta ends the month with a .760 winning percentage overall and a gaudy 12-2 record at Turner Field. Lofton ends with a .395 batting average and Tucker at .418, following a 12 – 3 pounding of the Cincinnati Reds to round out the month. 1999 – About 3,000 fans wearing T-shirts that read, “$hare the wealth” protest baseball economics at the Yankees-Royals game at Kauffman Stadium. The protesters turn their backs when the Yankees bat, then walk out during the 4th inning. The Yankees began the season with baseball’s top payroll at $85.05 million, and the Royals were 25th at $23.8 million. 2000: The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4 – 3, as Mark McGwire and Jim Edmonds hit home runs. St. Louis finishes the month with 55 home runs, a new major league record for April. It also ties the National League mark for homers in any month. Major league batters also set a record for most home runs in a month by hitting 931 in April; the total is 140 more than the number hit in 1999. Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks defeats the Chicago Cubs, 6 – 0, as he becomes only the third pitcher in major league history to win six games in April. 2002: Al Leiter cruises through seven three-hit innings in the Mets’ 10 – 1 victory over the Diamondbacks to become the first pitcher to beat all 30 teams in major league history. Texas Rangers shortstop Alex Rodriguez becomes the second-youngest player to reach 250 home runs in a 10 – 3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Only Jimmie Foxx was younger. 2005: Major league players are asked by Commissioner Bud Selig to agree to a 50-game suspension for the first offense, 100 games for the second offense, and a lifelong ban after the third offense for the use of steroids. In addition to the harsher “three-strike” rule, the commissioner is also seeking a ban on amphetamines. With an enthusiastic crowd chanting “Let’s go, ground crew” at RFK Stadium, the inexperienced group puts on quite a show of ineptitude as they struggle to put the tarp on a very soggy field during the second rain delay of the rain-shortened Washington Nationals’ 5 – 3 victory over the New York Mets. New York files a protest after the game is called off in the bottom of the 8th, claiming the field became unplayable due to Washington’s inability to cover the field during stoppage of play. 2006 – The Yomiuri Giants rout the Chunichi Dragons, 15 – 4. Tomohiro Nioka hits two grand slams and ties Akira Eto’s Central League record of ten RBI in a game. 2008: Julio Franco announces his retirement as a player at age 49. He had been playing with the Tigres de Quintana Roo of the Mexican League and had last played in the major leagues in 2007. The Huntsville Stars tie a 37-year-old Southern League record with 13 extra-base hits in a game; they only have two singles in the victory. They beat the Montgomery Biscuits, 14 – 6. Contributing are LF Cole Gillespie (3 doubles, 1 home run), DH Ryan Crew (double), 1B Chris Errecart (double), CF Michael Brantley (double), RF Matt LaPorta (double, home run), 3B Mat Gamel (1 triple, 2 home runs) and 2B Mike Bell (home run). 2009: In a 10 – 1 Reggio Emilia win over Fortitudo Bologna, Bologna’s Claudio Liverziani wraps the 1,000th hit of his Italian Baseball League career, off former major leaguer Abe Alvarez. He becomes the seventh player in IBL history to 1,000 hits. Matt Garza pitches six perfect innings before giving up a weakly-hit single up the middle to Jacoby Ellsbury to lead off the 7th, Boston’s only hit in a 13 – 0 loss. Michel Hernandez goes 4 for 5 with his first major league home run for the Rays. Things get so bad for the Sox that with one out in the 8th, manager Terry Francona calls right-fielder Jonathan Van Every to the mound to spell struggling reliever Javier Lopez, who finishes the game in the outfield. The Hanwha Eagles rout the LG Twins, 19 – 9. The big star is Bum-ho Lee, who ties the Korea Baseball Organization record with eight RBI in a game. Lee hits a grand slam, a three-run homer and a solo shot. 2010: Off-season prize acquisition Cliff Lee finally makes his first start for the Seattle Mariners. He is masterful, giving up no runs on three hits while striking out eight in seven innings, but the Rangers’ Colby Lewis is just as brilliant as the scoreless tie extends to the 12th inning. Elvis Andrus eventually scores the winning run on a wild pitch by Brandon League, as Texas wins, 2 – 0. Scott Sizemore and Brennan Boesch both hit their first major league home run in the 4th inning as Detroit beats the Angels, 10 – 6. Another rookie, Austin Jackson, goes 5 for 5 for Detroit. Sizemore’s dinger follows one by Gerald Laird, while Boesch’s is a grand slam during the eight-run inning. 2011 – Former Negro Leagues infielder Emilio Navarro dies at 105 in his native Puerto Rico. He was the oldest living professional baseball player at the time of his death. 2012 – Ryan Braun hits three homers and a two-run triple, driving in six runs, in Milwaukee’s 8 – 3 win over the Padres. He is the first player to smash three long balls in a game in pitcher-friendly PETCO Park. No player had hit three homers and a triple in a game since Fred Lynn in 1975. 2013: The Indians put on a power display, hitting seven home runs in a 14 – 2 demolition of the Phillies. Ryan Raburn hits two long balls for the second straight game, while Carlos Santana, Mark Reynolds, Lonnie Chisenhall, Michael Brantley and Drew Stubbs hit the others. The first five shots are worth two runs each. Roy Halladay allows four of the homers, good for eight runs in 3 2/3 innings. Tim Hudson records his 200th career win in defeating the Nationals, 8 – 1. The Braves’ ace allows three hits in seven innings and launches his third career home run in the game. 2014 – The Dodgers win the 10,000th game in franchise history when they defeat the Twins, 6 – 4, in an interleague game. Zack Greinke improves to 5-0, 2.04, by giving up only one unearned run in six innings on a cold, drizzly night. 2015 – The Astros win their seventh straight game to finish the month of April tied for the best record in the American League with the Royals at 15-7. In today’s game, Jose Altuve drives in Marwin Gonzalez with a single in the 10th inning for a 3 – 2 win over the Mariners. For Altuve, it is his third hit of the game, and his eighth straight multiple-hit game. 2017 – Anthony Rendon has a game for the ages as he goes 6-for-6 with his first three homers of the year and drives in ten runs to lead the Nationals to a 23 – 5 drubbing of the Mets. He joins Walker Cooper as the only two players ever to have six hits and ten RBIs in one game. Bryce Harper scores four runs to give him 32 in April, a new major league record, and Matt Wieters has a pair of homers among his three hits. It is the most runs in franchise history for Washington. Worse for New York, Noah Syndergaard leaves the game in the 2nd after experiencing arm pain. 2018 – The Dodgers are dealt a big blow as All-Star shortstop Corey Seager is diagnosed with a tear in a ligament in his elbow that will require Tommy John surgery, putting him out of action for the remainder of the year. In the game that follows the news, A.J. Pollock homers three times to lead the Diamondbacks to an 8 – 5 win over Los Angeles. Arizona has defeated L.A. in six of seven games this year, and 12 of their last 13 regular season meetings dating back to last year – not counting the Dodgers’ sweep of the D-Backs in the Division Series. 2019 – CC Sabathia becomes the 17th pitcher to reach 3,000 strikeouts as he fans John Ryan Murphy in the 2nd inning of a 3 – 1 loss to the Diamondbacks. He’s just the third lefthander to reach the total, and the first pitcher since 2008 to do so. Justin Verlander will also join the exclusive club before the end of the season. 2020 – The latest event to be cancelled due to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic is the annual Little League World Series. This is the first cancellation in the event’s history, dating back to 1947. The MLB Little League Classic, which was slated to be held in conjunction with the international youth fest, is also cancelled for this year. 2022 – Clayton Kershaw becomes the Dodgers’ all-time franchise leader for strikeouts when he fans Spencer Torkelson of the Tigers in the 4th inning. With 2,697 strikeouts, he moves past Hall of Famer Don Sutton. Overall, he strikes out seven in six innings to reach the round total of 2,700. 2023 – The White Sox end a ten-game losing streak with a spectacular 9th-inning comeback against the Rays, owners of the best record in the majors. Trailing 9 – 5 going into the bottom of the 9th, the Sox score seven runs, capped by a walk-off three-run homer by Andrew Vaughn off Garrett Cleavinger, to end up 12 – 9 winners. Births[edit] 1849 – Dave Eggler, outfielder (d. 1902) 1852 – Charley Jones, outfielder (d. 1911) 1862 – Jack Sheridan, umpire (d. 1914) 1865 – John Cahill, outfielder (d. 1901) 1872 – Shorty Gallagher, outfielder (d. 1924) 1874 – Seth Sigsby, pitcher (d. 1953) 1879 – Bob Edmondson, outfielder (d. 1931) 1887 – Babe Danzig, infielder (d. 1931) 1887 – Ed Forsythe, infielder (d. 1956) 1888 – Paul Wachtel, pitcher (d. 1964) 1890 – Bill Pierce, infielder (d. 1962) 1891 – Tony Brottem, catcher (d. 1929) 1894 – Joe Pittard, college coach (d. 1972) 1897 – Walt Walsh, pinch runner (d. 1966) 1898 – Harry Rabenhorst, college coach (d. 1972) 1902 – Bill Deitrick, outfielder (d. 1946) 1904 – Neal Baker, pitcher (d. 1982) 1904 – Tony Murray, outfielder (d. 1974) 1907 – Jumbo Brown, pitcher (d. 1966) 1912 – Chet Laabs, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1983) 1914 – Donald Jarmon, pitcher (d. 1952) 1916 – Lamb Barbee, outfielder (d. 1986) 1916 – Gar Ganoe, minor league infielder (d. 2008) 1920 – Lorenzo Cabrera, infielder (d. ????) 1921 – Jack Esrang, minor league outfielder (d. 2010) 1921 – Dottie Green, AAGPBL catcher (d. 1992) 1922 – Leonardo Chapman, infielder (d. 1974) 1922 – Warren Martin, minor league pitcher (d. 2017) 1924 – Ernie Tyler, ballboy (d. 2011) 1925 – Luis Muñoz, Dominican national team infielder 1925 – Marie Wegman, AAGPBL infielder (d. 2004) 1930 – Joe Douse, Negro League pitcher (d. 2012) 1930 – Bill Knox, minor league piotcher (d. 2018) 1930 – Mace Pool, minor league player and manager (d. 2017) 1931 – Carlos Garcia, Nicaraguan baseball official (d. 2014) 1931 – Masahiro Kinoshita, NPB catcher 1933 – Frank Forker, college coach (d. 2015) 1934 – Ken Retzer, catcher (d. 2020) 1935 – Waldo Gonzalez, minor league infielder 1938 – Ron Steiner, college coach (d. 2015) 1939 – Bob Hendley, pitcher 1941 – Mitsumasa Oda, NPB infielder 1942 – Iwao Arakawa, NPB pitcher 1943 – Gaspar Pérez, Cuban league pitcher 1944 – Takeshi Tsuboi, NPB pitcher 1945 – Ray Miller, manager (d. 2021) 1947 – Jim Clark, outfielder (d. 2019) 1948 – Mike Barlow, pitcher 1949 – Phil Garner, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 2026) 1950 – Craig Montvidas, Hoofdklasse player and coach 1951 – Tracy Ringolsby, writer 1952 – Osamu Katsumata, NPB catcher 1954 – Hajime Kugitani, NPB outfielder 1954 – Joe Strain, infielder 1956 – Gregory Herman, minor league pitcher 1958 – Scott McDougall, umpire (d. 2007) 1959 – Shien-Ming Yang, Taiwan national team manager 1961 – Tony Mack, pitcher 1962 – Magnus Höglund, Elitserien pitcher 1963 – Jorge Ojeda, minor league pitcher 1964 – Jeff Reboulet, infielder 1966 – Matthias Klünder, Bundesliga player 1968 – Tadayoshi Kawabe, NPB pitcher 1968 – Shigeki Sano, NPB pitcher 1968 – Shih-Hsien Wu, CPBL pitcher 1969 – Tomohiro Jo, NPB outfielder 1969 – Masahiko Kaneda, NPB pitcher 1969 – Hiroaki Ueda, NPB infielder 1970 – Damien Davids, South African national team outfielder 1970 – David Welch, minor league pitcher 1971 – Ryan Hawblitzel, pitcher 1971 – Geoff Kellogg, minor league pitcher 1971 – Taiji Kitahara, NPB pitcher 1971 – Rubén Rodríguez, Cuban league pitcher 1971 – Greg Williams, minor league pitcher 1972 – Takeo Kawamura, NPB pitcher 1972 – Gianni Ricci, Serie A1 pitcher 1972 – Takashi Uchinokura, NPB infielder 1973 – Don Denbow, minor league outfielder 1975 – Koji Takamizawa, NPB outfielder 1976 – Yong-ho Choi, KBO pitcher 1976 – Mick Pageler, minor league pitcher 1977 – Shintaro Ejiri, NPB pitcher 1978 – Daisuke Kanda, NPB pitcher 1979 – Keoni De Renne, coach 1980 – Albino Contreras, minor league outfielder 1980 – Sergio Contreras, minor league outfielder 1980 – Mark Saccomanno, infielder 1980 – Tien-Hsiang Wang, CPBL outfielder 1981 – Christophe Goniot, Division Elite player 1981 – Kosuke Ueyama, Japanese national team infielder 1981 – Alex Nunez, minor league infielder 1981 – Mackeel Rodgers, minor league infielder 1982 – Steve Hammond, minor league pitcher 1983 – Yusuke Kosai, NPB infielder 1985 – Justin Henry, minor league player 1985 – Jeff Mandel, minor league pitcher 1985 – Frank Minowa, Brazilian national team designated hitter 1986 – Bo-geun Lee, KBO pitcher 1986 – Kate Psota, Canadian women’s national team infielder; Canadian baseball Hall of Fame 1986 – Donnie Webb, minor league player 1987 – Matt Long, minor league outfielder 1988 – Argenis Daal, Netherlands Antilles national team player 1988 – Hsien-Chang Lin, CPBL catcher 1988 – Ryan O’Rourke, pitcher 1988 – Jesus Sucre, catcher 1989 – Phil Klein, pitcher 1990 – Juan Crousset, minor league outfielder 1990 – Tom Ward, Extraliga catcher 1991 – Ryan Tuntland, minor league infielder 1993 – Max Brown, minor league outfielder 1993 – Hutton Moyer, minor league infielder 1994 – Jose Peraza, infielder 1995 – Nelson Molina, minor league infielder 1995 – Jesus Tinoco, pitcher 1995 – Ryo Watanabe, NPB infielder 1996 – Michael Kopech, pitcher 1996 – Zac Lowther, pitcher 1997 – Randy Francisco, Dominican national team player 1997 – Hung-Chun Yen, CPBL catcher 1998 – Ryota Itogawa, NPB pitcher 1998 – Darius Vines, pitcher 1999 – Lucas Dunn, minor league infielder 1999 – Édouard Julien, infielder 1999 – Canaan Smith-Njigba, outfielder 2000 – Cade Winquest, minor league pitcher 2002 – Qirui Wu, Chinese national team infielder 2003 – Kotaro Komori, NPB infielder 2003 – Miles Langhorne, minor league pitcher 2003 – Bohdan Lucheiko, Ukrainian national team outfielder-pitcher 2003 – Gakuto Minakawa, NPB outfielder 2003 – Shunya Shimada, NPB pitcher 2004 – Po-Huai Yin, CPBL pitcher 2005 – Alizée Gélinas, Canadian women’s national team infielder Deaths[edit] 1901 – Dude Esterbrook, infielder, manager (b. 1857) 1929 – Dan Long, outfielder (b. 1867) 1938 – Sun Daly, outfielder (b. 1865) 1940 – Patsy Dougherty, outfielder (b. 1876) 1945 – Antonio Delfin, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama (b. 1895) 1950 – Tom Niland, outfielder (b. 1870) 1952 – Frank Madden, catcher (b. 1891) 1960 – Oscar Owens, outfielder (b. 1893) 1960 – Herman Pillette, pitcher (b. 1895) 1962 – Al Demaree, pitcher (b. 1884) 1962 – Russ Miller, pitcher (b. 1900) 1969 – Colonel Snover, pitcher (b. 1895) 1970 – Chick Gagnon, infielder (b. 1897) 1970 – Dan Jessee, pinch runner (b. 1901) 1971 – Slim Harrell, pitcher (b. 1890) 1972 – Stan Breard, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1918) 1977 – Elam Vangilder, pitcher (b. 1896) 1979 – Wally Kopf, infielder (b. 1899) 1980 – Joe Tuminelli, minor league infielder (b. 1920) 1982 – Leo Dickerman, pitcher (b. 1896) 1987 – Lou Niss, writer (b. 1903) 1992 – Katsuo Osugi, NPB infielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1945) 1999 – Rikuo Nemoto, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1926) 2000 – Bill Lynn, pitcher (b. 1921) 2001 – Frank Stewart, pitcher (b. 1906) 2004 – Lou Chapman, writer (b. 1913) 2007 – Edo Vanni, minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1919) 2009 – Gary Park, broadcaster (b. 1935) 2011 – Mike Krsnich, outfielder (b. 1931) 2011 – Emilio Navarro, infielder (b. 1905) 2017 – Henry Sanchez, minor league infielder (b. 1986) 2018 – Frank Ernaga, outfielder (b. 1930) 2018 – John Ostermeyer, IBAF executive (b. 1947) 2019 – John Stokoe, scout (b. 1935) 2023 – Hirozo Ishida, NPB outfielder (b. 1931) ========================================================= TV SPORTS TODAY (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, April 30 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 — AFL: Hawthorn at Collingwood 6 a.m. (Friday) FS2 — AFL: Port Adelaide at Adelaide COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m. Three years after a fire, Arlington’s longest-running church is set to reopen exp-customer-logo ACCN — Louisville at Wake Forest ESPN2 — Vanderbilt at Alabama COLLEGE LACROSSE (MEN’S) 3 p.m. BTN — Big Ten Tournament: Michigan vs. Johns Hopkins, Semifinal, Piscataway, N.J. 6 p.m. BTN — Big Ten Tournament: Maryland vs. Penn St., Semifinal, Piscataway, N.J. COLLEGE SOFTBALL 7 p.m. SECN — Arkansas at Texas 9 p.m. SECN — Oklahoma at Texas A&M GOLF 6 a.m. GOLF — DP World Tour: Turkish Airlines Open, First Round, National GC, Belek, Antalya, Turkey 10 a.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: Mexico Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba, First Round, El Camaleon Golf Course at Mayakoba, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico Noon GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: Regions Tradition, First Round, Greystone Golf & Country Club, Birmingham, Ala. 3 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: Cadillac Championship, First Round, Trump National Doral – Blue Monster Course, Miami 6 a.m. (Friday) GOLF — DP World Tour: Turkish Airlines Open, Second Round, National GC, Belek, Antalya, Turkey HORSE RACING 1 p.m. FS2 — NYRA: America’s Day at the Races MLB BASEBALL Noon MLBN — Regional Coverage: Detroit at Atlanta (12:15 p.m.) OR St. Louis at Pittsburgh (12:35 p.m.) 3 p.m MLBN — Regional Coverage: Kansas City at Athletics (3:05 p.m.) OR St. Louis at Pittsburgh (12:35 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 7:10 p.m. ESPN — Eastern Conference First Round: New York at Atlanta, Game 6 8 p.m. NBCSN — Eastern Conference First Round: Boston at Philadelphia, Game 6 PEACOCK — Eastern Conference First Round: Boston at Philadelphia, Game 6 9:30 p.m. ESPN — Western Conference First Round: Denver at Minnesota, Game 6 NHL HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. TNT — Western Conference First Round: Dallas at Minnesota, Game 6 TRUTV — Western Conference First Round: Dallas at Minnesota, Game 6 10 p.m. TNT — Western Conference First Round: Edmonton at Anaheim, Game 6 TRUTV — Western Conference First Round: Edmonton at Anaheim, Game 6 RUGBY (MEN’S) 3:55 a.m. (Friday) FS2 — NRL: North Queensland at Canterbury-Bankstown SOCCER (MEN’S) 2:55 p.m. CBSSN — UEFA Europa League: Aston Villa at Nottingham Forest, Semifinal – Leg 1 TENNIS 7 a.m. TENNIS CHANNEL — Madrid-ATP/WTA – Live; ATP Quarterfinal 3 & 4; WTA Semifinals; ATP Doubles Quarterfinals UFL FOOTBALL 8 p.m. FS1 — St. Louis at Louisville About The Author troyderengowski61@gmail.com See author's posts Post navigation THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 2026 THE INDIANA SRN “SCOREBOARD” APRIL 30
