Evans Chebet and Peres Jepchirchir, both of Kenya, won the men's and women's races, respectively, at the 126th Boston Marathon on Monday.
The big picture: The race was held on Patriots' Day — a Massachusetts state holiday held on the third Monday in April — for the first time in three years.
Rōki Sasaki, a 20-year-old Japanese pitching phenom, accomplished one of the greatest feats in sports history over the past week, tossing 17 straight perfect innings.
Driving the news: Two Sundays ago, Sasaki threw the first perfect game in Nippon Professional Baseball (Japan's top league) since 1994. In his very next start this past Sunday, he threw eight more perfect innings.
