Luis Arráez won the American League batting title last year. Turns out he was just getting warmed up.
Driving the news: Arráez raised his batting average to .403 on Wednesday. That's the seventh-highest by a qualified hitter through his team's first 63 games since 1941, when Ted Williams became the last Major League Baseball player to bat .400 over an entire season.
Why it matters: The Sooners are the first team to three-peat since UCLA in 1990 and have cemented themselves as the greatest dynasty in softball history.
Major League Soccer has been around for a quarter century, but the red-hot media race for U.S. professional sports rights is fueling its new future, today.
Why it matters: Apple is going all-in, deploying money and a content strategy in an innovative bet that the world’s most popular game can finally make a dent domestically.
Elly De La Cruz has arrived. And judging by his first two big league games, it's safe to say the 21-year-old phenom will be in baseball fans' lives for the foreseeable future.
Driving the news: The Cincinnati Reds' 6-foot-5, switch-hitting shortstop demolished his first career home run in Wednesday's 8-6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers — a 458-foot bomb that nearly left Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park. At 114.8 mph, it's the hardest-batted ball by a Red since 2019.
The Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Heat, 109-94, on Wednesday night in Miami, seizing a 2-1 National Basketball Association Finals lead behind a historic performance from their star duo.
By the numbers:Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray became the first teammates in NBA history to each record 30-point triple-doubles in the same game (regular season or playoffs). To reiterate: What they did has never been done before in any game — and they just did it in the NBA Finals.
