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Bryan Reynolds belted his 11th home run of the season, helping power the Pirates to an 8-6 victory over the Rockies


Brandon Lowe delivered in the clutch, launching a go-ahead ninth-inning home run for his 18th homer of the season to lift the Pirates to a 6-5 victory over the Athletics


Victor Wembanyama now holds the record for the most blocks in a player's first @NBA playoff run. Last night he blocked three shots, bringing his total to 70 and surpassing Dikembe Mutombo's 69 in 1993–94. Wembanyama also became the fifth player since the league began tracking blocks in 1973–74 to record 70 or more blocks in a single postseason.










With his 300th home run last night, Matt Olson has become just the 10th player in MLB history with at least 300 HR, 220 Rbat, and 90 Rfield through age 32 (and just the third 1B to reach those marks by his age-32 season, along with Albert Pujols and Mark Teixeira).












I really dig the John Hollinger developed Game Score. IMHO it's a good metric to try and measure individual game productivity. It weights the accumulation of counting stats (including negative events like fouls and turnovers) and shooting efficiency as well. You can find each players average game score for a season by looking at their game logs on Basketball Reference. Gm Sc of 10 is avg. 40 is extraordinary (Coop had 2 40+ game scores this season and rookies have only had 11 40+ game scores dating back to availability of the metric in 77-78). The top guys in the league this season for example had avg game scores of Jokic (28.8), Shai and Luka (both 26.4), Wemby (22.4). 18 rookies played 1300+ mins this year (that's essentially the NBA's threshold for awards eligibility (65 gms and 20 mins a game) so that seems like a good sample size). Average game score this season of those 18 rookies: Flagg (16.4), Knueppel (14.0), Edgecombe (12.7), Coward (10.8), Reynaud (10.7), Queen (10.2), D. Harper (9.7), Fears (9.6), Bailey (9.2), Kalkbrenner (8.8), Demin (7.7), Riley (7.4), Tre Johnson (7.3), Clayton (6.1), Clifford (5.9), Will Richard (5.7), Sanders (5.0), Sion James (4.7). Coop's 16.4 avg Game Score is very very impressive when compared to recent RoYs (better than 9 of the last 10) - Castle (10.3), Wemby (18.4), Banchero (13.6), Barnes (13.1), Lamelo (13.0), Morant (13.9), Luka (15.8), Simmons (15.8), Brogdon (8.8), and KAT (15.4). And just because I was curious about a few more - LeBron (14.5), KD (12.5), Tim Duncan, first team all-NBA as a rookie (17.5).









