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<\/p>\n Dodgers ride Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s emotional comeback, late surge to beat Rockies <\/p>\n
Dodgers third baseman Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez rounds third during the fifth inning of a win over the Rockies at Dodger Stadium on Monday.<\/p>\n
(Eric Thayer\/Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
From Liana Handler<\/a>: In his first big-league game back since Game 7 of the World Series<\/a>, Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> received playoff-level cheers at Dodger Stadium on Monday night, nearly drowning out his walk-up song<\/a> as he stepped into the batter\u2019s box against the Rockies in the bottom of the third inning. Some fans tipped their hats. Others joined the rising \u201cKik\u00e9!\u201d chants.<\/p>\n After taking a ball, Hern\u00e1ndez sent a four-seam fastball hopping down the left-field line for an RBI double that scored Hyeseong Kim<\/a>. The crowd of 48,778 exploded.<\/p>\n It was shaping up to be a happy return, but it wasn\u2019t until the seventh inning that the rest of the Dodgers<\/a> lineup found its footing, taking advantage of some shaky relief pitching to rally for a 5-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n Hern\u00e1ndez reached on an infield single in his second at-bat before being lifted for a pinch-hitter as the Dodgers began to rally in the seventh.<\/p>\n Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s journey back to the big leagues has been an arduous one. Throughout his two-month stint last year on the injured list, he received seven injections in his left elbow. None worked.<\/p>\n Continue reading here<\/a> <\/p>\n Dodgers box score<\/a> <\/p>\n MLB standings<\/a> <\/p>\n Go beyond the scoreboard <\/p>\n Get the latest on L.A.’s teams in the daily Sports Report newsletter.<\/p>\n By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Service<\/a>, which include arbitration and a class action waiver. You agree that we and our third-party vendors may collect and use your information, including through cookies, pixels and similar technologies, for the purposes set forth in our Privacy Policy<\/a> such as personalizing your experience and ads. <\/p>\n No. 1 UCLA baseball to host Saint Mary\u2019s; USC and UC Santa Barbara earn NCAA bids UCLA players celebrate at home plate as Jack O\u2019Connor rounds the bases during the Big Ten tournament. <\/p>\n (Courtesy of UCLA Athletics)<\/p>\n From Joaquin Ruiz<\/a>: The UCLA baseball team (51-6) is hosting the Los Angeles Regional as the nation\u2019s No. 1 overall seed, and USC (43-15) is headed to the College Station Regional hosted by 12th-seeded Texas A&M, the NCAA announced Monday.<\/p>\n After walking off Oregon 3-2 on Sunday in Omaha to claim their first Big Ten tournament title, the Bruins will defend Jackie Robinson Stadium and push to make their second consecutive College World Series run. UCLA faces Saint Mary\u2019s (seeded fourth in the L.A. regional) in the Westwood opener at noon Friday on ESPNU, while No. 2 Virginia Tech and No. 3 Cal Poly will face off at 5 p.m on ESPN+ to complete the Los Angeles Regional.<\/p>\n If the Bruins advance, they will host a super regional against the winner of the Morgantown Regional hosted by West Virginia.<\/p>\n USC is making its second consecutive NCAA tournament appearance for the first time since 2002. The Trojans are seeded second at College Station and will face 36-24 Texas State at 6 p.m. PDT on Friday at Texas A&M\u2019s Blue Bell Park on ESPN+. The Aggies will face Lamar at 1 p.m. PDT on the SEC Network to open the College Station Regional.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you start in August, the goal is to play in Omaha,\u201d USC coach Andy Stankiewicz said, alluding to the home of the College World Series. \u201cBut before you get in Omaha, you got to get to a regional. And so, here we are. [We\u2019d] certainly love to be hosting a regional, but it\u2019s OK. We\u2019re on our way to Texas to tee it up against some really good Texas teams. That\u2019s the goal, to be ready to play. Our boys are up here working right now, and they\u2019ll get ready for a great weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading here<\/a> <\/p>\n Inside U.S. soccer\u2019s World Cup camp at Orange County Great Park An aerial view of a U.S. Soccer banner hanging on the exterior of a Great Park balloon ride as crews prepare the training area for World Cup training.<\/p>\n (Allen J. Schaben\/Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n From Kevin Baxter<\/a>: On a recent spring morning, Championship Soccer Stadium, which sits in a corner of the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, was quiet and empty save for the dozen sprinklers quenching a newly laid grass carpet.<\/p>\n Normally the well-used stadium is a buzz of activity. But its main tenant, the Orange County Soccer Club, which plays in the second-division USL Championship, has been temporarily evicted, left to train in the nearby park and play its final home game before the World Cup at Eddie West Field in Santa Ana, 12 miles away. (Not that it was necessarily a bad thing since the club drew a home-record crowd of 7,651 to its 3-2 win over Oakland on Saturday, which allowed it to hold onto second place in the Western Conference table.)<\/p>\n During the next month, the nine-year-old venue will have just one occupant, the U.S. national soccer team<\/a>, which has chosen the stadium as its main training base for the World Cup<\/a>. The temporary change in ownership is heralded by a giant orange orb the size of a hot-air balloon, adorned with the U.S. Soccer logo and tethered to a rise just outside the stadium.<\/p>\n Why and how the federation wound up in Irvine is unknown; U.S. Soccer declined to respond to multiple requests for comment. But it\u2019s safe to say location was a factor since the Orange County Great Park is the closest World Cup training base to SoFi Stadium, where the U.S. will play two of its three group-stage games.<\/p>\n Continue reading here<\/a> <\/p>\n Lakers hire former Pelicans executive Rohan Ramadas amid front office expansion<\/p>\n From Thuc Nhi Nguyen<\/a>: The Lakers<\/a> hired former New Orleans Pelicans executive Rohan Ramadas to fill one of two new assistant general manager roles, The Times confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n Ramadas previously worked as the vice president of basketball operations and strategy for the Pelicans and will be involved in managing the salary cap, analytics and data for the Lakers, who are retooling their front office and basketball operations under new ownership this summer. Speaking at an end-of-season newsconference, GM Rob Pelinka said the Lakers will hire two new assistant general managers, with the other position focusing on pro scouting, draft scouting and player development.<\/p>\n Ramadas, who received bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in astronautical engineering from USC, worked at El Segundo-based The Aerospace Corporation for 12 years before jumping to the NBA full-time in 2024.<\/p>\n Continue reading here<\/a> <\/p>\n Knicks return to NBA Finals for first time since 1999 after sweeping Cavaliers Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns and teammates celebrate after winning the Eastern Conference finals Monday in Cleveland.<\/p>\n (Tim Phillis \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n From the Associated Press<\/a>: Karl-Anthony-Towns had 19 points and 14 rebounds, OG Anunoby scored 17 and the New York Knicks routed the Cleveland Cavaliers 130-93 Monday night to complete a four-game sweep of the Eastern Conference finals and advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999.<\/p>\n Landry Shamet scored 16 off the bench while Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson had 15 apiece for the Knicks, who became the fourth team to have an 11-game winning streak during their postseason run. The last to do it was Golden State, which had a 15-game run en route to its second title in three seasons in 2017.<\/p>\n All but one of the Knicks\u2019 wins have been by double digits, with an average margin of victory of 23.7 points.<\/p>\n Continue reading here<\/a> <\/p>\n This day in sports history<\/p>\n 1925 \u2014 In Detroit\u2019s 8-1 win over the Chicago White Sox, Ty Cobb becomes the first to collect 1,000 career extra-base hits. He finished his career with 1,139.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2014 Harvey Haddix of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitches 12 perfect innings before losing to the Milwaukee Braves, 1-0 in the 13th on an error, a sacrifice and Joe Adcock\u2019s double.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2014 French Championships Men\u2019s Tennis: Australian Roy Emerson beats home favourite Pierre Darmon 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2014 French Championships Women\u2019s Tennis: Australian Lesley Turner wins the first of 2 French titles; beats England\u2019s Ann Jones 2-6, 6-3, 7-5.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2014 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2014 26th European Cup: Aston Villa beats Bayern Munich 1-0 at Rotterdam.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2014 LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2014 Danny Sullivan misses almost certain disaster and holds off Mario Andretti and the rest of the fastest field in auto racing to win the Indianapolis 500. On the 119th lap, Sullivan spins his racer 360 degrees, narrowly avoiding both the wall and Andretti.<\/p>\n 1987 \u2014 Boston\u2019s Larry Bird steals an inbounds pass from Detroit\u2019s Isiah Thomas and feeds over his shoulder to a cutting Dennis Johnson for the winning basket as the Celtics pulls out an improbable 108-107 win over Detroit in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers, with MVP Wayne Gretzky leading the way, beat the Boston Bruins 6-3 to complete a four-game sweep and win their fourth Stanley Cup in five years.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2014 Rick Mears passes Michael Andretti with 12 laps to go and wins his fourth Indianapolis 500, by 3.1 seconds. Mears joins A.J. Foyt and Al Unser as the only four-time winners.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2014 In Major League Baseball, Carlos Martinez famously hits a ball off Jose Canseco\u2019s head for a home run.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2014 1st UEFA Champions League Final: Marseille beats Milan 1-0 at Munich.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2014 Haiti\u2019s Ronald Agenor wins the longest match since the French Open adopted the tiebreaker. Agenor takes the 71st and final game of a second-round match with David Prinosil of Germany. His five-hour, 6-7 (4-7), 6-7 (2-7), 6-3, 6-4, 14-12 victory involves the most games in a French Open match since 1973.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2014 7th UEFA Champions League Final: Manchester United beats Bayern Munich 2-1 at Barcelona.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2014 New Jersey finishes the greatest comeback in a conference final when the Devils win the last three games of the series, beating the Flyers 2-1 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final. Patrik Elias scores his second goal of the game with 2:32 to play for the win.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2014 Andy Roddick loses at the French Open \u2014 to Frenchman Olivier Mutis, who is ranked 125th. With the five-set loss, Roddick joins Andre Agassi and eight other compatriots on the way home, making it the first Grand Slam tournament in more than 30 years without a U.S. man in the third round.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2014 Americans Andy Roddick, James Blake and Vince Spadea fail to make it through the opening week at the French Open. For the second year in a row \u2014 and the second time at a Grand Slam event in more than 30 years \u2014 no American man makes it out of the second round.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2014 Syracuse wins its 10th NCAA men\u2019s lacrosse championship, beating defending champion Johns Hopkins 13-10 behind three goals from Dan Hardy. The crowd of 48,970 at Foxborough, Mass., is the largest to see an NCAA championship outdoors in any sport \u2014 the BCS football championship game isn\u2019t an NCAA event.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2014 NHL Eastern Conference Final: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Carolina Hurricanes, 4 games to 0.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2014 Toronto FC ends its MLS record nine-game losing streak to open a season with a 1-0 win over the Philadelphia Union on a late goal by Danny Koevermans.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2014 Tony Kanaan ends years of frustration by finally winning the Indianapolis 500. Kanaan drives past Ryan Hunter-Reay on a restart with three laps to go, then coasts across the finish line under yellow when defending race winner Dario Franchitti crashes far back in the field. The Brazilian finished second in 2004 and twice finished third.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2014 Senior PGA Championship, Bellerive CC: K\u014dki Idoki of Japan wins his lone PGA event by 2 strokes from Jay Haas and Kenny Perry.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2014 Cleveland Cavaliers win the NBA Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2014 UEFA Champions League Final, Kiev: Real Madrid beats Liverpool, 3-1 for third straight title. Zin\u00e9dine Zidane first manager to win 3 consecutive titles.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2014 Indianapolis 500: 2016 IndyCar Series champion Simon Pagenaud of France finishes just two-tenths of a second ahead of Alexander Rossi for Team Penske\u2019s record-extending 18th victory in the event.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2014 Senior PGA Championship, Oak Hill CC: American Ken Tanigawa wins his first career major title by 1 stroke ahead of Scott McCarron.<\/p>\n Compiled by the Associated Press<\/p>\n This day in baseball history<\/p>\n 1916 \u2014 Benny Kauff of the Giants was picked off first base three times by Boston\u2019s Lefty Tyler. The miscues didn\u2019t hurt as New York won its 14th consecutive road victory beating the Braves, 12-1.<\/p>\n 1925 \u2014 In Detroit\u2019s 8-1 win over the Chicago White Sox, Ty Cobb became the first to collect 1,000 career extra-base hits. He finished his career with 1,139.<\/p>\n 1929 \u2014 Pinch-hitters Pat Crawford of the Giants and Les Bell of the Boston Braves hit grand slams in New York\u2019s 15-9 victory.<\/p>\n 1930 \u2014 Joe Sewell of the Cleveland Indians, who fanned only three times in 353 at-bats during the season, was struck out twice in the same game by Pat Caraway of the White Sox.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2014 Billy Sullivan and Bruce Campbell appeared for the Cleveland Indians as pinch hitters. Each hit a home run, making this the first time two American League pinch hitters hit home runs in the same game. The Indians beat the Athletics, 8-6.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2014 Cincinnati Reds pitchers John Klippstein, Hershell Freeman and Joe Black combined for 9 2-3 hitless innings, but lost 2-1 in 11 innings to the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2014 Harvey Haddix of Pittsburgh pitched 12 perfect innings before losing to Milwaukee 1-0 in the 13th on an error, a sacrifice and Joe Adcock\u2019s double.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2014 Sandy Koufax struck out 16 Phillies to lead the Dodgers to a 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2014 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 500th career double, becoming only the third major leaguer to reach 500 doubles and 500 home runs.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2014 Southern California and Fresno State combined for an NCAA postseason baseball record of 39 runs in the Trojans\u2019 22-17 win in the West Regional. USC scored three runs in the top of the ninth to break the record of 37 set by the Trojans and Houston in 1990.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2014 The Chicago White Sox became the 16th team in AL history to hit four homers in one inning in their 12-1 win over Milwaukee. Frank Thomas, Harold Baines and Robin Ventura hit consecutive homers and Chad Kreuter added another in Chicago\u2019s seven-run eighth.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2014 Chicago\u2019s Sammy Sosa and the Pirates\u2019 Tony Womack hit inside-the-park homers in the sixth inning of the Cubs\u2019 2-1 win. It was the first time two inside-the-park homers had been hit in the same inning in 20 years.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2014 Daryle Ward hit for the cycle and tied his career best with six RBIs in Pittsburgh\u2019s 11-8 win over St. Louis.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2014 Derek Jeter gets his 2,000th career hit, becoming the eighth player in Yankees history to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2014 Chase Utley tied the National League lead with his 16th homer and drove in six runs as Philadelphia routed Colorado 20-5. The Phillies batted around three times and had season-highs in hits (19) and runs.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2014 The hot-hitting Boston Red Sox routed the Detroit Tigers 14-1 in an eight-inning, rain-shortened game. The Red Sox, who beat Cleveland 14-2 the previous day, scored at least 14 runs in back-to-back games for the first time since 1998.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2014 Major League Baseball hands out a suspension of 82 games to Braves OF Hector Olivera, following a domestic violence incident in April. It is by far the most severe penalty yet handed out under baseball\u2019s new domestic violence policy.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2014 Mike Trout has the first five-hit game of his career and drives in 4 runs to lead the Angels to an 11-4 win over the Yankees.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2014 Commissioner Rob Manfred issues his ruling following the completion of the investigation of allegations of improper behavior towards a number of women against former manager and coach Mickey Callaway. Callaway is found guilty of violating Major League Baseball policies and is declared ineligible for the remainder of this season and all of 2022, after which he may apply for reinstatement. For their part, the Angels fire him from his position of pitching coach, from which he has been suspended since the allegations surfaced in February, and the Indians, who were Callaway\u2019s employer when some of the offensive incidents took place, state that they will take steps to ensure a more respectful environment in which employees feel empowered to denounce workplace harassement in the future.<\/p>\n 2023 \u2014 Craig Kimbrel becomes the eighth pitcher to record 400 career saves in Philadelphia\u2019s 6 – 4 win over the Braves, barely two weeks after Kenley Jansen became the seventh.<\/p>\n Compiled by the Associated Press<\/p>\n Until next time…<\/p>\n That concludes today\u2019s newsletter. If you have any feedback, ideas for improvement or things you\u2019d like to see, email me at houston.mitchell@latimes.com<\/a>. 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