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The Cleveland Cavaliers crushed the Miami Heat 138-83 to complete a 4-0 series sweep and cruise into the NBA Eastern Conference playoff semi-finals on Monday.

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Milwaukee Bucks star Damian Lillard will miss the remainder of the NBA season after suffering a torn left Achilles tendon during his team's playoff defeat to the Indiana Pacers, his team confirmed on Monday.

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers invited wide receiver Dino Tomlin, an undrafted free agent out of Boston College, to rookie minicamp in May, according to multiple reports on Monday. DIno Tomlin is the son of Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin. At 5-foot-11, 188 pounds, Dino Tomlin began his college career at Maryland, where he played 16 games from 2019-21. He caught three passes for 19 yards and mostly played on special teams. He played in 35 games (five starts) in three seasons at Boston College (2022-24), totaling 37 receptions for 533 yards, a 13.8 average per catch and no scores. He played in 10 games (one start) as a graduate student in 2024 and made three catches for 40 yards. --Field Level Media

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Boston Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet aims to improve on his last start when he faces the host Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night in the opener of a three-game series. The left-hander allowed four runs, five hits and a career-high five walks in five innings on Thursday in a 4-3 home loss to the Seattle Mariners. Crochet took responsibility for the loss after the Mariners touched him for two runs in each of the first two innings. "The game was the first two innings that I pitched," he said. "That was really what lost us the game." The Blue Jays can look forward to Crochet reverting to a power pitcher from the beginning on Tuesday. He was trying to be a little too fine in the early innings against the Mariners. "It became something where I was trying to pitch instead of just throwing," he said after the start. "Once I started getting back to my roots and just being a power pitcher later in the game, the walks were still there, but I was at least able to get guys out." This will be the second time this season that Crochet (2-2, 1.95 ERA) will face the Blue Jays. He took his first loss of the season against them at Fenway Park on April 8 when he allowed four runs (one earned), five hits and four walks in 5 2/3 innings. In four career outings (two starts) against Toronto, he is 2-1 with a 0.66 ERA in 13 2/3 innings. He is expected to be opposed by right-hander Bowden Francis (2-3, 3.58) on Tuesday. Francis has not faced the Red Sox this season, but he has had success against them. He is 1-0 with a 0.00 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 14 2/3 innings over in five career games (two starts) against Boston. The Red Sox are coming off a 13-3 road victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday. Kristian Campbell was 2-for-2 with four runs, a double, three walks, two RBIs and a stolen base in what manager Alex Cora described as "all-around probably one of his best, if not the best, game of the season." Campbell helped Boston take two of three from Cleveland. The Blue Jays are returning from a 1-5 road trip after being swept 11-2 and 5-1 in a doubleheader by the New York Yankees on Sunday. Toronto won the opener of the series 4-2 on Friday followed by a postponement on Saturday. The Blue Jays' lack of hitting with runners in scoring position was again a problem, going 2-for-17 over the doubleheader. They scored seven runs over the three games at New York. Before that, they totaled two runs and nine hits when they were swept in a three-game series against the Houston Astros. Manager John Schneider knows what the Blue Jays must do better when they open their six-game homestand. "Better at-bats with guys on base and taking advantage of mistakes," Schneider said. "Things that we talk about all the time. ... We know that we have the guys in there that can do it." Blue Jays center fielder Daulton Varsho is expected to return soon from his minor league rehabilitation assignment. He started the season on the injured list after offseason right rotator cuff surgery. Toronto recalled outfielder Jonatan Clase to be their 27th player for the doubleheader on Sunday and he was returned to return to Triple-A Buffalo later the same day. --Field Level Media

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Aaron Judge hit a tiebreaking homer to highlight a three-run sixth inning as the host New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1 to complete a doubleheader sweep on Sunday. The Yankees won the opener 11-2 thanks in large part to a bases-clearing double by Austin Wells to cap a six-run third inning off Kevin Gausman. A day after his 33rd birthday, Judge ended a nine-game homerless drought by lining a first-pitch cutter from Toronto starter Chris Bassitt (2-2) into the right-center field seats. Judge extended his on-base streak to 24 games and ended the doubleheader with a major-league-leading .406 batting average. Trent Grisham hit Bassitt's third pitch of the game for a homer, and the Yankees got to him in the sixth with several hard hits. After Judge's homer, Jasson Dominguez roped an RBI double to left to chase Bassitt. Rookie J.C. Escarra added an RBI single off reliever Brendon Little for a 4-1 lead before hitting his first career homer in the eighth. The 415-foot drive into the right-center field bleachers came against former Yankees pitcher Chad Green. Anthony Santander broke an 0-for-25 skid with a tying homer off New York starter Clarke Schmidt in the third. Toronto lost for the seventh time in eight games and was held to three hits. In Schmidt's third start following a shoulder injury, he went five innings, walking four and striking out six, including George Springer and Andres Gimenez with two on in the first. Bassitt allowed four runs on six hits in 5 2/3 innings after entering the game without giving up a homer in his first 28 2/3 innings. The right-hander struck out five, walked one and retired 10 in a row before Judge went deep. Tim Hill (3-0) and Mark Leiter Jr. followed Schmidt with a scoreless inning apiece. Fernando Cruz fanned Santander with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on first to end the eighth, and Luke Weaver finished up in a non-save situation. --Field Level Media

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Andy Pages continued his hot streak with four hits, a home run and a career-high four RBIs as the Los Angeles Dodgers overcame the early injury departure of starter Tyler Glasnow to earn a 9-2 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday. Pages delivered an RBI single in a four-run first inning and a two-run homer in a three-run fifth as the Dodgers overcame an early 2-0 deficit to win their second consecutive game after dropping four of five. He had 10 hits in the three-game series. Glasnow gave up back-to-back home runs to the Pirates' Andrew McCutchen and Enmanuel Valdez in the first inning, then left the game with right shoulder discomfort after warming up for the second. He also departed his previous start with lower leg cramps. McCutchen had four hits, while starter Bailey Falter (1-3) gave up seven runs (five earned) on eight hits in 4 1/3 innings for the Pirates, who went 3-3 on a Southern California road trip against the Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels. Falter, an L.A.-area native, pitched twice on the trip and gave up 10 total runs on 13 hits in 8 1/3 innings. After the Pirates got the jump on Glasnow early, the Dodgers' offense responded with four runs in the bottom of the first. Four Los Angeles batters into the game, Freddie Freeman hit a two-run single. Tommy Edman followed with a smash to third base that Ke'Bryan Hayes misplayed for an error down the line that allowed Freeman to score from first base, with Edman moving to third on Hayes' second error of the play on the throw to home. Pages, who has multiple hits in four of his last five games, added an RBI single for a 4-2 Dodgers lead. The Dodgers made it 5-2 in the second inning on a sacrifice fly from Mookie Betts before Teoscar Hernandez made it 6-2 in the fifth with a home run to right center. Pages hit a two-run homer to center three batters later, his fifth. He added an RBI single in the sixth. Right-hander Ben Casparius (3-0), who replaced Glasnow in the second inning, struck out five over 3 2/3 scoreless innings. In his Dodgers debut, right-hander Yoendrys Gomez earned the save with three scoreless innings. --Field Level Media