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The Mets are showing some life in the Bronx. New York closed out the Subway Series with back-to-back wins over the Yankees, capped by Tyrone Taylor's three-run blast in the ninth inning Sunday. Still sitting last in the National League East, but that kind of finish? That's a statement.
Shifting to the hardwood, the NBA MVP race is settled and the votes are in. Nikola Jokic has finished in the top two for the sixth consecutive year, a run of dominance that is genuinely hard to put into words. The full voting results are out now, though Shams Charania made sure nobody was surprised — he broke the winner on social media hours before Amazon Prime Video could air the planned on-air announcement Sunday night. Blake Griffin called him out for it publicly, and honestly, the criticism is fair. There's a time and a place, and that was neither.
Meanwhile out west, the San Francisco Giants rolled through the Athletics in Sacramento, winning ten to one behind a dominant outing from Adrian Houser and a grand slam from Harrison Bader in the eighth. San Francisco looks sharp heading into the stretch of the season.
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