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James Wood made history Tuesday night in Washington, turning a bases-loaded moment into something nobody has seen in three years. The Nationals outfielder hit the first inside-the-park grand slam since two thousand twenty two, racing home against the Mets in a play that had everyone in the ballpark absolutely losing their minds.
Meanwhile in Milwaukee, Jacob Misiorowski is doing things on a pitching mound that feel almost unfair. The Brewers ace went six scoreless innings against the Cubs, punching out eight batters and touching one hundred one miles per hour like it was a casual Tuesday. His ERA sits at one point eight nine through ten starts, and he leads all of baseball with eighty eight strikeouts. The kid is building something historic.
And out in Denver, the Colorado Avalanche are locked in and locked on. The top-seeded Avs are heading into the Western Conference Final against Vegas, and they'll tell you themselves this is exactly where they expected to be back in September. The Stanley Cup is the only destination that matters, and Colorado is not treating this as anything but a straight line to that goal.
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