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Out in Oklahoma City, the Western Conference Finals are heating up fast. The Thunder and the San Antonio Spurs are locked in a five-game chess match, and Game five on Tuesday night had both coaching staffs scrambling to out-adjust each other. This series has been back and forth every single night, and with Victor Wembanyama and the young Spurs refusing to back down, this one is far from over.
Meanwhile in Detroit, the Los Angeles Angels pulled off something special in the eighth inning. Down six to four, Logan O'Hoppe sparked the rally with a double, and then Vaughn Grissom stepped up with a grand slam and six RBIs on the night to flip a deficit into a ten to six Angels victory. Mike Trout was part of the damage too, drawing a walk in that pivotal frame. A massive road win for Los Angeles.
And over in Chicago, the Cubs have written themselves into the record books for all the wrong reasons. A tenth consecutive loss, this time to the Pittsburgh Pirates, makes them the twenty-fifth team in major league history to post both a ten-game winning streak and a ten-game losing streak in the same season. That is a brutal stretch at the worst possible time.
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