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Jalen Williams grabbed his left hamstring and walked off the floor during Game two of the Thunder-Suns playoff series, and the basketball world held its breath. The timing couldn't be worse for Oklahoma City — Williams has been their engine all postseason, and losing him even briefly changes the entire complexion of this series.
Meanwhile in baseball, Munetaka Murakami is doing something nobody in a White Sox uniform has ever done. The Japanese rookie crushed a four hundred fifty-one-foot shot against Arizona, homering in five consecutive games to tie an MLB rookie record. He's now the thirteenth rookie in big-league history to go that deep that long, and he's up to ten on the season. On the South Side, they finally have something to cheer about.
And speaking of streaks ending, Shohei Ohtani's on-base run came to a stop at fifty-three games. He was dominant on the mound, but the bat couldn't keep pace with history Saturday. Fifty-three games is a mark that will be talked about for years — the question now is how long before he starts another one.
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