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Max Scherzer has done something only a handful of humans on this planet have ever done. The Blue Jays veteran reached three thousand five hundred career strikeouts Wednesday night, freezing Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber on an eighty-six mile per hour changeup to open the game. A quiet, devastating way to reach a milestone that cements his place among the all-time greats.
Shifting to Boston, and the news out of Fenway is not good. Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet, already on the injured list since late April with a lat strain, came out Wednesday and said the injury is, quote, a lot worse than we thought. That is a gut punch for a Boston rotation that was counting on Crochet as its anchor heading into the summer stretch.
And over at Madison Square Garden, Game Four of the NBA Finals had the celebrity row at full capacity, with Timothee Chalamet among the stars on hand as both teams fought for a crucial edge in the series. The energy inside the Garden was exactly what you would expect when everything is on the line and the whole world is watching.
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