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In Los Angeles, the drought is over. The Dodgers snapped a brutal seven-game skid Saturday night in Phoenix, edging the Diamondbacks two to one in ten innings. Shohei Ohtani delivered the decisive blow with an infield single in the tenth, plating the go-ahead run after Edwin Diaz blew his second straight save opportunity. Big win for a team that needed it badly.
Meanwhile in the record books, Max Scherzer is now officially top ten all time. The Blue Jays veteran fanned four Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday, pushing his career strikeout total to three thousand five hundred sixteen. That moves Mad Max past another legend and into the tenth spot in baseball history. At this stage of his career, that is nothing short of remarkable.
And out of Las Vegas, Quillan Salkilld put the lightweight division on notice. The Australian stepped up at UFC Fight Night two eighty four and submitted longtime contender Mateusz Gamrot in stunning fashion at the Meta APEX. The reaction from the combat sports world was immediate and loud — pros calling Salkilld a monster, and frankly, it's hard to argue. He walked in with a chance and walked out with a hundred thousand dollar bonus and a whole new conversation around his name.
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