One other thing they did was prohibit the cast members from taking photos or videos on their phones on set, incase of a leak. Well, apparently that didn’t stop Chris Pratt.
He shared a behind-the-scenes video of Avengers preparing for a battle against Thanos.
“I remember being blown away in this moment on the @avengers set,” he captioned the video on Instagram. “Nobody was allowed to film anything on their phones. I said screw it. No rule was going to stop me from seizing this once in a lifetime opportunity to capture this collection of stars, a group that likely will never be in the same room again. We are so blessed.”
The video shows tons of our favorite characters together. It is a pretty amazing video, even though it’s very illegal.
It was definitely risky, but we’re glad he got the historic shot.
The latest Marvel film made an estimated $1.2 billion in the worldwide box office for its opening, according to Disney. It is the only film ever to cross the $1 billion mark for its debut.
It completely shattered records, with the previous film at the No. 1 spot being Avengers: Infinity War which made $640 million its opening weekend.
As far as domestic records go, the film came out on top as well. It made an estimated $350 million this weekend, passing Infinity War which made $258 million.
It was projected to make between $230 and $283 million domestically, which it far surpassed. Also, it had a worldwide projection of $800 million, which The Hollywood Reporter estimated it would surpass.
Avengers: Endgame beat records on the first night of its debut, becoming the top domestic preview of all time after making $60 million on Thursday.
The film was honestly breaking records before it even came out. For one, it sold five times as many tickets as Infinity War during its first week of presales. This should come as no surprise with the demand of tickets being crazy enough for fans to spend upward of $15,000 for a pair.
It was previously announced that Endgame would close out Phase 3 of the MCU. However, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige revealed he now has other plans.
Avengers: Endgame is monumental for so many ways. For one, it features the final cameo by Marvel legend Stan Lee, who passed away last year at age 95. Then, it was revealed that Marvel actually compiled all of Lee’s cameos and behind-the-scenes footage into a video, that they might release with the Endgame DVD.
In other news, Twitter users were recently granted tons of emojis of nearly all the characters in the film.
While you’re online playing with all the new MCU emojis, be careful to avoid possible spoilers as footage from the film is reportedly leaked and available online. Well, at least before you head to the theater and just finally see the film.
Avengers: Endgame is in theaters now. Check out one of the trailers below.
What do you think of Pratt sneaking his phone on set? Sound off in the comments below!
Although they've had many different paths, they've all found their way home. #SeahawksDraft
Christian Yelich leaves game with back discomfort:
Seahawks general manager John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll talk with the Seattle media following the third and final day of the 2019 NFL draft
as they selected wide receiver Gary Jennings, guard Phil Haynes, free safety Ugo Amadi, linebacker Ben Burr-Kirven, running back Travis Homer, defensive tackle Demarcus Christmas, and wide receiver John Usua.
W A L K E R
@elijahwalker_6
Thankful for the opportunity to compete at Mini Camp... #DBD
April 27
FINAL
BOS leads 1-1
CLS 3 - 2 BOS
Blue Jackets win Game 2 in 2OT, even series
CBJ@BOS, Gm2: Duchene wins it in 2OT on power play
Duchene scores at 3:42 against Bruins; Panarin has two goals for Col
Duchene nets winner in 2OT
R2, Gm2: Matt Duchene buries the rebound between Tuukka Rask's pads on the power play, lifting the Blue Jackets to a 3-2 win in double overtime
Always show your love for the glove, folks.
Theman delivers in the #StanleyCupPlayoffs! @9Artemi
It's pretty much a requirement to watch this beauty again..
A @Matt9Duchene goal in double overtime wins it for the @BlueJacketsNHL, while the @DallasStars pick up a Game 2 win on the road behind a tremendous performance by @Benbishop30!
Olympic gold medalist@Aly_Raisman and @SpOlympicsMA athlete Danny Miller are tonight’s fan banner captains!
FINAL 2OT: @BlueJacketsNHL (3) - @NHLBruins (2)
April 27
FINAL
Series tied 1-1
DAL4 - 2 STL
Stars top Blues in Game 2, even series
DAL@STL, Gm2: Hintz fires home Zuccarello's pass
Bishop makes 32 saves, Hintz has three points for Dallas
Hintz finishes Zuccarello's feed
R2, Gm2: Mats Zuccarello slides a pass to Roope Hintz, who fires a shot that gets by Jordan Binnington to give the Stars a 1-0 lead in the 1st
Stars, Blues tally three straight
R2, Gm2: Miro Heiskanen, Colton Parayko and Mattias Janmark each score on three successive shots during a wild 4-on-4 sequence in the 1st
FINAL: @DallasStars (4) -@StLouisBlues (2)
Did we or did we not say Calder finalist a little earlier?#stlblues#WeAllBleedBlue
This one's worth a second look. And maybe a third...
These passing plays are just too good.
April 27
FINAL
TOR leads 1-0
PHI 95 - 108 TOR
Kawhi unstoppable in Raptors' victory
Joel Embiid finds a cutting Ben Simmons for your Heads Up Play of the Day!
@kawhileonard propels the @Raptors in Game 1 with a #NBAPlayoffs career-high 45 PTS!
Kawhi Leonard Disrespected After Postgame Interview Gets Cut Short But He's Happy With It!
Kawhi Leonard Shocks Drake & Entire Crowd By Murdering Sixers In Game 1!
Kawhi Leonard's #NBAPlayoffscareer-high 45 PTS (16-23 FGM), 11 REB guides the @Raptorsto a 1-0 series lead!
Kawhi Leonard becomes the sixth player in @NBAHistoryto tally at least 45 points, 10 rebounds and three made 3-pointers in a #NBAPlayoffs
game, joining Charles Barkley, LeBron James, Paul Millsap, Russell Westbrook, and Dirk Nowitzki. #SAPStatLineOfTheNight
April 27
FINAL
DEN wins series 4-3
SA 86 - 90 DEN
Nuggets hold off Spurs in Game 7
"That's who we are... activity, energy, physicality."Mike Malone is mic'd up for the @nuggets in Game 7!
"The 6th man is crazy! This is unbelievable. They're a big part of the success we had all year and I'm just thankful. We gone see y'all in the second round!
@BeMore27 scores 23 PTS and comes up clutch in the @nuggets Game 7 victory!
Nikola Jokic (21 PTS, 15 REB, 10 AST) notches the GAME 7 triple-double and joins LeBron James and Magic Johnson as the only players in @NBAHistory
Spurs vs Nuggets CRAZY ENDING Of Game 7 In Final Minutes!
Plumlee and Morris connect in#PhantomCam!
The Joker walks off with his 2nd career #NBAPlayoffstriple-double and a @nuggets
Domingo gets one back with a MOONSHOT into the left field bleachers.
By Greg Johns @gregjohnsmlb
SEATTLE -- It’s never a good sign when you finish a game with your catcher playing second base and your utility infielder on the mound, two facts the Mariners can testify to after a 15-1 loss to the Rangers on Saturday.
A lot of things have gone right for Seattle in the early going this season as they’ve posted an 18-12 record that still has them leading the American League West a month into the marathon.
But on a bone-chilling, windy night at T-Mobile Park, there wasn’t much to cheer about for the home crowd of 26,493 as the Mariners gave up a season high for runs and hits (20) in their most-lopsided loss since a 16-1 setback to the White Sox on May 20, 2017.
Hey Mitch are the @Mariners going to win tonight? (He says Yes!)
“That was a rough ballgame,” manager Scott Servais said. “We did that to them a couple nights ago (with a 14-2 win on Thursday] and they turned around and flipped it on us tonight.”
Pitching and defense, two staples for most winning baseball teams, were in short supply in this one. Short enough that by the ninth inning, Servais moved Dylan Moore from second base to the mound and brought Omar Narvaez off the bench to take his spot at second.
The #Mariners Domingo Santana hits his 7th into the upper deck in left field. Details:
“Just try to throw strikes,” Moore said of his approach. “Whatever happens, happens. Don’t hit anybody. Don’t walk anybody.”
“I kind of freaked out,” Narvaez said. “Last year the White Sox wanted me to play some first and third, so I took a lot of ground balls. But this year, all I’ve done is catch, so it’s been awhile.”
Mike Leake allowed 10 hits and nine runs -- tying his career high -- in five innings, though four of those runs were unearned.
“You have to play good defense,” Servais said, “and certainly we made some costly errors that didn’t help out Mike Leake at all. … We’ve had good stretches where we’ve played better and we’ve had games like tonight. Games like tonight, it’s hard to overcome that.”
“It’s a team loss,” Servais said. “A lot of guys didn’t have their best games tonight.”
Mike Cameron returns to the Mariners organization as a special assignment coach
Mike Cameron got his wish to retire as Mariner, returning on a one-day contract with the team Friday, Opening Day, at Safeco Field.
By Ryan Divish Seattle Times staff reporter
With multiple trades made this past offseason plus the previous few drafts, the Mariners have assembled a large group of talented young outfield prospects throughout their organization. To supplement their growth and development, they made a notable hire to help the process.
On Friday, the organization announced that former Mariner outfielder Mike Cameron has been added to the player-development staff. Cameron’s official title is “special assignment coach.” His responsibilities will include working with Mariners prospects at all levels of the organization, with a focus on outfield defense and base running. Besides working with minor-league players, Cameron will spend some time working with the big-league team.
Cameron started work immediately. He was in uniform with Class AA Arkansas on Friday night. The Travelers have three solid outfield prospects, who are all ranked in Baseball America’s Top 30 prospects for the organization — Kyle Lewis (No. 8), Jake Fraley (No. 15) and Dom Thompson-Williams (No. 18).
Manager Scott Servais met with Cameron to discuss the role when the team was in Chicago a few weeks ago.
“Mike obviously had a great career and really good run here with the Mariners for awhile,” Servais said. “It’s a great opportunity to bring somebody with a ton of experience into the organization from an outfield, base stealing, hitting home runs aspect and all that stuff. He’s had quite a career. I’m glad to have him on board.”
Besides the trio at Arkansas, the Mariners have two outstanding prospects in Jarred Kelenic (No.2) and Julio Rodriguez (No. 5) in West Virginia and Braden Bishop (No. 13) in Tacoma.
With the 120th pick of the 2019 #NFLDraft – the Seattle Seahawks select West Virginia WR Gary Jennings Jr.!
@KamChancellor announcing our 64th pick
Meanwhile, in #Nashville... it's the #12s
Watch Pete Carroll Take Shirt off After DK Metcalf Comes to Interview Shirtless
Ole Miss wide receiver D.K. Metcalf certainly made an impression on Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll during his interview at the NFL Scouting Combine.
Metcalf's physique helped make him an internet sensation. Carroll got to see that physique in person when the former Rebels star arrived shirtless for his interview with Seattle.
"Kind of pissed me off, so I took my shirt off too," Carroll said Friday, per Aaron Levine of Q13 Fox in Seattle. "Not for long."
The team shared a video from the surreal scene:
The Seahawks selected Metcalf with the 64th overall pick of the 2019 draft. Carroll and general manager John Schneider had an emotional phone call with Metcalf when informing him he was coming off the board.
Metcalf caught 67 passes for 1,228 yards and 14 touchdowns in three years at Ole Miss. Bleacher Report's Matt Miller ranked him as the No. 4 wideout in the 2019 draft class, comparing him to Hall of Famer Terrell Owens.
Seahawks general manager John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll talk with the Seattle media following day 2 of the 2019 NFL draft
as they selected safety Marquise Blair, wide receiver D.K. Metcalf, and linebacker Cody Barton in the second & third rounds.
April 25
FINAL
ATL2 - 4 CIN
Be careful at the ballpark, for you never know if an outfielder might be interested in trying your nachos
Jesse Winker made a solid running catch in the sixth inning of Thursday's Braves-Reds game at Great American Ball Park -- and he nearly came away with a light snack in the process.
No, he didn't eat the baseball. That'd just be weird. Instead, Winker made a running catch along the left-field wall that brought him right up close to a startled fan and his fresh tray of ballpark nachos.
I'm talking really fresh -- and a nearly full platter, from the look of it. Winker leaned in for a second glance and probably a sniff, but held back from indulging in a midgame nacho break.
"Nacho break" sounds like something we could all use on a regular basis, right? I know I'm not the only one who thinks that. I want a nacho break. Prince Fielder sure did a few years ago, and it was a great time for everybody.
This Minor League closer explains why he celebrates every save with a backflip on the mound
Flip your bat. Stare your homer down like you're Ferris Bueller looking at a Chagall. There's seemingly no limit to the ways you can wild out on a baseball field -- provided that you're a hitter.
Pitchers, on the other hand, aren't feeling themselves nearly as much as they should. Sure, there's the occasional Fernando Rodney shooting an imaginary arrow into the sky, but beyond that, we're mostly in the realm of glove claps and fistpumps. That is, until Dusten Knight came along.
You may remember Knight from last week's news cycle. If not, here's a refresher: He's the closer for the Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos, and he celebrates each one of his saves by doing a dang backflip right there on the field.
Seriously: every single save.
The NFL Draft for Seattle Seahawks
April 26
FINAL
TEX4 - 5 SEA
Kikuchi makes abbreviated start in walk-off win
Kikuchi starts, Haniger finishes
Yusei Kikuchi made a planned abbreviated start, and Mitch Haniger won it on a walk-off grounder in the 11th.
Mitch Haniger
MARINERS WIN
By Greg Johns @gregjohnsmlb
SEATTLE -- It’ll be months -- or maybe a year or two, realistically -- before the Mariners know if their “abbreviated start” plan with Yusei Kikuchi proves beneficial. But on Friday night against the Rangers, the first phase of the Kikuchi plan worked in the short term at least as Seattle topped Texas, 5-4, at T-Mobile Park.
@M_Hanny17 with the winner as @Mariners beat Rangers in 11 innings. #RefreshingPlays #WHEREiROOT
Another RBI for Edwin Encarnacionas the @Mariners increase their lead.
Sometimes, baseball happens.
#TEXvsSEA
Welcome to Seattle, Justus.
when u hit the ball super duper hard
Mitch Haniger won it with a bases-loaded, walk-off fielder’s choice grounder in the bottom of the 11th as the Mariners improved to 18-11, the second-best mark in the Majors behind only the Rays. The Rangers fell to 12-13 with their fifth straight setback. Haniger’s one-out grounder to third off reliever Kyle Dowdy scored Omar Narvaez, who had singled and moved up on walks to Ryon Healy and Dee Gordon.
Kikuchi breezed through his planned one inning, needing just nine pitches to retire the side in order with a pair of strikeouts. Kikuchi lowered his ERA slightly, to 4.54 through seven starts, but more importantly in the Mariners’ eyes, he will now be in better position to pitch stronger and longer this initial season in the Majors and beyond.
The second part of Friday featured the debut of Seattle’s top prospect Justus Sheffield, called up from Triple-A Tacoma to piggyback off Kikuchi’s shortened start. The Mariners were hoping to get 4-5 innings from the 22-year-old lefty, but Sheffield struggled with his command, walking four in a three-inning, 75-pitch performance in which he allowed a pair of runs on a Nomar Mazara home run off the batter’s eye in center.
“Sheff was anxious to get out there and wanted to contribute,” manager Scott Servais said. “He’s got things to work on yet. Controlling the strike zone is a big thing for us and he’s got to get more consistent there. He’s got pitches, he’s got weapons, he’s got stuff. There’s no question about that. He’s got to refine it a little more and get more in a groove like we saw early in Spring Training.”
“I was just happy to get out there,” Sheffield said. “I had jitters early on, I will say. It’s been awhile since I pitched in a big league stadium. I just really wanted to keep the game close and pitch as deep as possible. At some points during the game, I was able to slow it down and make my pitches. It gets a lot easier when you get ahead and are able to attack guys. Once I was able to settle down a little, I felt a lot more comfortable.”
Encarnacion added a run-scoring single in the fifth in his four-RBI night and also made a huge defensive play when he got his glove up just in time to catch a line drive right at his face to get Swarzak out of a two-on, two-out jam and keep the game tied.
Encarnacion said the catch was a bigger play for him than the homer, as the ball was shielded by the baserunner, Elvis Andrus, until the last split second.
“The ball caught me,” said the veteran. “I saw it when he hit it, then I didn’t see it anymore. I just stuck up my glove and it worked.”
“We didn’t want to use him tonight, but it’s a nice weapon to have,” Servais said. “He has tremendous bounce-back ability. He threw 38 pitches last night and then is out there playing long toss today and is ready to go. Those guys are very, very valuable over the course of a Major League season. He’s having a great season for us. I appreciate his efforts.”
“Obviously we went through pretty much all our pitching staff tonight,” Servais said. “But we hung in. Our guys did a great job absorbing the innings, and we should be OK tomorrow.”
@FlashGJr
Roenis Elías on to pitch the 10th for the Mariners, as they look go to 3-0 in extras.
April 26
FINAL
GS wins series 4-2
GS129 - 110 LAC
Durant finishes off Clippers
Kevin Durant's 50 points propels the two-time defending champs into the second round
Patrick Beverley and the Clippers could only praise Kevin Durant after he finished them off with another monster performance.
Kevin Durant Murders Clippers & Shows He's The Best In Game 6!
A new "Star Trek" animated series has gotten the green light to run on Nickelodeon.
If every project in development comes to fruition then we won't have had this much "Star Trek" on our screens since the late '90s, when there were three series running simultaneously and a movie here and there.
The ‘01 Mariners set a win record, choked in the ALCS and never returned to the postseason
But hey, Ichiro.
On Oct. 6, 2001, the Seattle Mariners won their 116th game of the season. Tying the MLB record set by the 1906 Chicago Cubs and breaking the AL record of 114 set by the ‘98 Yankees, widely considered one of the greatest teams in MLB history.
Part of what makes this achievement so astonishing is they did so in the wake of losing three Hall-of-Fame-caliber players.
At the 1998 trade deadline, in the midst of a down year, Seattle traded Cy Young award winner, Randy Johnson to the Houston Astros. In return, the Mariners received three important pieces to the 2001 team, shortstop Carlos Guillen as well as pitchers John Halama and Freddy Garcia, the latter of which would make the 2001 MLB All-Star team.
After the 1999 season, Pat Gillick was hired as GM and given the duty of handling franchise icons Ken Griffey Jr. and Alex Rodriguez, both of whom were on expiring contracts entering the 2000 season. A-Rod played the year out and walked in free agency but Griffey was flipped to his hometown Cincinnati Reds before the start of the season. The returning package included center fielder Mike Cameron, who would go on the be an all-star and Gold Glove winner in 2001.
But by far, the most consequential move by the Mariners was the signing of Japanese phenom, Ichiro Suzuki. In Ichiro’s 2001 rookie season he became the first player in Major League Baseball history to win MVP, rookie of the year, Silver Slugger, a Gold Glove, and start in the all-star game. A mind-numbing feat.
He went on to lead his team to their historic win total, but it’s there that the fairytale came to an end. Facing a Yankees team carrying the hope of a city still reeling in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Mariners lost the first two games at home. Manager Lou Piniella guaranteed his Mariners would win two of the next three games in New York and bring the series back home. But no one on that 116-win team ever played another postseason game in Seattle again.
The best quarterback ever drafted by the Cardinals never played for them
Joe Namath was a first-round pick in both the NFL and AFL drafts, and left the Cardinals empty-handed.
By Adam Stites
As expected, Kyler Murray was selected by the Arizona Cardinals with the first overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. Murray is the first No. 1 pick for the Cardinals in the modern era, and it’ll probably be a disappointment if he doesn’t wind up breaking team records.
That’s mostly because taking a player with the very first selection means there are high expectations. The Cardinals hope Murray will be an elite passer for the franchise for over a decade.
But it’s also because the bar is pretty dang low in Arizona. The 2019 season will be the Cardinals’ 100th in their existence, yet their history of quarterback play is awfully depressing.
Only one passer ever drafted by the Cardinals landed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He’s also the team’s only draft pick at the position who made it to more than two Pro Bowls.
Just one problem: He never played for the Cardinals.
With the No. 12 overall selection in the 1965 NFL Draft, the then-St. Louis Cardinals picked Alabama’s Joe Namath. On the same exact day, the New York Jets picked Namath with the No. 1 pick in the 1965 AFL Draft.
Namath had all the leverage with two leagues battling for his services and demanded “a then-record $200,000 annual contract along with a new Lincoln Continental convertible” to sign with the Cardinals, according to Alex Marvez of Fox Sports. But eventually it was the Jets that won the battle and signed Namath to a contract that was the highest ever for a rookie at the time.
Joe Namath, with Jets coach Weeb Ewbank and owner David Sonny Werblin NY Daily News via Getty Images
Namath played for the Jets for 12 seasons, leading them to their first (and only) Super Bowl win.
The consolation for the Cardinals is that they found Jim Hart as an undrafted free agent one year later in 1966. Hart threw for 34,639 yards and 209 touchdowns — which still stand as franchise records — in 18 seasons with the Cardinals.
Kyler Murray led wagers that cashed in during Round 1 of 2019 NFL Draft
It was a chalky first few picks, and a relatively quiet one for trades.
By David Fucillo@davidfucillo
Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images
The first round of the 2019 NFL Draft is a wrap, and it brought us quite the mix of chalky, expected picks and wild decisions sending us off the rails. The top three-picks ended up going exactly like recent mock drafts suggested, but then things went sideways when the Oakland Raiders drafted edge rusher Clelin Ferrell and the New York Giants drafted Daniel Jones. From there, it was a relatively quiet, but still fascinating first round.
Bet your chalk
Kyler Murray emerged in March as the favorite to go No. 1 overall, followed by Nick Bosa, and then Quinnen Williams. As draft week rolled along, people (including me!) tried to make arguments why maybe Murray would not go No. 1. Would a team that drafted a first-round QB one year draft another one a year later without having dealt the previous one?
Sometimes it pays not to overthink things. Murray went first, followed by Bosa and then Williams. Murray consistently held the best odds to go No. 1, and Bosa and Williams had the best odds to go No. 2 and No. 3, respectively. What we thought was uncertainty turned out to be not so uncertain.
A lifetime of pain has prepared me to watch Vlad Guerrero Jr. crush my favorite team in his debut
I remember where I was when the Mariners’ highly touted new Japanese star threw a frozen rope from deep right field to nail a bewildered Terrence Long at third base. From the right-field bleachers, 16-year-old me watched the play unfold as Ichiro Suzuki, whom I hadn’t seen much of before, did something I also hadn’t seen before.
As I watched more baseball and my interest in the game increased, I began to expect big stars on other teams to make their mark at the expense of the A’s. Whether it was Ichiro that fateful evening in April 2001 or Shohei Ohtani last April, dazzling at the plate and on the mound in his first series with the Angels, it’s always seemed like these big, anticipated debuts came against the team I grew up watching, the "island of misfit toys" with a "laid-back" clubhouse vibe that resonated with me deeply in my teenage years.
Ken Griffey Jr. ripped a double in his first at-bat in 1989, which obviously happened in Oakland too:
Indians ace Corey Kluber was once a promising prospect himself, and he picked up his first career strikeout against Brandon Allen and the A's in 2011:
As a kid, seeing other teams' players excelling while mine did that slow walk off the field after a pitching change (or on the wrong end of a game-changing moment)? That's just the worst. And I didn’t think things would ever get better.
The reality is it's just a blip on a much larger map, a quick stop at a gas station on a cross-country sojourn. Vladito could -- and likely will, I can feel it in my bones -- step up this weekend and obliterate a fastball 450+ feet deep into the Rogers Centre air, tens of thousands of screaming fans embracing the moment and going nuts, while the A's pitcher who served it up stands there dejectedly, rethinking that fastball placement.
And it might even cost the A's a game. It's happened before, and it'll happen again. Same as it ever was. If it does, I know I'll remember it forever.
And that's mostly fine with me. It's not like it'll be the first time.
April 25
FINAL
ATL2 - 4 CIN
Be careful at the ballpark, for you never know if an outfielder might be interested in trying your nachos
Jesse Winker made a solid running catch in the sixth inning of Thursday's Braves-Reds game at Great American Ball Park -- and he nearly came away with a light snack in the process.
No, he didn't eat the baseball. That'd just be weird. Instead, Winker made a running catch along the left-field wall that brought him right up close to a startled fan and his fresh tray of ballpark nachos.
I'm talking really fresh -- and a nearly full platter, from the look of it. Winker leaned in for a second glance and probably a sniff, but held back from indulging in a midgame nacho break.
"Nacho break" sounds like something we could all use on a regular basis, right? I know I'm not the only one who thinks that. I want a nacho break. Prince Fielder sure did a few years ago, and it was a great time for everybody.
This Minor League closer explains why he celebrates every save with a backflip on the mound
Flip your bat. Stare your homer down like you're Ferris Bueller looking at a Chagall. There's seemingly no limit to the ways you can wild out on a baseball field -- provided that you're a hitter.
Pitchers, on the other hand, aren't feeling themselves nearly as much as they should. Sure, there's the occasional Fernando Rodney shooting an imaginary arrow into the sky, but beyond that, we're mostly in the realm of glove claps and fistpumps. That is, until Dusten Knight came along.
You may remember Knight from last week's news cycle. If not, here's a refresher: He's the closer for the Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos, and he celebrates each one of his saves by doing a dang backflip right there on the field.
Seriously: every single save.
Spurs shoot their way to Game 7
DeRozan, Aldridge midrange the Nuggets to dust, and we say farewell to a legend
DeMar DeRozan scorched the Nuggets for 25 points on 12-of-16 shooting in a crucial Game 6 victory.
"Do or die, literally," DeRozan said. "We was on our home court, it was on me and LA to come out aggressive, and we did."
A tough performance, especially considering Jokic was putting everybody in the post blender: defenders, bystanders ... himself.
"We didn't defend," said Nuggets coach Michael Malone. "Just wasn't good enough tonight ... The good thing for us is we worked hard to have homecourt advantage to go home and play a Game 7, and we had the best home record in the NBA this year."
Paul Millsap, succinctly, and fairly firm: "We'll take care of business."
A moment of controversy came early in the third quarter when Spurs center Jakob Poeltl set a hard screen for White, one that left Murray crumpled in a heap.
The Nuggets guard crawled his way into a limping jog, finally getting up on his own power and massaging his knee.
Murray stayed in the game, but was ineffective thereafter, contributing only five points (2/8 FGs) and four assists after halftime. He didn't meet with media postgame, though coach Malone did acknowledge that he and the Nuggets staff have been in contact with the league regarding the perceived legality of San Antonio screens.
"Jamal got taken out on that play, I don't know if it was dirty or not," Malone said. "I don't think Jakob Poeltl is a dirty player -- I really don't. I'll have to watch the film to see how that happened and how Jamal went down with that injury. But they're a physical team and they set good screens and we have to learn from that."
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