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There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves. Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball: Orioles-Royals got wild You might think, looking at the final score of 7-5 in the Orioles-Royals game from Monday, that this one was fairly offense-centric throughout. The truth is that all but two runs were scored from the ninth inning onward — everything changed as the game approached its original endpoint, and escalated from there. Observe! In the bottom of the second, with the game still scoreless, Royals’ right fielder Jac Caglianone hit his first homer of the year, off of starting pitcher Kyle Bradish. Despite giving up 10 hits and walking three, Bradish gave up just that one run in his 5.1 innings of work: the next four Orioles’ relievers would allow just one hit and no runs combined. Seth Lugo went seven shutout innings against Baltimore, and then Matt Strahm pitched a scoreless eighth for a hold. Closer Lucas Erceg got the O’s down to their last strike, with Kansas City up 1-0… and then he blew it. Catcher Samuel Basallo tied things up, 1-1, and the two teams headed to extras in what had been, to that point, a pitching-focused battle. While the 10th was scoreless and continued that trend, it was also the end of it. With two outs and the only baserunner on Blaze Alexander, who was placed there to start the 11th, DH Dylan Beavers managed a single to put the Orioles ahead for the first time all night. The lead did not last. Center fielder Kyle Isbel bunted Isaac Collins to third to kick off the bottom of the inning and put the tying run for Kansas City 90 feet away. Shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. then singled Isbel home to make things even once more. The Royals wouldn’t score again, however, bringing Baltimore back to the plate, where Basallo once again made his presence felt with an RBI single to give the O’s another lead. This wouldn’t be a one and done like every other inning in the game for both sides, however. Baltimore poured it on from here. Second baseman Jeremiah Jackson followed Basallo’s single with one of his own, then third baseman Weston Wilson — who had entered as a pinch-runner earlier — drew the walk to load the bases. Center fielder Leody Taveras would then hit his second homer of the year, clearing the bases with a grand slam; 7-2, Orioles. Cameron Foster came on in relief for Baltimore to try to close out this five-run lead, and it looked like he might falter in that. DH Salvador Perez led off with a single, then right fielder Lane Thomas walked to load the bases. Nick Loftin, who was playing second after coming in as a pinch-hitter earlier in the game, doubled in three runs, making it 7-5 with no outs. That was all Kansas City could manage, though: the next three batters were retired by Foster in order, with a backwards K to wrap it up against Isbel. The Orioles now sit just one game under .500 and 2.5 back in the AL East, which is collectively off to a slow start. The AL Central isn’t looking much better off, but the Royals have managed to sink to the bottom of it, anyway, thanks to losing what is now eight-straight. MLB’s strikeout leader is Dylan Cease There were some understandable questions about why the Blue Jays would be willing to give Dylan Cease a seven-year, $210 million deal this offseason, given the right-hander posted a 4.55 ERA in 2025 with the Padres. Teams are looking at far more than a basic stat like ERA when they make these decisions, though, and something no one could question was Cease’s ability to throw swing-and-miss pitches. Whatever Toronto saw that made him worthy of a franchise-record deal for a pitcher seems to be on display for all now, as Cease struck out 12 Angels on Monday in a 5-2 Blue Jays’ W, tying his own earlier mark for the most in a game so far in 2026, and now leads the majors in strikeouts with 44 on the season. Cease is also the fastest Blue Jays pitcher ever to 44 strikeouts, per Blue Jays Nation; whatever little adjustment Toronto thought he needed to unlock his best self seems to have taken hold already. Of course, this is five starts and 25.2 innings, so no need to hand the righty the AL Cy Young Award just yet, but still: this is one hell of a start. Both referring to last night and 2026 as a whole for Cease. Big Dumper dongs Cal Raleigh bashed 60 homers for the Mariners in 2025, a record for the team, for catchers and for switch-hitters. He hasn’t been nearly as powerful out of the gate in 2026, but he has shown some flashes of that pop. We got another example that it’s still there yesterday, when Big Dumper went the other way on a sinker to the outside part of the zone, sending it 382 feet into the bullpen. That’s Raleigh’s third homer of the year; through 24 games last season, he had nine. Still, Raleigh always being a 60-homer guy — or even a 50-homer guy — wasn’t an automatic just because it was done once. There have been just 10 such seasons in MLB’s long history, and all. The more important thing are the signs that Raleigh can get out of his slump, which has impacted more than just his power. Hitting a ball 382 feet the other way is one such sign that Raleigh will bounce back, maybe sooner than later. Rodriguez’s awkward adjustment Nintendo used to have majority ownership of the Mariners, but now, the video game developer and publisher is just a minority investor. Apparently that’s all that’s needed for center fielder Julio Rodriguez to have some video game-esque reactions and adjustments to a fly ball hit at him, though. Look at this weirdo — the play, not Rodriguez. That ball just kept hooking, which Rodriguez did not account for, but he still made a ridiculous change in direction himself for a catch that looked like a buggy animation from a baseball video game instead of a real one. No not Honkbal, Honk Ball The square footage of a baseball field is immense, the probabilities for where a ball in play could land impacted by everything from the ability of the hitter and pitcher themselves to where the ball is in the zone and where the bat meets it and how hard. Somehow, this ball was struck in such a way that it landed near a goose that had otherwise been unbothered, and that bird took flight as a result. Everyone was unharmed, that’s the important thing. Except for this baseball that Cubs’ shortstop Dansby Swanson had crushed an inning before, anyway. And also the psyche of Phillies’ fans, that’s probably not at its strongest at the moment. Philadelphia dropped its sixth game in a row here, managing just one run against the Cubs. That’s just one more than the goose recorded. Ohtani makes it 52 Dodgers’ star Shohei Ohtani did not make everyone wait long to see if he could extend his on-base streak to 52 games, tying the longest such streak of the last decade. In the third inning against Rockies’ starter Jose Quintana, the DH hit a liner to right for his first hit of the game. While Ohtani had reached earlier on an error, those do not count for on-base streaks, but even this hit didn’t prove necessary, either, since he picked up a pair of walks later in the game, as well. He is now a single game away from moving into the top 25 for longest on-base streaks in MLB history. The top of the mountain is still a ways away, however: that Ted Williams guy was quite the hitter himself, and he made it on in 84-consecutive games back in 1949. Still! Ohtani can rocket most of the way up the list before he even runs out of April — the top few spots aside, history’s longest on-base streaks are mostly clustered together — fewer have reached where Ohtani is now, and even fewer have gone much further than this. D’aww No babies were harmed in the making of this catch. Listen, you don’t have anywhere to go — there’s a baby in your hands. The ball is coming right at you, so your options are to attempt to catch it or at least deflect it from the direction of the child, or let the ball hit you, which hey, might hurt enough to make it tough to hold onto the baby. The right call was made here. The better call? Giving the baseball to the baby afterward. The rest of this Dodgers-Rockies game wasn’t quite so cute for Colorado fans — they lost, 12-3 — but hey. Foul ball baby! Friends don’t rob friends of hits Elly De La Cruz and Junior Caminero were happy to see each other prior to the Reds-Rays tilt. The two early 20s Dominican-born infielders are close friends — Caminero described De La Cruz as his “brother” postgame, even, per MLB — so it was no surprise to see them embrace before they faced off on Monday. Then the game started, though, and De La Cruz showed no mercy to Caminero on this ball hit to the shortstop’s right. Make sure you watch through for the reaction by Caminero. In that exchange where he called De La Cruz a brother postgame? Caminero also joked through an interpreter that, “I’m not going to give him any food tomorrow. We were talking about exchanging something, but I’m not going to give him anything.” Man, baseball is a rough game. Red Sox win early Patriots’ Day matchup The Red Sox played their traditional Marathon Monday early game on Patriots’ Day, this time to wrap up a four-game series against the Tigers. Boston was attempting to even things up and not drop the series to Detroit, which had won the previous two games, and sent Sonny Gray to the mound to do it. Gray had to be lifted after 2.2 innings with hamstring tightness, however, so the bullpen had to hop in early. In the fourth, 23-year-old rookie third baseman Hao-Yu Lee picked up his first career hit and RBI with a single off reliever Zack Kelly to tie things up 2-2. A couple of innings later, pinch-hitter Jahmai Jones subbed in for Kerry Carpenter and delivered a hit to left-center to drive in the go-ahead run. Boston’s bats would wake up from here on. With the game tied in the bottom of the seventh, Ceddanne Rafaela pinch-hit and drove in two runs — nearly three — with a single to right, to put the Sox up 5-3. That was not going to be enough to win, but the Sox drove in another before the inning ended when backstop Carlos Narvaez singled in a run, and then Boston added two more in the eighth. And good thing, too, because the Tigers made it 8-6 against relievers Ryan Watson and Aroldis Chapman before running out of outs in the ninth. Boston needed this W badly, to avoid dropping alone into fifth place in the AL East. The Tigers could have used it, too, in the way all teams need a win, but Detroit is at least just half-a-game out in the AL Central, not staring up from the bottom like the Sox. Boston gets the Yankees next, starting Tuesday, while Detroit takes on a Brewers team that is in last place, sure, but is also 12-9 while doing it — a better record than the Tigers have.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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In the months since Charlie Kirk’s murder, his widow, Erika Kirk, has become one of the most famous figures in American politics.
Many have suggested that Erika is planning a run for office.
And while 2028 is still a long way off, there’s already talk of a potential bid for the White House.
There was a time when the idea of a media figure with no governing experience running for president would have seemed absurd.
But 2016 changed everything, and Erika is aligning herself with Donald Trump at a time when the president is losing some of his most high-profile supporters.
Kirk and Trump both appeared at a rally in Arizona over the weekend, and one of the biggest right wing accounts on X (formerly Twitter) suggested that Erika might be establishing herself as the president’s heir apparent.
“Rumors are swirling that Erika Kirk could be positioning herself for a 2028 presidential run,” Tara Bull wrote to her 1.4 million followers.
The post received a mixed response, but the upshot is that whether she likes it or not, Erika’s name is now being mentioned in the same breath as the 2028 presidential race.
And while the election might be years away, Erika is already dealing with her first campaign mini-scandal.
It was a blink-and-you’d-miss-it moment:
When Trump joined Kirk on stage at Turning Point USA’s “Build the Red Wall” rally at Dream City Church in Phoenix, they briefly kissed on each cheek.
Perhaps it’s because she was recently widowed, or maybe it’s because Trump is less popular these days with the sort of people who used to constitute his base.
But whatever the reason, Trump and Erika’s embrace became a subject of widespread debate and controversy on social media.
As MSN reports, some observers accused Trump of giving off “creepy uncle vibes.”
Others alleged that he held on to Erika for several seconds too long.
Usually, Erika leans into controversies, but this one she’s chosen to ignore, preferring to focus instead on her political message.
“And now we have to show up again with 80 to 90% voter turnout in the midterms and fortify the red wall for the next decade. That’s what we need to do,” she said at one point in the rally.
She went on to lash out at those who seek to “tear our country” apart by focusing on issues that divide instead of unite.
Just a few months ago, the assumption would have been that Erika was referring to liberals and Democrats — but these days, she might have been referring to Trump’s former supporters.
Either way, she’s mastered the politician’s art of making a statement without actually saying anything.
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There’s some very exciting casting news!
Sydney Sweeney, Jason Isaacs, Noah Centineo, and more have been cast in an exciting adaptation.
This beloved property already has many adaptations — and has raised eyebrows with controversial nude scenes.
There’s a lot to be excited about! We’ll explain.
Production has begun!
A live-action Gundam film has begun production in Queensland, Australia.
The cast includes Sweeney, Isaacs, Centineo, plus plenty of other names including Shioli Kutsuna, Gemma Chua-Tran, Jackson White, Oleksandr Rudynskyi, and more.
This project will be a Netflix release.
It’s being produced by Legendary Pictures, and in partnership with Bandi Namco Filmworks.
Gundam (in all of its many iterations) is one of the most iconic science fiction properties on the planet. It’s on par with Star Wars, and has been around for about the same amount of time.
At its core, Gundam is about war — and its horrors, its effect upon populations and young people, and the depravity of those who commit atrocities.
On a more superficial level, it’s about teens and young adults piloting mobile suits — massive spacefaring “robots” capable of fighting with guns, laser swords, “funnels” (long story), and other weapons, on space and on the ground.
The titular gundams tend to represent the pinnacle of mobile suit design. In some Gundam properties, highly evolved pilots are able to connect with their machines — and even with each other’s minds. Rarely, even from beyond the grave.
(Yes, it’s a little like The Force in Star Wars.)
The first Gundam anime premiered in 1979. It’s absolutely worth watching, even if you have to brace yourself for some oddities that are, at least in part, a product of its time.
This is where the ‘controversial’ scenes come into play
Launching in the 1970s meant that characters are sometimes portrayed doing things that are appalling — like striking each other — that were at the time meant to be dramatic, or to portray the tensions of war.
There are also controversial nude scenes. Even among people who generally like nudity in their media.
We’re not referring to when “Newtype” (one of several labels throughout the adaptations) pilots communicate with each other, appearing as a nude silhouette in space even in the heat of battle.
There are scenes of women and girls showering, often accompanied by children — which, at the time, was likely intended to make the scenes less voyeuristic. In a modern lens, the animation is more uncomfortable this way.
Even as the decades continued, adaptations like Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team featured moments of animated nudity that felt like fan service. But seldom as controversial as the first few series’ portrayal of women and teen girls.
During her career, Sweeney has gone back and forth when it comes to on-screen nudity.
Euphoria is an HBO series with a more than decent amount of nudity. Sweeney has not been an exception.
However, in the early years of her rising to fame, she deliberately avoided excessive sexualization, focusing instead upon her acting.
Only in very recent years, and particularly amidst her involuntary politicization, has she pivoted towards using her body to sell clothing.
That’s a very long way of saying that she’s done a pet play OnlyFans scene on Euphoria and is likely to appear in a horny role again in the future.
Does that mean that she’s likely to show skin for Netflix’s ‘Gundam’ film?
We hate to crush everyone’s dreams, but Netflix seems likely to shy away from any real nudity in this project.
Even if some Gundam properties and Netflix properties have shown full frontal, our culture’s puritanical crusade against core aspects of humanity makes even the “spiciest” streamers hesitant to lean into nudity.
Additionally, even though Gundam has been airing in one form or another since long before many of us were born, and even though it is fundamentally a story about war, the clueless dorks who ruin so much of television are likely to try to brand this as something for tweens to watch.
Hey, we’d love to be wrong! We’d love to be pleasantly surprised.
But we won’t hold our breath.
While we’re wishing for things in Gundam, something more important to hope to see is Sweeney playing, not a protagonist or a love interest, but Char Aznable or an analogue.
Char (and his various masked analogues in different iterations of Gundam) is a foil character to the lead pilot — usually, anyway.
He’s a war hero for the baddies, with a lot of skill and with more experience than the hapless teen who just fell into (or stole) a sophisticated mobile suit.
Sweeney would be amazing in the role.
We could picture her in a uniform and a conspicuous mask, piloting the Red Comet. Or the Tallgeese. We’d love to see it.
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There’s been a lot of criticizing and bemoaning and maligning the 2026 NFL Draft. I’m not here to name names (mostly because I’m as guilty as the next guy). But we can all be honest that the NFL world has focused on what this draft has lacked — rather than what it has to offer. So let’s highlight some prospects, from Day 1 to Day 3, who are likely to have an impact on their new teams. If you want to talk about positional value and salary-cap percentage and advanced statistics and the deep stuff, then maybe pop over to Sound Smart. This is about taking note of some of the fun rookies to follow in 2026 — and beyond. Jeremiyah Love, RB, Notre Dame Do me a favor: Just watch his highlights. Watch the way he bursts through the line of scrimmage in ways that remind me of Derrick Henry. Watch the way he makes guys miss at the second and third level like Jahmyr Gibbs. Watch the way Love moves in open space as a pass-catcher like some of the best screen receivers in the game, including Khalil Shakir. Watch the way Love hurdles defenders unlike basically anyone I’ve ever seen before. There are complications around drafting running backs in the top five picks — namely the $50 million price tag that instantly makes them one of the highest-paid players at their position. I get it. But when you’re simply watching the player, Jeremiyah Love, it’s hard not to fall in … love. Caleb Downs, safety, Ohio State I keep going back to a conversation that I had with a scout before the pre-draft process really got rolling. The scout told me that Downs is the guy that you can pick and rest easy — more so than any other prospect in this class. And I’m in firm agreement. If positional value and financial value had nothing to do with the draft, the board would go Love at No. 1 and Downs at No. 2. Downs has the production, with 68 tackles, two interceptions, two forced fumbles and one sack. Alongside Fernando Mendoza, he’s probably the smartest and hardest-working prospect in this class. Downs is going to be a stud. Vega Ioane, OG, Penn State You’ve gotta love a mauler — the kind of offensive lineman who makes you think of demolition equipment. That’s Ioane. Someone will select him in the first 16 picks, and there will be the detractors who say something to the effect of, “Don’t like taking a guard there.” But at that exact same moment, that team’s running back (and quarterback) will be thanking their higher powers for the selection. It’s not going to sell tickets. It’s going to boost the offense. Eli Stowers, TE(/WR), Vanderbilt There are some offenses that can find ways to avoid asking their tight end to block. That’ll be one of the offenses where Stowers lands. Because if you can accept the fact that he is a receiver who plays tight end, you can turn him into an extremely productive matchup threat in your offense. Stowers has an awesome blend of production (769 receiving yards, four touchdowns in 2025) and athleticism (4.51-second 40-yard dash, 45.5-inch vertical, 11-foot-3-inch broad jump). He’s large (6-foot-4, 239 pounds) and he’s explosive. He just needs an offense that’ll preserve those tools as he transitions to the NFL (which will likely involve some weight gain). Gennings Dunker, OL, Iowa You really don’t need to know anything about him on the field, where he should be a starter in the interior over the next year or two. It’s all about the mullet. He is a gigantic goofball, who will consume 10,000 calories on gameday — and crush 36 ounces of coffee on the bus to the game. He’s a huge Culver’s fan. He’s a Midwest icon. His name *dramatic pause* is Gennings Dunker. He’s far from the best offensive lineman to come out of Iowa, but he is a caricature of an Iowa offensive lineman. Aiden Fisher, LB, Indiana He averaged more than 100 tackles in his final three seasons at Indiana, and was at his best in 2025 when he was the cornerstone piece at the middle of the Hoosiers’ defense — and that included logging two sacks in their final two games. The last one, as you may remember, was a national championship victory. Fisher is the kind of player where his size (“too small”) and his athleticism (“not explosive”) will land him on either Day 2 or Day 3 of the draft. But it feels inevitable that, in three years, he’ll wear the green dot for a defense and will be a beloved leader in a locker room. Drew Allar, QB, Penn State I’m not usually a fan of the but-what-about-his-potential prospects. But in the case of Allar, I’m here for it. Because I really do wonder: But what about his potential?! It’s a tough class for the quarterbacks. You can go the route of Ty Simpson or Garrett Nussmeier, who profile similarly: coach’s son, undersized, struggled at the end of the year due to injury. But Simpson in Round 1? That’s a bit rich for my taste. And Nussmeier, in general, concerns me because of his lack of physical tools. So that’s where Allar comes in. He strikes me as a developmental talent with awesome upside. He’s got the physical tools. He just never put it all together in college. But he looks like a Day 3 prospect — with a Round 4 grade from NFL.com — and so I love the idea of teams investing in him as a flier. He’s 6-foot-5 and 228 pounds. His arm is very impressive. He was once the No. 1 QB prospect in high school. None of that necessarily makes a good pro QB. But if you put this guy under Sean McVay, he would have as good of a chance as anyone in this class to be a top-tier starter someday. [Rankings, Best Team Fits for Top-12 Quarterbacks] Eli Heidenreich, WR/RB, Navy I am cracking up at the one-for-one athletic comparisons between Heidenreich and Christian McCaffrey. They’re physical clones. Admittedly, they’re not comparable when you put on the film. Not even close. McCaffrey went eighth overall in 2017. Heidenreich will be happy if he lands in the sixth round. But there’s something enticing and deeply entertaining about a weapon like Heidenreich, who last season had 941 receiving yards and six touchdown catches and 499 rushing yards and three touchdowns. He played in Navy’s spread triple-option and therefore is not prototypical in any way. He played two positions after all, and was more of a receiver in college — but he figures to be more of a running back in the pros. If Bill Belichick were still an NFL head coach, he’d risk it all for Heidenreich. Of course, no one will have to. He’s a Day 3 pick. It’ll be fun to see what a team can do with his athleticism and versatility, likely starting with a special teams role.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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In recent weeks, the Summer House scandal has broken containment.
West Wilson and Amanda Batula admitted to their surprise relationship, but only after fans suspected.
But viewers — and people in their real lives — have questions about the timeline of it all.
West is defending Amanda against criticism — and insisting that they were both single when this began.
‘Everyone was single’
On Monday, April 20, West returned to the Show Me Something podcast to process everything with his co-host, Sophie Cunningham.
Knowing how many eyes would be on him, he emphasized what he calls the “actual timeline” of his romance with Amanda Batula.
“There was no overlap,” he insisted. That is in reference to their past relationships, and the cheating accusations.
“I know there are a thousand different theories right now,” West acknowledged.
“But,” he emphasized, “that is one thing that for sure did not happen.”
As West continued, he reiterated that “everyone was single” when he and Amanda first hooked up.
That means that he was no longer with Ciara Miller. And it means that Amanda was no longer with Kyle Cooke.
“We realized things were maybe a little bit serious in February,” he recalled.
“And,” West insisted, “that’s when this all started.”
He added: “There’s not a whole lot more to it than that.”
‘Mysteriously’ it’s always the woman who gets the most hate
West also acknowledged that he is not the primary target of criticism here.
Amanda is clearly getting the “brunt” of the online backlash, he observed.
West was quick to defend his girlfriend from people with “s–t to talk.”
That said, he understands the ire on some level.
West admitted that their entanglement has “hurt the people we care about.” Well, yeah.
See, Ciara and Amanda are close friends. At least, they were.
In fact, viewers can watch the two cuddling on the currently airing Summer House season.
But West is Ciara’s ex.
And Amanda didn’t just start dating him — she started dating him in secret.
Ciara herself called it a mindf–k to realize that her bestie had been doing this behind her back. And that’s not unfair.
‘I can give those apologies face-to-face’
Meanwhile, West admitted that he hasn’t “gotten responses from everybody” yet after texting the rest of the Summer House cast.
“I get it,” he admitted. “But the reunion is coming up, and I can give those apologies face-to-face and also clear up crazy s–t.”
(Andy Cohen’s eyes just turned into cartoon dollar signs.)
Stating that he’s “been better,” West admitted that “a lot has happened in a very short amount of time, obviously.”
He continued, saying that he’s “trying to take it a day at a time and just stay off my phone. But the Internet is a very scary place to be.”
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