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Orioles' Leody Taveras suffers most embarrassing strikeout of the pitch clock era against his former team
Texas Tech cannot play the victim in Brendan Sorsby saga, it could've dealt with PR mess months ago Cardi B claims Donald Trump's attendance brought a'dark' energy to NBA Finals Game 3 Trump tears into Stephen A Smith as feud grows: 'Arrogant fool, a low IQ individual' 'World's Best Ex-Girlfriend' Morgan Riddle done dating athletes, Nikki Spoelstra's selfies for haters & malls Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing executes a slide so illegal it would've made the 1980s proud The magic of Omaha: Why the College World Series is unlike anything else in sports that's worth the trip Kyle Busch's son suffers heartbreak in emotional return to racing after father's stunning death Why the under 4.5 through five innings is the play in Nationals-Giants with Foster Griffin facing Robbie Ray Dana White brings legendary stuntman Travis Pastrana's dirt bike backflip to White House USMNT legend Landon Donovan talks World Cup, American soccer's influence overseas during Raising Cane's shift Athletics wild first game in Las Vegas leads to 29 runs, 11 home runs in ominous sign for area's MLB future LIV Golf CEO refuses to guarantee circuit's remaining events will go on as scheduled with awkward sales pitch Steve Doocy explores Bentonville, Arkansas, the'Mountain Bike Capital of the World' Steve Doocy traces Walmart's origins in Arkansas Pompeo warns Iranian regime will'not go away' after US helicopter downed House approves resolution to limit Trump's war powers Trump's reveals new details on Iran drone attack downing US Apache helicopter OutKick Sports Orioles' Leody Taveras suffers most embarrassing strikeout of the pitch clock era against his former team Not all strikeouts are created equal, and nothing may exemplify that more than the punch-out Baltimore Orioles center fielder Leody Taveras endured against the Seattle Mariners. Taveras, who played 28 games for Seattle a season ago, was Baltimore's leadoff man in the bottom of the ninth with his club trailing 4-2 at home. In a spot where he could have jump-started a comeback, he instead struck out in what very well could be the most embarrassing fashion possible of the modern era. Sitting on a 2-2 count, Taveras took a pitch well outside and began walking to first base, thinking he had just been walked. He even began taking off his elbow guard before realizing that he had the pitch count wrong.
Livvy Dunne gets emotional after Paul Skenes' incredible gesture to baseball kids, Spurs fan beaten & MEAT
Ex-Cowboys star relishes in Knicks loss after fans were'hating on President Trump' Trump torches Stephen A Smith's presidential hopes after Knicks lose Game 3 with Trump at MSG Hurricanes vs Golden Knights Game 4 preview: Carolina's comeback magic faces a must-win situation Justin Gaethje targets Ilia Topuria's divorce, igniting feud before White House showdown Lewis Hamilton, worth $500M and dating billionaire Kim Kardashian, wants to put'a limit' on wealth Panthers' Bryce Young, Xavier Legette spend offseason weekend riding horses and ripping ATVs Fever vs Mystics betting preview: Why the over 170.5 looks like the smart play College athletics integrity'left the building' after judge lets Sorsby play despite gambling admission Lindsey Vonn's six-pack leaves heads spinning, NFL WAG enjoys a bikini country club & disgusting HelloFresh Stephen A Smith claims Trump has'no business' attending Knicks game at MSG: 'It is selfish and narcissistic' Nelly Korda impossibly wins US Women's Open, JT Poston finds it at Memorial, and Tyrrell Hatton the family man Nelly Korda is officially the most important US female golfer in modern history, WVU guy's raccoon & lobster NASCAR's scariest wreck in years rocks garage, Earnhardt saves another one & Bubba Wallace lectures young star Maine GOP gubernatorial candidate slams Democratic rivals as'bottom of the barrel' Kevin O'Leary dismisses North Korea's economic revival report NBA Commissioner defends Trump's Finals attendance amid mixed fan reaction China approves world's first commercial brain chip Penn State student shot and killed near family's home in Philadelphia Fox Nation's'Rescue Nation' takes viewers inside the heroic rescues of a first responder Penn Station stabbing victim recounts'crazy scene' OutKick Sports Livvy Dunne gets emotional after Paul Skenes' incredible gesture to baseball kids, Spurs fan beaten & MEAT Skenes is making just shy of $1.1M this season while kids lined up for autographs like it was the 1950s Joe Concha reacts to'The View' co-host Whoopi Goldberg defending President Donald Trump's right to attend the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden against co-host Sunny Hostin's complaints of security delays. Researchers say there's no better way to get your Tuesday morning started in June than settling in for another edition of Screencaps where we check in with the 1A or 1B best pitcher of this generation, Paul Skenes, to see what he's up to off the field. Yes, I'm aware that Shohei is 31. I don't care if Paul and Livvy Dunne pulled off this visit to a local Pittsburgh baseball field as part of some brand campaign or just for some great press, this is how it's done. You know what I love more than anything about the boys surrounding Skenes for autographs?
Pirates vs. Diamondbacks betting preview targets the under as both offenses go cold in series
Former LSU coach Brian Kelly uses AI to prepare for job interviews, proving he's just like the rest of us Newsom office source responds to planned protest against trans athlete at state playoff girls' track meet Framber Valdez gets what he deserves for punk move, suspended six games after drilling Boston's Trevor Story MLB's new automated strike zone has a hidden feature helping umpires become more accurate than ever FIFA's World Cup ticket defense falls apart when compared to college football and NFL playoff prices Sophie Cunningham tells Angel Reese to'move on' after she reposted boyfriend dunking on rumored ex US blockade keeps stranglehold on Iran's economy Pratt issues SHOCKING WARNING to socialist opponent: 'Stabbed in the NECK!' 'Fox & Friends' explores wearable technology's role in health and wellness OutKick Pirates vs. Diamondbacks betting preview targets the under as both offenses go cold in series Ricky Cobb breaks down some of the most creative (and wild) MLB giveaway nights happening right now -- from Shohei Ohtani must-have promos to Ichiro's statue in Seattle, plus some hilarious curveballs like the Bobby Valentine disguise and The average sports bettor tends to have some really hot stretches or some really cold ones. It is typically how you respond to those streaks that allows you to build or bust your bankroll. I've been on a mini-hot streak with these posts lately, and I'm looking to keep it going. We get a matinee game between the Pirates and Diamondbacks that I hope to extend the roll. The Pittsburgh Pirates were considered one of the teams that would make a major impact this season.
Edward Cabrera's strikeout prop is the play as struggling Phillies face surging Cubs today
Nuggets vs Timberwolves Game 3 pick hinges on Jaden McDaniels calling out Denver's entire defense Charles Barkley was disgusted by Magic's highly questionable pregame handshake ChatGPT predicted the first round of the NFL Draft and here's what it said Curt Cignetti was so focused this offseason, he turned down all external requests: 'I'm 95% football' Former MLB owner claims'despicable' San Francisco Giants are the reason the A's left Oakland Longtime NASCAR crew chief tells wild story about one of the sport's biggest characters WNBA finally embraces Caitlin Clark's stardom with unprecedented national TV schedule Why are the Mets so bad? Flyers mascot Gritty pens letter to fans ahead of first playoff game... eight years after he debuted Hasan Piker justifies'social murder' of CEO Fox News celebrates'Bring Your Kids to Work Day' Trump says there's'no time frame' to secure Iran deal Iranian activist praises Trump's intervention after female protesters saved from execution Steve Hilton praised for'offering solutions' in CA gubernatorial debate Middle East tensions escalate over US blockade, Iran's actions OutKick Edward Cabrera's strikeout prop is the play as struggling Phillies face surging Cubs today Cabrera has not reached six strikeouts in a game this season and has gone under in six of eight career starts vs. Philly Kyle Schwarber hit his second home run to extend the Phillies' lead over the Cubs. Baseball sports betting can be rather frustrating. I wrote a piece about the Brewers and Tigers yesterday that was on the teams scoring under 4.5 runs through five innings. The first three innings saw just one run.
Mind the (Language) Gap: Towards Probing Numerical and Cross-Lingual Limits of LVLMs
Gautam, Somraj, Penamakuri, Abhirama Subramanyam, Bhandari, Abhishek, Harit, Gaurav
We introduce MMCRICBENCH-3K, a benchmark for Visual Question Answering (VQA) on cricket scorecards, designed to evaluate large vision-language models (LVLMs) on complex numerical and cross-lingual reasoning over semi-structured tabular images. MMCRICBENCH-3K comprises 1,463 synthetically generated scorecard images from ODI, T20, and Test formats, accompanied by 1,500 English QA pairs. It includes two subsets: MMCRICBENCH-E-1.5K, featuring English scorecards, and MMCRICBENCH-H-1.5K, containing visually similar Hindi scorecards, with all questions and answers kept in English to enable controlled cross-script evaluation. The task demands reasoning over structured numerical data, multi-image context, and implicit domain knowledge. Empirical results show that even state-of-the-art LVLMs, such as GPT-4o and Qwen2.5VL, struggle on the English subset despite it being their primary training language and exhibit a further drop in performance on the Hindi subset. This reveals key limitations in structure-aware visual text understanding, numerical reasoning, and cross-lingual generalization. The dataset is publicly available via Hugging Face at https://huggingface.co/datasets/DIALab/MMCricBench, to promote LVLM research in this direction.
New Mets pitcher Justin Garza credits video game MLB The Show for helping save career
Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Pitcher Justin Garza was thinking about quitting the game he loved during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 as he struggled in the minor leagues. However, as Garza is joining the New York Mets now after a deal with the San Francisco Giants, he credits one thing to saving his career. Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Justin Garza, #63, reacts after giving up a home run to Minnesota Twins designated hitter Byron Buxton during the first inning at Target Field.
DIAMOND: An LLM-Driven Agent for Context-Aware Baseball Highlight Summarization
Kang, Jeonghun, Kwon, Soonmok, Lee, Joonseok, Kim, Byung-Hak
Traditional approaches -- such as Win Probability Added (WPA)-based ranking or computer vision-driven event detection -- can identify scoring plays but often miss strategic depth, momentum shifts, and storyline progression. Manual curation remains the gold standard but is resource-intensive and not scalable. We introduce DIAMOND, an LLM-driven agent for context-aware baseball highlight summarization that integrates structured sports analytics with natural language reasoning. DIAMOND leverages sabermetric features -- Win Expectancy, WPA, and Leverage Index -- to quantify play importance, while an LLM module enhances selection based on contextual narrative value. This hybrid approach ensures both quantitative rigor and qualitative richness, surpassing the limitations of purely statistical or vision-based systems. Evaluated on five diverse Korean Baseball Organization League games, DIAMOND improves F1-score from 42.9% (WPA-only) to 84.8%, outperforming both commercial and statistical baselines. Though limited in scale, our results highlight the potential of modular, interpretable agent-based frameworks for event-level summarization in sports and beyond.
A's pitcher records win without facing batter in statistical anomaly
Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Oakland Athletics reliever Sean Newcomb recorded his first win of the year on Friday night with zero batters faced. So, how did he do it? With the A's tied at 5 against the Minnesota Twins with two outs in the eighth inning and a man on first, Newcomb entered the game from the bullpen.
CAMP: A Context-Aware Cricket Players Performance Metric
Ayub, Muhammad Sohaib, Ullah, Naimat, Ali, Sarwan, Khan, Imdad Ullah, Awais, Mian Muhammad, Khan, Muhammad Asad, Faizullah, Safiullah
Cricket is the second most popular sport after soccer in terms of viewership. However, the assessment of individual player performance, a fundamental task in team sports, is currently primarily based on aggregate performance statistics, including average runs and wickets taken. We propose Context-Aware Metric of player Performance, CAMP, to quantify individual players' contributions toward a cricket match outcome. CAMP employs data mining methods and enables effective data-driven decision-making for selection and drafting, coaching and training, team line-ups, and strategy development. CAMP incorporates the exact context of performance, such as opponents' strengths and specific circumstances of games, such as pressure situations. We empirically evaluate CAMP on data of limited-over cricket matches between 2001 and 2019. In every match, a committee of experts declares one player as the best player, called Man of the M}atch (MoM). The top two rated players by CAMP match with MoM in 83\% of the 961 games. Thus, the CAMP rating of the best player closely matches that of the domain experts. By this measure, CAMP significantly outperforms the current best-known players' contribution measure based on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method.
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