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A resurgent Los Angeles Dodgers’ offense will take on the visiting Chicago Cubs in the rubber match of a three-game series on Sunday afternoon. The Dodgers snapped the Cubs’ 10-game winning streak with a 12-4 win on Saturday night. Teoscar Hernandez was 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs as Los Angeles racked up 14 hits. Hitless in his previous three games, Hernandez lined a two-RBI single up the middle in a six-run fourth inning. “I haven’t been on base for the last couple games, but it is OK, everyone goes through that,” he said. “Hopefully I can keep up doing that and be consistent with it.” Shohei Ohtani also snapped an 0-for-12 skid over his previous three games when

A pair of 27-year-old right-handers who are off to successful starts will face relatively unfamiliar opponents on Sunday afternoon when Max Meyer and the Miami Marlins close a three-game road series against Landen Roupp and the San Francisco Giants. The teams have split the first two games of the set, with the Giants drawing even Saturday in a 6-2 win after the Marlins dominated the opener 9-4. Meyer (1-0, 3.96 ERA) has allowed no more than three runs in any of his outings this season, with Miami winning three of his five starts. He limited the St. Louis Cardinals to two runs and three hits over 5 1/3 innings on Monday, striking out a season-best eight in his team’s 5-3

Game 4 heads back to Bell Centre on Sunday night with Montreal holding a 2-1 series lead after another overtime finish. Puck drop is set for 7:00 PM ET on ESPN, and this series has already turned into exactly the kind of first-round battle bettors want to track closely. Tampa Bay finished the regular season 50-26-6 and took the No. 2 seed in the Atlantic, while Montreal closed 48-24-10 and grabbed the No. 3 seed. Through three games, that gap has barely mattered. What has mattered is how thin the margin has been. All three games have gone to overtime, Montreal stole Game 1 behind a power-play eruption, Tampa answered in Game 2, and the Canadiens pushed back in Game

Game 4 shifts back to Honda Center with a real swing feel to it. Anaheim leads the series 2-1 after ripping off back-to-back home wins, including Friday’s 7-4 result, and now the Ducks have a chance to push Edmonton to the edge before the series goes back north. Puck drop is set for 9:30 PM ET on Sunday, April 26, with ESPN carrying the broadcast. Edmonton finished the regular season at 41-30-11 and Anaheim closed at 43-33-6, so this was never some massive gap on paper, even if the Oilers came in with the bigger playoff reputation. The bigger story so far has been game environment. Anaheim has turned this into a fast, messy, high-event series, and Edmonton has not