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Roki Sasaki’s spectacular performance as a reliever during the 2025 postseason is not translating to success as a starter this season. Sasaki (0-2, 6.23 ERA), in his second MLB season after much success in Japan, will start for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday afternoon against the Colorado Rockies in the third game of a four-game series in Denver. The teams have split the first two contests. This will be the first time Sasaki has faced the Rockies. After earning three saves with an 0.84 ERA in nine games during the Dodgers’ run to their second consecutive World Series championship last year, the right-hander has made it through five innings in only one of his three starts in 2026 and

The Cincinnati Reds will look for their second series sweep of the season when they play the Minnesota Twins on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis. Cincinnati’s scheduled starting pitcher, Brady Singer (1-1, 5.60 ERA), earned his first win of the season on Tuesday. The right-hander scattered six hits, gave up one run and struck out one in a 2-1 home victory over the San Francisco Giants. Though Singer was struck with a comebacker to his right foot in the sixth inning, he finished the frame. X-rays came back negative. “I’m glad the X-rays came back good,” Singer said. “It caught me square in the foot. But I’m good for the next (start).” Both of the Reds’ wins over the Twins in

Aston Villa host Sunderland AFC at Villa Park on Sunday, April 19, in a late-season Premier League match that matters at both ends of the European race. Villa come into it sitting fourth and still trying to lock down Champions League football, while Sunderland have pushed themselves into the broader conversation for Europe after a strong stretch and a 1-0 win over Tottenham last time out. Villa are also coming off a 4-0 home win over Bologna on Thursday that sent them into the Europa League semifinals, so this is a spot where league urgency and workload collide a bit. That is what makes this handicap interesting. Villa still have the stronger squad and the better home environment, and the

Burnley head to the City Ground on Sunday, April 19 for a Premier League relegation fight that matters a lot more to Nottingham Forest than their place in mid-April usually would. Forest came into the weekend 16th on 33 points, still stuck in the survival grind, while Burnley were 19th on 20 points and running out of road fast. The reverse meeting at Turf Moor finished 1-1 in September, so there is at least some recent evidence that this fixture can tighten up and stay uncomfortable for long stretches. Forest are balancing two realities at once. They just reached the Europa League semi-finals after beating Porto 1-0 on Thursday, but the bigger domestic issue is that they cannot let that