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The Nordderby lands at a huge moment in the Bundesliga survival race. Hamburg travel to Weserstadion on Saturday, April 18, with kickoff set for 3:30 p.m. local time in Bremen. Through 29 matches, Hamburg sit 13th on 31 points, while Werder Bremen are 15th on 28, only three points above the relegation play-off place. That makes this one more than a rivalry game. It is a pressure match with real table consequences. Recent form adds even more tension. Bremen have dropped three of their last four league matches, including a 3-1 loss to Cologne last weekend, while Hamburg are winless in four and have just one victory in their last seven after being beaten 4-0 by Stuttgart. The reverse fixture

Borussia Dortmund head to PreZero Arena on Saturday for a Matchday 30 meeting that matters at both ends of the European race. Dortmund sit second on 64 points, while Hoffenheim are sixth on 51, so this is not just a name-brand Bundesliga spot. It is a standings game with real pressure behind it, especially with only five rounds left in the campaign. Dortmund come in after a 1-0 home loss to Bayer Leverkusen that snapped a four-match league winning streak. Hoffenheim, meanwhile, have stalled a bit at the wrong time, taking only two points from their last four league matches after a 2-1 home loss to Mainz and a 2-2 draw at Augsburg. That makes this a fascinating market because

Leverkusen hosts Augsburgo at BayArena on Saturday, April 18, with kickoff set for 3:30 p.m. local time in a Bundesliga Matchday 30 spot that matters more for the home side. Leverkusen comes in fifth on 52 points, just one point behind the top four, while Augsburg sits 10th on 33 points and is still playing with some pressure in the lower-middle part of the table. The recent form is interesting. Leverkusen just won 1-0 at Dortmund after beating Wolfsburg 6-3, so the attack is clearly alive even if the game-to-game control has not always been perfect. Augsburg, meanwhile, has gone 2-2 against Hoffenheim and 1-1 at Hamburg in April after a 2-5 loss to Stuttgart and a 0-2 defeat at

The Chicago White Sox will look to build on an elite offensive performance when they face the Athletics on Saturday afternoon in the middle contest of a three-game set at West Sacramento, Calif. Chicago equaled its top scoring output of the campaign and racked up a season-high 15 hits during Friday’s 9-2 shellacking of the Athletics. Munetaka Murakami smacked his first major league grand slam as part of a 3-for-5 outing. The left-handed-hitting Murakami’s seventh-inning blast cleared the tall batter’s eye beyond the center-field wall. “I struck out the at-bat before, so I was trying to see the ball well and really get a good swing at it,” Murakami said through an interpreter. “And the result was the best I