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The New York Mets placed infielder Ronny Mauricio on the 10-day injured list Sunday with a left thumb fracture and selected the contract of infielder Vidal Brujan from Triple-A Syracuse. To make room for Brujan on the 40-man roster, infielder Eric Wagaman was designated for assignment. Mauricio was injured in Saturday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels when he dived into first base in the seventh inning while beating out an infield single. Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said Mauricio could be out as long as two months, with the club set to get more details on the injury.

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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Nelly Korda delivered an early knockout punch Sunday and stretched her lead to as many as seven shots before cruising to the finish line with a 3-under 69 and a four-shot victory in the Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba for her third win of the young season.

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Kimi Antonelli has won the Miami Grand Prix for his third consecutive Formula 1 victory as the 19-year-old Mercedes drivers continued to show he’s a legitimate championship contender. Antonelli started from the pole Sunday but had a slick start on a damp surface of the Miami International Autodrome. Threats of heavy rain led F1 to move up the start of the race by three hours, and there was an early morning heavy thunderstorm with lightning strikes directly over the Hard Rock Stadium, but it had cleared by the time the event began.

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Sally Perez and Maggie Boyd won the clincher as UCLA swept top-seeded Stanford 3-0 to win the Bruins’ third NCAA beach volleyball championship. Perez and Boyd wrapped up the Bruins’ first championship since winning back-to-back titles in 2018-19, beating the Cardinal’s Kelly Belardi and Avery Jackson 21-11, 21-19. Kaley Mathews and Ensley Alden got third-seeded UCLA (33-6) off and running with a 21-16, 21-11 victory over Brooke Rockwell and Ruby Sorra. Ava Williamson and Jesse Dueck gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead in the closest match of the day, beating Indigo Clarke and Clara Stowell 21-17, 25-23.

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The NBA's conference semifinal round starts Monday. In the West, it's Minnesota vs. San Antonio and the Los Angeles Lakers vs. defending champion Oklahoma City. In the East, it's Philadelphia vs. New York and the second semifinal matchup is still pending depending on Sunday's results.

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After debuting in Game 4 following appendectomy surgery last month, Joel Embiid played some of the best playoff basketball of his career over the final four games of the series to lead the 76ers to a 109-100 Game 7 victory over a Celtics team that had looked like a potential NBA title contender. The No. 7 seed’s reward is an Eastern Conference semifinals matchup with the No. 3 seed New York Knicks. The 76ers will need everything Embiid gave and more to compete with a Knicks team that plays  much more physical game than Boston.

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David Benavidez became the first boxer to win championships at 168, 175 and 200 pounds, pounding his former sparring partner Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez, knocking him out at 2:59 of the sixth round to win the WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles on Saturday night. Benavidez not only remained undefeated, but showed why he was a -600 favorite in twice sending Ramirez to the canvass. In the co-main event, WBA super middleweight championship fight, Jaime Munguía upset title holder Armando Reséndiz by winning a resounding unanimous decision.

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SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh was a late scratch from the lineup Saturday night before a 3-2, 10-inning loss to Kansas City with what manager Dan Wilson termed “general soreness.”

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Oswald Peraza hit a two-out RBI single in the 10th inning and the Los Angeles Angels snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the New York Mets. Jorge Soler drew a leadoff walk from Austin Warren to open the 10th and Jo Adell singled to load the bases with no outs. Warren got Josh Lowe and Vaughn Grissom on flyouts and was one strike away from escaping the jam when Peraza, who singled in the fourth and doubled in the sixth, dunked an 0-2 curve into left-center field for the winning hit. Sam Bachman struck out three in 1 2/3 innings and Ryan Zeferjahn threw a scoreless ninth and 10th for the win.

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Mathias Laborda scored in the 82nd minute for the Vancouver Whitecaps in a 1-1 tie with the LA Galaxy. The Whitecaps (8-1-1), who were only the second MLS team in the post-shootout era (since 2000) to win eight of their first nine games to begin a season, had their club regular-season record four-game win streak snapped. Sebastian Berhalter played a free kick from the left side to the back post and Laborda headed home the finish from point-blank range to cap the scoring. The Whitecaps had 58% possession and outshot LA 19-7, 5-2 on target. Joseph Paintsil opened the scoring in the 46th minute.

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Sofia Cantore scored two goals, Trinity Rodman added a goal and two assists, and the Washington Spirit won their fourth straight with a 4-2 victory over the Orlando Pride on Saturday. In other National Women’s Soccer League matches, the Utah Royals beat Angel City FC 1-0 on the road and the Kansas City Current took down the hosts North Carolina Courage 2-1. The game in Orlando was delayed by 90 minutes because of weather. The Pride's Barbra Banda also scored a pair of goals.