The Sports Report: Michael Conforto helps Dodgers earn a split with the Mets

From Benjamin Royer : It was supposed to be a day off for Freddie Freeman .

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts quipped before the game that the 35-year-old veteran first baseman had begun to understand the value of an off day as hes dealt with discomfort in his ankle this season.

But with the go-ahead run on second base in the eighth inning, Roberts summoned Freeman off the bench.

Was it time for another magical, Freddie Freeman moment at Chavez Ravine? Not so fast.

Mets manager Carlos Mendoza called for an intentional walk, and up walked Michael Conforto .

The 46,364 fans at Dodger Stadium already booed the struggling outfielder after his third-inning strikeout.

Hitting .165 entering the game, he was one of the unlikeliest to lead the Dodgers to a comeback victory.

But all Conforto needed was one hit, one chance.

And he delivered.

Against Mets setup man Reed Garrett, Conforto ripped a go-ahead RBI single into left field, helping the Dodgers complete a three-run comeback to defeat the Mets 6-5 and salvage a series split against a potential NL playoff opponent.

Its been a grind up to this point, Conforto said.

All I want to do is go up there and help us win.

A lot of those situations Ive come up short, so to come through today was everything.

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Indiana Indiana 111, at Oklahoma City 110 ( box score , story ) Sunday at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m., ABC Wednesday at Indiana, 5:30 p.m., ABC Friday at Indiana, 5:30 p.m., ABC Monday, June 16 at Oklahoma City, 5:30 p.m., ABC* Thursday, June 19 at Indiana, 5:30 p.m., ABC* Sunday, June 22 at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m., ABC* *if necessary FRENCH OPEN As popular as Coco Gauff is, she knew full well that nearly all of the 15,000 fans at Court Philippe-Chatrier would be against her during the French Open semifinals Thursday.

Thats because Gauff, an American, was taking on a French opponent and one who came from nowhere, 361st-ranked Lois Boisson.

So the No.

2-seeded Gauff turned to a trick that 24-time major champion Novak Djokovic has talked about using: When the partisan crowd was loudly singing Boissons first name, Gauff pretended they were chanting Coco! Not that it mattered much, truly, because Gauff was by far the superior player throughout a 6-1, 6-2 victory that earned her a second trip to the final at Roland-Garros.

Three years ago, Gauff missed out on a chance to leave with the trophy when Iga Swiatek beat her.

This time, Swiatek wont be around for the championship match on Saturday because her 26-match unbeaten run at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament ended earlier Thursday with a 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-0 loss to No.

1 Aryna Sabalenka.

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Florida at Edmonton 4, Florida 3 (OT) ( summary , story ) Friday at Edmonton, 5 p.m., TNT Monday at Florida, 5 p.m., TNT Thursday at Florida, 5 p.m., TNT Saturday, June 14 at Edmonton, 5 p.m., TNT* Tuesday, June 17 at Florida, 5 p.m., TNT* Friday, June 20 at Edmonton, 5 p.m., TNT* * If necessary THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY 1919 Man o War wins his first race, a 5-furlong contest over a straightaway at Belmont Park.

The 3-to-5 favorite wins by six lengths, covering the distance in 59 seconds.

1924 Cyril Walker captures the U.S.

Open with a three-stroke victory over Bobby Jones.

1936 Granville, ridden by James Stout, wins the Belmont Stakes by a neck over Mr.

Bones.

Bold Venture, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, does not run in the race.

1946 The National Basketball Assn.

is founded at the Commodore Hotel in New York.

1966 NFL & AFL announce their merger.

1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar.

1976 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2.

1981 Summing, ridden by George Martins, wins the Belmont Stakes, spoiling Pleasant Colonys Triple Crown bid.

1987 Bet Twice, ridden by Craig Perret, breezes to a 14-length victory in the Belmont Stakes to deny Alysheba the Triple Crown.

Alysheba is a distant fourth.

1987 West Germanys Steffi Graf, eight days shy of her 18th birthday, becomes the youngest womens champion of the French Open when she beats Martina Navratilova 6-4, 4-6, 8-6.

1998 Real Quiet is denied the Triple Crown when Victory Gallop edges him at the wire in the Belmont Stakes.

1999 Andre Agassi rallies to win the French Open and become the fifth man to complete a career Grand Slam.

After losing the first two sets, Agassi surges back to beat Andrei Medvedev 1-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.

Agassi won the 1992 Wimbledon, 1994 U.S.

Open and 1995 Australian Open.

1999 Juli Inkster wins the U.S.

Womens Open with a 16-under 272, the lowest 72-hole score in the championships 54-year history.

2007 The Ducks capture the Stanley Cup with a 6-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators, ending the series in five games.

2010 Rafael Nadal wins his fifth French Open title and avenges his lone Roland Garros defeat, beating Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2, 6-4.

Nadal improves to 38-1 at Roland Garros, with the only loss to Soderling in the fourth round a year ago.

2011 The Bowl Championship Series strips USC of its 2004 title, leaving that season without a BCS champion.

BCS officials vacated the championship after the Trojans were hit with heavy NCAA sanctions last year for rules violations committed during the 2004 and 05 seasons.

2015 American Pharoah leads all the way to win the Belmont Stakes by 512 lengths, becoming the first horse in 37 years to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes.

The bay colt, trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Victor Espinoza, is the 12th horse and first since Affirmed in 1978 to win the Triple Crown.

2015 Serena Williams overcomes a mid-match lull and a third-set deficit to win her third French Open title and 20th major singles trophy by beating Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2.

2015 Tiger Woods hits a new low with the highest score of his career an 85 in the Memorial at Muirfield Village, the course where he has won eight times.

Woods ends his front nine of the third round with back-to-back double bogeys and finishes with a quadruple-bogey 8.

2015 UEFA Champions League Final, Berlin: FC Barcelona beats Juventus, 3-1 for 5th title and second treble (Spanish La Liga & Cup champions).

2018 LeBron James passes Michael Jordans record of 109 for the most 30-point games in NBA playoff history in a 110-102 loss to the Golden State Warriors.

2023 In a stunning development, the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf League agree to unify to create its own for-profit entity to be run by the PGA Tour and funded by Saudi Arabias Public Investment Fund.

THIS DAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY 1918 Casey Stengel, after being traded by Brooklyn in the offseason, made his return to Ebbets Field a memorable one.

In his first at-bat, Stengel called time, stepped out of the batters box and doffed his cap.

A bird flew out and the fans broke into laughter.

1934 Myril Hoag hit a major league record six singles in the New York Yankees 15-3 rout of the Boston Red Sox.

1939 The New York Giants hit five home runs in the fourth inning in a 17-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds at the Polo Grounds.

With two out, Harry Danning, Al Demaree, Burgess Whitehead, Manny Salvo and Joe Moore connected as the Giants scored eight runs in the inning.

1945 In the first game of a doubleheader, Bostons Boo Ferriss scattered 14 hits to beat Philadelphia 5-2.

Ferris, 8-0 on the year, tied the AL mark held by Chicagos John Whitehead for wins at the start of a career.

1975 Cleveland manager Frank Robinson hit two three-run homers in a 7-5 win over the Texas Rangers.

1986 San Diego Padres manager Steve Boros was ejected before the first pitch of the game with the Atlanta Braves when he tried to give umpire Charlie Williams a videotape of a disputed play in the previous nights 4-2 loss to Atlanta.

1992 Eddie Murray drove in two runs at Pittsburgh to pass Mickey Mantle (1,509) as the all-time RBI leader among switch-hitters.

1995 J.D.

Drew of Florida State hit a record-setting three homers in his final three at-bats in a 16-11 loss to USC in the College World Series.

Drew finished 3-for-5 with five RBIs and 12 total bases, also a series record.

1996 For the second time in major league history and first in the AL, a cycle and a triple play took place in the same game.

Bostons John Valentin hit for the cycle, while Chicago turned a triple play in the Red Soxs 7-4 victory.

In 1931, Philadelphias Chuck Klein hit for the cycle in the same game that the Phillies turned a triple play against the Chicago Cubs.

2000 The Rally Monkey is born, thanks to the Angels video crew playing a clip from the 1994 film Ace Ventura, Pet Detective on the JumboTron.

With the words Rally Monkey superimposed over a monkey jumping up and down in the Jim Carrey movie, the crowd goes wild as the Angels score two runs in the bottom of the 9th to beat the San Francisco Giants, 6-5.

2003 Insisting the corked bat, designed to put on home run displays during batting practice, was accidentally used in a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa is suspended for eight games by Major League Baseball.

Bob Watson, baseballs vice president of on-field operations, agrees that the Cubs outfielders use of an illegal bat was an isolated incident, but one that still deserves a penalty.

2007 Trevor Hoffman became the first major leaguer with 500 career saves when he closed out the San Diego Padres 5-2 victory over the Dodgers.

2017 Scooter Gennett hit four home runs, matching the major league record, and finished with 10 RBIs as the Cincinnati Reds routed the St.

Louis Cardinals 13-1.

Gennett became the 17th player to homer four times in one game.

2022 Eduardo Escobar hits for the cycle in an 11-5 win over the Padres; he is the first Mets player to do so since Scott Hairston in 2012, and the first player for any team to accomplish the feat at Petco Park.

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