Kenny Brooks and Kentucky reeled in a fantastic transfer portal class, bringing in one of the best point guards in the country in Tonie Morgan as well as former Conference USA stars Asia Boone and Josie Gilvin. However, there’s also another pair of transfers that we’ve yet to see take the floor at Kentucky: Jordan Obi and Dominika Paurová.
Obi and Paurová were brought in last offseason, but they didn’t get to play last year because unfortunately, both of them suffered lower leg injuries during the summer. Obi’s injury occurred in practice, while Paurová was representing Czechia in international competition. Thankfully though, they’re set to make their debuts in the blue and white soon.
Getting them back is a big, big deal, and that can’t be stressed enough. Obi was a three-time All-Ivy star at Penn, recording 14.8 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 blocks on 38.6% shooting from three-point range during the 2023-24 season.
As for Paurová, she was at Oregon State prior to her time in Lexington. The Beavers were a rising force in women’s college basketball before conference realignment derailed them, and they even made the Elite Eight back in 2023-24 when Paurová was a freshman. She was the sixth man on that team, putting up 5.5 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game on 37.2% shooting from deep.
Needless to say, but both are going to provide very valuable minutes from the get-go. That’s why their teammates, like Teonni Key, are so stoked to get to play alongside them.
“We’re super excited,” Key said during media day. “They’re great players, honestly. So, it’s been super fun just having them back and playing with all of us, getting to know them as players — like on the court as well. We knew them well off the court. Just seeing how well they mesh with all of us, like their style of play, it’s been really exciting because they both bring something different — pieces that we really didn’t have last year. So, it’s just super exciting.”
Hopefully, they mesh well enough to help Brooks and the Cats have another special season.
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Kenny Brooks and Kentucky reeled in a fantastic transfer portal class, bringing in one of the best point guards in the country in Tonie Morgan as well as former Conference USA stars Asia Boone and Josie Gilvin. However, there’s also another pair of transfers that we’ve yet to see take the floor at Kentucky: Jordan Obi and Dominika Paurová.
Obi and Paurová were brought in last offseason, but they didn’t get to play last year because unfortunately, both of them suffered lower leg injuries during the summer. Obi’s injury occurred in practice, while Paurová was representing Czechia in international competition. Thankfully though, they’re set to make their debuts in the blue and white soon.
Getting them back is a big, big deal, and that can’t be stressed enough. Obi was a three-time All-Ivy star at Penn, recording 14.8 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 blocks on 38.6% shooting from three-point range during the 2023-24 season.
As for Paurová, she was at Oregon State prior to her time in Lexington. The Beavers were a rising force in women’s college basketball before conference realignment derailed them, and they even made the Elite Eight back in 2023-24 when Paurová was a freshman. She was the sixth man on that team, putting up 5.5 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game on 37.2% shooting from deep.
Needless to say, but both are going to provide very valuable minutes from the get-go. That’s why their teammates, like Teonni Key, are so stoked to get to play alongside them.
“We’re super excited,” Key said during media day. “They’re great players, honestly. So, it’s been super fun just having them back and playing with all of us, getting to know them as players — like on the court as well. We knew them well off the court. Just seeing how well they mesh with all of us, like their style of play, it’s been really exciting because they both bring something different — pieces that we really didn’t have last year. So, it’s just super exciting.”
Hopefully, they mesh well enough to help Brooks and the Cats have another special season.
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Kenny Brooks and Kentucky reeled in a fantastic transfer portal class, bringing in one of the best point guards in the country in Tonie Morgan as well as former Conference USA stars Asia Boone and Josie Gilvin. However, there’s also another pair of transfers that we’ve yet to see take the floor at Kentucky: Jordan Obi and Dominika Paurová.
Obi and Paurová were brought in last offseason, but they didn’t get to play last year because unfortunately, both of them suffered lower leg injuries during the summer. Obi’s injury occurred in practice, while Paurová was representing Czechia in international competition. Thankfully though, they’re set to make their debuts in the blue and white soon.
Getting them back is a big, big deal, and that can’t be stressed enough. Obi was a three-time All-Ivy star at Penn, recording 14.8 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 blocks on 38.6% shooting from three-point range during the 2023-24 season.
As for Paurová, she was at Oregon State prior to her time in Lexington. The Beavers were a rising force in women’s college basketball before conference realignment derailed them, and they even made the Elite Eight back in 2023-24 when Paurová was a freshman. She was the sixth man on that team, putting up 5.5 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game on 37.2% shooting from deep.
Needless to say, but both are going to provide very valuable minutes from the get-go. That’s why their teammates, like Teonni Key, are so stoked to get to play alongside them.
“We’re super excited,” Key said during media day. “They’re great players, honestly. So, it’s been super fun just having them back and playing with all of us, getting to know them as players — like on the court as well. We knew them well off the court. Just seeing how well they mesh with all of us, like their style of play, it’s been really exciting because they both bring something different — pieces that we really didn’t have last year. So, it’s just super exciting.”
Hopefully, they mesh well enough to help Brooks and the Cats have another special season.
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Kenny Brooks and Kentucky reeled in a fantastic transfer portal class, bringing in one of the best point guards in the country in Tonie Morgan as well as former Conference USA stars Asia Boone and Josie Gilvin. However, there’s also another pair of transfers that we’ve yet to see take the floor at Kentucky: Jordan Obi and Dominika Paurová.
Obi and Paurová were brought in last offseason, but they didn’t get to play last year because unfortunately, both of them suffered lower leg injuries during the summer. Obi’s injury occurred in practice, while Paurová was representing Czechia in international competition. Thankfully though, they’re set to make their debuts in the blue and white soon.
Getting them back is a big, big deal, and that can’t be stressed enough. Obi was a three-time All-Ivy star at Penn, recording 14.8 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 blocks on 38.6% shooting from three-point range during the 2023-24 season.
As for Paurová, she was at Oregon State prior to her time in Lexington. The Beavers were a rising force in women’s college basketball before conference realignment derailed them, and they even made the Elite Eight back in 2023-24 when Paurová was a freshman. She was the sixth man on that team, putting up 5.5 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game on 37.2% shooting from deep.
Needless to say, but both are going to provide very valuable minutes from the get-go. That’s why their teammates, like Teonni Key, are so stoked to get to play alongside them.
“We’re super excited,” Key said during media day. “They’re great players, honestly. So, it’s been super fun just having them back and playing with all of us, getting to know them as players — like on the court as well. We knew them well off the court. Just seeing how well they mesh with all of us, like their style of play, it’s been really exciting because they both bring something different — pieces that we really didn’t have last year. So, it’s just super exciting.”
Hopefully, they mesh well enough to help Brooks and the Cats have another special season.
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Kenny Brooks and Kentucky reeled in a fantastic transfer portal class, bringing in one of the best point guards in the country in Tonie Morgan as well as former Conference USA stars Asia Boone and Josie Gilvin. However, there’s also another pair of transfers that we’ve yet to see take the floor at Kentucky: Jordan Obi and Dominika Paurová.
Obi and Paurová were brought in last offseason, but they didn’t get to play last year because unfortunately, both of them suffered lower leg injuries during the summer. Obi’s injury occurred in practice, while Paurová was representing Czechia in international competition. Thankfully though, they’re set to make their debuts in the blue and white soon.
Getting them back is a big, big deal, and that can’t be stressed enough. Obi was a three-time All-Ivy star at Penn, recording 14.8 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 blocks on 38.6% shooting from three-point range during the 2023-24 season.
As for Paurová, she was at Oregon State prior to her time in Lexington. The Beavers were a rising force in women’s college basketball before conference realignment derailed them, and they even made the Elite Eight back in 2023-24 when Paurová was a freshman. She was the sixth man on that team, putting up 5.5 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game on 37.2% shooting from deep.
Needless to say, but both are going to provide very valuable minutes from the get-go. That’s why their teammates, like Teonni Key, are so stoked to get to play alongside them.
“We’re super excited,” Key said during media day. “They’re great players, honestly. So, it’s been super fun just having them back and playing with all of us, getting to know them as players — like on the court as well. We knew them well off the court. Just seeing how well they mesh with all of us, like their style of play, it’s been really exciting because they both bring something different — pieces that we really didn’t have last year. So, it’s just super exciting.”
Hopefully, they mesh well enough to help Brooks and the Cats have another special season.
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Kenny Brooks and Kentucky reeled in a fantastic transfer portal class, bringing in one of the best point guards in the country in Tonie Morgan as well as former Conference USA stars Asia Boone and Josie Gilvin. However, there’s also another pair of transfers that we’ve yet to see take the floor at Kentucky: Jordan Obi and Dominika Paurová.
Obi and Paurová were brought in last offseason, but they didn’t get to play last year because unfortunately, both of them suffered lower leg injuries during the summer. Obi’s injury occurred in practice, while Paurová was representing Czechia in international competition. Thankfully though, they’re set to make their debuts in the blue and white soon.
Getting them back is a big, big deal, and that can’t be stressed enough. Obi was a three-time All-Ivy star at Penn, recording 14.8 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 blocks on 38.6% shooting from three-point range during the 2023-24 season.
As for Paurová, she was at Oregon State prior to her time in Lexington. The Beavers were a rising force in women’s college basketball before conference realignment derailed them, and they even made the Elite Eight back in 2023-24 when Paurová was a freshman. She was the sixth man on that team, putting up 5.5 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game on 37.2% shooting from deep.
Needless to say, but both are going to provide very valuable minutes from the get-go. That’s why their teammates, like Teonni Key, are so stoked to get to play alongside them.
“We’re super excited,” Key said during media day. “They’re great players, honestly. So, it’s been super fun just having them back and playing with all of us, getting to know them as players — like on the court as well. We knew them well off the court. Just seeing how well they mesh with all of us, like their style of play, it’s been really exciting because they both bring something different — pieces that we really didn’t have last year. So, it’s just super exciting.”
Hopefully, they mesh well enough to help Brooks and the Cats have another special season.
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Kenny Brooks and Kentucky reeled in a fantastic transfer portal class, bringing in one of the best point guards in the country in Tonie Morgan as well as former Conference USA stars Asia Boone and Josie Gilvin. However, there’s also another pair of transfers that we’ve yet to see take the floor at Kentucky: Jordan Obi and Dominika Paurová.
Obi and Paurová were brought in last offseason, but they didn’t get to play last year because unfortunately, both of them suffered lower leg injuries during the summer. Obi’s injury occurred in practice, while Paurová was representing Czechia in international competition. Thankfully though, they’re set to make their debuts in the blue and white soon.
Getting them back is a big, big deal, and that can’t be stressed enough. Obi was a three-time All-Ivy star at Penn, recording 14.8 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 blocks on 38.6% shooting from three-point range during the 2023-24 season.
As for Paurová, she was at Oregon State prior to her time in Lexington. The Beavers were a rising force in women’s college basketball before conference realignment derailed them, and they even made the Elite Eight back in 2023-24 when Paurová was a freshman. She was the sixth man on that team, putting up 5.5 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game on 37.2% shooting from deep.
Needless to say, but both are going to provide very valuable minutes from the get-go. That’s why their teammates, like Teonni Key, are so stoked to get to play alongside them.
“We’re super excited,” Key said during media day. “They’re great players, honestly. So, it’s been super fun just having them back and playing with all of us, getting to know them as players — like on the court as well. We knew them well off the court. Just seeing how well they mesh with all of us, like their style of play, it’s been really exciting because they both bring something different — pieces that we really didn’t have last year. So, it’s just super exciting.”
Hopefully, they mesh well enough to help Brooks and the Cats have another special season.
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Colorado’s performance in a three-game series against Toronto went from bad to worse to historic on Wednesday, as the Blue Jays pummeled the Rockies in a 20-1 blowout.
The loss completed an overwhelming three-game sweep by the Blue Jays in which the Rockies set a new mark for futility, compounding their flirtation with being the worst team in MLB history.
The Blue Jays won Game 1 on Monday by a 15-1 margin. On Tuesday, they won by the relatively reasonable yet still blowout margin of 10-4. Then came Wednesday’s debacle, in which the Blue Jays scored eight runs in the ninth inning of a 19-run win that had long been secured.
Making matters worse for the Rockies, the Blue Jays did this at Coors Field in front of the fans in Denver who decided that it was worth showing up on a Wednesday afternoon to witness the proceedings.
When the dust was settled, Toronto had tallied 63 hits at Coors Field this week, which added up to the most by one team in a three-game series in MLB history, according to the Denver Post. Toronto’s margin of victory in the series was an astounding 39 runs.
The Blue Jays secured 24 of their 63 hits Wednesday in a game in which the Rockies actually led early with a 1-0 margin in the first inning. But the wheels started to fall off in the third as the Blue Jays took a 3-1 lead off of starter Kyle Freeland via a three-run Bo Bichette home run.
The Blue Jays chased Freeland in the fifth with another three-run outburst highlighted by a two-run triple from Nathan Lukes, his sixth hit of the series.
Toronto added four runs in the sixth and two more in the eighth. Then came the ultimate addition of insult to injury in the ninth as the Blue Jays sent 11 batters to the plate after entering the game’s final inning with a 12-1 lead.
Eight of them scored. Davis Schneider and Ernie Clement each hit home runs.
The ninth-inning outburst came entirely at the expense of backup Rockies catcher Austin Nola as Colorado opted to not further tax its pitching staff. Nola now has an ERA of 72.00.
Before it was done, the Blue Jays’ social media staff offered a shoutout to the mile-high air in Denver.
In the end, the Blue Jays scored 20 runs on 24 hits, five of them home runs. Bichette, Schneider and Lukes tied for the team lead with four RBI each. Eight different Blue Jays recorded multiple hits, led by four each from Clement, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Ty France.
The Rockies sent seven pitchers to the mound. Freeland (6 earned runs), Angel Chivilli (4 earned runs) and Nola (8 earned runs) took the bulk of the damage.
The Blue Jays improved to 68-48 with the sweep to increase their AL East lead over the Boston Red Sox to 3.5 games.
Colorado’s performance in a three-game series against Toronto went from bad to worse to historic on Wednesday, as the Blue Jays pummeled the Rockies in a 20-1 blowout.
The loss completed an overwhelming three-game sweep by the Blue Jays in which the Rockies set a new mark for futility, compounding their flirtation with being the worst team in MLB history.
The Blue Jays won Game 1 on Monday by a 15-1 margin. On Tuesday, they won by the relatively reasonable yet still blowout margin of 10-4. Then came Wednesday’s debacle, in which the Blue Jays scored eight runs in the ninth inning of a 19-run win that had long been secured.
Making matters worse for the Rockies, the Blue Jays did this at Coors Field in front of the fans in Denver who decided that it was worth showing up on a Wednesday afternoon to witness the proceedings.
When the dust was settled, Toronto had tallied 63 hits at Coors Field this week, which added up to the most by one team in a three-game series in MLB history, according to the Denver Post. Toronto’s margin of victory in the series was an astounding 39 runs.
The Blue Jays secured 24 of their 63 hits Wednesday in a game in which the Rockies actually led early with a 1-0 margin in the first inning. But the wheels started to fall off in the third as the Blue Jays took a 3-1 lead off of starter Kyle Freeland via a three-run Bo Bichette home run.
The Blue Jays chased Freeland in the fifth with another three-run outburst highlighted by a two-run triple from Nathan Lukes, his sixth hit of the series.
Toronto added four runs in the sixth and two more in the eighth. Then came the ultimate addition of insult to injury in the ninth as the Blue Jays sent 11 batters to the plate after entering the game’s final inning with a 12-1 lead.
Eight of them scored. Davis Schneider and Ernie Clement each hit home runs.
The ninth-inning outburst came entirely at the expense of backup Rockies catcher Austin Nola as Colorado opted to not further tax its pitching staff. Nola now has an ERA of 72.00.
Before it was done, the Blue Jays’ social media staff offered a shoutout to the mile-high air in Denver.
In the end, the Blue Jays scored 20 runs on 24 hits, five of them home runs. Bichette, Schneider and Lukes tied for the team lead with four RBI each. Eight different Blue Jays recorded multiple hits, led by four each from Clement, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Ty France.
The Rockies sent seven pitchers to the mound. Freeland (6 earned runs), Angel Chivilli (4 earned runs) and Nola (8 earned runs) took the bulk of the damage.
The Blue Jays improved to 68-48 with the sweep to increase their AL East lead over the Boston Red Sox to 3.5 games.
Shohei Ohtani flips his bat after hitting his 39th home run of the season, a two-run shot to center field that traveled 440 feet. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Only one player in the last 110 years has tried to do what the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani is doing this season, which is to pitch and hit successfully at the big-league level.
Babe Ruth twice won more than 20 games and led the American League in ERA and starts before the Red Sox, then the Yankees, decided pitching was distracting from Ruth’s hitting and put him out to pasture in right field.
Over the next three seasons, Ruth broke the major league record for home runs three times.
The Dodgers and Ohtani insist he’ll remain a two-way player for the time being, but recent performances suggests both the Red Sox and Yankees may have been on to something when they took Ruth off the mound.
Ohtani made his eighth start of the year Wednesday and it was his best as a Dodger, with the right-hander giving up just a tainted run on two hits and striking out a season-high eight in four innings. Perhaps more important, he also slugged his first home run in 10 games in the third inning of a 5-3 matinee loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
It was the first truly Ruthian two-way performances for Ohtani since he joined the Dodgers but it was one the team’s defense and bullpen wasted, with three relievers combining to yield four runs on 10 hits over the final five innings.
The two most important ones came in the eighth, when the Cardinals turned a one-run deficit into a one-run lead, greeting Alex Vesia with a pair of singles before a two-out hit from Jordan Walker drove in the tying run and the winning one scored on a throwing error by third baseman Alex Freeland.
“It never feels good,” manager Dave Roberts said of the loss, his team’s 17th in 30 games since July 1. “Is there a level of frustration the way the second half has started off? Yeah. We just haven’t synced up. We just can’t get on track offensively. We’re not playing great.”
That can’t be said of Ohtani, although the effort he gave at the plate Wednesday equaled what he’s been doing on the mound recently. He has posted a 2.37 ERA and struck out 25 in 19 innings in his eight starts, yet in the same eight games he’s batted .219. In his last six starts on the mound, he’s gone just three for 24 at the plate.
That’s part of a slump that began in mid-June, when Ohtani made his pitching debut for the Dodgers. At the time he led the majors in runs and led the National League in homers and slugging percentage. Since then, his strikeout rate has risen, his average has plummeted more than 20 points and he’s clubbed just 14 homers, one fewer than he had in May alone as a designated hitter.
Ohtani said he can’t explain the difference.
“I don’t really try to think too differently on days that I pitch and hit and on days that I only hit,” he said through a translator. “I’m thinking of adjusting how I work out and do my work in between my outings. Especially now that I’m going to be throwing more innings.”
Ohtani both pitched and hit on his way to two MVP awards with the Angels. But last season, the first in five years in which he didn’t pitch while recovering from a second elbow surgery, Ohtani sent career highs in virtually every offensive category and led the NL in runs (134), homers (54) and RBIs (130) while becoming the first player in history to hit 50 homers and steal 50 bases in a single season.
That won him a third MVP award and a World Series ring, replicas of which were handed out Wednesday to the 44,621 sun-splashed fans who came to see Ohtani pitch. But in 2021, when he topped 10 starts for the first time with the Angels, he hit a full-season career-low .257 and struck out a career-high 189 times.
For Ohtani, the manager said, the challenge now is finding comfort in the crowed new routine.
“It’s not the norm,” he said. “It’s been over two years since he’s done this, so he’s still sort of getting adjusted to this lifestyle, as far as kind of the day to day.”
“I don’t think he’s there yet. It’s only going to get better as he gets more time doing it.”
Ohtani breezed through his longest start as a Dodger, topping 100 mph multiple times and retiring the first six Cardinals in order. It would have been seven but shortstop Mookie Betts and second baseman Miguel Rojas lost Walker’s popout in a high sky leading off the third. That went for a hit and Walker came around to score on a stolen base, a ground out and Brendan Donovan’s infield single.
Ohtani struck out the next four hitters he faced while giving his team the lead in the third, following Alex Call’s leadoff double — his first hit as a Dodger — with a two-run homer to center. The hit was the 1,000th in the majors for Ohtani while the homer was his 39th of the season.
The Dodgers added another run in the fourth when Andy Pages led off with a single, moved to second on a wild pitch, stole third and continued home when the throw from catcher Pedro Pagés hit the bat of Miguel Rojas and ricocheted toward the Dodger dugout.
Then came the daily bullpen meltdown, with the Cardinals pushing a run across against Justin Wrobleski in the sixth, setting the stage for their eighth-inning rally against Vesia. Brock Stewart gave up the final run in the ninth.
“If you look at the last couple weeks, I think our bullpen has been good,” Roberts said of a relief corps that has failed to covert a third of its 52 save opportunities. “We didn’t finish it off today. But I think in general, the bullpen in the last couple weeks has been pretty stable.”
