Detroit, MI
Pistons vs. Wizards final score: Detroit’s young backcourt of Cade and Jaden too much for Washington
Something odd happened in Washington on Sunday evening. The Detroit Pistons won … easily. Behind its young, dynamic backcourt, the Pistons coasted to a 124-104 victory over the Washington Wizards and led by around 20 points for most of the final 1.5 quarters. After seven straight games that qualified as nail-biters, it was a welcome change of pace.
Cade Cunningham secured another triple-double as the Pistons scored their most points of the season so far. Cunningham finished with 21 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, and added five steals. Ivey scored a game-high 28 points and had eight assists.
Ivey was the star of the game and seemed to be in total control throughout. He was using his burst to blow past defenders, he could slow things up to create open looks for himself or others, and when the clock was running out, he could calmly find a gap in the defense and find space for an open perimeter. shot.
Ivey scored a buzzer-beating bucket at the end of the first and second quarters, and added another on a tough drive to the basket with contact with 1.8 seconds left in the third. It was just that kind of night for Ivey. It was beautiful to see.
Cunningham wasn’t as dynamic a scorer as Ivey, but his ability to be engaged on the defensive end and his enthusiasm for fighting through the bigs for a rebound while also having so much of the offensive responsibility on his back has helped Detroit compete night in and night out.
Now, it’s finally starting to lead to some wins, and for the first time all season, a comfortable win at that.
The Pistons didn’t seem like they would let themselves off easy in this one. They could effortlessly execute on the offensive end and build up a 10- to 12-point lead, but then suddenly, the Wizards would hit a few shots, and the lead would dwindle to five.
Detroit was able to really put the game away by dominating the third quarter, mostly thanks to Ivey’s stellar play.
Jalen Duren had a double-double and was clearly overpowering second-overall pick Alexandre Sarr, but Duren again had to navigate foul trouble and was limited to just 18 minutes. Isaiah Stewart delivered his typical brand of excellent defense and added his second three-pointer of the season. Malik Beasley scored 26 points and hit six threes as a starter filling in for the injured Tim Hardaway Jr.
The Wizards were led by 22 points apiece from Kyle Kuzma and Jordan Poole.
The Pistons needed a less stressful win as they are traveling home to face the Chicago Bulls on Monday after three straight road games, including two that went to overtime. A win against the Bulls would bring the Pistons to 8-8 on the season.
Detroit hasn’t been .500 this late in the season since the 2018-19 season.
Detroit Tigers blow lead, lose to Kansas City Royals on walk-off hit.
The Tigers lost, 4-3, to the Royals on Kyle Isbel’s walk-off single in the ninth inning.
Kansas City, Mo. — The losing streak is now five games. The road record is now an MLB-worst 6-16.
The Kansas City Royals prolonged the Tigers’ misery Saturday night with a relatively breezy 5-1 win at Kauffman Stadium.
Oh, and the Tigers might’ve lost another player in the process.
Right fielder Kerry Carpenter left the game in the third inning. He banged his left shoulder running into the side wall chasing Bobby Witt Jr.’s first-inning, two-run, inside-the-park home run.
Witt, a right-handed hitter, sliced a drive inside the bag at first. Carpenter chased it toward the side wall, but the ball caromed past him. Witt never stopped running.
Carpenter stayed in the game and even rolled an infield single in the second inning. But he was replaced by Wenceel Perez when the Royals came to bat in the third inning.
BOX SCORE: Royals 5, Tigers 1
He was being evaluated during the game.
The two-run homer by Witt ended up being more than the Tigers’ sputtering offense could overcome. But, for good measure, Michael Massey added a three-run home run off Ty Madden in the fourth inning.
Madden ended up being one of the few bright spots in the game for the Tigers. He pitched six innings and allowed just one other hit. He set down the last 11 hitters he faced.
He entered in the third inning after opener Burch Smith and lefty Tyler Holton worked one time through the Royals’ batting order.
Holton made a nifty escape in the first inning. With runners at second and third and one out, and two runs already in, Jac Caglianone hit a hard ground ball to second baseman Zach McKinstry, who was playing in on the grass.
McKinstry got the out at first. The runner at second, Carter Jensen, mistakenly broke for third where Vinnie Pasquantino was holding.
Spencer Torkelson threw to shortstop Kevin McGonigle who threw to catcher Jake Rogers once Pasquantino broke for home — your basic 4-3-6-2 double-play.
Not much else went the Tigers’ way.
Royals right-hander Michael Wacha snuffed out the few scoring opportunities the Tigers mustered.
He worked around an error and a McKinstry stolen base in the third innings. He got Jake Rogers to pop to shallow right field with runners at first and third and one out and then got Matt Vierling to ground out with the bases loaded in the fifth.
Wacha allowed two hits in seven innings. The Tigers put 18 balls in play against him with a soft average exit velocity of 84.4 mph.
The Tigers broke through in the eighth against lefty reliever Matt Strahm. And it was left-handed hitters who did the dirty work. Riley Greene, who extended his career-high on-base streak to 20 games, doubled home McGonigle.
This season is a long way from over but Tigers, 18-22, are in serious need a course correction.
Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com
@cmccosky
4Warn Weather – SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy skies. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. A few storms could be strong with gusty winds and hail. High: 71.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy skies, becoming partly cloudy skies late. Low: 45.
SUNDAY (MOTHER’S DAY): Mix of sunshine and clouds, cooler temperatures. High: 61.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy skies. Another chilly night. Low: 41.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny skies, remaining chilly. High: 58.
After a beautiful end to the week on Friday with sunshine and a little cloud cover, with warmer temperatures moving into the region as well, some of us are waking up to some patchy dense fog on Saturday morning. Some places south of M-59 are seeing reduced visibilities down to around a mile. If you do run into some patchy dense fog, be sure to use your low beams.
That warming trend continues into the start of the weekend on Saturday, but it also brings a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Another cold front will work through the region by Saturday afternoon and early Saturday evening and that will bring our thunderstorm chance. High temperature is warming into low 70s by Saturday afternoon.
The Storm Prediction Center has placed most of the region under a Marginal Risk (1 out of 5) on our severe weather scale for the start of the weekend. Gusty winds and hail are the primary threats as we work through the start of the weekend, but this will not be a widespread threat for severe thunderstorms.
Behind that cold front for the end of the weekend on Sunday, we will keep a mixture of sunshine and clouds into the forecast. High temperatures running about 10 to 15° cooler to end the weekend. Expect high to warm into the upper 50s to lower 60s by Sunday afternoon.
Drier weather sticks around for the start of next week, before another chance of rain moves into the region by the time we get to Tuesday. The cooler-than-average temperatures will continue into the start of next week as well. Expect high temperatures to remain in the 50s for Monday and Tuesday.
Temperature start to warm up by the middle of next week, and Drier weather moves back in by Wednesday behind another cold front moving into the region. Expect high temperatures into the lower 60s on Wednesday to warm into the upper 60s by the time we get to Thursday. Above average temperatures move back into the region as we look ahead into the end of the week, expect high temperatures back into the lower 70s by the time we get to Friday.
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