Avant Garde Tribune

Kodai Senga's great start for the Mets with his "ghost" fork ball wasn't the only thing that made people talk about the Japanese pitcher. During the Mets' 5-1 win over the Marlins at loanDepot Park on Sunday, social media went crazy when people saw Senga's custom ghost-fork glove. Senga, who is 30, gave up one run on three hits, walked three batters, and struck out eight. Seven of the eight batters he struck out were with his most dangerous pitch. Tommy Pham, an outfielder for the Mets, said, "I could see from centre field." "And judging by their swings, it was gross. The ball was just rolling off the table." On the outside of the webbing of Senga's special blue glove, there is a ghost holding a fork that looks like a trident. On the side, his name and number are written in orange and black as "S3NG4". It looks like Zett made him several different pairs of gloves in blue, black, and red and black in January, but only some of t...

Kyle Anderson, a forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves, will quickly try to forget how the last few seconds of Sunday's 107-105 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers went. The Wolves' point guard Anthony Edwards took the ball up with a chance to at least tie the game and send it to overtime in the last few seconds. The Trail Blazers quickly put two players on Edwards at the top of the key, forcing him to pass quickly to Jaden McDaniels to his right. After another Blazers defender got close to McDaniels, he passed the ball to Anderson in the corner. It looked like Anderson was going to try a three-pointer, going for the win instead of the tie. But Anderson had a pump-fake in mind, and when the Portland defenders fell for it, he had a wide-open path to the basket. Anderson looked like he would have an easy layup to tie the game when he got into the lane, but that's when everything went wrong. The layup may have been blocked by a defender, but when Anderson let go of the ball, i...