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The Mets will see how ace Jacob deGrom fares this week after being scratched from his start at St. Louis when he had trouble getting loose during a pregame stretch. The team said deGrom had inflammation in his right lat and wouldn’t throw for the next few days. The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner has been baseball’s most dominant pitcher this season, with a major league-best 0.51 ERA in five starts. Still, he is just 2-2 as New York continues to have trouble scoring runs for him. Also, Washington star Juan Soto will be limited to pinch-hitting duty for now after coming off the injured list.

Jesús Luzardo has played video games all his life. The Oakland lefty will continue to do so with fervor, even after the embarrassment of breaking the pinkie on his pitching hand while gaming. Luzardo has apologized to his teammates and Athletics manager Bob Melvin for the accident, which occurred Saturday when he banged his hand into a table while playing a video game four hours before a start. The 23-year-old Luzardo is out indefinitely with a broken bone in his finger. He called it a “stupid” and “immature” mistake.

Cincinnati reliever Amir Garrett has been suspended for seven games by Major League Baseball. Garrett was penalized for inciting the events in the top of the eighth inning on Saturday against the Chicago Cubs. Garrett appealed the discipline and can continue to play until the process is complete. Garrett struck out Anthony Rizzo with one out in the eighth and celebrated by punching himself in the chest several times. Garrett and the Cubs' Javier Báez yelled, and benches and bullpens emptied.

Washington's Tom Wilson has been fined $5,000 by the NHL for roughing New York Rangers forward Pavel Buchnevich. The fine is the maximum allowable for the incident under the league's collective bargaining agreement with players. Wilson was given a double-minor penalty for roughing and a 10-minute misconduct after a scrum in which he appeared to punch Buchnevich who was face down on the ice and threw Artemi Panarin down to the ice. Panarin is out for the final three games of the regular season with an injury coach David Quinn says came from the incident with Wilson. This is Wilson's third fine in eight seasons.

Two Republicans running for California governor have pitched themselves as “the beast" and a “compassionate disruptor" in new campaign ads. Businessman John Cox lost to Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018 and launched a campaign bus tour on Tuesday alongside a live Kodiak bear. He's painting himself as the beast to Newsom's “beauty," saying he can bring bold change to Sacramento. Former Olympian and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner calls herself a “compassionate disruptor" in her video. Its release marked her first time speaking about her candidacy since she entered the race. The videos mark a new phase in the recall election against Newsom that's expected later this year.

Polish lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve the nation’s spending plan for the 58 billion euros ($70 billion) it expects to receive from the European Union’s pandemic recovery plan. At a special parliament session, the vote was 290-33 in favor with…

When the coronavirus pandemic struck New York City, LaGuardia Community College professor Lucia Fuentes assigned students in her honors biology class to compile all the information they could find about COVID-19. The result was an online multilingual brochure that has become a valuable resource for immigrants. Fuentes has continued the project even after her husband died from complications related to the virus and after she herself survived a bout with the disease. In her grief, she remains committed to her students and is determined to prevent others from getting sick.

Donald Trump will find out whether he gets to return to Facebook on Wednesday. That's when the social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board plans to announce its ruling in the case involving the former president. The decision is likely to stir up strong feelings no matter which way it goes. If the board rules in the former president's favor, Facebook has 30 days to reinstate his account. If it upholds Facebook’s decision, Trump will remain “”indefinitely suspended." That means he’ll remain banned from the platform for as long as Facebook sees fit.  

Given that the nation remains in a pandemic, the NFL is more than satisfied with being able to attract 160,000 fans to the draft in Cleveland last week. While those numbers pale in comparison to what the three-day draft drew in previous years in Nashville and Philadelphia, they also reflect the necessary health and safety protocols the league observed. Many sports and other entertainment genres were watching the NFL to see how things went. There was a large presence of vaccinated fans on hand — a requirement near the stage — and mandatory mask wearing elsewhere.

Seven people who risked their own health and safety to help and protect others during the coronavirus pandemic will receive Profile in Courage awards next month from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. The foundation on Tuesday said the recipients include Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer along with a grocery story owner, a delivery driver, a nurse and an activist. They will be honored along with U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney during a virtual ceremony later this month. The Utah Republican in March was named the recipient of the annual award created by the family of the late president for public figures who risk their careers by embracing unpopular positions for the greater good.

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia's faltering COVID-19 vaccination program picked up speed Tuesday, with authorities starting to use 200,000 Sinopharm jabs bought from China. The small Balkan country has struggled with vaccine supply shortages. The vaccination program began…

Playing 50 games in a little over 100 days has made for some tired teams around the NHL. The condensed 56-game schedule has taken its toll with the playoffs approaching. The result has been plenty of mental mistakes and some wear and tear injuries. This grind of a season is even more difficult for the players who left families behind because of pandemic protocols. It helps that the playoffs are closing in.

Stocks were solidly lower in afternoon trading Tuesday, dragged down by big technology companies like Apple and Google. The declines added to the drop in tech shares that happened late Monday. Most sectors in the benchmark S&P 500 index fell as investors continue to focus on corporate earnings and gauge the economic recovery’s progress. Earnings and most economic indicators have been signaling a steady recovery, but investors remain concerned about the lingering threat from COVID-19, inflation and other factors that could crimp progress. The S&P 500 index was down 0.9% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq slipped 2.2%. Bond yields fell.