Box Score 5/16: An unlikely hero emerges

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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while waiting for Ducks-Preds and Spurs-Warriors.

Happy birthday today to Corey Perry, Steve Lewis, John Salley and Thurman Thomas. On today's date in 1985 Michael Jordan was named the NBA's Rookie of the Year.

Daily brain workout

QUIZ: Name the last pitcher to throw a no-hitter for every MLB team.

YB ICYMI

• Getaway Day: Time to sound the alarm in Wrigleyville?
• NBA Weekend Awards: The Dazed and Contused Trophy is up for grabs.
• Biggest weakness of every MLB team.
• Most costly MLB injuries in the first quarter of the season. 

Around the league

• What was unusual about Tom Brady’s stolen Super Bowl jersey? He got It back. [NYT]
• Why it's so weird that Liberty is paying ODU $1.3 million for a football game. [SB Nation]
• London native Francis Kallon tries to find a spot on the Steelers. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

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