The first Saturday in May; time for an American classic.

There’s baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and pro-Palestinian rallies.

And then there are the most exciting two minutes in sports.

No, not the night a worried Shaquille O’Neal left the “Inside the NBA” set at TNT Studios and walked gingerly to the men’s room.

It’s Kentucky Derby day at Churchill Downs. Our pick: American Promise.

The Mets face the Cardinals in St. Louis. Tylor Megill has impressively allowed only six runs in 31 innings this season, though he conceded three of those runs in his recent outing against the Nationals.

The Red Birds go with Erick Fedde.

Fedduccine was, well, creamed for seven runs by the Brewers and has walked 16 over 32 ²/₃ innings.

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Max Fried gave up one hit and stretched his scoreless streak to 20 ²/₃ innings.

The Yanks peppered Ryan Pepiot. Paul Goldschmidt homered and the Yanks blanked the Rays 3-0.

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