Jazz’s Mitchell will be out for several games

An MRI on the right ankle sprain of Donovan Mitchell revealed no structural damage, but the Jazz guard is expected to miss several games before he is cleared to return, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

Mitchell exited during the third quarter of Friday’s game against the Indiana after suffering a sprained right ankle.

Mitchell was helped off the court with the assistance of teammates with

8:18 left in the third quarter after severely turning his ankle. The Jazz guard could not put any weight on his right leg.

Mitchell scored 22 points on 7-of-15 shooting in 21 minutes before leaving the game.

“Obviously we hope that it’s nothing serious,” coach Quin Snyder said after Friday’s game, “but they’re in the process of doing everything they can do to assess that.”

„ Dennis Schröder hit the tying basket to force overtime and finished with

25 points, and the Lakers held off the Jazz 127-115 on Saturday in a game between short-handed teams. Schröder got by Royce O’Neale for a layup with 3 seconds remaining to tie it at 110 and force overtime. The Lakers got outscored 28-16 in the fourth.

MLB: Mets pitcher Jacob de Grom struck out nine straight batters against Colorado on Saturday, falling one shy of matching the major league record set 51 years earlier by Mets great Tom Seaver. DeGrom became just the ninth pitcher to strike out as many as nine in a row.

NHL: Evan Rodrigues was so focused on the Penguins’ late-season push to win the East Division title the forward didn’t realize the implications that came with beating his former team, the Sabres. While the Penguins jumped into second in the tightly contested divisional race, their 3-2 win on Saturday also eliminated the Sabres from playoff contention. “I didn’t know that. I don’t think it was really on anyone’s minds for us,” said Rodrigues.