Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant will have his injured right calf reevaluated before Game 2 of the Western Conference finals but is "not close" to returning to action, a league source told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne.

Durant hasn't resumed basketball-related activities, which would be the first step in returning to play.

Durant missed Tuesday's Game 1 win over the Portland Trail Blazers with the injury and will miss Thursday night's Game 2 as well. Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Monday that a "more detailed update" on Durant would come Thursday.

"Everyone needs to slow down a little bit on the Kevin stuff," Kerr said after Monday's practice. "He hasn't even stepped on the floor yet. ... He still has pain. So there's some time ahead of him on the rehab process."

Durant injured his calf in the third quarter of last week's Game 5 conference semifinal win over Houston, when he went up for a jumper over Rockets swingman Iman Shumpert and landed awkwardly.

LOS ANGELES -- Kenta Maeda dominated on the mound and helped himself at the plate.

The right-hander struck out 12 batters and drove in both runs in leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-0 victory over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night.

"It's hard to imagine him being any better," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. "It was really, really fun to watch. He was great all night long."

Los Angeles wrapped up a 7-2 homestand, with four of the wins being shutouts.

Maeda gave up three hits over 6 2/3 innings and reached double-digit strikeouts for the fifth time in the majors. He finished one short of his career high for K's set in 2016 against San Diego.

"I was able to mix everything up tonight," Maeda said through an interpreter. "I did have the conviction and attacked the strike zone while keeping my pitch count to a minimum."

Maeda (5-2) had the key hit of the game, too, with a two-out, two-run bloop single to right field in the second. He became the first Dodgers pitcher to have two hits and two RBIs in a game since Zack Greinke in 2014.

Kenley Jansen worked the ninth for his 14th save, aided by a diving play up the middle from second baseman Enrique Hernandez. With two runners aboard, Jansen struck out Hunter Renfroe and pinch hitter Alex Dickerson to end it.

Jansen retired Renfroe for the second consecutive night after the slugger tagged him for a winning grand slam May 5 in San Diego.

Four Dodgers pitchers combined for a season-high 16 strikeouts. Maeda threw 85 pitches, 64 for strikes. His 22 swinging strikes were the second most in his career, according to Inside Edge, with 14 coming on his slider.

Matt Strahm (1-3) went five innings and gave up two runs and seven hits. The left-hander, who has a 2.33 ERA in five road starts, struck out five.

"Matt gave us an opportunity to win. He mixed well and could have easily had zero runs through five," Padres manager Andy Green said. "Those were soft hits that brought those runs in."

Corey Seager got two hits for the Dodgers.

Eric Hosmer had three of San Diego's four hits. The Padres dropped four of five on their trip and are 4-7 in their past 11 games overall.

TURNER'S STREAK

Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner was hit by a pitch for the fourth straight game. When he was plunked by Strahm's fastball in the second inning, Turner became the first Dodgers player since Hughie Jennings in 1900 to be hit in four consecutive games, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Turner has been hit by a pitch seven times this season, which is second in the National League.

HE LOVES L.A.

Hosmer is hitting .474 (9-for-19) against the Dodgers this season. He has hit safely in 11 of his past 12 games overall.

STREAKING

Manny Machado extended his hitting streak to eight games with a double in the fourth. The Padres' shortstop -- who was with the Dodgers during the second half and the postseason last year -- is batting .368 (7-for-19) with four home runs and seven RBIs against L.A.

BELLINGER WATCH

Dodgers right fielder Cody Bellinger had a rare 0-for-3 night but is still leading the majors with a .401 batting average. He walked in the fourth and has reached base safely in all 24 home games.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Padres: The earliest SS Fernando Tatis Jr. could return is Monday, as he continues to rehab from a strained left hamstring at the team's spring training facility in Arizona. The rookie sustained the injury April 28 while stretching to make a catch at second base.

Dodgers: LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu is scheduled to start Sunday's series finale in Cincinnati. Ryu, who has not given up a run in his past two outings, will have six days of rest between starts. He took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and threw a career-high 116 pitches Sunday against Washington.

UP NEXT

Padres: Return home to begin a four-game series Thursday night against Pittsburgh. LHP Eric Lauer (2-4, 5.75 ERA) looks to bounce back after giving up a career-high eight earned runs in last Friday's 12-2 loss at Colorado.

Dodgers: LHP Rich Hill (0-1, 4.20) takes the mound Friday in Cincinnati. Hill is 1-1 with a 2.53 ERA in his past two starts against the Reds.

The Minnesota Twins designated right-handed reliever Addison Reed for assignment on Thursday.

The move was necessary to fit right-hander Austin Adams, who was recalled from Triple-A Rochester on Thursday, on the team's 40-man roster. Right-hander Trevor Hildenberger was sent to the minors in a corresponding move.

Reed, 30, hasn't pitched in the majors this season but has been rehabbing a sprained thumb on his left hand in the minors. He had struggled, posting a 14.40 ERA in five appearances.

He signed a two-year, $16.75 million contract with the Twins as a free agent in the 2018 offseason. He went 1-6 with a 4.50 ERA in 55 appearances last season for the Twins after making 80 appearances for the New York Mets in 2016 and 77 for the Mets and Boston Red Sox in 2017 and posting ERAs of 1.97 and 2.84, respectively.

He is 19-27 with 125 saves and a 3.53 ERA in eight seasons.

About a minute into an explanation of what it's like trying to evolve from the strikeoutingest hitter in baseball history into something more, Joey Gallo wanted to make sure he wasn't misrepresenting himself. The idea of a 6-foot-5, 250-pound conqueror of baseballs metamorphosing beyond what he's always been, what's in his nature, would be a distortion of the truth.

"I'm still a Three True Outcomes guy," Gallo said. "I'm still hitting home runs, walking and striking out. It's just more about walking more and striking out less. That's kind of who I am."

Gallo, the Texas Rangers' 25-year-old center fielder, is a player of manifold skills, from a keen eye, to a powerful right arm that pumped 98 mph fastballs in high school, to a freakish amount of athleticism for a massive human, to a swing that regularly challenges the limits of how far man and bat can combine to hit a baseball. More pointedly, Gallo also happens to be the archetypal modern baseball player, a leading evangelist and practitioner of a game in which home runs, walks and strikeouts constitute well over one-third of all plate appearances.

If the game is broken -- and considering how different it looks from even a decade ago, such sentiment isn't uncommon -- Gallo embodies and embraces that brokenness. Nearly two-thirds of his plate appearances this season result in a home run, walk or strikeout. Whatever one cares to call this brand of baseball -- Three True Outcomes baseball, millennial baseball or slug baseball, for both the emphasis on hitting it hard and the pace at which it operates -- Gallo is its undeniable king, and he's proud to wear the crown.

"'I've always been that player," he said. "It's not like I was built to be that. It's who I've always been. I mean, 10 and under, 11, 12 -- I was hitting home runs. I struck out more than everyone. And I walked a lot because they pitched around me. If they made a mistake, I hit it out. If I wasn't feeling good, I struck out. Even high school was that. I enjoy home runs. When you think of baseball, the first thing you think of is a home run. Home runs are cool. That's what everyone likes to watch. That's what they show on the highlights."

The Three True Outcomes -- named jokingly by now-ESPN editor Christina Kahrl on a Usenet message board in the 1990s to highlight the game's three main results that don't involve defense -- weren't always so prevalent. After a post-World War II jump past 20 percent, the number slowly ticked up, cracking 30 percent in 2012. It rose to 32.33 percent in 2016, 33.48 percent the next year and 33.75 percent last season. This year it's at 35.58 percent, up more than 5 percentage points from seven years ago. Never in the live ball era has baseball seen such a large percentage-point uptick over a seven-year span.

Gallo first heard the term Three True Outcomes when he was drafted out of high school in Las Vegas in 2012. He needed to look up what it meant and figured it was derisive, similar to the comparisons he drew to Adam Dunn and Chris Davis, also left-handed sluggers with strikeout issues. Gallo, of course, is a better baserunner and is far better defensively than Dunn or Davis. His sojourn around the diamond from third base to first base to the outfield wound up with him recently taking the Rangers' center field job, making him among the largest regulars ever at the position, alongside Dave Winfield and Josh Hamilton.

His distinctiveness only begins there. It's at the plate where Gallo is particularly unique. This season, he has 12 home runs, 31 walks and 57 strikeouts over 157 plate appearances -- a Three True Outcomes rate of 63.7 percent. Only two other hitters who qualify for the batting title are even over 50 percent: Bryce Harper (53 percent) and Daniel Vogelbach (50.4 percent). For his career, Gallo is at 58.9 percent, more than 4 percentage points higher than Aaron Judge, who has the second-highest Three True Outcomes number in baseball history.

This leads to all sorts of wild facts and figures about Gallo, and the latest came last week when he hit his 100th career home run. Over his 1,419 career plate appearances, Gallo has only 93 singles. It was one thing for MLB to finish last season with more strikeouts than hits for the first time. A player reaching a home run milestone -- and being the fastest American League hitter ever to do it -- before cracking that same number of singles is unprecedented.

Much of that is owed to the defensive shifts that greet Gallo every plate appearance. Nearly every left-handed hitter in baseball experiences them, though not quite as egregiously. Against Gallo earlier this season, the Toronto Blue Jays had a completely empty left side of the infield, four outfielders and a shortstop just to the right of second base, and a second baseman playing so deep he almost could have been counted as a fifth outfielder.

When Gallo jokingly tweeted in December "This is all I want for Christmas" in response to a story about a possible shift ban, he was lambasted by fans who had seen him hit .206 in 2018.

"I always want a higher average," Gallo said. "I don't like hitting .206. But right now it's kind of part of the game, especially with the shifts. You don't just learn to hit the other way. If I'm slapping singles down the line, am I still Joey Gallo? Am I still productive? I can't try to play to that, because it's not me, and I like to play in the major leagues. I get paid to drive guys in and hit the ball out of the ballpark."

He has done so with aplomb, hitting 41 home runs in his first full season two years ago and 40 last year. To marry that with better plate discipline would make Gallo among the best hitters in baseball, which is precisely what he has been in 2019. Gallo's raw power -- his ability to hit any pitch 450 feet -- expanded his swinging area to an unhealthy size. Coming into this season, the Rangers implored Gallo to shrink his zone; the upside would far outweigh the downside.

Gallo's work on fastballs in particular has led to his .248/.395/.608 line. Last season, he swung at 26.7 percent of fastballs outside of the strike zone, according to ESPN Stats & Information. This season, it's just 11.9 percent, the fourth lowest in baseball behind Tommy Pham (9.2 percent), Brandon Nimmo (10.9 percent) and Mike Trout (11.4 percent). On fastballs in the strike zone, Gallo is slugging 1.021, the best in the major leagues. He's laying off other junk too. His chase rate on all pitches outside the zone has dropped from 29.3 percent to 19.6 percent.

"It's hard as f---," Gallo said. "It's really hard. Especially nowadays when pitches are starting down the middle and end up 3 inches off the plate at 100 mph. It's pretty tough to do. But experience helps. You see it over and over again, and it starts to become the norm."

What's scary is the wide berth for improvement. Even near the Mendoza Line, he was a productive hitter. Even with the swing-and-miss in his game -- Gallo's 36.3 percent strikeout rate is second highest in the major leagues -- he is looking better than ever. Only Trout has a higher walk rate than Gallo's 19.7 percent. That's the sort of company he prefers to keep.

So he'll shake off games like Wednesday's three-strikeout night in Kansas City and focus on the two more enjoyable outcomes. If Joey Gallo in the minor leagues was about legendary batting practices and Joey Gallo in 2017 and '18 was about home runs, Joey Gallo in 2019 is about becoming the hitter he can be, the one who can show that Three True Outcomes baseball can be pretty spectacular in its own right.

Scottish Athletics chief executive Mark Munro putting ‘core business’ first in the pursuit of the sport’s long-term health

Mark Munro is neither anywhere near retirement age nor of a mind to step down any time soon – there’s far too much work to be getting on with – but, when he does eventually leave his post as Scottish Athletics chief executive in the future, he wants to do so with a blueprint for success firmly in place.

To many, athletics north of the border is a bona fide success story – a sport that is punching above its weight and having an impact made most visible by the achievements of a number of athletes who are succeeding at major championships, making Great Britain teams and breaking national records.

You certainly don’t have to look far for Scottish success at the moment – with the likes of Callum Hawkins and Steph Twell in fine form on the roads, while Chris O’Hare’s European indoor 3000m silver medal is still fresh in the memory.

The trailblazer, of course, has been Laura Muir (pictured), whose standards continue to rise alongside her medal count. There has been a lot of discussion since Glasgow 2019 about how Scotland can capitalise on her success and create a legacy that will benefit the sport long after the double double European indoor champion has hung up her spikes.

There are ambitions for the creation of new indoor training facilities, and high-profile success on the track certainly helps to strengthen the case, but Munro also has a bigger picture in mind and it’s one which involves a set-up that builds from the ground up.

“Long after we’ve gone, we want to try and leave a blueprint for success for athletics in Scotland which looks at clubs, club leaders and volunteers, coaches, athletes and officials”

Clubs, coaches, volunteers and officials – all of which make an enormous contribution to an athlete’s development – are central to the recipe for success which Munro hopes will keep the sport in rude health for years to come.

It’s a regular topic of conversation with newly-returned director of performance and coaching, Stephen Maguire.

“Stephen and I talk about this a lot,” says Munro. “Long after we’ve gone, we want to try and leave a blueprint for success for athletics in Scotland which looks at clubs, club leaders and volunteers, coaches, athletes and officials.

“If we can leave that as our legacy when we finally retire or leave and if the next people can come in, look at that blueprint and are able to say ‘that works’ and they don’t move too far from that then athletics in Scotland should be in a good place for the next decade or two.”

He adds: “In terms of our role, it’s clubs and people that are very at the heart of it. If you get that right then the sport should be in a reasonable place.

“As soon as you go off that track and pursue fashionable things then you remove yourself too far from your core business and at some point you’ll have problems.”

The task of governing a sport which can be disparate and fragmented is not an easy one, but Munro’s aim is to have everyone at least pointing in the same direction.

There is also constant work going on behind the scenes to create financial stability which allows the development of all areas without having to be reliant on walking a funding tightrope.

That’s where the job of chief executive can be a creative one. Some sponsors have been attracted, commercial partnerships struck and pursued, while the creation of an independent charitable arm is also in the planning.

“We can provide a strategy, governance, some leadership in terms of a direction of travel based on evidence but, actually, at the end of the day it’s about the clubs, the coaches, the officials and the volunteers that are actually delivering the sport week in, week out”

“Things evolve and grow and it will be interesting to see what happens post-Tokyo with the funding of the top-end athletes because I think it will be reduced, which means we’ll probably have more athletes coming out of UK funding and back into Scotland.

“That, then, puts more pressure on our system and how are we going to support those athletes?

“You can go to every major championships and not be funded by UK Athletics. Chris O’Hare, for example, has not been funded for a number of years. He’s got a great set-up in the States but how can we support him?

“That’s why we’re working really hard now because we’re thinking in two years’ time we might have to be investing money into athletes directly rather than through support services or competition.

“It might be the case that they need money to pay their rent, or whatever it is. It’s a complex task.”

And by no means does Munro think the work is done and that the problems have been solved. Neither is he labouring under the misconception that he can please all of the people all of the time.

“Everyone’s got an opinion but you have to listen and then try and make the right judgment call,” he says. “It’s important that you make them feel involved, because it is their sport.

“We can provide a strategy, governance, some leadership in terms of a direction of travel based on evidence but, actually, at the end of the day it’s about the clubs, the coaches, the officials and the volunteers that are actually delivering the sport week in, week out.”

He adds: “We’re doing okay but we could do better – that’s my school report card. We’re far from perfect but I think the strategy is right – it’s just about delivering it and making it happen.”

Scottish Paralympic sprint medallist on managing her anxiety to reignite her passion for athletics

Maria Lyle is now back running with a smile on her face after seeking support for her anxiety and rediscovering a love for athletics.

The multiple Paralympic, world and European medallist first showed her sprint talent while at primary school and then started joining her mum Susan on short runs. As her career progressed, however, she struggled to find the same love for her sport as she had during those early days.

Lyle became overwhelmed with worry about competing and her concerns impacted her life away from the track. After suffering in silence for years, the 19-year-old finally opened up to her mum who convinced her to seek professional help. She was later diagnosed with having anxiety.

“My mum would give up lots of her time, she would lead my sessions and drive me all over the country so I could compete,” Lyle explains. “She would even take time off work to watch me in competitions.

“Because of this I would get worried if I didn’t run well. I’d feel guilty about wasting her time.”

She adds: “Disappointing my mum wasn’t the only thing I was anxious about. I was worried about my competitors and factors I couldn’t control. Before the 2018 European Championships I revealed something to my mum that I have never spoken about before.

“I broke down and cried for hours, expressing how rubbish I felt about myself in both my running and personal life. Running had completely taken over and there was nothing positive.

“In my darkest moment my mum was there for me. She was the one who listened for hours. She was the one who hugged me. From that day, my mum and my immediate family have supported me. They have made me realise that there is more to life than running.”

Lyle has lived with diplegic cerebral palsy in her legs almost all her life. The condition dictates how she lives, but she refuses to be ruled by it.

She is now one of the world’s best T35 sprinters, but few of her classmates at Dunbar Primary would have tipped her as a future Paralympian, until one PE class changed everything.

“When I was younger, I struggled quite a lot. Things didn’t come quite as naturally for me as they did for my peers and often I ended up feeling a bit rubbish about myself,” says Lyle, who in 2016 claimed T35 100m and 200m bronze medals at the Rio Paralympic Games and last year secured Commonwealth 100m silver for Scotland.

“Things drastically changed, however, after one PE lesson. We had to complete the multi-stage fitness test (bleep test). As someone who fell over constantly and ended up with cut knees 90% of the time, you could say I wasn’t that keen to join the lesson.

“To everyone’s surprise, I was the last one left in the test. That was the first time I’d ever felt such a sense of achievement. From that moment, running would become a big part of my life.”

Her mother Susan, a PE teacher at the East Lothian school, adds: “Having Maria in my class was great. As Maria developed, I soon became aware that in many areas she could hold her own or even challenge her classmates.

“Maria seemed to have a natural ability for running and this first became apparent during a lesson where we conducted the bleep test. To my surprise and possibly her peers, Maria was the last person standing.

“From that day onwards, Maria and I started to go out on short runs together. She was eight years old at the time and for the first time in her life I could see Maria had found something she loved and she began to blossom.”

Lyle is now back recording the kind of results her talent merits and works at the Scottish Parliament while training. But Susan says no medal ceremony can compare to seeing her daughter enjoying running again.

“My proudest moment is not Maria winning medals on the world stage, it is probably Maria competing in Glasgow (in February) at the 2019 national indoor championships.

“For the first time in years I saw Maria stand on the start line feeling relaxed and running through the finish line with a smile on her face.

“Along with the support from us as a family and her coach, Jamie Bowie, Maria has turned herself around and is back on track in all areas of her life.”

No play was possible at the Italian Open on Wednesday because of persistent rain in Rome.

Four-time finalist Roger Federer was due to make his first appearance at the event since 2016 against Joao Sousa.

World number one Novak Djokovic was due to play Denis Shapovalov in the evening but play was finally abandoned for the day at 8.30pm local time.

Britain's Johanna Konta and women's world number one Naomi Osaka were also thwarted by the elements.

Konta is drawn against American world number eight Sloane Stephens, while Osaka faces Dominika Cibulkova.

They will all be part of Thursday's day session, which will now be split into two parts.

Former French Open champion Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from this year's tournament because of her long-standing shoulder problem.

The 32-year-old world number 35 has not played since pulling out of an event in her native Russia at the end of January and had a small operation in February.

"Sometimes the right decisions aren't always the easiest ones," the five-time Grand Slam winner said.

This year's French Open begins on 26 May and runs to 9 June.

Sharapova, who won the French title in 2012 and 2014, returned to the tour in April 2017 after a 15-month ban for taking the banned drug meldonium.

She reached the French Open quarter-finals last year, losing 6-2 6-1 to third seed Garbine Muguruza.

In the opening Grand Slam of this year, the Russian lost to Australia's Ashleigh Barty in the round of 16.

"In better news, I have returned to the practice court, and slowly building the strength back in my shoulder," she posted on her Instagram account, alongside a picture of her lifting the Roland Garros trophy in 2014.