Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia after four years of Civil War in the United States.

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In 1939, Marian Anderson performed a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after the Black singer was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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In 1940, during World War II, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.

In 1942, during World War II, some 75,000 Philippine and American soldiers surrendered to Japanese troops, ending the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. The prisoners of war were subsequently forced to march 65 miles (105 kilometers) to POW camps in what is now known as the Bataan Death March; thousands died or were killed en route.

In 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton.

In 1968, funerals, private and public, were held for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church and Morehouse College in Atlanta, five days after the civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

In 2003, Baghdad fell to American troops during the Iraq War after six days of fighting.

In 2005, Britain’s Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, who took the title Duchess of Cornwall.

In 2018, federal agents raided the office of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, seizing records on matters including a $130,000 payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

Today’s Birthdays:

Satirist-musician Tom Lehrer is 97.
Actor Michael Learned is 86.
Drummer Steve Gadd is 80.
Actor Dennis Quaid is 71.
Fashion designer Marc Jacobs is 62.
Model-actor Paulina Porizkova is 60.
Actor Cynthia Nixon is 59.
Actor Keshia Knight Pulliam is 46.
Actor Jay Baruchel is 43.
Actor Leighton Meester is 39.
Singer-songwriter Jazmine Sullivan is 38.
Actor Kristen Stewart is 35.
Actor Elle Fanning is 27.
Rapper Lil Nas X is 26.
Actor Isaac Hempstead Wright is 26.
Singer Jackie Evancho (ee-VAYN’-koh) is 24.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Carlos Correa spotted something with Pablo López, noticing the Minnesota Twins ace grabbing the back of his leg as he came to a crucial moment against Kansas City Royals star Bobby Witt.

López wanted to keep going after the Royals put runners at first and second with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning Tuesday night.

Correa spoke up.

“I asked him,” Correa said. “I said: ‘You have to be honest with me, what’s going on?’ He said that the back of his hamstring was really tight.

“I said: ‘Okay, we’ve got to make a decision here, because we cannot afford this to get worse and for us to lose you for a long time.’”

López swallowed his pride and bravado and let the bullpen handle the moment. Right-hander Cole Sands walked Witt to load the bases, and went to a full count against Vinnie Pasquantino, but a fly ball ended the fifth.

Cruelly for the Twins, they never could score again, and a throwing error by Griffin Jax in the eighth led to the Royals scoring the go-ahead run in a 2-1 victory against the Twins.

López has been diagnosed with a mild strain of his right hamstring. He is slated to have an MRI on Wednesday, but López insisted that he plans on making his next scheduled start.

The Twins already have lost several players to injuries, but not having López would be a killer blow to a team that is off to a 3-8 start, their worst since 2016.

Manager Rocco Baldelli said Twins players, first off, need to trust in each other.

“We’re being tested right now,” Baldelli said. “We have to be exceptionally strong. When things don’t go well, that’s not when you start to question everything and start to tear certain things down or premises that you believe in.”

Jax, who has struggled to get results so far on his pitches in previous outings, retired the leadoff man in the eighth with the score still deadlocked. Against Witt, he misfired after a comebacker, throwing the ball well over the head of first baseman Ty France. Witt reached third and might have scored if not for a lunging save by Correa.

No matter, because with the infield playing in, Pasquantino followed with a chopper to first. France thought about going home, but the ball was hit too slowly and Witt was too fast. He scored the lead run.

“I don’t have anything else to say besides that it’s a throw I should make every day,” Jax said. “I didn’t make it, and we lose because of it.”

Correa saved the day a couple of times, but lamented a missed opportunity in the eighth to get the Twins more offense. Singles by Ryan Jeffers and Trevor Larnach put runners on the corners with one out. DaShawn Keirsey, a pinch-runner for Jeffers, made an electrifying run from first to third on Larnach’s single.

Correa followed against John Schreiber with a double play. Correa has been struggling with topping the ball on his swings.

“That’s why I was so mad, because I saw the pitch really well, and it was a great pitch to drive,” Correa said. “And I just, I just didn’t stick with what I’ve been working on in the cage and it bit me in the ass.”

It was a shame for the Twins to go down that way, also losing López, after a great duel matching zeroes with Royals ace Cole Ragans.

“You’re going against their best guy and it’s like, ‘OK, I’ll do my part,’” López said. “Then I’ll do it again. It makes it really fun. It was a fun game all around in that department. Who can do it better? Who can have quick innings? Let’s keep it fun.”

The Twins are having a hard time finding much else that’s fun right now.

Seemingly en route to taking another giant leap toward securing home-court advantage in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, the Timberwolves wasted 36 minutes of great work with a colossal fourth-quarter collapse on Tuesday in Milwaukee, falling 110-103 to the Bucks.

The Wolves were out-scored 40-13 in the fourth quarter as their five-game winning streak came to a screeching halt.

Minnesota led by 24 in the second half and by 20 early in the fourth quarter, but that deficit was erased entirely on a triple from A.J. Green to knot the score with three and a half minutes to play.

The game nearly went off the rails moments later, as Kevin Porter Jr. and Rudy Gobert got into a quarrel that resulted in double technical fouls for Porter Jr. and Gobert and an additional tech whistled on Gary Trent Jr. Anthony Edwards hit the ensuing free throw to put Minnesota back in front for his first point of the frame.

But Edwards turned the ball over on Minnesota’s next possession, which resulted in a Bucks’ transition dunk. The next possession ended in the exact same fashion, and the Bucks went up three.

Minnesota (46-33) was bamboozled by Milwaukee’s zone defense as the Wolves were timid and directionless on the perimeter. Soft passes were routinely deflected or intercepted.

Naz Reid and Donte DiVincenzo played integral roles in Minnesota building such a large advantage Tuesday. The duo combined for nine triples off the bench, six of which came from DiVincenzo. Minnesota largely limited Giannis Antetokounmpo thanks to a strong defensive effort from Julius Randle. The all-world forward finished with a triple-double, but had just 22 points on a night where he struggled mightily from the free-throw line.

But all that still wasn’t enough to build a cushion big enough to sustain such a meltdown. Minnesota went 4 for 20 in a fourth quarter in which it committed eight turnovers.

The Bucks closed with Antetokounmpo and four bench players — Bobby Portis, who was making his return after a 25-game suspension, Gary Trent Jr., Porter Jr. and Green.

The latter three players drove the bus on Milwaukee knocking off Minnesota prior to the all-star break when the Bucks, who are without Damian Lillard for the foreseeable future, beat the Wolves at Target Center. They were pivotal again Tuesday in delivering a major blow to Minnesota’s hopes of landing a top four seed.

The Wolves were set to be the No. 4 seed in the West with a win Tuesday. Instead, Thursday’s game in Memphis looks like a must win if Minnesota is even to avoid the play-in tournament.

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