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out of gas



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The Lakers scored a series-high 36 points in the third quarter to take a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter but predictably ran out of gas against a Timberwolves team with a deeper roster.

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And Lakers coach JJ Redick met that moment by going all-in, playing his five best players for 24 straight minutes in a game where the Lakers ran out of gas in a 116-113 loss.

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In Arkansas, Baffert had the 4-5 favorite in Cornucopian, but the colt got caught in a vicious speed duel that left he and Speed King out of gas in the stretch.

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“I mean, maybe there was another reason, I don’t know. But that doesn’t make sense that you would have just been leading me on, right? But here you are now on a mission some 28 years later, after I’ve been through hell and back, to do what? Just in time to stop the bad guy, huh? Is that what’s going on here? took you so long? Did your horse run out of gas?”

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"Fury was coasting against Usyk but his problem was he ran out of gas and got caught," Woodhall says.

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