October 15 scoreboard: Brewers sweep Dodgers; Denver wins in overtime

What this means

Milwaukee completed its National League Championship Series sweep, Cleveland moved ahead in the American League series, and Denver beat Seattle in overtime on October 15, 2026. The same Eastern calendar day included two NBA preseason finals and 11 completed NHL games. All 16 verified games are covered below. A later check of MLS’s official schedule confirmed no matches on Thursday, October 15, in Eastern Time.

MLB — League Championship Series

Cleveland Guardians 3, Tampa Bay Rays 2 — ALCS Game 3. Petey Halpin's two-run homer in the fifth overturned Tampa Bay's 2-1 advantage and put Cleveland ahead 2-1 in the series. Chandler Simpson had supplied both Rays runs with a fourth-inning triple after Nathaniel Lowe's RBI double opened the scoring in the second. José Ramírez went 2-for-3 for Cleveland. Winning pitcher Gavin Williams allowed two runs and struck out nine in five innings; losing pitcher Griffin Jax was charged with three runs in four innings. Cade Smith recorded the save with four outs and no hits allowed. Cleveland's relievers combined for four scoreless innings. [MLB-1]

Milwaukee Brewers 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 4 — NLCS Game 4. Milwaukee erased a four-run deficit to finish a 4-0 series sweep. Andy Pages' RBI single and Shohei Ohtani's three-run homer had produced four Dodgers runs in the second. Jake Bauers answered with a two-run double in the fourth and a bases-loaded walk in the fifth; David Hamilton also drove in a fifth-inning run. Garrett Mitchell's sixth-inning solo homer put Milwaukee in front, and Hamilton added a ninth-inning homer. Bauers finished with three RBIs; Hamilton went 2-for-4 with two RBIs. JoJo Romero earned the win with two scoreless innings, Tanner Scott took the loss, and Aaron Ashby saved it with three scoreless innings. [MLB-2]

NBA — Preseason, not regular-season standings

New York Knicks 122, Toronto Raptors 120. Tyler Kolek's three-pointer with 53.2 seconds remaining broke a 117-117 tie, and Tyler Nickel's two free throws with 16.8 seconds left provided the final cushion. Toronto scored 41 in the fourth but could not finish the comeback. Jalen Brunson led New York with 20 points and seven assists; Karl-Anthony Towns added 13 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists. Scottie Barnes led all scorers with 23, RJ Barrett had 21 and Immanuel Quickley contributed 18 points and seven assists for Toronto. The Knicks improved to 1-4 and the Raptors fell to 2-2 in exhibition play. [NBA-1]

Houston Rockets 116, Oklahoma City Thunder 89. Houston opened with a 33-15 first quarter and finished with a 37-20 fourth, creating its separation at the beginning and end of the game. Bogdan Bogdanović led the Rockets with 15 points and six rebounds; Alperen Sengun supplied 14 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Amen Thompson and Tari Eason each scored 12. Oklahoma City's leading scorers were Jalen Williams with 18 and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander with 17. Williams also had seven rebounds. This was a four-quarter preseason result, not a regular-season loss for Oklahoma City. [NBA-2]

NFL — Denver Broncos 17, Seattle Seahawks 14, overtime

Ja'Quan McMillian intercepted Sam Darnold on Seattle's opening overtime possession, and Wil Lutz ended the game with a 53-yard field goal with 4:53 remaining. Denver had built a 14-3 halftime lead through J.K. Dobbins' four-yard touchdown run and RJ Harvey's one-yard score. Seattle responded in the fourth: George Holani scored from a yard out, Darnold found Rashid Shaheed for the two-point conversion, and Jason Myers tied it with a 34-yard field goal with three seconds left. Denver forced three turnovers and sacked Darnold five times, overcoming a 353-168 deficit in total net yards. Denver is 4-2; Seattle is 3-3. [NFL-1, NFL-2]

Quarterbacks: Darnold completed 27 of 51 passes for 278 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions. Bo Nix was 17-for-27 for 107 yards, no touchdowns and no interceptions. Leading rushers: Seattle's Emanuel Wilson carried 14 times for 52 yards and no touchdowns; Dobbins led Denver with 17 carries for 41 yards and one touchdown. Receiving: Jaxon Smith-Njigba led Seattle with 12 catches for 134 yards and no touchdowns. Harvey led Denver in receiving yards with three catches for 31 yards and no receiving touchdowns; Jaylen Waddle led the Broncos in receptions with four for 24 yards and no touchdowns. [NFL-1]

NHL — All 11 Thursday games

Buffalo Sabres 5, Toronto Maple Leafs 4, overtime. Buffalo recovered from 4-2 down after two periods: Dennis Gilbert scored at 10:05 of the third, Mattias Samuelsson tied it at 12:16, and Owen Power won it 3:14 into overtime. Jack Quinn scored Buffalo's first two goals. Toronto's Kirill Marchenko scored three times and Auston Matthews once. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 26 shots for Buffalo; Sergei Bobrovsky made 29 saves for Toronto. [NHL-1]

Ottawa Senators 2, New York Islanders 1, shootout. Matias Maccelli scored for New York with 12 seconds left in the first, and Ridly Greig tied it at 15:43 of the second. Neither side converted its overtime power play. Shane Pinto supplied the shootout's only goal; that deciding shootout tally is separate from regulation goal totals. Linus Ullmark made 20 saves for Ottawa and Semyon Varlamov 18 for New York. [NHL-2]

Tampa Bay Lightning 4, Seattle Kraken 3, overtime. Victor Hedman's goal at 2:07 of overtime settled a game Seattle twice tied in the third period. Brandon Hagel scored twice for Tampa Bay and Ilya Mikheyev added its other regulation goal. Ryan Winterton, Jared McCann and Matty Beniers scored for Seattle, with Beniers making it 3-3 at 15:41 of the third. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves; Philipp Grubauer stopped 31 for the Kraken. [NHL-3]

Florida Panthers 3, Vancouver Canucks 2, overtime. Brady Tkachuk scored every Florida goal, turning a 2-0 deficit into a win. He struck at 11:11 and 19:47 of the third before completing the hat trick at 2:23 of overtime. Liam Ohgren and defenseman Elias Pettersson had scored Vancouver's first-period goals. Akira Schmid made 15 saves for Florida, while Leevi Merilainen stopped 36 for Vancouver. Tkachuk's tying goal came with only 13 seconds remaining in regulation. [NHL-4]

New Jersey Devils 7, New York Rangers 1. New Jersey's four-goal second period stretched a 1-0 lead to 5-0. Luke Hughes scored twice; Evan Rodrigues, Nico Hischier, Arseny Gritsyuk, Stefan Noesen and Cody Glass supplied the other Devils goals. Glass scored short-handed. Pavel Dorofeyev scored the Rangers' lone goal on the power play. Nico Daws made 18 saves for New Jersey. New York used Dylan Garand, who made nine saves, and Spencer Martin, who made 15. [NHL-5]

Detroit Red Wings 2, Philadelphia Flyers 1. Andrew Copp broke the tie at 15:22 of the third, finishing a sequence involving Nate Danielson and Michael Rasmussen. Matvei Michkov put Philadelphia ahead in the first, and Anton Johansson equalized early in the second with his first NHL goal. Daniil Tarasov made 17 saves for Detroit and Joseph Woll 24 for Philadelphia. The Flyers remained winless at 0-6-3; Detroit ended a three-game winless stretch. NHL records here list wins, regulation losses, then overtime/shootout losses. [NHL-6]

Chicago Blackhawks 4, Winnipeg Jets 3, overtime. Artyom Levshunov finished Connor Bedard's pass at 1:37 of overtime after Winnipeg erased Chicago's 3-1 first-period advantage. Bedard, Frank Nazar and Ryan Donato scored Chicago's regulation goals; Neal Pionk, Kyle Connor and Alex Iafallo scored for Winnipeg. Patrick Kane's assist on Bedard's goal moved him past Phil Housley for the career assists lead among U.S.-born players. Spencer Knight made 31 saves for Chicago and Stuart Skinner 24 for Winnipeg. [NHL-7]

San Jose Sharks 3, Nashville Predators 2, shootout. Nashville forced overtime when Steven Stamkos scored with one second left in regulation, following Ryan O'Reilly's third-period power-play goal. Mason Marchment and Will Smith had built San Jose's 2-0 lead. Macklin Celebrini scored the shootout's only goal, not an additional regulation goal. Alex Nedeljkovic made 32 saves for San Jose; Juuse Saros made 30 for Nashville. [NHL-8]

Minnesota Wild 5, St. Louis Blues 4. Matt Boldy scored three goals, and Danila Yurov and Kirill Kaprizov added one apiece. Minnesota led 5-2 after two periods before Robert Thomas scored short-handed with four minutes left and Dylan Holloway made it a one-goal game with 15 seconds remaining. Jonatan Berggren and Mason McTavish scored St. Louis' earlier goals. Jesper Wallstedt made 21 saves for Minnesota and Joel Hofer 33 for St. Louis. [NHL-9]

Utah Mammoth 4, Edmonton Oilers 2. Utah received power-play goals from Barrett Hayton and Clayton Keller before Logan Cooley restored a two-goal margin just 23 seconds after Leon Draisaitl's second-period goal. Shakir Mukhamadullin cut the deficit to 3-2 early in the third, but Keller's second goal, at 19:32, closed the scoring. Karel Vejmelka made 22 saves and Devon Levi 20. Edmonton's first regulation defeat left it 5-1-1; Utah improved to 6-2-0. [NHL-10]

Vegas Golden Knights 6, Calgary Flames 2. Mark Stone scored three consecutive third-period goals after Brett Howden, Jack Eichel and Braeden Bowman had established a 3-1 lead. Eichel's goal was short-handed and Bowman's came on the power play. Jake Middleton scored short-handed for Calgary, and Matt Coronato added a late power-play goal. Carter Hart made 28 saves for Vegas and Dustin Wolf 27 for Calgary. The Golden Knights improved to 7-2-0. [NHL-11]

Coverage checkpoint

The official MLB, NBA, NHL and NFL scoreboards showed the 16 games above as final. No unfinished game was listed in those four verified daily sets. The midweek MLS slate belonged to October 14 in Eastern Time. All 15 midweek matches kicked off on Wednesday, October 14, including evening games whose UTC kickoff date was October 15. MLS had no Thursday, October 15 matches. This resolves the earlier schedule-verification gap after the complete official October 12–19 data was checked at 2:35 a.m. ET on October 17. WNBA and NWSL coverage belongs to the separate national roundup. MLS official schedule data