PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Cameron Young, by his own admission, has always set expectations for himself that he called “wildly unreasonable.’’

When he was a teenager, he vowed to his parents that he was going to play in the Ryder Cup when it was to come to Bethpage Black in 2025.

Young, who learned the game of golf at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, where his father, Dave, taught for two decades, not only played in the Ryder Cup at Bethpage last fall, he was the best player for the U.S. team that week — by a lot.

On Sunday, under the blazing late-afternoon Florida sun splashing down on the diabolical Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, Young bettered his realized Ryder Cup promise.

He won the Players Championship with a positively scintillating final-round performance in what was a cauldron of palpable, immense back-nine pressure.

It’s the biggest win by far in a career that’s only just begun and figures to get even better.

When it was over, Young was surrounded by his wife, Kelsey, and their kids, Henry, John and Vivienne.

And only then did he break out of his stone-cold killer facial expression and smile.

This was the second win of his career. Last year he won the Wyndham Championship in a runaway by what felt like a three-touchdown victory.

But his family wasn’t there for it.

“I’ve dreamed of having that moment with them for a long time, and last year at the Wyndham Championship happened to be one of three weeks that they missed all year last year, so they were celebrating 2,500 miles away,’’ Young said. “To get to see them … give my boys a hug, see my wife, see my little girl … that’s something I’ll remember for a long time.’’

Young overcame a four-shot deficit to third-round leader Ludvig Åberg entering the day and made every clutch shot presented to him, particularly on the back nine, where he shot a 3-under-par 33.

He finished with a 4-under-par 68 in the final round and, after Åberg fell apart on the back nine, he outdueled Matt Fitzpatrick, with whom he was paired, on a back nine that had a Ryder Cup feel to it.

Young stuffed a 56-degree wedge to 10 feet from the flag on the iconic island-green, par-3 17th hole with the masses crowded around the green cheering wildly for him and chanting, “USA, USA, USA.’’

Fitzpatrick had seized a one-shot lead with a birdie on No. 15.

Young’s birdie on 17 tied Fitzpatrick, who missed his 29-foot birdie try, at 13-under par.

Young then obliterated a 375-yard drive down the right side of the fairway and seized control.

It was the longest drive on 18 in the entire tournament by nearly 20 yards, and it was the longest drive ever recorded on the hole by ShotLink since it was invented in 2003.

This was absolutely electric stuff.

Fitzpatrick pushed his drive on 18 into the pine straw on the right side and was forced to punch out to short of the green.

Young hit his wedge to 14 feet behind the flag on 18.

Fitzpatrick chipped to 8 feet.

Young slid his potential birdie winner to the right of the hole, 16 inches by the cup.

When Fitzpatrick missed his par putt, that 16 inches was all that stood between Young and the biggest win of his life.

He looked calm rolling it in, but he was anything but calm on the inside.

“I was really, really good until I had to make the 8-inch putt on the last hole,’’ Young said when asked to describe his nerves on the back nine. “I just about fell apart. I couldn’t get my line to point anywhere near the hole, and I went and hit it anyway, which maybe I shouldn’t have. But it went in, so all is well.’’

The last 90 minutes of back-and-forth between Young and Fitzpatrick was exquisite.

When Young made the birdie putt on 17 to tie Fitzpatrick, the noise was as loud as it was all week, maybe in years.

The “USA, USA, USA’’ chants made it feel like a Ryder Cup had broken out.

“The stadium atmosphere out there is unbelievable,’’ Young said. “It’s so loud on 17. You just know kind of all eyes are right there on you. So there’s nowhere to hide. I feel like I stepped up really well and hit a bunch of good shots those last couple holes, so I’m very proud of that.’’

The beauty of his tee shot on 18 was that Young, at the end of his third round Saturday, hit his tee shot into the water to the left of the intimidating fairway and took a gutting double bogey to fall further behind Åberg.

“My thought process over that ball is, one, making sure that I’m committed to my line, and two, the overarching thought is, ‘I’m going to hit the best shot of my life right here,’ ’’ Young said. “I don’t know if I can think of one that’s better [in my career] — especially given what happened [Saturday]. 

 “I didn’t make a bad swing yesterday, just there’s a lot of wind and I missed by a yard. It’s a scary tee shot. To have hit that one in that moment, that’s pretty good.’’

It was better than good.

Twenty-five years removed from Gary Koch’s iconic NBC TV call of Tiger Woods’ famous 60-foot birdie putt on 17, it was “better than most.’’

TORONTO – It’s time for the Toronto Raptors to make their drive to the playoffs.

Brandon Ingram had a game-high 34 points as Toronto upset the Detroit Pistons 119-108 on Sunday, the Raptors second win in a row after a 122-115 victory over the Phoenix Suns two days earlier. Ingram, who compiled 70 points in the two wins, said Toronto’s improved play is right on schedule.

“I think it’s around that time for things to start clicking defensively, offensively,” said Ingram, acknowledging that the Raptors had lost four of their last five games. “We went through a little rough patch these previous games, but we found it.

“We had some conversations. Our communication on the floor has been good, and we’ve been able to fight back when we’ve been down and stay together. So, you know, it’s building.”

The win over Phoenix was the first piece of the foundation, as it was Toronto’s first victory over an opponent with a winning record since the Raptors beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 103-101 on Jan. 25, a span of 19 games. The Detroit win improved the Raptors’ record against the top 10 teams in the NBA to 4-19.

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Ingram was asked if the two victories will quiet criticism of Toronto’s performance against contenders.

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“For sure, but outside noise is outside noise, whatever opinion they have about us, that’s cool,” said Ingram. “We continue to fight, try to be the best we can on every single time that we play and live with the result.”

The back-to-back wins moved the Raptors (38-29) back up to sixth in the Eastern Conference standings after a few days sitting seventh, atop the play-in bracket. Beating the first-place Pistons on Sunday put Toronto 10 games back of Detroit but, more importantly, half a game ahead of the Miami Heat.

“We really wanted to set the tone with our physicality, doesn’t matter who the opponent is,” said head coach Darko Rajakovic. “I have utmost respect for Detroit, I think they’re a championship-calibre team.

“You’ve got to set a tone, not to answer to what they do on the court.”

A major piece of Toronto’s brief resurgence is that RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., and Jakob Poeltl are both fully healthy again.

Barrett had 27 points and six rebounds against the Pistons, while Poeltl and Scottie Barnes each had a double-double.

Poeltl finished with 21 points and a season-high 18 rebounds, while Barnes added 14 points and pulled down 10 boards.

“Body felt really fresh. I don’t know it’s a long season, like sometimes you just wake up, you feel a little funky and other days you feel great,” said Poeltl, who has missed 35 games this season with a sore lower back. “It’s difficult to figure out why some days are just better than others.”

Barrett missed 15 games after he sprained his right knee in November. Rajakovic said now that Barrett’s healthy he can get more involved defensively.

“We’re preaching that to him there is no physical attribute that he does not have, that he’s not capable of guarding one through four of anybody in the league,” said Rajakovic. “He’s just having that grit and mindset of doing it over and over and over again.

“He showed us in moments that he is capable of doing it, but lately he’s doing it in much longer, periods of time, and that’s really helping the team to win.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 15, 2026.

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Andrew Robinson recorded his first Ontario Hockey League hat trick as the Windsor Spitfires downed the London Knights 8-2 at the WFCU Centre on March 15.

Caden Harvey had four assists while Philadelphia Flyers prospect Jack Nesbitt had a goal and two assists in the game for Windsor.

Despite the loss, the Knights remain one point back of the Soo Greyhounds for fourth place in the Western Conference and will have home-ice advantage in the upcoming playoff series between the teams. Each club has three games remaining.

London opened the scoring in Windsor on Braiden Clark’s team-leading 22nd goal of the season. Clark snapped a puck over the glove of Spitfires goaltender Joey Costanzo at 7:07 of the opening period.

Minutes later, Windsor tied the game 1-1 on a goal set up by Nesbitt as he rocketed a pass across to the left side of the Knights’ zone to Robinson who went to the net and scored at the 10:35 mark.

Nesbitt helped to set up Conor Walton in the slot for a go-ahead goal for the Spitfires and then Nesbitt fired in his 19th goal of the year right off a faceoff at 16:44 and Windsor led 3-1 through the first 20 minutes.

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Carson Woodall made it 4-1 for the Spitfires on a one-timer from the right side of the London end at 6:24 of the second period.

Woodall was playing forward for Windsor in the absence of four regular forwards who were all missing due to injury on the Spitfires’ side. Aleksei Medvedev entered the game at that point for the Knights but Windsor kept the momentum going.

Robinson’s second of the game came on a Windsor power play at the 15:33 mark of the second period to give the Spitfires a 5-1 lead.

A puck that was dumped into the London zone went off the skate of Medvedev and into the Knights crease where Beks Makysh poked it across the goal line for short-handed goal and a 6-1 Windsor advantage.

Robinson completed the hat trick with 42 seconds remaining in the middle frame and the Spitfires went into the final 20 minutes up 7-1.

A goal by Alex Pharand on the man advantage gave Windsor their eighth goal on the day and then Max Sokolovskii wristed home his first goal in the OHL to finish the scoring with 1:18 remaining in the game, leading to an 8-2 finish.

The Spitfires outshot London 36-18.

The Knights were 0-for-2 on the power play. Windsor was 2-for-4.

Max Domi plays in 800th game

Max Domi’s last goal as a London Knight was the last goal the team would score in the 2014-15 season. It came on April 14, 2015.

From then until now Domi has now played 800 games in the National Hockey League. He celebrated his 800th game in Buffalo with a goal on Saturday.

Domi helped the Knights to win back-to-back OHL championships in 2012 and 2013 and appeared in three consecutive Memorial Cup tournaments in his time in London.

Up next

The Knights will visit the Guelph Storm for game 66 of 68 of their season on Wednesday, March 18 at 6:30 p.m.

London has won three of the five games they have played against the Storm this season, including the last two.

Both Brody Cook of London and Quinn Beauchesne of Guelph are expected to miss the game after receiving indefinite suspensions in the game on March 13. Cook was give a five-minute major and game misconduct for a hit on former Knight Noah Jenken. Jenken left the game and did not return. Beauchesne was given a match penalty for a slash to the head of Ryan Brown of London. Brown says that the stick struck his ear.

Game coverage Wednesday will start at 6 p.m., on 980 CFPL, and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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The bracket is out, which means it’s time for madness.

The Selection Committee established Duke as the No. 1 overall seed for the 2026 NCAA Tournament, which is not exactly in line with the bookmakers at bet365 Sportsbook, who have Michigan at the top of the odds ahead of Round 1.

That said, the gap between the Wolverines, Blue Devils, and third-favorite Arizona is extremely narrow.

Duke, which started the season at 14/1, is +325 to win the title, while Michigan, which was 20/1 before the season started, is down to +340 after the bracket was released.

Arizona is right behind them at +425.

Defending champions Florida is +700 to repeat. No other team boasts single-digit odds.

2026 NCAA Tournament odds

• Michigan +325
• Duke +340
• Arizona +425
• Florida +700
• Houston 10/1
• Connecticut 20/1
• Illinois 22/1
• Iowa State 22/1
• Purdue 40/1
• Michigan State 45/1
• Kansas 50/1
• St. John’s 50/1
• Gonzaga 55/1
• Arkansas 60/1

Kelvin Sampson’s Houston Cougars are 10/1, putting them in a range of their own, as there is no other team under 20/1.

UConn, winners of two of the last three NCAA Tournaments, is 20/1 after finishing runner-up at the Big East Tournament to St. John’s. UConn is the No. 2 seed in the East Region.

Speaking of the Red Storm, they are down to 50/1 after winning their second Big East title in a row. The Johnnies were handed a No. 5 seed and will play Northern Iowa in Round 1.

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St. John’s isn’t the only notable long shot to keep an eye on over the next few days.

Arkansas, which won the SEC Championship after defeating Vanderbilt, is a tempting price at 60/1.

Tom Izzo’s Michigan State will also get some betting support at 45/1 after landing as a No. 3 seed in the East region.

Purdue, which was the betting favorite before the season started, is 40/1 after being handed a No. 2 seed. The Boilermakers upset Michigan in the Big Ten Championship.

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The odds for Sunday’s World Baseball Classic semifinal between Team USA and the Dominican Republic could hardly be tighter.

The Stars and Stripes are a -125 favorite over the Dominican Republic, which essentially makes this game at loanDepot Park in Miami a coin flip.

Paul Skenes will get the start for the Americans, while the Dominican Republic will counter with Luis Severino.

Team USA vs. Dominican Republic odds, prediction

The USA may be the favorite to win this game, and the tournament, but they have not been the most impressive team in this competition. That honor belongs to the Dominican Republic.

Powered by a relentless offense, the Dominicans have yet to lose a game, and they’ve outscored their opponents by an aggregate scoreline of 51-10.

You can call into question the quality of opposition that the Dominican Republic has faced, but you can only play who is in front of you, and averaging better than 10 runs per contest is an accomplishment against any schedule.

Whether the Dominicans can keep up that pace against Paul Skenes is another question entirely.

The Americans won’t ask Skenes to completely shut out an offense that is headlined by Juan Soto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Julio Rodriguez, and Manny Machado, but if the Pittsburgh Pirates ace can keep a lid on the Dominicans, the pendulum swings in the Americans’ favor.

While the Dominicans are built to get ahead and stay ahead, the Americans bring a little bit more to the table in a lower-scoring, chess-match style contest.

There’s still plenty of game-breaking pop in the American lineup, but they can apply pressure in a variety of ways outside of the threat of the long ball. Luis Severino will have his hands full trying to navigate the sluggers in the heart of the order, but the Stars and Stripes can also play a bit of small-ball if the situation calls for it.

The lineups may be a wash, but the pitching matchup favors Team USA, and I think the Americans simply have more paths to victory than the Dominican Republic does in this specific matchup.

You can feel comfortable laying a bit of juice with Team USA on Sunday, or just play them to win the tournament at +140.

The Play: Team USA moneyline (-125, bet365 Sportsbook)

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Brendan Gallagher was a healthy scratch on Saturday night for the first time in his career. Head coach Martin St. Louis said it was a difficult decision to sit Gallagher for the contest against the San Jose Sharks. Alexandre Texier drew in after an impressive game in Ottawa on Wednesday.

St. Louis is a student of the game. He is constantly reading and adapting as he learns more about the science of his craft. One concept he believes in is “load management.” St. Louis believes that the best Gallagher for the playoffs is a rested Gallagher.

Texier and the rest of the Montreal Canadiens lost to the San Jose Sharks 4-2.

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There were two games against the Sharks. The one where Macklin Celebrini was on the ice, and the one where he wasn’t. When Celebrini was resting for his next shift, the Canadiens dominated.

Leading the charge was the Phillip Danault line that suddenly looked like world beaters with Texier on it. They didn’t defend for a single second in the first period. They finished with an Expected Goals of 100 per cent in the first and ended the game with an impressive 64 share. It was tough to sit Gallagher, but it was wise.

The new third line with Kirby Dach, Jake Evans and Zachary Bolduc was also flying. Dach looks much more comfortable without the pressure of being on the first line, the easier match-ups and less ice time. Minor details can often make a huge difference to a player.

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The game revolved around Celebrini. If a Canadiens player didn’t have to face him, he had a pretty good night. If a player was assigned to stop him, it was a rough one. Celebrini with Will Smith and Collin Graf had an 80 per cent Expected Goals share.

On defence, Kaiden Guhle got the assignment last week in California and it was too much for him. At the Bell Centre, the Canadiens tried their most experienced pair to see if they could contain the phenom. They could not. Mike Matheson and Noah Dobson were caved in by the tenacity and talent of Celebrini. The pair had a 19 share.

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Celebrini was a one man wrecking ball. The head coach also tried his most experienced forward line for containment as well. Nick Suzuki’s line had a 43 per cent share. However, they did finish equal in terms of goals for and against, so that’s a good bottom line.

Cole Caufield was feeling better after struggling with the flu this week. He counted a career high in goals with his 38th of the season. Nick Suzuki also counted his 22nd of the season, ripping a shot to the top corner. That was the upside. The downside is that Celebrini humbled Suzuki and his mates in a manner that even Connor McDavid or Nathan MacKinnon were unable to this season.

Celebrini was the story. He had seven points in the two head-to-head games in the last two weeks. He was unstoppable. Rarely do you see one player able to take over a game with so much power, but the Canadiens had no answer to stop the newest superstar in the NHL.

It’s difficult to remember a player levelling up this significantly in the NHL in his second season. Celebrini went from 63 points in his rookie season to a top-five forward in the entire league. It’s nearly unheard of.

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Former general manager and now scout Craig Button is one of the most respected evaluators in the game. He recently released a top 50 prospects in hockey, and he clearly believes in the Canadiens pipeline.

Button says that he had five Canadiens prospects in his top 50, but that number dropped to four with the graduation of Jacob Fowler into the NHL on Wednesday in Ottawa. Still, four in the top 50 is an extraordinary number in a 30 team league. Fowler was ranked as Button’s number three prospect before he was removed from the list.

That left the top Canadiens prospect as Michael Hage, who moved to sixth overall. It’s another coup for the outstanding scouting staff, led by Nick Bobrov, which has continued to find diamonds in the rough in its short time together. Hage was taken 21st.

Hage was the best forward at the recent World Junior Hockey championships. He is one of the best collegians in the game for the Michigan Wolverines, the number one team in the country. Hage is expected to join the Canadiens this season, after his college hockey concludes.

The second Canadiens player is Alexander Zharovsky, at 20th overall. This is a coup as well for the scouting staff as he was drafted in the second round. Zharovsky is trying to eclipse the highest point total for a rookie in KHL history, which is 49 and held by Ivan Demidov. He has 38 points, so far this season with 12 more games to go. Zharovsky is unlikely to eclipse Demidov, but still, it’s been a massive season for the Russian.

Next up is David Reinbacher as the 28th best prospect overall. This is actually excellent news reflecting the much improved play recently of Reinbacher in Laval. He has levelled up in the last month. Reinbacher’s learning curve was halted due to two massive injuries, but he is now figuring it out.

The final Canadiens prospect in the top 50 is Bryce Pickford at 38 overall. Again, an absolute theft from Bobrov and his staff. Pickford was taken at 81st overall as an overage player. No one gave him a chance to amount to anything. Instead, Pickford is having one of the greatest WHL seasons in history.

Pickford has 44 goals and is only five goals behind Ron Shudra for the highest total ever for a blue liner in a WHL season. Pickford will have to have a scintillating finish as the Medicine Hat Tigers have only three games left this campaign. Pickford is tied with Cameron Schmidt for the league lead in goals. Schmidt is a forward.

Pickford has been signed on a three-year entry-level deal already, and will join the Laval Rocket likely when his season ends in Alberta.

The top three prospects for Button this year are Tij Iginla, Anton Frondell and Porter Martone. Usually, about 35 to 40 prospects per year become regulars in the NHL.

Brian Wilde, a Montreal-based sports writer, brings you Call of the Wilde on globalnews.ca after each Canadiens game.

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VANCOUVER – Bobby McMann knew things would feel a little different on Saturday night.

Playing his first game in a Seattle Kraken jersey, the former Toronto Maple Leafs forward wanted to make an impact with his new team.

“It almost resembles, in a way, your first game,” he said. “You’ve got an entirely new group, new organization, new fans. You want to make a great first impression.”

McMann made a great impression on the score sheet, tallying two goals and an assist as the Kraken (30-26-9) thumped the Vancouver Canucks 5-2.

“Sometimes things go your way a little bit more than other nights and, luckily, that was tonight for me,” he said.

“That was a fun one. It’s always nice to get the win, and then when you contribute, it makes it that much better.”

Seattle acquired the 29-year-old athlete from Toronto ahead of the NHL’s trade deadline on March 6 in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2026 draft and a conditional second-round selection in 2027.

It was a sizable change for McMann, who went undrafted before signing with the Maple Leaves as a free agent in April 2022.

He played 199 regular-season games for Toronto, amassing 52 goals and 36 assists, and added another three assists over 13 playoff appearances in last season.

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Saturday marked McMann’s first game since March 2. The Leafs opted to sit him ahead of the deadline and, after the trade, the native of Wainwright, Alta., waited a full week for his work visa before finally slotting into the Kraken’s lineup on Saturday.

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The new addition was quick to make an impact.

McMann’s first of the night — and 20th of the season — came 19:10 into the first period when he beat Vancouver netminder Nikita Tolopilo with a sharp-angle shot on a power play.

“I thought (Shane Wright) tipped it maybe because I didn’t know if that one was going in with the shot that I had,” he said. “So it was more of a pass to him, but I think it just fooled the goalie because I think he just missed it kind of thing, and trickled in.”

He added another tally early in the third, becoming the first player to score multiple goals in his debut for the Kraken.

McMann added speed to Seattle’s top line, which also includes centre Matty Beniers and captain Jordan Eberle, said head coach Lane Lambert.

“You saw it right away, first shift when he’s tracking the puck and he’s got a ton of speed and it’s a welcome addition for us from that standpoint,” he said. “Obviously the goals he scored, he had a real good chance to make it three as well. I think it went off the knob of the goalie there. But he played well.”

It’s not only the six-foot-two forward’s speed that helps, said Beniers, but his physicality, too.

And Saturday was just the beginning, he added.

“As time goes on, you play more and more with a guy, you start to realize their tendencies, where they go on the ice, what they like to do with the puck,” Beniers said. “So, you keep learning but pretty good start.”

SKID SNAPPED

The result snapped Seattle’s four-game losing skid and moved the Kraken to within one point of the Western Conference’s second wild-card playoff spot.

The stretch of losses was tough to take for a team that’s hoping to contend this post-season, said winger Jared McCann.

“It’s hard to get out of, I feel like, especially when you have times where you’re playing great and you’re still losing,” he said. “I think that’s the most frustrating part. But it’s a long season, you’re going to have ups and downs. You just got to try to stay level headed.

“I think when we were losing, the pressure was building, and we had a good talk before the game tonight, just kind of play a little more free and create with the puck, and it was able to show tonight.”

O’CONNOR’S 100TH

Canucks winger Drew O’Connor recorded an assist on Evander Kane’s first-period goal, marking the 100th point of his NHL career.

The 27-year-old American forward said the milestone is a special one.

“I mean, if you told me 10 years ago I’d have one point in the NHL, I’d be happy,” he said. “So to get to 100 is meaningful.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 15, 2026.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Freddy Peralta is ready.

The new Mets ace is set to start Opening Day and looked crisp Saturday over four innings, allowing just one run against the Astros.

He has one more outing remaining before the regular season begins.

The right-hander’s swing-and-miss stuff was evident in an 8-2 loss to Houston at Ballpark of the Palm Beaches.

And even if his velocity was a tick down from normal — about 1 mph down on most of his pitches, Peralta was unconcerned.

“Everything is getting where I want it to be,’’ Peralta said. “I don’t check my speed. I know myself. I know how I work when I get into the season and the intensity of the game is when I am who I really am. I know what to do.”

That’s true, he said, whether he’s pitching every five or six days, as the Mets could use a six-man rotation.

Manager Carlos Mendoza previously stated Peralta would be the one starter not impacted by that schedule but said that could change, depending on the team’s needs.

Peralta added Saturday he would be fine with pitching with added rest, as long as it was communicated early.

“It’s no problem,” Peralta said. “I’ve been in that situation before — for years. I know I can manage.”

Peralta is passing that veteran attitude and pitching IQ on to the other Mets starters, including Christian Scott.

The 26-year-old, returning from Tommy John surgery, made his second appearance of the spring Tuesday as he works back into major league form.

With the rotation likely filled by Peralta, Clay Holmes, Kodai Senga, Nolan McLean, Sean Manaea and David Peterson, Scott is trying to pick up as much as he can from Peralta while they’re in camp together.

He’s not alone in that attempt, as Peralta came from the Brewers highly respected, as well as successful and willing to impart his wisdom.

And Scott believes he’s uniquely qualified to be a student of Peralta’s.

“I want to pick his brain throughout the season for whatever I can learn,’’ Scott said.

“I know he strikes out a lot of guys,” Scott said. “That’s his calling card. For me, as a pitcher, that’s what I strive to do: Strike out guys at a high level. I watch outings and his delivery is a little more funky than other guys, but to be able to go out there and do it and make every start every year and be able to stay healthy, it’s mind-blowing. I’m trying to be the same way.”

Scott has only nine major league starts to his name, but struck out eight batters in six innings in his second start with the Mets in 2024.

Peralta, as Scott noted, has shown an ability to be productive and dependable.

Over the previous three seasons, the 29-year-old has made at least 30 starts, had 200-plus strikeouts and made a pair of All-Star teams.

And Scott knows it’s not simply because of talent, which is why he’s kept a close eye on Peralta all spring, even between starts, to see what he can learn.

“The first thing is that he’s the same guy every day at the field,” Scott said. “You know what you’re gonna get from him. I feel that’s underrated, especially over the course of the season. I’ve already seen how high the highs can be and how low the lows are. He’s been through it all for a bunch of seasons and been an All-Star. It’s cool to be able to see a guy like that, who stays consistent on a day-to-day basis.”

And Scott is also getting to know the work it takes to make that possible.

“His catch-play with his throwing program is very consistent,’’ Scott said. “It’s like he hits the glove with every single throw, every time he’s out there. I’ll go by and say ‘That’s beautiful’ and he laughs, but mine isn’t as good.”

He’s working on it.