The Minnesota Timberwolves picked up a 112-96 win over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday — but not before tempers flared. The Game 4 win, which gave Minnesota a 3-1 series lead, ended with a confrontation between Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels and Nuggets center Nikola Jokić in the final seconds.

With seconds ticking down and Minnesota up by double digits, McDaniels took the ball and made an open layup, rather than holding the ball to end the game. Jokić then took exception to the point, rushing over to confront McDaniels on the Timberwolves’ bench, with both teams forming a scrum.

Following the scuffle, Jokić and Timberwolves forward Julius Randle were ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct, with 1.3 seconds remaining.

The Nuggets, who trailed 2-1 in the series heading into Game 4, held a narrow lead throughout much of the game, with Minnesota losing starters Anthony Edwards and Donte DiVincenzo before the end of the first half. But the Timberwolves surged in the second half behind a career night from Ayo Dosunmu, who scored 43 points off the bench.

Postgame, Dosunmu didn’t seem too worried about the scuffle: “I ride with them 100%, right or wrong,” he said of his teammates.

Minnesota center Rudy Gobert also downplayed McDaniels’ decision to take that last-second layup during a postgame interview on Inside the NBA.

“It’s the playoffs, man, you know. The game’s still going, he has the ball in his hands,” Gobert said. “Nothing much to be mad about.”

It is unclear how the ejections will affect Jokić and Randle’s availability going forward, as the series returns to Denver for Game 5. The league may also decide to hand down additional punishments after reviewing footage of the fight.

On Friday, Max Scherzer had a change to hit a new major milestone, entering the game against the Cleveland Guardians only one strikeout away from hitting 3,500 career strikeouts. If he hit that mark, he would also be only nine strikeouts away from hitting No. 10 on the MLB’s all-time list.

Instead, he did not hit either mark, failing to record a strikeout in 2 1/3 innings after allowing seven runs and six hits.

Three of those hits — including against his very first batter — were home runs. That makes it the first time this seasons that a pitcher has allowed three homers without getting a strikeout, per Stathead.

The early homer was only part of an uncharacteristically rough start for Scherzer, who went on to allow four more runs on two outs before finally getting out of the first inning.

Scherzer held the score in the top of the second, but allowed two more runs at the top of the third off an Angel Martínez two-run homer. Martínez’s second home run of the night came after a grueling 11-pitch at-bat, in which the Guardians center fielder hit seven straight foul balls before Scherzer threw three balls to bring it to full count. Martínez then sent the next ball into deep right field to send him and Rhys Hoskins home.

Right afterwards, Scherzer was pulled from the game and relieved by Joe Mantiply.

Scherzer was this close to becoming the 11th player in MLB history to hit 3,500 career strikeouts, and just the second active player (alongside Detroit Tigers’ Justin Verlander) above that mark. But his failure to strike out a batter means that Blue Jays fans will have to wait until his next start to watch Scherzer make history.

This story will be updated.