EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsTORONTO -- Kelsey Mitchell scored 16 points in the first quarter and finished with 29 before sitting out the fourth, Caitlin Clark added 24 points and the Indiana Fever beat the Toronto Tempo 101-95 on Tuesday for their fifth straight victory.Clark and Mitchell have each scored 20 or more in the same game 16 times this season, a WNBA record. Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter did it 15 times with Phoenix in 2008.Mitchell also scored 20 or more for the 20th consecutive game, matching Las Vegas' A'ja Wilson for the longest such streak in WNBA history. But after she scored eight points in the span of less than a minute late in the third quarter, she went to the locker room and did not return to the court at steamy Scotiabank Arena."This is two games in a row where we played in really, really hot environments," coach Stephanie White said. "All indications are right now that she was just overheated."Mitchell -- the WNBA's second-leading scorer (24.2) behind Wilson (26.1) -- scored 20 points in 36 minutes Sunday as the Fever needed overtime to win 95-91 at Atlanta.Last October, Mitchell went to a hospital to receive fluids after dealing with leg cramps in the third quarter of a 107-98 overtime loss to Las Vegas in the decisive Game 5 of a WNBA semifinals series.White said she wasn't aware of any link between Tuesday's incident and last year's.Mitchell shot 11-for-16 Tuesday and made 4 of 6 from 3-point range. She was 3-for-3 at the free throw line."She just can get a shot at any time," White said. "She gets a shot for herself, her gravity creates shots for everybody else. It's nice to know that you can give her the ball and let her go to work. There aren't a lot of players that can just create the kinds of shots that she does."Clark added 24 points Tuesday in her first visit to Canada as a player as the Fever won for the 10th time in 12 games. Indiana is 12-3 in its past 15 -- since July 9 -- the third-best mark in the WNBA behind the Minnesota Lynx (13-1) and Golden State Valkyries (9-2).Indiana's only losses in that span are to the Valkyries, Lynx and Aces.It was the Fever's 16th 100-point game, five more than any other team in a season in WNBA history (the 2026 Lynx and 2023 Aces had 11 each).Aliyah Boston scored 16 points, and Sophie Cunningham made all three 3-point attempts and finished with 13 for the Fever, who never trailed.Toronto's Marina Mabrey cut the gap to 97-93 with back-to-back 3-pointers late in the fourth quarter, but the Tempo got no closer. Mabrey finished with 22 points and Brittney Sykes had 15 in her return from injury, but the slumping Tempo lost their 11th straight, tying the Seattle Storm (twice) for the longest losing streak in the WNBA this season.In the Fever's first visit to Toronto this season, there was a mix of cheers and boos when Cunningham entered the game, and fans cheered when she missed her first free throw attempt. Cunningham said in an ESPN profile published last month that she was opposed to transgender girls and women competing in girls' and women's sports.Late in the fourth, fans cheered when someone holding a banner in support of transgender rights was shown on the video screen during a timeout.Before the game, a small group gathered near the stadium's west entrance, offering people the chance to take selfies in front of a banner with Cunningham's photo.Mitchell and Mabrey were issued technical fouls after they clashed early in the third.Aneesah Morrow had 15 points and 16 rebounds for Toronto. If was her second game this season with 15 rebounds off the bench, joining Sharon Manning (1998) as the only players with multiple such games in a single season.Temi Fagbenle scored 13 points and Kiki Rice had 10.Sykes returned after sitting out more than two months because of a left plantar fascia injury. She hadn't played since a June 16 loss at Indiana.The Fever finish out a five-game trip at Dallas on Thursday, New York on Saturday and Chicago on Sunday.ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
