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Betts hits two of Dodgers’ five homers and drives in four runs in 11-4 victory over Angels

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts hit a pair of solo homers and drove in four runs, fellow All-Star Freddie Freeman went deep, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Angels 11-4 on Friday night.J.D. Martinez and Will Smith also homered as the Dodgers pounded out 11 hits. Angels All-Star Shohei Ohtani was 1 for 3 with a run scored, a walk and a strikeout as the designated hitter. The Angels lost their ninth in a row in the Freeway Series, their longest skid in the rivalry. They dropped back to .500 for the 12th time this season at 45-45, with All-Star slugger Mike Trout relegated to spectator while wearing a cast on his broken left wrist.Tony Gonsolin (5-3) retired his first nine batters of the game before Ohtani ripped a single down the right-field line leading off the fourth. Taylor Ward followed by reaching on an infield single before Mickey Moniak’s three-run homer pulled the Angels to 4-3. Gonsolin allowed four runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings. He struck out five and walked one....

Tovar hits 3-run homer, Gomber wins third straight start as the Rockies beat the Giants 5-2

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ezequiel Tovar hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh to help Austin Gomber win his third straight start, and the Colorado Rockies ended an 11-game losing streak to San Francisco by beating the Giants 5-2 on Friday night.Tovar connected off Tyler Rogers for his ninth homer, batting leadoff for just the second time in his career after previously doing so June 25 against the Angels. Taylor Rogers (4-3) was the loser.Brandon Crawford had hit a tying two-run homer in the sixth — the NL-leading 20th surrendered by Gomber (7-7), who allowed just those two runs on five hits over six innings.Ryan McMahon hit a two-run homer in the first as Colorado snapped a four-game skid. After Jake Bird and Justin Lawrence each pitched a scoreless inning of relief, Daniel Bard finished for his first save. They Rockies hadn’t beaten the Giants since a walkoff victory last Aug. 20 — the second-longest winning streak for either of the clubs ever facing each other.Kris Bryan...

Sha’Carri Richardson wins 100 meters at US championships in 10.82

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Moments after she was introduced on the starting line, Sha’Carri Richardson reached to her head, grabbed her trademark orange wig and flung it onto the ground behind her.Then, she took the next step on the long road to proving she’s the real deal.America’s most colorful sprint star won the U.S. 100-meter title in 10.82 seconds Friday night, marking a high point that comes two years after her national title was stripped because of a doping violation.After her victory, she conceded in a TV interview that she wasn’t ready for the moment at the 2021 Olympic Trials, where, shortly after her victory, she tested positive for using marijuana.“Now, I stand here with you again and I’m ready, mentally, physically and emotionally,” the 23-year-old said. “I’m here to say, “I’m not back, I’m better..’”She’ll have a chance to put a stamp on that next month at world championships, which will mark her first major international meet. Earning America’s second and ...

St. Louis starter Jordan Montgomery leaves game versus White Sox with apparent hamstring injury

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals starter Jordan Montgomery abruptly left Friday night’s 8-7 loss to the Chicago White Sox in the fifth inning with an apparent right hamstring injury.With St. Louis holding a 5-1 lead and with one out and a 2-1 count on White Sox hitter Elvis Andrus, Montgomery tapped the back of his right leg with his glove. Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol and trainers went to the mound, and Montgomery left the game, walking slowly to the dugout.“Hamstring grabbed at him,” Marmol said. “Kind of his foot slipped as he was coming down the mound. We didn’t want him to pitch through it.”Montgomery said his leg would be imaged on Saturday.“I just kind of slipped on the mound and I guess my body just tried to catch myself,” the 6-foot-6 lefty said. “It’s just kind of a freak thing.”JoJo Romero replaced Montgomery and got the final two outs of the inning. Then Chicago went on to rally against Romero and three other Cardinals reliever.Montgomery (6-7) was looking for...

Diamondbacks beat the Pirates 7-3 to end a 4-game losing streak

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a three-run homer and fellow All-Star Zac Gallen pitched seven strong innings to help the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 on Friday night.NL West-leading Arizona snapped a four-game losing streak, with All-Star rookie Corbin Carroll returning to the lineup a day after leaving a game because of soreness in his right shoulder.Gurriel also had two doubles and drove in four runs, three of them on his 15th homer in the third inning off Rich Hill (7-9).Gallen (11-3) gave up one run in seven innings, lowering his ERA to 3.05. He gave up four hits, struck out five and walked no one. He is tied with Tampa Bay’s Shane McClanahan for the majors victory lead and could be the NL starter Tuesday night in Seattle in the All-Star Game.Carroll’s bunt single drove in the first run of the inning. Carroll was 2 for 5 with two stolen bases — his 25th and 26th of the season.Carlos Santana drove in two runs for the Pirates, who have lost six of t...

Orioles top Twins 3-1 on double in 10th by Urías, Bautista’s relief and Mullins’ big catch

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Long before Félix Bautista’s strong finish on the mound for Baltimore, Cedric Mullins went over the wall to make another defiant catch.Byron Buxton could hardly believe it.Ramón Urías drove in the automatic runner with a first-pitch double off Minnesota closer Jhoan Duran in the 10th inning, and the Orioles outlasted the Twins 3-1 on Friday night after Mullins got them going.Bautista (4-1) pitched two hitless innings with three strikeouts for the Orioles, after Aaron Hicks added a sacrifice fly that drove in Urías. Bautista has 84 strikeouts in 42 innings.“Where would we be without Bautista?” manager Brandon Hyde said. “He was just amazing.”Mullins thwarted a three-run homer by Buxton in the fourth inning.“Just trying to see if I could time the jump if I have room to,” Mullins said. “I was able to do just that.”He also drove in the game’s first run in the sixth for the Orioles, who scored twice in the eighth inning Sunday against Duran (2-4) in B...

Spéciale Aix : la bataille des agences

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

Notre newsletter quotidienne sur les enjeux de lobbying et de transparence en France.Par OCÉANE HERREROAvec MARION SOLLETTY, ELISA BRAUN et PAUL DE VILLEPINInfos, tuyaux et mini-drames à partager à @Heroceane, @DevillepinPaul, @alphoenix ou [email protected] | Voir dans votre navigateurLE MENU DU JOUR— C’est moi qui ai la plus grosse équipe : la guéguerre des agences aux Rencontres.— Ce que nos oreilles baladeuses ont entendu entre deux cocktails.— Débat sur les transports, ça roule pour Clément Beaune. Bonjour à toutes et à tous, désormais parée de ses premières piqûres de moustiques et armée de son SPF50, l’équipe de Paris Influ est prête pour cette deuxième journée aux Rencontres d’Aix. Suivez le guide, on vous dit ce que vous avez (peut-être) manqué hier et ce qu’il ne faudra pas rater aujourd’hui. COMM’PASSION CONSULTANTS. Si certains membres d’état-major, à l’instar de Clément Léonarduzzi (Publicis), n’arrivent qu’aujo...

Mets’ take series opener against Padres after 10th inning outburst gives them 6th straight win

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

SAN DIEGO — After five games of stellar pitching, timely hitting and clean defense, the Mets went to San Diego and wobbled and bobbled their way through the first nine innings. The 10th, however, was a different story.Facing the Padres in the final series before the All-Star Break, the Mets showed resolve by tying the game in the fifth inning after a rocky start, then finishing the job with a four-run 10th inning to win 7-5 on Friday night at Petco Park.It wasn’t pretty, but it was a win, and it was the Mets’ sixth in a row, a new season-high.Facing left-hander Tom Cosgrove (1-2) in the 10th, Jeff McNeil, who has struggled all season but even more in recent weeks, drilled a double down the line to lead off the inning and score the ghost runner. Francisco Alvarez then scored McNeil with a single to the right-center gap to give the Mets an important insurance run. The Mets (42-46) went on to score two more, a gritty turnaround after Starling Marte grounded into a 1-2...

Marine expert discusses shark sighting in North County

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- A 10-foot shark was spotted by two surfers at Tower 28 north of the campgrounds, prompting state lifeguards to post advisory signs just a little after 1 p.m. Friday.The shark wasn’t acting aggressively, but because of the size of the credible sighting, lifeguards decided to let swimmers know they are entering at their own risk.Experts say white sharks in particular are enjoying the warmer waters and feeding off stingrays and halibut along the shores.“Summer is shark season in Southern California. So, whether it’s white sharks, leopard sharks, hammerheads, makos, this is the time of the year that we start to see them,” said Dr. Chris Lowe from Shark Lab out of Cal State Long Beach.Juvenile sharks are normally between 4-9 feet, so this sighting might have been a shark entering its teenage years, but experts say with more human and shark encounters, their data seems to be clear that we as people are not on the shark menu. Here comes another heat wave San Diego “Th...

Harassment of TV meteorologists reflects broader anti-science, anti-media trends

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:25:21 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The harassment started to intensify as TV meteorologist Chris Gloninger did more reporting on climate change during local newscasts — outraged emails and even a threat to show up at his house.Gloninger said he had been recruited, in part, to “shake things up” at the Iowa station where he worked, but backlash was building. The man who sent him a series of threatening emails was charged with third-degree harassment. The Des Moines station asked him to dial back his coverage, facing what he called an understandable pressure to maintain ratings.“I started just connecting the dots between extreme weather and climate change, and then the volume of pushback started to increase quite dramatically,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.So, on June 21, he announced that he was leaving KCCI-TV — and his 18-year career in broadcast journalism altogether.Gloninger’s experience is all too common among meteorologists across the country who are encounterin...