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Last night's game started off a bit ominously, as the Dodgers needed length from Tony Gonsolin and Gonsolin needed 30 pitches to get out of the first inning.Gonsolin didn't exactly cruise, but did give the Dodgers five innings, which is the first time a Dodger pitcher completed five since Gonsolin's last start Sunday in San Diego.

Miguel Rojas didn't figure to play all of Sunday's game anyhow, but his exit in the Los Angeles Dodgers' comeback win against the Chicago Cubs came due to a right foot cramp rather than workload decision.Rojas singled in his second at-bat of the game but immediately limped out of the batter's box and attempted to stretch his right leg upon getting to first base.

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There was no consensus, some observers predicting it would be Dalton Kincaid while others forecast Michael Mayer or perhaps a pick in a later round.But there was no doubt among those outside the organization that the Chargers would draft a tight end last week.

Prior to the 2020 season, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed on a range of minor rule changes.Most of those got postponed by the pandemic, and they've been implemented at different times over the last couple years.One of those rule changes was limitations on when a position player would be allowed to pitch in a game.

On Thursday afternoon, former MLB All-Star Carlos Baerga reported a rumor that the Dodgers and Padres had both made two-year contract offers to left-handed relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman.We wrote then about how the rumor would have made sense if it weren't specifically about Chapman, whom Los Angeles was close to acquiring during the 2015 Winter Meetings before domestic violence allegations surfaced and caused L.A. to nix the deal.

When the Dodgers non-tendered former MVP Cody Bellinger last month, it was both unsurprising and a shock to the system.Bellinger, who spent six seasons in Los Angeles and looked like a future Hall of Famer for the first three, had a fall so precipitous you could legitimately say it was unprecedented.

Rams coach Sean McVay is not surprised.Neither is cornerback Troy Hill nor safety Jordan Fuller.When Brandon Staley coordinated the Rams defense in 2020, the unit statistically ranked as the NFL's best.Now, in his second season as a head coach, Staley has the Chargers headed to the playoffs."The first time I met him, you could tell, like, he was a great football mind," Hill said Wednesday.

LeBron James sat alone on the end of the Lakers bench during a timeout Wednesday night in Miami, the retired jerseys of his former championship teammates Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade hanging above him.Two days away from turning 38, James has a lot on his mind."I have multiple thoughts.I think about the day to day of how we get better throughout the course of the season.

First, I'd like to say thank you.Thank you.This is really awesome.This is really awesome to be up here.So first off, I'd like to thank all the Heisman Trust, all the voters, the finalists that sit right here in front of me - C.J. [Stroud], Max [Duggan], Stets [Stetson Bennett].You guys are unbelievable competitors.

Metro's new downtown subway opens in just one week!On Friday, June 16, Metro will open three new stations in downtown L.A.: Little Tokyo/Arts District​, Historic Broadway, and Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill.The A (Blue) Line will run all the way from Long Beach to Azusa - 49.5 miles - according to Metro the longest light-rail line in the world.

Red Sox "It doesn't feel like what we have with Tampa now, or with Toronto now."The Red Sox and Yankees have met twice in the postseason over the past five MLB seasons, with Boston emerging victorious in both the 2018 ALDS and the 2021 AL Wild Card Game.Still, even with those recent playoff bouts and the years of bad blood between the historic franchises, the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry has been toned down significantly over the last few years.

The future potential of the Boston Red Sox can be found in Baseball America's 2023 top 100 prospect rankings, which was unveiled Wednesday.The Red Sox placed five prospects on the renowned list, highlighted by shortstop Marcelo Mayer's ranking at No. 10 overall.Mayer was joined by Triston Casas, Ceddanne Rafaela, Masataka Yoshida and Miguel Bleis.

The DeAndre Hopkins free agency saga continues and his first visit is with an unexpected team.The Arizona Cardinals cut DeAndre Hopkins last month, instantly making him the most sought-after receiver on the market.Hopkins has dealt with injuries the last couple years, but he remains a dynamic pass-catcher who can infuse any offense with big-play ability.

When the playwright and director George C. Wolfe moved to New York City in his 20s, he got a job at an archive for Black cultural history, where his work saving newspaper articles and maintaining records fueled a habit of preserving his own ephemera.It activated this sort of curiosity-slash-obsession about who gets remembered, what gets saved, what gets valued and what doesn't, Wolfe said recently.

The Washington Mystics are 2-2 to start the 2023 WNBA season.They started the year with a blowout win over the New York Liberty and beat the Chicago Sky last Friday in a close match against Elena Delle Donne's first team.Washington also lost two consecutive games against the Connecticut Sun between their victories.

Spring training games are officially underway, and all 30 teams are starting to get rolling.With that, players that have changed clubs have settled into their new digs.Though the Yankees didn't see a ton of turnover during the last offseason, there were still a number of players that left for other pastures.

Former major league outfielder Fred Valentine has passed away, the Nationals announced.He was 87 years old.Valentine, a Mississippi native, attended Tennessee State University.He entered the professional ranks in 1956 as a member of the Orioles organization.Three years later, he made his MLB debut with 12 games for Baltimore.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.Inevitably, there will be a moment on Sunday when Creighton's Arthur Kaluma, a silky, skilled 6-foot-7 sophomore, is isolated against San Diego State's Adam Seiko, a compact, rugged 6-foot-3 senior, each desperately intent on taking their teams to the Final Four for the first time.It won't be the first time they lock eyes and fiercely attack one another.

Alyssa Cartagena stopped attending school after giving birth a year ago.She had no babysitter, and going back felt insurmountable.But a small alternative high school on Manhattan's Upper West Side helped pull her back in.The program, Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School, boasts an on-site day care center operated by the education department.

Brad Pitt has just sold the Los Angeles estate he's owned for almost three decades a property he once referred to as the childhood home for his six children with Angelina Jolie and is moving to Carmel.TMZ reported the sale of Pitt's Los Angeles compound for $39 million Tuesday.The TMZ report also said the actor plans to move to Northern California, where he purchased Seaward, a historic, castle-like seaside home in Carmel Highlands last summer.

Over the weekend, Russian outlet Match TV reported that Evgeny Kuznetsov had asked to be traded out of DC for the last two seasons.Monday, hockey insider Elliotte Friedman discussed the news with Jeff Marek on Sportsnet's 32 Thoughts podcast.Friedman essentially called the report the final piece of a puzzle which would explain why, per Elliotte, insiders "kinda heard Kuznetsov's name out there" in trade talks.

The Washington Capitals are set to miss the playoffs for the first time in nine seasons.Led by head coach Peter Laviolette since 2020, the Capitals have become the oldest and least durable team in the league, struggling to put full games together.They have not won a round in the postseason under Laviolette.

Taylor Heinicke signed a two-year contract with the Atlanta Falcons on the second day of NFL free agency, Tuesday, officially ending the fan favorite's time in DC.Heinicke's contract will see him earn $20 million for his hometown team.Tabbed as a backup, Heinicke ended up starting 24 games for the Washington Commanders over the past three seasons, stepping in to replace Dwayne Haskins, Alex Smith, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Carson Wentz either due to injury or poor play.

Devante Smith-Pelly is back in Washington DC for the first time since leaving the Capitals after the 2018-19 season.Smith-Pelly will drop the ceremonial first puck during the team's Black History celebration against the New York Rangers at 1 pm.Smith-Pelly will always be celebrated in these parts due to his incredible and clutch performance during the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, which earned him the distinction of "unlikely hero" from Wayne Gretzky.

Orpheus Brewing and its taproom close on Dutch Valley Road in Midtown Sunday, April 23, after nearly nine years there, an announcement on Facebook states.But a partnership with North Carolina-based craft beverage maker Bevana will continue brewing and distributing Orpheus' beers while a new, smaller home is sought for the Atlanta brewery.

The Python Software Foundation Trademarks Working Group was created by the PSF Board of Directors to monitor and authorize (or prohibit) use of trademarks held by the PSF.The WG-initially dubbed committee-was created in 2008, and has been co-chaired by me since 2010, adding Marc-André Lemburg in 2013.

Patriots Watt and Hopkins were teammates together under O'Brien when all three were with the Texans.As speculation and reports continue to mount about a possible DeAndre Hopkins trade, there's been one hurdle that the Patriots might have to clear in order to make it happen.Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien reportedly had a falling out with Hopkins when he was the coach of the Texans, leading to the receiver's trade from Houston to Arizona.

Patriots Belichick had much more to say about Marcus Jones and Josh Uche.The Patriots beat the Cardinals on Monday night, keeping hopes alive of a potential playoff berth.New England now turns its attention to a Sunday matchup against the Raiders in Las Vegas.On Tuesday morning, Bill Belichick joined WEEI's " The Greg Hill Show " to offer some thoughts on the game.

Ravi Patel, a top loan officer and former senior vice president of mortgage lending at Guaranteed Rate,and his team, have moved to UMortgage, according to a statement issued on Monday."Winners in this industry want to join our platform because we're identifying the acute pain points of loan originators of different backgrounds-whether that be a retail shop or their own brokerage-and providing value-based solutions," UMortgage President and CEO Anthony Casa.

Keibert Ruiz signed a contract extension with the Nats.It's 8/50 with two club options.It pays his well over what he would be paid for the next two years (when he is pre-arb and basically paid a major league pittance) over what we would be paid for the three years after that (when he is arb... he'd probably make less the first year, more the last it's a little bump) and under what he would get in those last three years.

Baseball America says the Nats have actual prospects!There are kind of two things to judge... ok THREE things to judge here.1) What happens to guys around this level?Obviously baseball isn't introducing 100 new stars every year.Not 50, not 20, not even 10.Just a couple of great players come into the league each year.

It's different here.It's the Chicago Cubs' slogan, but lately it seems like it applies to baseball in Chicago in general.In January, White Sox closer Liam Hendriks revealed he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and he began treatment.And the crosstown rivalry has been put to the side as Cubs rally around Hendriks and offer their support.

Reynaldo López was set to square off against former Chicago White Sox teammate AJ Pollock in the third inning Monday.López took a peek at the baserunner on first and came set.But before he could fire home, he was called for a violation of the 20-second pitch clock rule and a ball was called to begin the at-bat.

Reynaldo López was set to square off against former Chicago White Sox teammate AJ Pollock in the third inning Monday.López took a peek at the baserunner on first and came set.But before he could fire home, he was called for a violation of the 20-second pitch clock rule and a ball was called to begin the at-bat.

Free agent guard Patrick Beverley is finalizing a deal with the Chicago Bulls, his agent, Kevin Bradbury, told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Monday.The deal is likely to be completed as soon as Tuesday, when the Bulls are expected to waive center Tony Bradley to clear a roster spot to sign Beverley, sources tell ESPN.

Billie Eilish in the video for "No Time to Die." YouTube Note: Due to a publishing error too byzantine to explain here, this piece wasn't posted during the 2022 Oscar season.Now, with the hope that it has aged like a fine wine, it's available to anyone who wishes to revisit the Encanto-rich glory days of last April.

As part of his relationship with Twisted Tea, we were able to interview Brad Marchand about that partnership along with a number of things.I caught up with Marchand after the team touched down in Seattle for their four-game road trip.Marchand talked to us about the siblings' trip, the family mentality in the room, Jake DeBrusk's restart this season, his children owning the Boston Bruins ' locker room... and obviously Twisted Tea Frozen Cherry -the NHL's limited-edition flavor.

Mark O'Connor plays the five instruments he was studying at age 12 - fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo and dobro.Marty O'Connor/Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor's story starts ordinarily enough.He grew up in a suburb of Seattle, where his father scraped by as a construction worker and his mother was a homemaker.

The digital age is changing us in ways we would never expect.If you had told me 20 years ago that I would one day stop reading books, I would have said you were crazy.I've always been a reader; from the time I was little, I would hide away somewhere with a book and devour it, often in one sitting.Cut to 2021, when I realized I had only read five books that year, and the previous year, only eight.

The internet has a new favorite pair of celebrity cats: Hazel and Holly, two mountain lion cubs whose recovery journey at a California zoo has attracted a loyal following.The abandoned cubs were brought in just a few days apart to the Oakland zoo, after wildlife officials realized they had been separated from their mothers.

Since he was 15, Fabian "Fabo" Rosas knew he wanted to open his own taqueria.Two years ago, knee-deep in the pandemic, he did just that.After running pop-ups for a couple years with a canopy and griddle behind Chop Shop in Hillsboro, he and his wife, Tyanna Rosas, opened Fabo's Tacos as a late-night window in Old Town.

Cate Casad started noticing the for-sale signs pop up over the last year on farms around Central Oregon, which has been mired in water shortages amid a yearslong megadrought.Casad and her husband, Chris, are first-generation farmers and ranchers who started off with just a few acres of land east of Bend, then moved north in 2017 to scale up their farm.

The Boston Celtics have recently hit the most difficult patch of their season thus far.They are 1-3 in their last four games including a loss to the Nets and overtime losses to the New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers.Amidst that recent turmoil has been a shift in betting odds concerning the 6th Man of the Year Award.

Fernanda Santos and Gustavo Pereira of London, Ont., knew the housing market was wildly overpriced in March 2022, but felt pressured to become owners, so they bought a three-bedroom home in the east end for $730,000."Everybody said to us you should buy as soon as you can doesn't matter if you like it or not, just buy and get into the market," Santos, 34, recalled in an interview with Rebecca Zandbergen, host of CBC Radio's London Morning.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Winning the Eurovision Song Contest is no guarantee that an act will stick around.For every Celine Dion or ABBA, there are countless others whose names you've forgotten.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ZITTI E BUONI") MANESKIN: (Singing in Italian).SHAPIRO: It's only been a couple years since the Italian band Maneskin won, and so far, their star keeps rising.

There's a little something for everyone this week, as this January feels MUCH more lively than those of the last couple years.We're looking forward to local shows featuring country, hip-hop, and R&B: Night Heron and Seance Crasher collaborated on a vibey new song, Jenny Don't and the Spurs hit the road once more-how are SZA tickets still available?! Read on for more of what you can Hear In Portland.

It's 2023, and after the last couple years we've all had on this planet, a lot of people are not in the mood for goal-setting.In fact, for many of us, maybe the best advice right now is to just lean back and get better at doing nothing.(Seriously, this is NPR giving you permission to relax.It's for your own good.)

As we put a cap on 2022, Eater surveyed a group of friends, writers, and all-around experts for their take on the past year.We asked them six questions: from top standbys to top newcomers, from best meals to restaurants they've broken up with.All will be answered by the time we turn off the lights at the end of 2022.

Stephen Maturen/Getty Images  The New York Giants could clinch their first postseason berth since 2016 with a win over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday, and they understand the urgency of the situation."Yeah, you don't want to leave it to chance," running back Saquon Barkley said Thursday, per ESPN's Jordan Raanan.

2019 marked the end of a legendary career for SG Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat.Wade played 17 seasons in the association, 15 with Miami, and put up career averages of 22.0 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 5.4 APG, 1.5 SPG, 0.8 BPG, shooting 48% from the field.Now, he is headed to the NBA Hall of Fame.He is an icon to the city of Miami, as he delivered the organization's first ever NBA championship in 2006, and then went on to win two more in 2012 and 2013.

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The trade: A three-team deal that lands C Sean Murphy with the Braves Braves get: C Sean Murphy (from A's) Brewers get: C/DH William Contreras (from Braves), RHP Joel Payamps (from A's), RHP Justin Yeager (from Braves) A's get: LHP Kyle Muller (from Braves), RHP Freddy Tarnok (from Braves), RHP Royber Salinas (from Braves), C Manny Pina (from Braves), OF Esteury Ruiz (from Brewers)
Maybe the simplest way to look at this trade: The Braves get the best player in Murphy, a strong two-way player who won a Gold Glove in 2021 and broke out with his best offensive season in 2022 -- and if you get the best player in a trade, there's a strong likelihood you're going to end up winning the deal in the long run.