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The Los Angeles Dodgers reinstated Shelby Miller from the bereavement list and designated Adam Kolarek for assignment prior to Wednesday's game against the Chicago White Sox.Miller returns after going on bereavement June 10.MLB roster rules require a player who was put on the bereavement list to be away from the team for a minimum of three days, but no more than seven.

(Ashley Landis / Associated Press)

Ahead of the biggest game yet of his burgeoning major league career, Bobby Miller was a picture of poise in the Dodgers ' clubhouse on Sunday afternoon.A few hours before taking the mound against the New York Yankees - on ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" and in front of a sold-out crowd of 52,000, no less - the right-handed rookie relaxed, seemingly unfazed by the high-pressure stage he was about to take.

While it wasn't the most exciting day down on the farm as Rome was the only team to notch a win, Mississippi hitters like Drew Campbell and Landon Stephens also put up solid performances on the day.(29-34) Gwinnett Stripers 4, (29-34) Charlotte Knights 5


Daniel Robertson, 3B: 2-4, 2B, RBI
Hoy Park, RF: 2-3, RBI, R
Justus Sheffield, SP: 3.2 IP, 4 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 4 K


Gwinnett failed to hold onto an early lead on Sunday as they dropped Sunday's matchup against Charlotte, ending their five-game winning streak.

As usual when it comes to the lineups being posted in this series, the Atlanta Braves have not wasted too much time getting their starting nine out into public knowledge.Fortunately for us, Dave Roberts and the Los Angeles Dodgers haven't wasted as much time as usually to get their lineups out, so we can actually talk about both teams without having to update you later on what's going on.

After a sleepy few days for the offense, the Yankees' lineup exploded yesterday for seven runs.They didn't do much else, but it was enough for a 10-8 win over the Padres, securing a series victory before embarking on a West Coast road trip through Seattle and Los Angeles.Tampa Bay and Baltimore both won though, so New York didn't gain any ground on the two teams in front of them in the AL East.

The Tampa Bay Rays defeated the New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon, 8-7, leaving the Yankees just short of a third consecutive dramatic comeback victory.The Rays move back to 20 games over .500at 31-11, four games clear of the streaking Orioles in second place.The Yankees drop to 23-19 in a virtual tie with the Red Sox for last place in the AL East, pending the results of Boston's game against St. Louis tonight.

Juventus Women celebrated the Coppa Italia victory over Roma on Sunday afternoon in Salerno.It was the positive moment that the Bianconere had been seeking to conclude a season that has seen a whole lot of interesting moments on its way to a Scudetto streak coming to an end.By the end of the new work week, they had already started constructing next season's roster.

A 16-year-old boy was shot Sunday afternoon in a gas station parking lot in Chatham, Chicago police said.The boy was shot by an unknown offender while in the parking lot on the 8000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue around 4:10 p.m., police said.He was hit in the right foot and taken to Jackson Park Hospital in good condition, police said.

Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested by police investigating allegations of financial misconduct at the SNP.The former first minister is being held in custody and questioned by detectives looking into claims that 600,000 in donations for an independence campaign was misspent by the party.Ms Sturgeon, who stepped down in April, is the third high-profile SNP figure to be arrested as part of Operation Branchform, the Police Scotland name for the investigation.

Dramatic footage shows a mini tornado near the park where a nine-year-old boy in a zorb ball was catapulted into the air.The freak weather phenomenon, known as a dust devil, was captured on camera near Victoria Park in Southport, Merseyside, where the incident happened on Sunday afternoon.One witness recalled staff rushing to remove all other children from the attraction after the boy flew 15 to 20m into the sky.

The body of one of three men missing after the partial collapse of an apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, has been recovered a week after a section of the six-story structure collapsed, a spokeswoman for the city said on Sunday.The spokeswoman, Sarah Ott, said in an email that the body of Branden Colvin Sr., 42, was found on Saturday.

A 40-year-old man died after he became stuck in machinery at a central Wisconsin paper mill, authorities said.The Portage County Sheriff's Office said deputies and first responders were called Sunday afternoon to the Mativ Inc. Paper Mill in Whiting, about 65 miles west of Green Bay.The man, who was a plant employee, died as a result of his injuries despite lifesaving measures.

The Metropolitan police has defended its officers after a suspect was Tasered and two dogs were shot in front of screaming witnesses.Footage posted on social media showed officers pursuing a man holding the two dogs on a short lead along a canal in Limehouse, east London, on Sunday afternoon.The situation appeared to become heated, as the man was Tasered to the floor and the animals were shot dead.

Sinn Fein MP John Finucane said the right to commemorate the dead must apply to every section of society as he addressed a controversial IRA memorial event in Co Armagh.Mr Finucane, who faced calls to rethink his attendance at the commemoration in Mullaghbawn in south Armagh, spoke of his father's murder during the Troubles as he stressed the importance of remembering lost loved ones.

Two firefighters have been taken to hospital as crews try to contain a wildfire that has been burning near Cannich, south west of Inverness, since Sunday afternoon.A spokesperson for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) confirmed the pair were flown to hospital by air ambulance after sustaining injuries while responding to the blaze at a farm near the village at about 9am on Tuesday.

Ten people have been hospitalised after the roof of a double-decker bus was torn off as it crashed into a rail bridge in Glasgow.Trains between Glasgow Central and Paisley were brought to a halt on Sunday afternoon following the crash at Cook Street in the city's south side, close to the 02 Academy concert venue, shortly before midday.

The Metropolitan Police has defended its officers after a suspect was tasered and two dogs were shot in front of screaming witnesses.Footage posted on social media showed officers pursuing a man holding the two dogs on a short lead along a canal in Limehouse, East London on Sunday afternoon.The situation then appeared to become heated, as the man was tasered to the floor and the animals were shot dead.

I've been a Goodreads user for a few years now, and much like how I use other 'tracking' services, I'm not there for other folks' reading lists or recommendations, but instead, as a way to track what I've read.I especially like looking back over the past year and being reminded of the books I really enjoyed.

Over the past few months, The New York Times has asked experts to answer the question, What would you play a friend to make them fall in love with jazz?We've covered lots of artists, instruments and musical styles but this time we're tackling a whole city.The United States is full of cities with their own rich jazz histories, but none goes back as far as New Orleans.

(Steve Helber / Associated Press)

A year ago, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan used two words to describe the rogue LIV Golf League."It's an irrational threat," he said."One not concerned with the return on investment or true growth of the game."On Tuesday, the PGA Tour had another word for the Saudi-Arabia backed business.

A woman was killed Sunday afternoon when she was ejected from her car after it left the roadway and rolled, Waukegan police said.Officers said they recovered about nine grams of what they suspect is heroin from the vehicle.Authorities have not released the identity of the woman, whom police said was a 31-year-old Waukegan resident.

Far-left supporters of a young woman given a lengthy prison sentence for participating in attacks on neo-Nazis and other extremists clashed with police in the eastern German city of Leipzig over the weekend, leaving 50 officers and a number of protesters injured.Saturday's planned demonstration among backers of Lina E., whose full name wasn't released because of privacy rules, was banned by the city of Leipzig.

Malaysia has detained a Chinese ship suspected of looting two British Second World War shipwrecks, authorities said.In a statement posted to Facebook the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said that a cargo ship had been detained for anchoring without permission at a position 20.1 nautical miles east of Tanjung Siang on Sunday afternoon.

(Courtesy of Max Buydakov)

Max Buydakov should have a lot to look forward to.He turns 22 on June 7 and two days later will graduate with degrees in global health and human biology from UC San Diego.Instead, the West Hollywood native is in mourning and struggling to plan and raise money for his mother Larisa Pereshivaylova's funeral.

(Fresno County Sheriff's Office)

The bodies of an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother were found within 24 hours of each other in Fresno County's fast-moving Kings River, ending a frantic search for the pair, authorities said.According to the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, the girl was discovered first - on Sunday afternoon, less than an hour after rescuers had launched their search.

The Dutch train operator warned of delays across the Netherlands as train service to and from Amsterdam, the capital, was canceled for a second day on Monday.ProRail, the government agency responsible for maintaining the railways, cited problems with the system used to monitor and control trains, which first surfaced on Sunday afternoon.

Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Warsaw on Sunday in a huge display of opposition to the governing party before an October general election, summoning memories of Poland's rejection of Communist Party rule decades before.The event, organized by the government's political rivals, sought to deprive Poland's deeply conservative Law and Justice party of its claims to the legacy of Solidarity, the trade union movement that led the struggle against a Communist system imposed by Moscow after World War II.

Los Angeles County fire crews were working Sunday afternoon to contain a fast-moving wildfire that had consumed more than 1,000 acres in the Antelope Valley, efforts complicated by high winds in the area.The first fire crews were dispatched around 1:45 p.m. to battle the blaze, dubbed the Danny fire, centered at West Avenue D and North 130th Street, according to a report by KTLA-TV.

(Los Angeles Fire Department)

A horse stumbled into a narrow dirt ditch and was trapped upside down in Sylmar on Sunday afternoon but was quickly extricated unharmed with the aid of a "horse rescue specialist."Rescue workers arrived at a trail off Olive View Drive just after 4:30 p.m. to find the horse inverted in the earth, according to a Los Angeles City Fire Department news release.

Joey Meneses got the first triple of his major league career Sunday, but the Nationals didn't do much else at the plate in a loss to the Phillies.(Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images)The Washington Nationals' matchup with the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday afternoon at Nationals Park came with heightened stakes - relatively speaking because it's early June.

Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Ahead of the biggest game of his young NBA coaching career, Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla is getting the full trust of his talented squad.Mazzulla, 34, has Boston on the verge of a second-consecutive Eastern Consecutive Finals appearance in his first year at the helm.

In a game that will go down as an instant classic, Boston Celtics veteran Al Horford asserted his dominance against the MVP in the fourth quarter plus overtime.Nobody was more upbeat in the Boston Celtics locker room than Al Horford following a tough one-point defeat to the Philadelphia 76ers with the team missing out on a chance to go up 3-1 in the series.

It is a rainy May Friday in Chicago, as the White Sox welcome old friend José Abreu back to town to take on his Houston Astros.OK, "welcome" and "old friend" might be doing a lot of the work in that statement.While we still love José, there is no love for those unrepentant cheaters around these parts.

The Nationals' Alex Call is forced out at second base by Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. on Sunday afternoon.(Reed Hoffmann/AP)KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Before the walk-off hit found grass in front of Lane Thomas, and before the Kansas City Royals celebrated their 3-2 win Sunday afternoon, Thomas, the Washington Nationals' right fielder, had to quickly run through the possibilities in his head.

Celtics Harden said he received the text from Rivers when he was on his way to Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Arena for the game.James Harden laughed, wiped his forehead, and rubbed his temple when he was asked about the gospel song Doc Rivers sent him for inspiration before Game 4.
Did the song, titled "You Know My Name" by Tasha Cobbs-Leonard, help get Harden ready for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, where he scored 42 points and buried a clutch 3-pointer that tied the series at 2-2?
"I think so," Harden said with a chuckle.

At the moment, that's still an "if."Negotiators won't release full details of their plan until Sunday afternoon, after a final call between McCarthy and Biden - sending lawmakers and aides searching for problem spots in between their Memorial Day parades and picnics.If an issue does emerge in either party, Republicans and Democrats agree it could dramatically alter their whipping operations.

Jeffries said he last talked to McCarthy on Saturday afternoon.White House and GOP negotiators announced the agreement Saturday night."What I have consistently said, however, privately and publicly, was that the extreme MAGA Republican negotiating position and that the extreme bill that they passed on April 26th, the Default on America Act, contained nothing that was consistent with Democratic values or American values," Jeffries added.

Manchester United will be looking to secure third position in the Premier League table when they welcome Fulham to Old Trafford on the final matchday of the 2022-23 campaign.The Red Devils booked their spot in next season's Champions League with an impressive 4-1 success over Chelsea on Thursday evening, while Fulham, who occupy 10th position in the division, will enter the match off the back of a 2-2 draw with London rivals Crystal Palace last weekend.

It's the business end of the football season, and the pressure is on Manchester United.An FA Cup Final against Chelsea in front of a sold-out Wembley is just a week away, and there's no room for error in the FA Women's Super League either.And yet, with that pressure, United continued to show their quality in the race to the finish line, battering Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 at Leigh Sports Village on Sunday afternoon.

Manchester City's Nordic meat shield Erling Haaland has broken another record by becoming the first player in history to take the Premier League Player and Young Player of the Year awards in the same season.The 22-year-old striker joined the blues last summer and has hit a record 36 goals in his debut season, whilst also notching up 52 in all competitions.

Arsenal's 1-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest ensured a fifth Premier League title in six seasons for Manchester City.After winning 3-0 at Everton last weekend, Pep Guardiola's side became champions without kicking a ball as the Gunners lost to Brighton last Sunday and then at Forest on Saturday.The Manchester City players watched the game together and celebrated at the final whistle.

Man City travel to Goodison Park on Sunday afternoon to face relegation-threatened Everton in what is a huge match for both clubs.The match has been marked down by pundits and fans as one that City could potentially drop points in given the nature of the Goodison Park crowd and the fact that the game is sandwiched in between the two Champions League semi-final clashes with Real Madrid.

Verdict: Manchester City win & Under 4.5 goals Best Odds: 17/20 Bookmaker: Unibet Two sides who find themselves battling it out at opposite ends of the Premier League table, Manchester City will make the trip to Goodison Park on Sunday afternoon.Everton
Starting with the hosts, putting in what was a stunning display on the south coast earlier in the week, Everton have certainly breathed life back into their charge for Premier League safety.

1. Bobbi's Brooklyn is the first brick-and-mortar restaurant to bring Chicago-style tamales to Brooklyn.
2. Bobbi's Brooklyn's tamales are made using a traditional recipe that has been passed down for generations, and are served in a variety of flavors.

NFL ownership voted to expand the scope of flex scheduling, and the New England Patriots' road game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 14 might be impacted as a result.Thursday night games such as this, after all, are now also subject to being moved.The NFL originally introduced flex scheduling back in 2006, giving networks the opportunity to shift prime time games around based on perceived attractiveness.

It was a day of firsts for the San Francisco Giants in their 7 - 5 win over the Miami Marlins.A day after Patrick Bailey stroked his first hit in the Majors, the catcher launched his first home run: a no-doubt tater that left his bat at 107 MPH to knot the game up at 1 run apiece in the 2nd.He also sac bunted in an insurance run in the 6th.

PITTSFORD, N.Y.On Saturday evening, Michael Block, the 46-year-old Everyman golf pro from a public course in California, learned that he would continue his enchanting run at this year's P.G.A. Championship by playing the final round with Rory McIlroy, the four-time major champion.Block rolled his eyes at the news and spun around.

In 2020, Mariana Velasquez had planned to go on a 12-day road trip through Colombia to photograph her new cookbook, Colombiana.Instead, she was met with a pandemic and the subsequent closing of Colombia's borders.Like many other New Yorkers, the food stylist had to work inside of her own apartment or at other nearby locations to finish the project on time.

Coverage: Watch Rangers v Glasgow City on BBC Alba and both games on BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app

A day short of 18 years since "Helicopter Sunday", the Scottish Women's Premier League trophy could be poised for its own drama as a captivating season draws to a thrilling end.

On a Sunday afternoon, Rory Manns, 25, strolled into the park, soccer ball in hand.Rory's friends brought blankets, bags of snacks and a charcuterie board.In this sacred space, everyone had an offering to share.Located to the west of Downtown Los Angeles, the Vista Hermosa Natural Park is a pocket of rolling woodlands that cradle streams and lush meadows.

One person has died after a dirt bike and a passenger vehicle collided in the Township of Havelock Belmont Methuen on Sunday afternoon, police say.Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say officers from Peterborough County responded to a fatal motor vehicle collision on Blairton Road, north of Highway 7, at approximately 6 p.m. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press) One person has died after a dirt bike and a passenger vehicle collided in the Township of Havelock Belmont Methuen on Sunday afternoon, police say.

New military aid includes 30 Leopard 1 A5 tanks, 20 Marder armoured personnel carriers, and 200 reconnaissance drones.Germany will provide Ukraine with additional military aid worth almost $3bn, including tanks, anti-aircraft systems and ammunition, the government announced ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's arrival in Berlin.

Oakland teachers will strike again on Monday the third day of walkouts affecting 34,000 children across the city.Please prepare for the strike to continue Monday, the teachers' union, the Oakland Education Association, posted on Facebook Sunday afternoon.Our bargaining team is working hard.We will let you know as soon as possible if the district makes the movement necessary to reach an agreement.

With all eyes from across the Premier League falling on St. James' Park, Arsenal claimed what was a crucial 2-0 victory away at Newcastle on Sunday afternoon.Traveling to the north east knowing that a single point was not enough, it was the red-hot Martin Odegaard who opened the scoring with a sublime effort after just 14 minutes.

This year's Eurovision acts are being welcomed to Liverpool with an opening ceremony.The Turquoise Carpet ceremony opened on Sunday afternoon in the city, which is preparing to host the song contest final next Saturday on behalf of last year's winners Ukraine.Hosted by Olympian Sam Quek and Ukrainian presenter Timur Miroshnychenko, the ceremony will see all 37 acts take to the carpet for a welcome to the city.