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Mookie Betts didn't have time to toss his bat, unstrap his shin guard or take even a half-step toward first base.After laying off what should have been a pivotal ball four with two outs in the ninth inning of a one-run game Saturday night, the Dodgers star was instead rung up instantly - and, in a controversial moment that rankled everyone on the visiting side, incorrectly - by home plate umpire Paul Emmel for a game-ending third strike.

The White Sox announced Davis Martin, the right-handed minor league arm, underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery.Martin followed the news with a post on his Instagram with this caption:
"'For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.' - ‭‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭18‬.

All eyes leading into Friday were on José Abreu, the former Chicago White Sox first baseman making his return to Guaranteed Rate Field for the first time with the Houston Astros.Sox starter Michael Kopech took center stage after a 2 hour, 10 minute rain delay, carrying an unconventional no-hitter into the fifth.

All eyes leading into Friday were on José Abreu, the former Chicago White Sox first baseman making his return to Guaranteed Rate Field for the first time with the Houston Astros.Sox starter Michael Kopech took center stage after a 2 hour, 10 minute rain delay, carrying an unconventional no-hitter into the fifth.

Liam Hendriks first felt something not quite right in his right elbow around May 4, the day the Chicago White Sox reliever left to begin his rehab assignment with Triple-A Charlotte."It's been sore for the last few weeks, ever since before my rehab assignment it was barking, but my mantra is to pitch things until I can't," Hendriks said Tuesday before the Sox lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 at Dodger Stadium.

White Sox closer Liam Hendriks has been sidelined by elbow inflammation after he missed the start of the season while he recovered from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.Hendriks was placed on the 15-day injured list before Sunday's 6-5 loss to the Miami Marlins.Left-hander Tanner Banks was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte.

A lot of Washington Wizards fans may not have seen this coming but Bradley Beal's time in the nation's capital could be coming to an end.But some Wizards supporters are pushing for Beal's departure.Quite frankly, the fans in D.C. are tired of the losing seasons.They missed the postseason for a second consecutive year and only made the playoffs once in the last five years.

The Washington Wizards have made additional cuts to the roster.They have waived Stephanie Jones and Elena Tsineke.Jones played in both preseason games for the Mystics averaging three points and seven rebounds.She went undrafted in the 2020 WNBA Draft and played for the Connecticut Sun in 2021 but didn't make the opening roster in 2022.

They cram themselves every day by the millions onto India's overtaxed trains, chasing a shred of economic opportunity across the vastness of the world's most populous nation.Tickets costing about $5 nearly a day's wage are all they can afford.For that, they stand shoulder to shoulder over long stretches in the middle of so-called general category coaches, far removed from the air-conditioned cars that lie beyond the pantry where workers prepare the rice, roti and chai for the journey.

Stephen Strasburg has thrown just 31⅓ innings since being named the 2019 World Series MVP.(Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) When Stephen Strasburg threw the last of his 104 pitches and Chip Hale - the bench coach filling in for ejected manager Dave Martinez - came to retrieve the ball in the ninth inning of Game 6 of the 2019 World Series, the Washington Nationals were finally and inarguably his.

There is no doubt about it, the 2022 Atlanta Braves leader in relief pitcher fWAR is struggling this year.A.J. Minter currently sits at 7.36 ERA while being second on the Braves' roster in innings pitched for relievers (22.0 at the time of this writing).So, what is going on, and can Minter turn things around?

The Yankees needed a pick-me-up after their disappointing series against the Rays, and they got just that in the form of the A's.The battle of the last-place teams showcased the difference between last place in the AL West versus the AL East, though the Athletics had some fight in them for a couple of innings.

Brayan Bello has continued to stack up impressive outings for the Boston Red Sox, but his seven-inning performance in Sunday night's 3-2 win over the New York Yankees rivals his best yet.Because while his stat line - two runs on three hits in seven innings with 64% of pitches for strikes - surely was notable, it was another aspect that caused Kiké Hernández to praise the 24-year-old.

The Boston Red Sox found themselves in an early deficit Tuesday night against the Atlanta Braves, and it haunted them for good.With an early setback in place, coupled with the Braves' starting pitching - Charlie Morton - and bullpen ready to apply the pressure on Boston's lineup, the recipe for disaster was in place leading to a 9-3 Red Sox loss, the team's second straight.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter.Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.Ask about airline mergers, electric vehicle chargers, or the massive infrastructure law that may become President Joe Biden's legacy, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slides into technocratic policy talk.

There will be significant costs for US diplomacy if Congress doesn't renew a controversial intelligence program gathering communications data that is set to expire this year, a senior State Department official said Tuesday, adding that US diplomats have used the program to monitor Russian atrocities in Ukraine.

Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Sunday that White House negotiators and Democratic leaders should be concerned about progressive support for the tentative deal to raise the debt ceiling for two years Yes, they have to worry, Jayapal told CNN's Jake Tapper on State of the Union, referring to some of the concessions made by the White House to reach the agreement with Republicans.

No one was more suspicious of the widely showcased newest ABC-Washington Post poll then ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos who questioned its accuracy live on air on its Sunday May 7 release.Stephanopoulos was suspicious given the inconsistencies in the survey which both purported to overwhelmingly condemn Trump's likely illegal conduct supposedly showing Trump leading Biden in a prospective 2024 presidential election matchup.

Trayce Thompson has struggled in his platoon role for the Los Angeles Dodgers this season, and now the team will need to rely on other options as he recovers from a left oblique strain."With the oblique, unfortunately it seems like 30 days is going to be the floor," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

The Los Angeles Dodgers entered the ninth inning trailing the St. Louis Cardinals by three runs on Saturday, but they started a rally which gave them a chance to win a second consecutive game.Miguel Vargas opened the inning with a double and David Peralta singled to put runners at the corners.Jason Heyward then added a double of his own to cut the Cardinals' lead to two runs and put the tying run on second base.

Ostensibly, the New York Philharmonic's final two programs of the season were about the earth.But they served more to illustrate the challenge composers face in translating the climate crisis to music.Last week at David Geffen Hall, Julia Wolfe's new multimedia oratorio, unEarth, took an explicitly activist stance, lashing out at ecological violence and offering a path to recovery.

A terrorist who hatched a bomb plot alongside London Bridge attacker Usman Khan could walk free from prison within weeks.The Parole Board said Nazam Hussain, who was jailed in 2012 for his part in plans to blow up the London Stock Exchange, was suitable to be released.Hussain was initially freed from prison in 2019 but put back behind bars just months later when police found two knives taped together inside a suitcase at his house, in the wake of Khan's Fishmonger's Hall attack.

Once again British Airways' Heathrow operation is in disarray due to an IT failure.The Independent calculates that at least 110 flights, mainly domestic and European, have been cancelled on Thursday and Friday as BA struggles to operate without essential systems.With many planes fully booked at the start of the bank holiday weekend, the number of passengers affected is likely to top 15,000 with many more seriously delayed and/or encountering missed connections.

BBC Northern Ireland journalists are on the picket lines as votes are counted across the region following the local government elections.The 24-hour strike saw several flagship programmes including BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster and The Nolan Show go off air as more than 200 journalists took part in the walkout.

Liverpool's fan village has thrown open its gates ahead of the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest.Ticket-holders gathered for hours in the beating sun ahead of the Eurovision Village on the historic Pier Head opening to the public on Saturday.There were cheers from fans dressed as Ukrainian acts Verka Serduchka and Kalush Orchestra and families in Union flag outfits as the stewards removed the barriers.

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There's nothing like a good logo design controversy to excite the internet, and Xbox dropped a stunner this week when it appeared to set fire to its Pride Month logo, turning it into a burning inferno.Cue headlines like 'Xbox changes Pride logo to burning fires of hell'.Did Xbox really want to suggest that members of the LGBTQ community are going to hell?

A day after a brawl broke out among fans in the stands during a Canadian Championship game between Toronto FC and CF Montreal, the Montreal club announced that it will close the visitors' fan section at Saputo Stadium for Saturday's matchup between the two teams.The fight, which was captured in a video that circulated on social media, happened during Tuesday's game at BMO Field in Toronto.

Lawyers for the former Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly, who has been accused in federal court of bank fraud, filed a motion on Monday to nix evidence claiming Kelly consorted with prostitutes on a municipal trip to China.Kelly's attorneys also sought to exclude evidence regarding municipal China trips because they would "necessitate a distracting mini-trial related to Ed Lee."
Including this evidence, Kelly's lawyers argued, would induce a diversion into the alleged activities of the deceased former mayor and other city officials who were among "nearly a dozen people" to travel alongside Kelly to China in 2004.

Across the city, vandals keep scratching off the meter numbers that drivers use in mobile apps to pay for parking.Nobody knows exactly who or why, but two things are certain: The phenomena creates headaches for motorists and parking enforcement officers alike, and it's costing the city untold amounts of money.

Whew, that was one that almost got away.The Yankees battled from behind early to tie the game and then needed another big blast in the ninth to send it to extras.Thankfully, their captain obliged, as Aaron Judge's solo shot allowed Michael King and Anthony Volpe to lead New York to a 10-inning victory over the division rival Orioles, 6-5.

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across Major League Baseball.Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged-in New York Yankees fans, and fans across the country.Sign up here to join Reacts.The Yankees' pitching staff has sustained quite a few injuries since the start of 2023.Even in the comparatively small amount of time between when our most recent SB Nation Reacts survey poll went up and when we got the results, the hits just kept on coming.

Stefan Ortega 7 As in previous rounds was chosen ahead of Ederson and passed as well as the Brazilian.Beaten by Fernandes's spot-kick.Kyle Walker 7 Barked at Dias to observe City's high line in a show of leadership but a fluffed clearance allowed Rashford to pounce in what might have led to United's second.

Player ratings from Manchester United's 4-1 win over Chelsea to ensure Champions League football will be back at Old Trafford next season.David de Gea - 6 Did what was asked of him.Made saves when needed.Certainly benefitted from Chelsea's inability to hit the target in the first half.Aaron Wan-Bissaka - 7 Got up and down the pitch nicely.

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An inmate worker at Men's Central Jail has tested positive for hepatitis A, prompting Los Angeles County health officials to warn those who were inside the facility last month that they may have been exposed to the highly contagious virus.Although jail officials said Friday that there are no other suspected cases, it's not clear how many people might have been exposed during the viral incubation period from May 13 to Sunday.

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Maria Esther Valdivia, one of L.A.'s taco matriarchs, died last week due to injuries sustained after she was hit by a car while using a crosswalk.The co-founder of Silver Lake institution Tacos Delta was 74.In the days since Valdivia's death, generations of fans have stopped by to support the restaurant, which has seemed to endure the whims of a neighborhood more commonly associated with gentrification and constant change.

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Maria Esther Valdivia, one of L.A.'s taco matriarchs, died last week due to injuries sustained after she was hit by a car while using a crosswalk.The co-founder of Silver Lake institution Tacos Delta was 74.In the days since Valdivia's death, generations of fans have stopped by to support the restaurant, which has seemed to endure the whims of a neighborhood more commonly associated with gentrification and constant change.

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The Supreme Court's landmark decision scaling back federal protections for many wetlands and streams has drawn criticism from scientists and environmental advocates, who say the gutting of safeguards will jeopardize water quality throughout the arid West.California's water regulators say the ruling will be harmful for protections nationwide, but the more stringent state protections of wetlands won't be affected.

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A 17-month-old girl has died of fentanyl poisoning in Riverside County - adding another case to a growing roster of fatalities that seems to know no boundary on the age or circumstance of the victims.The baby's death remains under investigation, and authorities are releasing few details, but on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., deputies from the Norco station responded to a report of a child needing medical aid in the 100 block of 8th Street.

Empowered by the end of a 10-year legislative surcharge for the pipeline replacement program, the Citizens Utility Board is working to cut more than $110 million from a record Peoples Gas rate hike request, which is pending before state regulators.Targeting everything from the mismanaged pipeline project to high residential heating costs, the consumer watchdog group recommended slashing $63 million from the proposal, with the Illinois attorney general's office expected to seek $49 million in additional reductions.

Workers began demolition Tuesday on the inside of the former Arlington International Racecourse, another nail in the coffin of the storied horse track, and a step toward a potential new stadium for the Chicago Bears.A backhoe, other heavy construction equipment and workers were seen outside the grand edifice, which won architectural honors and held up to 32,000 fans for nationally known races before being closed by Churchill Downs Inc. in 2021.

I am not a supporter of Brandon Johnson as mayor.I don't believe that he has the intelligence and guts to run our city.His comments about not "demonizing youth" after the April mayhem gave all of us a clue about the kind of mayor he will be.He should have harshly condemned these youths and not made excuses.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have had a ridiculous three weeks.First, the Toronto Maple Leafs lost to the Florida Panthers despite being the better team in four out of five games.Second, they inexplicably fired their young GM after letting him learn on the job for five years.Now that he's easily the best.

Game 7 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals was, by most all accounts, rough.It was a rock fight that ground on until eventually, the Miami Heat pulled away, leaving the Boston Celtics with no response.But things got cloudy quickly for the Cs.On the game's first possession, Celtics star Jayson Tatum badly rolled his ankle.

What does it mean?roughly pronounced ay-lass is an interjection that you are likely to see if you are reading a French novel, or hear, if someone is telling a particularly dramatic story.is used in a manner very similar to the English term 'alas' - as an interjection in the middle of a sentence or thought, though typically before describing something unfortunate or upsetting.

We say it all the time that the Washington Nationals just are not good enough at this point in the their rebuild to make unforced errors and survive it.On Sunday, it was a grounder through the wickets on Dom Smith, and last night was a grounder booted by CJ Abrams that led to six unearned runs.The Nats were actually leading 1-0 at the time.

The farm system for the Atlanta Braves didn't do much to make up for the big league club's performance on Saturday, as they combined to go 1-4 with a handful of pretty ugly offensive performances.The one exception was Rome, where they put a 10 spot on Hickory in a win that was the only game not on MiLB tv.

It's been impossible to get a read on Liverpool this season.While Klopp's side has underwhelmed for much of the campaign, it's produced several sublime performances to suggest an imminent return to the typical standards established under the German manager.Within eight-day spans, Liverpool claimed a deserved victory over Manchester City before losing to Nottingham Forest and recorded a historic 7-0 win over Manchester United before an appalling showing in a 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth.

T he Metropolitan Police Commissioner has defended the force's policing operation during the Coronation saying there would be much more serious questions to answer if not for their actions.In a public letter written to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Sir Mark Rowley said he did not see the coronation as an operation where he needed to call out our shortcomings adding: No major operation is ever perfect.

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English rugby is "crying out for alignment" to help it come out of "survival mode".That's the verdict of the Premiership's leading coaches, as they prepare for this weekend's semi-finals.

The Washington Commanders start their first on-field practices for OTAs yesterday and they've already lost a player for the season.Hear Coach Ron Rivera said Armani Rogers had suffered a non-contact Achilles injury yesterday while running.He said the second-year tight end would be examined, but there was no timetable for his return.

Ali Junejo, left, and Alina Khan in "Joyland."(Oscilloscope Laboratories)(3.5 stars) A gentle man falls for a brassy trans woman in "Joyland," but that's not exactly what this lyrical, well-acted Pakistani drama is about.With its multiple intersecting narratives, writer-director Saim Sadiq's debut feature takes an almost novelistic approach to its central theme: the repression of human individuality by a regimented traditional society.

CHICAGO - Eloy Jiménez was asked how he was feeling Wednesday afternoon."A couple weeks ago I thought I'm going to die," Jiménez said, "so I feel really good."The Chicago White Sox outfielder/designated hitter spoke with reporters for the first time since undergoing an appendectomy May 6 at Cincinnati 's Good Samaritan Hospital.

Earlier this month, former Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner returned to Dodger Stadium.His return brought tons of new storylines, including the fact that he said the Dodgers never reached out to him in free agency.One of the more fun storylines that came out of it, though, was Turner talking about new Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts.

Germany's Lord of the Lost gothic metal band may not have won over the jury at the German preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest in March, but the five musicians certainly won over the TV audience with their song "Blood & Glitter," which is taking them to the contest in Liverpool.

An important but hopefully understandable update: we won't be hosting a SHUX event this year.That's the bad news out of the way - with the GOOD news being that we're already planning SHUX 2024 for next October, and hoping to return to the Vancouver Convention Centre.Obviously, this is a bummer.We know how special and important this event is to a lot of people, partly because WE are those people too.

"Regardless of whether [Moore] is a complainant or not, based on the allegations, she still needs to be a witness.You can't be witness, investigator and judge under the American system." - Gene Quinn
The Special Committee of the Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) that is investigating Judge Pauline Newman over allegations she is unfit to serve on the court issued a redacted order yesterday specifying the behavior they say warrants the probe.

A White House meeting on the debt ceiling broke up Tuesday with no agreement between President Joe Biden and GOP congressional leaders, leaving the two sides at an impasse with just two weeks to go before the U.S. risks hitting the debt ceiling for the first time.Speaker Kevin McCarthy said after the meeting that the "structure" of the negotiations had improved, and that Biden has agreed to designate someone to represent the White House in direct talks with McCarthy's team.

The Los Angeles Lakers are in the Western Conference Finals.Let that sink in.After starting the season off with a 2-10 record, the Lakers have come as far as being one of the best four teams remaining in the Playoffs.They just kicked the defending champions Golden State Warriors out of the Playoffs and are now eight wins away from claiming their 18th franchise title.

Following his team's loss in Game 4 to fall behind 3-1 in the series, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr pulled out a tactic certainly learned from one of his coaching mentors in Phil Jackson by calling out the officiating and noting that the Lakers flopped and embellished calls.In certainly unrelated events, the Warriors came away with a 121-106 Game 5 victory in which the Lakers shot the second-fewest free throw attempts in a game all season.

Ministers have published the list of 600 EU laws the government plans to scrap by the end of the year in a much-reduced Brussels bonfire that has enraged hardline Brexiters in the Conservative party.In a significant retreat on its retained EU law bill, the government has slashed the number of environmental laws that would have automatically expired on 31 December from 1,700 to 341.

Conservative MPs have condemned the use of new laws to hold anti-monarchy protesters for up to 16 hours during the coronation after the Metropolitan police admitted it had regrets following dozens of arrests.The criticism came after Sadiq Khan demanded a review of policing on Saturday, while Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, declined to rip up the new public order bill under which six members of the protest group Republic were arrested.

A long time ago I read a quotation in a book of advice, which held that the hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your spouse that looking out of the window is part of your job.I have never been able track down the exact wording or the author of that quotation; when I look online the only source I can find for it is me, because I cite it so regularly.

The Seahawks were enjoying a successful offseason... until they learned about the health status of their top safety, Jamal Adams.The Seattle Seahawks may have sorely lost the Jamal Adams trade with the New York Jets, yet Adams' time in the league is far from over.The former Jets All-Pro safety joined Seattle in 2020 after three productive seasons in New York, and since then, Adams has missed any games as he has played.

The 2023 NFL Schedule is out!I still can't believe how much media coverage the league is able to milk out of what basically boils down to the release of a piece of paper.I want to knock it, but honestly, it's impressive.The NFL has us all over a barrel, we're never going to stop watching and giving them our money, and we just can't get enough of this sport.

In the second half of the seventies, when I was in my twenties, I wrote letters home to Ireland from Barcelona.Early in 1976, for example, from my pension on the corner of Carrer de la Portaferrissa and Carrer del Pi, I described my first visit to the Liceu opera house.Dear Mother,
The walls in this small, cheap hotel are thin.

Lady Luck was not kind to the Washington Capitals after their worst full season in sixteen years.The Capitals gained no spots in the NHL Draft Lottery and will select 8th overall in the 2023 NHL Draft.The Capitals finished the season as the eighth-worst team in the league.The Chicago Blackhawks won the lottery and will pick first overall.

Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images About a decade ago, while writing for a small West Coast sports website, I was assigned a story about the backstage workings of what is now NBC Sports Bay Area.It was (and still is) one of the greatest assignments I've ever had, since a great majority of my time was spent watching a Nationals-Giants game with Greg Papa, Bill Laskey and Vida Blue.

The NHL announced th e 2023 Jack Adams Award nominees just a few days ago, with that in mind, there is no better time to see how the coaches nominated last year are doing now.There were three really deserving coaches nominated for the Jack Adams in 2022.Darryl Sutter, then head coach of the Calgary Flames, won the award after coaching the Flames to a 50-21-11 record.

Police in Kettering, Ohio recently arrested a man who threatened to hurt LGBTQ+ students after a local high school crowned two queer students as its prom queen and king.Officers with the Kettering Police Department arrested 42-year-old Brandon Moore on May 2 after he allegedly called Kettering Fairmont High School and made a broad threat.