Monday’s slate has a few decent streaming options but isn’t deep so even though there aren’t any early games, the early bird gets the worm, so to speak. On the hitting ledger, there are a few opportunities to deploy multiple batters on the same team, a potentially beneficial ploy on a day where you may […]
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With five days remaining in Trevor Bauer‘s current administrative leave, rendered after he was accused of sexual assault, Major League Baseball investigators are pursuing a range of inquiries, according to sources. Investigators intend to speak with the woman who obtained a restraining order against Bauer last week. To date, MLB investigators have communicated with her […]
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani hit his major-league-leading 31st homer of the season for the Los Angeles Angels, tying Hideki Matsui’s record for the most homers in a Major League Baseball season by a Japanese-born player. Ohtani crushed a 459-foot solo shot off Baltimore’s Thomas Eshelman in the third inning Sunday, clearing the ficus trees […]
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NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani achieved a first in the near-century history of baseball’s All-Star Game: selection as both a hitter and a pitcher. The Los Angeles Angels’ two-way sensation was among the American League starting pitchers picked Sunday for the July 13 showcase at Denver’s Coors Field. Ohtani, who leads the majors in home […]
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Anthony DeSclafani threw 8 2/3 effective innings, Austin Slater and Darin Ruf both homered and the Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2. But the most important moment of the night might have been back in the medical room, where X-rays on All-Star Buster Posey’s left thumb were negative. “You see me smiling,” Kapler said. “That’s […]
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People happily waited — roughly two hours — with anticipation for something many had not tasted before. South Florida specializes in a variety of food, but premier barbecue isn’t one of them. “What is brisket?” one patron asked out loud, reading the digital menu on her phone. After ordering it, she fell in love. Another […]
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Grigorenko, 27, a 2012 first-round selection of the Buffalo Sabres, had four goals and 12 points for the Columbus Blue Jackets this season, skating in 32 games in his second tenure in the NHL. He was serviceable in the bottom-six forward rotation for former coach John Tortorella in Columbus and may have garnered interest from […]
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Antetokounmpo also missed Milwaukee’s win in Game 5 after he suffered a hyperextended left knee late in Game 4. Sources have told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe that a timetable for Antetokounmpo’s return is unclear. The Bucks, trying to reach the Finals for the first time since 1974, have a 3-2 lead in the […]
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The Atlanta native, created an “Icey” mosaic portrait of Hawks star guard Trae Young and a red velvet cake of the Hawks’ rising star, Kevin Huerter. Prior to Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks, the portrait caught Young’s attention on Twitter where he quoted her tweet with “Amazing […]
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Satoransky’s fading-away, off-the-glass jumper with 1.8 seconds left in overtime wound up being the deciding basket in the Czech Republic’s 103-101 win over Canada in an Olympic qualifying tournament semifinal at Victoria, British Columbia, on Saturday. It was a wild end to a wild game: Canada was down by six with less than 20 seconds […]
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