DETROIT — It wasn’t Reid Detmers’ day on Saturday. After posting a 1.50 ERA over his previous six starts, the Angels’ left-hander gave up 10 hits and four runs in a 4-3 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Detmers lasted just 4 1/3 innings before his outing came to an end. “I was just having a…
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For the first three months of the season, the Yankees were the runaway best team in baseball, 61-23 in first place on July 8 in the AL East by 15 ½ games, and it seemed they just couldn’t lose. Since then, they’ve gone 12-25, 4-14 in August, with one more win than Joey Gallo has…
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Gerrit Cole couldn’t stop the Yankees’ slide. The staff ace took a no-hitter into the fifth inning and like everything else around this team right now, it just unraveled. The Bombers’ lifeless offense could not get them back into it as the Blue Jays beat them 5-2 to clinch the series at the Stadium this weekend.…
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Yup. I am about to be out of a job, and technology is to blame. Self-driving cars are to become a reality. How they will maneuver without me it’s too soon to say I am a professional backseat driver, though my actual location has always been sitting in front, next to the human driver. It…
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Rams guard Logan Bruss tore his ACL and MCL in his left knee Friday night against the Houston Texans and is expected to miss his entire rookie season, coach Sean McVay announced Saturday. Bruss started the exhibition at right guard, but he spent most of the second half on the bench with his right knee…
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Militants were battling security forces Saturday in a busy hotel in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, after storming the property the day before in an attack that has left at least five people dead. The assault came as the country was undergoing a delicate political transition and grappling with severe drought and a growing humanitarian…
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PHILADELPHIA — The Taijuan Walker back saga has added a new wrinkle. Buck Showalter announced before Saturday’s doubleheader that Walker will not make his scheduled start on Sunday. He did not disclose who would take his place, though a combination of taxi squad call up Jose Butto and Tommy Hunter — who is back in…
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Word on the street at Giants camp is Kayvon Thibodeaux can sing. The No. 5 overall pick’s rendition of The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy” was the standout performance of daily rookie singing in the defensive meeting room. That earned him an encore performance days later, and according to players, Thibodeaux brought the house down with a…
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This high school football season OCVarsity will be publishing each Saturday a list of the stat leaders from that week’s games. Coaches are asked to email the stats for their leaders for that week to preps@ocregister.com. (These are weekly stat leaders, not season total.) The stats we’re looking for: leading rusher (yards), leading receiver (yards),…
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Hours leading up to the first preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Jets coach Robert Saleh decided to rest several starters. It appears that could once again be the case for Gang Green’s second preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons Monday night. “I’m torn on it,” Saleh said after Saturday’s practice. “I wake up one…
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