At this point in the Mets’ season, we know what they are. This is a very good, even great team with above average players at nearly every important position. There’s a healthy mix of the high-paid stars, B- and C-tier players who turn losses into wins, and bottom-of-the-roster guys who fully understand their role. Moving…
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As the Mets try to figure out how their new pieces fit and what it all means for their eventual World Series chances, they should try to remember that going down 8-0 in the second inning is not conducive to winning. Taijuan Walker couldn’t get out of the second inning in the Mets’ 9-6 loss…
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Before the Orioles began their latest homestand Friday, manager Brandon Hyde said he expected a bounce-back outing from right-hander Dean Kremer. It took a little longer than expected, but he got it. After a rain delay of nearly two hours, the Orioles beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1-0, for their fourth straight win, with Kremer allowing…
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Willson Contreras ran into Chicago Cubs President Jed Hoyer von Friday morning for the first time since Hoyer decided Tuesday to keep his All-Star catcher for the rest of the season. “I saw him early in the morning when I was doing my workouts,” Contreras said Friday after the Cubs’ 2-1 win against the Miami…
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Derek Sulenta was excited to share the news of his actions. “Dude we breached the capital (sic) building. We got pushed back then a (lot) more people came in and we went further,” he posted on his Facebook page, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Now Sulenta is having to answer for his braggadocio.…
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LOS ANGELES — Dorian Thompson-Robinson greeted every reporter at UCLA’s Wasserman Football Center with a hello and a handshake, very much the host welcoming guests to his home. Which, well, yeah. Thompson-Robinson – or “DTR,” as he doesn’t mind being called – is from Las Vegas. But he’s grown up in Westwood. From cub to…
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A vehicle possibly driven by actress Anne Heche crashed into a house in the Mar Vista area on Friday, critically injuring the motorist and sparking a fire, according to media reports. The crash was reported shortly before 11 a.m. in the 1700 block of South Walgrove Avenue, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire…
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Salvador Avila, patriarch and founder of Avila’s El Ranchito restaurant empire, passed away from natural causes in Newport Beach on July 28. Avila and his wife Margarita opened the first Avila’s El Ranchito Mexican restaurant in Huntington Park in 1966 and the business eventually expanded to a dozen more locations, all in Orange County. Born in…
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SEATTLE — Tucker Davidson learned during his first stint at Triple-A in 2019 that simply having a fastball, curveball and changeup was not going to work for him. “Against veteran hitters, if I didn’t have my curveball that day, I was down to two pitches, so they could just sit hard or sit soft,” the…
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Between the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of constitutional protections for abortions and the addition of Proposition 1 on the upcoming ballot in California, a San Clemente councilman said he saw the opportunity for his city to take a stand to “protect the sanctity of life.” The San Clemente City Council was set to consider a…
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