WASHINGTON, D.C. – As an Opening Day replacement starter, Tylor Megill did his best Jacob deGrom impersonation. Megill—who just over a week ago was unlikely to even break camp with the team—fired five shutout innings, allowed just three hits, and struck out six in the Mets’ 5-1 win over the Nationals on Thursday at Nationals…
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ANAHEIM — The faces have mostly changed. The reaction hasn’t. From the athletic trainers to the coaches to the players, the Houston Astros were introduced before a regular-season crowd for the first time Thursday night at Angel Stadium. To a man, they were booed. That included catcher Martin Maldonado, who was catching for the Angels…
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Angels starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani throws to the plate during the first inning of their season opener against the Houston Astros on Thursday at Angel Stadium. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG) The Angels’ Shohei Ohtani can’t beat out the throw to Houston Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel after hitting a ground ball in…
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The No. 1 position group that needed to be improved for the Miami Dolphins this offseason has taken significant steps, but there remains more work to do on the offensive line. The headline-grabbing move was made in snagging top free-agent tackle Terron Armstead. In the grand scheme of the offseason, it was only overshadowed the…
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A second day of a record-breaking heat wave broiled Southern California on Thursday, April 7. LAX broke its record shortly before 2 p.m., when the temperature hit 94 degrees – one degree higher than the same date in 1989, according to the National Weather Service. Long Beach saw a new daily high when the temperature…
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The OC Health Care Agency reported 142 more cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, April 7, increasing the cumulative total since tracking began in the county to 547,935. There were 1,810 new cases reported in the last two-week period as of Thursday. On Thursday, there were 78 people reported in Orange County hospitals with coronavirus,…
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By LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, a day after appearing unmasked at a White House event with President Joe Biden. Pelosi, D-Calif., received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic, her spokesman Drew Hammill said Thursday in a tweet. He…
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By Edith M. Lederer and Jennifer Peltz | Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, which the United States and Ukraine have called war crimes. It was a rare,…
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By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. — He walked among the azaleas with just the slightest hint of a limp. He couldn’t quite bend over to read the putts on Augusta National’s tricky greens. Otherwise, there was nothing to indicate that Tiger Woods nearly lost his right leg 14 months ago in a devastating…
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By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand | CNN Investigators said Thursday that they had seized a cache of weapons during a search of multiple Washington, DC, apartments belonging to two men accused of impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years. Between five residences and three vehicles that belong to Arian Taherzadeh…
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