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DeJong hits tiebreaking homer as Cardinals beat Cubs 6-4

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Paul DeJong loves playing at Wrigley Field.The Friendly Confines have been very friendly to the veteran shortstop.DeJong, Nolan Gorman and Lars Nootbaar homered, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 6-4 on Tuesday night for their season-high third straight win.DeJong put St. Louis in front when he opened the ninth inning with a drive to left-center off Javier Assad for his third homer this year. Dylan Carlson then tripled and scored on Andrew Knizner’s bloop double into shallow right field.It was DeJong’s sixth homer in the ninth at Wrigley and No. 14 overall for his career at the ballpark. DeJong grew up in Antioch, Illinois, about 60 miles north of Chicago, and played college ball at Illinois State.“It’s just fun to be here,” DeJong said. “This is like coming home for me, and it’s like a big rivalry, so everyone is excited to come to Wrigley.”Chris Stratton (1-0) got four outs for the win, and Giovanny Gallegos worked the ninth f...

Dodgers lose Syndergaard early but still beat Brewers 6-2

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers had struggled against left-handed pitching all season and hadn’t solved Milwaukee’s Eric Lauer throughout his entire career.They ended both those slumps emphatically Tuesday night.Mookie Betts, Will Smith and Miguel Vargas homered to help the Dodgers withstand Noah Syndergaard’s early exit in a 6-2 victory over Lauer and the Milwaukee Brewers. The Dodgers had been hitting an MLB-low .193 against lefties this season before breaking through against the left-handed Lauer.“He’s had a lot of success against us, so it was good to kind of hit him around a little bit,” Betts said. “The main thing is we got the win.”Lauer had gone 7-1 with a 2.37 ERA in 11 previous starts against the Dodgers. The only active pitcher who has made at least 10 starts against the Dodgers with a better ERA is San Diego’s Yu Darvish (2.36).He wasn’t nearly as successful this time.Lauer allowed four runs – three earned – in 3 2/3 innings. The unearned run w...

Padres top Twins 6-1 with spark from 3-error 7th inning

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The San Diego Padres started small and had a big finish.Somewhere in there, they found a spark.The Padres used three Minnesota errors and savvy baserunning by Ha-Seong Kim and Fernando Tatis Jr. to score twice in the seventh inning on Tuesday, before Manny Machado broke the game open with a three-run homer in the ninth to beat the Twins 6-1 and give Michael Wacha his first win in five starts.Juan Soto had a season-high four hits — the most he’s had for San Diego — with two doubles and a walk for the Padres, who are 18-3 in games when they get three runs or more.“Just putting it all together. If we can do that we’re going to be the best team in baseball,” said Machado, who hit his fifth homer and made two hard-charging barehand scoops at third base to get groundball outs.Wacha (3-1) gave up just three hits and one run in six innings, before the Padres put together their strange tiebreaking seventh.Austin Nola’s sacrifice squeeze bunt scored Kim with the...

Judge, Yankees beat A’s 10-5 despite 3 HRs by rookie Diaz

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge is back in the lineup and the New York Yankees are getting healthy at the plate against the worst team in baseball.Gleyber Torres homered for the second consecutive game and drove in three runs as the Yankees overcame three homers by rookie Jordan Diaz in a 10-5 victory Tuesday night over the Oakland Athletics.“It just feels good to have offensive production like that,” New York first baseman Anthony Rizzo said.Diaz launched a solo shot in the fourth inning, a leadoff drive in the seventh and a two-run homer in the eighth. The 22-year-old second baseman from Colombia connected off three different pitchers, giving him four home runs in 30 major league games.“For me, it’s a very special day,” Diaz said through a translator. “I’m just really excited and happy for what happened to me today — especially here.”Diaz said he’d never hit three homers in a game before — at any level — and he plans to keep the souvenir ball from No. 3 at home. He joined Héctor...

Petit basset griffon Vendéen wins Westminster dog show

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — This Buddy Holly no longer has to sigh, “That’ll be the day.”A petit basset griffon Vendéen named for the late rock ‘n’ roll legend won won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show Tuesday night, a first for his rabbit-hunting breed. Buddy Holly bested six other finalists to garner the most prestigious dog show award in the United States. PBGVs, as they’re known for short, are the 154th most prevalent purebreds in the country, according to recent American Kennel Club rankings.“I never thought a PBGV would do this,” handler and co-owner Janice Hayes said. “Buddy Holly is the epitome of a show dog.”His competitors included Rummie, a Pekingese that aimed to bring home the third trophy in 11 years for his small-but-regal breed. Winston the French bulldog was gunning for the title after coming oh-so-close last year. An Australian shepherd named Ribbon, an English setter called Cider, a giant schnauzer named Monty and an American Staffordshire terrier called Tr...

Mets lose 12th in 15 games, 7-6 to Reds, Showalter ejected

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Mets lost for the 12th time in 15 games and Buck Showalter was ejected for the first time as New York’s manager as Jonathan India drove in three runs in the Cincinnati Reds’ 7-6 win on Tuesday night.With New York trailing 4-1 in the fifth, Cincinnati’s Kevin Newman hit the ball up the middle and a sliding Wil Myers, with his right arm extended in the direction of Francisco Lindor, was hit by the ball, preventing the shortstop from making a clean play. The 66-year-old Showalter, hired by the Mets before the 2022 season. was tossed by crew chief Mark Wegner.“It’s pretty obvious what it was,” Showalter said. “But It’s hard to imagine four guys not being able to see what happened. There’s about three ways you could get that play right. We had opportunities for it to not matter. We just didn’t pitch very well early on.”Bench coach Eric Chavez took over as manager.Lindor thought the play should have been subject to video review.“I ...

Nuggets beat Suns 118-102 in Game 5 to regain series lead

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic had a triple-double after making up with Suns owner Mat Ishbia and Michael Porter Jr. sank five 3-pointers to help the Denver Nuggets beat Phoenix 118-102 on Tuesday night in Game 5 to regain the series lead.Joker had 29 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists for his 10th career playoff triple-double, breaking a tie with Wilt Chamberlain for most by a center in NBA history. Jokic fined $25K by NBA for making contact with Suns owner Game 6 is Thursday night in Phoenix. The home team has won every game in the series. If that holds true again, the decisive winner-take-all clash will come Sunday back in Denver, where the top-seeded Nuggets own the NBA’s best home record at 39-7, including 5-0 in the playoffs.After Denver lost two straight at Phoenix, Nuggets coach Michael Malone devised a five-point plan for the Nuggets to regain control of the series: patch up their transition defense, slow Devin Booker, get more from his bench, unleash MPJ and knock down open ...

Caught on camera: Hit-and-run driver crashes into building near deep pothole

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A crash was caught on camera in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood that showed a pickup truck crash into a business. The crash happened Tuesday evening near 39th Avenue and Forest Street. “A car comes around, or a truck comes around the corner, hits the pothole. They were already going too fast and kind of driving crazy to begin with and drives into the building across the street here,” Zach Abote said. Filing a pothole claim in Denver? Records show city rarely pays up Abote owns a building across the street from where the crash happened. His security cameras captured the whole thing. “And then the gentleman dives out of the front seat and a gun falls in the street,” Abote said. According to the Denver Police Department, the driver ran from the scene. It is unclear how many other people may have been in the vehicle.Denver Police said no one was inside the building at the time of the crash. Denver Fire said the truck damaged part of a beam, and the...

Residents displaced by fire need housing by May 17

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) -- A tough situation is getting even more difficult for several families displaced by a Christmas Eve fire in Aurora. Options have run out and now they must find new homes by May 17. A portion of the Shadow Tree Apartments was left with extensive damage after the fire, including the presence of exposed asbestos. Aurora Fire Rescue confirms the cause was accidental. The management placed the residents at a nearby hotel. “We can’t cook, we can’t eat, right. I go to work, come home and have to sit in one room,” said Moreen Luna, who is a grandmother. Withholding rent can complicate landlord disputes, but tenants have rights Another resident, Antoinette Casi, told FOX31 that in many cases, four children are living in one room. “The experience is horrible,” Casi said. The residents received notice that they must vacate the temporary housing and remove items from their apartments by May 17. The property management told the Problem Solvers the apartment building’s pi...

Editorial: MBTA safety problems call for new, separate agency

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:05 GMT

There could be a light at the end of the tunnel for MBTA passengers, and not from a subway train that’s on fire.As the Herald reported, safety oversight of the T could fall under a new independent agency, if Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro gets his wish.Shapiro was responding to legislation filed by state Rep. William Straus that called for safety oversight to be moved to Shapiro’s office. The IG gave that idea a thumb’s down.Testifying Monday at a Joint Committee on Transportation hearing, Shapiro said that he instead favors moving this watchdog role from the Department of Public Utilities to a new independent agency “focused solely on safety of the MBTA.”Amen to that.MBTA safety is too big of a chronic problem for it to share bandwidth with other department functions. We’ve been through safety review panels, a blistering report from the Federal Transit Administration, apologies and promises.Through it all, riders have had to cope train derailments (one of...