The Dodgers lefty recorded his first win on the road Sunday against the Reds, striking out five while allowing five hits and one walk in seven shutout innings in an 8-3 victory. “He’s locked in right now with everything, his entire pitch mix,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, via MLB.com. “It’s fun to watch a player in a zone like that. I felt like he was in complete control.”...
Buehler is up to 61 1/3 career playoff innings pitched after six frames of one-run ball Friday in Game 3 of the World Series. When Kershaw was Buehler’s age, he’d tossed 37 2/3 postseason innings. At 26, Buehler already has World Series master classes in two different seasons (he went seven scoreless in Game 3 of the 2018 Fall Classic). His career playoff ERA is 2.35. His 10-strikeout performance in a 6-2 win over the Rays might have been his most memorable high-stakes showing to date, and one that sets the Dodgers up well to finally end their championship drought....
Puig was tossed Saturday night by home plate umpire David Rackley following back-to-back strike calls against Ian Kennedy. The first pitch appeared to be down the middle and just above the knees. The second seemed to catch the inside corner. Puig stood in the batter’s box, hands on hips, and continued barking at Rackley before being thrown out of the game. Puig’s only other ejection came on June 11, 2013, in his ninth major league game, after a bench-clearing uprising that also involved Kennedy....
The final game of the Freeway Series between the Los Angeles Angels and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday was abandoned after a sewage leak spilled onto the field at Dodger Stadium in the fifth inning. “Apparently, there was a pipe backup on two different levels of the stadium,” Dodgers president and chief executive Stan Kasten said after the game. “We don’t know exactly where the backup was or what caused it....
Still, the defending National League champions are having their depth tested. Corey Seager is out for the season . Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner, Rich Hill and Yasiel Puig are among the other Dodgers on the disabled list. Los Angeles has sputtered to a 15-19 mark, and that’s only part of the problem. The Dodgers also have to contend with an Arizona team that has raced out to the NL’s best record and leads Los Angeles by eight games in the NL West....
Mariners shortstop Andrew Romine, working garbage time with the Dodgers up 12-1 in the ninth inning of the MLB clash, hit Machado just above the left wrist with a fastball. Machado – acquired from the Baltimore Orioles – stayed in the game to run, but was replaced by Justin Turner in the field in the bottom of the ninth. The Dodgers later reported that X-rays were negative for the four-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove winner....
Turner hit a three-run walk-off shot in the ninth inning to give the Dodgers a 4-1 win over reigning MLB World Series champions the Cubs and a 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series on Sunday. It was only the second walk-off playoff home run in Dodgers history. The other, Kirk Gibson’s famous homer in the 1988 World Series, came 29 years ago to the day of Turner’s home run....
What’s the answer? According to psychologists on the team, more time at home between deployments, what the Army calls “dwell” time. Ideally, recommends the MHAT report, soldiers would deploy for six months, then spend 18 to 36 months at home. But that is impossible. The Army is so undermanned that soldiers are going to Iraq for a year, coming home for a year—and heading right back to combat. “The U....
But in a perhaps unexpected twist, that win over Nishikori yesterday was Andy Murray’s first win against a top-5 player Djokovic saw an early exit at the event courtesy an aggressive Marin Cilic at the Paris Masters, opening the door for Andy Murray to take World No. 1; Murray won the tournament and the title, and although he had by then already qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals, moved up from second seed to first....
Nadal is struggling with a knee injury and has decided to sit out the current Asian segment of the ATP tour. Last week he joined the clean-up operation after deadly flash floods on his native Majorca. After his 6-3, 6-4 victory over Borna Coric in the Shanghai final on Sunday, Djokovic is just 215 points behind the Spaniard. ATP rankings as of October 15 Rafael Nadal (ESP) 7660 pts...
Djokovic’s struggles for form continued in Madrid last week as he beat Nishikori only to then fall at the second hurdle to Kyle Edmund. But the 12-time grand slam singles champion made short work of Dolgopolov, producing an impressive performance with the French Open on the horizon next week. Ninth seed Goffin and world number 19 Edmund were also among the winners in the opening round on clay in Rome as players search for form ahead of Roland Garros....
The world number one prevailed 4-6 7-5 7-5 after a hard-fought encounter in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, with the victory seeing him secure the title for a fourth time in his career. While ranking points were not up for grabs in the exhibition event, Djokovic felt the high standard of play was ideal preparation for the start of 2019, with the Serbian heading to Doha for the Qatar Open next week....
When Giuliani was the law-and-order mayor of New York City, Mr. Zero Tolerance was more than happy to tolerate immigrants, including those who entered or stayed in the United States illegally. As conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks pointed out recently, Giuliani “once went overboard and declared, ‘If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you’re one of the people who we want in this city....
The New England Patriots, under coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady, could be considered the best answer after winning Super Bowl 53 and delivering a sixth championship in the last 18 seasons. It’s one of the longest-running success stories in major sports history, college or pro. Sporting News’ writers voted the Patriots No. 1 out of the top 15 dynasties in sports history, but they didn’t exactly agree on the top spot....
And if your eyes also feel strained and tired at the end of each day, that’s certainly not normal. You might also have blurry vision or even headaches, or not be sleeping well. The first step, quite obviously, is to visit an optician and have your eyes tested and checked. You might well need prescription glasses, but your optician may simply recommend eye drops (synthetic tears) and – if possible – reduced screen time....
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“If Paul decides to retire, then we’re going to make sure that Boston picks him up for one day and he retires a Celtic, because that’s what he should retire as,” Rivers told The Vertical. “So we have all that in place. We just don’t know what he’s going to do.” MORE: The greatest Celtics of all time Even though Pierce is currently a member of Rivers’ Clippers squad, Pierce played 15 seasons in Boston, with nine of those under Rivers....
Now, hospitals and doctors in places where the virus runs rampant are seeing an increase in severely ill pregnant women with the virus, the Associated Press reported. Dr. Cheree Melton, a family medicine physician specializing in obstetrics who teaches at the University of Alabama, said she and her colleagues have witnessed about a half-dozen unvaccinated pregnant women miscarry or suffer stillbirths as the Delta variant spreads. “It’s absolutely heartbreaking to tell a mom that she will never get to hold her living child,” she said....
Dr. Curt Daniels, the director of sports cardiology at Ohio State University, told The Columbus Dispatch that he believes the results presented in the study and the risk of myocarditis were “misconstrued” as a way to discourage sports from continuing during the coronavirus pandemic. Daniels said that the study should not be used to cancel fall sports, but rather as a push to implement greater safety protocols and make a responsible return....
“Number one, the doctors were certainly happy about the procedure,” coach Dan Quinn said late Thursday night, after the Falcons’ 14-10 Hall of Fame Game loss to the Broncos in Canton, Ohio. “We’ll have some more updates as we go along. But for the first part of it, they were happy.” According to the Journal-Constitution, several medical experts have projected that McGary will need six to eight weeks to recover from a cardiac ablation, but he could return more quickly depending on how much of his heart was repaired and the use of blood thinners....
