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The Los Angeles Dodgers have run afoul of among the greatest names within the U.S. Catholic hierarchy with their choice to honor a troupe of drag queens who costume up as nuns and mock Christian rituals. ...

This story was excerpted from Bryan Hoch’s Yankees Beat e-newsletter. To learn the total e-newsletter, click on right here. And subscribe to get it recurrently in your inbox. Billy McKinney took a fast first step after listening to the crack of the bat within the tenth inning on Sunday night time, expertly angling his physique to look over his proper shoulder as he raced towards the warning observe. With a leap in opposition to the left-field wall, the journeyman reached excessive to snare the drive, stealing further bases from Pablo Reyes of the Red Sox. A sellout crowd of greater than 46,000 roared for the catch, and although McKinney’s play alone couldn’t propel his membership to victory, it was one other memorable second in a whirlwind week for the 28-year-old. Promoted from Triple-A S...

2:01 Ben Clemens: Hey everyone, welcome to the chat 2:01 Ben Clemens: There’s a hearth alarm going off in my constructing, so if my solutions appear to be these of somebody coping with a shrill sound in his ear, my apologies 2:01 Ben Clemens: Let’s get began 2:01 yankees: Olney reported that Judge is nearly positively out till post-ASB. All of the veterans are toast, and if the rookies ever quantity to something, it appears to be like unlikely it’ll be this yr. Talk me off the ledge 2:02 Ben Clemens: Here’s my counter-pitch: the group is 38-29 2:03 Ben Clemens: Rizzo and Torres have been simply superb. Nine video games over .500 is a pretty big tailwind 2:03 Ben Clemens: Are they gonna win the ALE? Pr...

TORONTO — Cavan Biggio hit a go-ahead, three-run homer within the eighth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Minnesota Twins 7-6 Sunday and keep away from a three-game sweep. ...

Daniel Murphy is returning to affiliated baseball, because the Angels have bought the 38-year-old three-time All-Star's contract from the unbiased Long Island Ducks, in accordance with a tweet from Ducks common supervisor Michael Pfaff. According to MLB Network insider Jon Heyman, he'll begin his Angels tenure with Triple-A Salt Lake. Los Angeles has not confirmed the deal. Murphy, who retired from MLB in January 2021, is greatest remembered for his epic efficiency for the Mets of their run to the 2015 National League pennant, when he homered in six straight playoff video games, and his subsequent sturdy years for the Nationals, together with a second-place MVP end in 2016. He final performed in MLB within the shortened 2020 season, posting a .608 OPS in 40 video games for the Rockies. He ...

John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports I hate to confess it, however I’m a little bit of a grump today. Specifically, I’m a grump about place gamers pitching. Every time Jay Jaffe chronicles the unfold of the tactic, I get irritated proper alongside him. When some disinterested backup infielder lobs the ball in at 40 mph, I cringe. I used to be a fan of the principles that restricted when groups can ship hitters to the mound; in reality, I bear in mind being dissatisfied that the principles weren’t extra stringent once they first got here out. With that mentioned, I've to take all of it again now. I’m in on place gamers pitching – so long as we’re particularly speaking about Brandon Crawford. He took the mound to shut out a 13-3 Giants victory yesterday and did so in a method that place gamers m...

CHICAGO — White Sox nearer Liam Hendriks has been sidelined by elbow irritation after he missed the beginning of the season whereas he recovered from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. ...

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Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports It was a nasty week for the Mets, to say the least. In the midst of a seven-game shedding streak that started with a sweep at residence by the Blue Jays and continued with a trio of excruciating losses to the Braves in Atlanta, they misplaced Pete Alonso, possible for not less than the rest of the month, after he was hit on the left wrist. First and foremost, the harm knocked the Mets’ most efficient hitter out of the lineup. It additionally ended no matter hopes Alonso — the foremost league chief in residence runs with 22 — needed to attain 60 for the season. In the second pitch of his first plate look on Wednesday evening, the 28-year-year previous Alonso took a 97-mph fastball from Charlie Morton off his left wrist. He crumpled to the bottom and instan...

No. 1 nationwide seed Wake Forest was anticipated to make it to the College World Series. Oral Roberts? Not a lot. ...