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Pete Alonso hits 3-run, walk-off homer to secure rollercoaster win against Rays in extra innings

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

The rookies put the Mets on their backs on Wednesday and slugger Pete Alonso landed the final blow to secure a 8-7 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in extra innings.Buck Showalter saw his club’s offense get shutout until the seventh inning in Wednesday’s win. Francisco Alvarez and Mark Vientos provided some timely homers to pull the Mets from behind while Kodai Senga gave his team a solid start.All that was almost erased in the 10th after Tampa Bays’ Harold Ramirez scored a go-ahead RBI single to right and Josh Lowe’s single scored an insurance run.But Alonso’s 15th homer of the season in the bottom of the 10th was the cherry on top of a win the team desperately needed. The walk-off victory gives the Mets a chance to get its first series win since last month.Tampa Bay starter Josh Fleming threw five scoreless innings, allowing three hits, two walks and striking out five batters.The Mets didn’t get a run on the board until Vientos gave his team a sp...

Yankees lose pitching duel to Jays after Wandy Peralta gives up walk-off homer in 3-0 loss

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

TORONTO — The first two games between the Yankees and Blue Jays featured 20 runs and what felt like just as many extra-curricular incidents. But both teams mostly stayed quiet at the plate and in the dugout Wednesday while Gerrit Cole and Chris Bassitt dueled on the mound.The two sides had chances to score toward the end of regulation, but no one crossed the plate until the 10th frame, when Danny Jansen crushed a three-run, walk-off homer against Wandy Peralta to left field. Just like that, an offensively starved game became a 3-0 win for Toronto.Earlier, Bassitt stifled the Yankees for seven scoreless innings. The right-hander only let up three hits and one walk while striking out seven over 97 pitches.The Yankees, meanwhile, wasted a gritty performance from Cole, who faced trouble at the beginning and end of his start, though he came away unscathed in both scenarios.Toronto’s first two batters of the game reached on errors from shortstop Oswaldo Cabrera and Cole, but t...

Sox bats go big in Brayan Bello’s birthday game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

After being outscored 23-5 between Saturday and Monday, the Red Sox fêted Brayan Bello’s 24th birthday with a barrage of runs in his Wednesday night start.By the final out of the night, they’d scored 12 runs on 16 hits to win the series. A resounding 12-3 victory is exactly the kind of momentum needed for their upcoming road trip, which begins Friday with a visit to Xander Bogaerts in San Diego.After Bello worked a 12-pitch, 1-2-3 first inning, the Red Sox took an early 1-0 lead on three consecutive 1-out singles.The newly-acquired Pablo Reyes was an early and often standout. Batting with the bases loaded in the first, he doubled to extend the lead to 3-0. He doubled again in the second, scoring another pair of runs.Reyes also made a couple of impressive plays to keep Seattle off the board, including a tremendous catch and relay to first baseman Justin Turner, who was able to make out No. 3, dashing the Mariners’ hopes of capitalizing on a bases-loaded situation.St...

Excitement grows ahead of expected MLS team expansion in San Diego

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Soccer fans, it's time to get excited! The Major League Soccer Commissioner and San Diego City Mayor Todd Gloria are expected to hold a press conference at 10:45 a.m. at Snapdragon Stadium to announce the league's 30th expansion team coming to America's Finest City.“We’ve shown ourselves to be a great soccer community," Mark Neville, CEO of Sports San Diego said."It's great to have more opportunities for fans to watch the beautiful game and more opportunities for fans to experience soccer," San Diego Wave Head Coach Casey Stoney said. "I see the youth game here and it's absolutely booming, so to have both male and female role models can only be a good thing." The Wave will be getting a new roommate at Snapdragon Stadium.“It really does seem like a natural for MLS to be in San Diego," Neville said. "I think they are going to be really well supported, I think they are going to be happy with having San Diego as part of their footprint. This is going to be a great announcem...

Florida judge rejects attempt by Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend to throw out nondisclosure agreement

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

A Florida judge ruled late Wednesday that the ex-girlfriend of Tiger Woods must abide by a nondisclosure agreement she purportedly signed and resolve her lawsuits seeking millions from the golf superstar through private arbitration behind closed doors. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger, in an 11-page opinion, rejected Erica Herman’s attempt to quash the 2017 agreement by saying Woods had committed sexual harassment against her, calling Herman’s allegations “vague and threadbare.”“Herman has had the opportunity (to) provide factual specificity for any claim relating to sexual assault or sexual harassment, however, she has not done so,” Metzger wrote. Metzger also said that the evidence shows that a nondisclosure agreement was negotiated between Herman and Woods in 2017, even if her attorney, Benjamin Hodas, now questions whether she actually signed it. At a May 9 hearing, Hodas conceded that Herman signed an agreement, but he said she doesn’t remember ever seeing the one Wo...

Beyond batteries: How scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are improving the future of clean energy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

Efforts are underway to clean up our atmosphere, from high-powered EV chargers to carbon-neutral aviation fuel. Scientists in Chicago area are focused on decarbonizing our planet and they’re working at unprecedented speeds.Energy is the focus at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County.Seth Darling, Ph.D is Argonne National Laboratory’s Chief Science and Technology Officer.“A little more than half of the greenhouse gas emissions that come from transportation are from cars and other light duty vehicles,” he said. ”The easiest way to decarbonize that part of the transportation sector is electrification, going to electric vehicles. We are having to do something we have never done before in terms of the pace of change.”Darling is one of our country’s premier energy experts.“There’s more solar energy coming down to earth than we’ll ever need as a society,” he saidDarling, along with a battery of scientists, are working at lightning speed to decarbonize our planet.“The timescale here ...

Chicago non-profit backs House bill aiming to fund housing for homeless with chronic illness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

Johnny Pitts has been receiving help from the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) for about five years, saying the organization is what helped get him back on his feet."Before I got into AFC, I was hopeless, had no where to stay [and] was going from house-to-house," Pitts said. "It’s hard to be out here by yourself [and] having somewhere to stay [that] gives you better peace of mind."The AFC has been in operation for more than three decades and helps those battling homelessness while living with HIV and other chronic illnesses."There is a great need for housing in Chicagoland for people living with HIV," said Brandi Calvert, Vice President of the AFC.What Calvert also said is that the need for housing is much greater than the current funding available."In the time the AFC has maintained a housing list, it was like one or two, maybe ten people about three or four years ago," Calvert said. "And now it’s up over 1200. That demonstrates the amount of need [in Chicagoland]." ‘She lived he...

Man shot and killed outside Chicago violence reduction non-profit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

CHICAGO — A man who was working with a violence reduction non-profit in Chicago was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon in the organization's parking lot.According to Chicago police, the man, 28, was walking around 12:15 p.m. in the 1000 block of East 95th Street when he was approached by two people who fired shots. He was shot in the head and died on the scene. Indiana man charged with selling gun eventually found during arrest connected to officer’s death Chicago CRED, a non-profit violence reduction organization, said the man had been with the program for nine months. His identity hasn't been released by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Chicago police or Chicago CRED."He came to us because he wanted a way out of his life on the streets and had made great progress toward that goal," a statement from Chicago CRED read. "Because Chicago CRED targets the individuals at highest risk of shooting or being shot, we live with this possibility every day." ‘It feels amazing’: ...

Tesla collision marks seventh crash on Las Vegas property, according to homeowner

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- A car crashed into Monique Brewster’s home on April 27, which she said marked the seventh time a collision of this type has happened.When comparing pictures of the home when she bought it nearly four years ago to now, seemingly the only aspect that has not changed is its location. The house, with a view of the McCullough Mountain Range, once sported automatic driveway gates to protect her vintage cars, a foyer overlooking the mountains, and a water fountain.“It was paradise, you know?” Brewster said, looking disappointedly towards her front yard Wednesday morning.Now, the driveway gates sit immobile off its cracked track, the foyer walls lay on the floor and the water fountain is destroyed. A black Tesla, she said, is just the most recent vehicle to collide with her property, despite the giant boulders she added around it. “Even before I could see anything, the wall was coming in, and my China cabinet and the things I have in my hou...

One seriously injured after rollover in southeast Travis County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:54 GMT

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) -- One person was seriously injured after a single-vehicle rollover in southeast Travis County Wednesday, Austin-Travis County EMS said on Twitter.Shortly after 8:30 p.m., ATCEMS medics, the Austin Fire Department and Travis County Fire Rescue responded to the rollover at S. US 183 Highway and East William Cannon Drive, medics said.One adult patient was involved, and medics gave CPR to the patient before transporting them to St. David's South Austin Medical Center with serious injuries, medics said.Drivers should expect traffic delays in the area.The incident remained under investigation Wednesday.