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Strider, Braves pummel Padres 8-1 for 8th straight win

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Spencer Strider and three relievers combined on a four-hitter and Matt Olson, Ozzie Albies and Sean Murphy each hit an impressive homer for the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves, who beat the struggling San Diego Padres 8-1 Tuesday night for their eighth straight win. It’s the longest active winning streak in baseball and the second-longest overall after Tampa Bay’s 13 straight wins to open the season. The Padres have lost six of seven. They avoided their third straight shutout when Juan Soto’s fielder’s choice in the eighth brought in Trent Grisham, who was aboard on a one-out double. That snapped a streak of 25 scoreless innings for San Diego, 12 shy of the franchise record set in 1971.Strider (2-0) held the Padres hitless until Soto singled on his 90th pitch, with one out in the sixth, on a grounder that was deflected by second baseman Albies. Until then, Strider had allowed only three walks and a hit batter.Strider was finished after six inn...

Kershaw wins No. 200 in style as Dodgers blank Mets 5-0

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw delivered a vintage performance for his 200th win, pitching seven splendid innings of three-hit ball as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Mets 5-0 on Tuesday night.J.D. Martinez homered twice and drove in four runs, finishing with four hits to help the Dodgers stop New York’s five-game winning streak.Kershaw (3-1) struck out nine to pass Mickey Lolich for 22nd place on the career list with 2,833 strikeouts. The three-time Cy Young Award winner improved to 200-88 in 405 games (402 starts) over 16 major league seasons — the best winning percentage among the 117 pitchers to win 200 games.The only one of them with a lower career ERA than Kershaw is Hall of Famer Walter Johnson.Kershaw allowed three singles and no walks. He took a one-hitter into the seventh but needed 32 pitches to get through the inning, letting out a rare primal scream after striking out Tommy Pham with two on to preserve a 3-0 lead.Evan Phillips and Brusdar Gratero...

Jets’ Barron receives 75-plus stitches after skate to face

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Winnipeg Jets forward Morgan Barron took a skate to his face Tuesday night, requiring more than 75 stitches, but he returned to the ice less than a period later.Barron was injured in the first period during a big scramble in front of the Vegas Golden Knights’ net in Game 1 of the teams’ Western Conference first-round series, which Winnipeg won 5-1. As players collapsed around the front of the net in pursuit of a loose puck, Vegas goalie Laurent Brossoit’s skate cut Barron.“I was trying to figure out if the puck went in because it was pretty close,” Barron said. “I saw the skate coming. It was an unlucky play. The first thought was that I could see out of the (right) eye was the main thing.”Barron immediately went to the Jets’ locker room, but returned in the second period wearing a full cage on his head.“Looks like he got attacked by a shark,” center Adam Lowry said. “It’s a scary thing. We’re all so worried about the ...

Adames drives in 11th inning run, Brewers top Mariners 6-5

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Willy Adames drove in the go-ahead run for Milwaukee in the top of the 11th inning and the Brewers defeated the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night, 6-5.Joey Weimer scored on Adames’ RBI groundout to shortstop against Mariners reliever Justin Topa (0-1). Adames finished the night with two hits and three RBI, with a run scoring double in the third and a solo homer in the sixth.Christian Yelich hit a leadoff home run against Mariners starter Logan Gilbert, and made it 2-0 with an RBI single in the top of the third. Yelich then scored on Adames’ double to push the Milwaukee lead to three.Seattle erased the deficit with a four run bottom of the third, as Cal Raleigh hit a two run double, Teoscar Hernández hit a sacrifice fly, and Tommy La Stella blooped an RBI single into left field to put the Mariners ahead before Adames tied it again in the sixth.Gilbert allowed five hits and four earned runs over six innings, while striking out eight. Colin Rea allowed four runs over fi...

Temblor magnitud 5.8 remece partes de México sin que se active la alerta sísmica

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO – Un temblor de magnitud preliminar 5.8 remeció la noche de este martes amplias zonas de la capital mexicana, donde millones se preparan para el Simulacro Nacional programado para las 11 a.m. horario del Centro del miércoles.El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional ubicó el epicentro a 36 kilómetros (22 millas) noroeste de Tecpan, en el estado del Guerrero.Aun cuando no sonó la alerta sísmica, cientos de habitantes de Ciudad de México siguieron el protocolo y desalojaron sus viviendas.La jefa de gobierno de Ciudad de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, informó que el sismo tuvo una leve percepción en varias zonas de la capital, por lo que no ameritó alerta sísmica.Mientras que la secretaría de Gestión Integral de Riesgos y Protección Civil informó que mantiene contacto con las unidades de Protección Civil de cada una de las 16 alcaldías de la capital mexicana para descartar eventualidades causadas por el sismo de esta noche. ¿POR QUÉ TIEMBLA TANTO EN MÉXICO?México ...

Potential of high-density housing prompts debate in University City

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Residents in the University City area met once again to discuss plans that could lead to more high-density housing in the area, sparking debate Tuesday night as to how the community will move forward. There were a mix of voices Tuesday in a University City Community Planning meeting, with people who live in and outside of the area fighting either for or against what could lead to more medium to high-density housing units. With the last update back in 1987, contention is now mounting surrounding how the city plans to develop over the next 30 years. One resident expressed concern Tuesday that pro-development organizations outside the University Area were fighting for the future of his home. “This city can't even fill potholes, so whatever idea you have in your head about solving the housing crisis and doing so by destroying my community, you only need to look as far as downtown, Ash Street, and any other failed initiatives that city leaders have accomplished," the residen...

8 Indonesian fishermen feared dead, 11 rescued off Australia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Eight Indonesian fishermen are feared drowned and another 11 have been rescued after spending six days without food or water on a barren island off the northwest Australian coast after a powerful tropical cyclone, authorities said Wednesday.Two primitive wooden Indonesian fishing boats were caught in the path of Cyclone Ilsa, which made landfall Friday as Australia’s most powerful storm in eight years, with winds gusting at an apparent record of 289 kilometers (180 miles) per hour.One of the boats, Putri Jaya, sank in “extreme weather conditions” on April 11 or 12 while Ilsa was gathering strength over the Indian Ocean and heading toward the coast, Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement, citing survivors.The other boat, Express 1, ran aground with 10 men aboard in the early hours of April 12 on Bedwell Island, a sandy outcrop some 300 kilometers (200 miles) west of the Australian coastal tourist town of Broome, the authority said. T...

In grim drought, Tunisians ration water in state-ordered ban

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — It’s a feeble drip, drip, drip from the taps every night in Tunisia for six months. Spigots are cut off for seven hours from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. in a state-ordered water rationing in most regions across the country, including Tunis, the capital city. Tunisians are on the front lines of a battle against an increasingly severe drought, now in its fifth year in the north African country, with the government issuing a sudden order to its population to ration their water usage from April to September — or risk fines or jail.Households now need a supply of bottled water to wash, use toilets and prepare meals during late night hours. Authorities have also forbidden the use of potable water for irrigation of farmlands, watering green areas in cities and for cleaning streets and cars. Water levels at almost all of Tunisia’s 30-plus dams have fallen drastically, some as low as 17% of their storage capacity.The Sidi Salem dam in northwest Tunisia provides tap water to Tunis ...

Uvalde families plead for languishing Texas gun bills

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Parents whose children were killed in the Robb Elementary School massacre made sobbing pleads for stricter gun laws before legislators early Wednesday on languishing proposals that appeared headed to stall in the face of a Republican majority. The emotional late-night hearing — which started Tuesday morning and stretched past midnight — underlined both the sustained anger by some Uvalde families nearly a year after the shooting and the continued GOP opposition in Texas to passing any new restrictions. The meeting of a state House committee was significant because it marked the first time Texas lawmakers have given any proposed gun restrictions a hearing since the May 2022 shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. Much of the debate centered on a proposal that would raise the age to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 years old, which Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has opposed. “Tess didn’t have a choice in life and death,” said Veronica Mata, refer...

The Storm Behind the Warmth, and a look at FINICKY APRIL TEMPS—What the past half century of Aprils (dating back to 1973) tells us about what may follow in the remaining weeks of April

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

It appears, beyond brief warming—first in the south suburbs Wednesday—then over the city and remainder of the Chicago area Wednesday night and Thursday—that we're entering a cooler than normal period overall in the next 2 weeks. What's more, if there's another 4-day run of 80s to come in the coming two weeks, it's not showing up yet on the constellation of models we examine as guides to our forecast preparation each day. It seems safe to say—at least this point—that we NOT likely to see another 4-day run of 80s such as the one which occurred last Wed-Thu-Fri and Sat—any time soon. It will happen as we get deeper into the warm season—just not in the foreseeable future.HERE'S MORE ON WHAT I'VE FOUND IN APRILS (Beyond April 18th) IN THE PAST HALF CENTURY IN CHICAGOTHE SATURDAY TO MONDAY 44° TEMP DROP, from a July-like 83° high Saturday to Monday's blustery and chilly 39° high with a dusting of morning snow in a number of locations across Chicago, ISN'T RARE. Not every years sees anythi...