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Miley picks up win after a month on IL, Wiemer homers as Brewers beat Pirates 5-0

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wade Miley pitched five scoreless innings in his return from the injured list and Joey Wiemer homered for the second straight game to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday.The victory pushed Milwaukee 1 1/2 games ahead of Pittsburgh atop the NL Central standings.Miley (4-2) had been one of Milwaukee’s most reliable starting pitchers before spending a month on the injured list due to a lat strain. The left-hander was 3-2 with a 3.67 ERA in eight starts before going on the IL on May 16. He returned to form Saturday, limiting the Pirates to two hits and two walks while striking out four.Wiemer’s 10th home run of the season, a two-run shot off Pirates right-hander Mitch Keller, staked Miley and the Brewers to a 2-0 lead in the third inning. The Brewers moved out to a 4-0 lead in the fifth on a two-out, two-run double by Rowdy Tellez.Keller (8-3) got out of the inning without further damage and turned things over to the...

Wake Forest 3, Stanford 2

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

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Grupo armado asesina a tiros y cuchillazos a más de 40 en una escuela en Uganda

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

KAMPALA, Uganda — Las autoridades ugandesas recuperaron los cadáveres de 41 personas, incluyendo 38 estudiantes, que murieron quemadas, baleadas o acuchilladas tras un presunto ataque rebelde contra una escuela secundaria próxima a la frontera con República Democrática del Congo, dijo el alcalde el sábado.Al menos seis personas fueron secuestradas por los rebeldes, que tras la incursión del viernes en la noche huyeron por la porosa frontera hacia Congo, indicó el ejército de Uganda.Entre las víctimas había estudiantes, un guarda y dos miembros de la comunidad local que fueron asesinados en el exterior del centro, explicó el regidor de Mpondwe-Lhubiriha, Selevest Mapoze, a The Associated Press.Algunos de los estudiantes sufrieron quemaduras letales cuando los rebeldes prendieron fuego a un dormitorio, mientras que otros fueron baleados o acuchillados con machetes, añadió Mapoze. Ya son más de 300 los muertos en horrendo rito apocalíptico en Kenia ...

Garrett throws 6 solid innings, Marlins beat Nationals 5-2 for 3rd straight win

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Braxton Garrett pitched six strong innings, Bryan De La Cruz had a two-run single and the Miami Marlins defeated the Washington Nationals 5-2 on Saturday.Joey Wendle had two hits for Miami, which has won three straight. Luis Arraez, who went 5 for 5 with a homer on Friday night, was 1 for 4 with an intentional walk, leaving his major league-leading batting average at .388.Jonathan Davis walked leading off the Miami seventh against Chad Kuhl (0-4), and Nick Fortes singled to put runners at the corners. With one out, Washington walked Arraez to load the bases and Kuhl then walked Jorge Soler to force in the go-ahead run. Fortes scored on a wild pitch to make it 3-1.De La Cruz added a two-run single with the bases loaded in the ninth.Garrett (3-2) allowed one run and four hits. He walked one and struck out eight. Over his past seven starts, the left-hander is 2-0 with a 2.13 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 32 innings. Miami is 6-1 in those games.A.J. Puk got three outs for h...

Coast Guard offloads over $186M in cocaine from interdictions at sea; 12 in custody

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

Millions of dollars worth of cocaine will never hit the streets, thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard.The crew of the USCG Cutter Bear offloaded more than 14,100 pounds of the drug in Miami, Friday.The drugs were seized during nine separate interdictons in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. They are worth more than $186 million.Twelve suspected smugglers were taken into federal custody during the operations.

Nicer weather on Father’s Day

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

After a soggy Saturday, nicer weather is in the forecast for Father’s day as the low pressure system heads east of New England. Although showers will linger into the early morning hours Sunday, most of the day is looking dry with the exception of an isolated shower or two. Temperatures will start in the upper 50s and warm into the upper 60s to low 70s for the afternoon. The long term pattern is also looking less unsettled, with sunshine and summerlike weather returning late week.

Column: Chicago Cubs ride the Wrigley wave to their 5th straight win. ‘We’re playing a good brand of baseball.’

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

For much of the past two months the Chicago Cubs have talked about the kind of baseball they were capable of playing if everyone did his part.Now they’re done talking and letting their actions speak for them.The results have been impressive to see.“Coming (off) the (4-5) road trip, obviously we keep saying, ‘It’s a long season, it’s a long season,’ and things like that,” second baseman Nico Hoerner said. “But it did seem like a significant homestand, playing the Pirates for the first time. Any time you play at home it’s special, and we’re playing good baseball. Won some close games. Feels good.”Justin Steele pitched five strong innings in his return after suffering a left forearm strain on May 31 against the Tampa Bay Rays, and the bullpen combined for four shutout innings in a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles before a crowd of 40,605 at Wrigley Field.The Cubs scratched out only four hits but made them count. Hoerne...

Red Sox notebook: Tanner Houck in stable condition after facial fracture

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

It was a terrifying moment when Tanner Houck exited Friday night’s game in the fifth inning.The 26-year-old right-hander had taken a line drive to the face, and though he was able to walk off the field on his own and never lost consciousness, there’d be little comfort without an official diagnosis.On Saturday evening, the Red Sox provided an update.“Tanner Houck was evaluated last night at Mass General Hospital. He suffered a facial fracture but is currently resting at home in stable condition. Follow-up appointments next week will determine next steps and a treatment plan,” the team announced.Though the game and numbers are trivial in such situations, Houck was having one of his best starts of the season on Friday night. Over four innings, he held the Yankees to four hits and just one earned run, issued one walk, and struck out two. He’d only thrown 59 pitches when the injury occurred.Sources also tell the Herald that the right-hander will likely be placed o...

Kodai Senga gets bit by the long ball as Mets fall to Cardinals, 5-3

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

The long ball haunted Kodai Senga and his ghost fork Saturday afternoon at Citi Field. The right-hander surrendered two crucial homers to the Cardinals in the Mets’ 5-3 loss.Paul Goldschmidt blasted a two-run shot the other way in the top of the second answering back to Brandon Nimmo’s leadoff solo shot in the bottom of the first. Jordan Walker added a solo shot to right field off of a fastball nearly at his head in the top of the third as that would be all the offense the Cardinals needed to even up the series against the Mets.Senga tossed 6.2 innings allowing four runs while striking out eight. It was a shaky performance — although he did provide length pitching into the seventh — for arguably the team’s best-starting pitcher this season as he entered the afternoon with an ERA of 3.34 before parting with a 3.53. The righty wasn’t able to fully capitalize on escaping a bases-loaded jam in the top of the first.Veteran right-hander Adam Wainwright ...

Blinken arrives Beijing on high-stakes mission to cool soaring US-China tensions

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:18:54 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing early Sunday on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to try to cool exploding U.S.-China tensions that have set many around the world on edge. Blinken was to begin two days of talks with senior Chinese officials in the afternoon. He is the highest-level American official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office and the first secretary of state to make the trip in five years.The trip comes after he postponed plans to visit in February after the shootdown of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the U.S.Yet prospects for any significant breakthrough on the most vexing issues facing the planet’s two largest economies are slim, as already ties have grown increasingly fraught in recent years. Animosity and recriminations have steadily escalated over a series of disagreements that have implications for global security and stability.Blinken plans to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Sunday, top dipl...