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Mets’ slumping slugger Pete Alonso heads to 3rd-career All-Star game

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

PHOENIX — Pete Alonso knows the numbers: His expected batting average is .264 and his current average is .217.“I’ve looked at my expected batting average and based on the numbers, the discrepancy is probably one of the largest in all of Major League Baseball,” Alonso told the Daily News on Wednesday at Chase Field. “I think it’s in the .260s and that’s kind of on par with who I’ve been in the past, but this year it’s not that. Now I’m hitting in the high .210s, but that’s like a 50-point discrepancy and that’s got to be the largest margin in the big leagues. That’s tough.”Coming into Wednesday, his math wasn’t far off. It’s a 47-point discrepancy. Alonso made the All-Star team largely based on his 25 home runs, which currently rank third in the league, tied with Luis Robert of the Chicago White Sox. Earlier this season, Alonso emerged as an NL MVP candidate, but this recent skid has coole...

Red Sox rally late to spoil Nathan Eovaldi’s Fenway return, beat Rangers 10-6

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

Nathan Eovaldi is having a spectacular season. The former Red Sox right-hander has emerged as a Cy Young contender since joining the Texas Rangers, and while he wasn’t at his best Thursday night, he still walked off the mound with a 5-3 lead in the sixth inning, earning a polite applause from the Fenway Faithful as he exited.Then, with their former teammate out of the picture, the Red Sox offense feasted.Boston scored seven straight runs from the sixth inning onwards and delivered the knockout blow in the form of a six-run avalanche in the bottom of the seventh. Kiké Hernández came through with the go-ahead two-run single and from there Boston kept pouring it on in what wound up a decisive 10-6 win.The comeback began after Boston cut the deficit to 5-4 in the sixth on an RBI single by pinch hitter Rob Refsnyder to score Hernández, who reached on a fielder’s choice and an error on Eovaldi’s last at bat. Then in the seventh Boston loaded the bases with one out on a R...

Mets Notebook: Tommy Pham tearing the cover off the ball

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

PHOENIX — The Mets might have signed Tommy Pham as a platoon option, but halfway through the season, he’s hitting the ball so hard and so well that the team can hardly afford to take him out of the lineup.Since May 28, Pham has been hitting .355 with a 1.057 OPS, the third-best OPS in the Major Leagues over that span. Since May 18, he’s gone 12-for-25 with runners in scoring position. He hit six home runs last month. His rise coincided with the Mets’ slide, but Pham has been the one constant in the Mets’ lineup over the last month.“His swing decisions are good and his swing is really good,” said hitting coach Jeremy Barnes. “He can get disconnected at times and just kind of get forward. When he doesn’t do that, he hits the ball harder than anybody in the league.”Barnes isn’t wrong.Pham is getting the ball in the air and hitting it hard. His average exit velocity is in the 95th percentile, his expected batting average ...

Boston Lax All-American Game: MIAA stars prevail over ISL

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

WELLESLEY — Since it was founded 11 years ago, the Boston Lax All-American Game has presented premier athletes in Massachusetts a unique chance to face one another. It’s not too often that you see the best from both the ISL and the MIAA battling it out on one field.In the second installment of the series between the two leagues, the MIAA earned some bragging rights. Acton-Boxboro senior and St. Lawrence commit Camden Matthews was named the MIAA’s Offensive Player of the Game (four goals, assist), as he and his teammates rallied from an early four-goal deficit to knock off the ISL at Babson College, 13-9.“This feels really good,” said MIAA coach and longtime Reading game manager Charlie Hardy. “There’s so much talent on this field, on both sides of the field. It was hard to decide who was going to go out first.”The game opened up with a tribute to former Boston Herald and Boston Lax contributor Bruce Lerch, as well as former coach and Boston Lax personality Ryan Kilian. The two leagu...

Pair suspected in countywide crime spree identified

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputies on Wednesday arrested two people suspected in a string of violent crimes.  The crimes happened from the South Bay to North County and ended with deputies arresting 26-year-old Calvin Brown and 18-year-old Rolaena Blunt.  Deputies say just before 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Brown is suspected of shooting a 36-year-old woman at a home on Louden Lane in Imperial Beach. Deputies said Brown then drove away in a white BMW. Next, investigators say the suspects robbed The Cage Smoke Shop on El Cajon Boulevard in North Park. After leaving, deputies said the suspects crashed into a car on northbound Interstate 805 and Clairmont Mesa Boulevard. Police said the suspects ran away and then carjacked someone at gunpoint on Convoy Court.  Eufemio Mendoza has lived in the area for 10 years and recalled the police coming by Wednesday night.  “When I hear from the helicopters is that there might be some suspects wandering around your ...

Encinitas residents frustrated over limited parking

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

ENCINITAS, Calif. -- There’s growing frustration over parking from some homeowners on Seacrest Way in Encinitas. "When we need parking here, sometimes there are already people from the apartments parking in our streets. It can be hard to find parking," Lily Nguyen said to FOX 5 on Thursday. She says homeowners are getting the overflow from the apartment complex across the street.Signs on Seacrest Way show a parking permit is required for the designated area for homeowners and guests to park. A different permit is required to park across the street, specifically designated for visitors of the apartment complex – but Nguyen says that’s not always the case.“And they will leave their cars parked here overnight and block the neighborhood and the pathways for us to have room to park," Nguyen said.Encinitas Mayor Tony Kranz says they rolled that the parking permit program in hopes of solving the issue. "It’s in part because we have a very car-centric world that we live in and apartment bui...

2 newborns found dead in child care bathroom in Streeterville

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

CHICAGO -- The bodies of two infants were discovered unresponsive in a bathroom of a Streeterville child care facility Thursday night.According to Chicago Police Department, two newborns were found unresponsive inside a bathroom of a child care center on the 400 block of East Ontario Street in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood just before 7 p.m. on Thursday. 4 CPD officers under investigation for sexual relationship with migrants living at station The infants were reportedly taken to Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago where they were pronounced dead.No arrests have been made at this time. The investigation is ongoing.No further information has become available at this time.Stay with WGN as this story develops.

Anger, mistrust cloud suburban school district’s hope of selling land

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. — Sixty million dollars would have a big impact on a suburban school district, but plans to sell land and raise that money have triggered angry emotions among some who live in the district.“Honestly, it would destroy the community,” said Willow Springs resident Erica Gerros.  The mother of five is frustrated by months of back-and-forth over Lyons Township District 204’s on-again off-again plans to sell a 70-acre patch of land.  The wooded property is adjacent to a UPS facility on one side but homes, a park and elementary school on its other borders.Willow Springs officials say they were blindsided several months ago when the school district revealed a $55 million offer for the land from a developer who wanted to build an industrial park on the site.  Another developer offered $60 million a few months later.Frustration mounted when the Illinois Attorney General ordered the release of audio recordings from closed door school board meetings in which ...

Husband and wife work across the hall from each other – one brews beer, the other directs theatre

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

Howard Street is where Chicago and Evanston meet. “We are at the tip of Chicago,” said Chuck Patella.Patella's one-year-old brewery is on the Chicago side. “We are the northernmost place you can get an 'in house' craft beer in the city of Chicago," he said.Behind a 37-seat tasting room with a dozen beers on tap, there is a single barrel brewery. 7 award-winning Chicagoland breweries to check out this summer “It’s exactly the same as the big brew houses,” Patella said. “We do exactly the same process, we use all the same chemicals, we’re just doing it on a much smaller scale.”Patella started brewing at home more than a decade ago and spent time perfecting his craft brews. His dream was to open his own brewery.Last year he opened Howard Street Brewing – in the historic Howard Theatre– the same building where his wife Shannon O’Neill works. “So, as Chuck is shopping around and looking for locations, it just sort of dawned on him, 'Why not that space?'" she said. "The same lightbulb w...

State prepares to take over case against Walmart mass shooter

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:30:12 GMT

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – As the federal hate crimes case against the El Paso Walmart mass shooter concludes, Texas state prosecutors are preparing to take Patrick Wood Crusius to court once again. And this time, his life will be on the line.“I want to emphasize that nothing that happens in the federal courthouse will affect what happens in the state courthouse,” El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks said on Thursday. “We are still going to be prosecuting the Walmart shooter. We are still going to be seeking the death penalty.” ‘I don’t think he deserves anyone’s forgiveness’ Crusius has pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes and weapons charges. Senior U.S. Federal District Judge David C. Guaderrama is expected to sentence him to 90 consecutive terms of life in prison on Friday under the plea agreement.Crusius, who according to investigators on the morning of Aug. 3, 2019, drove 10 hours from North Texas to El Paso to “kill Mexicans,” will go remain on federal custody at the...