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Griffin Canning returns to mound, Angels beat Nationals 3-2

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Griffin Canning pitched five innings of five-hit ball in his first big league appearance in 22 months for the Angels, and rookie Logan O’Hoppe drove in the tiebreaking run in Los Angeles’ 3-2 victory over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday.Brett Phillips scored an early run, drove in another with a bases-loaded walk and stole a probable homer from Keibert Ruiz in center field during his eventful first start for the Angels, who took two of three from Washington.The game was a milestone in the lengthy comeback of Canning, who hadn’t pitched in the majors since June 2, 2021. The Gold Glove-winning right-hander and Orange County native had a back injury that eventually scuttled the rest of the 2021 season and then kept him off the field entirely in 2022.Canning started with three innings of one-hit ball, but Washington got four consecutive hits to start the fourth. Joey Meneses had an RBI single before a run-scoring groundout by Luis García in his r...

Gurriel hits 3-run homer, D-backs take series from Brewers

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a three-run homer for his first long ball with the Diamondbacks, rookie Drey Jameson pitched four scoreless innings and Arizona beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-3 on Wednesday.The Diamondbacks took two of three in the series and have won five of their past six games. The Brewers dropped their first series this year.Arizona took a 5-0 lead through four innings thanks to Gurriel’s third-inning drive and shoddy Brewers defense that committed three errors. Milwaukee starter Janson Junk (0-1) gave up five runs, including four earned, over 4 2/3 innings. The 27-year-old — making his first start of the season — surrendered eight hits, struck out two and walked two.Gurriel and catcher Gabriel Moreno came to the D-backs in an offseason trade that sent Daulton Varsho to the Blue Jays. The 29-year-old outfielder has found a home in the middle of Arizona’s lineup and his right-handed bat helps balance the lefty heavy roster.Jameson — wearing his us...

Seoul: North Korea launches ballistic missile toward sea

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has launched a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staffs says the launch was made on Thursday but gave no further details like how far the missile flew.The launch came days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to enhance his nuclear arsenal in more “practical and offensive” ways.North Korea has launched a barrage of missiles this year in protest of South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. Source

Kelenic’s 482-foot homer helps Mariners beat Cubs 5-2

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Logan Gilbert pitched 6 2/3 innings of four-hit ball, Teoscar Hernández and Jarred Kelenic hit consecutive home runs in the eighth and the Seattle Mariners stopped a three-game losing streak by beating the Chicago Cubs 5-2 on Wednesday.Kelenic’s homer landed in the upper center-field bleachers and traveled 482 feet, the second-longest at Wrigley Field since Statcast began tracking in 2015 and trailing only Willson Contreras’ 491-footer in Game 4 of the 2017 NL Championship Series.“Certainly, the wind was blowing out today, but that ball was absolutely smoked,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “All three home runs that Jarred hit in this series were just killed. I played with Mr. (Sammy) Sosa for a few years. I never saw him go up to that level in center field.”Chicago (6-5) had beaten Seattle (5-8) seven consecutive times dating to July 31, 2016, the Cubs’ longest winning streak against an American League team since interleague play started in 199...

South Korea says North Korea has launched a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has launched a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast.Source

Happ, Cubs agree to $61 million, 3-year contract for 2024-26

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — All-Star outfielder Ian Happ and the Chicago Cubs agreed Wednesday to a $61 million, three-year contract covering 2024-26.Happ agreed in January to a $10.85 million, one-year contract. His new deal calls for a $3 million signing bonus payable June 1 and salaries of $20 million in both 2024 and 2025, and $18 million in 2026. He gets a full no-trade provision and a hotel suite on road trips.The 28-year-old would have been eligible for free agency after this year’s World Series.“It’s compromising on structure and terms that takes three years and runs through my baseball prime,” Happ said. “That takes me on the market at 32. But that was my concession to be here.”Happ is hitting .282 with one home run and six RBIs.Happ was a first-time All-Star last year, when he hit .271 with 17 home runs, a career-high 42 doubles and 72 RBIs. Happ also earned his first NL Gold Glove. He hit a career-high 25 home runs in 2021.“You want flexibility,” Cubs president of ba...

Rare lynx caught on film in San Juan mountains

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, Colo. (KDVR) -- A Colorado photographer last snapped a photo of a lynx in Colorado's San Juan mountains in 2016, until Tuesday. Photographer Wesley Berg spends a lot of time in the San Juans photographing wildlife and said the lynx had alluded him for seven years. He also took a video of the animal showing it in its natural habitat. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said the state began a seven-year project to reintroduce the lynx back into the San Juan mountain range in the 90s. Dog returns home after 150-mile Alaskan sea-ice odyssey "The reintroduction resulted in astounding success, and our current monitoring efforts suggest Colorado is home to 150-250 individual animals," CPW said in a tweet with Berg's photo of the lynx. CPW said many people have confused the lynx with the bobcat but said the two may look similar but are different animals.

Trial begins for man accused of deadly road rage shooting that killed a 13-year-old boy

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

BRIGHTON, Colo. (KDVR) -- The long-delayed murder retrial of Jeremy Webster is finally getting underway in Adams County. He's accused of opening fire on the Bigelow family in front of a Westminster dental office after a road rage incident in June of 2018, killing 13-year-old Vaughn Bigelow Jr. and injuring three others.On the stand Wednesday, Meghan Bigelow told the jury that the whole incident started when she was driving her three boys, Vaughn Jr., Cooper and Asa, to the dentist's office. She said she tried to move into another lane of traffic to allow an emergency vehicle to pass, and another driver became enraged that she cut him off. Meghan told the jury he screamed obscenities at her and followed her into the dentist's parking lot. There was some yelling and then she saw him pull out a gun. Officers charged with killing Christian Glass to face trial "I yelled to the boys he's got a gun, run," she explained to the jury.She said she did everything she could to lead t...

Elderly woman speaks out after she says condo manager attacked her and hurled antisemitic curses

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

An elderly couple is speaking out after a disturbing confrontation between a condo manager and a resident in her 70s.Speaking with 7News on Wednesday, Martha Arnold said it was bad enough that she was physically attacked, but it’s what she said the manager told her that may have been even worse.“I was petrified when I saw her so close to me,” she said.Martha 71, said she’s terrified to go home after the attack at the door of an elevator on the property, which was caught on surveillance video.“I was screaming like a madwoman,” she said.Martha and her husband, Martin Arnold, live at Ocean Summit on Galt Ocean Mile in Fort Lauderdale.On March 16, Martha said, she was wearing her headphones listening to music and heading up to her condo.“I was coming from the pool area after I did my exercises, like I do every morning,” she said.When the freight elevator didn’t arrive, she moved to the resident elevator. That’s when, she said, ...

Oh no, Joe: Biden confuses ‘All Blacks’ rugby team with ‘Black and Tan’ military force

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:54:56 GMT

DUBLIN — That didn’t last long.Joe Biden managed to tread carefully around historic and current political sensitivities during the first part of his trip to the island of Ireland this week, marking 25 years since the U.S.-brokered Good Friday Agreement sought to secure lasting peace for Northern Ireland.But not long after crossing from that U.K. region into the Republic of Ireland on Wednesday, the U.S. president made a major gaffe: He confused New Zealand’s “All Blacks” rugby team with the notorious “Black and Tans” British military unit that fought the Irish Republican Army a century ago.At the end of a rambling speech in a pub Wednesday night, Biden — flanked by Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin and star rugby player Rob Kearney, a distant cousin — tried to pay a compliment to one of Kearney’s greatest sporting accomplishments. That would be when Ireland’s rugby team defeated New Zealand for the first time in 111 years, in November 2016 in ...