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Suzuki and Amaya hit solo homers and Cubs beat Royals 4-3

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Seiya Suzuki and Miguel Amaya hit solo homers, helping Kyle Hendricks and the Chicago Cubs beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Sunday.Chicago, in position to claim of the NL’s three wild cards berths, won two in a row after losing the series opener. Jordan Lyles (3-14) became the major leagues’ first 14-game loser as Kansas City fell for the fourth time in five games and dropped to 40-86, better only than Oakland among the 30 major league teams.Hendricks (5-6) won for the first time since July 25, allowing one run and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He retired 10 in a row before his lone walk, to Matt Beaty in the fifth inning.Mark Leiter Jr. got two outs in the seventh, Julian Merryweather pitched a perfect eighth, and Adbert Alzolay got his 18th save in 19 chances after allowing pinch-hitter Maikel Garcia’s run-scoring single and Matt Beaty’s RBI groundout. With a runner on second, Dairon Blanco hit a game-ending groundout.Lyles gave up four runs ...

Coco Gauff, 19, earns Cincinnati women’s title by beating Muchova in straight sets

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

MASON, Ohio (AP) — Seventh-seeded Coco Gauff became the first teenager in more than 50 years to win the Western & Southern Open with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Karolina Muchova on Sunday.Gauff, the 2022 French Open runner-up, earned her first Masters 1000 title when Muchova sailed a forehand return wide on Gauff’s fourth match point. The 19-year-old American tossed her racket in the air and jumped up and down in glee after surviving a 1-hour, 56-minute match played in temperatures approaching 90 degrees.“This is unbelievable,” Gauff said during the post-match trophy presentation. “I’m just happy to be here for this moment.“I want to congratulate Karolina for an incredible run in this tournament,” she added. “Hopefully, we’ll play more often, and on a bigger stage than this.”Gauff was the tournament’s fourth teenage finalist and first since Vera Zvonareva in 2004. She is the first teenage champion since 17-year-old Linda Tuero in 1968.Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz and No. 2 Novak Djokov...

Pedestrian killed, driver airlifted after rollover crash in South Miami-Dade

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

A car was left mangled after following a rollover wreck in South Miami-Dade that left a pedestrian dead and sent the driver to the hospital. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a black Cadillac sedan collided with a pedestrian along U.S. 1. near Southwest 272nd Street., at around 3 a.m., Sunday.Investigators said the impact caused the Cadillac to roll over and crash into the side of a strip mall building, leaving the car destroyed.The pedestrian, a man, died at the scene.First responders cut out the driver from the car, which was propped up against the building.Miami Dade Fire Rescue reported that once the occupant was extricated from the car, they were airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center as a trauma alert. The patient’s condition is said to be stable; however, their extent of their injuries remains unknown. U.S. 1 was shut down for most of the early morning while officials conducted a preliminary investigation. Authorities, including the Traffic Homicide Unit, cont...

Trump team demands apology from DeSantis over ‘listless vessels’ comment

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have finally stepped over the very thin line he’s been trying to walk between beating Donald Trump in a primary and not chasing off his base.Some conservatives are outraged and the former president’s campaign is demanding that the governor apologize to Trump supporters, all over a comment that’s being likened to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables” line.DeSantis made the offending remark while speaking with the Florida Standard, when the Sunshine State’s chief executive was attempting to explain his vision forward for the GOP. According to the governor, simply following the whims of the 45th President’s isn’t a sustainable path to power for conservatives.“If you’re not rooted in principle, if all we are is listless vessels that are just supposed to follow whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement,” he said.The...

Mets’ win streak ends as Cardinals star Paul Goldschmidt dominates

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

Pete Alonso tormented St. Louis throughout the first three days of the Mets’ four-game series there. On Sunday, it was the Cardinals’ superstar first baseman’s turn.Reigning NL MVP Paul Goldschmidt crushed a go-ahead home run and picked up three RBI in the Cardinals’ 7-3 victory, helping St. Louis avoid a sweep while snapping the Mets’ four-game win streak.Goldschmidt drove in St. Louis’ first three runs, delivering a third-inning RBI single before his two-run homer in the fifth inning that ended Mets starter Carlos Carrasco’s latest uneven outing. Goldschmidt, who went 3-for-5, also scored the Cardinals’ fourth run of the game during a four-run seventh inning.Alonso continued to crush the Cardinals, slugging his third home run of the series. His 423-foot solo shot landed in Busch Stadium’s third deck and gave the Mets a short-lived 2-1 lead that Goldschmidt erased with his blast.Alonso’s home run came against Cardinals sta...

Red Sox sweep Yankees with 6-5 win at the Stadium to extend Bombers’ losing streak to 8 games

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

Anthony Volpe gave the Yankees a glimmer of hope with a late home run on Sunday, but that didn’t stop the Red Sox from sweeping their division rival with a 6-5 win at Yankee Stadium.It looked like the Yankees had changed the game’s momentum when Volpe responded to Justin Turner’s three-run, seventh-inning homer with a three-run shot of his own in the bottom of the frame. But Turner came up clutch again in the ninth with an RBI double off Clay Holmes. That ultimately handed the Yankees their eighth straight loss after they failed to drive in a few ninth-inning baserunners.The Bombers are now 60-64.The Yankees scored their first two runs on solo homers from Kyle Higashioka and Gleyber Torres. Both came against Nick Pivetta, who threw five innings and struck out eight after following opener Josh Winckowski.Volpe’s homer came off John Schreiber.Meanwhile, Clarke Schmidt bounced back nicely after the right-hander surrendered eight earned runs against the Braves in...

Denmark, Netherlands pledge F-16s to Ukraine  

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — The Netherlands and Denmark announced Sunday they will give F-16 warplanes to Ukraine, a long-awaited announcement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called an important motivation for his country’s forces, embroiled in a difficult counteroffensive against Russia.The promise of new fighter jets came the day after an unusually brazen Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian theater that killed seven people and wounded almost 150 others in the northern city of Chernihiv. Zelenskyy vowed stern retaliation for the attack, whose victims included a slain 6-year-old girl dead and 15 wounded children.After months of entreaties from Zelenskyy for F-16s to bolster the Ukrainian air force, the U.S. recently gave approval for the Netherlands and Denmark to provide Ukraine the American-made jets. Zelenskyy travelled to both countries Sunday to finalize the delivery deals.”F-16s will certainly give new energy, confidence, and motivation to fighters and ...

Deluge from Tropical Storm Hilary hits California after making landfall along Mexico's Baja coast

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Deadly floodwaters inundated streets across Mexico’s arid Baja California on Sunday as Tropical Storm Hilary moved ashore carrying torrential rain into Southern California, and concerns mounted that flash floods could strike in places as far north as Idaho that rarely get such heavy rain.Forecasters said Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing the potential for flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages.Hilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles (250 kilometers) south of Ensenada, on a path to hit mudslide-prone Tijuana Sunday evening, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border. At least 9 million people were under flash-flood warnings as heavy rain fell across normally sunny Southern California ahead of the brunt of the storm. Desert areas were especially susceptible along with hillsides with wildfire...

Magnitude 5.0 earthquake rattles Los Angeles area

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 shook the Los Angeles area Sunday afternoon, just as Tropical Storm Hilary was drenching the region with torrential rain.The quake struck at 2:45 p.m. and was centered two miles east-southeast of Ojai in Ventura County at a depth of one kilometer, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake could be felt sharply across a wide swath of the L.A. area, including Hollywood and Long Beach, and was followed by several aftershocks.California Earthquake MapThere were no immediate reports of damage.This is a developing story. Stay with KTLA for updates.

Longtime Rogers executive Phil Lind has died at age 80

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:16:04 GMT

Phil Lind, a longtime executive of Rogers Communications and confidante to founder Ted Rogers, has died at the age of 80. “Phil worked for Rogers for 54 years, nearly 40 of them with my father and helped build Rogers into the telecom and media powerhouse it is today,” Edward Rogers, Chair of Rogers Communications, said in a statement on Sunday. “He has been involved in every key decision in the company’s history and we are forever grateful for his countless contributions.” In his 2018 book, Right Hand Man: How Phil Lind Steered the Genius of Ted Rogers, Canada’s Foremost Entrepreneur, Lind says he first met Rogers at a Tory convention and later joined the company in 1969 as Programming Chief when the company owned two radio stations and counted 15,000 cable subscribers. As employee number 160 at Rogers Communications, Lind claims he had a handshake deal with Rogers. “He said, ‘Friends don’t work for friends. That’s not a good thing. Wh...