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Nolan Gorman’s pinch-hit 2-run HR in 9th inning carries Cardinals over Red Sox 8-6

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Nolan Gorman hit a go-ahead, two-run homer off Kenley Jansen in the ninth inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Boston Red Sox 8-6 on Friday night to win their second straight series opener after losing their first 11 this season.Nolan Arenado had a two-run homer during his four-hit night and Willson Contreras added a solo shot for St. Louis, which blew a lead in the eighth inning but rebounded to win for the fourth time in five games.James Paxton struck out nine over five innings in his first major league appearance in two years for the Red Sox. Enmanuel Valdez and Connor Wong homered on consecutive pitches off Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright. Gorman belted his homer to right against Jansen (1-1), who became the seventh player to earn 400 saves on Wednesday night but couldn’t close this one. Gorman’s hit came after Lars Nootbaar’s single tied it.Ryan Helsley (1-2) picked up the victory in relief, while Boston lost for just the third time in 12 game...

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Buckle Up South Carolina 200 Results

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

FridayAt Darlington RacewayDarlington, S.C.Lap length: 1.37 miles(Start position in parentheses)1. (4) Christian Eckes, Chevrolet, 158 laps, 58 points.2. (6) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 158, 43.3. (11) Tanner Gray, Toyota, 158, 34.4. (8) William Byron, Chevrolet, 158, 0.5. (18) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 158, 44.6. (13) Rajah Caruth, Chevrolet, 158, 31.7. (15) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 158, 0.8. (1) Corey Heim, Toyota, 158, 47.9. (25) Dean Thompson, Toyota, 158, 28.10. (24) Kaden Honeycutt, Chevrolet, 158, 27.11. (3) Nicholas Sanchez, Chevrolet, 158, 28.12. (19) Matt Crafton, Ford, 158, 25.13. (16) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 158, 0.14. (2) Grant Enfinger, Chevrolet, 158, 32.15. (17) Tyler Ankrum, Toyota, 158, 22.16. (29) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet, 158, 0.17. (36) Colby Howard, Chevrolet, 158, 20.18. (14) Ben Rhodes, Ford, 158, 19.19. (20) Daniel Dye, Chevrolet, 158, 18.20. (26) Hailie Deegan, Ford, 158, 17.21. (12) Taylor Gray, Toyota, 158, 17.22. (22) Zane Smith, Ford, 158, 15.23. (34) Bret...

Adele James, protagonista de “Queen Cleopatra”, habla sobre polémica por color de piel

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

(CNN) — Adele James se refirió a la polémica alrededor del color de piel de su personaje de Cleopatra en una nueva docuserie de Netflix.“Queen Cleopatra”, producida y narrada por Jada Pinkett Smith, presenta a la soberana del reino egipcio ptolemaico como una mujer de color.Funcionarios de Egipto han criticado la elección de James para el papel, quien es birracial. La actriz se refirió a la controversia en una reciente participación en “The Wayne Ayers Podcast”.“El ‘blackwashing’ no existe, ¿verdad?”, dijo. “Me parece triste que la gente tenga tanto desprecio por sí misma o se sienta tan amenazada por la negritud que tiene la necesidad de hacer eso, de separar Egipto del resto del continente”, añadió.James mencionó la palabra ‘blackwashing’ en contraposición al término ‘whitewashing’, utilizado para referirse a cuando se eligen actores blancos para interpretar a personas negras.Ahora bien, el debate ...

Angels rally in 9th to beat Guardians 5-4, end 10-game skid at Cleveland

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Brandon Drury’s sacrifice fly capped a two-run rally in the ninth inning by Los Angeles off Cleveland closer Emmanuel Clase as the Angels beat the Guardians 5-4 on Friday night to snap a 10-game losing streak at Progressive Field.Drury’s shot to center off the hard-throwing Clase (1-3) enabled the Angels to get their first win at Cleveland since Aug. 3, 2018. They had been 1-21 on the road against the Guardians since 2015.Cleveland loaded the bases in the ninth off Carlos Estévez, who struck out Will Brennan for his ninth save.Matt Moore (2-1) pitched two innings for the Angels to win the opener of their seven-game trip.Mike Trout triggered the Angels’ comeback with a leadoff double in the ninth off Clase, who broke 100 mph on 13 pitches in the inning. Trout got to third on Anthony Rendon’s single and scored when Hunter Renfroe hit a grounder to second baseman Andrés Giménez, who threw wide of home when he should have taken the easy out.The b...

Fraley homers twice, hits tiebreaking shot in 9th as Reds beat Marlins 7-4 to spoil Pérez’s debut

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Jake Fraley homered twice, including a tiebreaking three-run shot in the ninth inning that sent the Cincinnati Reds past the Miami Marlins 7-4 on Friday night.Eury Pérez struck out seven over 4 2/3 innings in his highly anticipated major league debut for Miami. The Marlins promoted the 20-year-old right-hander, the top prospect in their organization, from Double-A Pensacola to start the series opener.The Reds erased a 4-2 deficit on Spencer Steer’s two-run double in the seventh.Stuart Fairchild hit a leadoff single against reliever Dylan Floro (2-2) in the ninth and advanced two bases on José Barrero’s single to right field. Floro struck out Jonathan India before Fraley homered to right.It was Fraley’s first career multi-homer game. Fraley avoided a serious injury in the fifth when he made an awkward slide near a wall in left field while attempting to catch Joey Wendle’s foul ball.Ian Gibaut (2-0) threw 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief and Alexis Díaz closed with a per...

Rizzo homers twice on his bobblehead night, Yankees beat Rays 6-5

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Rizzo homered twice on his bobblehead giveaway night, the second a go-ahead, two-run drive in the eighth inning that lifted the New York Yankees over the Tampa Bay Rays 6-5 on Friday.Rizzo, whose bobblehead likeness was adorned in Mandalorian garb on Star Wars Night, hit a solo homer in the first against Trevor Kelly.After Josh Lowe’s three-run homer off Michael King in the eighth put the major league-leading Rays ahead 5-4, Aaron Judge walked against Jason Adam (0-1) in the bottom half and Rizzo homered to right. Rizzo doffed his helmet during a curtain call following his 22nd multihomer performance.Wandy Peralta earned his first save this season by striking out two in a one-hit ninth. With two outs and one on, Rays manager Kevin Cash sent right-handed-hitting Manuel Margot to pinch hit for the left-handed-hitting Lowe, who had eight RBIs in the first two games of the series. Margot grounded out.Randy Arozarena homered in the first and Jose Siri in the...

2 Eastern Plains drivers rescued from fast-moving floodwater

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

ROGGEN, Colo. (KDVR) — Two drivers had to be rescued from fast-moving flood waters early Friday morning. A spokesperson for the Southeast Weld Fire Protection District confirmed the two drivers were swept away by flood water on County Road 87, near Roggen, and swept down Kiowa Creek. “By the time I got here, there’s a car, way in the back, stuck on a tree,” said Krista Peace, vice president of Kiowa Valley Organics, who witnessed the rescue attempts. 16-hour power outage reported in Aurora after rainstorm Firefighters helped retrieve the driver of a mostly submerged truck. “The guy from the truck had already gotten out and was sitting on top of his roof,” Peace said.The driver of a second SUV was brought to safety by a good Samaritan. The vehicles remain in the water. Nobody was hurt. “Yeah, don’t cross it,” Peace said. “Don’t cross if you see water, especially flowing like that.”

Heat fans outside Kaseya Center celebrate Eastern Conference semifinals win against Knicks

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

Jubilant Miami Heat fans leaving the Kaseya Arena celebrated their hometown basketball team’s 96-92 win against the New York Knicks, a victory that has catapulted them into the Eastern Conference Finals.There was gridlock outside the Kaseya Center on Biscayne Boulevard, late Friday night, but on the steps of the venue, Heat fans cheered and chanted “Let’s go Heat,” as some of them waved to 7News cameras.One fan pointed out this was not an easy win.“I was biting my nails, but I knew we were going to win it,” she said.“At the beginning we thought, ‘OK, the Knicks are pretty good,’ as the team got close [in score], but then the [Heat] got together and made the game,” said a man.A former New York resident gave his unique perspective about the result of Friday’s game.“I was a New Yorker, born and raised, but you know, there’s something special brewing in the grounds of Miami,” he said. “There’...

Cousins scores in OT to send Panthers into Eastern Conference final after 3-2 win over Maple Leafs

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Nick Cousins scored at 15:32 of overtime and Sergei Bobrovsky made 50 saves as the Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series on Friday to advance to the Eastern Conference final.Aaron Ekblad and Carter Verhaeghe each had a goal and an assist to help the Panthers build a 2-0 lead in the first period.Morgan Rielly and William Nylander scored for the Maple Leafs, who had advanced in the playoffs for the first time in 19 years when they beat Tampa Bay in the first round. Rookie goalie Joseph Woll had 41 saves in his first home playoff start.In the extra period, Cousins buried his second goal of the playoffs off the rush short-side on Woll to send the Panthers to the conference finals for the first time since 1996.Florida — the team with the fewest points to qualify for the postseason — won all three games in Toronto and improved to 6-1 on the road in the playoffs after also upsetting the record-setting Boston Bruins. ...

Five people face charges after pair of stabbing attacks in Brockton

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:02:50 GMT

Five people are now facing charges after two different stabbing attacks in Brockton Friday, according to police. The first stabbing happened near a softball field outside Brockton High School shortly after dismissal around 2 p.m., leaving three people with injuries, police said. Two of the victims were rushed to the hospital. The third person later sought medical attention on their own.Roughly one hour later, police said officers rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital, also in Brockton. There, police said a suspect in the stabbing outside the high school was stabbed during a fight. Police had not publicly identified the people charged in this case as of Friday night.Police and the Brockton Public Schools both said this was not a random incident and there was never a threat to the high school.