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Biden openly
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ELECTION 2024 EXPLAINER

What’s
next in
Trump
docs case
New charges add fresh
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shied away from attacking former Former President Donald Trump frequently avoids details to investigation
President Donald Trump at the Lincoln Day Dinner in Des attending multicandidate events in person in the race for
Moines, Iowa, on Friday. PHOTOS BY CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP the Republican presidential nomination. Meg Kinnard
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former President Donald Trump

Trump, DeSantis
has been indicted on three additional
charges in a case that accuses him of
illegally possessing
classified documents at
his Mar-a-Lago estate,

join Iowa stage

allegations that add
fresh detail to the crimi-
nal case initially issued
last month.
Here’s a look at the Trump
charges, the special
counsel’s investigation
Florida governor shies away from criticizing former president and how Trump’s case differs from
those of other politicians known to be
Michelle L. Price and Hannah Fingerhut ASSOCIATED PRESS in possession of classified documents:

DES MOINES, Iowa – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed “I will get the job done” but shied What are the new charges?
away from attacking former President Donald Trump as the two top rivals for the Repub- There are three new charges against
lican presidential nomination were making rare appearances at the same Iowa campaign Trump, as well as a new defendant in
the case.
event on Friday night. h Despite Trump being charged a day earlier with additional counts Prosecutors accuse the former
over his retention of classified documents that could shake up the race, DeSantis stuck to president of trying to “alter, destroy,
mutilate, or conceal evidence,” and of
his standard campaign speech, mostly targeting President Joe Biden. inducing another person to do so. They
say Trump asked a staffer – Mar-a-La-
The Florida governor also repeated his frequent “I understand the other candidates are falling go property manager Carlos De Olivei-
promise to halt the “weaponization” of the Justice very flat … it’s like death,” Trump said, adding, ra – to delete camera footage at his
Department, an allusion to Trump’s legal troubles, “There’s no applause, there’s no nothing.” Florida estate in an effort to obstruct
but offered no specific thoughts on the cases More than 100 people packed the small office, the federal investigation into his pos-
against him. That’s despite Trump also bracing to many wearing “Make America Great Again” hats session of classified documents.
be charged soon in Washington over his efforts to and shirts. They had waited in 100-degree weather Prosecutors allege that De Oliveira
overturn the 2020 election. to enter, and the poorly ventilated office quickly be- schemed with Trump and his valet,
“The time for excuses is over. We must get the job came sweltering. Staff handed out water bottles, Walt Nauta, to conceal the footage
done,” DeSantis said. “I will get the job done.” and people fanned themselves with campaign from investigators.
Trump frequently avoids attending multicandi- handouts. Some used paper towels to wipe away A third count also accuses Trump of
date events in person, questioning why he would sweat. willfully retaining national defense in-
share a stage with competitors who are badly trail- DeSantis, who like most of Friday’s speakers formation related to a presentation
ing him in polls. But with Iowa’s first-in-the-nation vowed to visit all of Iowa’s 99 counties prior to the about military activity in another
caucus less than six months away, the former presi- caucus, is Trump’s strongest primary competitor country.
dent joined a dozen other GOP hopefuls in speaking but has been trying to reset his stalled campaign for Investigators say Trump showed a
to about 1,200 GOP members and activists at the two weeks. He’s increasingly focusing on Iowa in its classified document during July 2021
Lincoln Day Dinner. efforts on trying to derail Trump. meeting at his Bedminster, New Jer-
He also opened an Iowa campaign office in Ur- The governor’s stumbles have raised questions sey, resort to the writer and publisher
bandale, outside Des Moines, prior to the main about whether another candidate might be able to of the memoir of his former chief of
event – and wasn’t shy about slamming his compet- emerge from the field and catch the former presi- staff Mark Meadows. Details about
itors around the same time DeSantis was taking the that document and the meeting were
stage at the dinner. See IOWA, Page 8NN included in the original indictment,
but none of the charges had related to
it until now.
Trump had returned that document
to the government on Jan. 17, 2022 –
nearly a year after he left office, ac-
cording to the indictment.
Trump was indicted last month on
37 counts related to the mishandling of
classified documents. The charges in-
clude counts of retaining classified in-
formation, obstructing justice and
making false statements, among other
crimes.
Trump is accused of keeping docu-
ments related to “nuclear weaponry in
the United States” and the “nuclear ca-
Former Vice President Mike Pence waves at the Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks Friday to about pabilities of a foreign country,” along
Republican Party of Iowa’s Lincoln Day Dinner in 1,200 Republican members and activists in Des
Des Moines on Friday. Moines, Iowa. See INVESTIGATION, Page 8NN

US announces $345M military aid package for Taiwan

Support aims to deter
China from attacking
Nomaan Merchant, Ellen Knickmeyer,
Zeke Miller and Tara Copp
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – The U.S. on Friday
announced $345 million in military aid
for Taiwan, in what is the Biden admini-
stration’s first major package drawing
on America’s own stockpiles to help Tai-
wan counter China.
The White House’s announcement
said the package would include de-
fense, education and training for the
Taiwanese. Washington will send man-
portable air defense systems, or MAN-
PADS, intelligence and surveillance ca-
pabilities, firearms and missiles, ac-
cording to two U.S. officials who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to dis-
cuss sensitive matters ahead of the an-
nouncement.
U.S. lawmakers have been pressuring
the Pentagon and White House to speed
weapons to Taiwan. The goals are to
help it counter China and to deter China
from considering attacking, by provid-
ing Taipei enough weaponry that it
would make the price of invasion too
high.
While Chinese diplomats protested
the move, Taiwan’s trade office in Wash-
ington said the U.S. decision to pull
arms and other materiel from its stores
provided “an important tool to support
Taiwan’s self-defense.” In a statement,
it pledged to work with the United
States to maintain “peace, stability and
the status quo across the Taiwan Strait.”
The package is in addition to nearly
$19 billion in military sales of F-16s and
other major weapons systems that the
U.S. has approved for Taiwan. Delivery
of those weapons has been hampered
by supply chain issues that started dur-
ing the COVID-19 pandemic and have
been exacerbated by the global defense
industrial base pressures created by
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The difference is that this aid is part
of a presidential authority approved by
Congress last year to draw weapons
from current U.S. military stockpiles –
so Taiwan will not have to wait for mil-
itary production and sales. This gets
weapons delivered faster than provid-
ing funding for new weapons.
The Pentagon has used a similar au-
thority to get billions of dollars worth of
munitions to Ukraine.
Taiwan split from China in 1949 amid
civil war. Chinese President Xi Jinping
maintains China’s right to take over the
now self-ruled island, by force if neces-
sary. China has accused the U.S. of turn-
ing Taiwan into a “powder keg” through
the billions of dollars in weapons sales it
has pledged.
The U.S. maintains a “One China”
policy under which it does not recognize
Taiwan’s formal independence and has
no formal diplomatic relations with the
island in deference to Beijing. However,
U.S. law requires a credible defense for
Taiwan and for the U.S. to treat all
See TAIWAN, Page 3NN

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Biden recognizes 7th grandchild
Daughter of son Hunter
previously hadn’t been
publicly acknowledged
Zeke Miller
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden
on Friday for the first time publicly ac-
knowledged his seventh grandchild, a
4-year-old girl fathered by his son Hunt-
er with an Arkansas woman, Lunden
Roberts, in 2018.
“Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother,
Lunden, are working together to foster a
relationship that is in the best interests
of their daughter, preserving her privacy
as much as possible going forward,” Bi-
den said in a statement. It was his first
acknowledgment of the child.
“This is not a political issue, it’s a
family matter,” he said. “Jill and I only
want what is best for all of our grand-
children, including Navy.”
Hunter Biden’s paternity was estab-
lished by DNA testing after Roberts
sued for child support, and the two par-
ties recently resolved outstanding child
support issues. The president’s son
wrote about his encounter with Roberts
in his 2021 memoir, saying it came while
he was deep in addiction to alcohol and
drugs, including crack cocaine.
“I had no recollection of our encoun-
ter,” he wrote. “That’s how little connec-
tion I had with anyone. I was a mess, but
a mess I’ve taken responsibility for.”
An attorney for Roberts did not im-
mediately respond to a request for com-
Alito says Congress can’t impose ethics
Justice’s ‘controversial’
view 1st take from court
Mark Sherman
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – Justice Samuel Ali-
to says Congress lacks the power to im-
pose a code of ethics on the Supreme
Court, making him the first member of
the court to take a public stand against
proposals in Congress to toughen ethics
rules for justices in response to in-
creased scrutiny of their activities be-
yond the bench.
“I know this is a controversial view,
but I’m willing to say it. No provision in
the Constitution gives them the author-
ity to regulate the Supreme Court–peri-
od,” Alito said in an interview he gave to
the Wall Street Journal opinion pages.
An account of the interview, which the
paper said took place in New York in
early July, was published Friday.
Democrats last week pushed Su-
preme Court ethics legislation through a
Senate committee, though the bill’s
prospects in the full Senate are dim.
All federal judges other than the jus-
tices already adhere to an ethics code
that was developed by the federal judi-
ciary. But the Supreme Court’s unique
status – it’s the only federal court cre-
ated by the Constitution – puts it out-
side the reach of those standards that
apply to other federal jurists.
Democrats first sought to address
that after ProPublica reported earlier
this year that Justice Clarence Thomas
participated in lavish vacations and a
Taiwan
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threats to the island as matters of “grave
concern.”
Getting stockpiles of weapons to Tai-
wan now, before an attack begins, is one
of the lessons the U.S. has learned from
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pentagon
deputy defense secretary Kathleen
Hicks told The Associated Press earlier
this year.
Ukraine “was more of a cold-start ap-
proach than the planned approach we
have been working on for Taiwan, and
we will apply those lessons,” Hicks said.
Efforts to resupply Taiwan after a con-
flict erupted would be complicated be-
cause it is an island, she said.
China regularly sends warships and
planes across the center line in the Tai-
wan Strait that provides a buffer be-
tween the sides, as well as into Taiwan’s
air defense identification zone, in an ef-
fort to intimidate the island’s 23 million
people and wear down its military capa-
bilities.
Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for China’s
embassy in Washington, said in a state-
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President Joe Biden had faced increasing criticism from political rivals and
pundits for failing to acknowledge his seventh grandchild. SUSAN WALSH/AP
ment.
The president, who has made a com-
mitment to family central to his public
persona, has faced increasing criticism
from political rivals and pundits for fail-
ing to acknowledge the granddaughter.
According to a person familiar with the
matter, he was taking the cue from his
son while the legal proceedings played
out. The person spoke on condition of
anonymity to discuss private matters.
Hunter Biden has four other children,
including a son, Beau, born by his wife
Melissa Cohen in 2020. He was named
real estate deal with a top
Republican donor – and
after Chief Justice John
Roberts declined to testi-
fy before the committee
about the ethics of the
Alito court.
Since then, ProPublica
also revealed that Alito
had taken a luxury vacation in Alaska
with a Republican donor who had busi-
ness interests before the court. The As-
sociated Press reported in early July
that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, aided by
her staff, has advanced sales of her
books through college visits over the
past decade.
The 73-year-old Alito, who joined the
court in 2006, has rejected the idea that
he should have disclosed the Alaska trip
or stepped away from cases involving
the donor, hedge fund owner Paul Sing-
er. Alito penned his own Wall Street
Journal op-ed, which was published
hours before ProPublica posted its story.
Alito said that he is unwilling to leave
allegations unanswered, though he ac-
knowledged judges and justices typical-
ly don’t respond to their critics.
“And so at a certain point I’ve said to
myself, nobody else is going to do this,
so I have to defend myself,” he said in the
newest column.
While no other justice has spoken so
definitively about ethics legislation,
Roberts has raised questions about
Congress’ authority to oversee the high
court.
In his year-end report in 2011, Roberts
wrote that the justices comply with leg-
islation that requires annual financial
Taiwan’s military holds drills near the coast in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on
Thursday. The U.S. on Friday announced $345 million in military aid for Taiwan.
CHIANG YING-YING/AP
ment Friday that Beijing was “firmly op-
posed” to U.S. military ties with Taiwan.
The U.S. should “stop selling arms to
after the president’s late son who died
of cancer in 2015, leaving behind two
children.
Biden’s grandchildren have played a
distinctive role in his presidency, often
accompanying the president or first la-
dy on trips and making regular visits to
the White House. The president has
also credited his grandchildren with
persuading him to challenge then-
President Donald Trump for the White
House in 2020.
Biden’s statement was first report-
ed by People Magazine.
disclosures and limits their outside
earned income. “The Court has never
addressed whether Congress may im-
pose those requirements on the Su-
preme Court. The Justices neverthe-
less comply with those provisions,”
Roberts wrote.
The justices have so far resisted
adopting an ethics code on their own,
although Roberts said in May that
there is more the court can do to “ad-
here to the highest standards” of eth-
ical conduct, without providing specif-
ics.
The column is co-written by James
Taranto, the paper’s editorial features
editor, and David Rivkin, a Washing-
ton lawyer. Rivkin represents Leonard
Leo, the onetime leader of the conser-
vative legal group The Federalist Soci-
ety, in his dealings with Senate Demo-
crats who want details of Leo’s deal-
ings with the justices. Leo helped ar-
range Alito’s trip to Alaska.
Rivkin, in a letter Tuesday to lead-
ing Democrats on the Senate Judiciary
Committee, said the request was polit-
ically motivated and violates Leo’s
constitutional rights.
Rivkin also wrote that a congres-
sionally imposed ethics code for the
Supreme Court would falter on consti-
tutional grounds. Separately, Rivkin
represents a couple whose tax case
will be argued before the court in the
fall.
Alito talked with the Taranto and
Rivkin for four hours in interviews in
April and July, they wrote. They pub-
lished an account of the earlier inter-
view in April.
Taiwan” and “stop creating new fac-
tors that could lead to tensions in the
Taiwan Strait,” Liu said.
IN BRIEF
Pentagon official: UFO hearing
‘insulting’ to US employees
WASHINGTON – A top Pentagon of-
ficial has attacked this week’s widely
watched congressional hearing on
UFOs, calling the claims “insulting” to
employees who are investigating
sightings and accusing a key witness
of not cooperating with the official U.S.
government investigation.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s letter, pub-
lished on his personal LinkedIn page
and circulated Friday across social
media, criticizes much of the testimo-
ny from a retired Air Force intelligence
officer that energized believers in ex-
traterrestrial life and produced head-
lines around the world.
Retired Air Force Maj. David Grusch
testified Wednesday that the U.S. has
concealed what he called a “multi-dec-
ade” program to collect and reverse-
engineer “UAPs,” or unidentified aerial
phenomena, the official government
term for UFOs. Part of what the U.S.
has recovered, Grusch testified, were
non-human “biologics,” which he said
he had not seen but had learned about
from “people with direct knowledge of
the program.”
A career intelligence officer, Kirk-
patrick was named a year ago to lead
the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly
Resolution Office, or AARO, which was
intended to centralize investigations
into UAPs. The Pentagon and U.S. in-
telligence agencies have been pushed
by Congress in recent years to better
investigate reports of devices flying at
unusual speeds or trajectories as a na-
tional security concern.
Montana judge temporarily
blocks ban on drag performances
HELENA, Mont. – A federal judge in
Montana on Friday temporarily
blocked a new law that restricts drag
performances just days before thou-
sands of people are expected to attend
Montana Pride’s 30th anniversary cel-
ebration in Helena.
The way the law is written “will dis-
proportionally harm not only drag per-
formers, but any person who falls out-
side traditional gender and identity
norms,” including transgender people,
U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris
said.
The law seeks to ban minors from
attending what it calls “sexually ori-
ented” performances, and bans such
performances in public places where
minors might be present. However, it
does not adequately define many of
the terms used in the law, causing peo-
ple to self-censor out of fear of prose-
cution, plaintiff ’s attorney Constance
Van Kley with Upper Seven Law ar-
gued Wednesday.
“Plaintiffs, along with the approxi-
mately 15,000 Montanans who wish to
attend the (Montana Pride) events,
cannot avoid chilled speech or expo-
sure to potential civil or criminal liabil-
ity,” without the temporary restraining
order, Morris wrote.
The ruling will allow Montana Pride
to advertise and hold some of its
events in public places, said Kevin
Hamm, president of Montana Pride.
The annual LGBTQ+ celebration be-
gins Sunday and runs through Aug. 6.
4 missing after Australian army
helicopter ditched off coast
BRISBANE, Australia – Four air
crew members were missing after an
Australian army helicopter ditched
into waters off the Queensland state
coast during joint military exercises
with the United States, officials said
Saturday.
The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter
went down near Hamilton Island, a
Great Barrier Reef tourist resort, at
about 10:30 p.m. Friday, Defense Min-
ister Richard Marles said.
A search was underway to find the
crew, and their families had been noti-
fied, officials said.
Kurdish groups: Turkish strikes
in Syria, Iraq kill 8 fighters
BAGHDAD – Kurdish-led armed
groups in Iraq and Syria alleged that
Turkish airstrikes killed a total of eight
of their fighters Friday.
The counterterrorism service of the
regional government in the semi-au-
tonomous Kurdish region in northern
Iraq said in a statement that four
members of the Kurdistan Workers’
Party, or PKK, were killed and another
wounded in a Turkish drone strike in
Sharbazher district in Sulaymaniyah
in the Kurdish region of Iraq.
Also Friday, the Kurdish-led Syrian
Democratic Forces, which controls
much of northeast Syria, said in a
statement that four of its fighters were
killed by a Turkish drone attack on the
village of Khirbet Khwei in the Amuda
region.
From wire reports
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Teen ‘prayed’ during shooting
She saved fellow student
by getting her to safety
Ed White
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PONTIAC, Mich. – A teenager re-
called Friday how she helped save a girl
who was severely wounded during a
Michigan school shooting in 2021, tell-
ing a judge that she moved her to an
empty classroom, applied pressure to
stop the bleeding and prayed with her.
“I asked her if she knew who God
was. She said, ‘Not really,’ ” Heidi Allen,
17, recalled.
“I think I’m supposed to be here right
now,” she said, describing how she felt
at the time. “Because there’s no other
reason that I’m OK, that I’m in this hall-
way, completely untouched.”
Heidi testified at a hearing to deter-
mine whether Ethan Crumbley, 17, will
get a life prison sentence, or a shorter
term with an opportunity for parole, for
killing four students and wounding
seven other people at Oxford High
School.
She said she recognized him as soon
as he exited a bathroom and brandished
a gun.
“It fired,” Heidi recalled. “Everything
kind of slowed down for me. It was all
slow motion. I had covered my head. I
dropped down. … It sounded like a bal-
loon popping or a locker slamming. It
was very loud.
“I just prayed and covered my head,”
she said. “I didn’t know if those were my
last moments.”
Heidi wasn’t shot but others were.
She said she took a girl into a classroom,
installed a portable lock on the door and
applied pressure to the girl’s wounds.
The victim survived.
“I just kept reassuring her she was
going to be OK. She was crying,” Heidi
A makeshift memorial is seen outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh
in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in 2018. MATT ROURKE/AP FILE
Defense: Mental illness spurred
Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PITTSBURGH – A federal trial for the
man who fatally shot 11 people at a
Pittsburgh synagogue approached its
conclusion Friday as the defense, try-
ing to persuade a jury to spare his life,
pressed its case that mental illness
spurred the nation’s deadliest antisem-
itic attack.
Robert Bowers, a 50 year-old truck
driver from suburban Baldwin, was
convicted in June on 63 criminal counts
for the 2018 massacre at Tree of Life
synagogue. The jury has been hearing
testimony in the penalty phase of the
trial and will decide whether Bowers
will receive the death penalty or life in
prison without parole.
Prosecutors have presented evi-
dence that Bowers was motivated by
his hatred of Jewish people when he
opened fire at the synagogue on Oct. 27,
2018, killing members of three congre-
gations gathered for Sabbath worship
and study. The defense argues Bowers
has schizophrenia and acted out of a
delusional belief that Jews were partic-
ipating in a genocide of white people.
On Friday, a defense psychiatrist
who met with Bowers 10 times for near-
ly 40 hours said Bowers saw himself as
a soldier of God in a war in which Satan
was trying to use Jewish people to bring
about the end of the world. Dr. George
Corvin of Raleigh, North Carolina, said
it was a delusion brought on by psycho-
sis.
Corvin said Bowers continues to ex-
press delusional beliefs about Jews –
“disgustingly so” – and that he is inca-
pable of remorse. He said Bowers
should be on anti-psychotic medica-
tion.
Sheri Myre, back, mother of slain Oxford High School student Tate Myre, hugs
Assistant Principal Kristy Gibson-Marshall in court in Pontiac, Mich., on Friday.
CARLOS OSORIO/AP
testified. “I don’t fully remember what
she was saying. I was trying to stay
calm.”
The shooter, who was 15 at the time,
pleaded guilty to murder, terrorism and
other crimes. But a life sentence for mi-
nors isn’t automatic after a series of de-
cisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and
Michigan’s top court.
Defense attorneys are arguing that he
can be rehabilitated in prison and even-
tually released. They said the shooting
followed years of a turbulent family life,
grossly negligent parents and untreated
mental illness.
A former warden, Ken Romanowski,
testified about a variety of programs
available in prison, such as mental
health therapy, anger management,
education and trade skills.
“Honestly, I think everybody has the
potential for change. But he has to be the
one who makes that choice,” Romanow-
Bowers “has a belief that we’re at the
end of a war that’s been going on for
thousands of years,” Corvin testified.
“He still envisions what he did as an
unfortunate act of violence at the direc-
tion of God – that it will save lives. He
believes he’s a tool for God. I know it
sounds absurd. It’s psychotic.”
Corvin continued: “This is the result
of a mental illness.”
Corvin was one of several defense
experts who diagnosed Bowers with
schizophrenia, a serious brain disorder
whose symptoms include delusions
and hallucinations. A neurologist testi-
fying for the prosecution disputed that
Bowers has schizophrenia, saying Bow-
ers has a personality disorder but is not
delusional, and that mental illness did
not appear to play a role in the attack.
Prosecutors have noted Bowers spent
six months planning the shooting.
Also testifying Friday were Bowers’
aunt and uncle.
The uncle, Clyde Munger, said he
visited with Bowers in prison because
“he is my nephew and I love him.” He
said he prays for Bowers every morn-
ing.
The aunt, Patricia Fine, was expect-
ed to the final defense witness. She said
Bowers had a difficult childhood from
infancy, describing the house where he
lived as unsafe. She said he was a sad
child and that she “was convinced” he
would take his own life. A defense ex-
pert previously described Bowers’ early
life as deeply unstable and said he at-
tempted suicide several times in his
teens.
Fine’s testimony was scheduled to
resume Monday, with closing argu-
ments and jury deliberations expected
to follow.
ski said, appearing for the defense.
A psychiatrist, Dr. Fariha Qadir, said
Crumbley discussed having depression,
hallucinations and hearing voices when
they first met after his arrest. She has
talked to him more than 100 times while
in jail and prescribed medication for de-
pression, mood and sleep.
James and Jennifer Crumbley are
separately charged with involuntary
manslaughter. They’re accused of buy-
ing a gun for their son and ignoring his
mental health needs.
Earlier Friday, Judge Kwame Rowe
denied a request by the shooter’s law-
yers to stop students from testifying.
They argued that it’s irrelevant when
applying key factors set by the U.S. Su-
preme Court when determining a sen-
tence for a minor.
“I’m able to discern what’s relevant to
the… factors and what’s not relevant,”
the judge said.
Hawaii’s latest gun control
law goes before judge
Jennifer Sinco Kelleher
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HONOLULU – A legal battle over
whether Hawaii can continue enforcing
a new law banning firearms on its
world-famous beaches went before a
U.S. judge, who said Friday she would
rule as soon as possible but didn’t give a
specific date.
The state’s latest gun control mea-
sure landed in court because of a law-
suit by three Maui residents who want
to carry guns on beaches and other
places deemed sensitive by the law,
which took effect this month and in-
volves a misdemeanor offense.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs, Jason and
Alison Wolford and Atom Kasprzycki,
say they especially want to protect
themselves at isolated beaches where
they might be fishing or going for a walk
rather than sunbathing or swimming.
If U.S. District Judge Leslie Ko-
bayashi grants the temporary restrain-
ing order they seek, the law would be
blocked on an emergency basis as the
lawsuit plays out. After hearing from
attorneys during Friday’s hearing,
which focused on technical and histori-
cal legal questions, Kobayashi said she
would consider the matter and then is-
sue a written order.
In a court filing, the state said the
law is crucial not only for public safety
but for the economy. Hawaii’s beaches
“are the most popular recreational
tourist activity” and a “central pillar” of
a $19 billion tourism industry, the state
said.
Attorneys for the state also say
beaches need to be gun-free because
they host family and cultural gather-
ings.
The lawsuit alleges Hawaii, which
has long had some of the strictest gun
laws in the nation and the lowest rates
of gun violence, is going too far with a
wide-ranging ban on locations that
also include bank parking lots and res-
taurants serving alcohol.
In an indication of how vigorously
Hawaii is defending the law, the state
attorney general’s office has brought in
help from outside attorneys like Neal
Katyal, a Washington, D.C., corporate
attorney and former acting U.S. solici-
tor general.
Katyal and his firm “are defending
the State of Hawaii pro bono – without
any payment in attorneys’ fees – in this
litigation,” David Day, special assistant
to Attorney General Anne Lopez, said
via email. “We are grateful to Mr. Katyal
and his team for their work on this im-
portant case.”
Katyal, who didn’t participate in Fri-
Prosecutors presented other wit-
nesses Friday. An assistant principal,
Kristy Gibson-Marshall, tearfully de-
scribed how she tried to revive Tate
Myre, a student whom she had known
since he was 3 years old. He died.
“It was crushing. I had to help him,”
Gibson-Marshall testified. “I could feel
the entrance wound in the back of his
head. … I just kept talking to him, that I
love him, that I needed him to hang with
me.”
It took “months to get the taste of
Tate’s blood out of me,” she said.
Gibson-Marshall also knew the
shooter, who passed by but didn’t harm
her.
Separately, a 16-year-old boy ex-
plained how he hid in a bathroom with
another student, Justin Shilling, who
was killed by the shooter. Keegan Greg-
ory said he suddenly found an opportu-
nity to run behind the shooter’s back
and escape.
“I realized if I stayed I was going to
die,” said Keegan, who now wears a tat-
too to honor the victims. “I just kept run-
ning as fast as I could, making turns so if
he chased me I’d lose him.”
The hearing will resume Tuesday.
If the shooter doesn’t get a life sen-
tence, he would be given a minimum
prison sentence somewhere from 25
years to 40 years. He would then be eli-
gible for parole, though the parole board
has much discretion to keep a prisoner
in custody.
There were opportunities to possibly
prevent the shooting earlier that day.
The boy and his parents met with school
staff after a teacher was troubled by
drawings that included a gun pointing
at the words: “The thoughts won’t stop.
Help me.”
The teen was allowed to stay in
school, about 40 miles north of Detroit,
though his backpack was not checked
for weapons.
Handguns are displayed at a gun shop
in Honolulu last year. Hawaii has long
had some of the strictest gun laws in
the nation and the lowest rates of gun
violence. MARCO GARCIA/AP FILE
day’s video hearing, has helped Hawaii
on other cases, including a fight against
former President Donald Trump’s trav-
el ban on citizens from several mostly
Muslim countries.
Hawaii is still getting used to allow-
ing residents to carry firearms in public
after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last
year expanded gun rights nationwide,
finding that people have a right to carry
for self-defense.
The decision prompted the state to
retool its laws, with Democratic Gov.
Josh Green signing legislation in early
June allowing more people to get con-
cealed carry permits but banning guns
in a wide range of places, including
beaches, hospitals, stadiums, bars
serving alcohol and movie theaters.
In the past, Hawaii’s county police
chiefs made it virtually impossible to
carry a gun by rarely issuing permits for
either open carry or concealed carry.
The lawsuit argues that the new
statute renders carry permits virtually
useless.
Legal challenges to similar measures
in other states are making their way
through federal courts. In January, the
high court ruled that New York can con-
tinue to enforce its ban on guns in many
places, from schools to playgrounds to
touristy Times Square.
Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney
Steve Alm highlighted the issue of
where people can carry guns when he
announced the murder indictment ear-
lier this week of Myron Takushi, who is
accused of fatally shooting a man in a
sports bar July 19.
“This case illustrates just how dan-
gerous it can be to carry a weapon into a
bar,” Alm said. “It is much easier for a
dispute to turn deadly when a gun is in-
volved.”
Takushi’s attorney, Alan Komagome,
declined to comment. Takushi is
scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.
Takushi, who did not have a permit
to carry, also was charged with a felony.

‘Missing’ Ala. woman charged
Russell could get jail time
for false reports to police
Sudhin Thanawala
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA – Authorities in Alabama
said Friday they filed criminal charges
against a woman who confessed to fab-
ricating a story that she was kidnapped
after stopping to check on a toddler she
saw walking on the side of an interstate
highway.
Carlee Russell was charged with false
reporting to law enforcement and false-
ly reporting an incident, both misde-
meanors that carry up to a year in jail,
Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said.
Russell turned herself in to jail Friday
and was released on bond, he said.
“Her decisions that night created
panic and alarm for citizens of our city
and even across the nation as concern
grew that a kidnapper was on the loose
using a small child as bait,” he said. “Nu-
merous law enforcement agencies, both
local and federal, began working tire-
lessly not only to bring Carlee home to
her family but locate a kidnapper that
we know now never existed. Many pri-
vate citizens volunteered their time and
energy in looking for a potential kidnap-
ping victim that we know now was nev-
er in any danger.”
Derzis said he was frustrated that
Russell was only being charged with two
misdemeanors despite the panic and
People walk on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on
June 29. The U.S. Supreme Court last month struck down affirmative action in
college admissions, ruling against UNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard University. EROS
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NC flagship school
bars use of race,
sex in admissions
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Weeks after
the U.S. Supreme Court struck down
their school’s race-conscious admis-
sions plan as violating the Constitu-
tion, the board of North Carolina’s flag-
ship public university has voted to
strictly bar the use of “race, sex, color or
ethnicity” in admissions and hiring de-
cisions.
The Board of Trustees at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ap-
proved the resolution Thursday, The
News & Observer of Raleigh reported.
In a pair of decisions announced
June 29, court majorities struck down
affirmative action in college admis-
sions, ruling against UNC-Chapel Hill
and Harvard University, the nation’s
oldest public and private colleges, re-
spectively.
“I’m confident that we’re taking all
the necessary steps to fully comply”
with the decisions, UNC-Chapel Hill
Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz told the
audience at the board’s meetings this
week in what was the first in-person
board gathering since the rulings.
Still, while schools nationwide are
now looking for new ways to achieve di-
verse student bodies, the resolution
tells UNC-Chapel Hill administrators
that certain methods are now off-lim-
its.
The resolution, initially approved by
the board’s audit committee Wednes-
day, promises not to grant “preferential
treatment” to any individual or group
on the basis of race. The school also
must not establish “through essays or
other means” any regime premised
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Hoover, Ala., Police Chief Nick Derzis said Friday that Carlee Russell has been
charged with misdemeanor false reporting to law enforcement and falsely
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disruption she caused, but he said the
law did not allow for enhanced charges.
Russell, 25, disappeared after calling
911 on July 13 to report a toddler wander-
ing beside a stretch of interstate. She re-
turned home two days later and told po-
lice she had been abducted and forced
into a vehicle.
Her disappearance became a nation-
al news story. Images of the missing
woman were shared broadly on social
media.
upon “race-based preferences” in hir-
ing and admissions.
Board member Ralph Meekins
urged, without success, for members to
postpone the vote, saying the resolu-
tion “goes well beyond the Supreme
Court ruling.”
Earlier Thursday, trustee John Prey-
er criticized how UNC-Chapel Hill han-
dled the litigation brought several years
ago by a conservative group that ac-
cused the school’s undergraduate ad-
missions policies of discriminating
against white and Asian students. A
trial judge in 2021 upheld the school’s
actions, leading to appeals.
“This is a moment of humility,” Prey-
er said. “For nine years, we’ve spent in
the neighborhood of $35 million to lose
a high-profile case. Why did we do
that? Was that the right thing to do?”
The trustees discussed this week
other ways to comply with last month’s
UNC-Chapel Hill ruling, which found
the school’s consideration of race in ad-
missions violated the Constitution’s
equal protection clause.
“What we’re trying to do is be proac-
tive with this and make sure that we’re
in compliance and that we’re providing
equal protection,” trustee Marty Kotis
said. One school administrator men-
tioned Wednesday having an internal
diversity, equity and inclusion audit
but didn’t provide details.
Guskiewicz announced three weeks
ago that the school would offer free tu-
ition to students whose families make
less than $80,000 annually. The pro-
gram, which could help expand diversi-
ty efforts, is being paid for with private
funds.
“We don’t see this as a victimless
crime,” Alabama Attorney General Steve
Marshall said at a Friday news confer-
ence. “There are significant hours
spent, resources expended as a result of
this investigation.”
Marshall’s office was asked to handle
the prosecution because of the atten-
tion the case received, Derzis said. Mar-
shall said he intends to “fully prosecute”
Russell and said his office will take into
account the police investigation to see
Charges dropped against
7 officers in 3 shootings
Sean Murphy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OKLAHOMA CITY – The new prose-
cutor in Oklahoma’s biggest county an-
nounced Friday she’s dropping crimi-
nal charges against seven police offi-
cers in three separate fatal shootings
from 2020, including one in which five
officers were charged with killing a 15-
year-old boy outside a convenience
store.
District Attorney Vicki Behenna’s
predecessor and fellow Democrat, Da-
vid Prater, had filed criminal charges
against the police officers before leav-
ing office. Behenna said she hired a
use-of-force expert to examine the evi-
dence, and her office spent hundreds of
hours reviewing the three cases.
“Under Oklahoma law, these shoot-
ings were justified,” Behenna said at a
news conference.
“This was not just a quick, spur-of-
the-moment decision. This was a very
difficult, very fact-intensive decision
and review,” she said.
The charges were dismissed with
prejudice, which means they are per-
manently dismissed and can’t be re-
filed, she said.
A former federal prosecutor and de-
fense attorney from the suburb of Ed-
mond, Behenna is the first woman
elected top prosecutor in the state’s
most populous county. She defeated
conservative Republican Kevin Calvey
last year to win a four-year term.
The most high-profile case dis-
missed Friday involved five Oklahoma
City officers charged with first-degree
manslaughter in the shooting death of
Stavian Rodriguez. The teen was shot
on Nov. 23, 2020, by officers respon-
ding to reports of an attempted armed
robbery at a convenience store.
TV news reports of the shooting
showed video of the boy dropping a gun
then reaching toward his waist before
being shot.
Willard Paige, the investigator for
the previous district attorney, said the
officers fired live rounds “unnecessari-
ly,” and that an autopsy determined
Rodriguez suffered 13 gunshot wounds.
Initially charged in the shooting
were officers Bethany Sears, Jared Bar-
ton, Corey Adams, John Skuta and Brad
Pemberton. All five have been on paid
administrative leave since the shoot-
ing.
The teen’s mother, Cameo Holland,
said in a statement that she intends to
work to change the law to make it easier
for police to be criminally charged.
“When the district attorney of Okla-
homa County apologizes to your face
for the justice system failing you, it’s
clear we need changes in the law,” Hol-
land said.
Behenna said Friday that she does
not take these decisions lightly.
“These families are grieving,” she
said. “No matter what this office does or
says, these families are forever
changed.”
whether additional charges are war-
ranted.
Russell, through her attorney, Emory
Anthony, acknowledged earlier that she
made the story up.
In a statement read by police on
Monday, Anthony said Russell was not
kidnapped, did not see a baby on the
side of the road, did not leave the city
and acted alone. He said Russell apolo-
gized and he asked for prayers and for-
giveness as she “addresses her issues
and attempts to move forward, under-
standing that she made a mistake in this
matter.”
A message left Friday at Anthony’s
office was not immediately returned.
Russell told detectives she was taken
by a man who came out of the trees
when she stopped to check on the child,
put in a car and an 18-wheel truck, was
blindfolded and was held at a home
where a woman fed her cheese crackers,
authorities said at a news conference
last week.
At some point, Russell said she was
put in a vehicle again but managed to
escape and run through the woods to
her neighborhood.
“This story opened wounds for fam-
ilies whose loved ones really were vic-
tims of kidnappings,” Derzis said.
He said police have not determined
where Russell went during the 49 hours
she was missing. They plan to talk to the
attorney general’s office about recover-
ing some of the money spent on the in-
vestigation.
Holland has a pending civil rights
excessive force lawsuit against Oklaho-
ma City and the five officers in federal
court.
In another Oklahoma City case, Sgt.
Clifford Holman was charged with first-
degree manslaughter in the shooting
death of 60-year-old Bennie Edward.
Holman, who is white, had respon-
ded to a call of a Black man harassing
customers at a business in north Okla-
homa City, according to a police affida-
vit by homicide detective Bryn Carter.
When he arrived at the scene, Holman
encountered Edwards, who was hold-
ing a knife and refusing officers’ com-
mands to drop it, the affidavit states.
The shooting sparked days of pro-
tests and demonstrations by Black
Lives Matter groups and other activ-
ists.
The third case involved The Village
officer Chance Avery, who was charged
with second-degree murder in the July
2020 shooting death of Christopher
Pool.
Avery was called to the home by
Pool’s wife, who was retrieving per-
sonal belongings, when Pool ran inside
carrying a bat and was shot by Avery
after refusing to drop it, police said.
Gary James, an attorney for Avery
and Adams, one of the officers charged
in the Rodriguez shooting, said he was
“ecstatic” about Behenna’s decision.
“We’ve got seven police officers who
were just doing their duty, and were
placed in a position by all three of the
deceased that they had to use deadly
force,” James said.
Although criminal charges against
police officers are not common, previ-
ous district attorney Prater – himself an
ex-cop who served 16 years as the coun-
ty’s top prosecutor – had secured
criminal convictions against officers
before.
In 2013, Del City police Capt. Randy
Harrison was sentenced to four years in
prison for second-degree manslaugh-
ter after shooting an unarmed teenager
in the back as he ran away following a
scuffle.
In 2019, another Oklahoma City po-
lice sergeant, Keith Sweeney, was sen-
tenced to 10 years in prison after a jury
convicted him of second-degree mur-
der in the shooting death of an un-
armed, suicidal man.
Behenna said that in future cases in-
volving police shootings, she will pre-
sent evidence to a multi-county grand
jury to make a decision on whether to
file criminal charges, rather than mak-
ing that decision herself.
Oklahoma City Police Chief Wade
Gourley said the department has im-
plemented “significant changes” since
the fatal shootings, such as creating a
training unit that has worked with ev-
ery officer on de-escalation strategies.
The chief ’s statement Friday said offi-
cers are also provided with additional
less-lethal equipment, like stun guns
and weapons that deploy bean bags, as
well as crisis-intervention training.
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BUSINESS
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Closing: 35,459.29 4,582.23
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MARKET PERFORMANCE BY SECTOR MARKET NOTEBOOK TOP 10 EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS COMMODITIES
Sector Close Chg. 4wk 1 YTD 1 Issues NYSE NASDAQ ETF, ranked by volume Ticker Close Chg. % Chg %YTD Commodities Close Prev. Chg. % Chg. % YTD
Technology 177.94 +2.39 +2.3% +43.0% Advancing 1,704 2,547 ProShs UltPro ShtQQQ SQQQ 16.96 -0.97 -5.4% -68.6% Cattle (lb.) 1.78 1.78 unch. +0.1% +15.1%
Declining 670 844 ProShs UltraPro QQQ TQQQ 45.22 +2.32 +5.4% +161.4% Corn (bushel) 5.21 5.33 -0.12 -2.3% -23.2%
Consumer discret. 172.76 +2.88 +1.7% +33.8%
Unchanged 43 220 SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr SPY 456.92 +4.43 +1.0% +19.5% Gold (troy oz.) 1,960.40 1,945.70 +14.70 +0.8% +7.7%
Telecom 72.30 +1.61 +5.7% +32.8%
Total 2,417 3,611 Direx SOX Bear 3X SOXS 8.35 -0.55 -6.2% -78.9% Hogs, lean (lb.) 1.03 1.02 +0.01 +1.2% +17.7%
Industrials 110.16 +0.68 +2.6% +12.2% Natural Gas (Btu.) 2.64 2.49 +0.15 +1.7% -41.1%
Issues at iShs China Large Cap FXI 30.08 +1.58 +5.5% +6.3%
Materials 85.27 +0.59 +2.9% +9.8% Direx SOX Bull 3X SOXL 28.15 +1.69 +6.4% +191.1% Oil, heating (gal.) 2.96 2.92 +0.04 +1.4% -12.0%
New 52 Week High 104 102
Financials 35.20 +0.07 +4.4% +2.9% Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ 383.48 +6.86 +1.8% +44.0% Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.) 80.58 80.09 +0.49 +0.6% +0.4%
New 52 Week Low 8 70
Consumer staples 76.10 +0.78 +2.6% +2.1% KraneShs China Intnt KWEB 31.74 +2.23 +7.6% +5.1% Silver (troy oz.) 24.37 24.24 +0.13 +0.5% +2.1%
Share Volume
Health care 135.19 +0.40 +1.9% -0.5% Total 3,662,883,566 4,138,980,511 iShs Emerg Mkts EEM 41.93 +0.99 +2.4% +10.6% Soybeans (bushel) 14.87 15.32 -0.45 -3.0% -2.1%
ProSh Short QQQ PSQ 10.22 -0.20 -1.9% -30.6% Wheat (bushel) 7.04 7.13 -0.09 -1.2% -11.1%
Energy 85.85 +0.26 +5.8% -1.9% Advancing 2,608,089,087 3,232,751,501
Utilities 67.04 -0.15 +2.4% -4.9% Declining 1,045,105,776 682,482,391
Unchanged 9,688,703 223,746,619 FOREIGN CURRENCIES FOREIGN MARKETS
Currency per dollar Close Prev. 6 mo. ago Yr. ago Country Close Prev. Change %Chg. %YTD
S&P 500’S BIGGEST GAINERS S&P 500’S BIGGEST LOSERS British pound .7778 .7811 .8070 .8230 Frankfurt 16,469.75 16,406.03 +63.72 +0.4% +18.3%
Company (ticker) Price $ Chg . % Chg. YTD Company (ticker) Price $ Chg . % Chg. YTD Canadian dollar 1.3240 1.3231 1.3305 1.2824 Hong Kong 19,916.56 19,639.11 +277.45 +1.4% +0.7%
Price T Rowe (TROW) 126.79 +9.68 +8.3 +16.3 Live Nation Entert (LYV) 89.33 -7.60 -7.8 +28.1 Japan (Nikkei) 32,759.23 32,891.16 -131.93 -0.4% +25.5%
Chinese yuan 7.1491 7.1742 6.7835 6.7473
Newell Brands Inc (NWL) 11.04 +.79 +7.7 -15.6 Enphase Energy Inc (ENPH) 154.33 -12.47 -7.5 -41.8 London 7,694.27 7,692.76 +1.51 +0.0% +3.3%
Mohawk Inds (MHK) 107.06 -7.95 -6.9 +4.7 Euro .9072 .9112 .9201 .9826
Cinn Fncl (CINF) 109.65 +7.03 +6.9 +7.1 Mexico City 54,945.27 54,753.40 +191.88 +0.4% +13.4%
Digital Realty Trst (DLR) 122.78 +7.63 +6.6 +22.4 Juniper Networks (JNPR) 27.63 -2.06 -6.9 -13.5 Japanese yen 141.00 139.35 129.91 134.35
Intel Corp (INTC) 36.83 +2.28 +6.6 +39.3 Arista Networks (ANET) 151.09 -9.90 -6.1 +24.5 Mexican peso 16.6770 16.8498 18.7642 20.3042 SOURCE Morningstar, Dow Jones Indexes, The Associated Press

IN BRIEF
Wall Street returns to rally after
reports on profits and inflation

Wall Street’s rally got back on track

Friday following more encouraging
profit reports and the latest signal that
inflation is loosening its chokehold on
the economy.
The S&P 500 rose 44.82 points, or
1%, to 4,582.23, its highest close in
more than 15 months. The Dow Jones
Industrial Average climbed 176.57
points, or 0.5%, to 35,459.29 after
breaking a 13-day winning streak the
day before. The Nasdaq composite
jumped 265.55, or 1.9%, to 14,316.66 as
Big Tech stocks led the market. The
Russell 2000 index of smaller compa-
nies rose 26.64 points, or 1.4%, to
1,981.54.
Stocks have been rising recently on
hopes high inflation is cooling enough
to get the Federal Reserve to stop hik-
ing interest rates. That in turn could al-
low the economy to continue growing
and avoid a long-predicted recession.
The S&P 500 closed out its third
straight winning week and its ninth in
the last 11.
A report on Friday bolstered those
hopes, saying the inflation measure
the Fed prefers to use slowed last The article depicted Jeff Zucker as badmouthing his successor at CNN while simultaneously trying to buy the news
month by a touch more than expected. organization that fired him. Zucker’s team strongly denied he has tried to buy CNN. PAUL SANCYA/AP FILE
Perhaps just as important, data also

Variety revises article

showed that total compensation for
workers rose less than expected dur-
ing the spring. While that’s discourag-
ing for workers looking for bigger
raises, investors see it adding less up-

on former CNN chief

ward pressure on inflation.

American has tentative deal with

its pilots; Southwest still in talks

American Airlines has agreed on

terms for granting large pay raises to
its pilots, leaving Southwest Airlines
Story faced sharp criticism, call for retraction knowledge to approach Warner Bros.
Discovery about buying CNN.
alone among the nation’s four biggest In a June 4 article, The New York
carriers without at least a tentative David Bauder in a statement Friday that they have Times reported that Zucker was not in
contract with pilots. ASSOCIATED PRESS been carefully following the conversa- talks to buy CNN, although “he has told
American and the Allied Pilots As- tion about the story. some associates he would be interested
sociation announced their agreement NEW YORK – The entertainment “The story was heavily vetted and in acquiring the network” if it came up
Thursday. The union said the agree- publication Variety, under fire this deeply sourced,” they said. “Everyone in- for sale one day, the newspaper said.
ment matched terms reached by pilots week for an article it published about cluded in the story was asked to com- The Variety article “struck me as ut-
at Delta Air Lines and United Airlines. former CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s interest ment and given the chance to respond. terly implausible and sophomoric,” Byers
The pilots and American thought in his old employer, revised the piece on We stand by our reporting and our wrote for Puck this week.
they had a deal earlier this month, but Friday to reflect some of the complaints award-winning reporter.” Variety’s piece called Byers “a former
it was upended when United struck a about it. The piece is also critical of two report- Zucker disciple at CNN who, by his own
richer contract, with raises of up to None of its changes affected what ers who have covered CNN, Tim Alberta admission, wrote about Licht incessant-
40% over four years. American CEO was written about Zucker, however. He of The Atlantic and Dylan Byers of Puck. ly and even took a victory lap after his ex-
Robert Isom promised to match pay at has called for the story to be retracted. Both of those news organizations com- it.” The piece described Byers as a writer
the other carriers. The article by Tatiana Siegel, which plained of inaccuracies and, in the of “Zucker fan fiction” and criticized him
The deal is contingent on the out- initially ran online Tuesday, depicted changes made on Friday, Variety added for a conflict of interest in not disclosing
come of a ratification vote by Ameri- Zucker as badmouthing his successor their specific denials. in any of his articles that Zucker once
can’s 15,000 pilots in August. at CNN, Chris Licht, while simulta- Zucker’s team hasn’t sought to hide ill had discussions about funding Puck, an
Southwest CEO Robert Jordan said neously trying to buy the news organi- feelings toward Licht, but strongly de- online subscription news service.
his airline has been in regular negotia- zation that fired him in early 2021. nied he has tried to buy CNN. In its revision on Friday, Variety quot-
tions with its pilots but had “nothing Licht’s unsuccessful run atop the The story begins with an anecdote ed Puck’s co-founder, Jon Kelly, saying
new to report.” struggling news network ended with about Zucker, “with tears in his eyes,” ap- the discussions with RedBird were not
his firing in May. proaching David Zaslav in Miami Beach disclosed by Byers because “Dylan was
Stress test: Europe’s banks The dispute also points to the dan- in March. Zaslav is CEO of Warner Bros. intentionally unaware of them.”
could survive drastic downturn gers inherent in the use of confidential Discovery, current owners of CNN, and For The Atlantic, Alberta wrote a
sources by journalists. There are at Variety said Zucker complained that widely-read story that seen by many as
Europe’s banking sector could least a dozen claims made in the story Licht was unfairly maligning him in the being instrumental in Licht’s dismissal
withstand a severe economic down- that Variety did not attribute to a press. Zaslav wanted to know if Zucker by Zaslav. Variety was critical of Alberta,
turn without depleting its financial named source that were denied on the was trying to assemble investors to buy and accused the reporter of using ma-
buffers against losses, the European record, either in the story or after publi- CNN. terial in his story that he had agreed to
Central Bank said Friday. cation, leaving it up to readers to decide Byers, writing for Puck, said “multiple keep off the record – a serious charge of
A survey of 98 large and medium- who to believe. sources” said no such run-in at the Faena malfeasance against a journalist.
sized banks done by the ECB’s super- “There used to be a time when Varie- Hotel ever took place and Zucker’s As with Byers, Variety didn’t change
visory arm in conjunction with the Eu- ty held its content and its reporters to a spokeswoman said that anecdote wasn’t what it had written about Alberta. But it
ropean Banking Authority showed high standard of truth and facts in jour- checked with them. added a paragraph to its story using
that even in the most adverse scenario nalism, but those days are clearly over,” The story outlines several specific ef- some of what Alberta had written on so-
– a fall of almost 10% in economic out- said Risa Heller, a spokeswoman for forts made by Zucker, or on his behalf, to cial media, including a denial that he had
point over three years – banks would Zucker. “It is stunning to read a piece convince investors to join him in buying used off-the-record material, and dis-
still have enough capital to cover that is so patently and aggressively CNN. The story includes his denials: puting Variety’s claim of how many
losses and then some. false. On numerous occasions, we “Any allegation or insinuation that Jeff times he had met with Licht while re-
The stress test was not a pass-fail made it clear to the reporter and her ed- has made any effort to purchase CNN is porting the story.
exercise for banks in the 20 countries itors that they were planning to publish unequivocally false,” Heller said. Zucker The story was reposted on Variety’s
that use the euro currency. Rather, re- countless anecdotes and alleged inci- is now head of a private equity firm, Red- home page. The only indication that it
sults for banks will be used by banking dents that never happened. They did so Bird IMI. had been changed was a note at its end:
regulators in determining how much anyway. The piece is a total joke.” At one point, Variety also floated the “This story was updated on July 28 to re-
capital they need to hold in reserve. Variety’s co-editor-in-chiefs, Cyn- theory that a secret group of investors flect new statements from Kelly and Al-
From wire reports thia Littleton and Ramin Setoodeh, said was using Zucker’s name without his berta.”

US sees surge in people losing Medicaid
Officials raise concerns
over paperwork problems
David A. Lieb
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The nation’s
top health official implored states to do
more to keep lower-income residents en-
rolled in Medicaid, as the Biden admini-
stration released figures Friday confirm-
ing that many who had health coverage
during the coronavirus pandemic are
now losing it.
Though a decline in Medicaid cover-
age was expected, health officials are
raising concerns about the large num-
bers of people being dropped from the
rolls for failing to return forms or follow
procedures.
In 18 states that began a post-pan-
demic review of their Medicaid rolls in
April, health coverage was continued for
about 1 million recipients and terminated
for 715,000. Of those dropped, 4 in 5 were
for procedural reasons, according to
newly released data from the federal
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Ser-
vices.
Health and Human Services Secre-
tary Xavier Becerra sent a letter Friday to
all governors encouraging them to bol-
ster efforts to retain people on Medicaid.
He particularly encouraged them to use
electronic information from other feder-
al programs, such as food stamps, to
automatically confirm people’s eligibility
for Medicaid. That would avert the need
to mail and return documents.
“I am deeply concerned about high
rates of procedural terminations due to
‘red tape’ and other paperwork issues,”
Becerra told governors.
During the pandemic, states were
Backup driver in autonomous
car death pleads guilty in case
Jacques Billeaud and Anita Snow
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX – The backup Uber driver
for a self-driving vehicle that killed a
pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in 2018
pleaded guilty Friday to endangerment
in the first fatal collision involving a
fully autonomous car.
Maricopa County Superior Court
Judge David Garbarino, who accepted
the plea agreement, sentenced Rafaela
Vasquez, 49, to three years of super-
vised probation for the crash that killed
49-year-old Elaine Herzberg. Vasquez
told police that Herzberg “came out of
nowhere” and that she didn’t see
Herzberg before the March 18, 2018, col-
lision on a darkened Tempe street.
Vasquez had been charged with neg-
ligent homicide, a felony. She pleaded
guilty to an undesignated felony,
meaning it could be reclassified as a
misdemeanor if she completes proba-
tion.
Authorities say Vasquez was
streaming the television show “The
Voice” on a phone and looking down in
the moments before Uber’s Volvo
XC-90 SUV struck Herzberg, who was
crossing with her bicycle.
Vasquez’s attorneys said she was
was looking at a messaging program
used by Uber employees on a work cell-
phone that was on her right knee. They
said the TV show was playing on her
personal cellphone, which was on the
passenger seat.
Defense attorney Albert Jaynes
Morrison told Garbarino that Uber
should share some blame for the colli-
sion as he asked the judge to sentence
Vasquez to six months of unsupervised
probation.
“There were steps that Uber failed to
take,” he said. By putting Vasquez in the
vehicle without a second employee, he
said. “It was not a question of if but
when it was going to happen.”
Prosecutors previously declined to
file criminal charges against Uber, as a
corporation. The National Transporta-
tion Safety Board concluded Vasquez’s
failure to monitor the road was the
main cause of the crash.
“The defendant had one job and one
job only,” prosecutor Tiffany Brady told
the judge. “And that was to keep her
eyes in the road.”
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel
Mitchell said in a statement after the
hearing that her office believes the sen-
tence was appropriate “based on the
mitigating and aggravating factors.”
The contributing factors cited by the
NTSB included Uber’s inadequate safe-
ty procedures and ineffective oversight
of its drivers, Herzberg’s decision to
cross the street outside of a crosswalk
and the Arizona Department of Trans-
portation’s insufficient oversight of au-
tonomous vehicle testing.
The board also concluded Uber’s de-
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Health and Human Services Secretary
Xavier Becerra sent a letter Friday to
all governors encouraging them to
bolster efforts to retain people on
Medicaid. EVAN VUCCI/AP FILE
prohibited from ending people’s Medi-
caid coverage.
As a result, Medicaid enrollment
swelled by nearly one-third, from 71 mil-
lion people in February 2020 to 93 mil-
lion in February 2023. The prohibition on
trimming rolls ended in April, and states
now have resumed annual eligibility re-
determinations that had been required
before the pandemic.
The new federal data captures only
the first month of state Medicaid reviews
from states that acted the most expedi-
tiously. Since then, additional states also
have submitted reports on those re-
newed and dropped from Medicaid in
May and June.
Though the federal government
hasn’t released data from the most re-
cent reports, information gathered by
The Associated Press and health care ad-
vocacy groups show that about 3.7 mil-
lion people already have lost Medicaid
coverage. That includes about 500,000
in Texas, around 400,000 in Florida and
225,000 in California. Of those who lost
coverage, 89% were for procedural rea-
sons in California, 81% in Texas and 59%
Rafaela Vasquez was sentenced to
three years of supervised probation
for the autonomous vehicle crash that
killed a pedestrian in suburban
Phoenix in 2018. ROSS D. FRANKLIN/AP
activation of its automatic emergency
braking system increased the risks as-
sociated with testing automated vehi-
cles on public roads. Instead of the sys-
tem, Uber relied on the human backup
driver to intervene.
It was not the first crash involving an
Uber autonomous test vehicle. In
March 2017, an Uber SUV flipped onto
its side, also in Tempe when it collided
with another vehicle. No serious inju-
ries were reported, and the driver of the
other car was cited for a violation.
Herzberg’s death was the first in-
volving an autonomous test vehicle but
not the first in a car with some self-
driving features. The driver of a Tesla
Model S was killed in 2016 when his car,
operating on its Autopilot system,
crashed into a semitrailer in Florida.
Nine months after Herzberg’s death,
in December 2019, two people were
killed in California when a Tesla on
Autopilot ran a red light, slammed into
another car. That driver was charged in
2022 with vehicular manslaughter in
what was believed to be the first felony
case against a motorist who was using
a partially automated driving system.
In Arizona, the Uber system detect-
ed Herzberg 5.6 seconds before the
crash. But it failed to determine wheth-
er she was a bicyclist, pedestrian or un-
known object, or that she was headed
into the vehicle’s path, the board said.
The backup driver was there to take
over the vehicle if systems failed.
The death reverberated throughout
the auto industry and Silicon Valley
and forced other companies to slow
what had been a fast march toward au-
tonomous ride-hailing services. Uber
pulled its self-driving cars out of Arizo-
na, and then-Gov. Doug Ducey prohib-
ited the company from continuing its
tests of self-driving cars.
Vasquez had previously spent more
than four years in prison for two felony
convictions – making false statements
when obtaining unemployment bene-
fits and attempted armed robbery – be-
fore starting work as an Uber driver, ac-
cording to court records.
in Florida, according to the AP’s data.
Many of those people may have still
been eligible for Medicaid, “but they’re
caught in a bureaucratic nightmare of
confusing forms, notices sent to wrong
addresses and other errors,” said Mi-
chelle Levander, founding director of the
Center for Health Journalism at the Uni-
versity of Southern California,
Top CMS officials said they have
worked with several states to pause Me-
dicaid removals and improve procedures
for determining eligibility.
South Carolina, for example, reported
renewing Medicaid coverage for about
27,000 people in May while removing
118,000. Of those dropped, 95% were for
procedural reasons. In a recent report to
the federal government, South Carolina
said it removed no one from Medicaid in
June because it extended the eligibility
renewal deadline from 60 days to 90
days.
Michigan reported renewing more
than 103,000 Medicaid recipients in
June and removing just 12,000. It told
the federal government that the state
opted to delay terminations for those
who failed to respond to renewal re-
quests while instead making additional
outreach attempts. As a result, the state
reported more than 100,000 people
whose June eligibility cases remained
incomplete.
People who are dropped from Medi-
caid can regain coverage retroactively if
they submit information within 90 days
proving their eligibility. But some advo-
cacy groups say that still poses a chal-
lenge.
“State government is not necessarily
nimble,” said Keesa Smith, executive di-
rector of Arkansas Advocates for Chil-
dren and Families. “When individuals
are being disenrolled, the biggest con-
A state court judge in Orlando denied Disney’s motion in a lawsuit that says
the entertainment giant wrongly stripped Gov. Ron DeSantis appointees of
powers over design and construction at Disney World in Florida.
JOHN RAOUX/AP
Judge refuses to dismiss
Fla. suit against Disney
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORLANDO, Fla. – A judge in Florida
on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit
brought by Gov. Ron DeSantis appoin-
tees against Disney’s efforts to neutral-
ize the governor’s takeover of Disney
World’s governing district.
The judge in state court in Orlando
denied Disney’s motion in the lawsuit
that says the company wrongly
stripped appointees of powers over de-
sign and construction at Disney World
when it made agreements with prede-
cessors, who were supporters.
The case is one of two lawsuits
stemming from the takeover, which
was retaliation for the company’s pub-
lic opposition to the so-called Don’t Say
Gay legislation championed by DeSan-
tis and Republican lawmakers. In the
other lawsuit, in federal court in Talla-
hassee, Disney says DeSantis violated
the company’s free speech rights.
The governor has touted his year-
long feud with Disney in his run for the
2024 GOP presidential nomination, of-
ten accusing the entertainment giant of
being too “woke.” Disney has accused
the governor of violating its First
Amendment rights.
Attorneys for Disney had argued
that any decision in state court would
be moot since the Republican-con-
trolled Legislature already has passed a
law voiding agreements that the com-
pany made with a prior governing
board made up of Disney supporters
that gave design and construction pow-
ers to the company.
The entertainment giant had asked
that the state court case be put on hold
if it’s not dismissed until the federal
lawsuit in Tallahassee was resolved
cern … is that there is not a fast track to
get those individuals back on the rolls.”
Arkansas officials have been at the
forefront of defending Medicaid cuts.
They contend that many people likely
don’t return forms because they no long-
er need Medicaid.
People are “transitioning off of Medi-
caid” because “they are working, making
more money, and have access to health
care through their employers or the fed-
eral marketplace,” Arkansas Medicaid
Director Janet Mann said earlier this
month. “This should be celebrated, not
criticized.”
Insurance companies that run Medi-
caid programs for states said they are
trying to reduce procedural terminations
and enroll people in new plans.
The Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer
Elevance Health lost 130,000 Medicaid
customers during the recently complet-
ed second quarter, as Medicaid eligibility
redeterminations began. Chief Financial
Officer John Gallina said earlier this
month that many people lost Medicaid
coverage for administrative reasons but
are likely to reenroll in the near future.
Leaders of the insurer Molina Health-
care told analysts Thursday that the
company lost about 93,000 Medicaid
customers in the recently completed
second quarter, mostly due to eligibility
redeterminations.
Federal data for April indicates that
some states did a better job than others
at handling a crush of questions from
people about their Medicaid coverage.
In 19 states and the District of Colum-
bia, the average Medicaid call center wait
time was 1 minute or less in April. But in
Idaho, the average caller to the state’s
Medicaid help line waited 51 minutes. In
Missouri, the average wait was 44 min-
utes, and in Florida 40 minutes.
since they covered the same ground
and that lawsuit was filed first.
In that case, Disney sued DeSantis
and his appointees to the Central Flori-
da Tourism Oversight District in an ef-
fort to stop the takeover, saying the
governor was violating the company’s
free speech and “weaponizing the pow-
er of government to punish private
business.”
DeSantis wasn’t a party in the state
court lawsuit.
The fight between DeSantis and Dis-
ney began last year after the company,
facing significant pressure internally
and externally, publicly opposed a state
law banning classroom lessons on sex-
ual orientation and gender identity in
early grades, a policy critics call “Don’t
Say Gay.”
As punishment, DeSantis took over
the district through legislation passed
by Florida lawmakers and appointed a
new board of supervisors to oversee
municipal services for the sprawling
theme parks and hotels. But before the
new board came in, the company made
agreements with previous oversight
board members who were Disney sup-
porters that stripped the new supervi-
sors of their authority over design and
construction.
In response, DeSantis and Florida
lawmakers passed the legislation that
repealed those agreements.
Disney announced in May that it
was scrapping plans to build a new
campus in central Florida and relocate
2,000 employees from Southern Cali-
fornia to work in digital technology, fi-
nance and product development. Dis-
ney had planned to build the campus
about 20 miles from the giant Walt Dis-
ney World theme park resort.
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Trump appeals NY judge’s decision
Ex-president wants to
move hush-money case
Michael R. Sisak
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK – Donald Trump asked a
federal appeals court Friday to reverse a
federal judge’s decision to keep his
hush-money criminal case in a New
York state court that the former presi-
dent claims is “very unfair” to him.
Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of ap-
peal with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Manhattan after U.S. District
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein last week re-
jected his bid to move the case to federal
court, where his lawyers were primed to
argue he was immune from prosecu-
tion.
U.S. law allows criminal prosecutions
to be moved from state to federal court if
they involve actions taken by federal
government officials as part of their offi-
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dent. Some evangelicals, who can be
determinative in the state’s caucuses,
have pointed to South Carolina Sen. Tim
Scott’s upbeat message and pulpit-style
delivery as strengths that could help
him rise there.
Scott, who also spoke Friday night
and didn’t mention Trump or the cases
against him, held a town hall the previ-
ous day in Ankeny with Iowa’s Repub-
lican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Afterward, Scott took a swipe at De-
Santis over the Florida governor’s sup-
port for new standards that require the
state’s teachers to instruct middle
school students that slaves developed
skills that “could be applied for their
personal benefit.”
The only Black Republican in the U.S.
Senate, Scott said all Americans should
recognize how “devastating” slavery
was. “There is no silver lining” to slav-
ery, he added.
DeSantis has also faced criticism
from teachers and civil rights leaders, as
well as mounting pushback from some
of his party’s most prominent Black
elected officials. Florida Rep. Byron
Donalds said he hoped officials might
“correct” parts of the curriculum ad-
dressing lessons on the developed skills
of enslaved people. Texas Republican
Rep. Wesley Hunt and Will Hurd, a for-
mer Texas congressman now also run-
ning in the GOP presidential primary,
have also criticized DeSantis.
Still, the governor continued to dig in
on the issue, saying at a pre-dinner
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with documents from White House in-
telligence briefings, including some that
detail the military capabilities of the
U.S. and other countries, according to
the indictment. Prosecutors alleged
Trump showed off the documents to
people who did not have security clear-
ances to review them and later tried to
conceal documents from his own law-
yers as they sought to comply with fed-
eral demands to find and return docu-
ments.
The top charges carry a penalty of up
to 20 years in prison.
After leaving office in 2021, the for-
mer president showed someone work-
ing for his political action committee a
map that detailed a military operation
in a foreign country, prosecutors allege
in the document. On another occasion
that year, Trump showed a writer, a
publisher and two of his staffers – none
of whom had security clearances – a
military plan of attack.
How is Trump reacting?
A Trump campaign statement dis-
missed the new charges as “nothing
more than a continued desperate and
flailing attempt” by the Biden admini-
stration “to harass President Trump and
those around him” and to influence the
2024 presidential race.
In an interview Thursday night with
Breitbart News, Trump called the super-
seding indictment “harassment,” re-
peating his insistence that his activities
were “protected by the Presidential Rec-
ords Act.”
What happens next?
De Oliveira is due in court in Florida
on Monday.
Both Trump and Nauta have pleaded
not guilty to the original 38-count in-
cial duties, but Hellerstein ruled that the
hush-money case involved a personal
matter, not presidential duties.
Trump’s appeal notice came at the
end of another busy week of legal action
for the twice-indicted Republican as he
seeks a return to the White House in
next year’s election. On Thursday, he
was indicted on new criminal charges in
a separate case in federal court in Flori-
da involving allegations that he illegally
hoarded classified documents at his
Mar-a-Lago estate.
The Manhattan district attorney’s of-
fice, which is prosecuting the hush-
money case and fought to keep it in
state court, declined to comment on
Trump’s appeal.
Trump pleaded not guilty April 4 in
state court to 34 felony counts of falsify-
ing business records to hide reimburse-
ments made to his longtime personal
lawyer Michael Cohen for his role in
paying $130,000 to the porn actor
Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an
Former U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks at the Republican Party of
Iowa’s Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines on Friday. SERGIO FLORES/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
event in Oskaloosa on Friday, “D.C. Re-
publicans all too often accept false nar-
ratives, accept lies that are perpetrated
by the left.” The governor has defended
the new school curriculum, saying, “I
think it’s very clear that these guys did a
good job on those standards.”
John Niemeyer, 52, from Kalona,
Iowa, attended DeSantis’ event and was
impressed. But, as a high school teacher,
he’s not a fan of some of the governor’s
positions on education policy.
“I don’t want to make our classrooms
a political battlefield,” he said, adding
that it would be a “mistake” to make the
issue the forefront of his campaign.
Vice President Kamala Harris made
dictment.
Their trial is currently scheduled for
May 20, 2024 – deep into the presiden-
tial nominating calendar, and probably
well after the Republican nominee is
known – and it was unclear if the addi-
tion of a new defendant could result in a
postponement.
Prosecutors, who had wanted the
case to go to trial in December, wrote in a
separate court filing Thursday that the
new charges “should not disturb” the
May trial date, “and the Special Coun-
sel’s Office is taking steps related to dis-
covery and security clearances to en-
sure that it does not do so.”
Trump’s lawyers have claimed that
he can’t get a fair trial before the 2024
election.
How did this case come about?
Officials with the National Archives
and Records Administration contacted
representatives for Trump in spring
2021 when they realized that important
material from his time in office was
missing.
According to the Presidential Rec-
ords Act, White House documents are
considered property of the U.S. govern-
ment and must be preserved.
A Trump representative told the Na-
tional Archives in December 2021 that
presidential records had been found at
Mar-a-Lago. In January 2022, the Na-
tional Archives retrieved 15 boxes of
documents from Trump’s Florida home,
later telling Justice Department officials
that they contained “a lot” of classified
material.
That May, the FBI and Justice De-
partment issued a subpoena for remain-
ing classified documents in Trump’s
possession. Investigators who went to
visit the property weeks later to collect
the records were given roughly three
dozen documents and a sworn state-
ment from Trump’s lawyers attesting
that the requested information had
been returned.
But that assertion turned out to be
extramarital sexual encounter with
Trump years earlier.
Cohen also arranged for the National
Enquirer to pay Playboy model Karen
McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her
story about an alleged affair, which the
supermarket tabloid then squelched in
a dubious journalism practice known as
“catch-and-kill.”
Trump denied having sexual encoun-
ters with either woman. His lawyers ar-
gue the payments to Cohen were legiti-
mate legal expenses and not part of any
cover-up.
He is scheduled to stand trial in state
court on March 25, 2024. In the mean-
time, his lawyers have asked the state
court judge presiding over the case,
Juan Manuel Merchan, to step aside, ar-
guing that he’s biased in part because
his daughter does political consulting
work for some of Trump’s Democratic
rivals. Trump has referred to Merchan
as “a Trump-hating judge” with a family
full of “Trump haters.” The judge has yet
her own Iowa stop on Friday, seeking to
draw a contrast with the Republicans as
she looked to lift President Joe Biden’s
reelection campaign. Harris met in Des
Moines with activists and discussed
abortion rights, after Reynolds recently
signed a ban on most abortions after six
weeks of pregnancy.
“I do believe that we are witnessing a
national agenda that is about a full-on
attack on hard won freedoms and hard
won rights,” the vice president said.
Hours later, many Lincoln Day Din-
ner attendees wore “Trump Country”
stickers, including 72-year-old Diane
Weaver of Ankeny, Iowa.
“I think he makes America great,”
false. With a search warrant, federal of-
ficials returned to Mar-a-Lago in August
2022 and seized more than 33 boxes and
containers totaling 11,000 documents
from a storage room and an office, in-
cluding 100 classified documents.
In all, roughly 300 documents with
classification markings – including
some at the top secret level – have been
recovered from Trump since he left of-
fice in January 2021.
How did a special counsel get
involved?
Last year, U.S. Attorney General Mer-
rick Garland picked Jack Smith, a veter-
an war crimes prosecutor with a back-
ground in public corruption probes, to
lead investigations into the presence of
classified documents at Trump’s Florida
estate, as well as key aspects of a sep-
arate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021,
insurrection and efforts to undo the
2020 election.
Smith’s appointment was a recogni-
tion by Garland of the politics involved
in an investigation into a former presi-
dent and current White House candi-
date. Garland himself was selected by
Democratic President Joe Biden, whom
Trump is seeking to challenge for the
White House in 2024.
Special counsels are appointed in
cases in which the Justice Department
perceives itself as having a conflict or
where it’s deemed to be in the public in-
terest to have someone outside the gov-
ernment come in and take responsibil-
ity for a matter.
According to the Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, a special counsel must have “a
reputation for integrity and impartial
decision making,” as well as “an in-
formed understanding of the criminal
law and Department of Justice policies.”
Didn’t Biden and former Vice
President Mike Pence have
classified documents, too?
Yes, but the circumstances of their
to rule on the request.
In seeking to try the hush-money
case tried in federal court, Trump’s law-
yers have argued that some of his al-
leged conduct amounted to official
presidential duties because it occurred
in 2017 while he was president, includ-
ing checks he purportedly wrote while
sitting in the Oval Office.
Moving the case from state court to
federal court would have significant le-
gal and practical consequences for
Trump. In federal court, for example, his
lawyers could then try to get the charges
dismissed on the grounds that federal
officials have immunity from prosecu-
tion over actions taken as part of their
official job duties.
A shift to federal court would also
mean a more politically diverse jury
pool – drawing not only from heavily
Democratic Manhattan, where Trump is
wildly unpopular, but also from subur-
ban counties north of the city where he
has more political support.
said Weaver, a retiree who plans to cau-
cus for Trump. “I think he did it once and
I think he can do it again.”
West Des Moines resident Jane
Schrader chose to wear her “Trump
Country” sticker on her pants instead of
at eye level. “I’m not quite dyed-in-the-
wool. I’m a supporter, but not that kind,”
said the retired physician, explaining
her sticker placement.
Trump did face criticism from some
rivals, including former Arkansas Gov.
Asa Hutchison, who in his speech de-
clared, “As a party, we need a new direc-
tion for America and for the GOP.” The
crowd offered only a muted reaction –
but refrained from booing, which
Trump critics at Republican primary
events often face.
Loud and sustained boos came, how-
ever, for Hurd, a frequent Trump critic
who declared, “The reason Donald
Trump lost the election in 2020 is he
failed to grow the GOP brand.” The for-
mer congressman also made one of the
night’s few references to the criminal
cases against Trump, saying: “Donald
Trump is not running for president to
make America great again. Donald
Trump is running to stay out of prison,”
drawing hoots.
That was very different than DeSan-
tis, who ducked chances Friday to criti-
cize Trump over the additional charges
he faces even before his speech.
“We have engaged when appropri-
ate,” DeSantis told reporters in Oskaloo-
sa, mentioning times in the past when
he and Trump had criticized each other
over policy differences. The governor
added that he’s not interested in “reliti-
gating the latest superseding indict-
ment.”
cases are vastly different from those in-
volving Trump.
After classified documents were
found at Biden’s think tank and Pence’s
Indiana home, their lawyers notified au-
thorities and quickly arranged for them
to be handed over.
They also authorized other searches
by federal authorities to search for addi-
tional documents.
There is no indication either was
aware of the existence of the records be-
fore they were found, and no evidence
has so far emerged that Biden or Pence
sought to conceal the discoveries.
That’s important because the Justice
Department historically looks for will-
fulness in deciding whether to bring
criminal charges.
A special counsel was appointed ear-
lier this year to probe how classified ma-
terials ended up at Biden’s Delaware
home and former office.
But even if the Justice Department
were to find Biden’s case prosecutable
on the evidence, its Office of Legal
Counsel has concluded that a president
is immune from prosecution during his
time in office.
As for Pence, the Justice Department
informed his legal team this month that
it would not be pursuing criminal
charges against him over his handling of
the documents.
Does a federal indictment prevent
Trump from running for
president?
No. Neither the indictment itself nor
a conviction would prevent Trump from
running for or winning the presidency in
2024.
And, as his indictment earlier this
year in a New York hush-money case
showed, criminal charges have histori-
cally been a boon to his fundraising. The
campaign announced that it had raised
over $4 million in the 24 hours after that
indictment became public, smashing its
previous record after the FBI search of
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.

Niger latest Sahel country run by military
Regional tensions raise
concerns for stability
Chinedu Asadu
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABUJA, Nigeria – Mutinous soldiers
in Niger this week overthrew the demo-
cratically elected government of Presi-
dent Mohamed Bazoum, adding to a
growing list of military regimes in West
Africa’s Sahel region and raising fears of
regional destabilization.
The Sahel, the vast arid expanse
south of the Sahara Desert, faces grow-
ing violence from Islamic extremists,
which in turn has caused people to turn
against elected governments.
The military takeovers have followed
a similar pattern: The coup leaders ac-
cuse the government of failing to meet
the people’s expectations for delivering
dividends of democracy. They say they
will usher in a new democratic govern-
ment to address those shortcomings,
but the process gets delayed.
Karim Manuel, west and central Afri-
ca analyst for the Economist Intelli-
gence Unit, says the military govern-
ments threaten to unwind democratic
gains made not just in the Sahel region
but in the broader West Africa region.
“This increases political instability
going forward and makes the situation
on the ground much more volatile and
unpredictable. Regional stability is un-
dermined as a result of these coups,”
Manuel said.
The Sahel region comprises Senegal,
Gambia, Mauritania, Guinea, Mali, Bur-
kina Faso, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and
Nigeria.
Here are countries in the Sahel with
military regimes:
Mali
The Sahel’s latest wave of coups
kicked off in Mali in August 2020 when
the democratically elected President
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was over-
thrown by soldiers led by Col. Assimi
Goita.
Official says water release is milestone
Step part of Fukushima
decommissioning plan
Mari Yamaguchi
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO – An official in charge of the
wrecked Fukushima nuclear power
plant says the upcoming release of
treated radioactive water into the sea
more than 12 years after the reactors’
meltdown marks “a milestone,” but is
still only an initial step in a daunting
decadeslong decommissioning process.
Junichi Matsumoto, the corporate of-
ficer in charge of treated water manage-
ment for Tokyo Electric Power Company
Holdings, which operates the Fukushi-
ma Daiichi plant, also pledged to con-
duct careful sampling and analysis of
the water to make sure its release is
safely carried out in accordance with In-
ternational Atomic Energy Agency stan-
dards.
The water is being treated with
what’s called an Advanced Liquid Proc-
essing System, which can reduce the
amounts of more than 60 selected
radionuclides to government-set
releasable levels, except for tritium,
which the government and TEPCO say
is safe for humans if consumed in small
amounts.
“The release of the ALPS-treated wa-
ter into the sea is a major milestone for
us, as well as for the decommissioning
of the plant,” Matsumoto said in an in-
terview with The Associated Press at
TEPCO headquarters in Tokyo.
“In order to steadily advance decom-
missioning, the ever-growing amounts
of water was a pressing issue that we
could not put off, and we had a sense of
crisis,” said Matsumoto, a nuclear engi-
neering expert. “We still have to tackle
far more challenging and higher-risk
operations such as removal of melted
debris and spent fuel” from the dam-
aged reactors, he said.
Another task for TEPCO is combat-
ting the damage to the reputation of Fu-
kushima fisheries caused by the water
release, he said.
A massive March 11, 2011, earthquake
and tsunami destroyed the Fukushima
Daiichi plant’s cooling systems, causing
three reactors to melt and contaminat-
ing their cooling water, which has since
leaked continuously. The water is col-
lected, filtered and stored in around
1,000 tanks, which will reach their ca-
pacity in early 2024.
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In this image from video, soldiers stand in the streets of Niamey, Niger, on Friday. Mutinous soldiers in Niger overthrew the
country’s democratically elected government. AP
In this image from video, Gen.
Abdourahmane Tchiani makes a
statement in Niamey, Niger, on Friday.
Niger state television identified him as
the leader of the National Council for
the Safeguarding of the Country. ORTN
VIA AP
The military was supposed to hand
power back to civilian rule within 18
months. However, seven months into
the transition process, the military re-
moved the interim president and prime
minister they had appointed and swore
in Goita as president of the transitional
government.
Last month, Malian voters cast bal-
lots on a new draft constitution in a ref-
erendum that the regime says will pave
Junichi Matsumoto, a corporate officer
with the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s
operator, pledged to conduct careful
sampling and analysis of the treated
radioactive water. HIRO KOMAE/AP
“It is our responsibility to
demonstrate we can carry
out the water release as
planned, and that’s how we
can regain public trust.”
Junichi Matsumoto
corporate officer in charge of treated water
management for Tokyo Electric Power Company
Holdings
Large amounts of fatally radioactive
melted nuclear fuel remain inside the
reactors. Robotic probes have provided
some information about its status, but it
remains largely unknown.
The government and TEPCO say the
water must be removed to make room
for the plant’s decommissioning, and to
prevent accidental leaks from the tanks
because much of the water is still con-
taminated and needs retreatment.
The release plan has faced strong op-
position from Japanese fishing organi-
zations, which worry about further
damage to the reputation of their sea-
food as they struggle to recover from the
accident. Groups in South Korea and
China have also raised concerns, turn-
ing it into a political and diplomatic is-
sue.
Matsumoto said the key to gaining
understanding is to patiently explain
the situation by providing scientific evi-
dence.
“It is difficult, but we hope to make it
as easy to understand as possible,” he
said. “If we describe (the water release)
in one word, it’s safe.”
“As the operator responsible for the
accident, we must admit TEPCO is a
company that is not fully trusted. We
must keep up the effort and sincerely re-
the way for new elections in 2024.
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso experienced its second
coup in 2022 with soldiers ousting Lt.
Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba about
eight months after he helped overthrow
the democratically elected President
Roch Marc Kaboré early in the year.
Capt. Ibrahim Traore was named as
the transitional president while a na-
tional assembly that included army offi-
cers, civil society organizations, and
traditional and religious leaders ap-
proved a new charter for the West Afri-
can country.
The junta has set a goal to conduct
elections to return the country to demo-
cratic rule by July 2024.
Sudan
Sudan slipped under military rule in
October 2021 when soldiers dissolved
the transitional government of Prime
Minister Abdalla Hamdok as well as the
Sovereign Council, a power-sharing
body of military officers and civilians.
That took place weeks before the mil-
spond to any concern,” Matsumoto
said. “It is our responsibility to demon-
strate we can carry out the water re-
lease as planned, and that’s how we
can regain public trust.”
The government said the release is
set to start this summer but hasn’t set
the date amid protests. TEPCO has ob-
tained safety permits for all of the
equipment needed for the release and
is currently carrying out training so
the water release team can begin work
at any time, Matsumoto said.
“It’s not like just turning a faucet to
run tap water,” he said.
Scientists generally agree that the
environmental impact of the treated
wastewater would be negligible, but
some call for more attention to dozens
of low-dose radionuclides that remain
in it, saying data on their long-term ef-
fects on the environment and marine
life are insufficient and the water re-
quires close scrutiny.
The treated water will be diluted
with massive amounts of seawater
and will be released gradually over
many years.
Matsumoto acknowledged that
treated water that came in contact
with the damaged nuclear fuel con-
tains radionuclides such as uranium
and plutonium that are not in water
that is routinely released from healthy
nuclear plants around the world.
He said the total concentration of
radionuclides in the water meets gov-
ernment standards after treatment,
and after dilution the wastewater will
be fully safe and have a minimal envi-
ronmental impact, according to the
IAEA, which has provided assistance
in evaluating the release plan.
Matsumoto said he has struggled to
manage the massive amounts of con-
taminated water to keep it from
escaping into the environment and
safely stored at the plant since the ac-
cident.
There were instances in which
plant workers had no other choice but
to dump some into the sea or tempora-
rily put it inside a basement or in tem-
porary water tanks, Matsumoto re-
called.
Now, after taking measures to mini-
mize the seeping of rainwater and
groundwater into the reactor buildings
and establishing a stable water man-
agement system, the amount of con-
taminated water has come down to
less than one-fifth of what it used to
be, he said.
itary was to hand the leadership of the
council to civilians and nearly two years
after soldiers overthrew the longtime
autocrat Omar al-Bashir amid deadly
protests.
Eighteen months after the coup and
amid the hopes for a transition to de-
mocracy, fighting broke out between the
Sudanese army and the paramilitary
Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The con-
flict has resulted in the deaths of hun-
dreds with no end in sight.
Chad
Chad has been under military rule
since April 2021 when President Idriss
Deby, who ruled Chad for more than 30
years, was killed while battling against
rebels in the hard-hit northern region.
His son, Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby,
took power contrary to constitutional
provisions and was named the interim
head of state with an 18-month transi-
tional process set in place for the coun-
try’s return to democracy.
By the end of the 18 months period,
the government extended Deby’s by two
more years, triggering protests that the
military suppressed.
Ballots abroad
give edge to
right-wing
block in Spain
David Brunat
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BARCELONA, Spain – Ballots from
Spaniards living abroad were counted
Friday, and they gave a new twist to
the inconclusive results from the gen-
eral election.
The conservative Popular Party
gained an additional seat from Ma-
drid’s constituency late in the day at
the expense of the Socialist Workers’
Party. That change gives the right-
wing coalition of the PP and the far-
right Vox party 172 seats in the lower
house of parliament and drops left-
wing forces to 171.
Forming a stable governing coali-
tion will require one of the blocks to
have the support of 176 lawmakers in
the 350-seat body, and it’s not clear
that either side will be able to obtain
enough backing from smaller parties.
The country’s main political parties
had been waiting for the count in the
hope they might win seats from oppo-
nents and recompose the final picture.
Results coming in from different con-
stituencies during the day showed no
changes across Spain – until Madrid
added the last-gasp surprise.
The switch likely will make it even
tougher to cobble together a govern-
ment.
Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sán-
chez is considered the only leader with
a chance to form a coalition, since the
Popular Party led by Alberto Núñez
Feijóo is being shunned by other par-
ties for allying with Vox.
But Sánchez does not have it easy.
He needs help from secessionist par-
ties in the Basque Country and Cata-
lonia, and it could be politically risky to
bid for support from the Catalan party
Junts, which is headed by Carles Puig-
demont, a leader of 2017’s failed seces-
sion bid in Catalonia.
His party has seven seats, but its
goal of forcing Spain to allow a seces-
sion referendum is Catalonia is highly
unpopular, including in Sánchez’s par-
ty.
The new parliament is to convene
Aug. 17 and it will have three months to
vote in a new prime minister. Other-
wise, new elections would be called.
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Shiite Muslims beat their heads and chests as they circle around a model of the tomb of Imam Hussein in Tehran, Iran, Friday. Ashoura is a remembrance of the
7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein. VAHID SALEMI/AP
SHIITE MUSLIMS MARK ASHOURA
Rituals held to honor
day their faith was born
Amir Vahdat
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN, Iran – Millions of Shiite
Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan
and around the world on Friday com-
memorated Ashoura, a remembrance of
the 7th-century martyrdom of the
Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hus-
sein, that gave birth to their faith.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban cut mo-
bile phone services in key cities holding
commemorations for fear of militants
targeting Shiites, whom Sunni extrem-
ists consider heretics. Security forces in
neighboring Pakistan as well stood on
high alert as the commemorations there
have seen attacks in the past.
Not all Shiites, however, were to mark
the day Friday. Iraq, Lebanon and Syria
planned their remembrances for Satur-
day, which will see a major suburb of
Beirut shut down and the faithful de-
scend on the Iraqi city of Karbala, where
Hussein is entombed in a gold-domed
shrine.
Shiites represent over 10% of the
world’s 1.8 billion Muslims and view
Hussein as the rightful successor to the
Prophet Muhammad. Hussein’s death
in battle at the hands of Sunnis at Kar-
bala, south of Baghdad, ingrained a
deep rift in Islam and continues to this
day to play a key role in shaping Shiite
identity.
Over 1,340 years after Hussein’s mar-
tyrdom, Baghdad, Tehran, Islamabad
and other major capitals in the Middle
East were adorned with symbols of Shi-
ite piety and repentance: red flags for
Hussein’s blood, symbolic black funeral
tents and black dress for mourning, pro-
cessions of men and boys expressing
fervor in the ritual of chest-beating and
self-flagellation with chains.
In Iran, where the theocratic govern-
ment views itself as the protector of Shi-
ites worldwide, the story of Hussein’s
martyrdom takes on political connota-
tions amid its tensions with the West
over its advancing nuclear program.
Iranian state television aired images
of commemorations across the Islamic
Republic, tying the event to criticizing
the West, Israel and the U.S. drone
strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem
Soleimani in 2020.
Anchor Wesam Bahrani on Iran’s
state-run English-language broadcaster
Press TV referred to America as the “big-
gest opponent of Islam” and criticized
Muslim countries allied with the U.S.
Men wore black, rhythmically beat-
ing their chests in mourning or using
flails to strike their backs. Some wore
red headbands, as black and red ban-
ners bore Hussein’s name. Some
sprayed water over the mourners in the
intense heat.
“Every year everyone joins hands in
solidarity,” said 23-year-old Moham-
mad Hajatmand, who took part in a pro-
cessional in Tehran.
A woman weeps during the Ashoura mourning ritual in Tehran, Iran, on Friday.
VAHID SALEMI/AP
Shiite Muslims beat their chests during the Ashoura mourning ritual in Istanbul
on Friday. KHALIL HAMRA/AP
year anniversary of the death of Mahsa
Amini. Her death launched protests na-
tionwide in Iran that reportedly saw
more than 500 protesters killed and
some 20,000 others detained.
Authorities have begun stepping up
their enforcement of mandatory hijab,
or headscarf, laws for women in recent
weeks.
In the suburb of Sayida Zeinab near
Syria’s capital, Damascus, security
A Shiite Muslim flagellates himself forces guarded checkpoints after a
with knives on chains during a bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded
procession to mark Ashoura in Thursday, killing at least six people and
Islamabad, Pakistan, on Friday. RAHMAT wounding dozens more.
GUL/AP On Tuesday, another bomb in a mo-
torcycle wounded two people. The sub-
urb is home to a shrine to Zeinab, the
Hussein “was martyred very brutally daughter of the first Shiite imam, Ali,
and when anyone hears the story of and granddaughter of the Prophet Mu-
Ashoura, regardless of their religion, hammad.
their hearts will be broken and they will Local resident Mustafa Semaan, 41,
sympathize with him.” said the area had seen a resurgence of
The commemoration in Iran also religious tourism after security stabi-
comes as Tehran prepares for the one- lized amid Syria’s ongoing war and the
worst of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I don’t believe the religious obser-
vances will be affected (by the recent
bombings), but the economic situation
as a result of visitors coming from out-
side Syria may be affected,” Semaan
said. “If this continues, if there were a
third attack, there might be a very nega-
tive impact.”
On Friday, the Islamic State claimed
responsibility for the recent attacks in a
statement, claiming that Thursday’s at-
tack killed about 10 and wounded about
40 others “during their annual polythe-
istic rituals.” The group’s extreme inter-
pretation of Islam holds Shiite Muslims
to be apostates.
In 2014, IS overran large swaths of
Syria and Iraq and declared the entire
territory a “caliphate,” where it imposed
a radically brutal rule. The U.S. and its
allies in Syria and Iraq, as well as Syria’s
Russian-backed government troops,
fought against it for years, eventually
rolling it back. However, the extremist
group’s cells have continued to carry out
attacks.
Iraq will see the main observance of
the Ashoura on Saturday in Karbala,
where hundreds of thousands are ex-
pected and many will rush toward the
shrine to symbolize their desire to an-
swer Hussein’s last cries for help in bat-
tle. Convoys of the faithful arrived
throughout the day Friday.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Iraqi Shiites
in Baghdad’s Sadr City participated in
Ashoura rituals, including slashing their
heads with swords and self-flagellation
in a show of grief.
Those marking the commemoration
in Kabul, Afghanistan, beat their backs
bloody with chains and knives in ritual
bloodletting known as “tatbir,” meant to
recreate the blood flowing from the slain
Hussein. The practice has become de-
bated among Shiite clerics in recent
decades.
“We have only one problem that (the
Taliban) are preventing us to raise our
flags and enter (the city) with the flags,”
said Karbalayee Rashid, an organizer of
the Kabul commemoration. “Thank God
the security has been taken care. It is
OK, but there are more limits in this
country this year than last year.”
In Pakistan, authorities stepped up
security as an Interior Ministry alert
warned that “terrorists” could target
Ashoura processions in major cities. Se-
curity was tight in the capital, Islam-
abad, where police were deployed at a
key Shiite place of worship.
The main Ashoura processions also
got underway in the eastern city of La-
hore in the Punjab province, where
thousands of police officers have been
deployed. Processions in Karachi and
elsewhere were also starting. There was
no immediate report of any violence.
“The Imam’s lesson is … hold on to
patience,” said Anam Batool, a mourner
who took part in a commemoration in
Islamabad. “After that, resist falsehood,
stand with the truth. Where you must
raise your voice against oppression,
raise your voice there.”

SPORTS
GOLF
Celine Boutier holds a one-stroke lead after shooting a 69 during the second round of the Evian Championship on Friday.
FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Boutier eyes win on
home soil at Evian
Todd Kelly
Golfweek
USA TODAY Network
Celine Boutier has three LPGA wins.
A victory this week, though, would be
her biggest by far.
After 36 holes at the 2023 Amundi
Evian Championship in Evian-Les-
Bains, France, the fourth of five LPGA
majors in 2023, Boutier, a native of the
host nation, holds a one-shot lead after
hitting 10 of 13 fairways and 15 of 18
greens Friday.
Boutier has posted rounds of 66 and
MLB
Mets show hand, trade
Robertson to Marlins
Andrew Tredinnick
NorthJersey.com
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK — David Robertson was
warming up in the Mets bullpen in the
eighth inning of a tie game with the Na-
tionals. The rain came, the tarp went
onto the field and the Mets closer was
gone.
The Mets front office made it clear
their intentions to sell at the deadline as
they traded Robertson to the Miami
Marlins for minor-league infielder Mar-
co Vargas and catcher Ronald Hernan-
dez in the midst of a rain delay late
Thursday night.
“We were faced with where our club
was at this time of the season, and I’ve
had a number of inquiries on our play-
ers,” Mets general manager Billy Eppler
said.
EXTRA
69 to get to 7 under for the champion-
ship. She has 10 birdies and just three
bogeys over the first two days.
She admitted to feeling the nerves of
playing on home soil in a major.
“It’s definitely not easy. I feel like in
the past I’ve definitely, you know, not
handled it very well. I just feel like I put
a lot of pressure on myself because I
don’t want to disappoint anybody,” she
said.”If I learned anything from the
past, I really have to just focus on the
job and on the course, on each shot. I
feel like that’s really helped me really
stay focused and not get ahead or think
“We were listening and in this cir-
cumstance the value of the players that
we acquired kind of exceeded our ex-
pectations and so we executed it.”
Robertson, who signed a one-year,
$10 million deal in the offseason, was
one of the top trade pieces on the table
for the Mets. In 40 games this season,
the 38-year-old right-hander stepped in
for an injured Edwin Diaz and notched
14 saves while posting a 4-2 record with
a 2.05 ERA, 1.00 WHIP and 48 strikeouts
in 44 innings.
In return, the Mets netted the 18-
year-old Vargas, the Marlins’ No. 18
prospect, according to MLB Pipeline,
and the 19-year-old Hernandez, the
team’s No. 21 prospect. Both players are
on the Marlins’ Florida Complex League
team.
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too much about the plans.”
Boutier is trying to treat this like any
other tournament but there’s no avoid-
ing things like doing news conferences
twice, in two different languages.
“I feel like it’s a positive thing that
the French media is talking about wom-
en’s golf and Evian,” she said. “I feel like
anything I can do to bring more atten-
tion to the tournament and women’s
golf, in general, is always a good thing.”
Heres some other things you should
know about Friday’s second round.
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Mets pitcher David Robertson delivers against the Dodgers on July 16. The Mets
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WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
Nancy Armour
Columnist
USA TODAY
USWNT
needs
to utilize
deep bench
AUCKLAND, New Zealand − The
U.S. women have a wealth of talent on
their bench.
Use it.
The pre-World Cup criticism of
coach Vlatko Andonovski’s lineups
and substitutions was renewed after
Thursday’s disappointing draw with
the Netherlands. And not wrongly. An-
donovski made one substitution − one!
− in the game, and he left Lynn Wil-
liams on the bench when her offensive
opportunism and defensive tenacity
could have been the difference-maker
as the USWNT chased a goal over the
last 30 minutes.
Now the two-time defending cham-
pions are facing a must-win game −
OK, a tie works, too, but a win would be
better − against Portugal in Tuesday’s
group-stage finale.
“I thought we had control of the
game, and I thought that we were
knocking on the door of scoring a goal,”
Andonovski said. “We were around the
goal the whole time and I just didn’t
want to disrupt the rhythm at that
point. Because sometimes a substitute
comes in and it might take a minute or
two to get into a rhythm and we just
didn’t want to jeopardize that.”
This isn’t a travel team tournament.
It’s the World Cup, and the Americans
have some of the best players in the
world. If they’re not prepared to come
in and make an immediate impact,
then why are they even here in the first
place?
Plus, you think seeing a Williams or
a Megan Rapinoe or an Alyssa Thomp-
son wouldn’t have flustered the
Dutch?
Netherlands coach Andries Jonker
might have been getting a little ahead
of himself when he questioned the
Americans’ fitness in an interview
with ESPN ahead of the game and
asked, “What is left of their superior-
ity? Let’s see about that.”
But when Andonovski has talked
about the gap closing on the USWNT,
he’s said that happened long ago.
That the USWNT won the 2015 and
2019 World Cups and 2012 Olympic ti-
tle because Jill Ellis and Pia Sundhage
were able to find ways to separate the
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GOLF

ROUNDUP

Hodges leads 3M Open, Thomas misses cut

ASSOCIATED PRESS
BLAINE, Minn. – With the FedEx Cup
two weeks away, Lee Hodges can
breathe easier. Justin Thomas can’t.
Hodges birdied four of his last six
holes for a 7-under 64 and a four-stroke
lead over Tyler Duncan on Friday after
almost two rounds of the 3M Open.
A nearly two-hour afternoon weath-
er delay led to play being suspended due
to darkness with six players yet to finish
– none within 10 shots of the lead.
Hodges, 74th in the FedEx Cup points
race, opened with a 63 for the first-
round lead and had a 15-under 127 total
to break the tournament 36-hole record
of 128 set by Bryson DeChambeau in
2019.
Hodges was 3 under on the front nine
and added a 33-foot birdie putt on No.
13, followed by birdies from 14 feet on
No. 14 and 11 feet on No. 17.
“I’ve got a great attitude out there. Me
and my caddie (Andrew Medley), we’re
70-something on the points list, like
what do we have to lose, you know?”
Hodges said. “We’ve committed to every
shot we’ve hit so far, which has been
great. We’ll continue to do it, because
what do we have to lose.”
A lengthy last-hole putt was not
enough to overcome a couple bad holes
as Thomas aims to make the FedEx Cup
playoffs for the eighth straight season.
He birdied four of his last five holes to
shoot a shot an even-par 71, leaving him
2 under for the tournament and two
strokes short.
Thomas, at No. 75 in the FedEx Cup
standings, has missed five cuts in his
last seven starts. The top 70 next week
after the Wyndham Championship will
advance to the playoffs. Looking to stay
in strong consideration for the U.S. Ry-
der Cup team, Thomas has just two
top-10 finishes in 14 tournaments since
mid-February.
Starting on the back nine, Thomas
put two balls in the water on the par-5
18th, falling to 1 under. An errant tee shot
and poor chip led to another double bo-
gey on the par-3 fourth, before a strong
finishing stretch was punctuated by a
30-foot putt on No. 9.
Lee Hodges hits his second shot on the 12th hole during the second round of the
3M Open on Friday in Blaine, Minn. MATT KROHN/USA TODAY SPORTS
“This is a good chance for me to learn
a little bit about myself and push myself
and become better,” Thomas said before
the tournament. “I mean, this game,
nothing’s given to you. I’ve had great
chances to win the FedEx Cup the last
five or six years and now I’m trying to
make the playoffs. That’s just the way
that this sport is. And it can happen to
anybody, so you’ve just got to go out and
get it.”
He wasn’t the only player to put un-
timely dents in possible playoff plans by
missing the cut. No. 70 K.H. Lee (1 un-
der), No. 72 Davis Thompson (2 under)
and No. 90 Gary Woodland (3 over) also
get the weekend off.
Duncan, who has missed six cuts in
his past eight events and 17 of 27 this
season, shot a 67. He has back-to-back
bogey-free rounds.
“You never know when it’s coming,
but I’ve been putting in the work and
you always hope it shows up,” Duncan
said. “But it doesn’t always show up
when you want it to.”
Defending champion Tony Finau
(66), J.T. Poston (66), Brandt Snedeker
(68) and Kevin Streelman (68) were 10
under.
With one top-10 in 25 starts this sea-
son, Streelman is in a rare position.
“I haven’t been in the final groups in a
while on a Saturday, so looking forward
to that. At my age I don’t have much to
lose, so go out and have some fun this
weekend,” the 44-year-old Streelman
said.
Senior British Open
BRIDGEND, Wales – Steven Alker
moved to the top of the Senior British
Open leaderboard on Friday with a 3-
under 68 after Miguel Angel Jimenez
followed up a round to remember with
one to forget.
Playing on his birthday, Alker hit four
birdies in the second round along with a
bogey at the par-4 10th. The New Zea-
lander is 4 under overall and leads his
fellow 52-year-old Alex Cejka (71) of
Germany by a shot at Royal Porthcawl.
Alker is chasing his second major vic-
tory in the over-50 ranks. He won the
KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship
last year.
Scotland’s Greig Hutcheon (68) is a
further stroke back in third.
Overnight leader Jimenez had an
opening-round 5-under 66 but dropped
down to an eight-way tie for eighth after
a 5-over 76, including four bogeys be-
tween Nos. 13-17. Jimenez was the first
Spaniard to win the tournament, in
2018. Bernhard Langer, who won the
last time the Senior British Open was
held at Royal Porthcawl in 2017, carded a
69 to also share eighth. He is a four-time
winner of this major and has been run-
ner-up three times.
Defending champion Darren Clarke
(74) is 5 over
The tournament is the last of five ma-
jors on the senior schedule. The winner
gets into the British Open next year at
Royal Troon.

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Emma 'tallies' an ace

First, something fun.

On the second hole during Friday’s
second round, Emma Talley struck pay-
dirt, acing the par-3 hole.
Talley is 4 over for the week after
rounds of 73-73. Her ace helped her
make the cut right on the number.

Tavatanakit finding her form

It’s not been a season to remember

for Patty Tavatanakit. She has just one
top-10 finish in 2023 and recently went
through a stretch of four straight missed
cuts before a tie for 27th at the U.S.
Women’s Open at Pebble Beach. That’s
actually her second-best finish this
year.
Tavatanakit, who has a major on her
resume at the 2021 ANA Inspiration, has
gone 69-67 so far at Evian Resort Golf
Club and is 6 under, tied with Yuka Saso
for second.

What about Rose?

The Evian marks the fifth LPGA start

as a pro for Rose Zhang. Of those five,
this is already her third major as a pro.
She famously won her first event as a
pro then posted top-10s in the KMPG
and U.S. Women’s Open. This is also the
first time Zhang is playing having
missed a cut the last time out, as she did
at the Dana Open two weeks ago.
Zhang opened the 2023 Evian with a
2-under 69 round that featured six bird-
ies but also four bogeys. On Friday, she
had another colorful scorecard, includ-
ing a triple-bogey 7 on the par-5 ninth
hole but signed for an even-par round of
71 and is tied for 12th.

First-round leader slides back

After missing the cut at the first three

majors, Paula Reto showed out Thurs-
day, posting a first-round 64. Friday
wasn’t so great, as she struggled to a 75.
But, she’s at 3 under and tied for eighth,
and still in contention heading to the South Africa’s Paula Reto hits a shot during the second round of the Evian Championship on Friday in Evian-les-Bains,
weekend. France. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
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WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

James fires England over Denmark

ASSOCIATED PRESS

SYDNEY – In the end, it was worth

the wait.
With a flash of early brilliance, Lau-
ren James ended England’s run of more
than seven hours without a goal from
open play to seal a 1-0 win against Den-
mark at the Women’s World Cup on Fri-
day.
The Chelsea star scored after six
minutes of her first start at the tourna-
ment to put the Lionesses on course for
back-to-back wins in Group D.
“It was a dream and something I’ve
been thinking about, but most impor-
tantly I’m happy to help us win,” James
said. “I kind of had a thought and then
as soon as it hit the net, it was just re-
lief.”
James, who came off the bench in
England’s tight opening win over Haiti,
made a quick impression when given
her chance from the start against Den-
mark.
Collecting the ball outside the area,
she curled a right-foot shot beyond the
reach of goalkeeper Lene Christensen to
score what turned out to be the winner
for European champion England.
“It came too early for us,” Denmark
coach Lars Sondergaard said. “It upset
us a little bit.
“We were then on the back foot a little
bit and England got confidence through
this beautiful goal.”
James, the sister of Chelsea and Eng-
land men’s player Reece James, is con-
sidered one of the brightest prospects in
women’s soccer.
She lived up to that billing, being
named player of the match against Den-
mark and bringing a new energy to Eng-
land’s attack, which has lacked cutting
edge in the build up to the World Cup.
She was the key difference between England’s Lauren James, right, celebrates a goal with teammate Ella Toone during the Women’s World Cup Group D match
an England team that had looked pre- against Denmark at Sydney Football Stadium on Friday. SOPHIE RALPH/AP
dictable in attack against Haiti and one
that threatened to overrun Denmark in
the opening half an hour in Sydney. does that really well. She’s a great play- China last week, beat England keeper Forward Wang Shuang scored her
Not that her coach Sarina Wiegman er.” Mary Earps, only to see her effort come first-ever goal at a World Cup in the 74th
wanted to place too much focus on the For all of James’ brilliance, England back off the woodwork. minute, converting a penalty after VAR
forward, trying to deflect any question still required the width of the post to se- ajudged her teammate Zhang Linyan
about the player. cure another narrow win. China 1, Haiti 0 was fouled in the area.
James’ former Chelsea teammate Denmark substitute Amalie Vangs- This victory marks the second time
and Denmark captain Pernille Harder gaard went close to scoring a dramatic ADELAIDE, Australia – Despite play- in Women’s World Cup history that a
was happier to give praise. late equalizer with a header in the final ing with 10 players for more than an team has won with 10 players on the
“I’ve seen her do that so many times moments of regulation time. hour, China defied the odds to secure a field, with the previous occurrence tak-
in training, I knew that we had to keep The forward, who came off the bench victory over Haiti in its second game of ing place in 2011.
an eye on her right foot,” she said. “She to score a 90th-minute winner against the Women’s World Cup.

Armour
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Americans just the tiniest bit from ev-

eryone else.
“They found a way to push this team
and get the standards a little higher and
push them that 1 extra percent to get
them on top or keep them on top,” Ando-
novski said last month. “It is our respon-
sibility to do the same now in this tour-
nament, push this team for the extra 1
percent to be the best or to stay the
best.”
And?
It was one thing for the USWNT to
look stodgy in the leadup to this World
Cup. The Americans are in the midst of a
generational shift, and Andonovski
needed to experiment with lineups and
different players to see what would
work and what wouldn’t.
The USWNT also had to scramble to
fill holes left by injuries to leading scorer
Mallory Swanson (knee) and center
back stalwart Becky Sauerbrunn (foot).
But untimely injuries happen. The
Americans sure aren’t going to get much
sympathy from England, which is with-
out three of its best players. Or Aus-
tralia, which saw star Sam Kerr ruled
out for at least two games at the begin-
ning of the tournament. Or France,
which lost Amandine Henry after it was
already down Marie-Antoinette Katoto
and Delphine Cascarino. Or … you get
the picture.
It is Andonovski’s job to find the best
puzzle pieces and the right way to con-
figure them, and if it’s not working, to
make changes. United States midfielder Rose Lavelle (16) reacts with head coach Vlatko Andonovski during the second half against the
Like other USWNT coaches have. Netherlands on Thursday in Wellington, New Zealand. JENNA WATSON/USA TODAY SPORTS
Ellis might be one of only two coach-
es to win two World Cup titles, but fans
howled about her tactical choices at the of adapting. a starter for two games in Tokyo after But when Andonovski needed to
2015 tournament until yellow-card ac- He returned Julie Ertz to center back she’d been an alternate on the original make bold moves against the Nether-
cumulations forced her to adjust for the after Sauerbrunn’s injury, even though roster. lands, he played it safe. That’s not the
quarterfinals. The USWNT found its Ertz hadn’t played the position on a con- He is all but certain to return Rose La- way to win a World Cup.
groove and, three games later, was lift- sistent basis since 2017 and had been velle to the starting lineup as soon as the It’s a way to get beat.
ing its first World Cup trophy since 1999. out for more than a year and a half after medical staff lifts her minutes restric- Follow USA TODAY Sports columnist
Andonovski has shown he’s capable the Tokyo Olympics. He made Williams tions. Nancy Armour on Twitter @nrarmour.
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MLB
FRIDAY’S ROUNDUP
Angels’ Ohtani hits MLB-leading 39th homer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TORONTO – Shohei Ohtani hit his
major league-leading 39th home run for
the Angels before leaving the game with
leg cramps, as the Toronto Blue Jays
slugged three solo homers and rallied to
beat Los Angeles 4-1 on Friday night.
Ohtani, who homered on the first
pitch he faced Friday, went deep in three
straight at-bats over two games. He was
replaced by pinch-hitter Michael Ste-
fanic when his at-bat came up with the
bases loaded in the ninth inning. Angels
manager Phil Nevin said after the game
Ohtani left due to cramps. A day earlier,
Ohtani left the second game of a double-
header at Detroit because of cramps.
Stefanic struck out looking as Toron-
to ended the Angels’ four-game winning
streak.
Matt Chapman, Danny Jansen and
Whit Merrifield homered for the Blue
Jays, who are 24-11 when they hit two or
more home runs.
Kevin Gausman (8-5) allowed one
run and five hits in six-plus innings to
win for the first time since June 21 at Mi-
ami. Gausman walked three and struck
out nine, increasing his AL-leading total
to 171.
Lucas Giolito (6-7) allowed three runs
and six hits in 51⁄3 innings in his first start
for the Angels since being acquired from
the White Sox. He walked one and
struck out five.
Mets 5, Nationals 1
NEW YORK – Pete Alonso homered
twice to become the second player in
Mets history with four 30-homer sea-
sons, leading New York over Washing-
ton.
The Mets won their second straight a
little less than 24 hours after sending
closer David Robertson to Miami for two
rookie-ball prospects.
Alonso joined Mike Piazza as the only
players with four 30-homer seasons for
the Mets.
Max Scherzer (9-4) allowed six hits
and struck out seven in seven solid in-
nings. Scherzer carried a shutout into
the seventh, when Luis García hit a
leadoff homer.
MacKenzie Gore (6-8) gave up three
runs in five innings.
Orioles 1, Yankees 0
BALTIMORE – Anthony Santander
homered off Tommy Kahnle in the ninth
inning to give Baltimore a victory over
New York, spoiling Aaron Judge’s return
for the Yankees.
Judge walked three times in his first
game back from a toe injury.
Orioles rookie Grayson Rodriguez
pitched 61⁄3 scoreless inning, going toe to
toe with New York’s Gerrit Cole, who
went seven. Félix Bautista (6-1) struck
out two in a scoreless ninth. Kahnle (1-1)
allowed Santander’s one-out drive that
went well beyond the fence in right-cen-
ter field.
The Orioles remained 11⁄2 games
ahead of Tampa Bay atop the AL East,
and they now lead the last-place Yan-
kees by nine.
Marlins 6, Tigers 5
MIAMI – Jon Berti’s second hit of the
game was a go-ahead RBI single in the
eighth inning, helping Miami beat De-
troit.
Luis Arraez doubled and had two sin-
gles to raise his major league-leading
batting average to .380, and Bryan De La
Cruz homered and doubled and drove in
three runs for the Marlins.
Marlins reliever J.T. Chargois (2-0)
earned the win. Tigers reliever Jason Fo-
ley (2-3) took the loss.
Andy Ibañez, Nick Maton and Spen-
cer Torkelson drove in runs for Detroit.
Tigers’ star slugger Miguel Cabrera
went 0 for 3 and was hit by a pitch. Ca-
brera, who will retire at the end of the
season, spent the first five seasons of
his career with the Marlins. The club
honored Cabrera with a video tribute
and gifts before the game.
White Sox 3, Guardians 0
CHICAGO – Luis Robert Jr. and Jake
Burger homered, Touki Toussaint
pitched five innings for his first win and
Chicago snapped a six-game losing
streak with a win over Cleveland.
Chicago’s victory came on the tail
end of a day in which it dealt pitchers
Lance Lynn, Joe Kelly and Kendall Gra-
veman, continuing a deadline selling
spree.
Toussaint (1-3) allowed three hits,
Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani hits a home run against the Blue Jays during the first inning on Friday in Toronto.
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walked one and struck out four. Gregory
Santos earned his second save.
Xzavion Curry (3-1) took the loss and
Josh Naylor had a double and two sin-
gles, accounting for half the Guardians’
six hits.
Phillies 2, Pirates 1
PITTSBURGH – Kyle Schwarber hit a
two-run home run and reached base in
all five plate appearances, Zack Wheeler
struck out 11 in 62⁄3 innings, and Philadel-
phia beat Pittsburgh.
Schwarber’s blast, his 27th of the
season, came off All-Star Mitch Keller in
the third inning and carried into the
Phillies’ bullpen in center field. Brandon
Marsh walked to lead off the inning be-
fore Schwarber unloaded with one out.
Bryson Stott had two hits for Philadel-
phia.
Wheeler (8-5) gave up one run and
three hits while walking one after being
winless in his previous three starts. He
was removed from the game following a
42-minute rain delay in the seventh in-
ning. Craig Kimbrel earned his 17th save.
Keller (9-7) lasted 52⁄3 innings and al-
lowed two runs and six hits with eight
strikeouts and three walks. Ji Man Choi
hit a run-scoring double in the fourth to
draw the Pirates to 2-1.
Braves 10, Brewers 7
ATLANTA – Ozzie Albies singled in
the go-ahead run in the fifth inning,
Austin Riley and Matt Olson hit back-to-
back homers in a four-run seventh and
the major league-leading Atlanta Braves
snapped a two-game skid.
Marcell Ozuna also went deep for At-
lanta, hitting his 19th homer.
Raisel Iglesias worked a perfect ninth
for his 19th save in 21 chances.
Abraham Toro hit a three-run homer
for Milwaukee (57-47), which began the
night with a 11⁄2-game lead in the NL Cen-
tral.
Adrian Houser (3-3) took the loss af-
ter allowing eight hits and six runs in
four innings. Collin McHugh (4-1) gave
up one hit in 11⁄3 innings.
Rays 4, Astros 3
HOUSTON – Brandon Lowe hit a
three-run homer early and José Siri
doubled and scored the tiebreaking run
in the ninth inning for Tampa Bay.
The game was tied entering the ninth
when Siri doubled to left field off Ryan
Pressly (3-3) and moved to third on a
sacrifice fly by Christian Bethancourt.
The Rays took a 4-3 lead when Siri
scored on a sacrifice fly by Yandy Díaz.
Colin Poche (8-3) pitched a scoreless
eighth for the win.. Pete Fairbanks
picked up his 13th save as Tampa Bay
won for just the third time in 11 games.
Houston’s Cristian Javier yielded
three hits and three runs with eight
strikeouts in six innings to remain win-
less since June 3.
Cubs 3, Cardinals 2
ST. LOUIS – Patrick Wisdom ho-
mered and Trey Mancini had a tiebreak-
ing RBI single to lead Chicago past St.
Louis for its ninth win in 10 games.
Drew Smyly (8-7) allowed just two
hits in 41⁄3 effective innings in relief as
the Cubs won their seventh straight
game.
Reliever Adbert Alzolay got the last
four outs for his 12th save in 13 opportu-
nities. He retired pinch-hitter Alec Bur-
leson on a fly ball to deep center with a
runner on third to end the game as Mike
Tauchman reached over the fence to
take away a potential game-winning
home run.
Lars Nootbaar homered twice for St.
Louis, which has lost three of five.
Jordan Montgomery (6-9) took the
loss, allowing three runs and five hits
over six innings.
Royals 8, Twins 5, 10 innings
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Bobby Witt Jr.’s
grand slam in the 10th inning gave Kan-
sas City a win over Minnesota.
Witt finished 4 for 5 with six RBIs,
falling a triple short of the cycle and
pulling out the game for the Royals after
they blew a 4-2 lead in the ninth.
Brady Singer struck out a season-
high 10 in five innings for the Royals,
who needed their 13th comeback win of
the season after Jorge Polanco’s two-
run double with two outs in the ninth
tied it at 4-all.
Minnesota then went ahead on Kyle
Farmer’s RBI single in the 10th off Taylor
Clarke (2-4) before Witt won it with his
17th homer of the season off Jhoan Du-
ran (2-5).
Kyle Isbel hit a 400-foot home run for
the Royals off Twins starter Sonny Gray
in the third. It was the first homer al-
lowed by Gray against the Royals since
August 2014.
Athletics 8, Rockies 5
DENVER – Zack Gelof and Ramon
Laureano homered, JP Sears won for the
second time this season and Oakland
snapped a three-game skid.
Shea Langeliers had a double, a triple
and scored twice, Laureano had two hits
and scored twice and Tony Kemp had
two doubles as the major league-worst
A’s pounded out 14 hits. They were 3-13
in their previous 16 games.
Sears (2-7) gave up four hits, includ-
ing a homer to Randal Grichuk, struck
out five and walked one while breaking
a four-game losing streak.
Colorado left-hander Kyle Freeland
(4-11) gave up nine hits and five runs,
three earned, in his first start since suf-
fering a right shoulder injury when he
dove for a popup in San Francisco on
July 9. He struck out three and hit a bat-
ter.
Mariners 5, Diamondbacks 2
PHOENIX – Cal Raleigh and Tom
Murphy hit back-to-back, two-run dou-
bles in a four-run first, Logan Gilbert
threw 61⁄3 strong innings and Seattle beat
skidding Arizona.
The Mariners have won three straight
and are 8-6 since the All-Star break. The
Diamondbacks continued their extend-
ed slide, falling to 6-15 in July.
Seattle jumped all over D-backs
starter Tommy Henry (5-4) in the first,
scoring four runs on four hits, including
three doubles.
Gilbert (9-5) gave up two runs on
nine hits, striking out five and walking
none. Paul Sewald worked the ninth for
his career-high 21st save.
Red Sox 3, Giants 2
SAN FRANCISCO – Triston Casas ho-
mered and hit an RBI double to back
Kutter Crawford, and Boston ran its win
streak to five games with a win over San
Francisco.
Crawford (5-5) dueled with Giants
ace Logan Webb (8-9), striking out sev-
en with one walk, while allowing one
run on three hits over 52⁄3 innings. Kenley
Jansen earned his 23rd save.
Michael Conforto had an RBI single in
the sixth and Joc Pederson homered in
the bottom of the eighth for San Francis-
co.
Padres 7, Rangers 1
SAN DIEGO – Joe Musgrove pitched
six strong innings and Fernando Tatis
Jr. homered as San Diego beat AL West-
leading Texas.
Musgrove (10-3) was facing the Rang-
ers for the first time since throwing the
first no-hitter in Padres history, in just
his second start with his hometown
team, on April 9, 2021, at Texas. Mus-
grove won for the ninth time in 10 deci-
sions by holding Texas to four hits while
striking out five and walking two.
Tatis homered to right-center off
Dane Dunning (8-4) with one out in the
fifth, his 18th, and added an RBI single
during the four-run sixth.
The Padres also got RBIs from two of
their other stars, Juan Soto and Manny
Machado. Gary Sanchez added an RBI
double in the sixth.
Reds 6, Dodgers 5
LOS ANGELES – Jake Fraley hit a
two-run homer, Spencer Steer added a
solo shot, and Cincinnati won the series
opener with Los Angeles.
The Reds moved with a half-game of
first-place Milwaukee in the NL Central.
Brandon Williamson (3-2) allowed
two runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings.
The right-hander struck out two and
walked four. Alexis Diaz earned his 31st
save.
The Dodgers scored three runs in the
seventh to pull within a run, and had the
potential tying run on second in the
eighth before Mookie Betts grounded
out to end the threat.
Los Angeles rookie Bobby Miller
(6-2) gave up three runs and six hits in
five innings. The right-hander struck
out six and didn’t walk anyone.
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MLB

FRIDAY’S BOX SCORES

REDS 6, DODGERS 5
Cincinnati .................300 000 300 — 6
Los Angeles...............100 100 300 — 5
Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
De La Cruz 3b-ss 4 1 1 0 1 2 .264
Friedl cf 4 0 0 2 0 0 .283
McLain ss-2b 3 1 2 1 1 1 .305
Fraley rf 4 1 1 2 0 1 .264
India 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .251
Maile c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .238
Votto 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .188
Steer lf 4 1 2 1 0 2 .276
Stephenson c 3 0 1 0 0 0 .250
1-Senzel pr-3b 1 1 0 0 0 1 .232
Benson dh 2 1 0 0 1 2 .278
c-Encarnacion-Strand 1 0 0 0 0 0 .233
ph-dh
Totals 34 6 8 6 3 10
Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Betts rf-2b 3 1 1 0 2 0 .277
Freeman 1b 4 1 2 2 1 0 .329
Smith c 5 0 0 0 0 2 .281
Martinez dh 5 0 2 1 0 1 .262
Rosario ss 4 1 2 1 0 0 .500
Muncy 3b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .195
Taylor lf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .215
Hernández cf 2 0 1 0 0 0 .500
a-Peralta ph-rf 2 1 2 0 0 0 .283
Rojas 2b 2 0 1 1 0 0 .224
b-Outman ph-cf 1 1 0 0 1 0 .249
Totals 34 5 12 5 6 4
a-doubled for Hernández in the 7th. b-walked for
Rojas in the 7th. c-grounded out for Benson in the 9th.
1-ran for Stephenson in the 7th.
LOB: Cincinnati 5, Los Angeles 8. 2B: McLain 2 (19),
Martinez (21), Hernández (1), Rosario (1), Peralta (12). 3B:
De La Cruz (3). HR: Fraley (15), off B.Miller; Steer (15), off
Almonte. RBIs: Friedl 2 (35), Fraley 2 (61), Steer (56),
McLain (36), Martinez (75), Rojas (12), Freeman 2 (73),
Rosario (1). SB: Outman (12).
Runners left in scoring position: Cincinnati 3 (India 3);
Los Angeles 4 (Betts, Rojas, Muncy, Rosario). RISP:
Cincinnati 1 for 6; Los Angeles 3 for 13.
Runners moved up: Friedl, Smith. GIDP: Stephenson,
Rosario, Freeman, Martinez.
DP: Cincinnati 3 (De La Cruz, India, Votto; India,
McLain, Votto; De La Cruz, India, Votto); Los Angeles 1
(Muncy, Rojas, Freeman).
Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Williamson, W, 3-2 52⁄3 8 2 2 4 2 77 4.48
Sims, H, 17 1
⁄3 1 3 3 2 0 18 3.70
Gibaut, H, 15 2
⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 12 2.96
Young, H, 11 1 1 0 0 0 1 15 2.20
Díaz, S, 31-32 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 14 2.14
Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
B.Miller, L, 6-2 5 6 3 3 0 6100 4.37
Brasier 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 1.12
Almonte 1
⁄3 2 3 3 3 0 21 5.02
Bickford 2
⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 15 5.14
Ferguson 1 0 0 0 0 2 9 2.50
Vesia 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 5.79
Inherited runners-scored: Sims 1-0, Gibaut 3-3, Young
2-0, Díaz 1-0, Bickford 3-0. IBB: off Almonte (De La Cruz).
HBP: Almonte (Friedl). WP: B.Miller, Almonte. PB: Maile
(3).
Umpires: Home, Marvin Hudson; First, Hunter
Wendelstedt; Second, John Tumpane; Third, Paul
Clemons.
Time: 2:51. Attendance: 48,280 (56,000).

PADRES 7, RANGERS 1
Texas .........................000 000 001 — 1
San Diego ...................101 014 00x — 7
Texas AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Semien 2b 4 0 0 1 1 1 .277
Jankowski lf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .314
Lowe 1b 2 0 1 0 2 1 .288
A.García rf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .259
Jung 3b 4 1 3 0 0 0 .278
Grossman dh 3 0 0 0 1 1 .223
Garver c 2 0 0 0 1 1 .250
Huff c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .188
Duran ss 4 0 0 0 0 3 .287
Taveras cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .279
Totals 33 1 6 1 5 10
San Diego AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert throws against the Diamondbacks during the first inning on Friday in Phoenix.
Kim 2b 2 2 1 0 2 0 .274
Batten 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .300 JOE CAMPOREALE/USA TODAY SPORTS
Tatis Jr. rf 5 1 2 2 0 3 .279
Soto lf 3 0 2 1 1 1 .266
a-Kohlwey ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .154
Machado 3b 3 0 1 3 0 1 .257
Bogaerts ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .262 Ta.Rogers 12⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 15 2.80 Minnesota..............000 200 002 1 — 5 Arozarena lf 2 1 0 0 2 0 .262 Totals 31 1 5 1 2 13 Second, Vic Carapazza; Third, Emil Jimenez.
Cronenworth 1b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .209 B.Lowe 2b 3 1 2 3 0 0 .221 Time: 2:37. Attendance: 25,385 (42,136).
Campusano dh 3 1 0 0 1 0 .280 Inherited runners-scored: Bernardino 1-0, Ta.Rogers Kansas City ............001 002 010 4 — 8 Paredes 3b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .253
a-singled for Williams in the 8th. b-singled for
Sánchez c 3 1 1 1 1 0 .209 1-1. WP: Crawford. Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Suwinski in the 8th.
J.Lowe rf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .268
Umpires: Home, Quinn Wolcott; First, Junior Correa ss 4 0 1 0 1 1 .229 E: Peguero (1). LOB: Philadelphia 10, Pittsburgh 5. 2B:
Grisham cf
Totals
2
31
1
7
0 0 2 0
9 7 7 7
.207
Valentine; Second, Manny Gonzalez; Third, Adrian
Johnson.
Julien 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .297
Siri cf
Pinto c
4
3
1
0
1 0 0 2
1 0 0 1
.229
.200
Schwarber (13), Stott (19), Choi (3). HR: Schwarber (27),
off Keller. RBIs: Schwarber 2 (64), Choi (11). CS:
WHITE SOX 3,
1-M.Taylor pr-cf 0 1 0 0 0 0 .222
a-struck out for Soto in the 8th.
LOB: Texas 10, San Diego 8. 2B: Jung 2 (23),
Time: 2:17. Attendance: 33,755 (41,915). Kirilloff 1b
a-Solano ph-1b
3
1
0
0
0 0 0 3
0 0 0 0
.271
.263
1-Bruján pr
Bethancourt c
0
1
0
0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
.204
.219 Schwarber (2).
Runners left in scoring position: Philadelphia 6 (Cave
GUARDIANS 0
Cronenworth (17), Sánchez (6). HR: Tatis Jr. (18), off Totals 31 4 6 4 3 11
Kepler rf 5 1 1 0 0 1 .229 2, Turner, Bohm, Harper 2); Pittsburgh 2 (Rodríguez 2). Cleveland .................000 000 000 — 0
Dunning. RBIs: Semien (64), Soto (63), Machado 3 (62), Polanco 3b-2b 4 0 1 2 0 2 .250 Houston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. RISP: Philadelphia 2 for 9; Pittsburgh 1 for 4. Chicago.......................100 001 01x — 3
Tatis Jr. 2 (52), Sánchez (28). SB: Kim (20). SF: Machado.
Runners left in scoring position: Texas 7 (Grossman 2,
ORIOLES 1, YANKEES 0 Wallner dh
Castro cf-lf
5
3
1
1
0 0 0 2
0 0 2 1
.268
.241
Altuve 2b
Peña ss
4
4
1
0
2 0 0 1
1 1 0 1
.266
.235
Runners moved up: Realmuto, Cave 2. GIDP: Turner, Cleveland AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Reynolds. Kwan lf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .271
Jankowski 2, Garver 2, Duran); San Diego 4 (Bogaerts 2, New York .................000 000 000 — 0 Jeffers c 5 0 2 1 0 1 .281 Tucker rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .304 DP: Philadelphia 1 (Stott, Harper); Pittsburgh 1
Grisham, Kohlwey). RISP: Texas 1 for 8; San Diego 4 for Bregman 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .253 Giménez 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .242
Gallo lf 3 0 1 0 0 2 .179
16. Baltimore ..................000 000 001 — 1 b-Buxton ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .198 Alvarez dh 4 1 1 0 0 2 .279
(Williams, Gonzales, Choi). Ramírez 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .288
New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA J.Naylor 1b 4 0 3 0 0 0 .309
Runners moved up: Sánchez. Farmer 3b 1 0 1 1 0 0 .258 J.Abreu 1b 4 1 1 2 0 0 .242
Torres 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .261 McCormick cf 3 0 1 0 1 2 .279 Wheeler, W, 8-5 62⁄3 3 1 1 1 11 90 3.74 Bell dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .236
Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Totals 38 5 8 4 4 14
Judge dh 1 0 0 0 3 0 .290 Julks lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .252 Hoffman, H, 2 2
⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 9 2.63 Brennan cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .262
Dunning, L, 8-4 5 5 3 3 3 4 90 3.28 Rizzo 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .246 Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg. a-Diaz ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .262 Soto, H, 15 2
⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 12 4.35 Gonzalez rf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .205
Rodríguez 1 4 4 4 2 1 27 7.90 Stanton rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .196 Garcia 3b 4 2 1 0 1 0 .273 Maldonado c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .172 Kimbrel, S, 17-18 1 0 0 0 1 0 12 3.27 B.Naylor c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .221
Howard 2 0 0 0 2 2 36 10.80 LeMahieu 3b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .234 Witt Jr. ss 5 2 4 6 0 1 .257 b-Dubón ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .263 a-Fry ph-c 1 0 0 0 0 1 .284
Melendez lf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .217 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Arias ss 2 0 0 0 0 2 .193
San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA McKinney lf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .244 Totals 35 3 8 3 1 10
Bader cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .255 Blanco lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .233 Keller, L, 9-7 52⁄3 6 2 2 3 8108 3.97 b-Freeman ph-ss 1 0 0 0 0 0 .291
Musgrove, W, 10-3 6 4 0 0 2 5105 3.05 Volpe ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .210 Perez 1b-c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .246 a-pinch hit for Julks in the 9th. b-struck out for Borucki 11⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 12 3.45 Totals 32 0 6 0 1 8
Martinez 1 0 0 0 0 2 16 3.79 Rortvedt c 2 0 0 0 0 1 .154 Fermin c 4 0 1 0 0 2 .298 Maldonado in the 9th. Hernandez 2
⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 13 3.26
Cosgrove 1 0 0 0 1 1 16 1.93 1-ran for Pinto in the 7th. Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
a-Bauers ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .224 2-S.Taylor pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .152 De Los Santos 1 1 0 0 1 0 18 2.79 Benintendi lf 3 0 2 0 1 1 .284
L.García 1 2 1 1 2 2 20 5.40 Higashioka c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .216 Duffy 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .264 LOB: Tampa Bay 9, Houston 6. 2B: Siri (8). 3B: Franco Mlodzinski 1
⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2.04 Anderson ss 3 0 0 0 1 0 .239
WP: Dunning. Totals 29 0 4 0 4 6 Massey dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 .216 (5), Altuve (1). HR: B.Lowe (12), off Javier; J.Abreu (9), Inherited runners-scored: Hoffman 1-0, Soto 1-0, Robert Jr. cf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .267
Umpires: Home, Ryan Blakney; First, James Hoye; Isbel cf 4 2 1 1 0 0 .213 off McClanahan. RBIs: B.Lowe 3 (37), Díaz (50), Peña Borucki 1-0, De Los Santos 1-0, Mlodzinski 3-0. IBB: off Jiménez dh 4 0 1 0 0 1 .285
Baltimore AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Second, D.J. Reyburn; Third, Clint Vondrak. Waters rf 4 1 1 0 0 3 .233 (35), J.Abreu 2 (53). SB: Peña (10), Arozarena (12), De Los Santos (Schwarber). 1-Andrus pr-dh 0 1 0 0 0 0 .211
Henderson ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .238
Time: 2:38. Attendance: 44,241 (40,222). Lopez 2b 2 1 0 0 1 0 .210 B.Lowe (5). SF: Díaz. Burger 3b 3 1 1 1 1 1 .218
Rutschman c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .268 Umpires: Home, Nestor Ceja; First, Brian O'Nora;
Totals 35 8 9 8 2 7 Runners left in scoring position: Tampa Bay 5 (Raley, Sheets 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .216
Santander rf 4 1 1 1 0 0 .259 Second, Edwin Jimenez; Third, Pat Hoberg.
Arozarena, J.Lowe, Pinto 2); Houston 2 (Bregman, Peña).
MARINERS 5, O'Hearn 1b
Mountcastle dh
3
3
0
0
0 0 0 1
1 0 0 0
.302
.240
One out when winning run scored.
a-grounded out for Kirilloff in the 7th. b-singled for RISP: Tampa Bay 2 for 12; Houston 1 for 4.
Runners moved up: Bethancourt, Peña.
Time: 2:38. Attendance: 34,202 (38,753). Colás rf
Remillard 2b
3
4
0
0
1 1 1 0
0 0 0 2
.218
.291
D-BACKS 2 Frazier 2b
Hays lf
3
2
0
0
0 0 0 1
0 0 1 1
.238
.293
Gallo in the 9th.
1-ran for Julien in the 9th. 2-ran for Fermin in the 9th. Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA BLUE JAYS 4, ANGELS 1 Zavala c
Totals
3
30
0
3
0 0 1 0
6 3 6 7
.155

Cowser cf 3 0 0 0 0 3 .114 E: Singer (1). LOB: Minnesota 11, Kansas City 3. 2B: McClanahan 5 8 3 3 0 6 86 3.00 a-struck out for B.Naylor in the 7th. b-grounded out
Seattle ......................400 000 100 — 5 Urías 3b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .252 Kepler (10), Correa (23), Polanco (10), Witt Jr. (18). 3B: Stephenson 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 2.95 Los Angeles ..............100 000 000 — 1
for Arias in the 8th.
Arizona .....................000 000 200 — 2 Totals 29 1 4 1 1 8 Garcia (2). HR: Isbel (4), off Gray; Witt Jr. (16), off Gray; Kelly 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 2.96 Toronto .......................011 001 10x — 4 1-ran for Jiménez in the 8th.
Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg. One out when winning run scored. Witt Jr. (17), off Duran. RBIs: Jeffers (16), Polanco 2 (18), Poche, W, 8-3 1 0 0 0 0 1 15 2.13 Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg. E: Ramírez (9), Sheets (3), Colás (4). LOB: Cleveland 7,
Crawford ss 4 1 1 0 1 1 .261 a-singled for Rortvedt in the 8th. Farmer (24), Isbel (14), Witt Jr. 6 (57), Melendez (35). SB: Fairbanks, S, 13-14 1 0 0 0 1 1 19 1.90 Rengifo 2b-ss 4 0 0 0 1 0 .220 Chicago 9. 2B: J.Naylor (25). HR: Robert Jr. (29), off
Rodríguez cf 4 1 2 0 0 1 .252 LOB: New York 6, Baltimore 4. HR: Santander (18), off Jeffers (3), Castro (26), Witt Jr. (29), S.Taylor (3), Isbel Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ohtani dh 4 1 2 1 0 1 .301 Curry; Burger (25), off Norris. RBIs: Robert Jr. (59),
Suárez 3b 5 0 1 1 0 2 .225 Kahnle. RBIs: Santander (56). (4), Lopez (4). CS: Farmer (2). S: Lopez. b-Stefanic ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .235 Burger (52), Colás (10).
Hernández rf 4 1 0 0 1 1 .236 Javier 6 3 3 3 2 9104 4.33 Moniak cf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .332
Runners left in scoring position: New York 1 (Rizzo); Runners left in scoring position: Minnesota 7 (Kirilloff, Neris 1 1 0 0 0 0 19 1.41 Runners left in scoring position: Cleveland 3
Raleigh c 5 1 2 2 0 2 .231 Gallo, Wallner 4, Kepler); Kansas City 2 (Isbel, Ward lf 4 0 2 0 0 1 .254
Baltimore 1 (Santander). RISP: New York 0 for 3; B.Abreu 1 0 0 0 1 2 21 2.55 (Gonzalez, Bell, Kwan); Chicago 3 (Robert Jr., Zavala,
Murphy dh 4 0 2 2 0 0 .283 Melendez). RISP: Minnesota 3 for 16; Kansas City 4 for 8. Moustakas 3b 4 0 2 0 0 2 .267
Baltimore 0 for 1. Pressly, L, 3-3 1 2 1 1 0 0 22 3.23 Jiménez). RISP: Cleveland 1 for 8; Chicago 1 for 9.
France 1b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .247 Runners moved up: Correa. Thaiss c 3 0 0 0 1 3 .241
Moore lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .174 Runners moved up: Rutschman. GIDP: Stanton, Bader. Renfroe rf 2 0 0 0 2 0 .248 Runners moved up: Anderson. GIDP: Gonzalez, Bell,
Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA HBP: Javier 3 (Arozarena,Paredes,B.Lowe), Neris
a-Ford ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .236 DP: Baltimore 2 (Urías, Frazier, O'Hearn; Henderson, Cabbage 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .250 Anderson.
(Díaz), Pressly (Raley).
Marlowe lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .273 O'Hearn). Gray 6 5 3 3 0 5 80 3.22 Velazquez ss 2 0 0 0 0 2 .214 DP: Cleveland 1 (Arias, Giménez, J.Naylor); Chicago 2
Umpires: Home, Mark Carlson; First, Tripp Gibson;
Caballero 2b 2 1 0 0 1 1 .224 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pagán 1 0 0 0 0 1 18 3.38 a-Escobar ph-2b 2 0 1 0 0 1 .264 (Remillard, Anderson, Sheets; Anderson, Remillard,
Second, Derek Thomas; Third, Brennan Miller.
b-Wong ph-2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .165 Cole 7 3 0 0 0 5 110 2.64 Moran 2
⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 9 5.05 Totals 35 1 9 1 4 14 Sheets).
Time: 2:45. Attendance: 38,592 (41,000).
Totals 37 5 10 5 3 11 King 2
⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 13 3.17 Floro 1
⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 9 0.00 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Jax 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 3.12 Toronto AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Arizona AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Peralta 1
⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2.29 Merrifield 2b 4 2 3 1 0 0 .305 Curry, L, 3-1 3 2 1 1 3 0 54 2.98
Kahnle, L, 1-1 1
⁄3 1 1 1 0 1 8 2.53 Duran, L, 2-5, BS, 1
⁄3 1 4 3 2 1 25 2.66 Norris 22⁄3 2 1 1 1 3 44 1.35
Perdomo ss
Marte 2b
5
4
1 1 0 0 2
0 3 0 1 0
.280
.296 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
17-21 BRAVES 10, BREWERS 7 Bichette ss
Belt dh
4
4
0
0
2 1 0 0
0 0 0 2
.317
.243 Sandlin 11⁄3 0 0 0 1 3 26 3.51
Carroll cf 4 0 1 0 1 0 .287 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Guerrero Jr. 1b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .270 Kelly 1 2 1 1 1 1 21 2.70
Walker 1b 5 0 0 0 0 2 .265
Rodriguez 61⁄3 3 0 0 2 4 97 6.21
Singer 5 4 2 2 2 10104 5.46
Milwaukee ................020 200 030 — 7 Springer rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .254 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Fujinami 2
⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 8 6.23
Canzone dh 4 0 2 0 0 0 .226 Cano 2
⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 13 1.80 Cuas 1 1 0 0 0 1 15 4.14 Atlanta.....................030 120 40x — 10 Chapman 3b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .262
Toussaint, W, 1-2 5 3 0 0 1 4 83 3.34
Gurriel Jr. lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .246 Coulombe 1
⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3.09 Cox, H, 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.55 Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Varsho lf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .211
Banks, H, 1 3 2 0 0 0 2 30 4.41
Rivera 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .289 Bautista, W, 6-1 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 0.90 Hernández, H, 9 1 0 0 0 1 1 20 3.71 Yelich dh 5 0 0 0 0 1 .286 Jansen c 3 1 1 1 0 0 .232
Santos, S, 2-3 1 1 0 0 0 2 17 2.63
McCarthy rf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .260 Barlow, BS, 12-15 1 2 2 2 1 0 23 5.50 Contreras c 5 0 2 0 0 2 .272 Kiermaier cf 3 0 1 0 0 2 .276
Herrera c 4 1 1 0 0 0 .234 Inherited runners-scored: Peralta 1-0, Fujinami 1-0, Clarke, W, 2-4 1 1 1 0 0 1 14 5.73 Adames ss 5 0 0 0 0 0 .203 Totals 32 4 8 4 1 9 Inherited runners-scored: Sandlin 1-0. HBP: Santos
Totals 37 2 10 0 3 7 Coulombe 2-0. Frelick rf 4 3 2 0 1 0 .438 (Brennan).
Umpires: Home, Shane Livensparger; First, Dan Inherited runners-scored: Floro 1-1. HBP: Singer 2 a-struck out for Velazquez in the 7th. b-struck out for
a-struck out for Moore in the 8th. b-flied out for Monasterio 3b 3 3 2 0 1 1 .307 Umpires: Home, Alex Tosi; First, Brian Knight; Second,
Bellino; Second, Phil Cuzzi; Third, Mark Ripperger. (Julien,Polanco), Barlow (Solano). Ohtani in the 9th.
Caballero in the 8th. Toro 1b 4 1 3 4 0 0 .533 E: Thaiss (7), Velazquez (3). LOB: Los Angeles 11, Todd Tichenor; Third, Tony Randazzo.
Time: 2:35. Attendance: 34,558 (45,971). Umpires: Home, Mike Muchlinski; First, Sean Barber; Taylor lf 4 0 1 1 0 2 .163 Time: 2:29.
E: Raleigh (7). LOB: Seattle 9, Arizona 11. 2B: Crawford Second, Alan Porter; Third, Jeremy Riggs. Toronto 5. 2B: Ward (18), Bichette (24). HR: Ohtani (39),
Turang 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .202
(24), Raleigh 2 (16), Murphy (12), Rodríguez (21), Time: 3:17. Attendance: 23,022 (38,427). off Gausman; Chapman (14), off Giolito; Jansen (14), off
Wiemer cf 4 0 1 2 0 0 .208
Canzone (2), Perdomo (16). RBIs: Raleigh 2 (41), Murphy
2 (14), Suárez (62). SB: Rodríguez (24), Caballero (17).
ATHLETICS 8, Totals 37 7 11 7 3 7 Giolito; Merrifield (8), off Soriano. RBIs: Ohtani (81),
Chapman (44), Jansen (46), Bichette (59), Merrifield
MARLINS 6, TIGERS 5
Runners left in scoring position: Seattle 4 (Hernández,
Wong, Raleigh, Moore); Arizona 5 (Rivera, Walker 2,
ROCKIES 5 CUBS 3, CARDINALS 2 Atlanta
Acuña Jr. rf
AB R H BI BB SO
3 1 2 1 2 1
Avg.
.329
(47). CS: Moniak (2).
Runners left in scoring position: Los Angeles 6 (Thaiss,
Detroit .......................000 100 121 — 5
Canzone, Herrera). RISP: Seattle 5 for 16; Arizona 0 for 7. Oakland ......................131 020 001 — 8 Chicago .....................000 012 000 — 3 Albies 2b 5 1 1 1 0 0 .256 Moustakas, Rengifo 2, Moniak 2); Toronto 3 (Belt, Varsho Miami .........................211 000 02x — 6
Runners moved up: Carroll, Gurriel Jr.. Riley 3b 4 1 2 1 1 0 .272 Detroit AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
2). RISP: Los Angeles 0 for 7; Toronto 1 for 7.
Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Colorado....................000 100 130 — 5 St. Louis ....................101 000 000 — 2 Olson 1b 4 1 2 2 0 2 .256 Runners moved up: Bichette. GIDP: Bichette.
Vierling lf 5 0 2 0 0 1 .268
Oakland AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Murphy c 4 1 1 0 1 1 .282 Greene cf 4 0 1 0 1 2 .309
L.Gilbert, W, 9-5 61⁄3 9 2 2 0 5 93 3.83 DP: Los Angeles 1 (Velazquez, Rengifo, Cabbage). Torkelson 1b 5 1 2 1 0 3 .232
Kemp lf 5 1 2 1 0 0 .216 Hoerner 2b 5 0 1 0 0 0 .279 Ozuna dh 4 3 2 1 1 1 .229
Brash 2
⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 18 3.61 Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ibáñez 2b 5 0 1 1 0 1 .236
Gelof 2b 5 1 1 2 0 2 .222 Suzuki rf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .256 Rosario lf 4 1 2 2 0 1 .252
Muñoz, H, 11 1 0 0 0 1 1 11 2.70 Rooker dh 3 1 2 0 0 1 .244 Happ lf 2 1 1 0 2 1 .247 Arcia ss 4 1 2 2 0 2 .290 Giolito, L, 0-1 51⁄3 6 3 3 1 5 73 5.06 2-Baddoo pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .207
Sewald, S, 21-24 1 0 0 0 1 1 19 2.93 c-Brown ph-dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .196 Bellinger cf-1b 2 0 1 0 1 0 .319 Harris II cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .274 Soriano 12⁄3 2 1 1 0 4 30 3.20 Carpenter rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .262
Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Diaz 1b 5 0 2 1 0 1 .258 Swanson ss 3 0 0 1 0 2 .266 Totals 36 10 15 10 5 8 Webb 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 3.45 Haase c 1 0 0 0 0 1 .199
Laureano rf 5 1 2 2 0 0 .214 Gomes dh 3 0 1 0 1 0 .274 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Báez ss 4 2 2 0 1 1 .225
Henry, L, 5-4 6 6 4 4 1 6 94 4.15 LOB: Milwaukee 6, Atlanta 8. 2B: Frelick (1), Wiemer
Bleday cf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .212 Mancini 1b 3 0 1 1 0 0 .237 M.Cabrera dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 .245
Adams 1 1 1 1 1 2 25 6.06 (16), Contreras (19), Rosario (16), Ozuna (9). HR: Toro (2), Gausman, W, 8-5 6 5 1 1 3 9105 3.10
A.Díaz 3b 4 1 0 0 0 1 .206 b-Tauchman ph-cf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .261 Rogers c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .215
Frías 11⁄3 3 0 0 1 2 29 6.55 off Heller; Ozuna (19), off Houser; Riley (23), off Swanson, H, 26 1 0 0 0 0 2 13 3.51 b-McKinstry ph-rf 0 1 0 0 1 0 .242
e-Peterson ph-3b 1 0 1 0 0 0 .219 Wisdom 3b 2 1 1 1 0 0 .195
McGough 2
⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 9 4.41 B.Wilson; Olson (33), off B.Wilson. RBIs: Toro 4 (9), Taylor Mayza, H, 15 1 2 0 0 0 2 23 1.25 Short 3b 2 0 1 0 0 0 .214
Langeliers c 5 2 2 1 0 0 .204 a-Mastrobuoni ph-3b 1 0 0 0 1 0 .212
Inherited runners-scored: Brash 2-2, McGough 2-0. Allen ss 4 1 2 1 1 1 .189 Amaya c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .250 (7), Wiemer 2 (35), Arcia 2 (36), Acuña Jr. (59), Ozuna Romano, H, 2 2
⁄3 2 0 0 1 1 25 2.79 a-Maton ph-3b 2 1 2 2 0 0 .172
IBB: off Henry (Hernández). HBP: Adams (Rodríguez). Totals 43 8 14 8 1 8 Totals 30 3 8 3 5 5 (44), Albies (73), Olson 2 (82), Riley (62), Rosario 2 (46). García, S, 3-6 1
⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 2 4.40 Totals 37 5 11 4 3 10
WP: Brash. SB: Acuña Jr. (49). SF: Olson. Inherited runners-scored: Soriano 3-0, Swanson 3-0,
Colorado AB R H BI BB SO Avg. St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Runners left in scoring position: Milwaukee 4 (Yelich 2, Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Umpires: Home, Jeff Nelson; First, Chris Segal; Profar lf 3 1 2 2 1 0 .243 Nootbaar cf 4 2 2 2 0 0 .271 García 3-0. IBB: off Giolito (Guerrero Jr.). Arraez 2b 4 0 3 0 0 0 .380
Second, CB Bucknor; Third, Ben May. Adames, Monasterio); Atlanta 3 (Albies 2, Rosario). Umpires: Home, Mike Estabrook; First, Andy Fletcher;
Tovar ss 5 0 2 0 0 0 .262 Goldschmidt 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .280 Soler dh 4 2 1 0 0 0 .240
Time: 2:53. Attendance: 31,697 (48,359). RISP: Milwaukee 5 for 12; Atlanta 4 for 11. Second, Erich Bacchus; Third, Ryan Wills.
McMahon 3b-2b 4 0 0 1 1 0 .254 Gorman 2b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .243 De La Cruz rf 4 1 2 3 0 0 .273
Runners moved up: Toro, Adames, Albies, Harris II. Time: 2:45. Attendance: 42,106 (49,282).
Grichuk rf-cf 5 1 1 1 0 0 .305 Arenado 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .284 Sánchez cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .258
GIDP: Turang, Ozuna. 1-Hampson pr-cf 0 1 0 0 0 0 .261
Cron dh 5 0 1 0 0 2 .254 Contreras dh 3 0 1 0 1 1 .248
DP: Milwaukee 2 (Monasterio, Toro; Adames, Turang,
RED SOX 3, GIANTS 2 E.Díaz c
Montero 1b-3b
4
5
0 1 0 1 0
1 2 0 0 1
.270
.209
O'Neill lf
Walker rf
4
2
0
0
1 0 0 1
0 0 1 1
.252
.268 Toro); Atlanta 1 (Albies, Arcia, Olson).
Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
METS 5, NATIONALS 1 Gurriel 1b
Berti lf
4
4
1 1 0 0 1
1 2 1 0 0
.265
.300
Trejo 2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .252 c-Donovan ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .283 Wendle ss 3 0 0 1 0 0 .254
Boston........................010 010 010 — 3 a-Jones ph-rf 1 1 1 0 1 0 .274 Knizner c 3 0 1 0 0 2 .237 Houser, L, 3-3 4 8 6 6 2 3 90 4.43 Washington...............000 000 100 — 1 Segura 3b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .218
San Francisco............000 001 010 — 2 B.Doyle cf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .202 d-Burleson ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .239 Milner 1 0 0 0 1 2 19 2.16 New York ..................000 030 20x — 5 Fortes c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .214
Boston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. b-Castro ph-2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .268 DeJong ss 3 0 1 0 0 1 .238 B.Wilson 1 5 4 4 0 1 26 3.44 Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 34 6 12 6 0 4
Duran lf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .311 d-Toglia ph-1b 1 1 1 1 0 0 .216 Totals 33 2 7 2 2 12 Mejía 2 2 0 0 2 2 43 2.84 Abrams ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .254 a-singled for Short in the 7th. b-walked for Rogers in
c-Refsnyder ph-lf 1 0 1 1 0 0 .274 Totals 38 5 11 5 4 6 a-flied out for Wisdom in the 7th. b-singled for Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Thomas rf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .287 the 8th.
Yoshida dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 .313 a- for Trejo in the 6th. b-grounded out for B.Doyle in Mancini in the 9th. c-grounded out for Walker in the 9th. Candelario dh 3 0 1 0 1 1 .254 1-ran for Sánchez in the 8th. 2-ran for Ibáñez in the
Turner 2b-1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .286 Chirinos 32⁄3 6 4 4 1 3 61 9.82 Ruiz c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .245
the 6th. c-struck out for Rooker in the 8th. d-singled for d-flied out for Knizner in the 9th. McHugh, W, 4-1 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 18 3.43 9th.
Devers 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .264 Castro in the 8th. e-singled for A.Díaz in the 9th. LOB: Chicago 7, St. Louis 6. 2B: Suzuki (15), Happ (21), Dickerson lf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .252 E: Ibáñez (5), Segura (10). LOB: Detroit 10, Miami 5. 2B:
Duvall cf 4 1 2 0 0 1 .265 Johnson, H, 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 13 0.00 a-S.Garrett ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .261
E: McMahon (12), Trejo 2 (6). LOB: Oakland 11, Gorman (16). HR: Wisdom (18), off Montgomery; Jiménez, H, 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 12 2.70 Maton (8), Torkelson (23), Berti (12), De La Cruz (22),
Casas 1b 4 1 2 2 0 0 .256 Colorado 11. 2B: Langeliers (14), Kemp 2 (10), Profar (21). García 2b 4 1 3 1 0 0 .266
Nootbaar (9), off Wesneski; Nootbaar (10), off Smyly. Heller 1
⁄3 2 3 3 2 0 19 4.40 Arraez (24). HR: De La Cruz (14), off Olson. RBIs:
Arroyo 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .247 Vargas 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .267
3B: Langeliers (3), Allen (1). HR: Gelof (2), off Hollowell; RBIs: Wisdom (36), Swanson (44), Mancini (28), Yates, H, 6 2
⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 4 3.46 Torkelson (58), Maton 2 (29), Ibáñez (20), De La Cruz 3
Verdugo rf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .271 Do.Smith 1b 2 0 1 0 1 0 .266
Laureano (6), off Koch; Grichuk (7), off Sears. RBIs: Nootbaar 2 (33). SB: Gorman (6). SF: Swanson. Iglesias, S, 19-21 1 0 0 0 0 1 15 3.82 (57), Segura (20), Berti (20), Wendle (12). SB: Báez (10),
Wong c 3 1 1 0 0 1 .255 Call cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .211
Chang ss 2 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Laureano 2 (19), Langeliers (35), Kemp (20), Diaz (15), Runners left in scoring position: Chicago 3 (Swanson, Inherited runners-scored: Milner 2-1, Mejía 2-2, Totals 32 1 8 1 2 8 Maton (1). CS: Maton (2). SF: Wendle.
Totals 32 3 8 3 0 5 Allen (7), Gelof 2 (5), Grichuk (26), McMahon (48), Toglia Hoerner, Gomes); St. Louis 4 (Burleson, Nootbaar, McHugh 2-0, Yates 1-0. WP: Chirinos. Runners left in scoring position: Detroit 4 (Torkelson,
(5), Profar 2 (36). S: Kemp. Contreras, DeJong). RISP: Chicago 1 for 7; St. Louis 0 for New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Ibáñez, Vierling, Rogers); Miami 3 (Soler, Berti, De La
San Francisco AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Umpires: Home, Ramon De Jesus; First, Lance Barrett; Nimmo cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .258
Runners left in scoring position: Oakland 6 (Bleday, 6. Second, Alfonso Marquez; Third, Doug Eddings. Cruz). RISP: Detroit 3 for 9; Miami 2 for 10.
Pederson dh 3 1 1 1 1 0 .245 Kemp 2, Diaz, A.Díaz 2); Colorado 6 (McMahon 3, Cron, Runners moved up: Bellinger, Amaya, Donovan. GIDP: Lindor ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 .228 Runners moved up: Greene, Gurriel. GIDP: Rogers,
Conforto lf-rf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .237 Time: 2:55. Attendance: 42,502 (41,149). Alonso 1b 4 2 2 5 0 0 .220
Castro 2). RISP: Oakland 4 for 16; Colorado 2 for 11. Wisdom, Swanson, Amaya, Donovan. Greene, Fortes.
Flores 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .291 Runners moved up: Tovar 2, McMahon, Grichuk. GIDP: Pham lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .265
DP: Chicago 1 (Hoerner, Swanson, Bellinger); St. Louis DP: Detroit 2 (Ibáñez, Short, Báez, Ibáñez; Ibáñez,
Yastrzemski rf
a-Slater ph-lf-cf
2
2
0
0
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 2
.231
.292
Laureano.
DP: Colorado 1 (McMahon, Trejo, Montero).
3 (Gorman, DeJong, Goldschmidt; Gorman, DeJong,
Goldschmidt; Arenado, Gorman).
PHILLIES 2, PIRATES 1 McNeil 2b
Canha rf
4
3
0
0
3 0 0 0
0 0 1 0
.255
.239
Greene, Torkelson, Greene); Miami 2 (Arraez, Gurriel;
Wendle, Arraez, Gurriel).
Davis 3b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .259 Vientos dh 3 0 0 0 1 1 .210
Bailey c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .264
Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Philadelphia .............002 000 000 — 2 Baty 3b 3 1 0 0 1 3 .227 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Matos cf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .256 Sears, W, 2-7 5 4 1 1 1 5 92 4.09 Wesneski 2 2 1 1 1 4 35 4.74 Pittsburgh ................000 100 000 — 1 Alvarez c 2 1 0 0 2 1 .232 Olson 6 8 4 4 0 2 88 4.71
b-Sabol ph-lf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .250 Pruitt 2
⁄3 2 0 0 1 0 20 3.76 Smyly, W, 8-7 41⁄3 2 1 1 1 6 61 4.50 Philadelphia AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 31 5 8 5 5 6 Cisnero 1 1 0 0 0 1 14 3.86
Wisely 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .175 Moll 2
⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 19 4.62 Merryweather, H, 9 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 24 3.72 Schwarber dh 2 1 2 2 3 0 .186 Foley, L, 2-3 1 3 2 2 0 1 18 2.38
Scott 1 1 1 1 0 0 15 4.50 a-struck out for Dickerson in the 9th.
Luciano ss 3 1 1 0 0 2 .200 Alzolay, S, 12-13 11⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 23 2.33 Turner ss 5 0 0 0 0 1 .242 Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Long 0 3 2 2 0 0 7 5.06 E: Ruiz (5). LOB: Washington 6, New York 7. 2B: García
Totals 33 2 6 2 1 13 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Harper 1b 4 0 0 0 1 2 .291
Erceg, H, 5 2
⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 8 5.34 (13), Do.Smith (13). HR: García (6), off Scherzer; Alonso Garrett 6 5 1 0 1 6 94 4.08
a-struck out for Yastrzemski in the 6th. b-pinch hit for Castellanos rf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .278 (29), off Gore; Alonso (30), off Garcia. RBIs: García (42),
May, S, 10-12 1 0 0 0 1 1 19 4.55 Montgomery, L, 6-9 6 5 3 3 4 3100 3.42 Stott 2b 4 0 2 0 0 2 .302 Brazoban, H, 13 2
⁄3 1 1 1 0 1 11 3.75
Matos in the 7th. c-singled for Duran in the 8th. Gallegos 1 1 0 0 0 1 15 3.77 Alonso 5 (73). CS: Vargas (1). Scott, H, 20 2
⁄3 2 1 1 1 0 17 2.96
LOB: Boston 3, San Francisco 5. 2B: Duvall 2 (14), Casas Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Realmuto c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .245
Pallante 2
⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 13 4.70 Runners left in scoring position: Washington 3 Chargois, W, 2-0 2
⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 20 3.76
(15). HR: Casas (16), off Webb; Pederson (11), off Martin. Bohm 3b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .282
Freeland, L, 4-11 4 9 5 3 0 3 70 4.79 Stratton 11⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 12 4.36 Marsh cf 3 1 1 0 1 2 .280 (Abrams, Call 2); New York 2 (Baty, Alvarez). RISP: Puk, S, 16-21 1 2 1 1 0 3 23 4.59
RBIs: Casas 2 (40), Refsnyder (26), Conforto (52), Hollowell 1 2 2 2 0 1 23 6.46 Washington 0 for 4; New York 1 for 7.
Inherited runners-scored: Merryweather 1-0, Stratton Cave lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .220 Inherited runners-scored: Scott 1-1, Chargois 1-1. HBP:
Pederson (36). CS: Duran (2). S: Chang. Seabold 3 1 0 0 0 4 36 6.95 GIDP: Vargas, Lindor.
1-0. HBP: Montgomery (Bellinger). Totals 33 2 7 2 6 12 Garrett 2 (M.Cabrera,Carpenter).
Runners left in scoring position: Boston 3 (Casas, Koch 1 2 1 1 1 0 19 1.98 DP: Washington 1 (Vargas, García, Do.Smith); New
Umpires: Home, Will Little; First, Lance Barksdale; Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Umpires: Home, Cory Blaser; First, Jansen Visconti;
Duran, Wong); San Francisco 1 (Luciano). RISP: Boston 2 Long pitched to 3 batters in the 8th York 1 (Lindor, Alonso).
Second, Dan Merzel; Third, Ryan Additon. Suwinski cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .225 Second, Carlos Torres; Third, Ron Kulpa.
for 6; San Francisco 1 for 5. Inherited runners-scored: Moll 3-0, Scott 1-0, Long 1-1, Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Time: 2:41. Attendance: 43,424 (44,494). b-Joe ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .239 Time: 2:39. Attendance: 15,918 (37,446).
Runners moved up: Chang. GIDP: Yoshida. Erceg 1-0. HBP: Freeland (Rooker), Sears (Profar). PB: Gore, L, 6-8 5 5 3 3 4 2 95 4.42
DP: San Francisco 1 (Davis, Luciano, Flores). Peguero ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 .158
Langeliers (5), E.Díaz (3). Machado 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 7.58
Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Umpires: Home, Roberto Ortiz; First, Rob Drake; RAYS 4, ASTROS 3 Reynolds lf
McCutchen dh
4
3
1
0
1 0 0 1
0 0 1 2
.256
.262 Garcia 1 2 2 2 0 2 26 12.00
Crawford, W, 5-5 52⁄3 3 1 1 1 7 86 3.86 Second, Bill Miller; Third, Chad Whitson. Choi 1b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .191 Abbott 1 1 0 0 1 1 22 5.64
Bernardino, H, 3 1
⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 5 2.31 Time: 3:08. Attendance: 37,262 (50,144). Tampa Bay ................300 000 001 — 4 Davis rf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .254 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Winckowski, H, 12 1 2 0 0 0 2 22 2.88 Houston ....................100 200 000 — 3 Rodríguez c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .200
Martin, H, 16 1 1 1 1 0 1 12 1.67 Scherzer, W, 9-4 7 6 1 1 2 7103 4.01
Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Triolo 3b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .264 Ottavino 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 3.40
Jansen, S, 23-26 1 0 0 0 0 2 9 2.88
San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA ROYALS 8, TWINS 5 Díaz dh
Franco ss
3
4
0
1
0 1 0 1
2 0 1 0
.315
.264
Gonzales 2b
Williams ss
3
2
0
0
0 0 0 3
0 0 0 1
.227
.000
Raley 1 1 0 0 0 1 16 2.43
Umpires: Home, Adam Hamari; First, Nick Mahrley;
Webb, L, 8-9 71⁄3 6 3 3 0 4 88 3.49 (10 INNINGS) Raley 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .269 a-Palacios ph-cf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .236
6NS | SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2023 | SPORTS EXTRA - USA TODAY NETWORK
WNBA ROUNDUP
Magbegor has 17 points, Storm snap skid
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO – Ezi Magbegor had 17
points, nine rebounds and five assists,
Gabby Williams also scored 17 points
and the Seattle Storm snapped a fran-
chise-record 10-game losing streak Fri-
day night with an 83-74 win over the
Chicago Sky.
Seattle (5-19) won for the first time in
more than a month, dating to a 87-74
victory over the Phoenix Mercury on
June 24. The Storm also ended their six-
game road losing streak.
Loyd hit a 3-pointer with 8:29 left in
the third quarter that gave the Storm the
lead for good, then assisted on a 3 by
Williams before Williams hit a pull-up
jumper that made it 50-42. Kia Nurse
made a basket to give Seattle its biggest
lead of the game at 73-55 with 8:33 to
play.
Kahleah Copper led Chicago (10-14)
with 17 points, grabbed eight rebounds
and had four steals. Dana Evans scored
12 points and Alanna Williams and
Courtney Williams added 10 points
apiece. Jewell Loyd scored 15 points
with six rebounds and six assists and
Sami Whitcomb scored 12 points and
grabbed a career-best 10 rebounds – her
first career double-double – for Seattle.
Lynx 88, Liberty 83
NEW YORK – Kayla McBride made 11
of 14 from the field and finished with 26
points, Diamond Miller scored 22 points
and the Minnesota Lynx beat the New
York Liberty in the second of back-to-
back games for both teams.
The game, which was originally
MLB
Lance Lynn, Joe Kelly heading to Dodgers
Beth Harris
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles
Dodgers, who have made pitching a pri-
ority in advance of the trade deadline,
acquired starter Lance Lynn and reliev-
er Joe Kelly on Friday in a swap with the
Chicago White Sox.
The NL West leaders sent outfielder
Trayce Thompson, pitcher Nick Nastrini
and reliever Jordan Leasure to the
White Sox.
Lynn and Kelly join utilityman Kiké
Hernández from the Boston Red Sox and
infielder-outfielder Amed Rosario from
the Cleveland Guardians in Los Angeles,
ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline.
“I would argue we have raised the
floor and the ceiling,” manager Dave
Roberts said.
The Dodgers may not be done, either,
with a need for more starting pitching.
“I think there’s always a chance,”
Roberts said. “There’s still time on the
clock.”
Lynn has been mostly underwhelm-
ing this season. The 36-year-old right-
hander is 6-9 with a 6.18 ERA and leads
the American League in earned runs
(79) and home runs allowed (28).
Roberts called Lynn a “victim of sort
of the circumstance” with the sub-.500
White Sox, who are 13 games back of AL
Central leader Minnesota.
“I just feel like getting in this environ-
ment, playing meaningful games will
bring out the best in him,” Roberts said.
Lynn has 139 strikeouts in 115 innings
and 10.9 per nine innings. In June, Lynn
struck out 16 in a game against Seattle,
setting a major-league mark for most
strikeouts in a game by a pitcher with an
ERA above 6.00.
Trade
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The move signaled the Mets front of-
fice’s intentions to continue to fortify
the organization’s youth ranks before
the Aug. 1 trade deadline.
“We’re just listening, and I think we
can kind of gauge signals from other
clubs,” Eppler said. “If the signals are
strong enough, we have to look for op-
portunities.”
“Our farm system’s got a ways to go.
We’ve had some drafts that I think a lot
of people feel good with, but we have to
just continue to add. If we’re gonna go
where we need to go in the long-term,
we’re going to need an upper-tiered
farm system.”
The move also drove home how
steeply the Mets have fallen short of ex-
pectations this season. Robertson said
The Seattle Storm’s Ezi Magbegor
drives to the basket against the
Chicago Sky during the first half on
Friday. CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/AP
scheduled for June 7 – one of a handful
of pro games that were postponed that
night and subsequent dates – because
of smoke from the Canadian wildfires
blanketing New York and the Northeast.
The Liberty played its fourth game in six
days.
Dorka Juhász scored 13 points on 6-
of-10 shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds
for the Lynx.
Minnesota (12-13), which lost its first
six games of the season, has won three
of its last four and eight of its last 12.
New York (18-6) jumped to a 15-5 lead
but the Lynx scored 19 of the next 21
points to take a seven-point lead early in
White Sox starting pitcher Lance Lynn is headed to the Dodgers.
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He was an All-Star for the White Sox
in 2021 and shortly after signed a $38
million, two-year contract extension
that included a club option.
“I’m happy to have had the time that I
had here, but it is a business and some-
times these things happen,” Lynn said.
“I’m just looking forward to the possibil-
ity of making a playoff push.”
Lynn began the 2022 season on the
injured list with a meniscus tear suf-
fered in spring training. He returned in
mid-June and finished the season with
an 8-7 record in 21 starts and a 3.99 ERA.
He recorded 121 strikeouts in 121 2/3 in-
that when he signed, he believed that he
would be competing for the division. Af-
ter Thursday’s 2-1 win over the Nation-
als, the Mets moved to 48-54, 17 games
back of the Braves in the NL East and
seven games back of the final wild card
spot.
“Obviously with Robertson, we all
know that he’s been unbelievable this
year, and so if we were going to go the
selling route, we knew that he would be
one of the guys to go,” Brandon Nimmo
said. “Obviously you hate to see guys
leave and leave in the situation that this
is where we didn’t even come close to
expectations. Again, it’s a hard pill to
swallow but one that we’ve known is a
possibility here for a little bit.”
Robertson said following the game
that he felt a move was coming down the
chute but did not exactly know where.
It is the second straight season that
the 15-year veteran has been traded at
the deadline after being moved from the
the second quarter. Sabrina Ionescu hit
a 3-pointer to give the Liberty a 36-35
lead with 3:30 left in the first half but
Jessica Shepard converted a three-
point play 20 seconds later and Minne-
sota led the rest of the way.
Ionescu led New York with 31 points,
seven rebounds and seven assists and
Breanna Stewart scored 23 points. Be-
tnijah Laney added 11 points and Jon-
quel Jones grabbed 11 rebounds to go
with nine points.
Wings 90, Mystics 62
ARLINGTON, Texas – Satou Sabally
had 14 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists
– the first triple-double in franchise his-
tory – and the Dallas Wings beat the
short-handed Washington Mystics.
Arike Ogunbowale and Teaira McCo-
wan each scored 18 points for Dallas (14-
10) and Natasha Howard added 14
points, nine rebounds, two steals and
two blocks. Awak Kuier scored 12 points
on 6-of-8 shooting and Maddy Siegrist
scored 10. McCowan scored 10 points as
Dallas jumped to 14-7 lead midway
through the first quarter before Wash-
ington’s Shatori Walker-Kimbrough an-
swered with a layup. The Mystics then
went scoreless for more than four min-
utes before Myisha Hines-Allen hit a 3-
pointer with three seconds left in the
first quarter to make it 24-12.
The Mystics trimmed their deficit to
seven points when Cyesha Goree hit a
jumper with 3:25 left in the third quarter
but Dallas scored the next 12 points –
capped when Ogunbowale hit a 3-point-
er less than two minutes later – and
Washington got no closer.
nings.
Lynn has spent most of his career in
the AL. Besides the White Sox, he has
pitched for Minnesota, the New York
Yankees and Texas. He began his career
with St. Louis, and missed the 2016 sea-
son with them after undergoing Tommy
John surgery.
Lynn won a World Series with the
Cardinals in 2011, his debut season in
the majors. The following year he
earned his first All-Star berth.
The Dodgers have not yet decided
who Lynn will replace in the rotation.
He’ll arrive in Los Angeles this weekend
Cubs to the Phillies last season.
“It’s not been the funnest part of the
year, that’s for sure,” Robertson said.
“No offense to you guys but when you
come in here and everybody’s asking
where you’re going and what are your
thoughts, it’s a lot to deal with and still
go out there and compete in between
the lines knowing that you may not be
on this team for very long.
“I’ve just tried to deal with it and stay
calm and collected and make pitches
and do what I’m what I’m supposed to
do on the team that’s paying me to play
for them.”
That limbo has become the reality for
a number of Mets players, notably play-
ers on shorter-term or expiring deals
like Mark Canha and Tommy Pham,
with less than a week to go until the
deadline. The first domino fell on Thurs-
day night to prove which direction the
Mets front office is headed.
“I’m only human, so yeah, it’s in the
WNBA BOX SCORES
Seattle 83, Chicago 74
SEATTLE (83)
G.Williams 7-14 2-2 17, Magbegor 7-16 2-3 17, Fankam Mendjiadeu
2-5 0-0 4, Loyd 5-14 3-3 15, Whitcomb 3-12 3-4 12, Holmes 0-0
0-0 0, Horston 4-7 0-0 8, Russell 4-7 0-0 8, Dojkic 0-1 0-0 0, Nurse
1-3 0-0 2. Totals 33-79 10-12 83.
CHICAGO (74)
Copper 6-15 4-4 17, Smith 4-5 2-5 10, E.Williams 2-7 4-6 8,
C.Williams 5-12 0-0 10, Mabrey 2-9 0-0 5, Hebard 4-6 1-3 9, Parks
1-2 0-0 3, Evans 3-10 4-4 12. Totals 27-66 15-22 74.
Seattle 23 19 25 16 — 83
Chicago 19 21 13 21 — 74
3-Point Goals—Seattle 7-26 (Whitcomb 3-11, Loyd 2-6, G.Williams
1-3, Magbegor 1-3, Horston 0-1, Nurse 0-2), Chicago 5-20 (Evans
2-5, Parks 1-2, Mabrey 1-4, Copper 1-5, C.Williams 0-4). Fouled
Out—None. Rebounds—Seattle 46 (Whitcomb 10), Chicago 26
(Copper 8). Assists—Seattle 22 (Loyd 6), Chicago 18 (C.Williams
5). Total Fouls—Seattle 18, Chicago 12. A—7,213 (10,387)
Dallas 90, Washington 62
WASHINGTON (62)
Hines-Allen 1-6 0-0 3, Sykes 5-15 2-6 12, Hawkins 3-8 0-1 6, Cloud
3-13 5-5 11, Walker-Kimbrough 6-12 0-0 14, Goree 4-8 0-0 8, Egbo
0-0 0-0 0, Harper 0-3 0-0 0, Meng 2-7 0-0 6, Meyers 1-1 0-0 2.
Totals 25-73 7-12 62.
DALLAS (90)
Howard 6-9 2-2 14, Sabally 5-8 3-4 14, McCowan 9-11 0-0 18,
Dangerfield 1-1 0-0 2, Ogunbowale 6-16 2-2 18, Kuier 6-8 0-0 12,
Siegrist 4-7 2-2 10, Brown 0-0 2-2 2, Burton 0-1 0-0 0, Sims 0-2
0-0 0. Totals 37-63 11-12 90.
Washington 12 17 22 11 — 62
Dallas 24 19 25 22 — 90
3-Point Goals—Washington 5-26 (Walker-Kimbrough 2-4, Meng
2-6, Hines-Allen 1-2, Harper 0-1, Hawkins 0-1, Goree 0-3, Cloud
0-4, Sykes 0-5), Dallas 5-16 (Ogunbowale 4-10, Sabally 1-2,
Burton 0-1, Kuier 0-1, Howard 0-2). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Washington 21 (Sykes 5), Dallas 48 (Sabally 11).
Assists—Washington 19 (Sykes 4), Dallas 29 (Sabally 10). Total
Fouls—Washington 16, Dallas 15. A—4,048 (7,000)
Minnesota 88, New York 83
MINNESOTA (88)
Milic 3-7 0-1 6, Miller 6-15 8-11 22, Juhász 6-10 1-2 13, Allen 2-5 2-4
7, McBride 11-14 0-0 26, Carleton 0-4 0-0 0, Engstler 1-4 1-2 4,
Shepard 2-8 1-1 5, Mitchell 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 33-71 13-21 88.
NEW YORK (83)
Laney 5-14 1-2 11, Stewart 5-19 10-11 23, Jones 3-6 3-4 9, Ionescu
10-21 4-5 31, Johannès 2-6 0-0 4, Sabally 0-0 0-0 0, Thornton 1-3
3-3 5, Willoughby 0-1 0-0 0, Prince 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 26-72 21-25
83.
Minnesota 22 26 22 18 — 88
New York 17 22 19 25 — 83
3-Point Goals—Minnesota 9-22 (McBride 4-7, Miller 2-5, Allen 1-1,
Engstler 1-2, Mitchell 1-2, Juhász 0-1, Carleton 0-4), New York
10-35 (Ionescu 7-14, Stewart 3-9, Thornton 0-1, Jones 0-2, Prince
0-2, Laney 0-3, Johannès 0-4). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Minnesota 40 (Juhász 10), New York 37 (Jones 11).
Assists—Minnesota 20 (Allen, McBride, Shepard 4), New York 20
(Ionescu 7). Total Fouls—Minnesota 18, New York 21. A—6,129
(17,732)
and discuss a possible start against
Oakland next week.
Kelly returns to Los Angeles for his
second stint with the Dodgers. The
hard-throwing right-handed reliever re-
cently returned from the injured list for
elbow inflammation. He has one save, a
4.97 ERA and 41 strikeouts this season.
Like Lynn, Kelly is eager to join a con-
tending team.
“It’s something that I thrive on,” he
said. “I think my personality type is to
love the adrenaline, love the big mo-
ments. So, I’m super, super stoked to go
back for sure.”
Kelly pitched for the Dodgers from
2019-21, winning the World Series dur-
ing the pandemic-delayed 2020 season.
He had a 3.59 ERA in 105 1/3 innings dur-
ing that span.
“I would argue that his stuff is even
better than it was then when he was
with us, the velocity, the curveball, all
that stuff,” Roberts said. “He’s a guy, like
most players when they’re in a winning
environment, they thrive.”
Kelly isn’t the only former Dodger to
land back in Los Angeles. Hernández re-
turns three years after he departed for
the East Coast.
Rosario was set to start at shortstop
Friday night in the series opener against
the Reds. But the plan is for him to get
acclimated to second base and also play
some center field. He’ll mostly start
against left-handed pitching.
“It’s certainly a big upgrade for our
ballclub,” Roberts said. “He’s been good
versus right-handed pitching, but he’s
been a killer versus lefties and that’s
something we want to capture.”
AP Baseball Writer Jay Cohen, AP
Sports Writer Eric Olson and AP freelan-
cer Seth Engle contributed to this report.
back of my mind,” Canha said, “but it
doesn’t really do me any good to think
about it or you try to just keep it in the
back of your mind and stay focused on
playing every day.”
The Mets’ core understands that they
need to play better. They still feel there
is an opportunity in front of them. But
now they must grapple with the reality
that they may lose some of their key
cogs over the next week.
“They can call it ‘selling,’ but I don’t
think in the clubhouse it’s going to be
one of those it’s were like, ‘Oh yeah,
we’re done,’ ” Francisco Lindor said.
“With this group, I don’t see it happen-
ing like that. Until we are in a position
where we’re not in reach of the playoffs
or if we’re within reach of the playoffs,
it’s going to be one of those until it hap-
pens, it won’t be part of our mindset.
However, you only hope when they do
make trades, we turn out on the better
side of it.”
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SWIMMING

Haiyang, O’Callaghan complete sweeps

Stephen Wade
ASSOCIATED PRESS

FUKUOKA, Japan – John Mason, the

announcer at the swimming world
championships, stuck a nickname on
Mollie O’Callaghan after the 19-year-old
Australian added the 100-meter free-
style title to her gold in the 200 two days
earlier.
“The unstoppable Mollie O’Callagh-
an,” Mason called her.
She’s the first women to win both the
100 and 200 free at a world champion-
ships, and she set a world record in the
200 by taking down the oldest women’s
mark on the books from the fast-suit era
in 2009.
“It’s so weird. I’m not going to lie,”
O’Callaghan said. “It’s such a weird feel-
ing. I didn’t even know that no woman
had done that – and to be the first is just
incredible.”
O’Callaghan won in 52.16 seconds,
with silver for Siobhan Haughey of
Hong Kong in 52.49 and bronze to Marrit
Steenbergen of the Netherlands in 52.71.
“Going in to previous meets I was just
so nervous all the time and worrying,”
O’Callaghan said. “And this is the first
time I actually felt quite calm and just
enjoying every little bit.”
Through six of eight days, Australia
leads with 10 gold medals, followed by
China with five and the United States
and France with three. The Americans Qin Haiyang of China celebrates winning the 200-meter breaststroke final at the World Swimming Championships in
lead the overall medals table with 25, Fukuoka, Japan, on Friday. LEE JIN-MAN/AP
ahead of Australia with 16 and China
with 10.
Not be outdone by O’Callaghan, Qin 35 meters to take gold in the men’s 200 champion. Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Afri-
Haiyang of China set a world record in backstroke in 1:54.14. Murphy took sil- “I think it’s just the Bob Bowman ef- ca won gold in the women’s 200 breast-
the men’s 200 breaststroke in 2:05.48. ver in 1:54.83 and Roman Mityukovf got fect,” he added. “That’s a simple as it is. stroke in 2:20.80, becoming the first
He also won the 50 – which is not an bronze in 1:55.34. We have a really good training group female world champion from her coun-
Olympic event – and the 100. Murphy won both backstroke races and Bob knows a thing or two about try.
Zac Stubblety-Cook of Australia, the at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, and swimming.” Kate Douglass of the United States
previous world-record holder and the was the silver medalist in the 200 in To- Bowman is also training Leon Mar- took silver in 2:21.23 and Tes Schouten
Olympic champion in the event, took kyo. chand at Arizona State. The Frenchman of the Netherlands got bronze in 2:21.63.
silver in 2:06.40, and Matt Fallon of the Kos, the son of an American father has won three gold medals at and fig- Schoenmaker was also the Tokyo
United States got bronze in 2:07.74. and Hungarian mother, began training ures to be the face of next year’s Paris Olympic champion in the 200, and took
Qin was shocked by the record, but about seven months ago at Arizona Olympics. silver in the 100.
not about winning three times. State University under Bob Bowman – Kos said he went to Arizona to work Britain won the men’s 4x200 free-
“Before Fukuoka, the 50, 100 and 200 Michael Phelps’ long-time coach. on his IM, but Bowman make the style relay in 6:59.08, adding the world
breaststroke gold medals were my goal,” Bowman is the coach of the Ameri- switch. He called Bowman’s touch part- title to its Tokyo Olympic gold medal.
he said. “So I achieved them. But the can team at the worlds. ly “magic.” The United States picked up silver in
world record for the 200, that was a sur- “A year ago I was only swimming the “The other part is he’s just been there 7:00.02, and Australia took bronze in
prise to me.” 200 IM in the world championships,” for so long and done everything with 7:02.13.
Hubert Kos of Hungary surged past Kos said. “I never thought I’d be swim- Michael and now he’s doing the same The top three relay teams qualified
American rival Ryan Murphy in the final ming backstroke, and here I am a world stuff with Leon (Marchand),” Kos said. automatically for the Paris Olympics.

FORMULA 1

Leclerc starts on pole for Belgian GP

ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium –
Runaway F1 championship leader Max
Verstappen had the fastest time in qual-
ifying for the rain-hit Belgian Grand Prix
on Friday, but Charles Leclerc will start
the race from pole position because of
Verstappen’s five-place grid penalty for
a gearbox change.
Verstappen will begin Sunday’s race
in sixth place, but that will hardly bother
the two-time reigning Formula One
champion considering he won here last
year from 14th on the grid.
“This year the car is better. I’m still
targeting to win the race for sure,” Ver-
stappen said. “I know that I have to drop
back on Sunday with the penalty I have,
but it was the best I could do today.”
He also believes it was the right deci-
sion to change his gearbox in Belgium.
“I think it’s the best place to do it,”
said Verstappen, who has won 44 races
in his career. “Sunday looks more and
more dry.”
Verstappen finished qualifying a sig-
nificant .82 seconds ahead of Leclerc
and .88 ahead of Red Bull teammate Ferrari's Charles Leclerc waves after the qualifying session for the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix. Leclerc will start on
Sergio Perez, who moved up from third pole for Sunday’s race. JOHN THYS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
to second on the grid.
Leclerc does not believe his car is fast
enough to challenge for a victory. went wide into gravel but just managed on his final lap. spray and a slippery surface, drivers did
“It’s great to start first, but to say to bring the car back before it hit the bar- Verstappen will have his eyes on an not look to set competitive times.
we’re targeting the win would be a bit riers. eighth straight victory of a dominant Sainz had a leading time of 2 min-
optimistic,” he said. “It will be hard to AlphaTauri’s Daniel Ricciardo, who season for a dominant Red Bull which utes, 3.2 seconds, while Verstappen was
keep these guys (Red Bulls) behind.” had his lap time deleted for going off has won all 11 races this season, and a F1 among the five drivers not to set a time.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton will track limits, and Williams driver Alex record 12 straight victory including the Midway through the first practice
go from third and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Albon were among the five drivers elim- final race of last year. session, Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu and
Jr. from fourth ahead of McLaren’s Os- inated from Q1, the first part of qualify- The rain-marred first practice ses- Albon both slid off track, as did Albon’s
car Piastri and Verstappen, who leads ing. sion took place amid gloomy conditions. teammate Logan Sargeant. The rookie
the championship by a massive 110 The circuit started drying a bit for Q2, It led governing body FIA to say the grid American driver locked his tires,
points from second-place Perez. but Alpine’s Esteban Ocon damaged his for Sunday’s race would have been set in couldn’t turn and went straight on at
Lando Norris qualifed seventh for front wing after going over gravel and order of the championship standings if Les Combes.
McLaren, with George Russell in eighth failed to make it into Q3. qualifying had to be canceled. With his car parked by the barriers, a
for Mercedes ahead of Aston Martin “It’s a rare error from me, it was my Because this weekend features a red flag came out.
teammates Fernando Alonso and Lance fault,” said Ocon, who crashed out of the sprint race on Saturday, qualifying for Only a handful of drivers came out
Stroll. Hungarian GP last weekend. Sunday’s main race itself was on Friday for the final minutes of the first practice,
The qualifying session was delayed After only just scraping into Q3 in with only one practice session before- with fans dotted around the track hud-
for 10 minutes because of heavy rain and 10th, Verstappen unleashed a rant at his hand. dling under umbrellas.
started under clearing skies but with the engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, letting It took place amid a downpour at the There is another qualifying session
track still soaked. fly with a couple of expletives. 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) Spa-Francor- Saturday to sat the grid for the sprint
“In these conditions it’s so easy for Lambiase stood up to him firmly and champs circuit, located in the Ardennes race. It is the third sprint race of the sea-
things to go wrong,” Perez said. received an apology afterward from Ver- forest. son, with Perez and Verstappen winning
With conditions still slippery, Norris stappen, who showed his searing pace With visibility poor due to the water one each.
8NS | SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2023 | SPORTS EXTRA - USA TODAY NETWORK

NFL

Payton starts anew in Denver

Jarrett Bell
Columnist
USA TODAY
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Not one min-
ute had passed from the moment Sean
Payton welcomed a curious visitor into
his office when the Denver Broncos
coach delivered a striking message.
“Can I say this to you?” Payton said,
shuffling stuff on his desk.
Of course, you can. Let it rip.
“I’m going to be pissed off if this is not
a playoff team,” Payton told USA TODAY
Sports.
So there. A flag planted. For Year 1.
Never mind that he’s signed up in a divi-
sion ruled by Patrick Mahomes and the
defending Super Bowl champion Kan-
sas City Chiefs. Payton, 59, back from a
one-year sabbatical from coaching, is
the same upbeat, cocksure soul who
generated so much success, including a
Super Bowl crown, during 15 seasons
with the New Orleans Saints.
Speak his mind? And expectations,
too. Pressure be damned.
Payton remembers how quickly
things came together when he took over
the Saints in 2006 and guided the team
to a division title in his first season.
“Winning,” he said softly. “It’s the salve
for the whole organization. Makes ev-
eryone feel better.”
As Broncos veterans reported to
training camp and ramped up for the
first full-scale practice on Friday, Payton
was clearly in the mood to talk stan-
dards and messages while aiming to
prove that he can win big again in a dif-
ferent time and place. “Hey, we are go-
ing to be on time,” he said. “We’re going
to learn how rewarding it is to play for
each other, compete for each other,
rather than for ourselves. And I expect
us to think playoffs.”
The Broncos, who haven’t had a win-
ning campaign since 2016, surely need
this culture change. The franchise with
eight Super Bowl appearances in its his-
tory (and now six coaches in 10 years)
became a laughingstock last season as it
paired rookie coach Nathaniel Hackett
(who lasted 15 games) with veteran
Broncos coach Sean Payton chats with
quarterback Russell Wilson during a
Nuggets NBA playoff game in May.
DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/AP
quarterback Russell Wilson and pro-
duced an unmitigated disaster under-
scored by the NFL’s worst offense.
“It doesn’t happen often where an
NFL team or organization gets embar-
rassed,” Payton said. “And that hap-
pened here. Part of it was their own
fault, relative to spending so much (ex-
pletive) time trying to win the offseason
– the PR, the pomp and circumstance,
marching people around and all this
stuff.
“We’re not doing any of that. The Jets
did that this year. You watch. ‘Hard
Knocks,’ all of it. I can see it coming. Re-
member when (former Washington
owner) Dan Snyder put that Dream
Team together? I was at the Giants (in
2000). I was a young coach. I thought,
‘How are we going to compete with
them? Deion’s (Sanders) there now.’
That team won eight games or what-
ever. So, listen … just put the work in.”
The hunch here is that Payton could
care less about making the Jets’ – or
anybody’s – bulletin board.
There is enough scrutiny already at-
tached. If Payton is going to spark the
Broncos to a playoff berth in his first
season, so much seemingly depends on
a revived Wilson, who is coming off the
worst season of his career. While Den-
ver scored an NFL-low 16.9 points per
game, Wilson posted career lows for TD
passes (16) and passer rating (84.4). He
also drew heat for faulty mechanics that
contributed to some of the career-high
55 sacks he endured behind a suspect
O-line.
“Man, we ran that kid through the car
wash a hundred times now,” Payton said
of Wilson and questions of how this
coach-quarterback dynamic will play
out. “But that’s a storyline, though. How
is this going to look? How’s it going to
work? You know what? We’re fixing to
find out. As Bill would say.”
Payton chuckled, realizing that he
echoed his mentor, Bill Parcells.
In any event, there may be no better
barometer for Denver’s chances than
Wilson, who signed a five-year,
$245 million extension last year before
taking a single snap in a Broncos uni-
form. Sure, it’s a team sport, and the
Broncos have a solid defense that might
be spectacular if it can generate a con-
sistent pass rush. But quarterbacks are
paid the big bucks for a reason. And big-
money coaches – Payton was lured to
Denver as the biggest prize during the
coaching hiring cycle, commanding a
five-year contract reportedly worth
roughly $18 million a year – are paid to
figure out quarterbacks.
What happened last year with Wil-
son?
“Oh, man,” Payton began. “There’s so
much dirt around that. There’s 20 dirty
hands, for what was allowed, tolerated
in the fricking training rooms, the meet-
ing rooms. The offense. I don’t know
Hackett. A lot of people had dirt on their
hands. It wasn’t just Russell. He didn’t
just flip. He still has it. This B.S. that he
hit a wall? Shoot, they couldn’t get a play
in. They were 29th in the league in pre-
snap penalties on both sides of the ball.”
Wilson, 34, is undoubtedly in better
hands with Payton and coordinator Joe
Lombardi, who served for 10 years as
Payton’s quarterbacks coach with the
Saints. And it’s virtually a given that he
will get a boost from an overhauled of-
fensive line, which includes the huge
free agency investments made in right
tackle Mike McGlinchey and left guard
Ben Powers.
Payton is encouraged by what he saw
from the offseason work with Wilson,
maintaining, “He’s still got gas in the
tank.”
Yet another layer of the Wilson saga
involved the kid-glove handling he re-
ceived from Hackett, which fueled
much speculation and criticism as the
season (which ended at 5-12) spiraled
out of control. Wilson, a 12th-year pro,
has employed a support staff for years
that includes a personal athletic trainer,
a strength and conditioning coach and
massage therapist. Yet boundaries were
apparently blurred by the presence of
Wilson’s personal quarterback coach,
Jake Heaps.
Not anymore. When Payton was
hired in February, he made it clear that
Heaps would not have access to the
team’s facility.
“That wasn’t his fault,” Payton said of
Wilson. “That was the parents who al-
lowed it. That’s not an incrimination on
him, but an incrimination on the head
coach, the GM, the president and every-
body else who watched it all happen.
“Now, a quarterback having an office
and a place to watch film is normal. But
all those things get magnified when
you’re losing. And that other stuff, I’ve
never heard of it. We’re not doing that.”
Yes, the culture has changed with a
new sheriff in town. It will be reflected,
too, in the pace and tone of training
camp. Hackett wouldn’t play starters in
preseason games and even kept them
out of one-on-one drills in practices in
an apparent effort for preservation.
Under Payton – who declares they
are preparing to play “tackle football” –
it will be old-school intense…up to the
point allowed by CBA rules. Soft is out.
“Everything I heard about last sea-
son, we’re doing the opposite,” he said.
Of course, Payton has his ways of ex-
pressing such to his team. Like his men-
tor Parcells, he is hardly short of ways of
getting a message across.
During the spring, Payton had a video
made that hammered home the point
that the 2022 season was over and done
with. The video included the image of
some team equipment staff members
riding off in the orange, 2022 Ford Bron-
co (with the rearview and side mirrors
removed) that had been positioned near
the practice field. Also, a scene was ed-
ited in from the movie “Planes, Trains
and Automobiles,” where John Candy’s
character drove the wrong way on a
freeway. And the video included a shot
of a truck driving off a cliff.
Maybe there’s a part of Payton that
wants to be a Hollywood film producer.

Teams adapting to unrelenting heat

Mark Anderson
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HENDERSON, Nev. – The sight of
wide receivers Keith Kirkwood and
Shaq Davis leaving practice early this
week because of heat-related symp-
toms was nothing new for the New Or-
leans Saints, with the hot and humid
Louisiana weather a test for even the
best-conditioned athletes.
The unrelenting, record-breaking
heat across the nation this year has
made the opening of training camps
even more challenging than usual, how-
ever, not only for the Saints but teams
throughout the NFL.
Scientists have already calculated
this will be the hottest July on record,
with the Southwest and parts of the
South especially hit hard. Most of the
Midwest and East also have been affect-
ed. That means NFL teams have to be
even more mindful than usual about
keeping players safe while also getting
as much work done as possible before
the season begins in September.
Safety has been a centerpiece of the
preseason since Minnesota offensive
tackle Korey Stringer died on Aug. 1,
2001, after slipping and falling the pre-
vious day after a Vikings training camp
practice. NFL teams at the time didn’t
have medical training for exertional
heat stroke.
Some teams are taking extra precau-
tions this year, including more water
breaks and early practice times.
“I don’t know all the science and all
that stuff, but I do my best to under-
stand it,” Saints quarterback Derek Carr
said. “I’ve seen growth … from when I
first came in the league to what we talk
about now. It’s definitely a difference on
the things we talk about, the way we
practice, how long we do something …
how much time you’re actually accumu-
lating outside during the week.”
Carr is in his first season in New Or-
leans, so he’s acclimating to the wet,
muggy conditions. He spent the previ-
ous three seasons with the Raiders in
Las Vegas, where the air is dry but tem-
Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott takes a drink during the team’s training camp
on Wednesday in Oxnard, Calif. MARK J. TERRILL/AP
peratures are considerably higher.
“It just feels like your skin is going to
fall off,” Carr said of playing in Las Ve-
gas. “It feels like it’s boiling.”
For their part, the Raiders have begun
practicing at 8:30 a.m. to avoid the hot-
test parts of the day but still must con-
tend with temperatures in the triple dig-
its by the time they walk off the field.
The Raiders have an indoor facility
but usually practice outside because it’s
more spacious and the fields are grass
rather than turf. Cool boxes are set up
just off the 50-yard line near one of the
three practice fields that players use,
and coach Josh McDaniels said the
team met before camp opened to dis-
cuss coping with the conditions.
McDaniels said the key was listening
to medical professionals.
“They have a very scientific way to
measure (weather and safety condi-
tions) that I’m not really qualified to
speak intelligently about,” McDaniels
said. “But I understand when they tell
me that we’ve entered into a zone where
it’s dangerous to be out there with hel-
mets, pads, etc., then we’ll do the right
thing.”
Two warm weather teams avoid
practicing in the heat altogether. The
Arizona Cardinals use their retractable-
roof stadium and the Dallas Cowboys
hold camp in moderate Southern Cali-
fornia.
Other teams, particularly those in the
hottest parts of the country, have to
adapt to the weather.
“The health and safety of the players
is the most important thing for our team
and our organization,” Houston Texans
general manager Nick Caserio said.
“Whatever we can do to help the players
in that respect, that’s the most impor-
tant thing. It’s going to be hot wherever
you go, but you want to be smart.”
Caserio said some players wear hoo-
dies and sweatpants so they can sweat
“and let that heat leave your body. If you
don’t, you can potentially be putting
yourself at risk.”
For a second consecutive camp,
coach Ron Rivera scheduled Washing-
ton Commanders practices for 9 a.m. as
one way to try to beat the heat. A stretch
of record temperatures last year con-
tributed to several soft-tissue injuries,
so the staff is taking further steps this
time around, from more water breaks to
a cooling tent that players are sent to if
they begin to feel the effects.
“We’re constantly trying to get them
to hydrate and get them focusing on hy-
drating prior to practice and post-prac-
tice,” Rivera said.
Other coaches take a different ap-
proach, knowing many early season
games are played when temperatures
are at their highest.
“You look at our first game against
Pittsburgh last year here at home,” Cin-
cinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor said.
“On offense, there were over 100 snaps
and you played an overtime game. … We
want our guys to be ready for that, and
we feel like we will.”
Few players go as hard as Raiders de-
fensive end Maxx Crosby, who spent
part of the offseason sparring with a
UFC fighter. He said part of his prepara-
tion for the heat is building up the body
before camp begins.
“You can’t just train in the air condi-
tioning and then go out and feel like
you’re going to be fine in the heat,” Cros-
by said. “So we’ve done back and forth.
I’ve trained inside, I’ve trained outside
this offseason, just doing a bunch of dif-
ferent things to get ready for training
camp.”
Much is at stake in camp, so players
want to be on the field far more than in
the cooling box or on the trainer’s table.
They’re fighting for starting jobs and
roster spots, and those players know
that coaches and general managers are
watching to see who best battles
through adversity.
“The job’s got to get done,” Miami
Dolphins offensive tackle Kendall
Lamm said, “with or without the heat.”
AP Sports Writers Brett Martel in
Metairie, Louisiana; Kristie Rieken in
Houston; Mitch Stacy in Cincinnati;
Alanis Thames in Miami Gardens, Flori-
da; and Stephen Whyno in Ashburn, Vir-
ginia, contributed to this report.
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SCOREBOARD
All times Eastern New Zealand 1, Norway 0 Friday, Aug. 18 Jason Dufner.....................69-68—137 (-5) David McKenzie ................76-70—146 (+4) 33. (9) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, .000.
Friday, July 21 OL Reign at Kansas City, 8 p.m. Kevin Chappell..................69-68—137 (-5) Mauricio Molina ................72-74—146 (+4) 34. (39) Ryan Sieg, Ford, .000.
Philippines 0, Switzerland 2 MJ Daffue..........................68-69—137 (-5) Rod Pampling....................72-74—146 (+4) 35. (38) Joe Graf Jr, Ford, .000.
MLB Tuesday, July 25 GOLF Peter Kuest ........................71-66—137 (-5)
Ryan Gerard ......................69-68—137 (-5)
Tim Petrovic ......................74-72—146 (+4)
Jeev M. Singh ...................69-77—146 (+4)
36. (43) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, .000.
37. (08) Alex Labbe, Ford, .000.
New Zealand 0, Philippines 1
American League The Amundi Evian Championship Trevor Cone........................66-71—137 (-5) Notah Begay......................76-71—147 (+5) 38. (4) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, .000.
Switzerland 0, Norway 0
East Division Friday Kramer Hickok ..................68-69—137 (-5) Andre Bossert ...................74-73—147 (+5) NASCAR Craftsman Truck Worldwide
Sunday, July 30 Justin Suh ..........................65-72—137 (-5) Christian Cevaer................73-74—147 (+5)
W L Pct GB At Evian Resort Golf Club Express 250 Lineup
Baltimore 63 40 .612 — Switzerland vs. New Zealand, 3 a.m. Doug Ghim .........................74-63—137 (-5) Roger Chapman.................77-70—147 (+5)
Norway vs. Philippines, 3 a.m. Evian-les-Bains, France After Friday qualifying; race Saturday
Tampa Bay 63 43 .594 1½ Ben Griffin.........................68-69—137 (-5) K.J. Choi.............................75-72—147 (+5)
Toronto 58 46 .558 5½ GROUP B Purse: $6.5 million Tom Hoge..........................68-69—137 (-5) Darren Clarke.....................73-74—147 (+5) At Richmond Raceway
Boston 56 47 .544 7 GP W D L GF GA Pts Matt Wallace......................71-66—137 (-5) Glen Day.............................76-71—147 (+5) Richmond, Va.
Nigeria 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 Yardage: 6,527; Par: 71
New York 54 49 .524 9 Mackenzie Hughes ...........69-68—137 (-5) Hiroyuki Fujita ...................75-72—147 (+5) Lap length: 0.75 miles
Canada 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 Second Round Stewart Cink.......................74-63—137 (-5) David Gilford......................74-73—147 (+5)
Central Division Australia 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 Celine Boutier ...................66-69—135 (-7) (Car number in parentheses)
W L Pct GB Alex Noren .........................71-66—137 (-5) Simon Griffiths...................71-76—147 (+5) 1. (98) Ty Majeski, Ford, .000 mph.
Ireland 2 0 0 2 1 3 0 Yuka Saso ..........................67-69—136 (-6)
Minnesota 54 51 .514 — Doc Redman.......................66-71—137 (-5) Grant Hamerton ................73-74—147 (+5) 2. (11) Corey Heim, Toyota, .000.
Thursday, July 20 Patty Tavatanakit..............69-67—136 (-6) James Hahn ......................69-68—137 (-5) Damian Mooney ................73-74—147 (+5)
Cleveland 52 52 .500 1½ 3. (1) William Sawalich, Toyota, .000.
Detroit 46 58 .442 7½ Australia 1, Ireland 0 Nasa Hataoka.....................70-67—137 (-5) Max McGreevy..................68-69—137 (-5) Tim Weinhart .....................76-71—147 (+5)
Alison Lee...........................66-71—137 (-5) 4. (99) Ben Rhodes, Ford, .000.
Chicago 42 63 .400 12 Nigeria 0, Canada 0 Chesson Hadley.................71-66—137 (-5) Missed Cut 5. (51) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, .000.
Kansas City 30 75 .286 24 Gaby Lopez .......................69-68—137 (-5) Russell Knox ......................70-67—137 (-5)
Wednesday, July 26 Hae-Ran Ryu ......................67-71—138 (-4) Jason Bohn .......................75-73—148 (+6) 6. (19) Christian Eckes, Chevrolet, .000.
West Division Canada 2, Ireland 1 Nate Lashley .....................68-70—138 (-4) Jose Manuel Carriles.........71-77—148 (+6) 7. (15) Tanner Gray, Toyota, .000.
Celine Borge ......................67-72—139 (-3) C.T. Pan..............................68-70—138 (-4)
W L Pct GB Thursday, July 27 Peiyun Chien......................68-71—139 (-3) Chris DiMarco....................74-74—148 (+6) 8. (88) Matt Crafton, Ford, .000.
Texas 60 44 .577 — Australia 2, Nigeria 3 Trey Mullinax.....................72-66—138 (-4) Stephen Dodd...................75-73—148 (+6) 9. (4) Chase Purdy, Chevrolet, .000.
Houston 58 46 .558 2 Brooke Henderson............69-70—139 (-3) Chad Ramey......................70-68—138 (-4)
Monday, July 31 Paula Reto .........................64-75—139 (-3) Gary Evans ........................75-73—148 (+6) 10. (25) Matt DiBenedetto, Chevrolet,
Los Angeles 54 50 .519 6 Brice Garnett......................71-67—138 (-4) Philip Golding ..................80-68—148 (+6) .000.
Seattle 53 50 .515 6½ Canada vs. Australia, 6 a.m. Gemma Dryburgh .............70-70—140 (-2) Ben Taylor.........................70-68—138 (-4)
Ireland vs. Nigeria, 6 a.m. Linn Grant ..........................69-71—140 (-2) Andrew Raitt .....................76-72—148 (+6) 11. (41) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, .000.
Oakland 29 76 .276 31½ Matti Schmid.....................68-70—138 (-4) Wes Short .........................75-73—148 (+6)
Esther Henseleit................67-73—140 (-2) 12. (35) Jake Garcia, Chevrolet, .000.
Thursday's Games GROUP C Kaito Onishi........................71-67—138 (-4) Esteban Toledo .................74-74—148 (+6) 13. (23) Grant Enfinger, Chevrolet, .000.
GP W D L GF GA Pts Jin Young Ko......................70-70—140 (-2) Paul Haley II......................70-68—138 (-4)
L.A. Angels 6, Detroit 0, 1st game Spain 2 2 0 0 8 0 6 Minjee Lee .........................69-71—140 (-2) Peter Wilson......................76-72—148 (+6) 14. (2) Nicholas Sanchez, Chevrolet, .000.
L.A. Angels 11, Detroit 4, 2nd game Henrik Norlander ...............67-71—138 (-4) Simon Brown .....................75-74—149 (+7) 15. (38) Zane Smith, Ford, .000.
Japan 2 2 0 0 7 0 6 Pernilla Lindberg...............68-72—140 (-2) Jim Herman ......................69-69—138 (-4)
Cleveland 6, Chicago White Sox 3 Costa Rica 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 Rose Zhang ........................69-71—140 (-2) Jesus Rivas........................75-74—149 (+7) 16. (24) Rajah Caruth, Chevrolet, .000.
Friday's Games Zambia 2 0 0 2 0 10 0 Sam Stevens.....................69-69—138 (-4) Todd Sapere ......................75-74—149 (+7) 17. (42) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, .000.
A Lim Kim ............................67-74—141 (-1) Matthias Schwab ...............67-71—138 (-4)
Miami 6, Detroit 5 Su Ji Kim..............................67-74—141 (-1) Knud Storgaard .................72-77—149 (+7) 18. (43) Daniel Dye, Chevrolet, .000.
Friday, July 21 Justin Lower.......................67-71—138 (-4) Charlie Wi ..........................76-73—149 (+7)
Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland 0 Lilia Vu .................................71-70—141 (-1) 19. (17) Taylor Gray, Toyota, .000.
Spain 3, Costa Rica 0 Projected cut line David Copsey....................75-75—150 (+8)
Baltimore 1, N.Y. Yankees 0 Wei-Ling Hsu ......................69-73—142 (E) 20. (5) Dean Thompson, Toyota, .000.
Toronto 4, L.A. Angels 1 Saturday, July 22 Chad Collins .......................71-68—139 (-3) Robert Damron .................77-73—150 (+8) 21. (16) Tyler Ankrum, Toyota, .000.
Eun-Hee Ji ...........................67-75—142 (E)
Tampa Bay 4, Houston 3 Zambia 0, Japan 5 Sahith Theegala.................72-67—139 (-3) Scott Dunlap .....................75-75—150 (+8) 22. (45) Lawless Alan, Chevrolet, .000.
Lydia Ko...............................66-76—142 (E)
Kansas City 8, Minnesota 5, 10 innings Wednesday, July 26 Wichanee Meechai .............66-76—142 (E) Charley Hoffman ...............71-68—139 (-3) Bob Estes..........................75-75—150 (+8) 23. (52) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, .000.
Oakland 8, Colorado 5 Japan 2, Costa Rica 0 Anna Nordqvist...................72-70—142 (E) Andrew Novak...................69-70—139 (-3) Keiichiro Fukabori .............77-73—150 (+8) 24. (66) Conner Jones, Ford, .000.
San Diego 7, Texas 1 Spain 5, Zambia 0 Sung Hyun Park ..................72-70—142 (E) Ryan Armour......................71-68—139 (-3) Thomas Levet ...................72-78—150 (+8) 25. (13) Hailie Deegan, Ford, .000.
Boston 3, San Francisco 2 Monday, July 31 Aditi Ashok .........................71-72—143 (+1) Ryan Palmer.......................71-68—139 (-3) Oyvind Rojahn..................80-70—150 (+8) 26. (32) Bret Holmes, Chevrolet, .000.
Seattle 5, Arizona 2 Japan vs. Spain, 3 a.m. Ariya Jutanugarn...............70-73—143 (+1) Sean O'Hair ........................72-67—139 (-3) Omar Uresti .......................77-73—150 (+8) 27. (9) Colby Howard, Chevrolet, .000.
Saturday's Games Costa Rica vs. Zambia, 3 a.m. Minami Katsu ....................74-69—143 (+1) Erik van Rooyen .................68-71—139 (-3) Christopher Williams ........75-75—150 (+8) 28. (30) Ryan Vargas, Toyota, .000.
L.A. Angels (Detmers 2-7) at Toronto Megan Khang ....................70-73—143 (+1) Nicolai Hojgaard................71-68—139 (-3) Peter Baker ........................74-77—151 (+9) 29. (02) Will Rodgers, Chevrolet, .000.
GROUP D a-Preston Summerhays....70-69—139 (-3) David Shacklady ................78-73—151 (+9)
(Manoah 2-8), 3:07 p.m. GP W D L GF GA Pts Hyo Joo Kim.......................71-72—143 (+1) 30. (56) Timmy Hill, Toyota, .000.
Detroit (Brieske 0-0) at Miami (Cueto England 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 Nelly Korda ........................70-73—143 (+1) Tano Goya ..........................71-68—139 (-3) Gary Wolstenholme...........76-75—151 (+9) 31. (33) Derek Lemke, Ford, .000.
0-1), 4:10 p.m. Denmark 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 Jennifer Kupcho................68-75—143 (+1) Adam Hadwin ...................70-69—139 (-3) Victor Casado ..................75-77—152 (+10) 32. (12) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, .000.
Cleveland (Allen 4-3) at Chicago White China 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 Leona Maguire ..................70-73—143 (+1) Lucas Glover ......................71-68—139 (-3) Paul Eales.........................77-75—152 (+10) 33. (20) Mason Massey, Chevrolet, .000.
Sox (TBD), 7:10 p.m. Haiti 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 Albane Valenzuela.............69-74—143 (+1) Taylor Pendrith ..................71-68—139 (-3) Carlos Franco...................76-76—152 (+10) 34. (90) Justin S Carroll, Toyota, .000.
Minnesota (Ober 6-4) at Kansas City Saturday, July 22 Amy Yang ...........................72-71—143 (+1) Cameron Young .................71-69—140 (-2) Chris Hanell .....................78-74—152 (+10) 35. (22) Christian Rose, Ford, .000.
(Lyles 1-12), 7:10 p.m. England 1, Haiti 0 Angel Yin............................67-76—143 (+1) Justin Thomas ...................69-71—140 (-2) Miguel Angel Martin .......79-73—152 (+10) 36. (34) Josh Reaume, Ford, .000.
Boston (Paxton 6-2) at San Francisco Denmark 1, China 0 Ashleigh Buhai ..................72-72—144 (+2) Joel Dahmen .....................72-68—140 (-2) Mark McNulty ..................75-77—152 (+10)
(TBD), 7:15 p.m. In Gee Chun.......................72-72—144 (+2) Chris Stroud.......................71-69—140 (-2) Brent Paterson ................78-74—152 (+10)
Friday, July 28
N.Y. Yankees (Schmidt 6-6) at Baltimore England 1, Denmark 0 Allisen Corpuz....................71-73—144 (+2) Davis Thompson................69-71—140 (-2)
Brandon Matthews ...........72-68—140 (-2)
Raymond Russell.............79-73—152 (+10)
Adilson Da Silva................77-76—153 (+11)
TRANSACTIONS
(Wells 7-5), 7:15 p.m. China 1, Haiti 0 Daniela Darquea ...............70-74—144 (+2)
Tampa Bay (Bradley 5-6) at Houston Jodi Ewart Shadoff...........69-75—144 (+2) Harry Hall ..........................70-70—140 (-2) Michael Long....................75-78—153 (+11) Friday's Transactions
Tuesday, Aug. 1 Georgia Hall .......................71-73—144 (+2) Jimmy Walker....................73-67—140 (-2) Jeff Maggert....................78-75—153 (+11) BASEBALL
(Brown 6-7), 7:15 p.m.
China vs. England, 7 a.m. Min Lee..............................74-70—144 (+2) Robby Shelton...................74-66—140 (-2) Billy Mayfair......................79-74—153 (+11)
Oakland (Blackburn 1-2) at Colorado Major League Baseball
Haiti vs. Denmark, 7 a.m. Yan Liu ...............................72-72—144 (+2) Brian Stuard.......................69-71—140 (-2) Jason Norris .....................75-78—153 (+11)
(Flexen 0-4), 8:10 p.m. MLB — Suspended St. Louis RHP Miles
Seattle (Woo 1-3) at Arizona (Pfaadt 0-4), GROUP E Ryann O'Toole ...................70-74—144 (+2) Christiaan Bezuidenhout ..71-69—140 (-2) Andy Oldcorn....................77-76—153 (+11) Mikolas five games and fined him an
8:10 p.m. GP W D L GF GA Pts Min Ji Park ........................69-75—144 (+2) Nick Watney......................75-65—140 (-2) John Senden ....................78-75—153 (+11)
United States 2 1 1 0 4 1 4 undisclosed amount for intentionally
Texas (Pérez 8-3) at San Diego (Darvish Hinako Shibuno .................72-72—144 (+2) Taylor Montgomery ...........68-73—141 (-1) Harold Wallace ................80-73—153 (+11) throwing at Chicago Cubs OF Ian Happ
Netherlands 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 Angela Stanford ...............69-75—144 (+2) Matt NeSmith......................71-70—141 (-1) Mike Weir .........................74-79—153 (+11)
7-7), 8:40 p.m. Portugal 2 1 0 1 2 1 3 during the top of the first inning of
Atthaya Thitikul ................69-75—144 (+2) Carson Young .....................72-69—141 (-1) Arjun Atwal ......................78-76—154 (+12) Thursday night's game. Suspended St.
Sunday's Games Vietnam 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 K.H. Lee ...............................74-67—141 (-1) Russ Cochran ...................76-78—154 (+12)
L.A. Angels at Toronto, 12:05 p.m. Hye Jin Choi ......................72-73—145 (+3) Louis manager Oliver Marmol one-game
Friday, July 21 Karis Davidson ..................73-72—145 (+3) Robert Streb........................70-71—141 (-1) James Crampton .............79-75—154 (+12) with a fine for the same incident.
Detroit at Miami, 1:40 p.m. United States 3, Vietnam 0 Ryan Moore .........................70-71—141 (-1) Scott Henderson .............75-79—154 (+12)
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m. Ayaka Furue ......................69-76—145 (+3) American League
Sunday, July 23 Johanna Gustavsson ........70-75—145 (+3) Mark Hubbard .....................71-70—141 (-1) Gary Marks.......................79-75—154 (+12)
Minnesota at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m. Richy Werenski....................71-70—141 (-1) Edward McCormack ........75-79—154 (+12) CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Selected the
Tampa Bay at Houston, 2:10 p.m. Netherlands 1, Portugal 0 Moriya Jutanugarn ............71-74—145 (+3) contract of RHP Declan Cronin from
Stephanie Kyriacou ...........74-71—145 (+3) Sungjae Im ..........................70-71—141 (-1) Jyoti Randhawa ...............76-78—154 (+12)
Oakland at Colorado, 3:10 p.m. Wednesday, July 26 Cameron Percy....................70-72—142 (E) Carl Suneson....................79-75—154 (+12) Charlotte (IL). Acquired C Korey Lee from
Boston at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. United States 1, Netherlands 1 Stephanie Meadow ..........69-76—145 (+3) Houston in exchange for RHP Kendall
Morgane Metraux.............70-75—145 (+3) Satoshi Kodaira...................74-68—142 (E) Neil Thompson ................78-76—154 (+12)
Seattle at Arizona, 4:10 p.m. Thursday, July 27 David Hearn .........................71-71—142 (E) Ian Woosnam...................75-79—154 (+12) Graveman. Placed OF Trayce Thompson
Texas at San Diego, 4:10 p.m. Sarah Schmelzel................72-73—145 (+3) on the 60-day IL. Selected the contract of
Portugal 2, Vietnam 0 Jenny Shin.........................72-73—145 (+3) Austin Cook ..........................71-71—142 (E) Gustavo Acosta................77-78—155 (+13)
N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1 Jonathan Byrd......................71-71—142 (E) Markus Brier ....................76-79—155 (+13) RHP Bryan Shaw from Charlotte.
Linnea Strom.....................73-72—145 (+3) DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned LHP Zach
National League Portugal vs. United States, 3 a.m. Elizabeth Szokol ................73-72—145 (+3) Kevin Roy ............................73-69—142 (E) Joe Lyons .........................78-77—155 (+13)
East Division Vietnam vs. Netherlands, 3 a.m. Carl Yuan .............................75-67—142 (E) Frasar Mann .....................81-74—155 (+13) Logue to Toledo (IL).
Miyuu Yamashita ..............70-75—145 (+3) KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled 2B
W L Pct GB GROUP F Sarah Kemp.......................73-73—146 (+4) Sepp Straka ..........................71-71—142 (E) Jean Van de Velde ..........76-79—155 (+13)
Atlanta 65 36 .644 — GP W D L GF GA Pts Cody Gribble ......................71-72—143 (+1) Thomas Goegele.............80-76—156 (+14) Samad Taylor from Omaha (IL). Placed 1B
Cheyenne Knight...............71-75—146 (+4) Nick Pratto on the 10-day IL, retroactive
Philadelphia 56 47 .544 10 Brazil 1 1 0 0 4 0 3 Mi Hyang Lee....................70-76—146 (+4) Ben Martin.........................73-70—143 (+1) Anthony Kang ..................77-79—156 (+14)
Miami 56 48 .538 10½ France 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Hank Lebioda .....................71-72—143 (+1) Jason Partridge...............75-81—156 (+14) to July 27. Sent RHP Brad Keller on a rehab
Pauline Roussin.................73-73—146 (+4) assignment to Omaha (IL).
New York 49 54 .476 17 Jamaica 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Chez Reavie .......................69-74—143 (+1) John Balfanz ....................80-77—157 (+15)
Washington 43 61 .413 23½ Jiyai Shin ...........................72-74—146 (+4) LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHPs
Panama 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 Emma Talley......................73-73—146 (+4) Troy Merritt ........................72-71—143 (+1) Peter O'Malley .................77-80—157 (+15)
Central Division Dylan Frittelli......................71-72—143 (+1) Jose Maria Olazabal ........80-77—157 (+15) Zack Weiss and Gerado Reyes to Salt Lake
Sunday, July 23 Carlota Ciganda ...............................74-DQ (PCL). Activated RHP Lucas Giolito.
W L Pct GB France 0, Jamaica 0 Kyle Westmoreland...........73-70—143 (+1) Stephen Fenn ..................79-79—158 (+16)
Milwaukee 57 47 .548 — Missed Cut Michael Gligic ....................73-70—143 (+1) Russell Humphrey ...........77-81—158 (+16) MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated INF
Cincinnati 57 48 .543 ½ Monday, July 24 Ally Ewing .........................67-80—147 (+5) Jorge Polanco from the 10-day IL.
Harrison Endycott ............68-76—144 (+2) Peter Martin ...................78-80—158 (+16)
Chicago 52 51 .505 4½ Brazil 4, Panama 0 Hannah Green...................68-79—147 (+5) Optioned RHP Cole Sands to St. Paul (IL).
Patton Kizzire....................74-70—144 (+2) Rusty Strawn....................78-81—159 (+17)
St. Louis 46 59 .438 11½ Saturday, July 29 Celine Herbin.....................73-74—147 (+5) Derek Hitchner ..................73-71—144 (+2) Rafa Barcellos..................83-77—160 (+18) Activated RHP Dylan Floro.
Pittsburgh 45 58 .437 11½ France vs. Brazil, 6 a.m. Charley Hull .......................77-70—147 (+5) Austin Eckroat...................74-70—144 (+2) Richard Tinworth..............87-74—161 (+19) NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated OF
Panama vs. Jamaica, 8:30 a.m. Sei Young Kim ...................75-72—147 (+5) Sam Bennett.....................69-75—144 (+2) Rafael Benitez ................84-78—162 (+20) Willie Calhoun from the 10-day IL and
West Division Nanna Koerstz Madsen.....75-72—147 (+5)
W L Pct GB Wednesday, Aug. 2 Lanto Griffin ......................73-72—145 (+3) Eamonn O'Connor...........81-85—166 (+24) designated him for assignment.
Los Angeles 58 44 .569 — Panama vs. France, 6 a.m. Andrea Lee........................69-78—147 (+5) Gary Woodland .................72-73—145 (+3) Reinstated OF Aaron Judge from the
San Francisco 56 48 .538 3 Jamaica vs. Brazil, 6 a.m. Xiyu Lin ..............................71-76—147 (+5) Peter Malnati ....................70-75—145 (+3) 10-day IL. Optioned INF Oswald Peraza to
Arizona 55 49 .529 4 Madelene Sagstrom ..........71-76—147 (+5) Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).
San Diego 50 54 .481 9
GROUP G
GP W D L GF GA Pts Bailey Tardy.......................72-75—147 (+5)
Daniel Gale........................70-75—145 (+3)
Zecheng Dou .....................73-72—145 (+3)
AUTO RACING TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled OF Bubba
Colorado 40 63 .388 18½ Sweden 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 Ruoning Yin .......................73-74—147 (+5) Andrew Landry..................75-71—146 (+4) F1 Belgian Grand Prix Lineup Thompson from Round Rock (PCL). Placed
Italy 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Marina Alex .......................72-76—148 (+6) Brian Gay...........................69-77—146 (+4) After Friday qualifying; race Sunday C Jonah Heim on the 10-day IL.
Thursday's Games
South Africa 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 Na Rin An ..........................72-76—148 (+6) Michael Kim.......................75-71—146 (+4) Reinstated RHP Josh Sborz from the
N.Y. Mets 2, Washington 1 At Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Argentina 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 Saki Baba...........................74-74—148 (+6) a-Caleb VanArragon .........76-70—146 (+4) 15-day IL. Acquired C Kevin Plawecki from
Chicago Cubs 10, St. Louis 3 Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium.
Jaravee Boonchant ...........74-74—148 (+6) Greyson Sigg .....................74-73—147 (+5) San Diego in exchange for cash
Friday's Games Sunday, July 23 Yu Liu.................................75-73—148 (+6)
Sweden 2, South Africa 1 Harry Higgs .......................75-72—147 (+5) Lap length: 7.00 kilometers considerations.
Miami 6, Detroit 5 Yuna Nishimura.................73-75—148 (+6)
Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1 Monday, July 24 Ryan Fox ............................73-74—147 (+5) Third session National League
Lauren Coughlin ................77-72—149 (+7) Nico Echavarria .................72-75—147 (+5) 1. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull CHICAGO CUBS — Recalled RHP Hayden
N.Y. Mets 5, Washington 1 Italy 1, Argentina 0 Alice Hewson.....................74-75—149 (+7)
Atlanta 10, Milwaukee 7 Martin Trainer ...................68-79—147 (+5) Racing, 1 minute, 46.168 seconds. Wesneski from Iowa (IL). Optioned RHP
Thursday, July 27 Dani Holmqvist .................70-79—149 (+7) Alex Gaugert......................77-71—148 (+6) 2. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, Michael Rucker to Iowa.
Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis 2 Argentina 2, South Africa 2 Jeongeun Lee6..................78-71—149 (+7)
Oakland 8, Colorado 5 Ryan Brehm ......................73-75—148 (+6) 1:46.988. CINCINNATI REDS — Sent RHP Casey
Saturday, July 29 Chiara Noja ........................75-74—149 (+7) Brent Grant........................79-71—150 (+8) 3. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull Racing, Legumina and RHP Vladimir Gutierrez to
San Diego 7, Texas 1 Mao Saigo ..........................72-77—149 (+7)
Boston 3, San Francisco 2 Sweden vs. Italy, 3:30 a.m. Austin Smotherman ..........78-73—151 (+9) 1:47.045. the Arizona Complex League (ACL) for
Jasmine Suwannapura......76-73—149 (+7) Eric Rolland........................73-78—151 (+9) 4. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, rehab.
Seattle 5, Arizona 2 Wednesday, Aug. 2 Perrine Delacour...............78-72—150 (+8)
Cincinnati 6, L.A. Dodgers 5 Argentina vs. Sweden, 3 a.m. Will Gordon ......................77-75—152 (+10) Mercedes, 1:47.087. COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated L Kyle
Amanda Doherty ..............72-78—150 (+8) Noah Hofman .................86-76—162 (+20) 5. Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 1:47.152. Freeland from the 15-day IL. Recalled RHP
Saturday's Games South Africa vs. Italy, 3 a.m. Mina Harigae.....................73-77—150 (+8)
GROUP H Kelly Kraft.............................................WD 6. Oscar Piastri, Australia, McLaren, Tommy Doyle from Albuquerque (PCL).
Detroit (Brieske 0-0) at Miami (Cueto Chisato Iwai.......................74-76—150 (+8) Scott Piercy ..........................................WD 1:47.365. Placed RHP Chase Anderson on the
0-1), 4:10 p.m. GP W D L GF GA Pts Lucy Li...............................75-75—150 (+8)
Germany 1 1 0 0 6 0 3 Did not finish 7. Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLaren, 15-day IL.
Philadelphia (Nola 9-6) at Pittsburgh Mel Reid.............................71-79—150 (+8) 1:47.669. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Acquired RHPs
Colombia 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 Augusto Nunez
(Priester 1-1), 7:05 p.m. South Korea 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 Maja Stark .........................75-75—150 (+8) 8. George Russell, Great Britain, Lance Lynn and Joe Kelly from Chicago
Washington (Corbin 6-11) at N.Y. Mets Carmen Alonso ..................75-76—151 (+9) Kevin Tway
Morocco 1 0 0 1 0 6 0 S.Y. Noh Mercedes, 1:47.805. White Sox in exchange for OF Trayce
(Carrasco 3-4), 7:10 p.m. Pajaree Anannarukarn.......73-78—151 (+9) 9. Fernando Alonso, Spain, Aston Martin, Thompson and RHPs Nick Nastrini and
Boston (Paxton 6-2) at San Francisco Monday, July 24 Chella Choi ........................69-82—151 (+9) Scott Harrington
Germany 6, Morocco 0 Trevor Werbylo 1:47.843. Jordan Leasure. Designated INF Eddys
(TBD), 7:15 p.m. Ting-Hsuan Huang ............76-75—151 (+9) 10. Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, Leonard and LHP Justin Bruihl for
Chicago Cubs (Taillon 4-6) at St. Louis Colombia 2, South Korea 0 Grace Kim ..........................71-80—151 (+9) Thomas Lehman
1:48.841. assignment. Activated LHP Amed
(Wainwright 3-4), 7:15 p.m. Sunday, July 30 Magdalena Simmermacher77-74—151 (+9) Leaderboard Rosario.
Milwaukee (Teheran 2-4) at Atlanta (Elder South Korea vs. Morocco, 12:30 a.m. Klara Spilkova ....................73-78—151 (+9) SCORE (THRU) Eliminated after second session
11. Yuki Tsunoda, Japan, Alphatauri, MIAMI MARLINS — Placed RHP Matt
7-2), 7:20 p.m. Germany vs. Colombia, 5:30 a.m. Diksha Dagar....................71-81—152 (+10) Lee Hodges ...................................-15 (18) Barnes on the 60-day IL. Activated RHP
Oakland (Blackburn 1-2) at Colorado Eila Galitsky .....................73-79—152 (+10) Tyler Duncan ..................................-11 (18) 1:53.148.
Thursday, Aug. 3 12. Pierre Gasly, France, Alpine, 1:53.671. Jorge Lopez.
(Flexen 0-4), 8:10 p.m. South Korea vs. Germany, 6 a.m. Chiara Horder .................72-80—152 (+10) Kevin Streelman............................-10 (18) MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Reinstated LHP
Seattle (Woo 1-3) at Arizona (Pfaadt 0-4), Caroline Inglis .................70-82—152 (+10) J.T. Poston......................................-10 (18) 13. Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Haas,
Morocco vs. Colombia, 6 a.m. 1:54.160. Justin Wilson from the 60-day IL.
8:10 p.m. Soo Bin Joo.....................72-80—152 (+10) Tony Finau .....................................-10 (18) Transferred LHP Bennett Sousa from the
MLS Brandt Snedeker ...........................-10 (18) 14. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Alfa Romeo
Texas (Pérez 8-3) at San Diego (Darvish Danielle Kang ..................73-79—152 (+10) 15-day IL to the 60-day IL and sent him to
7-7), 8:40 p.m. EASTERN CONFERENCE Ana Pelaez Trivino ...........75-77—152 (+10) Emilio Grillo .....................................-9 (18) Racing, 1:54.694.
15. Esteban Ocon, France, Alpine, 1:56.372. the Arizona Complex League (ACL) for
Cincinnati (Weaver 2-2) at L.A. Dodgers W L T Pts GF GA Matilda Castren................74-79—153 (+11) David Lipsky....................................-9 (18) rehab.
(Sheehan 3-1), 9:10 p.m. Cincinnati 15 2 6 51 39 25 So Yeon Ryu.....................73-80—153 (+11) Billy Horschel ..................................-9 (18) Eliminated after first session
NEW YORK METS — Traded RHP David
Sunday's Games New England 12 4 7 43 42 28 Maddie Szeryk..................71-82—153 (+11) Senior British Open 16. Alexander Albon, Thailand, Williams,
Philadelphia 12 7 4 40 39 26 Robertson to Miami in exchange for 2B
Milwaukee at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m. Frida Kinhult.....................77-77—154 (+12) 2:00.314.
Nashville 11 8 5 38 31 22 Friday Marco Vargas and C Ronald Hernandez.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m. Lindsey Weaver-Wright...77-77—154 (+12) 17. Guanyu Zhou, China, Alfa Romeo
Orlando City 10 6 7 37 34 28 At Royal Porthcawl GC Recalled RHP Reed Garrett from Syracuse
Detroit at Miami, 1:40 p.m. Lily May Humphreys........78-77—155 (+13) Racing, 2:00.832.
Columbus 10 7 6 36 45 33 (IL).
Washington at N.Y. Mets, 1:40 p.m. Emily Pedersen ................74-81—155 (+13) Bridgend, United Kingdom 18. Logan Sargeant, USA, Williams,
Atlanta 9 7 8 35 42 39 PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled OF Josh
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m. Manon De Roey ...............79-78—157 (+15) Purse: $2.8 million 2:01.535.
Chicago 8 7 8 32 31 31 Palacios from Indianapolis (IL).
Oakland at Colorado, 3:10 p.m. Ines Laklalech ..................71-86—157 (+15) 19. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Alphatauri,
D.C. United 8 10 6 30 32 34 Yardage: 7,003; Par: 71 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Recalled LHP
Boston at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Kaitlyn Schroeder............72-85—157 (+15) 2:02.159.
CF Montréal 9 12 2 29 22 32 Second Round Matthew Liberatore from Memphis (IL).
Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m. New York 6 9 8 26 22 26 Somi Lee .........................75-83—158 (+16) 20. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Haas,
Steven Alker .....................70-68—138 (-4) Optioned LHP Andrew Suarez to
Seattle at Arizona, 4:10 p.m. Charlotte FC 6 9 8 26 30 40 Lauren Hartlage..............80-79—159 (+17) 2:03.166.
Alex Cejka ..........................68-71—139 (-3) Memphis.
Texas at San Diego, 4:10 p.m. NY City FC 5 8 11 26 25 30 Rachel Kuehn...................79-82—161 (+19) NASCAR Xfinity Road America 180 Lineup SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent RHP Domingo
Meghan MacLaren.........80-82—162 (+20) Greig Hutcheon.................72-68—140 (-2)
Toronto FC 3 11 10 19 18 33 After Friday qualifying; race Saturday Tapia outright to El Paso (PCL).
Inter Miami CF 5 14 3 18 22 36 Valentina Rossi ...............81-83—164 (+22) Paul Broadhurst ..................70-71—141 (-1)
Anders Hansen...................72-69—141 (-1) At Road America BASKETBALL
WNBA WESTERN CONFERENCE
PGA Tour 3M Open Paul Lawrie ..........................70-71—141 (-1) Elkhart Lake, Wis. National Basketball Association
Friday Vijay Singh ..........................69-72—141 (-1) Lap length: 4.05 miles WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed G Jared
EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Shane Bertsch ....................73-69—142 (E)
W L Pct GB Saint Louis City SC 13 8 2 41 43 27 At TPC Twin Cities (Car number in parentheses) Butler to a two-way contract.
New York 18 6 .750 — Los Angeles FC 10 6 7 37 34 25 Blaine, Minn. Emanuele Canonica ............72-70—142 (E) 1. (10) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, Women's National Basketball Association
Connecticut 18 6 .750 — Real Salt Lake 10 7 7 37 35 34 Keith Horne .........................70-72—142 (E) 111.606 mph. MINNESOTA LYNX — Signed F Emily
Purse: $7.8 million Miguel Angel Jimenez........66-76—142 (E)
Atlanta 13 11 .542 5 Seattle 10 8 6 36 29 23 2. (00) Cole Custer, Ford, 111.352. Engstler to a seven-day contract.
Washington 12 12 .500 6 Austin FC 9 9 5 32 32 32 Yardage: 7,431; Par: 71 Bernhard Langer ................73-69—142 (E) 3. (7) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 111.164. WASHINGTON MYSTICS — Released G
Chicago 9 15 .375 9 San Jose 8 7 8 32 28 29 a-amateur Santiago Luna .....................75-67—142 (E) 4. (98) Riley Herbst, Ford, 110.598. Abby Meyers. Signed G Abby Meyers to a
Indiana 6 18 .250 12 Vancouver 8 7 7 31 38 32 Partial Second Round Colin Montgomerie.............72-70—142 (E) 5. (1) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 110.476. second seven-day contract.
WESTERN CONFERENCE FC Dallas 8 9 6 30 25 26 Steen Tinning......................72-70—142 (E) 6. (24) Sage Karam, Toyota, 110.242.
Houston 8 10 5 29 26 31 Suspended due to darkness Phillip Archer .....................73-70—143 (+1) FOOTBALL
W L Pct GB Lee Hodges......................63-64—127 (-15) 7. (19) Connor Mosack, Toyota, 110.058. National Football League
Las Vegas 22 2 .917 — Minnesota United 7 8 7 28 26 30 Bradley Dredge..................71-72—143 (+1)
Sporting KC 6 11 8 26 31 36 Tyler Duncan .....................64-67—131 (-11) 8. (20) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, BUFFALO BILLS — Signed CB Kyron Brown.
Dallas 14 10 .583 8 Padraig Harrington ...........75-68—143 (+1) 109.857.
Portland 6 9 8 26 26 33 Kevin Streelman..............64-68—132 (-10) Thongchai Jaidee..............73-70—143 (+1) Waived CB Cam Dantzler with an injury
Minnesota 12 13 .480 10½ 9. (26) Kaz Grala, Toyota, 109.209.
Los Angeles 9 15 .375 13 LA Galaxy 5 10 7 22 25 37 J.T. Poston .......................66-66—132 (-10) Gary Orr ..............................71-72—143 (+1) designation. Signed WR Andy Isabella.
Phoenix 6 17 .261 15½ Colorado 3 10 10 19 16 30 Tony Finau .......................66-66—132 (-10) 10. (18) Sammy Smith, Toyota, 101.807. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Waived RB Tiyon
Jean-Francois Remesy.......72-71—143 (+1) 11. (91) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, 109.920.
Seattle 5 19 .208 17 Brandt Snedeker .............64-68—132 (-10) Jarmo Sandelin..................70-73—143 (+1) Evans.
Sunday, Aug. 20 Emilio Grillo.......................65-68—133 (-9) 12. (2) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 109.535. DENVER BRONCOS — Signed WR Michael
Thursday's Games Mario Tiziani......................68-75—143 (+1) 13. (8) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 109.450.
Cincinnati at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. David Lipsky .....................69-64—133 (-9) Bandy. Activated WR Kendall Hinton from
Los Angeles 81, Indiana 68 Y.E. Yang .............................71-72—143 (+1) 14. (21) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 109.333.
Charlotte FC at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Billy Horschel ....................66-67—133 (-9) the active/physically unable to perform
New York 95, Atlanta 84 Clark Dennis ......................72-72—144 (+2) 15. (25) Brett Moffitt, Ford, 109.316.
D.C. United at New York, 7:30 p.m. J.J. Spaun..........................66-68—134 (-8) (PUP) list. Waived WR Nick Williams.
Ken Duke............................71-73—144 (+2) 16. (16) Chandler Smith, Chevrolet,
Friday's Games Minnesota at NY City FC, 7:30 p.m. Hideki Matsuyama............64-70—134 (-8) DETROIT LIONS — Waived WR Tom
Tom Gillis...........................70-74—144 (+2) 109.272.
Dallas 90, Washington 62 FC Dallas at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. Keith Mitchell ...................68-66—134 (-8) Kennedy with an injury designation.
Jerry Kelly..........................73-71—144 (+2) 17. (48) Parker Kligerman, Chevrolet,
Seattle 83, Chicago 74 CF Montréal at Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m. Callum Tarren ...................66-68—134 (-8) Signed WR Trey Quinn.
Simon Khan........................73-71—144 (+2) 109.149.
Minnesota 88, New York 83 Orlando City at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Adam Long ........................70-65—135 (-7) GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed DL
Doug McGuigan................75-69—144 (+2) 18. (92) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 109.094.
Saturday's Games Portland at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Zac Blair.............................69-66—135 (-7) Jonathan Garvin on waivers.
Michael Muehr ..................72-72—144 (+2) 19. (27) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 108.415.
No games scheduled. New England at Nashville, 8:30 p.m. S.H. Kim ..............................71-64—135 (-7) HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed OT George
Timothy O'Neal..................72-72—144 (+2) 20. (31) Parker Retzlaff, Chevrolet,
Austin FC at Saint Louis City SC, 9:30 p.m. Nick Hardy .........................65-70—135 (-7) Fant to a one-year contract. Waived OT
Sunday's Games Phillip Price........................72-72—144 (+2) 108.375.
Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy, 10:30 p.m. Adam Svensson ................66-69—135 (-7) Dylan Deatherage with an injury
Minnesota at Connecticut, 1 p.m. Patrik Sjoland.....................73-71—144 (+2)
Colorado at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m. Cam Davis ..........................68-67—135 (-7) 21. (44) Brad Perez, Chevrolet, 108.286. designation.
Washington at Atlanta, 3 p.m. Paul Streeter .....................73-71—144 (+2)
Atlanta at Seattle, 10:30 p.m. Grayson Murray .................68-67—135 (-7) 22. (45) Leland Honeyman, Chevrolet, KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed WR Ty
New York at Los Angeles, 4 p.m. Stuart Appleby..................73-72—145 (+3)
San Jose at Vancouver, 10:30 p.m. Aaron Baddeley ................69-66—135 (-7) 107.779. Scott.
Phoenix at Chicago, 4 p.m. David Branshaw ................73-72—145 (+3)
NWSL Tyson Alexander ...............69-67—136 (-6) 23. (78) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Waived LB
Seattle at Indiana, 4 p.m. Peter Fowler ......................73-72—145 (+3)
W L T Pts GF GA Eric Cole ............................70-66—136 (-6) 107.523. Tyreek Maddox-Williams.
Dallas at Las Vegas, 6 p.m. North Carolina 8 5 2 26 21 13 Harrison Frazar..................73-72—145 (+3)
Kevin Yu ............................70-66—136 (-6) 24. (07) Katherine Legge, Chevrolet, NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Re-signed LS
Portland 7 4 4 25 34 21 Richard Green ...................72-73—145 (+3) 107.411.
Ludvig Aberg ....................72-64—136 (-6) Joakim Haeggman ............74-71—145 (+3) Zach Wood to a four-year contract
Gotham FC 7 4 4 25 17 14 Sam Ryder.........................70-66—136 (-6) 25. (02) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet,
SOCCER OL Reign 7 5 3 24 23 18 Patrick Rodgers ................69-67—136 (-6)
John Kemp.........................74-71—145 (+3) 107.049.
extension.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed DT Kevin
Washington 6 3 6 24 22 21 Rob Labritz.........................74-71—145 (+3) 26. (6) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 106.993.
Women’s World Cup Glance Matt Kuchar ......................67-69—136 (-6) Euan Mcintosh ...................74-71—145 (+3) Atkins.
San Diego 6 6 3 21 21 18 Vincent Norman................66-70—136 (-6) 27. (28) Kyle Sieg, Ford, 106.821.
GROUP STAGE Louisville 4 4 7 19 19 16 Scott Parel.........................72-73—145 (+3) SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed CB Devon
Martin Laird ......................68-68—136 (-6) 28. (35) Stanton Barrett, Chevrolet, Witherspoon and RB Wayne Taulapapa.
GROUP A Orlando 6 8 1 19 15 21 Michele Reale ...................70-75—145 (+3) 105.898.
Houston 4 5 6 18 10 12 Brandon Wu.......................71-65—136 (-6) Ken Tanigawa ....................73-72—145 (+3) Waived CB Montrae Braswell.
GP W D L GF GA Pts Frankie Capan III...............68-68—136 (-6) 29. (53) Patrick Emerling, Chevrolet,
Switzerland 2 1 1 0 2 0 4 Angel City 4 6 5 17 18 23 Rich Beem .........................75-71—146 (+4) TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed OL Chris
Chicago 5 9 1 16 19 33 Beau Hossler.....................68-69—137 (-5) 104.531. Hubbard. Waived OL James Empey.
New Zealand 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 Michael Campbell.............77-69—146 (+4)
Philippines 2 1 0 1 1 2 3 Kansas City 5 10 0 15 17 26 Dylan Wu............................70-67—137 (-5) 30. (66) Dexter Stacey, Ford, 104.157. HOCKEY
Niclas Fasth .......................75-71—146 (+4) 31. (51) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet,
Norway 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point Garrick Higgo ....................68-69—137 (-5) Ricardo Gonzalez ..............73-73—146 (+4) 94.461. National Hockey League
for tie. Stephan Jaeger .................71-66—137 (-5) Michael Jonzon .................74-72—146 (+4)
Thursday, July 20 32. (11) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, .000. BUFFALO SABRES — Signed C Zach Benson
Aaron Rai...........................69-68—137 (-5) James Kingston ................74-72—146 (+4) to a three-year, entry-level contract.