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Senate
hopefuls
try to
carve
voter pie
Three candidates aim
to differentiate
themselves as they
woo Democratic
decision makers.
By Seema Mehta
and Laura J. Nelson

On the largest stage to

date in the race to replace
retiring California Sen.
Dianne Feinstein, the three
top Democratic candidates
dashed through their state
party’s convention this
weekend in downtown Los Photographs by Francine Orr Los Angeles Times
Angeles, courting delegates, EMTS Meagan Parker, left, and Daniel Avena buckle Ernesto Chavez into a gurney at MLK Community Hospital in L.A. on March 23.
meeting with potential back-
ers and trying to build early

Hospital transfers at ‘standstill’

support in the unpredict-
able contest.
Rep. Katie Porter
snapped selfies with fans as
her campaign offered crois-
sants, muffins and coffee.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff deliv-
ered a combination of risqué
humor and dad jokes during
a nighttime stand-up per-
formance. And Rep. Bar-
bara Lee leaned heavily into
her long history of support-
ing liberal causes, even when
they were unpopular and
prompted death threats, as
her supporters nibbled on
cupcakes, macaroons and
chocolate truffles.
Very little separates the
trio on policy. So to forge a
path to victory in the 2024
race, they need to find a way
to differentiate themselves
before California’s March
primary.
“They’re going to have to
decide what segment of the
Democratic electorate they
want to peel off and take
ownership of for them-
selves,” Democratic strate-
gist Roger Salazar said.
Lee, a longtime Oakland
elected official, is likely to
have strength among Bay
Area and Black voters, who
[See Candidates, A7]
Patients who require care from different facilities can face long delays that
derail their day-to-day life and leave them at higher risk of complications
By Emily Alpert Reyes
When the pain kicked in again in
February, Lahisha Marquez-Soto
held off on going to the hospital for
days, until she was struggling to
walk out of her college dorm in Car-
son.
Eight days into her stay at MLK
Community Hospital, doctors knew
she needed another facility. She
needed a medical procedure that
would allow doctors to peer inside
her digestive tract and perform a bi-
opsy to find out what was wrong
with her pancreas. That was some-
thing that the small hospital in
South Los Angeles could not do.
But week after week, the 20-year-
old lay waiting in frustration.
Stranded in her hospital bed, she
missed college classes, birthday
celebrations, a scheduled visit with
her siblings in foster care. She read
novels, watched HGTV and tried
not to think about what she was
missing.
“It messes with you mentally,”
she said. “You’re just stuck in a
room.”
Marquez-Soto was at the mercy
of a haphazard process that plays
out through phone calls and faxes,
as smaller hospitals try to find help
for patients who need medical pro-
cedures that those hospitals cannot
provide.
Hospitals are generally required
under federal law to accept transfer
patients suffering from medical
emergencies if the facilities have
space and capability; but federal of-
ficials said that does not obligate
them to accept those like Marquez-
Soto, who have already been admit-
ted to a hospital. Hospital employ-
ees armed with phone lists often
need to call, and call, and call until
they can secure a spot. One MLK
“I WANT TO cry and scream,” said Chavez, 65, who needed an staffer likened it to throwing spa-
operation after days of vomiting. “But I have to put up with it.” [See Hospitals, A12]

Audit faults state’s water forecasts

Report finds agency has failed to properly account for climate change
By Ian James
The state auditor has is-
sued a report strongly criti-
cizing the California Depart-
ment of Water Resources,
saying the agency has over-
estimated the state’s water
supply during drought and
continues relying on fore-
Naval History and Heritage Command casts that don’t adequately
A STRETCHER party brings out a wounded U.S.
soldier on Feb. 23, 1945, in Intramuros, Philippines.
factor in the effects of cli-
mate change.
The report by State Audi-
tor Grant Parks said the
Department of Water Re-
sources has “made only lim-
ited progress” in improving
its water-supply forecasts
to account for climate
change, despite acknowl-
edging more than a decade
ago that it needed to im-
prove its forecasting meth-
ods.
The audit also concluded
that DWR “has not devel-
oped a comprehensive, long-
term plan” for the State Wa-
ter Project, the system that
delivers water from North-
ern California to Southern
California and supplies al-
most 27 million people, to
proactively respond to more
severe droughts.
The auditor said that in
2021, amid the driest three-
year period on record, DWR
significantly overestimated
the state’s water supply. In
February of that year, the re-
port said, the department
projected that runoff would
be at least twice the volume
that actually flowed in the
[See Water, A7]

COLUMN ONE
Is debt ceiling

‘We had our own

deal a hard sell?
With potential default
Turkish president reelected
after an unprecedented race
looming, President
Biden and McCarthy

holocaust here’ must scramble to se-

cure votes. NATION, A6

Retail nervous By Nabih Bulos

in Union Square
The Battle of Manila, waged in 1945 by U.S. The exodus of stores in ISTANBUL — Incum-
and Filipino forces to liberate a city, is largely downtown San Fran- bent Recep Tayyip Erdogan
cisco worries business won a third term as Turkey’s
forgotten. WWII historians are changing that. leaders and economists president Sunday, weather-
alike. CALIFORNIA, B1 ing the greatest political
By Bob Drogin challenge of his career and
reporting from manila
Get unpermitted defeating Kemal Kilic-
daroglu and an opposition
ADU up to code

T
he honor guard stood smartly, their swords coalition in a rancorous run-
gleaming in the morning sun. Soon, drum- It takes time and mon- off that saw voter turnout of
mers beat a crisp tattoo and Marines carefully ey to make accessory more than 80%.
placed floral wreaths by a massive bronze dwelling unit legal, but With nearly 99% of ballot
statue. Finally, rifles cracked a salute and a doing nothing can be boxes opened, unofficial re-
mournful taps echoed across the old walled city known costlier. BUSINESS, A8 sults from competing Turk-
as Intramuros. ish news agencies showed
Tucked under tropical trees on a quiet corner plaza, Weather Erdogan with 52% of the
the ceremony marked the 78th anniversary of one of the Low clouds clearing. vote, compared with 48%
most savage — but least known — clashes of World War L.A. Basin: 70/56. B6 for Kilicdaroglu. The head
II, the battle to liberate Manila in 1945. In addition to of Turkey’s electoral board
1,000 American and 16,000 Japanese combatants, at least Printed with soy inks on later confirmed Erdogan’s
100,000 unarmed Filipino civilians were killed — 1 in 10 partially recycled paper. victory, saying that there
Manila residents. weren’t enough remaining
Many were massacred in atrocities by Japanese votes to change the results.
troops, but many also were pulverized by U.S. artillery Ali Unal Associated Press “I thank each member of
barrages. Countless others were maimed, impoverished A MAN in a Recep Tayyip Erdogan cape joins the our nation for entrusting me
and traumatized. [See Manila, A4] crowd at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey. [See Turkey, A5]
A2 M O N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23 L AT I M E S . C O M

PERSPECTIVES

Debt ceiling tussle was ‘a supreme waste of time’

masticate the question of poor. If they really cared
Biden and McCarthy whether President Biden or about getting SNAP recipi-
McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) ents into the job market,
are each likely to prevailed in this deal-mak- they’d fund job training
claim victory, but it’s ing and which of them will programs and infrastruc-
be hurt or harmed politi- ture projects. They never
clear the poor lose. cally by the outcome. do.
That’s not a very inter- In any case, the only
esting parlor game. (Per- cohort of beneficiaries that
MICHAEL HILTZIK sonally, I’d go with the judg- tends to move into the job
ment of Timothy Noah of market at all are younger
No one should the New Republic, who recipients — not those in
be surprised thinks Biden emerges as the their 50s. All that work
that the reso- political victor and McCar- requirements accomplish is
lution of our thy’s days as speaker are to erect bureaucratic barri-
most moronic numbered, thanks to the ers to enrollment in the
fiscal policy, choler of his far-right wing.) safety net. But that’s the
the federal More important is what point, isn’t it?
debt ceiling, the deal says about the The work rules for TANF
involved our principles of both camps. are managed somewhat
stupidest The granular details of the differently — they’re di-
social policy, work require- agreement were still murky rected at the states admin-
ments for assistance pro- Sunday, and it could still istering the program, which
grams. collapse because of objec- have been required to en-
But that appears to be tions from congressional sure that a certain percent-
the case. In negotiations Republicans or Democrats. age of beneficiaries are
between the Biden White The deal, as reported, working or looking for work.
House and House Speaker freezes discretionary federal How the debt ceiling deal
Kevin McCarthy’s Republi- spending — that is, most of applies to that program is
can caucus, one of the last the programs for which unclear.
sticking points was whether, Americans depend on the In the next week or so,
and by how much, to tighten federal government — at Anna Rose Layden Getty Images before June 5 — the putative
work requirements for food current levels for the next REP. Kevin McCarthy is shown after he and President Biden reached a debt ceil- date at which the Treasury
stamps and welfare. two years, with increases ing deal. His days as House speaker may be numbered because of the agreement. Department says the gov-
In coming days, as Con- lower than inflation. That ernment runs out of money
gress moves toward votes means an effective budget suspended for two years. rich, who are the nation’s CBO estimated that about to pay its bills without a
on the deal, political com- cut, relative to inflation. In But Biden managed to worst tax cheats. 275,000 people would lose debt ceiling increase and
mentators will thoroughly return, the debt ceiling is preserve the accomplish- The most vulnerable benefits each month be- thus flirts with an unprece-
ments of his presidency Americans, however, will cause they failed to meet the dented default — Biden and
thus far from the GOP’s bear the brunt of the deal requirement. McCarthy will hit the hus-
knives. He fended off their points. Let’s take a look. Biden’s negotiators did tings to claim victory.
efforts to torpedo the sup- Start with work require- get the Republicans to But there’s really only
How to contact us port for renewable energy in ments. As I’ve reported ad waive SNAP rules for veter- one way to think about the
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Kyiv endures largest drone attack of war
Russian forces target
Ukraine’s capital with
dozens of Shaheds on
the anniversary of its
founding in AD 482.
associated press
KYIV, Ukraine —
Ukraine’s capital was sub-
jected to the largest drone
attack since the start of Rus-
sia’s war, local officials said,
as Kyiv on Sunday prepared
to mark the anniversary of
its founding. At least one
person was killed.
Russia launched the
“most massive attack” on
the city overnight Saturday
with Iranian-made Shahed
drones, said Serhii Popko, a
senior Kyiv military official.
The attack lasted more than
five hours, with air defense
reportedly shooting down
more than 40 drones.
A 41-year-old man was
killed and a 35-year-old
woman was hospitalized
when debris fell on a seven-
story nonresidential build-
ing and started a fire, Kyiv
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
Debris from a drone
damaged the building of
the Ukrainian Society of
the Blind. On Sunday morn-
ing, organization member
Volodymyr Golubenko came
to pick up his things. He was
helped by his son Mykola,
who searched for his father’s
belongings amid the rubble
and at the same time tried to
describe to his father what
his office looks like now.
“This wall on the right is
destroyed and on left also,”
the younger Golubenko said
to his father.
Volodymyr Golubenko
worked at this place for
more than 40 years. He says
it is a home for many blind
people, because they come
here to talk and support one
another.
“If you don’t even have a
THE MAN who allegedly opened an exit door mid-
flight arrives at court Sunday in Daegu, South Korea.
South Korean accused
of opening airliner’s
door could face prison
associated press
SEOUL — A man who
opened an emergency exit
door during a flight in South
Korea was arrested Sunday
and faces up to 10 years in
prison on a charge of violat-
ing aviation security law, of-
ficials said.
During preliminary ques-
tioning, the 33-year-old told
investigators he felt suffo-
cated during the flight
Friday and tried to get off
the plane quickly, according
to police.
Twelve people were
slightly injured after he
opened the door of the
Asiana Airlines Airbus A321-
200, causing air to blast in-
side the cabin. Passengers
were terrified, and some tes-
tified that they suffered se-
vere ear pain. A video shared
on social media shows peo-
ple’s hair being whipped by
air blowing into the cabin.
Normally, emergency exit
doors cannot be opened
midflight due to the differ-
ence in air pressure inside
and outside of the plane. But
during Friday’s incident, the
plane was at a low altitude
while preparing to land, and
there wasn’t much differ-
ence in pressure, according
to Asiana Airlines officials.
The Transportation Min-
istry said the plane was at an
altitude of 700 feet when the
man — identified by his sur-
name, Lee — pulled the door
open. The plane was prepar-
ing to land in Daegu after an
hourlong flight from the
southern island of Jeju, with
200 people on board, includ-
ing teenage athletes on their
IN KYIV, a man clears debris in a building damaged during the attack, in which at least one person was killed and another was injured.
job, it’s difficult to get a job
now, because these events
[war] have been going on
since last year. At least peo-
ple come here to chat,” he
said.
Ukraine’s air force said
that Saturday night was also
record-breaking in terms
of Shahed drone attacks
across the country. Of the 59
drones launched, 58 were
shot down by air defense sys-
tems.
Russia has repeatedly
launched waves of attack
drones against Ukraine, but
most are shot down. Ukraine
has also claimed this month
to have downed some of Rus-
sia’s hypersonic Kinzhal
Yun Kwan-shick Associated Press
way to a track and field com-
petition, according to the
airline.
On Sunday, a district
court in Daegu approved
a warrant to arrest Lee.
Daegu police said they had
sought the warrant, citing
the graveness of the crime
and the possibility that he
would flee.
“I wanted to get off the
plane soon,” Lee, whose face
was covered by a black
hoodie, a cap and a mask,
told reporters at the court
ahead of its review of his
arrest warrant. “I’m really
sorry to kids,” he said, in
a likely reference to the
teenage athletes.
Daegu police said they
have up to 20 days to investi-
gate Lee before determining
whether to send him to pros-
ecutors for a possible indict-
ment. If convicted, he faces
a maximum sentence of
10 years in prison for breach-
ing the aviation security law
that bars passengers from
handling entry doors, emer-
gency exit doors and other
equipment, according to the
Transportation Ministry.
Daegu police said Lee
told them he was under
stress after losing a job.
The people who were tak-
en to hospitals were treated
for minor problems, such as
difficulty breathing.
Asiana Airlines said in
a statement that starting
Sunday, it would not seat
passengers in the emer-
gency exit rows on its A321-
200 planes, as a safety pre-
caution.
Lee had been seated near
the emergency exit, airline
officials said.
THE WORLD
missiles, which Russian
President Vladimir Putin
has touted as providing a
key competitive advantage.
In the northeastern
Kharkiv province, regional
Gov. Oleh Sinegubov said a
61-year-old woman and a 60-
year-old man were killed in
two separate shelling at-
tacks.
Kyiv Day marks the anni-
versary of Kyiv’s official
founding. The day is usually
celebrated with live con-
certs, street fairs, exhib-
itions and fireworks. Scaled-
back festivities were plan-
ned for this year, the city’s
1,541st anniversary.
The timing of the drone
Holding out on a Ukrainian island far
from missiles but flooded by Russia
By Lori Hinnant and
Vasilisa Stepanenko
LYSOHIRKA, Ukraine
— The rising waters came as
a relief at first, for both the
tiny community living on the
islands in the southern
Kakhovka Reservoir and for
everyone who had feared
that the low levels risked a
meltdown at the nearby
Russian-occupied nuclear
power plant.
Since mid-February, the
water level in the reservoir
has steadily increased, ac-
cording to data from Theia,
a French geospatial analyt-
ical organization.
An Associated Press
analysis of satellite imagery
found that the water has
now risen so high that it’s
washing over the top of the
damaged Russian-occupied
dam downstream.
The waves first covered
the natural shoreline, then
submerged the marsh gras-
ses. Next they came for
Lyudmila Kulachok’s gar-
den, then Ihor Medyunov’s
guest room. The wild boars
fled for higher ground, re-
placed by waterfowl. Me-
dyunov’s four dogs have an
ever-smaller patch of grass
to roam, and Kulachok
serves meals on a picnic ta-
ble standing in water, slosh-
ing through the murk in
wading boots.
Ukraine controls five of
the six dams along the
Dnipro River, which runs
from its northern border
with Belarus down to the
Black Sea and is crucial for
the entire country’s drinking
water and power supply. The
last dam — the one farthest
downstream in the Kherson
region — is controlled by
Russian forces.
All of Ukraine’s snowmelt
and the runoff from rainy
spring days wind up here in
the Kakhovka Reservoir,
said David Helms, a retired
meteorologist who has been
monitoring the reservoir lev-
els during the war. Russian
forces detonated the sluice
gates of the Nova Kakhovka
Dam in November during
the Ukrainian counteroffen-
sive, although they ended up
retaining control of that
sliver of the Kherson region.
attacks was probably not
coincidental, Ukrainian offi-
cials said.
“The history of Ukraine
is a long-standing irritant
for the insecure Russians,”
Ukraine’s chief presidential
aide, Andriy Yermak, said
on the messaging app
Telegram.
“Today, the enemy de-
cided to ‘congratulate’ the
people of Kyiv on Kyiv Day
with the help of their deadly
UAVs [unmanned aerial ve-
hicles],” Popko also wrote on
the app.
Officials in the southern
Krasnodar region of Russia
said air defense systems de-
stroyed several drones as
LYUDMILA Kulachok and her family dine in the flooded courtyard of their home
on an island in the Kakhovka Reservoir. She wears wading boots to serve meals.
Now, either deliberately
or through neglect, the gates
remain closed.
River dams work as sys-
tems. The idea is to manage
the flow to provide constant
water levels that secure
ships on the water and build-
ings on land, Helms said.
This is done mechanically
through a combination of
locks, turbines and sluice
gates — and constant com-
munication among the op-
erators of the dams.
Because the sluice gates
are closed, the water is crest-
ing over the top of the dam —
but nowhere near as fast as
the waters are flowing down
the Dnipro. So there is little
relief in sight for the handful
of people left on the islands
in the reservoir. The little
community was primarily
made up of second homes
but became more perma-
nent with the start of the
war, when people sought
safety in its isolation.
Their contact with the
outside world is now limited
to a few food deliveries every
week by Ukrainian police
boat because the reservoir is
off-limits to any nonofficial
watercraft, in order to pro-
tect against sabotage of the
basin that supplies about
40% of Ukraine’s drinking
water.
They listen to the sound
of artillery and rocket fire.
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they approached the Ilsky
oil refinery.
Ukrainian air defenses,
bolstered by sophisticated
Western-supplied systems,
have been adept at thwart-
ing Russian air attacks —
both drones and aircraft
missiles.
Earlier this month,
Ukraine prevented an in-
tense Russian air attack on
Kyiv, shooting down all mis-
siles aimed at the capital.
The bombardment, which
additionally targeted loca-
tions across Ukraine, in-
cluded six Russian Kinzhal
hypersonic missiles.
Sophisticated Western
air defense systems, includ-
Evgeniy Maloletka Associated Press
They joke darkly about
needing a mask and snorkel
to take cover in the base-
ment.
“Here were onion, garlic,
greens. There were peaches,
apricots. Everything is
dead,” said Kulachok,
standing knee-deep in water
in her vegetable garden. “At
first I cried. But now I under-
stand that my tears don’t
help.”
Fish are about the only
thing that’s plentiful on the
island right now. She caught
two swimming in the kitchen
as she prepared the tradi-
tional borscht soup with
chicken parts delivered by
police earlier in the week.
“This is a war. Many peo-
ple lose things in their lives.
And then I thank God that
all my loved ones are alive,”
she said. She said her son is a
soldier in the eastern town of
Bakhmut, the epicenter of
the battle against Russia.
“He hasn’t seen this, and I
don’t know how to show it to
him. He will say, ‘God, how
many years did we work just
to end up with this?’ ”
By early February, the
water levels were so low that
many across Ukraine and
beyond feared a meltdown
at the Russian-occupied Za-
porizhzhia nuclear power
plant, whose cooling sys-
tems are supplied with wa-
ter from the reservoir. The
A3
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ing American-made Patriot
missiles, have helped spare
Kyiv from the kind of de-
struction witnessed along
the main front line in the
country’s east and south.
While most of the ground
fighting is stalemated along
that front line, both sides are
targeting other territory
with long-range weapons.
Also Sunday, the death
toll from Friday’s missile at-
tack on the central Ukrain-
ian city of Dnipro, the re-
gional capital of Dnipro-
petrovsk province, rose to
four. Regional Gov. Serhii
Lysak said three people who
were deemed missing were
confirmed dead.
spring rains came early and
hard, and then combined
with the snowmelt.
“The Russians simply
aren’t actively managing
and balancing the water
flow,” Helms said. He com-
pared it to a bucket with a
small hole that is now being
filled by a fire hose. Eventu-
ally the water pours out over
the top, “almost like the
emergency circuit breaker
has been hit.”
Satellite images from
May 15 showed water wash-
ing over the damaged sluice
gates, exactly as Helms de-
scribed.
All of this is invisible and
yet obvious to Medyunov,
whose yard is now a small
patch of swampy grass.
Even the neighbors who
came to the island to escape
the war have decided that
the prospect of missiles is
preferable to endless floods.
Helms said the water lev-
els are likely to drop slowly
during the summer dry sea-
son. But that seems a dis-
tant future to Medyunov,
whose work as a hunting
guide ended with the war.
“Now there is nowhere to
go,” he said. “We will wait for
a better time to rebuild, re-
pair. It’s really painful.”
Hinnant and Stepanenko
write for the Associated
Press.
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Recalling Manila’s suffering, sacrifice
[Manila, from A1]
Much of the graceful city was
turned to rubble. Large parts of its
rich cultural heritage — archives of
the Spanish colonial era, records
from the Philippine revolution,
birth and death certificates, or-
nate churches, grand libraries and
treasured art — were obliterated.
Only Warsaw suffered more
among Allied capitals in the war.
“We had our own holocaust
here,” Mike Alcazaren, a Phil-
ippine documentary maker who
attended the Feb. 18 ceremony,
told me. “And no one knows about
it. It’s very sad.”
That grim historical gap is
what drew me to Intramuros
during a visit this year to the Phil-
ippines. I was The Times’ Manila
bureau chief from 1989 to 1993, and
I had read haunting accounts of
the heroism and horrors of the
Pacific war. I even wrote of WWII
relics that rust in peace on
Guadalcanal and elsewhere.
Yet I knew almost nothing
about the monthlong battle that
had devastated the heart of the
American colony. History books
barely mentioned it. Schools
didn’t teach it. Monuments didn’t
honor it. I wanted to find out why.
What accounted for the collec-
tive amnesia? Only about 30 peo-
ple attended the ceremony at
Intramuros. Was it best to leave
the past in the past? And as a new
war rages in Ukraine, are there
lessons to be learned — to not let
those horrors also be forgotten?
I soon found a small group of
survivors, historians, hobbyists
and others determined to honor
the unimaginable sacrifice and
loss here. With their help I visited
memorials, markers and muse-
ums, as well as more grisly sites.
Some opened only in recent years
as a result of their work.
After the memorial ceremony, I
walked into a dim, dank dungeon-
like vault in the immense stone
walls of Intramuros that opened to
the public only in 2020. In 1945,
Japanese troops locked about 600
Philippine prisoners inside with
no food, no water, and left them to
die.
Gritty black-and-white photos
tacked to the walls show the
ghastly conditions American
soldiers found when they pried
open the thick iron doors.
“I put them up,” said Desiree
Benipayo, an author and business-
woman who runs the nonprofit
Philippine World War II Memorial
Foundation. “People need to see
what happened. People need to
know.”
But the reckoning is fraught.
Japan is the largest aid donor to
the Philippine government and a
major source of investment. Tokyo
has never formally apologized for
the atrocities, and Philippine
officials seem wary of giving of-
fense.
In 2017, the National Historical
Commission erected a bronze
statue on the Manila waterfront to
honor “comfort women,” the eu-
phemism for those forced to serve
as sex slaves for Japanese troops.
But it was pulled down after a
Japanese minister complained to
Rodrigo Duterte, then the Phil-
ippine president, that the statue’s
appearance was “regrettable.”
I found a far different and unex-
pected monument in Mabalacat,
north of Manila, built by local
officials in 1998 to attract Japanese
tourists. Behind a tall torii gate, a
larger-than-life statue of a kamika-
ze pilot is flanked by a huge wall
painted with Japan’s wartime
Rising Sun flag.
Since the suicide pilots sank
dozens of U.S. warships and killed
thousands of Americans, I was
appalled. It was, I thought, like
finding a statue of Osama bin
Laden in Lower Manhattan.
But I found encouraging
changes too. The National WWII
Museum in New Orleans, which
has run tours to battlefields in
Europe and the Pacific for years,
sold out its first-ever tour to the
Philippines in March. James Scott,
who in 2018 wrote “Rampage,” a
vivid history of the Battle of Ma-
nila that spurred the renewed
interest — including mine —
helped guide the group.
“I like to think history eventu-
ally corrects itself,” Scott told me
from his home in Charleston, S.C.
Researchers now can access an
invaluable trove of war-related
material at the Filipinas Heritage
Library in Manila. In 2010 it ac-
quired the Roderick Hall
Collection, some 5,000 books,
manuscripts, military reports,
newspapers, films and audio
about the war in the Philippines. I
spent an afternoon there browsing
some of the poignant, often painful
memoirs.
“We stood in the sun for hours,
many of the elderly with ankle, legs
and knees swollen to almost the
bursting point,” Ruth Hooper, an
American teenager who was in-
terned by the Japanese in Manila,
wrote in one. Filipinos who tried to
help them “were hanged by their
thumbs until they died.”
I also spent a sobering morning
at the Manila American Cemetery,
the final resting ground for most of
the Americans killed in the Pacific
war. It is America’s largest military
cemetery overseas, dwarfing those
in Europe. Long lines of white
marble headstones, 17,058 in all,
THE BATTLE of Manila left thousands of civilians dead or wounded. Above, survivors gather after their liberation by U.S. troops.
U.S. INFANTRYMEN conduct a house-to-house search during the battle. Though casualties
are attributed to Japanese atrocities, many also were pulverized by U.S. artillery barrages.
A VISITOR studies the names of U.S. and Philippine sol-
diers who died at a POW camp run by the Japanese.
climb the gentle green hills. An-
other 36,268 names, etched on
giant stone tablets, honor those
missing in action, or lost or buried
at sea.
I found Leonard Drogin, a
distant relative, on one of the
tablets. Military records show he
was lost at sea off Saipan in March
1945. He was 23. Yet even the ceme-
tery is changing. Thanks to DNA
and other tests, several hundred
sets of remains have been identi-
fied in recent years and given new
headstones or repatriated to
families. Several graves were being
disinterred during my visit.
And in 2019, the American
Battle Monuments Commission,
which runs the cemetery, opened a
visitor center with elaborate ex-
hibits, including one on the Battle
of Manila.
“The challenge is to keep our
mission relevant,” Vincente Lim
IV, the director and great-grand-
son of a famed Philippine general
who was executed by the Japa-
nese, told me. “In addition to a
place of mourning, it is now a place
of education.”
At a Memorial Day observance
held at the cemetery on Sunday,
U.S. Ambassador to the Phil-
ippines MaryKay Carlson said,
“We are reminded that freedom
comes at a great price and that it is
a cherished shared value worth
fighting and dying for,” according
Bob Drogin For The Times
to the Manila Times.
America’s war began when the
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
in Hawaii early on Dec. 7, 1941.
Hours later, their aircraft de-
stroyed nearly every U.S. warplane
in the Philippines, most still sitting
on runways.
When Japanese ground forces
invaded the Philippines later that
month, Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
commander of U.S. Army Forces in
the Far East, ordered U.S. and
Philippine troops to evacuate
Manila and to withdraw to the
jungle-clad Bataan Peninsula and
nearby island fortress on Corregi-
dor.
MacArthur’s forces vastly
outnumbered the invaders. But in
the rush to retreat, his army didn’t
bring enough food or supplies.
On April 9, 1942, about 78,000
gaunt and suffering American and
Philippine troops laid down their
arms, the largest surrender in U.S.
military history. Thousands died
or were killed, often beheaded,
during the brutal Bataan Death
March, a 60-mile trek to a make-
shift prison camp at Capas. Thou-
sands more fell to disease, hunger
and abuse in the hellish camp.
Before the surrender, MacAr-
thur had escaped to Australia,
where he vowed to “return” to the
Philippines. It took the army
nearly three years of bitter fighting
in torrid jungles, fetid swamps and
Naval History and Heritage Command
on jagged coral islands, but he
finally waded back ashore on
Leyte Island in October 1944.
On Feb. 3, 1945, U.S. troops
rescued 3,800 emaciated American
and British civilians who had been
interned at Santo Tomas Uni-
versity in Manila. In response,
Rear Adm. Sanji Iwabuchi’s
troops started to systematically
set fire to Manila’s residential and
business districts, and to torture
and slaughter civilians.
Over the next month, Japanese
sailors and marines raped and
mutilated countless women. Some
tossed babies in the air to spear
them on bayonets, according to
testimony at subsequent war
crimes trials.
At one point, Japanese marines
cut a hole in the second floor of a
house, led scores of Philippine
captives upstairs, forced them to
kneel at the edge, and beheaded
them one by one.
I asked Ricardo T. Jose, the
country’s foremost expert on
WWII and professor emeritus of
history at the University of Phil-
ippines-Diliman, about the tor-
ture, beheadings and rape.
“There’s lots of talk that the
Japanese went mad, went
berserk,” he told me. “But the
orders were very clear. Round
people up, use as few bullets as
possible, and kill them all.”
In one well-documented case,
teenager Anna Maria Aguilella
was stabbed 16 times after her
family took refuge in the Spanish
Consulate. She somehow sur-
vived, although her parents and
siblings were killed.
“The Japanese entered, they
lined us up, children in front and
the elderly behind, and they bayo-
neted all of us,” she recalled in
2020, according to El Pais, a Span-
ish newspaper. “They thought I
was dead, after 16 injuries, with
one of them, the most serious, to
the head. But it was not my time,
and I survived two days among the
dead.”
Thousands of civilians also
were killed by friendly fire as
American troops used flame-
throwers, tanks and huge “Long
Tom” howitzers against en-
trenched Japanese forces. Partly
as a result, many Filipinos later
blamed U.S. forces for what they
considered the unnecessary de-
struction of their city.
L AT I M E S . C O M
Naval History and Heritage Command
“American shelling probably
killed 30 to 40% of the people,
including my grandmother, my
sister and aunt,” said José Miguel
Cabarrús, president of Memorare
Manila 1945, a group founded by
survivors and their descendants.
“They were lying in a bed and an
American shell hit the house. But
the Americans didn’t torture,
behead and rape people like the
Japanese.”
So why was it all quickly forgot-
ten?
“It was such a traumatic event
no one wanted to remember it,”
Jose, the historian, told me. “Even
getting people to talk about it
decades later was difficult. Also, it
was mainly unknown civilians who
suffered. So there was no organ-
ized group, like the military has, to
honor them. It became a black
hole.”
Unlike the self-named “battling
bastards” of Bataan and the
doomed garrison on Corregidor,
Alamo-like symbols of defiance
that helped rally anxious Ameri-
cans back home and spawned
stirring Hollywood films, the
nightmare in Manila got little
coverage in the U.S. media.
One reason is MacArthur de-
clared on the third day that victory
was “imminent,” even though the
battle had barely begun. A week
later, even as artillery duels and
fires raged in the once-elegant city,
a headline in Newsweek declared,
“Prize of the Pacific, Manila, Fell to
MacArthur like Ripened Plum.”
Censors on MacArthur’s staff
prevented war correspondents
from revealing the harsh truth,
and editors back home lost inter-
est.
The carnage also was over-
shadowed by the tumble of titanic
events that followed — murderous
combat on the Japanese home
islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa,
the American firebombing that
leveled much of Tokyo and dozens
of other Japanese cities, and then
the atomic bombings of Hiroshi-
ma and Nagasaki that ended the
war in August 1945.
Afterward, the emerging Cold
War alliance of Japan and the U.S.
against the Soviet Union “air-
brushed many of the horrors from
the history books,” said John
Labella, head of the Filipinas
Heritage Library.
“We know that during the fight-
ing a mother smothered her crying
infant with a pillow lest the Japa-
nese discover her family hiding
and kill them all,” he said. “In a
way, the Cold War smothered the
Battle of Manila.”
The act of remembering then
falls to people like Rhonie C. Dela
Cruz. He has spent 20 years scour-
ing the rocky crags and jungled
hills around Bamban, north of
Manila, and recovered still-loaded
machine guns and other artifacts.
Two long-tail macaques greet
visitors to the private museum he
runs at his home, but he gets few
visitors and little support.
Dela Cruz led me up steep,
slippery trails and into three deep
caves that the Japanese carved
out of the volcanic rock. U.S.
bombing collapsed dozens of
caverns and tunnels, but he has
found and opened five. Two still
had remains of Japanese soldiers
entombed within.
“I’m just an ordinary guy,” Dela
Cruz said as we explored a winding
tunnel that, according to a small
Japanese shrine at the entrance,
was once the kamikaze command-
er’s bunker. “I do this for my un-
cles, who fought the Japanese
here, and my grandfather, who
was beheaded by them. It’s a
shame. So much history, and no
one remembers it.”
Drogin is a special correspondent.
L AT I M E S . C O M
Erdogan wins Turkey’s presidential runoff
[Turkey, from A1]
with the responsibility to
govern this country once
again for the upcoming five
years,” Erdogan said in his
first comments to the na-
tion.
Erdogan, a staunch na-
tionalist and Islamist, ridi-
culed Kilicdaroglu, saying,
“Bye bye, Kemal.”
Speaking to his support-
ers in Ankara later, Kilic-
daroglu gave a concession
speech high on defiance.
He characterized the
election as the most unfair in
recent years, one where all
the “means of the state were
mobilized for a political
party and laid under one
man’s feet.”
“Keep fighting for democ-
racy, for yourself and your
family,” he said.
As the results became
clear, thousands of Erdogan
supporters cheered, waved
flags and joined impromptu
dance circles that sprang up
in the middle of central Is-
tanbul. Those in vehicles
blasted their horns and
screamed. Above them fire-
works popped in the night
sky, as the crowd converged
on a giant video screen over-
looking a square.
“Man of the people, he
who loves righteousness,
hope of millions, confidant
to the oppressed, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan,” they
chanted.
Erdogan, 69, has domi-
nated the Turkish political
landscape virtually unchal-
lenged for more than two
decades. The victory pro-
vides him the chance to con-
tinue shaping the country
through his vision of a rising
power with a nonaligned for-
eign policy that has frus-
trated his Western and
NATO allies. It also provides
him the chance to double
down on an unorthodox
economic strategy critics
believe will soon plunge the
country into financial ruin.
Kilicdaroglu, 74, led a co-
alition of opposition parties
working together with the
singular aim of toppling Er-
dogan.
The two sides represent
widely differing visions for
this country of 85 million,
which occupies a unique po-
sition as a literal land bridge
between Europe and Asia,
represents one of the world’s
20 largest economies and
has the second-largest mili-
tary force in the North At-
lantic Treaty Organization.
Erdogan wants to ce-
ment his image as the leader
who refashioned Turkey into
an industrial heavyweight as
he pursues unorthodox
economic policies aimed at
supercharging growth. With
the Turkish Republic about
to enter its second 100 years,
he has vowed to make it
“Turkey’s century” with
plans to build the country’s
military and diplomatic in-
fluence.
Kilicdaroglu and the op-
position aimed to undo
much of Erdogan’s recent
economic policies, restore a
working parliamentary sys-
tem and bring back the inde-
pendence of the judiciary,
the Foreign Ministry and the
central bank — institutions
critics say have been all but
sidelined under Erdogan’s
personalized brand of gov-
ernance. Kilicdaroglu also
said he would seek improved
ties to the West and restart
Turkey’s long-languishing
application to join the Euro-
pean Union.
Neither candidate gar-
nered the simple majority
needed to win outright in the
first round of elections,
which was held May 14. But
Erdogan came close with
49.5% of the vote, defying
polls that had predicted he
would lose. Kilicdaroglu re-
ceived 44.9%; third-place fin-
isher Sinan Ogan, who rep-
resented an alliance of na-
tionalists and since en-
dorsed Erdogan, got 5.2%.
Sunday’s vote repre-
sented uncharted territory
for Turkish democracy: It
was the first presidential
runoff in the nation’s history.
Though turnout reached
88% in the first round, both
contenders had feared there
would be less appetite from
voters to go out to the polls
again; that was especially
true for the opposition,
whose inability to top Erdo-
gan in the first round threat-
ened to fracture the coali-
tion and left some in its
ranks demoralized.
“My brother who hasn’t
voted yet, go to the ballot
box, don’t be lazy, play the
game,” Kilicdaroglu tweeted
in the hour before polls
closed Sunday.
In his final election rally
in Istanbul on Sunday, Erdo-
gan exhorted supporters to
not be complacent and
“work until the end” for the
victory.
TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leaves a polling station after casting his ballot in Istanbul. Unoffi-
cial results from competing Turkish news agencies showed Erdogan with 52% of the vote in the runoff.
The hours after the vote
began at 8 a.m. indicated
that many heeded the candi-
dates’ call. At the Munir
Ozkul Secondary School in
Istanbul’s Cihangir district,
election observers said the
turnout seemed slightly de-
flated compared with the
first round, but never-
theless, dozens of people —
some so old or infirm they
needed an ambulance and
medics to bring them — were
filtering in to the 13 class-
rooms-turned-polling sta-
tions to participate in what
they felt was a fateful elec-
tion.
“It matters to me that I
participate in governance.
I’m a lawyer, so this is an
election that will affect legis-
lation and therefore directly
affect me,” said Anil Uyal-
has, 23. “Erdogan has done a
lot of things for the country.
But time passes, and maybe
we need a change.”
Erdogan’s victory came
despite an inflation rate that
rocketed to 80% last year.
Government figures say it
has since fallen to a little
more than half of that, but it
hadn’t felt like it in large ur-
ban centers such as Istan-
bul, where unofficial esti-
mates put price increases in
the triple digits.
Another concern has
been the government’s re-
sponse to the devastating
earthquake in February that
killed more than 50,000 peo-
ple (a full accounting of the
dead has yet to happen) and
left millions more homeless,
and brought harsh criticism
of what many saw as a lacka-
daisical government disas-
ter response. Many blame
Erdogan for an atmosphere
of corruption and cronyism
that allowed shoddy con-
struction projects to contin-
ue unchallenged for decades
even while granting am-
nesties to those who ignored
safety codes.
Others pointed to his
growing authoritarian
streak that has eroded civil
liberties and, after an at-
tempted coup in 2016,
spurred him to imprison
tens of thousands of people
and purge many more from
their state jobs.
“I’m someone who has
his own business. And I want
a life where I don’t have to
think about what the cur-
rency’s value against the
dollar is going to be tomor-
row, who is going to be ar-
rested tomorrow, or what
the headline is going to be to-
morrow,” said Guray Ters,
40, a technology company
business owner who had just
finished voting with his wife,
33-year-old Bushra, a home
textiles worker.
Ters had thought the
first round would go to Kilic-
daroglu. But after that dis-
appointment, he had little
belief the opposition leader
could snatch a victory. Still,
he insisted on coming out to
vote.
“We’ve been doing the
same thing for the last 20
years. We had some hope for
this election,” he said. He
paused, looking for a mo-
ment crestfallen. “Perhaps
the look on my face says
enough.”
After the opposition’s call
to dislodge Erdogan and his
Justice and Development
Party, or AKP, failed to reso-
nate with voters in both the
presidential and parliamen-
tary elections (where the
AKP maintained its major-
ity), and as the opposition
changed tack to court
ultranationalists ahead of
the runoff, Turkish politics
appear on the cusp of their
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ernment of blocking his
campaign’s text messages to
voters, calling Erdogan a
“coward.”
“Yes, there are problems,
but at the same time, re-
sources are not completely
exhausted to make sure the
base doesn’t feel the adverse
effects of deteriorating econ-
omic conditions,” said Selva
Demiralp, an economist at
Koc University in Istanbul.
“From the perspective of
voters, they had the circum-
stances masked. They’re not
cognizant of the upcoming
challenges of the economy.”
Those challenges are
myriad. The central bank
has used foreign reserves to
prop up the lira; in the last
week those reserves plunged
into the negative for the first
time, Demiralp said. If noth-
ing changes with interest
rates, and with the govern-
ment requiring $8 billion to
$9 billion a month to pay for
imports, it will have to intro-
duce capital controls — a di-
saster for an open economy
like Turkey’s.
But for Zerrin, a 41-year-
old election monitor at a
Emrah Gurel Associated Press polling station in the
Dolapdere neighborhood
who refused to give her last
name to be able to speak
ful military that had often freely, Erdogan’s place in
been willing to act above the politics was about far more
law and interfere in politics. than money.
He has also overseen a “We’re not voting for a
construction boom that has person, but for the future of
transformed the country, Turkey. For the liberty of
building roads, bridges, air- choosing a lifestyle,” she
ports and other infrastruc- said, as she put a hand to the
ture projects while taking black hijab she wore. When
advantage of the country’s she was young, she said, she
geographic location to make had faced constant harass-
it into a major transit hub. ment from secularists and
At the same time, his econo- couldn’t get a university ed-
mic policies saw income rise ucation because of her reli-
and lift millions from pover- gious convictions— until Er-
ty. dogan came along.
A charismatic and canny “In the street, in the bus,
Khalil Hamra Associated Press political operative, he has in any governmental office,
ERDOGAN backers called him a “man of the people.” brought a pugnacious atti- they would look at me like I
One detractor called him “a dictator. Like Saddam.” tude to his successive posi- was a monster, insult me as if
tions that adversaries de- I were a prostitute. And I was
rided as mere hooliganism just a high school student,”
‘Keep fighting for democracy, for but that supporters felt an
authentic expression. Re-
she said.
“Because of this pres-
yourself and your family.’ cently, he cast himself as a sure, everything in my life
nationalist who can defend started so late. I didn’t grad-
— Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Turkey from external uate university until I was 31.
challenger in the presidential race who characterized threats. Pointing to achieve- Many people here don’t
the election as the most unfair in recent years ments such as the country’s want to go back to the coun-
first aircraft carrier — trot- try that we had 20 years
ted out to a harbor in Istan- ago.”
most acrimonious moment daroglu as a quisling who is bul during the campaign — The difference between
yet. in cahoots with the West and he has cultivated the image the two candidates, she add-
Divisions have deepened the Kurdistan Workers’ of Turkey as an imperial ed, was that one represented
— between religious conser- Party, a Kurdish separatist power with little patience for trust and the other fear. And
vative voters and their re- group that both Ankara and dictates from the West. she trusted Erdogan to pro-
lentlessly secular counter- Washington consider a ter- “His biggest achievement tect the country from terror-
parts, between nationalist rorist entity. in the issue of identity is that ist threats.
voices and those who seek In broader ways, the elec- he managed to empower the But others were equally
outreach to the country’s tion served as a referendum left-behind, and once he did vociferous about rejecting
Kurdish minority, and be- on Erdogan and how he has that, he could sway them Erdogan.
tween Turkish residents and reshaped the country’s iden- any way he wanted,” said “He’s a dictator. Like
the millions of refugees the tity over his two decades in Can Selucki, a Turkish ana- Saddam. Or Kadafi,” said
country hosts within its bor- power. lyst. Sayed, a 52-year-old taxi
ders. From his time as mayor But in the months before driver who gave only his first
The campaigns of both of Istanbul in 1994, to prime the election, Erdogan name to avoid reprisals. He
candidates reflected that minister in 2003 and his nine wielded his position to ease referred to the late Iraqi
heightened tension in the years as president, he has the financial hardship on his strongman Saddam Hus-
weeks between the first placed Turkey’s Islamist base, enacting populist sein and Libyan dictator
round and the runoff. Kilic- movement at the center of moves such as raising the Moammar Kadafi.
daroglu, abandoning the the country’s political life, minimum wage and pen- “The economy is basi-
mild-mannered persona he lifting bans on headscarves sions, lowering the retire- cally finished, and he’s still
cultivated before May 14, in state offices and universi- ment age, and even giving using his political power to
launched a broadside on ref- ties, infuriating traditional citizens free gas. remain in his seat. If he wins
ugees, vowing to send back elites who saw his maneu- He also used his hold over it’s not going to be honest. It
millions of Syrians as soon verings as a betrayal of the state media to shut out the won’t be the will of people,
as he was elected. Erdogan, republic’s secular origins. opposition — on Friday, Kil- nor the will of God. It’s going
meanwhile, lambasted Kilic- He defanged a once-power- icdaroglu accused the gov- to be fraud.”
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A6 MO N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23
Selling debt ceiling deal to Congress is next
As the possibility of a
federal default looms,
the agreement could
face stiff opposition
within both parties.
By Lisa Mascaro,
Mary Clare Jalonick,
Farnoush Amiri
and Michelle L. Price
WASHINGTON — With
days to spare before a poten-
tial first-ever government
default, President Biden
and House Speaker Kevin
McCarthy reached final
agreement on Sunday on a
deal to raise the nation’s
debt ceiling and worked to
ensure enough Republican
and Democratic votes to
pass the measure in the
coming week.
The Democratic presi-
dent and Republican
speaker spoke with each
other Sunday as negotiators
rushed to draft and post the
99-page bill text so lawmak-
ers can review compromises
that neither the hard-right
or left flank is likely to sup-
port.
Instead, the leaders are
working to gather backing
from the political middle as
Congress hurries toward
votes before a June 5
deadline to avert a damag-
ing federal default.
“Good news,” Biden de-
clared Sunday evening at
the White House.
“The agreement pre-
vents the worst possible cri-
sis, a default, for the first
time in our nation’s history,”
he said. “Takes the threat of
a catastrophic default off the
table.”
The president urged both
parties in Congress to come
together for swift passage.
“The speaker and I made
clear from the start that the
only way forward was a bi-
partisan agreement,” he
said.
The compromise an-
nounced late Saturday in-
cludes spending cuts but
risks angering some law-
makers as they take a closer
look at the concessions. Bid-
en told reporters at the
White House upon his return
from Delaware that he was
confident the plan will make
it to his desk. The bill was
Defend truth, Cheney tells graduates
Speaking at her alma
mater, onetime GOP
lawmaker criticizes
former colleagues and
urges the class to vote.
associated press
Former U.S. Rep. Liz
Cheney implored new col-
lege graduates to not com-
promise when it comes to
the truth, excoriating her
House Republican col-
leagues for not doing
enough to combat former
President Trump’s lies that
the 2020 election was stolen.
In a commencement
speech at Colorado College,
the Wyoming Republican re-
peated her fierce criticisms
of Trump but steered clear
of talking about his 2024 re-
election campaign or her
own political future.
Cheney, who graduated
from the college in 1988, re-
called being a political scien-
ce student walking into a
campus building where a
Bible verse was inscribed
above the entrance: “Ye
shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free.”
“After the 2020 election
and the attack of Jan. 6, my
fellow Republicans wanted
me to lie. They wanted me to
say the 2020 election was
stolen, the attack of Jan. 6
wasn’t a big deal, and Don-
ald Trump wasn’t danger-
ous,” Cheney said Sunday in
Colorado Springs, connect-
ing her experiences as a stu-
dent to her work in the U.S.
House of Representatives. “I
had to choose between lying
and losing my position in
House leadership.”
In three terms in office,
Cheney rose to the No. 3
GOP leadership position in
the House, a job she lost af-
ter voting to impeach
Trump for the Jan. 6, 2021, in-
surrection at the Capitol
and then not relenting in her
criticism of the former presi-
dent.
PRESIDENT BIDEN , shown Sunday at the White House, says the deal “prevents the worst possible crisis, a
default, for the first time in our nation’s history.” He urged both parties in Congress to pass the bill swiftly.
posted Sunday evening.
McCarthy (R-Bakers-
field), too, was confident in
remarks at the Capitol: “At
the end of the day, people
can look together to be able
to pass this.”
The days ahead will de-
termine whether Washing-
ton is again able to narrowly
avoid a default on U.S. debt,
as it has done many times
before, or whether the global
economy enters a potential
crisis.
In the United States, a
default could cause financial
markets to freeze up and
spark an international crisis.
Analysts say millions of jobs
would vanish, borrowing
and unemployment rates
would jump, and a stock
market plunge could erase
trillions of dollars in house-
hold wealth. It would all but
shatter the $24-trillion mar-
ket for Treasury debt.
Anxious retirees and oth-
ers were already making
contingency plans for
missed checks, with the next
Social Security payments
due soon as the world
watches American leader-
LIZ CHENEY’S busy speaking schedule and subject matter have fueled specu-
lation about whether she might enter the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
Cheney’s speech touched
on themes similar to those
she has promoted since leav-
ing office in January: ad-
dressing her work on the
House committee investi-
gating the Jan. 6 attack on
the U.S. Capitol and stand-
ing up to the threat she be-
lieves Trump poses to
democracy. She also encour-
aged more women to run for
office and blasted one of the
election-denying attorneys
who worked for Trump after
the 2020 election for recent
remarks about college stu-
dents voting.
“Cleta Mitchell, an elec-
tion denier and advisor to
former President Trump,
told a gathering of Republi-
cans recently that it is cru-
cially important to make
sure that college students
don’t vote,” Cheney said.
“Those who are trying to un-
ravel the foundations of our
republic, who are threat-
ening the rule of law and the
sanctity of our elections,
know they can’t succeed if
you vote.”
In an audio recording of
Mitchell’s presentation from
a recent Republican Na-
tional Committee retreat,
she warns of polling places
THE NATION
ship at stake.
McCarthy and his negoti-
ators portrayed the deal as
delivering for Republicans,
though it fell well short of the
sweeping spending cuts they
sought. Top White House of-
ficials were briefing Demo-
cratic lawmakers and phon-
ing some directly to try to
shore up support.
As Sunday dragged on,
negotiators labored to write
the bill text and lawmakers
raised questions.
McCarthy told reporters
at the Capitol on Sunday
that the agreement “doesn’t
get everything everybody
wanted,” but that was to be
expected in a divided gov-
ernment. Privately, he told
lawmakers on a conference
call that Democrats “got
nothing” they wanted.
A White House state-
ment from the president, is-
sued after Biden and Mc-
Carthy spoke by phone Sat-
urday evening and an agree-
ment in principle followed,
said the deal “prevents what
could have been a cata-
strophic default.”
Support from both
on college campuses and the
ease of voting as potential
problems, the Washington
Post reported.
Most students and par-
ents in the audience ap-
plauded throughout Ch-
eney’s remarks, yet some
booed. Some students op-
posing the choice of Cheney
as speaker turned their
chairs away from the stage
as she spoke.
Cheney’s busy speaking
schedule and subject matter
have fueled speculation
about whether she may en-
ter the 2024 GOP presi-
dential primary since she
left office. Candidates in-
cluding Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis and former South
Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley
have calibrated their re-
marks about Trump, aiming
to counter his attacks with-
out alienating the support-
ers who won him the White
House seven years ago.
Though some have of-
fered measured criticisms,
no declared or potential
challenger has embraced
anti-Trump messaging to
the same extent as Cheney.
She did not refer to her plans
Sunday but has previously
said she remains undecided
parties will be needed to win
congressional approval be-
fore a projected June 5 gov-
ernment default on U.S.
debts. Lawmakers are not
expected to return from the
Memorial Day weekend be-
fore Tuesday, at the earliest,
and McCarthy has promised
lawmakers he will abide by
the rule to post any bill for 72
hours before voting.
Negotiators agreed to
some Republican demands
for increased work require-
ments for recipients of food
stamps that House Demo-
crats had called a nonstart-
er.
With the outlines of an
agreement in place, the leg-
islative package could be
drafted and shared with law-
makers in time for House
votes as soon as Wednesday,
and later in the week in the
Senate.
Central to the compro-
mise is a two-year budget
deal that would hold spend-
ing flat for 2024 and increase
it by 1% for 2025 in exchange
for raising the debt limit for
two years. That would push
the volatile political issue
Jack Dempsey Associated Press
about whether she wants to
run for president.
Though she would face
an uphill battle, Cheney’s
fierce anti-Trump stance
and her role as vice chair-
woman of the House com-
mittee elevated her platform
high enough to call on a na-
tional network of donors and
Trump critics to support a
White House run.
A super PAC organized to
support her candidacy has
remained active, including
purchasing attack ads on
New Hampshire airwaves
against Trump this month.
After leaving office and
being replaced by a Trump-
backed Republican who
defeated her in last year’s
primary, Cheney was ap-
pointed to a professorship at
the University of Virginia
and wrote “Oath and Hon-
or,” a memoir scheduled to
hit shelves in November.
Two of Cheney’s five chil-
dren as well as her mother
are also graduates of the li-
beral arts college.
Cheney’s speaking tour
appears to be picking up.
She is scheduled to appear
Thursday at the Mackinac
Policy Conference in Michi-
gan.
Samuel Corum AFP/Getty Images
past the next presidential
election.
Driving hard for a deal to
impose tougher work re-
quirements on government
aid recipients, Republicans
achieved some but not all of
what they wanted.
The agreement would
raise the age for existing
work requirements on able-
bodied adults, from 49 to 54,
without children. Biden was
able to secure waivers for
veterans and people who are
homeless.
The deal puts in place
changes in the landmark Na-
tional Environmental Policy
Act designating “a single
lead agency” to develop envi-
ronmental reviews, in hopes
of streamlining the process.
It halts some funds to
hire new Internal Revenue
Service agents as Republi-
cans demanded, and re-
scinds some $30 billion for
coronavirus relief.
The deal came together
after Treasury Secretary
Janet L. Yellen told Con-
gress that the United States
could default on its debt ob-
ligations by June 5 — four
More women sue Texas
to block abortion law
associated press
WASHINGTON — One
woman had to carry her un-
born child, missing much of
her skull, for months know-
ing she’d bury her daughter
soon after she was born. An-
other started mirroring the
life-threatening symptoms
that her fetus was displaying
while in the womb. An OB-
GYN found herself secretly
traveling out of state to
abort her wanted preg-
nancy, marred by the diag-
nosis of a fatal fetal anomaly.
All of the women were
told they could not end their
pregnancies in Texas, a state
that has enacted some of the
nation’s most restrictive
abortion laws.
Now, they’re asking a
Texas court to put an emer-
gency hold on some abortion
restrictions, joining a law-
suit filed earlier this year by
five other women who were
denied abortions in the
state, despite pregnancies
they say endangered their
health or lives.
More than a dozen Texas
women in total have joined
the Center for Reproductive
Rights’ lawsuit against the
state’s law, which prohibits
abortions unless a woman’s
life is at risk — an exception
that is not clearly defined.
Texas doctors who perform
abortions risk life in prison
and fines up to $100,000, leav-
ing many women with pro-
viders who are unwilling to
even discuss terminating a
pregnancy.
“Our hope is that it will al-
low physicians at least a lit-
tle more comfort when it
comes to patients in obstet-
rical emergencies who really
need an abortion where it’s
going to affect their health,
fertility or life going for-
ward,” Molly Duane, the lead
attorney on the case, told the
Associated Press. “Almost
all of the plaintiffs in the law-
suit tell similar stories about
their doctors saying, ‘If not
L AT I M E S . C O M
days later than previously
estimated — if lawmakers
did not act in time.
Lifting the nation’s debt
limit, now at $31 trillion, al-
lows more borrowing to pay
bills already incurred.
McCarthy commands
only a slim Republican ma-
jority in the House, where
hard-right conservatives
may resist any deal as insuf-
ficient as they try to slash
spending. By compromising
with Democrats, he risks
losing support from his own
members, setting up a ca-
reer-challenging moment
for the new speaker.
“I think you’re going to
get a majority of Republi-
cans voting for this bill,” Mc-
Carthy said on “Fox News
Sunday,” adding that be-
cause Biden backed it, “I
think there’s going to be a lot
of Democrats that will vote
for it too.”
House Democratic
leader Hakeem Jeffries of
New York said on CBS’ “Face
the Nation” that he expected
there will be Democratic
support, but he declined to
provide a number. Asked
whether he could guarantee
there would not be a default,
he said, “Yes.”
A 100-strong group of
moderates in the New
Democrat Coalition gave a
crucial nod of support Sun-
day, saying in a statement it
was confident that Biden
and his team “delivered a vi-
able, bipartisan solution to
end this crisis” and were
working to ensure the agree-
ment would receive support
from both parties.
The coalition could pro-
vide enough support for Mc-
Carthy to make up for mem-
bers in the right flank of his
party who have expressed
opposition before the bill’s
wording was even released.
It also takes pressure off
Biden, facing criticism from
progressives for giving in to
what they call hostage-tak-
ing by Republicans.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-
Wash.), who leads the Con-
gressional Progressive Cau-
cus, told CBS that the White
House and Jeffries should
worry about whether caucus
members will support the
agreement.
Mascaro, Jalonick, Amiri
and Price write for the
Associated Press.
for this law, I’d give you an
abortion right now.’ ”
The Texas attorney gen-
eral’s office, which is defend-
ing the state in the lawsuit,
did not immediately return
an email seeking comment.
The lawsuit serves as a
nationwide model for abor-
tion rights advocates to
challenge strict new laws
that states have rolled out
since the Supreme Court
overturned Roe vs. Wade
last year. Sixteen states, in-
cluding Texas, do not allow
abortions when a fatal fetal
anomaly is detected, and six
do not allow exceptions for
the woman’s health, accord-
ing to an analysis by KFF, a
health research organiza-
tion.
Duane said the Center for
Reproductive Rights is look-
ing at filing similar lawsuits
in other states, noting that
they’ve heard from women
across the country.
Women in the lawsuit say
they could not openly dis-
cuss abortion or labor in-
duction with their doctors,
instead asking their doctors
discreetly if they should
travel outside of the state.
Dr. Austin Dennard, an
OB-GYN in Dallas, never
talked about her own abor-
tion with her doctors after
they discovered anenceph-
aly on the fetus’ ultrasound
during her pregnancy last
year. She worried her out-of-
state trip to end the preg-
nancy could jeopardize her
medical license or invite har-
assment. Dennard was in-
spired to go public with her
case when one of her own pa-
tients joined the original
lawsuit filed in March after
traveling to Colorado to
abort a twin fetus diagnosed
with a life-threatening ge-
netic disorder.
“There was an enormous
amount of fear that I experi-
enced afterward,” Dennard
said. “It’s an additional way
of feeling silenced. You feel
you have to do it in secret
and not tell anyone about it.”
L AT I M E S . C O M
Senate candidates carve out their niches
[Candidates, from A1]
cast ballots at greater rates
than other Democrats,
according to Salazar and
other Democratic strate-
gists. Meanwhile, Schiff of
Burbank and Porter of
Irvine could split Southern
California Democrats.
Porter and Lee could split
the Democratic women’s
vote in a state that has had
two female senators for most
of the last three decades. It’s
unclear who has an edge
among Latino, Asian Ameri-
can and LGBTQ+ Califor-
nians.
“The pie is going to be
messy,” Salazar said. “I don’t
think anyone is going to have
a clean slice.”
Nearly 2,500 delegates, in
addition to other guests,
attended the California
Democratic Party conven-
tion this weekend — voters
who tend to be more liberal
and informed about the
intricacies of the party’s pol-
itics and candidates than
much of the electorate,
noted Garry South, a Demo-
cratic strategist.
“To the average Demo-
cratic voter, these three
candidates are kind of a
blur,” he said. “The people
who show up at state party
conventions, they’re going
to be pretty knowledgeable.”
Yet many attendees were
undecided.
“I like all three of them,”
said Aimee Powers, 43, of
Burbank, who works as proj-
ect manager for a tech com-
pany. “I really would love to
see a woman in the seat. But
Adam Schiff is also my
congressman, and I really
appreciate the work that
he’s done. So it’s a tough
decision.”
Many likely California
voters are undecided about
whom they support to re-
place Feinstein, according to
a recent poll by the UC
Berkeley Institute of Gov-
ernmental Studies, co-spon-
sored by the Los Angeles
Times.
GOP attorney Eric Early
— the sole prominent Re-
publican in the race — won
the backing of 18% of likely
voters. The three Democrats
divided support among a
greater pool of likely voters,
with Porter at 17%, Schiff at
14% and Lee at 9%. (The re-
mainder were undecided or
said they plan to vote for
someone else.)
Women, those between
the ages of 18 and 49, and Or-
ange County residents had
greater affinity for Porter.
Schiff had strength among
likely voters 65 and older, as
well as Los Angeles County
residents. Lee had strong
backing from Black voters.
None of the Senate candi-
dates were official speakers
at the convention, the first
in-person gathering of state
Audit finds issues in California agency’s water forecasts
[Water, from A1]
majority of the watersheds
that are included in fore-
casts.
“DWR has continued to
rely heavily on historical
climate data when devel-
oping its forecasts,” the
auditor said in the report.
“DWR has since begun plan-
ning to adapt its forecasting
model and associated pro-
cedures, but it could better
ensure that it is using the
best approach available if it
adopted a formal process for
evaluating the quality of its
forecasts.”
The audit found that sig-
nificant errors in runoff
forecasts can cause prob-
lems for other water agen-
cies. For example, it said
that in 2021 the depart-
ment’s overestimate of in-
flow into Folsom Lake
meant that El Dorado Irri-
gation District had to forgo
“diverting water into storage
that it would have otherwise
been able to capture in its
reservoir.”
The report noted that
California endured the dri-
est three-year period on
record from 2020 through
2022, followed this year by
heavy rain, snow and flood-
ing. It pointed out that
scientists project global
warming will cause more ex-
treme fluctuations in severe
weather, including pro-
longed drought.
The state auditor found
that in contrast to the
Department of Water Re-
sources, some local and fed-
eral agencies “use forecast-
ing models that leverage ad-
ditional data that may allow
them to better account for
the changing climate and its
effects on the water supply.”
It said some of the agencies
THREE TOP CANDIDATES to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein — Reps. Barbara Lee, left, Adam B. Schiff and Katie Porter — attempted to
drum up support at this weekend’s California Democratic Party convention in Los Angeles. “I like all three of them,” one attendee said.
Democrats since the onset
of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Still, the candidates were
top attractions at the gath-
ering as they skittered
around the hallways, trailed
by chanting and sign-waving
supporters; visited caucus
groups to make their case;
and hosted parties and
meet-and-greets.
All three candidates ad-
dressed the women’s cau-
cus, the largest in the state
party, which had an overflow
crowd of several hundred
people packed in a hotel ball-
room.
Schiff applauded the
Woman’s March the day
after President Trump’s 2017
inauguration, saying it
made a critical difference in
the nation’s politics.
“And you ran that
orange-haired SOB out of
town,” he said, before men-
tioning former House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who
has endorsed his bid.
“I also want to thank the
greatest speaker of the
House of Representatives of
all time, Nancy Pelosi,” he
said. “And I say that not just
because she makes great
endorsements, but because
she makes great history.”
Schiff received a warm
reception, but the crowd
roared as Porter and Lee
spoke. Both mentioned that
their experiences as single
moms had shaped their pri-
orities as elected officials.
“We need to shake up
Washington,” Porter said.
“There is no doubt that
“THE REPORT should be a wake-up call that leads DWR to make significant
changes,” said one environmental activist. Above, Folsom Dam near Sacramento.
that incorporate additional
data in this way include Tur-
lock Irrigation District, the
San Francisco Public Util-
ities Commission, Merced
Irrigation District and the
California Nevada River
Forecast Center.
The audit also found that
DWR lacks sufficient re-
cords explaining some of its
water releases from Lake
Oroville, the state’s second-
largest reservoir, and has at
times released more water
into the Sacramento-San
Joaquin River Delta than re-
quired under existing flow
standards.
The report said the
agency “lacks a formal proc-
ess for periodically evaluat-
ing certain State Water Proj-
Washington caters to the
desires of billionaires and
corporate special interests
while leaving our families
behind.”
“Tell it, Katie!” a woman
in the audience shouted.
“I am not afraid to shake
up the status quo and do
things differently,” Porter
said, adding that she has
never taken donations from
corporate PACs, federal lob-
byists and executives who
work in “Big Oil, big banks or
Big Pharma.”
Lee — best known for
being the sole vote against
giving President George W.
Bush broad war powers
after the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks — highlighted her
work in the state Legislature
getting a Republican gover-
nor to sign legislation she
had written, including the
California Violence Against
Women Act and a bill en-
hancing penalties for people
who block access to abortion
clinics.
“We’re not looking back
on this campaign,” Lee said.
“But I want you to look at
what I have done as a prog-
ressive Black woman, both
in the Legislature and in
Congress, to know that I’m
going to stand my ground. I
have convictions and
courage. And it’s an indica-
tor of what I will do in the
future.”
Lee is viewed as an
underdog in the race, in part
because she doesn’t have the
fundraising record of Schiff
or Porter. But she and her
ect operations to identify
opportunities for improve-
ment.”
Among the audit’s rec-
ommendations, the report
said the department should:
8 Start to evaluate the ac-
curacy of its monthly fore-
casts on an annual basis, in-
cluding an assessment of
whether actual runoff
matched the range of sce-
narios.
8 Follow through on a
plan to adopt an updated
water-supply forecasting
model to better account for
the effects of climate change.
8 Develop a long-term
plan for mitigating and re-
sponding to the effects of
drought on the State Water
Project.
Michael Owen Baker For The Times, left and center ; Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
supporters reject that as-
sumption because of her
long, consistent history.
“Barbara Lee isn’t new to
this. She’s true to this,” state
Controller Malia Cohen said
at Lee’s reception Friday
night, which drew hundreds
of conventioneers. “This is a
real progressive.”
It was a clear swipe at
Schiff, who has the support
of much of the Democratic
establishment and is a for-
mer member of the centrist
Blue Dog Coalition. In Janu-
ary, he applied to join the
Congressional Progressive
Caucus but later withdrew
his application. Lee and
Porter have been members
of the group for some time.
Schiff appeared to be
burnishing his progressive
credentials at the conven-
tion, signing a pledge to not
accept donations of more
than $200 during this cam-
paign from executives, lob-
byists and political action
committees in the oil, gas
and coal industries.
It’s the first time he has
signed the pledge; Lee and
Porter have done so previ-
ously.
Schiff, while best known
for his work on the Trump
impeachments, said climate
concerns are among his top
priorities, because “if we
don’t save our planet, none
of the other things are going
to matter very much at the
end of the day.”
And then, hours later, he
went from green to blue.
A crowd of about 100
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
8 Establish procedures to
determine monthly and an-
nual plans for operating the
State Water Project, includ-
ing the amount of water that
will be held in dams and re-
leased.
8 Reevaluate the data the
agency relies on in planning
reservoir operations at Lake
Oroville.
The Department of Wa-
ter Resources disagreed
with the report’s main find-
ings. “DWR has been ac-
tively engaged in climate
change adaptation since
2008, and we respectfully
disagree with the audit’s as-
sertion that DWR has been
slow in addressing the im-
pacts of climate change,”
Karla Nemeth, the depart-
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gathered for Schiff ’s “come-
dy intervention.” The con-
gressman’s stand-up set
lasted about 8½ minutes and
drew laughs as well as
groans.
Schiff joked that his wife,
Eve, is more conservative
than him and had recently
told him she was against
same-sex marriage: “She
said, ‘Adam, we’ve been mar-
ried for 25 years. We’ve been
having the same sex for 25
years. And I just think
there’s got to be a better
way.’ ”
The official convention
programming focused large-
ly on celebrating Pelosi:
Swag bags and signs fea-
tured stylized images of the
San Franciscan who made
history by becoming the first
woman to hold the speaker’s
gavel. Prominent Demo-
crats lauded her career in a
video; she and Hollywood
mega-donor Jeffrey Katzen-
berg were spotted lunching
nearby at Langer’s, with a
#19 sandwich (pastrami,
Swiss, coleslaw and Russian
dressing) on the table.
Though Pelosi hasn’t
announced whether she
plans on retiring before her
term ends in early 2015, Fein-
stein has said she will not
seek another term. Yet there
was scant mention at the
convention of the 89-year-
old Feinstein, a towering
figure in California politics
for decades who has clashed
with the party’s left wing.
State Treasurer Fiona
Ma hosted a Bingo night Fri-
ment’s director, said in an
email.
Nemeth said the condi-
tions in spring 2021 “were
extreme and outside the
bounds of historical experi-
ence.”
“DWR reacted quickly to
the extreme hydrology and
recognized the runoff fore-
casting error of 2021 as an
opportunity to learn, adjust,
and improve,” Nemeth said.
“Conditions like those ex-
perienced in 2021 speak to
the importance of forward-
looking forecasting and de-
veloping new tools for an era
of extremes.”
In a letter responding
to the audit, Nemeth said
DWR established a climate
change program in 2008 and
has since released five up-
dates of its climate plan.
“While there is always
more that DWR can do to
adapt to a changed climate,
DWR has demonstrated
leadership in accounting
for the effects of climate
change,” she said.
“Many of the audit report
recommendations would
layer additional processes
and procedures on reservoir
operations,” Nemeth wrote.
“No amount of paperwork
will solve the challenges of
climate change. However, a
collaborative team of scien-
tists, academic partners,
and water managers dedi-
cated to improved forecast-
ing and water management
through extreme flood and
drought will help keep Cali-
fornians safe, with secure
water supplies, and that is
DWR’s approach.”
State Sen. Melissa Hur-
tado, a Democrat whose dis-
trict includes parts of the
San Joaquin Valley, said
she’s concerned about poor
A7
day with the names of prom-
inent Democrats replacing
the numbers on the cards.
When Feinstein’s name was
called, a number of attend-
ees booed.
It’s not the first time.
Feinstein was jeered on the
convention floor in 1990 as
she stated her support for
the death penalty during an
unsuccessful gubernatorial
run. In 2018, the party
endorsed a liberal challeng-
er over the longtime incum-
bent, an embarrassing re-
buke.
But now it’s different,
with Feinstein facing signifi-
cant health issues. She
wasn’t in the nation’s capital
for nearly three months this
year as she recuperated
from shingles — an absence
that allowed Republicans to
block some of President
Biden’s judicial nominees.
Feinstein’s recent return to
Washington, D.C., has not
abated concerns about her
fitness for the job.
Janet Fields of Long
Beach said she had strug-
gled with the news about
Feinstein’s health issues but
ultimately decided that the
senator should step down
because of the delays in
confirming Biden’s judicial
nominees.
“I’m torn, because it’s
very sad,” said Fields, the
legislative and political co-
chair of Communication
Workers of America Local
9588. “She’s one of the great-
est. How do you kick out one
of the greatest?”
data and mismanagement
of water supplies, and the re-
port helps identify issues
that need to be addressed.
“I think that the auditor
is spot on,” Hurtado said.
“The Department of Water
Resources needs to take the
recommendations from the
state auditor.”
Hurtado has introduced
a bill that would require
state agencies to update a
report on the feasibility and
costs of a coordinated water
measurement database,
which she says would ensure
water-supply forecasts are
based on accurate data.
She said DWR needs to
“break free from a reliance
on outdated data to ensure
proper water allotments.”
The report validates
criticisms that environmen-
tal groups have raised for
years about the agency’s
“failure to proactively plan
for droughts and failure to
adequately account for the
effects of climate change,”
said Doug Obegi, director of
the California river restora-
tion program for the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
“The report should be a
wake-up call that leads
DWR to make significant
changes in how they esti-
mate runoff from snowpack
and storms,” he said, “and in
developing a proactive plan
for droughts, rather than
simply waiving environmen-
tal protections and sacrific-
ing salmon and other native
fish and wildlife during
droughts.
“Yet instead of admitting
that there is a problem and
working to fix it,” Obegi said,
“DWR rejects the report’s
findings and believes these
recommendations will just
lead to more ‘paperwork.’ ”
A8 MO N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23
YOU DO ADU
How to bring unpermitted unit up to code
It can take a lot of time and money to make it legal, but leaving it as is can be more costly
By Jon Healey
California is in the midst of a
building boom for accessory
dwelling units, which accounted
for almost one-fifth of the housing
units permitted and built in 2022.
The number of unpermitted
ADUs already in existence is jaw-
dropping too.
Studies done between 2010 and
2020 found that 11% to 66% of the
single-family homes in selected
parts of Los Angeles, Oakland and
Berkeley had unpermitted units.
In fact, one researcher who exam-
ined the communities between
Long Beach and downtown Los
Angeles found that more than 75%
of the housing units added be-
tween 1991 and 2010 were unpermit-
ted. A UCLA professor estimated
in 2018 that Los Angeles had at
least 50,000 unpermitted second-
ary units on single-family lots.
Unauthorized ADUs prolifer-
ated in large part because many
California cities made it well-nigh
impossible to get permits for them.
Those barriers did nothing to re-
duce the demand for living spaces,
particularly from lower-income
households whose members
spanned multiple generations.
“If people don’t have housing,
they will create housing for them-
selves and their families,” said
Renée Schomp, former director of
the Napa Sonoma ADU Center.
But owning an unpermitted
ADU carries risks, especially if you
rent it out. You’ll face fines, insur-
ance problems and, potentially,
lawsuits from tenants.
The incentives for complying
may not be enough, though, to per-
suade you to get the necessary per-
mits. It can take almost as long to
get them as it would for a new ADU,
and the cost of bringing your unit
into compliance can be quite high.
That’s because unpermitted
ADUs can have hidden problems in
their foundation, framing, wiring
and plumbing that can be expen-
sive to fix. “If it’s a gorgeous unit,
that doesn’t mean anything,” said
Avi Levi of Levi Design Build, a de-
veloper who does most of his work
these days on ADUs.
Issues with compliance
One reason people build
dwelling units without permits is
that the time-consuming process
of getting approvals can raise a
project’s price tag by thousands of
dollars. But with no inspectors to
ensure that the work complies with
city codes, nothing stops a contrac-
tor from falling short of the local
standards — inadvertently or not.
“People don’t get it,” Levi said.
“When they’re doing work without
a permit, they’re basically letting
the person that did the job get
away with whatever they wanted to
get away with.”
Steven Frasher, spokesman for
L.A. County Public Works, offered a
list by email when asked what
problems the county’s inspectors
observed most often.
“Improper exiting, improper
venting of heating devices, under-
sized wiring, or improper electrical
grounding, to name a few, can lead
to life safety issues that are both
long-term [chronic] or short-term
[acute] exposure risks,” Frasher
said. “Most people are aware of
acute risks such as fire, but they
tend to not pay enough attention to
the chronic risks such as head-
aches, nausea, and breathing prob-
lems can be caused by unpermit-
ted building materials, poor venti-
lation, and mold caused by im-
proper construction methods.”
And even if the contractor did
everything by the book, that may
not be enough to bring your unit
into compliance years later. Al-
though a state law passed in 2018 al-
lows local officials to judge your
ADU by the building codes that
were in place when it was built,
they have the discretion to insist
that you upgrade to newer, more
stringent standards.
The city of Los Angeles, for
example, requires unpermitted
ADUs to comply with the 2022 state
building codes and at least two
mandates that probably didn’t ex-
ist when your ADU was built: the
state’s energy efficiency standards
and the city’s Green Building
codes.
Builders and the Casita Coali-
tion, a housing advocacy group
that backs ADUs, outlined eight
compliance issues frequently en-
countered by homeowners seeking
permits for existing units:
8 Foundation: Most ADUs are
converted garages that have a con-
crete slab foundation that is not
stable enough for dwellings — and
if the garage was built before 1940,
they may have no foundation. In
addition to a foundation sup-
ported by a sufficient number of
footings, these units may need a
layer of vapor retarder — a feature
not required in garages.
8 Framing: Unpermitted ADUs
often are missing some of the
structural safety features that
BUSINESS
STUDIES found that 11% to 66% of single-family homes in L.A., Oakland and Berkeley had unpermitted accessory dwelling units.
dwelling spaces require, such as
the full complement of ceiling joists
and braced wall panels. Converted
garages may also have kept the ga-
rage door as an exterior wall, which
is a no-no, said Danny Shuster of
Construction & Consulting Serv-
ices in Los Angeles.
8 Wiring and plumbing: In 90%
of the unpermitted ADUs he’s seen,
Levi said, the wiring and plumbing
aren’t up to building-code stand-
ards. And in Los Angeles, ADUs
must have a separate electrical
panel and their own water shut-off
valve, along with a source of heat
that’s not a portable space heater.
8 Utility connections and me-
ters: Depending on your city’s re-
quirements, you may need to have
separate meters for your ADU’s
utilities (which you might want
anyway for a rental unit). More
significantly, jurisdictions have
standards for how and where the
ADU’s sewer line connects to the
main sewer in the street, and un-
permitted ADUs rarely comply,
Shuster said.
8 Energy efficiency: The state’s
standards for energy efficient
buildings, known as Title 24, are
designed to cut electricity and gas
use by sealing buildings off better
from the elements. But they could
force you to replace old windows
that leak heat.
8 Emergency egress: Every
bedroom must have an alternate
way out in case the door is blocked
by fire. As a result, you may have to
install a bedroom window large
enough for an adult to climb out of.
8 Water heater: If your ADU’s
gas water heater is in a bedroom, it
will need to be enclosed in a closet
that meets state rules. It will also
need to be at least 5 feet from the
property line, as will any heating or
cooling appliances, Shuster said.
8 Firewall: Any exterior wall of
an ADU that’s less than 5 feet from
the property line must be built to
suppress fire for at least 1 hour. Un-
less your ADU was built fairly re-
cently, you’ll probably have to ret-
rofit it with fire-resistant boards on
the inside of the wall.
It’s conceivable that your ADU
may not even be permittable,
thanks to a noncompliant feature
that would be prohibitively expen-
sive to fix — for example, a ceiling
that’s too low or the lack of a sepa-
rate entrance. Another issue for
converted garages, Shuster said, is
that the exterior walls may have
been extended to allow for a larger
ADU. If the ADU is closer to the
property line than current zoning
rules allow, he said, only the por-
tion representing the original ga-
rage’s footprint will be grand-
fathered — the walls and roofline
for the additional space will have to
be moved back. Ouch.
The path to permits
Not too long ago, there was no
way to bring an unpermitted ADU
into compliance if it violated set-
back requirements, limits on lot
coverage or other zoning rules. If
code enforcers cited your unit,
you’d probably have to decide
whether to return the space to its
original use (e.g., a garage) or dis-
mantle it.
Senate Bill 1069, which lawmak-
ers passed in 2016 to make it easier
to build ADUs, forced cities to issue
permits “for any existing structure
that had been or could be con-
verted to an ADU, so that informal
units had a path to safety,” Denise
Pinkston, president of the Casita
Coalition and a key proponent of
the bill, said in an email. Now,
Pinkston said, the main impedi-
ments are the cost of upgrades, the
shortage of financing options, and
a general mistrust of government,
including fear of rent control
among ADU owners, she said.
Nevertheless, contractors say
they’re being approached more
and more frequently by owners of
unpermitted ADUs who are think-
ing about applying for permits.
Levi said he gets at least two such
calls a week — sometimes from
people who were buying or had
bought a lot with an unpermitted
ADU, but mainly from property
owners who had deliberately built
units without getting permits.
About 80% of the time, he said,
the ADU is a converted garage.
And most of the calls are coming
from people who’ve already gotten
a citation from local authorities or
who know they’re about to get one,
Levi said.
How to get started
If you own an unpermitted
ADU, chances are good that you’re
well aware of the problem. Either
you decided to forgo permits when
you built it; or, if the ADU was on
the property when you bought it,
the seller’s agent and the reports
you received from the inspector
and the title insurance company
told you that the space wasn’t le-
gal. But if you have any doubt, your
local government’s planning and
building-and-safety departments
will have records of any permits or
certificates of occupancy obtained
for your ADU. Many cities, includ-
ing Los Angeles, enable you to do
this online.
Seeking permits retroactively
for an ADU will put you in an un-
comfortable spot, Levi said: Once
you reveal to the city that you have
a potentially unsafe dwelling, you’ll
have to either bring it into compli-
ance or stop using it as a living
space — and maybe even demolish
it, depending on how severe the
safety problems are.
So the first step is to find out as
much as you can from your city be-
fore outing your noncompliant
unit. Some jurisdictions, including
San Francisco and Milpitas, will
try to help you figure out how much
work you’ll have to do to meet cur-
rent codes before you seek the nec-
essary permits. And a few, such as
Santa Cruz County, will allow you
to keep renting out the unit with-
out meeting all of today’s building
codes, as long as your unit meets
health and safety standards.
Pasadena has even offered
homeowners financial assistance
to bring existing ADUs up to code
through its Second Unit ADU
Program, but it’s not taking new
applications at the moment. Ac-
cording to the Pasadena Depart-
ment of Housing’s website, “The
application window is tentatively
scheduled to open back up in sum-
mer 2023.”
The city of L.A.offers a prelimi-
nary plan check service (for a fee of
at least $227) that can identify
building and zoning issues in your
plans upfront, as well as a call cen-
ter to answer your questions about
local codes, Frank Lara of the L.A.
Department of Building and Safe-
ty said via email. He also said that
merely seeking permits won’t
cause an ADU owner to be cited for
code violations — the city issues ci-
tations in response to complaints,
not permit applications.
(To ease the path to permits,
the L.A. City Council approved a
motion in April to allow owners of
unpermitted ADUs to get city ap-
provals without first having to re-
turn the unit to its original use —
for example, turning a converted
garage ADU back into a fully per-
mitted garage. The motion also
called for the development of an
amnesty program for legalizing un-
permitted ADUs, although it set no
deadline.)
Looking behind walls
Next, you’ll want to get some
professional help (for your project,
not for you personally — at least
not at this juncture). You’ll need a
licensed architect or structural en-
gineer to sign off on your plans and
a licensed contractor to do the
work, but first you may want to
consult with a pro who can give you
a rough idea of what your ADU
might require. That way you’ll at
least know the scale of what you’re
getting yourself into.
The process of obtaining per-
mits starts with you submitting for
review an “as built” ADU plan that
hews closely to the current struc-
ture.
“The city’s going to give their
own comments about what they
want us to comply with — what
they will allow and what they will
not allow,” Levi said, adding that
the plans will go through several re-
visions and reviews before they’re
approved.
How long that process takes will
depend on whether you’re in a his-
toric preservation overlay zone, an
environmentally sensitive area or
other locale that requires extra lay-
ers of scrutiny, Shuster said: “It
could take a few short weeks; it
could take months.”
Once the plans are approved —
and remember, this hurdle is sig-
nificantly lower than it used to be
— building and safety inspectors
will come out to see how much work
needs to be done to bring your unit
into compliance. This precon-
struction inspection is also a de-
construction inspection, as inspec-
tors will want to tear up walls to
check the condition of the wiring
and plumbing behind them, as well
as looking at the footings under the
foundation and other important
and potentially inadequate fea-
tures.
Shuster said these inspections
play out in one of three ways, the
first being that the unit has to be
gutted to expose the framing and
foundation because the inspector
thinks everything’s out of compli-
ance. He’s seen this happen to
maybe 10% of the units he’s worked
on, and it came as no surprise be-
cause they were in such bad shape.
The second possibility is that the
inspector says the unit appears to
be largely in compliance and pokes
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the minimum number of holes in
the walls. That happens less than
10% of the time, Shuster said.
The most common scenario, he
said, is that inspectors will say the
unit looks OK but still want to look
at the foundation and the framing,
measure the insulation, inspect
the plumbing and piping, check
the wiring and the electrical panel.
They may start by pointing out
four or five locations where they
want the frame or foundation ex-
posed, then ask for more based on
what they see.
How much will it cost?
Shuster said that bringing a
converted garage into compliance
would cost $20,000 to $30,000 under
the best-case scenario, and pos-
sibly more than $100,000. Levi
pegged the cost of legalizing a ga-
rage ADU at $50,000 to $130,000.
The least expensive job is still
pretty costly because of the up-
front expense of developing plans
and getting them approved. The
Casita Coalition estimated that
the price tag for plans and permits
started at $10,000 and went up from
there.
In addition, once your ADU is
officially on the city’s books, its val-
ue will be added to your property
tax assessment, increasing your
property taxes.
On the other hand, an unper-
mitted ADU can prove costly too.
It’s not just the prospect of get-
ting hit with one or more citations
for code violations if someone re-
ports you to the city. It’s also what
happens after the citation is is-
sued.
If you have tenants, the Casita
Coalition says, you may have to
cover their relocation costs and re-
imburse them for the rent they’d
paid. And even if you aren’t cited by
the city, your tenant may sue you
for providing seriously substand-
ard housing, potentially collecting
extra damages in addition to recov-
ering their rent payments.
Another issue is that your in-
surer could exclude unpermitted
structures from your coverage,
said Janet Ruiz, a spokesperson for
the Insurance Information Insti-
tute. If there’s a fire or some other
kind of damage to that property,
you could be on the hook for the en-
tire loss.
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L AT I M E S . C O M
CONVERSATION WITH THE EXPERT:
2023 COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE INSIGHTS FROM
JOHN MURILLO OF ENTERPRISE BANK & TRUST
The Commercial Real Estate Strategies Q&A is produced by the L.A. Times B2B Publishing
team in conjunction with Enterprise Bank & Trust.
O
ver the last few years, in the wake of a series of unanticipated challenges
ranging from a global pandemic, supply chain issues, new workplace
trends and increasing interest rates, commercial real estate companies
have had to get creative. The lingering elements of change and management of
new protocols have continued to force the industry to assess and, in many cases,
make permanent changes to their operations and how they approach relationships
with partners, customers, and employees.
As we move into the second half of 2023 and as things return to a new form of
normal, questions still linger. What changes and trends are here to stay for the
long term? What new roles is technology playing? What will the CRE industry look
like a year from now?
We turned to a uniquely knowledgeable expert for his thoughts and insights
about what’s next for Southern California’s resilient commercial real estate sector.
Q: WHAT ARE THE KEY
OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS
FOR DEVELOPERS IN 2023?
At the mid-year point of 2023, we
see areas of opportunity and risk in
commercial real estate. We continue to
notice opportunities in the multi-family
space and are seeing record capital-
investment levels nationwide. Our strong
local job market and increases in home
and rent prices lead to a strong demand
for rental housing. Demand for industrial
is high. Lack of supply leads to higher
rental rates. On the other side, there are
risks that developers continue to face.
Developers, since the COVID-19 pandemic,
are still battling with higher costs due
to a shortage in the labor force, dealing
with an increase in the costs of their
existing labor force, facing higher costs in
materials, and – overall, because of these
factors – are seeing longer timelines for
completion of their key projects.
Q: WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER TO
BE THE MOST MEANINGFUL
POSITIVE TREND IN
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
CURRENTLY?
The most positive trend in the
commercial real estate industry currently
is that vacancy is not outpacing the long-
run average of around 45%. In addition to
that, Los Angeles’ strong job market and
large population continue to drive strong
demand for rental housing.
Q: ANY NEGATIVE TRENDS YOU
HOPE WILL GO AWAY?
Because of the current environment, we
see higher interest rates and uncertainty
in the market. These factors naturally lead
to lower transaction volumes, indicated
by debt and sales being down over the
recent months. In addition to that, we
see capital is avoiding the office market
today post-COVID-19. We suspect that
the traditional office space market will
struggle with vacancies and that is
impacting capital’s willingness to invest
in developments in the space in the
coming years.
Q: WHAT IS A GOOD STRATEGY
FOR BUSINESS OWNERS IN
TERMS OF COMMERCIAL REAL
ESTATE AND THE REMOTE
WORK TREND?
It is human nature to interact with
others. Business owners need to create
a space that facilitates more interaction
and collaboration. The new buzzword
in the office space is hybrid, which is
giving employees the flexibility for work-
life balance and traveling into the office
only a few days a week. One thing to call
out to business owners is that you have
control over your workplace culture and
environment. The better environment
you create for your employees, the better
attendance you will see on your days in
the office, and the overall engagement
from employees. Business owners should
also look for ways to reposition or for
adaptive uses for their properties. With a
growing focus on Environmental, Social
and Governance (ESG) mandates, you can
start thinking about your resources and
strategy for the future now.
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Q: WHAT CHANGES ARE
YOU SEEING IN HOW
BUYERS AND SELLERS ARE
REACTING TO CURRENT
MARKET DYNAMICS?
Buyers and sellers are somewhat taking
a step back. There are prudent buyers
and sellers who understand that the
tightening cycle may end in the next
12 to 18 months. They are ignoring the
noise as much as possible because they
understand that the current economic
situation in the United States is not going
to be this way forever and instead are
taking a more macro view on how current
dynamics are impacting their business
and what impact it will have in the future.
Q: WHAT PARTS OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA DO YOU SEE
AS “HOT SPOTS” FOR
COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
IN THE COMING MONTHS
AND YEARS?
A few pockets of Los Angeles are
seeing positive indicators for sustained
commercial development in the coming
months and years. The Hollywood and
West Hollywood areas have received
support to push the proposed large
development projects forward. In addition
to Hollywood and West Hollywood,
Northeast Los Angeles and Lincoln
Heights areas are starting to see support
Southern California will
continue to see increased
demand for residential
real estate purchases
and development.”
– John Murillo
for repurposing city and county-owned
properties. Southern California will
continue to see increased demand for
residential real estate purchases and
development. These factors will help
contribute to new development projects
in Southern California for the coming
months and years.
Q: WHAT ARE YOUR
PREDICTIONS FOR WHAT
THE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE
WILL BE LIKE?
Expanding on my previous comments
about co-working spaces, employees and
business owners are continuing to push
toward co-working spaces or more flexible
office spaces to work. We have seen these
become popular over the years and will
probably continue to see this trend grow
moving forward. Employers are looking
for office space that can be scaled up
and down to avoid the overhead cost
associated with owning commercial
real estate. Co-working space also gives
employers the ability to offer employees
more amenities and newly updated
workspaces in a co-working setting. The
flexible, shared office space model is not
going anywhere anytime soon. We are
continuing to see businesses move to
more hybrid work environments.
M O N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23 A9
John
Murillo
SVP, Market President
jmurillo@enterprisebank.com
enterprisebank.com
Q: WHAT CHANGES DO
YOU ANTICIPATE
IMPACTING RETAIL?
I expect we will continue to see a shift
away from the traditional retail space.
There is going to continue to be an
emphasis on e-commerce. Over the years,
we have seen buyers’ purchasing habits
shift away from additional brick-and-
mortar to online shopping, and this trend
is not slowing down. Buyers continue
to look for efficiencies and convenience
when shopping and making decisions,
and online shopping puts that into their
hands immediately. The shift has already
started as across the country warehouse
property development or transactions are
on the rise due to the focus and success
of e-commerce for most businesses.
Q: WHAT DO TENANTS NEED TO
BE THINKING ABOUT AS THEY
SEEK NEW SPACES IN 2023?
Tenants are in luck. There continues to be
a rise in sublease availability; subleases
give tenants flexibility, which is not
usually the case as they are normally
discounted compared to a direct lease.
In addition, we are seeing large office-
space requirements on hold, which favors
tenants now.
Q: WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU
OFFER COMMERCIAL REAL
ESTATE INVESTORS TODAY?
Investors need to be aware and ready to
navigate the changing sources of lower
occupancy requirements, demographic
trends and market demand. I would
also advise investors to have strong
relationships with their key business
partners. These strong relationships will
bear fruit when you least expect it, and
building or fostering those relationships
now will set you up for future success.
Q: WHAT EFFECT DO
INTEREST RATES HAVE ON
TODAY’S MARKET?
We see owners delaying refinancing as
long as possible. In some cases, reached
maturities are forcing the need to
refinance, which is where we see owners
looking to short-terms in order to position
themselves positively for when interest
rates begin to decline. Naturally, rising
interest rates decrease buying power and
can lead to an overall decrease in new
developments and transactions.
Q: WHAT NEW TRENDS DO YOU
FORESEE COMING TO OUR
LOCAL INDUSTRY BY THE END
OF THIS YEAR?
Loan maturities are expected to increase
by over 50% next year. Because of
this, significant transaction volume
will be generated for the Los Angeles
metropolitan area in 2024. Also, like stated
before, we may see some transactions
put on hold due to the current economic
environment.
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Veterans deserve a thriving

town center on VA campus
Building housing for homeless vets is the priority,
but it needs to feel like a real community too

T
he reimagining of the sprawl-
ing West L.A. campus of the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs
is primarily focused on building
housing for homeless vets. But
that’s not all it’s about.
The 2015 settlement of a lawsuit against
the VA led to a pledge to provide at least
1,200 units of housing to homeless veterans.
It also spurred the creation of a 2016 master
plan to transform the north end of the cam-
pus into a community for veterans, with
residential buildings surrounding a town
center where they can gather, partake in a
variety of services, participate in activities
or just relax. (The south end of the campus
is dominated by the VA medical facilities.)
The housing effort, led by three devel-
opers, has finally gained momentum, with
237 units opened and most occupied and
another 380 under construction or about to
break ground. That’s good progress on a
daunting task. Now, VA officials must figure
out what the town center should look like.
There are conflicts about what that
should be. There have already been two ver-
sions and much debate over which (if ei-
ther) of the town center plans better serves
veterans who have already started to move
into permanent homes on the VA campus,
as well as veterans throughout the region
seeking a place to gather. And although the
town center is probably years away from be-
ing completed, it’s important for VA officials
to get it right by maximizing housing and
creating a welcoming communal space that
will make it feel more like a hometown than
a government facility.
The 2016 master plan featured an oval
space that would include a town center with
a green space, a town hall, and an array of
services, which could include a fitness cen-
ter, media center, coffeehouse, shops and le-
gal aid. The idea was to provide the central
gathering space — a place that beckoned all
vets whether they lived there or not.
The master plan was updated in 2022
with input from architects, VA officials and
the principal developers (who came
onboard after the first master plan). The
town center was reconfigured into a more
horizontal space that spreads west from a
huge historic building (known as Building
13) anchoring the center with a town hall,
restaurant and other uses.
The biggest change to the plan was the
addition of four residential buildings to the
town center. The amenities and services
that had their own buildings in the 2016 plan
are now located on the ground floors of resi-
dences that provide a total of 316 units. An
additional 25 units occupy the second floor
of the town hall. Some veterans and advo-
cates are critical of the changes, believing
they subjugate the purpose of the town cen-
ter to the mandate to create housing.
“People don’t heal in housing. They heal
in community,” says Jonathan Sherin, the
former director of the L.A. County Depart-
ment of Mental Health who was also an ad-
visor during the 2015 settlement of the law-
suit against the VA.
Anthony Allman, executive director of
Vets Advocacy, says the 2022 plan maxi-
mizes housing density without looking care-
fully at what would create the most effective
town center.
Of course, veterans don’t want the town
center to be an afterthought and neither do
we. But the updated version of a town cen-
ter isn’t an appendage shoehorned into the
plan. Quite the opposite. The developers Gensler architectural firm/Courtesy of U.S. VETS
wanted to mix the residential units with TWO VIEWS of Building 13, the anchor of the town center proposed for the West
other uses on the ground floors to make the L.A. VA Campus, in the 2022 master plan.
town center a hub of activity, said Steve
Peck, the chief executive of U.S. VETS, part spokesperson. A federal advisory commit- part of the VA overhaul, turning the campus
of the principal developer team, which will tee that monitors the implementation of the into a community is something all veterans
develop the town hall. No building would be master plan had a number of concerns and want, according to advocates for vets and
empty at any time. recommended the agency get outside as- the developers building out the campus.
For vets, it will feel like a vibrant area. sistance defining what a vibrant town cen- The town center should be a magnet not
“This is the plan we felt was most conducive ter should be. So the VA has hired the Los just for homeless veterans entering new
to creating that welcoming town center we Angeles chapter of the Urban Land Insti- housing and seeking friendship and the sta-
all wanted,” he said. And the developers tute, a nonprofit land use research center, to bility of a community, but for all veterans
were looking for a place to add housing evaluate the town center. It’s also unclear across the region who want to gather, find
units. “Everyone said the desperate need is whether the VA has the authority to let its places to eat, exercise, get legal advice or
housing — build as many units as you can,” housing developers build housing along just stroll through a grassy square.
Peck said, adding that the number of units with services for more than just the veter- Housing may be the primary goal of the
now planned is 1,694. ans living there. VA project, but meeting the needs of veter-
Meanwhile, the VA is taking another look It’s smart to get more input from ex- ans who long for a community space is the
at the town center plans, according to a VA perts. While housing is the most important goal. They deserve nothing less.

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Feinstein’s health is a (and judges): close fidelity

serious matter, as is the to the text of the Immigra-
question of her ability to tion Reform and Control
perform the functions of her Act, and respect for state
office. But should a survey autonomy.
of people who have only I am proud of the uni-
hearsay or third-hand versity for having the
knowledge be the lead front- courage to embrace an idea
page article? whose time has truly come. I
You are essentially sup- hope legal actors across the
porting information colored political spectrum will now
by gossip and supposition do the same.
as well as by some fact. A Ahilan Arulanantham
survey is of limited value South Pasadena
and doesn’t deserve the The writer is co-director
weight you gave it. of UCLA’s Center for Immi-
How about balancing it gration Law and Policy.
with some of the kind of
honor you heaped on Tina ::
Turner? She earned it, but
so has Feinstein. The UC regents’ decision
Elizabeth Patterson to support employment
Pasadena opportunities for undocu-
mented students is long
:: overdue.
For more than two dec-
Feinstein should remain ades, Congress has failed to
in office as long as she can pass the Dream Act, a sen-
vote to approve Biden’s sible piece of legislation that
judicial choices and support would provide undocu-
Scott Strazzante Associated Press her caucus’ votes when mented youth with a path to
ASIA HUBBARD , a former girlfriend of Banko Brown, speaks outside City Hall in San Francisco after a needed. Too much decision- citizenship. The inability of
march on May 15. Brown was shot and killed by a Walgreens security guard last month. making occurs in federal Congress to enact any
courtrooms today, and her meaningful immigration

The danger of losing law and order vote is precious to protect

our democracy.
Allowing voters to deter-
reform is doing irreparable
harm to immigrant stu-
dents and their families, as
Re “Ugly forces led to shooting death in San Francisco,” column, May 25 mine her successor from the well as to society as a whole.
three qualified members of I have taught at UCLA
Congress seeking to replace for more than 30 years.
learly the shooting death of Banko Brown by a store security guard in San Francisco was a tragedy for both the

C shooter and the victim, as columnist Anita Chabria explains.

However, assigning blame for what happened is not as simple as she claims. Using corporate guilt on the part of
Walgreens (where the shooter was a security guard, and where the apparent shoplifting took place) or racism in society
her is only fair.
Joel Goodman
Rancho Mirage
Some of my finest students
have been undocumented
immigrants who have suc-
ceeded against all obstacles.
sidesteps a closer look at what is happening. And yet, even with a degree
What Chabria described in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District is a clear breakdown in law and order. The poor security
guards don’t know what to do when customers steal from the stores. As we’ve seen in San Francisco and in other big cities,
UC steps up for from UCLA, they have been
legally barred from working.
big corporations will leave and the cities will be the poorer for it. immigrants UC is standing on the
right side of history by pro-
Once we start second-guessing whether laws should be obeyed or not based on one’s race, it’s a slippery slope to dysfunc-
tion. That’s why in some big cities, leaders who understand this and the importance of enforcing laws have been elected. Re “UC aims to hire stu- viding job opportunities for
dents regardless of legal immigrant students so they
Robert Newman,West Hills
status,” May 19 can fully contribute to our
universities and our society.
I am one of the authors of Kent Wong

Feinstein should Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-

Calif.). In fact, 58% of regis-
Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee. In the last year Fein-
80-year-old President Bid-
en, who recently announced
the legal memo that under-
girds the Opportunity For
Los Angeles
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finish her term tered voters polled were in
favor of or undecided about
stein was widowed and has
been ill. She is now back in
he’s running for a second
term. That survey focused
All campaign, which seeks
to remove hiring restric-
the UCLA Labor Center.

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his winter there were
T moments when I wasn’t
sure I was going to
make it back into my
garden. I wasn’t sure I
wanted to, would have time, would
care. I wasn’t sure it would ever
stop raining.
After six of the warmest years
ever recorded in California, after
five years of record wildfires, amid
the driest period in 1,200 years, this
year’s record snowfall, its deluge
after deluge of violent rain seemed
more than the earth could take.
More water is a net good after
long drought, but it’s also an un-
easy bounty. During the storms,
our roads washed out, our fields
reverted to ancient lakes. Now,
more infrastructure will be chal-
lenged by the enormous snowmelt
that is coming. Hillsides blooming
from heavy rains will produce
more tinder for the next wildfire.
The winter storms felt ominous.
Now El Niño could bring another
catastrophically wet winter, and
climate change could spark a cycle
of superstorms.
The sun is out now and the
weather is mild. It may seem that
the hard winter should have noth-
ing to do with the work I do in my
yard and a nearby community
garden. Yet I still hold the downed
trees, the homes swept away, the
overtopped rivers in my head and
in my body.
There’s a phrase friends of
mine have started tossing around:
“climate grief,” our sharp sadness
that the planet we knew is in ter- layers of wet muck and adding
rible flux, that we’re losing pieces some dry straw to the compost,
of it, in real time, in front of our turning over soil, putting in seed-
eyes. Climbing over fallen red- lings, watching for weeds, I’ve
woods strewing the road after one discovered that my anger and my
of the toughest storms in March, I numbness and my grief are actu-
realized that my climate grief ally places I need to get to, to exca-
presents as numbness, disgust, vate, to dig out, to feel. I need to get
fury and despair. It makes me feel into a garden, to work through the
as if whatever we do now — grief, to engage it.
whether cleaning our yards, build- When I garden, I lose, for a few
ing more resilient wetlands, voting hours at least, the sense that only
in decent climate policies — will be a catastrophe of losses is upon us.
too little, too late. I’m sure I’m not I lose for a while the nagging feel-
alone in this. ing that there’s no hope, that we
And yet, sweeping back the don’t care at all, that we’re irrevo-
Is polarization
a problem or
a distraction?
JEAN GUERRERO
What’s so bad about polar-
ization?
I see the divides between
factions of Americans as a
troubling problem that we
should all be striving to
address. But lately I keep
running into smart people
who disagree.
Earlier this month, I was on a PEN World
Voices Festival panel at the L.A. Central
Library with author and TV producer Reza
Aslan and Hollywood’s Black List founder
Franklin Leonard. Each said focusing on
“polarization” can promote a false equiva-
lency.
“It is a fact that other Americans are a
direct threat to my way of life,” Leonard
said. “It is not a fact that my way of life is a
threat to theirs.”
Aslan agreed: “I’m not sure what’s so
wrong with polarization. I really don’t
understand what the issue is. ... If the other
person on the other side of the aisle doesn’t
even understand my dignity as a human
being, then I’m perfectly fine being in a
different camp. Like I want polarization.”
Numerous recent stories in left-of-center
media have been making similar cases: The
problem isn’t polarization but, rather, the
GOP-led assault on the rights of millions of
Americans.
I agree that this assault is the bigger
problem. But if it becomes a faux pas to care
about the distance between us and the
people who’d like to restrict our rights, how
can we hope to overcome political stale-
mates and win basic protections — let alone
progress? Polarization inhibits engagement
with the other side, and engagement is how
I’ve always imagined coalitions form to
bring about change.
When so many smart people on “my side”
are embracing this kind of distance, I have
to wonder: Is it strategic? One recent Salon
article in defense of polarization cited the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From
Birmingham Jail.” So I read it.
From a jail cell in 1963 after his arrest for
protesting segregation, the preeminent civil
rights leader eloquently responds to white
clergymen’s complaints that even though
his protests were peaceful, they somehow
still “incite to hatred and violence.”
King elucidates the absurdity of that
claim, while acknowledging that his pro-
tests promote “constructive nonviolent
tension.” He writes: “I must confess that I
am not afraid of the word ‘tension.’ ”
For King, polarization wasn’t a problem.
It was a necessary byproduct of the struggle
for equality. But he refused an us-versus-
them conception. The evil wasn’t the other
side. It was some individuals’ decision to
break with those who were different from
them, rather than bridge divides. Birming-
ham leaders repeatedly made that choice by
refusing to engage in good-faith negotiation
with Black activists.
King is an often-cited figure among
Republicans who like to twist his words to
characterize affirmative action and repara-
tions as racist. They’d benefit from revis-
iting his body of work. So would many libe-
rals, who pay lip service to his faith in love as
a transformative social force but cultivate a
vitriol for opponents mirroring the MAGA
faction’s.
OP-ED
How to dig your way out
of climate grief
By Tess Taylor
cably broken. Instead, I’m setting
intentions for dark, microbe-rich
soil. I’m discovering things that
can survive — some mint, some
carrots, a bumper crop of potatoes
— and things that volunteer: a
cucumber plant, at the edge of the
compost.
The garden cures me of my
numbness in other ways too. Be-
cause our garden is in our front
yard, I’m out sharing plants with
my neighbors. I don’t have enough
sun for everything I want to grow,
so Ari keeps my potted blueberry
bushes in her yard, and we share
In his 1958 book “Stride Toward Free-
dom,” the pastor wrote: “To meet hate with
retaliatory hate would do nothing but inten-
sify the existence of evil in the universe.
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence;
toughness begets a greater toughness.”
Violence takes polarization to an ex-
treme. Although some civil rights activists
back then embraced violent tactics, it was
nonviolent demonstrators who transformed
public opinion and secured unprecedented
legislative wins, alongside the NAACP.
“The people who advocated violence had
no significant successes,” Gary Orfield,
co-director of the Civil Rights Project at
UCLA, told me. “When there were violent
protests or riots like the Watts riots in Los
Angeles, it empowered things like the rise of
Reagan. It empowered an intense white
reaction that went to support the conserva-
tive side.”
King warned against not only physical
violence but also verbal violence and even
against “internal violence of spirit,” includ-
ing the impulse to humiliate our opponents.
Activists underwent rigorous training to
ensure they’d remain poised.
Many of today’s loudest progressives
delight in humiliating their opponents,
certain that they occupy the moral high
ground even as they use the GOP’s tone and
tactics. I’ve been there. I know the cheap
points to be scored by shaming Republicans
as a mass of fascists and neo-Nazis.
Vilification sells books, gets clicks, goes
viral and turns ordinary Americans against
one another. Ultimately, regardless of which
side you’re arguing, stoking division with
hate only props up the status quo.
Some on the left are
concluding that we should
be divided because the far
right is attacking other
people’s humanity and basic
rights. Division doesn’t lead
to progress though.
It’s worth remembering that people on
the “other side” are less extreme than we
think; the public face of politics — on TV and
Twitter — doesn’t represent the larger
public, but its most fanatical parts.
When I called Aslan after our panel, he
told me that when he referred to the “other
side,” he was thinking of Rep. Marjorie
Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and her ilk, not the
ordinary people manipulated by them. He
believes many who fall for Greene’s para-
noid narratives can be transformed through
pop culture that humanizes their imagined
enemies. The solution is getting to know the
other: in real life, or even on TV.
I love the idea. But I wouldn’t count on
Hollywood to solve things, given its obses-
sion with violence and lack of racial diver-
sity.
It’s going to take all of us. We must rekin-
dle our faith in the humanity of our foes and
build relationships. We must recall that
King’s nonviolent actions weren’t passive.
They weren’t virtue signaling. They were
arduously physical and dangerous. They
cost King his life.
We must revive his ideas and salvage his
dream. We need to have brave, empathetic,
in-person confrontations with the other
side. That’s how we wage love. If we inter-
pret polarization as a sign that the other
side isn’t worth our time, there’s no hope for
transformation.
@jeanguerre
Lisa Kogawa For The Times
the fruit. Stephen, who was born
outside Kharkiv, has an annual
tradition of bringing by special
Ukrainian tomato starts, a variety
that flourishes here despite the
Bay Area’s summer fog.
I trade seeds and starts for
straw from my chicken coop,
which other gardeners like for its
nutrients. Dalya, who lives two
doors down, wanders by to share
insights about cultivating shii-
takes on loam in a shady side yard.
She expounds on the amazing fact
of mycelial networks, the great
web they build in the soil.
Don’t fall
for third-party
baloney
NICHOLAS GOLDBERG
I received an email re-
cently from a frustrated
reader complaining that the
2024 presidential election
was shaping up to be an
unsatisfying do-over featur-
ing two familiar and unap-
pealing candidates.
It’s a complaint I’ve
heard before: President Biden and Donald
Trump are too old. Trump’s too crazy and
irresponsible; Biden’s too mild and ineffec-
tual. Neither will compromise; neither is
competent. They encourage government
dysfunction and polarization. Why, oh why,
don’t we have better choices?
Then, suddenly, just a few days later,
there was another message in my inbox
offering a seeming solution: No Labels, the
centrist political organization that prose-
lytizes on behalf of bipartisanship and end-
ing gridlock, says it, too, is worried about
the candidates and has come up with an
“insurance” plan that may provide relief.
The group is working to secure a place on
the ballots of all 50 states for the 2024 gen-
eral election, just in case the race offers only
a Trump-Biden rematch or some other
dismal, unsatisfying pairing. If that hap-
pens, the group would run a third-party
alternative ticket — one Democrat and one
Republican who would promise to work
together to rescue the U.S. from paralysis
and extremism.
No Labels has so far secured ballot spots
in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska
and is getting to work on Florida, North
Carolina and Nevada. The organization’s
leaders were in New York last week raising
funds toward the $70 million they think
they’ll need for their ballot efforts.
Founded by longtime Democratic fund-
raiser Nancy Jacobson and former Connect-
icut Sen. Joe Lieberman, among others, No
Labels promises choice! Compromise! An
end to toxic bitterness! It says it represents
the “common sense majority” that wants to
end extremist politics and craves “unity and
cooperation.”
Sounds great, right? A swift kick in the
pants to politics as usual.
But don’t be fooled.
A third-party candidacy is a shiny object,
a bright bauble that is superficially appeal-
ing. But it’s actually the last thing we need.
And by “we” I mean the sensible, still
sane portion of the electorate (Democrats
and Republicans alike) that wants to ensure
above all that Trump or some other truly
extremist anti-democracy candidate
doesn’t become president again.
Some Democrats who had ties to No
Labels have realized that the alternative-
ticket plan is a bad idea, and have said so
publicly in the last few days.
“No Labels is wasting time, energy and
money on a bizarre effort that confuses and
divides voters, and has one obvious out-
come — re-electing Donald Trump as presi-
dent,” said Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.)
last week.
At the top of the No Labels wish list for a
possible unity ticket is, reportedly, Sen. Joe
Manchin III, the conservative Democrat
from West Virginia whose swing-vote status
has caused his party so much agita in recent
years.
No Labels hasn’t made a firm decision
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Above ground, suddenly, I feel
less angry or afraid or despairing
or alone.
In a record year after record
years, I stop and look at a pea
blossom, faint green veins weaving
its pale green face. I weed daikon
with my daughter and cut fava
leaves to make into a pesto with
my son. We make a salad out of
turnip sprouts. We water our
plants with a bucket that captures
the now-guiltless flow from our
backyard sink.
We can’t save what we don’t
love. When I’m in the garden, I
realize that my grief is actually
another name for this love, is a call
to get out and tend this planet we
often feel like we’re losing before
our very eyes. When I do, I remem-
ber that my actions matter and
that life is stronger and more
surprising than I knew, and both of
these things help ground me for
the road ahead.
“Whether in a plot in a yard or
pots in a window, every politically
engaged person should have a
garden,” says my friend Camille
Dungy, who just published a book
of essays called “Soil: The Story of
a Black Mother’s Garden.” She
says the act of tending plants
might help us find some of the
grace we need to care for one an-
other and the planet writ large.
“It’s part of our job not to miss the
enormous beauty that’s still left,”
says my friend, the poet Jane
Hirshfield. We still have to cele-
brate “all that’s left to save,” as
marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth
Johnson puts it.
The garden reminds us that
despite what has been destroyed,
what is at risk, we can build,
amend, repair. In doing so, we find
delight in what’s still here, in what
we can still share, together, now.
Tess Taylor is an award-winning
poet. A new anthology she edited,
“Leaning Toward Light: Poems for
Gardens & the Hands That Tend
Them,” will be published in
August. She lives and gardens in
El Cerrito.
yet whether to go forward, and Manchin
hasn’t officially agreed to be the party’s
presidential candidate if it does. Manchin
coyly told the Washington Post: “I don’t rule
myself in and I don’t rule myself out.”
But either way, Americans should put
out of their heads the crazy notion that
Manchin or any third-party candidate
would be a panacea.
There’s nothing wrong with third parties
in theory. The two major parties don’t have
a God-given right to a clear field. If another
H. Ross Perot or Eldridge Cleaver or John
Anderson or Henry A. Wallace or Strom
Thurmond or George Wallace or Ralph
Nader thinks they have something to offer,
they’re within their constitutional rights to
try, as all those guys did.
And if Americans are unhappy with the
major party candidates, they have the right
to cast protest votes.
But let’s be clear: That’s what this would
be — a protest vote. Third-party candidates
don’t win. They haven’t in the past and they
won’t in 2024.
What they can do is reshape elections if
they get enough votes. And in this case
there’s a good chance they’d reshape it in
Trump’s favor (or Ron DeSantis’ or whoever
becomes the Republican candidate).
Remember the alternative parties in the
2016 election? Hillary Clinton might have
won but for the 7.8 million people who voted
for Green Party and Libertarian Party
candidates.
Or cast your mind back to 2000, when
Green Party presidential candidate Ralph
Nader won 97,000 votes in Florida, most of
which probably would have gone to Demo-
crat Al Gore had Nader not run. In the end,
Gore lost the state — and thereby the White
House — to George W. Bush by only 537
votes.
It’s not absolutely certain that a No
Labels candidate would benefit the Repub-
licans more than the Democrats in 2024; No
Labels rejects that assumption. But it’s
likely. For one thing, if a third-party candi-
date succeeded at winning any electoral
college votes, it could make it impossible for
either of the major party candidates to win
the needed 270 electoral vote majority. That
would throw the race into the House of
Representatives, where the GOP domi-
nates.
And even if the third-party candidate
didn’t win electoral votes but just drained
votes from the major party candidates, that
would still be more likely to benefit Trump
than Biden (assuming Trump is the candi-
date).
Norman Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at
the American Enterprise Institute, explains
it this way: To beat Trump, Biden needs to
win not just Democratic base voters but
also moderate Democrats and independ-
ents and Republicans who would ordinarily
vote for one of their own but can’t bring
themselves to vote for Trump or some other
extremist.
That won’t happen if their votes are
siphoned off by, say, Manchin.
Voting for a third-party candidate is an
OK strategy if you really don’t see much
difference between the major-party candi-
dates and want to register a protest.
But voters who feel that way about a
Trump-Biden race need to face reality. The
notion that Biden and Trump are compara-
ble “extremists,” one from the left and one
from the right, is an outrageous and danger-
ous untruth.
There can be only one priority in 2024 if
Trump is a candidate: making sure the
country’s fate is not put back into the hands
of a man already proved to be reckless,
undemocratic, dishonest, self-dealing and
supportive of violence.
@nick_goldberg
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Patients face delays for hospital transfers

[Hospitals, from A1]
ghetti against the wall to see if it
sticks.
Delays in transfers can put peo-
ple at higher risk of complications
and derail day-to-day life for pa-
tients. Hospital officials from
around the state say that transfer-
ring patients has generally gotten
harder as many health facilities
struggle with staffing, which
cramps hospital capacity to accept
transfers. Some said that in South-
ern California, demand for ambu-
lances is also exacerbating delays.
“The general public has no idea
of what it takes to transfer a pa-
tient,” said Dr. Ferdinand
Panoussi, medical director of Hori-
zon Multicare, which provides hos-
pitalist services for Antelope Valley
Medical Center in Lancaster.
“They think that it’s just as easy as
picking up the phone.”
At Antelope Valley Medical
Center, some patients who need to
be transferred have grown so tired
of waiting that they have decided
to leave against medical advice,
hoping to show up and get in
through the emergency depart-
ment at another facility, Panoussi
said.
“This is a mess right now,” even
for emergency patients, said Dr.
Michael Gertz, president-elect of
the California chapter of the
American College of Emergency
Physicians. He also works at An-
telope Valley Medical Center. Even
if another facility accepts an emer-
gency patient, “we’re often holding Photographs by Francine Orr Los Angeles Times
that patient for 12 to 24 hours until EMTS DANIEL AVENA, right, and Meagan Parker, left, guide Ernesto Chavez into an ambulance at MLK Community Hospital in
we can actually get an ambulance March. Chavez had a giant obstruction in his small intestine, but MLK didn’t have surgical specialists to remove or biopsy it safely.
that is willing to take them.”
Gertz said the state does not
collect data on such delays in
transfers, making it difficult to
quantify the problem. MLK hospi-
tal officials said their data show
that over roughly a year, patients
admitted to the hospital had an av-
erage wait of more than three days
after their transfer had been re-
quested — and that average waits
have been longer for those covered
by Medi-Cal, the California Medi-
caid program.
Marquez-Soto, who has Medi-
Cal coverage, said she had held off
on going to MLK because she ex-
pected to end up waiting. In the
fall, she waited to be transferred to
another hospital for the same kind
of procedure, but it took so long
that she was discharged and told to
follow up for an appointment.
She hadn’t gotten that pro-
cedure before the pain sent her ELENA PADILLA visits brother Juan Carlos Flores Esquivel in TRANSFERRING PATIENTS has become a concern for hospi-
back to the hospital. the intensive care unit of MLK Community Hospital on Jan. 26. tals as they grapple with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It makes me feel very helpless,”
said Dr. Maita Kuvhenguhwa, who hospitals earlier in the pandemic. here,” said Dr. Tiffany Maggi- or drink anything without vomit- officials say. Medical centers have
treated Marquez-Soto at MLK. At MLK Community Hospital, Maidinetti. “We don’t have the sur- ing, before his co-workers took him lamented that because nursing fa-
“Even when we’re doing our best Lourdes Beltrán strategized be- gical specialists to remove or biop- to the emergency room. cilities are also short on staff, hos-
and putting in a ton of work, if the fore her computer monitor, trying sy it safely.” “I want to cry and scream,” he pitals cannot discharge patients
patient can’t get to where they to figure out how to free Marquez- If it turned out to be cancer, said faintly in Spanish from his who no longer need a hospital bed
need to go, then we’re not helping Soto from her misery. She pulled Maggi-Maidinetti worried, a hold- hospital bed. “But I have to put up but still need nursing care. That
them.” out a weathered piece of paper up could delay the care he needed. with it.” ties up beds in the hospital, gum-
from a folder — a printed list of And if the thing inside him grew, One week later, Beltrán said ming up the usual flow of patients
:: phone numbers jotted with hand- she feared it could damage his in- Chavez had been approved for from the emergency department
written notes — and dialed. testine. Medi-Cal and another hospital had into inpatient beds.
Decades ago, federal lawmak- “Good afternoon. My name is It had been three days since agreed to accept him. But they UC Davis Medical Center said it
ers passed the Emergency Medical Lourdes. I’m one of the case man- MLK issued a transfer order, and were still waiting on an available accepted more than 7,600 transfer
Treatment and Labor Act to pre- agers here at Martin Luther King Beltrán had no luck. She dialed an- bed. So Chavez remained in limbo. requests in a little over a year — but
vent emergency rooms from refus- Community Hospital,” she said other number and punched in dig- Doctors at MLK were trying to turned down more than 9,900 be-
ing to treat uninsured patients or when someone answered at a med- its on an automated menu before quell his pain and nausea, keep him cause of limited capacity. And it too
“dumping” them on other hospi- ical center, explaining that she was someone picked up and she rattled hydrated, and stave off any compli- is struggling to move patients to
tals. The law requires emergency following up on a transfer request. off his medical details. Then came cations or infections from the other, less specialized hospitals
rooms to treat people who come in She listened, her pencil hover- the question of health insurance: tubes threading his body, including once they can be safely cared for
suffering from a medical emer- ing over a printed summary of the Chavez was in the process of get- one snaking from his nasal pas- elsewhere.
gency. case, as someone at the medical ting Medi-Cal coverage. sages to his stomach to clear out “We run over 100% occupancy
If a transfer is medically appro- center explained they were still In a dimly lighted room, Chavez bile. essentially every day of the week,”
priate, it also requires hospitals to awaiting paperwork. After she lay with an arm draped over his “We’re at a standstill, basically,” said Dr. J. Douglas Kirk, chief med-
accept people with emergency con- hung up, she dialed up the health forehead, grimacing with pain. He Maggi-Maidinetti said. ical officer. “We absolutely have to
ditions from another hospital if plan to ask if it could push things strained to speak, his throat pain- That evening, Chavez was fi- get those patients out of the hospi-
they have space and “specialized along. “We’re still trying to move fully dry. The patient, who had nally transferred. Chavez, reached tal because we have to produce
capabilities” to help those pa- that patient,” Beltrán told them. been working as a carpenter, had weeks later, said that he had under- that bed for the next patient who
tients, as long as the transfer is Beltrán glanced at the row of spent days at home, unable to eat gone an operation there and that needs it.”
medically appropriate. But noth- names on her screen, many tagged he was finally able to eat and drink And “moving Medi-Cal patients
ing in federal law requires a hospi- with a red bar labeled “Exceeded” again without vomiting. typically is more sluggish than the
tal to accept a transfer patient who because they had stayed longer commercially insured patients,”
has been admitted to another hos- than expected. The health plan ‘The general public :: Kirk said.
pital as an inpatient, according to
the Centers for Medicare and Med-
said it already sent the needed
paperwork, so she dialed the medi-
has no idea of what it Transferring patients has long
Statewide data on median
lengths of hospital stays show that
icaid Services. cal center again. It had taken takes to transfer a preoccupied smaller community Medi-Cal inpatients spent one day
When patients need a medical nearly half an hour, she said, to get hospitals because their patients longer before transferring to an-
procedure that their hospital does a “nonanswer.” patient. They think may need medical interventions other hospital compared with
not offer, but are not in an emer-
gency state, “there’s not a whole lot
Beltrán then turned her atten-
tion to Ernesto Chavez, 65, who
that it’s just as easy as that they do not offer themselves.
But getting patients where they
transfer patients who have private
insurance. At MLK, the average
of guidelines to direct hospitals in had arrived at the hospital more picking up the phone.’ need to be has become a concern wait for a transfer was more than
terms of how to manage those than a week earlier after enduring for hospitals of all kinds as they 50% longer for Medi-Cal inpatients
transfer requests,” said Dr. Steph- many days of vomiting. He had lost — Dr. Ferdinand grapple with the effects of the than those with other coverage, ac-
anie K. Mueller, assistant profes- 10 pounds in two weeks, he told Panoussi, COVID-19 pandemic. cording to figures provided by hos-
sor of medicine at Harvard Medical them. medical director of Horizon Multicare, People have returned to hospi- pital officials.
School. The problem was a giant ob- which provides hospitalist services for tals after years of delaying care, but Ambulance availability can also
The process “is in no way sys- struction in his small intestine, but Antelope Valley Medical Center a staffing crunch has limited the delay transfers, hospital officials
tematically thought out,” and bias “we can’t do anything about it number of beds available, hospital said. Antelope Valley Medical Cen-
can creep in when clear standards ter Chief Executive Edward Mirz-
are lacking, said Dr. Evan Shan- abegian said he has grown so frus-
non, an assistant professor at the trated with the waits that he is try-
David Geffen School of Medicine at ing to create an ambulance com-
UCLA. He and Mueller found in pany dedicated to his facility at an
one study that Black patients were annual cost of more than $2 mil-
less likely to be transferred out of lion. The Los Angeles County Am-
hospitals than white patients, as bulance Assn. faulted low reim-
measured among Medicare inpa- bursements for ambulance pro-
tients with medical conditions that viders to transport Medi-Cal pa-
typically benefit from transfer. tients, especially those not
Another study found that once suffering a medical emergency.
they were admitted to the hospital, Gertz, of the American College
uninsured patients were less likely of Emergency Physicians, wrote
to be transferred out than those that in one case, a 45-year-old man
with private insurance. who suffered a sudden, agonizing
Under federal law, nothing pro- headache had been taken by his
hibits hospitals from turning down family to a San Gabriel hospital,
an inpatient transfer because of where he was diagnosed with a
the insurance coverage of the pa- ruptured aneurysm.
tient, a CMS spokesperson said. Because the hospital did not of-
The problem spilled into public fer neurosurgery, it hustled to
view during the COVID-19 pan- transfer him elsewhere, but ar-
demic, when the Wall Street Jour- ranging for transportation took so
nal obtained emails indicating that long that the man ended up in a
some California hospitals refused vegetative state and was taken off
or delayed accepting COVID-19 pa- life support, Gertz wrote to a Los
tients from overrun hospitals be- Angeles County supervisor.
cause of their insurance status. “Had the family taken him to
The back-and-forth over relo- the other hospital,” Gertz wrote,
cating patients usually happens “he would have likely survived.”
out of public view, but the emails
became public because California Times staff writers Sandhya
had hired a contractor to help re- IT TOOK A MONTH for Lahisha Marquez-Soto to be transferred from MLK to UCLA’s medical Kambhampati and Hanna Sender
lieve the pressure on overwhelmed center. She missed college classes, birthday celebrations and a visit with siblings in foster care. contributed to this report.

D
CALIFORNIA
Florida’s
DeSantis
is waging
‘battle for
reality’
LeVar Burton issues
a warning about the
presidential hopeful’s
culture-war antics.
ERIKA D. SMITH
For a few
precious
hours last
week, I al-
most be-
lieved that
Florida Gov.
Ron DeSan-
tis — fresh
off a glitchy
presidential campaign
announcement that made
him the laughingstock of the
Twittersphere — might
have to slither away from
the national political stage
and head back to some
swamp in his home state.
But alas, that was never
going to happen.
As odious as DeSantis is,
it has become increasingly
clear that his culture-war
antics, especially his anti-
trans, anti-Black crusade to
ban books, which recently
ensnared Amanda
Gorman’s “The Hill We
Climb,” are more popular
among Americans than
they should be.
Consider that in the first
24 hours after DeSantis
declared on Twitter Spaces
that he would seek the
Republican nomination, his
campaign managed to raise
a whopping $8.2 million
from donors large and
small. The haul included
$1 million in a single hour.
To put things in perspec-
tive, Joe Biden raised only
$6.3 million in his first 24
hours as a presidential
candidate back in 2019. And
late last year, Donald
Trump raised a mere $9.5
million or so in about six
weeks after announcing he
would run again.
So how should we think
about this apparent new-
found love of censorship for
what’s often the most big-
oted of reasons?
For guidance, I decided
to ask the man who helped
teach me and millions of
other Americans how to
read — LeVar Burton, the
founder and star of the
long-running PBS series
“Reading Rainbow.”
On the same day that
DeSantis was droning on
about “wokeism” to the
Twitter faithful, Burton was
at ASU California in down-
town Los Angeles giving a
talk on the “State of Banned
Books” with the L.A. Times
Book Club. I caught up with
him backstage, scrolling
through Twitter.
“I am shocked to dis-
cover that America has such
an attachment to ignorance.
I thought we were better
[See Smith, B6]
A $5-million upgrade for Yosemite’s Mist Trail
Popular seven-mile
hike has views of
two of the park’s
majestic waterfalls.
By Salvador
Hernandez
Three thousand people a
day visit Mist Trail, which
has views of two majestic
waterfalls and is arguably
the most popular hike at
Yosemite National Park.
Mist Trail is now getting a
$5-million upgrade.
“We’re excited,” said
Frank Dean, president of the
nonprofit Yosemite Conser-
vancy and a former ranger at
the park.
The conservancy, which
raises money for preserving
and enhancing the park, an-
nounced it will be donating
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RETAIL
HEART
OF S.F.
TAKES A
BEATING
Store closures around
Union Square worry
economists. But city
officials are optimistic.
By Summer Lin
Is Union Square in down-
town San Francisco really
dying?
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times Nordstrom is shutting
JOSHUA SHAPIRO, shown in his Inglewood workshop, is creating a $70,000 watch he said will bear down its two stores in the
the engraving “U.S. made” — something that hasn’t been done in a half-century or so. area. Saks Off 5th is leaving.
T-Mobile already closed its
two-level flagship store.
He could have a big hand in
So why are these retailers
in Union Square or near it
saying goodbye to a well-
known tourist destination
and the heart of the city’s
reshaping U.S. watch industry shopping core? The exodus
of these companies has con-
cerned some business lead-
ers and economists alike.
Reductions in consumer
Joshua Shapiro has crafted a timepiece almost fully made in America spending, disruptions in the
supply chain, high opera-
tional costs and public safe-
ty have led the overall retail
By Daniel Miller vacancy rate in San Fran-
cisco to rise to 6% in the first
Watchmaker Joshua Shapiro quarter of 2023 — from 5.2%
gripped the machine’s worn handle a year earlier and the highest
with his left hand and exhaled. in the city since 2006, accord-
Standing at the helm of the 100- ing to data from Cushman &
year-old “rose engine,” he peered Wakefield, a commercial real
through a microscope at a small, estate services firm.
square slab of German silver illumi- The overall vacancy rate
nated by a gooseneck lamp. in Union Square went up to
Shapiro turned the handle. The 15.5% in the first quarter of
rose engine came alive. 2023 from 14.2% in the last
Wheels rotated in concert. quarter of 2022.
Rosettes spun. And shards of the “It’s a very serious prob-
silvery material were ejected from lem for the whole city, much
the plate where the machine’s cut- less downtown,” said Jeff
ter made contact. Bellisario, executive direc-
Shapiro, 38, was practicing the tor of the Bay Area Council
pattern that would decorate part of Economic Institute.
the dial on his new watch. He hoped But Mayor London
the timepiece, called Resurgence, J.N. Shapiro Watches Breed and other San Fran-
would revive a once-great American J.N. SHAPIRO Watches’ new model, Resurgence, debuted May ciscans have pushed back
[See Watchmaker, B4] 22, and the Inglewood company aims to make about 30 a year. against the narrative in re-
cent media coverage that
Union Square is doomed.
“Those folks who don’t
walk the streets in San Fran-
CAPITOL JOURNAL cisco, that don’t live in San
Francisco, but they want to
Newsom’s budget needs new revise write about and commen-
tate about San Francisco, I
challenge you to come to this
city and see what it feels
outfit in Sacramento: the programs or raising taxes — Newsom, however, de- like,” Breed said during a
Governor’s retooled nonpartisan Legislative or a little of both. nies this is a high-tax state May 16 news conference. “I
Analyst’s Office. “There is less than a for 99% of Californians and challenge you to come shop
proposal is too fat on By law, the annual one-in-six chance the state insists “I’m not a tax-and- at the stores that you’re
spending or too thin budget must be balanced. can afford the May Revision spend liberal.” complaining about, which
But “balanced” is a subjec- spending level across the In fact, he has flatly you probably never even
on taxes, analyst says. tive characterization based five-year period,” the LAO rejected — so far — an effort stepped foot in in the first
on guesswork. Often it’s cautioned. “This means that by Senate Democratic lead- place.”
GEORGE SKELTON rooted in wishful thinking if the Legislature adopts the ers to raise corporation Breed emphasized that
in sacramento and fudged calculations. governor’s May Revision taxes on net incomes ex- news outlets aren’t covering
The revised $307-billion proposals, the state very ceeding $1.5 million. the stores, such as Banana
Gov. Gavin budget proposal that New- likely will face more budget “I do not think it’s the Republic and Ikea, that have
Newsom has som recently submitted — problems over the next few right time to raise taxes,” he moved or are planning to
sent the Legis- known colloquially as the years.” said. move into Union Square.
lature a pro- May Revision — is either too That would mean even And for that he drew At least 26 stores have
posed state fat with spending or too thin deeper program cuts or uncommon praise last week closed in downtown San
budget that is on taxes, Legislative Ana- steeper tax hikes in a state from an unlikely source: Jon Francisco since 2020, with
unrealistic and lyst Gabriel Petek asserted. where tax rates already are Coupal, president of the seven more slated to shut
spews red ink. Newsom and the Legisla- among the highest — if not Howard Jarvis Taxpayers down.
That’s ture need to fix one — or the highest — in the nation. Assn. This month, Nordstrom
essentially the straight- both — before the June 15 That’s not exactly a good “Give some credit where announced that it would
shooting opinion of the most deadline for passing a sales pitch for outside in- credit is due,” Coupal wrote close its two stores on 5th
trusted numbers-crunching budget. That means cutting vestment. [See Skelton, B5] and Market streets, becom-
ing the latest retailer to leave
Union Square in the last few
years.
“The dynamics of the
downtown San Francisco
market have changed dra-
matically over the past sev-
[See Retailers, B5]
$17 million to Yosemite this
year, with most of the money
going to about 50 projects
that will restore trails, assist
scientific and historical re- Trouble at this
search, and protect wildlife. central library
A total of $500,000 from
this year’s donation will go Site in downtown San
toward the planning of up- Diego has had more
grades for Mist Trail, a than 1,800 police calls
roughly seven-mile round- since May 2018. B2
trip hike from Yosemite Val-
ley. A redo outside
The trail, which has an Petco Park
easy, paved beginning, takes San Diego Padres
hikers toward popular views plan to renovate
of Vernal and Nevada falls, Gallagher Square in
close enough to get a spray of the offseason. B2
mist. Those who stick it out
to the top of Nevada Fall can WWII veteran
also continue on to the
iconic Half Dome.
marks his 100th
“It’s the busiest trail in Alfred Arrieta, shot
Yosemite,” Dean said. down over France,
The Yosemite Conser- looks to salute his
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times vancy works with the Na- fellow servicemen. B3
HIKERS navigate Mist Trail against the backdrop of Vernal Fall in Yosemite tional Park Service to iden-
Lottery ...................... B2
National Park. The trail lives up to its name, providing for some slippery steps. [See Trail, B6]
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Drug use, homicide among library’s problems
San Diego’s Central
branch has had more
than 1,800 police calls
since May 2018.
By Lyndsay Winkley
SAN DIEGO — The San
Diego Central Library is a
$185-million jewel of a build-
ing. Just blocks from Petco
Park in the city’s East Vil-
lage, its silhouette cuts an
impressive figure in the
downtown skyline.
But under its domed roof,
employees and patrons
regularly witness unruly be-
havior, drug use and mental
health emergencies.
Data show that calls to
police from the library hap-
pen, on average, once a day.
As many as nine security
guards, some armed, clock
in daily — all of whom are
trained to administer nalox-
one, an emergency medicine
that can reverse an opioid
overdose.
On Tuesday, Trey
Walker, 20, was shot and
killed when an altercation
that began in the library’s
foyer spilled into the court-
yard. A 24-year-old man was
wounded.
Walker was a new dad, his
mother said this week. His
daughter is 10 months old.
“He’s a very caring, sweet
young man,” Shelly Jamison
said of her son. “He was be-
coming a father, trying to fig-
ure out his way in the world.”
Since May 2018, more
than 1,800 police calls for
service have been logged at
the library, police data show,
reporting a wide range of in-
cidents, including drug over-
doses, thefts, assaults and
people purportedly carrying
concealed weapons.
There have been more
than 170 calls this year. There
were 309 calls made in all of
last year.
In December, library offi-
cials said there had been 36
overdose incidents on the
property since July 2019. It is
Padres plan makeover of ballpark’s Gallagher Square
By Jennifer Van Grove
SAN DIEGO — With the
20th anniversary of Petco
Park’s inaugural season on
the horizon, the San Diego
Padres are working on a $20-
million redo of the commu-
nity park, game-day destina-
tion and concert venue
known as Gallagher Square
just beyond the stadium’s
outfield walls.
The plan, unveiled Sun-
day, calls for a complete
overhaul of the 2.7-acre rec-
reation area that includes a
large grassy hill, a ball field
for kids and a playground.
The Gallagher Square re-
model, slated to get under-
way after the 2023 season,
will relocate the ball field to
the northwest corner of the
site. The change allows for
an enlarged — and poten-
tially more comfortable —
concrete gathering area and
sloped turf seating section
that will face an all-new vi-
deo board.
An elevated platform,
showcasing more promi-
nently the statue of the late
Padres star Tony Gwynn,
will be installed on top of the
hill and include a viewing
deck, tables and a conces-
sion stand.
Also planned are a
decked-out playground and
open play area, an off-leash
dog park, bathrooms, tem-
porary pickleball courts, na-
tive plants and an expanded
entry gate at Ninth and J
Street.
If all goes according to
the plan, the area formerly
known as the Park at the
Park will reopen in time for
the 2024 season, Padres
Chief Executive Erik Greup-
ner told the Union-Tribune
in an exclusive interview.
“Our plan is to bring new
and improved community
amenities to Gallagher
Square to help commemo-
rate the 20-year milestone.
And in addition to expand-
ing the amenities, we’re also
incorporating a more sus-
tainable design,” Greupner
said.
“And all of it is built upon
our continued promise to
deliver more than a ballpark,
which was the original cam-
paign promise for Petco
Park, by continuing to invest
into East Village through
economic development and
job creation.”
Opened in 2004, the re-
sult of the 1998 voter-ap-
proved Ballpark District or-
dinance, Petco Park is a
partnership between the
city of San Diego and the Pa-
NICK COFFIE sits near a memorial to his friend Trey Walker outside the San
Diego Central Library. Walker was shot and killed in a dispute over a backpack.
unclear how many were fa-
tal. There were 263 reported
incidents of illegal drug use
or possession during that
time.
“We’ve had an increasing
number of incidents with
overdoses, [homeless] en-
campments around the
building, fights and thefts,”
head librarian Misty Jones
told the City Council’s
budget committee last year.
“There is a lot of mental ill-
ness and substance abuse,
and the issues that come
along with that.”
After the fatal shooting
last week, the library closed
for several days. Library offi-
cials weren’t immediately
able to comment on safety
concerns at the location, in
part because they were still
processing the trauma of the
incident, city officials said.
Patrick Stewart, chief
executive of the Library
Foundation SD, which sup-
ports and raises funds for li-
brary programs and serv-
ices, penned a blog post on
the organization’s website in
response to the shooting.
“We are still processing
this incident internally and
will be for a while,” he wrote.
THE PADRES will begin renovating Gallagher Square outside Petco Park at the end of the 2023 season.
dres franchise. The city
owns the land and the sta-
dium, and the Padres man-
age the ballpark property.
The parties share non-base-
ball revenue in a 70-30 split,
with the city pocketing the
lesser share from events and
concerts.
For fiscal year 2023,
which ends in June, San Di-
ego’s share of non-baseball
event revenue is $3.8 million,
according to financial infor-
mation shared by the city.
The ballpark’s upcoming
birthday presented the Pa-
dres with an opportunity to
reimagine a space that has
remained largely unchanged
for 19 years, save for the addi-
tion of a concert stage in
2019.
Baseball fans and park-
goers will either embrace or
balk at the most noticeable
change, which is to the hilly
area opposite the outfield.
The grass hill, often a popu-
lar destination for families
or general-admission ticket
buyers, is being replaced
with artificial turf, in part to
save water but also to cut
costs associated with con-
stantly replacing the sod.
The slope is also being re-
fashioned into more of an
amphitheater-style seating
area, providing better view-
ing.
Atop the hill, people can
perch on the Tony Gwynn
Terrace, which looks out to
the field as well as to the
kids’ play areas. The terrace,
Greupner said, introduces a
new viewing platform for
fans who purchase the
lower-cost Gallagher
“We feel deeply for those
most closely affected — the
young man whose life was
tragically lost as well as his
family, the young man
wounded, the library and Li-
brary Shop staff who wit-
nessed this horrible act, and
the patrons who use the li-
brary to enrich their lives.
“While it is bracing, for
those who have been paying
attention, it is not, unfortu-
nately, completely surpris-
ing.”
Library workers now
regularly witness or handle
reports about unruly behav-
ior, thefts, drug use and
overdoses, he wrote. Mental
health crises that pose a
danger to others in the li-
brary are more common
than ever, and library staff
have responded to two sui-
cides and multiple attempts
in recent years.
Stewart said library staff
have been trained to de-es-
calate tense situations and
learned to administer nalox-
one. The city has increased
the number of security
guards by two since Septem-
ber. The cost of security at
the Central Library and
other neighborhood
Square tickets, which are
priced dynamically and con-
sidered standing-room-
only. The deck doubles as a
picnic area for residents out-
side of game days, he said.
Here parkgoers will also
find the Gwynn statue,
which will intentionally face
the Trevor Hoffman statue
and create the effect of the
Hall of Fame reliever pitch-
ing to the eight-time batting
champion. The two statues
are also visually connected
with an extended walkway
that the Padres are
tentatively calling “The
Stitch.”
“It’s kind of an iconic fea-
ture of this renovation,” Gre-
upner said. “So you can now
see along that stitch, and
you have the direct align-
ment where Trevor will actu-
ally be pitching to Tony,
which engendered a lively
debate within our front of-
fice as to whether Trevor
could strike Tony out with
his change-up or [whether]
Tony would get a hit.”
The Padres have also cre-
ated more diversions for its
youngest fans. Today’s
dated playground will be re-
placed by a baseball-themed
playground with a 35-foot
baseball bat at the core of a
diamond-shaped attrac-
tion.
The playground will also
include spiral slides at differ-
ent heights, dangling rings, a
bat forest and a tunnel
where kids can crawl below a
raised mound.
A fenced-in community
dog park is directly opposite
the playground, and a more
K.C. Alfred San Diego Union-Tribune
branches has nearly super-
seded what the library
spends on books, online re-
sources and other materials,
Stewart wrote.
The city has a $29-mil-
lion, five-year contract with
a security guard service, but
it’s unclear how much of that
goes toward libraries.
Library staff plan to put
in place new safety measures
to make visitors and staff
members safer, Stewart
said. But he stressed in the
post: “The gravity of our
troubled social environment
that led to Tuesday’s trage-
dy is not the library’s prob-
lem to solve by itself.”
San Diego Police Lt.
Ryan Hallahan oversees the
department’s Central Divi-
sion, which encompasses
the downtown area. He said
his officers stepped up en-
forcement around the li-
brary in January after hear-
ing from people concerned
about the safety of children
attending e3 Civic High, lo-
cated inside the library.
“These kids were seeing
homeless people doing
drugs, saying and doing in-
appropriate things that kids
don’t need to see,” he said.
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open play area with slides
and large baseballs leads
from the playground to the
kids’ ball field.
Gallagher Square’s redo
represents a marked change
from today’s park setting
and seems to be geared
toward not only improving
the fan experience but also
building on the success of
the park’s part-time role as a
concert venue that can hold
up to 10,000 people.
Since the introduction of
the Sycuan stage, the Pa-
dres have booked musical
acts big and small, including
Jimmy Eat World, Wu-Tang
Clan and the Dream Eaters.
Darius Rucker and Weezer
are scheduled to play the
venue in the summer.
Total revenue for Galla-
gher Square events and con-
certs was nearly $3 million in
calendar year 2022, accord-
ing to information from the
Padres.
Greupner said the or-
ganization will be employing
state-of-the-art technology
to improve the sound experi-
ence and mitigate the noise
emanating from the stage
and into the neighborhood.
“The plan will be to put
up some delay towers on the
back side of the park that
will have directional speak-
ers,” he said. “So instead of
what is currently all the
sound being pushed out
from the front of the stage,
there will still be sound from
the front of the stage, but
there will be sound coming
from the back of the park for
a true surround sound expe-
rience.”
“We started specifically en-
forcing the areas where kids
were walking.”
Those efforts are re-
flected, in some ways, in the
data provided by the depart-
ment. The term “call for
service” is used in several
ways — not all involve an ac-
tual call. It can refer to a per-
son who dials 911 after wit-
nessing an incident. But it
can also mean someone
flagged down an officer for
help or that officers chose to
investigate a situation based
on what they saw.
Over the last five years,
selective enforcement calls
have made up about 20% of
the total calls logged at the
library, data show. This can
refer to a few different activ-
ities. It can mean an area
was visited by the depart-
ment’s homeless outreach
teams, or be used when offi-
cers are doing proactive po-
lice work in an area.
Selective enforcement
calls at the library have been
on the rise in recent years. In
2021, there were 36. This year,
there have been 73.
Hallahan added that
with the department’s
staffing shortage — it is
down about 200 officers —
they can’t always do as much
proactive enforcement as
they would like.
That sentiment was ech-
oed by Jared Wilson, presi-
dent of the San Diego Police
Officers Assn., who said pro-
active police work is down
across the city.
“The Central Library is a
tragic example of a beautiful
facility overrun by crime,”
Wilson said last week.
Police officials attributed
many library calls to home-
less individuals who gather
in and around the facility. On
a typical day, most people
who visit the library are
homeless, library officials
said last year — a phenome-
non fueled in part by an over-
all drop in visits to libraries
nationwide and a growing
population of unhoused
people in San Diego.
The library offers many
The Padres are funding
the entirety of the Gallagher
Square improvements.
“That’s really a contin-
uation of over $100 million
that we’ve put in in [capital
expenditure] improvements
and maintenance ... over the
first 20 years of the ball-
park,” Greupner said. “We
think that continued invest-
ment into the ballpark, in
this case focused on Galla-
gher Square, will benefit the
community, bring more visi-
tors downtown, particularly
during the off-season, at-
tract more residents to the
area and ultimately create
additional jobs.”
Greupner said the or-
ganization is in the permit-
ting process with the city,
and that additional approv-
als are not required.
“We are incredibly thank-
ful to the San Diego Padres
for their ongoing investment
in San Diego, and their dedi-
cation to both their fans and
the community at large,”
San Diego Mayor Todd Glo-
ria said in a statement.
“The Gallagher Square
renovation will further acti-
vate and invigorate the East
Village, and I will be working
closely with the Padres to
help ensure these exciting
new amenities are ready for
the community to enjoy in
time for the 20th anniversa-
ry of Petco Park.”
Known as Outfield Park
in contracts, Gallagher
Square is part of the ball-
park property managed by
the Padres. The organiza-
tion is also bound by the
terms of a covenants, condi-
L AT I M E S . C O M
services to homeless pa-
trons, including a Veterans
Resource Center staffed by
People Assisting the Home-
less and two other offices:
one staffed with an outreach
worker from the National Al-
liance on Mental Illness and
another with a part-time so-
cial worker.
But neither Walker nor
the man suspected of shoot-
ing him, Kenneth Chaney,
was homeless, police said.
Investigators deter-
mined that the incident oc-
curred at the entrance of the
library when a group of peo-
ple, including the victims,
confronted Chaney over a
stolen backpack. During the
fight, Chaney allegedly
pulled out a gun and fired.
In a GoFundme that was
started to help pay for funer-
al expenses, Walker’s family
described him as the life of
the party, an outgoing per-
son who loved to make peo-
ple laugh.
“All Trey wanted was for
everyone he knew to get
along and bring happiness
and joy around each other,”
the fundraising page read.
Although Walker wasn’t
homeless, he wasn’t a
stranger to that life. Jami-
son, Walker’s mother, said
their family went through
periods of homelessness
while her son was growing
up. After his death, a make-
shift memorial was set up
alongside the library. Can-
dles and notes on cardboard
were interspersed with sea-
shells along the sidewalk.
“He was one of the most
caring people in the world,”
Jamison said.
Chaney was arrested
Thursday near University
Avenue and Interstate 15,
police said. He was booked
into jail on suspicion of mur-
der, attempted murder and
assault with a firearm.
Chaney is being held with-
out bail and could be ar-
raigned as early as Tuesday,
jail records indicate.
Winkley writes for the San
Diego Union-Tribune.
tions and restrictions agree-
ment with adjacent parcel
owners, which share mainte-
nance costs. The Padres,
however, aren’t required to
get the approval of the own-
ers association for park im-
provements, the contract
states.
The Padres also believe
that the Gallagher Square
project falls within the scope
of what was analyzed in the
original 1999 ballpark envi-
ronmental impact report
and thus not subject to
additional environmental
review.
Van Grove writes for the San
Diego Union-Tribune.
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Airman shot down in WWII marks his 100th
Alfred Arrieta of Seal Beach plans
to pay tribute to fellow servicemen
By Nathan Solis
It was Christmas Eve
1944 and Alfred Arrieta
was among a nine-member
crew aboard a B-17 Flying
Fortress, providing support
to ground troops in the
French countryside during
the Battle of the Bulge, one
of the bloodiest battles in
World War II.
The 21-year-old U.S.
sergeant had participated in
28 successful missions, but
this time would be different.
The bomber — nicknamed
“Move Over Mabel” — had
just dropped its payload
over the Ardennes region
when it was hit by German
antiaircraft artillery about
9,000 feet in the air, Arrieta
said.
Several of the crew were
hit by shrapnel, including
the pilot and a turret gunner,
who lost an eye.
Arrieta did his best to aid
the gunner, injecting him
with morphine as the crew
braced for impact. The
wounded pilot attempted a
crash landing.
“When we hit,” Arrieta
said, slamming his hand
down onto his knee, “we
bounced around about 40
feet [up] and back down
again.”
The plane landed some-
where near the Belgian bor-
der and the crew were res-
cued by the Free French
Forces.
“I feel fortunate. I made it
through the Great Depres-
sion, the 20th century and
World War II,” Arrieta said
recently at his home in Seal
Beach as he sat next to his
wife, Frances. “I’m here, very
grateful and proud of my
country.”
Arrieta hit the century
mark Tuesday and is looking
forward to paying tribute to
his fellow servicemen on
Monday, Memorial Day. He
was recently honored by the
Seal Beach City Council and
received a customary letter
from the president of the
United States. The office of
U.S. Rep. Katie Porter (D-
Irvine) also presented him
with an American flag flown
over the U.S. Capitol.
Arrieta enjoys reminisc-
ing. When he talks about his
war experience, he gradually
pulls at the details as though
they were in a dream he had
the night before.
He said that after the
plane crashed, the wounded
were taken to a hospital but
that he and the other men
A floral tribute to honor their service
By Jeong Park
On the first Memorial
Day — in 1868, soon after the
Civil War — volunteers
decorated the graves of
Union soldiers with flowers.
The tradition lives on at
Los Angeles National Ceme-
tery in Westwood, where for
more than a decade Ruben
Rocha has organized a
group of volunteers who, on
the Sunday before Memorial
Day, place red and white
carnations at the graves of
veterans.
This year, about 150 vol-
unteers placed roughly
50,000 pairs of carnations at
the cemetery, Rocha said.
The red carnations sym-
bolize the blood soldiers
shed; the white ones repre-
sent the “peace” they have
achieved.
“It’s a lot of work, but at
the end of the day, it’s all
worth it,” said Rocha, 67, a
director of studio operations
at Sony Pictures Studio in
Culver City.
Rocha’s family has a long
Two men are shot in a fight
at Garden Grove restaurant
By Jeong Park
Two men were shot when
a fight broke out inside a
Vietnamese restaurant in
Garden Grove on Saturday
night, police said.
Officers were dispatched
around 11:30 p.m. to the Hot
Restaurant in the 12000
block of Magnolia Boule-
vard, Garden Grove police
who were not injured found
themselves alone in Lille,
France.
But they had money.
There were several thou-
sand francs stuffed in their
escape kits provided by the
U.S. military to troops who
found themselves in foreign
territory.
After their near-death
experience, the men rented
hotel rooms, slept on beds
with comfortable mat-
tresses and drank Cham-
pagne.
“We went outside and
there was a taxi and I said to
the driver, ‘Where are the
girls? Dancing?’ ”
The driver took them
down a dark road to a ware-
house. When the doors
opened, they found people
inside dancing, drinking and
celebrating Christmas Eve.
After a few weeks, the
crew returned to active duty
and Arrieta went on to fly
three more missions with
the 8th Air Force.
“But during that time we
ate the best food and drank
and danced,” he said.
The El Paso native is
most proud of his family. Af-
ter the war, Arrieta went on
to marry his wife, Frances.
The two have been married
for 69 years and raised 10
children together in the city
of Hawaiian Gardens near
Los Angeles.
Arrieta worked odd jobs
to provide for his family and
then, in 1965, decided to be-
come a TV repairman. He
took night classes twice a
week for a year after his
regular work day.
He eventually got a job as
a technician at Montgomery
Ward and went on to open
his own repair shop in Nor-
walk. He did well and man-
aged to retire at 62.
“I’m so proud to see
everything he’s accom-
plished and what he did for
my brothers and sisters, be-
cause he always managed to
be there,” his son Frank Arri-
eta said. “He always made
sure to come to our baseball
games.”
Alfred Arrieta’s family
had little when he was grow-
ing up and he credits his fa-
ther, who died when Arrieta
was only 6, for his work ethic
and family values.
He said he can still see his
father, Aparicio, walking
down the road at the end of
the day after working at a
railroad company. Arrieta
would run to meet him and
eat the burrito or whatever
was left in his father’s lunch-
VOLUNTEER Ed Henneberque, 73, of Santa Clarita
pays his respects at Los Angeles National Cemetery.
history in the military.
He served in the Marines
as an infantryman from 1975
to 1984. His older brother
Robert Salas Rocha was an
infantryman in the U.S.
Army during the Vietnam
War who died while on a
reconnaissance mission in
1970. Their oldest brother,
Rudy, was also a Vietnam
War veteran, an artillery-
man.
Both Rudy, who died in
said. Customers had de-
tained a suspect, a man in
his 40s, and officers took him
into custody.
Two victims, who were
identified as men in their 40s,
suffered gunshot wounds to
their upper torso and were in
critical condition, police
said. Another man in his 30s
had minor wounds to his
lower torso, Sgt. Nick Jensen
said in a news release.
CITY & STATE
ALFRED ARRIETA with his wife of 69 nears, Fran-
ces, at their home in Seal Beach, top. Above, the El
Paso native is shown at bottom right with fellow air-
men in a photograph from August 1944. Arrieta, cen-
ter, offers a salute. At far right, he reminisces about
his experiences as a serviceman during World War II.
box, only now realizing that
his father had saved the food
just for him.
“He would hold my hand
and I would be smiling, eat-
ing that burrito,” Arrieta
said.
He said he also remem-
bers his mother, Maria Gar-
cia, cooking meals and sell-
ing them to faculty at his
school during the Great De-
pression.
Arrieta likes to play old
Spanish boleros for his chil-
dren, the same type of music
his mother listened to on the
radio when he was a child.
She particularly liked the
singer Agustin Lara, but Ar-
rieta found the music a bit
old-fashioned.
It was only when he got
older and listened to the
lyrics that he realized that
he just needed time to grow
Francine Orr Los Angeles Times
2018, and Robert are buried
at the cemetery, Ruben said.
“This place means a lot
to me and my family,” he said
of the cemetery, with its
thousands of simple, white
gravestones, visible from the
405 Freeway. “I consider all
of these men and women
that are buried here as part
of our extended family now.”
Ruben started the volun-
teer group 12 years ago with
about 1,000 pairs of carna-
All of the individuals in-
volved are Orange County
residents.
A video taken from the
scene showed a man being
carried out on a stretcher,
along with officers detaining
a man lying on his stomach
outside the restaurant.
Anyone with information
about the shooting is asked
to call the police at (714) 741-
5704.
up to appreciate the music.
At 100, Arrieta maintains
a growing playlist he listens
to on his phone. His favorite
song is Lara’s “Solamente
Una Vez” (Only Once).
On his front porch, his
daughter Gloria Arrieta-
Sherman plays the song
from her phone and Arrieta
gets a glint in his eye as the
lyrics float in the air.
I loved in my life,
Only once
And nothing more.
“Every night, I listen to
that continuously,” he said.
Arrieta tells another
story, then smiles, grateful
that someone asked about
his life.
“Thank you, because you
have awakened my memo-
ry,” he tells a visitor. “Good
times, bad times. Good old
times.”
tions. By 2019, the group
grew large enough to cover
the more than 80,000 grave-
stones at the cemetery.
The pandemic halted the
work in 2020 and 2021. But
Rocha said the group is
growing again, with help
from his co-workers at Sony
who are inviting others to
volunteer.
“We also invite their kids
to come in as well,” he said.
“Because I believe it’s a great
learning time for them, so
they can understand why
we live in a free land.”
Sony and NBCUniversal
are among the companies
that helped pay for the car-
nations, which this year cost
more than $15,000, Rocha
said.
He instructs the volun-
teers to read each name at
the grave as they deliver the
flowers and to thank the sol-
diers for their service.
The volunteers easily get
hooked.
“If I can get you here one
day,” Rocha said, “you’ll be
coming every single year
thereafter, I promise.”
Police fatally shoot man in Burbank
By Jack Dolan
Burbank police shot and
killed a man in the parking
lot of a Home Depot on Sat-
urday afternoon.
At an evening news con-
ference, Burbank police
spokesman Sgt. Brent
Fekety said the man called
911 shortly before 4 p.m. and
told a dispatcher he was
parked outside a Home De-
pot on the 1200 block of
South Flower Street. He
said he had a gun and was
M O N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23
Photographs by Allen
Memorial Day events
planned in Southland
By Julia Wick
Observed as a federal
holiday on the last Monday
in May, Memorial Day is a
day of remembrance for
those who died while serv-
ing in the U.S. military.
A number of ceremonies
around the Southland will
honor fallen service mem-
bers.
Memorial Day also
marks the unofficial start of
summer and is often ob-
served with barbecues and
other celebrations that
stray far from its solemn
roots.
Here’s a list of some Me-
morial Day events this Mon-
day in the region.
Memorial Day Commemo-
ration Ceremony in West
L.A.
The Department of Veter-
ans Affairs will host a public
Memorial Day commemo-
ration ceremony at the Los
Angeles National Ceme-
tery, 950 S. Sepulveda Blvd.,
from 10 to 11 a.m.
MVP Los Angeles Annual
Walk to Remember from
Santa Monica to West L.A.
Merging Vets and Players, a
peer support organization
that brings combat veter-
ans and former profes-
sional athletes together,
will be leading a walk from
the Santa Monica Pier to
L.A. National Cemetery
(about 4.8 miles) ahead of
the ceremony. “Memorial
Day is [a] tough day for
many and we don’t want
anyone to be alone,” the
organizers write on the
event page. “Join us and
spend the morning hon-
oring and remembering
those no longer with us.”
The event will begin with
the national anthem at 7
a.m. by the cannon at the
Santa Monica Pier meeting
area, and the walk will
commence at 7:15 a.m.
LA Fleet Week in San
Pedro
There will be a number of
LA Fleet Week events Mon-
day, including musical
performances and a Memo-
rial Day service at the
Main Expo Footprint at
the USS Battleship Iowa,
planning to “shoot people,”
Fekety said, and provided
the make and color of his car
and the location of his park-
ing spot.
When police arrived,
Fekety said, they found the
man and had a brief verbal
exchange. He said the man
took “aggressive action”
toward officers, exiting his
vehicle and assuming a
shooting stance, that
prompted them to open fire.
Police called the Bur-
bank Fire Department,
whose paramedics provided
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250 S. Harbor Blvd.,
San Pedro.
Canoga Park Memorial
Day Parade
The 31st Canoga Park Me-
morial Day Parade will
follow a route along Sher-
man Way from Ow-
ensmouth Avenue to Cozy-
croft Avenue in the San
Fernando Valley. There will
be a 10 a.m. opening cere-
mony, followed by the pa-
rade at 11 a.m.
Memorial Day events at
Forest Lawn
There will be celebrations
with patriotic music, cere-
monial wreath presenta-
tions and a color guard at a
number of Forest Lawn
cemeteries, including the
Glendale and Hollywood
Hills locations.
Garden Grove Strawberry
Festival
With carnival rides, food
and live music, the last day
of the annual Garden Grove
Strawberry Festival will run
from 10 a.m. to
9 p.m. Monday at the Village
Green Park, between Euclid
and Main streets,
in downtown Garden
Grove.
Fiesta Hermosa in
Hermosa Beach
The annual Fiesta Hermosa
weekend festival will contin-
ue Monday with a carnival,
beach concerts, food fair
and “makers mercado.”
Events will run throughout
the day in Hermosa Beach.
Topanga Days Country
Fair
The bohemian Topanga
Canyon festival is back,
with food, music and a
Memorial Day parade. The
parade will run from about
8:30 to 10 a.m. The festival
itself requires paid tickets,
but it is free for active mili-
tary members.
Fiesta Days in La Cañada
Flintridge
Monday’s Fiesta Days
schedule in La Cañada
Flintridge will include
a 9 a.m. memorial ser-
vice and a 10:30 a.m.
parade, followed by games,
food and music, at Memo-
rial Park, 1301 Foothill Blvd.
medical aid. The man was
taken to Providence Holy
Cross Medical Center, where
he was pronounced dead.
His name has not been re-
leased pending positive
identification.
The Los Angeles County
district attorney’s office and
the Department of Justice
were informed of the shoot-
ing, Fekety said. He said the
investigation continues and
that he did not know
whether a firearm had been
found. No police officers
were injured.
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JOSHUA Shapiro is shown with grandfather Max
Shapiro, a co-founder of South El Monte, in the 1980s.
Under the loupe
J.N. Shapiro Watches’ new timepiece, Resurgence, is
made almost entirely in the U.S. The Inglewood company
has imbued the watch, which starts at $70,000, with
elements that reference Art Deco design and California
sunshine. Here’s a look at the Resurgence prototype.
1 watch,” he said. “It’s been a
2 debuted May 22, starts at
3
1. Case: Shapiro sourced
the rose gold for the
watch's case from a
Commerce-based
precious metals refiner,
David H. Fell & Co., which
his family has done
business with since the
1970s.
2. Numerals: The numerals’
typeface, which has been
in use on Shapiro’s
watches since 2019, was
created by watch designer
Lee Yuen-Rapati along
with Shapiro and one of
his clients.
Photo courtesy of J.N. Shapiro Watches
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industry. Shapiro’s watch
would be almost fully made
in the U.S. — something that
hasn’t been done in a half-
century or so.
On this day, he was
adorning the German silver
— a fancy name for nickel —
with moiré, a wavy motif oc-
casionally seen on high-end
watches. This decorative
technique is know as guil-
loche, which was invented in
the 1500s and also is known
as engine turning. Only a
handful of watchmakers in
the U.S. know how to do it.
After honing the pattern
— and some hand-wringing
over just how wavy it should
be — Shapiro would make
the final part in sterling sil-
ver. He estimated he’d spent
more than 30 hours design-
ing and fabricating this
piece for the watch, a proto-
type of Resurgence.
It’s part of a process that
spanned thousands of hours
and began 12 years ago.
“That’s when I got into
this and had this wild dream
of making my own watch —
making every part of a
Indeed, J.N. Shapiro
Watches’ latest project is
rary American watch-
making. Resurgence, which
$70,000 in a steel case. Ver-
sions in other metals, includ-
ing tantalum, begin at
$80,000.
The Inglewood company
aims to make about 30 a
year, and each watch will
have “U.S. made” engraved
on the movement — the me-
chanical innards that power
a traditional timepiece.
(Think: gears, wheels, levers
and springs.) Shapiro has
done his research and be-
lieves Resurgence complies
with strict Federal Trade
Commission rules that dic-
tate when a consumer good
warrants the “U.S. made”
designation.
It’s a distinction that
other American watchmak-
ers have sought — only to see
regulators intervene. In 2016,
for example, the FTC ruled
that Detroit-based Shinola
could no longer use the slo-
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its watches featured key
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‘If he’s successful, he’d be
sending up a bat signal to
other watchmakers. ... His
success will lead other
people to create new art.’
— A SHER R APKIN,
on Joshua Shapiro’s almost fully U.S. made watch
since the last of the once-
great American watch com-
panies went out of business
or were sold to Swiss con-
cerns.
Shapiro, whose previous
offering, the Infinity Series,
debuted in 2018, hopes his
endeavor will inspire other
horologists here to return to
the traditional art of watch-
making. That’s why the
partly self-taught watch-
maker named the new watch
Resurgence.
Industry figures are root-
ing for Shapiro. Paul
Boutros, who oversees
watches in the Americas for
auction house Phillips, said
in January that Resurgence
would be a breakthrough for
watchmaking in the United
States. “That a self-taught
American in this non-watch-
making country was able to
achieve that — it would be a
huge achievement,” he said.
Boutros, whose company
has sold two Infinity Series
watches at auction —
including one on May 13 for
nearly $27,000 — said collec-
tors are “rooting for” Sha-
piro. “That is an American
thing — we are always cheer-
ing the underdog.”
Shapiro, who until re-
cently taught a high school
history class, long wore that
label well. But Resurgence
could transform him into
something else altogether.
‘Doing things
differently’
Shapiro’s watchmaking
journey began, in a way, at
the South El Monte machine
shop owned by his grand-
father, Max Shapiro.
As a child, Shapiro hung
around the shop, Kenny
Sandblasting, where he’d
“spend all day climbing over
old machinery and tinkering
[with] things.”
The elder Shapiro, who
co-founded South El Monte
and later served as its may-
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co-founder of Collective Horology,
or, settled in the Southland
in 1946 after working as a
welder on the Manhattan
Project. And he fostered his
grandson’s interest in metal-
working and related pur-
suits.
One of the duo’s early
“projects” was smelting
gold. Then about 6 years old,
Shapiro would salvage gold
that had been deposited in
or on the company’s cruci-
bles. They heated the recov-
ered precious metal in a fur-
nace until it coalesced, and
poured it out as a nugget
that Shapiro later made into
a coin.
“What I learned from my
grandfather is you don’t
have to walk the beaten
path,” said Shapiro, who
grew up in Arcadia. “You can
have a fulfilling, wonderful
life doing things differently
than other people.”
Still, it was far from a
straight path to watch-
making.
Shapiro pursued his love
of history at UCLA, where he
majored in the subject, grad-
uating in 2008. He got a mas-
ter’s degree in history at Cal
State Northridge six years
later. By then, he’d already
begun a career in education,
having coached track and
field and worked as a substi-
tute teacher at Arcadia High
School.
Over roughly the next 10
years, Shapiro held various
roles as an educator, includ-
ing serving as a teacher and
principal at a private Jewish
high school in the Pico-Rob-
ertson area. “It was great
training,” Shapiro said.
“Dealing with watch collec-
tors is nothing [as hard as]
dealing with teenagers and
angry parents.”
Shapiro never sidelined
his interest in all things me-
chanical. In 2012, he began a
distance-learning course
with the British Horological
Institute. Instead of spend-
ing money on a trip to Eng-
land to take a final exam at
the institute, he used sav-
ings to buy his first engine-
turning machine.
The machine was situat-
ed in the breakfast nook at
the Beverly Grove town-
home Shapiro rented with
his wife, Ana, and daughter
(the couple now have four
kids). Soon, he added anoth-
er guilloche machine.
Around this time, Shapiro
read “Watchmaking” by
British horologist George
Daniels.
The book is something of
a bible for watchmakers; in
it, Daniels shows how to cre-
ate a timepiece from start to
finish. Daniels’ watches,
Shapiro noted, had beautiful
guilloche dials.
Shapiro took a major
step in 2015: He sold his two
engine-turning machines —
and his beloved 1967 Ford
Mustang fastback — and
used the proceeds to pur-
chase two higher-quality
guilloche machines.
He remembers thinking:
“This is going to be a serious
thing.”
Though Shapiro taught
himself the art of engine
turning, he also had an im-
portant industry mentor,
Santa Barbara watchmaker
David Walter, with whom
Shapiro began collaborating
in 2015. Walter needed some-
one to make guilloche dials
for his timekeepers. Since
then, Shapiro has created
about 20 for him.
As Shapiro sharpened
his skills, a few people close
to him were the beneficiaries
of his craftsmanship. In 2017,
he gave his dad a watch
whose engine-turned dial
he’d made. Keith Shapiro
helped his son with the busi-
ness in its early years — he
once drove his son “almost
all night” to Arizona so that
the watchmaker could pur-
chase that first guilloche
machine.
“I thought this would just
be a hobby,” said the elder
Shapiro, laughing.
Shapiro and his col-
leagues eventually com-
pleted 100 of the Infinity Se-
ries watches, which used
high-end movements made
in Germany and sold for
$30,000 on average. Each fea-
tured the “infinity weave” —
a guilloche pattern Shapiro
invented — on the dial.
Among those 100 watches
were 10 that Shapiro made
for Collective Horology, a
Ventura company. Released
L AT I M E S . C O M
in 2020, the watches had di-
als made of meteorite and
started at $21,500. The
otherworldy timepieces sold
out.
Asher Rapkin, co-found-
er of Collective Horology,
has been tracking Shapiro’s
progress on his U.S.-made
project. “If he’s successful,
he’d be sending up a bat sig-
nal to other watchmakers
here that it’s OK to do this,”
Rapkin said. “His success
will lead other people to cre-
ate new art.”
American
resurgence
As Shapiro adjusted set-
tings on a rose engine on a
recent weekday, it drove
home a point: This was a de-
cidedly old-fashioned en-
deavor, applying centuries-
old techniques to craft a
wristwatch — itself some-
thing of an anachronism.
And yet, J.N. Shapiro
Watches is far from a tradi-
tion-bound maison, where
watchmakers have toiled
generation after generation
in a quaint Swiss hamlet. As
if to emphasize that point,
the racket of an airplane fly-
ing low overheard punctuat-
ed the silence in Shapiro’s
workshop — a reminder of
his company’s location near
Los Angeles International
Airport.
Shapiro said he moved
the business to Inglewood in
2020 because it was mutually
convenient for him and his
employees, who now num-
ber six, including five other
watchmakers. But he’s also
mindful of the manufactur-
ing tradition in the area, not-
ing the presence of compa-
nies including Raytheon and
SpaceX.
The interplay of industry
and artistry is central to J.N.
Shapiro Watches’ story —
and on display at its head-
quarters. On the day Sha-
piro practiced the moiré pat-
tern, an industrial clamor
emanated from an adjacent
room that houses CNC mills
and CNC lathes, which are
used to fabricate watch com-
ponents. Shapiro said he as-
sembled the collection of
machines needed to make
Resurgence at a cost of
about $2 million.
In all, Shapiro’s company
turned out 148 of the Resur-
gence prototype’s 180 com-
ponents. Its hairspring,
mainspring, ruby bearings
and a few other parts were
sourced from Switzerland.
However, Shapiro said, the
production version of Resur-
gence will include a hair-
spring and bearings made in
America.
Shapiro’s commitment
to the U.S.-made standard
has impressed collector Ga-
briel Benador, who owns an
Infinity Series watch that
has Hebrew numerals on the
dial that are a nod to the
Jewish heritage he shares
with Shapiro. When Be-
nador first heard about Sha-
piro, he was intrigued by his
outsider status. Shapiro “is
totally not what you expect
from a watchmaker,” said
Benador, who intends to buy
a Resurgence watch.
Even at $70,000 or more,
Resurgence costs less than
some high-end watches. In
this lofty corner of horology,
six-figure timepieces have
become common. That’s due
in part to an industrywide
flourishing that occurred
during the first year or so of
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collectors who found
themselves with time on
their hands indulged in the
hobby, which practically
beckons devotees to become
obsessed. Prices soon
soared. Certain models from
Patek Philippe and Aude-
mars Piguet that retailed for
five figures routinely sold on
the secondary market for
double their list price,
though the market has since
cooled off.
Explaining Resurgence’s
cost, Shapiro noted the fail-
ure rate on producing some
engine-turned parts is as
high as 25%. He also drew a
parallel between watches
and cars: “A mass-produced
Toyota ... maxes out at 90
miles per hour. The compo-
nents aren’t high-perform-
ance components. We’re
putting a ton of time into
each and every part. These
are watches that’ll last hun-
dreds of years.”
Shapiro completed the
Resurgence prototype in
March. He said he took a mo-
ment for himself after a col-
league handed him the com-
pleted timepiece. Stepping
into his office, Shapiro “just
stared at it for a while.”
“It’s very surreal,” he
said. “It really is similar to
having a child.”
Days later, he still
couldn’t take his eyes off the
watch. Turning it over, he
read aloud an engraving on
the movement: “U.S. made.”
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Retail retreat in San Francisco raising concerns

[Retailers, from B1]
eral years, impacting cus-
tomer foot traffic to our
stores and our ability to
operate successfully,” Jamie
Nordstrom, the chief stores
officer, said in a statement.
Saks Off 5th on Market
Street is also shutting its
doors, attributing the deci-
sion in a statement to “store
performance and other fac-
tors.”
As for T-Mobile’s recent
closure on Stockton Street,
a spokesperson said it was
part of the company’s
“nationwide retail strategy
to better take care of cus-
tomers.”
Despite those businesses
moving, Breed held a news
conference a couple of
weeks ago with District 3
Supervisor Aaron Peskin to
announce a $6-million in-
vestment into the three
blocks of Powell Street
near Union Square where
H&M, Gap and Uniqlo have
closed their doors in recent
years.
Although Marisa Rodri-
guez, the chief executive of
Union Square Alliance, ac-
knowledged that some
stores have left during the
COVID-19 pandemic, she
emphasized that luxury re-
tailers in particular have ex-
panded, opened or moved to
the area.
“The heart of the square
is beating strong — it’s
alive,” she said. “There cer-
tainly have been challenges
post-pandemic that a lot of
major cities have been expe-
riencing. We are trying to po-
sition ourselves to meet the
moment and pivot where we
UNION SQUARE, shown in 2021, is a 2.6-acre public plaza in downtown San Francisco. Retailers that have
closed stores in the area include Saks Off 5th and Nordstrom. A retail official points to other stores moving in.
can.”
Saint Laurent, Chanel
and Van Cleef & Arpels have
all moved to Union Square,
while Pandora opened its
doors there last year.
“When we shut down, we
shut down pretty hard,”
Rodriguez said. “Union
Square is a visitor destina-
tion. We’re gonna see more
closures than you would in a
more traditional neighbor-
hood setting where people
can pivot and shop where
they live. A lot of these clo-
sures are a result of not be-
ing able to survive that shut-
down.”
Storefronts in the shop-
ping district have been emp-
tying out in recent years be-
cause of the rise of internet
shopping coupled with a
reduction of foot traffic dur-
ing the pandemic, said Wade
Rose, president of Advance
SF, a business advocacy
group.
“This is an example of the
pressure urban retail has
been feeling as a result of
how people buy things,”
Rose said. “San Francisco is
deeply engaged and dealing
with that issue. There are
roughly 300,000 less people
in downtown San Francisco
than there was in 2019.”
The city’s property crime
and homelessness crisis
have also deterred foot traf-
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fic, Rose said.
San Francisco has the
highest property crime rate
in the state, rising by 16.9% in
2021, according to the Cali-
fornia Department of Jus-
tice’s Criminal Justice Stat-
istics Center.
The Bay Area has the
highest rate of property
crime in California, with a
rate of 2,718 incidents per
100,000 residents.
Reported incidents of
commercial burglary have
actually decreased in San
Francisco, according to data
from the San Francisco Po-
lice Department. In 2020,
there were 1,107 incidents,
compared with 945 in 2021
and 735 in 2022.
Rose referred to San
Francisco’s Stonetown Mall
as a shopping district piv-
oting to meet the needs of a
population. The mall, he
said, which was once very
traditional and included a
Macy’s, fell on hard times
and had to be reinvented. It
now has a Trader Joe’s, a
Sports Basement and a Tar-
get.
“It’s thriving because it
meets the needs of the
neighborhood and has the
type of metamorphosis that
needs to happen in the
downtown retail district,” he
said. “It’s not only Union
Square that’s under pres-
sure because of these is-
sues.”
Union Square, among
other shopping districts, will
need to diversify by adding a
variety of shopping and liv-
ing experiences to attract
consumers.
“The bottom line is that
San Francisco’s urban core
must become a much more
experientially diverse place
and a physically diverse
space than what it is as a re-
sult of recovery from the
Great Recession,” Rose
said. “What that means is
that there should be a 24/7
city, there should be more
cultural amenities, and
there should be diverse
types of retail and busi-
nesses.”

Newsom’s budget math doesn’t add up, key analyst says

[Skelton, from B1]
in a column. “Despite heavy
pressure from far-left pro-
gressives in the Legislature
and public sector labor
organizations, the governor
is not proposing any signifi-
cant tax increases.”
That presumably
and economic chaos. That
probably was resolved by a
weekend agreement be-
tween Biden and House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy
(R-Bakersfield).
Another uncertainty
comes from the federal and
state governments extend-
attempt to seize the easy
money anyway. It always
wants to spend more than
the governor does.
This year there isn’t
enough tax revenue for any
Democratic spending plan
that has emerged.
“It’s pretty unlikely the
state can afford the May
Revise proposal,” says
analyst Ann Hollingshead,
who prepared the LAO
report. “There’s too much
spending or not enough
revenue.”
The governor and Legis-
lature can always ignore the
LAO warnings and craft a
fantasy budget that com-
pounds the state’s problems
down the road. That would
be standard for Sacra-
mento.

pleases most voters. But
since he has rejected the
lefties’ urge to tax and
spend, he’d better practice
some righty program cut-
ting.
Newsom finds himself in
an unaccustomed role.
Budget trouble is a new
predicament for him. Until
now, he has been lucky
enough to escape the politi-
cally risky dilemma that has
confronted virtually every
California governor for the
last 64 years: the need to
erase budget deficits, usu-
ally with higher taxes plus
spending cuts.
Exactly one year ago,
Newsom and the Legisla-
ture were basking in a $100-
billion budget surplus.
Now, Newsom is project-
ing a deficit for the fiscal
year starting July 1 of nearly
$32 billion. The LAO pegs it
a bit higher at close to $35
billion. Over the next four
years, the analyst projects
cumulative deficits of $52
billion.
How did the budget turn
from black to red?
Inflation, rising interest
rates, bank closures — all of
that suppressed the econo-
my, particularly the stock
market, and resulted in
reduced state tax revenues.
One culprit is Califor-
nia’s ultra-progressive state
income tax that Newsom
lauds. “Soak the rich” may
be a popular concept, but it
results in a very volatile tax
system that leans too heavi-
ly on the wealthy. The top 1%
of California earners pay
nearly 50% of the state
income tax. And when the
economy staggers and falls,
so do wealthy people’s capi-
tal gains and they pay less
taxes.
A unique problem this
year is abnormal uncer-
tainty.
One uncertainty has
been whether President
Biden and Congress could
raise the debt limit in time
to avert a federal default
GOV. NEWSOM announces his revised budget this
month. “I’m not a tax-and-spend liberal,” he insists.
ing the tax-filing deadline
from April to October for
Californians because of
winter storms. No one at the
state Capitol can be sure of
how much income and
corporate taxes will be
flowing in, but the adminis-
tration is guessing around
$42 billion.
“We’ve never had a delay
of that many months,” says
H.D. Palmer, spokesman for
the state Finance Depart-
ment. “It’s a new level of
uncertainty we haven’t had
to deal with before.”
It’s all the more reason to
prepare for the worst and
begin prudent cutting of
programs, including some
pets — such as Newsom’s
favorite climate and health-
care projects. One is Medi-
Cal coverage for all eligible
low-income people regard-
less of their immigration
status.
Newsom thought he was
being fiscally wise by rele-
gating some spending to
“one-time only.” But the
LAO now says the state
doesn’t even have enough
money for that.
“Most of this spending
no longer appears to be
affordable,” the analyst
says.
Last year, the governor
and Legislature agreed to
temporary one-year spend-
ing that totals $28 billion.
Newsom recently cut that
back to $11 billion. The LAO
recommends whittling it
further to $4 billion.
It also lists other options
without specifically recom-
mending one. These poten-
tial fixes include “cost
shifts” — grabbing money
from one program and
spending it on another, or
dumping more burden on
local governments.
They could dip into
rainy-day reserves. But
Newsom rejects that idea
for now, theorizing the
saved stash may be needed
later. And the LAO agrees.
But the Legislature may
Hector Amezcua Associated Press
Obituaries
Place a paid notice latimes.com/placeobituary | Search obituary notice archives: legacy.com/obituaries/latimes
Richard S. (“Dick”) Gunther
May 6, 1925 - May 25, 2023
Husband, father, philanthropist, activist, businessman,
investor. Richard spent his first seven years in Portland,
Oregon. When his father died in 1933 he and his mother,
Bertha Germain, moved to LA where he lived the remainder
of his life. A 300 bowler as a teenager, Richard was drafted at
18 and served for three years in the Pacific. Upon discharge
from the Army he reentered UCLA and graduated with an
Vincent John accounting degree. A telephone conversation fortuitously
overhead by his mother led to his first job with LA developer
Jeffries Dick Diller, who then sent twenty-five-year-old Richard to
March 15, 1936 - Hawaii, with his young wife Lois Goldberg and their 8-month-
March 3, 2023 old son, to direct a residential development for the Navy. Upon
his return to LA he spent the next ten years building housing primarily in the San Fernando
Valley. He also began his long association with Jewish community causes, joining the Board
Vincent John Jeffries was of the Brandeis Bardin Institute, where he served for 25 years.
born in Ashford, England on
March 15th, 1936. He came
to the United States with An encounter with cancer at age 34 set Richard on a new path of family, travel and personal
growth. By now a father of 3 sons, Richard found new success as an investor, gaining more
his parents in September of
1939 on the SS Manhattan. family time and deepening his engagement with progressive Jewish and political causes. He
served as a delegate to the 1968 Democratic convention; his donations landed him on Richard
Vince grew up in Southern
California where his father Nixon’s infamous enemies list. Of his broad service in the Jewish community, Richard was
most proud of his role as the first chair of Project Renewal, a successful partnership between
was the manager of the
Hollywood Hotel. As a young the LA Jewish Federation and Jerusalem’s Musrara community. He served lengthy terms on
the Boards of Americans for Peace Now, where he was President, at New Israel Fund, and
man he loved nature and
would go bow hunting in the the LA Jewish Federation. He led the LA campaign to fund the exodus of Jews from Soviet
hills around the San Fernando Russia in the 1980’s. Richard was an early investor and Board chair of Grameen Foundation
Valley. Socially conscious USA, supporting the pioneering Bangladeshi microlender.
from a young age, he studied
sociology at the University of
California, Los Angeles, and, As Richard’s means increased so did his philanthropy, leading to investments such as the
as a graduate student, did Gunther Depths of Space exhibit at the Griffith Observatory and the Gunther/Hirsch Building,
research into racial attitudes the first permanent home of Jewish Family Service of LA. In mid-life, Richard engaged in
disciplined self-exploration, spending time at Esalen Institute, earning a Masters in Liberal Arts
during the Watts riots of
1965. Although private and with a focus on mid-life from USC, co-writing “Who Needs Midlife at Your Age?” a humorous
book, and participating in a men’s peer counseling group of 30+ years duration. Richard loved
reserved by nature, he taught
boxing to help disadvantaged to exercise, running a marathon at age 53 and skiing, playing tennis and riding his bike into
his 80’s. He travelled extensively with his wife and family, including dozens of bicycle touring
teenage boys to get off the
streets. After earning his PhD adventures, three high-altitude treks in Nepal and Peru, and a trip to Antarctica. Richard also
deeply valued personal relationships, mentoring numerous young people and maintaining
in Sociology, he became a
faculty member at California lifelong friendships with his and Lois’ LA cohort. His memoir, “How High Is Up,” was published
in 2009. At the end of his life Richard was deeply grateful for the life he led and above all his
State, Northridge, where he
taught for 41 years and later 75-year marriage.
became a Professor Emeritus. Richard is survived by his wife Lois, three sons Daniel, Mark (Anne Krantz), Andrew (Teresa
He was a highly accomplished Burns Gunther) and three grandchildren Sophia, Aaron and Sam (Melissa Philley). His
scholar who was instrumental granddaughter Eva predeceased him in 1997. We are blessed to have known him as husband,
in founding the section on father and friend. Donations in his honor can go to New Israel Fund, Jewish Family Service of
Altruism, Morality and Social LA, or the Democratic candidate of your choice.
Solidarity in the American
Sociological Association. He Funeral will be at 11 AM Tuesday, May 30 at Leo Baeck Temple, Los Angeles, California
was a devout Catholic and Burial will be at 1:30 PM Wednesday, May 31 at Home of Peace Cemetery, Colma, California
for many years attended Mass
daily at St. Jane Frances de
Chantal in North Hollywood.
It was there that he met and
married his beloved wife
Cecelia. Having a lifelong
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was proud to claim the San
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Vince passed on March 3rd,
2023, and is survived by his
wife Cecelia, nephew Crispin
Jeffries and family, and his
niece Xanthe Jeffries.
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Cool; low clouds slow to lift: An upper-level low moving southward along the coast Monday will move inland Rain in the mid-Atlantic: Low pressure spinning across the Carolinas
across Southern California later Tuesday into Wednesday. A strong onshore flow will combine with this low to will bring wet weather to parts of Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia,
keep temperatures below the historical average, with widespread low clouds Monday morning and Tuesday with a few thunderstorms across the Carolinas. Thunderstorms will
morning that will be slow to clear westward toward the beaches each afternoon. stretch from north to south across the Plains, becoming locally severe.
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68/56 Kansas City 72/60
BARBARA CO. Santa Paula 72/53 Hesperia 84/64
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70/61
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Mixed swell west 3 feet at 8 seconds 70/59 Beach 70/59 90/64
and south 3-5 feet at 17 seconds. Mission Viejo
68/59 Temecula Sunday Today Sunday Today
Surf zone: The potential for strong Laguna 68/56 City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky
rip currents is high at S.D., L.A., 72/54
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Ventura and O.C beaches and low at 67/57 Clemente Albuquerque 85 56 -- 88 60 Su Tampa 86 68 -- 88 72 Pc
S.B. County beaches.
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Orange 3-5’ 15 sec SW 63 Sun 5:44a/7:57p 5:43a/7:56p 5:47a/8:02p Bufalo 82 52 -- 83 59 Su Amsterdam 68 54 -- 61 48 Pc
Moon 2:39p/2:32a 2:38p/2:30a 2:44p/2:36a Poway
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67/57 Charleston, S.C. 71 63 .13 81 61 Ts Bangkok 97 81 .16 94 79 Ts
Charlotte 60 53 1.65 71 61 Ts Barcelona 73 63 -- 73 60 Pc
Tides San Diego Chicago 80 53 -- 80 60 Pc Berlin 75 43 -- 71 46 Pc
L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. 67/59 Cincinnati 71 58 -- 81 62 Pc Cabo San Lucas 86 69 -- 83 67 Su
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Sunday Downtown readings Dallas/Ft.Worth 87 67 .16 84 68 Ts Havana 90 68 .04 88 70 Ts
7:05p 5.1 Hi 12:29p 1.2 Lo Denver 77 48 .03 82 52 Pc Ho Chi Minh City 90 77 .58 93 79 Ts
Temperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Precipitation Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Detroit 82 51 -- 86 61 Pc Hong Kong 91 81 -- 92 83 Su
UV index High/low 68/59 69/59 63/56 24-hour total (as of 5 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.00 El Paso 94 66 -- 95 72 Su Istanbul 70 63 .14 72 62 Sh
Minutes to burn for sensitive people Normal high/low 74/59 76/60 70/53 Season total (since Oct. 1) 28.03 21.34 26.52 Eugene 77 46 -- 80 48 Su Jerusalem 77 67 .04 76 59 Su
High/low a year ago 68/58 70/60 65/53 Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 12.16 6.46 11.34 Fort Myers 91 71 -- 89 73 Su Johannesburg 72 47 -- 70 47 Cy
Las Vegas, 10 Phoenix, 10
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Los Angeles, 25 San Francisco, 25 Record low/date 48/1895 52/2019 42/1961 Humidity (high/low) 86/64 83/58 86/72 Honolulu 83 70 -- 85 74 Pc Lima 75 69 -- 76 69 Pc
Houston 88 68 -- 87 68 Ts London 72 50 -- 65 47 Pc
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City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo Knoxville 60 54 Tr 73 59 Cy Montreal 88 59 -- 74 54 Pc
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‘Fight back’ against book bans

[Smith, from B1]
than this. I really did,” Bur-
ton told me, shaking his
head in sadness.
“Well, we’re not. So we
have to deal with it. We have
to fight back. And then we
have to continue to tell the
truth.”
But what exactly does
“fight back” mean and “tell
the truth” mean?
A little later, while on-
stage with my colleague
Steve Padilla, Burton
brought up Gorman, an
Angeleno and the first na-
tional youth poet laureate,
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times as an example of both. She
MIST TRAIL takes hikers toward popular views of is supporting a lawsuit to
Vernal and Nevada falls. Those who stick it out to the challenge bans and restric-
top of Nevada Fall can also continue on to Half Dome. tions put on books at Flor-
ida schools.
Her own book, “The Hill

Popular Yosemite We Climb,” which essen-

tially is the poem she read to
an audience of millions at

hiking trail will

President Biden’s inaugura-
tion, was taken away from Varon Panganiban For The Times
elementary students in “A PERSON who has the control of the narrative has control over how you will or
Miami-Dade County after a will not be remembered,” says LeVar Burton, seen at the L.A. Times Book Club.

get major upgrade single parent complained

that it was written to “cause
confusion and indoctrinate
students” and contained
DeSantis, meanwhile,
has repeatedly dismissed
the controversy over “The
have struggled for genera-
tions to get on bookshelves.
The majority of these cen-
policies targeting trans
children that mirror what
has been introduced and, in
“indirect hate messages.” Hill We Climb” as a “hoax.” sored works are by queer many cases, passed in doz-
[Trail, from B1] ple visit Mist Trail, where Brace yourself for “hate” “There’s not been a and non-white voices.” ens of Republican-led state
tify possible upgrades to the rangers and emergency per- and “indoctrination.” This is single book banned in the Indeed, in an analysis by legislatures during the last
park, and Mist Trail is look- sonnel may need to conduct what Gorman wrote: state of Florida; you can go the Washington Post of year.
ing at possible changes, in- rescues or tend to twisted buy or use whatever book books that were challenged “They lie and they lie and
cluding moving the begin- ankles. We’ve braved the belly of the you want,” he insisted on in dozens of school districts they lie, until the lie be-
ning of the trail to the Happy Winding along the Mer- beast Twitter Spaces, garnering in the 2021-22 school year, comes the truth in some
Isles Nature Center. Up- ced River, the trail lives up to We’ve learned that quiet murmurs of agreement 43% of the complaints were people’s minds,” Burton
grades are also planned at its name, providing for some isn’t always peace. from Elon Musk and a cadre aimed at books with told me.
the Vernal Fall footbridge slippery steps along the way. And the norms and notions of other right-wing tech LGBTQ+ characters and This is what fighting
area, about a mile from the The upgrade calls for of what just is bros. themes. An additional 36% back means. It’s refusing to
start of the trail and one of more signage, improve- Isn’t always justice. “What we have done is had major characters of be quiet about what’s really
its easiest points. ments to the bathroom at And yet the dawn is ours empowered parents with color or explored issues of at stake for the country and
“That’s a turnaround Vernal Fall and work on the before we knew it. the ability to review the race and racism. its most vulnerable resi-
point for many people, so steep granite steps that fol- Somehow, we do it. curriculum to know what It’s the very embodiment dents, as DeSantis and his
making that more accom- low the Vernal Fall foot- Somehow, we’ve weathered books are being used in of DeSantis’ hateful “anti- fellow Republican politi-
modating for people is im- bridge, adding interim and witnessed school, and then to ensure woke” agenda — and that’s cians attempt to make
portant,” Dean said. steps, handrails and rock A nation that isn’t broken, that those books match no accident. banning books sound per-
The accommodations walls. but simply unfinished. state standards and are age “A person who has the fectly normal and reason-
may include more railings The improvements are and developmentally appro- control of the narrative has able.
and walls, as well as better expected to cost about $5 Unsurprisingly, the priate.” control over how you will or “I did not see this com-
signage, to get visitors better million and be completed in parent who complained But this very political will not be remembered as ing,” Burton admitted, “so I
prepared for the trail. 2025 or early 2026, Dean about “The Hill We Climb,” targeting of books in schools part of the historical am not going to try and
Although Mist Trail is said. Daily Salinas of Miami is about much more than record,” Burton said. “And predict what’s going to
considered one of the park’s That amount has yet to Lakes, has a history of social that. It’s about making sure so this is really a battle for happen next. I just, I feel like
“gentlest,” the first paved be raised, but Dean said the media posts that praise another generation sub- truth. It’s a battle for reality. we are in the eye of the
mile can give some hikers a Yosemite Conservancy is white supremacists and scribes to a white suprema- It’s a battle for control.” storm and/or maybe the
false sense of preparedness confident it will continue to antisemitism. She also cist worldview by perpetu- What’s scary is it seems leading edge of the storm.
for what can be a tricky trek. see the support it’s had listed Oprah Winfrey as the ating ignorance about the to be working. A new poll We haven’t gotten to the
“The trail gets more rig- throughout its 100-year author instead of Gorman. lives and experiences of found that nearly 60% of eyewall yet. And I just, I
orous as you go up,” Dean partnership with the park. I mean, all Black women people from long-margin- American adults believe a have no idea what’s coming
said, “so there needs to be The conservancy has do- look alike, right? alized communities. person’s gender is deter- behind it. But I do know we
more preparation for what’s nated more than $152 million “I don’t believe the wom- As Gorman wrote on mined at birth and, as such, need to be ready. We need to
up ahead.” and funded about 800 proj- an read the book she was Twitter and Instagram: basically don’t believe it’s be vigilant. We need to be
During some summer ects since 1923, according to able to get banned,” Burton “Most of the forbidden possible to be transgender. prepared and we need to be
days, more than 4,000 peo- the organization. quipped. works are by authors who A majority also support warriors — for truth.”
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Bitter
taste
of this
sweep
Sandoval pitches well,
but offense goes silent
as Angels’ homestand
ends with three losses.
MIAMI 2, ANGELS 0

By Sarah Valenzuela

Angels left-hander Pat-

rick Sandoval was back to
his usual self Sunday against
the Miami Marlins.
On the other side of bat-
tling food poisoning, which
slowed him during his previ-
ous start against the Minne-
sota Twins, Sandoval
pitched six innings, giving
up two runs and eight hits Chris O'Meara Associated Press
while striking out two and CHRIS TAYLOR tries to tag the Rays’ Josh Lowe, who steals third while losing his helmet at Tropicana Field. Offensively, Taylor
walking two. clubbed two home runs in a wild, back-and-forth game, but the Dodgers lost the marquee series and finished 4-6 on a 10-game trip.
Those two runs didn’t
seem like much but were

They’re not set in Stone

more than enough for the
Marlins. The Angels already
had lost the series Saturday
night, when fielding mis-
takes doomed them. On
Sunday, a three-game sweep
was completed with a 2-0 de-

Delivering
feat to the Marlins (28-26),
who now share the same Roberts says he’ll reassess
record as the Angels.
“We’re getting on a plane plan for Dodgers rookie
now and leaving this one be-
hind,” Angels manager Phil
Nevin said. “It’s not a good
reminder of after pitcher is tagged for
seven runs in two innings.
taste in the mouth, obvi-
ously, after the way the
homestand was going. At
the end of the day, we won
what’s gone TAMPA BAY 11, DODGERS 10

more than we lost, but cer-
tainly not what we were set-
ting out to do after what we’d
accomplished the first two
series against two good
teams.
“And we didn’t play our
best this weekend, that’s no
secret.”
After opening the home-
stand with five victories in
six games, including a three-
game sweep of the Boston
Red Sox and a series win
[See Angels, D5]
By Jack Harris
As Dodgers look for help ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —
Once the ambush started with two
with rotation, their former outs in the second inning Sunday,
prospect Gray has become Gavin Stone couldn’t make it stop.
In his third major league start —
reliable Nationals starter. all against high-octane playoff
teams from last year — the
BILL SHAIKIN
Dodgers’ rookie right-hander got
ON BASEBALL
stuck in a spin cycle against the
Tampa Bay Rays.
There is nothing the Dodgers On the verge of escaping an
could use right now more than a early jam and potentially moving
durable and effective starting past the rocky start to his outing,
pitcher. the same way he had six days earli-
A guy like, say, Josiah Gray. er against the Atlanta Braves,
This is not a story about how Stone instead yielded five straight
the Dodgers made a bad trade. Yet, hits. The Rays exploded for six

Taking
as Gray and the Washington Na- runs.
tionals arrive at Dodger Stadium By the time the outburst was
on Monday, these statistics are over, the Dodgers were in a hole
inescapable: Gray is tied for third they never fully recovered from in

a sneak in the National League with a 2.77

ERA, and tied for the league lead in
games started.
He was a Dodger not too long
an 11-10 loss at Tropicana Field.
And as Stone walked back to the
dugout, his head hung low and his
steps were somber and slow — the

peek at
ago, and not for long.
The Dodgers’ success tradition-
ally revolves around starting pitch-
Marta Lavandier Associated Press
JOSIAH GRAY is enjoying a breakout year in Washington. “I just lasting image of another difficult
look forward to going out and making a name for myself,” he said. day for the 24-year-old prospect.
“Obviously I’ve just got to go to

next year ing. In each of the last six seasons,

the Dodgers have ranked first or
second in the league in ERA
among starting pitchers.
TONIGHT’S GAME
Dodgers vs. Washington
At Dodger Stadium, 6. TV: SportsNet LA
work on fine-tuning some things,”
Stone said afterward, finishing
Sunday with a 14.40 earned-run av-
erage in three starts this month.
[See Shaikin, D5] Pitchers: Miller (Dodgers) vs. Williams (Wash.) [See Dodgers, D5]
New faces, facilities
and flag football in
store for high school
sports in 2023-24.
ERIC SONDHEIMER
ON HIGH SCHOOLS
REFLECTIVE
As soon as this week’s
Southern California re-
AND READY
gional playoffs are com-
pleted for baseball and Motherhood gives Ertz new view
softball, it will be time to
focus on the 2023-24 sports on soccer as World Cup looms
season, so why not give you
a peek at what to look for-
ward to. By Kevin Baxter

Bailey arrives When Julie Ertz walked

There’s a new Bailey
family member arriving in
the fall at Brentwood.
Freshman Tristyn Bailey
could be a girls’ volleyball
prodigy. Her father is Toby
Bailey, the high-flying
former UCLA Bruins
basketball star on the 1995
NCAA championship team.
Her mother is Tracey Mil-
burn, a former UCLA soc-
cer star. Her uncle is Ryan
Bailey, Brentwood’s basket-
ball coach and a former
UCLA guard.
“She’s high level,” Ryan
said. “She’s a program-
changer in my opinion.”
And just wait until ev-
eryone sees her jumping
ability as a 5-foot-11 fresh-
man.
“She has that,” Ryan
said. “I got a little of it. My
brother got a lot of it.”
[See Sondheimer, D2]
M ILKING THE MOMENT
Josef Newgarden douses himself with celebratory milk after winning the
Indianapolis 500, which was red-flagged three times in the final 16 laps. D3
No medal for U.S. French fans jeer
at hockey worlds Ukrainian player
Team loses match for Kostyuk booed after she
bronze for second year refuses to shake hand of
in a row. Canada beats Belarus’ Sabalenka
Germany for title. D2 because of the war. D3
Michael Conroy Associated Press
It’s Game 7 for
Celtics and Heat
Boston can become first
team in NBA history to
overcome a 3-0 deficit
and win the series. D6
off the field after collecting
her bronze medal for the
U.S. at the Tokyo Olympics,
it was as if she stepped into
the witness protection pro-
gram: She immediately dis-
appeared.
Traded by her club team
four months later to Angel
City FC, she failed to show
up to the team’s first train- Matt Slocum Associated Press
ing camp. When the national JULIE ERTZ , with hus-
team flew to Mexico for band Zach, took nearly
World Cup and Olympic two years off from soccer.
qualifying last summer, she
was not on the plane. In fact, gel City four games into the
very few people knew where NWSL season, “to enjoy be-
she was. ing with my family.”
The defensive backbone Also to enjoy starting a
of two world championship family. Last summer, Ertz
teams, Ertz had vanished and her husband, NFL tight
from public view. And she end Zach Ertz, welcomed
stayed that way for nearly their first child, Madden,
two years. and that led to a whole other
“I just stepped away from set of questions about her
social media,” she said a cou- soccer career: After giving
ple of weeks after joining An- [See Ertz, D6]
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Canada bites back to claim title
N.Y. Coastal Carolina (39-19)
WASH. WASH. WASH. wire reports
YANKEES of the Sun Belt Conference
6 7 1
7 and Indiana State (42-15) of
SNLA SNLA SNLA
SNLA Samuel Blais scored two the Missouri Valley Confer-
DODGERS
goals to help Canada rally ence are the other hosts.
at Chicago at Chicago at Chicago at at for a 5-2 victory over Ger-
White Sox White Sox White Sox Houston Houston many in the final of the ice Jenna Johnson hit a
5 5 11 a.m. 5 5 hockey world championship fifth-inning home run, and
BSW, FS1 BSW BSW BSW, FS1 BSW Sunday in Tampere, Fin- Alabama held off North-
ANGELS
land. western 3-2 to win the best-
at Real Salt It’s a record 28th world ti- of-three Tuscaloosa (Ala.)
Lake tle for Canada and its sec- Super Regional and ad-
6:30 ond in three years. vance to the Women’s Col-
Apple TV Russia has 27 champi- lege World Series. ... Utah
GALAXY
onships, while Germany has won 7-2 over San Diego State
LEÓN* never won the trophy. in the deciding game of the
7 Blais scored on a back- best-of-three Salt Lake City
FS1 hand 4:51 into the final pe- Super Regional for the Utes’
LAFC riod for a 3-2 lead for Cana- Pavel Golovkin Associated Press first trip to the Women’s Col-
da, which was playing in its JAKE NEIGHBOURS celebrates with his gold medal lege World Series since 1994.
at fourth consecutive final. after Canada beat Germany 5-2 for the world crown.
Portland** “It feels really good,” In Pennsauken, N.J.,
7:30 Blais said. “We’ve been in Stanford won the varsity
Paramount+ Europe for a month, and eight and second varsity
ANGEL CITY ETC.
we’ve all waited for that mo- NHL eight to capture its first
at
Phoenix
ment to play for the gold-
medal game. And we’re
CONFERENCE SEC has eight NCAA rowing champi-
onship in 14 years. The Car-
FINALS
7
Ion
lucky enough to have won it.”
Lawson Crouse, Tyler SCHEDULE
baseball hosts dinal also won their only
other championship in 2009
SPARKS
Shade denotes home game. *CONCACAF Champions League **NWSL Challenge Cup Toffoli and Scott Laughton Eight of the 16 regional at Cooper River Park.
also scored for Canada, Pey- WESTERN CONFERENCE hosts selected for the NCAA
ton Krebs had two assists, C2 Dallas vs. P1 Vegas tournament are from the Izzy Scane scored four
and goaltender Samuel Golden Knights lead series 3-2 Southeastern Conference, goals to lead top-seeded
Montembeault stopped Gm 1 Vegas 4, Dallas 3 (OT) the Division I Baseball Com- Northwestern to its first
TODAY ON THE AIR 21 shots. Gm 2 Vegas 3, Dallas 2 (OT)
mittee announced. NCAA women’s lacrosse ti-
The hosts have locked up tle in 11 years with an 18-6 win
Gm 3 Vegas 4, Dallas 0
TIME EVENT ON THE AIR Defenseman Kristian spots in the national tourna- over third-seeded Boston
Gm 4 Dallas 3, Vegas 2 (OT)
AUTO RACING Rubins scored his second ment, and the rest of the 64- College in rainy Cary, N.C.
Gm 5 Dallas 4, Vegas 2
goal 1:22 into overtime to team field will be unveiled
8 a.m. NASCAR, Xfinity Series, Alsco Uniforms 300 TV: FS1 Gm 6 Tonight at Dallas, 5
lead Latvia to a 4-3 victory Monday at 9 a.m. on ESPN2. Seven years after its im-
Noon NASCAR, Cup Series, Coca-Cola 600 TV: 11 Gm 7 Wednesday at Vegas, 6*
over the United States for Each regional will have probable Premier League ti-
BASEBALL the bronze medal. four teams playing in a dou- tle triumph, Leicester was
10 a.m. Texas at Detroit TV: MLB It’s the first top-three fin- EASTERN CONFERENCE ble-elimination format. All relegated from English soc-
1 p.m. Minnesota at Houston TV: MLB ish for Latvia at the tourna- WC2 Florida vs. M1 Carolina are scheduled from Friday cer’s top division, while Ev-
4 p.m. Pittsburgh at San Francisco (joined in progress) TV: MLB ment. Its previous best was a Panthers win series 4-0 through Monday. erton pulled off another last-
5 p.m. Angels at Chicago White Sox TV: BSW, FS1, seventh place. Gm 1 Florida 3, Carolina 2 (4OT) Regional winners ad- day escape to extend its 69-
FOXD R: 830 The U.S. lost in the vance to best-of-three super year stay.
Gm 2 Florida 2, Carolina 1 (OT)
5 p.m. Oakland at Atlanta R: 1330 bronze-medal game for the regionals, and those eight Leeds also was consigned
Gm 3 Florida 1, Carolina 0
6 p.m. Washington at Dodgers TV: SNLA R: 570, second straight year. Rocco winners go on to the College to the drop with Leicester
Gm 4 Florida 4, Carolina 3
1020 Grimaldi scored twice. World Series in Omaha, and already-relegated
8 p.m. New York Yankees at Seattle (joined in progress) TV: MLB All times p.m., PDT Neb., beginning June 16. Southampton.
BASKETBALL: NBA PLAYOFFS Logan Stankoven had a * if necessary Wake Forest (47-10), Everton’s 1-0 win over
5:30 p.m. Eastern Conference finals, Miami at Boston, TV: TNT goal and four assists, and the among four Atlantic Coast Bournemouth meant Leice-
Game 7 Kamloops Blazers routed son to tie the Tulsa Shock for Conference teams to be ster’s 2-1 victory against
COLLEGE BASEBALL the Ontario Hockey League the most consecutive losses named hosts, is expected to West Ham was meaningless.
champion Peterborough of all time. be the No. 1 overall seed after Leeds’ season ended with a
9 a.m. NCAA tournament selection show TV: ESPN2
Petes 10-2 in the Memorial Indiana lost its final it won the league’s regular- 4-1 home loss to Tottenham.
COLLEGE LACROSSE Cup at Kamloops, Canada. 18 games last season before season championship and
10 a.m. NCAA championship, Notre Dame vs. Duke TV: ESPN dropping its first two this led the nation in victories. France crashed out of the
HOCKEY: STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS season. SEC hosts are Alabama Under-20 World Cup in Ar-
5 p.m. NHL Western Conference final, Vegas at Dallas, TV: ESPN, ESPND PRO BASKETBALL Rhyne Howard led At- (40-19), Arkansas (41-16), gentina despite a 3-1 group
Game 6 lanta (1-2) with 23 points. Auburn (34-21-1), Florida (44- stage win over Honduras.
HORSE RACING Fever prevail, 14), Kentucky (36-18), Louisi- The French lost their first
9:30 a.m. America’s Day at the Races TV: FS2 Marina Mabrey put up ana State (43-15), South Car- two matches in Group F,
Noon America’s Day at the Races TV: BSSC stop skid at 20 season highs with 23 points olina (39-19) and Vanderbilt from which Gambia and
LACROSSE and eight assists, and the (41-18). South Korea advanced to
1 p.m. NLL, Buffalo at Colorado TV: ESPN2 NaLyssa Smith scored Chicago Sky beat the visit- Joining Wake Forest as the knockout stage.
SOCCER 23 points and grabbed 13 re- ing Dallas Wings 94-88. ... ACC hosts are Clemson (43-
bounds to help the Indiana Jackie Young scored 17), Miami (40-19) and Virgin- Primoz Roglic expanded
3 p.m. CONCACAF Women’s U20 Championship, Mexico TV: FS2
vs. Costa Rica Fever end a WNBA record- 23 points, and the host Las ia (45-12). his Grand Tour portfolio by
tying 20-game losing streak Vegas Aces defeated the Oklahoma State (41-17) is winning the Giro d’Italia cy-
8 p.m. Mexico, women, Pachuca at Monterrey TV: FOXD
with a 90-87 victory over the Minnesota Lynx 94-73. The the only Big 12 Conference cling race to add to his three
TENNIS
host Atlanta Dream. Aces (4-0) tied the franchise host, and Stanford (38-16) is Spanish Vuelta titles, while
5 a.m. French Open, first round TV: BSW, Tennis The Fever (1-2) had lost record for consecutive wins the only one from the Pac-12 Mark Cavendish won the
11 a.m. French Open, first round TV: Tennis, 4 20 in a row dating to last sea- to open a season. Conference. 21st and final stage.

Transfer Longstreet takes talents to Corona Centennial

[Sondheimer, from D1]
The QB sensation
Let all the internet gurus
gush over other quarter-
backs. Corona Centennial
has the best in junior Husan
Longstreet, a transfer from
Inglewood. His arm
strength, particularly for
the deep pass, is off the
charts.
“He’s got incredible arm
talent,” Centennial coach
Matt Logan said.
Centennial’s success
always has centered on its
running game, but
Longstreet’s arm, combined
with his mobility, will make
the Huskies a definite
threat to the likely No. 1
team, Santa Ana Mater Dei.
Putting Roybal
on the clock
When Roybal Learning
Center was built to alleviate
overcrowding in the area of
Belmont High, it took years
to finish construction be-
cause of costs and trouble
with methane gas and other
issues.
It ended up costing more
than $300 million. One of the
perks was the largest gym
built in the Los Angeles
Unified School District. It
opened in 2008 with the
understanding the gym
could be used by others.
The City Section repeat-
edly has tried to host
wrestling, basketball and
volleyball competitions at
Roybal in recent years, only
to be turned down. The gym
is the best site for LAUSD
student-athletes to cele-
brate championships. The
City Section knows its
championship dates
months in advance, so plan-
ning shouldn’t be a problem.
There have been too many
excuses for the gym being
unavailable.
Pitching stars
You might need to arrive
very early for Studio City
Harvard-Westlake baseball
games next spring to get a
parking spot, because the
Wolverines have three sen-
iors who pro scouts are
going to be following every
will get to experience a drop
in media interest and papa-
razzi stakeouts. Campbell
Hall has no idea what it’s
about to encounter with the
child of a celebrity athlete.
The Mission League took
over as the top league this
past season, and there’s no
sign that defending state
Open Division champion
Harvard-Westlake won’t be
facing defending Southern
Section Open Division
champion Corona Centen-
nial again to decide who’s
best.
Stars of girls’
flag football
Get ready for the stars of
seven-on-seven girls’ flag
football as it begins its first
season.
Long Beach Poly has
junior quarterback Aaya
McLyn, a soccer and softball
athlete. Crenshaw’s Naomi
Whitfield, a senior basket-
ball player, had 12 intercep-
tions playing safety in a flag
league. Sophomore receiver
Saielle Howard and senior
quarterback Rhandi Flores
lead a powerhouse team at
Gardena Serra. Softball
shortstop Jessica Rose will
play quarterback for Lake
Balboa Birmingham. She’s
the daughter of 11-man
coach Jim Rose.
Eric Sondheimer Los Angeles Times There will be some high-
VOLLEYBALL STANDOUT Tristyn Bailey, left, the 5-foot-11 daughter of former UCLA sports stars Toby profile coaches, such as Tim
Bailey and Tracey Milburn, will attend Brentwood in the fall. Her brothers are Tyce, right, and Trace. Lins at Moorpark and Sami
Logan at Corona Centenni-
al. Lins was the 11-man
coach at Encino Crespi and
PREP BASEBALL PREP SOFTBALL Moorpark. Logan is the
REGIONAL PAIRINGS REGIONAL PAIRINGS daughter of Centennial
coach Matt Logan.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL lake at No. 4 Palisades; No. 6 La Serna at No. 3 San SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL Frontier at No. 4 Carson; No. 6 Irvine at No. 3 Chula
Quarterfinals, Tuesday, 4 p.m. Vista Mater Dei; No. 7 Orange Cove at No. 2 Fullerton.
Quarterfinals, Tuesday, 4 p.m. unless noted Diego Henry; No. 7 Long Beach Poly at No. 2 Bakersfield
Christian. New facilities
DIVISION I DIVISION I DIVISION IV
No. 8 Carlsbad at No. 1 Santa Margarita; No. 5 San DIVISION IV No. 1 Poway, bye; No. 5 Torrance vs. No. 4 La Mirada at No. 1 Santa Paula, bye; No. 5 Imperial at No. 4 Riverside New gyms and new stadi-
Glenn; No. 6 Grand Terrace at No. 3 San Diego Rancho North; No. 6 Ganesha at No. 3 Holtville; No. 7 Boron at
Diego Rancho Bernardo at No. 4 Corona; No. 6 Orange No. 8 Sylmar at No. 1 Anaheim Canyon; No. 5 Peninsula
Bernardo; No. 7 Moorpark at No. 2 Oaks Christian. No. 2 San Fernando, ums make their debuts in
Lutheran at No. 3 Chula Vista Eastlake; No. 7 Sherman at No. 4 Fallbrook; No. 6 Apple Valley at No. 3 Carlsbad
Oaks Notre Dame at No. 2 Carlsbad La Costa Canyon. Sage Creek; No. 7 Calexico at No. 2 Crean Lutheran. DIVISION II DIVISION V the 2023-24 school year.
DIVISION II DIVISION V No. 1 California, bye; No. 5 Corona Santiago at No. 4 No. 1 Verdugo Hills, bye; No. 5 Bernstein at No. 4 Ocean- In Woodland Hills, Taft
Carlsbad; No. 6 La Palma Kennedy at No. 3 Lakeside El side Coastal Academy; No. 6 Huntington Park at No. 3
No. 8 Carson vs. No. 1 Crespi at Hartunian Field (En- No. 8 Sun Valley Magnet at No. 1 Castaic; No. 5 Fillmore
Capitan; No. 7 Foothill at No. 2 Capistrano Valley. S.D. Madison; No. 7 Bakersfield South at No. 2 Ontario. will unveil its new all-
cino); No. 5 Aquinas at No. 4 Santee Santana; No. 6 at No. 4 South Gate; No. 6 Woodlake vs. No. 3 Ganesha
Calabasas at No. 3 Birmingham; No. 7 Bakersfield Cen- at Garey; No. 7 San Diego Lincoln at No. 2 Bloomington, DIVISION III NOTES: Semifinals, Thursday, 4 p.m. at higher seeds. weather football field and
tennial at No. 2 South Hills, 2 p.m. 2 p.m. No. 1 Chula Vista Otay Ranch, bye; No. 5 Bakersfield Championships, Saturday, 4 p.m. at higher seeds. track, and El Camino Real’s
DIVISION III NOTES: Semifinals, Thursday, 4 p.m. at higher seeds. all-weather turf field, shut
No. 8 Lompoc Cabrillo at No. 1 San Marcos; No. 5 West- Championships, Saturday, 4 p.m. at higher seeds.
past season. No Bronny down last year because it
It will be similar to the was melting, is supposed to
game. Marsten could be throwing time Jack Flaherty, Max Bronny James is off to be renovated by fall.
Bryce Rainer is a in the mid-90s. Pitcher Fried and Lucas Giolito USC and Bryce James is Lawndale also has a new
pitcher-infielder ranked Thomas Bridges set a were teammates there. headed to Studio City field, and Sun Valley Poly
near the top of the class of school record for lowest All three ended up as Campbell Hall, so and North Hollywood will be
2024. Pitcher Duncan earned-run average this major league pitchers. Chatsworth Sierra Canyon opening new gyms.
L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S
Newgarden’s late pass caps a crash-filled finish
He overtakes Ericsson
on the final lap after
three red flags mar the
conclusion for his first
Indy 500 victory.
associated press
INDIANAPOLIS — The
Indianapolis 500 is the one
race Josef Newgarden des-
perately wanted to win.
It’s basically the only race
that matters to his boss.
Coming up empty for 11
consecutive years had be-
come personal for the two-
time IndyCar champion.
Newgarden finally broke
through Sunday, winning
the Indy 500 to extend team
owner Roger Penske’s
record to 19 victories — and
the first since he bought In-
dianapolis Motor Speedway.
Newgarden did it with an
audacious pass of defending
race winner Marcus Erics-
son during a frantic, contro-
versial, 2.5-mile sprint to the
finish.
“We’ve had a tough go
here the last three, four
years, and we’ve had a lot of
questions to answer every
day, after every qualifying
weekend. We’ve had to come
out and put on a brave face,”
Newgarden said. “It’s just
not an easy place to succeed
at. I don’t necessarily sub-
scribe to the fact that if you
don’t win the 500, your ca-
reer is a failure.
“But I think a lot of peo-
ple view this race and this
championship with that
lens,” Newgarden contin-
ued. “The 500 stands alone
and if you are not able to cap-
ture one, the career really is a
failure.”
After the race was red-
flagged for the third time in
the final 16 laps thanks to a
crash involving Ed Car-
penter, Graham Rahal and
Benjamin Pedersen, New-
garden was moved from
fourth to second by race con-
trol following a review of the
running order at the time
the yellow flag waved.
He took advantage of his
improved position to sling-
shot around Ericsson on the
restart and hold him off from
MOTORS
Verstappen goes wire to wire in Monaco to extend points lead
MAX VERSTAPPEN of Red Bull Racing won the
Monaco Grand Prix, his fourth victory of the season.
Kostyuk loses at French Open, then jeered
Ukraine player does
not shake hands with
Sabalenka of Belarus
because of war with
Russia, and fans boo.
associated press
PARIS — Unable to sleep
the night before her first-
round match at the French
Open against Aryna Sa-
balenka of Belarus, the
Grand Slam tournament’s
No. 2 seed, Marta Kostyuk of
Ukraine checked her phone
at 5 a.m. Sunday and saw
disturbing news back home
in Kyiv.
At least one person was
killed when the capital of
Kostyuk’s country was sub-
jected to the largest drone
attack by Russia since the
start of its war, launched
with an invasion assisted by
Belarus in February 2022.
“It’s something I cannot
describe, probably. I try to
put my emotions aside any
time I go out on court. I think
I’m better than before, and I
don’t think it affects me as
much on a daily basis, but
yeah, it’s just — I don’t
know,” Kostyuk said, shak-
ing her head. “There is not
much to say, really. It’s just
JOSEF NEWGARDEN celebrates on the finish line after winning the Indianapo-
lis 500. Newgarden’s win gave team owner Roger Penske his 19th Indy 500 title.
there.
Newgarden brought his
Chevrolet-powered car to a
stop on the front stretch,
jumped out and found a hole
in the fence, diving into part
of a crowd estimated at more
than 300,000 to celebrate.
Then, Newgarden climbed
the fence to mimic longtime
Team Penske driver and
four-time Indy 500 winner
Helio Castroneves.
The 32-year-old from
Nashville is the first Ameri-
can to win the Indy 500 since
Alexander Rossi in 2016. He
led five of the 200 laps and
beat Ericsson in the fourth-
closest finish in 107 years
with a margin of victory of
.0974 seconds.
“I’m just so thankful to be
here. I started out as a fan in
the crowd, and this place is
amazing, regardless of
where you’re sitting,” New-
Luca Bruno Associated Press
part of my life.”
That is why Kostyuk de-
cided she would not ex-
change the usual postmatch
pleasantries with oppo-
nents from Russia or Bela-
rus. And that is why she
avoided a handshake —
avoided any eye contact,
even — after losing to Aus-
tralian Open champion Sa-
balenka 6-3, 6-2 on Day 1 at
Roland Garros.
What surprised the 20-
year-old, 39th-ranked Kos-
tyuk was the reaction: boos
and derisive whistles from
spectators. The negative re-
sponse grew louder as she
gathered her belongings and
walked off the court toward
the locker room.
“I have to say,” Kostyuk
said, “I didn’t expect it. ...
People should be, honestly,
embarrassed.”
Kostyuk is now based in
Monaco, and her mother
and sister are there too, but
her father and grandfather
are still in Kyiv. Perhaps the
fans on hand at the clay-
court event’s main stadium
were unaware of the back-
story and figured Kostyuk
simply failed to follow tennis
etiquette.
Initially, Sabalenka —
who had approached the net
as if anticipating some sort
of exchange with Kostyuk —
thought the noise was di-
‘Everyone kept
asking why I
hadn’t won this
race, and they
look at you like
you’re a failure ... I
knew I was
capable. I knew I
could.’
—Josef Newgarden
garden said after pouring a
bottle of whole milk over his
head. “Everyone kept asking
why I hadn’t won this race,
and they look at you like
you’re a failure if you haven’t
won it. I knew I was capable.
associated press
Formula One champion
Max Verstappen’s lights-to-
flag victory at the Monaco
Grand Prix gave the Red
Bull driver his fourth victory
of the season and a record
39th overall for the team as
he extended his champi-
onship lead to 39 points over
teammate Sergio Perez on
Sunday.
Verstappen’s wins all
have been with Red Bull
since his debut for the team
at the Spanish Grand Prix in
2016 when he became the
youngest F1 winner at 18.
Seven years and two
world championships later,
the Dutchman set a team
Featured matches
Today’s top matches at the
French Open:
MEN
8 No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz
vs. Flavio Cobolli
8 No. 3 Novak Djokovic vs.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
8 No. 8 Jannik Sinner
vs. Alexandre Muller
8 No. 10 Felix Auger-
Aliassime vs. Fabio
Fognini
WOMEN
8 No. 5 Caroline Garcia vs.
Xiyu Wang
8 No. 10 Petra Kvitova vs.
Elisabetta Cocciaretto
8 No. 11 V. Kudermetova vs.
A.K. Schmiedlova
8 No. 12 Belinda Bencic vs.
Elina Avanesyan
rected at her.
“At first, I thought they
were booing me,” Sabalenka
said. “I was a little confused,
and I was, like, ‘OK, what
should I do?’ ”
Sabalenka realized the
spectators might not have
known — and so responded
in a way she didn’t think was
deserved. “They saw it,” she
surmised, “as disrespect
[for] me.”
AJ Mast Associated Press
I knew I could.”
Ericsson finished second
in a Honda for Chip Ganassi
Racing and he immediately
criticized IndyCar’s decision
to hold a one-lap shootout to
the checkered flag. The
Swede believed the race
should have ended under
caution, with him the win-
ner, rather than having the
green flag fly on the first lap
out of the pits.
“It wasn’t enough laps to
go to do what we did. I don’t
think it’s safe to go out of the
pits on cold tires for a restart
when half the field is sort of
still trying to get out on track
when we go green,” Ericsson
said. “I can’t agree with
that.”
Newgarden and Ericsson
were followed by Santino
Ferrucci, who gave 88-year-
old A.J. Foyt his team’s best
finish in the iconic race that
record for wins as he passed
former Red Bull driver
Sebastian Vettel’s previous
tally of 38 victories when he
won four straight titles from
2010 to 2013.
“It’s great, I never
thought I’d be in this posi-
tion in my career,” Verstap-
pen said. “It’s better than I
could have imagined.”
Spanish veteran Fer-
nando Alonso was a season-
best second for Aston Mar-
tin as he collected a fifth po-
dium in six races, albeit 28
seconds behind Verstappen,
and Frenchman Esteban
Ocon secured third place
and a rare podium for
Alpine. Red Bull has won all
the races so far.
“It’s super nice to win it,”
All in all, if the tennis it-
self was not particularly
memorable, the whole
scene, including the lack of
the customary prematch
photo of the players follow-
ing the coin toss, became the
most noteworthy devel-
opment on Day 1 in Paris.
The highest-seeded play-
er to go home was No. 7
Maria Sakkari, who lost 7-6
(5), 7-5 to 42nd-ranked Kar-
olina Muchova.
Also out: No. 21 Magda
Linette, a semifinalist at the
Australian Open, who lost
6-3, 1-6, 6-3 to 2021 U.S. Open
runner-up Leylah Fernan-
dez, and No. 29 Zhang Shuai.
The first seeded men to
bow out were No. 20 Dan Ev-
ans and No. 30 Ben Shelton,
an Australian Open quarter-
finalist and 2022 NCAA
champion from Florida
making his French Open de-
but. No. 11 Karen Khacha-
nov, a semifinalist at the last
two majors, came all the way
back after dropping the
opening two sets to beat
Constant Lestienne, 3-6, 1-6,
6-2, 6-1, 6-3.
Two-time Grand Slam fi-
nalist Stefanos Tsitsipas got
past Jiri Vesely 7-5, 6-3, 4-6,
7-6 (7). No. 24 Sebastian Kor-
da was a straight-sets win-
ner in an all-American
matchup against Mackenzie
McDonald.
M O N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23 D3
INDY 500 RESULTS
The Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, lap length
2.5 miles. Start position in parentheses.
P Driver Car Laps
1 (17)
2 (10)
Josef Newgarden
Marcus Ericsson
Chevrolet
Honda
200
200
3 (4) Santino Ferrucci Chevrolet 200
4 (1) Alex Palou Honda 200
5 (7) Alexander Rossi Chevrolet 200
6 (6) Scott Dixon Honda 200
7 (8) Takuma Sato Honda 200
8 (16) Conor Daly Chevrolet 200
9 (21) Colton Herta Honda 200
10 (2) Rinus VeeKay Chevrolet 200
11 (18) Ryan Hunter-Reay Chevrolet 200
12 (27) Callum Ilott Chevrolet 200
13 (25) Devlin DeFrancesco Honda 200
14 (14) Scott McLaughlin Chevrolet 200
15 (20) Helio Castroneves Honda 200
16 (9) Tony Kanaan Chevrolet 200
17 (24) Marco Andretti Honda 200
18 (32) Jack Harvey Honda 199
19 (30) Christian Lundgaard Honda 198
20 (13) Ed Carpenter Chevrolet 197
21 (11) Benjamin Pedersen Chevrolet 196
22 (33) Graham Rahal Chevrolet 195
23 (12) Will Power Chevrolet 195
24 (5) Pato O’Ward Chevrolet 192
25 (22) Simon Pagenaud Honda 192
26 (26) Agustin Canapino Chevrolet 192
27 (3) Felix Rosenqvist Chevrolet 183
28 (15) Kyle Kirkwood Honda 183
29 (23) David Malukas Honda 160
30 (19) Romain Grosjean Honda 149
31 (31) Sting Ray Robb Honda 90
32 (28) R.C. Enerson Chevrolet 75
33 (29) Katherine Legge Honda 41
Super Tex won four times good thing in IndyCar.
since Kenny Brack reached Thank God these cars are so
victory lane in 1999. safe,” Kirkwood said. “I saw
Alex Palou, the pole sitter sparks flying everywhere.
and race favorite for Chip That’s the scary part. You’re
Ganassi Racing, finished upside-down and you’re
fourth after recovering from
a crash on pit road, and
kind of stuck at that point.”
On the restart, Pato
Rossi was fifth on what was O’Ward — who already had a
an otherwise disappointing restart called off for setting
day for Arrow McLaren. too slow of a pace — was
What was on pace to be
the fastest Indy 500 in his-
shuffled from first to third as
Newgarden shot to the lead.
tory ended with three red O’Ward and Ericsson were
flags in the final 16 laps. The then side by side entering
first came for a crash involv- Turn 3 and touched wheels,
ing Felix Rosenqvist and
Kyle Kirkwood, who were
and O’Ward slid into the wall
and out of the race in anoth-
near the front of the lead
pack. Kirkwood went upside
er disappointment for Ar-
row McLaren.
down into the catch fence, Agustin Canapino did a
beginning a terrifying, 360-spin behind him, snap-
spark-filled ride through the ping a brake line. He was un-
short chute. One of Kirk- able to stop and collided
wood’s wheels sailed over with O’Ward’s car.
the fencing and narrowly “I was a little too nice
cleared the packed grand- there,” O’Ward said. “I just
stand. Nobody was injured. feel so bummed for the team.
His tire smashed the hood of ... I got onto the apron to give
a Chevrolet in a parking lot. [Ericsson] room. I got
“All I know is I was up in squeezed. Yeah, I won’t for-
the fence, which is never a get that.”
AU T O R AC I N G
FORMULA ONE lap. 15. Yuki Tsunoda, Japan, Alphatauri, 76, +2 laps.
Monaco Grand Prix 16. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull Racing, 76, +2 laps.
At Monte Carlo, Monaco 17. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Haas, 76, +2 laps. 18.
Circuit de Monaco Logan Sargeant, USA, Williams, 76, +2 laps. 19. Kevin
Track: 3.00 kilometers (1.9 miles) Magnussen, Denmark, Haas, did not finish, 70. 20.
1. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull Racing, 78 Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, did not finish, 53.
laps, 1:48:51.980, 25 points. 2. Fernando Alonso, DRIVER STANDINGS: 1. Max Verstappen, Nether-
Spain, Aston Martin, 78, +27.921 seconds, 18. 3. Este- lands, Red Bull Racing, 144 points. 2. Sergio Perez,
ban Ocon, France, Alpine, 78, +36.990, 15. 4. Lewis Mexico, Red Bull Racing, 105. 3. Fernando Alonso,
Hamilton, Great Britain, Mercedes, 78, +39.062, 13. 5. Spain, Aston Martin, 93. 4. Lewis Hamilton, Great Brit-
George Russell, Great Britain, Mercedes, 78, +56.284, ain, Mercedes, 69. 5. George Russell, Britain, Mer-
10. 6. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 78, +1:01.890, cedes, 50. 6. Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 48. 7.
8. 7. Pierre Gasly, France, Alpine, 78, +1:02.362, 6. 8. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 42. 8. Lance Stroll,
Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 78, +1:03.391, 4. 9. Canada, Aston Martin, 27. 9. Esteban Ocon, France,
Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLaren, 77, +1 lap, 2. 10. Alpine, 21. 10. Pierre Gasly, France, Alpine, 14.
Oscar Piastri, Australia, McLaren, 77, +1 lap, 1. MANUFACTURERS STANDINGS: 1. Red Bull Racing,
11. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Alfa Romeo Racing, 77, 249 points. 2. Aston Martin, 120. 3. Mercedes, 119. 4.
+1 lap. 12. Nyck De Vries, Netherlands, Alphatauri, 77, Ferrari, 90. 5. McLaren, 17. 6. Alpine, 35. 7. Haas, 8. 8.
+1 lap. 13. Guanyu Zhou, China, Alfa Romeo Racing, 77, Alfa Romeo Racing, 6. 9. Alphatauri, 2. 10. Williams, 1.
+1 lap. 14. Alexander Albon, Thailand, Williams, 77, +1
Verstappen said. Cola 600 until Monday be-
cause of wet weather.
The Cup Series race will
Coca-Cola 600 begin at noon PDT.
postponed NASCAR moved the Xfinity
Charlotte Motor Speed- Series race, also postponed,
way postponed the Coca- to 8 a.m. on Monday.
Christophe Ena Associated Press
MARTA KOSTYUK , left, walks away after losing to
Aryna Sabalenka in the French Open’s first round.
TE N N I S R E S U LT S
$47-MILLION FRENCH OPEN 6-2, 6-4, 6-3; Alexander Shevchenko, Russia, d. Oscar
At Paris Otte, Germany, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (2).
Surface: Red clay
WOMEN’S SINGLES (first round)—Magdalena Frech,
MEN’S SINGLES (first round)—Sebastian Ofner, Aus- Poland, d. Zhang Shuai (29), China, 6-1, 6-1; Nadia
tria, d. Maxime Cressy, 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-2; Radu Albot, Podoroska, Argentina, d. Jessika Ponchet, France, 6-0,
Moldova, d. Patrick Kypson, 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Thanasi 6-2; Aryna Sabalenka (2), Belarus, d. Marta Kostyuk,
Kokkinakis, Australia, d. Daniel Evans (20), Britain, 6-4, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-2; Storm Hunter, Australia, d. Nuria Par-
6-4, 6-4; Tallon Griekspoor, Netherlands, d. Pedro Mar- rizas Diaz, Spain, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4; Iryna Shymanovich,
tinez, Spain, 6-4, 2-6, 0-6, 7-5, 6-3; Hubert Hurkacz Belarus, d. Panna Udvardy, Hungary, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1;
(13), Poland, d. David Goffin, Belgium, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, Kamilla Rakhimova, Russia, d. Sara Bejlek, Czech Re-
2-6, 6-4; Karen Khachanov (11), Russia, d. Constant public, 6-0, 6-3; Elise Mertens (28), Belgium, d. Vikto-
Lestienne, France, 3-6, 1-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-3; Marton ria Hruncakova, Slovakia, 6-1, 6-4; Karolina Muchova,
Fucsovics, Hungary, d. Hugo Grenier, France, 6-3, 5-7, Czech Republic, d. Maria Sakkari (8), Greece, 7-6 (5),
6-1, 6-3; Stefanos Tsitsipas (5), Greece, d. Jiri Vesely, 7-5; Leylah Annie Fernandez, Canada, d. Magda Linette
Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7); Sebastian Korda (21), Poland, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3; Zheng Qinwen (19), China,
(24), d. Mackenzie McDonald, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4; Jason d. Tamara Zidansek, Slovenia, 6-3, 6-1.
Kubler, Australia, d. Facundo Diaz Acosta, Argentina, Camila Giorgi, Italy, d. Alize Cornet, France, 6-3, 6-4;
1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. Clara Tauson, Denmark, d. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Bela-
Matteo Arnaldi, Italy, d. Daniel Elahi Galan, Colom- rus, 6-2, 6-0; Anastasia Potapova (24), Russia, d. Taylor
bia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2; Nuno Borges, Portugal, d. John Townsend, 6-1, 6-2; Leolia Jeanjean, France, d. Kim-
Isner, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (9); Roberto Carballes berly Birrell, Australia, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3; . Mayar Sherif,
Baena, Spain, def. Emilio Nava, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-2; Lo- Egypt, d. Madison Brengle, 6-3, 6-1; Sara Errani, Italy, d.
renzo Musetti (17), Italy, d. Mikael Ymer, Sweden, 7-5, Jil Teichmann, Switzerland, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2; Irina-Camelia
6-2, 6-4; Andrey Rublev (7), Russia, d. Laslo Djere, Ser- Begu (27), Romania, d. Anna Bondar, Hungary, 6-4,
bia, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, d. Ben 6-2; Liudmila Samsonova (15), Russia, d. Katie
Shelton (30), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3; Ugo Humbert, France, Volynets, 6-0, 6-1; Jessica Pegula (3), d. Danielle
d. Adrian Mannarino, France, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1; Corentin Collins, 6-4, 6-2; Daria Kasatkina (9), Russia, d. Jule
Moutet, France, d. Arthur Cazaux, France, 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, Niemeier, Germany, 6-3, 6-4.
6-4; Lucas Pouille, France, d. Jurij Rodionov, Austria,
D4 MO N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23 L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S

BASEBALL

RAYS 11 MARLINS 2 YANKEES 10 ORIOLES 3

NL STANDINGS
DODGERS 10 ANGELS 0 PADRES 7 ANGELS 2
West W L Pct. GB L10
DODGERS 32 22 .593 — 4-6 Streak Lost 1 This month 16-9 Streak Lost 3 This month 13-12 Anthony Rizzo hit a go-ahead RBI Austin Hays singled in the go-ahead
Arizona 30 23 .566 11⁄2 6-4 Home 17-7 Road 15-15 Home 15-13 Road 13-13 single in New York’s seven-run third run in the eighth inning for the Orioles,
San Francisco 27 26 .509 41⁄2 7-3
Division 12-7 Interleague 3-3 Division 9-7 Interleague 6-6 inning before injuring his neck on a who avoided being swept after they
Next: Tonight vs. Washington, Dodger Stadium, 6 Next: Tonight at Chicago White Sox, 5 PDT pickoff play. Yu Darvish gave up a were outscored 17-5 by the Rangers in
San Diego 24 29 .453 71⁄2 4-6 TV/Radio: SportsNet LA/570, 1020 TV/Radio: Bally Sports West/Fox Sports 1/830 season-high seven runs in 22⁄3 innings. the first two games of the series.
Colorado 24 30 .444 8 5-5
Dodgers AB R H BI Avg. T. Bay AB R H BI Avg. Miami AB R H BI Avg. Angels AB R H BI Avg. San Diego AB R H BI Avg. New York AB R H BI Avg. Texas AB R H BI Avg. Baltimore AB R H BI Avg.
Central W L Pct. GB L10 Betts rf 5 0 0 0 .244 Díaz 1b 5 0 2 1 .327 Davis cf 5 0 1 0 .364 Moniak rf 3 0 0 0 .333 Tatis Jr. rf 4 0 0 0 .246 Torres 2b 4 1 1 0 .263 Semien 2b 4 0 1 1 .298 Mullins cf 3 2 1 0 .266
Frman 1b 5 1 2 0 .335 Franco ss 5 2 2 2 .299 Soler rf 4 0 0 0 .254 b-Renfroe rf 2 0 1 0 .252 Crnnwrth 1b 3 1 1 1 .215 Judge rf 4 2 2 2 .291 Seager ss 4 0 1 1 .329 Rutschman c 4 1 2 0 .273
Milwaukee 28 25 .528 — 4-6 Mrtinz dh 5 2 2 2 .276 B.Lwe 2b 4 1 2 1 .210 Wendle ss 0 0 0 0 .173 Trout cf 4 0 0 0 .278 Bogaerts ss 4 0 0 0 .253 Rizzo 1b 3 0 1 1 .304 Lowe 1b 4 0 0 0 .273 Hays lf 4 0 3 2 .322
Taylor lf 3 3 3 2 .213 Rmírz dh 5 1 2 0 .295 Arraez 2b 3 1 2 0 .376 Ohtani dh 4 0 1 0 .269 Carpenter dh 3 1 0 0 .174 Allen lf 1 0 0 0 .200 García dh 4 0 1 0 .249 Santander rf 3 0 0 0 .258
Pittsburgh 26 26 .500 11⁄2 4-6 Muncy 3b 2 2 1 1 .208 Prdes 3b 5 2 3 4 .282 Cooper dh 4 0 1 0 .236 Drury 2b-1b 3 0 0 0 .243 Odor 2b 4 1 1 2 .210 LeMhu 3b 4 0 0 0 .251 Jung 3b 3 0 1 0 .282 McKenna rf 0 0 0 0 .259
Outman cf 3 0 0 0 .235 J.Lowe rf 5 1 2 1 .307 De La Cruz lf 4 0 0 0 .291 Walsh 1b 2 0 0 0 .111 Kim 3b 2 3 1 0 .242 Bader cf 4 2 1 2 .250 Heim c 4 0 1 0 .278 Mntcstle 1b 3 0 0 1 .237
Cincinnati 24 29 .453 4 5-5 Vargas 2b 3 1 0 1 .229 Siri cf 4 1 1 0 .250 Gurriel 1b 3 0 0 0 .297 c-Rengifo 2b 1 0 0 0 .203 Grisham cf 3 0 1 0 .188 Calhn dh 4 1 2 1 .242 Jankwski lf 3 0 0 0 .296 Urías 2b 3 0 0 0 .267
Rojas ss 3 0 1 1 .214 Raley lf 3 3 2 2 .254 Segura 3b 4 0 1 1 .197 Urshela 3b 3 0 1 0 .318 Azocar lf 3 1 1 2 .234 1Cbra dh 0 0 0 0 .201 Grssman rf 3 1 2 0 .248 a-Frazier 2b 1 0 0 0 .248
St. Louis 24 31 .436 5 5-5 a-Heyward 1 0 0 0 .221 Mejía c 4 0 0 0 .195 Fortes c 4 1 3 1 .243 Thaiss c 2 0 0 0 .282 b-Soto 1 0 0 0 .261 K.-Falfa lf 4 2 1 1 .208 2-Thpsn lf 0 1 0 0 .163 Hndrsn 3b 3 0 0 0 .200
Thpsn cf 3 1 3 2 .147 Totals 40 11 16 11 Hmpsn ss 3 0 1 0 .248 d-Wallach 1 0 1 0 .250 Nola c 2 0 0 0 .131 Higshka c 4 1 3 2 .203 Taveras cf 3 0 0 0 .309 McCann dh 2 0 0 0 .181
Chicago 22 30 .423 51⁄2 3-7 b-Smith 1 0 0 0 .313 Totals 34 2 9 2 Ward lf 3 0 0 0 .220 a-Sullivan c 1 0 0 1 .170 Volpe ss 4 1 1 1 .198 Totals 32 2 7 2 1-Vavra dh 0 0 0 0 .279
Barnes c 4 0 0 0 .087 Soto ss 1 0 0 0 .500 Totals 30 7 5 6 Totals 36 10 12 10 Mateo ss 3 0 1 0 .231
East W L Pct. GB L10 Totals 38 10 12 9 a-Neto ss 1 0 1 0 .258 Totals 29 3 7 3
San Diego 120 000 301 — 7 5 1
Totals 30 0 5 0
Atlanta 32 21 .604 — 5-5 Los Angeles 034 012 000 —10 12 0 New York 107 000 02x —10 12 2 Texas 000 001 010 —2 7 0
Tampa Bay 161 200 10x —11 16 2 Miami 001 001 000 —2 9 0 a-struck out for Nola in the 7th. b-pinch hit for Azocar in the 9th. Baltimore 200 000 01x —3 7 0
Miami 28 26 .519 41⁄2 5-5 a-struck out for Rojas in the 9th. b-popped out for Thompson in Angels 000 000 000 —0 5 0
1-ran for Calhoun in the 8th. a-flied out for Urías in the 8th. 1-ran for McCann in the 7th. 2-ran
the 9th. a-doubled for Soto in the 7th. b-lined out for Moniak in the 7th. Walks—San Diego 5: Tatis Jr. 1, Carpenter 1, Kim 2, Grisham 1. for Grossman in the 8th.
New York 27 27 .500 51⁄2 6-4 Walks—Dodgers 4: Taylor 2, Vargas 1, Thompson 1. Tampa Bay 3: c-struck out for Walsh in the 8th. d-singled for Thaiss in the 9th. Strikeouts—San Diego 12: Tatis Jr. 2, Cronenworth 2, Bogaerts 2, Walks—Texas 1: Jung 1. Baltimore 3: Mullins 1, Santander 1,
B.Lowe 1, Siri 1, Raley 1. Strikeouts—Dodgers 9: Betts 1, Freeman 1, Walks—Miami 2: Gurriel 1, Hampson 1. Angels 8: Trout 1, Drury 1, Carpenter 1, Odor 1, Kim 1, Azocar 1, Nola 1, Sullivan 1. New York 8: McCann 1. Strikeouts—Texas 8: Semien 1, Seager 1, Lowe 1, García
Philadelphia 25 28 .472 7 5-5 Outman 3, Vargas 2, Heyward 1, Barnes 1. Tampa Bay 12: Franco 2, Walsh 1, Urshela 1, Thaiss 1, Ward 1, Soto 1, Neto 1. Judge 2, Rizzo 2, Allen 1, LeMahieu 2, Volpe 1. E—Sullivan (2), Bader 1, Jung 1, Heim 1, Jankowski 2. Baltimore 8: Mullins 2, Santander 2,
B.Lowe 2, Ramírez 2, Paredes 1, J.Lowe 1, Siri 2, Mejía 2. E—B.Lowe Strikeouts—Miami 7: Davis 2, Soler 1, Cooper 2, De La Cruz 1, (2), Higashioka (4). LOB—San Diego 3, New York 2. 2B—Grisham Mountcastle 1, Urías 1, Henderson 2 LOB—Texas 4, Baltimore 6.
Washington 23 30 .434 9 5-5 (4), Siri (1). LOB—Dodgers 7, Tampa Bay 8. 2B—Freeman 2 (22), Gurriel 1. Angels 9: Trout 1, Ohtani 3, Drury 1, Walsh 1, Rengifo 1, (13), Higashioka 2 (5), Calhoun (4). HR—Cronenworth (6), off Cole; 2B—Semien (13), Heim (10), Seager (8). 3B—Hays (2).
Raley (7), Paredes (10). 3B—Siri (1). HR—Taylor 2 (9), off Fleming; Thaiss 1, Ward 1. 2B—Fortes (1), Neto (10), Renfroe (11). Odor (4), off Cole; Judge (15), off Darvish; Bader (6), off Honeywell RBIs—Semien (43), Seager (19), Hays 2 (22), Mountcastle (38).
Sunday’s results Muncy (17), off Fleming; Thompson (5), off Fleming; Martinez (10), 3B—Urshela (1). HR—Fortes (3), off Sandoval. Jr.. RBIs—Cronenworth (19), Azocar 2 (3), Odor 2 (17), Sullivan (5), SF—Mountcastle. LIDP—Seager. GIDP—Heim, Urías. DP—Texas 1
off Fleming; Paredes (8), off Bickford. RBIs—Taylor 2 (21), Muncy Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Judge 2 (35), Volpe (21), Rizzo (32), Bader 2 (19), Calhoun (10), (Seager, Semien, Lowe); Baltimore 2 (Mountcastle, Mateo; Mateo,
at Tampa Bay 11, DODGERS 10 (38), Thompson 2 (14), Martinez 2 (33), Vargas (25), Rojas (3), Pérez, W, 2-1 ...............5 2 0 0 4 3 79 2.84
Kiner-Falefa (8), Higashioka 2 (13). SB—Kim (7), Bader (5), Azocar Urías, Mateo).
Okert, H, 4 ..................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 16 2.20
Miami 2, at ANGELS 0 Paredes 4 (37), Raley 2 (21), Franco 2 (29), B.Lowe (27), J.Lowe Barnes, H, 3 ................1⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 11 3.43 (6). SF—Sullivan. DP—New York 1 (Higashioka, Rizzo, Higashioka). Texas IP H R ER BB SO
Bradford......................5 5 2 2 1 5
NP ERA
78 7.20
(37), Díaz (30). San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
at New York Yankees 10, San Diego 7 Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nardi, H, 3 ..................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 22 2.96 Darvish, L, 3-4...........22⁄3 7 7 7 0 2 63 4.61 Sborz..........................1 0 0 0 0 2 11 4.76
Scott, H, 9 ................11⁄3 0 0 0 1 3 21 3.60 Carlton .....................21⁄3 2 1 1 0 3 36 1.42 Ragans, L, 2-2 .............1 1 1 1 2 1 28 5.75
at Cleveland 4, St. Louis 3 Stone .........................2 10 7 7 0 3 57 14.40
Chargois, S, 1-1 ...........1 2 0 0 1 0 21 2.79 Barlow........................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 12 5.40
Bickford ......................2 3 3 3 2 4 42 6.48 Tapia ..........................1 0 0 0 0 0 12 2.92
at Kansas City 3, Washington 2 S.Miller .......................1 0 0 0 1 1 18 2.62 Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Honeywell Jr. ................2 3 2 2 0 3 32 3.77 King ...........................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 4 3.86
González, L, 1-2 ...........1 1 1 1 0 0 12 2.45 Sandoval, L, 3-4 ...........6 8 2 2 2 2 89 3.42 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
at Milwaukee 7, San Francisco 5 Graterol.......................1 2 0 0 0 1 17 1.99 Webb..........................2 0 0 0 0 4 28 3.60
New York IP H R ER BB SO
Cole, W, 6-0 ................6 4 6 5 3 9
NP ERA
100 2.93 Bradish.....................62⁄3 4 1 1 1 4 85 3.89
Cincinnati 8, at Chicago 5 Almonte ......................1 0 0 0 0 3 17 7.04 Loup...........................1 1 0 0 0 1 13 7.15 Cordero, H, 4 ...............1 1 0 0 0 2 14 3.47 Cano, BS, 4-5 ..............1 3 1 1 0 1 15 0.98
Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA T—2:48. Tickets sold—36,345 (45,517). Marinaccio, H, 5 ...........1 0 0 0 0 1 9 4.10 Coulombe, W, 2-1 ........ 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 3 2.37
at Colorado 11, New York 10 Fleming.......................6 12 10 8 2 3 86 4.62 Holmes .......................1 0 1 1 2 0 20 3.27 Bautista, S, 13-17 ........1 0 0 0 0 3 15 1.38
at Arizona 4, Boston 2 Beeks, W, 2-2 ..............1 0 0 0 1 2 19 4.55 HBP—Marinaccio (Cronenworth). Inherited runners-scored—Barlow 2-1, King 2-0, Cano 1-0,
Adam, S, 7-10 .............2 0 0 0 1 4 37 3.22 U—Bill Miller, Roberto Ortiz, Chad Whitson, Rob Drake. T—2:42. Coulombe 1-0.
at Seattle 6, Pittsburgh 3, 10 innings IBB—by Fleming (Taylor). WP—S.Miller. GUARDIANS 4 Tickets sold—47,295 (47,309). U—Mark Carlson, Tripp Gibson, Jordan Baker, Brennan Miller.
at Atlanta 11, Philadelphia 4 T—2:53. Tickets sold—21,043 (25,025). T—2:30. Tickets sold—25,124 (45,971).
CARDINALS 3

AL STANDINGS TIGERS 6 José Ramírez hit a two-run double with BREWERS 7 BLUE JAYS 3
WHITE SOX 5 two out in the ninth inning for the GIANTS 5 TWINS 0
West W L Pct. GB L10
Guardians, who have played 25 one-
Texas 33 19 .635 — 7-3 run games out of their 52 games and
Eric Haase’s 10th-inning sacrifice fly William Contreras drove in three runs José Berríos pitched around a season-
Houston 31 21 .596 2 8-2 lifted the Tigers over the White Sox. are 11-14 in those contests. as Milwaukee salvaged the finale of high five walks and into the sixth inning
Seattle 28 25 .528 51⁄2 7-3 Detroit ace Eduardo Rodríguez gave up St. Louis AB R H BI Avg. Cleveland AB R H BI Avg. the four-game series. San Francisco, to help Toronto, which is 10-17 in its
ANGELS 28 26 .519 6 6-4 one run in six innings. He is 4-2 with a Nootbaar cf 4 0 0 0 .268 Kwan lf
Gldsmdt 1b 4 1 2 1 .294 Rosario ss
4
4
2
0
2
1
1
0
.259
.243
which has won 10 of 12, gave up only last 27 games, beat his old team.
1.40 ERA in his last nine starts. Gorman 3b 4 0 1 0 .281 Ramírez 3b 5 0 2 2 .273 two runs in the previous three games. Berríos has given up two or fewer runs
Oakland 10 45 .182 241⁄2 0-10 Arenado dh 4 0 2 0 .261 Bell dh 4 0 2 1 .222
Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Detroit AB R H BI Avg. Donovan rf 3 0 0 0 .252 Arias rf 4 0 1 0 .200 San Fran. AB R H BI Avg. Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg.
in seven of his last nine outings. Twins
Central W L Pct. GB L10
Anderson ss 5 1 3 0 .268 McKtry 3b 5 1 2 0 .295 DeJong ss
Burleson lf
4 0 0 0 .248 Frman 2b
4 1 2 1 .240 a-Naylor 1b
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
.273
.232
Wade Jr. 1b 4 0 1 0 .265 Yelich lf 2 2 1 0 .254 rookie Matt Wallner has reached base
Minnesota 27 26 .509 — 3-7 Jiménez rf 3 1 1 2 .260 Greene cf 3 2 1 0 .293
Edman 2b 3 0 0 0 .266 Zunino c 3 1 2 0 .200
Ystrzmski cf 3 1 1 1 .265 Miller 2b 2 2 2 2 .330
in eight straight plate appearances.
Robert Jr. cf 5 0 0 1 .256 Báez ss 5 0 0 1 .230 Davis dh 4 0 0 0 .273 Mnstrio 2b 1 0 0 0 .000
Vaughn 1b 4 0 1 1 .238 Torkelson 1b 3 1 0 0 .234 Knizner c 4 1 1 1 .231 b-Brennan 1 0 0 0 .204 Conforto rf 3 1 2 0 .244 Contreras c 4 2 2 3 .250
Detroit 25 26 .490 1 6-4 Grandal c 4 0 0 0 .262 Maton dh 1 1 1 0 .165 Totals 34 3 8 3 Gallagher c 0 0 0 0 .094 Haniger lf 4 1 1 0 .238 Tellez 1b 3 0 0 0 .253 Toronto AB R H BI Avg. Minnesota AB R H BI Avg.
Burger dh 5 0 1 0 .250 a-Schoop dh 2 0 0 0 .231 Fry 1b 2 0 0 0 .133 Sabol c 4 1 1 3 .244 Anderson 3b 4 0 1 2 .244 Springer rf 3 1 2 0 .260 Gallo 1b 3 0 1 0 .207
Cleveland 23 29 .442 3 ⁄2
1
4-6 Frazier lf 3 1 0 0 .238 Baddoo lf 4 1 1 4 .263 Gimnz 2b 2 0 0 0 .225 Villar 3b 3 0 0 0 .143 Taylor rf 4 0 0 0 .171 Bichette ss 4 0 2 0 .338 Julien 2b 3 0 0 0 .224
Benintendi lf 0 0 0 0 .271 Haase c 4 0 0 1 .241 Straw cf 3 1 1 0 .230 a-Schmitt 1 0 0 0 .324 Turang ss 4 0 0 0 .218 Guero Jr. 1b 4 0 0 0 .284 Correa ss 4 0 1 0 .216
Chicago 22 33 .400 6 6-4 Alberto 3b 2 0 0 0 .213 Vierling rf 3 0 0 0 .241 Totals 35 4 11 4 Crawford ss 3 1 1 0 .177 Ruf dh 3 0 0 0 .250 Belt dh 4 0 0 0 .252 Buxton dh 4 0 0 0 .225
b-Sheets 1 1 1 0 .257 Short 2b 4 0 1 0 .303 Wisely 2b 2 0 0 1 .181 Wiemer cf 4 1 1 0 .191 Chapman 3b 2 1 1 0 .285 Kirilloff lf 2 0 0 0 .274
Kansas City 16 38 .296 111⁄2 3-7 Moncada 3b 1 0 0 0 .280 Totals 34 6 6 6
St. Louis 000 030 000 —3 8 0
b-Flores 1 0 0 0 .238 Totals 31 7 7 7 Merrifield lf 4 0 0 0 .285 Castro cf 4 0 1 0 .258
Cleveland 100 010 002 —4 11 0
González 2b 4 1 1 1 .200 Totals 32 5 7 5 Varsho cf 4 1 1 0 .211 Wallner rf 2 0 2 0 .368
East W L Pct. GB L10 Two outs when winning run scored. a-popped out for Freeman in Kirk c 3 0 1 2 .246 Farmer 3b 4 0 0 0 .263
Totals 37 5 8 5 San Francisco 001 000 400 —5 7 0
Tampa Bay 39 16 .709 — 7-3 the 6th. b-grounded out for Zunino in the 8th. Biggio 2b 3 0 0 0 .160 Vázquez c 2 0 0 0 .223
Chicago 001 000 400 0 _ 5 8 0 Walks—St. Louis 2: Nootbaar 1, Donovan 1. Cleveland 4: Kwan 1, Milwaukee 340 000 00x —7 7 0 Totals 31 3 7 2 a-Solano 1 0 0 0 .265
Detroit 004 000 001 1 _ 6 6 0 a-struck out for Villar in the 9th. b-struck out for Wisely in the 9th. Jeffers c 0 0 0 0 .227
Baltimore 34 19 .642 4 6-4 Rosario 1, Naylor 1, Straw 1. Strikeouts—St. Louis 3: Arenado 1,
a-walked for Maton in the 5th. b-singled for Alberto in the 7th. DeJong 1, Knizner 1. Cleveland 6: Kwan 1, Bell 2, Zunino 1, Fry 1, Walks—San Francisco 1: Crawford 1. Milwaukee 4: Yelich 2, Tellez Totals 29 0 5 0
New York 32 23 .582 7 7-3 Walks—Chicago 4: Jiménez 2, Grandal 1, Frazier 1. Detroit 8: Straw 1. LOB—St. Louis 7, Cleveland 9. 2B—Arenado (6), 1, Ruf 1. Strikeouts—San Francisco 11: Wade Jr. 2, Yastrzemski 1, Toronto 020 000 010 —3 7 0
Greene 2, Torkelson 2, Maton 1, Schoop 1, Baddoo 1, Vierling 1. Goldschmidt (17), Kwan (12), Bell (11), Arias (5), Ramírez (13). Davis 3, Haniger 1, Schmitt 1, Crawford 1, Wisely 1, Flores 1. Minnesota 000 000 000 —0 5 1
Boston 28 25 .528 10 5-5 Strikeouts—Chicago 10: Robert Jr. 3, Vaughn 1, Grandal 2, Burger 1, HR—Burleson (4), off Gaddis; Knizner (4), off Gaddis; Goldschmidt Milwaukee 10: Monasterio 1, Contreras 1, Anderson 1, Taylor 3, a-struck out for Vázquez in the 7th.
Frazier 1, González 2. Detroit 11: McKinstry 2, Greene 1, Báez 1, (10), off Gaddis. RBIs—Burleson (14), Knizner (11), Goldschmidt Turang 2, Ruf 1, Wiemer 1. LOB—San Francisco 4, Milwaukee 5. Walks—Toronto 2: Springer 1, Chapman 1. Minnesota 6: Gallo 1,
Toronto 28 26 .519 101⁄2 3-7 Torkelson 3, Baddoo 1, Haase 2, Vierling 1. LOB—Chicago 8, Detroit (26), Bell (22), Kwan (16), Ramírez 2 (28). DP—St. Louis 2 (DeJong, 2B—Crawford (3), Anderson (8). HR—Yastrzemski (6), off Rea; Sabol Julien 1, Kirilloff 2, Wallner 2. Strikeouts—Toronto 9: Springer 1,
9. 2B—Anderson (6), Jiménez (5), McKinstry (7). 3B—Greene (3). Edman, Goldschmidt; Knizner, Goldschmidt); Cleveland 1 (Ramírez, (6), off Rea; Contreras (5), off Cobb. RBIs—Yastrzemski (15), Sabol Guerrero Jr. 3, Belt 2, Merrifield 1, Biggio 2. Minnesota 14: Gallo 2,
HR—González (1), off Rodriguez; Baddoo (3), off Cease. Freeman, Fry). 3 (16), Wisely (7), Contreras 3 (16), Anderson 2 (30), Miller 2 (13).
Sunday’s results RBIs—González (9), Jiménez 2 (17), Robert Jr. (30), Vaughn (35), Julien 2, Buxton 3, Kirilloff 1, Castro 2, Farmer 3, Solano 1. E—Castro
St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA SB—Yelich (11), Wiemer (7). SF—Wisely. S—Yastrzemski. Runners (1). LOB—Toronto 4, Minnesota 8. 2B—Springer (5). RBIs—Kirk 2
at Miami 2, ANGELS 0 Baddoo 4 (16), Báez (26), Haase (14). DP—Detroit 1 (McKinstry, Montgomery.................5 7 2 2 1 3 91 4.48 left in scoring position—San Francisco 1 (Haniger); Milwaukee 2
Short, Torkelson). Hicks, H, 5 ..................2 1 0 0 0 2 23 4.37 (14). CS—Springer (2). DP—Toronto 1 (Bichette, Biggio, Guerrero Jr.);
(Taylor 2). RISP—San Francisco 1 for 3; Milwaukee 3 for 8.
at Tampa Bay 11, DODGERS 10 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA VerHagen, H, 7.............1⁄3 2 0 0 1 1 7 3.46 Runners moved up—Tellez, Contreras.
Minnesota 1 (Farmer, Julien, Gallo).
Cease .........................4 4 4 4 4 8 102 4.88 Cabrera, H, 3...............2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 2 4.95 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
at Baltimore 3, Texas 2 Crochet.....................12⁄3 1 0 0 3 0 46 3.38 Helsley, L, 3-4, BS, 6-10 2⁄3 1 2 2 2 0 20 3.52
San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO
Cobb, L, 4-2 ................4 7 7 7 4 5
NP ERA
95 3.05
Berríos, W, 5-4...........52⁄3 4 0 0 5 5 94 3.86
at New York 10, San Diego 7 Middleton..................11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 12 1.53 Richards, H, 3 ..............1 0 0 0 1 3 24 3.68
Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Beck...........................3 0 0 0 0 4 44 4.10 Swanson, H, 12 .........11⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 18 3.20
Graveman, H, 7 ............1 0 0 0 0 0 6 2.95 Gaddis......................42⁄3 5 3 3 2 3 76 5.34 Walker ........................1 0 0 0 0 1 16 0.00
at Cleveland 4, St. Louis 3 Kelly, BS, 1-4 ...............1 1 1 1 0 2 17 4.60 Morgan .....................11⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 16 1.61 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Romano, S, 12-15 ........1 1 0 0 0 3 16 3.00
Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
at Kansas City 3, Washington 2 López, L, 0-4 ...............2⁄3 0 1 0 1 0 3 6.14 Curry, W, 1-0................3 2 0 0 0 0 28 2.22 Rea, W, 2-3 .................6 5 4 4 0 6 90 4.89 Ober, L, 3-2 .................5 5 2 2 1 7 95 2.68
Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA IBB—by VerHagen (Naylor). HBP—Gaddis (Edman). Payamps, H, 7..............1 1 1 1 0 1 15 2.49
at Detroit 6, Chicago 5, 10 innings Rodriguez ....................6 5 1 1 2 6 100 2.13 WP—Montgomery. Strzelecki, H, 13...........2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 16 4.18
Jax .............................1 0 0 0 0 1 12 4.84
Pagán .........................0 0 0 0 0 0 7 4.57
Toronto 3, at Minnesota 0 Vest, H, 2....................1⁄3 2 3 3 1 1 16 3.12 T—2:38. Tickets sold—27,398 (34,788). Williams, S, 8-8 .........11⁄3 0 0 0 1 3 26 0.54 De León ......................2 1 1 0 1 1 27 3.52
Cisnero, BS, 1-2...........2⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 16 2.75 Inherited runners-scored—Williams 1-0. HBP—Rea (Conforto),
Houston 10, at Oakland 1 Holton.........................2 0 0 0 1 1 28 2.05 Cobb (Miller). WP—Cobb. PB—Contreras (2).
Sands.........................1 1 0 0 0 0 16 0.90
Lange, W, 3-0...............1 0 0 0 0 2 12 1.21 Pagán pitched to 1 batters in the 7th
at Arizona 4, Boston 2 U—Nic Lentz, Charlie Ramos, Jeremie Rehak, Chad Fairchild. HBP—Pagán (Chapman). WP—Berríos.
IBB—by López (Baddoo). WP—Crochet, Rodriguez. T—2:47. Tickets sold—34,581 (41,700).
at Seattle 6, Pittsburgh 3, 10 innings T—3:13. Tickets sold—22,644 (41,083). ROCKIES 11 T—2:47. Tickets sold—31,025 (38,544).

METS 10
TODAY’S GAMES ROYALS 3 Ryan McMahon homered for the third REDS 8 ASTROS 10
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>> straight game and drove in five runs for
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME NATIONALS 2 Colorado. The last-place Rockies CUBS 5 ATHLETICS 1
WAS/Williams (R) 2-2 4.32 6 p.m.
Michael Massey’s single with two outs erased a 6-2 deficit to win two of three Matt McLain had a career-high four Yordan Álvarez hit two of Houston’s
Dodgers/Miller (R) 1-0 1.80 SNLA
COL/Kauffmann (R) 0-2 9.35 1 p.m. in the ninth inning scored MJ Melendez in the series for a 5-2 homestand. hits in his 12th big league game as seven home runs, and the Astros, who
ARI/Nelson (R) 1-2 5.02 as the Royals avoided a sweep. Kan- New York AB R H BI Avg. Colorado AB R H BI Avg.
Cincinnati swept Chicago. Patrick have won 14 of 17, beat Oakland to
PIT/Hill (L) 4-4 4.27 2 p.m. sas City hit homers in the seventh and Nimo dh 3 0 2 0 .306 Blckn dh 5 3 2 2 .287 Wisdom homered twice with five RBIs complete another sweep and hand the
SF/DeSclafani (R) 3-4 3.43 MLB* Álvarz c 5 1 1 3 .269 Profar lf 5 1 1 0 .249
eighth innings to tie the score. Lindor ss 5 1 1 1 .225 Bryant rf 3 2 1 0 .269 in the Cubs’ fourth consecutive loss. Athletics their 11th consecutive loss.
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> Alnso 1b 5 1 2 0 .243 Doyle cf 0 0 0 0 .240
Washington AB R H BI Avg. Kansas City AB R H BI Avg. Vients 3b 4 0 0 0 .174 McMn 3b 4 3 3 5 .238 Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Houston AB R H BI Avg. Oakland AB R H BI Avg.
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME Thomas rf 5 0 1 0 .287 Pratto 1b 3 0 2 0 .289 India dh 4 2 1 0 .290 Hoerner 2b 5 0 0 0 .286 Altuve 2b 5 2 3 1 .370 Noda 1b 3 1 2 1 .241
a-McNeil 1 1 1 0 .292 Grichk cf 5 0 3 2 .366
Angels/Canning (R) 3-2 4.95 5 p.m. García 2b 5 0 0 0 .272 Perez c 4 0 0 0 .282 Marte cf 3 2 2 0 .243 Castro 2b 5 0 2 1 .283 McLain ss 5 1 4 1 .380 Swanson ss 4 0 2 0 .269 Peña ss 4 1 1 2 .247 Rooker dh 4 0 0 0 .261
Meneses dh 3 0 0 0 .295 Psqntno dh 4 0 0 0 .254 Pham lf 4 2 3 4 .225 Jones 1b 4 0 1 0 .273 Steer 1b 5 1 2 2 .284 Happ lf 5 0 0 0 .277 Alvrz dh 5 2 2 2 .291 S.Brown lf 4 0 1 0 .208
CHI/Kopech (R) 3-4 4.24 BSW, FS1 S.Garrett lf 5 0 1 0 .255 Witt Jr. ss 4 0 0 0 .232 Stphnsn c 4 1 0 0 .250 Suzuki rf 4 1 0 0 .279 Brgmn 3b 5 0 1 0 .235 Langeliers c 3 0 0 0 .207
Canha rf 2 1 0 0 .233 Tovar ss 4 1 1 0 .227
CLE/Allen (L) 1-2 3.31 10 a.m. Smith 1b 3 1 2 0 .283 Melendez rf 4 2 1 1 .208 b-Baty 1 0 0 1 .246 Wynns c 4 1 1 1 .200 Fairchild lf 2 1 1 0 .250 Morel dh 4 0 0 0 .299 J.Abru 1b 4 1 1 1 .214 Bleday cf 3 0 0 0 .217
BAL/Wells (R) 3-1 3.47 Vargas ss 4 1 1 1 .317 Garcia 3b 4 0 0 0 .272 Escbr 2b 5 1 2 1 .230 Totals 39 11 15 11 a-Friedl lf 3 1 2 1 .333 Mancini 1b 3 1 2 0 .255 Julks lf 4 1 2 0 .276 Laureano rf 2 0 1 0 .205
Chavis 3b 3 0 2 1 .290 Massey 2b 4 0 2 1 .231 Totals 38 10 14 10 Senzel 3b 3 1 2 2 .264 Tauchman cf 4 1 3 0 .333 Diaz c 4 1 1 0 .220 Kemp 2b 2 0 0 0 .156
TEX/Eovaldi (R) 6-2 2.60 10 a.m. Adams c 3 0 0 0 .294 Olivares lf 3 1 1 1 .232 Nwman 2b 2 0 2 1 .278 Wisdom 3b 3 2 2 5 .225 Meyers cf 4 1 1 3 .256 a-Díaz 2b 2 0 1 0 .203
Call cf 4 0 1 0 .212 Waters lf 0 0 0 0 .250 New York 000 600 103 —10 14 1 Fraley rf 5 0 0 1 .252 Gomes c 3 0 0 0 .280 McCrk rf 3 1 1 1 .215 Peterson 3b 3 0 0 0 .194
DET/Boyd (L) 3-3 5.74 MLB Colorado 002 450 00x —11 15 0
Totals 35 2 8 2 Bradley Jr. cf 3 0 0 0 .143 Barrero cf 4 0 0 0 .222 Totals 35 5 9 5 Totals 38 10 13 10 Allen ss 4 0 1 0 .200
MIN/Gray (R) 4-0 1.82 1 p.m. Totals 33 3 6 3 a-singled for Vientos in 9th. b-grounded out for Canha in 9th. b-Benson lf 1 0 0 0 .074 Totals 30 1 6 1
HOU/France (R) 1-1 3.43 MLB Walks—New York 7: Nimmo 2, Marte 2, Pham 1, Canha 2. Totals 38 8 14 8 Houston 100 300 213 —10 13 1
Washington 000 200 000 —2 8 1 Colorado 3: Bryant 2, McMahon 1. Strikeouts—New York 5: Nimmo
NY/Germán (R) 2-3 3.75 6:30 p.m. Kansas City 000 000 111 —3 6 0 Cincinnati 021 022 100 —8 14 0 Oakland 100 000 000 — 1 6 0
1, Álvarez 2, Vientos 1, Canha 1. Colorado 9: Profar 1, McMahon 1, Chicago 030 000 020 —5 9 1
SEA/Miller (R) 3-1 1.15 MLB a-singled for Kemp in the 6th.
Two outs when winning run scored. Grichuk 1, Castro 2, Jones 2, Tovar 1, Wynns 1. E—Megill (2). a-doubled for Fairchild in 5th. b-pinch hit for Barrero in 9th. Walks—Houston 3: Peña 1, Julks 1, McCormick 1. Oakland 5:
Walks—Washington 5: Meneses 2, Smith 1, Chavis 1, Adams 1. LOB—New York 8, Colorado 7. 2B—Alonso (4), Pham (4), Escobar Walks—Cincinnati 7: India 1, Stephenson 1, Senzel 2, Newman 3.
INTERLEAGUE >>> Noda 1, Langeliers 1, Bleday 1, Laureano 1, Peterson 1.
Kansas City 1: Pratto 1. (3), McMahon (15), Grichuk 2 (9), Tovar (12), Wynns (1). 3B—Alonso Chicago 5: Swanson 1, Suzuki 1, Mancini 1, Wisdom 1, Gomes 1. Strikeouts—Houston 8: Altuve 1, Peña 1, Alvarez 1, Bregman 1,
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME Strikeouts—Washington 10: Thomas 2, García 2, S.Garrett 1, (1), Marte (1), Pham (1). HR—Álvarez (8), off Gomber; Lindor (9), off Strikeouts—Cincinnati 5: India 1, Stephenson 2, Fraley 1, Barrero 1. J.Abreu 1, Diaz 1, Meyers 1, McCormick 1. Oakland 7: Noda 1, Rooker
KC/Staumont (R) 0-0 4.76 11:15 a.m. Chavis 1, Adams 3, Call 1. Kansas City 13: Pratto 1, Perez 1, Lambert; Blackmon (5), off Nogosek; McMahon (7), off Nogosek. Chicago 11: Hoerner 1, Happ 3, Suzuki 1, Morel 2, Mancini 1, Wisdom 1, S.Brown 2, Laureano 1, Peterson 1, Allen 1. E—Diaz (2).
STL/Wainwright (R) 2-0 6.33 Pasquantino 1, Witt Jr. 3, Melendez 1, Garcia 2, Massey 2, Olivares 1, RBIs—Pham 4 (14), Escobar (13), Álvarez 3 (19), Lindor (39), Baty 1, Gomes 2. E—Smyly (2). LOB—Cincinnati 10, Chicago 8. LOB—Houston 5, Oakland 8. 2B—Julks (7), Noda (11). HR—Alvarez
Bradley Jr. 1. (15), Grichuk 2 (9), Castro (16), McMahon 5 (28), Wynns (4), 2B—Fairchild (11), India (15), McLain (5), Friedl (9), Senzel (7), (13), off Waldichuk; Meyers (4), off Medina; McCormick (3), off
TB/Bradley (R) 3-1 4.44 11:15 a.m. E—Smith (4). LOB—Washington 11, Kansas City 5. 2B—Thomas Blackmon 2 (23). SB—Pham 2 (5). RISP—New York 4 for 12; Mancini (5). HR—Steer (7), off Hughes; Wisdom (13), off Ashcraft; Medina; Altuve (1), off Medina; J.Abreu (1), off Long; Peña (8), off
CHI (NL)/Stroman (R) 4-4 2.95 (10), Vargas (2), S.Garrett (4), Pratto (7). HR—Melendez (5), off Colorado 6 for 10. Runners moved up—Álvarez, Baty. GIDP—Álvarez, Wisdom (14), off Herget. RBIs—Senzel 2 (25), Fraley (34), McLain Acton; Alvarez (14), off Acton; Noda (5), off Javier. RBIs—Alvarez 2
ATL/Soroka (R) 0-0 0.00 5 p.m. Gore; Olivares (4), off Kuhl. RBIs—Vargas (8), Chavis (2), Melendez Lindor. DP—Colorado 3 (McMahon, Castro, Jones; McMahon, (8), Friedl (19), Newman (17), Steer 2 (25), Wisdom 5 (28). (48), Meyers 3 (17), McCormick (12), Altuve (2), J.Abreu (19), Peña
(22), Olivares (11), Massey (15). Castro, Jones; Tovar, Castro, Jones). SB—Fairchild (6), McLain (1). DP—Cincinnati 1 (McLain, Newman, 2 (26), Noda (16). SB—S.Brown (2). CS—Bleday (1). DP—Houston 2
OAK/Blackburn (R) 0-0 0.00 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Runners left in scoring position—Washington 5 (Smith, Thomas, Steer); Chicago 3 (Swanson, Hoerner, Mancini; Swanson, Hoerner, (Altuve, Peña, J.Abreu; Altuve, J.Abreu); Oakland 2 (Allen, Kemp,
* joined in progress Call 3); Kansas City 0. RISP—Washington 2 for 12; Kansas City 1 for Megill .........................4 10 6 4 2 3 81 4.67
Nogosek, L, 0-1............1 4 5 5 1 0 29 6.33 Mancini; Gomes, Hoerner, Gomes). Noda; Langeliers, Noda).
4. Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Leone .........................1 0 0 0 0 3 13 4.91
Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Brigham ......................1 0 0 0 0 1 16 3.44 Ashcraft, W, 3-3............5 5 3 3 3 6 92 5.55 Javier, W, 6-1 ...............5 4 1 1 3 3 88 2.97
Gore ...........................7 3 1 1 1 11 106 3.57 Hunter ........................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 16 6.00 Sims...........................1 1 0 0 2 1 27 3.86 Mushinski, H, 1 ............1 1 0 0 1 1 22 0.00
ODDS Kuhl, L, 0-3, BS, 1-2...12⁄3 3 2 1 0 2
Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO
27 7.90
NP ERA
Raley..........................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1
Colorado IP H R ER BB SO
6 3.18
NP ERA
Gibaut ........................1 0 0 0 0 0
Herget.........................1 2 2 2 0 1
13 3.70
20 2.55
Maton.........................1 1 0 0 0 1
Stanek ........................1 0 0 0 0 1
14 0.71
9 3.63
Lynch .......................51⁄3 5 2 2 3 6 95 3.38 Gomber.......................4 8 6 6 3 3 69 7.00 Díaz, S, 12-12..............1 1 0 0 0 3 23 1.74 Montero ......................1 0 0 0 1 1 17 6.97
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Staumont....................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 15 4.76 Lambert, W, 1-1 .........22⁄3 3 1 1 2 1 43 5.74 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Favorite Underdog Cuas...........................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 4.94 Bard, H, 1 .................11⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 19 0.63 Smyly, L, 5-2 .............42⁄3 7 5 5 2 2 92 3.45 Waldichuk....................1 1 1 1 0 2 16 7.43
at DODGERS OFF Washington OFF Chapman ....................1 2 0 0 1 1 27 2.75 Lawrence.....................1 2 3 3 1 0 19 3.07 Estrada .......................0 1 0 0 2 0 21 2.08 Medina, L, 0-4 ...........51⁄3 7 5 5 3 5 86 6.83
Barlow, W, 2-3..............1 0 0 0 1 1 17 3.86 Hughes .....................11⁄3 1 2 2 1 2 23 4.76 Long.........................12⁄3 2 1 1 0 1 26 3.71
at Arizona -175 Colorado +150 Inherited runners-scored—Raley 1-0, Bard 2-0. WP—Megill. Rucker ........................2 4 1 1 1 1 36 5.48
Inherited runners-scored—Staumont 1-0. WP—Chapman. Acton..........................1 3 3 3 0 0 21 12.71
at San Francisco -150 Pittsburgh +130 PB—Wynns (1). Fulmer ........................1 1 0 0 1 0 13 7.48
U—Ryan Additon, Dan Merzel, Lance Barksdale, Left, Will Little. U—Jansen Visconti, Second, Ron Kulpa, Third, Carlos Torres., HBP—Mushinski (Laureano), Acton (J.Abreu).
AMERICAN LEAGUE T—2:35. Tickets sold—18,319 (38,427). Estrada pitched to 3 batters in the 5th T—2:37. Tickets sold—8,809 (46,847).
T—2:57. Tickets sold—47,471 (50,144). WP—Smyly. T—3:15. Tickets sold—40,551 (41,363).
Favorite Underdog
at Chicago -130 ANGELS +110
at Baltimore -140 Cleveland +119
Texas -166 at Detroit +140
at Houston -125 Minnesota +105
DIAMONDBACKS 4 MARINERS 6 BRAVES 11 NOTES
at Seattle -135 New York +115
RED SOX 2 PIRATES 3 PHILLIES 4
INTERLEAGUE
Favorite
at St. Louis
Underdog
OFF Kansas City OFF
Merrill Kelly struck out 10 and Corbin Eugenio Suárez hit a three-run homer Ronald Acuña Jr. drove in three runs
Hendriks is set
at Chicago (NL)
Atlanta
OFF Tampa Bay
-230 at Oakland
OFF
+195
Carroll hit a two-run homer for Arizona.
Alex Verdugo had a run-scoring single
in the seventh for Boston and Justin
in the 10th inning, and the Mariners
have won six of seven. Pittsburgh,
once the NL leader, has lost four of
with four hits for Atlanta. Spencer
Strider struck out nine and became the
fastest pitcher in modern history to
to make return
Turner hit a solo homer in the eighth. five and has not won a series in May. reach 100 strikeouts in a season.
LEADERS Liam Hendriks is ready to re-
Boston AB R H BI Avg. Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Seattle AB R H BI Avg. Philadelphia AB R H BI Avg. Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. join the Chicago White Sox after he
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>> Pivetta p-p 0 0 0 0 --- Smith dh 4 0 0 0 .209 McCthn rf 4 1 1 0 .267 Crawford ss 4 2 1 0 .254 Stott 2b 4 0 1 0 .292 Acña Jr. rf 5 2 4 3 .333
Verdugo rf 5 0 2 1 .291 Marte 2b 4 1 2 0 .282 Reynolds dh 5 1 2 1 .290 France 1b 5 0 0 0 .260 Turner ss 4 0 0 0 .243 Olson 1b 5 2 3 4 .236 recovered from non-Hodgkin lym-
Player G AB H R Avg.
Arráez, Miami ...................49 181 68 19 .376 Devers 3b 5 0 0 0 .242 Carroll cf 4 1 1 2 .277 Joe lf-1b 5 0 0 0 .241 Rodríguez cf 5 1 2 1 .242 Harper dh 4 0 0 0 .306 Riley 3b 5 1 2 2 .267 phoma.
Freeman, DODGERS ..........54 215 72 44 .335 Turner dh-2b 5 1 2 1 .265 Walker 1b 4 1 1 0 .245 Santana 1b 2 0 0 0 .226 Kelenic lf 3 1 1 1 .278 Castelns rf 4 1 1 0 .300 Murphy c 5 0 3 0 .290
Díaz, Colorado ..................46 156 52 21 .333 Yoshida lf 3 0 2 0 .303 Gurriel Jr. lf 4 0 2 0 .315 Swinski lf 1 0 0 0 .232 Suárez 3b 4 1 1 3 .219 Schwarber lf 3 1 1 2 .168 Ozuna dh 5 1 1 0 .230 The White Sox posted a video
Acuña, Atlanta..................53 210 70 48 .333 Duran cf 4 0 0 0 .297 Rojas 3b 4 0 1 1 .248 Castro 2b 3 0 0 0 .254 Raleigh dh-c 4 1 1 1 .238 Realmuto c 3 0 1 0 .266 Rosrio lf 4 1 2 0 .237 on Twitter on Sunday welcoming
Gurriel, Arizona .................47 178 56 29 .315 Casas 1b 4 1 1 0 .200 Moreno c 3 0 1 0 .295 Hayes 3b 5 0 0 0 .221 Hernández rf 4 0 1 0 .233 Clemens 1b 3 1 0 0 .246 a-Pillar lf 1 0 0 0 .247
Nimmo, New York ..............53 206 63 32 .306 Hrnándz ss 2 0 0 0 .235 McCarthy rf 3 0 0 0 .141 Bae cf 4 1 2 0 .275 Murphy c 2 0 0 0 .213 Marsh cf 4 1 2 2 .273 Albies 2b 5 0 2 2 .255 Hendriks back to the team, and the
Castellanos, Philadelphia....53 207 62 35 .300 Valdez 2b 2 0 0 0 .243 Perdomo ss 3 1 1 1 .304 Owings ss 3 0 1 0 .190 c-Trammell 1 0 0 0 .150 Sosa 3b 3 0 0 0 .261 Arcia ss 5 1 2 0 .315
a-Refsnydr 0 0 0 0 .286 Totals 33 4 9 4 a-Mrcno ss 1 0 0 0 .262 Saucedo p 0 0 0 0 --- Totals 32 4 6 4 Harris II 4 3 1 0 .180 eccentric closer confirmed his re-
Estrada, San Francisco.......47 193 58 30 .301
Meneses, Washington ........50 210 62 20 .295 1-Reyes 2b 0 0 0 0 .273 Hedges c 2 0 1 1 .169 Caballero 2b 4 0 0 0 .261 Totals 44 11 20 11 turn in an Instagram post.
Goldschmidt, St. Louis .......53 204 60 37 .294 b-Tapia 1 0 0 0 .256 b-Palacios 0 0 0 0 .250 Totals 36 6 7 6 Philadelphia 002 000 200 — 4 6 3
Wong c 3 0 1 0 .243 Totals 35 3 7 2 Atlanta 700 030 10x —11 20 0
Hendriks, 34, was 0-0 with a
Home runs c-McGuire 1 0 0 0 .282
Alonso, New York ............................................................. 20 Totals 35 2 8 2
Pittsburgh 000 010 020 0 _ 3 7 0 a-struck out for Rosario in the 8th. 10.80 ERA in six rehabilitation ap-
Seattle 100 110 000 3 _ 6 7 1
Muncy, DODGERS............................................................. 17 Boston 000 000 110 —2 8 0
Walks—Philadelphia 3: Schwarber 1, Realmuto 1, Clemens 1. pearances with triple-A Charlotte.
Soler, Miami.................................................................... 17 Two outs when winning run scored. a-flied out for Owings in 9th. Strikeouts—Philadelphia 10: Stott 1, Harper 1, Castellanos 1,
Arizona 310 000 00x —4 9 0
b-walked for Hedges in 9th. c-struck out for Murphy in 9th. Schwarber 1, Realmuto 2, Clemens 1, Marsh 1, Sosa 2. Atlanta 4: The White Sox host the Angels
Runs Batted In
a-walked for Valdez in the 7th. b-flied out for Reyes in the 8th. Walks—Pittsburgh 6: McCutchen 1, Santana 1, Suwinski 1, Castro Acuña Jr. 1, Riley 1, Ozuna 1, Pillar 1. E—Turner (7), Schwarber (2), on Monday night.
Alonso, New York.............................................................. 46
Olson, Atlanta.................................................................. 41 c-pinch hit for Wong in the 9th. 1-ran for Refsnyder in the 7th. 2, Palacios 1. Seattle 5: Crawford 1, Kelenic 2, Suárez 1, Murphy 1. Sosa (6). LOB—Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 10. 2B—Stott (10),
Walks—Boston 4: Yoshida 1, Hernández 2, Refsnyder 1. Strikeouts—Pittsburgh 12: Reynolds 1, Joe 3, Suwinski 1, Castro 1, Castellanos (18), Realmuto (14), Rosario (9). 3B—Acuña Jr. (1).
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>>
Strikeouts—Boston 15: Verdugo 1, Devers 2, Turner 2, Yoshida 1, Hayes 4, Bae 1, Owings 1. Seattle 11: Crawford 1, France 1, Rodríguez HR—Marsh (5), off Strider; Schwarber (13), off McHugh; Olson (15), Etc.
Duran 4, Casas 3, Valdez 1, McGuire 1. Arizona 8: Marte 1, Carroll 1, 1, Kelenic 1, Suárez 1, Raleigh 1, Hernández 2, Murphy 1, Trammell 1, off Covey; Riley (10), off Covey; Olson (16), off Brogdon.
Player G AB H R Avg. Walker 1, Gurriel Jr. 1, Rojas 1, McCarthy 2, Perdomo 1. LOB—Boston Caballero 1. 2B—Bae (7), Kelenic (14). 3B—Reynolds (3). RBIs—Marsh 2 (22), Schwarber 2 (27), Olson 4 (41), Riley 2 (28),
San Diego left fielder Juan Soto
Bichette, Toronto ...............54 231 78 33 .338 10, Arizona 5. 2B—Wong (11). HR—Turner (6), off K.Nelson; Carroll HR—Rodríguez (9), off Ortiz; Raleigh (8), off Ortiz; Suárez (6), off Albies 2 (34), Acuña Jr. 3 (30). SB—Harris II (5). CS—Acuña Jr. (3). (back tightness) was scratched
Díaz, Tampa Bay................45 165 54 37 .327 (8), off Houck; Perdomo (5), off Houck. RBIs—Verdugo (21), Turner Stephenson. RBIs—Hedges (8), Reynolds (33), Rodríguez (28), DP—Philadelphia 1 (Sosa, Stott, Clemens); Atlanta 1 (Arcia, Olson).
Hays, Baltimore.................48 174 56 27 .322 (20), Carroll 2 (19), Rojas (22), Perdomo (24). SB—Marte (5). Raleigh (25), Kelenic (26), Suárez 3 (34 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA from the starting lineup against
Urshela, ANGELS...............50 179 57 19 .318 Runners left in scoring position—Boston 5 (Turner, Tapia, Devers Covey, L, 0-1................2⁄3 6 7 5 0 0 30 9.53
Rizzo, New York .................53 204 62 30 .304
Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA the New York Yankees but pinch-
3); Arizona 4 (Walker, McCarthy, Perdomo 2). Ortiz ...........................5 5 3 3 4 6 99 4.35 Hoffman ......................2 4 0 0 0 1 41 0.93
Yoshida, Boston ................45 175 53 28 .303 Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Contreras ....................2 1 0 0 0 1 22 4.33 Marte .......................11⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 27 9.64 hit. ... Yankees pitcher Domingo
Arozarena, Tampa Bay ........52 186 56 35 .301 Houck, L, 3-4...............4 6 4 4 0 4 76 5.30 Holderman...................1 0 0 0 0 2 14 2.33 Brogdon ......................1 3 3 3 0 0 18 3.38
Franco, Tampa Bay ............53 211 63 35 .299 Rodríguez ....................1 1 0 0 0 1 18 8.10 Bednar........................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 1.35 Strahm........................1 2 0 0 0 0 24 3.13
Germán said he probably will use
Semien, Texas...................52 215 64 46 .298 Pivetta ........................3 2 0 0 0 3 54 5.77 Stephenson, L, 0-3....... 2⁄3 1 3 2 1 1 10 5.54 Vasquez ......................2 3 1 1 0 2 38 1.48 less rosin on his hands when he re-
Greene, Detroit .................50 198 58 29 .293 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Home runs Kelly, W, 6-3 ..............61⁄3 4 1 1 2 10 108 2.83 Gonzales ...................52⁄3 3 1 1 3 4 90 5.22 Strider, W, 5-2..............6 2 2 2 1 9 102 2.97 turns from a 10-game ban for using
Judge, New York............................................................... 15 Chafin, H, 6.................2⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 16 3.15 Brash, H, 5..................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 5 4.57 McHugh ......................1 3 2 2 1 0 21 3.54 a foreign substance. ... Minnesota
Álvarez, Houston .............................................................. 14 K.Nelson, H, 6 ............. 2⁄3 2 1 1 0 2 14 2.61 Speier, H, 7 .................1 0 0 0 0 1 8 2.79 Rodríguez ....................2 1 0 0 1 1 28 0.00
García, Texas ................................................................... 14 Ruiz, H, 1....................1⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 8 3.98 Topa, H, 10 .................1⁄3 2 2 2 0 1 16 3.48 Inherited runners-scored—Hoffman 2-2, Marte 2-0.
will reinstate infielder Royce Lew-
Castro, S, 5-6 ..............1 1 0 0 0 2 17 2.22 Sewald, BS, 11-12 ....... 2⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 15 3.09 HBP—Vasquez (Harris II). WP—Vasquez. is one year after he tore his right
Runs Batted In Gott............................1 1 0 0 1 0 9 1.82
García, Texas ................................................................... 49 Inherited runners-scored—Chafin 2-1, Ruiz 1-0. WP—Pivetta. U—Dan Iassogna, Gabe Morales, Nate Tomlinson, Adam Beck.
U—Ryan Wills, Mark Ripperger, Shane Livensparger, Dan Bellino. Saucedo, W, 2-0...........1 1 0 0 1 3 20 0.82 T—2:52. Tickets sold—43,109 (41,149). anterior cruciate ligament.
Álvarez, Houston .............................................................. 48
Devers, Boston ................................................................ 44 T—2:43. Tickets sold—26,051 (48,359). T—2:54. Tickets sold—38,219 (47,929). — associated press
L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O RT S
Gray has received
room to grow with
young Nationals
[Shaikin, from D1]
Last year the Dodgers’
starters put up a 2.75 ERA.
In 2021, they put up a 2.93
ERA.
This year the Dodgers’
starters rank seventh in the
NL with a 4.44 ERA. Walker
Buehler, Dustin May and
Julio Urías all are injured.
Noah Syndergaard has a
6.27 ERA, and no NL pitcher
who does not call Coors
Field home has thrown
more innings with a higher
ERA.
The Dodgers have de-
ployed rookie reinforce-
ments, including Michael
Grove, Bobby Miller, Ryan
Pepiot and Gavin Stone. On
Sunday, Stone faced 16
batters and gave up 10 hits.
Gray was one of those
reinforcements in 2021, a
year in which the Dodgers
used 19 starting pitchers,
including a distressing
number of openers.
On July 20, the Dodgers
promoted Gray for his ma-
jor league debut. He threw
four innings that day, four
more on July 25. In those
eight innings, he gave up six
runs, including four home
runs.
“When guys come up and
they debut, they question
themselves: ‘Do I belong?
What do I have to do to say I
belong?’ ” Gray said during
the Nationals’ recent trip to
San Francisco. “I kind of
dealt with that a little bit.”
On July 30, 2021, the
Dodgers traded him. With
Trevor Bauer then on indef-
inite leave as the commis-
sioner’s office investigated
sexual assault allegations
against him, the Dodgers
traded Gray and catching
prospect Keibert Ruiz to the
Nationals for ace Max
Scherzer and infielder Trea
Turner.
The Nationals, accelerat-
ing an aggressive rebuild in
which Bryce Harper and
Anthony Rendon already
had left in free agency and
Juan Soto would later be
traded, immediately in-
serted Gray into their rota-
tion.
He started for Washing-
ton on Aug. 2, and he has
started just about every
fifth day since then.
With the Dodgers, and
with the imperative to win,
Gray probably would have
been optioned repeatedly,
shuttled between the major
and minor leagues. With the
Nationals, Gray could pitch
without worrying that one
bad start would result in a
return to triple A, or even
that one good start would
be followed by the activa-
tion of a veteran and a re-
turn to triple A.
Gray called that comfort
level “really huge” in his
development.
“You don’t want to think
about when they’re going to
get the next guy in to take
your spot, but I feel like it’s a
reality that we don’t shed
light on,” he said. “Just
trying to go out there, the
best I can, and not thinking
about that.
“But, at some point,
those thoughts do cross
everyone’s mind, so just
trying not to let it be too
overbearing.”
Pitching every fifth day
last season did not in itself
transform Gray into an
effective starter.
His ERA was 5.02. No
pitcher in the NL walked
more batters. No pitcher in
the majors gave up more
home runs.
Gray said a key differ-
ence this year is the intro-
duction of a cutter that has
helped “neutralize hitters”
by inducing soft contact.
For Nationals manager
Davey Martinez, a key dif-
ference for Gray is an ad-
justment to his delivery that
helped him deliver the ball
to the desired spot, rather
than to a spot from where
batters far too often could
launch it into the stands.
After giving up three home
runs in his first start this
season, Gray has given up
three in his 10 starts since
then.
“His misses on his fast-
ball aren’t crazy anymore,”
Martinez said.
Nationals coach Gary
DiSarcina sees all that, and
help from an improved
defense too.
He also sees Gray anoth-
er year removed from con-
stant reminders that he was
traded for a three-time Cy
Young Award winner, the
one who started the clinch-
M O N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23 D5
BASEBALL
ing game in the Nationals’
2019 World Series cham-
pionship.
“It’s a different dynamic
when a player is part of
those types of trades,” Di-
Sarcina said. “We all have
pressure, but there is the
extra added pressure of
having to justify why he was
part of that. I think that is
behind him.
“I think he is definitely in
a calm, good place this year.
His body language has been
different. He just looks like
he belongs.”
Andrew Friedman might
hear “Yordan Álvarez for
Josh Fields” for the rest of
his career. Still, in the nine
years Friedman has run the
Dodgers’ baseball opera-
tions, he has traded for
Mookie Betts, Manny
Machado, Yu Darvish and
Rich Hill without giving up
any prospects who have
come back to haunt the
Dodgers. Julio Aguilar Getty Images
Friedman traded Gray THE INITIAL PLAN for Gavin Stone was to give him a long look in the rotation, but the prospect has a 14.40
because the Dodgers ERA in three starts this month. The 24-year-old did induce 15 swings and misses against the first-place Rays.
needed Scherzer to replace
Bauer. In 2021, with the
Dodgers defending a World
Series championship and in
the midst of a 106-win sea-
son, that was a no-brainer,
Stone struggles in Dodgers loss
even more so when the [Dodgers, from D1] we lost. But personal relief the second.
teams expanded the trade
to include Turner.
“I think it’s just a proc-
ess.”
‘Given how today for sure.”
The Dodgers (32-22)
The inning began with
some bad luck, when Taylor
Scherzer and Turner left Where that process will went, it’s prudent evened the score twice more, let a high hop off the outfield
the Dodgers in free agency. take Stone next is unclear. staging a four-run rally in turf get over his head for a
The Nationals are delighted After initially planning to to just reassess the third to make it 7-7, then leadoff triple. Raley then
with their return. In spring
training, they signed Ruiz to
give the pitcher an extended
run in their banged-up rota-
and make sure riding solo home runs from
Thompson, J.D. Martinez
won a seven-pitch battle
with a double into the cor-
an eight-year, $50-million tion, the Dodgers were con- that whatever we and Taylor in the fifth and ner, hammering a changeup
contract. templating a change of sixth innings to knot the that — like many of Stone’s
Gray has emerged as a course after the game. do is best for score at 10-10. 57 pitches Sunday — seemed
reliable starter, although his Manager Dave Roberts The MLB-leading Rays to catch too much of the
walk rate is up and his offered no guarantee about
Gavin and best (39-16), however, took the plate.
strikeout rate is down this
season. He is averaging one
Stone starting on the up-
coming homestand, when he
for us.’ lead for good in the seventh.
Former Dodger Luke Ra-
Stone struck out Fran-
cisco Mejía with a changeup
walk every two innings, not would be lined up to face an- —Dave Roberts, ley beat reliever Victor — the rookie did induce 15
a barometer of long-term other powerhouse lineup in on right-hander Gavin Stone González to the bag on a swings and misses — and got
success. His future nonethe- the New York Yankees. ground ball to first to begin Yandy Díaz to line out to left.
less looks bright, and the Roberts said that while the inning. He later ad- But then, the two-out hit
Nationals can keep him in the Dodgers remain confi- came a footnote in a back- vanced to third and scored parade commenced: a line-
Washington while they dent in Stone’s long-term and-forth, 11:35 a.m. matinee on a grounder, sending the drive single by Wander
refine his game. upside, they don’t want to game. Rays to a marquee series win Franco; an RBI single by
Gray called pitcher harm his development amid The Dodgers had an early and the Dodgers to a 4-6 Brandon Lowe; an infield hit
Andre Jackson his closest his string of bad outings. 3-1 lead, after consecutive record on their 10-game trip. that was deflected by
friend with the Dodgers. In “Given how today went, homers from Chris Taylor “Feels like we played a lot Muncy; and then a one-two
the 22 months since the it’s prudent to just reassess and Max Muncy — Muncy better than 4-6,” said Fred- knockout combination, with
Dodgers traded Gray, they and make sure that whatev- later left the game with a die Freeman, who extended Isaac Paredes launching a
have optioned Jackson to er we do is best for Gavin and hamstring cramp but his hitting streak to 17 games two-run double over Taylor’s
triple-A Oklahoma City 13 best for us,” Roberts said, doesn’t believe it is serious — with two doubles. “A lot of head in left, and Josh Lowe
times. noting that fellow rookie and an RBI single from games that could have been adding an infield single that
In L.A., that could have Michael Grove could offer Trayce Thompson that lost a whole different lot of opened up a 7-3 Rays lead.
just as easily been Gray’s another rotation option. ended his six-week, 39 at-bat ways, and we came back and “He’s down in the dumps,
fate. In Washington, Gray “We’ll all get together and hitless streak. kept fighting and fighting.” but he’ll be all right,” Rob-
could be a budding star. figure out the best course of “I was expecting a cham- The biggest problem was erts said of Stone.
“I just look forward to action,” Roberts added. “Be- pagne toast like when Fred- Stone’s inability to keep As for the status of
going out and making a cause I think, like most die hit 300 [home runs] or them ahead. Stone’s next start?
name for myself, proving I things, you could debate ei- when Kersh got his 200th After wiggling out of one “We’ll see,” Roberts said.
can continue to do this,” he ther way. So that’s what we’ll win,” Thompson joked after tricky inning in the first, “I don’t want to speak too far
said, “and being a part of have to figure out.” finishing the day three for when the Rays scored one ahead, but we have some
that next great rotation for Stone’s seven-run, two- three with a walk. “At the run on three hits, Stone time to kind of reassess
the Nationals.” inning stat line almost be- end of the day it sucks that failed to stop the bleeding in what’s best for Gavin.”
Angels swept by Marlins to finish homestand
[Angels, from D1]
over the American League
Central-leading Twins, the
Angels closed it out with a
three-game losing streak.
They were shut out for the
first time in 95 games, dat-
ing to Aug. 21. That had been
the longest streak in the ma-
jors.
The Marlins, who have
not gone unnoticed in the
National League East,
showed up the Angels all se-
ries. On Sunday, facing 20-
year-old starter Eury Pérez
(2-1) — the youngest pitcher
in Marlins history, who
made his debut May 12 and
has drawn comparisons to
his Cy Young Award-win-
ning teammate, Sandy Al-
cantara — the Angels went 0
for 7 with runners in scoring
position and left 11 on base.
The Angels dropped to
fourth in the AL West, six
games behind the first-place
Texas Rangers, and will go
on the road to face the Chi-
cago White Sox and Hous-
ton Astros this week.
The Angels made some
noise in the bottom of the
ninth inning, the tying runs
moving into scoring position
with Mike Trout at the plate
and two outs.
Trout popped out to sec-
ond base.
Trout went hitless Sun-
day but extended his on-
base streak to 10 games Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
when he was intentionally THE MARLINS’ Nick Fortes steals second as Angels second baseman Luis Rengifo waits for the throw in the
walked in the seventh. ninth inning. Fortes also homered and had three hits as Miami capped a three-game sweep at Angel Stadium.
Shohei Ohtani got his
only hit of the series, a single go crazy. Sandoval was grateful to down slightly. Sandoval said.
in the fourth. “It just so happens that get his team through six in- Sandoval (3-4) is confi- “If you were to just com-
Nevin said he was not right now both of them nings but pointed out that dent his numbers will im- pare my stuff from last year,
concerned about the stars’ aren’t at their best, maybe. he still is waiting for his prove and still has felt good it’s down a little bit. There’s
offensive production. “Still,” Nevin continued, “stuff ” from last year to re- about some of the end re- no hiding it, can’t hide be-
“Those things, they hap- “we get to the point in a game turn. sults. hind it.
pen,” Nevin said. “I’m not where Mike’s up there with His velocity is down a bit “Give my team a chance “So, compete with what I
worried about them. I mean, the chance to win it, tie it? I’ll compared with 2022, with to win, that’s all I really care have, and I think I do a pretty
they come out of it and they take that every day.” his whiff and chase rates also about. The stuff will come,” good job of that.”
D6 M O N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23
DERRICK WHITE and the Celtics won their fifth game when facing elimination after White’s buzzer-beater
in Game 6 against the Heat, who are confident they can bounce back for Monday’s Game 7 in Boston.
History within their reach
Celtics can be the first
NBA team to erase a
3-0 deficit to win a
best-of-seven series.
associated press
BOSTON — Moments af-
ter Boston’s dramatic win at
Miami on Saturday night,
Jaylen Brown began think-
ing about the future. He
raised his hands, put up sev-
en fingers and began yelling,
“Game 7! Game 7!”
Game 7, indeed.
Brown and Boston are on
the brink of history after
Derrick White’s buzzer-
beating putback lifted the
Celtics to a 104-103 victory
over the Heat in Game 6.
One of the league’s most sto-
ried franchises is trying to
become the first team in
NBA playoffs history to over-
come a 3-0 deficit to win a
best-of-seven series.
Next up is one more game
in the Eastern Conference fi-
nals Monday night in Bos-
ton. And it looks as if the
back-and-forth series could
be on its way to an epic end.
The Celtics are the fourth
NBA team to erase a 3-0 defi-
cit in a best-of-seven series
and force a deciding game.
The previous three teams —
the 1951 New York Knicks in
the NBA Finals, the 1994
Denver Nuggets in the sec-
ond round and the 2003
Ertz back to grind
of soccer career
[Ertz, from D1]
birth at 30, could she come
back?
With two World Cups, an
Olympic medal and two U.S.
player of the year awards al-
ready on her resume, did she
even need to come back?
“I wouldn’t necessarily
use the term doubt. But it
did kind of change our per-
spective of making sure that
everything is done for him,
that he’s first,” she said of
her son. “It was just a lot lo-
gistically to try to figure out.
“And also I just kind of
took the time to make sure
my body was back properly.
To make sure that I could
play and perform.”
Ertz passed that first test
last month, proving her fit-
ness by coming off the bench
in a pair of friendlies with the
national team. Next, she
needed a club to play for, and
Angel City was the closest
NWSL team to her home in
Arizona, so she signed a one-
year contract with the sec-
ond-year franchise.
But with this summer’s
World Cup in Australia/New
Zealand less than two
months away, did the come-
back come too late? Ertz has
played a full 90 minutes only
once in the last 22 months
and sat out Angel City’s two
most recent games because
of a left thigh injury. She has
played a total of 244 minutes
in the last five weeks for a
team that has won once in its
last nine tries in competi-
tion.
Suddenly time is running
out.
“She will get there,” Angel
City coach Freya Coombe
said when asked about
Ertz’s fitness for the World
Cup. “There’s one thing that
I’ve learned about [in] my
short time working with her
is just her mentality. I think
her mentality is such that
she will absolutely get
there.”
Portland Trail Blazers in the
first round — lost Game 7, all
on the road.
“We’ve got another
chance, another opportuni-
ty,” said Jayson Tatum, who
had 31 points, 11 rebounds
and five assists in Game 6 to
join Larry Bird as the only
Celtics with 10 or more play-
off games with at least 30
points, 10 rebounds and five
assists. “It’s far from over.
Still an uphill battle. But it
always feels good to give
yourself another chance, an-
other opportunity.”
Boston is looking to ex-
tend a wild postseason ride
that already includes five
wins when facing elimina-
tion — twice in the East
semifinals after falling be-
hind 3-2 to Philadelphia, and
now three straight times
against the Heat.
The Celtics are 27-9 in
Game 7s and have won their
last four — including a 112-88
win against the 76ers in the
previous round that fea-
tured Tatum breaking out
for 51 points, the most in a
Game 7 in NBA history.
The Heat are 6-5 all time
in Game 7s, losing their last
two. Miami is 0-2 when fac-
ing such a game on the road.
The winner of Sunday’s
matchup will advance to
face the Western Conference
champion Denver Nuggets
in the NBA Finals.
Despite being denied a
Finals berth in three
straight games, Miami
Ertz certainly is enjoying
the game more, which
counts for something.
“The process of kind of
falling in love with the grind
again, because coming back,
it was like a clean slate of
having to start over,” she
said during a 20-minute in-
terview that was punctuated
by far more smiles than
frowns. “You know, preg-
nancy is the same thing in
the process of coming back
from an injury.”
Motherhood also has giv-
en her a different reason to
play.
“Before I could be selfish
with my career. Now it’s al-
most the opposite,” she said.
“Having to step back in that
questioning, ‘Oh, will I be
able to play again?’ And then
you learn that the sport has
given you so much. That’s
kind of a cool drive to have
this moment shared with
Madden and my family. I
love it differently than I did
before.”
She’s not alone in that. If
Ertz makes the World Cup
roster, she could be one of
five soccer moms on the U.S.
team, joining forward Alex
Morgan, defenders Crystal
Dunn and Casey Krueger
and backup goalkeeper
Adrianna Franch. Four
years ago in France there
was one, forward Jessica
McDonald.
And all five have talked
about how being a mother
has given their game deeper
meaning.
Morgan, 33, who gave
birth to daughter Charlie
three years ago, and Dunn,
30, who delivered son Marcel
last May, shared their preg-
nancies publicly, talking
about their workouts on so-
cial media and voicing their
desire to return to the field
after giving birth. Ertz was
far more private, although
she too trained almost up to
the day she gave birth and
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coach Erik Spoelstra said
his message to the team af-
ter Saturday’s loss was just
to focus on the next game.
Let the past be the past.
“Let’s just rally around
each other,” Spoelstra said.
“These are emotional games
and things can swing in that
Game 7. The pressure can go
back and forth in Game 7s
quite a bit. We’re not going
anywhere.”
But what may be most
concerning for the Heat
JULIE ERTZ , left, and Alex Morgan, right, have
both returned to soccer after becoming mothers.
practiced with a boys’ team
in Arizona to prepare for her
comeback.
She also talked privately
with national team coach
Vlatko Andonovski during
her extended absence.
“They allowed me to have
my time. I was really appre-
ciative of U.S. Soccer in gen-
eral and the trust that they
had in me that I was making
the proper decisions for my
body to be able to get back,”
Ertz said. “When I gave
birth, our communication
kind of accelerated.
“As a father himself,
understanding that aspect,
it was a cool way to commu-
nicate with your coach, be-
ing a new mom and [the] ex-
pectations he has and where
the team is going and where
he saw me kind of possibly
fitting in.”
Where she fits in is in the
same role she vacated when
she stepped away: providing
both experience and bite in
the center of the midfield.
Andi Sullivan, a gifted ath-
lete, filled that spot for much
of the last 18 months but
lacked Ertz’s physical pres-
ence and experience, two
reasons why the U.S. has lost
only five of the 118 games in
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heading into Monday is the
Celtics — typically reliant on
their ability to make three-
point shots — were able to
pull out last Saturday’s win
despite making a playoff-low
seven of 35 attempts from
deep.
In addition, until Jimmy
Butler’s incredible flurry of
10 points in a little more than
two minutes to put the Heat
in front, he was mostly a
non-factor on a night in
which he went just five for 21
from the field.
He said it hasn’t shaken
his resolve to try to prevent
what would be a crushing
finish for Miami.
“You’re going to get the
same test until you pass it, I
swear,” Butler said. “We
were in this same position
last year. We can do it. I know
that we will do it. We’ve got to
go on the road and win in a
very, very, very tough envi-
ronment.”
The Celtics are just 5-5 at
home during these playoffs,
but there is no place they
would rather be with their
season on the line.
“It’s going to be huge. The
best two words in sports is
‘Game 7,’ ” Brown said. “And
our home crowd, I know
they’re going to bring the en-
ergy. So, I’m excited.”
There was no word on the
status of Boston guard Mal-
colm Brogdon for Game 7.
The sixth man of the year
missed Game 6 because of a
right forearm strain.
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which Ertz has played.
Given all that, even at
something less than 100%,
Ertz is likely to get a long
look before the World Cup
roster is set.
“I was surprised at the
level that she came in at — in
a good way,” Coombe said. “I
do think that there’s anoth-
er level for her to go in terms
of her match fitness and just
being to be up to speed with
the games.
“There’s more room for
her to go and then getting to
that fifth gear.”
Yet for all Ertz brings
physically, it’s the mental
part of her game that has
benefited most from the
time away — and from An-
donovski’s approach to her
comeback.
“He allowed me a space to
just fall in love [with] the
game again,” Ertz said. “It’s
a gift I can never repay. [It’s]
a game that I love so much.
But I think you have to find it
again sometimes.”
“It’s really hard to kind of
put my journey in a few
words because it was so
emotional,” she added.
“How do you explain a feel-
ing so deep when you have a
child?”
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GOLF
Grillo prevails in
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prolonged slump
associated press
Emiliano Grillo made a
five-foot birdie putt on the
second playoff hole at Co-
lonial to get his first PGA
Tour victory in more than
71⁄2 years, after he lost a two-
stroke lead with a double-
bogey on the 72nd hole Sun-
day in Fort Worth, Texas.
Grillo curled in the win-
ning putt at the 186-yard 16th
hole, the same hole where he
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fore needing a playoff. Grillo EMILIANO GRILLO
and Adam Schenk, who won on the PGA Tour for
both finished at eight-under the first time since 2015.
272, had two-putt pars from
26 feet at No. 18 to start the couldn’t make a par putt to
playoff. extend the playoff.
It was the second PGA In last year’s U.S. Senior
Tour win for Grillo, the 30- Open, Harrington held off
year-old from Argentina Stricker by a stroke in a duel
whose only other win was at of the opposing Ryder Cup
the Frys.com Open in Napa captains from 2021.
in October 2015. He had a They were at it again in
closing 68. the first event on the Fields
Schenk, the 31-year-old Ranch East course at the
Indiana native in his 171st new headquarters of the
PGA Tour event, got his sec- PGA of America. The venue
ond runner-up finish of the in Frisco, Texas, about 35
season. miles north of Dallas, is set
At No. 16 in regulation, to host the PGA Champi-
Grillo took the solo lead with onship in 2027.
a 20-foot birdie. His lead was “This means a lot,”
two shots going to No. 18 be- Stricker said after his sixth
fore a wayward tee shot to senior major title. “I spent a
the right. His ball went into a lot of time with the PGA of
small concrete drainage ca- America during the Ryder
nal, then floated 150 yards or Cup. To play in another PGA
so back toward the tee box next year I think will be a lot
before coming to rest of fun too.”
against a rock in the middle
of the water flow.
Anannarukarn tops
“One bad swing all day,”
Grillo said. LPGA Match Play
While that was playing Pajaree Anannarukarn of
out, Schenk made an eight- Thailand capped off the
foot birdie putt at No. 16. It longest week on the LPGA
was his only birdie of the Tour with a 3-and-1 victory
round, getting him to eight to win the Bank of Hope
under before Grillo had even LPGA Match Play over
finished at 18. Ayaka Furue of Japan.
Schenk made a par at No. Anannarukarn, who beat
17 out of a greenside bunker Linn Grant of Sweden in the
before a closing par at No. 18. semifinals Sunday morning,
PGA Tour rookie Harry took the lead for good with a
Hall, in the final group with birdie on the par-five sev-
Schenk, bogeyed the final enth hole. The match ended
hole after his drive into the on the par-three 17th when
water to miss getting in the Anannarukarn drilled her
playoff. He finished at seven tee shot to about six feet to
under, tied for third with lo- the hole and Furue con-
cal favorite Scottie Scheffler, ceded on a hot day north of
the No. 1 player in the world Las Vegas.
who had a hole in one at the “Match Play is taking a
189-yard No. 8 during his lot of energy throughout the
closing 67. week,” said Anannarukarn,
After his second career who won for the second time
ace, Scheffler was even the on the LPGA Tour. “I’m
rest of the way. really soaking it in right now.
“I made a few today, but It’s been a great week, and
overall I probably lost a few I’m grateful for everything.”
strokes on the greens, which Furue was runner-up for
is frustrating,” Scheffler the second straight year.
said. “For a weekend where I
really struggled with the
Varner earns first
putter, to give myself still a
LIV victory
chance to win was nice.”
Stricker wins first
Harold Varner III won his
first LIV Golf event when he
two-putted from about 35
two senior majors feet for birdie on the 18th
Steve Stricker beat Pa- hole at Trump National in
draig Harrington on the first LIV Golf-DC at Sterling, Va.
hole of a playoff in the Senior Varner won by one shot
PGA Championship, giving over South Africa’s Branden
Stricker a sweep of the first Grace, who moments earlier
two senior majors of the sea- holed about a 20-foot birdie
son. putt on the tough par-four
Harrington forced the second hole, his last of the
playoff with a short birdie shotgun start.
putt on the par-five 18th, but Varner, who finished at
put his drive in the replay of 12-under 204 and made
the hole in deep grass on the $4 million, won for the first
right side of the fairway and time on American soil.
GOLF LEADERS
$8.7-MILLION CHARLES SCHWAB CHALLENGE Alex Cejka..........................................68-70-72-72
At Fort Worth—Par 70 Robert Karlsson ..................................68-73-66-75
Colonial Country Club—7,209 yards Scott McCarron...................................70-72-70-70
Final 72-hole leaders 283 (-5)—$55,625
(x-won playoff) Stephen Ames....................................70-70-70-73
272 (-8)—$1,566,000 Thomas Bjorn .....................................68-74-71-70
x-Emiliano Grillo (500).........................67-65-72-68 Colin Montgomerie ..............................73-68-69-73
272 (-8)—$939,600 David Toms ........................................71-69-70-73
284 (-4)—$46,250
Adam Schenk (300) ............................66-67-67-72
273 (-7)—$504,600 Justin Leonard ....................................71-72-70-71
285 (-3)—$38,000
Harry Hall (162) .................................62-66-72-73
Scottie Scheffler (162).........................67-67-72-67 David Branshaw ..................................70-71-71-73
274 (-6)—$348,000 Adilson Da Silva..................................67-71-71-76
Paul Haley (110).................................73-68-66-67 Thongchai Jaidee ................................75-71-68-71
275 (-5)—$291,450 Bernhard Langer .................................71-72-73-69
Sam Burns (91)..................................67-70-70-68 Kevin Sutherland.................................73-72-68-72
Rickie Fowler (91) ...............................68-71-69-67 Ken Tanigawa .....................................73-71-70-71
Michael Kim (91)................................67-71-70-67 $25-MILLION LIV TOUR, WASHINGTON, D.C.
276 (-4)—$234,900 At Sterling, Va.—Par 72
Max Homa (75) ..................................67-69-71-69 Trump National Golf Course—7,472 yards
Mark Hubbard (75) .............................69-69-69-69
Final 54-hole leaders
Kevin Streelman (75)...........................68-69-68-71
277 (-3)—$176,175 204 (-12)—$4,000,000
Harold Varner III.......................................64-72-68
Harris English (59) ..............................65-66-70-76
205 (-11)—$2,250,000
Aaron Rai (59) ...................................71-68-67-71
Chad Ramey (59) ...............................68-69-69-71 Branden Grace ........................................70-69-66
206 (-10)—$1,500,000
Justin Rose (59) .................................69-66-72-70
Mito Pereira ............................................68-67-71
278 (-2)—$130,500
Austin Eckroat (49) .............................69-66-72-71 208 (-8)—$900,000
Sebastian Munoz .....................................70-68-70
Russell Henley (49) .............................68-71-69-70
Viktor Hovland (49) .............................71-68-66-73 Henrik Stenson........................................70-67-71
David Lipsky (49)................................67-69-69-73 209 (-7)—$613,333
Justin Suh (49)...................................68-70-66-74 Andy Ogletree..........................................68-70-71
279 (-1)—$81,671 Louis Oosthuizen......................................71-67-71
Kevin Na ................................................68-69-72
Byeong Hun An (36)............................67-66-72-74
210 (-6)—$421,667
Aaron Baddeley (36) ...........................70-71-71-67
Christiaan Bezuidenhout (36)................70-68-70-71 Cameron Tringale .....................................69-71-70
Bryson DeChambeau................................70-70-70
Thomas Detry (36) ..............................70-68-71-70
Cameron Smith .......................................68-70-72
Ryan Fox (36).....................................67-71-69-72
Kramer Hickok (36) .............................70-69-71-69 211 (-5)—$350,000
Austin Smotherman (36) ......................67-73-70-69 David Puig ..............................................70-75-66
Carson Young (36) ..............................69-66-75-69 Carlos Ortiz .............................................73-68-70
Brooks Koepka ........................................72-69-70
$3.5-MILLION SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 212 (-4)—$293,333
At Frisco, Texas—Par 72 Talor Gooch.............................................70-71-71
TPC Firsco, Fields Ranch East—7,154 yards Peter Uihlein ...........................................70-71-71
Final 72-hole leaders Dean Burmester ......................................69-71-72
(x-won playoff) 213 (-3)—$250,000
270 (-18)—$630,000 Scott Vincent ..........................................69-75-69
x-Steve Stricker...................................70-67-64-69 Graeme McDowell ....................................72-70-71
270 (-18)—$380,000 Pat Perez ................................................73-69-71
Padraig Harrington...............................64-68-68-70 Laurie Canter ..........................................69-73-71
272 (-16)—$237,500 Eugenio Chacarra.....................................70-69-74
214 (-2)—$203,333
Stewart Cink.......................................68-68-67-69
Matt Jones..............................................73-72-69
277 (-11)—$166,000
Y.E. Yang............................................69-69-69-70 Brendan Steele........................................73-70-71
279 (-9)—$115,933 $1.5-MILLION LPGA BANK OF HOPE MATCH PLAY
Steven Alker .......................................70-69-69-71 At Las Vegas—Par 72
Darren Clarke .....................................69-69-69-72 Shadow Creek Golf Course North—6,804 yards
Miguel Angel Jimenez...........................68-71-70-70
280 (-8)—$92,500
Semifinals
Pajaree Anannarukam, Thailand, d. Linn Grant Swe-
Marco Dawson....................................70-69-72-69
den, 3 and 1
Vijay Singh.........................................71-71-69-69
281 (-7)—$82,500 Ayaka Furue (6), Japan, d. Leona Maguire Ireland, 2
Steve Flesch.......................................72-70-68-71 and 1
Katsumasa Miyamoto ..........................66-69-74-72 Championship
282 (-6)—$70,000 Anannarukam d. Furue, 3 and 1

CALENDAR M O N D AY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 2 3 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R
More marvelous
acts to come
This article contains spoilers for
the series finale of “The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel.”
T
he Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel,” the Emmy-
winning Prime Video
comedy series that con-
cluded its five-season
run on Friday, is a story built to
fight perception.
Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a New
York City housewife played by
Rachel Brosnahan, isn’t supposed
to succeed as a comedian because
she doesn’t look like someone who
would: She’s too poised, too pretty,
too educated and — when she’s
hired to be the “lady writer” for a
late-night host in Season 5 — too fe-
male to tell jokes for a living. That
Midge got into this line of work only
after her so-called perfect marriage
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
French director takes top prize
Justine Triet becomes
only the third woman
to win the Palme d’Or,
for ‘Anatomy of a Fall.’
JUSTIN CHANG
FILM CRITIC
CANNES, France — The
French director Justine
Triet became the third fe-
male filmmaker to take top
honors at the Cannes Film
Festival, winning the Palme
d’Or from the competition
jury on Saturday for her
roundly admired dramatic
thriller “Anatomy of a Fall”
(“Anatomie d’une Chute”).
An emotionally intricate
marriage story by way of a
knotty courtroom drama,
Triet’s movie — primarily in
French, but with some Eng- JUSTINE TRIET, right, won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes festival for the
[See Triet, E6] drama “Anatomy of a Fall.” Actor Jane Fonda presented the award to the director.
Alex Borstein on the
‘Mrs. Maisel’ finale and
‘commanding respect’
BY WHITNEY FRIEDLANDER
Philippe Antonello Prime Video
RACHEL Brosnahan, left, and Alex
Borstein in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”
Daniel Cole Associated Press
Ricardo DeAratanha Los Angeles Times
fell apart serves to remind us that
everything society tells nice young
women to do is part of a greater
hoax. (Oh, so you married well and
had kids? Where’s the job security in
that?)
The only person who always
stood by Midge is Susie Myerson.
Alex Borstein’s character is a
dogged and (eventually) self-made
talent manager who felt the fearless-
ness of the show’s heroine from the
beginning.
In the pilot, meandering on stage
in a nightgown, Midge was so freshly
scored that she bared almost every-
thing — literally and figuratively —
to a bunch of drunks at a Greenwich
Village comedy club. Susie, who
came from zero privilege and says
that she wants to show the world
that she’s not insignificant, saw in
Midge someone [See Borstein, E2]
Actor makes her
mark in best of best
Sandra Hüller talks
about her cinematic
doubleheader and
challenging roles.
JUSTIN CHANG
FILM CRITIC
CANNES, France —
“Anatomy of a Fall,” the Pal-
me d’Or winner at the 76th
Cannes Film Festival, opens
with a one-on-one interview
that quickly goes south.
A successful novelist
named Sandra, played by
German actor Sandra
Hüller, has invited a journal-
ist to sit down with her at her
family’s chalet in the French
Alps. The two get along well
enough, but then comes an
ear-splitting blast of music
E
THEATER REVIEW
Revival
retains
sting,
power
The discussion behind
‘A Soldier’s Play’ at
the Ahmanson is still
urgent decades later.
CHARLES McNULTY
THEATER CRITIC
Charles Fuller’s 1981
drama “A Soldier’s Play” is a
fiercely complex study of
race relations neatly pack-
aged as a whodunit. By the
end, the murderer is re-
vealed, but guilt is spread all
around and justice remains
an elusive quest.
The Tony Award-win-
ning revival of this Pulitzer
Prize-winning drama, di-
rected by the ever-reliable
Kenny Leon, doesn’t disap-
point. This touring produc-
tion, which opened last
Wednesday at the Ahman-
son Theatre, seizes hold of
the audience with the mys-
terious murder of Sgt. Ver-
non C. Waters (played by
veteran Eugene Lee), a
Black noncommissioned of-
ficer who is fatally shot while
stumbling home from a club
one night after too much to
drink.
“They still hate you,” Wa-
ters mutters repeatedly in
his final moments. The
scope of this “they” will be as
much the subject of inquiry
as the identity of the person
who pulled the trigger.
The action is set in Fort
Neal, La. It’s 1944 and the
military is still segregated.
Racism is pervasive, and the
prevailing assumption is
that the Ku Klux Klan
lynched Sgt. Waters.
Capt. Richard Daven-
port (Norm Lewis), a Black
officer with a law degree
[See ‘Soldier’s,’ E3]
Joan Marcus
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Richard Davenport.
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from upstairs — Sandra’s
writer husband, Samuel
(Samuel Theis), is in a foul
mood and wants to make it
known — and the interview
comes to an abrupt halt.
It’s a tense, playful
opener that hints at the
marital and legal drama to
come in this intricately plot-
ted mystery from French di-
rector and co-writer Justine
Triet. Within minutes, Sam-
uel will have fallen to his
death from one of the
chalet’s upper stories. San-
dra is tried for his murder,
and she’ll spend the rest of
the movie being questioned
repeatedly, not by a journal-
ist but by judges, lawyers
and, most wrenchingly, her
own adolescent son, Daniel
(Milo Machado Graner).
And so it’s a funny thing
[See Hüller, E6]
E2 MO N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23
MOVIE REVIEW
Sheer poetry
in Fiennes act
Brother and sister
Ralph and Sophie join
forces to bring an epic
T.S. Eliot work to life.
By Robert Abele
When it came to lock-
down projects at the start of
the pandemic, reassessing
and reorganizing one’s pos-
sessions was a clear favorite.
Ralph Fiennes’ version befit
a consummate actor who’d
long cherished T.S. Eliot’s
“Four Quartets”: to transfer
the entirety of the poet’s epic
meditation on time and hu-
manity — over a thousand
lines — to his memory, and
from there to theater audi-
ences at the first opportuni-
ty.
Fiennes toured the U.K.
with his one-man stage
adaptation in 2021, and
shortly afterward commit-
ted his widely praised per-
formance to film, directed by
his sister Sophie Fiennes.
(Ralph had directed the
stage version.) Unabashedly
theatrical in presentation
but broken up with inter-
ludes of nature, this “Four
Quartets” is a multi-course
feast of concentrated fla-
vors: mesmerizing lan-
guage, masterly invocation,
and the kind of poetic im-
agery that in the hands of a
great actor feels like a direct
She’s
booked
solid
too
[Borstein, from E1]
who could speak for a lot of
people who are easily dis-
missed because she walked
the walk of a classy broad. So
Susie bails the newly minted
divorcee out of jail after she
was booked for indecency.
Like much of creator
Amy Sherman-Palladino’s
other works, including the
short-lived but beloved
“Bunheads” and the para-
gon of young-adult pro-
gramming “Gilmore Girls,”
it’s the devotion that these
two women have to each
other that has always driven
“Maisel.” When Midge and
Susie have a falling out this
season, their breakup scene
plays like a hostile divorce.
When Midge sends Susie a
message for reconciliation
and Susie drops everything
to go to her — Nora Ephron
couldn’t have scripted it bet-
ter.
PERFECT PAIR
The series finale includes
an homage to the pilot,
twisting the circumstances
so that this time, it’s Midge
bailing Susie out of the slam-
mer and hearing about her
heartbreak. And the last
scene of “Maisel” jumps
ahead several decades and
we see the two women as
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line from Eliot’s pen to our
mind’s landscape.
Or to be more precise, to
our here-and-now con-
sciousness still wrestling
with who we are in the wake
of a polarizing global crisis,
still trying to reconcile where
we’ve been with what the fu-
ture holds. Started in the
1930s but finished as World
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soulfulness it speaks to to-
day, too, ready to be ab-
sorbed by any modern-day
audience no less concerned
about existence at a fortu-
itous juncture, between his-
tory and progress, old ways
and new ideas, living in “the
unattended/Moment, the
moment in and out of time”
that Eliot believes will keep
us spiritually, ungraciously
stuck if we can’t embrace the
present.
Fiennes is, of course, one
of our more magnetically
“present” actors, blessed
with a bearish timbre both
commanding and inviting.
What I remember about the
good fortune of once seeing
him live in a small theater
(a U.K. production of “Rich-
ard III”) is that he could dis-
solve whatever space was
between him and you, no
matter where you sat. (And
we were close.) From his
delivery of the temporally
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seniors still gabbing, but
now via phone as they are no
longer living in the same city.
The series closes with a
cover of Elvis Costello’s
“Girls Talk” by the sister pop
duo Tegan and Sara (Dave
Edmunds’ recording made
the song famous), perhaps a
wink to the audience about
how Sherman-Palladino
and Daniel Palladino, the co-
showrunner, write charac-
ters who never shut up but
also to emphasize just how
borderless the relationship
is.
“I think that’s one of the
things that’s so beautiful
about their relationship is
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someone of both country
and city, Fiennes turns El-
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their highest highs together
and their lowest lows to-
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recent video conversation.
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hearts trampled on … these
were both women that were
really hurt; really betrayed
by somebody before in their
lives.”
Susie’s monologue to
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and sharp pronouncements,
allusive strolls and anxious
philosophizing, into living
and breathing discourse — a
modernist-verse TED talk
on the physical and the eter-
nal.
Subsequently, the lens of
cinematographer Mike
Eley’s 16-mm camera — an
adroit choice for filming po-
etry come alive — no longer
feels like a barrier separating
the man on that spare, char-
coal-slab set from our eyes
and ears. Sophie Fiennes has
an instinctive sense of when
to cut to verdant fields or lap-
ping, rocky shores as a way of
breaking up the filmed-play
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make sartorial choices free
of girdles or contouring
brushes, Susie assumed oth-
ers who saw her next to her
college sweetheart — the so-
phisticated and well-coiffed
Hedy (Nina Arianda) —
imagined a woman walking
a dog.
Borstein — whose other
notable work includes voic-
ing matriarch Lois Griffin
and other characters on
“Family Guy” and starring in
five seasons of the sketch se-
ries “Mad TV” — loves
playing a part for which she
was “completely comfort-
able in flat shoes and pants
and hair back in a ponytail
every day.” (In another
twist, the final shots of the
show have Midge in pants
and Susie in a dress. It’s a
blue caftan that’s inspired
by one that Borstein’s
mother wore in a video that
appeared on the actor’s In-
No. Hollywood stagram. The series cos-
tume designer, Donna Za-
kowska, initially thought the
video was of Borstein her-
self.)
CLOWNING AROUND
Borstein thinks it’s funny
when she’s not recognized at
red-carpet events because
she looks completely differ-
ent from her “Maisel” char-
acter. But she’s a woman,
and one who works in Holly-
wood at that.
This spring, Borstein,
with her friends the musi-
cians Salvador Rey and Eric
Mills, released the Prime Vi-
deo special “Alex Borstein:
Corsets & Clown Suits.” It
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starts with a cold open of
Borstein in a dressing room
exploring costume choices.
She thinks she’s going to be
forced to wear a sequined
get-up with pasties. As it
turns out, that’s for the bur-
lesque performer Rosie
Cheeks. Borstein, so we’re
told, is expected to wear a
clown suit.
“I think that most women
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vibe, and augmenting Eliot’s
fertile, abstract imagery of
regeneration and renewal.
But I found myself wanting
to quickly get back to her
brother’s accessibly forlorn
Eliot avatar on that stage,
musing on ends as begin-
nings and the false wisdom
in aging, forcefully deliv-
ering Eliot’s river-as-god
metaphor, or giving world-
weary weight to simple ges-
tures, movements and pre-
sentations. (At one point, he
sits at a table with an old ra-
dio microphone, the sound
design scratch-filtering his
voice as if he were giving a
wartime broadcast.)
are struggling between two
or more things,” she says of
the opening, which ques-
tions the notion that ac-
tresses can either be funny
or pretty, but not both.
“Women want to know if they
can be these two things. …
Maybe it’s just being funny
and a mom but also being
seen as sexual. Maybe it’s be-
ing seen as a mother and
also as a prominent force in
the workforce.”
During the performance,
she talks (and sometimes
sings) frankly about her
complicated divorce from
actor Jackson Douglas, her
thoughts on modern-day
grooming practices, and
whether she’d ever feel com-
fortable dating someone
new. In doing this, she
speaks for a lot of people who
are just done with society’s
expectations.
“Of course, obviously,
there are certain things you
want: You want to look nice,
you want to go into a room
and ‘slay,’ so to speak, [and]
you want to command some
respect,” Borstein says in
the interview. “But I’ve let go
of the fact of just being per-
ceived that way. I want to ac-
tually command respect;
not just be perceived as
someone who should be re-
spected. I want to be re-
spected because I deserve
it.”
This goes for both her
personal and work life. She
says this makes a show like
“Corsets” scary because
“you also want to be cast in
other roles and be seen in dif-
ferent ways. But, in the end,
it’s like … this is one side of
me. And you’re either going
to be interested in my talent
or me or not.”
This ferocity and confi-
dence might be ingrained in
Borstein. Her mother and
her grandmother survived
the Holocaust. The actor
spoke of the latter in 2019
when she won her second
Emmy for playing Susie on
“Maisel.” In her acceptance
speech, she described how
her grandmother avoided
being shot to death simply
by walking away from a
crowd rounded up for
slaughter. She told women
to “step out of line” when
they were pressed to con-
form.
In “Corsets,” she tells
more of her family’s story.
But she puts a Brooksian
spin on it: At one point, she
imagines herself to be the
bunker employee tasked
with cleaning up Adolf
Hitler’s and Eva Braun’s
bodies. Her parents were in
the audience cheering her
on.
“Comedy is two things, in
my book: It’s persuasion and
it’s offense,” Borstein says
now. “If you’re not persuad-
ing someone, you’re offend-
ing them. And if you’re not
doing either of those, it’s
probably not funny.”
She says she doesn’t tell
stories just for salacious-
ness. “I talk about stories
I’ve heard or stories that
have happened to me that
shocked me. I want to share
and get past that shock my-
Kino Lorber
“Four Quartets” is the
definition of specialized fare
for a niche audience, but in
its purity of connection gets
one to wonder why there ar-
en’t more opportunities to
see intimately staged thea-
ter performances preserved
on film. Though this modest
format can sometimes
smack of educational PBS
evenings and visual stilted-
ness, it’s ripe for reappraisal
and reimagining for its un-
obtrusively performance-
driven humanity, as Sophie
Fiennes’ starkly reverential
capturing of her brother’s
impressive passion project
reveals.
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self and maybe unpack a lit-
tle bit of why it is shocking.”
A need to challenge, or at
least question, the status
quo is something Borstein
shares with Susie — a char-
acter who forced her way
into a men’s bathhouse this
season just to close a deal for
a client (while she’s there,
she also signs the cabaret
singer who was performing
during her impromptu pitch
meeting). Susie loves mak-
ing people famous even if she
herself does not want any at-
tention. There was even de-
bate as to whether she’d
show up to her own Friars
Club roast.
Borstein knows it sounds
like semantics, but she
thinks there is a difference
between Susie’s goals and
those of her No. 1 client,
Midge.
“I think Midge wanted
fame and Susie wanted suc-
cess,” she says after a quick
ponder. She goes back to
Susie’s line in the pilot about
wanting to not be insignifi-
cant and says that success to
Susie “is about commanding
respect. It’s about being able
to afford things in your life
that you want; the nice
things and not struggling
and suffering.”
Especially because Susie
never had children or was in
another serious relationship
after Hedy, Borstein feels
that Susie could have
wanted a sense of immortal-
ity and “to have something
she leaves behind.”
Whereas, she says she be-
lieves “Midge wanted fame;
Midge wanted other peo-
ple’s approval, and the
laughter and the applause.”
Borstein thinks about
this in comparison to her
own career. As a public fig-
ure, she’s encouraged to
have a social media presence
because it helps her get jobs.
She thinks there’s “more of a
blurry line between fame
and success now.”
But she also has two kids
and thinks “it’s super inter-
esting that there’s pieces of
me left” for them, either
through stories or through
tangible items. Borstein has
a giant Tupperware that’s
labeled “nostalgia,” and it’s
filled with things like Barbie
dolls from her earlier career
working in advertising (Mat-
tel was a client) and issues of
TV Guide that featured her
shows.
“It’s interesting little
items that in 50 years my
kids might open and then
sell at a secondhand store or
online,” she says with a
laugh.
Because the difference
between junk and memen-
tos is all about perception.
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TELEVISION REVIEW
The private side of Mary Tyler Moore
An HBO doc made
with the input of the
actor’s widower looks
at her lasting impact.
ROBERT LLOYD
TELEVISION CRITIC
“Who can turn the world
on with her smile?” It’s Mary
Tyler Moore, of course, and
you should know it.
To be precise, it’s Mary
Richards, a person Moore
played. But the smile was
her own, and it worked mag-
ic across two situation com-
edies that described their
time in a way that some
might have regarded as
ahead of their time. Al-
though Moore proved her-
self as an actor of depth and
range and peerless comic
timing again and again, on
the small and big screen and
onstage, “The Dick Van
Dyke Show” and “The Mary
Tyler Moore Show” made
her a star, and incidentally a
cultural figurehead, and are
the reason we have a splen-
did new documentary, “Be-
ing Mary Tyler Moore,”
which premiered Friday on
HBO. Were it titled simply
“Being Mary,” there’d be lit-
tle doubt who was meant.
Moore was driven to per-
form from an early age,
which she relates to wanting
to impress her father —
though that seems too sim-
ple. She trained as a dancer,
and right out of high school
played a pixie, Happy Hot-
point, in a series of appliance
commercials. (A visible
pregnancy ended that job.)
She played a faceless switch-
board operator on “Richard
Diamond, Private Detec-
tive,” from which she was
bounced when she asked for
more money, and a typical
assortment of starlet roles in
television and movies. A
failed audition to play the
older daughter on “The
Danny Thomas Show” led to
her being called for “Van
Dyke,” of which Thomas was
an executive producer. Cre-
ator Carl Reiner remem-
bers, “I read about 60 girls,
and I read the whole script
with them. She read three
lines, three simple lines.
There was such a ping in it,
an excitement, a reality to
it.” They soon discovered her
gift for comedy.
A MODERN WOMAN
“The Dick Van Dyke
Show,” in which Moore
played Laura Petrie to Van
Dyke’s Rob, came into the
world in the first year of the
Kennedy administration,
and there is something of
that new White House,
torch-passed-to-a-new-gen-
eration spirit in the Petries’
New Rochelle, N.Y., home.
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Revival hasn’t
lost its potency
[‘Soldier’s,’ from E1]
from Howard University, is
brought in to lead the inves-
tigation. His commanding
stature fills the Black sol-
diers with pride and the
white military men with a
mix of antagonism and con-
fusion.
Capt. Charles Taylor
(William Connell), a white
officer, wants to get to the
bottom of this murder. He
too thinks the killing was ra-
cially motivated, but he
doesn’t believe a Black offi-
cer will be able to apprehend
and convict a white person
in Louisiana. The locals sim-
ply won’t permit it.
(Van Dyke was 35 when the
show premiered — just old
enough to be president him-
self — to Moore’s 24, but the
two never seemed genera-
tionally distinct.) They were
modern, with modern
tastes. This was not the old-
fashioned, small-town fam-
ily comedy of “Father Knows
Best” or “Leave It to Beaver.”
If you lived in my household,
you might have felt right at
home with them.
Then again, “Dick Van
Dyke” was not really a family
comedy; some episodes
might involve their son,
Richie (Larry Mathews), but
many more would not, and
when child-rearing was the
subject, it would more likely
highlight the foolishness of
the parents. The Petries
were suburban in the sense
of being connected to, not re-
mote from, the city — so-
phisticated, fun, elegant.
They threw parties, went
out in formal wear, tried the
latest dances. They were
sexual. And they held the
stage with equal strength
and force.
If they were well on the
safe side of bohemian, they
were arty in their way, Rob a
comedy writer, Laura, like
Moore, a dancer — a former
dancer in the show, which
was not so ahead of its time
to imagine a working
mother. Still, the series
found opportunities to let
her dance. (“I will go to my
grave thinking of myself as a
failed dancer, not a success-
ful actor,” Moore says in the
documentary.)
Famously — and at once
realistically and, for TV at
that time, radically — she
wore pants, tight ones;
Moore is nearly synonymous
with Capris. I turned on a
random episode the other
night (Season 4, Episode 1,
“My Mother Can Beat Up My
Father”), one I’d somehow
never seen, in which a drunk
at a restaurant bar begins to
harass Laura. Rob tries to
get him to back off, claiming
he knows karate, and gets a
punch in the nose — at which
Laura, to her own surprise,
flips the drunk with a judo
move. (She’d learned self-
defense when she was enter-
taining at Army bases.)
It winds up in a society
column. Laura finds it funny.
Rob, whose ego is as bruised
as his proboscis, childishly
lashes out.
Rob: “How come you ne-
ver dress like a girl?”
Laura, incredulous:
“What?
“Well, honey, I mean,
shirts and slacks, shirts and
slacks, that’s all I ever see
when I come home.”
“You love me in shirts and
slacks.”
“Yeah, well, but whatever
happened to dresses?”
“Rob, you know, this is
“Captain, did you see my
orders?” Davenport coolly
replies. He has no intention
of backing down from this
assignment. Placating prej-
udices advances nothing.
But his commitment to ob-
jectivity will raise moral di-
lemmas that don’t have easy
answers.
Davenport discovers
during his investigation the
sadism of Waters, a mar-
tinet who shamed, brow-
beat and tormented his
men. Private C.J. Memphis,
a guitar-strumming gentle
giant with a country bump-
kin way — touchingly incar-
nated by Sheldon D. Brown
MOORE at a table read for “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” one of two sitcoms that launched her to TV stardom.
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the stupidest conversation
we’ve ever had.”
“Dick Van Dyke” stories
were divided equally be-
tween home and work, with
the two worlds frequently in-
tersecting. “The Mary Tyler
Moore Show” took that
model and put Moore in the
center of the action, amid a
brilliant comic cast. Her
move to Minneapolis, which
begins the series and lands
her in the newsroom at
WJM, was not born from
tragedy or pressure; she
moves on her own initiative,
recovering from nothing but
the possibility of a life that
won’t suit her.
That Mary was a single
woman in no rush to be mar-
ried was something new for
television — but it could
hardly be said that she lived
alone; her apartment was
subject to regular incursions
from Rhoda (Valerie Harp-
er) and Phyllis (Cloris
Leachman), a company of
women hashing out their dif-
ferent lives in a sort of dialec-
tical comedy. (There were
women in the writing room;
Treva Silverman, whose
— is the main target of Wa-
ters’ irrational ire.
“A Soldier’s Play,” which
was adapted into the 1984
film “A Soldier’s Story,” was
inspired by Herman
Melville’s novella “Billy
Budd.” Waters’ antipathy
toward C.J., much like John
Claggart’s hostility toward
Billy Budd, has a strong ele-
ment of self-hate. But here
the issue is internalized rac-
ism. What the other Black
soldiers adore about C.J. —
his simple kindness and ath-
letic and musical gifts — in-
censes Waters.
The sergeant, a fanatical
assimilationist, strives to be
accepted by white society by
adopting its values and bi-
ases. A part of him recog-
nizes that this is a losing
game, but he puts the blame
on Black men like C.J.,
whom he calls an “ignorant,
low-class geechy.”
Waters believes every
Black person must serve as
comments are featured
prominently in “Being Mary
Tyler Moore,” was the first
woman to win an Emmy with
a solo credit.)
REFLECTING THE TIME
Whether this was or was
not a feminist series is a
question that still prompts
think pieces. Gloria Steinem
thought not, and Moore did
not identify herself as such
— though in the opening
scene of the documentary, in
a 1966 interview with a back-
ward David Susskind, she
does say, “I agree with Betty
Friedan and her point of
view in her book ‘Feminine
Mystique’ that women are,
or should be, human beings
first, women second, wives
and mothers third.”
Unlike the Norman Lear
comedies — “All in the Fam-
ily,” also on CBS, premiered
a few months after “The
Mary Tyler Moore Show” —
the MTM-produced come-
dies, which also included the
“Moore” spinoffs “Rhoda”
and “Phyllis,” were contem-
porary and “adult” without
being issue-oriented. But
because they were realistic
about their characters, they
couldn’t help but engage
with their times and the cul-
ture. If the feminism of
“Mary Tyler Moore,” which is
in a sense just a function of
its intelligence, is not explic-
it, it is in the bones of the
show. And Mary, like the
woman who played her, “in-
spired as many women as El-
eanor Roosevelt,” in the
words of series co-creator
Joan Marcus
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an example. “We need law-
yers, doctors, generals,
senators!” he hollers at Pri-
vate James Wilkie (Howard
W. Overshown), who can’t
help falling short of the
sergeant’s unforgiving
standards. He’s not inter-
ested in overturning the sys-
M O N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23
James L. Brooks.
If Moore never repeated
the massive television suc-
cess of her first two series,
well, that would have been
practically impossible.
Some failed later shows, in-
cluding the sitcom “Mary,”
which found her working at a
Chicago tabloid, and “The
Mary Tyler Moore Hour,”
which blended variety with a
backstage sitcom, go un-
mentioned in the documen-
tary, but are not without in-
terest and may be found
floating in cyberspace. Vari-
ous dramatic roles, onscreen
and onstage, demonstrated
the subtlety and depth of her
acting, though you could
find that in most any epi-
sode of “Mary Tyler Moore”
as well.
Her last great triumph —
though not at all the end of
her career — was her Oscar-
nominated turn in Robert
Redford’s “Ordinary Peo-
ple,” whose cold mother is
deemed closer to her own
character; she had a reputa-
tion, she says, for being “an
ice princess.” Redford de-
cided to cast her having once
seen her walking on the
beach, looking sad. (“He saw
my dark side.”)
It is the point of nearly
any show business biogra-
phy that the person we know
from their work is and is not
the person who lived the life.
Indeed, the very title “Being
Mary Tyler Moore” suggests
that “Mary Tyler Moore” was
both a part she played and a
person she was, similar in
some respects and markedly
tem — he wants to conquer
it from inside. And he won’t
tolerate any self-pitying ex-
cuses from the men under
him: “Not havin’ ain’t no ex-
cuse for not gettin’,” he pro-
claims.
Davenport uncovers
what happened to C.J. after
Waters had him framed for a
crime. The extent of Waters’
depravity and the animosity
it stoked in his soldiers — es-
pecially in Private First
Class Melvin Peterson
(Tarik Lowe), who somehow
wins Waters’ respect by ag-
gressively standing up to
him — makes solving the
murder all the more chal-
lenging. Suddenly, every-
body is a suspect.
The play proceeds in
flashbacks that are
prompted in the interroga-
tion scenes. Time is fluid,
sliding regularly into the
past and offering even a
glimpse or two of the future.
Derek McLane’s industrial
set conjures barracks life
with impressive efficiency
and lends the drama a 21st
century theatrical sheen.
Leon’s staging indulges
in some unnecessary frills. A
choral number at the start
of the production begins in
the dark to minimal effect.
Bits of choreography are cu-
riously interjected. Male
bodies are paraded seem-
ingly as an insurance pack-
age against audience bore-
dom.
The production would be
stronger if more effort were
made to further individu-
alize the subordinate char-
acters. There’s some blurri-
ness to the storytelling,
partly to do with the num-
ber of parts and partly to do
with the Ahmanson’s large
stage. But the core of the
play is so solid and the dis-
cussion still so urgent that
these issues are relatively
minor.
Lewis anchors the play
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different in others. Directed
by James Adolphus, with
Moore’s widower, Dr. Robert
Levine, on board as an exe-
cutive producer, the film has
access to a wealth of family
photos and home movies —
including footage of her brid-
al shower, featuring a hilari-
ous Betty White — and does
a fine job of illuminating the
private Moore, with testi-
mony from (unseen) col-
leagues, friends and family.
It’s no secret that her life
was marked by tragedy. (She
was a private person, but she
wrote books. And some
things you can’t keep out of
the papers.) She had a drink-
ing problem. Her sister died
from an overdose of alcohol
and painkillers. Her son,
Richard, accidentally shot
himself. Diabetes led to nu-
merous problems with her
health.
But “Being Mary Tyler
Moore” is a happier story
than one might expect,
which in itself makes it a
moving one. Moore and Lev-
ine were married from 1983 to
her death in 2017, and they
settled into a life filled with
dogs and horses; there were
good works, too, on behalf of
juvenile diabetes.
We can too easily mea-
sure the worth of a perform-
er’s life by their professional
success, as if there’s nothing
more terrible than a can-
celed sitcom, a box office flop
or the lack of good roles all
but a few actors eventually
face. “Being Mary Tyler
Moore” reminds us not to
make that mistake.
with his charismatic
smoothness. There’s a no-
bility to his portrayal of Dav-
enport — even his voice
carries a heroic resonance.
The only downside is that
some of the doubts about
Davenport’s decision-mak-
ing are removed. (It’s hard
to clean up corruption with-
out being tainted by it.) At
the end of the play, no one
can possibly have a clear
conscience.
But looking unflappable
in sunglasses, Lewis’ Daven-
port gives the audience a
sympathetic focal point. His
scenes with Connell’s
sharply drawn Capt. Taylor,
a foil who turns ally, are in-
fused with tang and tension.
In these moments, all that
Davenport had to overcome
to become an officer is made
painfully apparent.
Lee’s take on Waters
evokes the powerful memo-
ry of Adolph Caesar, who
originated the role and
reprised his performance in
the film. There’s something
archetypal about this mili-
tary character, who uses his
power to punish those for
sins he objects to in himself.
Lee makes this sinister per-
sonality somberly and scari-
ly recognizable.
“For as long as I can re-
member, I’ve wanted to de-
scribe Black people in a new
way, to destroy all the ste-
reotypical ideas about
Black people,” Fuller said in
an interview with theater
scholar David Savran that
was included in “In Their
Own Words: Contemporary
American Playwrights.”
“The idea that anybody,
anywhere, can always be de-
scribed in the same terms is
irrational and insulting.”
Fuller, who died last fall,
created such an impressive
range of Black and white hu-
manity in “A Soldier’s Play”
that the work has lost none
of its cogency and sting.
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SUDOKU
KENKEN
Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6
puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each
heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the
top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
You can’t undo yesterday’s
loss, but tomorrow is still
yours to win. The better your
plan, the likelier you’ll be to
achieve your aim.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Focusing on too many
things at once hinders prog-
ress and squashes momen-
tum. Which is most worthy
of your devotion?
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
You have an advantage that
you don’t press. There’s bril-
liance in wielding just
enough power to get what
you want and no more.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
It can feel like your specific
skill set is unrelatable to oth-
ers. But if you share and in-
form, you’ll pique curiosities.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
You love to give and care for
others. You’ll encounter
someone who is in need of
your warmth and positive
energy.
CROSSWORD
Edited By Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Mike Peluso
ACROSS
1 Meghan Trainor’s “All
About That __”
5 Catholic service
9 Tossed
14 West Coast gas brand
with ampm convenience
stores
15 Fatherly nickname
16 Grocery section
17 Fibber
18 Blended condiment
20 Pinochle plays
22 Snowball pile, say
23 Fictional band that
uses an umlaut on
the “n” in its name
26 “Rats”
30 Portuguese lady
31 Honker in a gaggle
32 Local source of
49-Across produce, for
short
35 Twin of Romulus
38 Tiny bits
39 Oscar-winning Marlon
Brando film, or where
the last words of 18-,
23-, 49-, and 57-Across
can literally be found
42 Word before pointer or
printer
43 Letter embellishment,
in typography
44 Comedian Romano
45 Neighborhoods
46 Airborne mysteries
48 Open-handed hit
49 Like recently harvested
produce
54 Unremarkable
55 Trial versions of
software, e.g.
57 Leavening agent that’s
also a cleaning product
63 Locale
64 Regional flora and
fauna
65 Give off
66 Smart __
67 Refreshingly cool
68 Actress Daly
69 Result of a sting,
maybe
DOWN
1 Salve
2 Zodiac sign also called
the Ram
3 Spot for implants
4 Filthy
5 Car sticker stat
6 Roadside aid org.
7 Jack who could eat no
fat
8 “Frida” star Hayek
Pinault
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Pride can be defined as self-
esteem that arises from
one’s achievements. Alter-
natively, pride can be viewed
as leading to arrogant supe-
riority. You’ll see both sides
of the emotion today.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
There’s something standing
between you and what you
want. It’s small, but a barri-
er. Small things can pack big
fear, but it can be overcome
with a different mindset.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
Difficult tasks await. Expect
to be bad at them at first, but
you’ll get better. Difficulty is
a signal to break things
down to understand them.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): You’ll get stuck on a
particular task, but don’t
fret. This is an opportunity.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): You make it easy for peo-
ple to learn about what you
do, which is excellent for re-
lationships of all kinds.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): You can be nice to
9 Food truck snack
10 That dude’s
11 Cape Town’s country:
Abbr.
12 Right-angled bracket
shape
13 Damp
19 Little pest
21 Noisy sleepers
24 Once again
25 Tibetan spiritual
leaders
26 Cuckoo clock part
27 Windmill part
28 Yoga pose
29 Short-tempered
31 Kathie Lee of morning
talk
32 Some soft drinks
33 Entangle
34 On a cruise
36 Sport-__: off-road
vehicle
37 Skin rejuvenator
40 Messy mound
41 Repeated jazz
phrase
47 Two-person
playground
fixture
49 Weather condition
common around the
Golden Gate Bridge
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whomever you’re with, or
you can make sure to be with
people who are extremely
easy to be nice to.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): It might be impossible
to protect one’s own inno-
cence. You can still protect
another person’s innocence,
though, and you’ll go above
and beyond to do so.
Today’s birthday (May
29): Just being has its own
magic this year, which goes
beyond the world of illusion
— a feeling of awe based on
nothing more than exist-
ence. Because you know and
live this, the many wonders
that happen are icing on the
cake. A domestic upgrade is
coming. You’ll also enjoy a
bonus, a cross-country ex-
cursion and new friendships.
Libra and Sagittarius adore
you. Your lucky numbers: 3,
2, 22, 31 and 19.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
© 2023 Tribune Content Agency
50 Profit-and-loss figure
51 Spacious
52 Grin
53 Suite spot
54 Round closer on an
infant’s onesie
56 Offshoot group
57 “Doctor Who” TV
network
58 Beach ball filler
59 Colorful carp
60 “__ about time!”
61 Clamor
62 Downed
ANSWER TO
PREVIOUS PUZZLE
5/29/23
BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
“If you don’t think too
good, try not to think too
much.” — wisdom attrib-
uted to Yogi Berra.
Today’s declarer looked
too deeply into the play of a
slam, or maybe not deeply
enough. At 6NT he won the
first diamond in dummy and
pondered how to attack the
clubs. Taking the ace, then
leading to the jack would
cost if East had a low single-
ton, but a first-round finesse
with the jack would lose only
if West had a singleton
queen. So South led the
deuce of clubs to his jack at
Trick Two — holding himself
to two club tricks. The heart
finesse won later, but he
went down.
South didn’t think too
good. If the heart finesse
ASK AMY
Too quick to connect?
Dear Amy: I am a 45-year-
old divorced woman with a
fairly active social media
presence.
After my divorce, I dated
someone with no social me-
dia, so it was easy.
After that ended, I met
someone through a friend.
He immediately suggested
we connect on Facebook.
We’ve been out quite a
few times and it’s been great,
but he’s dating other people.
That’s fine, and I’m open to
seeing other people too.
I’m not even sure of my
feelings for him, but seeing
posts about his dates and
his active social life makes
me uncomfortable.
I can tell who else he’s
dating from his posts. It
makes me curious and jeal-
ous in a way that I don’t like.
What do people do about
social media when they’re
dating but not settled?
Should I mute him? Not
connect with people on so-
cial media until the relation-
ship is serious?
How do I protect myself
from myself?
Socially Confused
Dear Confused: Your guy
is using Facebook like a sev-
enth-grader (not that kids
now use FB), and it’s trigger-
ing you to react like a sev-
enth-grader.
You know the truism
FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane
FREE RANGE By Bill Whitehead
BLISS By Harry Bliss
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loses, South needs four club
tricks. But if East has the
king of hearts, South can
play safe for three club
tricks. South should lead a
heart to his queen at the sec-
ond trick. When the finesse
wins, he leads the king of
clubs. If East-West played
low clubs, South would lead
a second club, planning to
play dummy’s nine if West
followed low.
You hold: ♠ A K J ♥ 7 5 4
♦ A Q 3 ♣ A 9 6 2. The dealer,
at your right, opens 1NT,
showing 15 to 17 points. What
do you say?
Answer: Though your op-
ponent may fail at 1NT, for
you to double would be
speculative. You have no as-
surance of beating the con-
tract, especially if you tell de-
clarer where most of the
missing high cards lie. A
double of 1NT says you will
about STDs: When you’re
sleeping with one person,
you’re sleeping with all the
people they’ve slept with.
Facebook is like that.
When you connect on social
media with someone you’re
dating, you become tangen-
tially connected with every-
one they’re dating.
I think it’s wisest to use
social media as the millenni-
als I know do: Lock it down.
Be judicious about what you
post and private about your
sharing circles.
Mute or hide his posts. If
you want, you can check him
out when you’re curious or in
the mood (no drunk-
scrolling allowed).
In the future, it might be
best not to dive into a Face-
book connection early on.
This is the best way to
save you from yourself. It
also saves you having to go
through the whole “un-
friending” process later on, if
things don’t work out.
Dear Amy: My wife and I
were friends with a couple
for more than 40 years. The
wife died and we remained
close with the husband.
He started dating and
met a woman whom he
wanted us to meet.
The four of us met for din-
ner and then had dessert at
our home.
During the evening we
DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
beat it and is best based on a
source of tricks plus entries.
You would double with K Q J
10 6 5, A Q, 7 6 5, A 8.
South dealer
N-S vulnerable
NORTH
♠AKJ
♥754
♦AQ3
♣A962
WEST EAST
♠7432 ♠986
♥ 10 6 3 ♥K982
♦ 10 9 8 7 2 ♦65
♣Q ♣ 10 8 7 4
SOUTH
♠ Q 10 5
♥AQJ
♦KJ4
♣KJ53
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1 NT Pass 6 NT All Pass
Opening lead — ♦ 10
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asked questions of the guest
about children, travel, life
experiences, interests, etc.
However, the woman never
asked us anything during
the several hours together,
and this is a red flag for us.
He wants us to share his
new friend with us, but we
are hesitant to engage again.
How do we handle this?
Try another evening?
Concerned Friend
Dear Concerned: I agree
that not showing any inter-
est in others is a big red flag.
But consider this: After your
evening together, his date
might have asked, “What’s
with all the questions? Why
the third degree?”
This woman might have
felt overwhelmed and was
doing her best to keep up by
answering in a way that
would endear and impress
you.
I always think that a good
ice breaker to prompt a
newly dating couple is, “Tell
us the story of how you met.”
This usually involves both
parties trading back and
forth, and details about
their lives start to spill out.
I hope you’ll give her an-
other chance to relax into a
more natural give-and-take.
Email questions to Amy
Dickinson at askamy@
amydickinson.com.
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CRABGRASS By Tauhid Bondia BABY BLUES By Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

CANDORVILLE By Darrin Bell CRANKSHAFT By Tom Batiuk & Chuck Ayers

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E6 M O N DAY , M AY 2 9 , 2 0 23
Sandra Hüller reigns over Cannes
[Hüller, from E1]
to sit down for an interview
with Hüller, 45, on a sunny
rooftop terrace here in
Cannes. We too get along
well enough (we served to-
gether on the Berlin Interna-
tional Film Festival compe-
tition jury in 2019), but fortu-
nately, no music interrupts
our conversation and no one
goes tumbling down to the
street below. Instead Hüller,
who’s just dashed over from
a news conference, sips wa-
ter and apologizes need-
lessly for having a bite dur-
ing our conversation. When
you’re starring in two movies
in the Cannes competition
— a few days before “Anato-
my of a Fall’s” gala premiere,
Hüller walked the red carpet
for Jonathan Glazer’s Holo-
caust drama, “The Zone of
Interest” — you eat whenev-
er you can.
Hüller, one of the finest
European actors working to-
day, was a strong contender
for the jury’s actress prize
(Turkey’s Merve Dizdar won
the best actress award for
her performance in the
drama “About Dry Gras-
ses”). Had she won, she
would have more likely been
cited for “Anatomy of a Fall,”
in which she gives a lead per-
formance of breathtaking
ambiguity and emotional
range, than for Grand Prix
winner “The Zone of Inter-
est,” in which she meets
head-on the unenviable
challenge of playing Hedwig
Höss, wife of the notorious
Nazi commandant Rudolf
Höss (Christian Friedel).
“Strangely, if it’s two films
[at Cannes], it takes the
pressure away from one,”
Hüller says. “The not-so-
nice part is that you have to
say goodbye to one crew to
be with another.” She’s
grateful, at least, that Glazer
made time to see “Anatomy
of a Fall,” and that Triet did
the same for “The Zone of In-
terest.” Hüller herself had
plans to see just one other
movie at the festival, which
was also in competition:
“Club Zero,” the latest from
Austrian filmmaker Jessica
Hausner, who directed
Hüller in the 2014 period
drama “Amour Fou.”
Back then, Hüller was
still best known for her in-
tense performance as a
woman who undergoes an
exorcism in the 2006 Ger-
man drama “Requiem.” In
2016, though, she vaulted to
even greater international
attention as an ambitious
corporate climber naviga-
ting a tricky relationship
with her father in Maren
Ade’s sui generis comedy,
“Toni Erdmann.” The movie
was a critical sensation but
left Cannes empty-handed,
despite having been tipped
for the Palme d’Or, or at
least an actress prize for
Hüller.
Although her two Cannes
titles this year could scarcely
be more different — “Anato-
my” is expansive and knotty,
“Zone” compact and austere
— they both showcase her
flinty intelligence, her emo-
tional ferocity and her utter
fearlessness at taking on
characters who make no de-
mands of the viewer’s sym-
pathy. In “Anatomy of a
Fall,” she plays a woman
Justine Triet wins Palme d’Or
[Triet, from E1]
lish and German dialogue as
well — was acquired mid-fes-
tival for U.S. distribution by
Neon, extending the compa-
ny’s recent streak of Palme
winners including “Para-
site” (2019), “Titane” (2021)
and “Triangle of Sadness”
(2022).
“Titane” itself was only
the second Palme winner di-
rected by a woman, the
French auteur Julia Ducour-
nau — something it accom-
plished decades after Jane
Campion’s “The Piano”
(1993) became the first.
(Ducournau served on this
year’s competition jury,
which was presided over by
“Triangle of Sadness” direc-
tor Ruben Östlund.)
The nearly back-to-back
Palme wins for Ducournau
and Triet spoke to the rising
number of female filmmak-
ers in competition each year
at Cannes, which has long
been criticized for program-
ming so few women in its
most prestigious section.
(Seven of the 21 directors in
competition this year were
women, a Cannes record.)
But it also spoke to the dem-
ographics of the French film
industry, where female di-
rectors are better repre-
sented than in many other
countries, the U.S. included.
who may or may not have
murdered her husband; in
“The Zone of Interest,” she
plays a woman turning a
blind eye to her husband’s
murders.
While Hüller has never
been one to shy away from a
challenge, she did initially
balk at the idea of playing a
woman as unambiguously
monstrous as Hedwig Höss,
though she eventually came
around.
“I realized that it was a
very cowardly move to say, ‘I
hate her so much, I don’t
want to play her,’ ” Hüller
says. “I mean, [the Hösses]
existed. They were human
beings. That doesn’t mean
that we must like them or
love them or even respect
them. … So, I went to that
place.”
In the end, she couldn’t
resist the opportunity to
work with Glazer, a much-
admired British filmmaker
known for audacious and
disquieting films such as
“Birth” and “Under the
Skin.” “The Zone of Inter-
est,” a forthcoming A24 re-
lease, is no exception; it’s a
formally rigorous, daringly
conceptualized portrait of
the Hösses’ home life on the
grounds just outside
Auschwitz, the death camp
that Rudolf Höss oversaw
for several years. Hüller de-
scribes the production as
“different from any kind of
shooting that I’ve ever ex-
perienced” — partly because
of the extremity of the story,
Triet received the Palme
from Jane Fonda, who remi-
nisced about the first time
she came to Cannes decades
ago: “There were no women
directors competing at that
time, and it never even oc-
curred to us that there was
something wrong with that.
… We have a long way to go.
But still, we have to cele-
brate change when it hap-
pens.”
Triet was joined onstage
by her “Anatomy of a Fall”
cast and crew, led by the
German actor Sandra
Hüller, who stars as a wom-
an on trial for her husband’s
murder. Hüller was one of
the most prominent faces in
the Cannes competition,
having also co-starred in
“The Zone of Interest,” a dis-
quieting, meticulously con-
trolled Holocaust drama
that had been widely tipped
for the Palme.
Instead, the German-
language “Zone of Interest,”
written and directed by the
British filmmaker Jonathan
Glazer, was awarded the
Grand Prix, or second place.
Screened early in the festi-
val, the movie proved an im-
mediate critical favorite; it
will be released in U.S. thea-
ters by A24.
During his speech,
Glazer said he wanted “to
and partly because it was
shot with tiny cameras hid-
den throughout the set, a
painstaking replica of the
Höss homestead.
Because they couldn’t
see most of the cameras or
guess which angles were be-
ing captured, the actors
were granted considerable
freedom of movement.
There wasn’t much rehears-
al; the idea was not to per-
form scenes so much as to
enact the Hösses’ everyday
domestic rituals in some-
thing close to real time. Even
so, Hüller says, this freedom
was always held in check by a
sense of how constricted,
morally and psychologically,
the characters were.
“There was a lot of free-
dom in this moving around
the house, but of course at
the same time there wasn’t,
because they are not free
people, as I imagine them,”
she says. “People who are
driven by hate are not free to
me.”
During the four weeks
she spent shooting “Zone” in
the summer of 2021, Hüller
made no effort to humanize
Hedwig; the character’s hu-
manity, like her monstrosity,
was a given. She empha-
sized Hedwig’s insecurity
about her class and her ap-
pearance, with her severe
updo and unflatteringly
oversize dresses. Hüller also
played up the character’s
greed, particularly in an
early scene in which she tries
on a fur coat stolen from a re-
honor the memory of Martin
Amis,” who wrote the 2014
novel from which “The Zone
of Interest” was loosely ad-
apted. Amis died last week,
the same day the movie pre-
miered in Cannes.
The French Vietnamese
writer-director Tran Anh
Hùng was named best direc-
tor for “The Pot-au-Feu,” a
French foodie’s delight that
proved one of the late-break-
ing hits of the competition.
Starring Benoît Magimel
and Juliette Binoche as a
19th-century gourmet and
his cook, this adaptation of a
novel by Marcel Rouff
charmed critics and audi-
ences with its mouthwater-
ing culinary sequences and
genteel romance.
The jury prize, or third
place, went to “Fallen
Leaves,” a characteristically
funny and melancholy ro-
mantic charmer from the
Finnish writer-director Aki
Kaurismäki. The award was
accepted by Alma Pöysti
and Jussi Vatanen, the mov-
ie’s stars, who read a speech
from their director that
ended with a joyous out-
burst: “Twist and shout!”
It’s the first prize Kauris-
mäki has won at Cannes in
more than two decades,
since he took the Grand
Prix for 2002’s “The Man
Cannes Film Festival
cently executed Jewish
woman.
“Maybe [Hedwig] wants
to be an elegant woman, and
she can never achieve that,”
Hüller says, adding that the
aspiration is perhaps the
one level on which she can
personally relate to Höss. “I
always, of course, try to con-
nect with [my] characters,”
she says. “But in this case, I
really had to decide if I would
give anything to her, and I
decided no, she won’t get
anything.”
Hüller says her most dif-
ficult scene takes place by
the river near the house,
when Hedwig learns that
Rudolf is about to be trans-
ferred to a post in Germany,
potentially upending the
family’s comfortable exist-
ence. In that moment, Hed-
wig sheds a tear — an emo-
tional response that Hüller
says disgusted her when it
emerged. But Glazer as-
sured her it was fine for the
character to show emotion,
and Hüller herself found a
way to explain it away:
“She’s a bit manipulative at
that moment, so maybe it’s
not a real tear.”
Coincidentally, the most
memorable scene in “Anato-
my of a Fall” is also a marital
spat, one that plays out in an
explosive mid-movie flash-
back. It’s an extraordinarily
lacerating sequence, cin-
ematic yet also theatrical in
its unusual duration and in-
tensity, and it had to be
filmed from start to finish
Without a Past.”
Japanese writer Yuji
Sakamoto won the screen-
play prize for “Monster,” an
intricately structured three-
part drama about an appar-
ent school bullying incident
that spirals out of control.
The award was accepted by
the movie’s director, Hi-
rokazu Kore-eda, a Cannes
fixture who won the Palme
for 2018’s “Shoplifters.”
The screenplay honor
was presented by John C.
Reilly, who, in what could be
interpreted as a gesture of
support for writers striking
in Hollywood, began his
speech with a few moments
of silence and then said,
“What we just experienced
was what a movie would be
like without screenwriters. …
Every film begins with an
idea and the first thing we do
is write it down.”
Kôji Yakusho won the
best actor prize for his per-
formance in “Perfect Days,”
a warmly observed drama
centered on a quiet, gentle-
souled man who spends his
days cleaning public toilets
around Tokyo. The movie
was widely hailed as the
strongest narrative feature
in many years for German
director Wim Wenders
(“Paris, Texas,” “Wings of
Desire”), who also pre-
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SANDRA HÜLLER had
twin billing at Cannes
with “Anatomy of a Fall,”
top, and “The Zone of
Interest,” left.
every time: “We quickly real-
ized that you can’t go back
and forth, because once you
enter it, it just grows and
grows and grows,” Hüller
says. “We couldn’t shoot it in
pieces. It wasn’t possible.”
In narrative terms, the
revelation of a violent quar-
rel that took place shortly
before Samuel’s death is po-
tentially damning for San-
dra, strengthening her pos-
sible motive for murder. But
as we see and hear Samuel
ripping into Sandra, accus-
ing her of being selfish, con-
trolling and insufficiently
maternal toward Daniel,
Hüller turns this indictment
into a kind of vindication.
While the question of
Sandra’s guilt or innocence
is left teasingly unresolved,
it’s hard to look at her and
not see a woman whose main
crime appears to be femi-
nism. Sandra doesn’t call
constant attention to the
sacrifices she’s made to sup-
port her husband and son,
and she doesn’t exist solely
or even primarily to accom-
modate their needs and
wants. She also doesn’t apol-
ogize for being a more gifted,
accomplished writer than
Samuel is.
“I was wondering all the
time, what could she have
said or done to end this [ar-
gument]? And there is noth-
ing,” Hüller says. She also re-
jects the notion, floated by
some who’ve seen the movie,
that her character is cold. “I
watched the movie last night
THE JURY PRIZE went to Finnish writer-director
Aki Kaurismäki for the romance “Fallen Leaves.”
miered a new 3-D documen-
tary, “Anselm,” about the
artist Anselm Kiefer, out of
competition.
Turkish actor Merve Diz-
dar won the best actress
award for her performance
in the Turkish drama “About
Dry Grasses,” in which she
plays an independent-
minded schoolteacher who
draws (and sharply rebuts)
the romantic attentions of
two male friends. The movie
was directed and co-written
by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a fre-
quent Cannes prize winner
who won the Palme for 2014’s
“Winter Sleep.”
The Caméra d’Or prize,
presented annually to a first
feature from across all sec-
tions of the festival, was
awarded to the Vietnamese
director Thien An Pham for
Cannes Film Festival
again, and I thought, where
the hell would be the mo-
ment when this woman is
cold? I really have no idea.
Because she’s talking about
facts? Because she’s strong
for her child? Because she
doesn’t smile at everyone?”
“Anatomy of a Fall,”
which Neon acquired for
U.S. distribution on the
strength of its Cannes recep-
tion, marks the second col-
laboration between Triet
and Hüller, after the slippery
2019 comic thriller “Sibyl.” In
that movie, Hüller had a
screamingly funny support-
ing role as a harried film di-
rector navigating an unholy
mix of personal and profes-
sional disasters. She and
Triet became friends, and
the director said she wanted
to work with her again — an
invitation that Hüller didn’t
necessarily trust (“People
say a lot,” she says) until
Triet sent her the script for
“Anatomy of a Fall.”
And trust, more than
anything, is what unites
Hüller’s experiences work-
ing with two directors on two
different movies, shot a year
apart, that generated some
of the most passionate ac-
claim at Cannes this year.
She describes Glazer as “an
extraordinary human, with
such vulnerability and open-
ness,” who, for all his formal
exactitude, refused to box
his actors in. She describes
Triet as a filmmaker of infec-
tious on-set energy, “a very
free mind and a free woman,
and I really, really admire
her for that, from the depths
of my heart.”
While both movies were
uniquely challenging experi-
ences, Hüller says they wer-
en’t especially hard, particu-
larly when compared with
earlier, less pleasant experi-
ences she’s had as an actor.
“You know what I find
hard, when making movies?
When people don’t behave,”
she says. “Hard is people be-
ing disrespectful. Hard is
when somebody lies to you,
when somebody’s keeping
information from you in or-
der to manipulate you into
playing something because
they don’t trust you. That is
hard.”
Cannes Film Festival
“Inside the Yellow Cocoon
Shell” (“L’arbre aux Papil-
lons d’Or”). The movie was a
critical standout in Direc-
tors’ Fortnight, an inde-
pendent program that runs
parallel to the festival’s offi-
cial selection; along with
Tran’s win for “The Pot-au-
Feu,” it completed a strong
night overall for Vietnamese
filmmakers.
The Palme d’Or for best
short film was awarded to
“27,” an animated work from
Hungarian director Flóra
Anna Buda.
At an earlier ceremony
held Friday, the top prize in
Un Certain Regard, a side-
bar program, was awarded
to “How to Have Sex,” a well-
received debut feature from
English director Molly Man-
ning Walker.