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Velasquez helps Pirates beat Reds 2-0 for 7th straight win

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vince Velasquez struck out 10 in seven innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat Hunter Greene and the Cincinnati Reds 2-0 on Sunday for their seventh consecutive victory.It was the most strikeouts for Velasquez (3-2) since May 10, 2018, when he had 12 for the Phillies against the Giants. He allowed two hits and walked two.The Pirates improved to 16-7 for the franchise’s best start since its last division title in 1992. They allowed six runs in the four-game series against Cincinnati after outscoring the Rockies 33-9 across a three-game sweep in Colorado.It is Pittsburgh’s longest streak since winning 11 straight in 2018.David Bednar struck out two in the ninth for his eighth save, finishing a four-hitter.The Pirates jumped in front in the first against Greene (0-1). Ke’Bryan Hayes led off with a double to the gap in right-center. He moved to third on Tucupita Marcano’s single and scampered home when Andrew McCutchen grounded into a double play.Greene al...

Avalanche lean on stars to reclaim control of series

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — It’s taken only three games for Nathan MacKinnon to declare this the toughest first-round series of his career. Colorado’s star made it look pretty easy with his two goals in Game 3 as the Avalanche reclaimed control of their opening playoff series. “This is definitely the hardest first round I’ve been in,” MacKinnon said. “I think sometimes the last few years we’ve been a top seed and we’ve not gotten easy teams by any means, but I think this Seattle team is a 100-point team and they’re really good, and we’re gonna have to continue to do our best to beat them.”MacKinnon was the best offensive player on the ice in Game 3 as the Avalanche beat Seattle 6-4 to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Game 4 is Monday night and a victory by Colorado would give it a chance to wrap up the series at home on Wednesday. But MacKinnon wasn’t the only Colorado star to show up in a big way in Game 3. Cale Makar had a goal and an assist, and Mikko Rantanen had three points, in...

Guardians LHP Logan Allen strikes out 8, wins MLB debut

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland’s Logan Allen held the Miami Marlins to a solo homer and struck out eight over six innings to win his major league debut Sunday, a 7-4 victory that kept the Guardians from being swept. Called up from Triple-A Columbus before the game, the 24-year-old left hander gave up a two-out homer to Jon Berti in the third. Otherwise, he allowed five hits and walked one, and finished with a flourish by striking out three around a one-out walk in the sixth. Allen pounded his fist into his glove after Avisaíl García took a called strike three to end the inning.llen received a loud ovation as he walked off the field and was greeted by his teammates when he reached the dugout. He’s the third rookie to start a game for the Guardians, whose rotation is missing the injured Triston McKenzie and Aaron Civale. Amed Rosario sparked Cleveland’s slumbering offense by going 4 for 5 with two singles, a triple and double while scoring three runs. José Ramírez, who h...

Celebrity Cruises improperly stored dead body in cruise ship’s cooler instead of morgue, lawsuit claims

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

(CNN) — A Florida woman and her family have filed a lawsuit against Celebrity Cruises, claiming the cruise line improperly stored her husband’s body in the ship’s cooler, as opposed to the morgue, after he died on board.The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Wednesday.According to the complaint, Robert L. Jones, died due to a cardiac event while on the Celebrity Equinox cruise ship in August 2022, traveling from Fort Lauderdale to ports in the Eastern Caribbean.The lawsuit states that after Jones’ death, his wife, Marilyn Jones, was told that she had two options for what could be done with her husband’s body. According to the lawsuit, those options were to “either have Mr. Jones’ body removed from the ship in San Juan,” Puerto Rico or to “have his body stored on the ship until it reached port in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, approximately six days from the date of his passing.”Jone...

Dragon catches on fire during Disneyland’s ‘Fantasmic’ show

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

(CNN) — An animatronic dragon caught fire at California’s Disneyland park on Saturday evening, according to Disney officials.“During the final showing of ‘Fantasmic’ at Disneyland park on Saturday evening, the dragon caught fire,” Disney officials told CNN in an email. “Anaheim Fire & Rescue quickly responded and the fire was extinguished.”They added all cast members and guests were evacuated from Tom Sawyer Island and attractions near the island were cleared of guests due to smoke and wind.“The cause of the fire remains under investigation at this time,” the statement went on.CNN has reached out to Anaheim Fire & Rescue for more information.“Fantasmic” is a long-running nighttime Disney show at the company’s parks in Florida and California. The show features “special effects, state-of-the-art projections and superb pyrotechnics” and “Maleficent as a 45-foot, fire-breathing dragon...

Azerbaijan installs checkpoint on road to Nagorno-Karabakh amid fatal clashes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

Azerbaijan has set up a checkpoint on the only road in or out of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, sparking fears for its ethnic Armenian population and reports of new firefights along the shared border.In a statement issued on Sunday, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said that work had begun to “establish control” along the Lachin corridor, the sole highway that links the breakaway territory to Armenia.According to officials, the move is intended to stop “the rotation of personnel of Armenian armed forces that continue to be illegally stationed in the territory of Azerbaijan, the transfer of weapons and ammunition, entrance of terrorists, as well as illicit trafficking of natural resources.”Following a war between the two sides over Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, the Lachin corridor has been under the jurisdiction of Russian peacekeeping forces as part of a Moscow-backed ceasefire agreement. In December, self-described Azerbaijani environmental activists, ...

Boston police searching for aggravated assault suspect

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

Boston police are turning to the public for help as they search for a suspect in a recent aggravated assault in Roxbury.The incident involving a knife occurred around 4:45 p.m. on Monday, April 10, in the are of 301 Warren St.The suspect is described as having long dreadlocks, and riding/possessing a skateboard. The suspect is known to frequent the parking lot of the Washington Street Park Mall, and the immediate surrounding area.Anyone with information is advised to contact B-2 Detectives at 617-343-4275.Community members wishing to assist this investigation anonymously can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 (800) 494-TIPS or by texting the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463). The Boston Police Department will stringently guard and protect the identities of all those who wish to help this investigation in an anonymous manner.

Orioles get 6th straight win, beating Tigers 2-1, on walk-off wild pitch after duel of team’s former top prospects

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

Sunday’s afternoon game at Camden Yards was a matchup of what could have been and what is. Two pitchers who share a last name, one whose days in an Oriole uniform never came and another for whom they are only beginning, dueled in a crowded Baltimore venue older than either of them.But neither Orioles rookie right-hander Grayson Rodriguez nor former Baltimore prospect Eduardo Rodriguez were around when the home team secured its sixth straight win. Adam Frazier rushed home on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 10th to give the Orioles a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers, completing a series sweep.“Those kind of wins, at the end of each season, they add up,” said Fraizer, whose fielder’s choice Friday gave Baltimore a walk-off win in the series opener. “That’s how you make the playoffs.”The Orioles (14-7) have tied their third-best start in franchise history, trailing only the 1966 team (16-5) that won the World Series and the 1968 group (15-6...

Yoshida goes deep twice, Red Sox score nine in eighth to beat Brewers 12-5

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

It seemed like it was going to be another one of those frustrating days.The Red Sox squandered a few early scoring chances, let the Brewers hang around, and eventually gave up the lead after Kaleb Ort walked three in the seventh and allowed the go-ahead run to score on a wild pitch. Given how good Milwaukee’s bullpen has been you’d have been forgiven for flipping over to the Bruins game, because clearly this one was over.If that was you Sunday, well, you missed a lot.Justin Turner and Masataka Yoshida wasted no time flipping the script, hitting back-to-back home runs in the top of the eighth to tie the game and take the lead. That sparked what wound up being a nine-run rally, as the Red Sox sent 12 runners to the plate and Yoshida delivered the dagger with a towering grand slam his second time up.That was more than enough breathing room for the bullpen, who closed out the 12-5 win to clinch Boston’s third straight series win, it’s second against a first-place...

Massachusetts tax cut plan author explains reasoning behind proposed change to rebate law

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:34:12 GMT

The state Legislature’s chief budget writer is defending a decision by lawmakers to pass changes to a tax rebate law, which last year sent $3 billion back to taxpayers.“We saw during the pandemic, when our low income workers — a lot of our low income workers, a lot of our front line workers — were out there working day in and day out, could not stay home and do remote work and had to go out there on the front lines,” state House Ways and Means Chair Aaron Michlewitz said on Sunday.“They were the ones that helped carry this economy and keep our economy strong in those difficult times,” he continued.The North End Democrat was speaking with WCVB’s Sharman Sacchetti and Ed Harding for their Sunday politics show On the Record. Those low-income workers who kept the state going through the COVID-19 pandemic are deserving of benefits when the economy they buoy does well enough, he said, and the state must send money back to taxpayers.That’s what happened last summer, when lawmakers were see...