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Los Angeles Times
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- Los Angeles Times
The Sports Report: Intriguing meeting after Dodgers lose to Rockies
From Kevin Baxter: The half-empty Dodger clubhouse was so quiet you could hear a winning streak snap Monday. But amid the silence there was one conversation that spoke volumes. After a 4-3 walk-off loss to the last-place Colorado Rockies — a loss set up by two poor plays from right fielder Teoscar Hernández — Mookie Betts met with manager Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers' president of baseball operations, in Roberts' office. Betts, the Dodgers shortstop, is a six-time Gold Glove winner in right field. Hernández is not. On Monday, Hernández threw to the wrong base in the third inning, allowing the Rockies to score their second run, and in the ninth he was unable to hold Ezequiel Tovar's bloop double. Two pitches later, Warming Bernabel bounced a single up to middle, scoring Tovar to end the game. The Betts conversation afterward was private. But the circumstances that led to it were not. Clearly the bullpen is not the Dodgers' only problem. 'He's got to get better out there. There's just no way to put it,' Roberts said of Hernández. 'It's not a lack of effort. But, you know, we've just got to kind of get better. We do.' Continue reading here Doing away with traditional leagues could be in MLB's not-too-distant future, Rob Manfred says Dodgers box score MLB scores MLB standings Gavin Lux hit an early two-run homer and the Cincinnati Reds used three leadoff triples to beat the Angels 4-1 on Monday night. TJ Friedl had a leadoff single in the first inning off Victor Mederos, making his second career start, and Lux followed with his fifth homer for a 2-0 lead. Elly De La Cruz led off the fifth with his fourth triple this season before scoring on a sacrifice fly by Austin Hays to make it 3-1. Hays tripled in the third but was stranded. Scott Barlow replaced Luis Mey with two on and two outs in the eighth and struck out Jo Adell swinging to keep it 4-1. Barlow fanned three more in the ninth for his first save this season. Continue reading here Angels box score MLB scores MLB standings From Thuc Nhi Nguyen: The Great Depression threatened the 1932 Olympics. A pandemic raged during the 2021 Tokyo Games. Parisians planned a 'poop protest' in the Seine before the 2024 Games. From natural disasters, construction woes or unpopular opinion, every Olympics has faced threats in the planning process. Yet nearly every time, the city, ready or not, still hosted the Games. With less than three years before the L.A. Olympics, calls on social media for the city to withdraw or cancel have intensified. Wildfires devastated Pacific Palisades and Altadena in January. L.A. had to balance a $1-billion deficit. Immigration raids have put communities on edge while President Trump has threatened further military intervention. But Olympic preparations press forward. So invested in the success of the 2028 Games, the International Olympic Committee allowed venue naming rights for the first time in history. LA28, the private group responsible for organizing the Games, has contracted more than 70% of its $2.5-billion sponsorship goal, with more deals coming. Can L.A. back out of hosting the Olympics? Continue reading here From Gary Klein: Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is back. But to what degree remains to be seen. Stafford, sidelined since the start of training camp because of a back issue, practiced Monday for the first time. That qualified as an unexpected and momentous development for the Rams as they prepare for their Sept. 7 opener against the Houston Texans at SoFi Stadium. Stafford, 37, went through individual and team drills with the first-team offense. The 17th-year pro was a full participant, but he did not speak to reporters afterward. Continue reading here From Ryan Kartje: When they chose to continue their college careers, both USC offensive lineman DJ Wingfield and UCLA wide receiver Kaedin Robinson thought the courts and NCAA had cleared the way for them to play a fifth season of football. USC had told Wingfield as much, offering him $210,000 in NIL to join the Trojans' offensive line. UCLA, meanwhile, offered Robinson $450,000 to be one of the Bruins' top wideouts. But after first seeing their waivers rejected in the spring, then suing the NCAA this summer, a U.S. District Court judge has now shut the door on either Wingfield or Robinson suiting up this fall. Continue reading here 1909 — The first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twelve-thousand spectators watch Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer win a five-mile race with an average speed of 57.4 miles per hour. The track's surface of crushed rock and tar breaks up in a number of places and causes the deaths of two drivers, two mechanics and two spectators. 1934 — Helen Hull Jacobs wins the women's title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships. 1981 — Renaldo Nehemiah sets the world record in the 110 hurdles with a time of 12.93 seconds in a meet at Zurich, Switzerland. 1984 — Lee Trevino beats Gary Player and Lanny Wadkins by four strokes to take the PGA championship at Shoal Creek, Alabama. 1993 — Sergei Bubka wins his fourth consecutive pole vault title at the World Track and Field championships at Stuttgart, Germany. 1995 — Mike Tyson starts his comeback, knocking out Peter McNeeley in 89 seconds at Las Vegas. McNeeley's manager Vinnie Vecchione jumps into the ring to stop the fight after his boxer is knocked down twice in the first round. 2001 — Michael Schumacher gets his fourth Formula One championship and matches Alain Prost's series record of 51 victories by winning the Hungarian Grand Prix. 2004 — American swimmer Michael Phelps wraps up the 200/400m individual medley double at the Athens Olympics when he wins the 200m (1:57.14 OR) ahead of teammate Ryan Lochte. 2016 — Usain Bolt scores another sweep, winning three gold medals in his third consecutive Olympics. At the Rio de Janeiro Games, Bolt turns a close 4x100 relay race against Japan and the United States into a typical, Bolt-like runaway, helping Jamaica cross the line in 37.27 seconds. Allyson Felix wins an unprecedented fifth gold medal in women's track and field, running the second leg of the 4x100-meter relay team. 2018 — Novak Đoković beats Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Cincinnati Masters to become the first player to win all 9 Masters 1,000 tennis tournaments since the series started in 1990. 2018 — Jockey Drayden Van Dyke wins a record-tying seven races at Del Mar, including the $200,000 Del Mar Mile. He ties Hall of Famer Victor Espinoza for most wins in a single day in the seaside track's history. Van Dyke's only loss in eight mounts comes when he finishes second in the sixth race. 1909 — The Philadelphia Phillies were rained out for the 10th consecutive day, a major league record. 1913 — The Chicago Cubs tagged Grover Alexander for nine straight hits and six runs for a 10-4 triumph over the Philadelphia Phillies. 1921 — Detroit's Ty Cobb got his 3,000th career hit at age 34, the youngest player to reach that plateau. The milestone hit was a single off Elmer Myers of the Boston Red Sox. 1934 — Moose Solters of the Boston Red Sox hit for the cycle in an 8-6 loss to the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park. 1951 — Eddie Gaedel, a 65-pound midget who was 3-foot-7, made his first and only plate appearance as a pinch-hitter for Frank Saucier of the St. Louis Browns. Gaedel wearing No. 1/8 was walked on four pitches by Detroit Tigers pitcher Bob Cain and then was taken out for pinch-runner Jim Delsing. The gimmick by Browns owner Bill Veeck was completely legal, but later outlawed. 1957 — New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham announced that the team's board of directors had voted 8-1 in favor of moving to San Francisco. The Giants would start the 1958 season in Seals Stadium. 1965 — Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds no-hit the Cubs 1-0, in 10 innings in the first game of a doubleheader at Chicago. Leo Cardenas homered in the 10th for the Reds. 1969 — Ken Holtzman of the Cubs blanked the Atlanta Braves with a 3-0 no-hitter at Wrigley Field. Ron Santo's three-run homer in the first inning provided the Cubs' offense. 1990 — Bobby Thigpen recorded his 40th save as the Chicago White Sox beat the Texas Rangers 4-2. Thigpen became the eighth — and fastest — to accomplish this feat. 1992 — Bret Boone made history when he became part of the first three-generation family to play in major league baseball. Boone is the grandson of Ray Boone, who played from 1948-60, and son of Bob Boone, from 1972-90. Bret, 23, completed the triangle when he started at second base for the Seattle Mariners against Baltimore. 2007 — Johan Santana finished with a franchise-record 17 strikeouts in eight innings to help Minnesota edge Texas 1-0. 2009 — Florida reached 10 hits for the 15th straight game in a 6-3 loss at Houston, matching the longest streak since the St. Louis Browns had one that long in 1937. The Marlins were held to four hits the next game. 2011 — LaGrange, Ky., starter Griffin McLarty struck out 12 and hit a homer in a 1-0 victory over the hometown favorites from Clinton County in the Little League World Series at South Williamsport, Pa. The game drew 41,848 fans, breaking the record of 40,000 set in the 1989 and 1990 championship games. 2016 — Jose Altuve homered and had five RBIs, and the Houston Astros beat the Baltimore Orioles 15-8 despite allowing four home runs in the first inning. The Orioles became the first team in the modern era (since 1900) to open a game with four home runs before making an out. Adam Jones hit Collin McHugh's first pitch into the seats in left field and Hyun Soo Kim singled before Manny Machado, Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo homered in succession. Compiled by the Associated Press That concludes today's newsletter. 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USA Today
an hour ago
- USA Today
From 'Superman' to 'Mission: Impossible,' new digital movies to watch right now
There are those who have to see a new movie in theaters. Then there are those who are fine with waiting till it hits a subscription streaming service. But then there's a third group of people who embrace digital video-on-demand platforms, who are all about seeing the latest movies but are cool with viewing them from home (or wherever!) and who need their own viewing guides. That's what we're doing here, shouting out the best stuff now on VOD. And this week's a doozy, because Tom Cruise is hanging off airplanes on all your digital devices and TVs with 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.' Here are seven new VOD releases available to buy or rent right now: 'Eddington' Director Ari Aster mixes the Western genre with noir and satire in this honest, cinematic look at how COVID-19 further splintered a divided America. In summer 2020, the fictional New Mexico town of Eddington turns into a hotbed of bad feelings and controversy when local sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) – who's not big on masking, by the way – runs for mayor against popular progressive incumbent Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal). Their feud turns personal while the situation for the town's residents grows explosive, bloody and downright bonkers. Where to watch: Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Amazon 'Elio' Pixar throws back to the days of "Explorers" and "The Last Starfighter" with this familiar sci-fi project, in which an orphan named Elio (voiced by Yonas Kibreab) doesn't get along with his guardian, Aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña), and would rather be abducted by aliens than live on Earth. His wish comes true when an intergalactic spaceship picks him up and Elio makes a blobby new bestie, though the youngster quickly figures out that home isn't so bad. Best for a kid who has never seen "E.T." Where to watch: Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Amazon 'Jurassic Park Rebirth' Here's how a "Jurassic World" film usually goes: See dinosaurs, run from dinosaurs, maybe get eaten by dinosaurs. Director Gareth Edwards' latest installment in the long-running sci-fi action franchise at least tries something different by throwing a heist movie into the usual perilous adventure. But homages to Steven Spielberg's 1993 original, a starry cast (including Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Oscar winner Mahershala Ali) and dinos aplenty can only do so much when saddled with generic characters and a rickety plot. Where to watch: Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Amazon 'Lilo & Stitch' The wholly unnecessary remake seems like an excessively earnest Disney Channel movie compared with the delightfully unhinged 2002 cartoon. Young Lilo (newcomer Maia Kealoha) is a rebellious 6-year-old Hawaiian girl who gives her big sister/guardian Nani (Sydney Agudong) fits, and Nani is desperately trying to keep social services from taking Lilo away. Both their lives take a turn for the chaotic when Lilo adopts an alien "puppy" she names Stitch, a intergalactic experiment/furry menace that creates mayhem wherever he goes. Where to watch: Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Amazon 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' From crawling all over a biplane to spelunking a sunken submarine, Tom Cruise goes above and beyond to save the world again in the eighth (and perhaps last) installment in the action-packed franchise. This latest "Mission" finds Cruise's daredevil secret agent Ethan Hunt needing to stop a rogue AI from enslaving mankind. The surprisingly dramatic narrative raises the emotional stakes from previous outings and skillfully explains why Ethan and his heroic pals make the choices they do – and it's not just to accept a mission with a message that will self-destruct. Where to watch: Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Amazon 'Smurfs' Give your children the gift of the best "Smurfs" movie so far. (The previous ones range from terrible to abhorrent, so that bar is quite low.) The animated musical adventure is definitely for kids, with bouncy dance numbers and a plot involving the search for a Smurfnapped Papa Smurf (voiced by John Goodman) and Smurfette (Rihanna) trying to help No Name (James Corden) find his special "thing." While most adults will find it aggressively fine, they'll get a kick out of Kurt Russell as Papa Smurf's manly bro Ken – stunt casting so odd it kind of works. Where to watch: Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Amazon 'Superman' James Gunn's electric adventure introduces a new Man of Steel in David Corenswet and launches a rebooted DC movie universe. The movie features pervasive positivity, one really cool canine, a bright comic book aesthetic and a fresh superhero landscape filled with colorful personalities. Corenswet – the best screen Superman since the iconic Christopher Reeve – imbues his hero with joy and optimism, and Nicholas Hoult is an inspired choice for nervy and smarmy supervillain tech bro Lex Luthor. Where to watch: Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Amazon
Los Angeles Times
an hour ago
- Los Angeles Times
Harrison Ford's Emmy chances for ‘Shrinking,' by the numbers
Hollywood awards voters owe Harrison Ford a serious apology. A supporting Emmy for his performance as the gruff yet insightful therapist Paul Rhoades on Apple TV+'s comedy 'Shrinking' would be a good start. Ford's Emmy nomination for 'Shrinking' Season 2 is his first ever. Granted, most of his small-screen work has come about recently. But Ford's prolific film career also has yielded just one Oscar nomination, for lead actor in 1986, for his soulful performance in 'Witness.' Factoring in Screen Actors Guild (two), BAFTA (one) and Golden Globe nominations (five), Ford's major awards nominations barely reach double digits. Ford has never won a major competitive film or television award. On the other hand, he has a trophy case worth of lifetime achievement awards (from AFI, César Awards, Cannes and more), which suggests that his contributions to the industry haven't gone unnoticed. 'The Fugitive,' a 1993 blockbuster led by an emotionally charged Ford, drew seven Oscar nominations, including for best picture and eventual supporting actor winner Tommy Lee Jones, but none for Ford. Ford drew some critics groups' attention for his thoughtful performance in this 2013 film as baseball executive Branch Rickey, who brought Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) into the major leagues. Forty years ago, no one envisioned a supporting actor TV award as a career highlight for Ford. But an Emmy at age 83 would be lovely — and he's the frontrunner. 'Shrinking' Season 3 has already wrapped, giving Emmy voters a clear path to justice for Ford: not just one but multiple Emmys.
