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Reds welcome back Hunter Greene for finale vs. Phillies
August 13 - With his teammates looking for a boost from their ace right-hander, Hunter Greene returns to the mound Wednesday as the Cincinnati Reds close out their three-game series with the visiting Philadelphia Phillies. Greene (4-3, 2.72 ERA) will be back on a major league mound for the first time since June 3. In the fifth inning of that game against the visiting Milwaukee Brewers, he felt a tweak in his right groin in the fifth inning, an aggravation of the same problem that sent him to the injured list in mid-May and forced him to miss two starts. This time, instead of two starts, he missed more than two months. The Reds are in desperate need of wins of any kind at this point. Cincinnati got six shutout innings from starter Brady Singer on Tuesday in a 6-1 win over the Phillies, setting up the decisive game of the series on Wednesday. Cincinnati remains two games behind the New York Mets for the third and final National League wild-card spot. "I mean, I'm not oblivious to the situation that we're in," Greene said. "I put a lot of pressure on myself. Nobody's ever going to put more pressure on me than I will myself. I mean, I'm the one that's going through this process and going through this journey of the sport and who I am as a person and a player. "So, I think understanding that and being able to not lose sight of that is super important and keeping that perspective. But yeah, I mean, obviously I'm putting my best foot forward." In four minor league rehab starts, including three with Triple-A Louisville, Greene allowed 10 hits and 11 runs (nine earned) while striking out 24 and walking five and yielding four home runs over 13 innings. He gave up two home runs in his most recent start for Louisville on Friday. Greene owns an 0-1 record and a 4.63 ERA in two career starts vs. Philadelphia. The Phillies will counter with Cristopher Sanchez (11-3, 2.36 ERA), making his 24th start of the season. The left-hander has won four of his past five starts, including a victory at Texas on Friday. He held the Rangers to one run on six hits over six innings, striking out six and walking one. Sanchez is 1-1 with a 3.86 ERA in three lifetime starts against the Reds. Cincinnati's Miguel Andujar, acquired for his production against left-handed pitching, homered Tuesday for the second time in three games. He is 21-for-51 (.412) with three home runs on the season against lefties. The Phillies would love to receive some early-inning offense. On Sunday, in a 4-2 win over the Rangers, they didn't get a hit until the fourth inning. On Monday and Tuesday, Cincinnati starters Andrew Abbott and Singer were perfect against Philadelphia through four innings. "I'd like to get something going earlier, but those are just the ebbs and flows of the season," Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. "You just got to grind through it, and hopefully (Wednesday) we come out and we score five in the first three." --Field Level Media
Reuters
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D-backs face Rangers, get first look at ex-teammate Merrill Kelly
August 13 - Texas pitcher Merrill Kelly will take the mound against his former team for the first time when the Rangers clash with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday afternoon in the finale of a three-game interleague set in Arlington, Texas. The Diamondbacks will send right hander Zac Gallen (9-12, 5.31 ERA) to the hill to oppose fellow right-hander Kelly (9-7. 3.38), whom the Rangers acquired at the trade deadline. The teams have split the first two games of the series, with Texas winning in 10 innings on Monday and the Diamondbacks responding with a 3-2 victory on Tuesday that was delivered by a game-deciding, ninth-inning home run by Ketel Marte. Kelly, who was a stalwart of the Diamondbacks' pitching staff from 2019 until the trade on July 31, has made two starts for Texas. He is 0-1 in those two appearances while amassing a 5.40 ERA over 10 innings, allowing two runs on four hits in 5 2/3 innings in a no-decision at Seattle on Aug. 2 before surrendering four runs on five hits and a season-high five walks over 4 1/3 innings Friday in a loss at home to the Phillies. It was the first time Kelly has walked five batters in a game since 2023. "I knew I could only walk a tightrope so long by putting that many people on base, giving that many free passes," Kelly said after the setback against Philadelphia. "Eventually, it ended up coming back to bite me. "It was probably a mix of just overcorrecting things," Kelly said about his wildness. "I would kind of fly open, let a ball run too far arm-side and then try to overcorrect it, and then I would kind of pull it and yank it glove-side. Just kind of in-between on everything." Since Kelly had spent his entire career as a member of the Diamondbacks until two weeks ago, he has never pitched a game against his previous team. "We faced him a couple times in live (batting practice)," Arizona shortstop Geraldo Perdomo said. "We're gonna be ready for Merrill." Gallen has suffered through a sub-par campaign and is staring at his first losing season since going 4-10 in 2021. He produced a record of 43-19 from 2022-24 and was finished in the top five in National League Cy Young Award voting in both 2022 and 2023. Gallen has been better in his last two starts, winning twice and sporting a 2.25 ERA over 12 innings this month. His most recent outing was a six-inning stint at home against Colorado on Friday in which he gave up one run on four hits and three walks while striking out six. Gallen is 4-3 in seven appearances since July 1. He is looking forward to matching up against Kelly, his former running buddy. "It'll be fun," Gallen said. "I mean, I know as a pitcher, you're more thinking about the lineup you're facing. I'm wondering how weird it'll be for our hitters to face Merrill. For us squaring off against each other, I don't think of it as much in that sense. But still, it will be fun, nonetheless." Gallen is 2-1 with a 2.78 ERA in four career starts against the Rangers covering 22 2/3 innings. He won his last time out versus Texas, hurling five scoreless, two-hit innings in a game the Diamondbacks took 6-0 on Sept. 10 of last season in Phoenix. --Field Level Media
The Independent
44 minutes ago
- The Independent
Residents evacuate amid urgent warnings glacial lake will flood city
Juneau, Alaska 's capital, is bracing for what authorities warn could be record-breaking floodwaters, as a glacial outburst from the Mendenhall Glacier threatens sections of the city. Residents in affected areas have begun evacuating, heeding urgent warnings. The deluge, caused by rainwater and snowmelt accumulating behind a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, began escaping the ice dam Tuesday morning. Flooding is anticipated to continue into Wednesday, impacting homes situated along the Mendenhall River and near Mendenhall Lake. The Mendenhall Glacier, a popular tourist attraction, lies about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Juneau, a city of 30,000 people. Its proximity means that many properties on the city's outskirts are directly in the path of the glacial outburst. The National Weather Service predicts the flooding will peak between 8am and noon Wednesday. Nicole Ferrin, a meteorologist with the service, said: "This will be a new record, based on all of the information that we have." Flooding from the basin has become an annual concern since 2011, and in recent years has swept away houses and swamped hundreds of homes. Government agencies installed temporary barriers this year in hopes of protecting several hundred homes in the inundation area from widespread damage. The flooding happens because a smaller glacier near Mendenhall Glacier retreated — a casualty of the warming climate — and left a basin that fills with rainwater and snowmelt each spring and summer. When the water creates enough pressure, it forces its way under or around the ice dam created by the Mendenhall Glacier, enters Mendenhall Lake and eventually flows down the Mendenhall River, as it did Tuesday. Before the basin began overtopping, the water level was rising rapidly — as much as 4 feet (1.22 meters) per day during especially sunny or rainy days, according to the National Weather Service. The city saw successive years of record flooding in 2023 and 2024 — with the river last August cresting at 15.99 feet (4.9 meters), about 1 foot (30 centimeters) over the prior record set a year earlier — and flooding extending farther into the Mendenhall Valley. This year's flooding was predicted to crest at between 16.3 and 16.8 feet (4.96 to 5.12 meters). In 2024, nearly 300 homes were damaged. A large outburst can release some 15 billion gallons of water, according to the University of Alaska Southeast and Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. That is the equivalent of nearly 23,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. During the 2024 flood, the flow rate in the rushing Mendenhall River was about half that of Niagara Falls, the researchers say. City officials responded to concerns from property owners this year by working with state, federal and tribal entities to install a temporary levee along roughly 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of riverbank in an attempt to guard against widespread flooding. The 10,000 'Hesco' barriers are essentially giant sandbags intended to protect more than 460 properties completely during an 18-foot (5.5-meter) flood event, said emergency manager Ryan O'Shaughnessy. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is at the start of what is expected to be a years-long process of studying conditions in the region and examining options for a more permanent solution, such as a levee. The timeline has angered some residents, who say it is unreasonable. Outburst floods are expected to continue as long as the Mendenhall Glacier acts as an ice dam to seal off the basin, which could span another 25 to 60 years, according to the university and science center researchers.
