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Yahoo
9 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Pete Alonso powers Mets offense, Griffin Canning shuts down Dodgers to grab season series
LOS ANGELES — The Mets might look back on Wednesday night in Chavez Ravine as a pivotal moment in their quest for National League supremacy. Last August, it was a fateful afternoon in Phoenix that set the course for the Mets' postseason journey when a ninth-inning Jose Iglesias RBI single clinched the season series and a tiebreaker over the Diamondbacks, which came into play down the stretch in early October. Advertisement On Wednesday night, the Mets took home the season series and a potential tiebreaker with the Dodgers down the line with a 6-1 victory in front of 45,733 fans at Dodger Stadium. "It's good to win the series overall, but we've got one more tomorrow to win this series here," Carlos Mendoza said. "Yeah, we're talkiong about the seven-game set, but that's a really good team there. We're showing that we're a good team, I've been saying it, yet we still have a ways to go." Griffin Canning and Pete Alonso played the leading roles in the victory. Alonso tagged a pair of home runs and drove in five of the Mets' six runs, while Canning held the Dodgers scoreless across six innings. With the win, the Mets maintained the top record in the National League, improving to 39-23 and 4-2 against the Dodgers with the series finale on deck at 4:10 p.m. Thursday afternoon. Advertisement "Whether it's playing an extra game for a division or playing an extra game for a playoff spot, don't want to have that," Alonso said. "We want to pick up as many games as possible, and this group understands that. We're locked in. We're just really excited for the opportunity that we have tomorrow." Griffin Canning brings season's best performance New York Mets pitcher Griffin Canning (46) delivers a pitch during the first inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 4, 2025, at Dodger Stadium. Canning was coming off his worst performance of the season on May 28 when he needed 80 pitches to get through three innings and allowed five runs (three earned) on four hits and four walks. The right-hander felt that he did not have a handle on his secondary pitches and it led to his second loss of the season. It came on the heels of a rain-shortened 2⅔-inning outing against the Dodgers at Citi Field. Advertisement Canning got his repertoire back dialed in on Wednesday night. He only allowed three hits and one walk while striking out seven. A Dodgers baserunner did not advance past first base against the veteran right-hander. "Just executing pitches, going one pitch at a time, trusting Luis (Torrens) back there," Canning said. "He called a great game. We were on the same page. Jeff (McNeil), in particular, running some balls down. The offense jumping out to an early lead helps to reinforce going out there and attacking the zone. He led with his slider, which he threw 37 times and induced nine of his 13 whiffs. He handled the top three of the Dodgers' lineup, holding Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman to one hit in nine at-bats. After allowing a one-out single to Dalton Rushing in the fifth inning, Canning ended the frame by striking out Kike Hernandez and Ohtani looking on a fastball and changeup. He entered the sixth inning with 90 pitches and only needed nine to get through the frame, picking up fly balls by Betts and Tesocar Hernandez and striking out Freeman on a slider. Advertisement "I feel like I kind of got back to how I was pitching the beginning of the year and spring training, kind of leaning on the slider and changeup," Canning said. Pete Alonso provides the pop New York Mets first base Pete Alonso (20) hits a three-run home run during the first inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 4, 2025, at Dodger Stadium. Pete Alonso ensured that there would be no drama on Wednesday night. After the Mets and Dodgers played back-to-back extra-inning games on Monday and Tuesday, Alonso nearly single-handedly provided the separation for the Mets in the win. Early on against Dodgers starter Tony Gonsolin, the opening run scored on a Juan Soto groundout after Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo had reached on a hit by pitch and error. Advertisement With a runner on base, Alonso moved the Mets ahead 3-0 on an opposite-field two-run home run to right field on a first-pitch slider. With Canning holding down the Dodgers' offense, the Mets carried a 3-0 lead into the eighth inning. Alonso stepped to the plate with Brandon Nimmo and Soto on base and destroyed a three-run home run 447 feet up the bleachers in left field. "It felt good, but for me, I was just more excited to grab some insurance runs right there. That's a very high-octane, potent offense that they got over there, so those insurance runs are really, really big for us and give our pitching staff a breather." Alonso's two-home run performance gave him 14 on the season — tying Lindor for the team lead. He now has 53 RBI on the season, moving him into a tie with the Cubs' Seiya Suzuki for most in the NL. Advertisement After watching his average drop from .349 to .288 by the end of May, Alonso appears to be heating back up to start June. With Wednesday's breakout performance, the Mets first baseman is now 5-for-16 with three home runs, 10 RBI and three runs this month. "I just feel consistent. I just feel like myself," Alonso said. "I've felt pretty much myself the entire year so far, pitch to pitch and AB to AB, so that's all I'm trying to do. I'm just trying to be the same guy every day." This article originally appeared on NY Mets: Pete Alonso two home runs, Griffin Canning quality start in win
New York Post
14 hours ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Pete Alonso belts two homers as Mets roll past rival Dodgers
Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. Try it free LOS ANGELES — Pete Alonso is bingeing again. The player who carried the Mets offensively for this season's first month before hibernating for much of May was without a multihomer game this season as Wednesday's play against the Dodgers began. Advertisement Two big swings later, Alonso's to-do list was an item shorter. Alonso homered twice and drove in five runs — tying him for the NL lead in RBIs — in carrying the Mets to a 6-1 victory at Dodger Stadium. After hitting a two-run blast in the first inning, Alonso delivered the knockout punch with a three-run shot in the eighth, allowing the Mets a measure of comfort after two straight nights of needing a 10th inning to decide the outcome. Advertisement The Mets, who won for the fifth time in six games, rebounded from their walk-off Tuesday loss by refusing to provide oxygen to the Dodgers. That meant establishing a quick lead and using Griffin Canning's right arm to stifle the Dodgers before Alonso could ice it with his rocket into the left field seats against Ryan Loutos. Alonso's two homers gave him three in the past five games, a stretch in which he has delivered 10 RBIs. Overall, Alonso has 53 RBIs this season, tying him with Seiya Suzuki for the National League lead. Advertisement 4 Pete Alonso belts a three-run homer in the eighth inning, his second of the game, in the Mets' 6-1 win over the Dodgers on June 4, 2025. AP Rafael Devers leads MLB with 54 RBIs. The Mets will go for the series victory on Thursday. Already, they are 4-2 against the Dodgers this season. Advertisement Canning had to navigate a difficult stretch of the Dodgers lineup if he was going to complete six innings on this night. 4 Griffin Canning held the Dodgers scoreless over six innings in the Mets' win over the Dodgers. Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images CHECK OUT THE LATEST MLB STANDINGS AND METS STATS Already, the Mets right-hander had struck out Shohei Ohtani to end the fifth. Canning's mission now was Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernández, and ideally just those three hitters. Canning aced the test in 14 pitches, retiring the side in order. It was the springboard the Mets needed with a tired bullpen. José Castillo followed with two shutout innings before Ryne Stanek surrendered a homer to Andy Pages in the ninth. Alonso connected in the first inning for a two-run homer against Tony Gonsolin that gave Canning a 3-0 lead before he threw a pitch. 4 Pete Alonso (right) celebrates with Brandon Nimmo after hitting a two-run homer in the first inning of the Mets' win over the Dodgers. Getty Images Advertisement Francisco Lindor was drilled in the foot by a pitch leading off the game, and Brandon Nimmo reached on Enrique Hernández's fielding error, putting runners on the corners. Nimmo stole second and Juan Soto's ensuing grounder brought in Lindor from third. Alonso jumped on a first-pitch slider and cleared the fence in right-center. The Mets had a chance to widen that lead in the third, after Nimmo singled and Soto walked. But Gonsolin retired Alonso and Baty in succession to escape the inning. 4 Juan Soto celebrates with teammates in the dugout after his RBI groundout brought home Francisco Lindor in the first inning of the Mets' win over the Dodgers. Getty Images Advertisement Soto drew a two-out walk in the fifth, but Alonso whiffed — the Mets' sixth strikeout of the night and third in two innings. Jared Young had walked leading off the fourth but was left stranded after Ronny Mauricio struck out for the second time and Jeff McNeil and Luis Torrens were retired. Canning ended the fifth in grand style, throwing a full-count changeup that Ohtani watched for strike three. Canning on the previous pitch threw a slider for a strike that Ohtani thought was ball four as he started to first base. After Canning retired Betts, Freeman and Teoscar Hernández in order in the sixth, the lefty Castillo escaped trouble in the seventh by striking out Dalton Rushing and Enrique Hernández in succession. Advertisement Castillo allowed a double to Pages and drilled Michael Conforto in the inning. In the eighth, Nimmo was plunked and Soto walked before Alonso hit homer No. 14 this season.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Daily fishing limit increased at Utah reservoir over low water levels
Utah wildlife managers have issued an emergency change to the state's fishing guidebook, doubling the daily number of trout an angler can take from a reservoir in northeast Utah as its levels slip. Anglers are now able to keep up to eight trout of any species every day at Crouse Reservoir, up from the previous daily limit of four, through an emergency order that Utah Division of Wildlife Resources deputy director Michael Canning authorized on Tuesday. The order remains in effect through the end of this year. 'This emergency change will allow the public to harvest more fish from the reservoir so they can be used and not wasted as water levels continue to decline this summer,' Canning said in a statement. 'Increased harvest will hopefully improve the survival of any remaining fish, as well.' Crouse Reservoir, located about 30 miles northeast of Vernal near the Uintah-Daggett county border, is often filled with rainbow, tiger and brown trout. While many reservoirs in the area are at least 60% full, Crouse Reservoir struggled from a below-normal snowpack, said DWR spokeswoman Faith Heaton Jolley. It's closest to the Northeastern Uintas and Yampa-White-Little Snake snowpack basins in Utah and Colorado, respectively, which peaked at approximately 83% to 89% of the region's median average, per Natural Resources Conservation Service data. Some of the localized sites closest to Crouse Reservoir fared worse than that. Most of the region's snowpack collection melted prematurely, as well, which can reduce the efficiency of the snowpack runoff. The reservoir currently holds about 350 acre-feet of water, which is about 20% of its full capacity of 1,750 acre-feet, according to the Utah Division of Water Rights. Senior water rights dictate that most of what's left will go toward the Pot Creek drainage downstream, state wildlife officials said. They add that anglers looking to catch trout should use a boat or small watercraft out on the water because thick vegetation along its shoreline could make access difficult otherwise.
Vancouver Sun
28-05-2025
- Business
- Vancouver Sun
B.C. anti-LNG group takes federal environment agency to court over new plant
An anti-LNG group representing residents of Howe Sound was in Federal Court in Vancouver on Wednesday, arguing that proper procedures were not followed by environmental regulators during the approval of an LNG plant. My Sea to Sky, which calls itself a 'people-powered environmental organization that was founded in 2014 to defend, protect and restore Átl'ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound,' is asking the court to review of a federal decision to approve the Woodfibre LNG plant near Squamish. Its lawyer, Patrick Canning, said in his submissions that the decision to approve the project, which includes housing in a converted cruise ship on the water for 600 workers and a proposal for a second 'floatel' for 900 workers, was unreasonable and procedurally unfair. Stay on top of the latest real estate news and home design trends. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Westcoast Homes will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. In particular, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada had promised the public a chance to submit comments during the approval process but did not hold a public hearing, he said. The judge questioned Canning during his presentation a number of times to ask how his arguments were relevant to the issue of procedural fairness. Anyone directly affected by a decision or an order of a federal board, commission or other tribunal may apply to the court for a judicial review for a $50 filing fee, as it has exclusive jurisdiction to review the legality of those entities, according to the Federal Court website. Outside the hearing, which was attended by 10 to 20 people, Tracey Saxby, spokeswoman for My Sea to Sky, said by not listening to her group's input on its decision, 'it followed an unfair process and, because of that, it failed to allow community inputs and that had an effect on human rights and the environment.' She said, for instance, allowing Woodfibre LNG to set up floatels in Howe Sound for workers puts the workers and any locals who work at the camps — including women, girls and Indigenous people — in potential danger of the workers because there are documented safety issues regarding male workers around such camps elsewhere. Canning told the judge these 'man camps can have serious impacts on the community, on the LGBTQ community … and on others.' He said times have changed since the project was approved in 2015 and companies are expected to take into consideration affects on locals and surrounding communities. Saxby said locals, including mothers of teen girls, wanted the opportunity to convey their concerns about the impact living next to the floatels could have on their sense of safety. 'It puts woman and girls at risk' because the workers can't be stopped from coming into town after their two-week shift is over, she said. Another group, Justice for Girls, was scheduled to speak on its own application for a judicial review of Ottawa's approval of the project during the Federal Court hearing, which is scheduled for three days. Locals also have a concern about floatel waste management plans and worker safety, said Saxby. She added that the lack of public input into the environmental approval process allowed the Impact Assessment Agency to sidestep the process to benefit a foreign-owned company. Woodfibre LNG is controlled by Indonesian billionaire Sukanto Tanoto. Tanoto owns the Singapore-based Royal Golden Eagle Group of Companies, which owns Pacific Energy Canada. That company owns 70 per of Woodfibre LNG and the Canadian company Enbridge owns the remaining 30 per cent. The Woodfibre LNG project has been approved by the federal and provincial governments and the Squamish Nation. Saxby said it was the first time the federal government substituted its own environmental assessment by accepting the provincial assessment to fast-track the process. 'We question whether this a good idea,' she said. 'There has to be more oversight, not less.' The first floatel was allowed to set up under a temporary use permit for three years. Its approval last year was controversial, as the City of Squamish banned it but was overruled by B.C.'s Environmental Assessment Office. It was permitted through an amendment to the project's environmental assessment certificate. The company puts restrictions on floatel resident workers going into Squamish, except for work-related reasons. The Woodfibre LNG project, being built on the old Woodfibre pulp and paper land on the western shore of Howe Sound, about seven kilometres south of Squamish and accessible only by water. It will use electricity to convert natural gas supplied by Fortis B.C. into liquid natural gas that will be exported by ship to overseas markets and it's scheduled to open in 2027.
New York Post
28-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Griffin Canning's struggles doom Mets' win streak in loss to lowly White Sox
Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. Try it free The Mets moved up Wednesday's start time to avoid the oncoming weather, but even so Griffin Canning rained on the parade. The right-hander has been a success story in this early part of this season but lately walks have sabotaged him. And on this day two errors behind him only exacerbated matters. So much for the sweep against an American League patsy: the Mets lost 9-4 to the White Sox at Citi Field to snap a four-game winning streak. The nine runs allowed were a season-high by the Mets. It was a lost opportunity for the Mets (34-22), who will be visited for three games beginning Friday by a Rockies team on pace to eclipse the modern record for losses in a season that was established last year by the White Sox. 6 Mets pitcher Griffin Canning reacts as he walks off the mound after ending the third inning. JASON SZENES/NY POST This version of the White Sox isn't much better, with 38 losses in 56 games. About the only positive development for the Mets was lefty reliever Brandon Waddell absorbed five innings, allowing manager Carlos Mendoza to rest a bullpen that has received plenty of high-leverage work. Thursday's off day will provide a further break for that group. In his shortest non-weather affected start of the season, Canning lasted only three innings and allowed five runs, two of which were unearned, on four hits and four walks with three strikeouts. In his previous start, last Friday, the right-hander pitched only 2 2/3 innings but was removed following a lengthy rain delay. 6 Mets third baseman Mark Vientos watches his three run home run during the third inning. JASON SZENES/NY POST But Canning also struggled that night, walking four batters and allowing three earned runs against the Dodgers. Andrew Benintendi stroked a two-run single in the first inning to begin Canning's rough afternoon. Mike Tauchman's walk started the rally and Miguel Vargas doubled Tauchman to third before Benintendi delivered. Consecutive errors to begin the third helped sink the Mets further. Brett Baty committed a throwing error before Jeff McNeil booted a grounder, giving the White Sox runners on first and second. 6 White Sox Mike Tauchman hits a two-run RBI double in the second inning. JASON SZENES/NY POST 6 White Sox Korey Lee is safe at second base on a fielders choice beating the tag by New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor in the second inning. JASON SZENES/NY POST Tauchman unleashed a two-out double that scored both runners to widen the Mets' deficit to 4-0. Canning's troubles worsened in the third, when he surrendered a leadoff double to Lenyn Sosa. After Edgar Quero walked and an ensuing sacrifice bunt, Josh Rojas gave the White Sox a 5-0 lead with an RBI ground out. 6 Mets outfielder Juan Soto grounds out to third base in the first inning. JASON SZENES/NY POST Canning issued another walk in the inning, to No. 9 hitter Michael A. Taylor, before escaping. Mark Vientos' three-run homer against Shane Smith in the third got the Mets back into the game. Brandon Nimmo and Juan Soto drew consecutive walks to begin the inning before Vientos, with two outs, cleared the right-field fence for his sixth homer of the season. 6 White Sox Josh Rojas beats the ball to the plate scoring on Mike Tauchman's two-run RBI double in the second inning. JASON SZENES/NY POST The White Sox scored twice in the sixth against Waddell in extending their lead to 7-3. Benintendi stroked an RBI triple to right field and scored on Sosa's single. Tauchman doubled to start the rally. Rojas' double in the seventh gave the White Sox runners on second and third before Taylor's sacrifice fly pushed the Mets into an 8-3 hole. Benintendi homered in the eighth, leaving him a double short of the cycle.
