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4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Incredible Mets misplay allows Dodgers to tie game in 4-run comeback
Blowing a four-run lead to the Los Angeles Dodgers was a bad enough time for the New York Mets on Thursday. The game-tying play made it even worse. With the Mets up 5-4 in the bottom of the eighth inning, reliever Reed Garrett seemingly got a big out when Andy Pages hit an easy grounder right at third baseman Brett Baty. Dodgers catcher Will Smith had no choice but to make a break for home from third base, where he should have been tagged out. The Mets turned an easy out at home plate into a "Three Stooges" skit. (Jason Parkhurst-Imagn Images) (IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect / Reuters) However, Baty spiked the throw to home and catcher Francisco Alvarez couldn't get a hold of it. As the ball bounced into the air and came down, Alvarez and Garrett collided into each other in a play worthy of a "Three Stooges" episode. Advertisement Had Alvarez not essentially set a basketball-style pick against Garrett after losing the ball, Smith still probably would have been out. Instead, he tied the game. It was the kind of play that harkened back to the days when the Mets inspired more mockery than fear as a large-market team. They're doing everything they can to shed that reputation under owner Steve Cohen, but plays like that can happen to any baseball team. The inning got worse three batters later when former Mets All-Star Michael Conforto punched an RBI single into the outfield for the go-ahead run. That single was Conforto's first hit with a runner in scoring position since March 31, the Dodgers' fifth game of the season. It was his first with two outs of the entire 2025 season, which hasn't quite gone according to plan after he signed a one-year, $17 million deal to join the reigning World Series champs. He entered Thursday slashing .167/.311/.270. Advertisement With the Dodgers suddenly leading, they brought in Tanner Scott, another new acquisition who has been struggling, for the ninth inning. He struck out two and allowed a single before ending the game on a Luisangel Acuña flyout. The Dodgers' win split the four-game series with the Mets and kept them in first place in the NL West at 38-25. In arguably the hardest stretch of their season — with series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Guardians, New York Yankees and Mets — they went 9-7 despite a heavily depleted pitching staff.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Incredible Mets misplay allows Dodgers to tie game in 4-run comeback
Blowing a four-run lead to the Los Angeles Dodgers was a bad enough time for the New York Mets on Thursday. The game-tying play made it even worse. With the Mets up 5-4 in the bottom of the eighth inning, reliever Reed Garrett seemingly got a big out when Andy Pages hit an easy grounder right at third baseman Brett Baty. Dodgers catcher Will Smith had no choice but to make a break for home from third base, where he should have been tagged out. Advertisement However, Baty spiked the throw to home and catcher Francisco Alvarez couldn't get a hold of it. As the ball bounced into the air and came down, Alvarez and Garrett collided into each other in a play worthy of a "Three Stooges" episode. Had Alvarez not essentially set a basketball-style pick against Garrett after losing the ball, Smith still probably would have been out. Instead, he tied the game. It was the kind of play that harkened back to the days when the Mets inspired more mockery than fear as a large-market team. They're doing everything they can to shed that reputation under owner Steve Cohen, but plays like that can happen to any baseball team. Advertisement The inning got worse three batters later when former Mets All-Star Michael Conforto punched an RBI single into the outfield for the go-ahead run. That single was Conforto's first hit with a runner in scoring position since March 31, the Dodgers' fifth game of the season. It was his first with two outs of the entire 2025 season, which hasn't quite gone according to plan after he signed a one-year, $17 million deal to join the reigning World Series champs. He entered Thursday slashing .167/.311/.270. With the Dodgers suddenly leading, they brought in Tanner Scott, another new acquisition who has been struggling, for the ninth inning. He struck out two and allowed a single before ending the game on a Luisangel Acuña flyout. The Dodgers' win split the four-game series with the Mets and kept them in first place in the NL West at 38-25. In arguably the hardest stretch of their season — with series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Guardians, New York Yankees and Mets — they went 9-7 despite a heavily depleted pitching staff.
The Herald Scotland
15-05-2025
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
Robert MacIntyre makes fine start to PGA Championship
Thank goodness then for the sage golfing guidance of Ryan Fox. 'Have a whack and see what happens,' said the New Zealander who came into the 107th PGA Championship on the back of a maiden PGA Tour win last Sunday. It was a decent old whack too. His four-under 67 left him one shot off the early clubhouse lead set by championship debutant, Ryan Gerard. Luke Donald, Europe's Ryder Cup captain who is on something of a jolly at Quail Hollow this week, showed his enduring class with a 67 too. Robert MacIntyre, meanwhile, got himself up and running with a three-under 68 on an opening day which saw Masters champion Rory McIlroy huff and puff to a three-over 74. On the 16th – his seventh – he staggered to a double-bogey six, a score matched by his playing partners, world No 1 Scottie Scheffler, and the reigning PGA champion, Xander Schauffele. After a scruffy kerfuffle, the world's top three players were made to look like the Three Stooges. Scheffler, who was far from chipper by the PGA of America's decision not to adopt lift, clean and place after huge downpours earlier in the week, salvaged a two-under round. Schauffele had to settle for one-over. Given all the hype and hysteria surrounding McIlroy in the build-up to the second men's major of the season, the rest of the field could just about fly so far under the radar they'd generate panic in the US air traffic control system. After the epic highs of Augusta, this was something of a crash landing for McIlroy as his error strewn round at one of his happiest hunting grounds left him wheezing eight shots off the pace. In his 13 previous appearances at Quail Hollow, he had posted nine top-10s, including four wins, and his cumulative score to par in that period was 102-under. This wasn't his finest day at this particular office. For MacIntyre, Scotland's lone representative in the PGA of America's showpiece, this was a good shift at a place he's not very familiar with. You could say unfamiliarity breeds contentment? Tee to green, the Oban man was as solid as the granite of McCaig's Tower. 'I think I missed two greens,' he said of a sturdy display of ball-striking. MacIntyre, who finished eighth in last year's PGA Championship, leaked an early shot on the second when he three-putted from 25-feet but back-to-back birdies at seven and eight repaired that damage. The Ryder Cup player, who missed the cut at the Masters last month, reeled off another brace of gains at the 14th and 15th to tuck himself in among the frontrunners. 'I've been playing superbly this year tee to green,' added the 28-year-old. 'But I'm just needing that bit of spark. I didn't get off to a great start, but I just kept at it. 'To start a major the way I have is really pleasing.' Donald, meanwhile, was pleasantly surprised by his endeavours. The 47-year-old, who will be looking to steer Europe to more Ryder Cup glory in New York this September, posted a neatly assembled four-under card to show that the captain's able. Donald had missed four cuts in a row coming into this week, mind you. "Obviously I've been trending,' he said with a wry chuckle. The world No 871, who was third in the PGA Championship back in 2006, hit the opening tee-shot of the championship and successfully negotiated his way round a 7,626-yard course he described as a 'brute.' As a short-hitter, it was all that. 'Bogey-free in a major is very pleasing,' Donald said after getting up and down from a bunker on the 18th to avoid any blemishes. 'Someone just told me it was the lowest first round in a major I've had since 2004 or something. This was a pleasant surprise. I got off to a really nice, steady start. I hit a bunch of fairways on the front nine which always makes me feel good about my game. 'I'm here only because I'm captain of the European Ryder Cup team. I wouldn't be in this field otherwise. It's a nice invitation and a perk that the Ryder Cup captain gets.' Early leader Gerard mounted a thrilling back nine surge and birdied the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th before picking up an eagle on the 16th as he fortified his position at the top. A pair of bogeys to finish, however, was something of an anti-climax. You could say the same about McIlroy's day too.
New York Times
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Novocaine' Review: Sticks and Stones Will Never Hurt Him
If we're in a post- 'John Wick' era, where action cinema has been revitalized and modernized — more bullets and blood, more choreographed spectacle — the thrills of the genre have strangely edged closer and closer to that earliest of movie pleasures: slapstick. Particularly in the man-on-a-rampage subgenre, as the violence and gore becomes increasingly absurd, these movies begin to echo that old format, where the more creative and outrageous the pain, the more visceral the pleasure. That's essentially the kind of silly, gross-out fun of 'Novocaine,' which taps into this understanding about as overtly as possible. The key is in the invincibility clause — if, like the Three Stooges themselves, our action hero is virtually indestructible, the pain and its wacky payoffs can be endless. Other films have presented unique and often inane spins on this idea (from Jason Statham in 'Crank' to Logan Marshall-Green in 'Upgrade'), but this film, directed by Robert Olsen and Dan Berk, takes it to its most extreme, via an almost stupidly simple premise: Because of a genetic disorder, our protagonist Nate Caine (Jack Quaid) can't feel any physical pain. Cue just about as many ways one can try to invoke it. Nate, though, is no willing bionic man, but in fact the opposite. Because he doesn't have the sensors of pain to notify him if something has gone wrong, he's led a conversely bubble-boy existence, fearful that at any moment he might unknowingly injure and kill himself. He tennis-balls the corners of desks, doesn't eat solid foods (God forbid he bites off his own tongue!) and has become a bit of a recluse. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
