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Laylan Connelly / Orange County Register:
Check out these ‘epic’ images from that surprise lightning storm — A surprise lightning and thunderstorm raced into Orange County late Thursday, as spectators and photographers marveled at the show in the sky. — It also brought a shot of much-needed rain to parts of the region.
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Nathaniel Percy / Orange County Register:
Quick storm with heavy rain, lightning and thunder ignites fire, knocks out power to more than 1,000 — A monsoonal storm briefly dropped heavy rain, lightning and thunder, knocking out power for several hundred homes and businesses throughout Southern California into Friday morning, Sept. 10, authorities said.
Joon Lee / ESPN:
MLB: Hunter Renfroe ‘completely wrong’ in saying that Boston Red Sox were told to stop testing amid COVID-19 outbreak — Major League Baseball on Thursday denied Boston Red Sox outfielder Hunter Renfroe's allegation that the league told the team to stop testing for COVID-19 amid the outbreak spreading through its clubhouse.
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Boston.com, Royals Review, Bleacher Nation, AZ Snake Pit, The Athletic and Sports Illustrated
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Chris Cotillo / Union-News:
Chris Sale tests positive for COVID-19, will not start for Boston Red Sox on Sunday — CHICAGO — Red Sox ace Chris Sale has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not make his scheduled start Sunday against the White Sox, MassLive has learned. — Sale is the 10th Red Sox player to test positive for the virus since Aug. 27.
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Kevin Goldstein / FanGraphs Baseball:
The Rays' Unique Ability To Mitigate Risk — I'll be the first to admit that I don't understand the Tampa Bay Rays. I don't understand how they win as many games as they do. They're definitely good, but it never feels like they should be as good as they are, or recently have been.
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Rays News, Tampa Bay Times, baseballmusings.com and DRaysBay
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Marc Topkin / Tampa Bay Times:
Wander Franco moves past Mickey Mantle in extending on-base streak
Wander Franco moves past Mickey Mantle in extending on-base streak
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Orange County Register, ESPN, DRaysBay and USA Today
Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Mets waste standout performance from Javy Baez to drop Miami series — Home run. Ground-rule double. Walk. Stolen base. Aggressive running. Stolen base again. — Javy Baez tried to do it all in the Mets' 3-2 loss to the Marlins on Thursday night, backed up by Marcus Stroman's six strong innings of one-run ball.
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Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Mets and Luis Rojas look more like postseason pretenders than contenders in Miami
Mets and Luis Rojas look more like postseason pretenders than contenders in Miami
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NorthJersey.com, Newsday and Amazin' Avenue
Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
Win at Honduras eases pressure on Berhalter, U.S. men - for now — SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Some American players rushed from Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano and its pulsating Latin music for a charter flight through the night to London and onto Berlin, where weekend games awaited with European clubs.
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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
William Ricks / ESPN:
Larry Walker's love of SpongeBob immortalized at the Baseball Hall of Fame — Larry Walker, the former Colorado Rockies and Montreal Expos star, is going into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday. He was one of baseball's best hitters in that era, and the 54-year-old set the internet ablaze …
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Emma Baccellieri / Sports Illustrated:
Marvin Miller: The Late, Reluctant Hall of Fame Inductee
Marvin Miller: The Late, Reluctant Hall of Fame Inductee
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The Good Phight, Cardinals News and Royals Review
Mark Whicker / Orange County Register:
Marvin Miller's Cooperstown journey began with the 1981 players' strike
Marvin Miller's Cooperstown journey began with the 1981 players' strike
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Press Enterprise and Daily News
Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Diamondbacks promote slugger Seth Beer to majors — The Diamondbacks are promoting prospect Seth Beer, who will join the team Friday ahead of this weekend's series against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park, a source confirmed. — Beer, 24, was hitting .287/.398/.511 in 362 …
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MLB Trade Rumors
ESPN:
New York Yankees' Jameson Taillon placed on injured list; Zack Britton undergoes Tommy John surgery — The New York Yankees have placed right-hander Jameson Taillon on the 10-day injured list because of a partial tendon tear in his right ankle, while reliever Zack Britton is unlikely …
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NorthJersey.com, MLB Baseball News … and The Athletic
ESPN:
MLB Power Rankings Week 22: Where all 30 teams stand as the wild-card races heat up — We're a week into September and there's plenty of question marks in MLB's playoff races. — Which teams battling it out for the two American League wild-card slots will hang tough?
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Jonathan Lansner / Orange County Register:
California exodus? Rents jump inland, flat by the coast — If rent hikes are a popularity measure, well, Eastward Ho! — The “Looking Glass” ponders economic and real estate trends through two distinct lenses: the optimist's “glass half-full” and the pessimist's “glass half-empty.”
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San Bernardino Sun
Shaddi Abusaid / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Braves' Ozuna agrees to diversion program in domestic violence case — Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna on Thursday entered into a negotiated resolution that could result in his domestic violence charges being dismissed.The 30-year-old was arrested in May after Sandy Springs officers reported seeing …
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ESPN, MLB Trade Rumors and Talking Chop
Gabe Lacques / USA Today:
Slumping sluggers, a struggling closer and red-hot opponents: How the Yankees got into big September trouble — When the New York Yankees awoke in the Bay Area on Aug. 28, life couldn't have been much better. They'd just won their 13th consecutive game, a rampage that began …
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New York Daily News, New Jersey Online, NorthJersey.com, MLB Baseball News … and Pinstripe Alley