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J.P. Hoornstra / Orange County Register:
Chris Taylor's glove helps Dodgers blank Padres — LOS ANGELES ― Not long ago, you could hold up Chris Taylor's season at just the right angle and see the Most Valuable Player of the Dodgers, if not the entire National League. — Much can change in little more than a month.
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J.P. Hoornstra / Orange County Register:
Gavin Lux's return to Dodgers comes with a new position — Lux's first major league start in left field comes at Cody Bellinger's expense — LOS ANGELES ― Gavin Lux had an interesting couple of weeks at Triple-A. He saw time at four positions and designated hitter. He did not commit an error.
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SGV Tribune and True Blue LA
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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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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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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Whittier Daily News
Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
Source: Los Angeles Dodgers P Trevor Bauer's season is over as MLB administrative leave extended through postseason — What had evolved into an inevitability became an official ruling on Friday, when Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed to extend Trevor Bauer's …
Jordan McPherson / Miami Herald:
Miami Marlins: Brian Anderson (shoulder) to have surgery — Brian Anderson's 2021 season is officially over. — One day after saying he was still waiting on doctors' opinions regarding his left shoulder subluxation, the Miami Marlins' third baseman has elected to have season-ending surgery.
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MLB Trade Rumors
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
Brian Mahoney / Associated Press:
U.S. Open: Global citizens Fernandez, Raducanu have fans all over — NEW YORK — Emma Raducanu first met Leylah Fernandez at a tournament for players 12 and under, around the time one of Fernandez's teachers urged her to give up the tennis dream. — They shared a love of the game …
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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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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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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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