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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.
Discussion: Daily Breeze and SGV Tribune
Chris McCosky / Detroit News:
Tigers' Matthew Boyd back on IL, will seek further medical evaluations on his ailing elbow  —  Detroit — The Tigers aren't completely closing the door on Matthew Boyd pitching again this season, but the odds are stacked hard against that happening.  —  “He's going to see doctors next week,” manager AJ Hinch said Saturday.
Discussion: MLB Trade Rumors
Richard Guzman / Daily Breeze:
BeachLife Festival: Few worries, masks as fans return to hear live music  —  It didn't bother Marcela Gutierrez that she had to travel to Redondo Beach from her home in Reseda on Thursday to show her COVID-19 vaccination card.  And Gutierrez didn't care that she had to park a mile away …
Discussion: Press Enterprise
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
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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Joon Lee / ESPN:
MLB: Hunter Renfroe ‘completely wrong’ in saying that Boston Red Sox were told to stop testing amid COVID-19 outbreak
Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Yankees snap skid with 8-7 win over Mets, Aaron Judge hits 2 dingers  —  A wild back-and-forth affair in front of a sold-out Citi Field crowd tied the Subway Series at one win apiece.  —  All of the Yankees' offensive production arrived in a rush - they put up a five-spot in the second inning …
Discussion: Associated Press
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 …
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 …
Jordan McPherson / Miami Herald:
Miami Marlins  —  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.  The surgery is scheduled for next week …
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.
Discussion: Whittier Daily News
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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ESPN:   New York Yankees' Jameson Taillon placed on injured list; Zack Britton undergoes Tommy John surgery
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 …
Discussion: MLB Trade Rumors
 
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