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Pirates and Brewers play with series tied 1-1

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

Milwaukee Brewers (44-39, second in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (39-43, third in the NL Central)Pittsburgh; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Colin Rea (4-4, 4.57 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 57 strikeouts); Pirates: Rich Hill (7-7, 4.55 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 80 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Brewers -111, Pirates -108; over/under is 9 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers play on Sunday with the three-game series tied 1-1.Pittsburgh is 39-43 overall and 22-20 at home. The Pirates have a 25-5 record in games when they scored five or more runs.Milwaukee is 22-21 in road games and 44-39 overall. The Brewers are 23-6 in games when they hit at least two home runs.Sunday’s game is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Brewers are up 4-1 in the season series.TOP PERFORMERS: Carlos Santana has 20 doubles and nine home runs for the Pirates. Andrew McCutchen is 15-for-38 with four doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.Ch...

Phillies take on the Nationals after Bohm’s 4-hit game

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

Washington Nationals (33-49, fifth in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (44-38, third in the NL East)Philadelphia; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Trevor Williams (4-4, 4.28 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 62 strikeouts); Phillies: Ranger Suarez (2-2, 3.18 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 50 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Phillies -250, Nationals +205; over/under is 9 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies take on the Washington Nationals after Alec Bohm had four hits against the Nationals on Saturday.Philadelphia has a 22-15 record in home games and a 44-38 record overall. The Phillies are 28-5 in games when they scored at least five runs.Washington has a 33-49 record overall and a 20-22 record in road games. The Nationals are 9-14 in games decided by one run.The teams meet Sunday for the sixth time this season. The Phillies are ahead 3-2 in the season series.TOP PERFORMERS: Nicholas Castellanos has 25 doubles, a triple and 11 home runs for the Phillies. Brandon Marsh is 1...

Última hora y noticias de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania del 2 de julio

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

Haz clic aquí para ver las actualizaciones más recientesEl presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, asiste a una conferencia de prensa en Kyiv este miércoles. (Crédito: Alina  mutko/Reuters)The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

China ends Japan’s long reign to win women’s basketball Asia Cup title

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — China rallied to claim its first women’s basketball Asia Cup title since 2012 as they beat five-time defending champion Japan 73-71 in an epic final on Sunday.Trailing at halftime it appeared China may fall for a third consecutive time in a title game as reigning champions Japan scored the last 14 points of the first half to lead by nine points. Led by player of the tournament center Xu Han, China seized the momentum early in the third quarter and took what proved a match-winning lead late in the game to end their 12-year wait for a gold medal in front of a large crowd in Sydney. Xu finished with a match-defining 26 points and 10 rebounds to complete the feat of recording a double-double in every game of the tournament. Siyu Wang scored 17 points. Maki Takada led Japan with 17 points and four rebounds, with Saki Hayashi scoring 12 points for Japan.China’s title follows its silver medal at the women’s basketball World Cup, also held in Sydney, late last year. Japa...

Baltimore police respond to ‘mass shooting’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

Baltimore, Maryland, police say they are responding to a mass shooting.(Courtesy Baltimore Police) Baltimore, Maryland, police say they are responding to a mass shooting.(Courtesy Baltimore Police) Officers are responding to a “mass shooting incident” Sunday morning in Baltimore, Maryland, police say. The number of victims and degree of their injuries have not been shared.The shooting happened after midnight Sunday in the 800 block of Gretna Court near the Brooklyn Homes area, according to a police statement. WTOP contacted a department spokesperson who confirmed the original reports of a shooting in that area.Police preliminarily believe the shooting occurred during a party in that area. Drivers in th...

In French town under curfew, wave of violence leaves locals dazed and angry

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

COLOMBES, France — Late weekend afternoons in July are usually prime time for social meet-ups and busy café tables in the pedestrian streets of Saint-Denis, the heart of local life in Colombes. But this weekend, terraces emptied early on Saturday as handymen hastily nailed up wooden planks on shop windows.After riots raged through the streets of this Paris suburb for three straight nights, Colombes Mayor Patrick Chaimovitch declared a night curfew starting Saturday evening, and scheduled to last until Tuesday morning. Many other municipalities have taken similar measures.Colombes is a diverse town of 80,000 — home to both well-off young professionals and multi-racial, poorer communities. It borders Nanterre, where 17-year-old Nahel was shot dead by the police last Tuesday. Like in many suburban towns in the Paris region and beyond, the wave of violence that followed has left inhabitants stunned.Standing next to Chaimovitch in front of a local retailer on Saturday, Julien Beaussier, ...

Russia targets Kyiv with overnight drone strike, first in nearly two weeks

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

Russia overnight launched its first drone strike on Kyiv in 12 days, damaging three homes and injuring one person, according to a senior Ukrainian military official.The attack included a barrage of Iranian-made Shahed drones, Sergey Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said in a Telegram post. All were shot down by Ukrainian forces, Popko said, as the capital and neighbouring regions were under raid alerts in the early hours of Sunday morning. Pokpo said there was no further information on casualties or destruction so far, though the military head of the region, Ruslan Kravchenko, said on Facebook that three homes were damaged by falling debris. Witnesses reported hearing blasts like air defense systems hitting targets.

Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading posts on Twitter

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the amount of tweets that most users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform.The site is now requiring people to log on to view tweets and profiles — a change in its longtime practice to allow everyone to peruse the chatter on what Musk has frequently touted as the world’s digital town square since buying it for $44 billion last year.The restrictions could result in users being locked out of Twitter for the day after scrolling through several hundred tweets. Thousands of users complained Saturday of not being able to access the site.In a Friday tweet, Musk described the new restrictions as a temporary measure that was taken because “we were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”Musk has pushed back on what he calls misuse of Twitter data to train popular artificial intelligenc...

Baltimore mass shooting kills 2 victims with 28 injured including 3 critically, police say

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Two people were killed and 28 victims were wounded in a mass shooting, including three people who are in critical condition, police said. Baltimore Police Department Acting Commissioner Richard Worley confirmed the number of dead and injured during a press conference at the scene.The shooting took place in the 800 block of Gretna Avenue early Sunday morning. The Associated Press

Shootout in southwest Pakistan kills 4 security forces, 1 militant, officials say

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:56:16 GMT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Militants attacked a security post in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, triggering a shootout that left three police officers a paramilitary soldier and two militants dead on Sunday, officials said.Local police chief, Abdul Salam Baloch said one of the militants was also killed while the others managed to escape to the mountainous terrain in the Shirani district, bordering North Waziristan where they have multiple hideouts.Baloch said the attackers used hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on the joint security post of police and paramilitary forces. Bilal Shabbir, a top administrative officer in Shirani district, said two militants and one paramilitary trooper were wounded in the shootout that lasted for about two hours. He said the attackers managed to escape with their wounded accomplices. He added that security forces launched a search operation in the area and surrounding mountains to trace and eliminate the perpetrator...