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Padres and Nationals play to determine series winner

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

Washington Nationals (29-47, fifth in the NL East) vs. San Diego Padres (37-40, fourth in the NL West)San Diego; Sunday, 4:10 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: MacKenzie Gore (3-6, 4.02 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 95 strikeouts); Padres: Seth Lugo (3-3, 3.86 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 43 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Padres -201, Nationals +168; over/under is 8 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres and Washington Nationals play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.San Diego has a 20-21 record in home games and a 37-40 record overall. The Padres have a 16-9 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.Washington has a 29-47 record overall and a 16-20 record in road games. The Nationals have a 23-9 record in games when they have more hits than their opponents.The matchup Sunday is the sixth time these teams meet this season. The Padres hold a 3-2 advantage in the season series.TOP PERFORMERS: Xander Bogaerts has 12 doubles, eight home runs and 27 RBI for the Pa...

d’Arnaud leads Braves against the Reds after 4-hit performance

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

Atlanta Braves (49-27, first in the NL East) vs. Cincinnati Reds (41-36, first in the NL Central)Cincinnati; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Charlie Morton (6-6, 3.71 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 93 strikeouts); Reds: Levi Stoudt (0-0)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Braves -166, Reds +141; over/under is 11 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves play the Cincinnati Reds after Travis d’Arnaud had four hits on Saturday in a 7-6 win over the Reds.Cincinnati is 41-36 overall and 21-19 in home games. The Reds have a 24-7 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.Atlanta has a 49-27 record overall and a 25-12 record in road games. The Braves have the best team slugging percentage in the NL at .486.The matchup Sunday is the sixth time these teams match up this season. The Braves have a 4-1 advantage in the season series.TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Fraley leads the Reds with 11 home runs while slugging .492. Elly De La Cruz is 15-for-42 with four doubles, a triple, two home runs and...

Marlins face the Pirates leading series 2-1

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

Pittsburgh Pirates (35-41, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Miami Marlins (44-34, second in the NL East)Miami; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Johan Oviedo (3-7, 4.30 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 74 strikeouts); Marlins: Eury Perez (4-1, 1.54 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 45 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Marlins -172, Pirates +146; over/under is 7 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins lead 2-1 in a four-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.Miami is 44-34 overall and 24-16 at home. Marlins hitters are batting a collective .260, which ranks fourth in the NL.Pittsburgh is 17-22 in road games and 35-41 overall. The Pirates have a 21-4 record in games when they scored at least five runs.Sunday’s game is the fourth time these teams square off this season.TOP PERFORMERS: Luis Arraez leads the Marlins with a .401 batting average, and has 15 doubles, a triple, three home runs, 24 walks and 37 RBI. Jon Berti is 13-for-38 with two RBI over the last 10 games.Jack Suwinski leads the P...

Giants aim to sweep 3-game series over the Diamondbacks

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

Arizona Diamondbacks (46-32, first in the NL West) vs. San Francisco Giants (44-33, second in the NL West)San Francisco; Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Ryne Nelson (3-4, 5.31 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 52 strikeouts); Giants: Anthony DeSclafani (4-6, 4.38 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 66 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Giants -131, Diamondbacks +111; over/under is 9 runsBOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants will look to sweep a three-game series with a win against the Arizona Diamondbacks.San Francisco is 44-33 overall and 23-18 in home games. The Giants have a 22-7 record in games when they did not allow a home run.Arizona has a 23-14 record on the road and a 46-32 record overall. The Diamondbacks have the sixth-best team slugging percentage in the majors at .438.The matchup Sunday is the seventh time these teams meet this season. The season series is tied 3-3.TOP PERFORMERS: LaMonte Wade Jr has 12 doubles, a triple and nine home runs while hitting .283 for the Giants. Mike ...

Cubs bring road win streak into game against the Cardinals

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

Chicago Cubs (37-38, third in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (31-45, fifth in the NL Central)London; Sunday, 10:10 a.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Marcus Stroman (9-4, 2.28 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 83 strikeouts); Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore (1-2, 6.12 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 18 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Cubs -162, Cardinals +139; over/under is 11 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs will try to keep a four-game road win streak going when they play the St. Louis Cardinals.St. Louis is 13-22 at home and 31-45 overall. The Cardinals have the seventh-ranked team on-base percentage in the NL at .323.Chicago is 37-38 overall and 17-21 in road games. The Cubs have gone 7-11 in games decided by one run.The teams meet Sunday for the fifth time this season. The season series is tied 2-2.TOP PERFORMERS: Paul Goldschmidt has 13 home runs, 41 walks and 39 RBI while hitting .287 for the Cardinals. Brendan Donovan is 15-for-41 with two doubles, a home run and five RBI over the past 10 ...

Grupo Wagner desafió a Putin: última hora de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

Haz clic aquí para ver las actualizaciones más recientesEl jefe de la compañía militar privada de Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, sale de Rostov-on-Don con otros combatientes de Wagner el sábado. Alexander Ermochenko/ReutersThe-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Italy wants to put Italians in top museum jobs. The chief of Milan’s Brera hopes to leave his mark

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

MILAN (AP) — The British-Canadian director of Milan’s Brera Gallery was hired in 2015 after the Italian government launched reforms that for the first time brought in foreign museum directors. His eight-year tenure is ending as Premier Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing administration seeks to again reserve top cultural jobs for Italians.Admirers have credited James Bradburne, a 67-year-old architect who has run five cultural institutions in five countries, with revolutionizing the museum that Napoleon intended to make “the Louvre of Italy” and fill with paintings from his Italian campaigns when he expanded his French empire. Bradburne had each of the 38 rooms renovated without ever closing the museum, established in 1809. He worked to make it more user-friendly by revamping the labels beneath key works, inaugurating musical events to draw in local residents and no longer putting together exhibitions as a way to drive visitor numbers. During his tenure, popular innovations for highli...

Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan testifies at Netanyahu corruption trial over ‘supply line’ of gifts

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan was testifying Sunday at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to answer questions about an alleged “supply line” of champagne and cigars funneled to the Israeli leader and his wife said to have been in exchange for help with Milchan’s personal and business needs.Milchan, who appeared by videoconference from the English city of Brighton, near where he is based, is a key witness whose testimony is essential for prosecutors who are trying to prove that Netanyahu committed fraud and breach of trust in one of three cases brought against him.Prosecutors hope Milchan’s testimony, which extends through this week and next, will paint a picture of plush favors granted to Netanyahu and his wife that allegedly spurred the Israeli leader to use his position of power to advance Milchan’s interests. The defense will try to lay out their case that Netanyahu wasn’t acting in Milchan’s personal interests and that the gift...

Airstrike hits busy market in opposition-held northwestern Syria and kills at least 9 people

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

JISR AL-SHUGHUR, Syria (AP) — An airstrike early Sunday over a busy vegetable market in northwestern Syria killed at least nine people, activists and local first responders said.Activists and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia, a top ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched the strike over the strategic opposition-held town of Jisr al-Shughur near the Turkish border. The strike comes a day after Moscow’s top mercenary group briefly revolted against Russian President Vladimir Putin.Opposition-held northwestern Syria’s civil defense organization known as the White Helmets said over 30 people were wounded, and expected the death toll to increase.“We’re hearing that the critically wounded have been dying after reaching the hospital,” Ahmad Yaziji of the White Helmets told The Associated Press. “It was a targeted attack in the main vegetable market where farmers from around northern Syria gather.” Farmers rushe...

A law that bans sex toys as obscene and morally harmful is being challenged by women in Zimbabwe

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:43:03 GMT

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Sitabile Dewa was content with her sex life when she was married, but after her divorce, she found her prospects for erotic pleasure rather bleak.In socially conservative Zimbabwe, divorced women and single mothers are often cast as undesirable partners for men, and in her frustration Dewa decided she wanted to use sex toys.The problem is sex toys are against the law in Zimbabwe.“I should not be deprived of self-exploration and indulgence in self-gratification,” said Dewa, 35.Part of Zimbabwe’s “censorship and entertainments control” law makes the importation or possession of sex toys illegal as they are deemed “indecent” or “obscene” and harmful to public morals. Owning sex toys can put a woman in prison.Dewa said the law is “archaic” and is challenging part of it in court on the basis that it is repressive and infringes on her freedom. She filed court papers in March suing the Zimbabwe government and seeking to have parts of the law repeal...