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Fraley homers twice, hits tiebreaking shot in 9th as Reds beat Marlins 7-4 to spoil Pérez’s debut

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Jake Fraley homered twice, including a tiebreaking three-run shot in the ninth inning that sent the Cincinnati Reds past the Miami Marlins 7-4 on Friday night.Eury Pérez struck out seven over 4 2/3 innings in his highly anticipated major league debut for Miami. The Marlins promoted the 20-year-old right-hander, the top prospect in their organization, from Double-A Pensacola to start the series opener.The Reds erased a 4-2 deficit on Spencer Steer’s two-run double in the seventh.Stuart Fairchild hit a leadoff single against reliever Dylan Floro (2-2) in the ninth and advanced two bases on José Barrero’s single to right field. Floro struck out Jonathan India before Fraley homered to right.It was Fraley’s first career multi-homer game. Fraley avoided a serious injury in the fifth when he made an awkward slide near a wall in left field while attempting to catch Joey Wendle’s foul ball.Ian Gibaut (2-0) threw 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief and Alexis Díaz closed with a per...

Rizzo homers twice on his bobblehead night, Yankees beat Rays 6-5

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Rizzo homered twice on his bobblehead giveaway night, the second a go-ahead, two-run drive in the eighth inning that lifted the New York Yankees over the Tampa Bay Rays 6-5 on Friday.Rizzo, whose bobblehead likeness was adorned in Mandalorian garb on Star Wars Night, hit a solo homer in the first against Trevor Kelly.After Josh Lowe’s three-run homer off Michael King in the eighth put the major league-leading Rays ahead 5-4, Aaron Judge walked against Jason Adam (0-1) in the bottom half and Rizzo homered to right. Rizzo doffed his helmet during a curtain call following his 22nd multihomer performance.Wandy Peralta earned his first save this season by striking out two in a one-hit ninth. With two outs and one on, Rays manager Kevin Cash sent right-handed-hitting Manuel Margot to pinch hit for the left-handed-hitting Lowe, who had eight RBIs in the first two games of the series. Margot grounded out.Randy Arozarena homered in the first and Jose Siri in the...

2 Eastern Plains drivers rescued from fast-moving floodwater

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

ROGGEN, Colo. (KDVR) — Two drivers had to be rescued from fast-moving flood waters early Friday morning. A spokesperson for the Southeast Weld Fire Protection District confirmed the two drivers were swept away by flood water on County Road 87, near Roggen, and swept down Kiowa Creek. “By the time I got here, there’s a car, way in the back, stuck on a tree,” said Krista Peace, vice president of Kiowa Valley Organics, who witnessed the rescue attempts. 16-hour power outage reported in Aurora after rainstorm Firefighters helped retrieve the driver of a mostly submerged truck. “The guy from the truck had already gotten out and was sitting on top of his roof,” Peace said.The driver of a second SUV was brought to safety by a good Samaritan. The vehicles remain in the water. Nobody was hurt. “Yeah, don’t cross it,” Peace said. “Don’t cross if you see water, especially flowing like that.”

Heat fans outside Kaseya Center celebrate Eastern Conference semifinals win against Knicks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

Jubilant Miami Heat fans leaving the Kaseya Arena celebrated their hometown basketball team’s 96-92 win against the New York Knicks, a victory that has catapulted them into the Eastern Conference Finals.There was gridlock outside the Kaseya Center on Biscayne Boulevard, late Friday night, but on the steps of the venue, Heat fans cheered and chanted “Let’s go Heat,” as some of them waved to 7News cameras.One fan pointed out this was not an easy win.“I was biting my nails, but I knew we were going to win it,” she said.“At the beginning we thought, ‘OK, the Knicks are pretty good,’ as the team got close [in score], but then the [Heat] got together and made the game,” said a man.A former New York resident gave his unique perspective about the result of Friday’s game.“I was a New Yorker, born and raised, but you know, there’s something special brewing in the grounds of Miami,” he said. “There’...

Cousins scores in OT to send Panthers into Eastern Conference final after 3-2 win over Maple Leafs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Nick Cousins scored at 15:32 of overtime and Sergei Bobrovsky made 50 saves as the Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series on Friday to advance to the Eastern Conference final.Aaron Ekblad and Carter Verhaeghe each had a goal and an assist to help the Panthers build a 2-0 lead in the first period.Morgan Rielly and William Nylander scored for the Maple Leafs, who had advanced in the playoffs for the first time in 19 years when they beat Tampa Bay in the first round. Rookie goalie Joseph Woll had 41 saves in his first home playoff start.In the extra period, Cousins buried his second goal of the playoffs off the rush short-side on Woll to send the Panthers to the conference finals for the first time since 1996.Florida — the team with the fewest points to qualify for the postseason — won all three games in Toronto and improved to 6-1 on the road in the playoffs after also upsetting the record-setting Boston Bruins. ...

Five people face charges after pair of stabbing attacks in Brockton

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

Five people are now facing charges after two different stabbing attacks in Brockton Friday, according to police. The first stabbing happened near a softball field outside Brockton High School shortly after dismissal around 2 p.m., leaving three people with injuries, police said. Two of the victims were rushed to the hospital. The third person later sought medical attention on their own.Roughly one hour later, police said officers rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital, also in Brockton. There, police said a suspect in the stabbing outside the high school was stabbed during a fight. Police had not publicly identified the people charged in this case as of Friday night.Police and the Brockton Public Schools both said this was not a random incident and there was never a threat to the high school.

Soak it in: Cedric Mullins hits for the cycle in Orioles’ 6-3 win over Pirates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

For much of the night in which the Orioles introduced the Bird Bath Splash Zone at Camden Yards, they left their runners out to dry.But the waterworks came in bunches in the later innings of their 6-3 victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates, fueled by center fielder Cedric Mullins recording the seventh cycle in team history and the first since close friend and fellow Orioles outfielder Austin Hays in June of last year.Mullins completed the cycle with a three-run home run in the eighth inning, coming with Hays at third base. He said Hays’ first words to him after were, “I can’t believe we both did it.”“We were roommates in the minor leagues,” Hays said. “We’ve had our struggles together. We’ve had successes together, so to be able to hit for the cycle on the same team, the team that we were both drafted by and came up together through the minor leagues, it’s very special.”Having singled in the third, Mullins first provi...

Mucciarone, Franklin complete regular season sweep of Taunton

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

Alfred Mucciarone’s emotions as he recorded his 10th and final strikeout of the night told it all. This one meant a little more.Mucciarone threw a complete game allowing three earned runs while fanning 10 and walking one as No. 1 Franklin completed a regular season sweep of Hockomock League rival Taunton, 7-4, on Friday night at Franklin High School.The win earned Franklin the Hockomock Kelley-Rex crown. All three of Mucciarone’s earned runs came on a three shot by Dawson Bryce in the third inning. From that point forward Mucciarone did not allow a hit.“Taunton is as good as advertised today was just not their day,” Franklin coach Zach Brown said. “Real competition is when you do something good, they do something good, and you have to respond. Today was one of those days.”The Panthers (15-0) did all the damage needed in the bottom of the second as they recorded six straight hits to start the frame. After Luke Sidwell and Ethan DePaolo each singled...

Friday’s high school roundup/scores: Matt Donovan tosses shutout, leads Stoneham by Wakefield

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

BASEBALLHarry Scheel belted his first home run of the year, backing Matt Donovan’s complete-game shutout to help Stoneham topple Middlesex League foe Wakefield, 6-0.TJ Walsh earned the win in four and two-thirds innings on the mound, while delivering two hits and three RBI at the plate in Lynn Classical’s (13-1) 10-2 Greater Boston League win over Lynn English.Jaden Arruda allowed four hits over five innings and went 2-for-4 with the bat as Seekonk defeated Case 5-0 in the South Coast Conference.Ray McNaught threw a complete game one-hitter with 13 strikeouts, and David McNaught tripled and scored on a passed ball for East Bridgewater (10-4) in a 1-0 South Shore League victory over Abington.Max Gallant fanned four batters over five innings and also had a hit, an RBI and two runs scored as Westport (11-2) bested Southeastern 15-4 in a Mayflower Athletic Conference matchup.Seamus Vining (3-for-3, two doubles), Brayden Ramsey (two hits), Ty Creigton (two hits) and Jeremy Angelis (three...

Wasteful Red Sox lineup and bullpen implosions spoil James Paxton’s strong season debut

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:47 GMT

It had been 767 days since James Paxton’s last start in the majors.Back then, he had just returned to the Seattle Mariners after two seasons with the New York Yankees. On April 6, 2021, he made his season debut, threw 1.1 innings, and departed with left elbow discomfort.Since then, he’s had Tommy John surgery, signed a contract with the Red Sox, suffered a season-ending Grade 2 lat tear in his first rehab game last summer, and missed the first several weeks of the ongoing season.Finally, on the 768th day, he took the mound again during an 8-6 loss to the visiting St. Louis Cardinals.The veteran southpaw’s rehab games had been a very mixed bag, with far too many walks and earned runs, and after more than two years out of the game, expectations were low.That made it easy for him to clear the bar. Over five innings in his season debut (and Red Sox debut), Paxton held the St. Louis Cardinals to two earned runs on four hits, issued a walk, and struck out nine. His veloc...