Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com.
NEW YORK — As the race for the postseason continues to heat up, so have the tempers in the toughest division in baseball.
The Yankees clawed out a 4-2 win over the AL East rival Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon, but not before tensions boiled over in the fifth inning when Toronto starter Alek Manoah hit Yankees All-Star Aaron Judge with a 92 mph fastball.
“Been struggling with my sinker for about five, six starts now,” Manoah explained after the game. “I made a pitch and it obviously hit Judge. I looked at him, said, ‘Man, you know, I’m not trying to do that.'”
With a runner on second and first base open, Manoah’s sinker hit Judge on the shoulder, the same spot in which he had barely missed earlier in the game. Visibly upset, Judge mouthed a few words to Manoah as he walked to the mound.
“[Judge] looked at me and he’s like, ‘That’s two,'” Manoah said. “In the first inning, I did mistakenly throw one up there as well. But obviously, in a situation like that, I’m trying to minimize baserunners. So I told him, ‘I’m not trying to do that.'”
Yankees starter Gerrit Cole, who took the loss Saturday, came out of the dugout followed by several teammates during the tense exchange as Judge waved them off. The game was briefly halted but tempers settled, and Judge went to first base. Manoah walked over to talk to Judge and appeared to help defuse the situation.
Manoah said he explained to Judge that it was trouble with his command, but there was no love lost for Cole’s fuming reaction.
“I think [Judge] understood that. And I think if Gerrit wants to do something, he can walk past the Audi sign next time,” Manoah said, referring to the luxury car brand logo sprayed on the grass by the visiting team dugout at Yankee Stadium.
When asked whether it had anything to do with it being Manoah specifically, and whether he believed he intended to hit Judge intentionally, Cole remained vague in his postgame comments.
“Not necessarily,” said Cole, who gave up four earned runs over six innings in the Yankees’ 5-2 loss to the Jays on Saturday. “Just a little one too many [batters hit by pitch] for my taste. I don’t know what to say.”
Manager Aaron Boone said he did not believe Manoah’s pitch was intentional, but defended Cole’s reaction.
“He doesn’t like our guy getting drilled,” Boone said. “Sometimes we get caught up in this intentional thing, like if it’s not intentional, then fine. Sometimes we have a different take on that. When your dude gets hit, it usually gets your attention. I think [Judge] handled it great. I thought Gerrit was just sticking up for his guy, for our guy. It’s just two division rivals, playing for a lot, a little moment in the game, not much to it.”
Judge, who also said he believed there was no intent, described the incident as the emotional part of competition.
“It’s the heat of the moment. Nobody likes to get hit,” Judge said. “Everybody’s watching the game, everybody’s into it. No matter who gets hit, everybody’s going to take exception to it. Dugout had a couple of things to say and then you move on.”
In terms of disclosing his conversation with Manoah, Judge said, “We’ll keep it between each other.”
And with the Yankees having lost 14 of their previous 17 games and looking to snap a three-game losing streak and avoid a sweep, Judge stated his focus was clear.
“At first you’re pissed, and I was pissed, but I didn’t need anybody else getting thrown out for me getting hit. I was just kind of moving on to the next play,” Judge said. “I know [Anthony] Rizzo had a big at-bat behind me. I’d be a little happier with getting a couple of runs instead of us brawling out there. … We took care of business and moved on.”
Giancarlo Stanton is beginning a rehab assignment today, per Lindsey Adler of The Athletic (via Twitter). Before this latest injury, Stanton had been enjoying a run of sound health. For the season, Stanton has appeared in 80 games, slashing .228/.309/.498 with 24 home runs in 328 plate appearances. Stanton even started 38 games in the outfield grass, his most defensive action since 2018. Elsewhere around the Junior Circuit…
Blue Jays southpaw Tim Mayza will begin a rehab assignment in Triple-A today, per Keegan Matheson of MLB.com (via Twitter). Mayza has been a key piece of Toronto’s bullpen for a number of years, no less so this season when he has pitched to a 2.88 ERA/3.94 FIP across 41 appearances totaling 34 1/3 innings. Mayza has been out of action since August 7th. The 30-year-old has held lefties to a .157/.218/.275 line this season.
The Twins are cautiously optimistic that Kenta Maeda might be able to return late in the season to pitch out of the bullpen as he used to for the Dodgers. Maeda is throwing bullpens now, but President of Baseball Ops Derek Falvey was non-commital about Maeda’s ability to make a late-season appearance, per Darren Wolfson of 5 Eyewitness News (via Twitter). Maeda is recovering from Tommy John surgery.
Whit Merrifield vaccinated, excited to join Blue Jays
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‘Two-hit Whit’ shines in Toronto debut, shows off speed on the bases
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MINNEAPOLIS — The Blue Jays brought in Whit Merrifield’s speed and versatility to give their depth a shot in the arm, which will be easier now that he has one in his.
Soon after joining his new club prior to Thursday’s 9-3 win against the Twins, Merrifield said that he has received the COVID-19 vaccine and will be eligible to enter Canada following this road trip.
“For a couple of weeks now, I’ve understood that this might be a possibility. I’ll be in Toronto when the team goes there,” Merrifield said.
When the Royals travelled to Toronto from June 14-17, Merrifield was one of 10 unvaccinated players left behind. That’s why his acquisition by the Blue Jays on Tuesday caught so many off guard, given the vaccine requirements to cross the Canada-U.S. border. This hasn’t been an issue for Toronto’s players, of course, because while the same rules apply to them entering the United States, they’ve all been vaccinated.
“It was something that I probably could have handled a little better,” Merrifield said, “but what’s happened has happened. I’m excited to be a Blue Jay, and I’m excited to get to Toronto and play at Rogers Centre.”
Merrifield has long been an everyday player for the Royals, playing all over the diamond, and interim manager John Schneider expects him to be in the lineup “most days.” He’s hit .300 and led the league in hits before, but he is batting .242 with a .645 OPS this season. Those numbers will need to improve first.
When Merrifield was traded, one of the first texts to pop up on his phone was from Zack Greinke. No, it didn’t say “congratulations” or “I’ll miss you.” It was a tweet showing Merrifield’s 2022 stats versus his expected numbers, with Greinke telling Merrifield that he’s a good player, even if the numbers haven’t shown that fully over the first 96 games.
Where you’ll notice Merrifield immediately, though, is on the bases. He made that evident quickly on Thursday, picking up two hits and an RBI and blazing around the bases to score on a George Springer single.
“When you play against certain teams, from the outside, there’s certain teams that come in and you feel energy from them,” Merrifield said. “This is one of those teams. From top to bottom, it’s exciting baseball. I’m excited. I’m saying ‘excited’ a lot. I’m excited to be part of this team.”
Under Schneider, that energy has taken the form of extreme aggression on the bases. Players are running whenever possible, and sometimes when it doesn’t look possible. This doesn’t just mean stolen-base attempts, but trying to stretch singles into doubles and tagging up more often. The Blue Jays are bringing the game to opponents’ doorsteps, and the new guy loves it.
“I love running,” Merrifield said, grinning. “They love to run, so that’s right up my alley.”
Schneider was just as thrilled. When Merrifield isn’t starting a game, he’ll be the perfect option off the bench late in games.
“It fits him perfectly,” Schneider said. “We’ve talked about spots that he likes to run in and things he likes to do on the bases. It’s cool to talk about that type of stuff with a guy who really has a passion for it. He’s going to fit right in. He’s got the green light.”
He played center field and hit eighth in his debut, but Merrifield’s position and lineup spot will change most days. But now that the biggest question of all has been answered, Toronto can exhale and focus on the postseason race ahead.
The Toronto Blue Jays didn’t wait long to find their groove after the All-Star break. They put on an offensive clinic Friday night, defeating the Boston Red Sox 28-5.
Left fielder Raimel Tapia put on a show, finishing 3-for-7 at the plate with six RBIs and a grand slam. That homer was an inside-the-park job — the second in Blue Jays franchise history. It’s the first inside-the-park grand slam in MLB since Michael A. Taylor did it for the Washington Nationals in 2017.
The fifth inning was where the Jays did most of their damage, scoring 11 runs in that frame. Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, who played his first 20 seasons for the New England Patriots, took note of Boston’s rough night. Brady, of course, has a history of epic comebacks, notably coming back from 25 points down to beat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI. Unlike Brady, however, the Red Sox did not have such magic Friday night.
Gonna be a hell of a story @Edelman11! https://t.co/2hQfw6ns5l
— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) July 23, 2022
History, both good and bad, was made in this game for both Boston and Toronto.
The Blue Jays scored the most runs against the Red Sox in nearly 100 years. Here’s a look at some of the other numbers:
28: The 28 runs scored by Toronto on Friday were the most in franchise history. It eclipsed the previous mark of 24 on June 26, 1978, against the Baltimore Orioles. For the Red Sox, it set the mark for the most runs allowed in any game in franchise history. That record had stood for nearly a century — the Cleveland Guardians scored 27 against Boston on July 17, 1923.
To put this offensive onslaught into perspective, Friday was the 8,744th game at Fenway Park. The Blue Jays scored more runs there than any visiting team before them.
11: The 11 runs Toronto scored in the fifth tied a franchise record for most in a single inning. The Blue Jays have done that four other times, most recently in 2021 against the Orioles.
25: On Friday, the Jays exited the fifth inning with 25 total runs, tied for the most by an MLB team through five innings since 1900 (1922 Cubs).
5: For the first time in Blue Jays history, three different players had at least five RBIs (Tapia, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Danny Jansen).
29: Toronto notched 29 hits against Boston, the most in a game in team history. It surpassed a 25-hit performance in a 19-4 victory against the Texas Rangers on August 9, 1999. All nine starters logged at least two hits and two runs scored each, as the Jays became the second team since 1900 to do so (1979 Los Angeles Angels).
19: In two-out scenarios, the Blue Jays still found ways to put runs on the board — 19 of the 28 Toronto runs came with two outs. That’s the most two-out runs a team has scored since the Red Sox scored 22 such runs on August 21, 1986.
6: Gurriel had himself a game, going 6-for-7 with five RBIs and three runs. His six hits tied Frank Catalanotto (2004) for the most in team history.
ESPN Stats & Information research contributed to this story.
The matchups for the 2022 men’s and women’s Jimmy V Classic college basketball events were announced Thursday, highlighted by Duke on the men’s side and a pair of potential top-10 matchups on the women’s side.
The men’s doubleheader will take place Dec. 6 at Madison Square Garden, with Duke facing Iowa and Texas playing Illinois. The women’s games will be hosted on campus sites Dec. 4: UConn at Notre Dame and Virginia Tech at Tennessee.
The coming season marks the first time since 1980 that Duke will be coached by someone other than Mike Krzyzewski, with Jon Scheyer taking over that role. The Blue Devils bring in the nation’s No. 1-ranked recruiting class and are ranked No. 5 in ESPN’s latest Way-Too-Early Top 25.
The Longhorns and the Fighting Illini also are ranked in the Way-Too-Early Top 25. Chris Beard and Texas bring back three starters from last season’s 22-win team, while also welcoming two five-star freshmen and elite transfer Tyrese Hunter from Iowa State. Illinois lost All-American Kofi Cockburn, but it landed impact transfers Terrence Shannon Jr. (Texas Tech) and Matthew Mayer (Baylor), as well as top-25 recruit Skyy Clark.
Both men’s games will air on ESPN.
On the women’s side, all four teams are ranked in the top 11 of ESPN’s most recent Way-Too-Early Top 25.
UConn is coming off a national championship game appearance and returns stars Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd, while Notre Dame brings back most of its contributors and hit the portal for Texas transfer Lauren Ebo.
Virginia Tech should compete for an ACC championship with the return of conference Player of the Year Elizabeth Kitley, and Tennessee loaded up in the transfer portal and is receiving preseason top-five hype.
UConn’s trip to Notre Dame will be broadcast on ABC, and Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee will air on ESPN2.
Named for legendary coach Jim Valvano, the Jimmy V Classic raises money and awareness for the V Foundation for Cancer Research. To date, ESPN has helped raise more than $155 million for the V Foundation. Last year set a record, with 2021’s V Week raising $13.35 million.
NHL free agency opened at noon ET on Wednesday and the biggest name’s newest team became official after 8:30 p.m.
That’s when the Columbus Blue Jackets announced that they were landing 115-point scorer Johnny Gaudreau, even though most of the hockey world was focused on the New Jersey-New York-Philadelphia area for the South Jersey native.
Free agents Claude Giroux, Andrew Copp, Darcy Kuemper, David Perron, Jack Campbell, Ryan Strome and Andre Burakovsky found new teams while Nazem Kadri, Ondrej Palat and John Klingberg weren’t announced by early evening.
The Carolina Hurricanes made two trades and the Tampa Bay Lightning signed three key players to eight-year extensions.
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The center gets a reported $25 million over five years. The Ducks were in need of a center after the retirement of Ryan Getzlaf. Anaheim is becoming New York Rangers West after earlier signing Frank Vatrano. The Ducks have lots of young talent and these signings make them better.
Johnny Gaudreau is going to Columbus. The 115-point scorer signed a seven-year, $68.25 million contract ($9.75 million AAV), the team announced Wednesday night. The Blue Jackets hadn’t been mentioned early as a possible destination, but Hockey Night in Canada’s Elliotte Friedman told NHL Network that they entered the picture later in the day. It’s a huge coup for Columbus, which has seen free agents leave or be traded through the years. By being in the Metropolitan Division, South Jersey native Gaudreau will play plenty near family in Philadelphia, New Jersey and the two New York teams. The Blue Jackets also signed rugged defenseman Erik Gudbranson (four years, $16 million) earlier in the day.
With Max Pacioretty traded, Vegas had the money to re-sign for Smith (three years, $15 million) and Brett Howden (one year, $1.5 million).
The Hurricanes acquired forward Max Pacioretty and defenseman Dylan Coghlan for future considerations. The Golden Knights made the move to clear out cap space. Pacioretty dealt with injuries last season, but he still scores at a 30-goal pace.
Bruins general manager Don Sweeney gave an update on the status of talks with Bergeron and Krejci. “I think we’re in a really good place with Patrice,” he said. “Just the timing and working out the details of his contract and allowing him to declare he’s good to go (for another season).” Sweeney said he had numerous conversations with Krejci’s camp. The longtime Bruins No. 2 center played last season in the Czech Republic. “Going to try to continue to try to find some common ground there,” Sweeney said. “Remains positive, but I just don’t have a clear cut answer.”
Each get a one-year, $3 million contract. The Blackhawks needed players after saying goodbye to Alex DeBrincat, Dylan Strome, Kirby Dach and Dominik Kubalik. Chicago also added Colin Blackwell and Alex Stalock on inexpensive contracts. The Blackhawks could finish at the bottom of the standings this season.
He gets $27.5 million over five years. His career-best 61 points would have led the Kraken in scoring last season. Burakovsky has won two Stanley Cups and is a former teammate of Seattle goaltender Philipp Grubauer. The Kraken also signed defenseman Justin Schultz (two years, $6 million) and goaltender Martin Jones (one year, $2 million).
He gets $9.5 million over two years. Detroit has been one of the busier teams on the opening day of free agency and this shows again that they’re looking to move from rebuilding to pushing for a playoff spot. He’s a veteran who has been very productive in three stints with the Blues and will provide offense and leadership in Detroit. The Red Wings also made a splash with versatile forward Andrew Copp, plus added defensemen Ben Chiarot and Olli Maatta.
He became a free agent when the Flyers bought out the final year of his contract. He signed for two years in San Jose. Lindblom, who came back from a rare form of bone cancer, won the Masterton Trophy for perseverance in 2021.
The then-Penguins goalie entered in the middle of overtime of Game 1 of the first round, after a meal of spicy pork and broccoli, and beat the Rangers. He referenced that after signing a two-year deal with New York.
Any suggestions for a good spicy pork restaurant in NYC? Asking for a friend 😅🗽 #NYR
— Louis Domingue (@domingue35) July 13, 2022
He gets $19 million over four years. The defenseman didn’t have a strong 2022 playoffs with the Panthers, but he played an impressive shutdown role during the Canadiens’ 2021 run. The Red Wings are accelerating their rebuild after also adding Andrew Copp, Dominik Kubalik and Olli Maatta on Wednesday and trading for and signing goalie Ville Husso last week.
His four-year, $18 million deal gives the Stars a productive winger to play on the second line. He had 47 points in 54 games, a nice boost for a team that didn’t get much scoring beyond its first line. Dallas also added defenseman Colin Miller (two years, $3.7 million).
This move is about the Rangers creating cap space to re-sign restricted free agent Kaapo Kakko. The Rangers had to give up draft picks in the deal and get back 22-year-old defense prospect Ty Emberson.
The Stanley Cup-winning goaltender gets a five-year, $26.25 million deal. The Capitals were unhappy with their goaltending last season and traded Vitek Vanecek and didn’t qualify Ilya Samsonov. Kuemper had a career-best 37 wins last season and his .921 save percentage ranked fifth among league starters. Free agent goalie Charlie Lindgren (three years, $3.3 million) was signed as a backup.
The forward signed a four-year, $19 million contract, agent Dan Milstein tweeted. He had 21 goals in 53 games with the Maple Leafs last season, and he kills penalties.
The Lightning, who reached the Stanley Cup Final for the third year in a row, are keeping the core together. After giving defenseman Mikhail Sergachev an eight-year extension, Tampa Bay did the same to forward Anthony Cirelli and defenseman Erik Cernak. Sergachev averages $8.5 million, Cirelli $6.25 million and Cernak $5.2 million. Cirelli is the team’s shutdown center and Sergachev’s and Cernak’s role will grow after the trade of Ryan McDonagh. The Lightning also added defenseman Ian Cole ($3 million) and forward Vladislav Namestnikov ($2.5 million) to one-year, free agent deals.
We’ve signed Mikhail Sergachev, Anthony Cirelli, and Erik Cernak each to an eight-year contract extension.https://t.co/xruDCctKWL
— Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) July 13, 2022
The defenseman, acquired at the trade deadline, will get $16 million over four years. He was a good fit after arriving from Detroit. His 130 games of playoff experience make him valuable. The Blues also signed former Red Wings goalie Thomas Greiss (one year, $1.25 million, plus bonuses) as a backup. He replaces Ville Husso, who was traded to and signed with Detroit. Former Panthers center Noel Acciari signed a one-year, $1.25 million deal.
The 24-year-old defenseman had a year left with a $4.8 million cap hit ($7.2 million base salary), and now gets a long-term deal for eight years at $8.5 million per season. Sergachev has improved his point production (to 38) and ice time (to 22 minutes, 28 seconds) in each of the five seasons of his career. His role will only continue to expand. — Jimmy Hascup
The deal is for three years, $3.65 million per year, according to HNIC’s Elliotte Friedman. Vatrano, a shrewd pickup by the Rangers at the trade deadline, showed in flashes his scoring potential in a secondary role. He will help a young forward group in Anaheim. — Jimmy Hascup
New York was seeking a backup goalie after trading Alexandar Georgiev, who was a restricted free agent, to Colorado. Halak gets $1.55 million for one year. The Rangers are tight on the salary cap and have to still re-sign RFA Kaapo Kakko. — Jimmy Hascup
Halak at $1.55M makes it 21 players on the roster with roughly $1.27M in remaining cap space. That’s not including Kakko, who won’t fit in the $2M-$2.5M range I’ve reported unless the #NYR find a way to shed about $1M. Still have to think Nemeth is the primary target to move.
— Vince Z. Mercogliano (@vzmercogliano) July 13, 2022
The Hurricanes needed a right-shot defenseman after trading Tony DeAngelo to the Flyers. The Sharks needed to clear out cap space, and Burns had an $8 million cap hit. Burns had more points than DeAngelo last season, 54-51.
The versatile forward is from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He’s a big addition for a team that’s still rebuilding. TSN reports that the five-year deal has a $5.625 million cap hit.
The two-way center will fill the No. 2 center role that UFA Ryan Strome held last season.
Trocheck is seven years at $5.625-million AAV with the #NYR, according to a league source
— Arthur Staple (@StapeAthletic) July 13, 2022
He’ll get $65 million over eight years, a nice bump from the $2.8 million he’ll make this season. He had a career-best 77 points and a 17-game point streak last season.
Toronto says Samsonov gets a one-year, $1.8 million deal. Samsonov gets a prove-it deal after not being qualified by the Capitals. The Leafs’ tandem next season is Matt Murray and Samsonov.
Giroux’s offseason home is in the Ottawa area. He’s still seeking his first championship. Can the Senators accomplish that in three years? Maybe not. But they’re significantly better with Giroux and trade acquisitions Alex DeBrincat and Cam Talbot.
Claude Giroux of Hearst, Ontario, agrees to a three-year deal with the Ottawa Senators. $6.5 M AAV per season.@TSNHockey @TheAthletic
— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) July 13, 2022
The goaltender will get $25 million over five years, according to TSN. The Oilers needed an upgrade in net and Campbell was an All-Star last season. Mike Smith might not play this season and Mikka Koskinen went overseas, so the tandem will be Campbell and Stuart Skinner.
It’s noon. Free agency signing period is officially under way.
He’ll get $18 million over four years, according to The Athletic. Manson was a big pickup at the trade deadline, a solid defender who scored several key goals in the Stanley Cup run. He joins Valeri Nichushkin and Andrew Cogliano in re-signing. Darren Helm also re-signed for a year on Wednesday.
The move, reported by TSN, increases the Johnny Gaudreau-to-New Jersey speculation. Zacha is a left wing, like Gaudreau. He’s also a restricted free agent, and the Devils won’t need to re-sign him if they land Gaudreau. The move helps the Bruins, who have several forwards who’ll miss the beginning of the season with injuries. The reported return is forward Erik Haula.
The Penguins and the Russian star agreed to a four-year contract late Tuesday night worth $6.1 million annually that will keep Malkin in Pittsburgh after all. After also signing defenseman Kris Letang on July 7 to a six-year, $36.6 million deal, the Penguins have about $4 million in cap space.
Kane followed by announcing “I’m back,” in a post on his verified Twitter account in which he revealed agreeing to a $20.5 million, four-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers, where he put up 22 goals in 39 games after the team gave him a chance when the San Jose Sharks terminated the remainder of Kane’s contract for violating COVID-19 protocols while in the American Hockey League. — Jimmy Hascup
Flames general manager Brad Treliving, who had attempted to re-sign Gaudreau, said Tuesday night that the star forward was going to hit the open market. “It is my strong belief that this was a family decision and I respect that fully,” he said. “John has every right and we have nothing but respect for John the player and John the person.”
So far, Valeri Nichushkin and Andrew Cogliano are the only Avs players who have been re-signed. That leaves less than $15 million in cap space for next season, and Artturi Lehkonen (two series-clinching goals) is a restricted free agent with arbitration rights. Plus, the Avalanche have to think of 2023-24 and beyond because star Nathan MacKinnon can sign a contract extension. His cap hit next season is $6.3 million and that will go up significantly starting the following season.
The Washington Capitals have no NHL goaltenders under contract after trading Vitek Vanecek and not qualifying Ilya Samsonov. Goaltending was a weakness for the Edmonton Oilers on their run to the Western Conference final, plus backup Mikko Koskinen signed with the Swiss league. The Ottawa Senators, who traded Matt Murray to the Toronto Maple Leafs, upgraded their goaltending in a trade Tuesday, adding the Minnesota Wild’s Cam Talbot in exchange for Filip Gustavsson.
The NHL draft took place July 7-8. The first round saw projected No. 1 overall pick Shane Wright fall to No. 4 and the Seattle Kraken. Here’s a look at scouting reports of all the first-round picks, plus a look at the winners and losers of the draft. Wright said he’ll have a “chip on (his) shoulder” after falling, and he reiterated his “staredown” was not directed at the Montreal Canadiens, who picked first and selected Juraj Slafkovsky.
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Ten Kansas City Royals players, including four of their top hitters and their best two starting pitchers this season, will not travel to Toronto this week for the four-game series with the Blue Jays because they have not received the COVID-19 vaccination.
The vaccine requirement for border crossing into Canada will affect outfielder Andrew Benintendi, super-utilityman Whit Merrifield, catcher MJ Melendez, first baseman/outfielder Hunter Dozier, right-hander Brad Keller, right-hander Brady Singer, center fielder Michael A. Taylor, outfielder Kyle Isbel, reliever Dylan Coleman and catcher Cam Gallagher.
Players who are unvaccinated and don’t make the trip to Toronto are placed on the restricted list and forfeit service time and salary for the four games missed. Prior to Kansas City, the most players a team had missed in Toronto was four, and 25 total players had hit the restricted list due to being unvaccinated.
Benintendi is the only 2022 All-Star in the group. The Royals, with a 35-53 record after beating Detroit on Wednesday afternoon, have explored trading the 28-year-old, who is batting .317 and due to hit free agency this winter.
Melendez, a rookie, batted leadoff the past two days as Merrifield, whose 553-game iron man streak came to an end because of a toe injury, sat out. Dozier has regularly served as the Royals’ cleanup hitter. The only vaccinated outfielder on the Royals’ active roster is Edward Olivares.
Kansas City will summon reinforcements from its AAA and AA affiliates to fill out the big league roster. The Royals’ series at Toronto begins Thursday.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party and Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party have inked an agreement to run as a joint slate in the upcoming election, set for November 1, they announced on Sunday evening.
Decrying extremist elements, Gantz said at a press briefing that the two parties will set out to establish a “responsible, realistic, secure, and liberal” government. Such a coalition, he said, will “say no to racism, no to extremism, and yes to unity for all parts of the country and all types of citizens… ultra-Orthodox, Orthodox, secular; Muslims, Christians, Druse and Jews.”
“Israel deserves better,” Gantz said, adding that voters “shouldn’t have to pick from the extremes,” but instead deserve a sane, central option.
That was likely a reference to parties like the predominantly Arab Joint List or the far-right Religious Zionism, led by Bezalel Smotrich, and including Itamar Ben Gvir, who heads the extreme-right Otzma Yehudit faction within the party. Ben Gvir entered the Knesset in the March 2021 elections after merging Otzma Yehudit with Religious Zionism, in a deal brokered by then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an effort to shore up right-wing votes.
For too long, said Gantz, Netanyahu has dragged the Likud party to positions that undermine national unity and harm Israel’s democratic principles.
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“We are laying the cornerstone for the next government,” said Gantz. He called on other groups “who agree with our values” to join their union. Its goal, he said, is to unify “all those who support a Jewish, democratic, safe Israel.”
Justice Minister Gideon Saar and Defense Minister Benny Gantz hold a press conference announcing a merger of their parties, July 10, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
Gantz said he believed the joint slate can appeal to “many people on the statesmanlike right” looking for a political home.
“From the moment I entered politics, I have repeatedly said that we are at an illogical and unprecedented situation,” said Gantz of the ongoing political deadlock, calling it the “biggest democratic and political crisis in [Israel’s] history.”
Israel’s November 1 elections will be the country’s fifth national vote since 2019.
An unsourced report Sunday by Channel 12 news said Gantz and Sa’ar had decided that their party will not sit in a government with Netanyahu, but while Gantz denounced the Likud leader, neither he nor Sa’ar expressly ruled him out as a potential partner in the next coalition.
In his speech Sunday, Grantz praised the outgoing multi-party coalition headed until last month by Naftali Bennett, but said a few members on its fringes pulled it off the road. Bennett’s unlikely alliance of right, center, left and Islamist parties lasted about a year before coming apart, hobbled at the end by the vocal departures of key lawmakers from Bennett’s Yamina party.
Then-outgoing prime minister Naftali Bennett, right, and his interim successor Yair Lapid speak after the passage of a bill to dissolve the Knesset, June 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Speaking after Gantz, Sa’ar said Israel “needs a new hope and a way out of this crisis.” He said that he and Gantz have devoted their lives to the State of Israel and agreed to join forces to create a “wide, patriotic, center-right” electoral slate.
Sa’ar also said that Gantz — who will take the merged party’s top slot — is the ideal candidate to lead the next government.
Blue and White currently holds 8 seats in the 120-member Knesset; New Hope has 6.
In recent polls, which are not necessarily reliable, Blue and White has been slated to receive around 8-9 seats and New Hope 4-5.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid welcomed the news, saying he believed in the good intentions of Gantz and Sa’ar.
“I wish good luck to Benny Gantz and Gideon Sa’ar,” Lapid tweeted. “I am convinced that your intentions are good. I look forward to continuing to work with you on behalf of the citizens of Israel.”
Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on July 10, 2022. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
Lapid’s Yesh Atid ran together with Gantz’s Blue and White in the April 2019, September 2019, and March 2020 elections. Gantz then decided to join a coalition headed by Netanyahu, causing the parties to split up. They have remained separate since.
For their joint slate, Gantz and Sa’ar are reportedly hoping to draw former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, who is also being heavily courted by Lapid’s Yesh Atid party and is seen as a major catch for either party due to his high public profile and general popularity.
Eisenkot would take the third slot if he were to choose to run with a combined Blue and White-New Hope faction, according to reports in Hebrew media.
Eisenkot, who was military chief of staff from 2015 to 2019, is believed to have the ability to bring in voters from both the left and the right. The retired general was one of the most coveted figures during the March 2021 election cycle, with his name linked in reports to a number of parties, but he eventually decided not to run.
Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, right, is interviewed by Amos Yadlin at the Institute for National Security Studies annual conference in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2019. (INSS)
The remaining places at the top of the joint slate would be held by Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (Blue and White), Culture Minister Chili Tropper (Blue and White), Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton (New Hope), Knesset Economics Committee head Michael Biton (Blue and White) and Housing Minister Ze’ev Elkin (New Hope), according to reports.
Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel and MK Zvi Hauser, whose Derech Eretz party joined New Hope after splitting off from a Blue and White alliance, are not likely to have slots on the list, although it was unclear which side had made that reported decision.
Hendel is reported to be in talks with new Yamina leader Ayelet Shaked to potentially join forces, according to the Kan public broadcaster.
Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel in Modi’in, December 5, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
In a Facebook post earlier Sunday, Hendel said he has no regrets over his time in office and believes he stood by his principles. “I will work hard to ensure that votes for the statesman-like right-wing will have a respectable representation in the next Knesset,” he wrote. “I promise to update you soon.”
On Friday evening, Major League Baseball announced the starters for the 2022 All-Star Game, which will take place on Tuesday, July 19 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The voting results from the league’s two-step voting process for the All-Star game were revealed during a live broadcast.
The top two vote-getters at each position (and four outfielders) advanced to Phase 2 of the voting process. Fans voted this week to determine what position players will start later this month, and the polls closed Friday afternoon. The rest of the All-Star rosters, including both the American League and National League pitching staffs, will be revealed on Sunday, July 10. As part of this year’s voting process the leading vote-getter in each league in Phase 1 gets to skip Phase 2 and is given an All-Star Game starting spot automatically. Yankees slugger Aaron Judge led all players with 3,762,498 votes and will start for the American League for the fourth time (also 2017, 2018, and 2021). Braves wunderkind Ronald Acuña Jr. led the National League with 3,503,188 votes. This is his third straight All-Star Game starting assignment. As well, Albert Pujols of he Cardinals and Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers have already been added to the All-Star rosters via a ‘special selections’ designation.
Here, then, are the 2022 MLB All-Star Game starters as elected by the fans.
American League
Catcher: Alejandro Kirk, Blue Jays (first selection)
Runner-up: Jose Trevino, Yankees:
First base: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Blue Jays (second selection)
Runner-up: Ty France, Mariners:
Second Base: Jose Altuve, Astros (eighth selection)
Runner-up: Santiago Espinal, Blue Jays:
Third base: Rafael Devers, Red Sox (second selection)
Runner-up: José Ramírez, Guardians
Shortstop: Tim Anderson, White Sox (second selection)
Scientists who were surveying a catalog of gas clouds spotted something strange: five “blue blobs” composed of young blue stars in the Virgo galaxy cluster.
Unusually, these stars were completely isolated from their parent galaxies, and their stars were arranged in an irregular pattern. Based on those details, the researchers think they’ve discovered a new type of stellar system — a collection of gravitationally bound stars that’s not quite a galaxy but not a known type of star cluster, either.
Even more mysteriously, the blobs were determined to have little atomic hydrogen gas, which is a crucial ingredient in star formation. So how did the young stars form, especially given their distance from the closest potential parent galaxies?
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The research team — led by Michael Jones, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory — noted the presence of heavy metals in the blobs. “This tells us that these stellar systems formed from gas that was stripped from a big galaxy, because how metals are built up is by many repeated episodes of star formation, and you only really get that in a big galaxy,” Jones said in a statement.
There are only two main ways gas is stripped from a galaxy: tidal stripping, in which the gravitational attraction between passing galaxies pulls gas away from them, and ram pressure stripping, which is “[w]hen a galaxy belly flops into a cluster that is full of hot gas, then its gas gets forced out behind it,” Jones said. “That’s the mechanism that we think we’re seeing here to create these objects.”
The astronomers suspect that, over time, the stars in the blobs will split into smaller stellar clusters and spread out.
The team’s findings were presented June 15 at the 240th American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, California.
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