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Flu may be to blame for 1K+ student absences at San Diego school

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Friday, October 14, 2022 11:24PM

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KABC) — Health officials are growing concerned about what’s shaping up to be a particularly bad flu season.

At one high school in San Diego, more than 1,000 of the school’s 2,600 students were absent on Wednesday, and according to school officials, it’s due to possible flu cases. Several students tested positive for the flu and negative for COVID-19.

Experts say masking and other measures to curb the spread of COVID have prevented people from being exposed to the flu, leading to weakened immunity.

Outpatient visits for influenza-like illnesses have particularly risen for children ages 4 and younger to more than 120,000 during the week ending Oct. 1, a 25.5% spike from the roughly 95,600 visits for this age group that were seen the week ending Aug. 6.

The CDC has previously warned the U.S. may see a harsh flu season after few to no cases were reported over the last two years.

ABC News contributed to this report.

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Nearly 8% of people living in San Francisco and Seattle plan to move to a different city

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Residents in San Francisco and Seattle are more likely to move to a different city as they experience high crime rate and homelessness, according to a new survey. 

For the first time ever, the American Housing Survey asked residents in the nation’s 15 major cities if they planned on moving, with many Dem-led cities leading the way in the looming exodus. 

About 7.6 percent of those in San Francisco said they wanted to move to a different city, with Seattle coming in second at 7.2 percent. 

Following them was Washington D.C and Detroit, who both reported that 6.8 percent of residents wished to move away, with Detroit coming in fifth at 6.6 percent. 

New York City appeared to have the most content residents out of the bunch, with only 3.2 percent saying they wished to move to another city. Both Phoenix and Philadelphia followed behind with 3.7 percent. 

More Americans living in San Francisco and Seattle said they wanted to move away than any other major city in the nation

About 7.6 percent of San Francisco residents said they’re thinking of moving away as the city continues to be plagued by crime and homelessness  

The city’s failure to quell crime has further hampered the situation, with city leaders vowing to crack down on increasingly prevalent open-air drug markets

Both San Francisco and Seattle championed the Defund the Police movement in 2020 prior to their crime spikes. Pictured: A Defund the Police protest sign in Seattle 

San Francisco’s problems began to inflate in 2019, with the pandemic only making things worse for the Golden Gate City.  

According to the latest available FBI Unified Crime Report, San Francisco had the highest overall crime rate of the 20 largest cities in the United States, recording 6,917 crimes per 100,000 population in 2019. 

That was more than double the crime rates in New York and Los Angeles, and well above the rates in the next largest US cities: Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix. 

A year later following the Black Lives Matter protests, the call to defund the police grew among Democratic leaders.  

San Francisco Mayor London Breed demanded cities defund the police last year, announcing that the Golden Gate City would be one of the first to do so and promising to slice $120million from the budgets of its police and sheriff’s departments.

The city also greenlit its first open-air drug market in San Francisco’s civic center, which spurred vagrants in homeless encampments across the city to use illegal substances out in broad daylight.  

Breed has since made a screeching U-turn and announced she was asking the city’s Board of Supervisors for more money to be given to the police to stamp out drug dealing, car break-ins, and theft.

After initial calls to defund the police, San Francisco Mayor London Breed (pictured) has made a screeching U-turn and announced she was asking the city’s Board of Supervisors for more money to be given to the police to stamp out crime

San Francisco has the highest overall crime rate of the 20 largest cities in the United States, easily exceeding the crime rates of the five largest cities (seen above)

Overall crime in the Golden Gate City is up 7.4 percent so far this year

Crime remains stubbornly high in the Golden Gate City, with overall crime up 7.4 percent as of August 14 compared to the same time last year. 

Assaults are up nearly 12 percent, and robberies are up 5.1 percent. Thefts have spiked by 15.1 percent compared to last year, and rapes have also increased by 9.7 percent.   

In June, citizens fed up with the state of their city voted to oust woke District Attorney Chesa Boudin, whose anti-incarceration policies have been widely panned as causing the ongoing crisis.

He was originally elected on a platform of criminal justice reform, but his notoriously progressive laws have been widely blamed for rising crime and homelessness in the Bay Area since the start of the pandemic.

Chesa Boudin (left) was ousted from his position as District Attorney in June, after critics accused him of not doing enough to keep residents and business owners safe amid a crime wave.  Brooke Jenkins (right) has since taken over and fired 15 members of Boudin’s team

During that time, San Francisco also lost 25 percent of its late-twenties white population, as the city experienced the biggest drop in household income of any US city. 

The data, compiled by the US Census Bureau, looked at the median income of the nation’s top 25 most populous metropolises from 2019 to 2021.

The Bay Area, long been known as the home of Big Tech – as well as the wealth the industry has created – saw the biggest drop in citizens’ earnings.

Median household income for the area fell from $121,551 in 2019 to $116,005 in 2021, the data shows – a reduction of 4.6 percent.

The statistic illustrates San Francisco in particular’s failure to recover following the spread of the virus, with homeless encampments and open-air drug markets since springing up and becoming commonplace.

The data also serves as fresh evidence of the city’s loss of its hallowed high-income earners – with over 72,000 moving out of Silicon Valley Between January 2020 and September 2021, according to University of California Consumer Credit Panel data.

The data, compiled by the US Census Bureau, looked at the median income of the nation’s top 25 most populous metropolises from 2019 to 2021. The data also serves as fresh evidence of Democratic-run cities’ loss of high-income earners

Meanwhile, the mass exodus of citizens deterred by rising mortgage rates, crime, and warnings of a looming recession has caused property prices along West Coast metropolitan areas to dip, due to a glut of properties on the market,

Contributing to the rapid cooldown is the country’s surging mortgage rates – which rose above a record 6 percent this summer.

Consequently, in addition to the widespread migration, the markedly less people are moving to the city amid its current state.

Since the start of the pandemic, move-ins to San Francisco are down by a marked 24 percent. The Bay Area has also failed to replace its displaced teach workers who left between March and October 2020, city data shows, restoring just 96 tech workers for every 100 tech workers that fled.

In a report by the California Policy Lab that tracks Californians’ credit history, research fellow Natalie Holmes labeled the phenomenon ‘a unique and dramatic exodus.’

Crime in Seattle has remained persistently high, with the city documenting about 3,887 violent crime reports so far this year, slowly encroaching on last year’s total of 5,407. 

Rapes and robberys appear on track to match or exceed last year’s totals, with 191 and 1,244 cases reported so far, respectively. 

The same is true of aggravated assault cases, with the city reporting 2,413 cases in 2022, coming up on the 3,316 cases reported last year. 

There have been 39 homicides in 2022, nearly as much as the 42 total recorded last year. 

The city saw it’s latest murder case in August, when distressing footage showed a disabled 66 year-old being beaten to death with a metal pole in Seattle – allegedly by a serial criminal cops say had been freed by a local judge on a separate felony charge just eight days earlier.  

Aaron Fulk, 48, was caught on surveillance footage as he bludgeoned 66-year-old Rodney Peterman with the makeshift weapon in the city’s notoriously crime-ridden downtown.

It happened close to Seattle’s world-famous Pike Place food market, a popular tourist-hot spot, KOMO reported.  

Prosecutors say Fulk kept on beating Peterman even after the victim fell unconscious during the August 2 attack. 

Aaron Fulk, 48, was caught on camera brutally attacking 66-year-old Rodney Peterman, striking him in the back of the head multiple times with a metal pole

Surveillance footage and cell phone video clearly caught the moment Fulk carried out the brutal beating in downtown Seattle

It’s alleged Fulk was able to strike Peterman over the head at least three times 

It fractured the skull of Peterman – who had mobility issues and used a walker –  who  was struck at least three times in the back of the head and on the temple.

Although bystanders performed CPR on Peterman, he never regained consciousness and died in hospital four days later.

It’s unclear if he knew his victim before the attack, and what his motive was.

But he might not have been out on the streets at all were it not for the actions of Pierce County Superior Court Judge Philip Thornton.

Thornton had come across Pierce days earlier, and decided to release him without bail on felony harassment charges after he allegedly threatened to kill a local city worker.

Thornton released Fulk on his own recognizance, and asked him not to commit any more crime.

The serial criminal’s subsequent behavior has sparked fury over Thornton’s decision to ignore prosecutors’ request for $10,000 bail, and is being viewed as symbolic of Seattle’s apparent unwillingness to crack down on serious crime.

Seattle protesters are seen calling for the police to be defunded are pictured marching in August 2020. The following month the city council adopted their call, and police numbers have been falling ever since

The city of Seattle has been facing an uphill battle when it comes to tackling crime.

In July, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said it filed 598 felony cases, adding up to about 30 charges filed every business day.

The majority of the charges are connected to violent or gun crimes with 21% related to domestic violence. Felony charges relating to firearms and repeat offenders were also filed each business day throughout the month.

In the city of 724,000, 16 percent of its police officers are on leave, while others have left permanently.

Between January 2020 and December 2021 at least 339 Seattle police officers retired or resigned, The Wall Street Journal reported, noting that the city has an authorized force of 1,347 but only some 1,000 deployable officers.

During summer 2020, woke ex-mayor Jenny Durkan infamously handed over a large section of the city’s once bustling Capitol Hill zone to a group of anti-police anarchists, turning the area into a hot bed of crime, and bringing businesses to their knees.

In September 2020, Carmen Best, the widely respected then-chief of Seattle police, resigned hours after the city council made good on its promise to approve sweeping proposals that would cut about 100 officers and slash the department’s budget.

The 2021 police budget, approved in September 2020, was reduced by nearly $35.6 million, or nine percent, from 2019.

A year later, the budget was cut again.

Well-paid millennials left New York and California in the THOUSANDS early on in the pandemic, many for lower-tax living in Florida and Texas 

New York and California lost tens of thousands of wealthy millennials in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, as lower-tax states like Florida and Texas saw an influx of rich young professionals, a study of tax returns reveals.

An analysis of Census Bureau and Harvard University data reveals that 15,788 more wealthy young professionals left New York than relocated there between 2019 and 2020, while California recorded a net outflow of 7,960.

Many appear to have opted for sunnier southern climes like Texas and Florida as the pandemic ravaged dense cities, forcing businesses and offices closed as millions switched to remote working on their laptops.

Texas recorded a net inflow of roughly 3,800 wealthy millennials — those aged under 35 and earning more than $100,000 per year — while Florida saw their numbers rise by 3,400.

Stephanie Horan, a data analyst for fintech firm SmartAsset, said California and New York, destinations for generations of upwardly mobile college-leavers, were ‘struggling the most to keep rich young professionals’. 

Isabelle Novak, 30, a communications manager, and her partner, software executive Reid Gridley, 29, were among the millennial-generation professionals who made a switch during the pandemic, buying their first property in Portland, Oregon

‘Combined, these two states lost more than 57,000 wealthy millennials in 2020, while gaining fewer than 34,000,’ Horan told DailyMail.com.

Texas and Florida, she added, were ‘winning big, ranking as the number one and two states, respectively, where rich young professionals are moving.’   

After New York and California, the areas with the biggest drop in numbers of wealthy young professionals were Illinois, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Louisiana, North Dakota, Virginia, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Relative to its population size, Washington, D.C. saw the largest proportion of rich young professionals moving elsewhere, with a net outflow of nearly 2,100.

The two top destination states — Texas and Florida — are both notable for having no income tax. 

A furniture delivery to Prosper, Texas. The state recorded a net inflow of some 3,800 people aged under 35 and earning more than $100,000 per year in 2020

Other states with significant inflows of moneyed young adults were Washington state, Colorado, New Jersey, North Carolina, Arizona, Connecticut, Tennessee, and Oregon.

The analysis of tax returns echoes other research into migration patterns in the early pandemic, when some took advantage of remote work and ditched big cities for sunnier, more rural climes with lower taxes.

Even so, some researchers say the often-touted ‘Great Migration’ was overblown, and that overall movement patterns were low, as people postponed life-cycle events such as marriages or having babies that often lead to moves.

For many, the mass movement of Americans at the start of the pandemic was exaggerated. Eight-in-ten young adults live less than 100 miles from where they grew up; and only 10 percent had moved more than 500 miles away.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the nation’s mover rate has declined steadily for decades — and the pandemic did not change that. In 2021, 8.4 percent of people had changed addresses in the previous year, compared to 9.3 percent in 2020. 

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Dodgers-Padres: Takeaways from San Diego’s Game 2 victory in the NLDS

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The San Diego Padres took down the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-3, in Game 2 of the NLDS Wednesday. The Padres’ win means they’ve evened the best-of-five series at 1-1, so it’s tantamount to a three-game series now with the Padres having home-field. This was start to finish the most entertaining game of the 2022 postseason to this point and one of the more entertaining baseball games one might see. There was action on top of drama on top of more action. 

Let’s dive in. This won’t be exhaustive, because there was just too much fun stuff. 

Bombs away early

The fun started nearly immediately. 

Manny Machado homered off Clayton Kershaw in the first to give the Padres a quick lead. 

Freddie Freeman homered in the bottom half to tie things up. Max Muncy homered in the second to give the Dodgers a lead. After the Padres scored two in the top of the third — with a rally that included a Machado double — Trea Turner homered to tie it, his second long ball of the series.  

In a game many expected to be low-scoring — the total, or “over/under” was 7 — the offenses teamed up for six runs and four home runs through the first three innings. 

The action wasn’t limited to home runs or the first three innings, either. 

Dodgers defense gives and takes away in sixth

With one out in the sixth, Trea Turner committed an error on a Wil Myers grounder. Next up was Jurickson Profar, who he singled home the unearned run. 

Then, on an attempted safety squeeze, Dodgers pitcher Brusdar Graterol made a shortstop-like play to nab the runner at home. Austin Nola followed with a rocket to center that would have scored two runs. Instead, Cody Bellinger made an over-the-shoulder catch on the warning track. 

Suarez’s magic in the bottom half

The action didn’t slow down. A Will Smith infield single was followed by a line shot Max Muncy single, putting runners on first and third with no outs in the sixth for the Dodgers. The Padres removed starter Yu Darvish and swapped in Robert Suarez in relief. In situations like these, giving up just one run isn’t all that horrible. Just about the only way to realistically not allow a run would be to get strikeouts or a strikeout and a double play. 

Suarez came through with the latter. He struck Justin Turner out and then induced an inning-ending twin killing off the bat of Gavin Lux. 

At the time, it felt like the moment the Padres seized total control of the game. 

Of course, they had to deal with another major threat.

Suarez escapes in the seventh, too

With one out in the bottom of the seventh, Cody Bellinger singled and Mookie Betts sent a liner to the left-center gap. Padres center fielder Trent Grisham made a great effort and one could argue he should have caught it — though it would have been a spectacular catch — but instead missed it. Bellinger ended up on third, as he had to hang around first in case Grisham caught it, so the Betts double gave the Dodgers runners on second and third with one out. 

With the infield drawn in, Trea Turner hit a hard grounder right at Manny Machado, who looked Bellinger back before getting the runner at first (the throw drew first baseman Wil Myers off the bag and he did well to adjust and then avoid falling into the trap set by Turner, who went down to the ground in hopes of luring Myers into a rundown). 

After intentionally walking Freddie Freeman, Suarez gave up a hard line drive to Will Smith, but Grisham was positioned perfectly and the threat was over. 

The Padres still had six outs to go while clinging to this one-run lead. 

Still, let’s tip our caps to Robert Suarez. The 31-year-old reliever, who spent his career playing in Mexico and Japan, had never even been in Minor League Baseball until 2022. On April 7, he made his MLB debut with the Padres and launched a very good rookie year. 

And it’s possible he just recorded the six biggest outs of the Padres’ season. 

Cronenworth’s insurance

Perhaps he felt like his teammates on the mound were having to sweat it out too much with that one-run lead, because Jake Cronenworth crushed a prodigious home run with one out in the eighth. 

That’s 416 feet of breathing room. The insurance run gave the Padres a 5-3 lead. 

Hader’s four-out save

The drama was far from over. With two outs in the bottom of the eighth, Gavin Lux singled and Padres manager Bob Melvin decided to go to closer Josh Hader. Only four outs remained, but Hader hadn’t gone longer than an inning since Aug. 14, 2020, the date of his last four-out save. 

Hader also famously had an atrocious stretch of pitching this year. From July 4 to Aug. 28, Hader appeared in 17 games and allowed runs in nine of them, adding up to a miserable 17.31 ERA in that stretch. He didn’t allow an earned run in his last 10 outings, so it’s possible he’s fixed, but there’s always that worry that his struggles come back. 

Hader walked Trayce Thompson but then got Austin Barnes to fly out to deep center to end the eighth. In the ninth, he got two outs before Freddie Freeman crushed a ball off the right-center wall that looked like it might be a home run off the bat but fell for a double. Will Smith came to the plate as the tying run and flew out to deep right on a hard liner. 

It wasn’t clean, but Hader slowed flashes, particularly in striking out Trea Turner for the second out of the ninth, where he looked like vintage Hader. It’s something to keep in mind moving forward in this series. 

Playoff Kershaw? 

Fair or not, the subject of Clayton Kershaw “choking” in the playoffs is a favorite for many. He’s absolutely not a choke artist or anything that extreme, because he’s had a litany of great outings under immense pressure. It just isn’t accurate to suggest he somehow shrinks from every big moment. 

He has, however, been a decent tick worse in his career in the playoffs and it’s not a bunch of small-sample flukiness. Coming into this game, he had a career 2.48 ERA and 1.00 WHIP in the regular season compared to 4.19 and 1.07. His rate of home runs allowed in the playoffs (1.3 HR/9) was nearly double that of the regular season (0.7 HR/9). 

This one was a mixed bag. He struck out six without walking anyone. He also gave up three runs on six hits — including a home run and double — in five innings. That’s a 5.40 ERA and 1.20 WHIP after he posted 2.28 and 0.94 in the regular season. 

He definitely wasn’t bad and didn’t “choke.” He didn’t lose the Dodgers the game. He matched Yu Darvish by allowing three runs in five innings. He also wasn’t good enough to shut the naysayers up. The narrative lives to fight another day. It’s persistent. 

Next up: Game 3 Friday

After an off-day on Thursday, this series moves to Petco Park in San Diego for Game 3 on Friday. The first pitch is set for 8:37 p.m. ET. 

The Padres will start lefty Blake Snell. He looked like his old Cy Young self down the stretch, posting a 2.19 ERA (2.23 FIP) in his last 14 starts while striking out 105 in 78 innings in that span. He was bad last time out, though, against the Mets in the Wild Card Series, walking six and giving up a home run in his 3 1/3 innings. He threw five scoreless last time he saw the Dodgers, but was shelled by them the previous time. 

The Dodgers will start righty Tony Gonsolin (16-1, 2.14). He was actually a run worse on the road this season, but it was still a sparkling 2.66 ERA. He only faced the Padres once and gave up just one run in seven innings of work. It might be a short outing, however, as Gonsolin missed all of September with a forearm injury. He had a two-inning tuneup on Oct. 3 in which he threw 40 pitches. 

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Myanmar court extends Aung San Suu Kyi’s prison sentence to 26 years

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A court in military-run Myanmar has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s deposed former leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, to three additional years in jail for corruption, a source familiar with the case told CNN, extending her total prison term to 26 years.

Wednesday’s verdict is the latest in a string of punishments meted out against the 77-year-old, a figurehead of opposition to decades of military rule who led Myanmar for five years before being forced from power in a coup in early 2021.

Suu Kyi was found guilty of receiving $500,000 in bribes from a local tycoon, a charge she denied, according to the source. Her lawyers have said the series of crimes leveled against her are politically motivated.

Suu Kyi is currently being held in solitary confinement at a prison in the capital Naypyidaw.

Last month, Suu Kyi was found guilty of electoral fraud and sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor, in a trial related to the November 2020 general election that her National League for Democracy won in a landslide, defeating a party created by the military.

It was the first time Suu Kyi had been sentenced to hard labor since the 2021 military coup. She was given the same punishment in a separate trial under a previous administration in 2009 but that sentence was commuted.

Suu Kyi has also previously been found guilty of offenses ranging from graft to election violations.

Rights groups have repeatedly expressed concerns about the punishment of pro-democracy activists in the country since the military seized power.

Also sentenced Wednesday was Toru Kubota, 26, a Japanese journalist who received an additional three years in prison on charges of violating an immigration law, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN.

That sentence comes in addition to the 10 years Kubota received last week on charges of sedition and violating a law on electronic communications. Those charges relate to his filming of an anti-government protest in July, a Japanese diplomat said.

The ministry said the Japanese government will continue to ask Myanmar authorities to release Kubota “at the earliest possible date.”

Kubota was arrested by plainclothes police in Yangon, where he was filming a documentary that he had been working on for several years, according to a Change.org petition calling for his release.

In July, the military junta executed two prominent pro-democracy activists and two other men accused of terrorism, following a trial condemned by the UN and rights groups.

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Dodgers vs. Padres score: L.A. starts postseason with victory, holding off San Diego in NLDS Game 1

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The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres, 5-3, Tuesday night in Dodger Stadium to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five NLDS. 

Here’s everything you need to know on the game and then the series moving forward. 

Turner set the tone early

Despite a five-day layoff after a first-round bye, it didn’t take long for the Dodgers to get on the board. Trea Turner, the second batter in the bottom of the first, got things started with a no-doubt homer to left. 

The 419-footer was just the beginning. Will Smith would double and then score on a Max Muncy single. The Dodgers got three hits and a walk in the first inning of Padres starter Mike Clevinger. 

Clevinger would end up lasting just 2 2/3 innings. He gave up five runs on six hits and the biggest problem was five of those hits were for extra bases. Trea Turner added a double to his homer. Smith doubled twice. Gavin Lux had an RBI double. 

The Dodgers were in complete control. 

Urías deals early, runs into problems, is pulled

Dodgers starter Julio Urías, the NL ERA leader in the regular season, was dominant for four innings. He didn’t allow a hit until there were two outs in the third. He faced only one over the minimum through four scoreless innings. 

In the fifth, though, the Padres made this a game again. Wil Myers led off with a home run. Jake Cronenworth singled and Ha-seong Kim doubled before a pair of productive outs trimmed the Dodgers lead to 5-3. 

And though Urías had only thrown 79 pitches, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts elected to go to his bullpen with Evan Phillips taking over for the sixth. 

The Padres made it interesting

After the Padres closed the gap from 5-0 to 5-3, they got the first two runners on base in the sixth against Phillips. Juan Soto, who walks more often than anyone else in baseball, drew a walk to start the inning. Manny Machado had an excuse-me hit, as he knocked a dribbler down the third-base line that the Dodgers defenders tried to let roll foul. It stayed fair and Machado had his infield hit. 

There were now two runners on with no out in a two-run game. The Padres had trimmed the Dodgers’ win expectancy from 95 percent to 65 percent. Josh Bell came to the plate with a chance to do some major damage. Instead, he struck out. 

Myers then hit the ball very hard (100.1 miles per hour), but it was right at second baseman Gavin Lux. Lux corralled it and the Dodgers were able to turn a double play to end the threat. 

It was one of those moments that seemed like the game hung in the balance and it went the Dodgers’ way. 

Martin closes for Dodgers

There was great interest to how the Dodgers put their bullpen together in close games heading into this game. Craig Kimbrel was the closer for most of the season, but the Dodgers removed him from the role late in the season — when the division was essentially already over — and he’s not even on the NLDS roster. 

Evan Phillips worked the sixth. Alex Vesia got the seventh and then the first two outs of the eighth. Brusdal Graterol was summoned to get Manny Machado, and he did — though it was a deep flyout that wasn’t too far from a home run — and then Chris Martin got the final three outs for the save. 

This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s how the Dodgers will work every close game, but it’s possible Phillips and Vesia serve as “put out the fire” guys while Graterol and Martin are around for late-inning work. 

These are likely their top four relievers, though, that much seems clear. 

The Dodgers still own the Padres

The Padres have the opportunity this series to turn the tide and flip the narrative on its head, but this just isn’t a rivalry at present. The Dodgers won the regular-season series 14-5 and outscored the Padres by 62, more than doubling them up at 109-47. 

The Dodgers went 12-7 against the Padres last year. In 2020, it was 6-4 Dodgers in the regular season but then 3-0 Dodgers in the playoffs. In 2019, it was 13-6 Dodgers. The Padres haven’t had a winning record against the Dodgers since 2010. 

Next: Game 2 Wednesday

They’ll face off again in Dodger Stadium for Game 2 on Wednesday at 8:37 p.m. ET. 

Yu Darvish (16-8, 3.10) gets the ball for the Padres. He was brilliant in the Wild Card Series against the Mets, allowing just one run on six hits in seven innings of work. He faced the Dodgers four times this season, pitching to a 2.52 ERA and 0.92 WHIP, though that was only good enough for a split with each team winning two of those games. 

Clayton Kershaw (12-3, 2.28) will start for the Dodgers. As everyone knows by now, the narrative that Kershaw can’t pitch in the playoffs still persists. He’s 13-12 with a 4.19 ERA in his postseason career. He faced the Padres twice this year and posted a 0.75 ERA and 0.75 WHIP in 12 innings. 

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San Antonio police chief says officer shooting of 17-year-old at McDonald’s not justified and charges are coming

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[Breaking news update, published at 8:57 p.m. ET]

The San Antonio police officer who shot an unarmed 17-year-old eating in his car at a McDonald’s parking lot last week was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant, the police department said.

The officer, identified as James Brennand, was fired following the October 2 shooting. He has been described by the department as a probationary officer with seven months’ experience.

[Original story, published at 10:13 a.m. ET]

The police shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old eating in his car at a McDonald’s parking lot last week was “not justified” and authorities expect to file criminal charges against the officer by the end of the week, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Tuesday.

“The video was horrific,” the chief told CNN’s Brianna Keilar. “There is no question in anybody’s mind looking at that video that the shooting is not justified.”

McManus said he recognized an issue immediately upon arriving to the scene of the October 2 shooting, based on the location of the bullet holes.

“We have a policy that prohibits officers from shooting at vehicles, moving vehicles, except if their life is in immediate – their life or someone else’s life – is in immediate danger,” he said.

“When I saw it, the location of the bullet holes, I had an issue with it right away. You can tell by looking at the vehicles, which way the vehicle is moving when the shots are fired, and this vehicle, it was very telling to me, that this vehicle was moving away from the officer, and moving parallel with the officer, so it was pretty clear to me at that point that we were going to have an issue.”

He said he expects the officer to be charged with two counts of aggravated assault by the end of the week, charges that could rise to homicide if the 17-year-old does not survive.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales said late last week there was the possibility of charging Brennand with a crime.

Attempts to reach Brennand have not been successful.

The police chief’s comments come a week after James Brennand, a probationary officer with seven months of experience, shot 17-year-old Erik Cantu as the teenager sat in his car eating fast food.

According to police, Brennand was handling an unrelated disturbance call at the McDonald’s on October 2 when he saw a car he believed had evaded police the previous day and called for backup.

Before backup officers arrived, body camera video released by police shows the officer walk up to the driver’s side of the car, open the door, and order the driver out. The visibly startled teen, who was in the driver’s seat eating, put the car in reverse and started backing up.

The police officer then opened fire five times on the car, according to the video. As the driver shifted the vehicle to move forward, body camera video showed the officer opening fire an additional five times as the car drove away.

Cantu was shot multiple times and is in critical condition and on a life support system, his family said Monday. A passenger in the vehicle was unhurt.

Brennand was fired in the wake of the shooting for violating the agency’s tactics, training and procedures, police said.

“It took us a couple of days to terminate Brennand, but he was gone pretty quickly,” McManus told CNN.

SAPD’s deadly force policy is explicit: “An officer in the path of an approaching vehicle shall attempt to move to a position of safety rather than discharging a firearm at the vehicle or any of the occupants of the vehicle.”

The policy further states that “officers should not shoot at any part of a vehicle in an attempt to disable the vehicle.”

While in the hospital, Cantu was initially charged with evading detention in a vehicle and assaulting the officer, who had claimed he was struck by the door of the car as the teen backed up.

However, his defense attorney Brian Powers said the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office notified him prosecutors would not be moving forward with charges. A spokesperson for the District Attorney’s office referred CNN to the county’s online court record system, which indicates both charges have been dismissed and the case closed.

“While Sunday’s shooting of an unarmed teenager by a then-San Antonio Police officer remains under investigation, the facts and evidence we have received so far led us to reject the charges against Erik Cantu for further investigation,” Gonzales’ office said in a statement.

“Once SAPD completes its investigation into the actions of former Officer James Brennand and submits the case to our office, our Civil Rights Division will fully review the filing. As we do with all officer-involved shootings that result in death or serious injury, we will submit the case to a Grand Jury for their consideration. Until that happens, we can make no further comment on this matter.”

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Mets vs. Padres score: San Diego knocks out 101-win New York with one-hitter in Wild Card Series Game 3

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The San Diego Padres will continue on and the 101-win New York Mets are heading home. Sunday night the Padres dominated the Mets in Game 3 of their Wild Card Series matchup (SD 6, NY 0). Padres righty Joe Musgrove was dominant despite the Mets’ efforts to throw him out of rhythm, and the offense seemed to pick up every timely hit.

New York mustered only two baserunners in the game — a single and a walk in separate innings — and the Padres are the first team ever to throw a one-hitter in a winner-take all postseason game. They will now take on the rival Los Angeles Dodgers when the NLDS begins Tuesday.

Here are four takeaways from Game 3.

The Mets asked to check Musgrove for sticky stuff

It reeked of desperation. With his team down 4-0 in the sixth inning, Mets manager Buck Showalter asked the umpires to check Padres righty Joe Musgrove for foreign substances. Musgrove was dealing — only one baserunner allowed at the time — and Showalter was doing what he could to disrupt him or, ideally, get him out of the game.

It didn’t work. The umpires checked Musgrove, including touching his ears, and he remained in the game. He gestured toward the Mets dugout after a strikeout later in the inning, then pointed his ears at the crowd as he walked off the field after the inning.

Managers have always been able to ask the umpires to check a pitcher for foreign substances, though they rarely do because it is mutually assured destruction. Every team has pitchers using foreign substances, and if you checks someone else’s pitcher, they are going to ask to check your pitcher. It is the way of the world, which is why so few foreign substance checks are requested.

For what it’s worth, Musgrove’s velocity and spin rates were up in Game 3, though the increases fell within the range of normal start-to-start fluctuation, and within the range he showed during the regular season. Also, it’s a postseason elimination game. There’s adrenaline. Musgrove showing a velocity uptick is not the most surprising thing in the world given the circumstances.

In the end, Musgrove dominated before and after the foreign-substance check. He allowed a single and a walk in seven otherwise spotless innings, and the Mets did not have a runner make it a far as third base. According to MLB.com, Musgrove is the first pitcher in history to throw at least seven innings with no more than two hits allowed in a winner-take-all postseason game.

(Is it mean to point out the Mets were part of the three-team trade that sent Musgrove from the Pirates to the Padres two years ago? They sent catcher/outfielder Endy Rodriguez to the Pirates and received lefty Joey Lucchesi from San Diego. MLB.com now ranks Rodriguez as the No. 97 prospect in baseball. Lucchesi is rehabbing from Tommy John surgery.)

San Diego kept stepping out on Bassitt

The first inning could not have gone better for the Mets and Chris Bassitt. Three up, three down on only seven pitches. Things got dicey after that. The Padres built a rally on a ground ball single and back-to-back two-outs walks in the second, then No. 9 hitter Austin Nola yanked a two-out, two-strike ground ball through the left side to score two runs.

After that first inning Bassitt faced 15 batters and six reached base, and six of the 10 balls in play had a 95 mph exit velocity or better. He threw 61 pitches and the Padres swung and missed twice. Bassitt fooled no one in Game 3 and he exited with the Mets down 3-0 after four innings. A disappointing end to what was a very good regular season for the free agent-to-be-righty.

Also, either by design or by coincidence, Padres hitters stepped out of the box a lot — A LOT — against Bassitt. He’s never been an especially quick worker, though he doesn’t work so slow that hitters often become impatient in the box. San Diego stepped out enough that Mets manager Buck Showalter was asked about it during an in-game ESPN interview (he said he didn’t mind).

My guess — and I emphasize this is just a guess — is all the stepping out was intentional. Padres skipper Bob Melvin managed Bassitt with the Athletics from 2015-21, so he knows him well, and that means knowing what gets under his skin. I don’t want to say all the stepping out tripped up Bassitt and explains his subpar outing, but San Diego’s hitters did ask for time at an inordinate rate.

Grisham did more damage

There is no such thing as the Wild Card Series MVP, but if there were, Trent Grisham would have won it this weekend. He took Max Scherzer deep in Game 1, Jacob deGrom deep in Game 2, then he drove in a run with a two-out single against Bassitt in Game 3. And because that wasn’t enough, he saved a run with a tremendous running catch in center in the fifth inning.

Grisham’s big weekend comes after a dreadful regular season. He hit .184/.284/.341 this year, ranking 126th in OPS among the 130 hitters with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting title. The postseason is a clean slate though. Every team is 0-0 and every hitter has a fresh slash line. Grisham reached base four times in Game 3 and went 4 for 8 with two homers, two walks, and zero strikeouts in the Wild Card Series.

Soto and McNeil each did something unusual

You never know what you’re going to see when you show up to the ballpark each day and, in Game 3, Juan Soto and Jeff McNeil each did something unusual. Unusual for them, at least. First, Solo laid down a sacrifice bunt! He was trying to bunt for a hit with the third baseman back and shaded toward shortstop, but it goes into the record books as a sac bunt. It is Soto’s first sac bunt since his rookie year in 2018, and only the second of his MLB career. Manny Machado, the next batter, singled in the run. Soto then drove in two insurance runs with a single in the eighth.

And second, McNeil struck out! He had gone 60 plate appearances — since Sept. 20 — without striking out. That’s an eternity given the league strikeout rate these days. McNeil struck out in only 10.4 percent of his plate appearances this year, the third lowest rate among qualified hitters and well below the 22.4 percent league average. Alas and alack, McNeil’s strikeout came at a bad time — with a runner on first and no outs in the fifth. It contributed to snuffing out a potential rally.

Up next

As noted, the Padres are going to Los Angeles to play the Dodgers in the NLDS and the Mets are going home. The Wild Card Series round is officially over and the Division Series is up next. Game 1 at Dodger Stadium — Game 1 of every Division Series, it should be noted — is scheduled for Tuesday. Here’s the full postseason schedule.

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Mets vs. Padres score: San Diego smacks four homers off Max Scherzer to push New York to brink

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The San Diego Padres defeated the New York Mets by a score of 7-1 in Game 1 of the National League Wild Card Series on Friday night at Citi Field. That outcome gives the Padres 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series that functions as the opening round in MLB’s new playoff structure. 

Now for some takeaways from Game 1. 

Bell got to Scherzer early

The Padres didn’t need long to do damage against Mets starter and co-ace Max Scherzer, as first baseman Josh Bell in the top of the first hit this booming two-run homer to the opposite field: 

That 95-mph fastball from Scherzer caught too much of the middle, and Bell didn’t miss. That homer left the bat at 107.8 mph and traveled 419 feet to deep left-center. That had to be a huge moment for Bell, who’s struggled badly since coming over in the Juan Soto blockbuster just prior to the trade deadline. With the Padres in the regular season, Bell slashed .192/.316/.271 with just three home runs in 53 games. That came on the heels of a highly productive 103 games with the Nationals. Perhaps more concerning is that Bell saw his quality-of-contract metrics decline significantly on San Diego’s watch. 

Well, there were no such quality-of-contact concerns on that one above, and Bell is now the author of what may be the Padres’ biggest home run of the season to date.

Then a bunch of other Padres got to Scherzer

It wasn’t just Bell who took Scherzer yard. So did Trent Grisham in the second and Jurickson Profar in the fifth. The very next batter after Profar, Manny Machado, became the fourth Padre to homer off Scherzer in Game 1, and this one sent him to the showers: 

At that point, Trevor May came on, and Scherzer’s night was over: 4 2/3 IP, 7 H, 7 R, 4 SO, 0 BB, 4 HR. That comes to a 13.50 ERA for the game. This is just the second time in his career, playoffs or regular season, that he’s allowed at least seven runs and four home runs in a game. As for the postseason itself, there’s this: 

This disaster outing comes just after Scherzer struggled in a crucial start against the Braves – four runs on nine hits in 5 2/3 innings when the division title hung in the balance. Maybe he’s still not fully over his oblique injury, maybe he’s suddenly feeling his 38 years, or maybe it’s just cruel short-run randomness that can happen to anyone in baseball. 

Scherzer’s a three-time Cy Young winner and a future first-ballot Hall of Famer, but he’s looked like nothing of the sort recently. 

Darvish was excellent

While Scherzer had a Game 1 to forget, the Padres’ Darvish had one to remember. His work for the night: 

Darvish kept Mets hitters off balance with his usual dizzying array of offerings — he threw five different pitches on Friday, headlined by his cutter. His velocity ranged from 95.2 mph on a fastball to Francisco Lindor in the fifth to 66.9 mph on a curve to Eduardo Escobar in that same inning. While his strikeout tally wasn’t what it typically was, hard contact eluded the Mets for much of the night. The only blemish came on a solo home run by Escobar. Also of note is that Darvish’s seven innings of work meant a light night for the Padres’ bullpen, particularly by postseason standards. 

DeGrom goes next for New York

We already knew that lefty Blake Snell will start Game 2 for the Padres, but the Mets’ decision hinged on how Game 1 went. If they won, the plan seemed to be to hold back ace Jacob deGrom in the hopes that they could close out the Padres in Game 2 and line up deGrom for Game 1 of the NLDS. If they lost Game 1 to San Diego, then deGrom would start Game 2, which would be an elimination game for the Mets. Well, the latter scenario, as you now know, is what unfolded, and deGrom will indeed go Saturday against Snell and Padres. The Padres are now one win away from a matchup with the NL West-rival Dodgers in the NLDS. 

Game 2 on Saturday is scheduled to start at 7:37 p.m. ET. 

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Mets vs. Padres score, takeaways: San Diego crushes four homers off Max Scherzer to push New York to brink

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The San Diego Padres defeated the New York Mets by a score of 7-1 in Game 1 of the National League Wild Card Series on Friday night at Citi Field. That outcome gives the Padres 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series that functions as the opening round in MLB’s new playoff structure. 

Now for some takeaways from Game 1. 

Bell got to Scherzer early

The Padres didn’t need long to do damage against Mets starter and co-ace Max Scherzer, as first baseman Josh Bell in the top of the first hit this booming two-run homer to the opposite field: 

That 95-mph fastball from Scherzer caught too much of the middle, and Bell didn’t miss. That homer left the bat at 107.8 mph and traveled 419 feet to deep left-center. That had to be a huge moment for Bell, who’s struggled badly since coming over in the Juan Soto blockbuster just prior to the trade deadline. With the Padres in the regular season, Bell slashed .192/.316/.271 with just three home runs in 53 games. That came on the heels of a highly productive 103 games with the Nationals. Perhaps more concerning is that Bell saw his quality-of-contract metrics decline significantly on San Diego’s watch. 

Well, there were no such quality-of-contact concerns on that one above, and Bell is now the author of what may be the Padres’ biggest home run of the season to date.

Then a bunch of other Padres got to Scherzer

It wasn’t just Bell who took Scherzer yard. So did Trent Grisham in the second and Jurickson Profar in the fifth. The very next batter after Profar, Manny Machado, became the fourth Padre to homer off Scherzer in Game 1, and this one sent him to the showers: 

At that point, Trevor May came on, and Scherzer’s night was over: 4 2/3 IP, 7 H, 7 R, 4 SO, 0 BB, 4 HR. That comes to a 13.50 ERA for the game. This is just the second time in his career, playoffs or regular season, that he’s allowed at least seven runs and four home runs in a game. As for the postseason itself, there’s this: 

This disaster outing comes just after Scherzer struggled in a crucial start against the Braves – four runs on nine hits in 5 2/3 innings when the division title hung in the balance. Maybe he’s still not fully over his oblique injury, maybe he’s suddenly feeling his 38 years, or maybe it’s just cruel short-run randomness that can happen to anyone in baseball. 

Scherzer’s a three-time Cy Young winner and a future first-ballot Hall of Famer, but he’s looked like nothing of the sort recently. 

Darvish was excellent

While Scherzer had a Game 1 to forget, the Padres’ Darvish had one to remember. His work for the night: 

Darvish kept Mets hitters off balance with his usual dizzying array of offerings — he threw five different pitches on Friday, headlined by his cutter. His velocity ranged from 95.2 mph on a fastball to Francisco Lindor in the fifth to 66.9 mph on a curve to Eduardo Escobar in that same inning. While his strikeout tally wasn’t what it typically was, hard contact eluded the Mets for much of the night. The only blemish came on a solo home run by Escobar. Also of note is that Darvish’s seven innings of work meant a light night for the Padres’ bullpen, particularly by postseason standards. 

DeGrom goes next for New York

We already knew that lefty Blake Snell will start Game 2 for the Padres, but the Mets’ decision hinged on how Game 1 went. If they won, the plan seemed to be to hold back ace Jacob deGrom in the hopes that they could close out the Padres in Game 2 and line up deGrom for Game 1 of the NLDS. If they lost Game 1 to San Diego, then deGrom would start Game 2, which would be an elimination game for the Mets. Well, the latter scenario, as you now know, is what unfolded, and deGrom will indeed go Saturday against Snell and Padres. The Padres are now one win away from a matchup with the NL West-rival Dodgers in the NLDS. 

Game 2 on Saturday is scheduled to start at 7:37 p.m. ET. 

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Metrolink, Amtrak suspend service between LA area and San Diego indefinitely because of shifting ground

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Metrolink and Amtrak announced the suspension of train services linking San Diego to the Los Angeles area over safety concerns in the community of San Clemente, located on the border of Orange and San Diego counties.

Service was suspended indefinitely starting Friday because the ground underneath a stretch of seaside track in southern California has shifted, officials said.

This comes after a recent ocean surge connected to Tropical Storm Kay led to high tides and waves that shifted the coastal tracks, which serve as the only viable link from San Diego to Los Angeles and the rest of the country.

The Orange County Transportation Authority, which owns the tracks, is expected to hold a special meeting on Monday to discuss possible solutions.

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Metrolink and Amtrak announced the suspension of train services linking San Diego to Los Angeles over safety concerns in the community of San Clemente, located on the border of Orange and San Diego counties. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images / Getty Images)

“The emergency plan will likely involve driving large ground anchors into the bottom of the slope next to the track to prevent movement,” OCTA spokesperson Eric Carpenter told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Metrolink said service will continue to be suspended until it receives “confirmation from the experts the slope movement has stopped.”

“Working with geologists, geotechnical engineers, and surveyors, we have determined to ensure passenger safety service suspension is necessary,” the company said in a statement. “Until we have confirmation from the experts the slope movement has stopped, we will not resume Metrolink service.”

Service was suspended indefinitely starting Friday because the ground underneath a stretch of seaside track in southern California has shifted, officials said. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images / Getty Images)

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Metrolink spokesperson Scott Johnson told the San Diego Union-Tribune that the company has placed over 20,000 tons of rock and boulders along the tracks to secure the right of way.

And Amtrak said in a statement that this is a “temporary track closure in San Clemente that will allow crews to repair and strengthen areas near the tracks – a team of geologists and engineers noticed a need for repairs after recent storms.”

The Orange County Transportation Authority, which owns the tracks, is expected to hold a special meeting on Monday to discuss possible solutions. (LUKE SHARRETT/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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“We plan to run modified service while repairs are made,” the statement said, adding that this could take several weeks.

Amtrak said it is working with transportation partners to offer train service for the route. The company said train service between Oceanside and San Diego will resume next week with a bus bridge connecting Oceanside and Irvine.

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