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Edwin Díaz gets 6-out save as Mets beat Braves n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”rich”,”width”:550,”__typename”:”ExternalEmbedContent”},”$ROOT_QUERY.getForgeContentBySlug({“locale”:”en-us”,”slug”:”edwin-diaz-gets-6-out-save-as-mets-beat-braves”,”type”:”story”}).parts.2″:{“data”:{“type”:”id”,”generated”:true,”id”:”$ROOT_QUERY.getForgeContentBySlug({“locale”:”en-us”,”slug”:”edwin-diaz-gets-6-out-save-as-mets-beat-braves”,”type”:”story”}).parts.2.data”,”typename”:”ExternalEmbedContent”},”type”:”oembed”,”__typename”:”ExternalEmbed”},”$ROOT_QUERY.getForgeContentBySlug({“locale”:”en-us”,”slug”:”edwin-diaz-gets-6-out-save-as-mets-beat-braves”,”type”:”story”}).parts.3″:{“content”:”“We’re battling for first place,” Díaz said. “We’ve got to do everything.”nnIn that effort, Díaz had plenty of company. Tyler Naquin became the first Mets player to go deep twice in his home debut for the club, joining Pete Alonso and Daniel Vogelbach in a four-homer attack. Carlos Carrasco extended his scoreless streak to a career-best 22 2/3 innings en route to a quality start. The Mets fattened their NL East lead over the Braves to 4 1/2 games.”,”type”:”markdown”,”__typename”:”Markdown”},”$ROOT_QUERY.getForgeContentBySlug({“locale”:”en-us”,”slug”:”edwin-diaz-gets-6-out-save-as-mets-beat-braves”,”type”:”story”}).parts.4″:{“contentDate”:”2022-08-05T01:36:33.024Z”,”description”:”Tyler Naquin hits two solo home runs in his first game at Citi…

Carrera wins 117th Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship title Luis Carrera (Golf Canada photo) When Luis Carrera woke up this morning over 4800 kilometers from his hometown in Mexico City, Mexico, the Canadian Men’s Amateur title was an attainable dream he could visualize if he stayed confident. Clearly, the strategy worked. Carrera fired a 66 during the final round at Point Grey Golf and Country Club to claim the title for the 117th Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship, presented by BDO. “I was like, I think I can win this if I play good, but I’ve got to go get it,” said…

Last October, a 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by five San Diego State University football players at an off-campus party.The San Diego Police Department said Thursday it has concluded its criminal investigation and will submit its findings to the District Attorney, which will determine if there is sufficient evidence to file criminal charges.The university, however, is just starting its own investigation, nine months after the incident. SDSU says it waited to investigate at the request of the police, but critics — including the alleged victim’s father — have said it’s too little too late.Union-Tribune reporter Teri Figueroa has more. Listen…

2022 produced another remarkable and record-breaking game on Thursday 4 August as Colin Ingram and Tom Cullen added a record 186 in 28 overs for the sixth wicket in Glamorgan’s stunning three-wicket victory over the Kent Spitfires in the Royal London Cup game at Sophia Gardens (writes Andrew Hignell) Their outstanding efforts surpassed the previous best for the sixth wicket for the Club in List A cricket, made by Matthew Maynard and Otis Gibson who added 136 against Warwickshire in the Benson and Hedges Cup encounter at the same ground in 1996. As the list below shows, there have only…

Teofimo Lopez is set to make his return to boxing on August 13 in Las Vegas. ‘The Takeover’ will be competing for the first time in the super lightweight division against Pedro Campa. Lopez said: “I am only 25 years old. My best years are in front of me. Pedro Campa is the start of a new chapter in my career. I will be a two-weight world champion very soon. Every contender and champion at junior welterweight better watch out, because I am coming to clean out the division.” Teofimo Lopez lost his last bout against George Kambosos Jr.. Lopez…

Tennis is a 55-45 sport. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of match winners vs. match losers identifies that match winners on average win 55 per cent of points in a match while match losers still accumulate a healthy 45 per cent of total points played. The data set includes 464 players who have competed in 100 matches or more in their career from the 1991 season when official match statistics were first recorded. When analysing only match winners, Rafael Nadal sits at the top of the tree as the most dominant player in our sport in the past…

Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY SportsIt’s time, once again, for an edition of Screen Shots – as always, a column in which we break down a few hockey topics that may not warrant a full column, but that nonetheless deserve our attention and analysis. Onward we go:– The Toronto Marlies announced on Thursday veteran forward and team captain Rich Clune would be retiring after a 15-season professional career that included 139 NHL games and a Calder Cup championship in 2017-18. But a large part of his legacy was forged off the ice, where he bravely and openly discussed his substance addiction and…

By STEVE REED The mushroom-like contraptions NFL players are wearing on their helmets during training camp may look strange, but they’re a part of an ongoing safety experiment the league hopes will lead to a reduction in head injuries. They’re called Guardian Caps, and they’re now mandatory for all 32 NFL teams through the second preseason game — the time when the league says head injuries are most prevalent. “There’s a density of exposure, and a density of injury, at the beginning of training camp and the competition committee has been looking for ways to change that,” said Jeff Miller,…

The Lakers haven’t made any changes to the top of the roster, but made some major adjustments to the rest of the roster. Safe to say, the cadre of veterans the Lakers signed last summer to round out the roster headlined by Anthony Davis, Russell Westbrook, and LeBron James, were an abject failure.In free agency, the Lakers signed a quintet of younger players: Juan Toscano-Anderson, Damian Jones, Lonnie Walker IV, Troy Brown Jr., and Thomas Bryant. None of them are All-Stars, but as a group, should be remarkably better than the likes of DeAndre Jordan, Kent Bazemore, Dwight Howard, Rajon…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. isn’t just returning to his racing roots, but NASCAR’s racing roots.He’s announced he’ll race in the Aug. 31 late-model event that will help reintroduce North Wilkesboro and its grand old half-mile speedway, to the stock-car world.His car will carry the logo and colors of Sun Drop soda, which was his sponsor as a teenager when he raced late-models at the historic track in northern North Carolina.“I came to North Wilkesboro so many times as a kid,” Earnhardt Jr. said in making his announcement. “It’s a special place. I never thought I’d get a chance to race around here again.”To put…