NEW YORK — Two fans at Yankee Stadium were ejected from Game 4 of the World Series after one pried a foul ball out of the glove of Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts on Tuesday night.
Betts leaped at the wall in foul territory and initially caught Gleyber Torres’ pop up in the first inning, but a fan in the first row with a gray Yankees’ road jersey grabbed Betts’ glove with both hands and pulled the ball out. Another fan grabbed Betts’ non-glove hand.
Betts reacted angrily, and Torres was immediately called out on fan interference.
“When it comes to the person in play, it doesn’t matter,” Betts said. “We lost. It’s irrelevant. I’m fine. He’s fine. Everything’s cool. We lost the game and that’s what I’m kind of focused on. We got to turn the page and get ready for tomorrow.”
The Dodgers had a two-run lead at the time on Freddie Freeman’s two-run homer, but the Dodgers were unable to complete a sweep and took an 11-4 loss to the Yankees.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Dodgers rookie pitcher Ben Casparius. “It’s pretty interesting. It was obviously very early in the game so I think it kind of set the tone.”
It was the second time Torres had an at-bat impacted by fan interference this World Series. With two outs in the ninth inning of Game 1 at Dodger Stadium, Torres hit a fly ball to left field, and a fan reached over and caught the ball. Torres was awarded a double.
Torres later hit a three-run homer to right field for New York’s final runs.
Expanding our minds can usher in healing. The vulnerable Moon is at odds with pained Chiron, making it difficult to stop aggravating our wounds as emotional reactivity drives us further from healing. As nervous Mercury stands off against erratic Uranus at 6:15 pm EDT, shocks and surprises will potentially make it harder to think and communicate clearly. Finally, the Moon comforts expansive Jupiter to let positivity and forgiveness break through the dark clouds. Let go of burdens and grudges as much as possible.
Aries
March 21 – April 19
You can’t control how others view you. Accepting that someone in your life sees you in a way that you don’t perceive yourself may be tough, but this is their viewpoint and their truth. There are better ways to spend your time than struggling to convince them otherwise! In contrast, working through an interpersonal problem is wonderful — if they’ll meet you in good faith. If not, release any concerns about their perception. Be yourself and allow your soul to guide your path.
Taurus
April 20 – May 20
Your security can trigger the insecurity of others. There may be people in your life who are focused on you and pushing your buttons to see if you’re truly as stable as you seem. When you don’t waver, it may ignite their issues. They could even end up actively attempting to set off insecurity within you. They don’t deserve to get to you — their foundation is not yours to create or destroy, and vice versa. Feel free to ignore any jabs.
Gemini
May 21 – June 20
Creativity can heal where words could not. There might be an emotional wound from your past that still pains you, even as you struggle to put the details into words. Writing things down or talking about your worries with someone else may not be helping, because you can’t express your soul as it feels inside. Instead of laying things out literally, consider engaging your creativity to make art that reflects how you’re feeling. This simple act may even spark the words you’re searching for.
Cancer
June 21 – July 22
An authority figure in your life might be acting in worrying ways. Perhaps you’re concerned that you haven’t accomplished enough, are too far behind to catch up, or aren’t talented enough to get where you want to go. While their experience might have been one that had these requirements, there are a million different ways to reach the goals you have for yourself. Don’t put an unnecessary time limit on your ability to follow your soul’s calling. Give yourself some grace.
Leo
July 23 – August 22
Regrets may be on your mind today. It’s possible that reminders of missed past opportunities are complicating the process of figuring out where to go from here. While it can be painful to acknowledge that you didn’t do something that you had felt intuitively called to, either because you were blocked or you didn’t understand what was being given to you, it’s vital to avoid lingering here. Each day holds countless new prospects for you, so make sure that you’re actively looking for them.
Virgo
August 23 – September 22
Stagnancy can be difficult to escape — particularly if other people are involved as friends or co-workers. When you’re all stuck in a rut, whether they’re relying on you or vice versa, you risk reinforcing each other’s unhealthy patterns. Perhaps your responsibilities to others are preventing you from making independent choices. It’s important to step into your power and remember that you don’t have to put yourself last! Loved ones can even benefit from you taking a leap of faith, so don’t hold back.
Libra
September 23 – October 22
Set yourself free from unrealistic expectations. You may have believed that you were “supposed” to be someone in a way that demanded you force yourself to continuously chase a dream that you quickly stopped relating to. Even if it genuinely motivated you in the past, ask yourself if there’s still a spark here. If you aren’t excited for what this dream could manifest into, you can change gears. The shift may feel like free-falling at first, but soon, you’ll be able to fly.
Scorpio
October 23 – November 21
Hidden emotions might be having a stronger effect on you than you realize. Perhaps you believed that your heart was holding you back, and so you tried to stuff it down to deal with at a later time. Be careful — too much repression and not enough acknowledgment of your feelings could have created an emotional time bomb that is ticking down to an explosion. Disengage the outburst before it begins by spending time honoring your feelings, indulging in self-care, and getting some rest.
Sagittarius
November 22 – December 21
Hurt may incite rash behavior. You may feel like you’ve been cornered by your emotional wounds and the people or events that caused them, and that taking random action is better than doing nothing. Unfortunately, this could hurt more than it helps as it drives you further into confusion or reactivity! Sit back and take a deep breath. Where is this pain truly coming from? Don’t act just to act — move with purpose, and you’ll be able to gain impressive insights.
Capricorn
December 22 – January 19
Long-standing emotional wounds may still be affecting you. You might have thought that you had fully left these feelings in the past, but this won’t be the case if you decided to ignore them. It’s important to ensure that you’re not living in the past — you’re living in the present. That said, you can still forgive yourself for the past and absolve others as well. Even if they never asked for it, forgiving them should allow you to move forward with more freedom.
Aquarius
January 20 – February 18
Sometimes you have to insist on moving on. There may be other people who want to constantly revisit the past, and when you’re with them, they bring up all sorts of things that you thought you had set down already. It’s understandable that they might still be in that old place, but your duty to yourself is to move forward and avoid ruminating on issues you’ve worked through before. Maybe you can make fresh memories that will encourage bonding over something more joyful.
Pisces
February 19 – March 20
Comparison might be setting you back. You might have a past or current peer, and as you’ve begun to grow in diverging directions or experience different levels of success, you might be scrutinizing yourself and wondering what you’re doing differently. Whether you’re surpassing them or vice versa, everyone has unique public and private struggles. Details aside, it’s not a good idea to live in constant comparison. You’re you, and they’re them — both worthy of success and on your own paths. Keep doing you!
Will Venable will be named as the new Chicago White Sox manager, according to multiple reports late Tuesday, taking over a team that set a modern MLB record with 121 losses
in 2024.
Venable, who turned 42 on Tuesday, spent the last two seasons as the associate manager for the Texas Rangers — where he was responsible for the team’s daily schedule and outfield instruction for a club that won the World Series in 2023.
Before joining the Rangers, Venable worked on coaching staffs with the Cubs (2018-20) and Boston Red Sox (2021-22).
The Cubs originally hired Venable as a special assistant to baseball operations in September 2017. He later spent time as the team’s first-base coach (2018-19) and third-base coach (2020).
Chicago Cubs third-base coach Will Venable walks near the field after batting practice during spring training at Sloan Park on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, in Mesa, Ariz. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
Venable served as the bench coach during his time with the Red Sox and managed a total of seven games in manager Alex Cora’s absence.
Venable also had plenty of experience in the dugout as a player, appearing in 967 games during a nine-year major-league career as an outfielder with the San Diego Padres (2008-2015), Rangers (2015) and Los Angeles Dodgers (2016). His father, Max, played parts of 12 seasons in the majors as an outfielder from 1979-91.
NEW YORK — Anthony Volpe’s third-inning grand slam
overcame Freddie Freeman’s record-setting home run, and the New York Yankees avoided a World Series sweep with an 11-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night that forced a Game 5.
Seeking to become the first team to overcome a 3-0 Series deficit, New York surged ahead 5-2 on Alex Verdugo’s RBI grounder in the second and Volpe’s drive against Daniel Hudson in the third. Volpe turned on a first-pitch slider at the knees and drove it into the left-field seats.
Volpe came across with New York’s first run when he walked after falling behind 0-2 in the count in the second inning. He also doubled and stole two bases.
Austin Wells and Gleyber Torres added homers for the Yankees, who broke open the game with a five-run eighth. New York had scored just seven runs in the first three games.
Los Angeles closed within 6-4 in a two-run fifth that included Will Smith’s homer off starter Luis Gil and an RBI grounder by Freeman. Despite a sprained right ankle, Freeman beat a relay to avoid an inning-ending double play on what originally was ruled an out but was reversed in a video review.
Wells hit a second-deck homer in the sixth against Landon Knack, and Verdugo added another run-scoring grounder in the eighth ahead of Torres’ three-run homer off Brent Honeywell.
Tim Hill, winning pitcher Clay Holmes, Mark Leiter Jr., Luke Weaver and Tim Mayza strung together five innings of one-hit relief with seven strikeouts, and the Yankees avoided what would have been their first losing Series sweep since 1976.
New York’s Aaron Judge drove in his first run of the Series with an RBI single in the eighth and is 2 for 15 in the four games. Dodgers sensation Shohei Ohtani also is 2 for 15 after going 1 for 4 with a single, his first hit since partially separating his left shoulder
in Game 2.
Twenty-one of the previous 24 teams to take 3-0 Series leads went on to sweeps, all but the 1910 Philadelphia Athletics against the Chicago Cubs, the 1937 Yankees against the New York Giants and the 1970 Baltimore Orioles against the Cincinnati Reds. All three of those Series ended in five games.
The 2004 Boston Red Sox, sparked by a stolen base from current Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, are the only team to overcome a 3-0 deficit in any round, beating the Yankees in the AL Championship Series.
New York stopped a seven-game Series losing streak against the Dodgers dating to 1981. The Yankees got their first seven RBIs from the bottom three hitters in their batting order, Volpe, Wells and Verdugo, who had entered 4 for 32 with three RBIs in the Series.
Freeman homered when he deposited a slider from Gil into the right-field short porch following Mookie Betts’ one-out double. He became the first player to homer in the first four games of a World Series and his streak of long balls in six straight games is one more than Houston’s George Springer 2017 and ’19.
Freeman’s walk-off grand slam with two outs in the 10th inning turned around the opener, giving the Dodgers a 6-3 win. The Yankees had not led since then.
Volpe walked in the second against rookie Ben Casparias, reached third on Wells’ double off the center-field wall and scored on Verdugo’s groundout.
Losing pitcher Hudson loaded the bases in the third when he Judge with a pitch with one out, Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled off the right-field wall and Giancarlo Stanton walked. Anthony Rizzo popped out and Volpe hit the record sixth slam of the postseason.
Up next
Game 5 is Wednesday night, with the Yankees ace Gerrit Cole and the Dodgers’ Jack Flaherty meeting in a rematch of Game 1.
Cole allowed one run over six-plus innings in the opener — Kiké Hernández tripled in the fifth as right fielder Juan Soto took a poor route, then scored on Smith’s sacrifice fly. Flaherty gave up two runs in 5 1/3 innings, a two-run homer by Stanton.
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris on Tuesday sought to remind Americans what life was like under Donald Trump and then offered voters a different path forward if they send her to the White House, in a speech billed as her campaign’s closing argument.
“I will always listen to you, even if you don’t vote for me,” she said, speaking before a massive crowd that spilled from the grassy Ellipse near the White House to the Washington Monument.
Some key moments from her half-hour speech:
The location of the speech reinforced her message
Harris chose to speak from the Ellipse on purpose
. It’s the same spot in Washington where Republican Donald Trump
helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
. But the vice president didn’t devote much of her speech to the violence of that day, instead using the field between Constitution Avenue and the White House more as a backdrop — a quiet reminder of the different choices Americans face.
“Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other,” she said, adding that he wants back into the White House “not to focus on your problems, but to focus on his.”
Kamala Harris, the prosecutor, argued her case
Harris spent years working as a prosecutor
. She was California’s attorney general before she became a U.S. senator. And she often says on the campaign trail that she’s only ever had one client — the people. In her speech, she talked about her past work taking on scammers, violent offenders who abused women and children, and cartels that trafficked in guns and human beings.
She said she’d bring with her to the White House an instinct to protect.
“There’s something about people being treated unfairly, or overlooked, that just gets to me,” she said.
It’s me, Hi. I’m the presidential nominee. It’s me.
One week before the election, Harris allowed that “I know many of you are still getting to know who I am.”
The Democratic nominee has been running for only three months in a compressed campaign launched after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race
. Harris still is confronting voters who say they want to learn more about
her and how she will govern. So she spent some time Tuesday talking about her career, her goals and background.
“I’ll be honest with you: I’m not perfect. I make mistakes. But here’s what I promise you: I will always listen to you, even if you don’t vote for me.”
To-do list for Day One at the White House
Harris devoted a good chunk of her speech to talking about policies she’d enact if she were to win the White House, including helping first-time homeowners with down payments and aiding the so-called “sandwich generation” of adults who are caring for young children and older parents by allowing elder care to be funded by Medicare. She said she’d work to pass a bipartisan border security bill that tanked last year after Trump encouraged congressional Republicans to let it die.
And she said she would work to bring back abortion protections. “I will fight to restore what Donald Trump and his hand-selected Supreme Court justice took away from the women of America,” Harris said. The Supreme Court, with three Trump-appointed justices, overturned federal protections of abortion in 2022. Abortion has since become one of the most motivating issues for the Democratic base in the 2024 election.
“On Day One, if elected, Donald Trump would walk into that office with an enemies list,” she said. “When elected, I will walk in with a to-do list.”
Size matters on the campaign trail — especially to Trump
The Ellipse is a grassy expanse between the White House and the Washington Monument that has long played host to political events and national traditions like the annual holiday tree lighting. On Tuesday, the space was packed. Crowds spilled onto the National Mall back toward the Washington Monument, where giant screens and speakers were set up for people to hear and see from afar.
The cheers of the boisterous crowd could be heard from the White House driveway. Harris’ campaign said it was her biggest rally to date. She’s already packed stadiums and other venues with supporters during her rallies. Harris loves to needle Trump about crowd size — a particular preoccupation for the Republican leader, who claimed the campaign had to bus people in Tuesday to fill the space.
Harris has called Trump ‘unhinged’ and ‘unstable.’ Now she’s adding ‘petty tyrant’
Harris boiled down criticism of Trump into two words: “petty tyrant.”
She warned Trump is a man governed by grievances, one who would focus on himself and his “enemies list” when he got into the White House. She harked back to the nation’s founding when Americans fought for freedom, then sped through decades of hard-fought civil rights battles.
“They did not struggle, sacrifice and lay down their lives only to see us cede our fundamental freedoms. They didn’t do that only to see us submit to the will of another petty tyrant,” she said. “These United States of America, we are not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators.”
Meanwhile, a Biden complication emerges
Just moments before Harris was to speak, Biden was on a campaign call reacting to a comic
who called Puerto Rico garbage during a Trump rally last weekend.
The president said, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
He’d joined a national call organized by the advocacy group Voto Latino. Biden urged those on the call to “vote to keep Donald Trump out of the White House,” adding, “He’s a true danger to not just Latinos but to all people.”
Biden’s remarks were quicky seized on by Republicans who said he was denigrating Trump supporters, a distraction for Harris when she is trying to reach out to GOP voters.
Biden quickly sent out a social media post seeking to clarify his remarks.
“His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable,” Biden said of Trump. “That’s all I meant to say.”
There’s still plenty to come after what Harris called her ‘closing argument’
The event was framed as a campaign finale meant to lay out in stark terms the choice for voters next week. But it’s far from Harris’ last campaign event. She’ll be hitting all the key battleground states as she makes her last pitch to voters.
She will headline events in Wisconsin, North Carolina and Pennsylvania on Wednesday, and on Thursday she will have rallies in Arizona and Nevada. More events are expected before Election Day.
