DETROIT — Chicago White Sox starter Jonathan Cannon worked in and out of trouble while throwing 77 pitches through three innings Friday against the Detroit Tigers.
The right-hander knows that’s not a formula for lasting deep into games.
“Bottom line — got to be more efficient, got to be better, got to throw more strikes,” Cannon said.
Efficiency will be a key moving forward for Cannon, who allowed three runs in 3 2/3 innings during a 7-4 loss to the Tigers in front of 44,735 at Comerica Park.
“I think it’s partially chasing the strikeout maybe a little too much,” Cannon said. “Get ahead early 0-1, 0-2, go for the strikeout, you throw two uncompetitive pitches and now you’re in a battle. Allowing them back into counts, they’re fouling some balls off.
“That’s kind of what I was missing today. I wasn’t getting those first, second pitch outs and I felt like I was deep into the count with almost everyone. Just trying to get them out early and make better pitches. Just got to execute better.”
Cannon surrendered three hits, walked three batters and struck out three in his 88-pitch outing.
“Felt good, body felt good, just way too many free passes,” Cannon said. “I think that goes off the last start (March 29 against the Los Angeles Angels
) as well. Obviously didn’t let anyone score (against the Angels) but keep letting guys on, eventually they’re going to come around and score. Just got to continue harping on getting ahead.
“I thought I actually did a pretty good job on getting ahead today. Felt like I was in a lot of two-strike counts. I just threw some uncompetitive pitches to let them back into counts and it forced me to make pitches. I just shouldn’t let them back in the count like that. I should make some better pitches.”
The Tigers hit three home runs — one each against Cannon and relievers Brandon Eisert and Bryse Wilson — in their home opener, dealing the Sox (2-5) their third straight loss.
Tigers left fielder Kerry Carpenter hits a solo home run in the first inning against the White Sox on April 4, 2025, at Comerica Park in Detroit. (Robin Buckson/Detroit News/TNS)
Cannon gave up a solo home run to Kerry Carpenter to right field in the first. Carpenter waited a moment between first and second base as umpires discussed whether it was a fair or foul ball before getting the OK to conclude his trot.
The next two batters reached via a single and a walk, but Cannon induced two flyouts to avoid allowing any more runs.
Cannon hit a batter and walked another during a scoreless second.
He wasn’t as fortunate after hitting Spencer Torkelson and walking Colt Keith with one out in the third. Zach McKinstry drove in Torkelson with a single to right to give the Tigers a 2-1 lead. Keith scored when Dillon Dingler grounded out to third on an 0-2 count during a seven-pitch at-bat.
Cannon retired the first two batters in the fourth, exiting after striking out Justyn-Henry Malloy in a sequence that went from 0-2 to a full count.
“He did a nice job getting ahead and just wasn’t able to put guys away and the pitch count got up on him,” manager Will Venable said. “Did a nice job dealing with some traffic there, but just not as sharp as we’re used to seeing from him.”
White Sox left fielder Andrew Benintendi leaps but can’t reach a Kerry Carpenter home run in the fourth inning during the Tigers’ 7-4 victory in their home opener on April 4, 2025, in Detroit. (Paul Sancya/AP)
Carpenter greeted Eisert with his second home run of the game, this time to left. Torkelson added an RBI single later in the fourth.
Riley Greene hit a 417-foot home run to right against Wilson in the sixth, extending the Tigers’ lead to 7-1.
The Sox scored three in the ninth before Will Vest struck out Luis Robert Jr. to end the game.
“It’s still early for this season,” said third baseman Miguel Vargas, who went 1-for-5 with an RBI. “Obviously we are facing really good pitchers. We have had a couple of good games offensively. We just need to be consistent with that.”
Tigers starter Jack Flaherty allowed one run on three hits with seven strikeouts and two walks in 5 2/3 innings.
“We weren’t able to get anything going really off of Flaherty,” Venable said. “But really happy with the way the guys continued to battle there and we got a leverage arm (Vest) in the game, which is huge. And that can pay off later on in the series.”
And Venable is confident Cannon will make the proper adjustments.
“He pitches to contact and guys are just really grinding and fouling a lot of balls off,” Venable said. “I don’t know if there’s anything that he could do differently other than end at-bats more quickly and that’s what we’re used to seeing from him. I have no doubt that he’ll get back on track and have a good one the next time around.”
A judge has delivered to major blow to a hockey stick climate scientist who sued National Review, and lost.
The court order in the case involving Michael Mann and the publication refused to delay the payment of $530,000 due National Review for its legal costs in fighting Mann’s 10-year-old lawsuit.
A report from Daily Caller News Foundation
said it was the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that had ruled some weeks ago that Mann owed National Review for the outlet’s legal fees in the case.
Mann had requested the payment be delayed, which the court refused to authorize.
The report said that means “he will likely have to pony up cash to an outlet he once described in emails as a ‘threat to our children.’”
He had come up with a graph that looked like a hockey stick, a relatively stable, slighting ascending line, that suddenly exploded to new heights. He said this was the danger from climate change.
Canadian commentator Mark Steyn criticized Mann’s ideas, and then National Review’s Rich Lowry wrote a post following up on Steyn’s criticisms.
Mann sued both, along with, Rand Simberg, a former adjunct for the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Mann’s case against Steyn and Simberg prevailed initially, but the court ordered Mann’s payment to National Review.
Mann told the court that order was “mean-spirited.”
It was reported earlier
the court found Mann, of the University of Pennsylvania, and his lawyers presented misleading information to the jury.
Mann
and his lawyers “each knowingly made a false statement of fact to the Court and Dr. Mann knowingly participated in the falsehood, endeavoring to make the strongest case possible even if it required using erroneous and misleading information,” the judge said.
“The Court determines that the appropriate sanction is to award each Defendant the approximate expenses they incurred in responding to Dr. Mann’s bad faith trial misconduct, starting with Mr. Fontaine’s redirect examination,” the filing states, referencing Mann attorney Peter Fontaine. “The Court arrives at such a sanction because the misconduct of Dr. Mann and his counsel (1) was extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent; (2) subjected a jury not only to false evidence and grievous misrepresentations about a crucial part of Dr. Mann’s case, but also to additional trial proceedings for correcting the record and the jury’s impressions thereof that otherwise likely would have been unnecessary; (3) further complicated a trial already rife with convoluted and difficult legal and factual issues; and (4) burdened Defendants and the Court with the time-and resource-intensive task of ascertaining the true extent of the misconduct and determining appropriate remedial measures for the same, all without any meaningful acknowledgement of the nature of the misconduct by Dr. Mann or his attorneys.”
Originally, Simberg was ordered to pay Mann $1,001 in compensatory and punitive damages, while Steyn was told to pay $1,000,001.
After imposing tariffs on about 60 countries on his so-called “Liberation Day,” President Donald Trump is insisting that the stock market will “boom
” again—but some of his most loyal supporters seem to be wavering.
During an episode of his podcast
on Thursday, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro called Trump’s actions “probably unconstitutional” and “one of the biggest tax increases … in the history of America.”
“Trade wars are, in fact, not good and not easy to win. It is predicated on a bad idea of how international trade works,” Shapiro said, adding that Trump has a “fundamental misunderstanding of trade deficits.”
“Trade deficits have nothing to do with the health of an economy. I can name you a period in American history where there was a fairly large surplus in America’s balance of trade: the entire Great Depression,” he said.
Another pro-Trumper with a surprising stance on Trump’s tariff policy is CNN commentator Scott Jennings
.
“I have mixed feelings about this, truthfully,” he said on CNN’s “News Night.”
Cartoon by Clay Bennett
“I wasn’t trained to believe in tariffs. You know, those of us who grew up as traditional Republicans have always thought what Ronald Reagan thought. And so what Trump is doing here is implanting new economic theory DNA inside of the Republican Party,” he added.
Jennings also told his co-host that some of his GOP colleagues
are outright “rejecting” Trump’s tariffs, while others are “reluctantly going along with it.” But, of course, there are many who are “enthusiastically embracing it,” he said.
“So, I will just say this. If it works, it will be the ballsiest and gutsiest thing a president has done in decades. And if it doesn’t work, the political consequences fall on the shoulders of one man,” Jennings said.
Even GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has shied away from expressing full support for Trump’s tariffs. During an interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business
, Cruz said that he disagrees with Trump’s tariffs.
“So, Larry, you know I’m always in favor of more tax cuts and bigger tax cuts, and I’m fighting to make this tax cut as big and bold as possible. Look, I think it is a mistake to assume that we will have high tariffs in perpetuity. I don’t think that would be good economic policy. I am not a fan of tariffs,” Cruz said.
As of Friday morning, the Dow had dropped more than 2,000 points—its biggest decline since the beginning of the coronavirus in 2020.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell also forewarned that inflation could be here to stay—and it’s all thanks to Trump’s tariffs.
“We face a highly uncertain outlook with elevated risks of both higher unemployment and higher inflation,” he said
. “While tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation, it is also possible that the effects could be more persistent.”
BOSTON (AP) — El dominicano Rafael Devers se embasó cuatro veces en su regreso a Boston después de un inicio de temporada con dificultades, y Alex Bregman conectó dos imparables en su primer juego en casa en el Fenway Park para ayudar a los Medias Rojas a vencer 13-9 a los Cardenales de San Luis el viernes.
Boston comenzó su 125to. juego inaugural en casa anotando cinco carreras en la primera entrada, incluyendo jonrones consecutivos de Trevor Story y el venezolano Wilyer Abreu. Los Cardenales redujeron la diferencia a 6-5 en la quinta, pero los Medias Rojas se alejaron nuevamente, con un sencillo impulsor de Devers que culminó una séptima entrada de tres carreras, dejando la pizarra 11-6.
Walker Buehler (1-1) permitió cinco carreras y siete imparables en cinco entradas para ayudar a Boston a conseguir su tercera victoria consecutiva.
Brendan Donovan, Alec Burleson y el panameño Iván Herrera conectaron tres hits cada uno para los Cardenales, quienes han perdido tres de sus últimos cuatro juegos. Erick Fedde (1-1) duró tres entradas, permitiendo seis carreras con cinco hits y cuatro bases por bolas mientras ponchaba a uno.
San Luis anotó tres en la novena con tres hits y dos errores antes de que el cubano Aroldis Chapman entrara con dos en base y un out. Caminó a los bateadores para llenar las bases antes de inducir un doble play de Iván Herrera para conseguir su segundo salvamento.
Los Red Sox mejoraron a 73-52 en juegos inaugurales en casa, incluyendo 64-50 en el Fenway Park. Antes del juego, Boston honró a su equipo campeón de la Liga Americana de 1975, con un tributo especial al lanzador Luis Tiant, quien falleció en octubre.
Por los Cardenales, el panameño Iván Herrera bateó de 5-1 con una carrera anotada y tres remolcadas; el venezolano Willson Contreras de 5-1 con una anotada y una producida.
Por los Medias Rojas, los venezolanos Wilyer Abreu bateó de 5-3 con dos anotadas y dos impulsadas, Carlos Narváez de 3-2 con dos producidas; y el dominicano Rafael Devers de 3-2 con una anotada y una remolcada.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Las autoridades mexicanas anunciaron el viernes que fue detectado un primer caso humano de influenza aviar A (H5N1) en el país, en una niña de tres años que se encuentra en estado grave en un centro de salud.
La Secretaría de Salud federal dijo en un comunicado que el contagio de la niña, que reside en el estado norteño de Durango, fue confirmado el 1 de abril por el Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos (InDRE).
Sobre el estado de salud de la menor, indicaron que se encuentra hospitalizada en una unidad médica de la ciudad norteña de Torreón, estado de Coahuila, y que su condición se reporta “grave”, señala el comunicado.
Las autoridades no informaron cómo se contagió la niña. Se iniciaron operativos de búsqueda de casos sospechosos de enfermedad respiratoria viral y se tomaron muestras biológicas de aves silvestres y sinantrópicas en la zona de influencia aledaña al domicilio del caso positivo.
Como medida preventiva, la Secretaría de Salud federal recomendó a la población acudir al médico en caso de que presenten fiebre, conjuntivitis, tos, ardor de garganta, escurrimiento nasal, dificultad para respirar, dolor de cabeza, vómito, diarrea, sangrado o alteraciones de la conciencia, posterior al contacto con aves u otros animales enfermos o muertos.
La gripe aviar H5N1 ha alcanzado una escala “sin precedentes” provocando la muerte de cientos de millones de aves en todo el mundo, afectando cada vez más a especies de mamíferos, según reconoció el mes pasado la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO, por sus siglas en inglés).
En febrero pasado, las autoridades estadounidenses
reportaron el contagio de una mujer de la tercera edad con gripe aviar en el estado de Wyoming que fue hospitalizada.
En Estados Unidos, se han reportado casi 70 personas infectadas con gripe aviar en el último año, según datos de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de ese país (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés), aunque varios investigadores y estudios sugieren que probablemente esa cifra sea inferior a la real.
De acuerdo con datos de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, entre enero de 2024 y este mes se han registrado 72 personas contagiadas con gripe aviar H5N1 y un fallecido en la región de las Américas.
