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Iwakuma tosses no-hitter in
Seattle’s 3-0 win over Orioles
By Tim Booth
The Associated Press
S
DIFFICULT JOURNEY. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg arrive
at the second annual Breakthrough Prize award ceremony at the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Ames Research Center in Moun-
tain View, California, in this November 9, 2014 file photo. Zuckerberg and
his pediatrician wife, Chan, have announced they are expecting a baby
daughter. The co-founder of the world’s largest social network used a
Facebook post to announce that Chan is pregnant. (Photo by Peter
Barreras/Invision/AP, File)
Facebook’s Zuckerberg and
wife are expecting a daughter
By Brandon Bailey
AP Technology Writer
S
AN FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zucker-
berg and his pediatrician wife, Priscilla Chan, are
expecting a baby.
The co-founder of the world’s largest social network
used a Facebook post to announce that Chan is pregnant
with a healthy baby daughter. He didn’t say when the
baby is due.
Zuckerberg, 31, also said the couple had suffered three
miscarriages over the last two years. He acknowledged in
his post that many people are reluctant to speak publicly
about miscarriages. But he said he and Chan, 30, decided
to share the information after hearing from friends who
had similar experiences and ultimately were able to have
children.
“Most people don’t discuss miscarriages because you
worry your problems will distance you or reflect upon you
— as if you’re defective or did something to cause this. So
you struggle on your own,” Zuckerberg wrote. “It’s a lonely
experience.”
The social-media mogul added, “In today’s open and
connected world, discussing these issues doesn’t distance
us; it brings us together. It creates understanding and
tolerance, and it gives us hope.”
He said the couple, who married in 2012, hopes to
encourage other parents who may be struggling with
difficult pregnancies.
“We hope that sharing our experience will give more
people the same hope we felt and will help more people feel
comfortable sharing their stories as well,” he said.
Zuckerberg also said: “Our good news is that our
pregnancy is now far enough along that the risk of loss is
very low and we are very hopeful.”
So will they be posting baby pictures? Zuckerberg didn’t
make any promises, but he wrote: “We’re looking forward
to welcoming her into the world and sharing more soon
when she’s ready to come out and meet everyone!”
North Korea pushes clocks
back as a snub to Japan
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park at the North Korean
border city of Kaesong and
other inter-Korean affairs.
Spokesman
Jeong
Joon-Hee said the North’s
new time zone could also
hamper efforts to narrow
widening
differences
between the Koreas.
The two Koreas were
divided into the capitalist,
U.S.-backed South and the
socialist, Soviet-supported
North after their 1945
liberation. They remain
split along the world’s most
heavily fortified border
since
the
1950-1953
Korean War ended with an
armistice, not a peace
treaty.
Most time zones in the
world differ in increments
of an hour and only a small
number of countries like
India, Iran, and Myanmar
use zones that are offset by
a half-hour. Nepal is offset
by 45 minutes.
The time zone that North
Korea plans to use is what
a single Korea adopted in
1908, though the peninsula
came under the same
Japanese zone in 1912, two
years after Tokyo’s colonial
occupation began. After the
liberation, North Korea
has maintained the current
time zone, while South
Korea had briefly used the
old zone from 1954 to 1961.
Associated Press writer
Kim Tong-hyung con-
tributed to this report.
EATTLE — Off the bat,
Hisashi Iwakuma believed the
slicing flyball was going to find
its way to the outfield grass and end
his dream of joining an elite pitching
fraternity one out shy.
Then he saw Seattle teammate
Austin Jackson sprinting with his
glove extended in the air, ready to
squeeze the final out and put
Iwakuma’s name next to Hideo Nomo
as the only Japan-born pitchers to
throw a no-hitter.
“I can’t find the words to express
my feelings,” Iwakuma said through
an interpreter after the fourth
no-hitter in the major leagues this
season. “I’m truly happy.”
Iwakuma became the first Ameri-
can League (AL) pitcher in nearly
three years to throw a no-hitter,
silencing the Baltimore Orioles in the
Mariners’ 3-0 victory.
Talented but often injured since
arriving from Japan in 2012, the
34-year-old native of Tokyo didn’t
overpower the Orioles.
That’s not his style.
Instead, Iwakuma smartly used a
biting splitter and precise control to
throw the fourth individual no-hitter
in franchise history and become the
oldest pitcher since Randy Johnson in
2004 to throw a no-no.
Iwakuma’s gem ended a streak of
11 straight individual no-hitters
thrown by National League pitchers,
including three this season: Philadel-
IMPRESSIVE PITCHING. Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma is hugged by
first baseman Logan Morrison, right, after the final out of Iwakuma’s no-hitter against the Baltimore
Orioles in a Major League Baseball game on August 12, 2015, in Seattle. The Mariners won 3-0.
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
phia’s Cole Hamels — prior to his fans earlier in the season in a
trade to Texas — Washington’s Max promotion to honor Iwakuma.
“I’m just glad it’s over. I’ve had to
Scherzer, and San Francisco’s Chris
pee since the fifth inning,” Seattle
Heston.
The last AL pitcher to keep zeros manager Lloyd McClendon joked.
across the board was teammate Felix “It’s pretty special. I’ve seen a lot. I
Hernandez, who tossed a perfect thought in the fifth inning his stuff
game at Safeco Field on August 15, was really sharp and his split was
2012. And in an odd numerical coming out crisp. I thought you never
coincidence, Hernandez’s perfect know, but he may have a shot here.”
The right-hander struck out seven
game against Tampa Bay came on
8/15/2012, while Iwakuma’s no-hitter and walked three and while Jackson
made a solid catch for the final out,
was on 8/12/2015.
Not surprisingly, Hernandez was the play everyone will remember is
one of the first to greet Iwakuma as Kyle Seager’s contorting catch to
he was mobbed on the pitcher’s open the ninth inning. Seager
mound after the final out, wearing a tracked David Lough’s foul ball near
fuzzy bear hat that was handed out to
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