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July 1, 2019
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Rookie right-hander Yamamoto sees success with the Marlins
MIAMI (AP) — Rookie right-hander
Jordan Yamamoto of the Miami Marlins
dazzled in his first three pitching starts in
Major League Baseball (MLB), but his
winning streak ended over the weekend
against the Philadelphia Phillies in his
fourth start. The Marlins fell behind 1-6
before starting a comeback. The final score
was 9-6.
Yamamoto, the first Marlins pitcher to
win his first three career starts, saw the
streak end when he allowed four runs in
four innings.
In his first start on June 12, Yamamoto
became the first pitcher since Pittsburgh’s
Nick Maddox in 1907 to beat the St. Louis
Cardinals twice in a seven-day span when
the first game was his debut.
The Marlins won the first game, 9-0, and
the second, 6-0, on June 18. In both
Italy beats China 2-0
in WWC Round of 16
By Joseph Wilson
The Associated Press
M
ONTPELLIER, France — Italy
made its case to be considered a
contender in the Women’s World
Cup (WWC) after a convincing 2-0 win over
China. China had only allowed one goal in
its three group stage games but the
talented Italian attack broke down the
vaunted defense.
Valentina Giacinti scored in the 15th
minute. Aurora Galli’s long strike put the
result beyond doubt four minutes after
halftime at the stiflingly hot Stade de la
Mosson.
China coach Jia Xiuquan seemed to put
his future in doubt after his team exited
with just one goal scored in the tourna-
ment, saying “maybe it is time to take a
break.”
“I believe the World Cup is a big stage
and it makes us realize our shortcomings,”
Jia said through a translator. “To improve
Chinese football it requires generations. It
can’t only depend on myself.”
Forward Giacinti was a force as she
threatened on two occasions before she
sparked the chance that ended in her goal.
After pressuring to win a ball near the
touchline, she raced down the flank and
found Barbara Bonansea, who waited to
find left back Elisa Bartoli joining the
move. Bartoli’s shot was blocked by China
goalkeeper Peng Shimeng but Giacinti
pounced on the loose ball and drove it
home.
China midfielder Wang Yan did manage
to make goalkeeper Laura Giuliani palm
her effort over the bar in the 28th minute.
But Peng then had to dive to parry a
powerful strike from Valentina Bergamas-
chi as Italy looked close to a quick second
goal against a China team that couldn’t
handle its press and its trio of attackers.
Once China settled down and eliminated
sloppy
passes,
the
action
tilted
momentarily to the other half. Forward Li
Ying gave Bartoli fits with her dribbling
and she made the Italian defenders work
with her dangerous crosses.
Italy suffered a bigger blow when striker
Cristiana Girelli had to walk off the field
with an apparent leg injury in the 39th.
She was replaced by Galli, who sur-
prised Peng with a right-footed strike that
went skimming over the turf and beyond
the goalkeeper’s reach.
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contests, he pitched seven scoreless
innings.
The 23-year-old gave up three hits in
seven innings in his MLB debut. Before
that game, he had not pitched above the
Double-A level. In his second outing, he
ROOKIE RIGHT-HANDER. Rookie right-
hander Jordan Yamamoto of the Miami Marlins
pitches during a baseball game against the Philadel-
phia Phillies in Philadelphia. Yamamoto, the first Mar-
lins pitcher to win his first three career starts, saw the
streak end when he allowed four runs in four innings.
In the 23-year-old’s first two games, he pitched a
combined 14 scoreless innings. (AP Photo/Matt
Slocum)
allowed two hits, struck out seven, and
walked two.
In his third start, against the Phillies on
June 23, the 6’0”, 185-pound Yamamoto
pitched two-hit ball over five innings,
allowing two runs and four walks on 99
pitches. He struck out seven and kept his
ERA at 0.95. The Marlins won 6-4.
Yamamoto was selected by the
Milwaukee Brewers in the 12th round of
the 2014 first-year player draft out of the
Saint Louis School in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Politicians’ tweets could get slapped with warning labels
By Barbara Ortutay
The Associated Press
S
AN FRANCISCO — Presidents and
other world leaders and political
figures who use Twitter to threaten
or abuse others could find their tweets
slapped with warning labels.
The new policy, recently announced by
the company, comes amid complaints from
activists and others that President Donald
Trump has gotten a free pass from Twitter
to attack his enemies in ways they say
could lead to violence.
From now on, tweets that Twitter deems
to involve matters of public interest, but
which violate the service’s rules, will be
obscured by a warning explaining the
violation and Twitter’s reasons for
publishing it anyway. Users will have to
tap through the warning to see the
underlying message.
Twitter said the policy applies to all
government officials, candidates, and
similar public figures with more than
100,000 followers.
The new stance could fuel additional
Trumpian ire toward social media. The
president routinely complains, without
evidence, that social-media sites are
biased
against
him
and
other
conservatives.
Twitter’s rules prohibit threatening
Australia eliminated in
penalty-kick shootout
violence against a person or group,
engaging in “targeted harassment of
someone,” or inciting others to do so, such
as wishing a person is harmed. It prohibits
hate speech against a group based on race,
ethnicity, gender, or other categories, and
disallows promoting terrorism.
The company has long exempted public
figures from many of those rules,
contending that publishing controversial
tweets from politicians encourages discus-
sion and helps hold leaders accountable .
But there have been longstanding calls
to remove Trump from the service for what
activists and others have said is abusive
and threatening behavior.
Some activists complained after the
president posted that an attack by Iran
“will be met with great and overwhelming
force. In some areas, overwhelming will
mean obliteration.” Trump has also
tweeted a video of himself beating up a
man with a CNN logo replacing his head
and
retweeted
seemingly
faked,
inflammatory, anti-Muslim videos.
Other politicians could likewise run
afoul of the new policy.
In 2018, French prosecutors filed
preliminary charges against far-right
French politician Marine Le Pen for
tweeting brutal images of Islamic State
violence. Twitter rules prohibit material
“that is excessively gory.”
And in March, Brazilian President Jair
Bolsonaro stirred outrage by sharing a
video on Twitter that showed a man
urinating on the head of another man
during a Carnival party.
Insults and mockery fall into a gray
area. Calling someone a “lowlife,” a “dog,”
or a “stone cold LOSER,” as Trump has
done, may not in itself be a violation. But
Twitter does ban “targeted harassment,”
and repeated insults against someone
might count.
Twitter’s new policy doesn’t apply to
past tweets.
Twitter said it is still possible for a
government official or other figure to tweet
something so egregious that it warrants
removal. A direct threat of violence against
an individual, for instance, would qualify.
The company said warning-label
decisions will be made by a group that
includes members of its trust and safety,
legal and public policy teams, as well as
employees in the regions where particular
tweets originate.
When a tweet gets such a notice placed
on it, Twitter said it will not appear in the
site’s “safe search” mode, notifications tab,
the explore section, and other places
Twitter promotes or highlights tweets.
AP Technology Writer Mae Anderson
in New York contributed to this report.
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Lydia Williams.
“It was tough,” Kerr said. “A lot of the
girls had already played a lot of minutes so
we were already running on empty and
then obviously Alanna getting sent off is
not ideal but we stuck together. We were
still confident and believing in each other
but it just didn’t come off tonight.”
Kerr ended the tournament tied with
American Alex Morgan for the most goals
at five.
“Only big players can miss penalties,
because small players don’t take them,”
coach Ante Milicic said when asked what
he told Kerr after the match.
Australia was thwarted in its attempt to
reach the quarterfinals for a fourth
straight time.
“This team had high expectations and
goals coming into this tournament so to go
out this way it was pretty rough and I
haven’t really wrapped my head around it
I don’t think,” said defender Steph Catley,
who had Australia’s only successful
penalty kick during the shootout. “Doesn’t
really feel like we’re out if that makes
sense. It’s devastating.”
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