SPORTS BRIEFS
Dodgers’ Scherzer notches 3,000th career strikeout
Max Scherzer of the Los Angeles Dodgers has become the 19th player in major league history with 3,000 strikeouts.
The 37-year-old right-hander fanned Eric Hosmer of the San Diego Padres in the fifth inning Sunday at Dodger Stadium.
The crowd gave the three-time Cy Young Award winner a standing ovation, and Scherzer doffed his cap. He threw the keepsake ball into the dugout. Hosmer went down on six pitches, retired on a swinging strike.
The punchout also kept Scherzer perfect through five innings in a game that also included an immaculate inning. He’s thrown two no-hitters in his 14-year career but never a perfect game.
Knowing Scherzer needed one more to reach the mark, fans got to their feet and cheered each time he had two strikes on a batter. Some held up cell phones to record the moment.
Lucky cat: Falling feline gets saved at Miami football game
The most notable catch in Saturday’s game between No. 22 Miami and Appalachian State didn’t even happen on the field.
Wasn’t even a football. It was a cat. The animal somehow got into Hard Rock Stadium, then got caught by one of its paws off the facade of the upper deck in the first quarter. It eventually fell to the lower level of the stadium, where fans using an American flag as a
Dodgers pitcher Max Scherzer recorded his 3,000th career strikeout Sunday against the Padres at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
makeshift net of sorts were able to safely catch it before it was carried off to safety.
“They were trying to grab it from above and they couldn’t reach it but they were scaring it downward,” said Craig Cromer, a facilities manager at the University of Miami and seasonticket holder who with his wife Kimberly brings the flag to each home game. “It hung there for a little while with its two front paws, then one paw, then I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s coming soon.’”
Padres’ Snell exits start vs. Dodgers with left groin injury
San Diego Padres starter Blake Snell left a game Sunday with a left adductor strain in the first inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Snell retired his first two batters on popups to left field. He was facing Trea Turner when he suddenly left the mound with a 2-1 count, having thrown 11 pitches. The left-hander limped slightly as he walked off with the groin injury.
The 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner is 7-6 with a 4.22 ERA. He set a franchise record with 13 consecutive hitless innings across his last two starts.
It was a significant blow to the Padres, who are fighting for the second NL wild card.
Nabil Crismatt replaced Snell in what suddenly became a bullpen game for San Diego.
Zimbabwe fires Logarusic in midst of World Cup qualifying
Zimbabwe fired coach Zdravko Logarusic on Sunday after taking just one point from two games in World Cup qualifying.
Former Zimbabwe captain and exManchester City forward Benjani Mwaruwari is considered a candidate to replace the Croatian.
Logarusic was appointed in February 2020 but a run of bad form came to a head with a 0-0 draw with South Africa and a 1-0 loss to Ethiopia in World Cup qualifying this month.
The Zimbabwe Football Association said a new coach will be named before the two World Cup qualifiers against Ghana next month.
Mwaruwari was made an assistant coach with the national team two weeks ago and is now tipped to get the head coach job.