Dodgers' Hyeseong Kim Is Ready For His Closeup

From Jack Vita: With Tommy Edman opening nan play connected nan injured list, Hyeseong Kim is simply a premier campaigner to spot an uptick successful playing clip astatine 2nd guidelines for nan Dodgers successful nan coming season. On Tuesday, he further solidified his case.

With teammate Yoshinobu Yamamoto throwing a unrecorded batting believe convention connected nan backfields astatine Camelback Ranch, Kim took nan World Series MVP connected an unexpected ride. On nan 16th transportation of Yamamoto’s unrecorded batting practice, Kim crushed an opposite-field location run, dazzling nan hundreds of Dodgers fans gathered to watch nan squad fresh itself for its first slate of accumulation games that statesman Saturday.

Kim said he tweaked his plaything past twelvemonth aft coming complete from nan KBO connected a three-year, $12.5-million contract, and is continuing to advancement and consciousness much comfortable pinch nan adjustments he’s made.

“The plaything changes we made past year, I would opportunity I felt astir 70% comfortable with,” Kim said done an expert connected Monday. “And then, this offseason and outpouring training, we were capable to admit immoderate of nan different worldly that we needed to activity on, truthful I’m moving very difficult to make those changes again this year.”

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Miguel Rojas talks astir Game 7 homer

From Jack Vita: When asked to picture Game 7 of nan World Series and his spot successful it much than 3 months later, seasoned infielder Miguel Rojas did not hesitate pinch his answer.

“Game 7 of nan World Series was unbelievable,” Rojas said astatine his locker wrong nan Dodgers’ clubhouse astatine Camelback Ranch past week. “Because cipher believed that I was capable to deed a location tally successful nan ninth inning pinch 1 out, and successful that spot. No way.”

Rojas worked nan count full, and connected nan seventh transportation of nan at-bat, Blue Jays person Jeff Hoffman near a slider complete nan plate, which Rojas rocketed complete nan near section bullpen, leaving nan 44,000 fans connected manus astatine nan Rogers Centre — and the 51 cardinal viewers watching — wholly stunned.

“That was 1 of nan astir shocking World Series location runs I’ve ever seen,” Fox Sports commentator Tom Verducci said. “Here I was thinking, ‘Well, Ohtani’s connected deck, truthful he doesn’t want to locomotion him.’ Never successful my mind did I ever deliberation that he was going to deed a location run. It was moreover much shocking to maine than nan Rajai Davis location tally disconnected [Aroldis] Chapman successful 2016.”

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Former Dodgers prima Walker Buehler signs pinch San Diego Padres

UCLA men are routed by Michigan State

Jeremy Fears Jr. had 16 points and 10 assists, starring No. 15 Michigan State to an 82-59 victory complete UCLA connected Tuesday night.

The Spartans (21-5, 11-4 Big Ten) bounced backmost pinch a beardown capacity aft losing 3 of 4 games and falling 5 spots successful nan Associated Press Top 25 this week. Fears scored 11 successful nan first half to thief MSU build a 20-point advantage.

The Bruins (17-9, 9-6) person mislaid 2 consecutive games aft winning 5 of six.

UCLA guardant Tyler Bilodeau scored 22 points but didn’t person overmuch help. None of his teammates were successful double figures until Skyy Clark made immoderate precocious shots to decorativeness pinch 12 points.

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UCLA container score

Big Ten standings

This time successful sports history

1924 — Theresa Weld Blanchard wins her sixth and last U.S. fig skating championship. Sherwin Badger captures his 5th consecutive and last men’s title.

1928 — Sonja Henie, 15, becomes nan youngest Olympic fig skating champion. She easy thumps Fritzi Burger of Austria and Beatrix Loughran of nan U.S.

1932 — Sonja Henie wins her sixth consecutive world title.

1951 — Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan orders nan apprehension of 3 City College hoops players connected bribery charges and 2 pro gamblers and 2 intermediaries successful a game-fixing ungraded involving assemblage teams crossed nan country.

1961 — Bob Pettit of St. Louis scores a career-high 57 points successful a 141-138 triumph complete nan Detroit Pistons.

1964 — Wilt Chamberlain scores 52 points against Detroit, his 2nd consecutive 50-point game.

1972 — Randy Smith of Buffalo plays nan first of what would go 906 consecutive games, an NBA grounds which took much than 11 afloat seasons to accomplish.

1981 — Edmonton’s Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals and adds 2 assists to lead nan Oilers complete nan St. Louis Blues 9-2.

1986 — San Antonio’s Alvin Robertson records nan 2nd quadruple-double successful NBA history, pinch 20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals successful nan Spurs’ 120-114 triumph complete Phoenix.

1990 — Dale Earnhardt blows a tyre pinch 1 mile remaining successful nan Daytona 500, giving Derrike Cope nan biggest upset successful banal car racing history.

1992 — Italy’s Alberto Tomba wins nan elephantine slalom successful Albertville, France, to go nan first Alpine skier to triumph nan aforesaid arena astatine 2 Winter Olympics.

1995 — Utah defender John Stockton becomes nan first NBA subordinate pinch 10,000 assists successful a 108-98 triumph complete nan Boston Celtics.

2001 — Dale Earnhardt, nan top banal car prima of his era, is killed successful a clang connected nan past move of nan past thigh of nan Daytona 500 arsenic he tries to protect Michael Waltrip’s victory.

2006 — Shani Davis becomes nan first Black jock to triumph an individual golden badge successful nan Winter Olympics, capturing nan 1,000-meter speedskating race. Joey Cheek makes it a 1-2 American finish, adding a metallic to his triumph successful nan 500 astatine nan Turin Games.

2010 — Evan Lysacek becomes nan first U.S. man to triumph nan Olympic golden badge since Brian Boitano successful 1988, shocking everyone pinch an upset of defending champion Evgeni Plushenko.

2012 — Shenneika Smith’s three-pointer from nan helping pinch 8 seconds near lifts St. John’s to a 57-56 triumph complete No. 2 Connecticut, ending nan Huskies’ 99-game location tribunal winning streak. It’s nan Huskies’ first location nonaccomplishment to an unranked force successful astir 19 years.

2013 — Brittney Griner scores 25 points, including nan 3,000th of her career, to thief No. 1 Baylor rally past third-ranked Connecticut 76-70.

2017 — Mikaela Shiffrin wins a 3rd consecutive slalom title astatine nan world championships to clasp her unbeaten grounds astatine awesome events.

2022 — Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway wins his 4th biathlon golden badge of nan Beijing Winter Olympics erstwhile he wins nan men’s wide start.

Compiled by nan Associated Press

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