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Pujols reaches 695 HRs, Mikolas goes 8 in Cards’ win vs Cubs
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Albert Pujols collected house run No. 695 within the eighth inning and Miles Mikolas tossed eight shutout innings to guide the St. Louis Cardinals to a 2-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.
Pujols drilled the two-run, pinch-hit shot off reliever Brandon Hughes (2-2).
A possible future Corridor of Famer, Pujols trails solely Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth (714) and Alex Rodriguez (696) on the all-time house run listing.
Pujols has seven pinch-hit homers in his profession, together with two this season. He has homered towards 451 completely different pitchera, an all-time report.
The 42-year-old jumped on an 0-1 providing.
“It’s simply fairly particular to have the ability to try this,” Pujols mentioned. “There’s some nights that you simply’re going to return by and a few nights that you simply don’t. The nights that you simply do, you simply take pleasure in it. And that’s what I’m going to take pleasure in tonight.”
Tommy Edman began the rally with a one-out double.
“I used to be 100% assured that he was going to discover a option to drive me in,” Edman mentioned. “As loopy as it’s, we simply anticipate that to occur now. He’s the very best right-handed hitter of our era.”
Pujols, in his final season, has discovered a option to come by in dramatic trend all season lengthy.
“There’s occasions on this sport the place you are taking a step again from being locked into the sport and also you get to be a fan for a minute, and expertise it the best way everybody else is,” St. Louis supervisor Oliver Marmol mentioned. “That was certainly one of them. You are taking all of it in as a result of what he’s doing is completely unimaginable.”
Pujols hit his one hundred and thirtieth profession house run on Sundays, probably the most of any day.
Chicago supervisor David Ross indicated that he would have walked Pujols if Hughes obtained behind within the rely.
“You’ve obtained to belief your guys,” Ross mentioned. “Wished to assault Albert. He simply left one over the center.”
St. Louis has gained 4 in a row, 18 of its final 20 house video games and is a season-best 24 video games over .500 at 79-55. It was the Cardinals’ eighth sequence sweep of the season.
Chicago has misplaced seven of eight.
Mikolas (11-10) gave up two hits. He struck out three and walked one. Ryan Helsley earned his thirteenth save in 17 probabilities.
Chicago starter Marcus Stroman allowed 4 hits in seven shutout innings. He struck out 5 and didn’t stroll a batter in a 98-pitch stint.
The beginning of the sport was delayed 1 hour, 28 minutes by rain.
HOMETOWN HERO
Boston Celtics standout Jayson Tatum, a St. Louis native, threw out the primary pitch. Tatum performed highschool basketball at Chaminade Faculty Prep, positioned 14 miles from Busch Stadium.
QUICK GETAWAY
The Cardinals have scored 91 runs within the first inning, second to the Los Angeles Dodgers with 95.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: C Willson Contreras missed the sport with a sore left foot. He suffered the damage Tuesday towards Toronto.
Cardinals: LHP Steven Matz will make a rehab begin on Tuesday at Double-A Springfield. He has been out since Aug. 8 with a left knee sprain.
UP NEXT
Cubs: LHP Wade Miley (1-0, 2.84 ERA) will begin on Tuesday because the Cubs start a six-game homestand by internet hosting Cincinnati. Miley has been out since June 11 with a left shoulder pressure. RHP Justin Dunn (1-2, 4.63) will begin for the Reds.
Cardinals: RHP Jack Flaherty (0-0, 5.63) will face Washington RHP Anibal Sanchez (1-5, 5.05) within the first of a four-game sequence on Monday afternoon in St. Louis. Flaherty has been out since June 27 with a proper shoulder pressure. He made 5 rehab begins within the minors.
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Archaeological dig in Jerusalem finds fortifications believed to be from time of King David: See the photos
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Archaeologists in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem have discovered massive fortifications that would have protected the city in ancient times.
“This is a dramatic discovery that opens up a renewed discussion about the terms from the biblical literature that refer to the topography of Jerusalem, such as the Ophel and the Millo,” according to Prof. Yuval Gadot, director of the excavation on behalf of Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Yiftach Shalev, director of the excavation on behalf of the Antiquities Authority, added that “We are confident that it was used at the time of the First Temple and the Kingdom of Judah … so it creates a clear buffer between the residential city to the south and the upper city to the north.”
Israeli archaeologists invest significant time and resources to exploring the ancient city, which helps provide evidence for ancient stories and claims about Jerusalem that many have otherwise attributed to myth.
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Overview of the excavation site in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
This particular discovery of a moat and walls helps researchers understand the structure of the ancient city: The City of David is attributed as the core of the original and ancient city of Jerusalem where King David traveled to united Israel as one capital city, according to the national park’s website.
The discovery also helps redefine the shape of the city and will prompt researchers to reevaluate descriptions of the city and its limits within biblical accounts, the researchers said.
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Dr. Yiftach Shalev from the Antiquities Authority conducts a walkthrough of the site. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
The date of the excavated moat remains unknown, but Shalev argued that often such “significant construction plants and quarrying in Jerusalem are usually dated to the Middle Bronze Age – about 3,800 years ago,” which would align broadly with Jewish histories that talk of David traveling to Jerusalem 3,000 years ago.
“If the moat was dug during this period, then it was intended to protect the city from the north – the only weak point of the City of David slope,” Shalev said.
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A look into the moat that would have run outside the ancient city of Jerusalem in the time of King David. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
The researchers argue that the fortification was created by massive quarrying of the rock used to create the moat, with perpendicular cliffs “that could not be climbed” found on both sides of the moat – which puzzled the excavators until they realized they were looking at a fortification line.
Ancient Jerusalem sat on a narrow and steep spur, and many of the construction tasks for the city looked at helping reshape the topography of the surrounding area – all activities that the Bible references, such as in the first book of Kings where it discusses King Solomon’s task of building up the “Millo,” or supporting terraces, and “close the breach of the city.”
The results of the excavation will be presented at the City of David’s “Jerusalem Studies Experience” Conference, taking place in early August.
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Israel says Hezbollah crossed ‘red line’, strikes deep inside Lebanon
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Israel says Hezbollah has crossed ‘red line’, blaming the Lebanese group for Saturday’s deadly attack; Hezbollah denies the accusations.
The Israeli military says it carried out a series of strikes across Lebanon after blaming Hezbollah for Saturday’s deadly attack in the occupied Golan Heights, as its foreign ministry said the Lebanese group had crossed a “red line”, raising fears of regional escalation.
The Israeli military said on Sunday its jets bombed weapons depots and infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, in Shabriha and Burj el-Shemali near the southern city of Tyre, and the villages of Kafr Lila or Kfar Kila, Rab el-Thalathine, Khiam and Tayr Harfa.
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday blamed Hezbollah for the rocket attack on a football ground that killed 12 people.
“Saturday’s massacre constitutes the crossing of all red lines by Hezbollah. This is not an army fighting another army, rather it is a terrorist organisation deliberately shooting at civilians,” the ministry said in a statement.
Hezbollah has “categorically denied” responsibility for the attack. There have been unconfirmed claims that a failed Israeli interceptor missile may have caused the incident.
Iran, Hezbollah’s regional ally, warned Israel against any “new adventure concerning Lebanon” using the Majdal Shams incident as an “excuse”.
“After 10 months of mass killing in the Gaza Strip and mass murder of Palestinian children and women, the apartheid Israeli regime is trying to distract public opinion and global attention from its wide-ranging crimes in Palestine using a fabricated scenario,” Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a statement on Sunday, adding that Israel will be responsible for any moves that will further destabilise the region.
‘Tipping point’
Reporting from Beirut in Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said the latest Israeli attacks were a message to Hezbollah, not the response it has promised.
“What we witnessed overnight was really normal activity, something that we have seen in the past 10 months since Hezbollah opened up a front in southern Lebanon to help the people of Gaza,” she said.
According to Khodr, the Israeli response and whether it would hit military or civilian targets could signal a “tipping point” that will determine the trajectory of the border conflict that started on October 8.
The Israeli security cabinet is expected to have a meeting later on Sunday to decide on a response to the rocket attack in Majdal Shams.
Israeli commanders meet Druze leaders
In a video message from the site of the attack on Sunday morning, Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi reiterated the claim that an Iranian-made Falaq rocket – which has been employed by Hezbollah since the start of border fighting last October – carrying 53kg (116 pounds) warhead hit the football field.
“This is a Hezbollah rocket. And whoever fires such a rocket into an urban area wants to kill civilians, wants to kill children,” he said.
Halevi added that the Israeli military is “increasing our readiness for the next stage of fighting in the north” as it keeps attacking the Gaza Strip to deadly effect.
He and other commanders met Druze leaders and community members in the area.
The United Nations, the United States and the European Union condemned the attack. The UN and the EU urged all parties to exercise “restraint” to prevent an all-out war, with the 27-member bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell calling for an “independent international investigation”.
More than 350 people, including 100 civilians have been killed in repeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the start of the war on Gaza, according to the UN. Israeli officials say more than 30 people, including 10 civilians, have been killed in attacks originating from Lebanon.
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