August 2025

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Bieber dominant in debut with Blue Jays and return from elbow surgery

MIAMI (AP) — Shane Bieber struck out nine over six dominant innings of one-run ball in his debut with the Toronto Blue Jays and first appearance in 16 months on Friday night.

The right-hander allowed two hits and hit a batter in his 87-pitch outing against the Miami Marlins, leaving with the Blue Jays ahead 5-1. He retired 12 straight after allowing Javier Sanoja’s solo homer in the second inning.

It was Bieber’s first major league appearance since April 2, 2024, when he experienced elbow discomfort and subsequently underwent Tommy John surgery.

The Blue Jays acquired the 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner from the Cleveland Guardians on July 31. Bieber had done four rehab outings with the Guardians before the trade.

The 30-year-old Bieber spent his first seven seasons with Cleveland. In the 60-game 2020 season, Bieber finished 8-1 with a league low 1.63 ERA and led the AL in strikeouts with 122.

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Sunday Ticket has quietly streamed multiple preseason games

Officially, the Sunday Ticket package begins with Week 1 of the regular season. Unofficially, it began during the preseason.

Via David Rumsey of FrontOfficeSports.com, the Sunday Ticket package has made multiple preseason games available on the Sunday Ticket service.

Apparently, the NFL has allowed YouTube and YouTube TV to stream several preseason games each year, since YouTube acquired the package from DirecTV in 2023. The purpose, per the report, is to test the service in advance of the regular season. The preseason games have not been promoted.

This year, Sunday Ticket streamed Dolphins-Lions in Week 2 of the preseason. Some users also had access to Patriots-Vikings last Saturday.

On Saturday, Texans-Lions is scheduled to be streamed by Sunday Ticket in “several markets.”

Neither the NFL nor YouTube provided a comment for the story.

A separate test for YouTube will happen two weeks from tonight, when the service streams the Week 1 Chiefs-Chargers game from Brazil. Given that the game is available at no charge, it will likely be the most-streamed NFL game to date.

Harrison Burton cut by crush panel, among other issues after debris flies into car at Daytona

Before the caution came out for rain, Harrison Burton spun out on the backstretch at Daytona and had issues. The NASCAR driver told his team that he was hit by a crush panel, and he also had some kind of dust or debris get into his eyes.

NASCAR didn’t throw the caution flag. Harrison Burton spun out hard enough to break the crush panels, and then they came into the car and hit him. Burton says that he is all good and ready to get back to racing. But he has had a little bit of pain.

Burton was seen pouring water into his eyes. Then, in the video shown on The CW below, you can see the debris hit him. Red flag currently for weather, Burton is only a lap down, and there are only a few laps left in the stage. The 25 car should be back on the lead lap soon enough.

This is a developing story…

Harrison Burton cut by crush panel, among other issues after debris flies into car at Daytona

Before the caution came out for rain, Harrison Burton spun out on the backstretch at Daytona and had issues. The NASCAR driver told his team that he was hit by a crush panel, and he also had some kind of dust or debris get into his eyes.

NASCAR didn’t throw the caution flag. Harrison Burton spun out hard enough to break the crush panels, and then they came into the car and hit him. Burton says that he is all good and ready to get back to racing. But he has had a little bit of pain.

Burton was seen pouring water into his eyes. Then, in the video shown on The CW below, you can see the debris hit him. Red flag currently for weather, Burton is only a lap down, and there are only a few laps left in the stage. The 25 car should be back on the lead lap soon enough.

This is a developing story…

Harrison Burton cut by crush panel, among other issues after debris flies into car at Daytona

Before the caution came out for rain, Harrison Burton spun out on the backstretch at Daytona and had issues. The NASCAR driver told his team that he was hit by a crush panel, and he also had some kind of dust or debris get into his eyes.

NASCAR didn’t throw the caution flag. Harrison Burton spun out hard enough to break the crush panels, and then they came into the car and hit him. Burton says that he is all good and ready to get back to racing. But he has had a little bit of pain.

Burton was seen pouring water into his eyes. Then, in the video shown on The CW below, you can see the debris hit him. Red flag currently for weather, Burton is only a lap down, and there are only a few laps left in the stage. The 25 car should be back on the lead lap soon enough.

This is a developing story…

Harrison Burton cut by crush panel, among other issues after debris flies into car at Daytona

Before the caution came out for rain, Harrison Burton spun out on the backstretch at Daytona and had issues. The NASCAR driver told his team that he was hit by a crush panel, and he also had some kind of dust or debris get into his eyes.

NASCAR didn’t throw the caution flag. Harrison Burton spun out hard enough to break the crush panels, and then they came into the car and hit him. Burton says that he is all good and ready to get back to racing. But he has had a little bit of pain.

Burton was seen pouring water into his eyes. Then, in the video shown on The CW below, you can see the debris hit him. Red flag currently for weather, Burton is only a lap down, and there are only a few laps left in the stage. The 25 car should be back on the lead lap soon enough.

This is a developing story…

Harrison Burton cut by crush panel, among other issues after debris flies into car at Daytona

Before the caution came out for rain, Harrison Burton spun out on the backstretch at Daytona and had issues. The NASCAR driver told his team that he was hit by a crush panel, and he also had some kind of dust or debris get into his eyes.

NASCAR didn’t throw the caution flag. Harrison Burton spun out hard enough to break the crush panels, and then they came into the car and hit him. Burton says that he is all good and ready to get back to racing. But he has had a little bit of pain.

Burton was seen pouring water into his eyes. Then, in the video shown on The CW below, you can see the debris hit him. Red flag currently for weather, Burton is only a lap down, and there are only a few laps left in the stage. The 25 car should be back on the lead lap soon enough.

This is a developing story…

Harrison Burton cut by crush panel, among other issues after debris flies into car at Daytona

Before the caution came out for rain, Harrison Burton spun out on the backstretch at Daytona and had issues. The NASCAR driver told his team that he was hit by a crush panel, and he also had some kind of dust or debris get into his eyes.

NASCAR didn’t throw the caution flag. Harrison Burton spun out hard enough to break the crush panels, and then they came into the car and hit him. Burton says that he is all good and ready to get back to racing. But he has had a little bit of pain.

Burton was seen pouring water into his eyes. Then, in the video shown on The CW below, you can see the debris hit him. Red flag currently for weather, Burton is only a lap down, and there are only a few laps left in the stage. The 25 car should be back on the lead lap soon enough.

This is a developing story…

Squirrel briefly stops Yankees-Red Sox rivalry game after running onto the field at Yankee Stadium

The New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox rivalry had an unexpected visitor on Friday, as a rogue squirrel made its way onto the field at Yankee Stadium. 

The critter appeared in the top of the fourth inning, emerging near third base and quickly sprinting across the field. The squirrel then made its way to the pitcher’s mound, where it investigated the hole in the dirt made by the foot of Yankees starting pitcher Max Fried.

The squirrel’s presence briefly stopped play between the two teams, much to the crowd’s delight and the slight annoyance of Fried, who shooed the animal towards the other end of the field.

After a quick pause, the squirrel kept moving towards first base, before getting spooked and going around the back of the base. It finally exited the field and into the wall after traveling down right field for a while.

At the time that the squirrel stopped play, the Yankees and Red Sox were tied 0-0. Unfortunately, the squirrel itself couldn’t change the score: The teams were still tied 0-0 after the end of the fifth inning.

Squirrels themselves are not an uncommon appearance in MLB. In May, a scene-stealing squirrel interrupted a game at the Detroit Tigers’ Comerica Park. There’s also the infamous “Rally Squirrel” to which the St. Louis Cardinals partially credited their 2011 World Series Championship — enough, at least, that they got the creature put on the team’s championship rings.

This story will be updated.

Squirrel briefly stops Yankees-Red Sox rivalry game after running onto the field at Yankee Stadium

The New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox rivalry had an unexpected visitor on Friday, as a rogue squirrel made its way onto the field at Yankee Stadium. 

The critter appeared in the top of the fourth inning, emerging near third base and quickly sprinting across the field. The squirrel then made its way to the pitcher’s mound, where it investigated the hole in the dirt made by the foot of Yankees starting pitcher Max Fried.

The squirrel’s presence briefly stopped play between the two teams, much to the crowd’s delight and the slight annoyance of Fried, who shooed the animal towards the other end of the field.

After a quick pause, the squirrel kept moving towards first base, before getting spooked and going around the back of the base. It finally exited the field and into the wall after traveling down right field for a while.

At the time that the squirrel stopped play, the Yankees and Red Sox were tied 0-0. Unfortunately, the squirrel itself couldn’t change the score: The teams were still tied 0-0 after the end of the fifth inning.

Squirrels themselves are not an uncommon appearance in MLB. In May, a scene-stealing squirrel interrupted a game at the Detroit Tigers’ Comerica Park. There’s also the infamous “Rally Squirrel” to which the St. Louis Cardinals partially credited their 2011 World Series Championship — enough, at least, that they got the creature put on the team’s championship rings.

This story will be updated.