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Bill Plunkett / Orange County Register:
Dodgers tilt World Series back in their favor, move within one win of title — ARLINGTON, Texas — Can you taste it? Vindication with undertones of elation and relief, mixed with a lingering note of devastation. — It's that close. — The roof was closed to keep out the demons …
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Mark Whicker / Orange County Register:
Dodgers won't let Manny Margot and Rays steal their title shot — Margot's ill-fated attempt to steal home makes life easier for the Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series. — Sound — The gallery will resume inseconds — Show Caption — of — Expand
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Whittier Daily News and Daily Breeze
MLB Insiders / ESPN:
World Series Daily: Can Rays seize series lead over Dodgers in Game 5? — After all the oddities of the MLB regular season and postseason, the 2020 World Series pits baseball's top two teams against each other. While we've grown accustomed to seeing the Dodgers playing for the championship …
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MLB Baseball News …, Los Angeles Times, DRaysBay, True Blue LA and Detroit Free Press
James H. Williams / Orange County Register:
World Series Game 5 live updates: Dodgers score two runs against Rays in first inning — Follow along for updates from our MLB reporters covering the game. — The Dodgers will start Clayton Kershaw today in World Series Game 5. Tyler Glasnow (Santa Clarita Hart HS alum) is expected to start for the Rays.
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Daily Breeze and Daily News
Jillian Olsen / WALV-TV:
Rays tie the series 2-2 with exciting walk-off Game 4 win — Brett Phillips came through in the clutch for the Rays in their 9th inning comeback. — ARLINGTON, Texas — It was an ending no one could have predicted! After an already nail-biting game the Rays have won Game 4 in walk-off fashion.
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
World Series 2020: Tampa Bay Rays revel, Los Angeles Dodgers despair as Game 4 delivers baseball bliss — ARLINGTON, Texas — It happened just past midnight on the East Coast, 34 years to the day the last time a World Series game concluded like this. There are so many possible outcomes for the final play of a baseball game.
Justin Barrasso / Sports Illustrated:
ESPN's Jessica Mendoza Makes History at the World Series
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South Side Sox and Lookout Landing
Jerry McDonald / Mercury News:
Raiders offensive linemen Miller, Good, Hudson, Jackson cleared to face Bucs after COVID list stint — Kolton Miller, Denzelle Good, Rodney Hudson and Gabe Jackson all received final clearance to play for the Raiders Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Marin Independent Journal, Chico Enterprise-Record, The Reporter and East Bay Times
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Jerry McDonald / Mercury News:
Game on! Raiders-Bucs still good to go Sunday despite coronavirus — Aside from Trent Brown, the rest of the Raiders' offensive line tested negative for coronavirus and will face Tom Brady and theTampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday in Las Vegas — Offensive linemen Kolton Miller, Denzelle Good …
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CBS Los Angeles, Daily Herald, ProFootballTalk and Marin Independent Journal
Cam Inman / Mercury News:
49ers 33, Patriots 6: Warner leads dominant defensive effort, Wilson scores thrice before injury — Fred Warner flipped his body sideways as he shuffled and spied Cam Newton. Then, in a flash, Warner coyly retreated into coverage and, voila, the 49ers' star linebacker came up with a shoestring interception.
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Marin Independent Journal, Bangor Daily News, The Reporter, Chico Enterprise-Record and East Bay Times
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Kerry Crowley / Mercury News:
49ers hammer Patriots with run game as Jeff Wilson sets new career high in first half — The 49ers are without Raheem Mostert, Tevin Coleman in New England and still prioritizing the rushing attack against the Patriots — Raheem Mostert is on injured reserve with an ankle injury …
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Marin Independent Journal and Chico Enterprise-Record
Bill Madden / New York Daily News:
Exclusive: Ex-Astros exec Mike Elias eyed for potential MLB pension fraud in his new role as Orioles GM — It was rather interesting last week to see disgraced former Astros GM Jeff Luhnow emerge from MLB exile to once again proclaim his innocence in the Houston sign-stealing cheating scandal and this time …
Tim Healey / Newsday:
Francisco Lindor to Mets? Steve Cohen could make it happen — How about this for a championship-team-building strategy: Identify a superstar who is approaching free agency and whose team seems uninterested in guaranteeing him the money he inevitably will get. Trade for him.
Erik Boland / Newsday:
Yankees' Gio Urshela and Clint Frazier named 2020 AL Gold Glove finalists — Gio Urshela a Gold Glove finalist? — That was not a surprise Thursday afternoon when the finalists at each position were announced; certainly not a surprise to anyone who has watched Urshela man third base for the Yankees the last two seasons.
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