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Roy Halladay’s father taught him two things: to pitch and to fly. One gave him life. The other killed him. On a father’s grief and a family’s questions, as Hall of Fame weekend approaches bit.ly/2YW2dQr
Stephanie Apstein
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Stephanie Apstein
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Senior writer, Sports Illustrated
- Former sportswriter Jonah Keri was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for assaulting his wife. More than a dozen people wrote letters supporting him. The judge said they had the opposite effect: bit.ly/3IzyL8O
- Astros owner Jim Crane sent me a letter on Saturday retracting the team’s original statement about my story. “We were wrong.” bit.ly/2PyeatR
- During the Astros’ ALCS celebration, assistant GM Brandon Taubman yelled, half a dozen times, to three female reporters, “Thank God we got Osuna! I’m so f——— glad we got Osuna!” On a systemic problem, in Houston and across the league:
- New Masters champ Hideki Matsuyama, asked for his athletic inspirations, says he can't really name any golfers. He mostly admires baseball players: Yu Darvish, Shohei Ohtani, Kenta Maeda.
- Cubs 1B Anthony Rizzo: “Shit doesn’t change. And it’s just the fact of the matter. Politicians really don’t give a fuck about us. All they care about is their own agenda. This is just the way it is and it’s upsetting. I’m sorry to use that language and go off. It’s upsetting.”
- The game ended two hours ago and thousands of fans are just now leaving. You can’t tell me these people don’t deserve a major league baseball team.
- Aaron Judge says his dad keeps saying, “You come to the plate 600 times. You’re telling me you can’t hit 80 out?”
- The first casualty of the Yankees-Astros game: an inflatable trash can confiscated by security
00:00 - Pete Alonso’s wife, Haley, just posted this video on her Instagram of Pete’s car after his crash yesterday. Pete said today the car flipped three times and he had to kick out the windshield to escape.
00:00 - A reader email, published with permission, about the chop.
- Joc Pederson, who has played in three World Series, is asked what he has learned it takes to win these games. "Score more runs than the other team," he says.
- Keith Hernandez just said on the Mets broadcast that he has asked SNY not to make him call games against the Phillies because he doesn't like watching them play. "As far as fundamentally and defensively, the Phillies have always been just not up to it."
- “It’s a different guy every night,” said Nick Castellanos. “Well, most of the time it’s Bryce.”