📰🏟️ Red flag
Plus: Volleyball utopia…
Good evening. Day two of our new, quicker format! Let’s roll.
—Peter, Kyle, Sam
Hot off the…Press
📰 Cal Raleigh hits HR 55 and 56
Cal Raleigh, aka the Big Dumper, keeps dumping balls into seats. And when he blasted two home runs on Tuesday night, he did more than carry his team to victory…he carried himself into the record books.
- #55: Passed the great Mickey Mantle for the most home runs in a season by a switch hitter
- #56: Tied Ken Griffey Jr.’s franchise record for HR’s in a season
What Cal Raleigh is doing in Seattle puts him in rare company; the last catcher to lead the league in home runs was none other than Johnny Bench.
Scoreboard
- ⚽️ Liverpool 3, Atlético Madrid 2 — Liverpool survives Atlético in the first round of Champions League action with an extra time header from CB Virgil van Dijk | Bayern Munich 3, Chelsea 1 — Harry Kane nets two goals to propel Bayern over Chelsea.
- ⚾ Astros 6, Rangers 5 — Houston takes the first two games of the series, giving them a three-game cushion in the Wild Card.
- ⚾️ Arizona 6, San Francisco 5 — The Diamondbacks walk-off the Giants to draw with 1.5 games of the NL Wild Card behind a scoreless 4 innings of relief from the bullpen.
Inside the lines
🏐 Bump. Set. SPIKE!
Nebraska might be the new unofficial volleyball mecca in the US. The #1 Nebraska women’s team set a new NCAA attendance record for an indoor match Tuesday against #18 Creighton (17,675 fans). Nebraska also holds the world record for volleyball attendance, drawing 92,003 fans for a 2023 game inside the school’s football stadium.
The back page
📊 Put your arm into it!
Challenge flag distance… Do we really keep up with that? You bet! On Sunday, Eagles HC Nic Sirianni put his rotator cuff to the test, throwing his challenge flag a whopping 36.329 air yards, according to NextGenStats. This is the furthest throw of a challenge flag since 2016. Thrown at a blistering 31.415 MPH, the flag made it to the endzone in 1.712 seconds, resulting in a 73.617% chance that it would be noticed. Nice arm, Nic.
Fantasy fix
It’s that middle-of-the-week lull, so let's take a stroll to the infirmary to check on injuries.
- Commanders QB Jayden Daniels: Sat out practice Wednesday, may not be available this weekend (knee)
- Bengals QB Joe Burrow: Will require surgery, OUT 3+ months (turf toe)
- Vikings RB Aaron Jones: Placed on IR, OUT at least four weeks (hamstring)
- Jets QB Justin Fields: OUT Sunday against the Bucs (concussion)
- Vikings QB JJ McCarthy: OUT Sunday against the Bengals (ankle)
- Dolphins WR Jaylen Waddle: Questionable for Thursday Night Football (shoulder)
- Bills Defense: LB Matt Milano and DT Ed Oliver are OUT for Thursday Night Football
- Bucs WR Emeka Egbuka: Did not practice Wednesday (thigh)
- Colts TE Tyler Warren: Did not practice Wednesday (toe)
- Chiefs WR Xavier Worthy: Limited in practice, could return this week (shoulder)
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