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But something took place on Wednesday that may have never happened in the entire history of professional baseball. MORE: Trade deadline podcast | Catcher pitches, earns win | Pitcher beans three on one pitch A team recorded an inning-ending double play on a walk. Here’s how it happened: With Travis Snider on second and Gaby Sanchez on third, Giants reliever Jean Machi walked Chris Stewart. As Stewart made his way to first base, Snider left second base as if the bases were loaded....

“I wouldn’t be here if things were rosy, is the way I look at it,” said Stefanski, a senior executive with the Pistons. “And I tell that in our meetings when people want to say, oh, you know, this and that. I said, ‘You guys wouldn’t be here if things were good.’” Stefanski arrived as part of a front office overhaul last offseason, and this week was his first trade deadline with Detroit....

Even so, the Pistons answered their coach’s call to add fuel to their playoff push. Thon Maker sank a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 16.7 seconds remaining and the Pistons overcame Griffin’s absence to beat the Atlanta Hawks 125-122 on Friday night. Reggie Jackson scored a season-high 32 points, Andre Drummond had 26 points and 21 rebounds, but the Pistons struggled to overcome Griffin’s third-quarter exit following his second technical foul of the period....

The Puerto Rican junior and senior national teams beat Louisville in back-to-back games, including a 34-point drubbing by the senior team in which the Cards shot just 27 percent from the floor in the first half of the game. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal’s Jeff Greer, who is with the team in Puerto Rico, “the team was disengaged and out of gas” for much of the second game — a performance so bad that Pitino called it “horses—” after the game....

On Wednesday, the Steelers were similarly impressive in an altogether different environment as several players bought dinner for all the workers at the ballot-counting site in Allegheny County. The county’s official Twitter account shared a video of the meals—which consisted of chicken, rigatoni pasta, vegetables, bread rolls and pies—being delivered to the voting site on Wednesday night and its heartfelt thanks to the organization. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the franchise got in touch with county officials on Wednesday night and asked whether they could provide meals for the poll workers....

Both these teams could never really get going and hence stayed in the bottom half of the table for a long time. Telugu Titans have won only five matches this season and the major reason for their poor show was their defence. For most of the season, the majority of defensive work was left on the shoulders of the two corners, Vishal Bharadwaj and Abozar Mighani. Both did very well individually but their lack of coordination was visible in their unsuccessful tackles....

When fluid collects in the lungs, it can lead to plastic bronchitis. If fluid leaks into the airways, it can form rubbery plugs called casts. The casts block the airways and make it difficult to breathe. Plastic Bronchitis Symptoms The casts that develop due to plastic bronchitis cause coughing and difficulty breathing. In some cases, you may have a severe bout of coughing and cough up the casts, which are white to tan in color and branch shaped....

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In a video uploaded to YouTube just recently, user OniZombie has managed to finish Dying Light 2 in just under three hours and 40 minutes, while another YouTuber, Dot Dot, streamed the game a day ago and managed to get to the end in less than five hours. Given that the game only came out on February 4, literally just before the weekend, it shows the amazing amount of effort that some people are willing to put into something in order to speedrun a game to set new records....

A code to claim Zarude, the Dark and Grass-type Pokémon, via Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Mystery Gift feature was supposed to be attached to December’s Pokémon Trainer Club Newsletter, as long as gamers signed up before November 20. However, when the newsletter was distributed in mid-December, many trainers said they didn’t receive it. There are threads and threads on Reddit and other forums in which gamers ask why they didn’t receive their newsletter with the Zarude code....

In a post on Twitter, the official PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds account revealed a screenshot of a new vehicle that will be added to the game alongside the desert map. The tweet explains that this pickup truck will be “exclusive to the desert map,” meaning that those playing on the game’s (current, default map) Erangel will have to make do with the vehicles already in the game. According to the screenshot, the pickup truck’s cab only has room for two players....

Obviously, Bluehole will not comment on how it approaches potential cheaters in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but it’s nice to see these players get some karmic justice. Though there really isn’t anything to be gained from winning a round of PUBG, cheaters presumably want a sense of accomplishment even if it isn’t truly earned. Unfortunately, those players will now have to beat other cheaters in order to claim their Chicken Dinner....

Anatomy of the Patellar Tendon The patellar tendon is actually a ligament; it attaches your kneecap (patella) to your shin bone (tibia). By definition, a ligament is a structure that attaches two bones together. But the patellar tendon is called a tendon because it is really an extension of the quadriceps tendon. Your quadriceps muscle (quads) is the large muscle that courses down the front of your thigh. It crosses over your patella, first as the quad tendon, and then as the patellar tendon....

Knee pain can get in the way of your everyday activities. It can make walking painful, and it may limit your ability to climb and descend stairs or rise up from a seated position. It can also prevent you from enjoying your normal work or recreational activities. There are different causes of knee pain, including: Knee osteoarthritis Ligament sprains Patellar (kneecap) tracking issues or patellofemoral stress syndrome Iliotibial band friction syndrome Meniscus tears...

Osaka recently revealed she would no longer participate in media interviews because of the negative impact it had on her mental health. She later announced she was “taking some time away from the court,” withdrawing from the French Open, after struggling with anxiety and depression. The announcement encouraged a host of celebrities, including NBA star Stephen Curry and tennis champion Serena Williams, to speak out in support of the tennis star....

Atwood attributes her changing vision of the future to scientific advances. Everything that happens in “Oryx and Crake,” she says, is within the realm of possibility. She thus considers her latest novel “speculative”–that is, imaginable in this world–rather than science fiction. While writing “Oryx and Crake,” she compiled a box of newspaper clippings from which she drew inspiration. “[The book] contains nothing humans haven’t done, or aren’t think-ing about doing,” she told a spellbound audience in May at Hay-on-Wye, the site of Britain’s best-known literary festival....

With so many re-released games from previous generations running better on newer hardware, it’s understandable that fans are wondering if Pikmin 3 will be getting a similar upgrade on the Switch (especially in light of its full $60 price tag). Unfortunately, on a purely technical level, Pikmin 3 Deluxe performs nearly identically to the 2013 Wii U version of the game. RELATED: Pikmin 3 Deluxe Trailer Introduces All the Pikmin and Their Abilities...

A cultural revolution is underway as protesters in pinstripes figure out how to work the capitalist system. To learn the new language, Greenpeace in Australia sent its corporate campaigner to a 10-week strategy course for company directors, and Friends of the Earth can now draft shareholder resolutions. Protest groups tap members over the Internet for business expertise, commission financial studies, collect free advice over lunch with sympathetic investment bankers and poach talent from the corporate world....