BALTIMORE — The Toronto Blue Jays were not pleased to be in the position of seller at the deadline, an unfortunate by-product of their once-hopeful season gone wrong. “Obviously did not want to be at this point where we are trading players away, it’s a disappointing time in my career and where we are as an organization,” Blue Jays general …
HOUSTON — Jake Meyers hit a three-run homer, Jose Altuve and rookie Joey Loperfido added three hits each and the Houston Astros used a nine-run sixth inning to pull away for a 14-11 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night. “We wanted to do it in a different way at the end of course, but at the end of …
HOUSTON — The Houston Astros’ farm system is still depleted, a byproduct of trades, graduation and the lack of a first- or second-round draft pick in 2020 and 2021. Tier 1: Moving on up Jake Bloss, RHP Current assignment: Double-A Corpus Christi Keith Law ranks: 12th on Astros’ Top 20 Bloss is becoming one of the fastest-rising pitching prospects in …
The mayor of Connecticut’s largest city denied under oath Tuesday ever discussing absentee ballots with a campaign volunteer who resembles a woman seen on surveillance video stuffing papers into a drop box multiple times ahead of the mayoral primary. Geter-Pataky last week refused to say whether she was the woman seen on surveillance footage making multiple trips to an election …
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A local Democratic official in Connecticut’s largest city invoked her 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination Friday rather than answer questions in court about allegations of illegal ballot box stuffing during a recent mayoral primary. Wanda Geter-Pataky, vice chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee, exercised her right to remain silent multiple times during a court hearing in …
