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The wildest 9th inning of the 2022 season?

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• Bizarro 9th: Benches clear, White Sox walk it off — twice

• Ranking all the contenders’ schedule strength

• From 15 1/2 games back to 5: Rays rout Yanks to open crucial series

• Standing O! Gunnar doubles twice in stellar home debut

• Benintendi injures right wrist, to undergo MRI

• Reds prospect has dream debut — including Votto in booth for 1st HR

• Darvish reaches international K milestone

• After big LA set, no letdown for Mets vs. Nats

• Raleigh’s 2 homers boost M’s in playoff push

• Meadows prioritizing mental health, won’t return this season

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Just in time for MVP push, Ohtani has a new pitch

Shohei Ohtani was already having a tremendous season on the mound when he added a brand-new weapon to his arsenal: It’s a sinker, and it’s a good one.

Ohtani’s sinker has the same upper-90s velocity as his four-seamer, but with a very different movement profile. His four-seamer comes straight at the hitter, while his sinker fades down and to the arm side.

When you add the sinker to his other five pitches — the four-seamer, plus a splitter, slider, cutter and curveball — Ohtani might be getting even better as he looks to win back-to-back AL MVP Awards.

Social media star takes the field

Charli D’Amelio has over 49 million Instagram followers, but can she hit? D’Amelio and her parents showed off their skills during the 5th episode of Celebrity Sluggers.

LA’s title hopes could hinge on Julio

Julio Urías has played many parts for the Dodgers since he was called up at the age of 19 in 2016. But this year he might need to take on a new one: ace of a postseason pitching staff.

‘Now, it’s go time’

With the Blue Jays beginning a crucial stretch as they look to make it back to the postseason, Alek Manoah stepped up with 7 1/3 scoreless innings for the win.

A debut 15 years in the making

Fernando Cruz was a 6th-round pick by the Royals in the 2007 Draft. Last night, at 32 years old, he K’d 2 in his 1st big league appearance with the Reds.

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Billy Bean, MLB’s senior vice president of diversity, equity & inclusion and special assistant to the Commissioner, participated in the pre-match coin toss at the US Open.

MLB’s top performers for August

The Astros’ Alex Bregman and the Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado were named the Players of the Month presented by Chevrolet. It was Bregman’s 3rd career Player of the Month Award, and Arenado’s 4th.

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COL 2 @ CIN 3

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KC 4 @ DET 5

WAS 3 @ NYM 7

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The Compass: Peru’s hallucinogenic booze and royal secrets

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This week’s virtual field trip takes us to Peru. Within the mountains of Peru lies a wealth of ancient Inca temples, dramatic landscapes, and breathtaking Andean vistas. Learn about these stingless bees that make medicinal honey that some call a “miracle liquid,” discover how ancient mummies helped a soccer player get to the World Cup, and join the high-altitude quest to save alpacas.

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Did hallucinogenic booze fuel politics in ancient Peru?

A discovery in a 1,100-year-old Wari outpost suggests that powerful, communal intoxicants may have helped foster alliances.

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How ancient mummies helped this soccer player get to the World Cup

After Paolo Guerrero tested positive for cocaine, scientists used Inca mummies to argue that the result may have been influenced by something else.

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An intact tomb revealed royal secrets of an ancient people in Peru

Centuries before the Inca rose to power, the Wari ruled the coastal highlands of Peru. Many of their sites had been looted over the centuries. but a rare intact tomb gave rich insights into this mysterious civilization.

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Gold is a toxic lure in the world’s highest settlement

This suspension bridge is made from grass

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The high-altitude quest to save alpacas

The once-verdant mountain pastures where alpacas graze are drying out from climate change; scientists, herders, and activists are rallying to find solutions.

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Saturday, September 3, 2022

In today’s newsletter, we meet fantastic beasts sketched using light, defy stereotypes with a 90-year-old cheerleader, welcome a new group of “Lamplighters” at Burning Man … and discover the science behind twins and doppelgängers.

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A chance encounter with a coffee-table book set graphic designer Darren Pearsonon a new artistic path, writes Catherine Zuckerman in this month’s issue of National Geographic. He was charmed by one image in particular: a 1949 black-and-white photograph of Pablo Picasso at work using light—not a brush—to “paint” his creation in midair.

“I was captivated,” says Pearson.

Using the same technique of long-exposure and working only at night, Pearson uses light to sketch whimsical, life-size beasts on darkened landscapes: a bee in the Beehives area of Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park, an Amargasaurus ascending stairs in California (pictured above), and a coyote howling to the sky near California’s Joshua Tree National Park.

See some of his creations below, and all of them here.

Inspiration abounds: Pearson’s muses range from birds in his backyard (like the heron, left, painted in a creek near his home) to dinosaurs like Triceratops (painted in a graffitied drainage pipe, right) that thrilled him as a kid.

Featuring an icon: In a composite image from two exposures, a rainbow-hued coyote howls near California’s Joshua Tree National Park.

Iconic landscapes of the western United States are integral to Pearson’s work, inspiring both the work itself and igniting his passion for their value: “The environment impacts everything,” he says. “Animals rely on it, and we rely on it—and yet we treat it with such disrespect.”

Hanging out: By combining three exposures and sketching from under a rock formation in Los Padres National Forest, Pearson created this trio of bright-eyed bats encircled by sprouting vegetation.

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Full of cheer: While on assignment for Nat Geo, photographer Noriko Hayashimet 90-year-old Fumie Takino (above), founder of a senior cheer squad called “Japan Pom Pom,” and the oldest member of the team. Takino started cheerleading 26 years ago and practices for three hours every week.

“In Japan, there is a strong stereotype that elderly people should behave in a certain way,” Takino says. “But I want to tell the younger generation that they don’t need to behave or live in preconceived ways of the elderly when they get old. It is important to be yourself and do what you want to do regardless of your age.”

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STORIES WE’RE FOLLOWING

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See inside a master clockmaker’s studio and the timekeepers he brings back to life (pictured above)

Seasoned traders and activists collide at this Texas horse auction

Bali’s beloved kite festival takes flight after a long pandemic pause

Why many undocumented U.S. immigrants continue to delay COVID-19 treatment

Nat Geo photographer Ami Vitale is sending a lucky photographer on assignment to the Amazon

Labor Day’s surprisingly radical history

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All abilities welcome: The harsh desert environment can be punishing for “Burners,” or revelers at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. But it won’t stop attendees with physical disabilities, thanks to the support of communities such as Mobility Camp (above, Mobility Camp members serve as “Lamplighters,” helping to illuminate roads at night).

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LAST GLIMPSE

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Do you have a look-alike? Since 1999, Francois Brunelle has been making portraits of Doppelgängers—people who look strikingly similar but are not twins. The project has built a following on social media and more recently caught the attention of scientists who study genetic relationships. To discover what scientists have learned from studying identical twins in the past, check out National Geographic photographer Martin Schoeller’s portraits (including the image above of twins Loretta, left, and Lorraine) from a story in the January 2012 issue, “A Thing or Two About Twins.”

HOW TWINS CAN TEACH US ABOUT US

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