Luke Whitlock, a Noblesville 18-year-old, completed second within the 800-meter freestyle within the U.S. Olympic Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium. He has made a meteoric rise within the occasion.

As a 15-year-old freshman at Noblesville Excessive Faculty, Whitlock completed fifteenth within the 500-yard freestyle within the IHSAA state meet. Given that is the longest race in the highschool program, he noticed his future at higher distances.

He joined Fishers Space Swimming Tigers and, up to now 12 months, has dropped his 800 time by virtually 30 seconds.

Whitlock’s efficiency grabbed the eye of Bobby Finke, the world’s top-ranked 800 free swimmer and U.S. Trials champ.

“I noticed Luke coming, making an attempt to run me down a bit,” Finke mentioned. “I used to be making an attempt to get my composure and simply form of swim into the wall.”

Luke Whitlock 2024 Olympic schedule

Monday, July 29

5 a.m. ET: 800 freestyle swimming heats

Tuesday, July 30

3:03 p.m. ET: 800 freestyle last

Luke Whitlock breaks Michael Phelps’ report

Luke Whitlock completed a 400-meter freestyle warmth on the U.S. Olympic Trials in 3 minutes, 46.42 seconds. Michael Phelps had held the 17-18 age group report of three:46.73 since 2003.

Whitlock completed fifth within the occasion last.

When are the 2024 Paris Olympics?

July 26-Aug. 11, 2024.

The place are the 2024 Olympics?

Paris and surrounding areas of France; browsing is in Tahiti.

What channel are the Olympics on?

NBC, USA Community, NBCUniverso, Telemundo, Peacock, CNBC, E, Golf Channel.

The place are the 2024 and 2028 Olympics going to be held? 

Paris hosts in 2024, and Los Angeles in 2028.

What does ‘Olympics’ imply?

A collection of worldwide athletic contests held in a unique nation as soon as each 4 years, in keeping with Britannica

Why is it named Olympics?

The primary historic athletic competitions of this sort had been believed to be held in Olympia, Greece.

Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz acquired the Paris Olympics tennis competitors began with first-round victories Saturday underneath closed roofs at Roland Garros, the location of their French Open titles lower than two months in the past.

Novak Djokovic additionally gained in straight units as he, like Swiatek and Alcaraz, opened a bid for a primary Olympic gold medal. Djokovic’s second-round opponent might be longtime rival Rafael Nadal, who was scheduled to play his opening singles match Sunday.

Nadal, the Spaniard who gained a file 14 of his 22 Grand Slam titles on the French Open and owns two Summer time Video games golds, was a shock torch service in the course of the rain-soaked opening ceremony alongside the Seine River on Friday night time and was slated to compete alongside Alcaraz in doubles on Saturday night time.

The No. 1-ranked Swiatek claimed 4 of her 5 profession main championships in Paris and grabbed the final 4 video games to beat Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu 6-2, 7-5, whereas reigning French Open and Wimbledon champ Alcaraz defeated Lebanon’s Hady Habib 6-3, 6-1.

Serbia’s Djokovic, who’s seeded No. 1 within the males’s subject after Jannik Sinner pulled out with tonsillitis, wanted lower than an hour to dismiss Australia’s Matthew Ebden — a doubles participant collaborating in a tour-level singles match for the primary time in two years. Ebden acquired into the singles bracket as a result of he was in Paris to play doubles and thus obtainable when Sixteenth-ranked Holger Rune of Denmark withdrew with an injured wrist.

Ebden’s lone recreation got here after he was already down 6-0, 4-0 — and he celebrated by pulling the entrance of his yellow shirt over his head and baring his chest to roars from the flag-dotted crowd.

Poland’s Swiatek, who gained a 3rd consecutive championship at Courtroom Philippe Chatrier simply seven weeks in the past, acquired damaged in that very same stadium to path 5-3 within the second set earlier than getting again to her common clay-court experience. She wrapped up the victory by breaking at love when Begu double-faulted on the final level.

Rain disrupts schedule

Day 1 of tennis started with showers which may have contributed to gradual strains for umbrella-toting spectators on the facility’s safety checks close to entrances. All the matches on the ten courts with out retractable roofs have been in the end cancelled for the day.

It is a good factor the French tennis federation constructed a pair of movable covers just lately: 15,000-capacity Chatrier added one in 2020, and the second-largest area, 10,000-capacity Courtroom Suzanne Lenglen, has one as of this 12 months.

Italy’s Jasmine Paolini, who was the runner-up to Swiatek on the French Open in June and to Barbora Krejcikova at Wimbledon two weeks in the past, was the primary tennis participant to win a match at these Summer time Video games, eliminating Romania’s Ana Bogdan 7-5, 6-3 at Lenglen.

Canada’s tennis stars have been among the many gamers affected by the cancellations.

Laval, Que., native Leylah Fernandez, the Sixteenth seed, was scheduled to play Czech participant “Karolina Muchova, a 2023 French Open finalist, on Saturday. Muchova, ranked twenty ninth on this planet, gained their solely earlier encounter in 2022 on exhausting courts in Miami.

Bianca Andreescu, of Mississauga, Ont., was set to face Denmark’s Clara Tauson in her opening match.

Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, the thirteenth seed, was additionally set to begin his marketing campaign in opposition to American Marcos Giron, ranked thirty eighth.

Fernandez and Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski additionally noticed their match cancelled in girls’s doubles. The Canadians, seeded fifth, have been slated to play France’s Clara Burel and Varvara Gracheva.

The Canadian singles matches have been rescheduled to Sunday together with Fernandez and Dabrowski’s doubles match. Auger-Aliassime and Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., will begin their males’s doubles match later this week. The identical goes for combined doubles, the place Auger-Aliassime will play with Dabrowski.

Dream group: Nadal, Alcaraz advance in doubles

Nadal and Alcaraz — Spain’s old-and-new pairing of tennis superstars — gained the primary match they’ve ever performed collectively as a doubles group, eliminating Argentina’s Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni 7-6 (4), 6-4.

The 38-year-old Nadal has not made clear whether or not the Summer time Video games would be the final occasion of his storied profession, though there’s been loads of hypothesis it is going to be, given all of his current damage points — he wore white tape wrapped round his proper thigh Saturday — and his connection to Roland Garros. That is the clay-court facility getting used for these Olympics and the location of the annual French Open, the place he claimed a file 14 of his 22 Grand Slam titles.

Whereas he has performed solely sparingly over the previous two seasons due to hip surgical procedure and an stomach muscle drawback, and misplaced within the first spherical of this 12 months’s French Open to eventual runner-up Alexander Zverev, Nadal seemed simply effective Saturday. Then once more, doubles requires far much less motion and stamina than singles, in fact.

Nadal’s motion appeared OK, and he confirmed off his great volleying means, together with one back-to-the-net, over-the-shoulder, no-look winner within the first set. After the purpose, he wheeled and punched the air. Followers celebrated wildly.

Nadal incessantly slapped palms with Alcaraz between factors — whether or not gained or misplaced — and sometimes patted his much-younger accomplice on the shoulder throughout pauses within the motion.

When the match ended with a volley off Alcaraz’s racket, Nadal raised each fists. Alcaraz turned to his new accomplice and yelled, “Vamos!”

Among the many different huge names from the game scheduled to play later Saturday was four-time main champion Naomi Osaka.

Coco Gauff, the feminine flag bearer for america on Friday, was slated to make her Olympic debut Saturday with Jessica Pegula in doubles. Gauff gained the French Open doubles title with Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic final month and the U.S. Open singles trophy final September.

Three years in the past, Gauff missed the Tokyo Video games after testing optimistic for COVID-19 proper earlier than she was imagined to fly to Japan.

Osaka loses to Kerber in 1st spherical

Angelique Kerber eradicated Naomi Osaka 7-5, 6-3 within the first spherical of the Paris Olympics tennis competitors on Saturday night time in a matchup between former No. 1-ranked gamers who personal a number of Grand Slam titles.

Kerber has mentioned she is going to retire after competing for Germany at these Summer time Video games.

Osaka hoped for a greater displaying than she had on the Tokyo Olympics three years in the past in her native Japan. She was imagined to be one of many huge stars and obtained the honour of lighting the cauldron on the opening ceremony.

However Osaka misplaced within the third spherical there and mentioned she felt an actual sense of strain to carry out properly in entrance of her house followers. She was born in Japan to a Japanese mom and Haitian father, and the household moved to america when Osaka was 3.

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — Canada was examined, then held on to get its first Olympic win in 24 years.

RJ Barrett scored 23 factors, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 21 and Canada survived an enormous effort from Giannis Antetokounmpo to beat Greece 86-79 within the Paris Olympics opener for each groups in Group A play on Saturday evening.

Antetokounmpo led all scorers with 34 factors for Greece. Dillon Brooks scored 14 for Canada.

Despite the fact that Antetokounmpo had the large evening, Barrett lauded the waves of defenders Canada threw his approach.

“That’s why you’ve got the phrase ‘workforce,’” Barrett stated. “It’s not one man. It’s all of us, all collectively. All people has their half to do. Enjoying Giannis will not be a straightforward process.”

Dallas Mavericks’ Dwight Powell had six factors and 4 rebounds in 21 minutes of motion for Canada.

Canada led by as many as 16 and by no means trailed, although Greece made issues very fascinating within the last moments. Vasilis Toilopoulos scored with 1:15 remaining to get Greece inside 4 and a Canada turnover on the subsequent possession led to a dunk by Antetokounmpo to chop the result in 80-78.

However Gilgeous-Alexander acquired a high-arching shot over Antetokounmpo’s outstretched arm to kiss off the glass for a rating with 42.8 seconds left, restoring the four-point edge, and Canada would escape.

“They’re a extremely good workforce in order that’s going to occur,” Gilgeous-Alexander stated. “They’re not going to give up, clearly. So we anticipated that. We anticipated we’d make our run they usually’d have just a little extra juice and make their run. For us it was nearly weathering the storms, and type of sticking to our recreation plan all through the runs. Basketball is a recreation of ups and downs. We simply attempt to climate the opposite groups’ higher than they climate yours.”

There have been 52 fouls known as within the recreation leading to 64 free throws — 32 for every workforce.

It was Canada’s first Olympic males’s basketball win since 2000 at Sydney. The Canadians hadn’t made an Olympic event since — however earned this spot after a run to the bronze medal on the World Cup final summer time within the Philippines.

Victor Wembanyama had 19 factors, 9 rebounds, 4 steals and three blocks to assist France overcome an early deficit and maintain off Brazil 78-66 to open the group stage at Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille on Saturday.

Afterward, he marveled at how his teammates deferred to him throughout a second quarter when France wanted somebody to offer a spark.

“It’s about sacrifices,” Wembanyama stated. “We’re all right here for a function. … We’re all prepared to offer our spot to the subsequent man.”

Nicolas Batum added 19 factors for France, which was showered with chants of “Le Bleus!”

France coach Vincent Collet acknowledged he observed Wembanyama consumed by one thing he’d by no means seen on the younger phenom this week: anxiousness.

“I believe for the primary time in his profession he was just a little bit careworn this week,” Collet stated. “I attempted to assist him. I believe he’s so mature that day-by-day he acquired higher. … Individuals who know basketball perceive he’s solely 20 years. Individuals, they like sports activities however they have no idea basketball, they suppose Victor is at all times Michael Jordan.”

Virtually, although?

“He’s not far, however he nonetheless wants a while,” Collet stated with a smile.

France subsequent performs Japan, which misplaced Saturday to Germany, on Tuesday. Brazil has Germany subsequent.

Leo Meindl and Cristiano Felicio each led Brazil with 14 factors.

France withstood a quick begin by Brazil and used a late first-half run led by Wembanyama, then outscored the Brazilians 18-9 within the third quarter to extend what had been a three-point halftime result in 57-45 coming into the fourth.

Australia 92, Spain 80

Jock Landale had 20 factors and 9 rebounds, and Australia beat Spain 92-80.

Patty Mills added 19 factors and Josh Giddey contributed 17 to elevate Australia to the victory in Group A, which additionally contains Greece and Canada. Australia subsequent meets Canada on Tuesday whereas Spain will face Greece.

“They made two heavy runs at us after which took the lead. I assumed we have been fearless and have been brave, and I assumed we had nice guard play,” Goorjian stated. “Only a good contribution from everyone.”

Santi Aldama and Sergio Llull had 17 factors for Spain.

With 2:13 remaining within the interval, Spain’s Usman Garuba set a tough display screen on Australia’s Josh Inexperienced, sending him stumbling backward. Inexperienced took exception and acquired in Garuba’s face. Garuba slapped Inexperienced’s hand away and Will Magnay stepped in to defend his teammate, prompting Garuba to shove him.

Referees reviewed the incident and accessed double unsportsmanlike fouls on Garuba and Magnay. Two extra incidents additionally resulted in short recreation stoppages.

Germany 97, Japan 77

Franz Wagner had 22 factors and 6 rebounds, and Germany pulled away from Japan within the second half to safe a win in Group B play.

Daniel Theis added 18 factors and 7 rebounds. Moritz Wagner added 15 factors for the defending World Cup champions, who by no means trailed. Germany has Brazil subsequent in group play on Tuesday. Japan takes on Olympics host France.

Germany had 5 gamers in double-figures.

“I believe we type of acquired a goal on our again after final 12 months’s success (within the World Cup),” Theis stated. “All people needs to beat the world champion.”

Rui Hachimura completed with 20 factors for Japan, which has solely 13 wins in its seven Olympic appearances.

“We all know we’re organized, so now we have to get collectively,” Hachimura stated. “We’ve acquired to know what we’re doing.”

Germany entered the Olympics ranked third in FIBA’s world rankings behind the the U.S. and Spain.

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Canada’s quest to finish an 88-year drought begins on Saturday when it squares off in opposition to Greece in a Group A match of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France. The Canadians need to earn the nation’s first medal in males’s basketball since 1936, the primary Olympic basketball competitors. In its most up-to-date main competitors, Canada earned the bronze medal on the 2023 FIBA World Cup. In the meantime Greece is enjoying within the males’s basketball competitors for the primary time since 2008. The highest two groups from every of the three teams will routinely advance to the quarterfinals.

Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET. Canada is a 7.5-point favourite within the newest Canada vs. Greece odds, whereas the over/beneath for complete factors scored is 171. Earlier than making any Greece vs. Canada picks or 2024 Paris Olympics males’s basketball predictions, it’s worthwhile to see what SportsLine author Matt Severance has to say.

Severance is a well-connected author and high-volume handicapper who has labored within the business since 2005. Over the previous three NBA seasons, Matt has returned $4,452. And over the previous 4 faculty basketball seasons, Matt is up $887. Anyone following his basketball picks has seen large returns. 

Now, Severance has damaged down Canada vs. Greece and the Paris Olympics 2024 odds and revealed his greatest bets. You could find his picks solely at SportsLine. Listed here are the traces and developments for Greece vs. Canada:

• Canada vs. Greece unfold: Canada -7.5
• Canada vs. Greece over/beneath: 171 factors
• Canada vs. Greece cash line: Canada -330, Greece +250
• CAN: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander ranked third within the NBA in scoring (30.1 factors per sport)
• GRE: Giannis Antetokounmpo ranked second within the league in scoring (30.4)
• Canada vs. Greece: See picks at SportsLine

Why Canada can cowl

The Canadians have an all-around playmaker in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The 26-year-old guard for the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder averaged 30.1 factors, 5.5 rebounds, and 6.2 assists in 75 video games this season whereas taking pictures a career-high 53.5% from the sphere. For his efforts he completed second in voting for the NBA MVP award behind solely Denver’s Nikola Jokic.

Led by Gilgeous-Alexander, the Canadians have high quality depth within the backcourt. Jamal Murray, Andrew Nembhard, RJ Barrett and Lu Dort will all see vital enjoying time. Whereas Murray, Nembhard and Barrett excel on the offensive finish, Dort offers the workforce a bodily defender who can lock up the opponent’s greatest offensive participant. See the picks at SportsLine.

Why Greece can cowl

The Greeks have among the best gamers on the planet in Giannis Antetokounmpo. The versatile large man for the Milwaukee Bucks ranked second within the league in scoring (30.4 factors per sport), sixth in rebounding (11.5) and seventh in area aim share (61.1) final season. He completed fourth in voting for the NBA MVP award.

Greece already has been enjoying significant video games this summer season. Earlier this month, the Greeks went 4-0 in a FIBA Olympic Qualifying Match to earn their spot within the area in Paris. Greece knocked off Luka Doncic and Slovenia within the semifinals and Ivica Zubac and Croatia within the closing. See the picks at SportsLine. 

The best way to make Canada vs. Greece picks

Severance has analyzed Greece vs. Canada from each angle, and he is leaning Beneath on the purpose complete. He has additionally found a important X-factor that has him leaping throughout one aspect of the unfold. He is sharing what it’s, and which aspect to again, solely at SportsLine.

So who wins Canada vs. Greece within the 2024 Paris Olympics, and what important x-factor makes one aspect of the unfold a should again? Go to SportsLine now to see which aspect of the unfold to leap on, all from the professional who’s up $4,452 over the previous three NBA seasons, and discover out.

Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz — Spain’s old-and-new pairing of tennis superstars — received the primary match they’ve ever performed collectively as a doubles staff, eliminating Argentina’s Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni 7-6 (4), 6-4 on the Paris Olympics on Saturday night time.

The 38-year-old Nadal has not made clear whether or not the Summer season Video games would be the final occasion of his storied profession, though there’s been loads of hypothesis it will likely be, given all of his latest damage points — he wore white tape wrapped round his proper thigh Saturday — and his connection to Roland Garros. That’s the clay-court facility getting used for these Olympics and the location of the annual French Open, the place he claimed a document 14 of his 22 Grand Slam titles.

Nadal’s participation within the 2024 Olympics really started an evening earlier, when he was a shock torch bearer throughout the opening ceremony.

Nadal, who received Olympic golds in singles in 2008 and in doubles in 2016, is scheduled to play within the first spherical of singles on Sunday towards Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics. If Nadal wins that, he would face longtime rival Novak Djokovic within the second spherical.

“Taking part in him is sort of a last, actually, for me in any match, significantly right here, understanding what he has achieved, what he’s achieved, for our sport, significantly right here in Roland Garros. His document speaks for itself,” Djokovic stated after successful his first-rounder earlier Saturday. “I look ahead to it. If we get to face one another, it’s going to be presumably the final time we get to face one another on a giant stage. I’m positive that folks will get pleasure from it. I’m trying ahead to it.”

Neither Nadal nor Alcaraz, a 21-year-old coming off singles championships on the French Open in June and at Wimbledon two weeks in the past, performs a lot doubles. There have been hiccups Saturday towards their sixth-seeded opponents, to make sure, together with a 3-0 deficit within the second set, however the Spanish duo’s expertise prevailed.

If this outing in entrance of a packed and raucous crowd at Court docket Philippe Chatrier was any indication, the cheers for Nadal will likely be as loud as might be for so long as he stays within the Olympics brackets.

Whereas he has performed solely sparingly over the previous two seasons due to hip surgical procedure and an stomach muscle drawback, and misplaced within the first spherical of this 12 months’s French Open to eventual runner-up Alexander Zverev, Nadal appeared simply tremendous Saturday. Then once more, doubles requires far much less motion and stamina than singles, in fact.

Nonetheless, Nadal’s motion appeared OK, and he confirmed off his great volleying skill, together with one back-to-the-net, over-the-shoulder, no-look winner within the first set. After the purpose, he wheeled and punched the air. Followers celebrated wildly.

Nadal steadily slapped palms with Alcaraz between factors — whether or not received or misplaced — and infrequently patted his much-younger associate on the shoulder throughout pauses within the motion.

When the match ended with a volley off Alcaraz’s racket, Nadal raised each fists. Alcaraz turned to his new associate and yelled, “Vamos!”

Onerous court docket tennis footwear are designed to scale back abrasion, whereas clay court docket footwear are designed to maintain off mud.

In a multiverse-melting shock, Marvel Studios revealed that its most bankable star will probably be popping out of MCU retirement for a pair of Avengers motion pictures.

Robert Downey Jr. is ready to return to the movie franchise as basic Improbable 4 villain Physician Doom for the newly titled Avengers: Doomsday, due out in Could 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars, bowing in Could 2027. Kevin Feige additionally formally confirmed the Russo bros. will direct these subsequent two Avengers movies.

Downey turned one of many greatest film stars on the earth after launching the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 2008’s Iron Man. His work helped propel the MCU to grow to be the best grossing movie franchise of all time — and he was handsomely rewarded, incomes $50 million paydays within the course of. Downey retired from the function of Tony Stark/Iron Man with 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, during which his character died saving the universe. It’s been a problem for Marvel to discover a protagonist to exchange the big gap left by Downey, giving Saturday’s announcement all of the extra that means.

“New masks, similar process,” Downey instructed the viewers from the stage.

Downey was revealed in an nearly non secular ceremony as about two dozen olive-robed males with metallic, Physician Doom-like masks walked on stage, becoming a member of Feige and the Russo Bros. “If we’re going to convey Victor Von Doom to the display screen — he is among the extra complicated characters in all of comics … that is probably one of many extra entertaining characters in all of fiction,” mentioned Joe Russo. “If we’re going to do that … then we’re going to want the best actor on the earth.”

The viewers, already completely primed over the earlier hour of Marvel Corridor H frenzy, was on the sting of their seats. He continued, “As proof of the unimaginable prospects of the Marvel Universe, we provide the one one who may play Victor von Doom…”

Then a masked man in a inexperienced go well with stepped ahead and unmasked himself: Downey, proud, prepared for the adulation. Which was instantaneous, as all 6,500-plus folks within the viewers misplaced what was left of their minds.

Moments earlier, the Russos have been launched as the administrators of those new Avengers movies, which they are going to produce in addition to direct.

“That four-movie run was unbelievable,” mentioned Anthony Russo, after a montage of their movies sizzled on display screen. “And it left us actually spent, with all of our feelings on the ground. Within the time since, by means of a really particular story, Joe and I’ve come to probably see a street ahead with you all.” Joe Russo picked up the place his brother left off, including, “It’s the largest story that Marvel Comics ever instructed, it’s the primary comedian e book run that I learn as a child that made me fall in love with comics. It’s the rationale why Ant and I are standing up right here. And I feel you all of the know the title of it.” Avengers: Secret Wars title flashed on the large display screen.

Stephen McFeely, who co-wrote the Russos’ Marvel motion pictures with Christopher Markus, will write the brand new Avengers motion pictures. The Russos have lengthy maintained that Secret Wars — which was the title of a pair of Nineteen Eighties occasion comics for Marvel — was their dream challenge. In Secret Wars, an omnipotent being often called The Beyonder transported Marvel’s heroes and villains to a planet referred to as Battle World, the place they have been pressured to struggle.

The information marks a artistic makeover for the newly titled Avengers: Doomsday, which is able to come earlier than Secret Wars and function Avengers 5.. Feige introduced a unique Avengers 5 two years in the past in Corridor H as Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. The movie would have starred Jonathan Majors because the time-traveling villain Kang, nonetheless in December, a New York jury discovered Majors responsible of harassment and assault of a former girlfriend, which induced Marvel to chop ties with the actor, and necessitated an overhaul of the movie.

The transfer comes amid the record-setting opening weekend for Deadpool & Wolverine, which is able to simply land the top-opening of all time for an R-rated characteristic, and which has injected a renewed sense of power to the MCU.

The Russo Bros.’ return can also be notable. That they had a record-breaking run with Avengers: Endgame (2019), which for a time topped Avatar as the largest film of all time, and so they additionally directed Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil Battle (2016) and Avengers: Infinity Battle (2018). Within the years since, they’ve helmed streaming options corresponding to Cherry and The Grey Man, however are greatest liked amongst audiences for his or her Marvel work.

The Avengers franchise is the crown jewel for Marvel Studios, which constructed its status by reaching what many thought was unimaginable when it mixed the heroes of Iron Man, Captain America and Thor motion pictures for a team-up that turned a genre-defining hit in 2012.

Downey is coming off a profession excessive together with his first Oscar win earlier this 12 months for his function as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The actor additionally lately earned an Emmy nomination for HBO’s The Sympathizer.

BOSTON (AP) — Trying to spark a struggling membership, the New York Yankees acquired Jazz Chisholm Jr. from the Miami Marlins on Saturday for 3 minor leaguers: catcher Agustín Ramírez, infielder Jared Serna and infielder Abrahan Ramírez.

New York entered Saturday 10-23 after a 50-22 begin, suffering from sputtering beginning pitching, a shaky bullpen and an offense overly reliant on Aaron Choose and Juan Soto following accidents to Giancarlo Stanton and Anthony Rizzo. Third baseman DJ LeMahieu and left fielder Alex Verdugo have been in deep slumps.

An All-Star second baseman in 2022, the 26-year-old Chisholm has performed middle subject for a lot of the previous two seasons.

“Excited,” Choose mentioned after the Yankees rallied for an 11-8, 10-inning win over the Purple Sox. “He’s a dynamic participant, undoubtedly you may throw him up there within the leadoff spot or wherever, he’s going to undoubtedly lengthen this lineup. … He’s a weapon. You possibly can put him within the outfield. You possibly can put wherever on the infield. He’s bought velocity. He’s bought energy.”

He’s batting .249 with 13 homers and 50 RBIs this 12 months and is a .246 profession hitter with 66 homers and 205 RBIs in 5 seasons. Chisholm has 22 stolen bases, matching final 12 months’s complete and one shy of his profession excessive.

“Very gifted, athletic, velocity, energy, you already know, looks as if versatility, you already know, can play a number of totally different locations,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “I’ve solely seen him from afar, clearly, however clearly a really gifted younger participant.”

Chisholm has a $2,625,000 wage after dropping to the Marlins in arbitration. He’s eligible for arbitration once more after the 2024 and 2025 seasons and may turn out to be a free agent after the 2026 World Sequence.

“It’s at all times robust to lose a dynamic participant like Jazz,” Marlins supervisor Skip Schumaker mentioned. “He was keen to maneuver off positions. He was keen to maneuver up and down the lineup. He bought higher whenever you requested him to get higher in several positions or towards left-handed pitching.”

LeMahieu, a two-time batting champion, didn’t make his season debut till Could 28 after breaking his proper foot when he fouled off a pitch throughout a spring coaching recreation this previous March 16. A 3-time All-Star, he’s hitting .178 with one homer, 12 RBIs in 135 at-bats, and he has simply two hits in his final 28 at-bats.

LeMahieu’s .495 OPS ranked 383rd amongst 392 gamers with 100 or extra plate appearances getting into Saturday and his 59.1% floor ball charge was seventh. LeMahieu struggled following a damaged sesamoid bone in his proper huge toe that led to ligament injury in his second toe in 2022. He hit .220 within the first half final 12 months however .273 within the second.

He has two full seasons remaining in a $90 million, six-year contract that pays $15 million yearly.

Verdugo entered Saturday batting .160 (20 for 125) with one homer and 7 RBIs from June 15 on, dropping his season common from .266 to .231.

As well as, rookie first baseman Ben Rice was 4 for 50 after hitting three homers in a July 7 victory over the Purple Sox.

Agustín Ramírez, 22, hit .269 with 20 homers and 69 RBIs this 12 months at Double-A and Triple-A.

Serna, additionally 22, batted .253 with 13 homers and 58 RBIs with Excessive A Hudson Valley.

Abrahan Ramírez. 19, hit .348 with a pair of homers and 24 RBIs for the Florida Complicated League Yankees.

“I don’t know the place he’s going to hit, however he’s going to hit round Soto and Choose, which is fairly unimaginable,” Schumaker mentioned. “So, it makes them higher and I’m comfortable for him.”

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AP freelance author Jim Hoehn in Milwaukee contributed to this report,

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