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Monday 31 october 2022

Astros burst ahead, beat Phillies 5-2, tie Big 12 agrees to 6-year

World Series 1-1 extension with ESPN, Fox

with a tan glove and spikes
with orange and yellow
trim, then swapped ahead
of the second inning for a
dark glove and dark cleats
with a white stripe.
“Normally have different
spikes when I warm up and
the ones that I go into the
game. Today I decided
to start the game with
the ones I warmed up in,”
he said. “I had a long in-
ning there and I was like,
You know what, I’m go- Incoming Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark speaks during
ing to change everything. a news conference opening the conference's football media
Houston Astros starting pitcher Framber Valdez celebrates days in Arlington, Texas, July 13, 2022.
a double play to end the top of the sixth inning in Game 2 of I’m going to change my (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
baseball’s World Series between the Houston Astros and the glove, my belt, my cleats.
Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, in Houston. And those are just things Associated Press said a new deal could be
(AP Photo/David J. Phillip) that us Dominicans do, just By Ralph D. russo done soon.
some tendencies here and (AP) - The Big 12 has
By Ronald Blum Harper said after going 0 there.” reached an agreement The television deal pro-
Associated Press for 4. “It was big, sharp.” When the Phillies put two on a six-year contract ex- vides stability to a league
HOUSTON (AP) — Framber Houston became the first runners on for the only time tension with ESPN and Fox that a little more than a
Valdez swapped his glove team to open a Series against him in the sixth, worth more than $2 billion year ago seemed to be
and his spikes midgame. game with three straight Valdez struck out Game 1 that will keep the confer- in danger of falling apart.
He repeatedly rubbed his extra-base hits, and Valdez star J.T. Realmuto with high ence’s media rights with Oklahoma and Texas an-
hands. pitched shutout ball into heat, then got Harper to those networks through nounced in the summer
By the time he strode off the seventh, rebounding bounce a first-pitch sinker the 2030-31 college sports of 2021 that they intended
the mound to a standing from a pair of poor outings into an inning-ending dou- seasons, according to to leave the Big 12 for the
ovation and handed the against Atlanta last year ble play. people familiar with the Southeastern Conference
Houston Astros’ bullpen that had left him with a Phillies manager Rob Thom- deal. at the end of the current
a seventh-inning lead, it 19.29 Series ERA. son didn’t take issue with TV deal, which expires in
was clear he had thrown He threw 42 curveballs Valdez rubbing his palm Two people confirmed 2025.
a curve at the Philadelphia among 104 pitches and — social media was abuzz, details of the new media
Phillies. got six of nine strikeouts wondering if there was rights deal to The Asso- Former Big 12 Commis-
“This was a really good with that pitch, three of some banned sticky sub- ciated Press on Sunday, sioner Bob Bowlsby and
game for the fans, a really them looking. He allowed stance. speaking on condition the conference moved
good game for our team four hits and one run in 6 “The umpires check these of anonymity because quickly to add Houston,
and also for me,” he said 2/3 innings, giving up a guys after almost every in- contracts have yet to be Cincinnati, Central Florida
through a translator after leadoff double in the sev- ning and if there’s some- finalized and no official and BYU. Those four will
pitching the Astros over the enth to Nick Castellanos, thing going on MLB will take announcement was ex- join next year, giving the
Phillies 5-2 Saturday night who scored on Jean Segu- care of it,” Thomson said. pected soon. Big 12 14 teams for at least
to tie the World Series at ra’s sacrifice fly off Rafael “We saw it the last time he one season.
one game apiece. “I’ve Montero. started, too.” Sports Business Journal was
just been playing really in- “Nobody should think of Jose Altuve, Jeremy Peña the first to report the deal It would cost tens of mil-
spired.” it as anything like in the and Yordan Alvarez all would be worth $380 mil- lions of dollars for Texas
Valdez made a five-run wrong way. I do it out in the doubled as Houston took lion annually. The Big 12 and Oklahoma to break
lead stand up after Hous- open,” he said. “It’s all ten- a two-run lead four pitches still has two years left on its current contracts leave
ton’s lightning first-inning dencies I do. I do it through- in against Zack Wheeler. current deals with Fox and the conference early.
burst and Alex Bregman out the game, maybe dis- Shortstop Edmundo Sosa’s ESPN.
homered as the Astros tract the hitter a little bit throwing error allowed an- Without the Longhorns and
rushed to a 5-0 lead for the from what I’m doing, Like other run in the first. New Big 12 Commissioner Sooners, there were con-
second straight night. Un- maybe look at me, rubbing Bregman added a two- Brett Yormark announced cerns about how much
like ace Justin Verlander different things, and noth- run homer in the fifth when in August he was engag- networks would value the
in the opener, Valdez and ing about the pitch that I’m Wheeler left a slider over ing the networks in discus- the Big 12. The final two
Houston held on. going to throw. I’ve been the middle of the plate, sions about an extension years of the current deal
“His curveball was on to- doing it all season.” Bregman’s sixth career Se- and just a few weeks ago pays $220 million annually.
night,” Phillies star Bryce Valdez started the game ries homer.q