Game 4: Dodgers Outlast Astros To Tie Up World Series
Joc Pederson of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates hitting a three-run home run in the ninth inning.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers evened the stakes Saturday night, outlasting the Houston Astros in a drawn-out rally that quickly escalated into a 6-2 victory in the final inning.
The Dodgers’ Joc Pederson sealed the late comeback with a three-run homer off of Astros pitcher Joe Musgrove in the top of the ninth inning.
Remarkably, Game 4 remained scoreless all the way through the fifth inning, as Alex Wood completed a historic outing as the first Dodgers pitcher to carry his team through five World Series innings without allowing a hit. Meanwhile, the Astros’ Charlie Morton, who let in three hits, wasn’t far behind the starting pitcher. But Astros’ George Springer broke both the no-hit bid and the tie in the bottom of the sixth inning with a left-field homer.
Dodgers’ longest WS no-hit bids:
5+ Alex Wood 2017-4
4? Sandy Koufax 1963-1
4 Ralph Branca 1947-1
4 Carl Erksine 1953-3
4 Koufax 1965-5— Doug Kern (@dakern74) October 29, 2017
The Dodgers evened things up in the seventh inning as Cody Bellinger scored off of a single from teammate Logan Forsythe.
But it wasn’t until the top of the ninth that the Dodgers blasted ahead with five runs. The Astros took one run in the bottom but it wasn’t enough to recover.
Chatter leading up to Game 4 focused on Astros’ Yuli Gurriel who, just hours before Saturday’s game, escaped a World Series suspension for making a racist gesture toward Dodgers’ Yu Darvish in Game 3. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred did pull him out of a handful of games next season, but tonight, the first baseman received a standing ovation from a noticeable amount of Astros fans.
Game 5 is scheduled for Sunday night in Houston.
Racism Is Literally Bad For Your Health
Harvard professor David Williams says, “Much of this discrimination that occurs in the health care context, and in other contexts of society, may not even be intentional.”
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Most people can acknowledge that discrimination has an insidious effect on the lives of minorities, even when it’s unintentional. Those effects can include being passed over for jobs for which they are qualified or shut out of housing they can afford. And most people are painfully aware of the tensions between African-Americans and police.
But discrimination can also lead to a less obvious result: tangible, measurable negative effects on health. A new survey conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health asked members of different ethnic and racial groups about their experiences with discrimination. Ninety-two percent of African-American respondents said they felt discrimination against African-Americans exists in the United States today, and at least half said they have experienced it themselves at work or when interacting with police.
All of this discrimination can literally be deadly, according to Harvard professor David Williams, who has spent years studying the health effects of discrimination.
He tells NPR’s Michel Martin: “Basically what we have found is that discrimination is a type of stressful life experience that has negative effects on health similar to other kinds of stressful experiences.”
Interview Highlights
On the health problems caused by day-to-day discrimination
The research indicates it is not just the big experiences of discrimination, like being passed over for a job or not getting a promotion that someone felt they might have been entitled to. But the day-to-day little indignities affect health: being treated with less courtesy than others, being treated with less respect than others, receiving poorer service at restaurants or stores. Research finds that persons who score high on those kinds of experiences, if you follow them over time, you see more rapid development of coronary heart disease. Research finds that pregnant women who report high levels of discrimination give birth to babies who are lower in birth weight.
On discrimination at the doctor’s office
Across virtually every medical intervention, from the most simple medical treatments to the most complicated treatments, blacks and other minorities receive poorer-quality care than whites. African-Americans who are college-educated do more poorly in terms of health than whites who are college-educated. And these racial differences in the quality and intensity of care persist for African-Americans irrespective of the quality of insurance that they have, irrespective of their education level, irrespective of their job status, irrespective of the severity of disease.
On how to start combating discrimination
Much of this discrimination that occurs in the health care context, and in other contexts of society, may not even be intentional. There is intentional discrimination, but we think the majority of the discrimination that occurs in the health care context is driven by what we call “implicit bias” or “unconscious unthinking discrimination.”
If I am a normal human being, I am most likely to be prejudiced. Why? Because every society, every culture, every community has in groups and out groups. And if there are some groups that you have been taught — just subtly, as you were raised — to think of negatively, you will treat that person differently when you encounter someone from that group, without any negative intention on your part, even if you possess egalitarian beliefs. That’s why you have to acknowledge that I and everyone else is a part of the human family, and these are normal human processes that occur, and the first step to addressing it is to acknowledge: “It could be me.”
NPR’s digital news intern Jose Olivares produced this story for digital.
Solar Industry Anxious Ahead Of Tariff Decision
A U.S. trade commission next week will recommend whether to impose tariffs on cheap solar panels from Asia. The industry is divided over whether trade protection would cost jobs or create them.
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The U.S. solar industry is on edge, waiting to see whether the Trump administration will impose steep tariffs on foreign-made solar panels. Unease over the looming decision is already affecting the market. Will Stone of member station KJZZ in Phoenix reports that a trade commission is set to make its recommendations to the president in just a few days.
WILL STONE, BYLINE: To see just how far solar has come, take a climb to the top of parking structure number five in the heart of Arizona State University’s campus. There are rows of solar panels and, every few minutes, a rising hum.
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LEE FELICIANO: That was the tracker moving two degrees to follow the path of the sun.
STONE: When Lee Feliciano developed this back in 2008, it was one of the biggest solar projects in Arizona. And these panels came at a premium. Since then, a lot has changed.
FELICIANO: Ninety percent decline in the price of the solar panels over less than 10 years. And part of that is due to volume. Part of that is due to an expanding global market and, really, the entry of China.
STONE: Cheap solar panels from Asia have led to a booming industry across the U.S. But now Feliciano, whose company invests in such projects, worries possible trade protections could so much as double the price of imported panels.
FELICIANO: This tariff could hit us within the next couple of months. And so there’s that uncertainty right now with almost our entire pipeline.
STONE: This threat of a tariff started when two domestic manufacturers of solar panels lodged a complaint under U.S. trade law arguing the flood of imports has made it impossible for them to compete. Attorney Tim Brightbill represents one of those manufacturers, SolarWorld.
TIM BRIGHTBILL: In order to have a strong solar industry, you have to have a strong manufacturing industry.
STONE: Brightbill argues domestic solar panel makers can’t compete with foreign dumping and panels priced well below the cost of production. He says a trade protection will actually create jobs.
BRIGHTBILL: Solar demand is going to continue to grow. Solar installations will grow.
STONE: But that’s not what most of the industry believes. They say it would kill tens of thousands of jobs tied to installing solar, especially when it comes to building the largest facilities, known as utility-scale solar. That sector has grown nearly 70 percent each year since 2010.
MORTEN LUND: It’s all a big math problem.
STONE: Morten Lund is a San Diego-based attorney who represents renewable energy developers and says if panels suddenly double in price…
LUND: That’s a completely massive, game-changing increase. And so it’s not something you can just casually plan around.
STONE: And the fate of such projects under a tariff could rest on which state they’re planned for.
LUND: Where the big solar was or was about to be price-competitive with other types of electricity, it almost certainly will no longer be competitive at all.
STONE: But that all depends on what regulators recommend to President Donald Trump – a tariff, a quota or some combination – and then what he ultimately decides to do. Shayle Kann is the head of GTM Research.
SHAYLE KANN: The president has fairly wide leeway to implement whatever he so desires.
STONE: Given Trump’s tough talk on China and support of tariffs in general, the solar market is now in turmoil as companies wait to see what happens. For NPR News, I’m Will Stone in Phoenix.
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