MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nestor Cortes bounced back from his dreadful Milwaukee Brewers debut by allowing just one hit over six innings in a 1-0 victory over the slumping Cincinnati Reds on Thursday.
The Reds lost 1-0 for a third straight game after falling by that score to the Texas Rangers each of the previous two days. According to Sportradar, the Reds are the first team to lose three consecutive games 1-0 since the Philadelphia Phillies in May 1960. It’s happened six times in the majors, four of those from 1908-17.
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Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Néstor Cortes (65) throws to the Cincinnati Reds during the first inning of a baseball game, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Nick Lodolo throws to the Milwaukee Brewers during the first inning of a baseball game. Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick (10) crashes into the wall trying to catch a double by the Cincinnati Reds' Jose Trevino (35) during the third inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Nick Lodolo throws to the Milwaukee Brewers during the first inning of a baseball game, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Milwaukee Brewers' Sal Frelick (10) watches his run-scoring single against the Cincinnati Reds during the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Members of the Wisconsin Badgers NCAA championship woman's hockey team talk to Milwaukee Brewers' Sal Frelick (10) before the first inning of a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Nestor Cortes throws out Cincinnati Reds' TJ Friedl (29) during the third inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Cortes (1-1) was pitching five nights after allowing homers on each of his first three pitches in a 20-9 loss to the New York Yankees, his former team. Cortes yielded eight runs, five walks and six hits in two innings of a game that helped draw attention to the Yankees' use of “torpedo bats.”
He was much sharper Thursday, striking out six and walking two. The Reds’ only hit off Cortes was a one-out double by Jose Trevino in the third.
Joel Payamps retired the side in order in the ninth for his first save.
Cincinnati’s Nick Lodolo (1-1) allowed one unearned run and four hits in 6 2/3 innings.
Lodolo didn’t allow a baserunner for the first three innings. In the fourth, Jackson Chourio led off with a ground-rule double, and a fielding error by Lodolo allowed William Contreras to reach with one out. Sal Frelick drove in Chourio with a two-out single.
The Reds put two runners on with one out in the seventh against Elvis Peguero, who then retired Spencer Steer and Santiago Espinal on fly balls to center.
The Reds are the first team to get shut out in three straight games since the Washington Nationals last September.
Nick Martinez (0-1, 6.00 ERA) pitches for the Reds as the four-game series continues Friday. The Brewers hadn't announced a starter.
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Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Néstor Cortes (65) throws to the Cincinnati Reds during the first inning of a baseball game, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Nick Lodolo throws to the Milwaukee Brewers during the first inning of a baseball game. Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick (10) crashes into the wall trying to catch a double by the Cincinnati Reds' Jose Trevino (35) during the third inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Nick Lodolo throws to the Milwaukee Brewers during the first inning of a baseball game, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Milwaukee Brewers' Sal Frelick (10) watches his run-scoring single against the Cincinnati Reds during the fourth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Members of the Wisconsin Badgers NCAA championship woman's hockey team talk to Milwaukee Brewers' Sal Frelick (10) before the first inning of a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Nestor Cortes throws out Cincinnati Reds' TJ Friedl (29) during the third inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
President Donald Trump remained defiant Monday as global markets continued plunging after his tariff announcement last week.
Trump has insisted his tariffs are necessary to rebalance global trade and rebuild domestic manufacturing. He's singled out China as “the biggest abuser of them all” and criticized Beijing for increasing its own tariffs in retaliation.
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Wilmer Escaray left Venezuela in 2007 and enrolled at Miami Dade College, opening his first restaurant six years later.
Today, he has a dozen businesses that hire Venezuelan migrants like he once was, workers who are now terrified by what could be the end of their legal shield from deportation.
Since the start of February, the Trump administration has ended two federal programs that together allowed more 700,000 Venezuelans to live and work legally in the U.S. along with hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans.
In the largest Venezuelan community in the United States, people dread what could face them if lawsuits that aim to stop the government fail. It’s all anyone discusses in “Little Venezuela” or “Doralzuela,” a city of 80,000 people surrounded by Miami sprawl, freeways and the Florida Everglades.
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The Monday meeting will make Netanyahu the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he unleashed tariffs on countries around the world.
Whether Netanyahu’s visit succeeds in bringing down or eliminating Israel’s tariffs remains to be seen, but how it plays out could set the stage for how other world leaders try to address the new tariffs.
Netanyahu’s office has put the focus of his hastily organized Washington visit on the tariffs, while stressing that the two leaders will discuss major geopolitical issues including the war in Gaza, tensions with Iran, Israel-Turkey ties and the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant against the Israeli leader last year. Trump in February signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the ICC over its investigations of Israel.
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The stock market briefly spiked on a report that Kevin Hassett, a top White House economic adviser, said the president was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs.
The supposed remark from Hassett circulated on social media, but no one could pinpoint where it came from even as the market flashed from red to green.
Hassett had spoken to Fox News earlier in the morning, when he was asked about a potential pause. However, he was noncommittal.
“I think the president is going to decide what the president is going to decide,” he said.
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Vance’s mother, Beverly Aikins’ on Friday received a 10-year sobriety medallion in the Roosevelt Room at a ceremony with friends and family.
Vance described Aikins’ past drug addiction in his bestselling book “Hillbilly Elegy.”
The cases are likely headed to a Supreme Court showdown on the president’s power over independent agencies.
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued the ruling in the lawsuits separately brought by Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox.
The ruling reverses, at least for now, a judgement from a three-judge panel from the same appellate court.
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The dispute over tariffs has caused some fracturing within Trump’s political coalition.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said the president was “launching a global economic war against the whole world at once” and urged him to “call a time out.”
“We are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter,” he wrote on X on Sunday.
Top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox News on Monday morning that Ackman should “ease off the rhetoric a little bit.”
Hassett said critics were exaggerating the impact of trade disputes and talk of an “economic nuclear winter” was “completely irresponsible rhetoric.”
The president showed no interest in changing course despite turmoil in global markets.
He said other countries had been “taking advantage of the Good OL’ USA” on international trade.
“Our past ‘leaders’ are to blame for allowing this, and so much else, to happen to our Country,” he wrote on Truth Social. “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump criticized China for increasing its own tariffs and “not acknowledging my warning for abusing countries not to retaliate.”
On a day when stock markets around the world dropped precipitously, Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl led a celebration of the president whose global tariffs sparked the sell-off.
With no mention of the Wall Street roller coaster and global economic uncertainty, Wahl declared his state GOP’s “Trump Victory Dinner” — and the broader national moment — a triumph. And for anyone who rejects Trump, his agenda and the “America First” army that backs it all, Wahl had an offer: “The Alabama Republican Party will buy them a plane ticket to any country in the world they want to go to.”
Wahl’s audience — an assembly of lobbyists and donors, state lawmakers, local party officials and grassroots activists — laughed, applauded and sometimes roared throughout last week’s gala in downtown Birmingham.
Yet beyond the cheerleading, there were signs of a more cautious optimism and some worried whispers over Trump’s sweeping tariffs, the particulars of his deportation policy and the aggressive slashing by his Department of Government Efficiency.
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This morning, at 11 a.m., World Series Champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, will visit the White House and meet the president. Later, at 1 p.m., Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House and meet with Trump. At 2 p.m., Netanyahu and Trump will participate in a Bilateral Meeting in the Oval Office. At 2:30 p.m., they will hold a joint news conference.
Trump said Sunday that he won’t back down on his sweeping tariffs on imports from most of the world unless countries even out their trade with the U.S.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said he didn’t want global markets to fall, but also that he wasn’t concerned about the massive sell-off either, adding, “sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.”
His comments came as global financial markets appeared on track to continue sharp declines once trading resumes Monday, and after Trump’s aides sought to soothe market concerns by saying more than 50 nations had reached out about launching negotiations to lift the tariffs.
The higher rates are set to be collected beginning Wednesday. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said unfair trade practices are not “the kind of thing you can negotiate away in days or weeks.” The United States, he said, must see “what the countries offer and whether it’s believable.”
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Pedestrian are reflected on a brokerage house's window as an electronic board displays shares trading index, in Beijing, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Shipping containers are stored at Bensenville intermodal terminal in Franklin Park, Ill., Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
President Donald Trump arrives at the White House on Marine One, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
