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Adrian Del Castillo gave Arizona everything it needed on Saturday night, launching a three-run home run in the first inning to set the tone against Milwaukee. Merrill Kelly gutted out five innings for his sixth win, and despite Christian Yelich's solo shot making things interesting late, the Diamondbacks held on four to three.
Over at Wrigley Field, the Fourth of July got genuinely strange when a wall of fog rolled in during the sixth inning of Cubs-Cardinals and shut the whole thing down. Players were telling umpires they literally could not track the baseball, and the automated ball-strike challenge system went dark entirely. Rain had already pushed the start time back, and then Mother Nature decided to go full haunted ballpark on everybody.
Across the Atlantic, Naomi Osaka is making serious noise at Wimbledon two thousand twenty six, reaching the fourth round of the grass-court major for the first time in her career. She took down Daria Kasatkina to get there, and now she's got her eyes locked on the next match with the kind of confidence that's been building all tournament long on the grass.
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