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The Azteca was supposed to silence England, but Jude Bellingham had other ideas. Mexico and England are going at it in a round-of-sixteen World Cup thriller in Mexico City, with Bellingham putting on a show before the hosts clawed their way back into it. Nearly ninety thousand fans who went quiet are now absolutely electric again.
Shifting to baseball, Eury Pérez was dealing something special in West Sacramento on Sunday — seven perfect innings against the Athletics, not a single baserunner allowed. The Marlins were up eight runs and it looked like a coronation. Then Miami pulled him, and the bullpen nearly torched the whole thing, surrendering eight runs before holding on for a nine-to-eight win. A masterpiece nearly swallowed by a meltdown.
And a story that hits differently — Dodgers prospect Eliezer Alfonzo made his major league debut on Sunday carrying an unbearable weight. He learned that same day his sister and stepmother were killed in the Venezuela earthquake. He took the field anyway. That kind of courage puts everything else in perspective.
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