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Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A30 earbuds now feature active noise canceling
As with previous versions, Anker is making its new Soundcore Sleep A30 available for preorder through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that’s launching today, while full availability of the earbuds is expected sometime in August 2025 through Amazon and Soundcore’s online store. At $229.99, the Sleep A30 are quite a bit more expensive than last year’s $149.99 Sleep A20, but the earliest Kickstarter backers can get the A30 discounted to $139.
The Sleep A30 earbuds are now 7 percent slimmer and feature a smaller design that ensures they don’t protrude from your ears so there’s reduced pressure while wearing them and laying on a pillow if you’re a side sleeper. To help you find a snug fit, Anker includes four sizes of silicone ear tips, three sizes of memory foam tips, and three sizes of ear wings.
Anker claims the new Sleep A30 block up to 30dB of external noise, but the added ANC, which uses two mics positioned inside and outside your ears, does result in reduced battery life. The A20 could run for up to 14 hours on a single charge, but the A30 max out at up to nine hours on their own, or up to 45 hours with their charging case. However, that’s only when listening to white noise or other sounds designed to help you fall asleep that are stored on the buds themselves. When streaming music or podcasts from a phone, battery life is further reduced to up to 6.5 hours or 35 hours with the case.
The Sleep A30’s charging case has been upgraded with what Anker is calling “Adaptive Snore Masking technology.” If it detects the sounds of snoring from another person nearby, it analyzes the volume and frequency of the sounds and generates “noise masking audio” that’s sent to the buds to help block it out.
The new earbuds also feature sleep monitoring and sleep position tracking, allowing you to see how restful or eventful your night was through the Soundcore mobile app; a private repeatable alarm with snooze functionality; and a Find My Earbud feature should they fall out in the night and get lost in the sheets.
Inside the closets of NBA Finals superstars SGA and Tyrese Haliburton
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CAMERAS LINED THE player’s entrance to Paycom Arena, bursting with flashes as Indiana’s star guard made his anticipated arrival to Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Tyrese Haliburton wore an off-white Carhartt button-down jacket, white pants, black shoes and sunglasses. Haliburton’s accessory of choice for the biggest game of his life? His debut signature sneakers, the Puma Hali 1, designed by Salehe Bembury in a hibiscus colorway.
Nearly an hour later, the hallway lit up again as the league MVP made his minute-long stride to the locker room. Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander walked in with light blue-tinted sunglasses, wearing a comfortable gray shirt jacket and his “Masi Blue” SHAI 001 Converses in honor of his younger brother, Thomasi.
The MVP’s statement piece? A Chanel cross-body bag, enhanced by a pearl-detailed strap and complemented by another, smaller cross-body mini bag.
“Shai’s been doing it since he came to the league,” Haliburton told ESPN about his Thunder counterpart. “He is kind of like the undisputed king of [NBA fashion].”
Gilgeous-Alexander and Haliburton aren’t just two star point guards who have driven the Thunder and Pacers to a 2-2 tie in the NBA Finals, they are also two of the league’s most fashionable players, known for their unique styles and designer outfits that are just as versatile as their games.
While both point guards are laser-focused on winning their first championship, for themselves and their teams, Gilgeous-Alexander and Haliburton are among the players who have brought a haute couture feel to this small-market NBA Finals showdown.
In the city where Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Serge Ibaka used to strut their finest fits, Gilgeous-Alexander — along with teammates such as Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren — has Oklahoma City back as the NBA’s fashion capital. And for Haliburton, acutely aware of this moment, he is using this Finals to prove doubters wrong and turn heads with his clutch game and his fashion style.
“OKC is a legendary tunnel with Russ and what Shai’s doing,” Haliburton told ESPN last week on the eve of Game 1.
“OKC is definitely one of everybody’s favorite tunnels.”
WESTBROOK USED TO roam this same tunnel wearing anything and everything from a COOGI crewneck to Saint Laurent boots.
It seemed as though he would go to any length for fashion — even if it meant ripping holes into jeans and sewing pieces, often purchased off the rack.
“My mom used to sew, so I used to watch,” Westbrook told ESPN during the 2023-24 season. “So if I rip something, if I cut it like I cut my jeans, I cut it up myself in the room.
“I can sew it by hand [with a needle]. I ain’t done it in a while, but I can also [sew] it by machine as well, too.”
Gilgeous-Alexander — the first Thunder point guard to lead Oklahoma City to the Finals since Westbrook’s 2012 team — carries the current NBA’s unofficial fashion crown.
“Shai is acknowledged pretty widely as the reigning king of NBA style,” said Wall Street Journal reporter Sam Schube, formerly GQ’s sports director. “He’s the guy who’s really picked up the mantle from LeBron [James], Allen Iverson, Dwyane Wade and Russ. He’s the next dude. … Shai’s sort of his own world. It doesn’t really feel like he’s playing the same game as everybody else.
“I don’t know how much Chanel you’re seeing in the NBA tunnel. That just tells you that that guy knows exactly what he wants to wear and feels great about doing it … to take a really classic fancy French lady women’s wear brand and twist it as an NBA player is like, ‘Ooh yeah.’ You’re feeling good about yourself.”
Gilgeous-Alexander is in the midst of a legendary season. He’s won the regular-season scoring title, MVP, the Western Conference Finals MVP and is working toward a possible Finals MVP.
Westbrook, who won league MVP with the Thunder in the 2016-2017 season, is known to help outfit his teammates by taking them shopping, buying suits or clothes for them and passing on style tips. Now with the Denver Nuggets, Westbrook has kept some of his more memorable outfits, from past Met Galas to his wedding and draft night suits.
These days, he wears mostly his own fashion brand, Honor The Gift. The 17-year veteran dons a different outfit to every game and then gives his clothes to either friends, students at his Westbrook Academy or charity.
“I teach them fashion, but being affordable,” Westbrook said of his shopping excursions with teammates. “I’m not big on having young guys go to [Louis] Vuitton and [Christian] Dior and spending $2,000 on stuff. I’m big on thrift shopping. That’s how I was brought up. My mom was the one that taught and helped me understand about being able to have what you have but also looking good with what you have. And that’s why I was able to create my own brand.”
Now, OKC has another MVP making waves in the fashion world. At 26, Gilgeous-Alexander walked the runway in Thom Browne’s show at Paris Men’s Fashion Week in 2022. He is a former GQ Most Stylish Man of the Year and is Converse Basketball’s creative director.
“The European Fashion Week trip has become kind of a box to check if you’re a pro athlete,” Schube said. “But it’s hard to remember guys walking in a Thom Browne show outside of Shai. He appears to have real relationships with some of these designers and sort of studies the craft as it were in a way that some of his peers don’t.”
It’s no wonder it took him about 40 minutes to assemble “eight to nine outfits” before the Finals in case the championship series goes the distance with alternative options.
“Before every series, I plan out my outfits for sure,” Gilgeous-Alexander told ESPN. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but every round I’ve debuted a new colorway of my [Converse] shoe. Round 1, all the outfits were centered around the gray shoes. And then Round 2, they were centered around the black shoes. Round 3, the clay shoes. And this round would be the blue shoes.”
LIKE WHEN WESTBROOK, Harden and Ibaka turned Oklahoma City’s pregames into a modeling runway, Gilgeous-Alexander isn’t the only fashion-conscious Thunder player. Williams, Holmgren and Lu Dort, all key performers on the second-youngest team to reach the NBA Finals, have also expressed themselves through their pregame fashion.
Williams is especially not shy to cause a commotion, once wearing an all-black headpiece that covered his entire head with three cushioned rows across his face.
He was fined $25,000 by the NBA for wearing clothing with profane language on it in his second-round Game 7 postgame media session.
“I say my style right now, it’s baggy,” Williams told ESPN. “But it’s also just me, whatever I’m feeling. So if I’m feeling lazy, I’m not afraid to wear pajamas. I’m not afraid to be comfortable.”
For Game 1 of the Finals, Williams, 24, went with a vintage relaxed look with a 90’s feel, sporting a black and pink zip-up hoodie jacket with a hat, a graphic T-shirt featuring Michael Jackson off the “Dangerous” album cover, baggy jeans and a “Pinky and the Brain” soft-sided lunch bag.
“This is like a classic Gen Z cool kid outfit,” Schube said. “Big sneakers, giant jeans, little shirt and then a trucker hat that looks like maybe you could have gotten it at a gas station, but I’m sure it costs a thousand dollars. And is he carrying a lunch box? This could not be more of a Gen Z outfit.”
Holmgren, 23, also values comfort, calling his style “casual but classy” while also wearing whatever he feels confident in. For Game 1, he wore a black hoodie, sunglasses and pants. He admits he and the MVP are in different fashion leagues.
“It’s not a competition because the budget isn’t the same,” Holmgren told ESPN of Gilgeous-Alexander, who signed a five-year, $172-million extension in 2021. “That’s a dangerous game to try to play. So I don’t even try to play it.
“I look at them as fashion professionals,” Holmgren said of Gilgeous-Alexander and Williams. “And I’m more of a fashion hobbyist.”
Williams admits he’s not on the MVP’s level, either. Gilgeous-Alexander took Williams shopping in New York during the forward’s rookie season in 2022-23. Williams saw firsthand the fashion connections Gilgeous-Alexander had as the two teammates shopped at designer stores that Williams couldn’t afford back then. Williams mostly watched Gilgeous-Alexander shop that day.
“The first time, it wasn’t that fun,” Williams said of that shopping experience with Gilgeous-Alexander.
“I just have more money now so I can kind of keep up.”
Williams said it never gets competitive between Thunder teammates when it comes to who has the best outfits. The way the MVP sees it, he’s dishing out fashion assists to his teammates.
“It doesn’t really get competitive,” Gilgeous-Alexander told ESPN as politely as he could when asked if there are any fashion battles. “I don’t want to sound like … they’re like, those are my kids in terms of fashion. I showed them what to do and what not to do.”
It’s why Oklahoma City is once again the fashion epicenter of the NBA.
“You do not think of Oklahoma City as the most fashionable place on Earth,” Schube said. “And yet there’s something in the water there. They’re a small market. [GM] Sam Presti, who built both of those teams, is obviously a guy who knows how to be creative and flexible when it comes to building a roster. And that means finding young players and empowering them.
“And so you get these young dudes who are just absolutely dripping and it happens to be in Oklahoma City.”
BEFORE GAME 6 of the Eastern Conference finals, Haliburton walked into Gainbridge Fieldhouse looking like he was dressed for a funeral. As the Pacers were poised to close out the New York Knicks, Haliburton arrived in a sharp all-black outfit with sunglasses while carrying a black duffle bag.
Ben Stiller, actor and die-hard Knicks fan, reposted a video of Haliburton’s walk with some trash talk.
“Good thing he brought his duffel for the flight to NY,” Stiller wrote on X, hoping the Knicks would force a Game 7.
Haliburton eliminated the Knicks with 21 points and 13 assists in the 125-108 Pacers’ win, and the point guard gave Stiller — who spoofed male supermodels in his comedy “Zoolander” — a perfect response.
“Nah, was to pack y’all up,” Haliburton wrote back on X.
The Pacers point guard is a massive wrestling fan and lives to come off the top rope with his fashion ensembles. He’s cognizant of how some arena tunnels are more high-profile than others, like Madison Square Garden’s ramp. As Schube points out, Haliburton seems to be “aware of how this is all going to play on social media” and “of the narrative and theatrics of it all.”
“Good style,” Gilgeous-Alexander said of Haliburton. “Above all, he wears it. He embraces his style and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. He just wears it. And that’s all you can really do is, ‘I’m going to go in my closet and have my eight outfits that I think are fire’… all you can do is trust your feel and wear it with confidence.”
Haliburton, 25, is used to hearing the good and the bad on social media about his style choices. Whether it’s going for a “Peaky Blinders” look or wearing a Prada trench coat that drew comparisons to Inspector Gadget online, Haliburton will stir it up.
“He doesn’t have one lane he just sticks to,” said Pacers teammate Myles Turner, who also is into fashion with a self-described “preppy Western” look. “Whatever he feels, he’s going to throw it on and it’s a conversation starter piece for sure.
“He’s bold, but so is his personality.”
At the 2024 All-Star Game, Haliburton wore a long double-breasted Prada runway jacket that had shaggy blue fur around both of his biceps and his knees. Some online likened the blue fur to the Cookie Monster.
“I think people just always fight things that they haven’t seen before or everybody just wants to fit in,” Haliburton told ESPN. “This is a world where if you try something different, everybody’s going to say something about it. I don’t dress like anybody else and I’m OK with that.
“I think there’s a lot of people that are truly in the fashion world that would tell you that I dress very well and I believe I do. But for some people who really don’t know anything about fashion, it would be like he dresses terrible. I just do what I want to do at the end of the day. I’m not here to please anybody.”
Haliburton chooses a practical approach with his outfits. While he likes to stand out in Comme des Garcons, Prada and The Row, Haliburton keeps a lot of pieces in rotation. He said he can wear 10 to 15 of the same pairs of shoes and rewear pants or a black button-up several times as layering pieces.
“I mean, we got money, but clothes are expensive, bro,” said Haliburton, who tries to stay grounded even after signing a five-year extension worth up to $260 million in 2023. “That’s why I try not to get too many super loud pieces that you could see I wore again.”
When it comes to those flashy pieces, Haliburton will sometimes sell them on Grailed, an online resale marketplace, with an anonymous account or give them to Olivier Rogers, his fashion stylist, to sell on sites like The RealReal.
“I have secret accounts on sites where you can resell clothes,” Haliburton said. “Even if I don’t get all the money back … say if I bought a jacket for five grand and I get three grand back, that’s better than getting nothing and it’s sitting in my closet.
“When I first came to [the NBA], it bothered me so much. I would spend all this money on a colorful pair of jeans and a vintage T-shirt. And once I wear it once and post it on my Instagram, I can’t wear it again.”
As Haliburton looks to stun the Thunder again in Monday’s Game 5 like he did in Game 1 with his game-winning shot, the Indiana star returns to the Paycom Center hoping to recreate the magic of that night, which started with honoring the standards of bringing heat to the OKC hallway.
One thing likely not for sale are the Hali 1’s he wore in Game 1. After he hit one of the most clutch shots in Finals history to complete the Pacers’ comeback win, Haliburton placed his signature Pumas next to the microphone for his postgame news conference.
“The secret sauce today was these,” Haliburton said as he pointed to his shoes after helping erase a 15-point fourth-quarter deficit.
Later, he would post on X the perfect mic drop — repeating one of the most iconic lines in NBA fashion history and an homage to Spike Lee’s Mars Blackmon.
“It’s gotta be the shooooeeesss,” Haliburton wrote.
Sister Wives’ Janelle Brown Says Robyn, Kody Courtship Wasn’t Appropriate
Janelle Brown Questioned How Kody Brown Handled the Family Money
Griping about the family’s inability to pay off Coyote Pass, Janelle said Kody claimed to have “all these other debts.” And, yet, she’s watched him snap up other assets like trailers and home décor. “I see all the art on their walls,” she said of Robyn and Kody’s home. “I see all these things. And that’s fine, I have money and I’ve spent it on things, too.” (For his part Kody said much of his cash went to buying cars—”Basically had a fleet”—and insurance for the kids.)
And while Janelle acknowledged she wasn’t sure how Kody and Robyn handled their finances, “I used to always be surprised at how nice her backyard was. It was completely finished. And there was always, like, stuff at her house. And I was like, ‘Wow. Huh.'”
Bottom line, she said, “He doesn’t prioritize what I need or what I want.” And that issue eventually wore her down. “I think after a while, I began to see it, and my kids were getting very angry about it, like my adult children. Like, ‘What the hell, Mom?'”
Robyn’s take, however, was that she was very careful with her budget after her first marriage fell apart.
“I used to be not so great with money,” she shared during the Sept. 22 episode. “When I was young, I had hard knocks, and then I learned during my divorce really how to budget myself very, very well.” As for her fellow sister wives, she said, “You just must have had a different priority of where your money was going to go than I did, that’s all.”
Blaise Metreweli appointed as MI6’s first female chief
MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time in the foreign intelligence service’s 116-year history.
Blaise Metreweli, who joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1999, will become the 18th chief of the organisation and take over from Sir Richard Moore later this year.
She is currently responsible for technology and innovation at the service and said she was “proud and honoured” to have been asked to lead.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called the appointment “historic” at a time “when the work of our intelligence services has never been more vital”.
MI6 is tasked with gathering intelligence overseas to improve the UK’s security, with its core aims being to stop terrorism, disrupt the activities of hostile states and bolster cyber-security.
Its chief, commonly referred to as “C”, is the only publicly named member of the service.
Ms Metreweli, 47, is currently Director General “Q” – head of the crucial technology and innovation division that aims to keep the identities of secret agents secret, and come up with new ways to evade adversaries like China’s biometric surveillance.
“MI6 plays a vital role – with MI5 and GCHQ – in keeping the British people safe and promoting UK interests overseas,” she said.
“I look forward to continuing that work alongside the brave officers and agents of MI6 and our many international partners.”
Ms Metreweli, who studied anthropology at the University of Cambridge, has previously held director level roles in MI5 – MI6’s sister, domestic security agency – and spent most of her career working in the Middle East and Europe.
On the King’s overseas and international birthday honours list in 2024, she received the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for her services to British foreign policy.
Speaking to the Telegraph in December 2021 when she was at MI5, under the pseudonym of “Director K”, Ms Metreweli said threats to UK national security “really are diverse”.
“The threats we are looking at primarily exist around protecting government, protecting secrets, protecting our people – so counter-assassination – protecting our economy, sensitive technology and critical knowledge,” she said.
She added that “Russian state activity – not Russia itself – remains a threat” and that China was “changing the way the world is and that presents amazing opportunities and threats for the UK”.
The organisation she will be running faces unprecedented and multiple challenges.
Geographically, these emanate primarily from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as the four nations co-operate ever more closely to undermine UK and Western interests across the globe.
But there are technical challenges too.
MI6’s role is to recruit human agents to steal secrets from Britain’s adversaries, which include both hostile nations and non-state groups like al-Qaeda.
In an age of rapid digital innovation, MI6 is having to pedal ever faster to stay ahead of its enemies and to remain relevant, when so much intelligence is now gathered online and from space.
Last September, outgoing chief Sir Richard – alongside then-CIA chief William Burns – warned that the international world was “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War”.
Writing in the Financial Times, the pair said that beyond the war in Ukraine, the two foreign intelligence services were continuing to “work together to disrupt the reckless campaign of sabotage across Europe being waged by Russian intelligence”.
Sir Richard and Mr Burns added that they saw the rise of China as the main intelligence and geopolitical challenge of the century. They also said they had pushed “hard” for restraint and de-escalation in the Middle East.
On Sunday, Sir Richard, who will step down in the autumn after five years in the role, said he was “absolutely delighted” with the “historic appointment” of his colleague.
“Blaise is a highly accomplished intelligence officer and leader, and one of our foremost thinkers on technology,” he said.
“I am excited to welcome her as the first female head of MI6.”
Foreign Secretary David Lammy, to whom Ms Metreweli will be accountable as MI6’s new chief, said she was the “ideal” candidate and would ensure the UK was able to tackle the challenges of “global instability and emerging security threats”.
“I would also like to pay tribute to Sir Richard Moore for his service and leadership,” he said.
“I have worked closely with him over the past year and thank him for his valuable contribution enhancing our national security and protecting the British public.”
Sir Keir also thanked Sir Richard for his “dedicated service”.
“I know Blaise will continue to provide the excellent leadership needed to defend our county and keep our people safe,” he added.
Additional reporting by Hollie Cole
Obama on DACA anniversary: Dreamers 'being demonized and treated as enemies'
Former President Obama said Dreamers are “being demonized and treated as enemies” in a social media post marking the 13th anniversary of his administration establishing the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“DACA was an example of how we can be a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws,” Obama said of the program, which was implemented to provide young immigrants who grew up in the United States temporary protection from deportation.
“And it’s an example worth remembering today, when families with similar backgrounds who just want to live, work, and support their communities, are being demonized and treated as enemies,” he continued.
The former president’s post comes after authorities conducted several workplace raids across California in recent days, detaining employees and stunning business owners.
In response to the raids, Los Angeles saw a wave of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which devolved at times into violence. President Trump deployed the National Guard to address the demonstrations, over the objections and criticism of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats.
The Trump administration has since directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to pause raids against select industries, citing a need to protect businesses as they lose “long time workers,” whose jobs are “almost impossible to replace.”
Obama has previously expressed his support for DACA, saying in 2022 that the program has helped recipients to stop living in fear and instead live freely in the country in which they grew up.
There are more than 530,000 active DACA recipients as of December.
“We can fix our broken immigration system while still recognizing our common humanity and treating each other with dignity and respect,” Obama said in his Sunday post. “In fact, it’s the only way we ever will.”
BT boss Kirkby expects AI to deepen job cuts, FT reports
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(Reuters) -BT Group Chief Executive Allison Kirkby said advances in artificial intelligence could deepen significant job cuts under way at the British telecoms company, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Kirkby told the newspaper that BT’s plans to cull more than 40,000 jobs and strip out 3 billion pounds ($4 billion) of costs by the end of the decade “did not reflect the full potential of AI”.
“Depending on what we learn from AI . . . there may be an opportunity for BT to be even smaller by the end of the decade,” the FT quoted her as saying.
Britain’s biggest broadband and mobile provider had said in 2023 that it would cut as many as 55,000 jobs, including contractors, by 2030. Its CEO at the time, Philip Jansen, said the company would rely on a much smaller workforce and significantly reduced cost base by the end of the 2020s.
Kirkby, who took over from Jansen a year ago, has also opened the door to a possible future spin-off of Openreach, the company’s network infrastructure business, the FT said.
She said she did not feel the value of Openreach was reflected in the company’s share price and if that persisted, BT “would absolutely have to look at options”.
In an emailed response to Reuters, BT said that Openreach is not something the company is actively looking at right now. It did not provide further comment on Kirkby’s FT interview.
BT said last month that strong demand for fibre broadband and more than 900 million pounds of cost savings had helped to shore up its full-year earnings and boost cash flow.
Resilience at Openreach offset declines in revenue and profit at its business and consumer units, where legacy voice services continued to wane and handset sales fell.
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(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in BengaluruEditing by Raju Gopalakrishnan, William Mallard and David Goodman)
Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI
Meta’s big investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s customers pause.
Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale $200 million this year but is now having conversations with its competitors and planning to cut ties. Microsoft is also reportedly looking to pull back, and OpenAI supposedly made a similar decision months ago, although its CFO said the company will continue working with Scale as one of many vendors.
Scale’s customers include self-driving car companies and the U.S. government, but Reuters says its biggest clients are generative AI companies seeking access to workers with specialized knowledge who can annotate data to train models.
Google declined to comment on the report. A Scale spokesperson declined to comment on the company’s relationship with Google, but he told TechCrunch that Scale’s business remains strong, and that it will continue to operate as an independent company that safeguards its customers’ data.
Earlier reports suggest that Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale for a 49% stake in the company, with Scale CEO Alexandr Wang joining Meta to lead the company’s efforts to develop “superintelligence.”
Aaron Judge, 1-for-12, blames self as Yanks swept by Red Sox
BOSTON — Aaron Judge blamed himself for swinging at pitches outside the strike zone as the New York Yankees were swept in a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox.
“You got to swing at strikes,” Judge said after going 1-for-12 in the series, which Boston completed with a 2-0 victory on Sunday.
Judge struck out three or more times in three straight games for only the third time in his major league career.
“That usually helps any hitter when you swing at strikes,” Judge added. “Definitely some pitches off the edge or off the edge in, you know, taking some hacks just trying to make something happen.”
Judge had a tying solo homer in the opener Friday night but struck out nine times as the Yankees were swept in a series for the first time this season.
New York scored only four runs in the three games, matching its fewest in a three-game series at Fenway Park, on June 20-22, 1916 and on Sept. 28-30, 1922.
“It’s very hard,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said of facing Judge. “He’s so good at what he does. We used our fastballs in the right spots, we got some swing and misses.”
“Throughout the years we’ve been aggressive with him,” Cora added. “Sometimes he gets us, sometimes we do a good job with that. It’s always fun to compete against the best, and, to me, he’s the best in the business right now.”
Judge’s major league-leading average dipped to .378.
“I don’t think much of it,” teammate Ben Rice said. “If I could have that guy hitting every single at-bat even if he’s not at his best, I would do it. I’m sure he’ll bounce back. He’ll be all right.”
Judge faced Garrett Whitlock with two on in the eighth Sunday and bounced into an inning-ending double play.
“He’s one of the greatest hitters in the world,” Whitlock said. “It’s special to watch him play and everything. We tried to execute and had some execution this weekend.”
90 Day Fiancé’s Juan David Daza, Jessica Parsons Share Wedding Moments
‘90 Day Fiancé’s’ Juan David Daza & Jessica Parsons Detail Emotional Wedding Moments
Juan David Daza and Jessica Parsons are trading their fiancé status for something better.
The 90 Day Fiancé stars exchanged vows during the season 11 finale of the TLC reality series June 15, marking a major milestone in their love story.
“It felt like a dream come true,” Jessica exclusively told E! News of her big day. Extra space “We had been waiting for so many years to be together and this was the conclusion to all the hard work we put in.”
As for Juan, the Colombian native described their nuptials as “more than just a celebration.”
“Our wedding day was one of the most meaningful days of our lives,” he gushed. “There was something really special about having our families together in one place.”
The ceremony, which marked the 90th wedding featured on the franchise, also included touching nods to Juan’s family members not in attendance, including his late mother. According to the groom, “Seeing a photo of my mom there, surrounded by my loved ones, made it even more emotional.”