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MIAMI — Emmanuel Rivera hit a game-winning pinch-hit single in the 10th inning and the Miami Marlins beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6 Sunday. Rivera’s hard grounder deflected off the glove of Phillies reliever Gregory Soto (0-1) and into right field, scoring automatic runner Nick Fortes from second. Jazz Chisholm Jr. doubled and tripled while Josh Bell homered for the Marlins, who snapped a five-game losing skid and began Sunday with a major league-worst 10-31 record. Anthony Bender (1-2) pitched a scoreless top of the 10th around two walks. Down 6-3, Philadelphia tied it on Edmundo Sosa’s two-run triple and Brandon Marsh’s sacrifice fly against Miami reliever Andrew Nardi in the sixth. Phillies starter Zack Wheeler gave up a season-high six runs and was lifted after four innings.

A Broward inmate sentenced for robbery and battery escaped from the Hollywood Release Center last month, the Department of Correction reports. Christine Hess, 37, escaped about 10:19 p.m. on April 26 and is still at large, according to a notice on the Department of Corrections website. The department is asking anyone with information about Hess’s whereabouts to notify their local law enforcement agency, or call the Department of Corrections at (850) 922-6867. She was sentenced in Feb.

GAINESVILLE — Florida golfer Ian Gilligan is a planner. This can be both a blessing and a curse. Gilligan’s transfer from Long Beach State has worked out as well as could be expected for himself and the No. 15 Gators, who begin defense of their national title Monday at NCAA Regionals. “Ian’s been a home run,” coach JC Deacon told the Orlando Sentinel.

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By JOSH BOAK (Associated Press) REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians” but failed to neutralize Hamas leaders and fighters and could drive a lasting insurgency. In a pair of TV interviews, Blinken underscored that the United States believes Israeli forces should “get out of Gaza,” but also is waiting to see credible plans from Israel for security and governance in the territory after the war. Hamas has reemerged in parts of Gaza, Blinken said, and that “heavy action” by Israeli forces in the southern city of Rafah risks leaving America’s closest Mideast ally “holding the bag on an enduring insurgency.” He said the United States has worked with Arab countries and others for weeks on developing “credible plans for security, for governance, for rebuilding” in Gaza, but ”we haven’t seen that come from Israel.

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