Your 2 Cents’ Worth For Friday, Dec. 15, 2017

Heroes have been hard to find for the Rockies, but Friday night, there were plenty of them in LoDo. Shortstop Ezequiel Tovar ripped an RBI single down the left-field line off Phillies left-hander Gregory Soto to score Brenton Doyle from third and lift Colorado to a thrilling 3-2 victory. Tovar hit Soto’s 0-1 slider for the second walk-off hit of his career. “Honestly, I was just thinking, ‘Get a good at-bat there because our bullpen did a hell of a job tonight,’ ” Tovar said, using bullpen catcher Aaron Munoz as his interpreter. “Situations like that are extremely fun,” Tovar continued.

Philadelphia star Bryce Harper was ejected after striking out in the first inning of the Phillies’ game at the Colorado Rockies on Friday night. Harper struck out on a 0-2 curveball from Ty Blach, dropped his bat and threw his helmet. The two-time NL MVP said something to plate umpire Brian Walsh and immediately was ejected. Bryce Harper got ejected in this exchange pic.twitter.com/MVwsgmwdAP — Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 25, 2024 Harper and Phillies manager Rob Thomson argued to no avail following Harper’s 21st big league ejection.

An 18-year-old Centennial man was arrested Wednesday on charges of child sex exploitation after Arapahoe County sheriff’s officials allege he harassed and extorted juvenile victims over Snapchat and text messages. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | 41 pounds of meth, 33K fentanyl pills seized in Centennial drug bust; 1 arrested Crime and Public Safety | Arapahoe County deputies fatally shoot man holding developmentally disabled woman at gunpoint Crime and Public Safety | Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputies involved in shooting near Quincy Reservoir Crime and Public Safety | 18-year-old rescued after falling 30 feet into abandoned missile silo near Deer Trail Crime and Public Safety | Colorado lawmakers’ latest police oversight bill would protect whistleblowers from retaliation John Farnsworth Van Der Bosch was arrested on suspicion of seven counts of sexual exploitation of a child and one count each of criminal extortion and aggravated cruelty to animals, all felonies. The sheriff’s office began investigating Van Der Bosch on Feb.

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"This is not a GOP cuckolding convention!!" screamed one man into the microphone. Damn, I thought that's exactly what it was. Judging by this reception though Trump will not speak as scheduled on Saturday and will just run away. That's what cowards always do. Source: Politico Donald Trump won’t be speaking to his usual self-selected crowd of adoring red-hatted MAGA fans when he addresses the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday. As delegates gathered at the Washington Hilton on the eve of his speech, the party’s decision to host the former president, which had split the organization, erupted Friday into open revolt.

NEW ORLEANS — First-of-its-kind legislation that classifies two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances was signed into law Friday by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry. The Republican governor announced his signing of the bill in Baton Rouge a day after it gained final legislative passage in the state Senate. Opponents of the measure included many physicians who said the drugs have other critical reproductive health care uses, and that changing the classification could make it harder to prescribe the drugs. Supporters of the bill, which affects the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, said it would protect expectant mothers from coerced abortions, though they cited only one example of that happening, in the state of Texas.