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Braves left-hander Max Fried allowed six hits with nine strikeouts and one walk in 6 2/3 innings. Former Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen struck out the side in the ninth, including throwing a game-ending fastball past Trea Turner, for his 19th save. Dodgers designated hitter Will Smith tied the game at 3 with a homer to left field off A.J. The Marcell Ozuna contract is one of the worst deals in baseball and a hideous wart on Alex Anthopoulos’ resumé. After nearly capturing the Triple Crown, Ozuna signed a lucrative four-year, $65 million contract to stay with the Braves. Ozuna has accrued -0.9 fWAR because of his abysmal defense, .222 batting average, and .675 OPS since signing that deal.
In November, MLB suspended the 31-year-old Ozuna retroactively for 20 games under its domestic violence policy, allowing him to return for the start of this season. Travis d'Arnaud led off the seventh with a double to left field off Brusdar Graterol (2-3). Ozuna hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning and Atlanta recovered after blowing a three-run lead to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 on Saturday night. Ozuna hit a baseball where very few have, well beyond the center field wall at Fenway Park. Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna had already cranked two home runs when he stepped up to the plate in the top of the eighth against the Boston Red Sox.
The Braves outfielder wasn't shy about celebrating his first postseason homer with Atlanta
The video of the home run celebration circulated over social media, and many users weren't thrilled with Ozuna's antics. One college baseball player's controversial home run celebration is causing a rift among baseball fans. A police plan for video surveillance of a Dortmund street home to suspected neo-Nazis has been overruled by an administrative court.
When others are watching game film of upcoming pitchers, I assume Ozuna is watching old highlights to figure out home run celebrations. "In other words, when you do a search, you can only really tell afterward whether the search was justified or not," he said. Braves reliever Will Smith gave up Austin Barnes' run-scoring single to right, cutting Atlanta's lead to 3-2 before walking Turner to load the bases. Smith struck out Freeman to end the inning in the rematch of the past two NL championship series. Ozuna was limited to 48 games in 2021 due to an injury and his May 29 arrest on charges of aggravated assault by strangulation and battery.
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Experts are divided over whether "Hessendata" constitutes "predictive policing." Earlier in the offseason, Mark Bowman reported the club unsuccessfully tried to trade Ozuna prior to the trade deadline, noting the deal was for Patrick Corbin, who notoriously has one of the worst contracts in the MLB. He’s owed $59 million over the next two seasons… AND the Nationals still weren’t willing to take on the remaining $33 million left on Ozuna’s deal. Retired MLB player Jeff Frye, who never hit more than four home runs in a single season, posted it to Twitter where it's received more than 10,000 retweets and four million views.
There are also fears that the program can use AI techniques to racially profile potential offenders. Complaints about racial profiling — and far-right sympathies among officers — have plagued the German police, especially in Hesse. What exactly the program can and can't do, and what it can legally be used for, was the subject of Tuesday's hearing, and yet remains unclear — mainly because little is publicly known about the software. Cody Bellinger had a run-scoring single off Fried as the Dodgers scored two runs in the seventh. Graterol faltered in his first opportunity to show he can take a more important role in the back of the Dodgers' bullpen after Daniel Hudson's season-ending knee injury was confirmed before the game. More than likely, the Braves will have to eat most, if not all, of the money still owed to him over the next two seasons, which might not seem attractive.
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And his off-the-field issues aren’t helping, catching a DUI and domestic violence charge in a short period. Ozuna spiked the bat into the dirt (and hopefully didn't hit anyone with it). When he reached home, he emphatically stomped on home plate to a resounding "BOOM!" from his teammates in the dugout. It's safe to say that Ozuna's teammates were fans of his antics as star outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. decided to recreate the fake selfie in the Braves dugout. The reason for the selfies may have also been to take a little revenge on the Reds.
Ben Knight is a journalist in Berlin who mainly writes about German politics. The Constitutional Court is not expected to make a decision for several more months – in the meantime, the police in Hesse will continue to use the software. Complicating an already complex issue is that the Hesse state parliament has also commissioned an investigative committee to establish whether or not the government's procurement procedure was lawful. "I think that is problematic in itself, that the opposition apparently had no other way of having an influence on the procedure." Thiel said that Hessendata was essentially a "platform that offers you an overview of the data that you already have. You can for example identify groups of offenders, where before you only had individual facts," he said. "For example, with a ring of child pornography users and producers, it was often very difficult to establish who might be involved. This software can be used for that."
Judges have said recording activity on the road would exceed police powers. Another thing that troubles Egbert is how the Hesse government went about changing its policing law to suit the software. "I do think it's quite questionable that a government decides it wants to use certain software and then just changes policing laws – of course with the required parliamentary majority," he said. "And now four years later it's in Karlsruhe, where the first more or less independent people decide whether that is legal or not." As it stands, Thiel argued, "the rules do not allow the police to use AI systems to continually monitor citizens in order to create personality profiles at some point in the future," he said. "It's nothing like 'Minority Report,' where you want to predict crimes. The law requires the police to already have information that there is a threat."
When Trevor Bauer was lifted after having thrown 7 2/3 shutout innings in Game 1, he did one of the "tomahawk chops" that Braves fans are known for as he exited the field. That most certainly didn't sit well with Atlanta's players, so when Ozuna went deep to end Cincinnati's season, he made sure to really savor it. When Raisel Iglesias tried to sneak an 0-1 fastball by Ozuna, the Braves slugger crushed it into the left-field seats. Considering that the Reds had set a postseason record for failing to score in 21 consecutive innings , it's the kind of dagger that ended Cincinnati's postseason hopes with one swing. As Ozuna rounded first base, he appeared to do a slightly awkward, almost-limping version of Deion Sanders' famous high step celebration. Obviously, this is a nod to the former two-sport star and Atlanta Braves great -- Sanders hit .277 and stole 75 bases in his four seasons with Atlanta.
White was added to the rotation after left-hander Andrew Heaney was placed on the 10-day injured list on Friday with left shoulder inflammation. ATLANTA — Marcell Ozuna says he's beginning to see evidence of his work to regain his timing at the plate after missing most of last season. Ozuna's team wound up losing on Sunday to end their season, but his home run celebration will probably remain a topic of discussion. But let's not fault the kid for showing some damn emotion in baseball. He's an infielder for Wayland Baptist University, and he hit one of the biggest home runs of his life on Saturday against Oklahoma City University. Later in the inning, Adam Duvall connected on a two-run home run of his own to put the game out of reach.
"Moreno is a consensus top-10 prospect in all of baseball; that kind of player being dealt is incredibly rare." Ozuna finished the night 3-for-5, with three home runs and six runs batted in, to lead Atlanta to a 10-3 victory. "That’s the age we’re in. I see the highlights. I see guys strutting around and doing this and that. It doesn’t even faze me anymore. Where we’re at in the game, I better deal with it because it’s not going away." In the bottom of the eighth inning of the Braves' 5-0 win vs. the Reds in Game 2 of the Wild Card Series on Thursday afternoon, Marcell Ozuna came to the plate with Atlanta leading by a run with a runner on first. Ozuna decided that the selfie was going to be the big final celebration, but for every Braves fan out there, they were just happy to see him put his feet on home plate to extend the lead.
The German research and advocacy organization AlgorithmWatch says that Hessendata coordinates information from police databases with phone records and social media accounts to investigate potential criminals and terrorists. The police in Hesse also want to use it to profile child abusers and traffickers. However, the home run -- which padded the Braves' lead, and led to a 2-0 series victory -- wasn't exactly what had people talking. After hitting the home run, Ozuna pretended to take a selfie as he trotted down the first base line. One out later, Swanson hit a first-pitch slider 413 feet over the center field fence for a 2-0 lead. Mitch White, recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City, allowed three runs and five hits with two walks in four-plus innings.
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