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CLEVELAND (AP) — Tampa Bay third baseman Junior Caminero is day-to-day with a bruised jaw after getting struck with a foul tip during the first inning of Tuesday night's game against Cleveland.

Caminero was injured when he fouled a cutter from Cleveland's Tanner Bibee off the plate. The ball bounced off the plate and hit him in the area of the right jaw. Caminero fell to the ground and was face down for a couple minutes as Tampa Bay's trainer came out.

Caminero was examined for a couple minutes before deciding to remain in for the at-bat. He grounded out to Bibee before being replaced by Ben Williamson.

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The 22-year old Caminero — who spent three years in Cleveland's organization — leads the Rays with eight home runs and had hit safely in 12 of his last 14 games before Tuesday night.

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In her ideal world, Olivia Pichardo would just play ball and not take attention away from her teammates.

Brown Woman Pitcher

“Sometimes it feels a little ridiculous,” she told The Associated Press, “but it’s something I understand is going to happen. That's not what my primary focus is ever on.”

Pichardo has grown accustomed to being the only girl on her baseball team during her years in Little League, high school and travel ball. Four years ago she tried out for the Brown University team, made it and early in her freshman season became thefirst woman to appear in a Division I gamewhen she pinch-hit against Bryant.

On her senior day last Saturday, she became the first woman to pitch in a Division I game when she got the final out in a key win over Cornell.

“I feel like sometimes it might distract a bit too much from the success of our team,” Pichardo said. “We just made the playoffs for the first time since 2007, so that’s a huge accomplishment, and I wouldn’t want to take away from that."

Pichardo was listed as an outfielder and pitcher her first three years and focused only on pitching this season. The fact she stuck it out four years might seem surprising. Brown has played 151 games since Pichardo arrived, and she has appeared in only six. She pinch-hit once as a freshman, once as a sophomore and three times as a junior, when she also played right field for an inning and caught two flies.

Until Saturday, she hadn't appeared in a game this season, let alone warmed up in the bullpen. With Brown leading Cornell 16-3 in the ninth inning, coach Frank Holbrook's plan was to have little-used reliever Ty Harris get the first two outs and have Pichardo finish.

The 5-foot-7, 165-pound Pichardo has a four-pitch repertoire that includes a low-80s four-seam fastball to go with a sinker, changeup and curve. She entered with the bases loaded and threw two fastballs to Tyler Beaulieu, who grounded out to short to end Brown's 16-4 win.

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Pichardo said she has never had any problem melding with her teammates. She prefers just being one of the guys and not taking spotlight away from the team. She does, however, understand the magnitude of what she’s accomplished, not just in college but also in summer ball. In 2023, she became the first woman to hit a home run in a summer league,connecting for Sag Harborin the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League.

“It’s important for inspiring the younger generation of female baseball players, give them some kind of hope, I guess, that if they want to play at the collegiate level, no matter what division, that door is open for them and it is possible,” she said.

Pichardo, who graduates this spring with a degree in business economics, has been able to capitalize on name, image and likeness opportunities as the most visible woman in college baseball. She's in her third year as an endorser for the baseball equipment and apparel company Warstic Sports and she has a deal with Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards.

Once Brown's season ends, she'll turn her attention to trying out for the U.S. women's team that will play in the group stage of the 2027 World Cup. She has been a regular on Team USA since 2022 and pitched against Japan in the 2024 World Cup in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Pichardo said she's been grateful for every baseball opportunity since her father signed her up for a league in her hometown of Queens, New York, when she was 6.

“He didn't have any sons, so I like to say I was his designated son,” she said. “I've always been able to play at every level that I've progressed to, so there was never any reason for me to stop playing baseball just because I didn't see other women in the same space as me. It was my first sport, my first love and I knew I wanted to try and play at the highest level possible.”

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New photos ofthe Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Poolshow the latest mark that PresidentDonald Trump is havingon some of themost iconic spacesin the nation’s capital.

Officials insist that a new ocean-blue swimming pool coating beingapplied to the base of the Reflecting Poolwill make for a cleaner, more picturesque scene for the thousands of tourists and D.C. locals who walk by the spot every day.

The renovations come afterTrump complained that the 2,030-foot by 167-foot pool, which was built in 1922 between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, “never looked great” because the stone on the bottom of the pool was “not really meant to be a stone that's underwater for that much of a period of time.”

Trump told reporters last week that to sort the situation, he was hiring a contractor he’d used to build pools at his Trump hotels and residential towers. “I have a guy who’s unbelievable at doing swimming pools up the road,” the president said.

For now, the entire pool is fenced off, drained, and covered with construction equipment, including port-a-potties, as D.C.’s peak tourism season begins. On Monday, college graduates were taking photos in front of the empty cement basin, where a small blue square of sprayed-on coating is beginning to take shape at one end.

Tourists took photos at the Lincoln Memorial steps and with the backdrop of the Washington Monument but a handful of others peered through the fences, wondering what was going on. No signage indicates what the pool’s eventual appearance will look like for the families walking by or overlooking the project on the Lincoln Memorial’s steps.

Workers weren’t present at the site Monday, but a handful of tools were strewn around. National Park Service personnel could be seen performing other repair and beautification work nearby at the Vietnam War Memorial, where fence poles were being replaced and repainted by staff.

Photos taken byThe Independentshow the sheer scale of the project, which will likely take weeks or even months to complete, depending on the pace of progress. Only a few hundred square feet appeared to be covered by Monday afternoon. The pool itself is more than 330,000 square feet in area.

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For Washington D.C. officials, it’s one more headache caused by a president who made a physical transformation of the nation’s capital one of his top priorities upon his return to the White House. Preservationistsalso fear that the new look will be tacky and artificial,compared to the solemn feeling meant to be evoked by the old design.

Even as his legislative agenda has been stalled by slim GOP majorities in the House and Senate, the president has focused a large portion of his energy on construction and beautification projects at the White House and across the District of Columbia.

Inside the White House, gold filigree and lettering have appeared across the West Wing, which has also evolved to suit Trump’s decorative tastes in other ways. The complex’s historic East Wingwas demolished last year,stunning preservationists and city residents, to make roomfor a planned ballroomand other renovations, like a secure bunker for the president and his staff.

Across the city, the changes are just as apparent.

Parks and public edifices from one end of D.C. to the other are undergoing renovations, refurbishments and more as the president directed the Parks Service to repair fountains and conduct other beautification work to improve the scenery and encourage tourism. That’s hardly the half of it, though: Trump’s “takeover” of the nation’s capital last year involved an effort to federalize the city’s police force and deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops around D.C., many of whom remain in place at transit stations and are conducting foot patrols downtown. Federal law enforcement also swarmed the city, conducting a massive wave of immigration-related arrests and providing a visible, militarized presence on city streets.

The initial pressure on D.C.’s leaders and population was heavily resisted by residents, who engaged in verbal and sometimes physical confrontations with members of federal law enforcement during immigration-related stings and raids. A man was charged after throwing a sandwich at one agent, but a juryrefused to convict him.

One year later, that law enforcement presence has disappeared, but has spread around the country to places like Minneapolis, where two Americans were killed protesting ICE and DHS operations. The National Guard remains, largely milling about and occasionally intervening in incidents that take place in their vicinity. Two Guardsmen were shot, one fatally, last year outside a Metro station near the White House. A memorial is now on the spot.

Other aspects of Trump’s efforts to assert his presence and control across the city remain, however, as many federal buildings and headquarters still bear massive banners depicting his face.

Beautification projects like the one at the Reflecting Pool also bear small signs indicating that they are part of the administration’s overall efforts to make the nation’s capital “safe and beautiful”.

A woman was shot in the leg on the campus of Arkansas State University early on Sunday morning, the campus said.

Law enforcement responded just after midnight to a 911 call reporting shots fired at a gathering at Unity Park, the campus said, adding that investigators from Jonesboro Police Department and ASU Police Department were on the scene.

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"One female victim has been confirmed with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the lower leg," the university said in a statement. "Additional reports indicate minor injuries, including scrapes and scratches, as the crowd dispersed."

Police said the shooting appeared to be an isolated incident and there was "no broader threat to the campus community," the university said.

BEIJING (AP) — China’s top automakers unveil cutting-edge models and technology atthe Beijing auto show, highlighting advances in intelligent driving, ultrafast charging and electric vehicles.

China Auto Show

More than 1,450 vehicles are on display, including 181 global debuts.

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