Photos: Billie Eilish, Vince Vaughn, Pedro Pascal at Halloween Horror Nights

• October 26, 2023

Even celebrities like a good scare.

Since Universal Studios Hollywood’s annual Halloween Horror Nights kicked off way back on Sept. 7, plenty of stars have shown up at the theme park to experience walk-thru attractions based on films like “The Exorcist: Believer” and “Evil Dead Rise” and television shows including “Stranger Things” and “Chucky.”

Actors and actresses like Vince Vaughn, Abigail Breslin, Pedro Pascal, Kumail Nanjiani, Krysten Ritter and Dylan Minnette have all screamed their way through the park. So have rockers and pop stars like Billie Eilish, Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, Metallica bassist Rob Trujillo, Big Sean, Bebe Rexha and Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoada.

Sometimes you need a friend to hold on to through the mazes, which is why pals like actors Michael Rosenbaum and Efren Ramirez stuck together, actor Seth Green and Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz paired up and “Vanderpump Rules” Adriana Madix and “What We Do in the Shadows” star Harvey Guillén clung to one another as they faced the monsters.

Check out this photo slideshow of all the talent that has shown up at this year’s event.

Halloween Horror Nights continues select evenings through Oct. 31 and features original concept attractions including Holidayz in Hell, Universal Monsters Unmasked and Monstruos: The Monsters o Latin America. One of its more popular attractions this year, is a maze based on the popular video game, The Last of Us, which was also turned into a popular HBO television series.

Guests can also take the Terror Tram: The Exterminatorz down to the iconic Universal backlot to walk around the sets from “Psycho,” “War of the Worlds” and Jordan Peele’s suspense-thriller, “Nope.”

Halloween Horror Nights

When: Select evenings through Oct. 31

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Fryer: Division 1 of the CIF-SS football playoffs will include (pick a number) teams

• October 26, 2023

The magic number is 8.

Or 12.

Maybe 4.

Coaches and others (like yours truly) are making semi-educated guesses about how many teams will be selected to Division 1 of the CIF Southern Section football playoffs.

The team ratings at Calpreps.com will be used to place teams into the 14 11-man divisions. The number of teams in Division 1 will be decided Saturday. The playoff brackets will be released Sunday at 10 a.m.

The regular season concludes with Friday’s games.

Last season Division 1 was a 10-team bracket that was made up of Mater Dei, Santa Margarita, JSerra, Long Beach Poly, Los Alamitos, Centennial, Mission Viejo, Edison, Orange Lutheran and St. John Bosco. Six teams had first-round byes into the quarterfinals. The four teams that played in the first round were Edison, JSerra, Orange Lutheran and Santa Margarita.

After handicapping the possibilities for these playoffs, the bet here is that Division 1 will be an eight-team division.

A 12-team division is somewhat possible.

A four-team division is a longshot but still on the board.

If Division 1 is an eight-team division …

Going into this week’s games, those eight teams are (in order of rating): St. John Bosco, Mater Dei, Sierra Canyon, Centennial, Orange Lutheran, Rancho Cucamonga, Santa Margarita and Long Beach Poly.

San Clemente running back Aiden Rubin, center, sprints to the end zone to score a touchdown against Murrieta Valley earlier this season. The Tritons play Mission Viejo this week. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

If it holds that those are the top eight teams in the Calpreps ratings after this week’s games, then Division 2 would start with San Clemente as the top seed.

The Calpreps ratings going into this week have Long Beach Poly at No. 8 in the CIF Southern Section with a 59.4 rating and San Clemente at No. 9 at 59.0. Poly (8-1 overall) plays Long Beach Jordan (7-2) on Friday in a game that, according to Calpreps’ projections, Poly has a 99 percent chance of winning. Calpreps gives San Clemente (8-1) a 97 percent chance of beating Tesoro (5-4) on Friday.

If Division 1 is a 12-team division …

After the aforementioned eight teams, the next four in order of ratings are San Clemente, Servite, Serra and JSerra going into Friday.

Los Alamitos is No. 13 in the Calpreps ratings at 55.8, behind No. 12 JSerra’s 57.5.

Before we go further it is important to know that on Friday JSerra plays Servite and Los Alamitos plays Edison.

A JSerra loss to Servite would drop it to 4-6 overall. Teams with an overall record of .500 are the first ones to receive at-large berths if they are available. Teams with a sub-.500 record can’t be selected for an at-large berth over a team with a .500 record. JSerra needs to beat Servite to get to .500.

If Los Alamitos beats Edison and JSerra loses to Servite, perhaps Los Alamitos moves to No. 12 and JSerra drops to No. 13.

If Division 1 is a 12-team bracket and the CIF-SS No. 13 team is JSerra, putting JSerra into Division 2, then JSerra might be out of the playoffs because the No. 1 seed in a division, according to CIF-SS football playoff rules, cannot be an at-large team.

If JSerra beats Servite and Orange Lutheran loses to St. John Bosco that makes JSerra and Orange Lutheran both 2-3 in the Trinity League. Because JSerra beat Orange Lutheran, JSerra would be the Trinity League’s No. 3 team and would receive a guaranteed playoff berth. Orange Lutheran would be No. 4 team and placed in the at-large pool of candidates.

Other possibilities exist. Those are a couple of the most likely ones.

A 12-team division would be popular with many coaches because it likely would encompass all of the Trinity League playoff teams. So would a 13-team bracket, but that doesn’t seem likely.

If Division 1 is a four-team division …

Those four teams for sure would be St. John Bosco, Mater Dei, Sierra Canyon and Centennial. The CIF-SS football No. 5 team after Friday might still be Orange Lutheran. Division 2’s group of 16 teams would start with Orange Lutheran but if Orange Lutheran is in the at-large pool, and because of the rule that no division could have an at-large team as its top-seed, then Orange Lutheran would not be in the playoffs.

NOTES

San Clemente cross country runner Brett Ephraim continued his great season by winning at the Mt. SAC Invitational Division 1&2 sweepstakes race this past Saturday. The senior finished the 2.93-mile course in 14 minutes, 50 seconds to lead the Tritons to a second-place team finish behind Great Oak. Ephraim will be one to watch in the CIF-SS finals Nov. 18 on that course at Mt. SAC. …

Edison’s Rich Boyce is the Orange County Athletic Directors Association’s Athletic Director of the Year. Boyce, who is also one of the county’s better boys basketball coaches, is as busy as any A.D. when it comes to promoting his school’s athletic activities on social media. …

The Canyon-Beckman CIF-SS Division 3 girls volleyball semifinal Saturday at 5 p.m. at Beckman is going to be excellent. Beckman is the No. 1-seeded team in the division. Canyon looked great – quick and strong – in its five-set win over Dana Hills on Wednesday. …

In other girls volleyball semifinals Saturday: Orange Lutheran is at top-seeded Redondo and JSerra is home against Long Beach Wilson in Division 2; and in Division 4 El Dorado is home against West Ranch and Capistrano Valley Christian is at Sunny Hills. …

Division 1 girls volleyball pool play continues Saturday. Mater Dei, which is 2-0 in pool play, is home against Sierra Canyon (1-1 in pool play), Huntington Beach (2-0) is at Mira Costa (2-0) and Los Alamitos (0-2) is at Alemany (0-2). All Division 1 teams qualified for the CIF Southern California Regional that begins Nov. 7. …

Looking way ahead, the Boras Classic South baseball tournament at JSerra and Mater Dei, April 2-5, is worth a look. Among the many great teams in it is Corona, which might be the No. 1 team in preseason national rankings when those are presented. Corona has two great pitchers, junior right-hander Seth Hernandez (6-4, 190), home-schooled the past two school years and who PerfectGame.org calls “the top pitching prospect of the 2025 class by some margin,” and senior lefty Ethan Schiefelbein, who last season had 94 strikeouts in 55 innings. The sons of Dodgers coach Dino Ebel, junior Brady and sophomore Trey, both standout infielders, transferred to Corona from Etiwanda.

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United flight attendants rally at LAX for higher wages

• October 26, 2023

United Airlines flight attendants staged a rally Thursday, Oct. 26 at Los Angeles International Airport, claiming they’re underpaid and not being compensated for the time they spend boarding, deplaning and waiting between flights.

Wielding signs reading “Pay us or chaos” and “Ground time pay leads the way,” they made their concerns known to travelers coming and going at the airport.

An estimated 1,500 United flight attendants based out of LAX are represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. Their labor contract was last amended in August 2021.

Thursday’s LAX protest was part of a national Day of Action that saw thousands of United flight attendants rallying at nearly 20 airports across the U.S., including San Francisco International Airport, George Bush Intercontinental/Houston Airport, Denver International Airport and  Newark Liberty International Airport, among others.

In a statement issued Thursday, United said it’s seeing progress in negotiations, adding that the two sides have reached an agreement on six sections of a proposed labor contract (Photo courtesy of AFA-CWA)

The workers say they’re standing up to “corporate greed” and are calling on management to negotiate “the contract flight attendants deserve.” The protests come on the heels of United posting nearly $15 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2023.

They’re also seeking rules that give more control of their time and compensate them when operations are disrupted by weather or staffing shortages, and they want management to improve their health insurance coverage and other workplace benefits.

In a statement issued Thursday, United said it’s seeing progress in negotiations, adding that the two sides have reached an agreement on six sections of a proposed labor contract.

“We are hopeful that this progress will provide momentum toward our goal of reaching an industry-leading agreement,” the airline said. “All United flights will operate as planned while our flight attendants exercise their right to distribute information and picket while off-duty. “

Timothy Trueman, AFA-CWA’s council vice president for Los Angeles and San Diego, said flight attendants are putting in lots of hours they’re not being paid for.

“Even though their wages might seem high, they only get paid once the door closes on takeoff to when the plane rolls into the gate,” he said. “So at the end of the day they might have worked 13 hours, but only gotten paid for seven.”

New flight attendants average $25,000 to $30,000 a year, Trueman said. Those with five to 10 experience average $40,000 to $50,000, and senior flight attendants with more experience make $65,000 to $70,000 annually.

“We’re looking for an increase to offset what inflation has done,” he said. “We’re trying to get cost-of-living wages and improvements to our benefits.”

The flight attendants also picketed LAX in September 2022, claiming a shortage of crew schedulers, caterers and other service workers often left them stranded for hours waiting to know when they would be headed out for their next flight.

Trueman said morale is low among the workers.

“United has been reducing staffing and tightening up scheduling,” he said. “And we’ve had a lot of disruptions from the weather and staffing issues with air traffic control.”

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Outlets at San Clemente takes delivery of this year’s Christmas tree

• October 26, 2023

Christmas arrived early Thursday morning for the Outlets at San Clemente.

A truck pulled up to the mall to deliver a 100-foot white fir fresh from the Mt. Shasta area of Northern California.

Crews quickly carted the tree through the mall’s passageways and lifted it with a crane into place in the central courtyard. It will be decorated over the next couple of weeks with more than 18,000 multicolored lights and 10,000 bows and ornaments.

The tree is advertised as the tallest live-cut tree in Orange County.

The switch lighting the Christmas tree will be thrown in a celebration on Nov. 18, launching the holiday season at the outlets.

Not quite ready for yuletide thoughts? The mall still has up its Halloween display for photo ops.

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Kings seek to build some momentum with trip to Arizona

• October 26, 2023

Seeking consecutive victories for the second time this season, the Kings could even bring their string to three straight with a pair of opportunities on Friday and Saturday.

Already having familiarized themselves with the Arizona Coyotes in Tuesday’s 6-3 home victory, the Kings will confront them again. This time, they’ll meet in Tempe at the NHL’s smallest venue Friday before the Kings welcome its biggest team, the Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights, to Crypto.com Arena on Saturday.

The Kings have leaned hard on their offense this season to get victories or even a point in the standings. They’ve scored 18 times in their three wins and added five more goals in their shootout loss to Carolina. At the opposite end of the ice, they’ve allowed two or fewer goals just once this season, which has raised a familiar question: will the Kings be trading their hockey skates for track spikes?

“We won 5-1 in Winnipeg. We’re capable of doing it. I don’t think that we’re going to score five or six goals every night, I don’t,” Coach Todd McLellan said. “Against Boston, we saw that we couldn’t or didn’t, so there are going to have to be 2-1 and 1-0 wins at some point. But we’re still trying to figure our game out and we’ll take the offense to support the mistakes we’re making and try to put wins in the column.”

One area that has improved markedly thus far for the Kings has been their penalty kill, which has operated at an 87% clip, the eighth-best mark in NHL. That unit surrendered a goal to Arizona’s power play Tuesday, but only after the visitors engineered a high-danger chance with a goal probability of over 60% that whizzed past Pheonix Copley. It was also Arizona’s three top scorers – Logan Cooley and Nick Schmaltz set up Clayton Keller – that connected for the goal.

“We’ve had some breakdowns but when you make changes that’s kind of to be expected. We’re ironing those out. From my perspective, we do give a little bit different looks than the [previous] PK, so it’s adjusting to that,” Copley said. “But so far we’re not really giving up a whole lot of looks or a lot of chances on our PK, so that’s a credit to the guys.”

McLellan had been critical of his team’s net-front coverage and intensity, though he said Tuesday that he saw improvements not only in terms of defending but also in creating traffic at the opposing goalmouth. Though slot and corner coverage plagued the Kings at times Tuesday, McLellan said he felt their net play had come forward, and Copley said the group was also attuned to continually improving in those areas.

“That’s all of us, myself included with rebounds, clearing rebounds and bearing down, all of us, need to bear down in those areas,” Copley said.

Even as the penalty kill evolved and five-on-five defense remained somewhat inconsistent, the Kings continued to present a near-constant threat with the puck, and through a balanced attack. On Tuesday, four skaters turned in multipoint nights, five defensemen contributed assists and six forwards lit the lamp. Although Kevin Fiala’s first goal was workmanlike and both leading sniper Adrian Kempe’s tallies this season have gone into an empty net, the Kings got two goals from their fourth line Tuesday and have gotten five from middle-six utility man Trevor Moore to date.

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Moore had six of his 10 tallies last season in the first month and a half of the campaign, and he finished the prior year on a tear, notching 14 of his 17 goals after the turn of the calendar. A slow start in his first season skating beside Phillip Danault and injuries in his second limited Moore’s totals, but did not diminish his ability, McLellan said.

“If he would have been able to stay healthy last year, he was having a pretty darn good year. I think Christmas rolled around and then, from there, he chased it,” McLellan said.

The Coyotes are having a better year and “darn good” might be an understatement when it comes to Vegas. They won the Stanley Cup last season and started this campaign with seven straight victories. In addition to high-end talent and formidable depth, the Golden Knights are also the heaviest team in the league by the average weight of their players.

The Kings were focused tightly on strengthening the center position this offseason with their pursuit of Pierre-Luc Dubois, and it’s easy to see why. Vegas’ top three scorers are its top three pivots: Jack Eichel, Chandler Stephenson and William Karlsson.

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Secret menu hacks: In-N-Out Burger fan favorites

• October 26, 2023

Long-time fans of the In-N-Out Burger are likely familiar with the “not so secret menu.” According to the Southern California-based fast food chain’s website, these unofficial items include Double Meat, 3×3 or “Triple Triple”, 4×4 or “Quad Quad”: all options for how many patties you can get added to your burger. Additionally, it includes a Grilled Cheese: a vegetarian friendly option of a cheeseburger and toppings but without the burger, Protein Style: a lettuce wrapped burger without the buns, and an Animal Style burger: a cheeseburger with a mustard grilled patty, pickles, grilled onions and extra sauce.

In-N-Out owner Lynsi Snyder says the popular term “animal style” is named after rowdy customers. In her new book, “The Ins-N-Outs of In-N-Out Burger: The Inside Story of California’s First Drive-Through and How it Became a Beloved Cultural Icon,” she talks about how one night in 1961, a customer spotted Theo Roberts, a then third manager at Store Number 1, prepping a burger with a mustard fried patty, pickles, grilled onions and extra spread.

The customer asked Roberts if he could make him one. After wolfing it down the customer said it was the best burger he ever had. He continued ordering it but didn’t know what to call it, so Roberts told him to order it “animal style.” Snyder says it’s the first known instance of an In-N-Out Burger secret menu item.

While the burger chain has since acknowledged a six of these unofficial items on their website, many who frequent In-N-Out know there’s more to the secret menu. Snyder includes a more expansive breakdown in her book of the different hacks customers have popularized over the years.

In addition to getting your burger animal style, a fan favorite is to get Animal Style Fries: fries topped with melted cheese, grilled onions and their famous secret sauce. The secret sauce recipe has remained unchanged since 1948 and is similar to a Thousand Island dressing.

As far as the burger chain knows, Animal Style Fries were first requested in West Covina in 2002. Customers can also order cheese fries or request for their fries light or if they want them extra crispy they can ask for them to be well done.

When it comes to beverage hacks, a favorite is the Neopolitan Milkshake, a combination of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry milkshakes. If a customer wants to nix the strawberry, they can order a Black-and-White, which is a chocolate and vanilla shake. Additionally, customers can order a rootbeer float, or any float for that matter, which will combine a soda and vanilla ice cream in a cup.

For those wanting to add a little more flavor to their burger, they can ask for it to be mustard-grilled. Customers can also request pickles or chopped chilies for their burgers. In-N-Out provides their yellow chili peppers whole as well, which provides an extra kick to their menu.

The Flying Dutchman, two slices of cheese and two patties melted between each other, is a secret menu item with a special history to In-N-Out Burger. According to Snyder, the item is named after her father Guy Snyder. Guy’s signature order was two cooked cheese patties so associates began referring to it by his racing nickname “the Flying Dutchman,” a nod to his Dutch heritage.

Customers can also request the Flying Dutchman to be Animal Style where they’ll add a scoop of diced onions to the cheese. Some customers will put a Flying Dutchman on top of their fries and refer to it as “Roadkill Fries.”

Another popular adjustment is the variety of ways customers get their onions cooked. Many know they can get them grilled, but customers can also ask for a whole onion, a circular slice of onion, or a whole grilled onion, that slice of onion but grilled.

Non-food items new customers might not know about is that you can request one of the iconic paper hats that employees are known to wear. Additionally, people can ask for stickers, which provides a fun activity for kids in lieu of a Happy Meal toy.

With a secret menu almost as famous as the fast-food chain itself, we asked a handful of the 23,000 people who attended In-N-Out’s 75th Anniversary Festival to share what their favorite non-official menu items are.

Alan, Gunner and Melissa Mangan from Lakewood, California attend In-N-Out Burger’s 75th Anniversary Festival on Sun., Oct. 22, 2023 in Pomona, California. (Carolyn Burt, SCNG)

Alan Mangan: Flying Dutchman

Gunner Mangan: Animal Style

Melissa Mangan: Grilled Cheese

Christos Sellis (right) poses with an In-N-Out Burger sign at the burger chain’s 75th Anniversary Festival in Pomona, Calif. on Sun., Oct. 22, 2023. (Carolyn Burt, SCNG)

Christos Sellis: Double-Single, Animal Style

Patrick and Emily Tyska, Ari Berkowitz and Will Lentz at In-N-Out Burger’s 75th Anniversary Festival on Sun., Oct. 22, 2023 in Pomona, California. (Carolyn Burt, SCNG)

Patrick Tyska: Animal Style Fries

Emily Tyska: Grilled Cheese

Ari Berkowitz: Neopolitan Milkshake

Will Lentz: Fries Well Done

Ryan Echegaray: Flying Dutchman

Becky Howard: Animal Style Fries

Hailie Encisco: Mustard-Grilled

Tyler Herdenez: Animal Style Fries

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Has Russell Westbrook solved Clippers’ search for the right point guard?

• October 26, 2023

Maybe all the Clippers needed was the right point guard.

Over the years, the team has tried out All-Stars, future stars, a multiple-time Sixth Man of the Year Award winner, veteran leaders and a future Hall of Famer at the point. All fearless ball handlers with innate abilities to pass and score but none who created much of a stir.

Then there is Russell Westbrook, the latest to take on the team’s point guard job, a task he can still perform as evidenced by his inspired play in the Clippers’ season opener on Wednesday night. The 2017 league MVP had 11 points, 13 assists and five rebounds in a 123-111 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers that was far more lopsided than the final score indicated. His assist total was the most in a Clippers season opener since Andre Miller in 2002.

“I’m still as fast as anybody, jump as high as anybody. I can play at an elite level. I still see myself as an elite basketball player in this league. I can do pretty much anything, can guard the best,” Westbrook, 34, said.

Few would argue with him after watching his four high-flying dunks, each punctuated with a roar, and the sure-fire passes that alleviate the pressure of creating shots for teammates, such as All-Stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.

“He knows how he plays the game. He’s attacking the rim and that makes our life easier if we could just catch and shoot rather than dribbling in the basketball. Those are the hardest shots in the game,” said Leonard, who scored 23 points on the strength of a 5-for-5 night from 3-point range.

“With him able to get in the paint, not be selfish and pass us the ball along when we’re open, that’s making our life easier.”

Paul George lobbied hard to get Westbrook into a Clippers jersey last season before the team signed him after he was traded from the Lakers to Utah and then waived by the Jazz. The two played together for two seasons in Oklahoma City, where George previously said he played some of his best basketball, thanks to Westbrook.

“In Oklahoma with him and playing alongside him, I just know how good of a communicator he is, how good of a connector he is, and I said this from the moment that I got in Oklahoma,” George said after scoring a game-high 27 points in the opener.

“One of the things that I noticed right away is that he just had a relationship with every person on the team, which is rare, especially the superstar that he was in Oklahoma. It was just like he was best friends with everyone on the team and he just had a special connection with all the guys. That was the first thing that I noticed.

“It’s the reason why guys play hard around him. When you got a guy that connects with you on that level, it’s easy to come in and be prepared and be ready to play.”

One game – and the 21 he played last season – doesn’t make Westbrook a savior but his ability to connect with his teammates on and off the court could bring the Clippers closer to the promised land of an NBA championship.

“He gets the chemistry and everything down pat,” forward Robert Covington said. “That’s what it’s all about. Like, he came to us at a time when we’re feeling each other out. But, like you said, now guys are building that chemistry, that camaraderie, it’s been key for us.”

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George said when Westbrook gets on the court, the production level rises along with the energy he brings. The players feel it. The fans see it.

“I think him just being around us, him being here, the fans embracing the Clippers embracing him, teammates, coaches, everybody’s just embracing him and rallying around him,” George said. “You’re going to see the Westbrook everybody loved two years ago. For whatever fans that fell off, I don’t know how you do it when the guy brings it and plays so hard on the floor every night.”

How long will this last? Westbrook was clear on that.

“Until I can’t do that no more, then I guess that’s what it’ll be,” he said. “But I don’t know when that is. I’m super grateful and blessed to be able to play, and like I’ve always said, I don’t take this game for granted by any means.

“I’ll play as long as I can, and obviously where God takes me.”

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Dodgers’ Mookie Betts ties record with his 6th Fielding Bible Award

• October 26, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Mookie Betts is being recognized for his defensive versatility.

Betts has been named the multi-position winner of a Fielding Bible Award for the 2023 season. It is Betts’ sixth Fielding Bible Award, tying him with longtime St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina and former Angels shortstop Andrelton Simmons for the most. Betts’ first five were for his play in right field.

Betts is also a finalist for the Gold Glove at two positions this year – right field and utility player.

Betts started 77 games in right field, 62 at second base and 12 at shortstop this season. He finished with a 1.000 fielding percentage in right field, where he had eight assists.

Betts has already won a Gold Glove for his defense in right field six times in the past seven seasons (four with the Boston Red Sox and two with the Dodgers). The utility player award was added to the Gold Gloves for the first time last year in order to recognize multi-position players.

The Dodgers also have Gold Glove finalists at first base (Freddie Freeman) and left field (David Peralta). Both Freeman (2018) and Peralta (2019) have won Gold Gloves in the past.

Betts is one of three finalists in right field along with the Washington Nationals’ Lane Thomas and the San Diego Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr. The three finalists for the utility position honor are Betts, the St. Louis Cardinals’ Tommy Edman and the Padres’ Ha-Seong Kim.

Freeman is a finalist at first base along with the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Christian Walker and the Milwaukee Brewers’ Carlos Santana. Peralta is a finalist in left field along with the Chicago Cubs’ Ian Happ and the Atlanta Braves’ Eddie Rosario.

The Gold Glove winners will be announced on ESPN on Nov. 5 at 4:30 p.m. PT.

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The Fielding Bible Award winners are determined by a 16-member panel.

Additionally, Betts is a finalist for Players Choice Awards as the MLB Player of the Year (along with the Angels’ Shohei Ohtani and Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr.) and the National League’s Outstanding Player (along with Acuña and Atlanta’s Matt Olson).

Winners will be announced on Nov. 2 during the 3 p.m. PT edition of SportsCenter on ESPN.

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