Trump hasn’t committed to repaying federal funds already spent on ads, a White House official says

• October 6, 2026

By ALI SWENSON and SEUNG MIN KIM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after President Donald Trump said he would start paying for controversial taxpayer-funded ads with a campaign account, there’s no sign he plans to refund the millions of federal dollars already spent on them.

Nearly $12 million worth of ads have already aired, according to AdImpact, as part of the $20 million the Homeland Security Department tapped for the contract.

But Trump’s plan to pay for the ads with MAGA Inc. doesn’t mean there’s any reimbursement coming, said a White House official who was not authorized to talk publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday slammed the Trump administration for not repaying the money and said he believes the president’s plan for covering future costs represents illegal coordination with his super PAC.

“Trump must return this money to the American people and there must be a full investigation into this gross waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars,” Schumer told The Associated Press.

The four ads, which began airing in late September, glorify Trump and echo his political messaging going into the midterms. One features a clip of Trump talking about the threat of communism and another is a replay of an ad from his last presidential campaign.

Republicans and Democrats alike have said the ads aren’t an appropriate use of U.S. government money. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, said they shouldn’t be paid for with taxpayer dollars.

Legal experts said the ads might even violate federal statutes, including a law against congressionally appropriated money being used for “publicity or propaganda” and another limiting the partisan political activities of government employees.

The White House has defended the ads as public service announcements similar to what past administrations have done to promote policies. Trump on Monday posted on his Truth Social platform calling the ads “positive promotion for our Great U.S.A.” while also promising to pay for them with “money I raised for MAGA Inc.”

That is Trump’s political war chest, which had amassed more than $400 million by the end of July. Trump has begun to tap it to boost Republican candidates around the country in the midterm elections.

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Arcadia couple charged with subjecting their 21 children to abuse

• October 6, 2026

An Arcadia couple was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 6, accused of abusing and allowing nannies to physically beat their 21 children, most who were born via surrogacy.

During a downtown Los Angeles press conference, District Attorney Nathan Hochman called the couple’s Arcadia home in the 600 block of West Camino Real Avenue a house of horrors.

The case against 66-year-old Guojun Xuan and 39-year-old Silvia Shasha Zhang,Hochman said, was “unprecedented (involving) incredibly disturbing, horrific punishment and beatings and child abuse. …

“The beating and punishment these children received is despicable,” he said. “There will be a reckoning for these two defendants.”

Detectives served a search warrant at the Arcadia house when arresting Xuan and Zhang, Sheriff Robert Luna said.

Both Xuan and Zhang face charges of conspiracy to commit child abuse.

Xuan also faces additional charges of child abuse, accessory after the fact and five counts of dissuading a witness. Zhang also faces additional charges of accessory after the fact and four counts of dissuading a witness.

If convicted as charged, Xuan faces a possible maximum sentence of more than 17 years and Zhang over 11 years, he said.

One nanny, Chunmei Li, accused of violently shaking and hitting the couple’s then 2-month-old baby boy, Walter, faces 12 years in prison if convicted, he said. Li has a warrant out for her arrest.

Xuan’s lawyer, Mitchell Krems, couldn’t  be reached for comment on Tuesday.

The allegations started in April 2021 when the couple moved into the 10,280-square-foot Arcadia home then started a company, Mark Surrogacy Investments LLC to hire surrogates throughout the United States, Hochman said.

They lied to several of the surrogates, with Zhang telling one of them that she was a single mother who struggled to conceive. Another was told that the couple had a teenage daughter and a third was not told that the couple had 16 other surrogate children until the surrogate was seven months pregnant.

They would pay surrogates between $65,000 and $135,000, Hochman said.

Why the couple wanted so many surrogate children was not disclosed during the press conference.

But the couple told Arcadia police they wanted a large family.

Xuan wants to continue his legacy, Mitchell Krems, Xuan’s lawyer, told this newspaper during a Monday afternoon interview. He pointed out that Xuan was from China which limited families to one child. (The one-child policy which started in the 70s ended in 2016.)

Xuan is a real estate business man who came to the U.S. to live the American dream, Krems said.

There is no law in the U.S. that prevents people from having a lot of children, he said.

Krems denied Xuan was abusive to the children.

Xuan is involved in the children’s education, he said.

“He wants these children to be productive member of society,” Krems said.

Inside the home, Xuan and Zhang created three learning centers with desks where the children, ages 1 to 4, would sit for hours, Hochman said. They also set up more than 30 surveillance cameras, which the couple watched on a large television screen in another room.

Another camera focused on a separate room, where nannies were seen carrying children inside, Hochman said. The children could then be heard screaming from that room.

In one instance, a nanny required a child to maintain a horse stance, Hochman said.

“Xuan chuckled while watching the punishment,” he said.

In another instance, Xuan entered one of the learning centers while a nanny was striking a child and allegedly told the nanny to hit the child harder. In another instance, Xuan joined in on the beating, picked a child up by an arm and hit him back and forth across the head with such force that the body “larched,” Hochman said.

Another child at one point was seen on camera being beaten by a nanny with a shoe as Xuan and Zhang watched and laughed, Hochman said.

Xuan would have Zhang pay the nannies with stacks of cash from his office, the district attorney said.

Xuan and Zhang were originally arrested May 9, 2025 by Arcadia police on suspicion of child endangerment or neglect after Walter, then 2 months old, ended up in the hospital.

Surveillance video showed one of the couple’s nannies, Li, abusing the child on May 4, 2025, police said.

The baby became unconscious but wasn’t taken to a hospital until two days after he started having seizures. Police found out after hospital staff called them.

Zhang had told a social worker that the toddler had accidentally fallen off a bed while being cared for by a nanny, according to a search warrant filed by detectives.

But doctors told investigators that they suspected the child’s injuries – which included a subdural hematoma and retinal hemorrhages – were consistent with child abuse and consistent with injuries sustained during a car accident or from being shaken.

Back then, there were 14 children from surrogate mothers in the Arcadia mansion along with two other children, Hochman said.

Five other children were located in other homes in Los Angeles County, police said.

Zhang told detectives she was the biological mother of two of the children and surrogate mother to all the others.

In May 2025, Xuan and Zhang met with the nannies and were told that while disciplining the children, they were not to leave physical marks.

Before Arcadia officers arrived to the house that same month, Zhang told the children and nannies to deny the were beaten, Hochman said, and one nanny was told to hide sticks that were used to strike the children.

Xuan and Zhang were released from custody on May 13, 2025.

The arrests garnered nationwide attention after it came out that the couple had most of their 21 children via surrogacy. Several surrogates also made allegations that they told different stories by the couple.

The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services took the children into protective custody when the couple was arrested last year.

It’s not clear where the children are now.

“While we understand the public’s interest in children from Los Angeles County who may have received supportive services from DCFS, state law prohibits the department from disclosing or confirming our possible involvement with families. Confidentiality laws protect the privacy of those who may have come into contact with DCFS while resolving complex family issues. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services,” the department said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Castle Park to expand amusement park with reimagined ride area

• October 6, 2026

Castle Park is developing plans to reimagine the ride lineup at the Riverside amusement park, which was built by a Southern California theme park pioneer who designed several Knott’s Berry Farm rides.

Castle Park will temporarily close all of its 21 rides on Nov. 2 while the ride area is expanded at the family entertainment center along the 91 Freeway.

“We’re investing in Castle Park to create a reimagined experience for our guests and the Riverside community,” according to the Castle Park website. “The ride park will pause operations so we can plan and rebuild for the future.”

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A reopening date has not been set for the Castle Park ride area.

“Our plans are evolving to create the best experience for our guests,” according to the Castle Park website. “We’re taking the time to plan the right rebuild and will share updates as plans take shape.”

Castle Park’s arcade and miniature golf areas will remain open during the makeover of the ride area.

The Castle Dark seasonal Halloween event will continue as scheduled through Nov. 1.

The Buccaneer Cove water park will return in May when seasonal operations resume.

Castle Park went through a series of ownership changes in 2025 with the park changing hands from Palace Entertainment to Herschend to Lucky Strike Entertainment.

The 30-acre amusement park’s ride collection includes classics like the Scrambler, Tilt-a-Whirl and Kings Crown wave swings. Among the rarer rides are a Gravitron centrifugal force flying saucer, a Ring of Fire super looper thrill ride, the dragon-themed flying scooters and a children’s whip turntable ride. Castle Park’s Antique Car Ride used to operate at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park.

Castle Park was founded in 1976 by Bud Hurlbut, a Southern California theme park pioneer who designed several early rides at Knott’s Berry Farm and used his Riverside park as a proving ground for new attractions.

Hurlbut began designing custom miniature trains in 1943 and opened the Hurlbut Amusement Company a few years later in Santa Ana.

Hurlbut’s first attractions in 1945 were at Crawford’s Kiddieland in El Monte — which featured a Ferris wheel, boat ride and miniature train. Hurlbut struck up a conversation one day with a regular Kiddieland visitor named Walt Disney — who became a friend and would go on to open Disneyland a decade later.

In 1955, Hurlbut partnered with Walter Knott on a handshake and began operating a 1896 Dentzel carousel at what would eventually become Knott’s Berry Farm theme park. Hurlbut went on to design the 1960 Calico Mine Ride and 1969 Timber Mountain Log Ride at Knott’s.

During Halloween 1973, Hurlbut donned a gorilla suit to scare riders on the Calico Mine Train, helping give birth to Knott’s Scary Farm. Hurlbut brought the haunted event concept to Castle Park, which hosted its first annual Halloween Surprise Party in 1977.

Riverside would have had a 65-foot-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty along the 91 Freeway in 1982 if Hurlbut had gotten his way — but the city denied a proposal that would have transformed Castle Park into Liberty Park.

Hurlbut sold his interests at Knott’s in 1984 and threw himself into Castle Park. During the 1980s, the Riverside park added a merry go round, bumper cars, Scrambler, Tilt-A-Whirl, Whip, wave swings, log flume ride, swinging ship and the former Knott’s antique car ride.

In 1999, with Hurlbut in his 80s, Castle Park was sold and the park’s founder was honored for his lifetime of service to the theme park industry by the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions. Hurlbut died in 2011 at the age of 92.

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Two Nov. 3 ballots, one big mess in Newport Beach

• October 6, 2026

Of the many hundreds of elections I’ve written about, Newport Beach’s double election is as messed up as any I’ve seen.

The first ballot already plopped in most voters’ mailboxes from the Orange County Registrar of Voters around Oct. 5. It included choices for governor, other statewide and local offices, 14 state initiatives and Measure H, which would limit planned housing capacity in five designated areas to 2,900 units. That’s the normal ballot everyone expects to receive ahead of an election. 

But for Newport Beach, this is no ordinary election. 

Around Oct. 19, City Hall will send out a separate, stand-alone ballot with three questions on how the city governs itself. Measure P would cap council service at eight years for life. Measure Q would let each district’s voters, and only them, choose their councilmember. Measure R would set new open-government rules and create a Sunshine Task Force. In addition to Measure H, all four city ballot measures came from the Newport Beach Stewardship Association, which is trying to rein in development in the city and punish the council. 

While Measure H’s placement on the general election ballot was straightforward, this separate standalone ballot has been a point of considerable debate. 

The city fought the three stand-alone measures in court. It argued, among other things, that NBSA published its petition notice in the wrong newspaper. NBSA’s lawyer, Navi Dhillon of Paul Hastings’ San Francisco office, wrote in an Aug. 25 letter to the council, the city “has failed to disclose the full scope of the adverse legal rulings against it” over several months. 

On Sept. 14, an Orange County Superior Court judge rejected the city’s arguments and ordered the concurrent election. But with the Nov. 3 election looming, the city had to scramble to figure out how to make it work . City Clerk Lena Shumway noted that Registrar Bob Page had to decline several administrative services due to late conflicts and handling his own election, though Page left open the possibility of handling the election if it was postponed. 

Meanwhile, military and overseas ballots had to be rushed out to meet a federal deadline. For them, Shumway said, “We met the Sept. 19 federal deadline.” But as of my Oct. 1 call, “Because of our tight deadlines, we’re just finishing up the voter guide.”

“Those ballots did not receive the pro/con arguments for those three initiatives,” Councilman Erik Weigand told me. In a 4-3 vote, he was one of the minority who voted Sept. 18 to halt the election the day before the military and overseas ballots had to be mailed.

And in a Sept. 30 Register op-ed, he asked how “the average voter” is supposed to sort it all out.

Councilwoman Robyn Grant, who voted to hold the election Nov. 3, told me, “We’re subject to a judge’s ruling that has mandated that we have the election, and the city of Newport Beach is always interested in being in compliance with law.”

I’m sympathetic to postponing the election. But after all that has happened, and with Nov. 3 less than a month away, the city should just go with it. Then let the courts sort out the aftermath, which would happen no matter what.

A related case is Brosnahan v. Eu from 1982. It found “it is usually more appropriate to review constitutional and other challenges to ballot propositions or initiative measures after an election rather than to disrupt the electoral process,” except for clear invalidity. Indeed, the measures all might lose, mooting the dispute. 

Lost in all the chaos is the fact that Newport Beach could be set up for even more courtroom fights and policy problems. If approved, Measure H would have voters throw out Newport’s state-approved housing plan and replace it with one that zones for fewer homes. The Voice of OC reported this “could set them up for a lawsuit from the State of California.”

In a related fight over state housing law, coastal neighbor Huntington Beach lost a challenge to California housing law when the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 23 refused to hear an appeal in City of Huntington Beach v. Newsom, leaving a lower court dismissal intact.

The battle over the measures may be just beginning.

John Seiler is an editorial writer and columnist for the Southern California News Group

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Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ celebrated at LA, Pasadena events

• October 6, 2026

Everyone who has fallen in love with the prose of Anne Rice has an origin story, according to her son, Christopher Rice. Usually, that origin story involves someone picking up “Interview with the Vampire” when they needed it most, he said.

Some of those stories were explored Monday night, along with the creation of “Interview with the Vampire,” during a 50th anniversary celebration of the book with authors Leigh Bardugo, Eric Shaw Quinn and Christopher Rice at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.

The discussion, put on by Vroman’s Bookstore, was the culmination of events in the Los Angeles area honoring Rice and her work.

Christopher Rice and Quinn were on hand Friday, Oct. 2, as the Los Angeles City Council proclaimed Oct. 4 as Anne Rice Day in the city, which is also the late author’s birthday. And Rare Books LA held an event at Union Station on Saturday and Sunday featuring talks about the author’s influence and vampires in literature. Vampire-related memorabilia, including Anne Rice’s black wedding dress, was also on display during the book fair, which also hosted a blood drive.

Bardugo — the best-selling author of the Grishaverse and Alex Stern novels, who also penned the foreword in the new 50th anniversary edition of “Interview” — described herself as a “loud, awkward theater kid” who didn’t fit in when she bought the first few Vampire Chronicles books at 12 years old for a friend and ended up reading them all before gifting them.

“It wasn’t that I hadn’t read genre before; I had, but ‘Interview’ exists almost in its own genre. It feels so profoundly real,” she said Monday. “One of the things I talked about in my foreword, and I think is an experience … that a lot of us have, is that it doesn’t matter how many millions of copies you know this book has sold; it feels like you were the first person to read it.

It feels like Anne is whispering a secret in your ear — this passport to this other world and this other reality. And it felt so profoundly real to me. And then I went and read a lot of things I was probably too young to read,” she continued. “For me it was a shift in the way I thought about … my own life.”

Bardugo described the book as being about people seeking companionship and found family, but also the tragedy of being alone. Something that she felt as a teen growing up in the San Fernando Valley. Quinn, who was in his 30s when he read the book, had a similar experience of seeking companionship when he first picked up “Interview.”

“Anne Rice reached across time and space to me and said, ‘You’re already perfect the way you are,’”, Quinn said, describing how it felt like she was speaking to him through the pages. “You don’t have to pretend to fit into this shape.”

He noted that through his friendship with Anne Rice and her work, she convinced him to go “on the adventure of life,” moving away from things that made him unhappy and taught him to write the books he would want to read. Quinn called “Interview” a watershed event in literature and in the lives of so many people.

“This is the power of fantasy and genre. What you’ve been told is possible is only the beginning,” Bardugo said. “Everything in these books is a metaphor for what we experience in our own lives, and it cracks us open.”

Christopher Rice, who played the role primarily of moderator for the night, also told his share of stories about his mother, who passed away in Dec. 2021 in Rancho Mirage. Some of those stories included the reception of “Interview,” including a bad review by The New York Times that almost broke the author, the impact she had on Bardugo’s work, as well as the way Anne Rice was always unapologetically herself.

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Trump administration to assign government lawyers to migrant kids’ cases, worrying advocates

• October 6, 2026

By GISELA SALOMON

MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration is creating a team of attorneys to represent children who traveled alone to the United States in immigration proceedings, which critics say would deprive them of having lawyers who aren’t employed by the government and could put them at greater risk of deportation.

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department lawyers will “provide direct legal advice and counsel” to unaccompanied migrant children, according to an announcement in the Federal Register signed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The decision, announced last week without fanfare, offered no details beyond that broad mandate.

Health and Human Services said in a statement that its Unaccompanied Alien Children Legal Representation Division will work under its general counsel’s direction toward “safely reuniting these children with their families and ensuring they have the legal support they need.”

“This new division will give the Department an additional mechanism to provide these children direct legal support while dedicated public servants work around the clock to safely reunify them with their families,” the department told The Associated Press in a brief statement. It didn’t answer additional questions, including whether it would continue to contract with nongovernmental groups for legal representation or when its new legal division is expected to be fully operational.

The move appears to lay the groundwork for one of the biggest changes since guaranteed free legal representation for unaccompanied migrant children was introduced in 2008. It comes after the administration cut ties with the Acacia Center for Justice, a nongovernmental organization that managed 24,000 cases and held a contract to provide representation through a vast network of legal service providers.

The change means migrant children will not have an independent representative to advocate for them who doesn’t have a conflict of interest, said Shaina Aber, the Acacia Center’s executive director.

“Placing children’s legal representation and services inside of the same agency that holds children in federal immigration custody is an unprecedented step that does not meet basic standards of independence of counsel,” Aber said. It “will only give HHS new opportunities to forsake children’s rights and well-being.”

Wendy Young, president of Kids in Need of Defense, a nonprofit that provides free legal representation and social services to unaccompanied children, called the creation of the new in-house HHS legal team “part of a pattern of attacks that this administration has engaged in, in terms of undermining zealous representation of unaccompanied children in their immigration proceedings.”

The new division will work independently from other government agencies that deal with the minors, including the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for the custody and care of the children who arrive in the U.S. without a parent or legal guardian.

There is some precedent for government-paid attorneys defending clients against government prosecutors in civilian and military courts, but as criminal defense lawyers and not in immigration court.

But Young noted that the child’s lawyer, the judge, and government attorneys seeking deportation will all be federal employees. Judges are appointed by the Justice Department and prosecutors work at the Department of Homeland Security.

“A government attorney who’s employed by the government most likely would be coached and encouraged to take the position of encouraging the child to agree to voluntary departure and to leave the United States rather than to present a full representation of the facts of their case,” Young said.

Amid the uncertainty, children have been going to their court hearings without legal representation lately, according to advocates.

Americans for Immigrant Justice, another nonprofit that provides free legal representation to unaccompanied immigrant children, said it has been challenging to secure lawyers for the minors since the government suspended funding to legal aid organizations on July 31 through Acacia.

Sui Chung, the group’s executive director, said the need for legal representation exceeds the available resources.

“To deny legal counsel to the most vulnerable among us — children who have already fled trauma — is a fundamental breakdown of the fairness our Constitution promises,” Chung said. “Children deserve our strongest protection.”

The government recently awarded a contract to another organization, Our Rescue, with a potential value of up to $244 million. The transition to Our Rescue, which has been challenged by Acacia, has led to short-term arrangements, including a temporary contract with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.

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Grammy-nominated R&B singer Freddie Jackson, known for ’80s hits like ‘You Are My Lady,’ dies at 70

• October 6, 2026

By MARIA SHERMAN, AP Music Writer

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Freddie Jackson, known for his smooth ’80s hits “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)” and “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70.

A statement shared by his family on his official Instagram account confirmed Jackson died Monday, three days after his 70th birthday. No cause of death was provided.

“Freddie was more than a legendary voice. He was a kind, generous soul who loved his fans, his family, his friends, and his music with everything he had. For decades he gave us the songs that became the soundtrack to our love stories, our celebrations, and our most treasured memories. That gift will live on forever,” the statement read.

“To everyone who ever sang along, danced, or felt something when Freddie took the stage: thank you. You were family to him, and he carried your love with him always,” it continued.

Details regarding arrangements will be announced in the coming days.

Jackson was born and raised in Harlem, where he learned all about soul music and sang gospel at White Rock Baptist Church. He started his career in the New York club scene, eventually making his way out West with the band Mystic Merlin in the late ’70s. He soon returned to New York and released his debut album, “Rock Me Tonight,” in 1985. His distinctive voice proved to be his superpower: The album, which was quickly certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, also led to his two career Grammy nominations. Those were for best new artist and best male R&B vocal performance for the single “You Are My Lady.”

“Rock Me Tonight” also created a new R&B superstar: Jackson became a mainstay of those Billboard charts and a fixture of contemporary urban radio play throughout the ’80s and early ’90s.

His sophomore album, 1987’s “Just Like the First Time,” was also certified platinum.

Jackson shared his kidney disease diagnosis in 2024

In 2024, Jackson revealed he had been diagnosed with kidney disease in a video shared to his social media accounts.

“This journey has had its challenges but I’ve decided to face it with openness and resilience,” he said in the clip. “It’s important to me that I share this with you, not just as a part of my personal story, but as a way to make a positive difference.”

At the time, Jackson also revealed he had partnered with the National Kidney Foundation to raise awareness of the disease.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 1 in 7 American adults has chronic kidney disease. As many as 9 in 10 don’t know they have it.

Chronic kidney disease is a condition where the kidneys are damaged and struggle to filter blood. As a result, excess waste and fluids remain and can lead to other health issues, such as heart disease.

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NL Division Series Game 3: Dodgers vs. Braves, lineups, starting pitchers, TV info

• October 6, 2026

DODGERS AT BRAVES

When: Tuesday, 3 p.m. PT

Where: Truist Park, Atlanta

TV/Radio: FS1, 570 AM, 1020 AM, 1330 AM

THE LINEUPS

Here is the Dodgers’ starting lineup, with Shohei Ohtani dropped to fifth and Kiké Hernandez at third base …

Today’s #NLDS Game 3 Dodgers lineup at Braves: pic.twitter.com/aYZ2IfRsZV

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) October 6, 2026

And here is the Braves’ lineup, with Ha-Seong Kim at shortstop …

Game 3. #LetItFly pic.twitter.com/qEtGsjSSjq

— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) October 6, 2026

THE PITCHERS

DODGERS RHP YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO (14-9, 2.53 ERA)

Career vs. Braves: 1-1, 0.55 ERA (3 games, 16⅓ innings, 17 Ks)

At Truist Park: 1-1, 0.55 ERA (3 games, 16⅓ innings, 17 Ks)

Postseason history: 7-1, 2.25 ERA (10 games, 9 starts, 56 innings, 48 Ks)

Loves to face: Matt Olson, 0 for 6, 2 Ks; Mike Yastrzemski, 1 for 8, 4 Ks

Hates to face: Ha-Seong Kim, 3 for 7, HR, 2 RBIs; Michael Harris II, 2 for 6

BRAVES LHP CHRIS SALE (14-9, 2.16 ERA)

Career vs. Dodgers: 2-3, 4.30 ERA (7 games, 6 starts, 37⅔ innings, 43 Ks)

At Truist Park: 21-5, 2.20 ERA (38 games, 37 starts, 233⅔ innings, 283 Ks)

Postseason history: 1-3, 5.83 ERA (12 games, 8 starts, 41⅔ innings, 59 Ks)

Loves to face: Kyle Tucker, 1 for 12, double, 2 RBIs, 5 Ks; Will Smith 0 for 7, 3 Ks; Max Muncy, 1 for 7, 5 Ks

Hates to face: Mookie Betts, 7 for 18, 3 doubles, 1 HR, 4 RBIs; Freddie Freeman, 5 for 16, 2 doubles, 2 HRs, 4 RBIs

UP NEXT

Game 4: Dodgers (RHP Tyler Glasnow, 5-2, 3.53 ERA) at Braves (RHP Tyler Mahle, 7-10, 3.99 ERA), Wednesday, 3 p.m. PT, FS1, 570 AM

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