Consider this your non-Nico Hoerner edition of the injury updates, since the Cubs have so many guys out …
Shelby Miller: his rehab assignment at Iowa is just about up (lower back), and he’s eligible to return any day now. It’s possible he’s back this series in Pittsburgh, if the Cubs want to swap out a relief arm and use Miller’s ability to throw multiple innings (assuming his control problems are in the past).
Trevor Megill: made his first rehab appearance at Iowa today (forearm), and the velocity was at least good and relatively normal:
First MLB rehab outing w/@IowaCubs for Trevor Megill is finished.
By Spectrum News Staff El Segundo PUBLISHED 5:00 PM PT May. 21, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:00 PM PDT May. 21, 2021
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It s been one year since protests erupted in the city of Los Angeles in the wake of George Floyd s death. Demonstrators flooded the streets as they called for justice and police reform. Host Alex Cohen sits down with LA Police Department Chief Michel Moore to reflect on the past year. Moore says there are some things the department did right and things he wished they did differently.
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“We’ve had dry springs before, but that is just astonishing,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles and The Nature Conservancy. “And we’re still a few months out from seeing the worst of things.”
Distinguished Professor Glen MacDonald, whose research at the University of California Los Angeles’ Department of Geography focuses on water resources and environmental impacts of climate change, said the size of the fires is of particular importance. “We’re not actually seeing a statistically significant increase in the number of fires we’re just seeing that the ones that get going, some of them are much, much bigger,” he told Newsweek. (Also: UCLA’s Stephanie Pincetl was quoted in Popular Science.)
Tiger Sugar celebrates its second anniversary and the grand opening of its new Koreatown location (3465 West 6th Street #120) in Chapman Plaza on Saturday, May 22. The first 50 customers in Koreatown will receive a “No Mask, No Boba” t-shirt. Other giveaways take place throughout the weekend.
Manuela’s Garden Bar, located in the Hauser & Wirth complex in DTLA s Arts District, launches a Tiki-inspired Tropical Nights every Friday from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Explore eight new drinks that are available only in the garden. They include the Notorious P.O.G. ($15) with passionfruit, orange and Gustoso dark rum and the Sourpuss ($15) with Kikori whiskey, yuzuri, coconut cream, lemon and sugar. Food includes garlic shimp, pencil cobb grits and chili de arbol chicken.