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A’s Offense Explodes In Win Over Padres

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June 18, 2015

Oakland, CA – It’s rare to have games like this but when your in a zone, it’s pretty spectacular. The A’s outburst against the Padres was one for the history books. They had twenty hits setting a new season-high in runs scored and in hits. Tonight’s 16-2 victory was their fourth straight win despite being in last place in the American League West.

Oakland’s offense got going early against San Diego’s starting pitcher Odrisamer Despaigne. The A’s scored four runs in the first, Billy Burns led off the with a double. Marcus Semien followed with a single, Josh Reddick popped out and Ben Zobrist drove in Burns with a bloop single to center field. Billy Butler cleared the bases when his three-run homer carried into the left field seats making it a 4- game.

“We had 20 hits,” said Butler. “That doesn’t happen too many times, and it was a real good win for us at home.”

The A’s added on another run in the third when Zobrist tripled and Stephen Vogt scored him in on a sacrifice fly. Jesse Chavez was outstanding, he struck out eleven over seven frames and recorded a new career-high. Chavez tossed a shutout through five innings until he surrendered a solo home run to Alexi Amarista to lead off the sixth. He struck out the next two batters before forcing Matt Kemp to ground out to end the frame.

“This was the best changeup we’ve ever seen him throw, and he threw a bunch of them,” Oakland’s manager Bob Melvin said.

“It was awesome especially for Chavez,” said Burns. “He pitches so well all the time, and we just haven’t put up the runs for him. It was nice to pay him back.”

Despaigne got chased off the mound in the seventh and replaced by Frank Garces. The A’s extended their lead 6-1 when Mark Canha led off the inning with a single, followed by Eric Sogard’s free pass. Burns singled loading the bases while Semien’s sacrifice fly scored in Canha. Zobrist cleared the bases with a two-run double and advanced to third on the throw from right field. Vogt’s bloop single made it a 9-1 game.

“At first I just tried to forget about everything and keep the game where it was,” Despaigne said. “I felt good, but it just happened so fast I couldn’t do much about it. I just tried to make pitches.”

The Padres went back to their bullpen which continued to unravel. Oakland scored seven runs in the eighth loading the bases twice. Sogard doubled, Burns singled and Semien walked. Reddick singled and drove in Sogard. Sam Flud singled and drove in both Burns and Semien. Brett Lawrie got in on the action with a two-run double. Canha’s RBI single made it 15-2 while Sogard drove in Lawrie extending the lead to 16-2.

The A’s has won six of their last eight games and have out-scored the opposition 304-266 this season. They improved to 3-0 in interleague play and began their five-game homestand 1-0. Oakland reduced their errors committing four over the last three games. The offense is in a zone, six players had two or more hits tonight.

Burns has hit safely in each of his last eight games while recording his fourth three-hit game and 17th multiple hit contest of the year. Butler went 4-for-5 recording his four-hit contest and his 15th multiple hit game of the season. Canha is batting .345 with two doubles, two home runs and six RBI’s in eight games in June. Flud drove in two runs. Lawrie career average in interleague play with five home runs and 23 RBI’s in 36 games.

San Diego got two home runs off Oakland tonight. Amarista went yard in the sixth while Will Middlebrooks led off the eighth with a solo shot. That was it for the Padres offense who have now lost four in a row. Despaingne gave up six earned runs in six frames in his first career start against the A’s. The first was by far his worst inning. He’s lost four of his last five decisions in eight starts. Despaingne did keep the damage to a minimum before the bullpen took over.

“We couldn’t figure out their guy,” said San Diego’s interim manager Pat Murphy. “Let’s face it, we didn’t have very good at-bats.”

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Poll Shows Support for Policies That Help Families Afford Child Care

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

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By First Five Years Fund

New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

The national survey was conducted by UpOne Insight on behalf of the First Five Years Fund from January 13–18, 2026.

Key findings include:

• Parents need help: 80% of voters say the ability of working parents to find and afford child care is either in a state of crisis or a major problem.

• This is an affordability issue: 82% believe federal child care funding will help lower costs for working families — including 69% of Republicans, 84% of Independents, and 94% of Democrats.

• And there continues to be strong support (62%) for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), a federal program that makes it possible for hundreds of thousands of families to afford safe, quality care for their children while parents work or go to school, including a majority of Republicans, 63% of Independents and 72% of Democrats.

• Support for funding child care programs remains strong: 75% believe child care funding should be increased or kept at current levels — including 75% of Republicans, 85% of Independents, and 97% of Democrats.

• 74% say funding for child care is an important and good use of tax dollars, including a majority of Republicans, three-quarters of Independents, and nine in ten Democrats.

FFYF Executive Director Sarah Rittling said, “Voters across the country are sending a clear message: federal child care and early learning programs work. These investments help parents stay in the workforce, strengthen families, and support healthy child development. They have also long had strong bipartisan support in Congress. At a time when affordability is top of mind for families, continued federal funding is essential to ensure child care remains accessible and within reach.”

First Five Years Fund works to protect, prioritize, and build bipartisan support for quality child care and early learning programs at the federal level. Reliable, affordable, and high-quality early learning and child care can be transformative, not only enhancing a child’s prospects for a brighter future but also bolstering working parents and fostering economic stability nationwide.

We work with Congress and the Administration to identify federal solutions that work for families with young children, as well as states and communities. We work with policymakers to identify ways to increase access to affordable, high-quality child care and early learning programs for children. And we collaborate with advocacy groups to help align best practices with the best possible policies. http://www.ffyf.org

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Trump’s MAGA Allies are Creating Executive Order Plan to Steal the 2026 Midterms

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

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By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Correspondent

A group of MAGA pro-Trump activists, who say they are working in coordination with the White House, are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that would claim without evidence that China interfered with the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential to President Joe Biden by over 7 million votes. Since Trump lost to Biden in 2020, he has repeatedly claimed that the election was “stolen” without evidence. The report of a group of “Trump allies” preparing an executive order to give Trump power over elections was first reported by The Washington Post.

The lies around the right-wing campaign that pushed falsehoods that the 2020 election was stolen was trafficked through right-wing media, particularly Fox News. Fox News was then sued for defamation for the claims by Dominion Voting Systems. Fox lost the case and had to settle for the largest defamation amount on record of $787.5 million in April 2023.

The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

The story in The Washington Post arrives as Trump increasingly signals that he may take actions that would alter the result of the 2026 midterms. The Republicans are widely expected to lose as their approval ratings plummet as a result of a failing economy under Trump. Over 50 members of Congress have announced they will retire this year and not return in 2027.

The Trump Department of Justice, which now has a large image of Trump on the side of it, “sued five new states Thursday [Feb. 26, 2026] demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well,” according to Democracy Docket, a group that works to protect voting rights.

Trump claimed back in late 2020, the last year of his first term, that he had the authority to issue an executive order related to mail-in voting for the 2020 elections — which he would then lose. But the Constitution states that control of elections lies with the states. As the GOP works to place hurdles in front of voting, Democrats worked to make voting easier.

In March 2021, President Biden signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to expand voting access as part of the Biden Administration’s effort “to promote and defend the right to vote for all Americans who are legally entitled to participate in elections.”

Trump’s focus is clearly on altering the November 2026 midterm elections. Trump’s polling numbers and the elections and special elections that have taken place around the U.S. over the last year clearly indicate that Republicans are about to be hit by a blue wave of Democratic victories.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent investigative journalist and the founder of Black Virginia News. She is a political analyst who appears on #RolandMartinUnfiltered and hosts the show LAUREN LIVE on YouTube @LaurenVictoriaBurke. She can be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke