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You've probably heard of the "Simpsons predictions" craze, but Emmy Award-winning sitcom "Abbott Elementary" just shown its own fortune-telling powers.
Adley Rutschman, a budding star with the Baltimore Orioles, smashed a walk-off home run against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday. With the game at 7-7 at Camden Yards, A's reliever Trevor May threw a 93.2 mph fastball toward the center of the zone, which Rutschman quickly punished with a 405-foot dinger to end it.
Rutschman hitting a walk-off home run was not a surprising tale, as he has previously shown to be an excellent baseball player. However, in his postgame interview on Thursday, Rutschman stated that this was not only his first MLB walk-off home run, but also the first walk-off home run of his whole baseball career, from Little League to high school to college to the minor levels.
Some people were surprised since Rutschman has been a standout at almost every level – he was excellent enough in high school to be drafted, then good enough at Oregon State to be taken first overall.
People who had watched the previous night's episode of "Abbott Elementary" on ABC were even more surprised by the walk-off homer.
According to The Athletic, one of the key characters in that episode, Gregory Eddie, a Baltimore native, found himself standing behind another Orioles fan who hadn't been able to check the previous night's score. He took it upon himself to provide a summary:
“5-3 O's. Adley Rutschman hit a walk-off opposite-field home run, while Cedric Mullins was a single shy of the cycle."
Was that a flawless prediction? Certainly not. The Orioles won 8-7, Rutschman's shot was pulled rather than opposite-field, and Mullins was 1-for-4 with a single instead of a single shy of the cycle.
Still, when a program predicts a person hitting a walk-off home run, and then he hits his first walk-off home run less than 24 hours later, it's a bit unsettling (and let's not pretend that some previous Simpsons forecasts haven't been equally incorrect).
Rustchman is hitting.373/.467/.627 as of Thursday, with four home runs and nine RBIs. He was anticipated to make a significant leap this year as a former No. 1 overall prospect and runner-up for American League Rookie of the Year last year. So far, he appears to be meeting expectations from fans and hit shows.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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