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11th Oct 2019

Long-time friends of Calvin Klein and newly-married couple, Hailey and Justin Bieber have appeared in the brand’s new CK50 campaign created as part of its milestone 50th anniversary. Joined by brand regulars, including Kendall Jenner, A$AP Rocky and Troye Sivan, the campaign reflects on memorable historical moments and themes which took place during Calvin Klein’s five-decade strong existence, as well as the rebellious spirit and tongue-in-cheek take that has long-shaped the brand. In conjunction with the celebratory campaign, the brand has also just dropped the CK50 collection which includes a special capsule of iconic styles featuring a limited CK50 logo. The capsule collection is now available for purchase in-store and online for a limited time. [Vogue inbox]

A rare, behind-the-scenes look at the couple's campaign appearance. Image credit: courtesy of Calvin Klein

Shortly after touching down in Australia, Sarah Jessica Parker is heading to David Jones’s flagship Elizabeth Street store in Sydney to meet customers who have picked up a pair of shoes from her SJP Collection. From 5pm to 7pm on Sunday October 20, the actress and now-shoe designer will be signing shoes from her collection in the store’s designer shoes department which have been purchased either in-store or online from now until the signing day. [Vogue inbox]

As part of World Mental Health Day on October 10, global social movement and services provider Heart On My Sleeve (HOSM) launched its ‘Heart On My Sleeve pledge’. Angling the pledge as an ‘I’m not okay’ day, it encourages those to openly admit their uneasy feelings. Anyone who fit this criteria is encouraged to visit HOSM’s website and sign the pledge which states “I pledge to speaking up when I’m not ok”, and everyone who does so will get a free wristband to remind them every day they aren’t alone. [Vogue Inbox]

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Entries for the 2020 Westpac Private Emerging Fashion Designer Award are officially open. Formerly known as the BT Emerging Fashion Designer Award, it aims to identify and showcase Australia’s most promising emerging fashion designers and provide financial support, advice and mentoring to aid the winner in pushing their emerging label to the next level. Notably, the award has now opened entries up to menswear designers, previously only open to womenswear and unisex designers. The entrants, who need apply prior to December 9, will be considered by an expert panel of industry judges, including our very own editor-in-chief, Edwina McCann, through the focuses of business acumen, design capabilities, and sustainable and ethical practices, after which three finalists will be announced in February 2020. [Vogue Inbox]

Puma are once again collaborating with fashion label Karl Lagerfeld to produce a performance wear collection which combines the former’s hailed sportswear heritage with the latter’s luxury edge. Including a number of apparel and accessory must-haves for both women and men, the new collection will feature Puma’s legendary formstrip in a new, and unique interpretation, with each design taking inspiration from the brand’s notable archival styles reimagined with Karl Lagerfeld’s modern aesthetic. [Vogue Inbox]

Travel brand Away has just launched its new collection of travel wares, dubbed The Expendables. Featuring a soft woven nylon shell in four clashing colourways—black, asphalt, navy and green—the newly-released line was designed to meet the needs of each and every traveller, by providing a durable and flexible model which contains a built-in zip that expands the bag up to 4.5cm while maintaining a refined and sleek look. The Expendables is now available online for purchase. [Vogue Inbox]

Australian Fashion brand Aje and French footwear brand Superga are set to launch a collaborative sneaker collection on November 6. Coming together to create a covetable capsule collection for your summer wardrobe, the three designs within the collection will be created in fresh crisp white and oatmeal tones, are finished with natural frayed edging and gold hardware. [Vogue Inbox]

Australia’s very first Yves Saint Laurent beauty pop-up has just launched in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building. Your one-stop (pop-up) shop for all your make-up needs, the temporary store—which also includes a number of interactive opportunities within its mock gas station setting—will stock not only the brand’s newest and best-selling offerings, it will also house exclusive products, gift sets, lip kits and collector’s edition items. The YSL Beauty Station will be open from 9am to 6pm on weekdays (excludes late night closing on Thursdays at 9pm) until October 30, with all exclusives in-store also available on yslbeauty.com.au. [Vogue Inbox]

Kickstaring the collaborative process with Reebok for the second time, Gigi Hadid has come together with the sportswear brand once again to release a brand new collection named ‘Wild is Wherever’. Combining the brand’s ‘90s heritage with Hadid’s own childhood memories within the same era including her long-held love for the outdoors, the line features new apparel and footwear silhouettes that harmoniously encompass each of those themes. [Vogue Inbox]

Paris-born brand, Fenty, has recently launched a digital flagship where customers can shop its designs online. Customers of the Rihanna-helmed brand will be able to browse special edition releases on Fenty’s site, which currently houses an assortment of ready-to-wear, fashion jewellery, accessories, and footwear that each reinterpret the concept of business attire, dubbed Take-up Space. And in great news for local customers, the site will be shipping to Australia. [Vogue Inbox]

On September 30, The Australian Fashion Council (AFC), with its key supporters The Woolmark Company and His Excellency Brendan Berne, Australian Ambassador to France, co-hosted an evening reception to celebrate Australian fashion, and its close connection with Merino wool, at Paris Fashion Week. Attended by our very own editor-in-chief and chairwoman of the AFC, Edwina McCann, the event presented an opportunity for industry, media, buyers and influencers to see the work of our strong and diverse local design talent, showcasing seven up-and-coming Australian fashion designers—Albus Lumen, Dion Lee, Ex Infinitas, Nagnata, Helen Kaminski, Jacinta James and Blair Archibald—who each presented a key look across a series of six sculptures. [Vogue Inbox]

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Australians love a skiing holiday. Maybe it’s our relative lack of snow that drives us to seek it out, or that it fits in nicely with our active lifestyles. Regardless of the reasoning, it’s safe to say that Australians can’t get enough of skiing. And with Japan a little closer than, say, the Swiss Alps, the country’s ski fields have become a hotspot for Aussies hoping to discover the perfect, powder-topped run. 

But as with planning any overseas holiday, a ski trip to Japan requires a bit of careful coordination. From choosing which region to park your skis to deciding whether or not to invest in a guide, the preparation can all be a little daunting. Below, we spoke with Ross McSwiney, Japan operations manager at Whiteroom Tours on how to go about planning, and pulling off, the perfect Japanese ski trip. 

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When planning a ski trip to Japan, what would be the first thing to book or plan? 
Where exactly you wish to go and what you wish to see and do. Japan has such a variety of regional, cultural and climatic conditions to experience. Best to do your research and determine with the time frame you have what you wish to realistically achieve in that period. 

Where are the main skiing areas in Japan and what makes them unique?
If travelling from Australia or New Zealand, Japan is an easy ski destination. With only a two hour time difference to Australian Eastern Standard Time, you can expect no jet lag and no altitude sickness, as the mountains are at lower levels than Europe or North America. Plus, the travel is shorter and less onerous.

Japan has numerous areas to ski but the most commonly know and visited are on the northern island of Hokkaido, particularly the areas around Niseko, Otaru and Central Hokkaido.

Niseko
Niseko has developed into an international destination with all the facilities one would expect from a major resort including five-star hotels and apartments, world-class restaurants, shopping facilities and a wide variety of activities besides skiing.

Hokkaido
Hokkaido receives the most consistent powder snow in Japan, varying across the island from nine to 18-plus metres per season. Central Hokkaido is a little colder as it’s further north, but home to some of the lightest snow Japan receives. This area is less developed than the Niseko area, unless you base yourself in Asahikawa city, but is becoming more popular each year. The area has a more traditional feel overall but does lack the extent of facilities that areas such as Niseko have. Direct flights to Sapporo from Australia are available as of this coming Japan winter season.

Otaru
Otaru is a seaside port with a traditional Japanese feel, access to a number of resorts in easy reach by car and plenty of restaurants, bars and nightlife. 

Honshu
On the main island of Honshu, there are many areas in easy access from Tokyo by train, bus, shuttle or car. The most popular being the prefectures of Nagano and Niigata including areas in and around Hakuba, Shiga Kogen, Nozawa Onsen, Myoko Kogen, Naeba and Myoko Suginahara. Many people like the fact that there is only one flight into Tokyo and within a few hours they can be at their destination. These areas are also favourable if you’re looking to tag on a few days of not skiing in Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima. Facilities vary depending on the area but many have a traditional feel and cultural experiences within easy reach.

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What’s the best part about a skiing holiday in Japan?
In a word, Japow! You can possibly experience bigger mountains, longer runs or maybe more sunshine in Europe or North America but if you want to experience consistent powder snow, a complete cultural experience and less travel time, Japan is the destination.

Are agents or group bookings the way to go when planning a trip to Japan? 
Of course, you can go and book by yourself over the internet, but using an experienced Japan specialist agent such as Whiteroom Tours will usually work out the same. Booking service commissions are paid by the ground operators and hotels, same as how online booking services make their commissions. Our agents have a decade or more experience on the ground in Japan, can answer all your questions and provide excellent recommendations to suit your individual requirements. We can offer a variety of pre-packaged ski tours such as tours of Central Hokkaido, Yuki Yama backcountry and Tohoku powder. Booking via an agent can wrap your cultural non-skiing experiences into the holiday package, book your flights and all the other incidentals such a ski hire, lift passes, ski rental and ancillary activities.

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What is backcountry skiing and should someone consider it in Japan?
Backcountry skiing is really any skiing or snowboarding done past the resort boundaries. Venturing outside of the resort boundary offers a whole new experience and area of discovery, particularly to ski or ride untracked powder lines without the competition of numbers within the resorts. Japan is so good for this, and many of the resorts have relaxed their policies to backcountry and off-piste (off the runs) skiing.

The ability to use the lift access to the top, ski into the backcountry and make your way back to the bottom of the lifts or, if full backcountry with the right equipment, tour back to the resort areas. Complete backcountry areas are also fantastic where leg power is the order of the day — if that’s your thing. However, with this extra freedom there are dangers such as getting lost, avalanche risk and terrain traps, so booking a ski guide is your best bet. 

What is ski guiding and why should someone consider booking a ski guide?
Ski guiding is where you hire a professional guide to show you the best an area has to offer on any particular day.  If conditions are appropriate, you can with confidence challenge new off-piste areas it would be otherwise dangerous to venture into by yourself. As ski guiding to this point is uncontrolled in Japan, many companies claim to be ski guiding operations but are really just ski instructional companies masquerading as such. Most of the professional ski guiding operations in Japan such as ours focus only on guiding, not ski instructing. Experienced guides will carry accreditation according with their experience in the field and a skill set which includes a combination of mountain guiding, avalanche mitigation, ski patrolling, rescue and first aid. 

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What are your top tips to planning the perfect skiing holiday to Japan?
Don’t try and pack too much into a limited period, use the time you have to focus on the main things you wish to achieve. As they say in Japan, hurry slowly. Book your trip through a professional and experienced operator.  This will guarantee you bang for your buck and make the whole process so much easier and stress-free. Be prepared for further trips as the initial ones will just whet the appetite!

Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday that President Trump should be impeached for abusing his powers in soliciting help for his own reelection, calling his actions “un-American.”

The former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate said Trump was “shooting holes in the Constitution” by asking foreign governments to interfere in the 2020 election. In July, after putting a hold on crucial U.S. aid to Ukraine, Trump asked the nation’s leader in a phone call for “a favor” — investigations including one focused on Biden and his son Hunter.

House Democrats have begun an impeachment inquiry centered on the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Donald Trump will do anything to get reelected, including violating the most basic forms of democracy,” Biden told a crowd in Rochester, N.H. “It’s stunning, and it’s dangerous.”

“This is not hyperbole: It’s a fact. No president in American history has even dared to engage in such unimaginable behavior. With his words and his actions, President Trump has indicted himself,” Biden said. “By obstructing justice and refusing to comply with the congressional inquiry, he’s convicted himself — in full view of the world and the American people. Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts.”

Biden took Trump to task for what he described as attempts to enlist foreign countries to interfere with U.S. presidential elections — first Russia in 2016, and now Ukraine and China.

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“The ballot box is sacred ground in America,” Biden said. “Last week, on the White House lawn, President Trump invited China to get engaged in deciding our election and who our nominee would be.”

“It was the third foreign power — that we know of — that he’s asked in clear, unmistakable language to interfere … in the democratic proceedings of the United States of America,” Biden said.

“It’s wrong. It’s un-American,” he said, adding that abuse of power was “a defining characteristic of Trump’s presidency.”

During Trump’s 30-minute call with Zelensky, he asked the new Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden, a front-runner in the race to oppose the president in 2020, and Hunter Biden, who served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. Ukrainian officials have said there is no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens.

When Zelensky, whose nation is fighting Russian-backed separatists, asked about military aid, Trump responded, “I would like you to do us a favor though,” according to the account of the call released by the White House. He added: “Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.”

Trump has continued to level accusations of wrongdoing against the Bidens, despite a lack of substantiation.

Biden defended his efforts to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor when he was involved in Obama administration policy in the former Soviet republic — an act that lies at the heart of Trump’s allegations — as “the official position of the president of the United States and the United States government.”

“There’s no truth in his charges and attacks against me and my son — zero,” the former vice president said.

Although Biden hadn’t previously voiced support for Trump’s impeachment, Wednesday’s address marked the second time in a week that’s he’s publicly admonished the president over the Ukraine accusations and questioned his motivation.

“He’s afraid of just how badly I would beat him next November,” Biden said in a speech in Reno last week. He repeated that assertion in New Hampshire.

“What I did was to seek to replace a weak prosecutor with one who we hoped would go after the corruption that was holding Ukraine back,” Biden said Wednesday. “What Trump did was to hold hostage political support and hundreds of millions of desperately needed dollars to a country at war to advance his own political demands.”

On Tuesday, the White House said it would not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. Although the White House declassified the memorandum of the phone call, it has refused to cooperate on other issues, spurring House subpoenas for testimony or documents.

WASHINGTON — 

During President Trump’s first two years in office, his standing with many voters was buoyed by a surge in manufacturing that helped create millions of new jobs and undergirded the whole U.S. economy.

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But today, manufacturing has plunged into recession and is threatening to pull down other sectors, perhaps hitting hardest on supporters in those states that helped put Trump in office.

Impeachment may be dominating the news, but the less-noticed industrial slump ultimately could pose a greater threat to Trump’s reelection.

As measured by the Federal Reserve, manufacturing output shrank over two straight quarters this year. That’s the common definition of recession.

A separate, widely followed index drawn from purchasing managers showed September’s contraction in manufacturing was the steepest since June 2009, with production, inventories and new orders all falling.

And after adding nearly half a million jobs in the prior two years, which Trump frequently stressed in hard-hat rallies throughout the Midwest, manufacturing employment has stalled.

Instead of healthy job growth, layoff announcements have spiked this year, especially in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Michigan. Friday’s jobs report for September showed a slight drop in total factory jobs.

Manufacturing today accounts for only about 10% of economic activity, and so far, the overall economy and employment in the U.S. are still growing. But the pace has slowed considerably this year. The faltering industrial sector has started to crimp businesses in the transportation and warehousing sectors. And there are growing worries of spillover effects in the larger services sector and broader economy.

Even if the nation can avoid a recession next year, a manufacturing downturn could prove to be politically damaging for Trump, who rode to the White House on enthusiastic support from blue-collar workers in key states and on his promise to revive America’s coal, steel and other industries.

Although manufacturing comprises a far smaller portion of the whole U.S. economy than it once did, it remains very important in a handful of swing states that Trump narrowly won in 2016 — including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

In the months before the 2016 election, it didn’t help Hillary Clinton’s prospects that manufacturing was on the skids and factory jobs were shrinking, thanks to a drop-off in energy-related investments, a strong dollar and lackluster demand for American goods in emerging economies.

Some of those same factors are again weighing against American industry. But analysts and business leaders say the single biggest restraint on manufacturing this year has been of Trump’s own making: excessive use of tariffs and his trade wars with China and other countries.

Of utmost concern has been Trump’s confrontation with China, the world’s second-largest economy. Many American firms have major operations there — both manufacturing, such as smartphones, and sales, such as motor vehicles. And U.S. companies rely on China for a big chunk of their sales and profits.

U.S. businesses have put off spending on major equipment and buildings as they’ve sought to look through the fog of a swirling trade conflict marked by Trump’s haphazard tariff actions and off-and-on negotiations.

China and the U.S. are scheduled to resume high-level talks Thursday and Friday in Washington, but expectations for a breakthrough are low, and Trump is loading up more tariffs to take effect next week. Already multiple rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs have been costly for many domestic manufacturers.

Jim Springer, chief financial officer of Industrial Nut Corp. in Sandusky, Ohio, doesn’t need the Fed and a bunch of economists to tell him that manufacturing is in recession. He can see it in his 111-year-old family business making locknuts and other fasteners.

Springer, 58, who runs the company with his father and three brothers, remembers when orders took off at the end of 2016. Sales surged 30% in 2017 and went up another 14% last year, to just shy of its record-high sales of $20.25 million in 2006.

It’s been downhill since the first quarter, however, as the company’s largest customers, such as Caterpillar Inc., the big manufacturer of tractors and construction trucks, started to scale back. Sales at Industrial Nut are expected to fall about 10% this year, and Springer says tariffs are a big culprit. They’ve hurt the company both by making raw materials more expensive and by slowing sales in China for companies like Caterpillar, and those effects have trickled down to parts suppliers like Industrial Nut.

“The magnitude of the loss we’re seeing from tariffs far outweighs the benefits of the tax cuts,” Springer said, referring to the GOP-led move to shave the U.S. corporate tax rate to 21% from 35% starting in 2018.

“That was pro-business, and it was nice,” he added, but “the tariffs are just too blunt of an instrument.”

Like manufacturers across the country, Industrial Nut has recently begun to reduce overtime hours for workers, and Springer says the company is managing labor costs also through attrition and retirement of its aging workforce.

Sandusky County, some 60 miles west of Cleveland along Lake Erie, has a population of about 59,000. Manufacturing accounts for roughly 40% of the county’s private employment and has been shedding jobs since the middle of last year. In 2016, Trump won the county with 58% of the vote, even though it went to Obama in both 2012 and 2008.

“Our shop floor is divided,” Springer said of the company’s 40 hourly employees, who are represented by the United Steelworkers. “Some people love him, the ‘fake news’ things … and there are those who don’t trust him.”

He added, “It’ll be very difficult [for him] to get reelected in a recession. Then again, the alternatives aren’t very appealing from a pro-business perspective.”

Most analysts see U.S.-China tensions remaining high in coming months. And that likely means little relief on tariffs and continued uncertainty for businesses, which will keep manufacturing limping along.

Michael Hicks, a regional economist at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., said there was a greater than 50% chance of a national recession in the next 12 months. Indiana has the country’s largest concentration of manufacturing, accounting for some 22% of the state’s economy — about double the U.S. average.

Trends in recreational vehicles, made in northern Indiana, have been a good indicator of recent recessions, and shipments are down about 20% this year, Hicks said. By year’s end, he predicted, it won’t be just Indiana’s manufacturing jobs that will be down from a year ago but employment overall for the state.

“Indiana has never had a year where employment dropped for the year and the U.S. was not in recession,” he said.

Trump isn’t likely to lose Indiana in 2020; it has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate only five times since 1900, most recently in 2008, when Barack Obama narrowly beat Mitt Romney.

But industrial activity in Indiana is deeply intertwined with manufacturing in nearby states that are not rock-solid Republican — especially Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin.

Wisconsin, which Trump took by a mere 22,748 votes in 2016, the narrowest of his vote margins in any state, is second to Indiana in its reliance on manufacturing.

Wisconsin has one of the state’s lowest jobless rates in the country, just 3.1% in August. Manufacturing payrolls, however, have been mostly declining since September and are down for the year, as the trade war and other forces have hurt manufacturers in industrial machinery, metal fabrication, paper products and food processing.

“Tariffs are one of the reasons that our production costs have increased, along with increases in the costs of raw materials, labor and freight,” said Donna Parke, marketing and services manager at Tramontina, which in the summer closed its cookware plant in Manitowoc, Wis., and consolidated it with factories in Brazil. The shutdown eliminated 145 jobs.

Like Tramontina, much of Wisconsin’s manufacturing operations and workforce are in rural areas, which, along with better-than-expected support in Milwaukee suburbs, helped Trump squeak out a win over Clinton.

Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll, said that, for Wisconsin voters in 2016, manufacturing and the overall performance of the economy took a back seat. Voters were more concerned about cultural conservatism and felt pessimistic about the future of the country, factors that made Trump more appealing to them.

But Franklin noted that, in late August, a substantially greater share of Wisconsin’s registered voters said they expected the economy over the next year to get worse rather than get better. It was only the second time in more than 50 surveys conducted since 2012 in which economic pessimism was stronger than optimism for the future.

The only other time was in January, also this year, around the time of the federal government shutdown.

“This represents a weakness of a central part of Trump’s rhetoric,” Franklin said. “We may not be in a full-blown recession, but enough that that could play a role in 2020.”

SACRAMENTO — 

An effort to limit voter confusion in California by banning the use of the word “independent” in a political party’s name was vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, a rejection of a proposal that would have forced one of the state’s lesser-known political parties to change its name.

The bill was the product of years of complaints by elections officials and political watchers who noted that voters who wanted to be unaffiliated with any party had been mistakenly registering with the American Independent Party of California instead of selecting the “no party preference” choice on voter forms. There were almost 518,000 voters registered with that party as of the last official state report, an increase of almost 30% over the past decade.

Newsom’s veto message said he couldn’t sign a bill that only impacted one group.

“By requiring one existing political party to change its current name, this bill could be interpreted as a violation of the rights of free speech and association guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,” he wrote.

Representatives of the American Independent Party, which was established in 1968 to boost the presidential effort of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, have long insisted they don’t believe there is widespread confusion over the name. But a 2016 investigation by the Los Angeles Times found a sizable number of voters had no idea they belonged to a political party, much less one with an ultra-conservative platform. A poll conducted for The Times as part of the investigation found 73% of American Independent Party voters thought they were actually unaffiliated voters.

The party’s current platform includes staunchly conservative positions against abortion rights, gun control and gay marriage. President Trump was the selection of the party as its standard-bearer in 2016 and its party leaders have expressed a desire to align their choice with the Republican Party again next month.

Though SB 696 was approved by both houses of the Legislature last month, it landed on Newsom’s desk with the same concerns over its constitutionality raised by the governor. Critics have said that the state couldn’t ban a political party from using a name of its choice, insisting that the only thing the state could do was to keep educating voters about how to fill out the section of the registration form that asks about political party preference.

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Concerns over voter confusion have risen as more Californians have dropped their formal political affiliations, choosing instead to not align with any of the state’s six officially recognized parties. Unaffiliated voters now make up more than 28% of the state’s electorate.

The bill also sought to ban use of the phrases “no party preference” or “decline to state” — the two official ways that unaffiliated voters have been described in California in recent years.

State Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana), the bill’s author, said he was disappointed by the governor’s rejection of the bill. Still, he said in a message on Wednesday, he plans to reintroduce the proposal when the Legislature convenes again in January.

October was here and the Dodgers choked.

Again.

Ahead of the Washington Nationals by two runs and only six outs from victory in the final game of their best-of-five National League Division Series, the Dodgers found a way to lose on Wednesday night.

The resulting anguish was intensely familiar for a city that is more than three decades removed from its last World Series championship. Baseball’s postseason has become synonymous with failure in these parts.

One particular detail of the defeat was especially recognizable. Costing the Dodgers their two-run advantage was their most accomplished, most respected and hardest-working player.

The player was Clayton Kershaw.

Again.

“Everything people say is true right now about postseason,” Kershaw said. “I understand that.”

The Dodgers’ lead vanished over successive sliders delivered by Kershaw in the eighth inning, one to Anthony Rendon that was whacked over the outfield wall and another to Juan Soto that met the same fate.

The 3-1 edge that Kershaw inherited from starter Walker Buehler was erased, setting up a go-ahead grand slam by Howie Kendrick in the 10th inning.

The Dodgers lost the game 7-3, and the series three games to two.

Kershaw was despondent.

“I let down the guys in the clubhouse,” he said. “That’s the hardest part every year. When you don’t win the last game of the season and you’re to blame for it, it’s not fun.”

He had already experienced multiple autumn heartbreaks as a starter. This time, he was crushed as a reliever.

Removed from the game after serving up the home run to Soto, Kershaw retreated to the bench. He sat alone, hunched over, occasionally running his hands through his hair.

Though Kershaw shouldered the blame, there were legitimate questions to be asked whether he was set up to fail by manager Dave Roberts.

Three years ago, at the same stage of the postseason, against the same opponents, Roberts managed his personal masterpiece. He used five relievers to cover the final 61/3 innings of that game, extending to Kenley Jansen for 22/3 innings and calling on Kershaw to record the last two outs.

“If I had to pick one game of managing in my brief time, that’s probably it, No. 1,” Roberts said this week.

The game Roberts managed Wednesday night belonged on the opposite end of the spectrum, as even moves that didn’t backfire could be second-guessed.

“If the blame falls on me, I have no problem with it,” Roberts said.

Roberts said before the game he would “ride” Buehler and he did. The greatest number of pitches Buehler had thrown in a game was 111. His pitch count was at 97 through the first six innings Wednesday, but Roberts nonetheless sent him back to the mound for the seventh inning.

The Dodgers were fortunate the Nationals didn’t further reduce their 3-1 lead in that inning, which Buehler started by beaning Kurt Suzuki. Buehler walked Trea Turner with two outs on his 117th pitch, prompting Roberts to summon Kershaw from the bullpen.

Five days removed from his start in Game 2, Kershaw temporarily preserved the two-run advantage with a three-pitch strikeout of the Nationals’ No. 2 batter, left-handed-hitting Adam Eaton.

He didn’t fare as well in the eighth inning.

His second pitch to Rendon was launched over the left-field wall. The Dodgers’ lead was down to 3-2.

Kershaw’s next pitch was blasted into the opposite set of stands by Soto, the left-handed-hitting 20-year-old prodigy. Dodger Stadium was suddenly silent. The score was tied.

Roberts defended his decision to have Kershaw pitch to the heart of the Nationals lineup instead of Kenta Maeda, his sharpest reliever. Maeda replaced Kershaw and struck out three consecutive batters. The Japanese right-hander pitched 42/3 innings in the series and didn’t give up a run.

“We wanted to keep Kenta away from Soto,” Roberts said. “You look at want Kenta’s done, he’s been a righty killer.”

Insisting that Kershaw was still one of the best pitchers in the game, Roberts said, “I’ll take Clayton any day in that situation.”

The sentiment was of no consolation to Kershaw.

“I had one job to do,” he said. “Just get three outs. Got one out and didn’t get the other two. Went over the fence and cost us the game right there. It’s a terrible feeling. No excuses. Just didn’t make pitches and guy hit it over the fence, twice.”

Asked how long it would take him to get over this setback, Kershaw replied, “I’ve had to do it so much. I don’t know. It might linger for a while. I might not get over it. I don’t know. But spring training is going to come, I have to be ready to pitch, do my job as best I can.”

He promised to do that.

“I’m not going to hang my head,” he said. “I’m going to be here. I’m going to continue to try to fight, continue to try to compete. I’m not going to shy away from it, continue to do it.”

In another year, he could get another chance. Only then, only after navigating a 162-game regular season and earning a place in the postseason, can he get the opportunity to avoid this all-too-familiar ending.

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Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as Santa Anita gets ready for a five-day week.

Let’s get caught up on some news.

The Breeders’ Cup Classic is looking to be pretty interesting with just a few weeks to go. All the qualifying races are over and the fields are starting to take shape. The most interesting question is if Omaha Beach will take a run at the big boys, although that’s a tall task to go from a sprint to the 1 ¼ mile Classic.

After winning the Sprint Championship, trainer Richard Mandella said he wasn’t ruling anything out but given how little he’s raced, the Breeders’ Cup Sprint seems more likely.

“Six furlongs to a mile and a quarter a month later against the best in the world, I don’t know that there’s enough time,” Mandella told Jay Privman of the Daily Racing Form. “But I wouldn’t rule it out. My concern is that he had a pretty hard race. It was a big effort after a long time off. I don’t know that I have enough time to fill the tank back up.”

Mandella will always do what’s in the best interest of the horse. Read the story here.

Thank goodness Privman is on the Classic case, as he broke lots of news.

–Elate is still headed to the Classic. Even though she finished second in the Spinster Stakes on Sunday at Keeneland. Blue Prize was the winner of that race. “The mare is going to the Classic,” trainer Bill Mott told Privman.

Elate has won two races this year (Fleur de Lis Handicap, Delaware Handicap), finished second three times (Spinster, Personal Ensign, Azeri Stakes) and third once (Apple Blossom Handicap). Read the story here.

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–And while Jay was talking to Mott, he also learned that Tacitus is out of the Classic, and any race the rest of the year. Tacitus was third in the Jockey Gold Cup two weekends ago and second in the Belmont Stakes. He will be coming back as a 4-year-old, according to Privman. Read the story here.

–In other Classic news, Mongolian Groom will supplement into the Classic. He won the Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita, a win-and-you’re-in race, but either the horse or his sire had been nominated so he had to pay the supplemental fee of $200,000 to get in. Since Mongolian Groom is a 4-year-old gelding, this will get him in the Breeders’ Cup for as long as he wants.

–And finally, remember last week when we suggested that Joel Rosario would be a good fit for McKinzie. Well, trainer Bob Baffert decided to go that way. Baffert and Rosario have had a relationship through the years, and Rosario was the rider of Game Winner. So, it made a lot of sense.

“I thought I had a chance,” said Ron Anderson, the agent for Rosario. “When you have a horse like this there are so many other channels with other people that Bob [Baffert] had to check with. I thought it was possible but really didn’t know.”

Anderson said he got the word on Wednesday morning.

“Good horse, good trainer, lucky that the horse is at Santa Anita,” Anderson said. “It’s all pretty exciting. We won the Classic last year and we have a good chance this year.”

Rosario won with Accelerate, for John Sadler, last year. Rosario was scheduled to ride Yoshida in this year’s Classic, so that spot is now open.

The current plan is that Rosario will race in Southern California for at least for the start of the Winter/Spring meeting.

Also, nothing final, but Baffert would like to race McKinzie one more year with the new race in Saudi Arabia and the Dubai World Cup on the let’s-talk-about-it list.

Santa Anita preview

Santa Anita has pretty strong field sizes, except in the feature, in the first of five race cards this week. There is a special Columbus/Indigenous People’s Day card on Monday. There are seven races on Thursday, two of them on the turf. It’s the usual weekday start of 1 p.m.

The feature is the sixth race, a $53,000 allowance/optional claimer for fillies and mares going a mile. Mo See Cal is the 2-1 favorite for trainer Peter Miller and jockey Abel Cedillo. Mo See Cal is four-of-15 lifetime and finished last year by winning three in a row. She was second last out in an allowance.

There are co-second-favorites, at 5-2, in Flor de La Mar and Starr of Quality. Flor de La Mar is trained by Baffert and will be ridden by Mike Smith. She won the Beverly J. Lewis at Los Alamitos this summer. As a $500,000 purchase a lot was expected of her early in her career. She finished second in this year’s Santa Anita Oaks and was 11^th in the Kentucky Oaks.

Starr of Quality has been two of four this year and is six-of-23 lifetime. Her connections are Bill Spawr and Tiago Pereira. Last out, she won the Dream of Sumer Stakes at Santa Anita on June 22. Post is around 3:45.

Here are the field sizes, in order: 9, 9, 8, 8 (2 also eligible), 10, 5, 9 (1 ae).

Ciaran Thornton’s SA pick of the day

RACE FOUR: No. 4 Party Town (10-1)

Party Town is a trainer Val Brinkerhoff value play at a nice 10-1 morning line. Brinkerhoff often times wins with longshots like this. Jockey Tyler Baze rides. They add blinkers and first time Lasix for Thursday. With a field of first time starters we also see a sharp workout last week so the tactic may be go fast early and hang on and discourage the debut horses.

Sunday’s result: Mr. Tip was scratched.

Ciaran Thornton is the handicapper for Californiapick4.com, which offers daily full card picks, longshots of the day, best bets of the day.

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Now, the star of the show, Thursday’s entries.

Santa Anita Entries for Thursday, October 10.

Santa Anita, Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California. 8th day of a 23-day meet.

FIRST RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $18,000. Maiden Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $20,000.

SECOND RACE.

5½ Furlongs. Purse: $21,000. Claiming. 3 year olds. Claiming Price $16,000.

THIRD RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $21,000. Maiden Claiming. Fillies. 2 year olds. Claiming Price $30,000.

FOURTH RACE.

5 Furlongs Turf. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. 2 year olds.

FIFTH RACE.

6 Furlongs. Purse: $31,000. Starter Optional Claiming. 2 year olds. Claiming Price $40,000.

SIXTH RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $53,000. Allowance Optional Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $62,500.

SEVENTH RACE.

1 Mile Turf. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. State bred.

Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Well, at least the Dodgers won’t lose in the World Series this year.

DODGERS

Before we get to the ugly recap. I have to say that if anyone had to beat the Dodgers, I am glad it was former ANGEL Howie Kendrick. Not that it makes me happy, of course, but after the tough series he had, you have to take you cap off to him.

Now, the ugliness. This is from Jorge Castillo’s game story:

The fans remaining at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night, the loyal ones who had stuck around to witness the stunning end of the Dodgers’ season, booed Dave Roberts when he finally emerged from the dugout in the 10th inning. They echoed their feelings on his walk back after the manager finally took the ball from Joe Kelly and gave it to Kenley Jansen.

It was all too late to salvage the Dodgers from elimination. The irreparable damage was done. Howie Kendrick had already smashed a fastball from the erratic Kelly over the center-field wall 410 feet away for a spine-cracking grand slam while Jansen, the reliever the Dodgers entrusted in those moments for the entire decade, watched from the Dodgers dugout, warm and ready to go.

It was the second bullpen collapse in the Dodgers’ 7-3, season-ending loss to the Washington Nationals in a decisive Game 5 of the National League Division Series. The first happened two innings earlier when Clayton Kershaw, summoned to pitch in relief, allowed two solo home runs on three pitches to squander the Dodgers’ lead.

The Dodgers’ game plan in this series was to wait out the Nationals’ vaunted starting pitchers and exploit their dismal bullpen. On Wednesday, the Nationals, the heavy underdogs in the series, used the blueprint to topple the Dodgers.

The bullpen performance spoiled a sparkling six-inning effort from Walker Buehler and sent the Dodgers to their earliest exit since 2015 while the Nationals advanced to the National League Championship Series for the first time.

Kershaw, the Dodgers’ Game 2 starter, entered in relief, and didn’t waste time. He struck out Eaton with three pitches, finishing him off 89-mph slider he swung through. Kershaw released a roar. His next three pitches offered different results.

The first was a curveball to Anthony Rendon below the zone to start the eighth inning. The next was another pitch below the zone, a slider, that Rendon golfed into the left field pavilion. The next was a slider up in the zone to Juan Soto. The 20-year-old wunderkind smashed it into the other pavilion. Kershaw crouched when the loud contact was made. He didn’t bother to look. Moments later, he handed the ball to Roberts and walked off the field to boos. He took a seat on the bench by himself.

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From Times columnist Bill Plaschke: This is not real. This cannot be happening.

The Dodgers did not just collapse all over October again. The Dodgers did not just blow another season with their Hall of Fame pitcher crumbling again. The Dodgers did not just extend a 31-year championship drought with boneheaded bullpen decisions by their manager again.

Yes, they did. Good Lord, they did.

The nightmare that never ends continued in its most fitful, frightful fashion yet Wednesday at the October house of horrors known as Dodger Stadium surrounded by the postseason demons that have inhabited Clayton Kershaw and Dave Roberts.

In the fifth and deciding game of the National League Division Series against the Washington Nationals, the Dodgers held a 3-1 lead in the eighth inning with the ball inexplicably in Kershaw’s hands. Three pitches and two blasted home runs later, the game was tied.

Two innings after that, with the ball equally inexplicably in the hands of reliever Joe Kelly, a 10th-inning grand slam by the Nationals’ Howie Kendrick finished it.

Before a booing crowd that’d been earlier stunned into silence, the Dodgers’ season ended in a 7-3 defeat that marked the worst collapse in their current seven-year postseason run.

No, seriously, this was bad, this was really, really, really bad. “Disappointing is an understatement,” Roberts said.

They win a club record 106 games over six months, and their championship hopes end in less than a week. They have arguably their best team in 31 years and overwhelm the mediocre National League for the entire season, yet when they finally play a game that matters, they blow it.

They tease their fans with seemingly their best chance at breaking their World Series championship dry spell, yet those fans end the game staring in shock at a pile of Nationals dancing and hugging on the field.

Just like the Boston Red Sox celebrated there last year. Just like the Houston Astros celebrated there two seasons ago.

This was worse than all of that, worse than those losses to the St. Louis Cardinals, worse than the collapse against the New York Mets, worse than anything.

This was the worst because the Dodgers had the lead, and momentum from a brilliant 62/3 innings from Walker Buehler, and power from two home runs in the game’s first two innings.

This was the worst because when the eighth inning began, Chavez Ravine was rocking and the Nationals were reeling and the Dodger bullpen was filled with rested and reliable relievers and the doggone game should have been over.

But Kershaw was on the mound. What was Kershaw doing on the mound?

—–

From Times columnist Dylan Hernandez: October was here and the Dodgers choked.

Again.

Ahead by two runs and only six outs from victory in the fifth and final game of a National League Division Series, the Dodgers found a way to lose Wednesday night.

The resulting despair was intensely familiar to this city, which is more than three decades removed from its last World Series championship. In these parts, baseball’s postseason has become synonymous with failure.

One particular detail of the defeat was especially recognizable. Costing the Dodgers their two-run advantage was their most accomplished, most respected and hardest-working player.

The player was Clayton Kershaw.

Again.

“Everything people say is true right now about postseason,” Kershaw said. “I understand that.”

The lead vanished over successive pitches delivered by Kershaw in the eighth inning that will live in infamy, a slider to Anthony Rendon that was whacked over the outfield fence and a slider to Juan Soto that met the same fate.

The 3-1 edge that Kershaw inherited from starter Walker Buehler was erased, setting up a go-ahead grand slam by Howie Kendrick in the 10th inning.

The Dodgers lost the game 7-3, and the series three games to two.

Kershaw was despondent.

“I let down the guys in the clubhouse,” he said. “That’s the hardest part every year. When you don’t win the last game of the season and you’re to blame for it, it’s not fun.”

His latest attempt to rewrite his postseason legacy resulted in only more autumnal heartbreak.

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OK, enough about that. Time for a…..

DODGERS POLL

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NL PLAYOFFS

At least the Dodgers made a game of it. For fans in Atlanta, it was over early as the St. Louis Cardinals scored 10 runs in the first inning on their way to a 13-1 win over the Braves.

The Cardinals, owners of the weakest offense among the field of playoff teams, never put a ball over the fence on Wednesday. They blew away the Braves’ cadre of pitchers with a series of tiny cuts. A game-opening walk drawn by Dexter Fowler, who had entered with one hit during this series, and a well-placed sacrifice bunt by Kolten Wong started the surge.

Paul Goldschmidt stroked a single into left field. Marcell Ozuna, who finished the best-of-five set with three doubles and two homers and tied with Goldschmidt for the series lead in hits (nine), sliced one the other way for a run. Then Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman muffed a would-be double-play ball off the bat of Yadier Molina. Everyone was safe.

The Cardinals poured on. They didn’t stop when Braves manager Brian Snitker lifted starter Mike Foltynewicz after they had sent eight to bat and taken a 4-0 lead. Starting pitcher Jack Flaherty drew a bases-loaded walk. Consecutive two-run doubles by Fowler and Wong and a third-strike wild pitch that got by catcher Brian McCann with two out gave the Cardinals a commanding 10-0 lead. No team had scored that many runs in the first inning of a playoff game.

NLCS schedule

All times Pacific. All games on TBS

Game 1: Friday, Washington at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

Game 2: Saturday, Washington at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Game 3: Monday, St. Louis at Washington, TBD

Game 4: Tuesday, St. Louis at Washington, TBD

Game 5*: Wednesday, St. Louis at Washington, TBD

Game 6*: Oct. 18, Washington at St. Louis, TBD

Game 7*: Oct. 19, Washington at St. Louis, TBD

Houston-Tampa Bay ALDS schedule

Game 1: at Houston 6, Tampa Bay 2

Game 2: at Houston 3, Tampa Bay 1

Game 3: at Tampa Bay 10, Houston 3

Game 4: at Tampa Bay 4, Houston 1

Game 5: Today at Houston, 5:30 p.m., FS1

USC FOOTBALL

Interim athletic director Dave Roberts (no relation to the Dodgers manager) made clear in an interview with The Times that he won’t be the one to make a decision on the future of embattled football coach Clay Helton. Or anyone else, for that matter.

To make such a major move, Roberts said, would be “unfair” to whomever is hired for the AD job permanently.

“If a change was to be made, it would probably be the province of a new athletic director, not Dave Roberts,” the interim athletic director said of Helton. “But like I said, Clay is going to stand or fall on his record. So I mean, if he has a very successful season, I think he’ll be in good stead. If he doesn’t have a great season, the new AD is going to have to make that determination.

“I think it’s a fair statement to say that between now and the end of the season, unless something extraordinary happened, Dave Roberts isn’t going to be stepping in there, making the decision that really I think would be the province of a new AD.”’

ANGELS

Joe Maddon is not the only experienced candidate being considered for the Angels’ managerial opening.

The Angels also have former Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter and World Series champion John Farrell on their list of four candidates, according to people close to the situation who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and requested anonymity.

Maddon interviewed in Anaheim on Monday, a meeting that was said to have gone well. Despite the obvious fit of Maddon, who spent the first three decades of his professional career with the Angels, general manager Billy Eppler has been adamant about considering other options to fill the opening caused by the firing of first-year manager Brad Ausmus.

KINGS

The Kings didn’t go empty-handed in their first road trip under new coach Todd McLellan, but they did end their three-game swing through Western Canada on the flattest of notes. In an 8-2 loss to the Canucks in Vancouver, they quickly fell behind in the first, faded after a brief second-period surge and were buried by four-straight Canucks goals in the third.

What parts of Wednesday’s loss did McLellan dislike?

“All 60 minutes,” he said. “I think it’s pretty obvious.”

As the Kings’ last line of defense, Jonathan Quick couldn’t bail them out either. In two games this season, the 33-year-old goalie has stopped just 42 of 56 shots. Though he was left on an island at times Wednesday, with many of the Canucks’ 25 shots coming from dangerous areas, his eight goals allowed still represented a career high.

RAMS

Speculation surrounding Todd Gurley’s left knee issue dominated the offseason, continued through training camp and remained a topic of discussion through the Rams’ first five games.

Now, add Gurley’s left thigh to the mix.

The Rams’ star running back did not practice Wednesday because of a thigh bruise apparently suffered during the Rams’ 30-29 loss to the Seattle Seahawks last Thursday. Players had a few days off before returning to work Monday and then had Tuesday off.

“It kind of caught us all off guard,” Rams coach Sean McVay said of Gurley’s injury.

Gurley is not the only starter with a lingering injury from the loss to the Seahawks. Cornerback Aqib Talib did not practice Wednesday because of a rib injury.

“You think it’s your typical bumps and bruises, and then it ends up being a little bit more than that,” McVay said of both conditions.

Could Gurley and Talib be held out against the 49ers?

“It’s hard to say. Just being Wednesday, we’ve still got some time,” McVay said. “The big thing was that they missed practice … and we’ll take it a day at a time.”

CLIPPERS

Kawhi Leonard’s Clippers debut is still on hold, the team announced Wednesday evening. After participating in practice, including taking his turn to guard explosive scorer Lou Williams, the team listed him as unavailable for a preseason game against the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night so he could rest.

Coach Doc Rivers said after practice he was not sure if Leonard would play against the Nuggets. “But I think he will play in one or two preseason games,” he added. “But I don’t know when.”

Leonard didn’t play in the Clippers’ two exhibition games in Hawaii against the Houston Rockets or Shanghai Sharks.

The Clippers have two more exhibition games after Thursday. They play Melbourne at Staples Center on Sunday afternoon and the Dallas Mavericks on Oct. 17 in Vancouver. The Clippers open the regular season hosting the Lakers on Oct. 22.

YOUR FAVORITE SPORTS MOMENT

What is your favorite all-time L.A. sports moment? Email me at [email protected] and tell me what it is and why and it could appear in a future daily sports newsletter or Morning Briefing.

Normally I save this spot for readers and not for co-workers, but this one was so special I waived the rule for today. This moment comes from Times employee Darrell Kunitomi:

Our family had a tremendous L.A. sports moment when our pops, Jack Kunitomi, was selected to be the Dodgers “Military Hero of the Game” on Sept., 2016.

“Our dad was an original Little Tokyo homeboy when L.A. was still a small town. He swam in the L.A. River, and he loved the game of baseball. His Dodger hero was Jackie Robinson, and dad was very happy to see Robinson’s jersey at the stadium, below the stands where only VIPs tread. Dad lived a long and interesting life – in 1941 things changed radically for dad and our community when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Japanese Americans had nothing to do with that, but our pops and mom (newlyweds) headed to a honeymoon of sorts at the Manzanar incarceration camp behind barbed wire. Dad later transferred to Heart Mountain, Wy., where he was drafted into Uncle Sam’s U.S. Army. He went willingly, he was loyal and patriotic, and he trained in the Military Intelligence Service. Dad left our mom and son Dale in camp, and served in the Philippines and Occupation of Japan. After the war he became a LAUSD teacher, and he had four more kids. I detail this because he was just another good American fellow, the sort of average guy who made up the Greatest Generation. It was such an honor the Dodgers bestowed on him. We were all moved when he was introduced during the game. The crowd rose to stand and cheer and applaud our dad, the average Japanese American Joe Citizen. What a proud moment for the family. We wished our mom had lived to see it.

But it was a moment before the game that will be most memorable. There was a crowd of photographers and others around dad near home plate. I was to the side and suddenly I sensed something odd about the people and the noise. On instinct I raised my camera. And Dodger manager Dave Roberts jogged in to shake dad’s hand, something they told us he doesn’t usually do. I got the shot as dad smiled the biggest smile he had smiled in years. The 100-year-old Los Angeles homeboy, all the way to the majors.

TODAY’S LOCAL MAJOR SPORTS SCHEDULE

All times Pacific

Ducks at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m., PRIME

BORN ON THIS DATE

1953: NBA player Gus Williams

1963: Former King Mike Donnelly

1969: NFL player Brett Favre

1972: Former King Alexei Zhitnik

1974: NHL player Chris Pronger

1974: Race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.

1984: Baseball player Troy Tulowitzki

1991: BMX rider Mariana Pajón

DIED ON THIS DATE

1978: Sprinter Ralph Metcalfe, 68

2001: Boxing trainer Eddie Futch, 90

2004: Baseball player Ken Caminiti, 41

2012: NFL player/actor Alex Karras, 77

AND FINALLY

Lowlights of Dodgers-Nationals Game 5. Watch it here.

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With Santa Ana winds bringing red-flag fire danger to Southern California, the Los Angeles Police Department plans to remove some homeless people from camps in high-risk areas.

LAPD spokesman Josh Rubenstein said the removals will take place Wednesday night and Thursday. Officials did not release specific locations.

The city earlier this year passed an ordinance that makes it easier to clear homeless camps during fire danger periods.

The National Weather Service has issued red-flag warnings for parts of Southern California, saying there is a “critical fire danger” Thursday and Friday.

Los Angeles is particularly vulnerable to fires that start in hard-to-reach areas and then spread. In December 2017, for example, the Skirball fire was sparked by a cooking fire at a homeless encampment in a canyon several hundred feet from Sepulveda Boulevard and the 405 Freeway, hidden from passing cars.

The Skirball fire moved through the hills of one of L.A.’s richest ZIP Codes — in Bel-Air — and destroyed six homes. Though the blaze burned just 422 acres, it was notable because of how it started.

Months later, a Bel-Air synagogue sued the city and the County of Los Angeles, arguing that authorities had failed to clear the homeless encampment where it began. The case is ongoing.

More recently, a large fire in the Sepulveda Basin displaced dozens of homeless people and required 100 firefighters and two helicopters to put it out.

Southern California Edison said that, given the strong Santa Ana winds forecast for the area, power could be cut off to more than 173,000 customers in parts of eight Southland counties.

The outage could affect customers in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, as well as areas in Ventura County and portions of Kern, Tulare, Inyo and Mono counties.

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While millions in Northern California suffered through a massive power outage that began early Wednesday, residents in Southern California wondered whether they could see the same blackouts as officials deal with strong winds that could spark fires.

Southern California Edison said that, given the strong Santa Ana winds forecast for the area, power could be cut off to more than 173,000 customers in parts of eight Southland counties.

The outage could affect customers in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, as well as areas in Ventura County and portions of Kern, Tulare, Inyo and Mono counties.

Robert Villegas, an Edison spokesman, said Wednesday afternoon that the utility was continuing to monitor weather conditions with ground crews before deciding whether to switch off the power. He said Edison could not predetermine where — or when — shutoffs might take place.

“There’s no real way to know when that will be,” Villegas said. “We’re all waiting on the weather.”

The utility will make decisions on a “circuit by circuit basis,” he said, with each circuit providing service to 10 to 50 customers.

The National Weather Service has issued red flag warnings for parts of Southern California.

San Diego Gas & Electric officials say the utility might have to temporarily shut off power to about 30,000 customers beginning Thursday.

“If we do turn off power, it will stay off until we can safely restore it,” the utility said in a statement.

SDG&E officials said they warned customers in fire-prone areas of the county about the potential preventive shutoffs, known as “Public Safety Power Shutoffs,” via outbound dialer calls, texts and emails Tuesday evening.

The mountains and valleys of San Diego County will be under a red flag warning from noon Thursday to 6 p.m. Friday with the expected arrival of Santa Ana winds.

Here are details for the potential Edison power interruptions.

Los Angeles County (about 49,439 customers)

• Lancaster
• Palmdale
• La Cañada Flintridge
• Malibu
• Pasadena
• Chatsworth
• San Fernando
• Santa Clarita
• Unincorporated areas including Acton, Agua Dulce, Boiling Point, White Heather, Sunland, Tujunga, La Crescenta, Montrose, Wildwood, Canyon Country, Newhall, Forest Park, Sleepy Valley, Del Valle, Leona Valley, Plum Canyon, Alpine, Merrie Dell, Indian Springs, Jumper Hills, Valencia, Stevenson Ranch, Mount Wilson, Valyermo, Paradise Springs, Humphreys, Placerita Canyon State Park, Little Rock, Pearblossom, Quartz Hill, Lake Hughes, Green Valley, Elizabeth Lake, Sylmar, Portal Ridge, Three Points, Upper Big Tujunga Canyon, and near Antelope Valley and unincorporated areas of Chatsworth and Sylmar

San Bernardino County (about 40,978 customers)

• Big Bear
• Calimesa
• Fontana
• Hesperia
• Rancho Cucamonga
• Rialto
• San Bernardino
• Yucaipa
• Yucca Valley
• Unincorporated areas, including the communities of Doble and Upper Holcomb Valley, Cajon Pass, Devore, Etiwanda, Lucerne Valley, Lytle Creek, Running Springs, Lake Arrowhead, Cedar Pines Park, Valley of Enchantment, Crestline, Valley View Park, Joshua Tree, Homestead Valley, Oak Hills, Muscoy, Green Valley Lake, Morongo Valley and unincorporated areas near Yucca Valley

Ventura County (about 23,139 customers)

• Fillmore
• Camarillo
• Simi Valley
• Santa Rosa Valley
• Ventura
• Unincorporated areas, including Sespe, Oak Village, north of Moorpark, Piru, Elkins Ranch Golf Course, Leesdale, north Fillmore, Santa Susana, Stauffer, Sycamore Canyon, Solromar, unincorporated areas near Piru and communities near Telegraph Road

Riverside County (about 21,366 customers)

• Banning
• Beaumont
• Calimesa
• Hemet
• San Jacinto
• Menifee
• Moreno Valley
• Perris
• Unincorporated Riverside County, including the communities of Whitewater and Bonnie Bell, Banning Pass, Cabazon, Owl, portions of Desert Hills Outlet Mall, North Palm Springs, Gilman Hot Springs, Lakeview, Nuevo, Mons, Mead Valley, Eden Hot Springs, Mountain Center, Good Hope and unincorporated areas near Beaumont and Banning

Orange County (about 7,250 customers)

• Rancho Santa Margarita
• Orange
• Unincorporated areas, including North Tustin

Kern County (about 19,313 customers)

• Tehachapi
• Unincorporated areas, including Frazier Park, Lake of the Woods, Pine Mountain Club, Bodfish, Kernville, Wofford Heights, Lake Isabella, Camp Owens, Lebec, Bear Valley Springs, Stallion Springs, Keene, Golden Hills, Sand Canyon, Alpine Forest, Manolith, Weldon, Bella Vista, Monolith, Onyx, Canebrake, and unincorporated areas of Walker Basin and Kernville

Mono County (about 13,963 customers)

• Mammoth Lakes
• Unincorporated areas near Bishop, including the community of Paradise and portion of Swall Meadows, Sunny Slopes, Mammoth Lakes (Trails, Core, North, Slopes), June Lake Village, Loop, Crestview, Mono Lake, Mono City, North Conway, Willow Springs, Bridgeport, Old Mammoth, Mammoth Lakes Basin, Lee Vining, Lee Vining Canyon, Falls Creek Tract and Bridgeport Valley to Twin Lakes

Inyo County (about 131 customers)

• Unincorporated areas near Bishop, including Aspendell and Round Valley

Tulare County (about 108 customers)

• Unincorporated areas, including Fairview and Johnsondale

Fry and Cosgrove are Times staff writers. Robbins writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune. KTLA contributed to this report.

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