NEW YORK — Triple-A Syracuse manager Dickey Scott was running out of time. It was 3.25 p.m., and JonahTong, 22, the Mets’ No. 3 prospect (Baseball America), had just completed a bullpen, which was delayed because of rain on Tuesday ....
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he would expand the deployment of special California Highway Patrol teams in major California cities to fight crime, even as he touted crime numbers being down in the state ... .
DEARMISS MANNERS. I was leaving an underground transit station and making my way to the escalator to go up to the street when I noticed a tall young man gaining rapidly on me from behind ....