Teddy Young, 24, has been charged with two offenses under the National Security Act, including preparing to disclose protected information between November 2024 and May 2025, London’s Metropolitan Police Service said. During the same period, Young allegedly obtained, copied, recorded or retained protected information for the benefit of a foreign power.

Young has been in police custody since he was arrested on Tuesday at his home in Bedfordshire, north of London. He will appear at Westminster Magistrate’s Court in central London on Thursday.

“These are very serious charges against a serving member of the armed forces,” Commander Helen Flanagan, head of counter terrorism policing in London, said in a statement. “We have worked extremely closely with relevant operational colleagues within the Ministry of Defense as our investigation has progressed to ensure appropriate measures could be taken to mitigate any potential risks linked to this matter.”

Police said the charges weren’t related to the recent security alert at RAF Fairford, a British air base from which U.S. bombers have launched strikes against Iran. Three suspicious vans were discovered near the base in the early morning hours of Sept. 27, triggering an investigation that has led to the arrest of seven men.

Young was previously arrested on May 21, 2025, and released on bail pending further investigation. His security clearance was suspended at that time and he was removed from his duties.

The Royal Navy issued a statement acknowledging the arrest of a service member.

“As legal proceedings are ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage,” the navy said.

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Government to exclude people who suffer solely from mental illness from access to MAID

The federal government faces criticism from many groups after announcing Wednesday two major decisions for the path forward in medically assisted dying.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser said Ottawa will not allow people suffering solely from mental illness to access MAID, but does plan to decriminalize advance requests for people at risk of losing their capacity to consent.

Conservative MP Michael Cooper has accused Fraser of sowing division by tying an indefinite pause on the mental-illness expansion to the separate issue of advance requests, despite a looming March deadline.

Advocacy group Dying With Dignity Canada called it a "profoundly disappointing day," and its CEO Helen Long decried the decision to let provinces set their own rules.

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Tumbler Ridge conspiracy complaint puts focus on messaging and social media firms

The leader of British Columbia's NDP says tech companies simply won't do the right thing unless they have legal obligations.

David Eby's remarks follow new details from the FBI in Seattle about extensive online conversations between the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter and an alleged co-conspirator in Bellingham, Washington.

The F-B-I says the pair spent months discussing tactics, locations and weaponry for the attack that saw the shooter kill eight people, including her mother and brother, before turning the gun on herself.

Eby is calling for social media and other tech companies to be held accountable for reporting online chats about causing harm.

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Traveller costs must stay down in airport privatization plan: industry group

As aviation leaders descend on Ottawa for a conference today, the head of the country’s main airline industry group says any plan for private investment in airports should keep a lid on costs for travellers.

Jeff Morrison of the National Airlines Council of Canada says more details need to emerge about Ottawa’s move to partially privatize airports before he adopts a firm stance, but that affordability is key.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said last month he wants private investors to take over operations at Canada’s four largest airports, while the federal government would retain oversight and ownership.

Australia handed control of its airports to private investors between 1997 and 2003 in a move that brought billions of dollars in capital investment, but saw increased fees for carriers at the country's four biggest airports, which were often passed on to customers.

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Oil and gas emissions dropped in 2025 despite increased production: report

A new report says Canada's oil and gas sector accounted for a lower level of emissions in 2025, despite boosts in production.

The Canadian Climate Institute says the country's total emissions increased to 691 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2025 — the equivalent of 161 million gas-powered vehicles driven for one year.

Canada's current target under the Paris agreement is to cut emissions to 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and hit net-zero by 2050.

The government's own figures show Canada's total emissions have gone down by just over 10 per cent compared to 2005 levels — making it the worst-performing country in the G-7.

Ross Fraser-Minten from the institute says at the rate things are going, Canada might be as much as 20 years behind on achieving its 2030 target.

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Connor scores two, Winnipeg Jets edge Colorado Avalanche 3-2

Kyle Connor scored his fifth goal of the season with one minute left in regulation to lift the Winnipeg Jets to a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday.

Mark Scheifele went down the side of the boards with the puck and sent a quick pass over to Connor, who beat Blackwood with a wrist shot that stood up as the game winner.

New linemates Connor and Cole Perfetti have scored eight of the Jets' 12 goals this season.

The Avalanche play the Flames in Calgary tonight, and the Jets host the Anaheim Ducks on Friday.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 8, 2026.

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The Conservatives say interim leader Lorne Doerkson will be in Surrey to make a policy announcement a day after being in the city to roll out promises for businesses that include eliminating the PST on some equipment.

Surrey is British Columbia's second-largest municipality and includes 10 of the 93 electoral ridings that are up for grabs when voters go to the polls on Oct. 24.

The region was in the election spotlight in 2024 when Garry Begg won Surrey-Guildford by just 22 votes, securing a one-seat majority in the legislature for the NDP.

NDP Leader David Eby was in Surrey on Wednesday to roll out promises including loans of up to $1 million for small and medium-sized businesses affected by tariffs.

The Conservatives won six of Surrey's 10 seats in 2024, though one of those legislators, Elenore Sturko, is now on the ballot as leader of the rival CentreBC party.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 8, 2026.

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Those are among the findings in the Canadian Climate Institute's annual national emissions report, released Thursday.

The institute, which receives three-quarters of its funding from the federal government, is releasing early estimates of Canada's year greenhouse gas emissions. Ottawa's estimates for 2025 are expected in April.

The institute found Canada's total emissions increased in 2025 by about one per cent in 2025 to 691 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to the emissions produced by 161 million gas-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year.

"It's not a huge increase but it means that Canada is even further from its emission goals," said Ross Fraser-Minten, the acting director of 440 Megatonnes, a division in the climate institute tasked with analyzing Canada's emissions output.

"There's a widening gap to the targets that Canada has set for itself. We might be as much as 20 years behind on achieving our 2030 target."

Canada's current target under the Paris climate change accord is to cut emissions to 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and hit net-zero — where all emissions are captured by nature or technology — by 2050.

The government's own figures show Canada has achieved an emissions reduction of only 10.3 per cent below 2005 levels, with total emissions down 78 million tonnes in 21 years — making it the worst-performing country in the G7.

The Canadian Climate Institute's latest report says Canada's emissions are only 9.5 per cent below 2005 levels.

The report found emissions from the oil and gas sector dropped by 0.2 per cent last year from 2024 levels — that despite Statistics Canada reporting in June that Canada had produced record amounts of crude oil in 2025, about four per cent more than in 2024.

While emissions from the oilsands were 844,000 tonnes higher in 2025 than the year before, a reduction of 1.3 million tonnes in emissions from conventional oil and gas extraction and downstream activities more than offset the increases from upstream producers.

"Much of that progress is related to fugitive methane emission reductions," said Seton Stiebert, a senior fellow at the climate institute. He said the sector's higher rate of efficiency per unit produced is also driving down emissions, meaning the oil and gas sector is finding ways to use less energy to extract, store and ship oil.

The report says buildings, including homes and commercial structures, were the main drivers of Canada's emissions increase in 2025. Fraser-Minten said a colder winter in 2025 is to blame.

"The fact that our buildings are so sensitive to temperature is a reflection of how much the sector still uses fossil fuels," he said.

"If the sector was electrified, it would be less sensitive to that weather effect."

The other big driver behind increased emissions was electricity generation, which has tended to be the main source of emission reductions over the last 20 years.

"That's chiefly down to higher natural gas use. Where we have added new energy demand in the past 20 years, most of that demand is going to natural gas," Fraser-Minten said.

"We've significantly reduced our use of coal, we're using fewer other refined petroleum products, and natural gas is less emissions-intensive than those than those fossil fuels. But it's still a fossil fuel. And higher natural gas use puts a floor on what emissions reductions we can accomplish."

The federal government earlier this year unveiled a national electricity strategy which largely relies on natural gas to help double the size of Canada's grid by 2050.

The government said at the time some jurisdictions prefer natural gas generation because it's affordable and quick, and allows output to be ramped up or down depending on demand.

The emissions increases in 2025 were almost exclusively a result of federal policies under Trudeau, and Fraser-Minten said new policies under Prime Minister Mark Carney's government risk moving Canada in the wrong direction.

In a video released in June, Carney said the Trudeau-era policies were “too expensive and divisive" and acknowledged the country’s emissions would be higher “in the next few years” than projected.

Fraser-Minten pointed to weakened industrial carbon pricing and the delayed implementation of stronger methane regulations as two areas where Ottawa risks seeing emissions rise.

"A third change is it looks like the government may not apply or may even eliminate the clean electricity regulations," Fraser-Minten said. "The electricity sector has made a lot of progress in the past couple of decades, but that progress is slowing down and maybe even reversing.

"The clean electricity regulations were intended to send a long-term, consistent signal to keep us decarbonizing the grid, to deepen the cleanliness of our grid. The removal of the clean electricity regulations might unwind that progress."

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 8, 2026.

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Isaias was forecast to intensify rapidly and bring strong winds and a life-threatening storm surge to the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi when it makes landfall on the northern Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday. Heavy rain with the risk of flooding was possible into the weekend as far inland as the Tennessee Valley.

The hurricane had maximum sustained winds around 80 mph (129 kph) and was moving east-northeast at 9 mph (15 kph) early Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It was centered about 420 miles (676 kilometers) south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Coastal communities moved quickly to prepare. Some Gulf oil wells paused production, and at least four Florida school districts canceled classes for later in the week while Okaloosa County announced mandatory evacuations for some coastal areas. Governors in Florida and Alabama declared a state of emergency for dozens of counties.

The National Weather Service told communities from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to Gulf County, Florida, to prepare for the possibility of “long-duration power outages.”

The hurricane formed late in the season

Isaias developed more than four months into the Atlantic hurricane season and was short by one day of tying a 121-year-old record for the area’s latest-forming hurricane. According to the National Weather Service, the record dates to 1905, when the year’s first Atlantic hurricane formed on Oct. 8.

The Atlantic hurricane season has been unusually quiet this year because of a strong El Niño, which disrupts storm formation over that ocean. Storm activity has been above average in the Pacific, where Tropical Storm Simon formed Wednesday off Mexico.

Isaias is expected to strike a swath of coastline that’s familiar with major hurricanes.

One of the 20th century’s worst storms, Hurricane Camille, killed more than 250 people after hitting land near Waveland, Mississippi, in 1969. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 razed neighborhoods in Mississippi, flooded New Orleans and killed nearly 1,400 people. And Hurricane Michael leveled homes and buildings near Panama City, Florida, in 2018.

Oil production and tourism already affected

Ahead of the storm, oil and gas producers shut down a significant share of offshore production in the Gulf, which accounts for almost 15% of crude pumped annually in the U.S.

As of Wednesday about 25% of the oil production in the region was temporarily halted, taking about 511,000 barrels a day off the market, according to the Marine Minerals Administration. It said eight of the Gulf's 371 manned oil platforms were evacuated.

With oil prices already high, the production cuts are steep enough to affect markets, though other Gulf hurricanes have caused larger disruptions, said Jim Burkhard, global head of crude oil market research for S&P Global Energy. More concerning, he said, is whether Isaias strikes as a powerful storm near refineries.

As it moves inland, Isaias might also disrupt Saturday’s college football showdown between rivals Georgia and Alabama, a game President Donald Trump has planned to attend.

In Alabama, the cities of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach issued a statement encouraging people in low-lying areas to voluntarily evacuate.

Gulf Shores resident Maranie Adams gathered water and other supplies as her family moved belongings, including a hot tub motor, to higher ground. Her family planned to ride out the storm at home, roughly a half-mile from shore, sheltering indoors alongside their flock of chickens.

“We’re having to get crates to bring them into the house so they don’t blow away,” Adams said. “It’s going to be noisy.”

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a state of emergency for 40 counties, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared one for 25 counties in the Panhandle and Big Bend regions. The state also planned to deploy a Miami-based urban search and rescue task force.

In Pensacola, electric utilities were pre-positioning crews to quickly repair any power outages. City officials provided sand for residents to fill sandbags to protect their homes against flooding. And Mayor D.C. Reeves urged people to check on older adult neighbors and others who might need help.

“Obviously no need to panic at this point,” Reeves told a news conference. “This is really about preparation.”

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Rico reported from Atlanta, Collins from Hartford, Connecticut, and Golden from Seattle. Associated Press journalists Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia, and Julie Walker in New York contributed to this report.

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Mitchell also drove in Sal Frelick with Milwaukee’s first run as the Brewers snapped their 12-game postseason road losing streak since 2018 and reached the team's fifth League Championship Series.

“Just so proud of these guys,” Frelick said. “After the first (loss in Game 3), it really starts to creep in that you don’t want to go back for a Game 5. Really proud of these guys for stepping up today and getting the job done.”

After fending off the surging Padres in four tight games decided by a combined five runs, the 103-win Brewers will get an NLCS rematch with the Los Angeles Dodgers, who eliminated Atlanta on Wednesday.

The Dodgers swept Milwaukee last October on the way to their second consecutive World Series title.

“Why wouldn't you want another chance to go at it (with the Dodgers) after the way it happened last year?” asked Mitchell, who missed the end of last season with a shoulder injury. “I don't think that's any more pressure on us. It's just ... let's see what we can do.”

Machado nearly tied Game 4 with a 406-foot drive off reliever Abner Uribe, but Mitchell coolly tracked it down and reached just above the short wall in right-center to keep it in the yard.

“Just got a good jump off the bat,” Mitchell said. “When I got to the wall, I just had to stay composed and make the catch. I didn’t really have to jump. I knew the wall isn’t as high as at other fields.”

Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a 429-foot homer on an otherwise tepid offensive night for the Padres, who repeatedly tested the majors’ best regular-season team before falling short of only the fourth NLCS appearance in team history.

“It was unfortunate, man,” Machado said of his flyout. “He made a nice play. I should have hit it harder. Two more inches, that ball may have been a homer.”

One night after the Padres avoided elimination in Game 3, Milwaukee claimed its first road playoff win since the 2018 NLCS by sticking to its season-long formula for success.

While four Brewers pitchers combined on a three-hitter and the defense made nearly every big play, Milwaukee’s lineup calmly worked counts, pounded 10 hits through the Padres’ defense and manufactured enough runs to head home smiling.

“After yesterday, the energy in the clubhouse was still good,” Mitchell said. “Nobody was pressing. We were just treating it like another day, treating it like we have nothing to lose. We just had to go out there and play our brand of baseball, and that starts with quality at-bats, getting on base, putting pressure on teams, and we did that today.”

Game 2 hero Jackson Chourio capped his high-impact series by driving in Mitchell to become the Brewers’ career leader in postseason RBIs at just 22 years old. Chourio has 17 RBIs, including six in this series, in 16 playoff games.

Milwaukee opened the scoring in the third when Frelick reached on an infield single, stole second and came around on a single by Mitchell, an Orange County native and UCLA product.

Brewers starter and former Padres draft pick Robert Gasser threw four innings of three-hit ball, but Tatis ended his 1-for-19 skid since San Diego's playoff opener with a long shot to center in the third. It was the longest homer ever hit in the postseason at Petco Park by a San Diego player.

Padres starter Walker Buehler yielded just three hits and a run, but manager Craig Stammen replaced him with Game 1 starter Robbie Ray after William Contreras’ leadoff single in the fourth.

Mitchell then stroked a mild liner perfectly over first base and into the right-field corner leading off the fifth, and he scored on Chourio's single through the drawn-in infield. Chourio surpassed Ryan Braun for the most postseason RBIs in Brewers history.

Jake Bauers singled leading off the sixth and went to third on Cooper Pratt's ground-rule double before scoring on Frelick's sacrifice fly.

The Padres were already down 3-1 in the seventh when Mason Miller allowed three baserunners, but no runs. The vaunted closer missed Game 3 for the birth of his first child.

After Mitchell’s catch on Machado’s fly, second baseman Brice Turang ended the eighth with an acrobatic catch of Ty France’s tailing popup in foul ground.

After sitting below .500 and in 11th place in the NL in late July, San Diego roared into the first wild-card spot and then swept the Cubs in the Wild Card Series last week. The Padres had won 19 of 22 before losing three of four to Milwaukee.

Up next

The Brewers host the Dodgers in Game 1 on Sunday with ace Jacob Misiorowski almost certainly lined up to start. Milwaukee is four wins from only the second World Series berth in team history.

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Anthony Beauvillier, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Alex Tuch and Ryan Leonard also scored for the Capitals, who introduced their roster one by one before the game, saving Ovechkin for last. The Russian star’s two kids handled that announcement, and the crowd gave a standing ovation.

Ovechkin announced earlier in the week that this season would be the last in the NHL for the league’s career leader in goals.

Bryan Rust, Tommy Novak and Nick Robertson scored for the Penguins, who nearly rallied from a 4-1 second-period deficit.

This is the 22nd straight season Ovechkin and Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby have played against each other at some point. Only one forward duo in NHL history has clashed in more consecutive seasons: Mark Messier and Ron Francis, who played each other in 23.

JETS 3, AVALANCHE 2

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Kyle Connor broke a tie with a minute left with his second goal of game, Stuart Skinner made 32 saves and Winnipeg beat Colorado for their third straight victory.

Mark Scheifele sent a pass from near the boards across to Connor charging the net and he fired a shot that beat goalie Mackenzie Blackwood. Connor has five goals in four games.

Connor and Cole Perfetti had second-period goal to give the Jets a 2-1 lead.

Fedor Svechkov tied it for Colorado with 7:25 left in the third.

Jaden Schwartz opened the scoring in the first for the Avalanche. Blackwood stopped 16 shots.

OILERS 5, DUCKS 2

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Evan Bouchard had two goals and an assist to become the second defenseman in NHL history with at least six goals through the first four games of a season, and Edmonton used a five-goal second period to beat Anaheim.

Bouchard has a league-leading six goals through four games. Harry Cameron had eight goals in four games for the Toronto Arenas during the NHL’s inaugural season in 1917-18.

Leon Draisaitl had four assists, Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists, Kasperi Kapanen and Vasily Podkolzin also scored, and the Oilers overcame a sluggish start to win their third straight game. Devon Levi made 28 saves.

Beckett Sennecke had two power-play goals and Leo Carlsson had two assists, but the Ducks lost for the first time in three games. Lukas Dostal made 12 saves, stopping just six of 11 shots in the decisive middle period before being replaced to start the third. Ville Husso made two saves in relief.

Bouchard scored twice in the second period, sparking Edmonton’s rally by cutting it to 2-1 11 seconds into the frame on a long wrist shot through traffic. He put the Oilers in front 3-2 on a one-timer from Draisaitl with 5:48 to go.

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Bouchard has a league-leading six goals through four games. Harry Cameron had eight goals in four games for the Toronto Arenas during the NHL's inaugural season in 1917-18.

Leon Draisaitl had four assists, Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists, Kasperi Kapanen and Vasily Podkolzin also scored, and the Oilers overcame a sluggish start to win their third straight game. Devon Levi made 28 saves.

Beckett Sennecke had two power-play goals and Leo Carlsson had two assists, but the Ducks lost for the first time in three games. Lukas Dostal made 12 saves, stopping just six of 11 shots in the decisive middle period before being replaced to start the third. Ville Husso made two saves in relief.

Bouchard scored twice in the second period, sparking Edmonton’s rally by cutting it to 2-1 11 seconds into the frame on a long wrist shot through traffic. He put the Oilers in front 3-2 on a one-timer from Draisaitl with 5:48 to go.

Bouchard is the fifth defenseman in league history with at least 10 points through the first four games of a season. The feat was last accomplished by Morgan Rielly in 2018-19 for the Maple Leafs.

McDavid capped off the five-goal outburst by netting his third goal and 12th point of the season with 51.7 left during 4-on-4 play.

After scoring one power-play goal in 82 games as a rookie, Sennecke found the back of the net twice on the man-advantage in the first period.

Ducks winger Nikita Klepov, the No. 15 pick in the 2026 draft, made his NHL debut and became the youngest player in franchise history at 18 years, 102 days old.

Up next

Oilers: At San Jose on Saturday.

Kings: At Winnipeg on Friday night.

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Ryan Vilade also homered for the Rays, who reached the American League Championship Series for the first time since 2020 and host the Chicago White Sox or Cleveland Guardians in the opener on Monday.

“You always want to play well on the biggest stage, right? And you’re not going to get a bigger stage than playing against the Yankees in Yankee Stadium," Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. “I don’t think we’re out to prove anybody wrong. We’re out to just continue doing what we’ve done well.”

After Mesa's homer gave the Rays a 4-2 lead, Anthony Volpe appeared to hit a two-run shot against Griffin Jax with two outs in the bottom half as a fan reached over the left-field wall and caught the ball over the glove of a leaping Mesa.

A video review determined the ball would not have been over the wall and would not have been caught by Mesa. Volpe was awarded an RBI double and George Lombard Jr. was allowed to score from first base. Jax recovered to strike out Spencer Jones.

“I might have even been able to get to that ball,” Mesa said in Spanish. “I think they could have even called an out.”

Baseball's embrace of video technology was key to the inning.

Lombard reached with a one-out walk when a 3-1 pitch called a strike by plate umpire Dan Bellino was ruled inside on an ABS challenge. Austin Wells then walked on full-count changeup but an ABS challenge by Rays catcher Liam Hicks ruled the pitch caught the inside corner for a strikeout, bringing up Volpe.

Quite a change from 1996, when umpires did not have replays to assist and Derek Jeter's homer for the Yankees helped turn around the ALCS opener despite young fan Jeffrey Meier reaching over the right-field wall where Baltimore's Tony Tarasco was set to catch the ball. MLB began using video for home run calls in 2008 and allowed challenges to ball/strike decisions starting this year.

Ian Seymour pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings, Kevin Kelly struck out pinch-hitter Giancarlo Stanton to strand a runner in the eighth and Bryan Baker pitched the ninth for his third save of the series.

Seeking its first World Series title, Tampa Bay celebrated on the field of the big-spending Yankees for the second time in two weeks after clinching the AL East on Sept. 22. New York opened the season with MLB's third-highest payroll at $303 million while the Rays were 26th at $91 million.

Swept in a best-of-five postseason matchup for the first time since the 1980 ALCS against Kansas City, the Yankees ended their 17th straight season without a World Series crown. That equaled their longest drought since winning their first championship in 1923, a gap between titles in 1978 and '96.

“The ending is terrible,” manager Aaron Boone said. “It’s a broken clubhouse.”

Yankees captain Aaron Judge missed the postseason after straining a calf on Sept. 16. The three-time AL MVP played just seven games after May 31 because of a fractured rib and the leg injury, an absence the team couldn't overcome.

New York batted .130 in the series and was outscored 10-5.

After sweeping Boston in the Wild Card Series, New York never led against the Rays and has not advanced past a higher-seeded team in the postseason since 2020.

Jonathan Aranda put the Rays ahead with an RBI single in the third and Ben Rice tied the score against Nick Martinez with a single in the bottom half, his eighth RBI of the postseason.

Vilade, a 27-year-old getting extensive big league playing time this year with his sixth major league organization, hit an opposite-field, 340-foot drive into the right-field short porch in the fourth. The ball, just over the glove of a jumping Jones, would not have been out of any other big league ballpark.

Volpe, starting at second base in place of Jazz Chisholm Jr., hit a 96.6 mph liner off Martinez’s back with two outs in the fourth for an infield single, and Seymour relieved. Jones’ opposite-field double landed beyond Mesa, driving in Volpe.

Junior Caminero singled in the sixth and Mesa sent a sweeper deep into the right-field seats to chase Fried.

It was the first home run he allowed to a left-handed hitter since August 2025.

Up next

Tampa Bay gets four days off and will have played just three games in 14 days before starting the ALCS.

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The play was initially called a two-run homer that would have tied the score at 4 with two outs in the sixth inning. But a lengthy video review by Major League Baseball determined a fan reached over the wall to catch the ball as Rays left fielder Victor Mesa Jr. tried in vain for a leaping grab.

Spectator interference became the ruling, and Volpe was awarded an RBI double that scored George Lombard Jr. from first base, trimming Tampa Bay's lead to 4-3 at Yankee Stadium.

There was another slight delay after some fans in left threw debris onto the field, and Spencer Jones then struck out against Griffin Jax to end the inning.

“After viewing all relevant angles, the Replay Official definitively determined the spectator interfered with the ball over the field of play. The ball would not have left the playing field nor would it have been caught. The call is OVERTURNED, there was spectator interference and no home run. Additionally, the Replay Official scored one run and placed the batter-runner at 2B,” MLB said in a statement from the Replay Center.

Mesa hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer off Max Fried in the top of the sixth to put Tampa Bay ahead.

The AL East champion Rays came in leading the best-of-five series 2-0.

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