Cronenworth hit a grounder to the left side in last night’s eighth inning, crossed first base before the throw and raised his hands in a sort of hit hallelujah.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday?
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Jorie Nicole McDonald,
Southern Living,
7 Mar. 2026
Nazi parades set to electronic hype music; paeans to Third Reich governance.
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Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
But that success also led to the sci-fi woodland antics of The Wild Robot; the Oscar-winning, postapocalyptic vision of feline collaboration in Flow; and the paean to basketball teamwork that was this year’s Goat.
This is the starting point of Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth’s stellar and sweeping science fiction novel that is part cosmic comedy and part dirge to our dying world.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
This offers respite from the music ever feeling too dirge-like.
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