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WASHINGTON (AP) — Last summer, two U.S. officials ventured into hostile territory for a secret high-stakes meeting with American adversaries...

TULAROSA, N.M. (AP) — He rodeoed in a Buffalo Bill-style Wild West show, carried his message on horseback from the Holy Land to Times Square and was invited to the White House to meet the president.

After Sunday’s brilliant performance, that might not be the case. Fedde threw seven scoreless innings, Yadiel Hernandez hit a go-ahead, pinch-hit homer and the Nationals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-0. It was the top outing of the year for the right-handed Fedde (3-4), who used 97 pitches to navigate seven innings while allowing just three hits and striking out four. “That’s probably the best I’ve seen him throw,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “He had command of all his pitches. He was pounding the strike zone and kept the ball down.” ADVERTISEMENT With the game scor...

PHOENIX (AP) — Eduardo Escobar hit a three-run homer, a two-run homer and tied a career high with seven RBIs to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Washington Nationals 11-4 on Saturday night. Escobar broke the game open in the fourth when he launched a full-count, two-out pitch from Joe Ross deep into the right field seats that made it 6-2.

Instead, he fell flat. Concert Tour finished an inexplicable ninth in the 10-horse field, ahead of only D. Wayne Lukas’ long shot, Ram. A horse who once looked like Baffert’s best 3-year-old this year was never in contention in the second leg of the Triple Crown. “I am at a loss for words,” said jockey Mike Smith, who rode Midnight Bourbon in the Kentucky Derby and switched to Concert Tour for the Preakness. “He didn’t seem to participate at all down the backside. He just wasn’t going anywhere, and when I put my hands down, he just backed off. It was very strange.”