WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — David Festa fell behind 2-0 to four of the first six batters he faced on Thursday. All four of them scored, three coming on a Max Muncy home run. But he settled down in the second inning and, it seemed for a brief second, as if he could be on the Zebby Matthews path.

on Friday in Seattle, Matthews allowed four runs in the first inning and then absolutely dominated for his next six. Unfortunately for Festa and the Twins, that didn’t happen on Thursday and the shaky first inning was instead a sign of things to come for the young right-hander the Twins’ 14-3 loss to the Athletics.

The Athletics had scored just six runs in the first three games of the series riding a nine-game losing streak. They snapped that losing streak emphatically.

Muncy’s home run was one of four on the day for the Athletics. Festa allowed three of them, including a pair in the third inning. After his departure, Jorge Alcala served up a grand slam, which was Tyler Soderstrom’s second home run of the day. All told, Soderstrom drove in six runs in the Athletics’ win.

For Festa, who gave up eight runs in 3⅔ innings, it was a much different type of outing than the three he turned in during his call up earlier in the season. In those three starts, he gave up a combined three runs in 13 innings pitched, then returned to Class AAA St. Paul, where he battled some inflammation before coming back and pitching well, earning Twins Minor League Pitcher of the Month Award.

Festa was initially supposed to start for the Saints on Wednesday but instead was on a flight to Sacramento, taking the rotation spot of Pablo López, who suffered a shoulder injury on Tuesday night that will keep him out for two to three months. That injury has opened up an opportunity for Festa, one of the most promising young arms in the organization.

The Twins scored a run on Matt Wallner’s third home run of the season and two more in the seventh on RBI knocks from Ty France and Brooks Lee.

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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Imagine you decide to change up your workout routine. After months of not doing any lat pulldowns, you decide, for some odd reason, to do 10,000 of them.

That’s how Pablo López described the soreness that he was feeling after being diagnosed with a Grade 2 teres major strain, which will keep him sidelined for the next eight to 12 weeks.

“It’s like a weird soreness, which is why I was hopeful early on,” López said. “It just feels like it’s sore.”

Because he didn’t hear a pop, because he wasn’t experiencing immense pain, López — who left Tuesday night’s game with the injury — held out hope that the results of his magnetic resonance imaging, taken on Wednesday might yield more positive results.

“I hate it,” the starter said. “It’s not what I want to be dealing with. It’s not what I want to hear. Every time you get the game taken away from you, it’s really hard. It’s a tough pill to swallow.”

López has been told that he can’t throw for at least four weeks. He has to wait for the discomfort to clear before he can do anything over head. Wednesday, he said he did a “crazy lower-body workout” ans plans to spend the time doing cardio and leg workouts to keep up his conditioning.

Until his teres major, a muscle that attaches the scapula to the humerus, is healed, he’s will be a full-on lefty, he joked.

“We’re just going to aim at getting back on the field in the most responsible fashion and let him heal up fully,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “But I truly believe he’s going to be out there pitching for us, probably not at the very end of the year. We’re talking like he’ll be able to pitch significantly for us. We’re going to stay optimistic and let him do his thing.”

López is hoping that’s closer to eight weeks than 12, though he knows he can’t rush his recovery.

Rotation-mate Joe Ryan suffered the same injury last year in a game on Aug. 7. He did not return during the regular season, though he said he might have been healthy enough to return in a relief role in mid-October had the Twins made the playoffs.

“It stinks. He’s so good. He prepares so well,” Ryan said. “He’s one of the best teammates I’ve been around as far as that goes and what he does off the field. It’s tough to see.”

It’s a tough blow for the Twins’ rotation, which has been among baseball’s best this season. López has been a big reason why, with a 2.82 earned-run average across his 11 starts. To fill his place in the rotation, the Twins called up David Festa, who started on Thursday and gave up eight runs in 3⅔ innings against the Athletics.

And it’s a tough blow for López personally, who said the biggest challenge won’t be his shoulder but his mind.

“The mental side is what’s going to be eating me alive for a while. It’s just that itch, knowing that every day that passes is games I’m not participating in,” López said. “So, the options are simple: I either choose to drown myself in tears of sorrow or I choose to power through, grow internally, grow physically, grow emotionally and just make sure that when the time comes, that I will be able to come back.”

Correa sits

Carlos Correa has dealt with back issues in the past. But this was different, he said.

The current soreness is little higher, in an area of his back that has never bothered him. He hasn’t changed his routine. The only thing that has changed, he said, is slipping every time he took a swing because of the dirt in the Sutter Health Park batter’s box.

Correa was scratched from Wednesday’s lineup and did not play on Thursday, but he projected optimism that he would be back when the team returned home.

“Every swing that I slip at the plate, I feel my back compensating to stabilize me throughout the motion,” Correa said. “It’s just discomfort in my middle back and I don’t want to make it worse, where I miss months of the season (for) two games. We’re taking the smart option of taking these two days (off) so I can go back and play at home.”

Briefly

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By COLLEEN SLEVIN and JESSE BEDAYN, Associated Press

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man accused of yelling “Free Palestine” and throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza was charged Thursday with attempted murder and explosives crimes in a Colorado court.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was advised of the charges during a court hearing where he appeared from jail in Boulder. He has been held there since his arrest following Sunday’s attack. Investigators say Soliman, who posed as a gardener, had planned it for a year.

Authorities have said 15 people and a dog were victims of the attack.

Lesli Colin Johnsen, right, hugs Beth Blacker before a community vigil at the Boulder Jewish Community Center, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, Pool)

He has also been charged with a hate crime in federal court and is jailed on a $10 million cash bond.

Soliman had planned to kill all of the roughly 20 participants the weekly demonstration at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall, but he threw just two of his 18 Molotov cocktails while yelling “Free Palestine,” police said. Soliman didn’t carry out his full plan “because he got scared and had never hurt anyone before,” police wrote in an affidavit.

According to an FBI affidavit, Soliman told police he was driven by a desire “to kill all Zionist people” — a reference to the movement to establish and protect a Jewish state in Israel. Authorities said he expressed no remorse about the attack.

Boulder County officials said in a news release that the victims include eight women and seven men ranging in age from 25 to 88, and a dog. Details about how the victims were impacted would be explained in criminal charges set to be filed Thursday, said Boulder County District Attorney’s office spokesperson Shannon Carbone.

Defendant’s family investigated

U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher on Wednesday granted a request to block the deportation of Soliman’s wife and five children, who like Soliman are Egyptian. U.S. immigration officials took them into custody Tuesday, but they have not been charged in the attack.

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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Wednesday that the family was being processed for removal.

“It is patently unlawful to punish individuals for the crimes of their relatives,” attorneys for the family wrote in a lawsuit filed Wednesday afternoon.

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the plaintiff’s claims “absurd” and “an attempt to delay justice.” She said the entire family was living in the U.S. illegally.

Soliman’s wife, Hayam El Gamal, a 17-year-old daughter, two minor sons and two minor daughters were being held at an immigration detention center in Texas, said Eric Lee, one of the attorney’s representing the family.

Soliman told authorities that no one, including his family, knew he was planning an attack, according to court documents. El Gamal said she was “shocked” to learn her husband had been arrested in the attack, according to her lawsuit.

The family’s immigration status

Before moving to Colorado Springs three years ago, Soliman spent 17 years in Kuwait, according to court documents.

He arrived in the U.S. in August 2022 on a tourist visa that expired in February 2023, McLaughlin said in a post on X. She said Soliman filed for asylum in September 2022 and was granted a work authorization in March 2023, but that has also expired.

Hundreds of thousands of people overstay their visas each year in the United States, according to Department of Homeland Security reports.

Soliman’s wife is an Egyptian national, according to her lawsuit. She is a network engineer and has a pending EB-2 visa, which is available to professionals with advanced degrees, the suit said. She and her children all are listed as dependents on Soliman’s asylum application.

A vigil for the victims

Hundreds of people squeezed into the Jewish Community Center in Boulder for a vigil Wednesday evening that featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses of the firebombing attack in the city’s downtown.

Rachelle Halpern, who has participated in such demonstrations since 2023, said she remembers thinking it was strange to see a man with a canister looking like he was going to spray pesticide on the grass. Then she heard a crash and screams and saw flames around her feet.

Rachelle Halpern, a witness to last Sunday’s attack in Boulder, speaks during a vigil at the Boulder Jewish Community Center Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, Pool)

“A woman stood one foot behind me, engulfed in flames from head to toe, lying on the ground with her husband,” she said. “People immediately, three or four men immediately rushed to her to smother the flames.”

Her description prompted murmurs from the audience members. One woman’s head dropped into her hands.

“I heard a loud noise, and the back of my legs burning, and don’t remember those next few moments,” said a victim, who didn’t want to be identified and spoke off camera, over the event’s speakers. “Even as I was watching it unfold before my eyes, even then, it didn’t seem real.”

Associated Press reporters Hallie Golden in Seattle; Eric Tucker and Rebecca Santana in Washington; Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri; Samy Magdy in Cairo; Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City; and Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.

By LEAH WILLINGHAM, Associated Press

CHELMSFORD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts high school student who was arrested by immigration agents on his way to volleyball practice has been released from custody after a judge granted him bond Thursday.

Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, who came to the U.S. from Brazil at age 7, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Saturday. Authorities have said the agents were looking for the Milford High School teenager’s father, who owns the car Gomes da Silva was driving at the time and had parked in a friend’s driveway.

“It shouldn’t have happened in the first place. This is all a waste,” his lawyer, Robin Nice, told reporters after a hearing in Chelmsford. Gomes da Silva appeared at the hearing via video from elsewhere in Massachusetts before being released on $2,000 bond.

Supporters gather outside federal court in support of Marcelo Gomes da Silva, who was arrested on his way to volleyball practice last weekend, on Thursday, June 5, 2025 in Milford, Mass.(AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)

“We disrupted a kid’s life. We just disrupted a community’s life,” Nice said. “These kids should be celebrating graduation and prom, I assume? They should be doing kid stuff, and it is a travesty and a waste of our judicial process to have to go through this.”

She said Gomes da Silva slept on the cement floor of a room holding 25 to 35 men, many twice his age, most of the time he was detained, with no windows, no time outside and no permission to shower. He was able to brush his teeth twice. Nice said that at one point Gomes da Silva asked for a Bible and was denied.

He went to the hospital Wednesday because he had concerns about a concussion he received before he was detained and was suffering from a bad cold, Nice said.

“He’s looking forward to eating Snickers and chicken nuggets when he is released,” she said.

Not ICE’s target, but detained anyway

U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said earlier this week that ICE officers were targeting a “known public safety threat” and that Gomes da Silva’s father “has a habit of reckless driving at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour through residential areas.”

“While ICE officers never intended to apprehend Gomes da Silva, he was found to be in the United States illegally and subject to removal proceedings, so officers made the arrest,” she said in a statement.

A homeowner around a sign supporting Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, who was arrested on his way to volleyball practice last weekend, on Thursday, June 5, 2025 in Milford, Mass. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said Monday that “like any local law enforcement officer, if you encounter someone that has a warrant or … he’s here illegally, we will take action on it.”

Gomes da Silva initially entered the country on a visitor visa and was later issued a student visa that has since lapsed, Nice said. She described him as deeply rooted in his community and a dedicated member of both the school marching band and a band at his church.

The immigration judge set a placeholder hearing date for a couple of weeks from Thursday, but it might take place months from that, Nice said.

“We’re optimistic that he’ll have a future in the United States,” she said.

A federal judge considering Gomes da Silva’s request to be released while his immigration case proceeds has given the government until June 16 to respond and ordered that Gomes da Silva not be moved out of Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice given to the court. The government sought permission Wednesday to move Gomes da Silva to a detention facility in a different New England state, Nice said. A judge quickly denied the request.

Supporters gather outside federal court in support of Marcelo Gomes da Silva, who was arrested on his way to volleyball practice last weekend, on Thursday, June 5, 2025 in Milford, Mass. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)(AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)

A shaken community

“I love my son. We need Marcelo back home. It’s no family without him,” João Paulo Gomes Pereira said in a video released Wednesday. “We love America. Please, bring my son back.”

The video showed the family in the teen’s bedroom. Gomes da Silva’s sister describes watching movies with her brother and enjoying food he cooks for her: “I miss everything about him.”

Supporters gather outside federal court in support of Marcelo Gomes da Silva, who was arrested on his way to volleyball practice last weekend, on Thursday, June 5, 2025 in Milford, Mass. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell) (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)

Students at Milford High staged a walkout Monday to protest his detainment. Other supporters wore white and packed the stands of the high school gymnasium Tuesday night, when the volleyball team dedicated a match to their missing teammate.

Hanna Ghannan, who graduated from the school the day after Gomes de Silva was detained, was among those cheering outside the courthouse as the news came that her classmate would be let out on bond.

“I’m just happy that everyone’s coming to together as a community because there is a lot of hate — and I mean a lot of hate,” she said.

Supporters gather outside federal court in support of Marcelo Gomes da Silva, who was arrested on his way to volleyball practice last weekend, on Thursday, June 5, 2025 in Milford, Mass. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell) (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)

Amani Jack, also a recent Milford High graduate, said her classmate’s absence loomed large over the graduation ceremony, where he was supposed to play in the band. She said if she had a chance to speak with the president, she’d ask him to ‘just put yourself in our shoes.’

“He did say he was going to deport criminals,” she said. “Marcelo is not a criminal. He’s a student. I really want him to take a step in our shoes, witnessing this. Try and understand how we feel. We’re just trying to graduate high school.”

Veronica Hernandez, a family advocate from Medford who said she works in a largely Hispanic community where ICE has had an active presence, said cases like Gomes da Silva’s show immigration enforcement is serious about taking “anybody” without legal status, not just those accused of crimes.

“I think seeing that something so simple as a child driving themselves and their friends to volleyball practice at risk struck a chord,” she said.

Associated Press reporter Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this story.