LOS ANGELES — As jeers rained down on Carlos Correa from a Dodger Stadium crowd voicing its displeasure over the 2017 Houston Astros — Correa’s team was found to be electronically stealing signs that season, during which it beat the Dodgers in the World Series — the Twins’ shortstop nearly found a way to quiet the masses.

Correa, representing the game-tying run, drove a pitch from Kirby Yates 399 feet out to left. The ball sailed deep into the night before settling in the glove of center fielder James Outman, who leapt right at the wall to bring the ball back down and secure the 5-2 win for the Dodgers on Monday night.

“When I hit it, I thought it had a pretty good chance,” Correa said.

But so it went for the Twins (48-52) on Monday, who outhit the Dodgers (59-42) on the night and made plenty of loud contact, but were largely unable to manufacture runs, finishing the day 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position and leaving 13 runners on.

The Dodgers, meanwhile, hit four balls that left the park with all five of their runs coming via the longball.

“We didn’t really do the job when there were people on base, even though we had pretty good at-bats,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “It’s not like I think we went out there and got outplayed. They hit the ball over the fence when they hit it. … They didin’t have much else going on the entire game.”

Twins starter David Festa pitched into the sixth inning on Monday night against one of the best offenses in baseball, limiting the Dodgers to just four hits. Three of them went out.

It was a game that the Twins actually led — briefly — when Byron Buxton got the best of Shohei Ohtani in an all-star on all-star matchup. The Twins’ all-star got ahold of the second pitch of the game from Ohtani and sent it 410 feet out to left-center field, arriving back to an excited crowd of teammates in the first-base dugout.

But it didn’t take long for the superstar to return the favor. After Festa walked Mookie Betts to lead off the bottom of the first inning, Ohtani hit a ball to center field that carried well over Buxton’s head and gave Los Angeles the lead.

“That’s like as a kid, you give up a homer and you go back in the dugout and say, ‘I’m about to get that back,’” Buxton said. “That’s literally like that moment. I didn’t want it to be against us, but that was crazy. It was wild.”

It was the 35th home run of the season for Ohtani, who struck out in his next three at-bats and did not give up another run in his three innings pitched, despite some hard contact. Ohtani has been limited to short starts thus far this season as he works his way back from a 2023 elbow surgery.

But while Festa fanned Ohtani in each of their next two matchups, he couldn’t do the same against Will Smith, who was batting behind him in the Dodgers’ lineup. Smith took Festa deep in both the fourth and sixth innings of his start, widening the Dodgers’ lead. They scored their last run an inning later when Andy Pages hit a blast off Cole Sands.

The Twins, meanwhile, were kept quiet by Ohtani and Dustin May, who came after him and pitched 4 2/3 innings. It wasn’t until the ninth inning that they finally added another run with a Kody Clemens sacrifice fly bringing home Buxton.

A day after hitting a pair of home runs in Colorado, Royce Lewis added another three hits on Monday, collecting a pair of singles and a double. Matt Wallner, hitting behind him, added two hits and walked twice, positive developments from two key members of the lineup.

But though that duo was on base throughout the night and the Twins could never bring them home, they still were within striking distance when Correa stepped up to the plate in the ninth.

“That ball is tattooed and he hit it right around the perfect trajectory to get it out of the ballpark,” Baldelli said. “(I’m) not sure how it didn’t go out of the ballpark but it didn’t and we have to live with that fact.”

Fourth-term Republican state Sen. Eric Pratt, of Prior Lake, announced a bid for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District on Monday.

Pratt joins Democrat colleague Sen. Matt Klein in the 2026 race for the seat, which is left open following Rep. Angie Craig’s bid for Sen. Tina Smith’s Senate seat. Pratt is entering the race for a competitive purple district, which covers the south Twin Cities metro area; Scott, Dakota and Le Sueur counties; and parts of Rice County and Washington County.

State Sen. Eric Pratt, of Prior Lake, announced his bid for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District on July 21, 2025.

“This campaign is about putting families first,” Pratt said in a Monday news release. “The people of the Second District deserve a representative who listens, understands their challenges, and delivers real results. President Trump is making strides and bringing energy back to our economy, but families in CD2 still need someone who can win in November to keep that momentum going. This open seat is critical, and it’s going to take a Republican in Congress who will fight to deliver real relief where it’s needed most.”

Pratt co-chaired the Senate Finance Committee when the Senate was tied in 2025, and sits on the Capitol Investment and Jobs and Economic Development committees. Outside of the Senate, Pratt has worked in finance for U.S. Bank and Target, according to his campaign website.

The 2026 race for the 2nd Congressional District seat is expected to be one of the most competitive of the state’s congressional districts.

Craig first flipped the congressional seat in 2018, which had been red since 2001. She was narrowly reelected in 2020 with 48% of the vote and in 2022 with 51%, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State. Craig won the purple district most comfortably in the 2024 general election, when she defeated Republican Joe Teirab with 55% of the vote.

Other candidates in the race include Democrat and former state Sen. Matt Little, as well as Republican Tyler Kistner, a former U.S. Marine Corps member.

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The pilot of a regional airliner flying over North Dakota made an unexpected sharp turn to avoid a possible midair collision with a military B-52 bomber that was in its flight path over the weekend.

The Friday incident is detailed in a video taken by a passenger and posted to social media. Delta Flight 3788, originating from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, was approaching the Minot International Airport for landing. In the video, the SkyWest pilot can be heard over the plane’s intercom system explaining that he made the hard bank after spotting a B-52 bomber in his flight path.

The passenger who took the video, Monica Green, said in an interview that she was sitting near the front of SkyWest Flight 3788 from MSP to Minot, N.D., when she felt the plane swerve “harshly” to the right near the end of the trip. The turn was so sharp that she found herself looking out the window, not at the sky, but at the cornfields below, she said.

“My plane keeps circling and not landing,” she texted her husband at the time, according to a screenshot of their conversation.

After the plane eventually landed at Minot International Airport, she said, the pilot came into the cabin and told the passengers that he had turned to avoid hitting a military aircraft. She said the mood felt eerily calm.

“Sorry about the aggressive maneuver,” a man she said was the pilot can be heard saying in the video recording she made from her seat. “It caught me by surprise. This is not normal at all. I don’t know why they didn’t give us a heads up.”

An Air Force spokesperson confirmed Monday that a B-52 bomber assigned to nearby Minot Air Force Base conducted a flyover Friday of the North Dakota State Fair, which is held in Minot. The Air Force is “looking into” the incident, the spokesman said.

The North Dakota incident comes nearly six months after a midair collision between an Army helicopter and a jetliner over Washington, D.C., that killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft. That collision and subsequent close calls with Army helicopters over the nation’s capital put the spotlight on the interaction between military and civilian flights.

SkyWest, a regional carrier for Delta and other large airlines, said the Friday flight had departed from MSP and landed safely in Minot after performing a “go-around” maneuver when another aircraft became visible in the SkyWest plane’s flight path.

Minot Air Force Base is about 10 miles north of Minot, and is home to 26 B-52 bombers, intercontinental ballistic missile operations and more than 5,400 military personnel.

No radar at airport

In the video, the pilot noted that Minot’s small airport does not operate radar and directs flights visually. When the airport tower instructed the SkyWest flight to make a right turn upon approach, the pilot said he looked in that direction and saw the bomber in his flight path. He informed the tower and made a hard turn to avoid the bomber, he said.

“I don’t know how fast they were going, but they were a lot faster than us,” the pilot said of the bomber.

Passengers can be heard applauding as the pilot wrapped up his explanation.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a statement Monday morning simply saying it’s investigating the incident. By midafternoon, it had issued a second statement to note that air traffic services were provided by a private company that services the Minot air traffic control tower.

“These controllers are not FAA employees,” the agency said.

Some small airports like Minot’s don’t have their own radar systems on site. In fact, the vast majority of the nation’s airports don’t even have towers. But regional FAA radar facilities do oversee traffic all across the country and help direct planes in and out of airports like Minot. The Minot airport typically handles between 18 and 24 flights a day.

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The pilot’s frustration is evident in the video.

“The Air Force base does have radar, and nobody said, ‘Hey, there’s a B-52 in the pattern,’” the pilot told passengers.

This report includes information from the New York Times.

A Minneapolis man described as the ringleader in the 2023 beating and robbery of a Mahtomedi man as he arrived home with $38,000 in casino winnings was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Monday.

Shawn Eric Lewis Sr., 54, had pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting first-degree aggravated robbery for coordinating the attack on the 68-year-old after he pulled into his driveway from Treasure Island Resort & Casino about 2:15 a.m. Dec. 10, 2023.

Shawn Eric Lewis Sr. (Courtesy of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office)

Lewis was among five men, including his son, Shawn Eric Lewis Jr., who were charged in the robbery, which the victim said Monday left him with ongoing physical and emotional health issues.

Nick Hydukovich, criminal division head for the Washington County Attorney’s Office, read a statement in court from the victim, who said as he was being “stalked, followed and vigorously kicked and punched in my head and my body, I thought I was going to die.”

John Chitwood, the elder Lewis’ attorney, argued that his role was less serious than a typical first-degree aggravated robbery, saying he did not “inflict any blows” or take the cash. He asked Judge Siv Mjanger for a downward departure to a three-year prison term.

Hydukovich said that Shawn Eric Lewis Sr., despite not physically committing the robbery, was the “ringleader, the hub between the spokes that everyone else was acting, in terms of tracking the victim’s location, getting the information from one person, passing it along to the next person.”

Hydukovich noted it was Lewis’ third first-degree aggravated robbery conviction, adding he had been released from prison less than a year and a half before the Mahtomedi attack.

Mjanger agreed with Hydukovich and his request for a 67-month sentence, saying his conduct was not less onerous. Evidence showed Lewis was nearby waiting in his vehicle, she said.

“I get that he didn’t throw the physical punches,” she said. “But I also believe that without his involvement and without his planning and preparation and essentially stalking of the victim, this wouldn’t have happened the way it did.”

In June, Shawn Eric Lewis Jr., 37, of Bloomington, was sentenced to nearly five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the same robbery charge as his father. Two other charges in the case — abetting second-degree robbery and aiding and abetting threats of violence — were dismissed as part of a plea agreement, which also included the length of his prison term.

Casino acquaintances

The victim told police he returned home in the 700 block of Griffin Court with his cash winnings when a red pickup pulled up, according to the criminal complaints.

Shawn Eric Lewis Jr. and Tristin Tyler Jacox-Mann, 35, of Golden Valley, got out of the truck and began punching and kicking the victim, prosecutors say. Deangelo Romaine Jacox, 34, of Coon Rapids, was the alleged getaway driver.

During the attack, the victim’s girlfriend and her niece came outside. One of the men pointed a gun at the women and said, “You two (expletive) better get back inside or I will kill you both,” the girlfriend told the court at the younger Lewis’ June 3 sentencing.

After the men left in the truck, the victim took off after them in his own vehicle.

He pulled over and met with a sheriff’s deputy, while other law enforcement officers pursued and eventually stopped the suspects’ pickup truck near the intersection of Minnesota 36 and White Bear Avenue.

MnDOT highway camera footage showed a red SUV following the victim as he pursued the suspects on Highway 36. Shawn Eric Lewis Sr. was the registered owner of the SUV.

“Mr. Lewis Sr.’s vehicle drives literally right by the traffic stop,” prosecutor Hydukovich said in court Monday. “Police don’t know that he’s involved at that point, so they don’t stop him.”

The victim later told police that he ran into Philip William Davids Sr., a man he knew from his prior gambling, while at the casino on Dec. 9. He said he believed Davids was following him that night, so he went to the bathroom to try to lose him. Davids followed him into the bathroom and struck up a conversation.

When he left the bathroom, he saw Davids make a phone call. He exited the casino and saw Davids trying to catch up to him, the charges say.

Investigators discovered through analyzing cellphones that Jacox-Mann and Lewis Sr. had made 20 calls to each other in the hours leading up to and shortly after the robbery.

Also, Hydukovich said Monday, phone data showed that Davids followed the victim home from the same casino one night exactly two weeks before the attack. Shawn Eric Lewis Sr., meanwhile, was waiting near the Mahtomedi home.

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The victim told the Pioneer Press in June that law enforcement was able to retrieve the stolen cash.

Shawn Eric Lewis Sr. will receive credit for just over one-and-a-half years already served in custody.

In October, Jacox pleaded guilty to fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle. He’s scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 15.

Davids faces a charge of aiding and abetting first-degree aggravated robbery and has a next hearing set for Sept. 26.

Jacox-Mann has an October jury trial scheduled on charges of aiding and abetting first- and second-degree robbery and aiding and abetting threats of violence.