In a tragic incident that unfolded early Tuesday morning, two individuals lost their lives and several suffered injuries following a series of explosions at an industrial recycling plant in Toledo, Ohio. The powerful blasts ignited a significant blaze, sending ominous plumes of dense, black smoke drifting across the region, according to local authorities.

The explosions rocked Brent Industries just before the clock struck 5 a.m., coinciding with a shift transition, as reported by Toledo Fire Chief Allison Armstrong through The Associated Press. The timing compounded the chaos as workers were either arriving or leaving the facility.

In the hours that followed, firefighters, battling both flames and debris, discovered the lifeless bodies of one male and one female employee inside the wrecked structure. While the tragedy claimed these lives, it left two to three other employees with minor injuries, highlighting the harrowing ordeal they experienced.

Footage from the disaster-stricken site revealed fierce flames consuming sections of the facility as emergency responders worked diligently to control the situation, their efforts framed by the roaring fire.

Aerial images showed extensive destruction, with nearly all of the roof gone and several walls blown out, according to The Associated Press.

Armstrong said crews initially faced hazardous materials, runoff and the threat of additional explosions as they searched for victims and accounted for employees.

Environmental officials said air monitoring detected no hazardous threat.

Demetrius Langston, who was about half a mile away, said he felt the force of the blasts.

“The shock waves came down the block,” he said. “Then we all heard it again. Boom! You could feel it.”

The fire continued burning into Tuesday afternoon, and officials said there were no preliminary indications of what caused the explosions.

Authorities urged residents who could see or smell smoke to stay away from the area and keep their windows and doors closed.

Brent Industries, based in Alabama, provides textile reconditioning and industrial recycling services and uses mineral spirits in its cleaning process, according to The Associated Press.

Fire officials said tanks containing the petroleum-based solvent were at the Toledo facility, though their role in Tuesday’s explosions remains unknown.

The company has a history of deadly accidents and safety violations, The Associated Press reported.

A 2015 explosion at its Alabama plant killed one worker after mineral spirit vapors ignited inside a washing machine. OSHA later cited the company for six violations and fined it $27,000.

Brent Industries could not immediately be reached by News Media for comment.

DEAR ABBY: Several years ago, I began receiving distressing phone calls from an unknown man who claimed to have explicit videos of me. I have no idea where such footage could possibly have come from. In an attempt to put an end to the harassment, I changed my phone number; however, the man managed to obtain my new contact information and continued the disturbing calls.

Over time, the incessant phone calls ceased, and I’ve been free from them for many years. However, I recently received a Facebook friend request from a suspicious account lacking any profile details. This person then messaged me, referencing a video and bombarding me with inappropriate sexual remarks. In response, I took the drastic step of deleting all my social media accounts.

My concern is this: What if there actually exists a video of which I am unaware? How should I proceed if such a video is leaked to the public? — SCARED AND EMBARRASSED

DEAR SCARED AND EMBARRASSED: The experiences you’ve described constitute harassment and potential extortion. It’s crucial for you to report these incidents to law enforcement authorities. I believe the existence of a video is highly unlikely and suspect this could be part of a broader scam.

Nevertheless, if a video does exist and is released, I suggest maintaining your dignity and responding confidently to inquiries. You can acknowledge that, like many adults worldwide, you have a personal life. This approach will also help in identifying who created such content, providing you with more evidence to present to the authorities.

DEAR ABBY: I am 70. My sister is 68, and her husband is 80. He has kidney failure and needs 24/7 care. Our mother is 98. She lives independently in a condo and is mentally fully functional, but she can’t cook or do housekeeping anymore. (She has cleaning help.) 

My sister and I take turns making Mom warm meals, and my sister also does some light housekeeping. It takes one to two hours. My sister does this three times a week while her husband is at dialysis at a nearby facility. She also has my mother’s medical and financial powers of attorney and prefers to be the one to take care of things.

I am in fairly good health but have some medical issues that may eventually make it difficult (or even impossible) to travel. This fall, I plan to go to Europe for three weeks. I would like to have someone come in to help my mom three times a week while I am gone. I would introduce this person ahead of time so that Mom could get to know them and I could show them what needs to be done.

Unfortunately, Mom doesn’t want anyone other than my sister and me to care for her. My sister’s plate is already more than full, so I don’t want to add to it. Is it unreasonable of me to expect my mother to accept outside help? — PERPLEXED IN PENNSYLVANIA

DEAR PERPLEXED: Your plan is not unreasonable, but it’s common for someone your mother’s age to resist change. Remind her that the clock is ticking on your travel opportunities, and emphasize that the arrangement is only temporary. Tell her you will call to check in while you’re away, and promise to bring back lots of photos and stories to share with her when you resume your normal caregiving routine.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Hayden Panettiere tragically passed away at 36 due to a suspected overdose, following years of suffering from injuries sustained in a harrowing zebra accident.

The beloved actress, famous for her role in “Heroes,” was only 14 when she embarked on an adventure filming “Racing Stripes” in South Africa, a film that tells the tale of a zebra aspiring to compete in the Kentucky Derby.

With minimal horseback riding experience—having only mounted a horse once or twice before—Panettiere dedicated six weeks to mastering the art of riding as a jockey for the role.

Incredibly, she tackled all the high-octane stunts herself, racing alongside Thoroughbred horses at breakneck speeds, as she proudly recounted in an interview during that time.

However, a tragic turn of events occurred as she was thrown from the zebra, leading to a concussion, severe whiplash, and damage to two neck vertebrae, as she disclosed in her memoir “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” published earlier this year.

‘Over 20 years later, these injuries still bother me,’ she wrote in the memoir as she described how she would seek opioids whenever the injury flared back up.

‘The accident became much more than something that happened to Hayden on a movie set as a teenager,’ a source familiar with her struggles told Radar Online.  

Another insider also noted that ‘Hayden’s addiction had many complicated elements and nobody should reduce it to one event. 

‘But the physical pain was real; she connected increased opioid use to her neck injury flaring up and it was something she was still dealing with decades after the accident.

‘It was what really prompted her downward spiral into drugs and depression.’ 

The former child star, known for her roles on the hit NBC series Heroes and the musical drama Nashville, had previously opened up about her struggles with addiction, which began when she was just 15 years old.

At the time, she claimed she started taking ‘happy pills’ in an effort to make her seem more ‘peppy’ during interviews.

Her addiction then became worse while she was battling postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter Kaya in 2014. 

Panettiere has said that in the days after giving birth, she felt ‘nothing’ when looking at her young daughter – prompting her to turn to drinking.

She said: ‘I turned to wine, which ultimately ended up leading to an alcohol dependency. It was how I would get through each day.’

Although she underwent treatment, Panettiere felt the ‘root cause’ of her drinking, the depression, was not addressed.

‘I wish more people had known what it was at the time. Maybe I wouldn’t have waited so long to get help,’ she said. 

She ultimately underwent an eight-month stint at a rehab facility in 2020, revealing in her memoir how a doctor told her she would be dead within five years if she did not stop drinking.

It was during that rehab stint that she said she stopped ‘running from myself’ and started to face her hardships.

‘If you stay in rehab more than a few weeks, you have lots of time to be bored,’ the actress wrote in her New York Times bestselling memoir.

 ‘When you’re sitting with your feelings, stone cold sober, there’s little room for denial.

‘But in those long, empty spaces, you start to grow.’

Still, she noted in a 2022 interview that ‘it’s an everyday battle’ to remain sober. 

Panettiere was pronounced dead at the scene of an Airbnb in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday.

Authorities have not yet released a cause of death, but in audio of a 911 call made at 1.51pm Sunday, a female dispatcher described the actress as suffering a ‘cardiac arrest.’

A few moments later, a male dispatcher could be heard saying that Panettiere had suffered a suspected overdose at the home.

The actress, who was due to turn 37 this Friday, was pronounced dead at the scene at 2.32pm, just over 40 minutes after the first 911 call was made. Her ex, Brian Hickerson, and his brother, Zach, were in the apartment when she died, according to a police report released on Tuesday.

The Greenville County Coroner’s Office has since completed the star’s autopsy, with the coroner telling the Daily Mail that ‘no signs of trauma were discovered that would have contributed to the death.’ 

Further investigations will now take place to establish her cause of death, with chief deputy coroner Shelton England telling the Daily Mail that it was too early to discuss the drug overdose theory.

In a developing story from the aviation world, the Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation following reports of two commercial planes suffering blown tires merely hours apart at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Monday. This follows a troubling trend of tire-related incidents that have recently plagued passenger flights at Chicago airports.

According to an FAA statement provided to News Media, the crew of American Airlines Flight 386 reported experiencing two blown tires upon safely landing at O’Hare around 2 p.m. on Monday.

Originating from New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the Boeing 737-800 required passengers to disembark using stairs before being transported to the terminal via buses, as detailed by the FAA.

American Airlines categorized the incident as a “tire issue” in a statement to News Media, noting that first responders were on standby to meet the aircraft purely as a precautionary measure.

“American Airlines flight 386 experienced a tire issue after landing safely at Chicago (ORD). Per procedure, first responders met the aircraft out of an abundance of caution, and customers were transported safely to the terminal by bus,” the statement read. 

“The aircraft has been taken out of service to be inspected by our maintenance team. We thank our team members for their professionalism, and we apologize to our customers for their experience.”

The FAA said its information was preliminary and subject to change and that it will investigate the incident.

Just over three hours later, the crew of United Airlines Flight 739 reported a blown tire after landing safely at O’Hare around 5:15 p.m., according to the FAA.

The Airbus A320 was traveling from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago with 121 passengers and five crew members aboard, United Airlines confirmed to News Media.

“After arriving at Chicago O’Hare, United flight 739 sustained tire damage. Customers deplaned via airstairs and buses took them back to the terminal,” a spokesperson for the airline said.

United said there were no reported injuries.

The FAA said it will also investigate the United incident and cautioned that its information was preliminary and subject to change.

The incidents add to a recent series of tire problems involving commercial flights in Chicago.

Less than a week earlier, another United Airlines plane reported blown tires and aborted a takeoff at O’Hare.

Earlier this month, Southwest Airlines Flight 1243 blew a tire after landing at Chicago Midway International Airport at about 6:45 a.m. on Aug. 3, according to the FAA.

The Southwest Boeing 737 had departed from Southwest Florida International Airport. The FAA also opened an investigation into that incident.

No injuries were reported in the Midway incident.

Monday’s incidents occurred during a busy summer travel season at O’Hare. The FAA said earlier this year that more than 3,080 flights were planned at the airport on peak days during the summer 2026 travel season, a 14.9% increase from the previous summer’s peak-day schedule.

The agency subsequently imposed limits on scheduled operations at O’Hare in an effort to reduce delays and manage operational constraints at the airport.

News Media also reached out to the Chicago Department of Aviation for additional information about Monday’s incidents and any impact on airport operations.

Tragedy struck over the weekend in Ohio when a mother of three lost her life after her SUV was crushed by a falling tree, authorities have confirmed.

The victim, identified as 35-year-old Bridget E. Reagan from Minerva, was driving her 2023 Jeep Wagoneer westbound on US Route 30 near Paris Township at approximately 5:24 p.m. on Saturday. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP), a tree from an adjacent wooded area suddenly plummeted onto her vehicle.

The impact proved fatal, and Reagan was declared dead at the scene, as per the OSHP report.

Investigators are probing potential causes, including saturated ground or a decaying tree, though Lieutenant Johnnie Maier of the Ohio State Highway Patrol expressed that it currently appears to be a tragic act of God, as he explained to WEWS.

“While this was truly a random event that could have affected anyone, it’s particularly heart-wrenching that it happened to a young lady with a family,” Lt. Maier commented to the network.

Reagan was a small-business owner and well-known member of the Minerva community, where she owned Chic Haven, a clothing and home décor boutique.

Reagan’s sudden death prompted an outpouring of grief from family, friends, fellow business owners and members of the tight-knit Minerva community.

The Minerva Area Chamber of Commerce offered its “deepest and most heartfelt condolences” to Reagan’s family, friends and loved ones, describing her as a valued member of the local business community who brought “an incredible amount of energy, warmth, and joy” to those around her.

“Her presence touched so many people, and the impact she made throughout our community will not be forgotten,” the chamber said, adding that the loss “will be felt for a very long time.”

Reagan also used her platform to give back. In a Facebook post last year, she asked friends to mark her birthday by donating to SAVE22 Veterans, an Ohio nonprofit focused on supporting veterans and raising awareness about veteran suicide.

“I’ve chosen this nonprofit because their mission means a lot to me, and I hope you’ll consider contributing as a way to celebrate with me,” Reagan wrote at the time.

Chic Haven Boutique confirmed Reagan’s death in an emotional Facebook post signed by her sister, Kelly.

“There are no words that could ever truly express the heartbreak and emptiness we are feeling,” the post said.

“Bridget poured so much love, time, passion, and pieces of herself into this business, but even more importantly, she touched the lives of so many people along the way,” the post continued.

The family said they would work to preserve what Reagan built.

“We will do our best to honor her memory and the legacy she created,” the post said.

A GoFundMe created by Reagan’s sister is raising money for funeral and memorial expenses and to support her three children.

“Bridget was a loving mother to three young children, and they were the center of her world,” the fundraiser said.

“She was also a deeply loved daughter, sister, and friend,” the fundraiser continued, saying Reagan’s death “has left an enormous space in the lives of so many people who cared about her.”

Friends and customers also flooded social media with tributes, remembering Reagan as a kind and supportive friend who made time for others and embraced families in the community.

One mourner recalled that Reagan was never too busy to offer a new mother advice or a listening ear, while another said she welcomed their family “with open arms.” Others remembered her as “such a light in our little community” and said she had “the kindest heart.”

One local business is now using Reagan’s memory to help support her family. Gardner Candle Co. announced a memorial candle made in a fragrance Reagan particularly loved, with 100% of the profits going to her family.

“Some people leave a light behind that can never be dimmed. Bridget Reagan was one of those beautiful souls,” the company wrote, saying Reagan had supported the owner’s candle business and often partnered with her on local events.

The United States faces a potential crisis with the threat of an 18-month nationwide blackout, warned the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This alarming scenario highlights vulnerabilities in the country’s power infrastructure.

Jon Wellinghoff first uncovered these risks following an incident involving gunfire at a substation owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Jose, as reported by The New York Times Magazine.

Wellinghoff conducted a comprehensive power flow analysis to assess the impact of disabling key substations within America’s power grids: the Western, Eastern, and Texas interconnections. This evaluation revealed a disturbing vulnerability—how easily the nation’s power supply could be incapacitated.

“We discovered some truly shocking figures,” Wellinghoff noted. “If nine critical substations across these three grids are disabled, the entire United States could experience a blackout.”

He emphasized that the exact identity of the targeted substations is not crucial, as long as each is among the ten most significant for its respective region, underscoring the fragile state of the power network.

Alternatively, bad actors could blackout the three interconnections individually.

‘I mean, it’s not like there are particular substations,’ he explained. ‘You just have to figure out what are the top 10 critical ones in each of those interconnects – which to do that, it’s probably something that a bunch of 12 year olds with the Internet could do pretty easily.

‘All you have to do is look at a map of the grid and figure out where most of the wires go into the substations – that’s a critical substation.’ 

Once he made that terrifying discovery, which came back in 2013, Wellinghoff briefed the White House, Congress and the Department of Energy.

‘I basically wrote a memo about what happened and gave it to everybody I could to explain to them that we need to do something immediately,’ he said.

It warned that a blackout caused by lost transformers could last 18 months or longer.

The Department of Homeland Security then sent a delegation around the country, urging utilities to increase security at their substations.

‘We did a nationwide tour to alert owners and operators about the vulnerabilities,’ said Caitlin Durkovich, the then-assistant secretary for infrastructure protection.

But with more than 200,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and roughly 55,000 substations scattered across the country, ‘there is awareness that you can’t protect everything.’

A year later, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, an industry-led public-private entity charged with protecting the grid, published a ‘reliability standard’ for utilities. This required them to assess their substations and prepare a plan to defend them from physical attacks. 

How to do so was left to the utilities. 

If the United States were to experience a year-long blackout, the results would be catastrophic.

At first, critical infrastructure like sewage plants, water treatment plants and hospitals would be able to remain operational as long as they have enough diesel or natural gas. Those with emergency radios could also listen for updates from one of 73 Primary Entry Point Stations, which are supplied with 60 days of generator fuel.

But once the diesel ran out and natural gas pumps shut down, it would become more difficult to restore the grid, considering so many utilities rely on fossil fuels to ‘black-start’ their generating units.

At that point, ‘the supply of food, water and fuel would degrade within days,’ according to a 2010 report prepared by NERC and the Energy Department.

It added that ‘communication of information to the general population would be greatly complicated by the loss of cellphones, internet access and television’ and ‘the economy would virtually shut down as electronic transactions could no longer be processed.

‘After several days, widespread social unrest and confusion would ensue.’ 

The United States would then have to rely on international aid for food, fresh water or diesel, while the federal government focused on repairing or replacing the damaged transformers.

If they found that only the cooling systems were compromised, it is possible that the international community could make some replacements relatively quickly.

But everything about the process, from sending the specs of the damaged transformers abroad to coordinating deliveries would be difficult, according to The Times.

As Mark Lauby, chief engineer of NERC, noted, even though energy represents just seven percent of the economy, ‘it’s the first seven percent because nothing else works after.’ 

If entire units had to be replaced, the situation would become even more dire as each one would have to be individually designed and built from scratch, a process that could take months, followed by the weeks required to send them across the ocean to ports that had hopefully found a way to operate on little to no power.

It would then be difficult to transport the 800,000-pound transformers across the country and the final installation would require specialized cranes and gantries that would be in short supply – as would be the diesel needed to run them. 

Lauby, though, has insisted that the network’s complexity and built-in redundancies make the kind of cascading blackouts predicted by the FERC ‘unlikely.’

Wellinghoff also acknowledged that America’s power grid has changed in the decade since his report, and said it is possible that new transmission lines have added resilience to the system. 

Still, the threat remains, as neo-Nazi groups continue to study the attack on the San Jose substation as a model and tensions rise between the United States and its adversaries.

China has already been caught installing a backdoor software in one large power transformer being shipped to a federal utility in Colorado, the Times noted, and earlier this month, Iran was linked to a recent sabotage of water systems in several states.

Durkovich now worries America’s enemies will feel emboldened to consider substations a valid target.

‘The United States is actually normalizing attacking critical infrastructure within Venezuela and Iran,’ she noted. 

The risks also seem to be greater now than they were a decade ago due to supply chain shortages during the COVID pandemic and the increased strain on the power grid due to the massive data centers being built.

When the San Jose facility was attacked, it took the electric utility 27 days to bring the substation back online using a group of ‘troublemen’ – experts in grid repairs – to replace the cooling systems on the broken transformers.

But since 2021, the average wait time for a large power transformer that you can find at a major substation has grown from less than a year to 128 weeks – with some lead times growing to five years. 

Adding to the problem is the fact that vast numbers of transformers already installed on the grid have to be changed. Manufacturers estimate that some 75 percent of distribution transformers, the smaller units on street corners and atop telephone poles, are past the end of their expected service life, which maxes out at around 50 years.

The average age of the country’s large power transformers, which often have a shorter lifespan, was also estimated 12 years ago to be between 38 to 40 years.

Meanwhile, demand for transformers in 2027 is expected to be more than double that in 2020 due to massive data centers. 

Yet domestic manufacturers can only produce about 20 percent of the transformers purchased in the United States; a half-dozen other countries, including Mexico, South Korea and China supply the rest. 

Those domestic manufacturers are now hindered in their efforts to build more due to the tariffs on copper and aluminum, according to Chris Hart, chief executive of transformer manufacturer Central Moloney.

‘Costs are up almost 20 percent,’ he said. ‘We need relief on all of the metals.’

Transformer manufacturers are also struggling to find master craftsmen that can create the individualized transformers needed for each substation. Hart claimed that some of the new hires are missing out on even the most basic of skills.

‘We literally, in some of our facilities, begin our training process with lefty loosey, righty tighty,’ he claimed. ‘If all of the business for transformers across the globe shifted back into the United States, I don’t think we could staff it.’ 

Amid these difficulties, there are fears the United States does not have a comprehensive plan for how to respond to a nationwide blackout.

In 2015, Congress ordered the NERC to study the idea of a strategic transformer reserve, but the idea was shelved in favor of a voluntary utility-led equipment-sharing program, The Times reports.

NERC also holds biennial war game exercises called GridEx, simulating how utilities and various local, state and federal governments would respond to a more limited outage, but participation is optional.

The federal government may now need to consider a plan in which only a few power plants far from the affected substations are able to restart in the event of a nationwide blackout, as suggested in a 2018 report to President Trump.

The president has since invoked the Defense Production Act to allow the government to directly support manufacturers of grid equipment, including producers of electrical steel.

Peter Lake, who until late last month was the senior director of power for the White House National Energy Dominance Council, urged transformer manufacturers to ‘come talk to us, come to the NEDC, come talk to the DOE.’ He noted that the federal government had a ‘range of financial tools that are available’ to support the manufacturers. 

Meanwhile, a company called Amperesand is developing a solid-state transformer made of smaller modules that can be easily replaced if they are damaged, while their input and output voltages can be controlled via ‘power electronics.’

And Jared Delello, who directs government activities for Delta Star, a transformer manufacturer with four facilities across North America, said his company is expanding production with an explicit aim to ‘solidify the US’s position at the forefront of AI development.’

An unsettling incident unfolded on a cruise ship when an Ohio couple allegedly barged into another family’s cabin, attacking two adults and a child. This outburst followed a request for them to lower their noise level, leading to their arrest.

The individuals, identified as Gannon Jacox, aged 29, and his partner Brooklyn Hicks, 28, were taken into custody as the vessel docked at Port Canaveral, Florida. This was confirmed by Brevard County Sheriff, Wayne Ivey, who provided details of the altercation.

Sheriff Ivey explained that the confrontation began following a loud argument between Jacox and Hicks, who had been drinking. A person nearby asked them to be quieter, which presumably sparked the clash.

Ivey elaborated that Hicks aggressively approached the person who had requested they quiet down, while Jacox simultaneously filmed the scene with his cellphone. Alarmingly, he reportedly urged Hicks to physically engage with the victims.

The couple then pushed their way into the family’s cabin, where the 9-year-old was inside, the sheriff said.

“As a fight ensued Jacox ends up hitting all 3 people (including the child) and Hicks was just swinging, hoping one would land,” Ivey wrote in a Facebook post.

Ivey said Jacox struck all three victims during the fight. Hicks also threw punches, according to the sheriff.

Jacox suffered an eye injury during the confrontation that Ivey said could have come from one of the victims or from Hicks as she threw punches.

None of the three victims was seriously injured, according to Ivey.

Jacox was charged with burglary with battery and child abuse without great bodily harm, while Hicks was charged with burglary with battery and battery-touch/strike, according to the sheriff.

Authorities have not identified the cruise ship involved in the incident.

Four cruise ships were scheduled to dock at Port Canaveral on Saturday: Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas, Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Treasure and Carnival Cruise Line’s Mardi Gras and Carnival Freedom, according to the port’s schedule. It was not immediately clear which ship Jacox and Hicks had been aboard.

Ivey used the arrests to warn cruise passengers about drinking excessively and causing trouble.

“So what’s the moral of the story…if you can’t hold your liquor, then you definitely shouldn’t be out in public causing a scene like this and injuring random people including a child!!” Ivey wrote.

“And if that memo is not clear enough for you then you might want to stay your butt out of Brevard County!!”

DENVER –– The thin mountain air seemed to take its toll on Dodgers catcher Hunter Feduccia during Tuesday night’s face-off.

Or perhaps it was the infamous smash burger from lunch that turned unfriendly.

Feduccia had no choice but to exit early from his team’s thrilling 7-6 victory over the Colorado Rockies. He left the game in the bottom of the seventh inning after visibly struggling behind the plate, ultimately succumbing to nausea in the dugout.

“He’s battling a stomach virus or possibly food poisoning, something along those lines,” explained manager Dave Roberts in the post-game briefing. “He was toughing it out the whole game. Eventually, he lasted as long as he could.”

Feduccia had tirelessly been manning the catcher’s spot for the second consecutive game in this series and for the fourth time in five days. His resilience finally gave way with only one out remaining in the seventh inning. 

After catching a slider from reliever Edgardo Henriquez for a strikeout to begin the inning, Feduccia doubled over behind the plate and looked like he was about to retch. 

He quickly raced off the field and back down the dugout stairs, but left behind a trail that required a stadium worker to later mop up near the team’s third-base bench.

“He gave us a great effort,” Roberts said, after Ben Rortvedt replaced Feduccia to complete the game.

Feduccia was part of a second-straight resurgent performance from the Dodgers’ offense, drawing two early walks in their eventual series-clinching win.

The victory was also keyed by Shohei Ohtani, who followed Feduccia’s first free pass with his 30th home run of the season in the third; Freddie Freeman, Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernández, who each had two hits and combined for three RBIs; and even Kyle Tucker, who snapped his career-worst 0-for-26 hitless streak with an RBI double in the fourth. 

Just as important, however, was a five-inning, four-run start from Eric Lauer (a passing grade at mile-high altitude) and four innings of two-run ball from the bullpen (punctuated by a four-out save from Tanner Scott).

Feduccia was crucial to that effort early, displaying his growing comfort level with the Dodgers’ big-league pitching staff.

The former unheralded prospect –– who was traded by the team at last year’s deadline, then reacquired this year to bolster the team’s banged-up catching depth –– has become the team’s primary backstop lately, starting for the ninth time in the last 14 games on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, however, he’ll get a deserved break.

“I think we’re just trying to hydrate him,” Roberts said postgame. “He’ll be down tomorrow.”

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