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World Series set, Europe heat toll, Trump on Ohio ad and Omar

Game One is tonight at eight Eastern on Fox with Milwaukee hosting; both clubs are small-market, low-payroll teams chasing a first title, with seventy-two bunts between nobody.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe World Series is set, Brewers against Rays, with Game One tonight at eight Eastern, five Pacific, on Fox.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBoth teams hit two fifty-eight, the best two averages in the league.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd they got here on bunts.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Rays had forty-nine bunt hits and the Brewers thirty-two, first and second in baseball, while ranking twenty-ninth and twenty-second in home runs.

  5. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSmall ball. Two small-market clubs that have never won it all, and not a single windbreaker between them.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA new study says this summer's record heat in Europe helped kill more than fifty thousand people, with nearly two-thirds of that toll blamed on human-caused climate change.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIn other news, President Trump defended the Ramaswamy ad against Amy Acton in Iowa, saying he told him to leave it up and say thank you to God.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe also demanded Representative Ilhan Omar resign over a name in a court filing that prosecutors did not explain.

  9. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTwo Trump stories, one forecast: cloudy, with a high chance of Friday.

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