Díaz, Caminero and Peralta lead Rays to 7-3 win over Guardians and a trip to the World Series

MLBJunior Caminero and Yandy Diaz each hit a two-run homer and Freddy Peralta threw 5 1/3 gritty innings as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night to advance to the World Series for the third time in the franchise's 29 seasons. Tampa Bay to meet Milwaukee in Game 1 of World Series on FridayRob Maaddi · The Associated Press · Posted: Oct 20, 2026 1:58 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Tampa Bay Rays players and staff members pose for a photo after defeating the Cleveland Guardians in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series at Tropicana Field on Monday in St Petersburg, Fla.

EDMONTON – It was a battle of the NHL’s big guns, and the Edmonton Oilers’ hotshots ended up making the most noise at the end. Evan Bouchard scored the overtime winner in a 4-3 win over the visiting Minnesota Wild on Tuesday as the Oilers (7-1-1) continued their strong start to the season. The game was a matchup of the league’s top goal scorer, Minnesota’s Kirill Kaprizov, versus top point producer Connor McDavid. With the Wild serving a too-many-men penalty in overtime, Bouchard scored his seventh goal of the season with a bomb of a shot with 1:28 remaining in overtime. The Wild battled back from a 3-1 deficit after two periods. Bouchard produced the OT winner on his 27th birthday. “You take what they give you. At that point in time, it was that shot,” Bouchard said. Story continues below advertisement

The Bianco Verde pizza at The Square Deli in Everett: worth driving for. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe StaffGet Food & Dining HeadlinesThe Globe's most recent food stories, delivered to your inbox every Wednesday. Enter EmailOf course, the main point of this exercise was to give you a reason to do otherwise, so that you might eat more excellent pizza — from the wood-fired pies at Brewer’s Fork in Charlestown to the bar pizza at the Lynwood Cafe to Pizza Project’s sourdough to the classic North End pizza at Regina. Some were family-run spots that have been around for decades, others new entrants from top chefs. (If I had to pick just two pizzas to eat again, they would probably be the traditional cheese at Big Al’s Pizza in Billerica and the Bianco Verde at The Square Deli in Everett.) But the other main point was to inspire debate: In addition to eating pizza, the ensuing arguments are the fun part of anointing “the best.” Because most people eat pizza. Most people enjoy pizza. And most people have very strong opinions about pizza. So, via survey, we asked that essential question: What’s your favorite local pizza? But we didn’t really have to ask.

A row of Honeycrisp apple trees at Belkin Family Lookout Farm in South Natick. Dave EpsteinThe same thing happens to me every October: I pick too many apples and end up with more than my refrigerator can hold. If you’ve been to one of our local farms this season, you might be in the same spot. An apple tree at Belkin Family Lookout Farm in South Natick. Dave EpsteinFortunately, there’s no end to the fruit’s versatility; I could cook with apples everyday and never repeat the same pie, crisp, cake, chutney, or savory saute. Over the past few weeks, my Globe colleagues have shared a slew of recipes that would quickly use up a peck’s worth of fresh-picked fruit. These pork chops from Sheryl Julian capture fall in a skillet with chunky apple slices, onions, bacon, and potatoes; and Sally Pasley Vargas zeros in on easy desserts with crumb-topped Apple Pie Bars and an elegant, One-Bowl Apple Olive Oil Cake. Bags of apples at Belkin Family Lookout Farm in South Natick. Pat Greenhouse/Globe StaffBut sometimes it’s easier to process all the apples in one fell swoop, and for that I have three ideas to share: cider, applesauce, and apple butter.

These dishes are part of the yoshoku canon — Western-style food made distinctly Japanese, similar yet different. Mostly my family was happy to eat yakitori, udon, rice and pickles and fish. But it was nice, sometimes, to taste something more familiar. When we really got homesick, we would order pizza — which came with toppings of seaweed, corn, and mayo. Get Food & Dining HeadlinesThe Globe's most recent food stories, delivered to your inbox every Wednesday. Enter EmailAt Ebisuya, pizza comes topped with chicken katsu, cabbage, tonkatsu sauce, and Kewpie mayo. It's been the top seller since the day the restaurant opened. Virginia Nash for The Boston GlobeThere is a subset of Japan-style Western cuisine called itameshi — a term devised from smushing together “Itaria” (Italy) and “meshi” (meal) — or wafu Italian. (Wafu means Japanese-style.) There is topnotch traditional Italian food in Japan, but this is something else, a fusion not just of words but of tastes. “It is interpreted, adapted to fit the Japanese palate,” says Sonoko Sakai, author of “Wafu Cooking” and other cookbooks. Itameshi started showing up after World War II, during the US occupation of Japan.