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🗞️ Story file #51

Dodgers defeat Braves in NLDS Game 1

Oct 3, 11 PM ET to Oct 4, 6 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 3, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: AP
  2. Oct 4, 1 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 4, 1 PM to Oct 4, 6 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 3, 12 PM6 PMOct 46 AM12 PM6 PMFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 3, 10:00 AM ET: Braves vs. Dodgers Meet In The Postseason Again: NL Foes' MLB Playoff HistoryUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 3, 6:00 PM ET: Dodgers and Braves face off in MLB playoffs Game 1ReutersReutersReuters, Oct 3, 6:00 PM ET: Dodgers turn to LHP Tarik Skubal in Game 1 vs. BravesNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 3, 7:00 PM ET: Dodgers avoid Game 1 trap, power past Braves in NLDS openerChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 3, 10:00 PM ET: NLDS Game 1: Tarik Skubal dominates in 100-degree heat as Los Angeles Dodgers beat Atlanta Braves 5-3The Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 3, 10:00 PM ET: Skubal dominates in 100-degree heat as Dodgers beat Braves in NLDS openerLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times, Oct 3, 10:00 PM ET: ‘He’s a competitor.’ Tarik Skubal’s dominant outing stakes Dodgers to NLDS Game 1 winGoogle NewsGoogle NewsGoogle News, Oct 3, 10:00 PM ET: Skubal shuts down Braves' bats, stakes Dodgers to 1-0 NLDS lead - ESPNAPAPAP, Oct 3, 11:01 PM ET: Skubal brings 101 mph heat in 100-degree weather as Dodgers take NLDS opener over BravesAP, Oct 4, 9:00 AM ET: Tarik Skubal dominates in 100-degree heat as the Dodgers beat the Braves 5-3 in NLDS openerAP, Oct 4, 5:00 PM ET: Blazing triple-digit heat bears down on Braves-Dodgers NLDS opener in Los Angeles - apnews.com
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (The Washington Times)

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • AP (3 wordings): “Skubal brings 101 mph heat in 100-degree weather as Dodgers take NLDS opener over Braves” → “Blazing triple-digit heat bears down on Braves-Dodgers NLDS opener in Los Angeles - apnews.com”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Atlanta Braves Los Angeles Dodgers Tarik Skubal

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Dodgers dominate Braves in NLDS

  1. Dodgers defeat Braves in NLDS Game 1 (this story)

    Oct 3, 11 PM ET

  2. Dodgers defeat Braves 3-1 in NLDS game 3

    Oct 7, 12 AM ET

Rebuilt every hour from the front pages of the outlets we follow.
Lean ratings: AllSides (CC BY-NC 4.0) · reliability: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Everything else (mood, spin, feelings, framing) is our own reading of the headlines.