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Cuba beats Dominican Republic 4-0 in Caribbean Series opener

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A billboard memorializing Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura is shown along I-29 in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. The Kansas City Royals organization gathered together Friday to remember Yordano Ventura in a private Celebration of Life for the pitcher who died Sunday in a car accident in the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Royals gather in private to remember, celebrate Ventura

By MARGARET STAFFORD - Associated Press

Friends and relatives attend a wake for Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura, in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Ventura and former major leaguer Andy Marte died in separate traffic accidents early Sunday in their native Dominican Republic. The country, whose roads are among the world's most dangerous, has now lost four current or former major leaguers to traffic accidents in recent years. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)

Family, fans mourn for Dominican pitcher Yordano Ventura

By EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, July 28, 2016, file photo, Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Yordano Ventura throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas. Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, that Ventura and former major leaguer Andy Marte both have died in separate traffic accidents. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Royals’ Ventura killed in car crash in Dominican Republic

By DAVE SKRETTA - Associated Press

Kansas City Royals' Yordano Ventura throws a pitch against the Milwaukee Brewers during the first inning of a spring training baseball game Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in Surprise, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Young Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura dies in car crash

By Ezequiel Lopez Blanco - Associated Press

Dominican officials recover debris from small plane crash

By EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ - Associated Press

Fishermen sail on a boat at Port Royal in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Hurricane Mathew, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

The Latest: Jamaica lowers alert to tropical storm warning

Associated Press

Kansas City Royals pitcher Edinson Volquez reacts after getting New York Mets' David Wright out to end the third inning of Game 1 of the Major League Baseball World Series Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Edinson Volquez leaves Royals after father’s death prior to World Series start

By Dave Skretta - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 30, 2014, file photo, St. Paul-Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt speaks at his office in St. Paul, Minn. On Monday, June 15, 2015, the Vatican said Pope Francis accepted the resignations of Nienstedt and Auxiliary Bishop Lee Anthony Piche after prosecutors charged the archdiocese with having failed to protect children from unspeakable harm from a pedophile priest. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig, File)

John Nienstedt, archbishop of St. Paul, resigns after archdiocese charged with pedophile coverup

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in Newark, N.J. Menendez, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was indicted on corruption charges, accused of using his office to improperly benefit an eye doctor and political donor. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Bob Menendez, New Jersey senator, indicted on corruption charges

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Robert Menendez to face federal corruption charges: report

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2014, file handout photo, provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Agency shows the heavily damaged vehicle in which Dominican baseball player Oscar Taveras was killed along with a young woman passenger, near the city of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Dominican officials say that young St. Louis Cardinals prospect Oscar Taveras was drunk at the time of his fatal car crash. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Agency, File)

Oscar Taveras drunk at time of fatal crash, officials say

By Dionisio Soldevila - Associated Press

Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, papal nuncio for the Dominican Republic, has been convicted by a church tribunal of sex abuse and has been defrocked. No criminal charges have been filed thus far. (Associated Press)

Holy See defrocks archbishop for sex abuse

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times