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The Dodgers’ foundation said it distributed 64,000 tickets last year through the Commissioner’s Community Initiative, described by the league as a program that “provides $2.5 million in ticket distributions to deserving communities league-wide.”

The firm’s services will be dedicated to helping veterans, Gold Star families, law enforcement offices and first responders — all unarguably meritorious individuals deserving of support.

The latest deserving victim is Albert Mohler, the head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who went from denouncing Donald Trump as a "predator" in 2016 to being one of Trump's loudest Christian right defenders.

While both of those crimes are terrible and certainly deserving of harsh punishment, they also highlight the subjectivity of the “exceedingly rare” standard he’s using.

One of the three had the go-ahead goal in all six American wins in France, a performance deserving of a catchy nickname.