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SPORTS Thursday, October 29, 2015 East Oregonian Page 3B MLB Cueto’s 2-hitter sends Royals over Mets for 2-0 lead balance. An excited crowd stood on its feet for long stretches on the rainy night. Some fans wore wigs KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Johnny resembling Cueto’s long, dark Cueto smothered the New York dreadlocks — including the Royals’ Mets with another big October mascot, Slugerrr. With Kansas City two wins outing. And the pesky Kansas City Royals kept fouling off Jacob IURP LWV WKHLU ¿UVW WLWOH VLQFH deGrom’s best pitches, wearing him the teams take Thursday off. New down with persistence and prowess. <RUN¶V&LWL)LHOGKRVWVLWV¿UVW6HULHV Cueto never faltered. And as game Friday, when rookie Noah deGrom wore down, the Royals Syndergaard starts for the Mets and Yordano Ventura for the Royals. pounced. Forty-one of the 51 teams to take Eric Hosmer hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in a 2-0 leads in best-of-seven World IRXUUXQ ¿IWK LQQLQJ WKDW LQFOXGHG Series have gone on to win the title, 14 foul balls, and the Royals rallied including nine straight since Atlanta to beat the Mets 7-1 Wednesday stumbled against the New York night and take a 2-0 World Series Yankees in 1996. Kansas City had the best contact lead. Nineteen hours after Hosmer’s hitters in the major leagues this VDFUL¿FHÀ\ZRQDLQQLQJWKULOOHU season, missing on just 19.7 percent Cueto pitched a two-hitter, varying of its swings, according to STATS. his delivery with occasional quick The Dodgers and Cubs swung and pitches and keeping the Mets off PLVVHG WLPHV LQ KLV ¿UVW WKUHH By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer World Series Gm 2 Kansas City New York 7 1 postseason outings, but he got just three swings and misses against the Royals — his career low. Of his 94 pitches, 23 were fouled off by the Royals. Cueto has struggled on the road, where opposing fans taunt him by repeating his name in a sing- song voice. But since the Royals acquired the free-agent-to-be from Cincinnati in July, he’s been Johnny on the spot at Kauffman Stadium. He pitched two-hit ball over eight innings to win Game 5 of the Division Series against Houston, and Kansas City lined up its Series rotation to have Cueto starting Games 2 and 6 at home. Cueto struck out four and walked three. Both hits off him were soft singles by Lucas Duda, DQ LQ¿HOG KLW WR WKLUG WKDW WRRN advantage of the shift in the second LQQLQJ DQG DQ RSSRVLWH¿HOG 5%, single to left in the fourth. Cueto let loose some emotion at the end of the eighth inning, when Alcides Escobar made a nifty play to retire -XDQ /DJDUHV IRU WKH ¿QDO RXW$V Escobar sprinted past him, Cueto H[FKDQJHG D ÀDPER\DQW KLJK ¿YH with the shortstop. $IWHU <RHQLV &HVSHGHV ÀLHG WR FHQWHU IRU WKH ¿QDO RXW &XHWR pointed to the sky and was congrat- ulated by catcher Salvador Perez. &XHWR SLWFKHG WKH ¿UVW 6HULHV complete game by an AL pitcher since Minnesota’s Jack Morris won Game 7 against Atlanta in 1991. DeGrom, 3-0 in the postseason coming in, allowed four runs, VL[ KLWV DQG WKUHH ZDONV RYHU ¿YH innings in a hairy matchup of pitchers with contrasting long locks. Pitching with seven days’ rest, deGrom held Kansas City to one hit through four innings but JRWLQWURXEOHLQWKH¿IWKZKHQKH walked Alex Gordon on a 3-2 slider leading off. Alex Rios followed with a single and Escobar fouled off a pair of bunt attempts before driving and 0-2 slider up the middle for a tying single. Ben Zobrist’s grounder advanced the runners, and Lorenzo Cain fouled off four pitches before D À\RXW WR VKRUW FHQWHU +RVPHU singled off the mound into center ¿HOG IRU D OHDG DQG .HQGU\V Morales’ singled in another run. Gordon added an RBI double in the eighth off Jon Niese, a ball off the glove of shortstop Wilmer Flores. PREPS: Irrigon looks to keep postseason bid strong against Pilot Rock Continued from 1B scheduled for 7 p.m. IRRIGON — The No. 12 Knights (5-3, 1-3 CBC) are CULVER at STAN- looking to stop a three-game second. “Heppner is such a tremendous team that plays FIELD — The Culver skid as they remain primed to to the whistle on every single Bulldogs (3-5, 1-3 CBC) earn one of the four at-large play. They maximize their will still be clinging to some playoff berths available in slim playoff hopes when Class 2A this season. talent because of that.” And just like they did WKH\ FRPH LQWR 6WDQ¿HOG IRU Irrigon’s offense has been in a 37-12 over Irrigon two Friday’s game. slowed in recent weeks, aver- However, they won’t aging just 13 points in a pair weeks ago, Bailey said he’ll need his players on the side- be able to sneak past the RIORVVHVDIWHUDYHUDJLQJD lines to recognize Heppner’s Tigers (7-1, 3-1) who still week during its 5-1 start. Pilot IRUPDWLRQV IURP WKHLU ¿OP have a chance to tie for the Rock (0-7, 0-4) hasn’t been study and call them out to the Columbia Basin Conference slowing anybody down lately, title. The Tigers scored 62 however, and is giving up 51.3 SOD\HUVRQWKH¿HOG “If we’re correct 50 points in a win over Pilot points a week since entering percent of the time I’m going Rock last week, and that was league play. Kickoff is sched- to be happy,” he said. “Right without leading rusher Thyler uled for 7 p.m. in Irrigon. now we have 32 kids on our Monkus, who was hurt on the roster and it’s going to take JDPH¶V¿UVWVHULHV VALE at UMATILLA He’s back fully healthy to — Umatilla has a chance all 32 kids to get this victory. It’s not just the 11 guys that face the Bulldogs, though, to secure a spot in the state and the only two teams to playoffs with a win, which DUHRXURQWKH¿HOG “We’re going against hold the Tigers to less than would also give them one of 30 points this season have the great upsets of the season history here.” Heppner is coming off a been Heppner and Weston- as No. 5 Vale (6-1, 2-0 EOL) 61-14 win over Irrigon and McEwen. Together those enters the game averaging beat Weston-McEwen 20-12 two defenses have allowed 43.4 points a game. in last season’s match-up just 196 points this season. 1R8PDWLOOD¶VGHIHQVH before advancing all the way Culver has surrendered 325 is ranked third in the Eastern WR WKH VWDWH ¿QDO$:HVWRQ on its own and is giving up Oregon League allowing McEwen win could force a 43 a game in CBC play. 25.9 points a game, and the Kickoff is scheduled for 7 offense is second with an three-way tie for the CBC FURZQ LI 6WDQ¿HOG LV DEOH p.m. even 25. Vale’s closest game to beat Culver. Kickoff is PILOT ROCK at of the season was a 34-20 win DALE — Arlington’s defense is coming off its worst statistical performance RIWKHVHDVRQLQDORVVWR Sherman that put the Honkers on the verge of playoff elim- LQDWLRQ ,W ZDV WKH ¿UVW WLPH an opponent had score more than two touchdowns on RIVERSIDE at NYSSA the Honkers (4-2, 3-2 SD4), — Riverside lost its chance which would need a win this at a playoff spot last week week plus a Dufur loss to with a 35-24 loss to rival secure an automatic playoff Umatilla, but could still berth since Dufur holds the complicate the playoff race head-to-head tiebreaker. Short of that scenario, with a win over the Nyssa Arlington would need to Bulldogs (4-3, 1-1 EOL). Nyssa has the historical move up several spots in the edge in this match-up, OSAA ranking to claim the but comes into the game only at-large berth, and a win averaging just 20.6 points over No. 5 Perrydale (7-0, 5-0) on offense to Riverside’s would certainly help them do 19.9. The Bulldogs boast that. The Pirates have the a much more dominant district’s No. 1 defense aver- defense, though, and are aging 54 points a game and giving up 20.7 on average beat Sherman 52-20 last week. while the Pirates (2-5, 0-2) Arlington still has the No. 1 DUH DOORZLQJ 1\VVD defense giving up 16.7 a game, ORVW WR 9DOH ODVW ZHHN but Perrydale is only giving up Vale beat Riverside 70-12 19.5. Kickoff is scheduled for two weeks ago. Kickoff is 5 p.m. in Perrydale. scheduled for 7 p.m. (MT) SOUTH WASCO at A R L I N G T O N / IONE — The visiting CONDON at PERRY- Redsides will be trying for over Baker in Week 4, and it has outscored its EOL oppo- nents 119-20 in the last two weeks. Umatilla (5-3, 1-1) is 2-1 at home this season and coming off a 35-24 road win over rival Riverside. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. WKHLU ¿UVW ZLQ RI WKH VHDVRQ in a game that has no playoff implications. Ione (2-5, 1-4 SD4) will again be without leading rusher Henry Padberg (knee) but got quarterback Jason Juarez (shoulder) back in a limited capacity for last week’s 50-14 loss to Dufur. The Cardinals have strug- JOHG WR ¿QG FRQVLVWHQF\ WKLV season, but have more going for them than South Wasco (0-7, 0-5), which is being outscored 59-14 on average this season. The Redsides lost 36-0 to Mitchell/Spray/ Wheeler last week. Kickoff is schedule for 7 p.m. in Ione. M O N U M E N T / DAYVILLE at ECHO — ,W¶OOEHDFDW¿JKWWRVWD\RXWRI the Special District 1 cellar in an afternoon game on Friday. The Echo Cougars (2-6, 0-4 SD1) haven’t won since Week 3 of the season and are coming off a 54-6 loss at Pine Eagle, but the Monument/Dayville Tigers (1-7, 0-5) haven’t won since their season opener and come LQRIIDGUXEELQJDWWKH hands of Crane. 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