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SPORTS THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015 7A Money game: Phil, Fowler, Spieth add spice to PGA practice earnings of the four players is PRUHWKDQPLOOLRQ Thomas, a 22-year-old tour SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — rookie making his second ap- Jordan Spieth let out a very pearance in a major, has won large “Whooooooo” after RQO\ PLOOLRQ RI WKDW +LV watching the 20-foot putt hit entry into this game is anoth- the bottom of the cup. er longstanding tradition of Sunday on the 18th green Mickelson’s. In addition to at the PGA Championship? getting sharp for the grinding week ahead, Mickelson sets up Not quite. But still very satisfying. these games to give the young And it wasn’t even Spieth’s players the taste of pressure — DQGVSHFL¿FDOO\SUHVVXUHLQD putt. Rather, it was rookie Jus- team game, the likes of which tin Thomas making the long they play every year on the twister on No. 16 at Whistling U.S. side in the Presidents or Straits to give himself and Spi- Ryder Cups. “If I go out and play on a eth a 2-up lead over Phil Mick- elson and Rickie Fowler in Tuesday, I don’t get much out their Tuesday best-ball match. of it,” Thomas said. “You lose Mickelson has been setting up focus. You kind of hit shots these practice-round games — that don’t mean anything. Ev- just for fun and a bit of cash — ery shot means something on a day like today. The nerves can for years. “It feels good for every- get going.” Anticipating the showdown one,” Spieth said. “That’s why with Mickelson, Spieth sug- Phil gets them together.” Two-down with two holes gested last week that he might to go, Mickelson and Fowler bring the U.S. Open trophy pressed Spieth and Thomas on he won at Chambers Bay and the 17th tee box, setting up a place it on every green. It’s the new bet that covered only the only major trophy Lefty has last two holes. Mickelson re- \HWWRZLQ³,W¶VWKH¿UVWWLPH, sponded by hitting his tee shot have something on him,” Spi- pin high, to 8 feet, on the 223- eth said. But it never came to that. yard par 3, then making the Less is more, Spieth said, putt for birdie to win the hole. That set up some drama on when going against Mickel- 18, when Fowler drained a 20- son, a Grade A trash talker who foot birdie putt, forcing Spieth RQFHPDGHFRSLHVRIWKH to knock one in from about 5 bills he won off Tiger Woods, feet to halve the whole, keep drew smiley faces on them and the lead in the overall game placed them in Woods’ locker, and end up even in the betting. along with a note telling Tiger Which, of course, is what the Benjamins were very hap- really counts on days like this. py in their new home. “He doesn’t like it if you’re “You don’t want to lose and have to hand those guys quiet,” Spieth said about whatever you play for,” said Mickelson. “If you give it back Spieth, who goes for his third to him, that’s when he knows major of the season when the it’s bothering you.” And so, after Thomas made ‘real’ golf starts Thursday. “There’s a little bit of nerves the 20 footer on 16 to go 2 strictly because of bragging up with two to go, he passed rights. And also because it Fowler and gave him a nice slap on the butt. That, along means something.” Nobody reveals the stakes. with Spieth’s shout, were the 6XI¿FH WR VD\ LW¶V QRW D winning team’s most outward Nassau. The combined career displays of emotion. By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Elaine Thompson/AP Photo Seattle Mariners’ Austin Jackson, center, is mobbed by teammates after hitting in the game-winning run against the Baltimore Orioles in the 10th inning of a baseball game Tuesday in Seattle. The Mariners won 6-5. Home teams win all 15 games Ior ¿rst time in MLB history own ballparks. Other winners were: To- ronto, Tampa Bay, Kansas City, Minne- sota, St. Louis, Arizona, San Diego, San Home sweep home. Francisco, the New York Mets, the Chi- When the Seattle Mariners beat Bal- cago Cubs, the Chicago White Sox and timore 6-5 in 10 innings Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers. LWPDUNHGWKH¿UVWWLPHLQEDVHEDOOKLVWR- Four visiting teams got shut out: At- ry all 15 home teams won on the same lanta at Tampa Bay; Colorado by the day. Mets; the Angels against the White Sox; Viewing every game as a 50-50 prop- and the Nationals at Dodger Stadium. osition independent of all others, STATS The last time home clubs went un- ¿JXUHGWKHRGGVRIDKRPHVZHHSRQD defeated on a day with more than one night with a full major league schedule game was an 8-0 record on Aug. 28, at 1 in 32,768. Now that’s home cookin’! 2008 — although road squads were 7-0 STATS said previously the best per- on April, 2, 2013, according to STATS. formance by hosts had been 11-0, ac- Arizona and Tampa Bay joined the complished six times — three in the majors as expansion franchises in 1998, 1800s. The most recent occasion was bringing the total to 30 teams. Sept. 16, 1989. ,Q WKH ODVW JDPH WR ¿QLVK 6HDWWOH ³:LWKRXW VD\LQJ LW¶V PRUH GLI¿FXOW squandered a three-run lead in the eighth on the road,” said manager Bruce Bochy inning against the Orioles before Austin of the World Series champion Giants. Jackson’s bases-loaded single down the “There’s got to be a slight advantage to ULJKW¿HOGOLQHZRQLWIRUWKH0DULQHUVDW playing at home and I think your good Safeco Field. teams play well at home, they win at “I still didn’t know if it was fair home.” even when he called it,” Jackson said. Cleveland and Miami also needed “I guess it hit the chalk and the rest is extra innings to come out on top in their history.” By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer Tony Dejak/AP Photo Cleveland Indians’ Francisco Lindor, top, jumps on Michael Brantley after Brantley hit a game-winning RBI-sin- gle in the 16th inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Tuesday in Cleveland. Jose Ramirez scored on the play. 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