SPORTS
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015
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Money game: Phil,
Fowler, Spieth add
spice to PGA practice
earnings of the four players is
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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
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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 —
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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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