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IN BRIEF
AP Photo/David Zalubowski
Seattle
Mariners
starting
pitcher Sam Gaviglio delivers
to Colorado Rockies’ Charlie
Blackmon in the first inning of
an interleague baseball game
Monday in Denver.
Gaviglio gets
first win as
Mariners beat
Rockies, 6-5
Associated Press
DENVER — Sam Gaviglio’s
experience in the minor leagues
helped him get his first win in the
majors.
Gaviglio pitched into the sixth
inning to get his first career vic-
tory, and the Seattle Mariners used
six relievers to beat the Colorado
Rockies 6-5 on Monday.
He was making his third
start and fourth appearance after
beginning the year with Tri-
ple-A Tacoma in the Pacific Coast
League. His time there helped him
in the thin air at Colorado.
“It’s like pitching in a PCL
game,” he said. “A lot of high-al-
titude parks.”
Danny Valencia had three hits
and Kyle Seager had a key dou-
ble to help Gaviglio (1-1) get the
milestone. The rookie allowed
five runs on six hits and left after
two singles to lead off the bottom
of the sixth inning.
Both runners scored, but the
bullpen blanked the hot-hitting
Rockies from there.
“It’s five innings in Coors
Field,” manager Scott Servais
said. “We’ll take it.”
Woods says
medication, not
alcohol, led to
DUI arrest
Associated Press
Players arriving for a tourna-
ment this week at Muirfield Vil-
lage might notice a framed picture
of Tiger Woods
with a resplen-
dent smile and
bright red shirt.
He’s posed there
with the trophy,
an image that
embodies
the
excitement he
Tiger
once brought to
Woods
golf.
A far different photo emerged
Monday, this one from the Palm
Beach County jail in Florida after
Woods was arrested on a DUI
charge.
Sullen, lifeless eyes.
Thinning hair mussed at the
top. Scraggly facial hair. A white
T-shirt.
In another stunning develop-
ment for a player who became one
of the dominant figures in sports,
Woods was arrested on suspicion
of DUI and spent nearly four hours
in jail before he was released on
his own recognizance.
Woods said an “unexpected
reaction” to prescription medicine
— not alcohol — was the reason
for his arrest. He said he under-
stands the severity of the incident
and takes full responsibility.
“I want the public to know
that alcohol was not involved,”
he said. “What happened was an
unexpected reaction to prescribed
medications. I didn’t realize the
mix of medications had affected
me so strongly.”
Godofredo Vasquez/The Gazette Times
Oregon State coach Pat Casey, center, disagrees with a call during the third inning against Central Arkansas in Corvallis in April
2016. Oregon State is the No. 1 national seed for the NCAA Division I baseball tournament. His team went 49-4.
Beavers No. 1 seed for
NCAA baseball tourney
By ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
UP NEXT: REGIONALS
OMAHA, Neb. — Oregon State has put
together the best season by any team in 35
years, and the Beavers’ work was rewarded
Monday when they were made the No. 1
national seed for the NCAA Division I base-
ball tournament.
After narrowly missing the tournament last
year, the Beavers went 49-4 and set a Pac-12
record with 27 conference wins. They’ll go
into the tournament with the fewest losses
since Texas entered 53-4 in 1982, according
to Associated Press and NCAA research.
“I can’t tell you that I’d ever think that any-
body should be 49-4,” Oregon State coach Pat
Casey said. “Forty-nine and four is pretty spe-
cial, we get that, and we’re aware of that and
it’s impressive. But it means nothing from
here forward.”
North Carolina (47-12), which also failed
to make the tournament in 2016, is No. 2 after
winning 18 of its last 22 games. The Tar Heels
lost in the Atlantic Coast Conference tourna-
ment won by Florida State.
• Holy Cross Crusaders (23-27)
at Oregon State Beavers (49-4)
• Friday, 8 p.m. TV: ESPNU
Florida (42-16), the top seed in 2016, is
No. 3 despite not reaching the Southeastern
Conference final, and is followed by LSU
(43-17). The Tigers are a national seed for an
NCAA-record sixth straight year.
The rest of the national seeds, in order, are
Texas Tech (43-15), TCU (42-16), Louisville
(47-10) and Stanford (40-14).
Play begins Friday in 16 regionals. Win-
ners advance to eight best-of-three super
regionals. Those winners move on to the Col-
lege World Series in Omaha.
Coastal Carolina (37-19-1) will not be able
to defend its 2016 national championship.
The Chanticleers won the Sun Belt Confer-
ence regular-season title in their first year in
the league, but lost in the quarterfinals of the
conference tournament.
Also missing is Miami (31-27), whose 44
consecutive appearances was the longest post-
season streak in any NCAA sport.
“Needless to say, I’m disappointed,” Hur-
ricanes coach Jim Morris said. “I thought we
had a chance. I thought we were in until yes-
terday when we had all the upsets (in con-
ference tournaments). I’m looking at all the
scores and knew the more upsets, the less
chance for an at-large.”
The Hurricanes were hard hit by the major
league draft last year and beset by injuries.
They won six of seven to end the season.
“Looking at their resume, they had some
metrics that were very good,” said selection
committee chairman Scott Sidwell, the ath-
letic director at San Francisco. “At the end of
the day, for our group, they had 30 Division I
wins. One was against a non-Division I team.
For us, it was the number of wins they had,
and it didn’t stack up for an at-large.”
Florida State (39-20), at 40 appearances in
a row, now has the longest active streak.
Sidwell said Miami, Connecticut (33-25),
Old Dominion (37-21) and South Carolina
(35-25) were the first four teams held out of
the tournament.
Warriors, Cavs benefit from
rest, NBA tries to reduce it
Guentzel’s goal
lifts Penguins by
Predators 5-3
Associated Press
By JON KRAWCZYNSKI
Associated Press
In bulldozing their respective con-
ferences through the first three rounds
of the postseason, the Cleveland Cav-
aliers and Golden State Warriors each
earned an extended rest before their
highly anticipated showdown in the
NBA Finals begins on Thursday.
Both teams appear to be play-
ing their best basketball at the most
important time. One of the reasons
cited is the strategic rest days given to
star players sporadically through the
long regular season.
Known in the league as “DNP-
Rest,” the practice of sitting healthy
players to avoid injury and fatigue has
grown in popularity as teams focus
more on reducing the wear and tear
on the stars that drive the league. And
while forward-thinking teams have
been praised for putting the player
first, there is concern across the league
that the approach threatens to alienate
fans who pay to see their favorite play-
ers, aggravate network executives who
paid billions to showcase games, and
devalue the regular season.
“We don’t rest. I don’t believe in
it,” Miami Heat president Pat Riley
said in April. “I think it’s gotten to the
point where it’s become a travesty, an
absolute travesty. Blatantly. I don’t
care how many players you’re resting
or who. Who are the ones entitled to
get the rest versus who doesn’t rest?
We don’t rest.”
STANLEY CUP
UP NEXT: GAME 1
OF NBA FINALS
• Cleveland Cavaliers (51-31)
at Golden State Warriors (67-15)
• Thursday, 6 p.m. TV: ABC
AP Photo/Ron Schwane
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeB-
ron James (23) and Golden State
Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30)
look at each other during the sec-
ond half of Game 6 of basketball’s
NBA Finals, in Cleveland in June.
Riley had reason to be upset. After
an 11-30 start to the season, the Heat
rebounded to win 30 of their last 41
games to surge back into playoff con-
tention. Heading into the final day of
the season, the Heat needed a win over
the Washington Wizards and a Chi-
cago loss to Brooklyn or a Pacers loss
to the Hawks to get into the Eastern
Conference field as the eighth seed.
But the Nets sat Jeremy Lin, Trevor
Booker and Brook Lopez, essentially
handing the game to the Bulls.
During the regular season, there
were 203 instances of a healthy player
sitting out of a game, according to data
compiled by instreetclothes.com , a
website run by certified athletic trainer
Jeff Stotts that has analyzed injuries
for years. Ten years ago, there were
only 12 such instances.
“It’s not my preference to rest. I
do understand rest and why you do
it,” said Kevin Garnett, who missed
one game or none in nine of his first
10 seasons, but needed to incorporate
rest days more often later in his career.
“It’s the way of the league, and I think
the prestige of playing 82 is not what
it’s used to be, and this is the way it’s
going to be.”
And it’s not just star players on
teams trying to preserve themselves
for deep playoff runs that are getting
the treatment. The Suns sat Eric Bled-
soe for the final 14 games of the sea-
son, while Tyson Chandler did not
play after the All-Star break. The Lak-
ers shut down Timofey Mozgov and
Luol Deng for the final 15 games
while trying to hold on to their lottery
pick, and the Nets may have had the
biggest head-scratcher by not playing
three key players despite the impor-
tance of the game’s outcome.
PITTSBURGH — This is what
the Pittsburgh Penguins do. They
find a way.
Even on nights when they blow
a three-goal lead, they go an entire
period (and then some) without reg-
istering a single shot and the oppo-
nent is fresher, quicker and, for
long stretches, demonstrably better.
Maybe it’s mystique. Maybe
it’s luck. Maybe it’s a bit of both.
What makes the defending Stanley
Cup champions different from the
29 other clubs chasing them isn’t
the way they dominate when they
play well. It’s their ability to sur-
vive when they don’t.
On nights like Monday in Game
1 of the Stanley Cup Final, when
a brief early flurry led to a baf-
fling lull only to end how so many
games have ended for the Penguins
over the last two springs: with the
bigger number on the scoreboard
next to their name and the guys on
the other bench wondering how
Pittsburgh got away. Again.
Rookie Jake Guentzel fired a
shot by Nashville’s Pekka Rinne
with 3:17 left in regulation to put
the Penguins ahead to stay in a flat-
out weird 5-3 victory.
“None of us in our dressing room
is fooled by the score tonight,” Pitts-
burgh coach Mike Sullivan said.
Game 2 is Wednesday night in
Pittsburgh.