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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2017
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Twins
set hits
record
in rout
of M’s
By JON KRAWCZYNSKI
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Eddie
Rosario wasn’t a very happy
camper after not starting four
games in the past nine days.
He took his frustrations out on
the Seattle Mariners pitching staff,
and his teammates joined the hit
party as well.
Rosario hit three home runs and
drove in five runs and the Minne-
sota Twins set a franchise record
with 28 hits while batting around
in two different innings of a 20-7
victory over the Mariners on Tues-
day night.
“He made a little bit of a state-
ment out there tonight,” manager
Paul Molitor said. “He’s been out
a few days and he came back with
a vengeance.”
Max Kepler and Brian Doz-
ier also went deep, Eduardo Esco-
bar had five hits and two RBIs and
Jason Castro had four hits and four
RBIs for the Twins, who are in first
place in the AL Central despite an
AL-worst 13-19 record at Target
Field.
The 28 hits are the most in a
game since the Rangers had 29 in a
30-3 win over the Orioles on Aug.
22, 2007.
“We just couldn’t stop them,”
Mariners manager Scott Servais
said. “They kept squaring it up.”
Christian Bergman (3-4) gave
up nine runs and 10 hits in 2 1/3
innings for the Mariners. Jarrod
Dyson had a homer, a double and
an RBI. Ben Gamel had two dou-
bles and an RBI.
With slugger Miguel Sano get-
ting a night off, the Twins batted
around in a seven-run third inning
and a seven-run seventh to snap a
five-game home skid.
Sounders
eliminate rival
Timbers 2-1 in
US Open Cup
Associated Press
TUKWILA, Wash. — Zach
Mathers scored on a penalty kick
early in the second half to break a
1-all tie, and the Seattle Sounders
defeated rival Portland Timbers
2-1 in the fourth round of the U.S.
Open Cup on Tuesday night.
Mathers’ penalty goal about 10
minutes into the second half came
after Andre Lewis was whistled
for a handball in the penalty area.
It was the fourth time since 2009
the Sounders have eliminated their
rivals to the south in the U.S. Open
Cup. Portland eliminated Seattle
from the competition in 2015 with
a 3-1 victory after the Sounders
had three players ejected.
Aaron Kovar gave Seattle an
early lead scoring in the third min-
ute off a cross from Nouhou Tolo.
Augustine Williams answered
in the 38th minute for Portland
beating Seattle goalkeeper Tyler
Miller.
Seattle will play in the round of
16 of the tournament in late June.
SCOREBOARD
SPORTS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
Junior State Baseball — Warrenton
at Neah-Kah-Nie, 5:30 p.m.
JUNIOR BASEBALL
Seaside 9, Warrenton 1
Seaside
260 010 0—9 7 1
Warrenton 000 100 0—1 3 1
Thompson, McFadden (5) and Teub-
ner; Breitmeyer, Knight (2), Jackson (6)
and Morrow. W: Thompson. L: Breitmey-
er. RBI: Sea, Blanchard, Teubner, Fen-
ton, McFadden, Westerholm, Januik.
2B: Sea, Blanchard 2. HBP: War, Hoag-
land. LOB: Seaside 8, Warrenton 6.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Duncan Thompson delivers the ball to the plate for Seaside during Tuesday’s Junior Baseball game against Warrenton. Seaside won 9-1.
Blanchard lifts Gulls
past the Warriors, 9-1
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — An 8-0 lead after
two innings was plenty for two Seaside pitch-
ers to work with Tuesday afternoon, as the
Gulls scored an eventual 9-1 win over War-
renton in a Junior Baseball win at Huddleston
Field.
Seaside starter Duncan Thompson allowed
just two hits in four solid innings on the mound,
with five strikeouts and two walks. Gage
McFadden closed it out, giving up a hit with
three strikeouts and a walk over the final three
innings.
Dawson Blanchard provided most of the
offense for the Gulls, as the senior-to-be was
4-for-4 with two singles and two doubles at the
plate.
Blanchard’s double in the first inning scored
the first run, and Seaside added on runs on a
balk call and two bases-loaded walks in the
second inning.
Alex Teubner had a run-scoring single, driv-
ing in Isaias Jantes; a fielder’s choice grounder
by Payton Westerholm brought in Teubner for
a 6-0 lead; Travis Fenton sprinted home on a
double-steal attempt; and Blanchard beat out
an infield single that also scored Westerholm
for the Gulls’ eight-run lead.
The Warriors finally jumped on the score-
board in the fourth, when Austin Little led off
with an infield single, stole second and took
third on a passed ball. He scored on an errant
throw back to the mound.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Gabe Breitmeyer prepares to send the ball over the plate for Warrenton during Tues-
day’s game versus Seaside. The Seagulls defeated the Warriors, 9-1.
Seaside tacked on a run in the fifth, as
Blanchard had a leadoff double to deep
right-center field, and made his way around the
bases on three walks.
Three Warrenton pitchers combined to
give up seven hits, with 12 strikeouts and nine
walks.
Little had two of Warrenton’s three hits.
The same two teams are scheduled for a
doubleheader next Monday at Broadway Field.
Curry and Durant look to build a Seahawks’
dynasty for Golden State Warriors Thomas ahead
By JANIE MCCAULEY
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Stephen
Curry tucked a celebratory cigar
into his right sock for safekeeping
as he handled all of his post-cham-
pionship obligations.
His fists were clenched as he
pondered his latest accomplish-
ment, still wearing his sweaty uni-
form, ankle braces, kneepads and
game shoes. Oh, there would be
more partying, for sure. Perhaps all
summer long.
And if he and the rest of the
Warriors have their way, for years
to come.
Curry, Kevin Durant and their
teammates are determined to build
a dynasty together — and they
might just be well on their way.
LeBron James believes so.
Two titles in three years for
Golden State. A fabulous first one
with and for Durant.
“We’re obviously just getting
started,” Curry said after closing
out Cleveland in Monday night’s
NBA Finals Game 5. “This is
something that we want to con-
tinue to do, but for us to have these
conversations that we had almost
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Golden State Warriors guard
Stephen Curry, center, holds
his daughter Riley as they cel-
ebrate with forward Kevin Du-
rant, left, after Game 5 of bas-
ketball’s NBA Finals against
the Cleveland Cavaliers in Oak-
land, Calif., Monday.
a year ago and now being in this
position, worth every shot we took
in practice, fighting through inju-
ries that he had this year, and it’s an
unbelievable feeling.”
The second NBA championship
feels drastically different for Curry,
because this one was a come-
back from a heartbreaking missed
opportunity last year against James
and the Cavaliers when the War-
riors knew they should have won it
all but squandered a 3-1 lead.
As a raucous crowd cheered
at Oracle Arena, Curry watched
freshly crowned Finals MVP
Durant capturing his first ring in his
10th NBA season.
“It’s different just because of
what happened last year to be hon-
est,” Curry said. “We went through,
for lack of a better term, basketball
hell in that sense of just being so
close to getting the job done and
not realizing that goal and having
to think about that for an entire year
and compartmentalize and just try
to keep the right perspective about
this season and learn the lessons
that we learned.”
Coach Steve Kerr cried. Golden
State general manager Bob Myers
also was moved to tears given
Kerr’s courageous Finals come-
back from an 11-game absence
while dealing with complications
from back surgery following the
2015 title run.
Kerr still found time to crack a
joke on the stage afterward: “Well,
we had very little talent, actually, it
was mostly coaching.”
of schedule
in recovery
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — Earl Thomas
actually considered leaving football
immediately after breaking his left leg
in a collision with a teammate last year,
an injury that ended his 2016 season. He
even said as much on social media.
Looking back on it now some
six months later, the Seattle Seahawks’
star free safety believes it was simply
the shock of suffering such a major
injury.
“I think it was definitely the shock of
the moment. Especially when I felt like
that was one of my best seasons I was hav-
ing in my career,” Thomas said as Seattle
started its mandatory minicamp Tuesday.
“And I had the pick in my hand. Right
then it’s gone. This is my foundation, my
legs. And for my legs to be broken, I never
went through anything like that.”
Thomas is well ahead of where the
Seahawks projected him to be in his
recovery from the injury suffered last
December in a blowout victory over
Carolina.