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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
GOLF: Oosthuizen second in second straight major
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Staff photo by Sam Barbee
Two players fight for position during a game on Main
Street on Saturday.
BBALL: Tourney brought
182 teams to Hermiston
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Also taking home a crown
was Hermiston resident
Justin Paola in the 3-point
shootout. He won last year,
and, as repeat champion, got
to shoot last this time around.
He had to sink seven
shots from behind the line
in one minute, and he did it
with ease, sinking the eighth
bucket with time to spare.
Paola, who played basketball
in college at Eastern Wash-
ington University, said it’s
always nice to win.
“I put a lot of time in
when I was younger,” he
said. “Getting older, it’s
tough. I like to play...I want
to keep doing it while I still
can — before I break a hip or
something.”
Pierson and Paola just
highlighted a weekend
packed with basketball.
The ¿eld consisted of of
182 teams divided across
23 divisions. The results of
all divisions had not been
received by press time, so
they will be published in
Wednesday's paper.
Staff photo by Sam Barbee
On Saturday at the 10th annual Takin’ It to the Streets
three-on-three basketball tournament, a player tries to
snake his way through the defense.
MARINERS: Tigers
took a 1-0 lead
in the ¿rst
double put the Tigers back
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picked up his ¿rst decision in
60 outings, pitching a score-
less eighth inning. Joakim
Soria got the last three outs
for his 21st save.
Kinsler’s late homer got
Alfredo Simon off the hook.
Simon gave up four runs, six
hits and four walks in 5 2/3
innings. He has allowed at
least four runs in an AL-high
six straight starts, posting a
10.25 ERA while averaging
under ¿ve innings per outing.
Slumping Mike Zunino
had two hits and three R%Is
for Seattle.
The Tigers took a 1-0
lead in the ¿rst on Kinsler’s
high Àyball to left that rode a
strong breeze into the Detroit
bullpen.
Seattle loaded the bases in
the second on Seth Smith’s
double, a walk and Logan
Morrison’s in¿eld single that
hit Simon on the right hip.
Zunino then doubled off
the 20-foot sign in center
¿eld, with the ball just eluding
Rajai Davis’s leap. Two runs
scored, but Morrison only
made it to third and Simon
got out of the jam without
further damage.
James McCann’s two-run
in front in the bottom of the
second, but Robinson Cano’s
solo homer made it 3-3 in the
¿fth.
Zunino, who entered the
game hitting .111 with two
R%Is in July, put Seattle
ahead in the sixth with an
single that drove home
former Tiger Austin Jackson.
Mariners training room:
LHP Charlie Furbush (biceps
strain) threw long toss
Monday afternoon, including
some throws from 60 feet on
Àat ground. If Furbush does
not experience discomfort, he
could throw a bullpen session
as soon as Wednesday.
Tigers:
DH
Victor
Martinez took grounders
at shortstop during batting
practice Monday, but isn’t
planning to move to the
middle in¿eld. Martinez, who
has not played in the ¿eld this
year because of knee prob-
lems, is hoping to be able to
spell Miguel Cabrera at ¿rst
base when Cabrera returns
from a calf injury.
UP NEXT: The teams
play the second of a four-
game series Tuesday night,
with Seattle’s Taijuan Walker
(7-7, .8) facing Detroit’s
Shane Greene (-7, 6.32).
PENDLETON
Diamondjaxx win
3 of 4 games over
weekend
The Pendleton Pepsi
Diamondjaxx won three
of four games during a
busy weekend of hosting
doubleheaders.
On Saturday, the team
started off with a -1 win
over Sandy by overcoming
an early de¿cit.
The second game
provided their only setback.
They committed an
uncharacteristic seven errors
while losing 15- to La
Grande.
On Sunday, the team
hosted another doubleheader
and swept both games in
convincing fashion.
The Diamondjaxx started
the day with a 10-0 blanking
of Milton-Freewater, holding
the visitors to no runs and
three hits over six innings.
In the second game,
the Diamondjaxx
beat Hermiston 18-8.
Diamondjaxx combined for
12 hits and knocked in nine
runs in the bottom of the
¿fth inning to ten run rule
Hermiston.
The Diamondjaxx
¿nished the busy weekend
3-1.
and rolled to the edge of
the Valley of Sin short of
the green, and his birdie
attempt up the slope stayed
inches left of the cup.
“We gave it a great
effort,” Spieth said.
He
joined
Arnold
Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and
Tiger Woods — the three
biggest names in golf over
the last half-century — as
the only players to capture
the Masters and U.S. Open,
only to come up short in a
quest for the holy grail in
golf — all four professional
majors in the same year.
Johnson won the Masters
in 2007 and described
himself as just a normal guy
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Not anymore.
The 39-year-old Johnson
now has two majors among
his 12 PGA Tour victories,
an astounding record and an
example that a good wedge
game and putter can still
go a long way in this era
of the long ball. Johnson
was in tears when he was
interviewed off the green,
and he cradled the jug after
his acceptance speech.
“I’m
grateful.
I’m
humbled. I’m honored,”
Johnson said. “This is the
birthplace of the game, and
that jug means so much in
sports.”
On a tense afternoon of
shadows and showers on
the Old Course, Johnson
closed with a 6-under 66 by
holing a 30-foot birdie putt
on the 18th hole in regu-
lation, and caddie Damon
Green strutted and Àapped
his arms in his celebratory
chicken dance.
Johnson was the ¿rst to
post at 15-under 273 with
his 30-foot birdie putt.
Leishman, who consid-
ered giving up golf in April
when his wife nearly died
of a rare respiratory illness,
made one bad swing in the
closing holes that cost him
a bogey on the 16th hole to
fall into a share of the lead
with Johnson. He had a
birdie putt for the win that
stayed wide left.
After Spieth had to settle
for par and a 69 to tie for
fourth, Oosthuizen made
a 10-foot par putt on the
Road Hole at No. 17 to stay
one shot behind, and he
delivered a clutch moment
of his own with a wedge to
5 feet for birdie and a 69 to
join the playoff.
It was the ¿rst %ritish
Open playoff since Stewart
Cink beat Tom Watson at
Turnberry in 2009, and the
¿rst involving more than
two players since 2002 at
Muir¿eld, the year Woods
failed in his bid for the third
leg of the slam.
Spieth showed guts over
the ¿nal two hours, and class
when his bid was over. He
walked off the 18th green
applauding the fans and
giving them a thumbs-up,
stayed to watch the closing
hole in the playoff and came
back onto the course to hug
Johnson.
Just two weeks ago, he
went to Iowa to take part in
a charity event for Johnson
before playing — and
winning — the John Deere
Classic in a playoff for his
fourth win of the year. He
was questioned for not
coming over to St. Andrews
to prepare for a rare occa-
sions of attempting the
Grand Slam, though Spieth
put that notion to rest with
a performance that kept him
around the lead all week.
It was the ¿rst %ritish
Open to end on Monday
since 1988 because of a
brief rain delay Friday
morning and 10½-hour
wind delay on Saturday.
%ut what a show. With 1
players separated by three
shots — half of them major
champions — no one seized
control the entire day.
Eight players had at least
a share of the lead at one
point. Most of them fell
away.
Padraig
Harrington
drove into a gorse bush
on No. 6 and made double
bogey. Adam Scott was tied
for the lead until he found a
pot bunker behind the 1th
green for bogey, missed an
18-inch par putt on the next
hole and hit onto the road
and out-of-bounds on the
18th. He played last the ¿ve
holes in 5-over par.
Sergio Garcia couldn’t
keep up with his putter. Paul
Dunne, the 21-year-old
Irishman bidding to become
the ¿rst amateur since
%obby Jones in 1930 to
win the claret jug, started
bogey-bogey and closed
with a 78.
Oosthuizen
was
a
runner-up for the second
straight major. He was one
shot behind Spieth in the
U.S. Open at Chambers
%ay.
Spieth now goes to the
PGA Championship with
a tiny piece of history left
to chase. No one has ever
swept the three American
majors in the same year. And
he can only hope he gets
this chance again. Palmer,
Nicklaus and Woods never
again won the Masters and
U.S. Open in the same year.
Women’s baseball debuts at Pan-Am Games
TORONTO (AP) — Women’s
baseball made history Monday at the
Pan Am Games, the ¿rst time it’s been
played in a large, multi-sport event.
There was no live television
coverage at the debut, and perhaps
only 200 fans saw the ¿rst pitch as
American left hander Sarah Hudek
threw a ball just off the plate to open
the game against leadoff hitter Astrid
Rodriguez of Venezuela.
“To be here, this is awesome. This
is it,” said American player Malaika
Underwood. “It doesn’t matter that
we’re not on TV. I mean the fact we
are out here is the point. When we look
back at this, I think we’ll appreciate
the magnitude.”
For the record, the United States
defeated Venezuela 10-6 in a regula-
tion seven innings.
Pardon a joke the women have
heard many times, but none of the
players threw like a girl, and none
wore a skirt, which was the uniform
in the 1992 ¿lm “A League of their
own,” a depiction of women’s profes-
sional baseball in the United States in
the 190s starring Tom Hanks, Geena
Davis and Madonna.
“I’m glad we don’t wear skirts,”
said Underwood a 3-year-old
in¿elder and a veteran on a team
ranging in age from 16 to 1. “I’m not
sure I would feel comfortable playing
in a skirt. Sliding, it would be tough.”
The ¿eld and the distances are iden-
tical in the men’s and women’s games.
The only difference is seven innings
for the women, and nine for the men.
The ¿rst three innings took more
than an hour to play, so the speed also
resembled some men’s games.
Hudek said her father, former
major-league reliever John Hudek,
probably couldn’t hit her heat.
“He wasn’t the best hitter,” she
said.
In the second inning, Venezuela
nearly pulled off a triple play.
The United States had runners on
¿rst and second, and American Anna
Kimbrell hit a sharp hopper to third.
Venezuela’s Daily Gimenez touched
third, got the force and second, but
Kimbrell beat the relay to ¿rst by a
step.
The Americans are represented by
a ¿re¿ghter, a nurse, two high-school
AP Photo/Mark Humphrey
Pitcher Sarah Hudek, of the United States, throws during a women’s
baseball game against Venezuela at the Pan Am Games Monday in Ajax,
Ontario. Women’s baseball made history on Monday at the Pan Am
Games, the first time it has been played in a large, multi-sport event.
“I’m glad we don’t
wear skirts.”
— Malaika Underwood,
USA women’s baseball infielder
students and a wide mix of players,
most of whom grew up playing base-
ball. Some also played softball, but
Underwood guessed about two-thirds
played only baseball — on women’s
teams, or men’s teams.
The United States has no profes-
sional league for women, although
Japan and several other countries do.
“I just want to get women’s baseball
more out there and open the doors for
younger women knowing they don’t
have to convert to softball if they don’t
want to,” Hudek, adding the response
is always the same when she says she
plays baseball.
“They try to correct me. They say:
‘Oh, you mean softball’.”
She replies: “No, baseball. I hope
one day we can get to where people
don’t correct us.”
Hudek will be a freshman this year
on the men’s team at %ossier Parish
Community College in Louisiana.
“This is going to be a new atmo-
sphere and it’s de¿nitely a little nerve-
wracking,” she said. “I’m just going to
have to earn their respect.”
Underwood grew up in San Diego,
California, played baseball on the
boys’ team at La Jolla High School
and earned a volleyball scholarship
to the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. %aseball was not an
option.
“Growing up a kid I de¿nitely
dreamed about being the ¿rst woman
in the pro leagues,” Underwood said.
“I think at some point I realized that
was unlikely.”
Women’s baseball has been in
the news the last few weeks. French
player Melissa Mayeux, a 16-year-old
shortstop, recently became the ¿rst
woman on Major League %aseball’s
international registration list, making
her eligible to be signed by pro teams.
Men’s baseball and women’s
softball were cut from the Olympics
after the 2008 Games in %eijing. %oth
might return for the 2020 Olympics
in Tokyo, although women’s baseball
would be a long shot.
“I don’t think anybody on this team
has aspirations to make it to Major
League %aseball,” said Underwood,
who works in sports marketing.
“Really, we just want to play at the
highest level for women. We’re not
looking to play with guys, but those
are the opportunities at the moment.
We’re just looking for equal treatment
and inclusion in events like this.”
SCOREBOARD
Baseball
American League
East Division
W
L Pct GB
New York
50 41 .549 —
Baltimore
46 45 .505
4
Toronto
47 47 .500 4½
Tampa Bay
47 48 .495
5
Boston
42 51 .452
9
Central Division W
L Pct GB
Kansas City
55 36 .604 —
Minnesota
50 42 .543 5½
Detroit
46 46 .500 9½
Cleveland
44 47 .484 11
Chicago
42 48 .467 12½
West Division
W
L Pct GB
Los Angeles
52 40 .565 —
Houston
51 43 .543
2
Texas
43 49 .467
9
Oakland
43 51 .457 10
Seattle
42 51 .452 10½
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Sunday’s Games
N.Y. Yankees 2, Seattle 1
Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 0
Baltimore 9, Detroit 3
Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 3, 11 innings
Kansas City 4, Chicago White Sox 1
Houston 10, Texas 0
Oakland 14, Minnesota 1
Boston at Los Angeles, ppd., rain
Monday’s Games
L.A. Angels 11, Boston 1, 1st game
Philadelphia 5, Tampa Bay 3
Detroit 5, Seattle 4
Pittsburgh 10, Kansas City 7
Colorado 8, Texas 7
L.A. Angels 7, Boston 3, 2nd game
Tuesday’s Games
Baltimore (W.Chen 4-5) at N.Y. Yankees
(Eovaldi 9-2), 4:05 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Karns 4-5) at Philadelphia
(Nola 0-0), 4:05 p.m.
Seattle (T.Walker 7-7) at Detroit (Greene
4-7), 4:08 p.m.
Boston (B.Johnson 0-0) at Houston
(Velasquez 0-1), 5:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Salazar 8-4) at Milwaukee
(Garza 4-10), 5:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (G.Cole 13-3) at Kansas City
(J.Vargas 5-2), 5:10 p.m.
St. Louis (Wacha 10-3) at Chicago White
Sox (Rodon 3-2), 5:10 p.m.
Texas (M.Harrison 0-1) at Colorado
(K.Kendrick 3-10), 5:40 p.m.
Minnesota (Gibson 8-6) at L.A. Angels
(Shoemaker 4-7), 7:05 p.m.
Toronto (Buehrle 10-5) at Oakland
(Graveman 6-5), 7:05 p.m.
National League
East Division
W
L Pct GB
Washington
50 41 .549 —
New York
48 45 .516
3
Atlanta
44 49 .473
7
Miami
38 55 .409 13
Philadelphia
33 62 .347 19
Central Division W
L Pct GB
St. Louis
58 34 .630 —
Pittsburgh
54 38 .587
4
Chicago
49 42 .538 8½
Cincinnati
41 49 .456 16
Milwaukee
41 52 .441 17½
West Division
W
L Pct GB
Los Angeles
53 41 .564 —
San Francisco
49 43 .533
3
Arizona
43 48 .473 8½
San Diego
43 49 .467
9
Colorado
40 51 .440 11½
———
Sunday’s Games
Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 3, 11 innings
L.A. Dodgers 5, Washington 0
Philadelphia 8, Miami 7
Milwaukee 6, Pittsburgh 1
N.Y. Mets 3, St. Louis 1, 18 innings
San Francisco 2, Arizona 1
Colorado at San Diego, ppd., rain
Chicago Cubs 4, Atlanta 1
Monday’s Games
Washington 7, N.Y. Mets 2
Philadelphia 5, Tampa Bay 3
Cincinnati 5, Chicago Cubs 4
Atlanta 7, L.A. Dodgers 5
Pittsburgh 10, Kansas City 7
Colorado 8, Texas 7
Arizona 3, Miami 1
San Francisco at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
N.Y. Mets (deGrom 9-6) at Washington
(J.Ross 2-1), 4:05 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Karns 4-5) at Philadelphia
(Nola 0-0), 4:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Hammel 5-4) at Cincinna-
ti (R.Iglesias 1-2), 4:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 5-5) at Atlanta
(A.Wood 6-6), 4:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Salazar 8-4) at Milwaukee
(Garza 4-10), 5:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (G.Cole 13-3) at Kansas City
(J.Vargas 5-2), 5:10 p.m.
St. Louis (Wacha 10-3) at Chicago White
Sox (Rodon 3-2), 5:10 p.m.
Texas (M.Harrison 0-1) at Colorado
(K.Kendrick 3-10), 5:40 p.m.
Miami (Latos 3-6) at Arizona (Hellickson
6-5), 6:40 p.m.
San Francisco (Heston 9-5) at San Diego
(Despaigne 3-6), 7:10 p.m.
Soccer
Major League Soccer
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L
T Pts GF GA
D.C. United 10 7
5 35 24 20
Columbus
8 7
6 30 31 30
New York
8 6
5 29 29 23
Toronto FC 8 7
3 27 28 28
New England 7 9
6 27 27 33
Orlando City 6 8
6 24 23 26
Philadelphia 6 11
4 22 26 34
Montreal
6 8
3 21 24 27
NYC FC
5 9
6 21 24 28
Chicago
5 11
3 18 20 28
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L
T Pts GF GA
FC Dallas
10 5
5 35 28 24
Los Angeles 9 6
7 34 36 25
Vancouver 10 8
3 33 24 21
Sporting KC 9 3
6 33 28 18
Seattle
10 9
2 32 25 20
Portland
9 7
5 32 23 24
Real Salt Lake 6 7
8 26 21 26
San Jose
7 8
4 25 21 24
Houston
6 8
6 24 24 26
Colorado
5 6
9 24 18 19
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point
for tie.
———
Wednesday’s Games
Columbus 1, Chicago 0
Friday’s Games
Los Angeles 5, San Jose 2
Saturday’s Games
Toronto FC 2, Philadelphia 1
New England 1, New York City FC 0
New York 2, Orlando City 0
Sporting Kansas City 2, Montreal 1
FC Dallas 2, D.C. United 1
Real Salt Lake 2, Houston 0
Colorado 1, Seattle 0
Portland 1, Vancouver 1, tie
Sunday’s Games
Columbus 3, Chicago 1
Friday, July 24
Kansas City at Real Salt Lake, 8 p.m.
Saturday, July 25
Toronto FC at Columbus, 4:30 p.m.
Seattle at Montreal, 5 p.m.
New England at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Houston, 6 p.m.
Portland at FC Dallas, 6 p.m.
Sunday, July 26
Orlando City at NYC FC, 11:30 a.m.
Philadelphia at D.C. United, 2 p.m.
San Jose at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Transactions
BASEBALL
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Reinstated
RHP Kris Medlen from the 60-day DL. Op-
tioned RHP Yohan Pino to Omaha (PCL).
SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled LHP
J.A. Happ from Bakersfield (Cal). Optioned
1b-DH Jesus Montero to Tacoma (PCL).
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Activat-
ed RHP Tim Hudson from the 15-day
DL. Designated RHP Jean Machi for
assignment.
BASKETBALL
DENVER NUGGETS — Traded G Ty
Lawson and a 2017 second-round draft
pick to Houston for a protected 2016 first-
round draft pick, G Nick Johnson, F Kostas
Papanikolaou, G Pablo Prigioni and F-C
Joey Dorsey and cash considerations.
DETROIT PISTONS — Re-signed C Joel
Anthony and G Reggie Jackson to a multi-
year contract. Signed G Darrun Hilliard.
NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Re-
signed F Luke Babbitt.
SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Re-signed G
Manu Ginobili.