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FRIDAY, -ULY 24, 25 Sports shorts Greinke’s shutout streak on hold for ELUWKRI¿UVWFKLOG NEW YORK (AP) — Zack Greinke’s shutout streak is on hold while the Los Angeles Dodgers ace and his wife await the birth of their ¿ rst child Greinke pitched 43 FACES has 2-3 scoreless innings, and was set to start Friday night against the New York Mets at Citi Greinke Field +e is approaching the big league record of 59 straight scoreless innings by Orel +ershiser in 9 for the Dodgers Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said before Thursday night’s game against the Mets that Greinke had returned to Los Angeles early in the morning to Moin wife Emily Mattingly received a call in his hotel room at 5 am from Greinke, who caught a À ight a couple of hours later “To get back to pitch tomorrow would be, I’d say unrealistic, but we do feel like there’s a good chance he’d pitch this weekend,” Mattingly said After Kazmir gets traded, A’s lose to Blue Jays 5-2 OAKLAND, Calif (AP) — The veterans on the Oakland Athletics — the few who have been on the team long enough to understand, anyway — have grown accustomed to watching teammates get traded away une[pectedly It still never gets any easier when it happens +ours after scheduled starter Scott Kazmir was traded to +ouston for two minor league prospects on Thursday, the A’s lost 5-2 to the Toronto %lue -ays The news of Kazmir’s trade caught players by surprise They spent the morning saying goodbye to Kazmir as he packed his belongings in the clubhouse, and they looked equally bafÀ ed by knuckleballer RA Dickey’s tricky tosses “All the talks and speculation of him going is something you can kind of try to prepare for, but once it actually happens it is tough to see somebody like that go,” right ¿ elder -osh Reddick said Drew Pomeranz started in Kazmir’s place but didn’t last long Pomeranz gave up two runs in 2-3 innings, and the bullpen also strug- gled to contain Toronto’s potent hitters “When you’re here in Oakland, you understand that moves are made, whether it’s offseason or in- season.” SPORTS 9/10 Little League Softball All-Stars <RXQJ%XFNVRQHZLQIURPWLWOH East Oregonian The Pendleton 9-year-old softball team extended its season Thursday with a narrow 3- win over BeaumontParkside in the ¿ rst of two possible state championship games in Gresham The Bucks, who rallied from a loss earlier in the tournament to advance through the loser’s bracket to the championship series, had to beat an undefeated Beaumont/ Parkside Thursday to set up a de facto championship game on Friday Pendleton used a three-run fourth inning to claw past Beaumont/ Parkside despite tallying just three hits and committing three errors But Sauren Gadsten was again stellar in the circle She tossed her second complete game in as many attempts, allowing just ¿ ve hits, an unearned run and whiffed batters while walking just two Beaumont/Parkside got its only run in the bottom of the ¿ rst, when an error and a single put them on the board Pendleton was held scoreless until the fourth when the Bucks scored three times with just two hits Jaden Samp started things with a walk, then Ellie Samford reached on a bunt single to push Samp to second, and a throwing error gave Samp time to come around and tie things at one run apiece After an out, Muriel +oisington also reached on a bunt single, scoring Samford to By JOHNA CRAVENS for Cheyenne Frontier Days AP Photo/Duane Burleson Seattle Mariners’ Mike Zunino hits a line drive to left fi eld to drive in Chris Taylor and break a 2-2 tie with the Detroit Tigers during the 12th inning of a baseball game Thursday in Detroit. Zunino gets big hit in extras DETROIT (AP) — Seattle catcher Mike Zunino wasn’t expecting to play in a day game after being in the lineup a night earlier It didn’t quite work out that way Zunino had an RBI double in the top of the 2th inning after entering the game in the th, lifting the Mariners to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday “That wasn’t exactly what I had planned for the day, but I’m always happy to contribute to a victory,” said Zunino, who threw out speedy Detroit baserunner Anthony Gose on a potential wild pitch in the th after Jesus Sucre left for a pinch-hitter “Especially a great win like this one” C h r i s Taylor started Mariners the 2th with a single off Ian Krol (-3), and Zunino tried to bunt him to Tigers second After two failed attempts, Z u n i n o doubled down the left-¿ eld line Yoenis Cespedes misread the bounce off the fence, allowing Taylor to score the go-ahead run “I was really frustrated when I didn’t get the bunt down, so I was Baseball 3 2 just looking for a pitch I could put into play,” said Zunino, who is hitting just 9 “I wanted to make something happen after these guys fought for so long” Tom Wilhelmsen pitched the bottom of the 2th for his ¿ rst save of the season after Fernando Rodney (3-4) threw a scoreless th Neither starter was involved in the decision David Price, the subject of trade rumors with Detroit (4-4) struggling to get above 5, allowed two runs in eight- plus innings The star left-hander got standing ovations from the crowd of 4,225 at the end of the eighth See MARINERS/2B Senior American Legion baseball 'LDPRQG-D[[VZHHS/D*UDQGH Cockburn throws shutout, Jaxx bats come alive East Oregonian Quinn Cockburn tossed a two-hitter, his offense piled on 4 hits and runs and Pendleton took the ¿ rst two games of a district/area championship series Thursday over La Grande The Diamond Jaxx head to Grants Pass next week for its state tournament In the day’s ¿ rst game, Pendleton scored three runs in the top of the sixth to clinch the win behind Cockburn’s dominant performance La Grande got its two hits in the ¿ rst two innings, but Cockburn settled down for the next ¿ ve +e ¿ nished with seven strikeouts and two walks in the shutout Meanwhile, Pendleton was struggling to score runs behind him The DiamondJaxx got a couple aboard in the top of the ¿ rst, but a double play and a ground out alleviated the threat That was until the top half of the sixth Witt Morris led off with a single, and Jack Peterson, trying to bunt Morris to second, reached safely on an error Cockburn then singled on a bunt to load the bases for Devon Roe, who lashed a double to left to plate Morris and Peterson and sent Cockburn to third Kai Quinn then grounded out sharply to short stop, scoring Cockburn and giving Pendleton all the runs it would need From there, Cockburn allowed just two base runners in the 3- win Following the narrow pitch- ing-and-defense win, Pendleton’s bats heated up The DiamondJaxx, offsetting a six-run La Grande See JAXX/2B C+EYENNE, Wyo — +eppner cowboy Blake Knowles could secure his third trip to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo after taking the overall lead in steer wrestling at the sixth perfor- mance of the 9th Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo Knowles, who’s currently ranked ninth in the world standings, had a total time of 23 seconds on Knowles two steers after stopping the clock in seconds on Thursday +e is placing ¿ fth in the ¿ rst round with a 9 +e is out of the money in the second round, but still stands to win a pile of money +is consistency should put him in good position in Sunday’s ¿ nal championship round The ranch-raised cowboy still works on +ealy Ranch near +eppner when he’s not traveling across the country with his cousin Trevor Knowles competing in rodeos Trevor is currently seventh overall at Cheyenne and th in the world championship standings Neither cowboy has won a cham- pionship at Cheyenne Blake’s father Butch Knowles, the 9 NFR Champion in saddle bronc riding and a four-time quali¿ er in that event hasn’t won a Cheyenne champion- ship either Blake could be the ¿ rst in his accomplished rodeo family to win a prestigious Cheyenne Frontier Days buckle Wyoming cowboy Seth +ardwick took the lead in the second round of bareback riding with a score of 4 points on Pickett Pro Rodeo’s Bar Code That gave him a total of 3 points and tied him for the overall lead with Minnesota’s Tanner Aus +ardwick, who lives in Laramie, could be the ¿ rst Wyoming cowboy in a decade to win the Cheyenne Frontier Days bareback champion- ship +ardwick came close to qual- ifying for his ¿ rst NFR last year, ¿ nishing in the top 25 +e’s built on that success and is currently ranked seventh in the world standings and, See KNOWLES/2B Gordon honored at boyhood home before ¿ nal Brickyard 4 By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer THIS DATE IN SPORTS Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com take the 2- lead The Bucks added their ¿ nal run when Charlie Mae Franklin reached on an error, plating +oisington +oisington ¿ nished 2 for 2 with Pendleton’s lone RBI “I’m just really poured of the way the girls have been playing,” head coach Justin Samp said “They’ve been playing their hearts out They’ve been playing excellent” Pendleton plays Beaumont/Parkside again Friday for the 9/-year-old state championship in Gresham .QRZOHV nears NFR ORFNLQ Cheyenne — Bob Melvin A’s manager on trading Scott Kazmir 9 — -ohn +ayes wins the Olympic marathon in a record of 2 hours, 55 minutes, 4 seconds Italian Dorando Pietri is the ¿ rst runner to enter the stadium but collapses several times before being disquali- ¿ ed when of¿ cials help him across the line 9 — -ohn Naber of the United States becomes the ¿ rst swimmer to break the 2-minute barrier in the 2-meter backstroke at the Olympics in Montreal 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS AP Photo/Michael Conroy NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon waves to fans along the parade route in Pitts- boro, Ind., Thursday. Pittsboro had a parade for Gordon as part of his fare- well tour. Gordon will drive in Sunday’s Brickyard 400. PITTS%ORO, Ind — -eff Gordon felt right at home Thursday back in small-town Indiana +is parents, some of his longtime friends and even some of his former high school teachers were among hundreds of people lining the streets in Pittsboro to celebrate Gordon as he wraps up his ¿ nal full- time season in NASCAR It was a ¿ tting place for the biggest stop yet on his farewell tour +ere, a short drive from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Gordon honed his racing skills before he was old enough to obtain a driver’s license +ere, he learned the importance of balancing weekend races with daily life And now, three days before driving in his ¿ nal %rickyard 4, Gordon came back to a community full of tall corn stalks, endless farming ¿ elds and dozens of mementoes bearing his well-known No 24 to thank his biggest fans “This is very cool,” Gordon said after participating in the short parade and brief awards ceremony “Pittsboro is obvi- ously very memorable to me because we lived here, raced out of here Several years ago, they named Jeff Gordon Boule- vard, so there have always been great e[periences here But to come here and have it be my last Brickyard 4, it’s pretty overwhelming It’s putting a big smile on my face for the weekend” The only thing that would See BRICKYARD/2B
