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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Rodeo
Star calf
ropers
accused
of rigging
rodeo
Thursday, August 11, 2016
More from the FCPR
Cooper, Moore
named in lawsuit
over $1 million
bonus prize
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)
— A rodeo promoter is suing
two star calf ropers, accusing
them of rigging an event in
Arlington, Texas, last year so
that they could get a cut of a
possible $1 million prize.
RFD-TV Events made the
allegations in a lawsuit Tuesday
against three-time world cham-
pion calf roper Tuf Cooper and
the world’s
current
top-ranked
r o p e r ,
Timber
Moore.
The alleged
scheme
centered
on a bonus
reward for
Cooper
those who
qualified
for
the
event rather
than being
invited, the
Fort Worth
Star-Tele-
g r a m
reported.
Qualifiers
could earn
Moore
up to $1
million
from a “side pot” for winning
any of seven competitions at
The American Rodeo on March
1, 2015.
Cooper and Moore agreed
to throw a competition to
improve a qualiier’s chances.
The qualiier won the event,
with Cooper inishing second
and Moore third, and all three
were to split the winning check
of $517,000 — $100,000
for the irst-place inish and
$417,000 from the “side pot,”
the lawsuit alleged.
However, rodeo organizers
soon learned of the scheme and
stopped payment on the check,
the lawsuit said. RFD-TV Events
now wants to recover other prize
money earned by Cooper and
Moore up to $100,000.
A telephone message left by
The Associated Press for Cooper
at Elite Rodeo Athletes, of
which he is a member, was not
returned Wednesday. A message
left by the AP on Moore’s cell-
phone also was not returned.
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Information from: Fort
Worth Star-Telegram, http://
www.star-telegram.com
GRAHAM:
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something for it. Every day
you wake up and until you go
to bed you’re doing some type
of rehab. It’s been like that for
me for eight months and it will
continue to be like that for me
for the next eight months. It’s
something I’m always going to
have to pay attention to.”
Graham’s injury happened
as he attempted to pull in a pass
in the end zone during Seattle’s
victory over the Steelers. He
already had four catches in the
game against the Steelers before
going down. He inished the
season with 48 receptions and
two touchdowns.
“The pain was pretty terrible.
That’s for sure,” Graham said.
“And when you look down at
your knee and don’t see your
kneecap you know something is
wrong.”
Now, the lingering question
is whether he still has the speed
and agility that made him such
a dificult matchup prior to the
injury. A number of players
have been unable to return to
form after a patellar tendon tear.
New York Giants wide receiver
Victor Cruz, who had the same
injury, told Graham not to rush
his return.
“I don’t think about how other
guys have been or what it’s done
to other guys,” Graham said. “I
think I’m a little different. I’m
still fast, which is real good.”
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Taz Olson of Prairie City, S.D., turns his steer in 4.5
seconds in steer wrestling Wednesday at the Farm-City Pro Rodeo in Hermiston.
Clint Robinson of Spanish Folk, Utah, chases down his calf for a time of 9.8 sec-
onds in tie down roping.
Ryan Bothum of Caddo, Okla., turns his steer in 5.1 seconds in steer wrestling.
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margins: 5.55 seconds.
As for the tears, well, “that’s a
great question from a 5-year-old,”
Armstrong said with her now-fa-
miliar grin. “That’s what we do, we
cry when we’re happy.
“I’m going to have to explain
that one to him a little later.”
Zabelinskaya earned silver
just days after she was cleared to
compete by the Court of Arbitra-
tion, while Dutch rider Anna van
der Breggen added bronze to her
gold from the road race.
Dutch rider Ellen van Dijk slid
off the wet road along the southern
coast of Rio de Janeiro and inished
fourth, the miscue likely costing her
a medal. Road race bronze medalist
Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy was
ifth and world champion Linda
Villumsen of New Zealand sixth.
“It was very hard today. The
roads on the downhills were very
slick,” Villumsen said. “I didn’t
want to take chances and that cost
me some time. The race didn’t go
the way I wanted.”
It went perfectly for Armstrong
who, one day shy of her 43rd
Cyclist
Kristin
Armstrong
holds her
gold medal
during the
podium
ceremony
of the wom-
en’s indi-
vidual time
trial event
on Wedens-
day.
AP Photo/Patrick
Semansky
birthday,
joined
speedskater
Bonnie Blair as the only American
women to win three gold medals in
the same event at any Olympics.
Also on Wednesday, the U.S.
men’s basketball team got its irst
good test in fending off Australia
98-88 behind Carmelo Anthony’s
31 points. Anthony hit a lurry of
3s after the Americans, who barely
broke a sweat in their irst two
games, trailed early in the fourth
quarter.
With a dazzling 15.8 on the high
bar, Kohei Uchimura, the superstar
gymnast from Japan, won the men’s
all-around title on Wednesday
night, edging Oleg Verniaiev of
Ukraine by less than a tenth of the
point to capture his second straight
Olympic gold.
Defending champion Mexico
was eliminated from the men’s
soccer tournament with a 1-0 loss
to South Korea. In boxing, Kansas
ighter Nico Hernandez is guaran-
teed to win at least a bronze and
become the irst American to medal
in the Olympics since 2008.
Other highlights from Day 5 at
the Rio Games:
SWIMMING
SHOCKER:
Kazakhstan has its irst Olympic
swimming medal, and it’s golden.
Dmitriy Balandin pulled off a stun-
ning upset in the men’s 200-meter
breaststroke, winning from the
eighth lane to put his central Asian
country on the swimming medal
stand for the irst time. Yosuhiro
Koseki of Japan went out fast and
was more than a second under
world-record pace at the inal turn
but faded to ifth. Josh Prenot of the
United States claimed silver and
Anton Chupkov of Russia landed
the bronze.
EBNER
ELIMINATED:
Nate Ebner, the safety for the New
England Patriots who took a break
from training camp to fulill his
Olympic dream, sprinted from
almost halfway to score a try in
the right corner against Fiji to
make it 24-19, piling the pressure
on Madison Hughes. But the U.S.
captain and goal kicker missed the
conversion from out wide, leaving
the margin at ive. Less than that
and the Americans would have
advanced.
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Leonys Martin added an insur-
ance run on an RBI single later in
the eighth.
Arquimedes Caminero (1-0)
pitched the eighth and earned the
victory. Nick Vincent inished it for
his second save.
Robinson Cano tagged Verlander
for a homer on a 1-2 changeup in
the irst. The homer was Cano’s
25th.
Detroit tied it in the fourth
with the help of a review reversal.
Ian Kinsler opened with a walk,
then stole second, but only after a
3-minute, 8-second review reversed
a caught-stealing call.
Kinsler advanced to third on a
groundout, and then scored on J.D.
Martinez’s single through the left
side.
Hernandez was lifted after
throwing a season-high 117 pitches.
In 15 career starts against Detroit,
Hernandez is 9-3 with a 2.48 ERA.
Verlander also had a season high
with 121 pitches.
BULLPEN BACKUP: After
Tuesday’s 15-inning game in which
16 combined pitchers were used,
both the Tigers and Mariners added
to their bullpens. The Mariners
promoted RHP Jarrett Grube from
Triple-A Tacoma, and OF Guill-
ermo Heredia was optioned out
while SS Luis Sardinas was desig-
nated for assignment. The Tigers
called up RHP Warwick Saupold
from Triple-A Toledo, placing
OF Cameron Maybin (left thumb
sprain) on the 15-day disabled list.
CUPPING
‘DEFINITELY
WORKS’: Tigers reliever Alex
Wilson is amused by Olympic
swimmer Michael Phelps and
other athletes who have embraced
cupping, a treatment that involves
applying glass or plastic cups to
the area of discomfort and either
applying heat or suction to create a
vacuum.
“It’s pretty common (in base-
ball),” Wilson said. “I’d say at least
the last ive, six years. It deinitely
works.”
He picked it up in Boston three
years ago watching Koji Uehara
and Junichi Tazawa do it.
“I think every swimmer and
gymnast have cup marks on them
now,” he said. “It’s kind of fun to
watch.”
SCOREBOARD
Olympics
TV SCHEDULE
Today
NBC — Rowing - Semiinals and Gold
Medal Finals; Women’s Water Polo - U.S.
vs. China (LIVE); Swimming - Qualifying
Heats (LIVE); Women’s Beach Volleyball
- Fendrick/Sweat (U.S.) vs. TBA (Russia)
(LIVE); Men’s Beach Volleyball - Dalhauss-
er/Lucena (U.S.) vs. Nicolai/Lupo (Italy)
(LIVE); Canoe/Kayak - Whitewater Gold
Medal Finals, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Women’s
Gymnastics - Individual All-Around Gold
Medal Final; Swimming (LIVE): Men’s
50m Freestyle - Semiinals, Women’s
200m Breaststroke - Gold Medal Final,
Men’s 200m Backstroke - Gold Medal
Final, Women’s 200m Backstroke - Semi-
inals, Men’s 200m Individual Medley
- Gold Medal Final, Women’s 100m
Freestyle - Gold Medal Final, Men’s 100m
Butterly - Semiinals, 5-9 p.m. Women’s
Gymnastics - Individual All-Around Gold
Medal Final; Canoe/Kayak - Whitewater
Gold Medal Final, 9:35-10:35 p.m.
NBCSN — Women’s Archery - Indi-
viduals Eliminations; Beach Volleyball
- Preliminary Round (LIVE); Women’s
Fencing - Team Epee Quarterinals (LIVE);
Women’s Judo - 78kg Elimination Round;
Women’s Archery - Individual Gold Medal
Final (LIVE); Men’s Rugby - Semiinals
(LIVE); Women’s Archery - Individual Gold
Medal Final (LIVE); Women’s Judo - 78kg
Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Beach Volleyball
- Preliminary Round (LIVE); Men’s Rugby
- Bronze Medal and Gold Medal Final
(LIVE); Women’s Field Hockey - U.S. vs.
India (LIVE); Boxing - Elimination Match-
es; Men’s Table Tennis - Singles Gold
Medal Final (LIVE); Men’s Volleyball - U.S.
vs. Brazil (LIVE); Women’s Shooting - Ri-
le, Three Positions Finals, 5 a.m.-9 p.m.
USA — Women’s Water Polo - Italy vs.
Australia; Men’s Table Tennis - Singles
Semiinals; Badminton - Preliminary
Round; Men’s Basketball - Brazil vs.
Croatia (LIVE); Badminton - Preliminary
Round; Men’s Handball - Brazil vs. Ger-
many, 6 a.m.-2 p.m.
MSNBC — Beach Volleyball - Prelim-
inary Round (LIVE); Women’s Water
Polo - Spain vs. Hungary; Men’s Volleyball
- Poland vs. Argentina (LIVE); Equestrian
- Team Dressage Qualifying; Sailing, 9
a.m.-2 p.m.
CNBC — Women’s Fencing - Team Epee
Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Cycling - Track
Gold Medal Final, 2-5 p.m.
GOLF CHANNEL — Golf Central Live
From the Olympics, 2-3:30 a.m. & Noon-
2 p.m.; Men’s Golf - 1st Round (LIVE),
3:30 a.m.-Noon
BRAVO — Tennis (LIVE), 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
NBC BASKETBALL CHANNEL —
Men’s Basketball - Brazil vs. Croatia
(LIVE), Brazil vs. Croatia encore, Nigeria
vs. Spain (LIVE), Lithuania vs. Argentina
(LIVE); Women’s Basketball - Belarus vs.
Turkey (LIVE), France vs. Brazil, Japan vs.
Australia, 8:15 a.m.-8:15 p.m.
TELEMUNDO — News Recap; Beach
Volleyball - Preliminary Round; Boxing -
Elimination Matches; Basketball; Boxing
- Elimination Matches, 7:30 a.m.-Noon
NBC UNIVERSO — Boxing - Elimi-
nation Matches; Volleyball; Basketball,
Noon-5 p.m.
Wednesday’s scores & results
BASKETBALL
Men
France 76, Serbia 75
United States 98, Australia 88
Venezuela 72, China 68
Women
Spain 89, China 68
United States 110, Serbia 84
Canada 68, Senegal 58
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FIELD HOCKEY
Men
New Zealand 9, Brazil 0
Australia 2, Britain 1
Women
New Zealand 2, Spain 1
Australia 6, India 1
Germany 2, South Korea 0
Britain 3, Argentina 2
United States 6, Japan 1
Netherlands 1, China 0
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RUGBY
Men
France 26, Spain 5
Australia 12, South Africa 5
Japan 31, Kenya 7
Britain 21, New Zealand 19
Argentina 31, Brazil 0
Fiji 24, United States 19
Placing 9-12
United States 24, Brazil 12
Spain 14, Kenya 12
Quarterinals
Fiji 12, New Zealand 7
Britain 5, Argentina 0
Japan 12, France 7
South Africa 22, Australia 5
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SOCCER
Men
Portugal 1, Algeria 1
Honduras 1, Argentina 1
Germany 10, Fiji 0
South Korea 1, Mexico 0
Colombia 2, Nigeria 0
Japan 1, Sweden 0
Brazil 4, Denmark 0
South Africa 1, Iraq 1
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TEAM HANDBALL
Women
Spain 29, Brazil 24
Romania 25, Montenegro 21
Russia 36, Sweden 34
Norway 30, Angola 20
Netherlands 32, South Korea 32
France 27, Argentina 11
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VOLLEYBALL
Women
China 3, Puerto Rico 0 (25-20, 25-17,
25-18)
Netherlands 3, Italy 0 (25-21, 25-20,
25-20)
United States 3, Serbia 1 (25-17, 21-25,
25-18, 25-19)
Russia 3, Cameroon 0 (25-19, 25-22,
25-23)
South Korea 3, Argentina (25-18, 25-20,
25-23)
Brazil 3, Japan 0 (25-18, 25-18, 25-22)
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WATER POLO
Men
Australia 8, Japan 6
Hungary 8, Greece 8
United States 6, France 3
Italy 6, Montenegro 5
Brazil 6, Serbia 5
Spain 9, Croatia 4
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BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Men
Pool A
Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt,
Brazil, def. Adrian Ignacio Carambula
Raurich and Alex Ranghieri, Italy, 21-19,
21-16.
Clemens Horst and Alexander Doppler,
Austria, def. Josh Binstock and Samuel
Schachter, Canada, 21-19, 16-21, 15-8.
Pool B
Robert Meeuwsen and Alexander Brou-
wer, Netherlands, def. Bartosz Losiak and
Piotr Kantor, Poland, 21-19, 21-19.
Nikita Liamin and Dmitri Barsouk, Rus-
sia, def. Markus Bockermann and Lars
Fluggen, Germany, 21-14, 21-17.
Pool F
Adrian Gavira Collado and Pablo Her-
rera Allepuz, Spain, def. Jacob Gibb and
Casey Patterson, United States, 21-19,
16-21, 15-7.
Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif
Younousse Samba, Qatar, def. Alexander
Huber and Robin Seidl, Austria, 18-21,
21-19, 15-12.
Women
Pool B
Elsa Baquerizo McMillan and Liliana
Fernandez Steiner, Spain, def. Agatha
Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas de Freit-
as, Brazil, 21-17, 22-20.
Barbora Hermannova and Marketa
Slukova, Czech Republic, def. Ana Gallay
and Georgina Klug, Argentina, 13-21,
21-19, 15-8.
Pool C
Yuan Yue and Fan Wang, China, def.
Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Nicole
Laird, Australia, 21-16, 21-11.
April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings,
United States, def. Isabelle Forrer and
Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland, 21-13,
22-24, 15-12.
Pool F
Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy,
Australia, def. Madelein Meppelink and
Marleen van Iersel, Netherlands, 27-25,
18-21, 16-14.
Olaya Perez Pazo and Norisbeth Agudo,
Venezuela, def. Natalia Alfaro and Karen
Cope Charles, Costa Rica, 21-16, 21-19.
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CANOE-KAYAK
Men’s Kayak (K1)
Final
1. Joseph Clarke, Britain, 88.53.
2. Peter Kauzer, Slovenia, 88.70.
3. Jiri Prskavec, Czech Republic, 88.99.
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CYCLING
Men’s Individual Time Trial
1. Fabian Cancellara, Switzerland,
1:12:15.42.
2. Tom Dumoulin, Netherlands,
1:13:02.83.
3. Christopher Froome, Britain,
1:13:17.54.
Also
22. Taylor Phinney, United States,
1:17:25.31.
23. Brent Bookwalter, United States,
1:17:57.61.
Women’s Individual Time Trial
1. Kristin Armstrong, United States,
44:26.42.
2. Olga Zabelinskaya, Russia, 44:31.97.
3. Anna van der Breggen, Netherlands,
44:37.80.
Also
10. Evelyn Stevens, United States,
46:00.08.
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DIVING
Men’s Synchronized 3m Springboard
Final
1. Britain (Jack Laugher; Chris Mears),
454.32.
2. United States (Sam Dorman; Mike
Hixon), 450.21.
3. China (Yuan Cao; Kai Qin), 443.70.
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FENCING
Men’s Sabre
Bronze Medal
Junghwan Kim, South Korea, def.
Mojtaba Abedini, Iran, 15-8.
Gold Medal
Aron Szilagyi, Hungary, def. Daryl
Homer, United States, 15-8.
Women’s Foil
Bronze Medal
Ines Boubakri, Tunisia, def. Aida Shanae-
va, Russia, 15-11.
Gold Medal
Inna Deriglazova, Russia, def. Elisa di
Francisca, Italy, 12-11.
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GYMNASTICS (ARTISTIC)
Men’s Individual All-Around
1. Marios Georgiou, Cyprus, 9.433.
2. Kohei Uchimura, Japan, 15.800.
3. Arthur Mariano, Brazil, 15.266.
Also
4. Christopher Brooks, United States,
15.200.
7. Samuel Mikulak, United States,
15.133.
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JUDO
Men -90 kg
Bronze Medal A
Donghan Gwak, South Korea, def.
Marcus Nyman, Sweden, Ippon, Seoi-
nage, 2:31.
Bronze Medal B
Xunzhao Cheng, China, def. Otgon-
baatar Lkhagvasuren, Mongolia, Uchi-ma-
ta-sukashi, 5:00
Gold Medal
Mashu Baker, Japan, def. Varlam Lipar-
teliani, Georgia, Ouchi-gari, 5:00.
Women -70 kg
Bronze Medal A
Sally Conway, Britain, def. Bernadette
Graf, Austria, Yuko, Kouchi-gaeshi, 4:00.
Bronze Medal B
Laura Vargas Koch, Germany, def. Maria
Bernabeu, Spain, Wazari, 4:00.
Gold Medal
Haruka Tachimoto, Japan, def. Yuri
Alvear, Colombia, Ippon, 2:19.
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SHOOTING
Men’s 50m Pistol
Final
1. Jongoh Jin, South Korea, 193.7.
2. Xuan Vinh Hoang, Vietnam, 191.3.
3. Song Guk Kim, North Korea, 172.8.
Men’s Double Trap
Bronze Medal
Steven Scott, Britain, def. Tim Kneale,
Britain, 30-28.
Gold Medal
Fehaid Aldeehani, Independent, def.
Marco Innocenti, Italy, 26-24.
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SWIMMING
Men
100m Freestyle
Final
1. Kyle Chalmers, Australia, 47.58.
2. Pieter Timmers, Belgium, 47.80.
3. Nathan Adrian, United States, 47.85.
Also
6. Caeleb Dressel, United States, 48.02.
200m Breaststroke
Final
1. Dmitriy Balandin, Kazakhstan, 2:07.46.
2. Josh Prenot, United States, 2:07.53.
3. Anton Chupkov, Russia, 2:07.70.
Also
8. Kevin Cordes, United States, 2:08.34.
Women
200m Butterly
Final
1. Mireia Belmonte Garcia, Spain,
2:04.85.
2. Madeline Groves, Australia, 2:04.88.
3. Natsumi Hoshi, Japan, 2:05.20.
Also
4. Cammile Adams, United States,
2:05.90.
7. Hali Flickinger, United States, 2:07.71.
4x200m Freestyle Relay
Final
1. United States (Allison Schmitt; Made-
line Dirado; Leah Smith; Katie Ledecky),
7:43.03.
2. Australia (Leah Neale; Tamsin Cook;
Bronte Barratt; Emma McKeon), 7:44.87.
3. Canada (Katerine Savard; Brittany
Maclean; Taylor Madison Ruck; Penny
Oleksiak), 7:45.39.
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TABLE TENNNIS
Women’s Singles
Bronze Medal
Song I Kim, North Korea, def. Ai Fukuha-
ra, Japan, 11-7, 11-7, 11-5, 12-14, 11-5.
Gold Medal
Ning Ding, China, def. Xiaoxia Li, China,
11-9, 5-11, 14-12, 9-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-7.
Baseball
MLB
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Tuesday’s Late Game
Seattle 6, Detroit 5, 15 innings
Wednesday’s Games
Washington 7, Cleveland 4
Toronto 7, Tampa Bay 0
N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 4
Chicago Cubs 3, L.A. Angels 1
Texas 5, Colorado 4
Houston at Minnesota, ppd., 2nd game
Kansas City 3, Chicago White Sox 2,
14 innings
Oakland 1, Baltimore 0
Seattle 3, Detroit 1
Today’s Games
Houston (Fister 10-7) at Minnesota
(Berrios 2-2), 10:10 a.m., 1st game
Colorado (Bettis 10-6) at Texas (Harrell
3-2), 11:05 a.m.
Baltimore (Tillman 14-4) at Oakland
(Triggs 0-0), 12:35 p.m.
Houston (Devenski 0-4) at Minnesota
(Milone 3-3), 4:10 p.m., 2nd game
L.A. Angels (Chacin 3-7) at Cleveland
(Kluber 11-8), 4:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 6-10) at Boston
(Rodriguez 2-5), 4:10 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 2-6) at
Kansas City (Duffy 8-1), 5:15 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Wednesday’s Games
San Francisco 1, Miami 0
Philadelphia 6, L.A. Dodgers 2
Washington 7, Cleveland 4
San Diego 4, Pittsburgh 0
Arizona 3, N.Y. Mets 2, 12 innings
St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 2
Chicago Cubs 3, L.A. Angels 1
Texas 5, Colorado 4
Milwaukee 4, Atlanta 3
Today’s Games
Arizona (Shipley 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (Syn-
dergaard 9-6), 9:10 a.m.
San Diego (Friedrich 4-7) at Pittsburgh
(Taillon 2-2), 9:35 a.m.
Colorado (Bettis 10-6) at Texas (Harrell
3-2), 11:05 a.m.
Atlanta (Hernandez 1-0) at Milwaukee
(Garza 3-4), 11:10 a.m.
St. Louis (Martinez 10-7) at Chicago
Cubs (Lester 12-4), 5:05 p.m.