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MLB
Golf
Mariners fall to Yankees
New York
Yankees’
Brett
Gardner,
right, and
Seattle
Mariners
catcher
Mike Zun-
ino watch
Gardner’s
home run
during
the sixth
inning of
a baseball
game
Thursday,
July 20,
2017, in
Seattle.
An All-
American
start to
British
Open
Spieth, Koepka,
Kuchar lead
after fi rst round
By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
AP Photo/Elaine
Thompson
Seattle starts 10-game home stand with loss to fall below .500
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Luis Severino
pitched around trouble to throw
seven shutout innings, Brett
Gardner hit a solo home run off
Felix Hernandez and the New
York Yankees beat the Seattle
Mariners 4-1 on Thursday night.
Severino (6-4) was overpow-
ering when he needed to be,
striking out six and getting his
fastball to fl ash triple-digits on the
stadium scoreboard even in the
seventh inning. He allowed eight
hits, but was outstanding when in
trouble. Severino pitched out of
jams in the fi rst, second and most
notably the fourth inning when
Seattle had runners at the corners
with no outs and was unable to
score.
Gardner took advantage of
the one mistake by
Hernandez
(5-4),
driving a 2-1 pitch
into the right-fi eld New York
seats with one out
in the sixth. Other
than that, Hernandez
was as good as he’s been in 2017,
striking out a season-high nine
and pitching at least seven innings
for the second time.
Aaron
Judge
added
a
broken-bat RBI single in the
eighth inning. It was just his fourth
hit in 29 at-bats since the All-Star
break. The Yankees added a pair
of runs in the ninth with two outs
on Robinson Cano’s throwing
error, allowing Didi Gregorius
and Todd Frazier to score.
Three of New York’s four runs
were unearned.
It was a vintage performance
by Hernandez, all the way down
4
to the lack of run
support — a staple
of his career with
Seattle
the
Mariners.
Hernandez
has
always pitched well
against New York,
and he was successful staying on
the edges with his fastball, getting
the Yankees to chase offspeed
pitches out of the zone.
But he paid for the one mistake
he made. Hernandez left a fastball
in the middle of the plate, and
Gardner smacked his 16th home
run of the season.
The Mariners left eight runners
on base in the fi rst fi ve innings,
including failing to score in the
fourth inning with runners on
fi rst and third and no outs. Mitch
Haniger popped out on the infi eld
and Jarrod Dyson’s shallow
fl yball failed to get Kyle Seager in
1
from third. Mike Zunino walked
to load the bases, but Severino got
a groundout from Jean Segura to
end the inning.
Cano had an RBI double in the
ninth.
ROTATION CHANGE
Seattle will put right-hander
Yovani Gallardo back into the
starting rotation in the series fi nale
on Sunday against the Yankees.
Gallardo had a 0.79 ERA working
out of the bullpen. He was 3-7 with
a 6.30 ERA in 14 starts prior. The
Mariners optioned Sam Gaviglio
to Triple-A Tacoma on Thursday
and recalled reliever Max Povse.
UP NEXT
Yankees: CC Sabathia (8-3) is
tied for the team lead in victories.
Mariners: Andrew Moore (1-1)
is looking to bounce back from
giving up three home runs in his
last start against the White Sox.
SOUTHPORT,
England
— The wind off the Irish Sea
pushed away the rain clouds
and bathed Royal Birkdale in
sunshine, Stars and Stripes.
The British Open began
Thursday with an All-American
fl avor.
Jordan Spieth, chomping
away on gum as he watched one
putt after another pour into the
center of the cup, worked some
bunker magic of his own late in
the round to keep his card fi lled
only with birdies and pars for a
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AP Photo/Alastair Grant
Jordan Spieth of the United
States plays a shot on the
18th hole during the fi rst
round of the British Open
Championship, at Royal
Birkdale, Southport, England
Thursday, July 20, 2017.
Men’s College Basketball
Tour de France
Oregon sets sights on
grad transfer guard
Frenchman Barguil triumphs on Stage 18
Ducks looking to replenish offense
By STEVE MIMS
The Register-Guard
EUGENE — Oregon is pursuing another graduate
transfer.
ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reported that the Ducks are
interested in Randy Onwuasor, who led the Big Sky
Conference with 23.6 points per
game last season at Southern Utah.
The 6-foot-3 guard also led the
Thunderbirds with 6.6 rebounds, 3.2
assists and 1.5 steals per game.
Onwuasor entered his name in the
NBA Draft, but announced in May
that he would return for his senior
year of eligibility at Southern Utah.
He was given his release to transfer
for his senior season earlier this
Onwuasor
month.
Goodman said Gonzaga and
South Carolina are among the schools interested in
Onwuasor along with the Ducks.
Onwuasor would be the second high-scoring guard
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Froome retains
yellow jersey
By JOHN LEICESTER &
SAMUEL PETREQUIN
Associated Press
COL D’IZOARD, France
— French rider Warren
Barguil triumphed on the
barren slopes of the fearsome
Col d’Izoard climb in the
Alps, winning his second
stage of the 104th Tour de
France while Chris Froome
successfully
defended
his overall race lead on
Thursday, putting him within
touching distance of a fourth
Tour crown.
On the last day of climbing
in the Alps, Froome lost a
handful of seconds to French
rider Romain Bardet, who
moved up to second in the
overall standings, relegating
Rigoberto Uran of Colombia
to third.
AP Photo/Peter Dejong
Stage winner France’s Warren Barguil, wearing the
best climber’s dotted jersey, climbs Izoard pass with
Colombia’s Carlos Betancur during the eighteenth
stage of the Tour de France over 111.5 miles from Brian-
con to Izoard pass, France on Thursday.
But Froome still leads
Bardet by 23 seconds, a
margin that the French
rider looks unlikely to close
before the fi nish Sunday in
Paris. The last opportunity
is in a time trial Saturday,
but Froome excels at that
discipline.
“I gave it all, I thought I
was going to suffocate as
I crossed the line,” Bardet
said. “I have no regrets, I did
everything I could.”
Froome was relieved to
put the Alps behind him. The
mountains can crack even
the best riders, and with them
over with, there remain no
real obstacles to stop Froome
clinching a third straight title.
His fi rst was in 2013.
While not huge, his lead
is suffi cient to mean that he
doesn’t have to take unnec-
essary risks on the twisting
and technical time-trial
course in Marseille. Friday’s
stage out of the Alps through
Provence isn’t tough enough
to provoke a big shake-up in
the standings, and Sunday’s
ride into Paris is largely
processional.
“I’m happy that I went
through the Alps without
any major problem,” Froome
said. “I normally fi nd the
Alps more diffi cult.”
Barguil set off in search
of the Stage 18 victory when
there were still six kilometers
(four miles) left to climb to
the top of the Izoard pass,
a moonscape of scree and
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Sports shorts
Ole Miss football coach resigns
(AP) — Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze
resigned Thursday after university offi cials found
a “pattern of personal misconduct” that they
found unacceptable.
Freeze’s resignation brings a
FACES stunning end to a fi ve-year tenure
that saw a Sugar Bowl victory,
but also a wide-ranging NCAA
investigation into rules violations.
His ultimate downfall came after
school offi cials investigated
Freeze’s phone records and found
misconduct.
Freeze
The Rebels had a quick rise
under Freeze, recruiting at a high level and
reaching an apex with a Sugar Bowl victory over
Oklahoma State following the 2015 season.
But an NCAA investigation — alleging 21
charges of academic, booster, and recruiting
misconduct — has overshadowed much of that
success, especially over the past year.
“He becomes perhaps
the most versatile reliever
we have now in some
ways. He has the physical
ability to go more than
one inning ... he has
the physical stuff to get
strikeouts in a critical
situation either with
runners on base or just
getting through toward
the end of the game.“
— Jerry Dipoto
Seattle Mariners GM on David
Phelps, a reliever Seattle acquired
from Miami on Thursday. Phelps is
2-4 with a 3.45 ERA in 44 games
and 47 innings this season.
Pendleton Little League all-
stars starts regional play today
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — For
the second straight year, the Pendleton
11/12-year-old softball all-stars are looking to
secure a spot in the Little League
Softball World Series in Portland.
After winning the state
tournament on July 13,
Pendleton now starts play in
the Little League Softball West
Regional tournament today in San Bernardino,
California. As Team Oregon, it starts off with
pool play against Southern California today at
9 a.m. and then plays again on Monday against
Arizona at 5 p.m.
Bracket play then starts on Tuesday with the
championship held on July 23 at 6 p.m.
In the 2016 tournament, the Pendleton team
won three games overall, inclduing a 2-1 record
in pool play before losing to Montana 8-0 in the
quarterfi nals.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1968 — Arnold Palmer
becomes the fi rst PGA golfer to
earn $1 million over his career
despite losing by one stroke
to Julius Boros in the PGA
championship.
1985 — The greatest
money winner in horse racing
history, John Henry, is retired.
The 10-year-old, who won
39 races in 83 starts, earned
$6,597,947 in total purses.
2013 — Phil Mickelson
wins the British Open with
a spectacular fi nish to win
his fi rst claret jug. Mickelson
birdies four of the last six
holes for a 5-under 66 to
match the best round of the
tournament.
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