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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018
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Late rally lifts Beavers
OSU scores eight runs
in final two innings to
oust North Carolina
By ERIC OLSON
Associated Press
AP Photo/Nati Harnik
Oregon State players celebrate after the final out against North
Carolina Oregon State came from behind and won 11-6.
OMAHA, Neb. — Brett Dan-
iels walked in the go-ahead run
after Adley Rutschman tied it with
a three-run double in the eighth
inning, and Oregon State knocked
North Carolina out of the College
World Series with an 11-6 win
Wednesday night.
It was a stunning turnabout after
the Tar Heels had wiped out a 3-0
deficit to go up 6-3 in the sixth.
North Carolina had been 37-0
when leading after seven innings
and had won 50 straight when
scoring six runs, the longest streak
in Division I.
Tyler Malone hit his second
homer of the CWS, and the Bea-
vers’ third of the game, as Ore-
gon State (51-11-1) built a five-run
cushion and avenged Saturday’s
8-6 loss to the Tar Heels (44-20).
North Carolina’s eighth-inning
meltdown in a steady mist saw
three pitchers walk four batters,
one intentionally, and allow three
hits.
No. 9 batter Zak Taylor started
things off with a leadoff single.
Nick Madrigal followed with a
base hit and Cadyn Grenier won a
12-pitch duel with Joey Lancelotti
to walk and load the bases.
Rutschman followed with a
drive to the center-field wall off
Daniels (6-1) for his bases-clear-
ing double. Daniels then walked
two in a row, the first intentionally,
to fill the bases again. Daniels ran
the count full against Jack Ander-
son before walking him to force in
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PENDLETON
White Sox win title
AP Photo/Seth Wenig
New York Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton
reacts after hitting a walk-off two-run
home run in the ninth inning.
Stanton,
Yankees
walk-off
Mariners
Seattle can’t hang on to five-
run lead, lose 7-5
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Big John’s Jack Monkman missed the throw as Hodgen’s Blake Swanson slides into second base in the White Sox’s 16-6 win
against the Red Sox in the Pendleton Babe Ruth championship game Wednesday at Bob White Field.
Hodgen White Sox completed
near perfect season with a
16-6 win over Big John’s Red
Sox in Babe Ruth title game
By SCOTT ORGERA
Associated Press
pieced together seven strikeouts which got
Hodgen out of trouble more than once,
including the top of the third after Big John
NEW YORK — Giancarlo Stanton
lined a two-run homer with two outs in
the bottom of the ninth inning, and the
New York Yankees erased a five-run defi-
cit to beat the Seattle Mariners 7-5 on
Wednesday night.
Gary Sanchez tied the score with a
two-run homer in the eighth, and the Yan-
kees went on to complete their largest
comeback victory of the season.
Didi Gregorius singled with two outs
in the ninth and Stanton hammered an 0-2
breaking ball from reliever Ryan Cook
(1-1). The slugger knew it was gone the
moment he connected, and he took a lit-
tle jump at home plate and pumped his
arm before tossing his bat aside and cir-
cling the bases.
The drive traveled a projected 453 feet
to left-center for Stanton’s first walk-off
homer with the Yankees — his previ-
ous one came in April 2014 for the Mar-
lins (also vs. Seattle). He was mobbed by
teammates and doused as he crossed the
plate, throwing his helmet into the air and
smiling from ear to ear.
“I’m not worried about my personal
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By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Michael Corey is no
stranger to the dugout. The first-year Babe
Ruth coach has worked his way up the ranks
of Little League to follow his son, Easton
Corey, to the Hodgen White Sox.
Both the senior and junior Corey helped
lead the team to a 16-6 victory against the
Big John’s Red Sox in the 2018 Pendleton
Babe Ruth Baseball Championship game at
Bob White Field on Wednesday.
But it wasn’t just the Corey duo, White
Sox’s starting pitcher Blake Swanson, the
No. 2 hitter Brock Mackey and the rest of
the squad — playing a hard nine, with no
subs — worked their way to a 10-run win.
“Blake pitched wonderfully tonight,”
Michael Corey said. “He gave us four strong
innings and pitched well, and Easton broke
out tonight and really hit the baseball hard.
So, the combination of those things but the
truth is that even with those two individuals,
we couldn’t have done it without the team
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Hodgen’s Collin Primus dives back to first base as Big John’s Jovan Aguilar waits for
the throw in the White Sox’s 16-6 win against the Red Sox.
and the team is really what stepped up —
all nine guys really came in and played well.
Swanson lasted 4 1/3 innings on the hill,
and had pretty good control of the game
despite giving up five runs on two hits. He
Sports shorts
Arizona’s Ayton likely
top choice in NBA draft
(AP) — There’s been lit-
tle question that Arizona’s Dean-
dre Ayton is the best of a poten-
tial-filled group of bigs at the top
of Thursday’s NBA draft.
Ayton was a force in his lone
college season and looks like the
favorite to land with Phoenix as the
No. 1 overall pick. Behind him are
several talented big men includ-
ing Michigan State’s Jaren Jack-
son, Texas’ Mo Bamba and Duke’s
Wendell Carter Jr. The 2018 NBA
Draft will air 4 p.m. on ESPN.
Tigers-Royals to play in Omaha before 2019 CWS
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Detroit Tigers and
Kansas City Royals will play a regular-season
game in Omaha the week the 2019 College World
Series opens, The Associated Press has learned.
Major League Baseball and the
NCAA have been working to arrange a
game as a kickoff event to the CWS,
two people close to the situation told
the AP on Wednesday on condi-
tion of anonymity because they
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
were not authorized to discuss details.
A news conference with MLB Com-
missioner Rob Manfred was sched-
uled for Thursday at TD Ameritrade
Park, the host site for the CWS.
The move would be similar to
the regular-season games played
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in
conjunction with the Little League
World Series.
AP Photo/Nati Harnik
1964 — Jim Bunning of the Phil-
adelphia Phillies pitches a perfect
game against the New York Mets.
The no-hitter gives Bunning one in
each league and the Phillies’ Gus Tri-
andos becomes the first catcher to
handle no-hitters in both leagues.
1971 — Lee Trevino beats Jack
Nicklaus by two strokes in a playoff
to win the U.S. Open.
1998 — Marion Jones becomes
the first athlete in 50 years to win the
100, 200 meters and long jump at the
U.S. Track and Field Championships.
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