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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian Friday, June 29, 2018 Mariners sweep Baltimore By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press AP Photo/Nati Harnik Oregon State’s Adley Rutschman singles against Arkansas during the fifth inning of Game 3 of the NCAA College World Series baseball finals. OSU: Adley Rutschman named CWS’ Most Outstanding Player Continued from 1B we never got that hit. We never got anything going. Who’s to say? I don’t think we’ll ever know. If Abel hadn’t thrown so well, maybe it’s a little different story, but he didn’t give us a chance.” Oregon State, which came from behind for three of its six CWS wins, was in control all the way in the winner-take-all Game 3. Arkansas (48-21) was shut out for the first time in 100 games. Abel (8-1) ran into trouble in the third when Arkansas loaded the bases with one out. He struck out Heston Kjerstad and got Bonfield to fly out to end the inning, and the Razor- backs had no base runners the rest of the night. Abel struck out 10 and walked two in a 129-pitch outing. Adley Rutschman, who set a CWS record with 17 hits, went 3 for 4 and drove in two runs. He was 17 for 30 (.567) with 13 RBIs in eight games and was named the CWS Most Outstand- ing Player. Rutschman sin- gled his first three times at bat and drove in a run in the first against Isaiah Camp- bell (5-7) and another in the third for a 3-0 lead. Abel had been used as a starter and reliever this sea- son, and his versatility and durability were important for the depleted pitching staff. “My goodness, that man. Unbelievable,” said Rutschman, the Beavers’ catcher. “Just the pro- gression he made. No one would have thought that he’d do that coming in. He was getting pulled from starts. He comes out and throws a complete game in the most important game of the year. Pretty special to me. He’s going to do big things.” Abel pitched an inning of relief to earn the win Wednesday. That was four days after he started and allowed three hits and a run in seven innings against Mississippi State. On June 18 he pitched four innings of one-hit, one-run relief against Washington. Abel mixed a low-90s fastball with a changeup and picked his spots with his curveball. The only hits he allowed were Grant Koch’s double down the left-field line and Casey Martin’s swinging bunt, both in the third inning. “You couldn’t predict what he was going to do,” Carson Shaddy said. “He had command of all three pitches. He pitched lights out. He was just on.” The Beavers, also the winners in 2006 and 2007, were by far the most dom- inant team in the nation through the 2017 regu- lar season and brought a 54-4 record to Omaha. But after winning their first two games here, they made a stunningly meek exit with two straight losses to LSU. They brought back almost everybody in the everyday lineup along with ace Luke Heimlich. Oregon State was the No. 3 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and swept its regional and super regional to return to the CWS. In Omaha, the Bea- vers took a circuitous route to the championship. They lost their opening game and came from behind in two of the four elimination games they had to win to reach the finals. “Having the season we had last year was phenom- enal, but to come up short, there’s that missing piece at the end that you can never get back and you don’t know if you’re ever going to make it back to Omaha. “To be able to come through the losers’ bracket, play eight games, and hav- ing everyone step up at the right time when we needed them to, it just makes everything so much better.” BALTIMORE — In an unprecedented four-game sweep in Baltimore, the Seattle Mariners outscored the Orioles by a total of six runs and twice prevailed in extra innings. The difference between the two teams, to a large degree, is that Seattle finds a way to win, and the Orioles keep coming up with a vari- ety of ways to lose. Nelson Cruz homered and drove in three runs, and the Mariners capitalized on two 10th-inning errors in a 4-2 victory Thursday that com- pleted their first four-game sweep at Baltimore in fran- chise history. The Mariners improved to 8-0 in extra innings this sea- son. They won in 11 innings on Wednesday, after winning the first two games of the series 5-3 and 3-2. “We won four games, four different ways,” manager Scott Servais said with pride. “It shows what kind of team we are. Different players on different nights, all pitch- ing in. We are playing pretty good baseball as a team right now. This sweep was a great turnaround for us.” The Mariners came to town with a run of six losses in seven games. They headed back to Seattle in the thick of the AL West race. “It’s great to get a sweep,” shortstop Jean Segura said. “It gives us momentum as we go back home.” After missing two straight games with lower back pain, Cruz celebrated his return AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Seattle Mariners’ Dee Gordon scores a run on a single by Jean Segura in the 10th inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday in Baltimore. Seattle won 4-2 in 10 innings. with his 21st homer, a two- run shot in the fourth inning that put Seattle up 2-0. Manny Machado and Chris Davis answered with solo drives off Mike Leake in the bottom half, and that accounted for all the scoring until the 10th. Dee Gordon beat out a dribbler to the left of the mound and scored when center fielder Colby Ras- mus bobbled Segura’s sin- gle off Miguel Castro (2-4). A throwing error by third baseman Steve Wilkerson and an RBI single by Cruz followed. Gordon’s speed and Cruz’s power have proven to be a potent combination for the Mariners. It was certainly too much for Baltimore. “Guys like Gordon put such pressure on you because you know any little bobble, anything, he’s going to take another base,” Orioles man- ager Buck Showalter said. “A groundball that probably 95 percent of people are out on pretty easily, it’s a base hit. That’s why they’re hav- ing a good year and win- ning some games, because of things like that. “You can’t say, ‘We don’t have it.’ Well, a lot of teams don’t have that.” Juan Nicasio got three straight outs in the 10th for his first save after James Pazos (2-1) worked the ninth. Leake allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings, his eighth straight start of at least six innings. Making his first major league start, Jimmy Yacabo- nis gave up two runs and six hits over four-plus innings for Baltimore. UP NEXT Mariners: LHP Marco Gonzales (7-5, 4.04 ERA) starts against Kansas City on Friday night in the opener of a nine-game homestand. SCOREBOARD Baseball MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB Boston 55 27 .671 — New York 52 26 .667 1 Tampa Bay 39 41 .488 15 Toronto 37 43 .463 17 Baltimore 23 57 .288 31 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 44 35 .557 — Minnesota 35 42 .455 8 Detroit 36 46 .439 9½ Chicago 28 52 .350 16½ Kansas City 25 55 .313 19½ West Division W L Pct GB Houston 55 28 .663 — Seattle 51 31 .622 3½ Oakland 44 38 .537 10½ Los Angeles 41 41 .500 13½ Texas 36 46 .439 18½ ——— Thursday’s Games Oakland 4, Detroit 2 Minnesota 2, Chicago White Sox 1, 13 innings Seattle 4, Baltimore 2, 10 innings Boston 4, L.A. Angels 2 Houston 1, Tampa Bay 0 Friday’s Games Minnesota (Berrios 8-5) at Chicago Cubs (Montgomery 2-2), 2:05 p.m. Boston (Rodriguez 9-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-3), 4:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Pena 0-0) at Baltimore (Hess 2-4), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (Liriano 3-3) at Toronto (Stroman 0-5), 4:07 p.m. Houston (Cole 9-1) at Tampa Bay (Font 1-3), 4:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Covey 3-2) at Texas (Gallardo 1-0), 5:05 p.m. Cleveland (Bauer 7-5) at Oakland (Black- burn 1-2), 7:05 p.m. Kansas City (Kennedy 1-7) at Seattle (Gonzales 7-5), 7:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W Atlanta 45 Philadelphia 43 Washington 41 New York 32 Miami 32 Central Division W Milwaukee 47 Chicago 44 St. Louis 42 Pittsburgh 38 Cincinnati 34 West Division W Arizona 47 Los Angeles 43 San Francisco 42 Colorado 39 San Diego 36 L 34 36 38 46 50 Pct GB .570 — .544 2 .519 4 .410 12½ .390 14½ L 33 35 37 42 47 Pct .588 .557 .532 .475 .420 L 34 37 40 42 47 Pct GB .580 — .538 3½ .512 5½ .481 8 .434 12 GB — 2½ 4½ 9 13½ ———— Thursday’s Games Arizona 4, Miami 0 Chicago Cubs 11, L.A. Dodgers 5 Colorado 9, San Francisco 8 Philadelphia 4, Washington 3 Milwaukee 6, Cincinnati 4 Friday’s Games Minnesota (Berrios 8-5) at Chicago Cubs (Montgomery 2-2), 2:05 p.m. Washington (Fedde 0-3) at Philadelphia (Pivetta 4-6), 4:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Anderson 5-6) at Cincinnati (Romano 4-7), 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (deGrom 5-3) at Miami (Alcan- tara 0-0), 4:10 p.m. Atlanta (Teheran 5-5) at St. Louis (Mikolas 8-2), 5:15 p.m. San Francisco (Suarez 2-4) at Arizona (Corbin 6-3), 6:40 p.m. Colorado (Anderson 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Hill 1-2), 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Musgrove 2-3) at San Diego (Lauer 3-4), 7:10 p.m. x-Spain x-Portugal Iran Morocco GROUP C x-France x-Denmark Peru Australia GROUP D x-Croatia x-Argentina Nigeria Iceland GROUP E x-Brazil x-Switzerland Serbia Costa Rica GROUP F W 1 1 1 0 T 2 2 1 1 L GF GA Pts 0 6 5 5 0 5 4 5 1 2 2 4 2 2 4 1 W 2 1 1 0 T 1 2 0 1 L GF GA Pts 0 3 1 7 0 2 1 5 2 2 2 3 2 2 5 1 W 3 1 1 0 T 0 1 0 1 L GF GA Pts 0 7 1 9 1 3 5 4 2 3 4 3 2 2 5 1 W 2 1 1 0 T 1 2 0 1 L GF GA Pts 0 5 1 7 0 5 4 5 2 2 4 3 2 2 5 1 W T L GF GA Pts x-Sweden 2 0 1 5 2 6 x-Mexico 2 0 1 3 4 6 South Korea 1 0 2 3 3 3 Germany 1 0 2 2 4 3 GROUP G W T L GF GA Pts x-Belgium 3 0 0 9 2 9 x-England 2 0 1 8 3 6 Tunisia 1 0 2 5 8 3 Panama 0 0 3 2 11 0 ———— Thursday, June 28 At Saransk, Russia Tunisia 2, Panama 1 At Kaliningrad, Russia Belgium 1, England 0 GROUP H W T L GF GA Pts x-Colombia 2 0 1 5 2 6 x-Japan 1 1 1 4 4 4 Senegal 1 1 0 4 4 4 Poland 1 0 2 2 5 3 ——— Thursday, June 28 At Volgograd, Russia Poland 1, Japan 0 At Samara, Russia Colombia 1, Senegal 0 MiLB Northwest League North Division W L Pct. GB Everett (Mariners) 8 6 .571 — Tri-City (Padres) 7 7 .500 1 Spokane (Rangers) 6 8 .428 2 Vancouver (Blue Jays) 5 9 .357 3 South Division W L Pct. GB Salem-Keizer (Giants) 10 4 .714 — Hillsboro (D-Backs) 8 6 .571 2 Boise (Rockies) 7 7 .500 3 Eugene (Cubs) 5 9 .357 5 ——— Thursday’s Games Vancouver 3, Tri-City 2 Hillsboro 6, Boise 5 Everett 9, Spokane 5 Salem-Keizer 7, Eugene 2 Friday’s Games Everett at Eugene, 7:05 p.m. Salem-Keizer at Vancouver, 7:05 p.m. Spokane at Hillsboro, 7:05 p.m. Boise at Tri-City, 7:15 p.m. NCAA College World Series Championship Series (Best-of-3) Oregon State 2, Arkansas 1 Tuesday: Arkansas 4, Oregon State 1 Wednesday: Oregon State 5, Arkansas 3 Thursday: Oregon State 5, Arkansas 0, OSU wins CWS SECOND ROUND Saturday, June 30 At Kazan, Russia France vs. Argentina, 7 a.m. At Sochi, Russia Uruguay vs. Portugal, 11 a.m. Sunday, July 1 At Moscow Spain vs. Russia, 7 a.m. At Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Croatia vs. Denmark, 11 a.m. Monday, July 2 At Samara, Russia Brazil vs. Mexico, 7 a.m. At Rostov-on-Don, Russia Belgium vs. Japan, 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 3 At St. Petersburg, Russia Sweden vs. Switzerland, 7 a.m. Soccer FIFA WORLD CUP FIRST ROUND (x-advanced to second round) GROUP A W T L GF GA Pts x-Uruguay 3 0 0 5 0 9 x-Russia 2 1 0 8 4 6 Saudi Arabia 1 0 2 2 7 3 Egypt 0 0 3 2 6 0 GROUP B At Moscow Colombia vs. England, 11 a.m. MLS Friday’s Games FC Dallas at Minnesota United, 5 p.m. Saturday’s Games Portland at Seattle, 1:30 p.m. Orlando City at Atlanta United FC, 4 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Montreal, 4 p.m. D.C. United at New England, 4:30 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Columbus, 4:30 p.m. New York City FC at Chicago, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Los Angeles FC, 5 p.m. LA Galaxy at San Jose, 7 p.m. Sunday’s Games New York at Toronto FC, 1:30 p.m. Colorado at Vancouver, 4 p.m. Basketball WNBA Thursday’s Games Washington 80, New York 77 Seattle 81, Los Angeles 72 Friday’s Games Phoenix at Indiana, 4 p.m. Chicago at New York, 4:30 p.m. Atlanta at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Los Angeles at Las Vegas, 7:30 p.m. Golf PGA TOUR QUICKEN LOANS NATIONAL Leader after Round 1 Andrew Landry 32-31—63 -7 LPGA Upcoming Schedule June 28-July 1 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Kemper Lakes GC, Olympia Fields, Ill. Auto Racing NASCAR CUP SERIES OVERTON’S 400 Site: Joliet, Illinois. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 11:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. (NBCSN), qualifying, 7:05 p.m. (NBCSN); Sunday, race, 2:30 p.m., NBCSN. Track: Chicagoland Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles). Race distance: 400 miles, 267.5 laps. 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