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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
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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.
Last race: Martin Truex Jr. won the road
race at Sonoma from the front row.
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