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SPORTS THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2018 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS MARINERS BASEBALL Segura delivers a winner Mariners beat Giants 3-2, now 27-13 in one-run games AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Seattle Mariners’ Guillermo Heredia slides past San Francisco Giants catcher Nick Hundley to score during the eighth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Seattle. The Mariners won 3-2. By TIM BOOTH Associated Press SEATTLE — With the Seat- tle Mariners struggling to find offense, Jean Segura wasn’t going to sit through a long at-bat looking for a perfect pitch. In this situation, the first one was good enough. Segura chopped the first pitch from Sam Dyson into center field to score Guillermo Heredia with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, and the Mariners won yet another one-run game by beating the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Wednesday. Seattle came up with just enough offense to split the two-game inter- league series, and it was one of the Mariners’ All-Stars who came through. Heredia walked leading off the eighth inning against Tony Watson (3-4) and advanced to sec- ond on Dee Gordon’s bunt. Gor- don was initially called safe but was out on a video review. Dyson, who shut down the Mar- iners a night earlier, took over and was greeted by Segura’s chopper up the middle, and Heredia beat the throw home from Steven Dug- gar. Seattle improved to a league- best 27-12 in one-run games this season. “I was just trying to get a sinker down and over the plate. He threw a perfect pitch to put a good swing on it,” Segura said. See MARINERS/2B AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Seattle Mariners’ Jean Segura watches his tie-breaking RBI single during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Seattle. The Mariners won 3-2. PAC-12 FOOTBALL MEDIA DAY PENDLETON New coaches bringing energy By GREG BEACHAM Associated Press 12U All-Stars stay alive, beat Alaska 9-4 East Oregonian LOS ANGELES — The Pac-12 went 1-8 in its bowl games last sea- son, leading to a winter of external criticism and internal soul-search- ing for most of its programs. The league also extended its national title drought to 14 years, the longest in the Power Five. Athletic directors openly worried about the Pac-12 falling farther behind the other big conferences in revenue and in exposure from its television network. After all the disappointment for its football programs late last year, this is a league that proba- bly could benefit from a fresh start. Nearly half of its member schools are getting one with the arrival of new coaching staffs to shake up the West Coast football scene. The Pac-12’s five new coaches range from the heralded Chip Kelly at UCLA, to the surprising AP Photo/Jae C. Hong UCLA coach Chip Kelly talks to reporters at the Pac-12 Conference NCAA college football media day in Los Angeles on Wednesday. choice of Herm Edwards at Ari- zona State, to the homecoming of Jonathan Smith at Oregon State. Two of the five are first-time col- legiate head coaches, while the other three — including Arizo- na’s Kevin Sumlin — have ample experience. See PAC-12/2B Pendleton’s 12U Little League All-Stars kept its season alive on Wednesday as it defeated Alaska 9-4 at the Little League West- ern Regional in San Bernardino, California. Madaline Schumacher pitched all six innings for Pendleton, striking out four while allowing six walks, five hits and four runs. She also stranded nine runners. After a scoreless first inning, Pendleton got its offense going in the second. Lilly Brooks led off the frame with a single and Lanie Burke walked, which brought Bailey Moore to the plate, and she came through with a three- run double. Melanie Boatman followed Moore with a run-scor- ing double of her own and she later scored on a sacrifice fly from Avery Krigbaum to com- plete a five-run inning. Alaska (Gastineau Chan- nel Little League) left the bases loaded in the top of the third, and Pendleton played add-on in the bottom half when Schum- acher walked and later scored on an Alaska error, Samantha Wilks scored on a groundout, and Brooks scored on a wild pitch for an 8-0 lead. Pendleton’s final run came from an RBI single off the bat of Wilks to bring home Schumacher for a 9-4 score. Schumacher and Brooks each scored two runs to lead the team, while Nessa Neveau and Brooks each collected two hits. Moore had a team-high three RBI. Pendleton now has a rematch with Washington (Kirkland) on Thursday at 9 a.m., with the win- ner advancing to the regional championship game. Sports shorts Dodgers’ Andre Ethier announces retirement LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andre Ethier, a two-time All-Star during a 12-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, is retiring from baseball. The Dodgers, the only team Ethier played for, announced Wednesday they will honor him with a retirement ceremony before their Aug. 3 game against Houston. Ethier hit .285 with 162 hom- ers and 687 RBIs in 1,455 games. His last major league at-bat was a pinch-hit RBI single in Game 7 of last year’s World Series. THIS DATE IN SPORTS Triple Crown winner Justify retires DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Triple Crown winner Justify was retired from racing Wednesday because of fluid in his left front ankle. Trainer Bob Baffert and Jus- tify’s owners said caution over the horse’s ankle condition made it impossible to tell if he’d be healthy enough to race by the fall. “He is just not responding quick enough for a fall cam- paign,” Baffert said. “We all wanted to see Justify run again, but ultimately it is my responsi- bility to make sure he is perfect. Without 60-90 days, I can’t be definite.” The goal was for Justify to run in a major race this summer, likely the Travers Stakes at Sara- toga, and be pointed toward the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs. 1952 — Bob Mathias wins his second Olympic decathlon. 1996 — American swimmer Amy Van Dyken wins the 50-meter freestyle to become Atlanta’s first quadruple gold medalist and the first U.S. woman to win four in a single Olympics. 1998 — Three spectators are killed — the first fan deaths at a major race in the U.S. in more than a decade — and six are injured by flying debris from a one-car crash at the U.S. 500 at Michigan Speedway. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com
