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Page 2B SPORTS East Oregonian MAGIC: Only one- score game they won was perhaps the ugliest Continued from 1B led to each of Seattle’s five losses. — In a Week 1 loss at Denver, Seattle gained seven yards on its final three drives and Wilson threw an interception on a desperation throw on the final play of a 27-24 loss. — In Week 2 at Chi- cago, Wilson threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown with the Seahawks trail- ing 17-10, and on Seattle’s next drive fumbled while being sacked. Seattle lost 24-17 — In Week 5 against the Rams, Wilson missed on his final two passes with Seattle closing in on field goal range while down by two points with less than 4 minutes left. Seattle punted and never got the ball back in a 33-31 loss. — In Week 9, Wil- son threw his second fourth-quarter intercep- tion that was returned for a touchdown when Des- mond King stepped in front of a pass and the pick-six ended up being the decid- ing points in the Chargers’ 25-17 win. — And last week, Wil- son was stripped by Dante Fowler midway through the fourth quarter deep in Seattle’s end. Bran- din Cooks’ TD run on the next play ended up being the deciding points in the Rams’ 36-31 win. The only one-score game the Seahawks have won this season was argu- ably one of its uglier per- formances when Sebas- tian Janikowski kicked a 52-yard field goal on the final play to beat Arizona in Week 4. And while sev- eral of those games have seen Wilson rebound from his mistakes to give Seat- tle a chance in the closing seconds, the final results are not what the Seahawks have come to expect. “It’s finishing at the right time, making the right play. We’ve been so good at those games for such a long time that the fact that it’s not happening is a little bit unusual,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. “I’m dis- appointed because we’ve been able to always feel like we’re going to win those games and do it. We still have the same men- tality about it and attitude about it, but we’ve got to show it. We’ve got to get those finishes done.” Notes: LB K.J. Wright (knee) was the only player not to participate in prac- tice on Tuesday. Wright’s knee caused him to leave Sunday’s loss to the Rams early. ... G D.J. Fluker (calf) and RB Chris Car- son (hip) were full partic- ipants, strengthening Seat- tle’s belief the pair will play after missing last week’s game. Wednesday, November 14, 2018 MLB Oakland’s Melvin, Atlanta’s Snitker voted top managers By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK — Bob Melvin’s job was a lot differ- ent as a rookie manager with Seattle in 2002, and even when he was voted Manager of the Year with Arizona in 2007 and Oakland in 2012. “Organizations and cer- tainly front offices are more a part of it now, and you have to understand that,” Melvin said Tuesday after winning his third manager award. Melvin won the Amer- ican League honor after leading the Athletics to the playoffs despite the lowest opening-day payroll in the major leagues. Atlanta’s Brian Snitker won the National League award following a sur- prising first-place finish, a reward for a 63-year-old baseball lifer who has spent 42 seasons with the Braves. He thought back to how he returned to the minor leagues in 1986, 1991 and 2004 after stints on the staff of the big league Braves. “Hey, I’ve been recycled three times from the major leagues as a coach,” he said. “Everything that I’ve been through I think has prepared me better to understand what these guys go through and what this job entails.” A big league catcher from 1985-94, Melvin became a scout, instructor, front office assistant and coach before he got his first big league managing job in 2002 from Mariners general manager Pat Gillick, a future Hall of Famer. Now he works for Oakland executives Billy Beane and Dave Forst, pro- ponents of the analytics movement that has swept baseball. “When I started doing this a long time ago with Mr. Gillick in Seattle, their job was to give me the players and then it was my job to put guys in the right spots. And things have changed since then,” Melvin said. “It can be a little bit top heavy as far as where the information comes from, from our front office now, and you have to be able to adapt, or at some point in time you might not have one of these jobs. So I’m lucky enough to be with an organization that not only AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin. AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker. it’s my hometown but from a guy that I’ve known for quite a while in Billy and they do the best they can to consistently try to imple- ment stuff and get us better. And it’s my job to accept it and move forward.” Melvin received 18 first- place votes, 19 seconds and one third for 121 points from the Baseball Writers’ Asso- ciation of America. He is the eighth manager to win three or more times and is one shy of the record shared by Bobby Cox and Tony La Russa. His A’s went 97-65, a 22-win improvement over 2017, even with a $68.6 mil- lion payroll when the sea- son began. They overcame a 34-36 start to go a big league-best from June 16 on, even though Jharel Cot- ton, A.J. Puk, Sean Manaea, Kendall Graveman, Brett Anderson, Andrew Triggs and several other starting pitchers got hurt. They lost to the New York Yankees in the AL wild-card game. “At the beginning, we were at little bit taken aback by the fact that we lost so many guys early on,” Mel- vin said, “but I think after that it was more kind of a badge of honor that some- one goes down, we have to continue to have expecta- tions to win and know we have depth in our organiza- tion and it’s next man up.” Boston’s Alex Cora was second with seven firsts and 79 points after leading the Red Sox to a team-re- cord 108 wins. Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash was next with five firsts and 57 points. The Rays’ innovation of using a reliever as an “opener” was copied by other teams later in the season, including Oakland. “Based on the fact that we had so many starters go down and our bullpen was our strength, we were look- ing for ways to potentially get better,” Melvin said. “Certainly watching what they did over there and the success they had was partly one of the reasons we looked at it.” Snitker received 17 firsts, nine seconds and one third for 116 points, the only man- ager picked on every NL ballot. Milwaukee’s Craig Counsell was second with 11 firsts and for 99 points. Colorado’s Bud Black was third with 41 points. Snitker played in Atlan- ta’s minor league system from 1977-80, then worked in the minors as a roving instructor (1981), a man- ager at rookie league (1996), Class A (1982-84, 1986-87, 1992, 1997-2001), Dou- ble-A (2002-05), Triple-A (2006, 2014-16) and a coach at rookie level (1993-94) and Class A (1995). He was with Atlanta as bullpen coach (1985 and 1988-90) and third base coach (2007-13). He was managing at Tri- ple-A Gwinnett when he took over Atlanta in May 2016 after Fredi Gonzalez was fired for a 9-28 start. The Braves went 59-65 during the rest of the season, and Snitker was given the job full time. Atlanta went 72-90, and then improved to 90-72 this year, when the Braves lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a four-game Division Series. “Everything I’ve been through, at my age I’m kind of very appreciative of what these guys do,” Snitker said. “I’m not looking to set the world on fire or anything like that. I’m just kind of just enjoying this ride.” SCOREBOARD Local slate Caroline Brehman/Las Vegas Review-Journal First place finisher Thomas Puzey looks back moments after crossing the finish line during the 2018 Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon on the Strip in Las Vegas on Sunday. Puzey wins Las Vegas Marathon By BETSY HELFAND Las Vegas Review-Journal It was around mile three or so that Tommy Riv- ers Puzey found a familiar face on Sunday during the Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon. He had caught up to Kellyn Taylor, who he sometimes trains with when they’re home in Flagstaff, Arizona, and decided to hang by her side. Taylor, Puzey said, wanted to run 5-min- ute, 20-second miles, so the two locked in on that and ran together until the half-marathon and mara- thon courses split off. Taylor, 32, who was running the half-mara- thon, finished first among women at 1 hour, 10 min- utes, 16 seconds, and shortly after, Puzey, 34, finished first among all marathoners in 2:25:54. “Every once in a while, I do workouts with her in Flagstaff and so honestly it felt like we were just back in Flagstaff doing a prac- tice run,” said Puzey, who is a 2003 Hermiston High School graduate. That pace felt good for Puzey, so once they split, he tried to hold it for as long as he could, which was about 22 miles. Then, he said, his legs “kind of fell apart.” It wasn’t anything they planned — in fact, Puzey was supposed to run the JFK 50 Mile next week- end in Washington, D.C., but had to nix that for a work trip to Portugal. Tay- lor was supposed to race Sunday in the Monterey Bay Half Marathon before smoke from wildfires in California forced the can- cellation of that race. “I kind of just read- justed and decided to come out here so we booked a flight last night, I flew in here this morning, got to the hotel at about noon, relaxed for a little bit and then headed down here, crossed my fingers and hoped that this would go well,” Taylor said. Thursday, November 15 Volleyball Blue Mountain vs. Chemeketa (at Taco- ma), 4:30 p.m. Saturday, November 17 Football Pendleton vs. Thurston (at Hillsboro Stadium), 5:30 p.m. Wallowa vs. St. Paul (at Hermiston), noon Vale vs. Rainier (at Hermiston), 4 p.m. Football NCAA Football Top 25 No. 1 Alabama (9-0) beat No. 4 LSU 29-0. Next: vs. No. 21 Mississippi State, Saturday. No. 2 Clemson (9-0) beat Louisville 77-16. Next: at No. 24 Boston College, Saturday. No. 3 Notre Dame (9-0) beat Northwest- ern 31-21. Next: vs. Florida State, Saturday. No. 4 LSU (7-2) lost to No. 1 Alabama 29-0. Next: at Arkansas, Saturday. No. 5 Michigan (8-1) beat No. 14 Penn State 42-7. Next: at Rutgers, Saturday. No. 6 Georgia (8-1) beat No. 11 Kentucky 34-17. Next: vs. Auburn, Saturday. No. 7 Oklahoma (8-1) beat Texas Tech 51- 46. Next: vs. Oklahoma State, Saturday. No. 8 Ohio State (8-1) beat Nebraska 36- 31. Next: at Michigan State, Saturday. No. 9 UCF (8-0) beat Temple 52-40, Thurs- day. Next: vs. Navy, Saturday. No. 10 Washington State (8-1) beat Cali- fornia 19-13. Next: at Colorado, Saturday. No. 11 Kentucky (7-2) lost to No. 6 Geor- gia 34-17. Next: at Tennessee, Saturday. No. 12 West Virginia (7-1) beat No. 15 Texas 42-41. Next: vs. TCU, Saturday. No. 13 Florida (6-3) lost to Missouri 38-17. Next: vs. South Carolina, Saturday. No. 14 Penn State (6-3) lost to No. 5 Mich- igan 42-7. Next: vs. Wisconsin, Saturday. No. 15 Texas (6-3) lost to No. 12 West Virginia 42-41. Next: at Texas Tech, Saturday. No. 16 Utah (6-3) lost to Arizona State 38-20. Next: vs. Oregon, Saturday. No. 17 Houston (7-2) lost to SMU 45-31. Next: vs. Temple, Saturday. No. 18 Utah State (8-1) beat Hawaii 56-17. Next: vs. San Jose State, Saturday. No. 19 Iowa (6-3) lost to Purdue 38-36. Next: vs. Northwestern, Saturday. No. 20 Fresno State (8-1) beat UNLV 48-3. Next: at Boise State, Friday, Nov. 9. No. 21 Mississippi State (6-3) beat Lou- isiana Tech 45-3. Next: at No. 1 Alabama, Saturday. No. 22 Syracuse (7-2) beat Wake Forest 41-24. Next: vs. Louisville, Friday, Nov. 9. No. 23 Virginia (6-3) lost to Pittsburgh 23- 13, Friday. Next: vs. Liberty, Saturday. No. 24 Boston College (7-2) beat Virginia Tech 31-21. Next: vs. No. 2 Clemson, Saturday. No. 25 Texas A&M (5-4) lost to Auburn 28- 24. Next: vs. Mississippi, Saturday. Saturday, November 17 USC at UCLA, 12:30 p.m. Oregon State at Washington, 1:30 p.m. Nevada at San Jose State, 2 p.m. Stanford at California, 4:30 p.m. Arizona State at Oregon, 7:30 p.m. National Football League East W L T Pct PF New England 7 3 0 .700 280 Miami 5 5 0 .500 199 Buffalo 3 7 0 .300 137 N.Y. Jets 3 7 0 .300 208 South W L T Pct PF Houston 6 3 0 .667 216 Tennessee 5 4 0 .556 168 Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 260 Jacksonville 3 6 0 .333 160 North W L T Pct PF Pittsburgh 6 2 1 .722 279 Cincinnati 5 4 0 .556 235 Baltimore 4 5 0 .444 213 Cleveland 3 6 1 .350 218 West W L T Pct PF Kansas City 9 1 0 .900 353 L.A. Chargers 7 2 0 .778 240 Denver 3 6 0 .333 205 Oakland 1 8 0 .111 147 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Washington 6 3 0 .667 176 Dallas 4 5 0 .444 181 Philadelphia 4 5 0 .444 198 N.Y. Giants 2 7 0 .222 177 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 8 1 0 .889 330 Carolina 6 3 0 .667 241 Atlanta 4 5 0 .444 244 Tampa Bay 3 6 0 .333 232 North W L T Pct PF Chicago 6 3 0 .667 269 Minnesota 5 3 1 .611 221 Green Bay 4 4 1 .500 223 Detroit 3 6 0 .333 202 West W L T Pct PF L.A. Rams 9 1 0 .900 335 Seattle 4 5 0 .444 219 Arizona 2 7 0 .222 124 San Francisco 2 8 0 .200 230 PA 236 256 251 254 PA 184 151 239 199 PA 209 288 160 263 PA 240 186 213 272 PA 175 171 183 228 PA 232 232 254 291 PA 175 204 216 244 PA 231 192 225 266 Thursday’s Game Green Bay at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. Sunday’s Games Houston at Washington, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Dallas at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Carolina at Detroit, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Denver at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. Oakland at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 8:20 p.m. Open: Buffalo, San Francisco, Miami, New England, Cleveland, N.Y. Jets Basketball National Basketball League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 12 2 .857 Philadelphia 9 6 .600 Boston 7 6 .538 Brooklyn 6 8 .429 New York 4 10 .286 Southeast Division W L Pct Charlotte 7 6 .538 Orlando 6 8 .429 Miami 5 8 .385 GB — 3½ 4½ 6 8 GB — 1½ 2 Washington Atlanta Central Division 4 3 9 .308 10 .231 3 4 W L Pct Milwaukee 10 3 .769 Indiana 8 6 .571 Detroit 6 6 .500 Chicago 4 10 .286 Cleveland 1 11 .083 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 7 5 .583 Memphis 7 5 .583 New Orleans 7 6 .538 Houston 5 7 .417 Dallas 5 8 .385 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 10 3 .769 Denver 9 4 .692 Oklahoma City 8 5 .615 Utah 7 6 .538 Minnesota 5 9 .357 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 11 3 .786 L.A. Clippers 8 5 .615 Sacramento 8 6 .571 L.A. Lakers 7 6 .538 Phoenix 2 11 .154 GB — 2½ 3½ 6½ 8½ GB — — ½ 2 2½ GB — 1 2 3 5½ GB — 2½ 3 3½ 8½ Monday’s Games Washington 117, Orlando 109 New Orleans 126, Toronto 110 Philadelphia 124, Miami 114 Dallas 103, Chicago 98 Minnesota 120, Brooklyn 113 Oklahoma City 118, Phoenix 101 Utah 96, Memphis 88 Sacramento 104, San Antonio 99 L.A. Clippers 121, Golden State 116, OT Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 113, Charlotte 89 Houston 109, Denver 99 Golden State 110, Atlanta 103 Wednesday’s Games Cleveland at Washington, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Orlando, 4 p.m. Chicago at Boston, 4:30 p.m. Detroit at Toronto, 4:30 p.m. Miami at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m. Memphis at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Minnesota, 5 p.m. New York at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m. Utah at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. San Antonio at Phoenix, 6 p.m. Portland at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m. Hockey EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Tampa Bay 17 12 4 1 Toronto 17 11 6 0 Boston 17 10 5 2 Columbus 18 10 6 2 Montreal 17 9 5 3 Buffalo 17 9 6 2 N.Y. Rangers 18 9 7 2 Philadelphia 17 9 7 1 Carolina 18 8 7 3 N.Y. Islanders 16 8 6 2 Pittsburgh 15 7 5 3 Washington 16 7 6 3 Ottawa 18 7 8 3 Detroit 17 7 8 2 Florida 14 6 5 3 New Jersey 15 6 8 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Nashville 17 13 3 1 Pts 25 22 22 22 21 20 20 19 19 18 17 17 17 16 15 13 GF 63 58 53 58 58 53 52 57 50 49 51 54 62 47 47 45 GA 48 46 41 59 55 52 55 60 54 42 47 56 76 60 45 54 Pts GF GA 27 57 37 Minnesota 17 11 4 2 24 54 44 Vancouver 19 10 7 2 22 61 64 Winnipeg 16 10 5 1 21 51 42 Calgary 18 10 7 1 21 56 56 San Jose 18 9 6 3 21 56 55 Dallas 18 9 7 2 20 51 50 Colorado 17 8 6 3 19 59 50 Anaheim 19 8 8 3 19 44 54 Arizona 16 8 7 1 17 45 39 Edmonton 17 8 8 1 17 46 54 Chicago 18 6 8 4 16 51 67 St. Louis 15 6 6 3 15 52 51 Vegas 18 7 10 1 15 44 54 Los Angeles 16 5 10 1 11 33 50 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Sunday’s Games Minnesota 3, St. Louis 2 Florida 5, Ottawa 1 Arizona 4, Washington 1 Winnipeg 5, New Jersey 2 Boston 4, Vegas 1 San Jose 3, Calgary 1 Colorado 4, Edmonton 1 Monday’s Games Carolina 3, Chicago 2, OT N.Y. Rangers 2, Vancouver 1 Columbus 2, Dallas 1 Anaheim 2, Nashville 1, SO Tuesday’s Games New Jersey 4, Pittsburgh 2 N.Y. Islanders 5, Vancouver 2 Florida 2, Philadelphia 1 Buffalo 2, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 6, Arizona 1 Washington 5, Minnesota 2 Edmonton 6, Montreal 2 Toronto 5, Los Angeles 1 San Jose 5, Nashville 4 Wednesday’s Games Washington at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago, 5 p.m. Boston at Colorado, 7 p.m. Anaheim at Vegas, 7:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games Florida at Columbus, 4 p.m. Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. New Jersey at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m. Detroit at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m. Vancouver at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Nashville at Arizona, 6 p.m. Montreal at Calgary, 6 p.m. Toronto at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. Soccer Major League Soccer Conference Semifinals First leg Eastern Conference Sunday, Nov. 4: Columbus 1, New York 0 Sunday, Nov. 4: Atlanta 1, New York City FC 0 Western Conference Sunday, Nov. 4: Portland 2, Seattle 1 Sunday, Nov. 4: Sporting Kansas City 1, Real Salt Lake 1 Second leg Eastern Conference Sunday, Nov. 11: New York City FC at Atlanta, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11: Columbus at New York, 4:30 p.m. Western Conference Thursday, Nov. 8: Seattle 3, Portland 2 (Portland wins shootout) Sunday, Nov. 11: Real Salt Lake at Sport- ing Kansas City, noon
