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LEGION BASEBALL
HODGEN DISTRIBUTING
SPLITS WITH THE WILD
Staff photo by Benjamin Lonergan
Hodgen Distributing’s catcher Blake Swanson tags out a Mt. Spokane player at home plate during a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon.
Beers gets two homers
against Mt. Spokane in
final home doubleheader
By BRETT KANE
East Oregonian
P
endLeTOn — Hodgen dis-
tributing’s final home appear-
ance of the season may have
ended in a split on Tuesday, but
Ty Beers played some of the best ball
he has all summer.
The incoming Buckaroo junior hit
two home runs, hit 7-for-9, and scored
five runs and five RBIs during the
Pendleton 17u legion team’s double-
header against the visiting Mt. spo-
kane Wild. His performance helped
his team to a 9-8 win in the opener,
but couldn’t save them from dropping
game two, 15-7.
“Ty’s great,” Pendleton head coach
Wes armstrong said. “He’ll occasion-
ally go through some inconsistencies,
but what you’re seeing from him now
is what we got from him during the
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Vogelbach’s
homer lifts
Mariners to first
interleague win
By RICH ROVITO
Associated Press
MILWauKee — daniel Vogel-
bach hit a two-run homer to lift the
seattle Mariners to an 8-3 win over
the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday
night for their first interleague win
in five tries this season.
Marco Gonzales (9-6) pitched
five innings to earn his fourth con-
secutive win for the Mariners, who
are playing at Miller Park for the
first time since 2010. Four Mari-
ners’ relievers shut out the Brewers
over the final four innings.
after the Brewers got a run in
the first, the Mariners scored four
times in the third off Milwaukee
starter Zach davies (7-2). J.P. Craw-
ford drove in a run with a triple and
domingo santana plated another
with a double off the glove of Mil-
waukee shortstop Orlando arcia.
Vogelbach capped it with his 19th
homer, a two-run, 419-foot shot into
the second deck in right.
seattle added two more runs in
the fourth, aided by shoddy field-
ing by the Brewers. Mac William-
son drew a lead-off walk, reached
second on one throwing error and
scored on another. a second run
came across on a Crawford’s ground
out.
dee Gordon’s run-scoring double
in the fifth extended the lead to 7-1.
yasmani Grandal hit a solo
homer and Jesus aguilar had a
run-scoring single for Milwaukee in
the fifth off Gonzales, who gave up
eight hits and three runs.
davies gave up six hits and six
runs in four innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
last half of the high school season.
He’s a strong hitter.”
The Wild was quick to bring the
firepower with a three-run lead in
the top of the first inning, but catcher
Blake Swanson notched a two-RBI
single in the bottom of the inning that
helped Pendleton catch up. It would
secure his perfect 1-for-1 showing in
game one — he drew a pair of walks
as the game progressed.
With two outs on the board, nic
Mariners: RHP Sam Tuivailala,
who is recovering from a torn right
achilles tendon sustained last year,
surrendered five runs (four earned)
and five hits in just two-thirds of
an inning in a rehab assignment on
sunday for Class a everett.
Brewers: OF Lorenzo Cain sat
out after having a cryotherapy pro-
cedure on his right thumb in Los
angeles earlier in the day. “It just
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Eyeing the future, Orioles introduce No. 1 pick Rutschman
By DAVID GINSBURG
Associated Press
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Ori-
oles interrupted their miserable 2019 season
to introduce a sliver of hope for the future:
Adley Rutschman, the top overall pick in the
Major League Baseball draft.
Rutschman sat alongside general man-
ager Mike elias during a news conference
Tuesday at Camden yards before the Orioles
were to face the san diego Padres, whose
most notable player, Manny Machado, was
nabbed by Baltimore with the third selection
in the 2010 draft.
Machado became a star, but the Orioles
traded him away last year in the midst of a
115-loss season because they couldn’t afford
to keep him beyond 2018.
now in the process of a major rebuild,
Elias is counting on Rutschman — a
switch-hitting catcher from Oregon state —
to become a key figure in the team’s rise to
respectability.
after mulling over several options, elias
settled on Rutschman and bestowed upon
him an $8.1 million signing bonus, the larg-
est ever provided to an MLB draft pick.
Elias termed the selection of Rutschman
as “probably the biggest decision this orga-
nization is going to make this year.”
Whether the 21-year-old rises to his
potential will be determined soon enough,
but at this point there is no understating his
importance to a franchise that finished with
the worst record in the majors last year and
appears well on its way to duplicating that
lamentable feat this season.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled, having
him be a part of the process we’re going
through to take this organization back to
where it belongs,” elias said. “We are in
a phase right now where we are looking
for building blocks, and I think by sign-
ing Adley Rutschman, we found a very big
piece.”
Rutschman intended to take batting prac-
tice with the team and was to be introduced
AP Photo/Nick Wass
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Baltimore Orioles first-round draft pick Adley Rutschman takes batting practice before a
baseball game against the San Diego Padres on Tuesday in Baltimore.
SPORTS SHORTS
Breakdancing takes step closer to Olympic debut in Paris
By GRAHAM DUNBAR
Associated Press
Lausanne, switzerland —
Breakdancing moved a step closer to
the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday, and
now organizers can look to book a
street venue in Paris.
Called breaking in Olympic cir-
cles, its medal debut was last Octo-
ber at the Buenos aires youth
summer Games. The street dance
competitions will have 16 athletes
in each of the men’s and women’s
medal events in Paris.
IOC members formally endorsed
requests from Paris officials in Feb-
ruary and their own executive board
in March to provisionally add break-
dancing to the program, pending a
final decision in December 2020.
Paris wants to add four sports to
its program, though the other three
— skateboarding, sport climbing,
and surfing — will make Summer
Games debuts in Tokyo next year.
“It’s important for us in our con-
cept to put sports out of the stadi-
ums and in the heart of the city,”
said Tony estanguet, the Paris 2024
president.
estanguet said the search for a
venue will only start Wednesday
now his fellow International Olym-
pic Committee members have added
their approval.
AP Photo/Jean-Christophe Bott
International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas
Bach from Germany speaks during the 134th Session of the
International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech
Convention Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday.