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East Oregonian
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Tennis: Gauff shocks champ Venus at Wimbledon
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AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer, File
Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard, right, shoots
against Golden State during Game 4 of the Western Con-
ference finals May 20 in Portland.
NBA: Lillard deal
worth $196M
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lion over four years, even
though he’ll miss next sea-
son with an Achilles injury
and could have gotten $221
million for five years from
the Warriors. And Kri-
staps Porzingis, who hasn’t
appeared in an NBA game
since Feb. 6, 2018, because
of a knee injury, will sign a
$158 million, five-year con-
tract to stay with Dallas.
All deals were con-
firmed to The Associ-
ated Press by people with
knowledge of the agree-
ments, all speaking on
condition of anonymity
because the NBA mora-
torium prevents new con-
tracts from being signed
until noon Eastern time on
Saturday.
“From the trade to
the Sixers in February,
through the regular sea-
son and playoffs and now
on to free agency, this con-
tract is a culmination of so
much in my life and basket-
ball career,” Harris wrote
in an essay published on
ESPN.com. “It’s also a new
beginning.”
There were a lot of new
beginnings Sunday.
Jimmy Butler agreed to
a four-year, $142 million
deal that will send him to
Miami. Butler — a close
friend of retired Miami
guard Dwyane Wade —
made clear to the Heat that
he wanted to be in Miami,
and over the next three
hours the basic framework
of a trade was worked out.
Miami is sending Josh
Richardson to Philadelphia
and was still working on a
package to Dallas to make
the Butler move happen.
Goran Dragic was consid-
ered at one time for inclu-
sion in that trade, though
by night’s end he was still
with Miami and the Mavs
and Heat were still working
through options.
At least 10 players
agreed to contracts that
will be worth $100 mil-
lion or more. Lillard, Har-
ris, Middleton, Durant,
Porzingis, Butler, Kemba
Walker ($141 million, four-
year deal with Boston),
Irving, Al Horford ($109
million, four years with
Philadelphia) and Nikola
Vucevic ($100 million, four
years with Orlando) were
the big early winners, with
more likely to come.
Point guards did partic-
ularly well, and will likely
keep doing well.
Lillard, Irving and
Walker guaranteed them-
selves nearly a half-bil-
lion dollars. Terry Rozier
left Boston for Charlotte
— essentially the swap for
Walker — on what will be
a $58 million, three-year
deal that will be completed
via trade. Ricky Rubio also
cashed in, getting $51 mil-
lion for three years from
the Phoenix Suns.
Meanwhile, the Leon-
ard watch continued with
no hints from his camp.
The NBA Finals MVP and
now two-time champion
will meet with the Rap-
tors in the coming days,
Toronto coach Nick Nurse
said.
Nurse didn’t say where
the Raptors will be seeing
Leonard, but said the NBA
champs believe they “have
a really good chance” to
keep him.
“I think he had a tre-
mendous year,” Nurse said
at an event in Jefferson,
Iowa, near his hometown.
“I think it’s a great place.
You guys can see our fans
and ownership is great.
Our front office leadership
is great, his teammates.
You know, everything went
well for him to re-sign.
And probably mostly, on
top of that, would be his
health. He was a guy that
missed a whole season, and
he had a good, healthy year
and played his best basket-
ball in the playoffs.”
In other key deals
Sunday:
• Indiana is set to
acquire 2017 rookie of the
year Malcolm Brogdon
from Milwaukee and sign
the shooting guard to a
four-year, $85 million deal.
• Harrison Barnes, as
expected, is remaining
in Sacramento on what
will be a four-year, $85
million contract.
Hodgen Distributing
goes 3-2 at WW tourney
East Oregonian
Hodgen Distributing
went 3-2 over the weekend
at the Bruin Tournament at
Borleske Stadium in Walla
Walla.
Hodgen opened the
tournament on Thurs-
day with a 16-2 victory
over Washington Rush.
The Pendleton team took
advantage of eight errors
and five walks.
Greysen Clark and
Kyle Field each drove in
two runs, while Clark and
Logan Weinke hit doubles.
Hodgen split its games
on Friday, starting with a
6-4 loss to the Kennewick
Phantoms, and finishing
with a 10-0 win over the
Kennewick Dusters.
Against the Phantoms,
the game was tied at 4-4
after five innings. Kenne-
wick scored two in the top
of the sixth, while Hodgen
failed to manufacture runs
in the bottom half of the
inning to get back in the
game.
Ty Beers had two hits,
including a double, while
Weinke drove in two runs.
Against the Dusters,
Field threw a one-hit-
ter as Hodgen invoked
the 10-run rule after five
innings.
Seattle Tides, which
won the tournament title,
scored three runs in the
top of the seventh, and held
on for a 9-8 win Saturday
over Hodgen.
Pendleton held an 8-4
lead after five innings, but
Seattle scored five runs
over the final two innings
for the win.
Tucker Zander hit a
double and drove in three
runs for Pendleton, while
Cooper Roberts drove in a
pair of runs.
Hodgen finished the
tournament
Sunday
with an 8-5 win over the
La Grande Legends.
Roberts threw four
innings of two-hit ball,
striking out six, while
Nat Hunsaker had a dou-
ble among his three hits.
Beers, Field and Jor-
dan DeGeer all had two
hits as Pendleton outhit
La Grande 13-4.
When it ended, Gauff
dropped her racket and put
her hands on her head. After
a handshake and exchange
of words at the net with Wil-
liams, Gauff knelt by her side-
line chair and tears welled in
her eyes. Up in the stands, her
father leaped out of his seat.
“Honestly, I don’t really
know how to feel. This is the
first time I ever cried after a
match. Or winning, obvi-
ously; I’ve cried after a loss
before,” said Gauff, who is
based in Florida. “I don’t even
know how to explain how I
feel.”
This was her third tour-
level match; Williams has
played more than 1,000. This
was Gauff’s first match at
Wimbledon, where Williams
has played more than 100
and won five titles. By the
time Gauff was born in 2004,
Williams already had spent
time at No. 1 in the rankings
and owned four of her seven
Grand Slam singles trophies.
“It didn’t really seem real,
for a moment,” said Gauff’s
father, Corey, between hand-
shakes and slaps on the back
and requests for selfies from
spectators leaving No. 1
Court. “On the walk to the
court, I was walking behind
her. She was excited. I was
excited. She seemed confi-
dent, but I wasn’t sure if it
was false confidence or she
really was. I just said to her:
This match is really magical.
Just enjoy it. Your first Wim-
bledon main draw and you’re
on a main court against some-
body you looked up to from
the beginning.”
It was by far the most
anticipated match of Day 1 at
the grass-court tournament,
but hardly the only upset.
Two-time major champion
Naomi Osaka, who was No. 1
until a week ago, lost 7-6 (4),
6-2 to Yulia Putinseva, join-
ing two young members of
the men’s top-10, No. 6 seed
AP Photo/Tim Ireland
United States’ Cori “Coco” Gauff, right, greets the United States’s Venus Williams at the net
after winning their Women’s singles match during day one of the Wimbledon Tennis Cham-
pionships in London on Monday.
Alexander Zverev and No. 7
seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, on the
way out.
This one, though, was
special, potentially the sort
of
changing-of-the-guard
moment that people could
remember for years.
Gauff certainly has the
mindset of someone who
intends to go far.
“I’ve said this before: I
want to be the greatest. My
dad told me that I could do this
when I was 8. Obviously you
never believe it. I’m still, like,
not 100 percent confident.
But, like, you have to just say
things. You never know what
happens,” she said. “If I went
into this match saying, ‘Let’s
see how many games I can get
against her,’ then I most defi-
nitely would not have won.
My goal was to play my best.
My dream was to win. That’s
what happened.”
How far does she think she
can fare this fortnight?
“My goal,” she said, her
face expressionless, “is to win
it.”
Well, then ...
Gauff came into the week
outside the top 300 but was
granted a wild card by the All
England Club to enter qual-
ifying. She rolled through
those rounds at a nearby site,
knocking off the event’s top
seed.
But this was a whole other
task.
Gauff was sensational
and showed zero signs that
the moment or the matchup
was too daunting for her. It’s
the sort of unusual calm and
steady way she has progressed
through the various levels of
youth tennis, including reach-
ing the U.S. Open junior final
at 13 and winning the French
Open junior title at 14.
The first set was remark-
able: Gauff had 10 winners
to only two unforced errors,
all the while trading powerful
groundstrokes at the baseline
with Williams, and never fac-
ing a break point.
“The sky’s the limit,” Wil-
liams said. “It really is.”
Gauff, who is black, idol-
ized Williams and her younger
sister, Serena, the first Afri-
can American women since
Althea Gibson in the 1950s
to win a Grand Slam singles
championship.
Serena has said Gauff
reminds her of Venus.
After Monday’s match,
Gauff said she thanked Venus
“for everything she did.”
“I wouldn’t be here if it
wasn’t for her,” said Gauff,
who joined the crowd in
applauding for Venus as she
walked off the court. “And I
was just telling her that she’s
so inspiring. Like, I always
wanted to tell her that. And
even though I met her before,
I guess now I have the guts
to.”
She showed plenty of grit
in this match, particularly
after getting broken to make it
4-all in the second set. Gauff
steadied herself right there,
though, breaking right back
with a pair of forehand pass-
ing shots that drew errant
volleys.
And then in the final game,
Gauff needed to erase the dis-
appointment of wasting her
initial three match points. She
did just that, converting her
fourth when Venus put a fore-
hand into the net.
MLB batters set HR record for second straight month
NEW YORK (AP) — A
month after setting a record
for most home runs in a
month, big league batters
did it again and are on pace
to shatter the season mark.
The Elias Sports Bureau
said Monday that batters
hit 1,142 home runs in June,
seven more than in May.
Five of the top six home
run months have been in the
last three years. August 2017
is third at 1,119, followed
by June 2017 (1,101), May
2000 (1,069) and May 2017
(1,060).
A total of 3,421 home
runs were hit in 1,255 games
through Sunday, an average
of 2.73 per game. That is up
19% from the 2.28 average
through June last year, when
2,822 home runs were hit in
1,236 games. Batters are on
pace to hit 6,624 home runs
— well above the record
6,105 set in 2017 and up
TENNIS
Roberto Bautista-Agut (23), Spain, def.
Peter Gojowczyk, Germany, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.
Benoit Paire (28), France, def. Juan Igna-
cio Londero, Argentina, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4,
7-6 (4).
Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, def. Roberto
Carballes Baena, Spain, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.
Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, def. Damir
Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 4-6, 7-6
(8), 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, def. Alex-
ander Zverev (6), Germany, 4-6, 6-3,
6-2, 7-5.
from 5,585 last year.
Milwaukee’s
Chris-
tian Yelich leads the major
leagues with 29 home runs,
followed by New York Mets
rookie Peter Alonso (28) and
the Los Angeles Dodgers’
Cody Bellinger (27).
A year after strikeouts
surpassed hits for the first
time, whiffs remain ahead:
21,871 to 21,554. While there
were more strikeouts than
hits in March (949 to 848)
and April (6,799 to 6,371),
hitting has picked up in the
warmer months. There were
7,170 hits to 7,137 strikeouts
in May and 7,165 hits to 6,986
strikeouts in June.
The major league batting
average was .251 through
June. That is up three per-
centage points from last
year’s average, the lowest
since 1972 — the year before
the American League started
using the designated hitter.
SCOREBOARD
WIMBLEDON RESULTS
LONDON (AP) — Results Monday from
Wimbledon at The All England Lawn
Tennis & Croquet Club (seedings in
parentheses):
MEN’S SINGLES
First Round
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Philipp
Kohlschreiber, Germany, 6-3, 7-5, 6-3.
Denis Kudla, United States, def. Malek
Jaziri, Tunisia, 6-4, 6-1, 6-3.
Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, def. Ernests
Gulbis, Latvia, 6-1, 7-6 (12), 6-2.
Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, def. Dusan
Lajovic (32), Serbia, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Felix Auger Aliassime (19), Canada, def.
Vasek Pospisil, Canada, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3.
Corentin Moutet, France, def. Grigor
Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 2-6, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3,
6-1.
Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Lorenzo
Sonego, Italy, 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-4.
Ugo Humbert, France, def. Gael Monfils
(16), France, 6-7 (6), 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, 3-0, ret.
Daniil Medvedev (11), Russia, def. Paolo
Lorenzi, Italy, 6-3, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2).
Alexei Popyrin, Australia, def. Pablo Car-
reno-Busta, Spain, 7-6 (2), 7-5, 6-2.
Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Martin Kli-
zan, Slovakia, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-4.
David Goffin (21), Belgium, def. Bradley
Klahn, United States, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
Kyle Edmund (30), Britain, def. Jaume
Antoni Munar Clar, Spain, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
Fernando Verdasco, Spain, def. Kamil
Majchrzak, Poland, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, def. Andrea Arn-
aboldi, Italy, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4).
Thomas Fabbiano, Italy, def. Stefanos
Tsitsipas (7), Greece, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-7
(8), 6-3.
Kevin Anderson (4), South Africa, def.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, 6-3,
6-4, 6-2.
Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, def. Yoshihito
Nishioka, Japan, 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-2, 5-7, 6-2.
Andreas Seppi, Italy, def. Nicolas Jarry,
Chile, 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-1, 6-2.
Guido Pella (26), Argentina, def. Marius
Copil, Romania, 7-6 (11), 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
Stan Wawrinka (22), Switzerland, def.
Ruben Bemelmans, Belgium, 6-3, 6-2,
6-2.
Reilly Opelka, United States, def. Ced-
rik-Marcel Stebe, Germany, 6-3, 7-6 (4),
6-1.
Robin Haase, Netherlands, def. Jozef
Kovalik, Slovakia, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1.
Milos Raonic (15), Canada, def. Prajnesh
Gunneswaran, India, 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-2.
Karen Khachanov (10), Russia, def. Soon
Woo Kwon, Republic of Korea, 7-6 (6),
6-4, 4-6, 7-5.
Feliciano Lopez Diaz-Guerra, Spain,
def. Marcos Giron, United States, 6-4,
6-2, 6-4.
Steve Darcis, Belgium, def. Mischa
Zverev, Germany, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.
WOMEN’S SINGLES
First Round
Elina Svitolina (8), Ukraine, def. Daria
Gavrilova, Australia, 7-5, 6-0.
Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, def. Anna-
Lena Friedsam, Germany, 6-4, 6-4.
Marie Bouzkova, Czech Republic, def.
Mona Barthel, Germany, 6-3, 6-3.
Maria Sakkari (31), Greece, def. Bernarda
Pera, United States, 7-6 (4), 6-3.
Petra Martic (24), Croatia, def. Jennifer
Brady, United States, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Anastasia Potapova, Russia, def. Jil Teich-
mann, Switzerland, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Danielle Rose Collins, United States, def.
Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 7-5.
Anastasija Sevastova (12), Latvia, def.
Kristie Haerim Ahn, United States, 6-3,
6-4.
Madison Brengle, United States, def.
Marketa Vondrousova (16), Czech
Republic, 6-4, 6-4.
Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, def.
Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 7-5, 6-2.
Heather Watson, Britain, def. Caty
McNally, United States, 7-6 (3), 6-2.
Anett Kontaveit (20), Estonia, def. Shelby
Rogers, United States, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4.
Su-Wei Hsieh (28), Taiwan, def. Jelena
Ostapenko, Latvia, 6-2, 6-2.
Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, def. Dalila Jak-
upovic, Slovenia, 6-1, 6-3.
Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, def. Anna-Kar-
olina Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5.
Karolina Pliskova (3), Czech Republic,
def. Lin Zhu, China, 6-2, 7-6 (4).
Simona Halep (7), Romania, def. Aliak-
sandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 6-4, 7-5.
Mihaela Buzarnescu, Romania, def. Jes-
sica Pegula, United States, 6-4, 6-4.
Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, def. Alize Cor-
net, France, 6-4, 6-4.
Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, def. Daria
Kasatkina (29), Russia, 6-3, 6-1.
Madison Keys (17), United States, def.
Luksika Kumkhum, Thailand, 6-3, 6-2.
Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Viktoria
Kuzmova, Slovakia, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5.
Cori Gauff, United States, def. Venus Wil-
liams, United States, 6-4, 6-4.
Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, def.
Aryna Sabalenka (10), Belarus, 6-2, 6-4.
Caroline Wozniacki (14), Denmark, def.
Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 5-4, ret.
Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, def.
Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgium, 6-2, 6-4.
Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def.
Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, 6-4, 6-3.
Shuai Zhang, China, def. Caroline Garcia
(23), France, 6-4, 6-0.
Sofia Kenin (27), United States, def. Astra
Sharma, Australia, 6-4, 6-2.
Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, def. Camila
Giorgi, Italy, 6-3, 6-3.
Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, def. Iga
Swiatek, Poland, 6-2, 7-6 (3).
BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East
W
L
Pct
GB
New York
54
28
.659
—
Tampa Bay
49
36
.576
6½
Boston
44
40
.524
11
Toronto
32
53
.376
23½
Baltimore
24
60
.286
31
Central
W
L
Pct
GB
Minnesota
53
30
.639
—
Cleveland
45
38
.542
8
Chicago
39
42
.481
13
Detroit
27
52
.342
24
Kansas City
29
56
.341
25
West
W
L
Pct
GB
Houston
53
32
.624
—
Texas
46
38
.548
6½
Oakland
46
39
.541
7
Los Angeles
42
43
.494
11
Seattle
37
51
.420
17½
———
Sunday’s Games
N.Y. Yankees 12, Boston 8
Cleveland 2, Baltimore 0
Kansas City 7, Toronto 6
Tampa Bay 6, Texas 2
Washington 2, Detroit 1
Chicago White Sox 4, Minnesota 3
Houston 6, Seattle 1
Oakland 12, L.A. Angels 3
Monday’s Games
L.A. Angels at Texas, ppd.
Toronto 11, Kansas City 4
Tampa Bay 6, Baltimore 3
Tuesday’s Games
Boston (Price 5-2) at Toronto (Thornton
2-5), 4:07 p.m.
Baltimore (Bundy 3-10) at Tampa Bay
(Morton 8-2), 4:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Paxton 5-3) at N.Y. Mets
(Wheeler 6-5), 4:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Canning 3-4) at Texas (Minor
8-4), 5:05 p.m.
Detroit (Boyd 5-6) at Chicago White Sox
(Lopez 4-7), 5:10 p.m.
Houston (Urquidy 0-0) at Colorado (Mar-
quez 8-3), 5:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Bauer 6-6) at Kansas City
(Junis 4-7), 5:15 p.m.
Minnesota (Odorizzi 10-3) at Oakland
(Mengden 2-1), 7:07 p.m.
St. Louis (Flaherty 4-5) at Seattle (Carasiti
0-0), 7:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 11:10 a.m.,
1st game
Boston at Toronto, 4:07 p.m.
Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels at Texas, 5:05 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.,
2nd game
Houston at Colorado, 5:10 p.m.
Cleveland at Kansas City, 5:15 p.m.
Minnesota at Oakland, 6:07 p.m.
St. Louis at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
All Times PDT
East
W
L
Pct
GB
Atlanta
50 35 .588
—
Philadelphia
44 40 .524
5½
Washington
42 41 .506
7
New York
38 47 .447
12
Miami
32 50 .390 16½
Central
W
L
Pct
GB
Milwaukee
46 39 .541
—
Chicago
45 40 .529
1
St. Louis
41 41 .500
3½
Pittsburgh
40 43 .482
5
Cincinnati
38 44 .463
6½
West
W
L
Pct
GB
Los Angeles
57 29 .663
—
Colorado
44 40 .524
12
San Diego
42 41 .506 13½
Arizona
43 43 .500
14
San Francisco 36 47 .434 19½
———
Sunday’s Games
Cincinnati 8, Chicago Cubs 6
Philadelphia 13, Miami 6
Washington 2, Detroit 1
Milwaukee 2, Pittsburgh 1
L.A. Dodgers 10, Colorado 5
San Francisco 10, Arizona 4
St. Louis 5, San Diego 3 (11)
N.Y. Mets 8, Atlanta 5
Monday’s Games
Pittsburgh 18, Chicago Cubs 5
Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 6
San Francisco at San Diego, late
Tuesday’s Games
Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 7-5) at Pitts-
burgh (Musgrove 6-7), 4:05 p.m.
Miami (Gallen 0-1) at Washington
(Corbin 7-5), 4:05 p.m.
Milwaukee (Anderson 4-2) at Cincinnati
(Roark 5-6), 4:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Paxton 5-3) at N.Y. Mets
(Wheeler 6-5), 4:10 p.m.
Philadelphia (Nola 6-2) at Atlanta
(Keuchel 1-1), 4:20 p.m.
Houston (Urquidy 0-0) at Colorado (Mar-
quez 8-3), 5:10 p.m.
Arizona (Clarke 2-3) at L.A. Dodgers
(Stripling 3-2), 7:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Beede 1-3) at San Diego
(Strahm 3-6), 7:10 p.m.
St. Louis (Flaherty 4-5) at Seattle (Carasiti
0-0), 7:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Miami at Washington, 3:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m.
Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m.
Philadelphia at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m.
Houston at Colorado, 5:10 p.m.
San Francisco at San Diego, 6:10 p.m.
Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.
St. Louis at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.
Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, def. Naomi
Osaka (2), Japan, 7-6 (4), 6-2.