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E AST O REGONIAN TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2019 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS | FACEBOOK.COM/EOSPORTS A8 Martinez scores again as Atlanta beats Portland 2-0 By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press PORTLAND — Josef Martinez extended his MLS-record scoring streak to 11 games, helping Atlanta United beat the Portland Timbers 2-0 on Sunday night. Atlanta (14-9-3) has won three straight and fi ve of its last six games. United moved atop the Eastern Conference standings, even on points with Philadelphia but ahead on total wins. “I’m so happy for the team, for the three points, and we have to keep going,” Martinez said. Portland (11-10-4) had won two in a row. It was the third of a 10-game homestand for the Timbers, who started the season with a 12-game trip because of construction at Prov- idence Park. Fighting to stay in play- off contention, the Timbers hope to use the homestand to climb in the standings down the stretch. It was a rematch of last year’s MLS Cup fi nal. United, in just its second year in the league, defeated Portland 2-0 in Atlanta for the championship. Martinez, the defending MLS MVP, has 21 goals this year, one more than the Galaxy’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic for second on the season list behind LAFC’s Carlos Vela, who has 24. On Wednesday, Martinez scored on a penalty kick in the 65th min- ute and United gave MLS rare bragging rights over Liga MX with a 3-2 victory over Club America for the Campeones Cup. Martinez scored in the 46th min- ute against the Timbers, a blast from 20 yards out that goalkeeper Steve Clark could only watch sail into the net. “You’ve got to give credit to them, because that second goal, I think it was cold water thrown at us, and it became diffi cult,” Timbers coach Giovanni Savarese said. “We were still able to make it diffi cult and go at them, but unfortunately we couldn’t fi nd the right moment to capitalize.” United went up in the 14th min- ute. Atlanta’s corner kick was batted around in front of Clark before Lean- dro Gonzalez Pirez tapped it in. It appeared that Brian Fernan- dez responded for the Timbers in the 23rd minute, but it was called offside and there was no VAR review. In the 35th, it looked as if Fer- nandez had an open shot from about three yards out that he chipped over the bar. The offside fl ag again went See Soccer, Page A9 Let the games begin AP Photo/Chris O’Meara Seattle Mariners’ Austin Nola lines an RBI-single off Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher Chaz Roe during the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Se- attle’s Tim Lopes scored. Murphy, Nola lead Mariners 9-3 over Rays By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tom Murphy homered twice and drove in four runs, Austin Nola also went deep and had three RBIs, and the Seattle Mariners beat the play- off-contending Tampa Bay Rays 9-3 on Monday night. Murphy, who had three hits and a walk, hit a three-run drive in the fi rst inning and added a solo shot in the fi fth. He has 15 homers in 52 games. Nola had a two-run homer during a four-run second off Rays two-way player Brendan McKay (2-3) and had an RBI single in the fourth. Marco Gonzales (13-10) went fi ve innings, giving up three runs and fi ve hits to get the win. Tommy Pham and Austin Mead- ows homered for Tampa Bay, which is 2-2 on a six-game homestand against Detroit and Seattle. The Rays had their lead over Oakland for the second AL wild card cut to one game. Tampa Bay dropped to 33-30 at home, which matched the total num- ber of losses at Tropicana Field (51- 30) all of last season. McKay struggled again, allow- ing seven runs, three hits and three walks over two innings. The lefty was coming off an outing last Tues- day at San Diego where he gave up four runs, fi ve hits and six walks in Staff photo by Ben Lonergan Members of the Pendleton football team square up across the line during the fi rst day of practice on Monday. Monday marked the fi rst practice of the fall sports season for OSAA teams By BRETT KANE East Oregonian P ENDLETON — When Travis McGee stepped back onto the fi eld for his fi rst practice of his last year as a Pendleton Buckaroo, he was hit with a bittersweet feeling. “It’s weird — it almost feels like a differ- ent experience because it’s my senior year,” he said after practice, watching on as his team- mates prepared to hit the locker room. “It doesn’t feel new, but it feels exciting. It’s great, really.” That excitement McGee felt was a sen- timent likely shared with high school ath- letes all across the state — Monday marked the fi rst offi cial day of the football, volley- ball, cross-country, and soccer seasons for all OSAA teams. The Bucks could be seen on the practice fi eld running drills in the 90-degree heat for the fi rst time this season on Monday after- noon, although it wasn’t the fi rst time they Staff photo by Ben Lonergan Pendleton’s Aiden Gunter takes a hit during the fi rst day of football practice on Monday af- ternoon. started preparing for the fall slate. “We spent four days in conditioning camp last week,” head coach Erik Davis said, “so we knew where everyone was athletically. We knew were everyone stood.” The Bucks are coming off of a nearly-spot- less season where they went 6-0 to win the league, but incurred a 51-30 loss to Thurston in the 5A semifi nals. It would be their second of just two losses that season. See Football, Page A9 See Baseball, Page A9 SPORTS SHORTS Al Jackson, tough left-hander on original Mets, dies at 83 NEW YORK (AP) — Al Jack- son, a tough left-hander who pro- vided a rare glint of hope in the early days of the woebegone New York Mets, has died at 83. His death was announced by the Mets, for whom he worked for 50 years as a pitcher, major league coach, minor league pitch- ing coordinator and front-of- fi ce adviser. He died Monday at a nursing home in Port St. Lucie, Florida, after a long illness. The Mets said in a statement it would be “impossible to calculate the number of players and staff he touched and infl uenced during his career.” Jackson pitched in the majors for 10 seasons, and no season was more challenging than the one in 1962 when the expansion Mets entered the majors and lost 120 games. “Lit- tle” Al Jackson, although he was 5-foot-10, had a record of 8-20 and 4.40 ERA. The next two years he went 13-17 and 11-16. Jackson was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1966 for Ken Boyer. He joined the majors with Pittsburgh in 1959 and for his career went 67-99 with a 3.98 ERA. He later was pitching coach for the Boston Red Sox and Balti- more Orioles. Jackson was born in Waco, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Nadine, sons Reggie and Barry and two grandchildren. In this April 15, 2015, fi le photo, former New York Mets player Al Jackson, who pitched for the Mets from 1962-65, throws out the fi rst ceremonial pitch be- fore a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citi Field in New York. AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File
