SEATTLE (AP) — Once Josh Jacobs slipped past the last line of Seattle’s defense, all that was in front of him was open field and a place among the greatest single-game performances in NFL history.

Jacobs sprinted 86 yards for a game-ending touchdown and the Las Vegas Raiders won in overtime for the second straight week, beating the Seahawks 40-34 on Sunday.

“When I hit the gap, I see a big hole and I just tried to run as fast as I can,” Jacobs said.

Jacobs finished with a franchise record of 229 yards rushing and two scores. He also had six catches for 74 yards, and his 303 yards from scrimmage were the most in franchise history and the seventh-most in a game in the Super Bowl era.

Jacobs had never had a touchdown run longer than 28 yards, and his extraordinary dash was reminiscent of the Raiders’ Bo Jackson running untouched for a long TD against the Seahawks at the Kingdome on Nov. 30, 1987.

Not bad for a guy who’d been listed as questionable for the game with a calf injury. There was nothing uncertain about Jacobs’ play once he took the field.

“To see him finish like that, I know what he’s been dealing with, I know how hard he works. It was really cool to see that,” Raiders quarterback Derek Carr said.

Las Vegas (4-7) finished with 283 yards rushing and its 576 total yards were the third-most ever allowed by the Seahawks (6-5), who fell one game behind San Francisco in the NFC West.

“He’s hard to bring down. He’s a tough runner with good balance. You really gotta wrap him up,” Seattle defensive tackle Shelby Harris said. “He’s not one of those backs that gets touched and falls. He makes his money off breaking tackles and getting those extra yards.”

Las Vegas forced overtime thanks to Carr’s 5-yard touchdown toss to Foster Moreau in the corner of the end zone with 1:54 remaining that made it 34-all. Carr threw an interception on the first play of the game but finished 25 of 36 for 295 yards and three touchdowns.

The Raiders also got a break when Jacobs appeared to fumble inside the 10 just before Moreau’s touchdown catch, but officials ruled his forward progress had been stopped.

“It started from the first play to the last play. The first play is an interception and the last play is a touchdown,” Raiders coach Josh McDaniels said. “There was a lot of swings in the game.”

Seattle lost its second straight after falling to Tampa Bay two weeks ago in Germany. Geno Smith was 27 of 37 for 328 yards and two touchdowns. But Seattle’s rushing attack struggled for the second straight game, although Kenneth Walker III ran for two TDs.

In overtime, Daniel Carlson missed a 56-yard field goal attempt on Las Vegas’ first possession. But Seattle went three-and-out, and on the next play from scrimmage, Jacobs broke free.

Jacobs became the fourth player in the Super Bowl era with at least 300 scrimmage yards and two touchdowns in a game, and the first since Adrian Peterson set the single-game record for rushing yards (296) in 2007. He’s the first player since at least 1950 with at least 225 yards rushing and 70 yards receiving in the same game.

“It’s kind of crazy, coming in and not knowing if I was going to play, looking the guys in the eyes and telling them they’re going to get everything they’ve got in me,” Jacobs said.

The 86-yard TD run was the fourth-longest overtime touchdown in league history.

“Josh was really terrific today. He had a great game and we didn’t tackle as well as we needed to and we didn’t scheme as well as we needed to,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.

For most of the game, it appeared Las Vegas would squander its chance to win despite its unstoppable rushing attack. McDaniels twice decided to kick field goals instead of keeping his offense on the field. He also called a head-scratching toss sweep to Jacobs on fourth down in the fourth quarter that Seattle stopped.

But Carr was terrific on the tying drive in regulation. He went 6 of 8, including a spectacular one-handed catch by Davante Adams for 28 yards, and he floated the touchdown pass to Moreau perfectly into the back corner.

Seattle had a final chance to win in regulation and appeared to have a first down near midfield on Smith’s pass to DK Metcalf with 57 seconds left. But after a lengthy review it was determined Metcalf didn’t have control of the ball as he rolled over and hit the sideline. Smith was sacked by Maxx Crosby on the next play and Seattle punted.

INJURIES

Raiders DT Andrew Billings limped off the field in the fourth quarter and was later carted to the locker room. … Seattle S Ryan Neal suffered an elbow injury in overtime and backup Josh Jones took a poor angle on Jacobs’ winning run.

THROWBACKS

The Seahawks announced that sometime during the 2023 season the team will wear throwback uniforms with the silver helmets, blue jerseys and silver pants Seattle sported in the 1990s.

UP NEXT

Raiders: Host the Los Angeles Chargers next Sunday.

Seahawks: At the Los Angeles Rams next Sunday.

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LAS VEGAS – Gonzaga’s offense was humming along with a shooting percentage in the mid 60s well into the second half. It was easy to overlook the converse at the other end of the court. San Francisco was in the low 30s.

With USF All-WCC center Yauhen Massalski sidelined due to a knee injury, even more of the offensive burden fell on the talented backcourt tandem of Jamaree Bouyea and Khalil Shabazz.

The Dons, and Shabazz in particular, heated up later in the second half to make the closing minutes uncomfortable for GU in an 81-71 win Monday, but Bouyea never found his comfort zone against the Zags’ defense.

Bouyea, who joined Massalski as a first-team All-WCC selection, had one of his worst nights in an otherwise outstanding senior season. He was limited to five points, made only 1 of 11 shots and misfired on all seven of his 3-point attempts.

The credit for that goes to GU guards Rasir Bolton, Nolan Hickman and occasionally Andrew Nembhard as primary defenders on Bouyea, with Chet Holmgren’s rim protection also playing a key role.

“Bouyea is a phenomenal point guard,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. “He’ll give you nightmares the night before a game. He manipulates any coverage you do with ball screens. He can score at all three levels.

“He just had one of those nights. We did a good job. Playing him three times, guys had a really good feel of what he’s been successful with. Having Chet back there defensively is such a nice advantage. You can really crowd guys (outside) and funnel them into Chet and they always know he’s there.”

Bouyea has been one of the conference’s most productive players, averaging 17.1 points per game, hitting nearly 48% of his shots, including 38.4% from distance. His performance has put him on the radar of NBA scouts and he’s appeared in several mock drafts.

He couldn’t get untracked against the Zags. He was limited to his third lowest scoring output of the season (two points vs. Saint Mary’s, four points vs. Arizona State).

“We have really good guards that can penetrate and usually rim finish,” San Francisco coach Todd Golden said. “Jamaree is one of the best in the country at that. Chet just makes it really hard on him. He had some trouble finishing inside and that usually gets him going. He’s able to get downhill and make some tough finishes around the rim and it kind of loosens him up.

“Not having Yauhen out there was definitely part of it, too. He’s a really good secondary playmaker. We weren’t ourselves. We had to make a big adjustment going into this game. It took us a while to figure that out.”

Gonzaga slowed down Shabazz, a second-team All-WCC selection, for 20 minutes. He was 2 of 9 from the field and had just four points as the Zags constructed a 47-27 halftime lead.

Shabazz turned it around, nailing five second-half 3-pointers and finishing with 27 points. He was 10 of 25 from the field, moving his three-game total against Gonzaga this season to 21 of 59 (35.5%).

“It’s two halves,” Shabazz said. “Regardless of what happens in the first half, whether you’re hot or you’re not, just keep shooting, trust yourself, your shot, the play.”

Bouyea had a 25-point effort against the Zags in January and 14 points in the rematch on Feb. 24. He’s 16 of 46 (34.8%) in three games vs. Gonzaga.

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Aaron Rodgers understands his hopes for a second Super Bowl title with the Green Bay Packers are running out of time.

The 38-year-old quarterback’s final postseason run begins Saturday night as he attempts to beat the team that has served as the three-time MVP’s greatest nemesis in the playoffs.

Rodgers has a 0-3 playoff record against the San Francisco 49ers, despite beating them in the regular season for the past two years. The top-ranked Packers (13-4) and 49ers (11-7) face off again Saturday night in an NFC division playoff game at Lambeau Field.

“I think mortality in football is something we all think about,” Rodgers said. “And we all think about how many opportunities are presented to us to move forward, and each one is special.”

Since stumbling to a 3-5 start, the 49ers have won eight of 10 while showing a knack for delivering away. They secured a playoff spot by recovering from a 17-0 deficit to win an away game in overtime with the Los Angeles Rams and followed that up with a 23-17 wildcard win in Dallas.

Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo says San Francisco’s slow start prompted the 49ers to adopt a playoff mentality prematurely.

“When you put that pressure on your team early on, it creates a mindset,” Garoppolo said. “It creates an atmosphere of urgency in the dressing room that we need to win now and make some plays.”

The Packers defeated the 49ers 30-28 on the road on September 26, with the 49ers erasing a 17-0 deficit and taking the lead in the last minute before Rodgers Green Bay for Mason Crosby’s 51-yard field goal positioned time up. The Packers also beat the 49ers away from home last season, 34-17.

But the 49ers can draw on their successful postseason history against Rodgers’ Packers, including a 37-20 win in the NFC Championship game two seasons ago.

“This is a special opportunity,” Rodgers said. “We’re not going to make it bigger than it is. We’ve come to the point where we’re level headed and balanced and haven’t triggered a roller coaster of emotions, and we will continue to do the same. So if it was good enough to get us this far, it’s good enough to get us past this point.”

DYNAMIC DEEBO

Deebo Samuel has added another role to his all-round squad.

The dynamic receiver and runner showed off his forecasting skills last week. After San Francisco intercepted a pass, Samuel challenged coach Kyle Shanahan to get him the ball and he would score. Shanahan called a handoff on the next play, and Samuel took it 26 yards for a TD.

“I’ve been doing this for a long time and I’ve never been anywhere near a football player who’s done his own thing,” said Mike McDaniel, 49ers offensive coordinator. “I go to basketball, but when you play with 22 people on the field, 11 of them try to attack you with all their might. And you’re just like, ‘Hey, yeah, give me the ball, I’ll put the ball in the box’, and for him that was a special moment that only a special player could achieve.”

Samuel has 1,880 yards from scrimmage and 15 touchdowns this season, including the playoffs.

STAY DISCIPLINE

Green Bay’s most obvious concern is slowing down a 49ers rushing attack. Elijah Mitchell and Samuel ran 168 yards together against the Cowboys.

The Packers say they also need to pay attention to what linebacker De’Vondre Campbell described as “eye candy.” Campbell was referring to various shifts and pre-snap moves that Shanahan uses to trick defenders into looking the wrong way.

“The way he designs his plays, the moves, and all the different kinds of shifts and all that kind of stuff, it’s something that draws everyone’s attention,” said Packers defensive tackle Kenny Clark. “So if your eyes are in the wrong place, if you’re not doing your job or doing what you’re trained to do, he can take advantage of that.”

VIOLATION UPDATES

Packer’s offensive tackle David Bakhtiari (knee) and cornerback Jaire Alexander (shoulder) are questionable and wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling (back) is iffy. The Packers are awaiting wide receiver Randall Cobb (core) and offensive tackle Billy Turner (knee) after injuries knocked them out for the latter part of the regular season.

49ers defensive end Nick Bosa (concussion), cornerback Ambry Thomas (knee) and defensive end Jordan Willis (ankle) are questionable. Bosa was deleted from the concussion log.

DEFEND DAVANTE

Green Bay’s Davante Adams caught 12 passes for 132 yards and a touchdown in the Packers’ regular-season win over the 49ers.

San Francisco is stronger in the secondary now than it was in September thanks to Thomas’ late-season appearance, but defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans knows slowing Adams will be a tall order.

“They make it difficult because they move Davante great,” Ryans said. “He doesn’t stay in one place. He can move into the slot. He can play outside. He is everywhere.”

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The forecast for Saturday in Green Bay calls for a high of 19 degrees with a low of 7, although no snow is expected.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Stephen Curry’s pre-game warm-up had a little extra flair with so many people watching again. He loved seeing all the familiar ushers as he drove to the arena three hours early. He thanked fans for their patience and perseverance during a pandemic before pointing out.

Curry scored 32 points, Draymond Green added 19 assists and 12 rebounds, and the Golden State Warriors greeted fans for the first time since the pandemic began by beating the Denver Nuggets 118-97 on Friday night.

“Just a little different from inside and outside the arena,” said Curry. “I know you have to take it slow and obviously protect everyone, but increase the number of people who can get into the building and slowly but surely return to a full, overcrowded home where this energy is unmatched. We on the ground, we live on it. You try to make it when it’s an empty arena, you do your best, but it makes a big difference with the fans. “

Nikola Jokic scored 19 points for Denver in a matchup of MVP candidates with Curry, who, 33.7 seconds back in the third game, received a rare technique when attempting a foul call. Michael Porter Jr. led the nuggets with 26 points, hitting seven 3-pointers.

Denver striker Will Barton dropped into the game 59 seconds with a strained right Achilles tendon and never returned. It hit the baseline awkwardly under the basket of nuggets.

“Our boys have regrouped,” said Nuggets coach Michael Malone. “Will has perished. He went down early and then we had to find other guys to jump in and play. But I think you all are fishing for the fact that we lost this game to Will’s injury. Don’t excuse us. Will Barton went down, he’s hurt, and we sympathize with him. But we all get paid on the first and the 15th, do your job. We didn’t do our job tonight – not me, the players didn’t do it and that’s unacceptable. “

Fans shouted “MVP! MVP! “For Curry, who scored 11 for 18 with four 3s and also got eight rebounds in his 12th 30-point performance in the last 13 games and the 29th of the season.

“I’m not surprised. I think it’s a no-brainer,” Mychal Mulder said.

Jordan Poole knocked down a corner 3-pointer to hit the buzzer that ended the third when Golden State received another big boost from its bench to win a third straight home game. Poole finished with 15 points and Kelly Oubre Jr. 23 in his new reserve role.

“It’s a new role for Kelly, but you can see how he accepted it, how he handled it,” said coach Steve Kerr.

The Warriors started with nine of their last 13 games at home – where they had not played with fans in the building for 409 days. The number of participants was 1,935, with the team hoping for around 2,000 people.

Fans were greeted with a special video board message – Welcome Home – a limited number of player family members and guests were the only ones in attendance.

The exhausted Warriors greeted Juan Toscano-Anderson from the concussion log after suffering a dangerous fall and cutting his head in Boston last week. He started at 6:08 a.m. in the first quarter to great cheers and contributed nine points and eight rebounds.

“Having fans is always fun, especially after playing in empty gyms,” said Toscano-Anderson. “I appreciate all the fans. Greetings to all important employees who made this possible. “

Golden State shot 53.6% and had 39 assists.

“You have to find a way to get stops and we just didn’t want that tonight,” said Malone, disgusted, whose Denver team shot 38.6%.

CURRY THE ENTERTAINER

Curry clearly loved getting fans back for entertainment by going through a dazzling warmup in which he kicked basketballs up towards the huge video scoreboard and had fun – waving to a cheering group above the tunnel after he finished his pre-game job would have.

The two-time MVP took a moment before the hint to thank the fans for their patience in this “unprecedented situation”.

“There was so much energy in the building tonight and a reminder of what we missed,” said Kerr. “Just I guess a few thousand, but it felt like a lot more. Just such a welcome sight. “

FIRST FAN

Anthony Calvo, 27, from San Ramon, was honored as the first fan to be honored at the Chase Center. Brandon Schneider, COO of New Warriors, greeted him at the door around 4:50 pm after Calvo arrived at 10:30 am to take his COVID test

A Redwood City employee who is helping procure school supplies for youth in need planned to connect with Ms. Kerissa after the game for her planned weekend getaway in Big Sur.

He received a # 1 First Fan Back Uniform and signed equipment from the team.

TIP-INS

Nuggets: Barton was injured on the Golden State home floor after Jamal Murray tore his cruciate ligament in his left knee and had to undergo surgery on April 12 against the Warriors here late on game day. … Denver had won its two previous ones on the road.

Warriors: F Damion Lee and G Kent Bazemore are both on the league’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols. … The Warriors didn’t train on Thursday or hold a shootaround on Friday and Kerr expects limited practice on the track to keep his team fresh. “The players need more rest than work at this point,” he said.

NEXT

Nuggets: Host Houston in a road-home back-to-back on Saturday to beat this season’s three matchups with the Rockets.

Warriors: Host Sacramento on Sunday after losing four out of five to the Kings.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Stephen Curry’s pre-game warm-up had a little extra flair with so many people watching again. He loved seeing all the familiar ushers as he drove to the arena three hours early. He thanked fans for their patience and perseverance during a pandemic before pointing out.

Curry scored 32 points, Draymond Green added 19 assists and 12 rebounds, and the Golden State Warriors greeted fans for the first time since the pandemic began by beating the Denver Nuggets 118-97 on Friday night.

“Just a little different from inside and outside the arena,” said Curry. “I know you have to take it slow and obviously protect everyone, but increase the number of people who can get into the building and slowly but surely return to a full, overcrowded home where this energy is unmatched. We on the ground, we live on it. You try to make it when it’s an empty arena, you do your best, but it makes a big difference with the fans. “

Nikola Jokic scored 19 points for Denver in a matchup of MVP candidates with Curry, who, 33.7 seconds back in the third game, received a rare technique when attempting a foul call. Michael Porter Jr. led the nuggets with 26 points, hitting seven 3-pointers.

Denver striker Will Barton dropped into the game 59 seconds with a strained right Achilles tendon and never returned. It hit the baseline awkwardly under the basket of nuggets.

“Our boys have regrouped,” said Nuggets coach Michael Malone. “Will has perished. He went down early and then we had to find other guys to jump in and play. But I think you all are fishing for the fact that we lost this game to Will’s injury. Don’t excuse us. Will Barton went down, he’s hurt, and we sympathize with him. But we all get paid on the first and the 15th, do your job. We didn’t do our job tonight – not me, the players didn’t do it and that’s unacceptable. “

Fans shouted “MVP! MVP! “For Curry, who scored 11 for 18 with four 3s and also got eight rebounds in his 12th 30-point performance in the last 13 games and the 29th of the season.

“I’m not surprised. I think it’s a no-brainer,” Mychal Mulder said.

Jordan Poole knocked down a corner 3-pointer to hit the buzzer that ended the third when Golden State received another big boost from its bench to win a third straight home game. Poole finished with 15 points and Kelly Oubre Jr. 23 in his new reserve role.

“It’s a new role for Kelly, but you can see how he accepted it, how he handled it,” said coach Steve Kerr.

The Warriors started with nine of their last 13 games at home – where they had not played with fans in the building for 409 days. The number of participants was 1,935, with the team hoping for around 2,000 people.

Fans were greeted with a special video board message – Welcome Home – a limited number of player family members and guests were the only ones in attendance.

The exhausted Warriors greeted Juan Toscano-Anderson from the concussion log after suffering a dangerous fall and cutting his head in Boston last week. He started at 6:08 a.m. in the first quarter to great cheers and contributed nine points and eight rebounds.

“Having fans is always fun, especially after playing in empty gyms,” said Toscano-Anderson. “I appreciate all the fans. Greetings to all important employees who made this possible. “

Golden State shot 53.6% and had 39 assists.

“You have to find a way to get stops and we just didn’t want that tonight,” said Malone, disgusted, whose Denver team shot 38.6%.

CURRY THE ENTERTAINER

Curry clearly loved getting fans back for entertainment by going through a dazzling warmup in which he kicked basketballs up towards the huge video scoreboard and had fun – waving to a cheering group above the tunnel after he finished his pre-game job would have.

The two-time MVP took a moment before the hint to thank the fans for their patience in this “unprecedented situation”.

“There was so much energy in the building tonight and a reminder of what we missed,” said Kerr. “Just I guess a few thousand, but it felt like a lot more. Just such a welcome sight. “

FIRST FAN

Anthony Calvo, 27, from San Ramon, was honored as the first fan to be honored at the Chase Center. Brandon Schneider, COO of New Warriors, greeted him at the door around 4:50 pm after Calvo arrived at 10:30 am to take his COVID test

A Redwood City employee who is helping procure school supplies for youth in need planned to connect with Ms. Kerissa after the game for her planned weekend getaway in Big Sur.

He received a # 1 First Fan Back Uniform and signed equipment from the team.

TIP-INS

Nuggets: Barton was injured on the Golden State home floor after Jamal Murray tore his cruciate ligament in his left knee and had to undergo surgery on April 12 against the Warriors here late on game day. … Denver had won its two previous ones on the road.

Warriors: F Damion Lee and G Kent Bazemore are both on the league’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols. … The Warriors didn’t train on Thursday or hold a shootaround on Friday and Kerr expects limited practice on the track to keep his team fresh. “The players need more rest than work at this point,” he said.

NEXT

Nuggets: Host Houston in a road-home back-to-back on Saturday to beat this season’s three matchups with the Rockets.

Warriors: Host Sacramento on Sunday after losing four out of five to the Kings.

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SEATTLE (dpa) John Means warf den dritten No-Hitter der Major Leagues in dieser Saison und kam bei einem dritten Treffer eines perfekten Spiels auf einen wilden Platz, als er am Mittwoch die Baltimore Orioles gegen die Seattle Mariners mit 6: 0 setzte.

Means (4-0) schlug aus 12. Seattles Sam Haggerty raste auf den ersten Platz, nachdem er auf einem Curveball im Dreck bei einem 1-2 Count mit einem Outs im dritten Inning, das von Fänger Pedro Severino wegprallte, geschlagen hatte.

Haggerty war nicht lange auf der Basis und wurde rausgeworfen, als er versuchte, den zweiten zu stehlen.

Means warf 79 Strikes auf 113 Pitches, darunter First-Pitch-Strikes auf 26 von 27 Battern. Als Seattle gegen den 28-jährigen Linkshänder Kontakt hatte, war dieser schwach und es gab keine Drohungen für einen Treffer.

Mittel senkte seinen ERA auf 1,37 und wurde der erste einzelne Orioles-Krug, der seit Jim Palmer gegen Oakland am August einen No-Hitter warf. 13, 1969. Es war der zehnte No-Hitter in der Geschichte des Franchise – sechs in Baltimore nach vier als St. Louis Browns.

Means trat einem No-Hit-Club bei, zu dem am 9. April in Texas der Rechtshänder Joe Musgrove aus San Diego und am 14. April der Linkshänder Carlos Rodon der Chicago White Sox gegen Cleveland Edelsteine ​​​​enthalten Sieben-Inning-No-Hitter gegen Atlanta am 25. April, aber das wird nicht als offizieller No-Hitter anerkannt, da das Spiel nicht mindestens neun Innings dauerte, die nach den geltenden Pandemieregeln für eine zweite Saison in Folge verkürzt wurden.

Baltimores vorheriger No-Hitter kam am 13. Juli 1991, als Bob Milacki, Mike Flanagan, Mark Williamson und Gregg Olson zusammen einen 2:0-Sieg in Oakland erzielten.

Mittel hatte viel offensive Unterstützung. DJ Stewart und Ramon Urias hatten beide im dritten Inning RBI-Singles gegen Yusei Kikuchi. Pat Valaika erzielte im sechsten Inning einen Solo-Homerun gegen Kikuchi (1-2) und Trey Mancini lieferte im achten Inning einen Drei-Run-Shot gegen den Reliever Aaron Fletcher.

ROT 1, WHITE SOX 0, 10 INNNGS

CINCINNATI (dpa) – Joey Votto von Cincinnati hat sich beim Sieg der Reds über Chicago den linken Daumen gebrochen.

Votto wurde im vierten Inning von Dallas Keuchel getroffen. Votto blieb im Spiel, wurde aber in der sechsten auf der ersten Basis durch Kyle Farmer ersetzt. Es wird nicht erwartet, dass Votto operiert werden muss, aber es könnte bis zu einem Monat fehlen.

Jesse Winker erzielte im 10. Inning eine gewinnende Single, nachdem Leury Garcia aus Chicago in der oberen Hälfte beim Stehlen erwischt wurde.

Cincinnatis Sonny Gray und Keuchel werfen beide einen Shutout-Ball auf, der in sieben Innings jeweils zwei Treffer ermöglicht.

Liam Hendriks (1:1) verlor zum ersten Mal seit der Unterzeichnung eines Vierjahresvertrags über 54 Millionen US-Dollar bei den White Sox als Free Agent. Lucas Sims (1:1) holte sich den Sieg.

YANKEES 6, ASTROS 3

NEW YORK (dpa) – Giancarlo Stanton homered erneut und klopfte in vier Läufen, Aaron Hicks traf im achten Inning eine Tiebreak-Single und New York schlug Houston zum fünften Sieg in Folge.

Mit Fans in der Bronx, die Jose Altuve und mehrere andere Astros zum zweiten Mal in Folge verfluchten, erhielten die Yankees (16-14) drei Innings torloser Erleichterung von ihrem besten Bullpen der Major League und gewannen zum 10. Mal in 13 Spielen zum ersten Mal in dieser Saison zwei Spiele über .500 bewegen.

New York wird am Donnerstagnachmittag einen Drei-Spiele-Sweep versuchen, wobei Ass Gerrit Cole zum ersten Mal seit seinem Verlassen der Astros für einen 9-Jahres-Vertrag mit den Yankees über 324 Millionen US-Dollar gegen Houston vor der Saison 2020 antritt.

Jonathan Loaisiga (3:1) erzielte einen Hitless-Achten und Aroldis Chapman erzielte einen perfekten Neunten für seine siebte Parade. Brooks Raley (0-2) war der Verlierer.

CUBS 6, DODGERS 5, 11 INNINGS

CHICAGO (dpa) – Anthony Rizzo krönte Chicagos elftes Inning mit einer RBI-Single, und die Cubs schlugen das kämpfende Los Angeles, um einen Drei-Spiele-Sweep zu absolvieren.

Chicagos Matt Duffy glich es aus, als er in Willson Contreras mit einem Two-Out-Single gegen Garrett Cleavinger (0-3) fuhr. Duffy stahl den dritten und Pinch-Hitter Tony Wolters ging, bevor Rizzo einen scharfen Grounder nach links setzte.

Er wurde von Teamkollegen gemobbt, als er nach dem zweiten Treffer der Cubs in ebenso vielen Tagen vom Feld rannte. David Bote hat am Vortag in der neunten Single beim Schlummertrunk eines Doubleheaders eine gewinnende Single erzielt.

Alec Mills (2:0) gewann den Sieg, obwohl er in zwei Innings zwei Läufe aufgab. Jake Marisnick homered, und die Cubs fegten zum ersten Mal seit 2008 drei von den Dodgers im Wrigley Field.

Die Dodgers verloren zum 13. Mal in 17 Spielen.

BLUE JAYS 9, Leichtathletik 4

OAKLAND, Kalifornien (AP) – Teoscar Hernandez erzielte während Torontos fünftem achten Inning eine unentschiedene RBI-Single, und die Blue Jays schlugen Oakland.

Hernandez hatte auch eine frühere Run-Scoring-Single, bevor er gegen Lou Trivino (1:1) durchkam, der für fünf verdiente Runs markiert wurde, nachdem er in seinen ersten 15 Einsätzen in diesem Jahr insgesamt drei zugelassen hatte.

Ramon Laureano und Matt Chapman homered für Oakland und Sean Murphy hatte zwei Hits und zwei RBIs.

Die A’s (19-13) haben nach Beginn der Saison 0-6 immer noch die beste Gewinnquote in den Majors.

Jordan Romano (3-1) erkämpfte sich den Sieg mit einem perfekten siebten Platz.

KARDINÄLE 4, METS 1, 1. SPIEL

METS 7, Cardials 2, 2. SPIEL

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Tomas Nido traf einen zweifachen Homer und Jonathan Villar fügte einen Solo-Shot und eine RBI-Single hinzu, wodurch New York über St. Louis für einen Doubleheader-Split an die Macht kam.

Die Niederlage beendete eine Siegesserie von sechs Spielen für die NL Central-führenden Cardinals (19-13).

St. Louis gewann den Auftakt mit 4-1, als Paul DeJong einen Two-Run-Homer traf und Paul Goldschmidt einen Solo-Homer gegen Marcus Stroman (3-3). Kwang Hyun Kim legte vier Innings auf und kombinierte mit Ryan Hemsley (3:0), Giovanny Gallegos und Alex Reyes (neunter Save in neun Chancen) bei einem Two-Hitter.

Während die Mets früher am Tag erhebende Nachrichten erhielten, als Manager Luis Rojas sagte, dass das Ass Jacob deGrom am Sonntag in die Rotation zurückkehren könnte, hat das Schleudern von New York in seinem ersten Spiel wenig an der Platte getan, nachdem der Trainer Chili Davis gefeuert und durch Hugh Quattlebaum ersetzt wurde .

Nidos Homer hob einen Drei-Run-Zweiten gegen Johan Oviedo (0-1) hervor, einen 6-Fuß-5, 255-Pfund-Neuling, der in vier Innings vier Runs und fünf Hits zuließ.

Jordan Yamamoto (1:0) war der Verlierer.

BRAVES 5, NATIONALS 3

WASHINGTON (dpa) – Marcell Ozuna erzielte Atlantas dritten Grand Slam in vier Spielen, Max Fried schlug bei seiner Rückkehr von der Verletztenliste fünf starke Innings und die Braves schlugen Washington.

Fried (1-1) erlaubte einen Lauf und vier Treffer, schlug sechs und ging einen, wodurch er seinen ERA von 11.45 auf 8.44 senkte. Er war seit dem 14. April mit einer angespannten rechten Achillessehne pausiert.

Rookie William Contreras erzielte in seinem dritten Start seinen ersten Karriere-Homer für die Braves und ersetzte den verletzten Travis d’Arnaud beim Catcher.

Washingtons Trea Turner traf seinen Team-führenden siebten Homer, einen Drive mit zwei Durchläufen im achten Inning vor Josh Tomlin. AJ Minter lud die Bases mit zwei Outs, brachte aber Victor Robles zum Pop-out und Will Smith arbeitete den neunten für seinen sechsten Save in sechs Gelegenheiten.

Erick Fedde (2-3) war der Verlierer.

ROCKIES 6, GIANTS 5

DENVER (AP) – Jon Gray warf sechs starke Innings und half sich mit einer RBI-Single beim Sieg von Colorado über San Francisco.

Grey (4-2) erlaubte zwei Runs und vier Hits. Der Rechtshänder schlug acht und ging zwei, während er sich in fünf Heimspielen auf 4:0 verbesserte. Daniel Bard schaffte für seine dritte Parade einen wackeligen Neunten.

Brandon Crawford setzte seinen heißen Schlag gegen die Rockies mit einem zweifachen Homer im zweiten Inning fort. Crawford ist 10 für 23 mit vier Homers, sechs Walks und 10 RBIs in acht Spielen gegen Colorado in dieser Saison.

Giants-Starter Logan Webb (1-3) war der Verlierer.

Darin Ruf traf einen Two-Run-Homer für San Francisco.

PHILLIES 5, BREWERS 4

PHILADELPHIA (dpa) – Didi Gregorius erzielte seinen achten Grand Slam in seiner Karriere und Philadelphia besiegte Milwaukee zum dritten Sieg in Folge.

Die Phillies gewannen zum ersten Mal seit der Eröffnung mit 4:0 drei Spiele in Folge.

Enyel De Los Santos ließ zwei Läufer gestrandet, um den achten Platz zu beenden. Jose Alvarado kehrte von einer zwei-Spiele-Sperre zurück, weil er einen Bank-Clearing-Vorfall ausgelöst hatte, und schaffte einen torlosen neunten für seine zweite Parade.

Brandon Kintzler (2-1) warf 1 1/3 torlose Innings für den Sieg.

Gregorius’ Slam von Freddy Peralta (3-1) hob ein erstes Inning mit fünf Durchläufen hervor, und sechs Krüge bewahrten den Sieg. Gregorius hat in 86 Karrierespielen mit den Phillies drei Grand Slams erzielt.

STRAHLEN 3, ENGEL 1

ANAHEIM, Kalifornien (AP) – Brandon Lowe traf einen dreifachen Homer und Tampa Bay besiegte fünf torlose Innings von Shohei Ohtani aus Los Angeles, um die Angels zu besiegen.

Lowe ging tief, um Junior Guerra (2-1) im siebten Platz zu zentrieren, nachdem Brett Phillips das Inning mit einem Walk anführte und Willy Adames einen Single nach links abfeuerte.

Ryan Yarbrough (2-3) erlaubte einen Run auf fünf Hits in mehr als vier Innings, um den Rays zu helfen, ihren vierten Sieg in Folge zu gewinnen. Die Angels haben vier in Folge und 10 der letzten 14 verloren.

TIGERS 6, RED SOX 5, 10 INNINGS

BOSTON (AP) – Jeimer Candelario erzielte im 10. Inning einen unentschiedenen Drei-Run-Homer, und Detroit hielt Boston ab.

Robbie Grossman begann das Detroit 10. auf dem zweiten Platz und rückte mit Jonathan Schoops Leadoff-Single auf den dritten vor. Candelario ging dann tief gegen Garrett Whitlock (0-1) und schickte einen Drive nach rechts für seinen dritten Homer.

Boston hat in der unteren Hälfte zwei zurück. Marwin Gonzalez spielte in Xander Bogaerts einzeln und kam schließlich aufgrund eines Fehlers gegen den zweiten Basisspieler Willi Castro zum Tor. Aber Michael Fulmer zog Bobby Dalbec und Kike Hernandez für seine erste Karriereparade zurück.

Gregory Soto (2-1) stellte 1 1/3 Innings für den Sieg auf und ließ zwei Runs und drei Hits zu.

MARLINS 8, DIAMANTBACKS 0

MIAMI (AP) – Adam Duvall erzielte seinen fünften Homerun und beendete ihn mit vier RBIs, Miguel Rojas erzielte dreimal und fünf Miami Pitcher verstreuten fünf Treffer, um die Marlins über Arizona zu führen.

Duvall verbunden für einen Drei-Run-Homer in einem Vier-Run-Zweiten von Luke Weaver (1-3), Duvalls erster Home-Run in 19 Spielen.

Rojas war 2 für 3 und fuhr in zwei Läufen für Miami, das mit 13-16 unter 0,500 blieb, aber das einzige Team in der NL East ist, das Gegner übertroffen hat. Von dem Plus-18-Differenzial der Marlins waren 14 in den beiden Spielen dieser Serie, die mit einem 9-3 Sieg begann.

Jordan Holloway (1:0), der zweite Marlins-Pitcher in einem Bullpen-Spiel, ließ zwei Treffer zu und strich drei in drei Innings.

INDIANER 5, KÖNIGLICHE 4

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) – Josh Naylor homered im neunten Inning und schickte Cleveland an Kansas City vorbei.

Naylor begrüßte Wade Davis (0-1) mit einem Leadoff Drive nach rechts für seinen zweiten Homer. Nick Wittgren (2:1) schlug die Mannschaft im achten Achter zum Sieg, und James Karinchak arbeitete den neunten für seine dritte Parade.

Cleveland lag nach fünf Innings mit 4:0 zurück. Es hat sich gesammelt, um in den ersten drei Spielen des Vier-Spiele-Sets zu gewinnen.

Das indische Ass Shane Bieber erlaubte vier Runs, drei verdiente und neun Hits in sechs Innings. Er schlug neun, um seinen Rekord in der Major League auf 19 Spiele in Folge mit mindestens acht Spielen zu erweitern.

PADRES 4, PIRATEN 2

SAN DIEGO (AP) – Jake Cronenworth traf im sechsten Inning eine grüne Single mit zwei Durchläufen und San Diego schlug Pittsburgh.

Mark Melancon erzielte den neunten Platz für seine elfte Parade in der Big League in elf Chancen. Craig Stammen (2-1) holte das Finale aus dem Sechsten für den Sieg, um Yu Darvish zu entlasten.

Cronenworths grünes Licht kam ein halbes Inning, nachdem Darvish eine Führung mit zwei Durchläufen aufgegeben hatte und mit einem Punktestand von 2 verfolgt wurde. Darvish berücksichtigte die Entscheidung nicht, sondern schlug acht in 5 2/3 Innings, während er sechs Treffer zuließ und ein Spaziergang.

Duane Underwood Jr. (1-1) nahm den Verlust hin.

RANGERS 3, ZWILLINGE 1

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Hyeon-Jong Yang machte seinen ersten Start in der Major League nach 14 Jahren in der Korea Baseball Organization und brachte Texas bei einem Sieg über Minnesota zu einem starken Start.

Yang, der ehemalige KBO-MVP, schlug sieben der ersten neun Schläge, denen er gegenüberstand, und acht insgesamt in 3 1/3 Innings. Nachdem Yang zu Beginn dieser Saison nach zwei Entlastungseinsätzen einen Punktstart gemacht hatte, gab er vier Treffer auf.

John King (3-1) holte sich den Sieg zu Gunsten von Yang und gab in 2 2/3 Innings nur zwei Hits auf. Ian Kennedy erzielte seine neunte Parade.

Lewis Thorpe (0-1) nahm den Verlust hin.

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“I’m there [in San Francisco] nearly every year. I would like to retire there, ”he said and laughingly added,“ retire in the most expensive city ”.

The Cabrillo, the theater Harry owns in foggy Richmond, has seen better days, and his girlfriend, the practical Dana, wants him to sell it and they get out of town and go somewhere else. However, Harry really left his heart in the city.

He explained, “Harry is a pretty nostalgic guy and doesn’t want to let go of the past. Willy-nilly. These things seem to have something to do with his reluctance to push many things. ”

At the heart of the book is an “inconsistent up and down romance,” he explained.

Janjigian draws lively characters who are stuck in the midst of serious decisions. When asked where his characters come from, he referred to another writer, Jhumpa Lahiri, who had said in an interview that “she had no idea how this process worked and it just happened”.

He continued, “I would agree with that. For this novel at least, it started when I was living in San Francisco and really, really loved this movie theater and the San Francisco neighborhood. This cinema still exists in the Richmond neighborhood today. ”
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In fact, the Cabrillo in the Richmond neighborhood seems to be inspired by the Balboa Theater in the same neighborhood, showing quirky films in beautiful surroundings.

Not only the main character and his circle are in love with the Beat writers; consider Janjigian a fan. “I got introduced to the Beats by a film professor and attended some avant-garde film courses at Clark [University in Worcester]. The whole environment was strange. I hadn’t read any beats or [Jack] Kerouac until he had us read On the Road in conjunction with a film called ‘Heartbeat’ based on the autobiography of Carolyn Cassady, wife of beat writer Neal Cassady.

(“Heart Beat” explores the love triangle of real-life characters Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac and Carolyn Cassady in the late 1950s and 1960s. It shows Kerouac, who writes his groundbreaking novel On the Road, and its impact on their lives.)

Since then, he said, he has “tried to investigate the beats’ flaws, including the shortage of women”.

Nevertheless, by writing, he can still come close to this ideal. “Writing enables me to explore these lives,” he noted.

“I admire this bohemian way of life, but I like a bit of comfort,” he said with a laugh. “They usually have a much more interesting life.”

Janjigian added another piece of himself to the book: Gephyrophobia, the fear of bridges. It’s one that has been a part of Janjigian’s life for years.

“Like many writers, I use that fear and fear,” he said. And did he think that if he wrote about it, would he be able to master it? “That would have been the ultimate goal to drive it out.”

“Interestingly, when I was living in town and working at the Depot Bookstore in Marin County. I shuttled back and forth across that [Golden Gate] Bridge five days a week for over two years and had no problems. I didn’t have a phobia, ”he recalls. Slowly: “I had a little nervousness that began to develop over some high bridges.”

As he and his wife moved to Maryland over time, the phobia came with a vengeance. “When my wife and I moved to Maryland, my wife and I were walking across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and I was absolutely scared,” he recalls.

“I just really, really avoid high bridges,” he added.

Life during the pandemic

The pandemic made a huge difference in Janjigian’s life. First, a small book tour with stops in Boston and San Francisco was canceled, and second, because of the free time, Janjigian was able to write a screenplay about Kerouac, like his protagonist Harry, “in a case in which he imitates art” ”and a novel.

He explained, “I started doing this right after the novel was published in November. I started writing in December and am currently working through the final draft. It’s called ‘Kerouac’. We’ll see how it goes from here. ”

He added: “I wrote a novel, Confluence in Café Zürich, which is about the character Jackson and a previous theft. which is alluded to in A Cerebral Offer. ”

Janjigian had some advice for aspiring writers. “I subscribe to Hemingway’s simple advice: Travel. It forces you to meet other people and experience different things. It’s the greatest a writer can have. ”

The other piece of the puzzle is writing every day. “I never write. When I sit down to write, I always write something. It is whether it is a holder or not. Even if it’s only half an hour, it’s important to keep this rhythm. ”

Janjigian was born and raised in Massachusetts. He lived in Watertown with his family before moving to Belmont and graduating from Belmont High School. He attended Clark University in Worcester and later did his Masters at Leslie University in Cambridge.

“I was just finishing my degree at Leslie University and teaching full time,” he said. The expat’s life tickled him. So he decided to take some of the courses to complete his studies at St. John’s University in Rome.

He remembered his year living near the beach outside Rome: “I loved it. It was fantastic. I would have stayed longer if I had had the opportunity. ”

“I met my wife in 2005 and we moved here [to Washington, DC] 2009 for her job. She is a scientist who works for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, ”he said.

They tried to move to San Francisco but failed and decided to go where the jobs were.

Janjigian is now Associate Dean of American University. He oversaw the founding and launch of the English Language and Training Academy (ELTA). Before joining the AU in 2012, he taught at UMBC, Northeastern, and the Institute for English Language at Harvard University. At Brandeis University, he helped launch their ESL pathway program.

He has published two other books, Gone West (collection of short stories), Defending Infinity (novel), in addition to A Cerebral Offer.

He and his wife live with their three cats.

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12-18 April: Daily results log for Area Pro, college and amateur baseball and softball teams.

Diamond Beat is the place to find results and updates on baseball and softball action in the area, including coverage of the Seattle Mariners, as well as college baseball and softball.

SUNDAY APRIL 18th

Pro baseball

Mariners 7, Astros 2 – Seattle (10-6) won the three-game series with Houston at T-Mobile Park. The Astros only managed one goal from starter Nick Margevicius in the second inning. Margevicius threw four innings and five relievers threw a no-hit ball. Ty France hit a homer with two runs and Mitch Haniger had a double and triple, as well as three RBIs and two runs.

Seattle will play the Los Angeles Dodgers at home for the next two nights.

College baseball

Pilots 8, Lions 2 – Portland (18-17, 10-5) won the three-game series with a visit to Loyola Marymount. Chad Stevens and Hunter Montgomery met UP; Stevens had scored three hits, two RBIs and three runs. Sam Brown went 4 on 4.

The pilots play in a series of three games on Tuesday at OSU and next weekend in San Francisco.

Beavers 5, Bears 3 – Oregon State (24-10, 10-5 Pac-12) won the three-game series in Cal. Ryan Ober and Garret Forrester each drove in two races. Dylan Beavers met Cal.

The Beavers will host Portland on Tuesday and three games at UC Irvine this weekend.

Ducks 7, Trojans 5 – Oregon (22-8, 8-4 Pac-12) scored four runs in the eighth inning and won the three-game series at USC. Sam Novitske and Gabe Matthews had three hits each; Novitske drove in three runs, Matthews scored three runs.

The ducks are hosting UCLA for three games next.

College softball

Bruins 6, Beavers 0 – Oregon State (15-20, 3-12 Pac-12) only managed two hits. In the three games at UCLA, the Beavers had three hits and were beaten 20-0. Maya Brady returned to UCLA. After 12 days, the Beavers will play four games at Stanford starting April 30th.

Huskies 6, Ducks 1 – Oregon (28-8, 6-6 Pac-12) lost three of four games in Seattle. UWs Gabbie Plain took the lead 23-0. Morganne Flores and Sami Reynolds each faced UW.

Oregon went 3-1 against both UCLA and Washington in the past two weeks. The Ducks will host four games at Stanford this weekend.

SATURDAY 17TH APRIL

Pro baseball

Astros 1, Mariners 0 – Zack Greinke allowed four hits in eight innings, and Ryan Pressly ended when Houston beat Seattle at T-Mobile Park. Taylor Jones’ RBI single in the fourth inning overshadowed the only run of the game. Seattle starter Chris Flexen gave up 10 hits and one run in six innings.

College baseball

Ducks 13, Trojans 4 – Oregon scored four home runs from Anthony Hall, Kenyon Yovan, Jack Scanlon and Gavin Grant; Scanlon and Hall hit 3-run shots. Gabe Matthews, now UO’s all-time leader in hits, had three hits and two RBIs.

Beavers 2, Bears 1 – Ryan Obers single ran in the tie run and then Jacob met Melton on the throw of the game when the State of Oregon caught up in the sixth inning. Cooper Hjerpe allowed three hits in sixth innings, and Jake Mulholland got the save and set the School save record (38, previous Kevin Gunderson record, 37 from 2004-06).

Pilots 9, Lions 1 – Ben Patacsil (two-run shot) and Sam Brown each arrived when Portland defeated Loyola Marymount. Bradley McVay improved to 5-1 on the hill and Jacob Dobmeier allowed a hit in three innings of relief.

College softball

Huskies win 4-2, Ducks 10-1 – At the start, Sami Reynolds from Washington met and Gabbie Plain threw himself to 22-0. Oregon’s Shaye Bowden came home. In the second game, Oregon beat UW in a five-inning game when Rachel Cid returned home and ran four RBis and avenue bunkers in three runs.

Vikings 8, Bengals 4 – Paetynn Lopez hit a Grand Slam home run for Portland State (7-22, 4-8 Big Sky) versus Idaho State.

Bruins 7, Beavers 0 – Megan Faraimo allowed a hit and knocked out 17. The second game of the double header has been canceled.

FRIDAY APRIL 16

Pro baseball

Mariners 6, Astros 5 – Houston led 5-2, but Seattle rallied to win. Ty France was awarded the winning run in the ninth inning at JP Crawford. Evan White had finished the game with a homer from the eighth inning.

College baseball

Trojans 9, Ducks 5 – Tyresse Turner hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning and Ben Ramirez hit a two-run double in the eighth inning as USC rallied against Oregon. Ramirez also tripled in the run.

Oregon State 15, Cal 8 – Jacob Melton had four hits, including a triple and a home run, and six RBIs. Ryan Ober hit a grand slam. The beavers had 19 hits.

Lions 8, Pilots 5 – Loyola Marymount had 16 hits. Briley Knight returned to Portland.

College softball

Huskies 8, Ducks 0 – Oregon lost their fourth game in a row. The ducks managed just two hits ahead of Gabbie Plain (21-0), who scored the 12th goal. Baylee Klinger and Sami Reynolds met UW.

Bruins 7, Beavers 0 – Rachel Garcia threw a no-hitter with 12 strikeouts against the State of Oregon. The Bruins had 14 hits, including a homer from Aaliyah Jordan.

Pilots win 8-0, Bengals win 3-2 – Portland State and Idaho State share a double header. Oiivia Gray from the PSU only allowed two hits in the opener. Angelica Cano faced ISU in the second game.

THURSDAY APRIL 15th

Pro baseball

Mariners win 4-2, 2-1 – Seattle went 5-2 on its road trip and culminated in a double header in Baltimore. Mitch Haniger scored in both games, including a two-run shot that connected the prelude. JP Crawford’s double with two runs in the sixth inning gave the Mariners the lead. Marco Gonzales allowed only three hits in the opener and a Trey Mancini homer with two runs in five innings. Dylan Moore and Haniger faced starter Justin Dunn in the second game, who allowed two hits in five innings.

The Mariners will play three games against Houston and then two against the Los Angeles Dodgers at T-Mobile Park starting Friday night.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 14th

College baseball

Ducks 18, Pilots 1 – Oregon attended the University of Portland and beat the pilots. Josh Kasevich went 5v6 with six RBIs and four runs scored. The ducks had 21 hits. Gabe Matthews had two hits, connecting JJ Altobelli (2010-13) to the all-time UO hit mark (211). Matthews has played in 200 games; Altobelli played 229.

TUESDAY APRIL 13th

Pro baseball

Mariners win 4-3, Orioles 7-6 – In a double header, the Mariners took the first game after Monday game postponed due to weather conditions when Ty France and Tom Murphy returned home and Kyle Seager scored an RBI double in the top of the eighth inning . Ramon Urias returned to the Orioles.

Then Urias overtook the winning run for Baltimore in the seventh inning of the second game. Maikal Franco had three RBIs for the Orioles. Jose Marmolejos (3-Run Homer) and Sam Haggerty (2 Run Run) each faced the Mariners.

College baseball

Huskies 6, Pilots 4 – In an out-of-league game at the University of Portland, the Pilots scored three runs in the ninth inning to close it but failed to break the deficit. Portland’s Ty Saunders had three hits, including a triple and a home run. UP plays Oregon at home at 2pm on Wednesday.

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April 1-4: Seattle beat SF 4-0 on Saturday; Ducks win softball tilt at Corvallis; Beaver baseball falls on Utes.

Diamond Beat is the place to find results and updates on baseball and softball action in the area, including coverage of the Seattle Mariners, as well as college baseball and softball.

SATURDAY 3TH APRIL

Pro baseball

Mariners 4, Giants 0 – Five pitchers combined with six hits in a shutout when Seattle won the season opening series rubber match with three games at T-Mobile Park. Mitch Hanniger and Ty France hit solo homer and Hanniger also doubled up for Seattle, which had six extra base hits and two singles. The Mariners starting pitcher Chris Flexen hit six, went two, and allowed four hits over five innings to claim the win.

Sunday: No game.

Play on Monday: White Sox at Mariners, 7:05 p.m.

College baseball

Utah 5, Oregon State 3 – In Corvallis, Jake Dukart doubled up twice and drove for the Beavers in two runs, but the Utes won the last game of a three-game Pac-12 series in the fifth inning thanks to four inexperienced runs.

Oregon 2-6, New Mexico State 1-1 – At PK Park, Cullen Kafka (12 strikeouts) and Brett Walker (13 strikeouts) ducks took off in the non-conference, double-headed sweep of a four-game game beaten sweeping the aggies. Oregon pitchers hit 33:20 in the second game that day.

Portland 3, Saint Mary’s 0 – Left-handed Brad McVay threw seven innings with eight strikeouts and five hits. Newcomer Sam Brown went 3 to 4 with a home run for the pilots (13-13, 6-3, WCC).

College softball

Oregon 4, Oregon State 3 – The ducks held the beavers back to play three out of four games at Corvallis, including two out of three that count in the Pac-12 standings.

Oregon’s Brooke Yanez hit 12 over 5.1 innings and Makenna Kliethermes pulled the last five Beavers back in sequence. The Ducks (26-2, 5-1 Pac-12) got a home run from Rachel Cid, who had two of their eight hits. Mya Felder delivered a single for Oregon with two outs and two runs in the top third. OSU received solo home runs from Frankie Hammoude and Missy Nunes in the sixth inning to draw within 4-3. Bailey McLaughlin also faced the Beavers (14-14, 3-6).

# 3 Oregon is expected to host the UCLA # 2 for four games starting Friday, April 9th.

FRIDAY APRIL 2nd

Pro baseball

Giants 6, Mariners 3 – The Mariners had a solid start from Yusei Kikuchi (six innings, 10 strikeouts, three runs earned), but the Giants scored three runs with two outs on seventh off-reliever Drew Steckenrider to help build the lead revolt. Donovan Solano went 3: 5 with the starting double in San Francisco in seventh place.

After four seasons with the LA Angels, Portland native (and Milwaukie High Grad) Keynan Middleton threw 1 1/3 goalless innings on his Mariners debut.

Game on Saturday: Giants at Mariners, 6:10 p.m.

College baseball

Oregon State 17, Utah 3 – Jacob Melton hit three of Oregon State’s five home runs, including a grand slam in the seventh inning in the Beavers’ win at Corvallis.

Oregon 8, State of New Mexico 2 – Robert Ahlstrom threw six solid innings and didn’t allow a deserved run. The Ducks scored three hits in the third and fourth innings of the Nonleague win at Eugene.

St. Mary’s 14, Portland 2 – The Pilots fell 12-13, 5-3 in the WCC game, losing in Moraga, California.

College softball

Oregon State 8, Oregon 1 – At the Pac-12 competition in Corvallis, Beavers’ pitcher Mariah Mazon limited the ducks to three hits and hit seven. She also had three hits and three RBIs.

Oregon 4, Oregon State 0 – In Friday’s second game that didn’t count in the Pac-12 game, Oregon’s Brooke Yanez threw a three-hit shutout with seven spikes for the Ducks.

THURSDAY APRIL 1st

Pro baseball

Mariners 8, Giants 7 – Seattle opened its season with a walk-off win. A real companion. The Mariners drew three runs from Giants’ pitcher Jose Alvarez at the end of the 10th to end a game they left 5-0 and 6-1. An eight-time, eight-time inning with three hits, three walks and one major SF mistake got Seattle going. The woman had only five hits – the largest a single with two runs in the eighth inning by Dylan Moore (three RBIs) – but benefited from nine walks and a batsman.

Friday game: Giants at Mariners, 7:10 p.m.

College baseball

Portland 4, Saint Mary’s 3 – Ty Saunders’ RBI single on top of the 13th won it for the visiting pilots.

Oregon State 4, Utah 3 – Jake Mulholland combined the Oregon State record with his 37th career rescue. Jake Dukart went 4 for 4 and the beavers used a fifth run to outperform the visiting utes.

Oregon 5, New Mexico State 0 – Four pitchers combined in a three-hit shutout for the No. 19 Ducks.

College softball

Oregon 2, Oregon State 0 – Brooke Yanez threw a three-hit shutout with 15 spikes as Oregon ranked third beat Oregon State 2-0 in a four-game run at Corvallis. Haley Cruse scored a leadoff home run and scored an insurance run for the Ducks in the seventh (24-1, 4-0 Pac-12). Mariah Mazon hit nine and had two of the hits for the Beavers (13-12, 2-5).

The series continues with two games on Friday, the first of which is a Pac-12 game that starts at 2 p.m. (Pac-12 Network).

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In mid-December, first-term Rep. Ben McAdams (D-Utah) was among the last House members to decide how to vote on the articles of impeachment against President Trump. It was a decision with potentially dire implications for the reelection efforts of the state’s only congressional Democrat, who represents a district gerrymandered to favor Republicans. McAdams defeated incumbent Rep. Mia Love (R) by fewer than 700 votes in 2018.

After he announced his decision to vote for impeachment, the Trump campaign went on the attack, blasting out a statement warning, “Voters won’t forget his cowardice. McAdams’ political career is over.” Outside groups poured money into ads denouncing him. His approval rating dropped 11 percent. And then on March 18, he announced that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus and spent a week in the hospital recovering.

It seemed inevitable that come November, practically any Republican in this conservative district would easily defeat one of the most endangered Democrats in Congress. Instead, political analysts are cautiously predicting that McAdams will get reelected. Why? Because on June 30, Utah Republicans nominated former NFL player and Fox News commentator Burgess Owens to run against him. Owens might be a national figure, beloved on Fox and Friends as one of Trump’s few Black acolytes, but he is relatively unknown in Utah. His campaign illustrates many of the pitfalls of transforming the GOP into the party of Trump, where talking points come from Sean Hannity, the president can do no wrong, and everyone has forgotten Tip O’Neill’s famous adage that all politics is local.

“There is a deep tension between being a Fox News pundit and a Republican candidate in a close swing district,” says Chris Karpowitz, co-director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. “It’s also the larger dilemma that Republicans are facing right now: They’ve chosen to be the party of Donald Trump. What happens when the bottom falls out from Donald Trump’s popularity? Even in a very red place like Utah, there are limits to the attempt to align oneself with Donald Trump.” 

The differences between the two candidates go far beyond party affiliation. While McAdams’ Utah roots go back seven generations, Owens has lived there less than a decade. He didn’t register to vote in Utah until 2014, and he doesn’t appear to own a house there. McAdams served in the state senate and was elected mayor of Salt Lake County twice. Owens has never been elected to anything, has been through two bankruptcies, and has failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes over the years. When Owens played in the Super Bowl, his crowning achievement, McAdams was in grade school. The one thing they have in common is that they’re both Mormons.

On TV and in campaign events, Owens froths about the liberal “enemy” bent on destroying the country and the president, describing all Democrats as Marxists and socialists. Meanwhile, McAdams is donating his plasma for coronavirus research and voting in Congress for more national park funding in a state that has five of them. The race has thrown November’s choices into sharp contrast and will be a test of whether a Fox News endorsement is enough to elect a Trump-supporting Republican in a swing district.

“We have a generic, nationalized campaign going on,” observes Tim Chambless, a political science professor at the University of Utah.

The impeachment vote “seems so six months ago,” McAdams mused on a sunny day in June as we sat in a park near his house in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City. At 45, he still has the mild-mannered boyish appearance of the LDS missionary he once was. Two of his four school-age kids stopped by and said hello as we talked. 

“My district will ultimately support Trump,” he told me. But he thinks Utah voters in the congressional race will “seek someone who will dial down the rhetoric. A lot of people are uncomfortable with [Trump’s] divisive style and want people who can bring some civility to politics.” McAdams seems nothing but civil and soft-spoken, qualities that post-impeachment may now have given him the highest approval ratings of any member of Utah’s congressional delegation. Salt Lake Tribune political columnist Robert Gehrke wrote recently that his inoffensiveness is “equaled only by white rice.”

McAdams’ reelection campaign has been helped by the GOP’s disarray—which is unusual given that Republicans hold every statewide office and 80 percent of the state legislative seats. “This should have been at the top of the Republicans’ wish list in terms of new pickups for 2020, but they seemed to struggle from the get-go,” says Karpowitz. “They couldn’t recruit more experienced candidates who would have made it a much more competitive race.”

“This should have been at the top of the Republicans’ wish list in terms of new pickups for 2020, but they seemed to struggle from the get-go.”

Early frontrunner Utah Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert dropped out of the race in December, leaving a primary field crowded with B-listers. Delegates to the state nominating convention in April failed to coalesce around a single candidate, leaving McAdams without an obvious opponent until Owens won the June 30 GOP primary with 43 percent of the vote.

Now Owens is trying to introduce himself to the general electorate. Campaign materials highlight his football career—first-round draft pick for the New York Jets in 1973, a 1981 Super Bowl championship with the Oakland Raiders—and his Fox News appearances. He draws on a compelling personal story of growing up in segregated Tallahassee and speaks openly about his hard times. After 10 seasons with the NFL and a failed business venture, he was so strapped for cash that he lived in a basement apartment in Brooklyn with his wife and four kids under ten and supported his family with random jobs like working as a chimney sweep. Recovery came slowly, helped by a corporate job at the Utah-based WordPerfect and eventually a career as a motivational speaker.

Then there are the two bankruptcies, one in 1991 and again in 2001, and the thousands of dollars’ worth of tax liens he racked up in New York. He also once had more than $200,000 in unpaid federal taxes. His financial disclosure statement shows that he still owes the IRS $6,500.  

Utah doesn’t figure much into the narrative. Owens apparently owns no property in the district, not to mention the state, he hopes to represent. The Utah address Owens lists in campaign finance documents and corporate records is for a house owned by an LLC controlled by one of his campaign donors, real estate developer William O. Perry III. (The Owens campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment.) Owens’ daughter Summur-Rayn Berrett, a former flight attendant who is being paid by his campaign for media consulting, is also listed at that address in federal elections filings. Since 2015, Owens has registered a number of business entities in Utah, but most are now inactive. 

Owens touts his work with the nonprofit he founded called Second Chance 4 Youth, in which he tries to help kids coming out of the juvenile justice system get back on their feet, but it wasn’t registered in Utah until June 2019. One of the group’s board members is Tyler Perry, William O. Perry’s son. In an interview, Tyler Perry says that Owens is a family friend who first met his father at an event at the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, a Cold War-era civics group founded with support from President Dwight Eisenhower. Owens, who was living in Philadelphia at the time, spoke at the event. William O. Perry III was on the board, and the two hit it off.

When some of his children were attending Brigham Young University, Owens decided to move to Utah. Tyler Perry says they met about five years ago, and Owens later asked him to help with his nonprofit. “Burgess has a huge heart and everywhere he goes he wants to make a positive difference,” Perry says. “From my perspective he’s doing a great job of getting out and getting to know a lot of people. I would think it would be dang hard to come into a new place and put together what he’s put together.”

Nonetheless, Owens has some catching up to do. Everyone in Utah seems to know who McAdams is. In fact, Perry says some of his friends are close with McAdams and that his brother also knows him well. “Ben’s a good guy,” he says, highlighting the problem with the scorched earth campaign Owens seems to be running. In May, Owens told Matt Boyle on Breitbart News, “In the case of Ben McAdams, he is a nice guy, but he stands right there with Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters, [Adam] Schiff, and the other socialist-Marxists that are trying to take down our country,” apparently not realizing that McAdams voted against Pelosi for House Speaker. “I’m the person best positioned to beat Ben McAdams because I will call them what they are: they are bullies and cowards and socialist-Marxists, and I will let them know that we will not stand for it anymore.” As one anonymous Republican told UtahPolicy.com recently, “No one, except for a few very right-wing crazies, believes Ben McAdams is a Marxist.”

Born and raised in Utah, McAdams went to the University of Utah and Columbia Law School, where he met his wife, and practiced law in New York City before joining a Utah firm. He quickly headed into local government, working for former Salt Lake City mayor Ralph Becker, then serving two years in the Utah state senate before becoming a popular Salt Lake County mayor in 2012. During his six years as mayor, McAdams worked on bipartisan issues like homelessness with Utah establishment figures like his friend Josh Romney, one of Mitt’s five sons. 

Once in Congress, McAdams focused on local issues, particularly his recent efforts to block Trump administration plans to restart nuclear weapons testing in Nevada. Nuclear testing is a subject that often transcends partisan politics in the state. In the 1950s and early ‘60s, the federal government knowingly exposed thousands of Utah residents—known as “downwinders”—to high levels of radiation from open-air testing in the Nevada desert. Many have died from radiation-related cancers, including the state’s last Democratic governor, Scott Matheson. (His son Jim Matheson was the last Democrat to hold the 4th District seat.) In the 1980s, former Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) helped pass the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, securing compensation for downwinders sickened by nuclear fallout.

“I will be supporting our president because he supports our country…He just needs to have some backbone in the House and Senate to make this thing happen really right.”

McAdams has opposed Trump’s proposal and has successfully inserted language into a defense appropriation bill to block new testing. Owens, however, is a fan. On a local talk radio show in June, the host asked Owens if he supported Trump’s plan to restart nuclear testing. “Absolutely,” he responded. “I will be supporting our president because he supports our country. He loves our country. He does it for free. He just needs to have some backbone in the House and Senate to make this thing happen really right.” Later in the interview, Owens reiterated that “we should be loyal, period” to leaders who support God, family and country, as he thinks Trump does.

Such comments have raised eyebrows in Utah. Steve Erickson, a longtime Utah volunteer with Downwinders Inc., an advocacy group formed in the late 1970s, says sticking with Trump on the nuclear testing issue “could end up being a strategic mistake.”

How did someone with so few ties to Utah win the GOP primary in one of the nation’s most competitive congressional races? For that he can probably thank Fox News. Owens is a regular on the conservative news network and has appeared on shows like Fox and Friends to complain about NFL players taking a knee during the National Anthem. Dubbing himself the “the anti-Colin Kaepernick,” Owens testified before Congress last year to oppose reparations for the descendants of slaves, after penning an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal arguing, “I didn’t earn slavery reparations. I don’t want them.”

His campaign rhetoric is generic Fox News mixed with pro-football motivational jargon and locker room clichés. During the GOP primary debate in early June, he highlighted his “four tenets” —head, heart, hands and home—that guide him. But during the media scrum after the debate, Owens couldn’t answer a single question about what specifically he planned to do in Congress aside from fighting “the enemy” and “evil at the door,” also known as Democrats.

Owens has expanded on his political views in two books, which express some old-fashioned ideas about women. In Liberalism or How to Turn Good men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps, he devotes an entire section to “chivalry,” which he believes liberalism has ruined by “blur[ing] the line between genders, thus facilitating and encouraging the demeaning of both.” For Owens, manhood has a “divine nature” that must be deployed “for the protection and care of womanhood.” (Perhaps not surprisingly, Owens is divorced.) He’s also ventured into the world of right-wing conspiracy theories. In May, he appeared on a QAnon Internet show—which claims a “deep state” cabal that runs a pedophile ring is plotting against Trump and his supporters— and asked for support and campaign contributions.

After he jumped into the Utah congressional race, Owens told the Deseret News that President Trump was “an advocate for Black Americans, Black kids getting educated, having a choice. I love the fact he’s all about having Black Americans having jobs.” Trump had “done more to help my community come out of the darkness than any president in my lifetime,” he insisted. His loyalty was rewarded. After Owens secured the GOP nomination Trump tweeted an endorsement:

Congratulations, @BurgessOwens, on your impressive primary victory! A Super Bowl Champion, Burgess knows how to WIN. Strong on Life, Military, Vets and the #2A, he will always fight for Utah. Burgess has my Complete and Total Endorsement! #UT04 https://t.co/UppUx24FXx

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2020

But Trump’s support for Owens may not translate into votes in November. Utah has a rather tortured relationship with Trump, who received the lowest percentage of votes in the state than any GOP presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush in 1992. Utah politicians were among the loudest voices denouncing Trump after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape during the campaign, where Trump admitted to sexually assaulting women. Most of them eventually endorsed him, but for the first time in its history, the Deseret News, owned by the LDS church, weighed in on the election and called for Trump to resign from his campaign.

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney (R) was the only Republican senator to vote in favor of Trump’s impeachment and has said he won’t vote for him in November. More importantly, in 2016, Trump won only 39 percent of the voters in McAdams’ district; independent Evan McMullin pulled in another 20 percent. Trump’s approval rating among voters in the district is still just 39 percent, and some polling suggests Democratic nominee Joe Biden is leading Trump by five points there.

These numbers may not do much to help Owens knock off a popular incumbent who is headed into the race with a significant fundraising advantage. McAdams raised $3.4 million by the end of June, dwarfing the $766,000 Owens has raised. “The voters know him. They elected him [mayor] twice,” Chambless says. “In contrast, Burgess Owens is relatively unknown except those who watch Fox News.”

Back in the Salt Lake park, McAdams seemed relaxed and sanguine about the race. He talked about the plasma study he’s participating in, and, true to form, pointedly declined to say anything negative about Owens. “I take some comfort in telling myself the best way to get reelected is to do my job,” McAdams said. “This district doesn’t belong to the Democratic or Republican Party.”

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