Seattle Mariners’ Marco Gonzales was hot, but not in a good way, after his second half opened with a 9-2 loss to the Oakland A’s on Tuesday at the Oakland Coliseum.
No, Gonzales — and the rest of the Mariners — were steamed about a ball-four call on a fifth-inning, two-out walk to Marcus Semien that set up back-to-back homers by Matt Chapman and Matt Olson and turned a 2-1 game into a runaway.
Gonzales’ 3-2 sinker to Semien appeared to drop perfectly in the bottom corner of the strike zone, but home-plate umpire Brian O’Nora signaled ball four. In the Mariners’ minds, O’Nora shouldn’t have still been working the game after being clipped in the head by Domingo Santana’s bat on his backswing in a third-inning strikeout.
One more game in Oakland today. The Mariners are winless since the all-star break.
Locally, Klamath Falls Falcons baseball continues tonight and tomorrow.
The Falcons wrap up the regular season with doubleheaders in Grants Pass and Roseburg. Yesterday at Kiger Stadium, the Falcons dropped a 9-1 decision to Lewiston, Idaho.
Hear both nights action on 1240AM/106.5FM CBS Sports Radio The Winner or online at www.klamathradio.com.
With five games in just 15 days – including a midweek game coming on Thursday against Orlando City, Portland Timbers coach Giovanni Savarese tried his best to rotate his squad over the weekend and give some defenders a much-needed rest. But that plan quickly went off the rails.
In Orlando, the Timbers face a very beatable team. Like the Timbers, Orlando sits below the red line on their conference table, and Orlando – who has to make the long road trip to Portland – has also had a congested stretch of games due to the U.S. Open Cup.
The Timbers still didn’t have enough defenders with Bill Tuiloma and Jorge Villafana out injured. Midfielders Renzo Zambrano and Cristhian Paredes took up fullback spots along the back line, which allowed the Timbers to hold on for a 2-2 draw against the Colorado Rapids over the weekend.
Owning the
nation’s longest active streak of 28 consecutive games with a touchdown pass,
Oregon senior quarterback Justin Herbert was
named to the watch list for the 83rd annual Maxwell Award, which is presented
to America’s College Player of the Year.
It marks the second consecutive year that
Herbert, who recently attended the Manning Pass Academy for the second time,
has been on the Maxwell Award Watch List. Herbert was a semifinalist for the
award in 2018.
The projected top quarterback in the 2019 NFL
Draft, Herbert announced that he would be returning for his senior season prior
to Oregon’s win over Michigan State in the Redbox Bowl. The Eugene, Ore.,
product started all 13 games in 2018, passing for 3,151 yards and 29
touchdowns.
Oregon opens against Auburn in Arlington, Texas in late August.
The Portland Trail Blazers’ defense of their 2018 Las Vegas Summer League tournament championship didn’t go the way they had hoped, but they’re still returning home with a little bit of hardware.
Despite appearing in just the first three games before sitting out the remainder of Portland’s schedule in Las Vegas with a sprained right ankle, Trail Blazers guard Anfernee Simons was named to the All-MGM Resorts NBA Summer League Second Team my media vote.
In his second stint in Las Vegas, the 6-4 guard out of IMG Academy averaged 22.0 points, which ranks seventh among 2019 participants, on 56 percent shooting from the field and 65 percent shooting from three, 4.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.0 steals 26.3 minutes per game during summer league play.
MLB Scores (from Tuesday, July 16)
| Houston Astros | 2 | Final |
| Los Angeles Angels | 7 |
| W | Noe Ramirez (4-1) |
| L | Hector Rondon (3-2) |
| Washington Nationals | 8 | Final |
| Baltimore Orioles | 1 |
| W | Austin Voth (1-0) |
| L | Asher Wojciechowski (0-3) |
| Toronto Blue Jays | 10 | Final |
| Boston Red Sox | 4 |
| W | Justin Shafer (1-1) |
| L | Andrew Cashner (9-4) |
| Cincinnati Reds | 3 | Final |
| Chicago Cubs | 4 | (10) |
| W | Steve Cishek (3-5) |
| L | Raisel Iglesias (2-8) |
| Detroit Tigers | 0 | Final |
| Cleveland Indians | 8 |
| W | Nick Goody (1-0) |
| L | Ryan Carpenter (1-6) |
| San Francisco Giants | 8 | Final |
| Colorado Rockies | 4 | (10) |
| W | Will Smith (3-0) |
| L | Wade Davis (1-4) |
| Chicago White Sox | 0 | Final |
| Kansas City Royals | 11 |
| W | Glenn Sparkman (3-5) |
| L | Dylan Cease (1-1) |
| San Diego Padres | 7 | Final |
| Miami Marlins | 12 |
| W | Jordan Yamamoto (4-0) |
| L | Logan Allen (2-2) |
| Atlanta Braves | 1 | Final |
| Milwaukee Brewers | 13 |
| W | Brandon Woodruff (11-3) |
| L | Bryse Wilson (1-1) |
| New York Mets | 3 | Final |
| Minnesota Twins | 2 |
| W | Luis Avilan (2-0) |
| L | Michael Pineda (6-5) |
| S | Edwin Diaz (21) |
| Tampa Bay Rays | 3 | Final |
| New York Yankees | 8 |
| W | David Hale (3-0) |
| L | Colin Poche (2-3) |
| Seattle Mariners | 2 | Final |
| Oakland Athletics | 9 |
| W | Daniel Mengden (5-1) |
| L | Marco Gonzales (10-8) |
| Los Angeles Dodgers | 8 | Final |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 9 |
| W | Ranger Suarez (1-0) |
| L | Kenley Jansen (3-3) |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 3 | Final |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 1 |
| W | Francisco Liriano (4-1) |
| L | Carlos Martinez (2-1) |
| S | Felipe Vazquez (21) |
| Arizona Diamondbacks | 9 | Final |
| Texas Rangers | 2 |
| W | Alex Young (3-0) |
| L | Lance Lynn (12-5) |