SANTA CLARA, Calif. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Jason-Spriggs-Jersey/ . -- San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Anthony Davis on Wednesday denied reports that he was considering retirement over the weekend for the second time in 15 months.Davis missed practice Saturday before the season-opening win over the Rams. The team announced his absence was not injury related.Miscommunication, Davis said Wednesday.Davis, a first-round pick in 2010, echoed what coach Chip Kelly said about the situation following the teams 28-0 win Monday night.It was just a miscommunication, Kelly said. I had a long talk with Anthony on Saturday and everything has been ironed out. Hes good to go.When asked if there was anything about the reports he wanted to clarify, Davis said: Just let it fester.Davis was the favorite to start at right guard to open the season after he played his first five seasons at right tackle. He said he volunteered to switch after returning from his one-year retirement at the start of training camp in July.But Andrew Tiller started for San Francisco at right guard Monday. Davis played the final three offensive snaps of the game at right tackle.It was a miscommunication between myself and Anthony and we dont have a miscommunication any longer, Kelly said.With Tiller, the 49ers ran for 150 yards with three touchdowns and didnt allow a sack to Los Angeles talented defensive. Blaine Gabbert threw for 170 yards and added 43 on the ground.The 49ers ran for the fifth-most yards in Week 1 and scored touchdowns on all four trips to the red zone.Any time you can have those kind of stats, your offensive line had to play pretty good, offensive coordinator Curtis Modkins said.San Francisco made a point this offseason of improving the offensive line.In 2015, the 49ers allowed 53 sacks, the second-most in the NFL, while the running game ranked 21st, averaging 97 yards per game. They traded three picks to select Stanford guard Joshua Garnett at 28th overall and used consecutive fifth-round picks on offensive lineman John Theus from Georgia and Fahn Cooper from Mississippi before Davis committed to his return.Cooper was released during final cuts and then signed to the practice squad.Game notes CB Chris Davis (hamstring) and CB Keith Reaser (ankle) returned to practice Wednesday and were limited after missing the game Monday. ... LB Nick Bellore (knee), S Marcus Cromartie (ankle), DT Quinton Dial (knee), DT Glenn Dorsey (knee) and Tiller (ankle) were listed as limited. .---Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/AP-NFL http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Davon-House-Jersey/ .com) - The game was all punts and field goals before Kodi Whitfields catch. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Blake-Martinez-Jersey/ . Louis Blues absence from top spot in the TSN. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Brett-Hundley-Jersey/ . Following a lopsided 5-2 loss against the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday night, Paul MacLean told reporters that "theres a lack of focus, theres a lack of leadership and theres a lack of preparation" with his struggling team. That came on the heels of Bryan Murray taking the unusual step of going into the locker room at the Prudential Center and addressing the players himself. Point: Theres no reason we should ever see a walk-off triple.If the batter can reach third safely, it means the runner ahead of him -- the one representing the game-ending run -- already has left third base, presumably scored and ended the game. The batters run is meaningless. There is no reward for stretching a double into a triple when the game is over.Meanwhile, the risk is minimal but existent: The batter might be thrown out at third base before the winning run scores. He might stumble, trip or get lost. Or the lead runner, the one who represents the game-ending run ahead of him, might be forced to retreat to third base, either by stumbling, tripping, getting lost or simply reassessing his plan. In that event, the batter now will have prohibited him from returning to safety.In stretching a double into a pointless triple, the batter has simultaneously opened up a second front by which his team can be attacked and removed the lead runners lone option for retreat. It is like trying to block a buzzer-beating 3-pointer when youre up by four. It is like a victorious quarterback trying to get yardage when taking a knee will expire the clock. It is an absurd act to go to third base in a walk-off situation.Counterpoint: But they happen anyway. What gives?There were four walk-off triples in 2016. One of the four was a clear exception to our point: Josh Harrison hit a triple and advanced home with the winning run on a throwing error. This wasnt a walk-off triple, but a walk-off triple plus a one-base error. It is exempt. As to why the other three happened, we are prepared to deliver answers. Two answers apiece, in fact.1. Jay Bruce hits a walk-off triple for the Reds, April 10.0:06: The ball lands down the right-field line. The Pirates right fielder, Gregory Polanco, is roughly 1 million miles from it.0:08: [Brandon] Phillips on his way to third! Bruce, rounding first, glances over to see Phillips progress, about 120 feet ahead of Bruce. Bruce then looks back to right field, sees the location of the ball and Polanco, and keeps running. As Phillips gets to within 30 or so feet of scoring, Bruce rounds second and heads to third.0:14: Phillips touches home plate with the winning run. The throw home is about 40 feet away and bounces in mockingly. Catcher Chris Stewart?flips the incoming ball away in disgust.0:16 or so: Bruce touches third base, then he starts running back toward second to be swallowed up by teammates.Explanation 1: One of my favorite things about old-timey baseball -- real old-timey, back in the 1800s -- is that they played the bottom of the ninth inning no matter what. It wasnt how it is now, where the home team only bats if it needs to. What were those unnecessary bottom halves like, I often wonder. Was everybody still trying? Did the fans stick around to see it? Did the coachs son get to pitch? We never play that superfluous half-inning anymore because we all pretty much consider the point of baseball to be winning the game. Baseball exists to deliver a definitive victory or defeat.It is a reflection of a winner-take-all culture: Once youve won, youve already taken all, and once youve lost, there is nothing left to take, so we all go home. But when you play out the bottom of the ninth after the game has been decided, youre saying something matters about baseball even when a win is not on the line. Youre saying there is beauty and meaning inherent in baseball play, and that it means more than an opportunity to declare somebody the winner. You play, and you play hard, because baseball played hard, by its very nature, no matter the stakes, adds to the gross product of the sport.Jay Bruce went to third because a baseball player playing hard goes to third. Not all artists paint for fame and commissions. Some paint to make something beautiful.Explanation 2: Phillips was safe by plenty, but there was, at least, a nominal play at the plate. There was only one out. If Phillips had been thrown out, Bruce would have represented the winning run, and there would have been only two men out. By going to third, Bruce increased his teams chances of winning from 61 percent to 68 percent in the rare case where Phillips gets thrown out. Bruce determined this conditional advantage to be greater than the likelihood of his disrupting Phillips attempts at scoring on his own. He was still playing to win.2. Stephen Drew hits a walk-off triple for the Nationals, July 23.0:08: The ball lands at the wall in right-center field. There is one out.0:10: Padres center fielder Travis Jankowski picks it up and fires it toward his cutoff man, Ryan Schimpf.0:11: You check: Jankowski and Schimpf are definitely real people.0:12: Schimpf turns around and readies to throw. Drew is just circling second base; hell be out by forever if Schimpf throws to third, though Anthony Rendon would score the winning run. Wil Myers, the second cutoff man, stationed between Schimpf and home plate, points toward third.0:13: Schimpf throws toward home instead. On-deck hitter Ben Revere, anticipating the winning run scoring, is already in the field of play, ready to mob Stephen Drew.0:14: Rendon scores, ending the game. Drew, roughly 35 feet from third base, still is pumping his arms and running hard.Explanation 3: It is, basically, irrational to go to third base if youre Drew. What Drew is banking on, though, is that the other team is as capable of acting irrationally as he might be, and that potential consequences of his irrational choice are far less costly than the potential consequences of the Padres irrational choice would be gainsome.Here, we see it almost happen: Myers, taking the role of field captain, points to third base and directs Schimpf to throw it there. This would be hilarious, of course. Drew as a runner doesnt matter (the premise of this inquiry!), and there is almost no chance that theyll tag him out before Rendon crosses home plate and ends the game. And yet: Theres Myers, worried about the meaningless trail runner, instead of the winning run, and trying to make his teammate do something ridiculous.Players know that they are fallible and they make mental errors. They know, just as confidently, that their opponents are fallible and will make mental errors. Drew, in this instance, gives the Padres the opportunity to make a mental error. He was doing game theory. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Quinten-Rollins-Jersey/. Explanation 4: A few years ago, I wrote about Roy Halladays failure to complete a single game in 2012. Before that, Halladays complete games were a singular achievement: He had more complete games over the course of a decade than entire franchises. He had led the league in complete games in each of the previous five seasons, and he had bold ink in that category in seven of the previous nine seasons. He had eight complete games the season before. Then, suddenly, he had none. I argued at the time that Halladays lack of complete games was more than an odd blip, or even a typical decline, but rather the canary in the coal mine of his career. It represented a cliff that he had fallen off; he was a man suddenly old. The next year, Halladay had a 6.82 ERA and never pitched again.Stephen Drew was very good at many things in his long career, but he was especially notable for hitting triples. He wasnt that fast, but he had a knack for finding gaps, corners and 12-plus seconds for uninterrupted running. From 2008 to 2010, he led all major leaguers with 35 triples, hitting 11 or more in each of the three seasons. Drew is old now, and hes not very good at many things. This is apparent in all of his stats, and in the contracts he gets, and in the role he plays (he was pinch-hitting in this game), but perhaps nothing conveys his age and his decline like his triples totals:2013: 8 2014: 1 2015: 1Before this swing in this game, he had no triples in 2016. When the day comes that Stephen Drew cant hit even one triple, he might cease to be Stephen Drew. He is an exposed popsicle that, in the five minutes you ignore it, has turned into a stick. That triple wasnt just a triple but an entire career fighting for one more spring training invite. So he went for it. He just ... ran.And he made it. Notably, if you search for walk-off triples on MLB.coms highlights, this play is not returned.But thankfully -- for Drew -- baseballs official records are not kept in highlight-video metadata. Baseballs Rule 9.06 (f) guarantees his extra base went into the record books:The official scorer shall credit the batter with a base touched in the natural course of play, even if the winning run has scored moments before on the same play. For example, the score is tied in the bottom of the ninth inning with a runner on second base and the batter hits a ball to the outfield that falls for a base hit. The runner scores after the batter has touched first base and continued on to second base but shortly before the batter-runner reaches second base. If the batter-runner reaches second base, the official scorer shall credit the batter with a two-base hit.If he had been even one step past second base when Rendon crossed home plate and ended the game, he would have been allowed to complete the play, and the triple would have counted. He rounded second and saw nothing in his way. In a sense, Drew found the worlds emptiest highway, and he rode it. All night long.3. Derek Dietrich hits a walk-off triple for the Marlins, July 31.0:09: The ball lands in or around the glove of Cardinals center fielder Tommy Pham.0:10: Now its loose, rolling all the way to the left-field wall. Nobody is close to the ball. This play is over the second it gets past Pham.0:14: Adeiny Hechavarria, representing the winning run, lopes casually down the third-base line. He will score easily. Its not clear a Cardinal will ever even pick up the ball.0:19: Dietrich is mobbed by his teammates in foul territory past the third-base bag. They punch him, douse him with water and strip his jersey off.0:45: You notice, for the first time, what amazing shape Dietrich is in. Wow, you say, without any particular intent.Explanation 5: Two important things to know about on-field celebrations. The first is that the mob is going after the batter who drives in the winning run, not the runner who scores, in pretty much all cases. The second is that these celebrations are performative. There was a long period of baseball history in which even teams winning the World Series didnt celebrate on the field. They just jogged into the dugout and shook hands with one another. But once television became the sports primary broadcast medium, players began to celebrate in ways that fans expected them to: glove-throwing, teammate-assaulting, dogpiles, etc. They began to perform.So in one sense, the game-winning batters role ends the moment he reaches first base safely. In another, though, his role goes on long after the run scores. A camera will be isolated on him to capture his raised arms, his fist pumps, and, eventually, his disappearance under a flood of teammates. So what we see from Dietrich is pointless to the game but very important to the show. He keeps running partly because a triple is more exciting than a double, and partly because, with his team in the third-base dugout, he is really running to join them in merriment as they run to join him in merriment. For this latter detail, the existence of third base is irrelevant, a vestigial prop that he happens to pass on his way to the party. Third base is just a step on the way to showing off his torso, which, wow, check out that torso.Explanation 6: But third base is not totally perfunctory, either. Dietrich gives away his motives at 0:34 in that clip, when he takes a split-second glance at the bag before he reaches it. Hes going to make sure he touches it. He doesnt need to, but hes going to make sure he does. Thats because Dietrich cares about his slugging percentage. Ultimately, this is the explanation that probably holds the truest in all of these cases: Baseball players care about their slugging percentage. Maybe that extra base wont get him any more money in arbitration, and maybe that extra base wont be the one that makes him the Marlins all-time leader in slugging percentage. But your vote probably wont swing the presidential election, and you still vote, right? Derek Dietrich is voting for Derek Dietrichs slugging percentage. There are worse crimes.Thanks to Darin Padur, who has served as an official scorekeeper for major league and Triple-A games since 1992, for help with the scoring details. 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SANTA CLARA, Calif. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Jason-Spriggs-Jersey/ . -- San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Anthony Davis on Wednesday denied reports that he was considering retirement over the weekend for the second time in 15 months.Davis missed practice Saturday before the season-opening win over the Rams. The team announced his absence was not injury related.Miscommunication, Davis said Wednesday.Davis, a first-round pick in 2010, echoed what coach Chip Kelly said about the situation following the teams 28-0 win Monday night.It was just a miscommunication, Kelly said. I had a long talk with Anthony on Saturday and everything has been ironed out. Hes good to go.When asked if there was anything about the reports he wanted to clarify, Davis said: Just let it fester.Davis was the favorite to start at right guard to open the season after he played his first five seasons at right tackle. He said he volunteered to switch after returning from his one-year retirement at the start of training camp in July.But Andrew Tiller started for San Francisco at right guard Monday. Davis played the final three offensive snaps of the game at right tackle.It was a miscommunication between myself and Anthony and we dont have a miscommunication any longer, Kelly said.With Tiller, the 49ers ran for 150 yards with three touchdowns and didnt allow a sack to Los Angeles talented defensive. Blaine Gabbert threw for 170 yards and added 43 on the ground.The 49ers ran for the fifth-most yards in Week 1 and scored touchdowns on all four trips to the red zone.Any time you can have those kind of stats, your offensive line had to play pretty good, offensive coordinator Curtis Modkins said.San Francisco made a point this offseason of improving the offensive line.In 2015, the 49ers allowed 53 sacks, the second-most in the NFL, while the running game ranked 21st, averaging 97 yards per game. They traded three picks to select Stanford guard Joshua Garnett at 28th overall and used consecutive fifth-round picks on offensive lineman John Theus from Georgia and Fahn Cooper from Mississippi before Davis committed to his return.Cooper was released during final cuts and then signed to the practice squad.Game notes CB Chris Davis (hamstring) and CB Keith Reaser (ankle) returned to practice Wednesday and were limited after missing the game Monday. ... LB Nick Bellore (knee), S Marcus Cromartie (ankle), DT Quinton Dial (knee), DT Glenn Dorsey (knee) and Tiller (ankle) were listed as limited. .---Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/AP-NFL http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Davon-House-Jersey/ .com) - The game was all punts and field goals before Kodi Whitfields catch. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Blake-Martinez-Jersey/ . Louis Blues absence from top spot in the TSN. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Brett-Hundley-Jersey/ . Following a lopsided 5-2 loss against the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday night, Paul MacLean told reporters that "theres a lack of focus, theres a lack of leadership and theres a lack of preparation" with his struggling team. That came on the heels of Bryan Murray taking the unusual step of going into the locker room at the Prudential Center and addressing the players himself. Point: Theres no reason we should ever see a walk-off triple.If the batter can reach third safely, it means the runner ahead of him -- the one representing the game-ending run -- already has left third base, presumably scored and ended the game. The batters run is meaningless. There is no reward for stretching a double into a triple when the game is over.Meanwhile, the risk is minimal but existent: The batter might be thrown out at third base before the winning run scores. He might stumble, trip or get lost. Or the lead runner, the one who represents the game-ending run ahead of him, might be forced to retreat to third base, either by stumbling, tripping, getting lost or simply reassessing his plan. In that event, the batter now will have prohibited him from returning to safety.In stretching a double into a pointless triple, the batter has simultaneously opened up a second front by which his team can be attacked and removed the lead runners lone option for retreat. It is like trying to block a buzzer-beating 3-pointer when youre up by four. It is like a victorious quarterback trying to get yardage when taking a knee will expire the clock. It is an absurd act to go to third base in a walk-off situation.Counterpoint: But they happen anyway. What gives?There were four walk-off triples in 2016. One of the four was a clear exception to our point: Josh Harrison hit a triple and advanced home with the winning run on a throwing error. This wasnt a walk-off triple, but a walk-off triple plus a one-base error. It is exempt. As to why the other three happened, we are prepared to deliver answers. Two answers apiece, in fact.1. Jay Bruce hits a walk-off triple for the Reds, April 10.0:06: The ball lands down the right-field line. The Pirates right fielder, Gregory Polanco, is roughly 1 million miles from it.0:08: [Brandon] Phillips on his way to third! Bruce, rounding first, glances over to see Phillips progress, about 120 feet ahead of Bruce. Bruce then looks back to right field, sees the location of the ball and Polanco, and keeps running. As Phillips gets to within 30 or so feet of scoring, Bruce rounds second and heads to third.0:14: Phillips touches home plate with the winning run. The throw home is about 40 feet away and bounces in mockingly. Catcher Chris Stewart?flips the incoming ball away in disgust.0:16 or so: Bruce touches third base, then he starts running back toward second to be swallowed up by teammates.Explanation 1: One of my favorite things about old-timey baseball -- real old-timey, back in the 1800s -- is that they played the bottom of the ninth inning no matter what. It wasnt how it is now, where the home team only bats if it needs to. What were those unnecessary bottom halves like, I often wonder. Was everybody still trying? Did the fans stick around to see it? Did the coachs son get to pitch? We never play that superfluous half-inning anymore because we all pretty much consider the point of baseball to be winning the game. Baseball exists to deliver a definitive victory or defeat.It is a reflection of a winner-take-all culture: Once youve won, youve already taken all, and once youve lost, there is nothing left to take, so we all go home. But when you play out the bottom of the ninth after the game has been decided, youre saying something matters about baseball even when a win is not on the line. Youre saying there is beauty and meaning inherent in baseball play, and that it means more than an opportunity to declare somebody the winner. You play, and you play hard, because baseball played hard, by its very nature, no matter the stakes, adds to the gross product of the sport.Jay Bruce went to third because a baseball player playing hard goes to third. Not all artists paint for fame and commissions. Some paint to make something beautiful.Explanation 2: Phillips was safe by plenty, but there was, at least, a nominal play at the plate. There was only one out. If Phillips had been thrown out, Bruce would have represented the winning run, and there would have been only two men out. By going to third, Bruce increased his teams chances of winning from 61 percent to 68 percent in the rare case where Phillips gets thrown out. Bruce determined this conditional advantage to be greater than the likelihood of his disrupting Phillips attempts at scoring on his own. He was still playing to win.2. Stephen Drew hits a walk-off triple for the Nationals, July 23.0:08: The ball lands at the wall in right-center field. There is one out.0:10: Padres center fielder Travis Jankowski picks it up and fires it toward his cutoff man, Ryan Schimpf.0:11: You check: Jankowski and Schimpf are definitely real people.0:12: Schimpf turns around and readies to throw. Drew is just circling second base; hell be out by forever if Schimpf throws to third, though Anthony Rendon would score the winning run. Wil Myers, the second cutoff man, stationed between Schimpf and home plate, points toward third.0:13: Schimpf throws toward home instead. On-deck hitter Ben Revere, anticipating the winning run scoring, is already in the field of play, ready to mob Stephen Drew.0:14: Rendon scores, ending the game. Drew, roughly 35 feet from third base, still is pumping his arms and running hard.Explanation 3: It is, basically, irrational to go to third base if youre Drew. What Drew is banking on, though, is that the other team is as capable of acting irrationally as he might be, and that potential consequences of his irrational choice are far less costly than the potential consequences of the Padres irrational choice would be gainsome.Here, we see it almost happen: Myers, taking the role of field captain, points to third base and directs Schimpf to throw it there. This would be hilarious, of course. Drew as a runner doesnt matter (the premise of this inquiry!), and there is almost no chance that theyll tag him out before Rendon crosses home plate and ends the game. And yet: Theres Myers, worried about the meaningless trail runner, instead of the winning run, and trying to make his teammate do something ridiculous.Players know that they are fallible and they make mental errors. They know, just as confidently, that their opponents are fallible and will make mental errors. Drew, in this instance, gives the Padres the opportunity to make a mental error. He was doing game theory. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Quinten-Rollins-Jersey/. Explanation 4: A few years ago, I wrote about Roy Halladays failure to complete a single game in 2012. Before that, Halladays complete games were a singular achievement: He had more complete games over the course of a decade than entire franchises. He had led the league in complete games in each of the previous five seasons, and he had bold ink in that category in seven of the previous nine seasons. He had eight complete games the season before. Then, suddenly, he had none. I argued at the time that Halladays lack of complete games was more than an odd blip, or even a typical decline, but rather the canary in the coal mine of his career. It represented a cliff that he had fallen off; he was a man suddenly old. The next year, Halladay had a 6.82 ERA and never pitched again.Stephen Drew was very good at many things in his long career, but he was especially notable for hitting triples. He wasnt that fast, but he had a knack for finding gaps, corners and 12-plus seconds for uninterrupted running. From 2008 to 2010, he led all major leaguers with 35 triples, hitting 11 or more in each of the three seasons. Drew is old now, and hes not very good at many things. This is apparent in all of his stats, and in the contracts he gets, and in the role he plays (he was pinch-hitting in this game), but perhaps nothing conveys his age and his decline like his triples totals:2013: 8 2014: 1 2015: 1Before this swing in this game, he had no triples in 2016. When the day comes that Stephen Drew cant hit even one triple, he might cease to be Stephen Drew. He is an exposed popsicle that, in the five minutes you ignore it, has turned into a stick. That triple wasnt just a triple but an entire career fighting for one more spring training invite. So he went for it. He just ... ran.And he made it. Notably, if you search for walk-off triples on MLB.coms highlights, this play is not returned.But thankfully -- for Drew -- baseballs official records are not kept in highlight-video metadata. Baseballs Rule 9.06 (f) guarantees his extra base went into the record books:The official scorer shall credit the batter with a base touched in the natural course of play, even if the winning run has scored moments before on the same play. For example, the score is tied in the bottom of the ninth inning with a runner on second base and the batter hits a ball to the outfield that falls for a base hit. The runner scores after the batter has touched first base and continued on to second base but shortly before the batter-runner reaches second base. If the batter-runner reaches second base, the official scorer shall credit the batter with a two-base hit.If he had been even one step past second base when Rendon crossed home plate and ended the game, he would have been allowed to complete the play, and the triple would have counted. He rounded second and saw nothing in his way. In a sense, Drew found the worlds emptiest highway, and he rode it. All night long.3. Derek Dietrich hits a walk-off triple for the Marlins, July 31.0:09: The ball lands in or around the glove of Cardinals center fielder Tommy Pham.0:10: Now its loose, rolling all the way to the left-field wall. Nobody is close to the ball. This play is over the second it gets past Pham.0:14: Adeiny Hechavarria, representing the winning run, lopes casually down the third-base line. He will score easily. Its not clear a Cardinal will ever even pick up the ball.0:19: Dietrich is mobbed by his teammates in foul territory past the third-base bag. They punch him, douse him with water and strip his jersey off.0:45: You notice, for the first time, what amazing shape Dietrich is in. Wow, you say, without any particular intent.Explanation 5: Two important things to know about on-field celebrations. The first is that the mob is going after the batter who drives in the winning run, not the runner who scores, in pretty much all cases. The second is that these celebrations are performative. There was a long period of baseball history in which even teams winning the World Series didnt celebrate on the field. They just jogged into the dugout and shook hands with one another. But once television became the sports primary broadcast medium, players began to celebrate in ways that fans expected them to: glove-throwing, teammate-assaulting, dogpiles, etc. They began to perform.So in one sense, the game-winning batters role ends the moment he reaches first base safely. In another, though, his role goes on long after the run scores. A camera will be isolated on him to capture his raised arms, his fist pumps, and, eventually, his disappearance under a flood of teammates. So what we see from Dietrich is pointless to the game but very important to the show. He keeps running partly because a triple is more exciting than a double, and partly because, with his team in the third-base dugout, he is really running to join them in merriment as they run to join him in merriment. For this latter detail, the existence of third base is irrelevant, a vestigial prop that he happens to pass on his way to the party. Third base is just a step on the way to showing off his torso, which, wow, check out that torso.Explanation 6: But third base is not totally perfunctory, either. Dietrich gives away his motives at 0:34 in that clip, when he takes a split-second glance at the bag before he reaches it. Hes going to make sure he touches it. He doesnt need to, but hes going to make sure he does. Thats because Dietrich cares about his slugging percentage. Ultimately, this is the explanation that probably holds the truest in all of these cases: Baseball players care about their slugging percentage. Maybe that extra base wont get him any more money in arbitration, and maybe that extra base wont be the one that makes him the Marlins all-time leader in slugging percentage. But your vote probably wont swing the presidential election, and you still vote, right? Derek Dietrich is voting for Derek Dietrichs slugging percentage. There are worse crimes.Thanks to Darin Padur, who has served as an official scorekeeper for major league and Triple-A games since 1992, for help with the scoring details. 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ST. Rick Porcello Red Sox Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Matt Moore pitched seven spotless innings and Brandon Guyer homered and drove in two runs in his return from a three-week stint on the disabled list, leading the Tampa Bay Rays to a 4-0 victory over David Price and the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday.Moore (4-5) allowed three singles, walked two and struck out five to outpitch Price (8-5), the former Rays ace who fell to 1/3 in five career starts against his old team.Guyer, who missed 23 games with a left hamstring strain, led off the second inning with his seventh homer. He doubled down the left-field line to make it 4-1 in the third.Moore, meanwhile, held the Red Sox hitless until Christian Vazquez singled leading off the sixth. Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts followed with hits to load the bases with one out, but David Ortiz popped up and Hanley Ramirez hit a routine fly that ended the threat.Price was beaten by the Rays for the second time this season, yielding four runs and nine hits over 6 1/3 innings. The 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner, who walked one and struck out 10, also lost to Tampa Bay 12-8 at Fenway Park on April 21.Boston was shut out for the third time this season. The Rays, who ended a streak of 13 consecutive games in which the pitching staff gave up five or more runs, also blanked the Red Sox 3-0 in 10 innings on April 19.Moore allowed three runners through five innings, with Dustin Pedroia reaching on an error in the first and Jackie Bradley Jr. and Bryce Brentz drawing walks in the fifth.The closest the Red Sox came to getting a hit before Vazquez singled was Ramirezs fifth-inning fly that center fielder Desmond Jennings caught at the wall.Rays reliever Erasmo Ramirez allowed an eighth-inning single to Pedroia, and Xavier Cedeno gave up a leadoff single to Ortiz in the ninth before finishing the five-hitter.TRAINERS ROOMRed Sox: Manager John Farrell said discussions about the status of INF Brock Holt (concussion) and C Ryan Hanigan (strained neck) will take place on Thursdays off day. Theyre getting close, Farrell said. Holt could return as soon as Friday against the Los Angeles Angels. . OF Chris Young (strained right hamstring) is undergoing treatment but wont return before the All-Star break.Rays: RF Oswaldo Arcia (illness) was a late scratch. . With Guyer being reinstated from the disabled list, OF Jaff Decker was designated for assignment. ... RF Steven Souza Jr. (strained left hip) will hit Thursday against RHPs Alex Cobb and Chase Whitley, who are both recovering from Tommy John surgery.STARTING TIMEThe Red Sox have not announced who will take LHP Eduardo Rodriguezs spot in the rotation, but Farrell said the replacement will pitch Sunday against the Angels. Rodriguez was optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket after allowing nine runs over 2 2/3 innings in Mondays 13-7 loss to the Rays.UP NEXTRed Sox: After an off day, Boston opens a nine-game homestand leading into the All-Star break. RHP Steven Wright (8-5, 2.18 ERA) starts Friday against the Angels, who counter with RHP Jhoulys Chacin (3-6, 5.64).Rays: RHP Jake Odorizzi (3-3, 3.93) starts the opener of a four-game series Thursday night against Detroit. RHP Jordan Zimmermann seeks his 10th victory for the Tigers. Jimmie Foxx Red Sox Jersey . Kyle Denbrook, a soccer player from Saint Marys University, took the CIS male athlete of the week honour. Stanley, a fourth-year business administration student from Charlottetown, scored both goals in a 2-0 win over Dalhousie on Friday and tallied again in a 1-0 win over Saint Marys on Sunday. Andrew Benintendi Red Sox Jersey . -- Sergey Tolchinksy scored his second goal of the game 3:56 into overtime as the Sault Ste. http://www.redsoxapparelsshop.com/pedro-martinez-jersey-c-20/ . Perhaps Carroll was so prepared for a break because he believes there is very little the Seattle Seahawks need heading into the off-season. "I dont see anything that we need to add. We just have to get better," Carroll said. LONDON -- The Latest on the Rio Games (all times local to Rio de Janeiro):11:00 p.m.Usain Bolt has touched down in Rio de Janeiro, ready to fine-tune his preparations for another bid at an Olympic double in the 100- and 200-meter sprints.The 29-year-old Jamaican has won six Olympic gold medals -- the 100, 200 and sprint relays at Beijing in 2008 and at London in 2012 -- and is the undisputed star of track and field.The official website of the Rio Games noted Bolts arrival on a flight from London with the headline: The main man has landed.The Olympics formally begin with the opening ceremony on Aug. 5, and the track program starts Aug. 12. Bolt is set to open his program in preliminaries of the 100 on Aug. 13.---5:42 p.m.When the New England Patriots reported for training camp on Wednesday, Nate Ebner wasnt with them.The special teams player has taken a leave of absence to play for the U.S. Olympic rugby team.Its a great opportunity for him to follow his passion, participate in the Olympic Games, Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. Were pulling for him to bring back something around his neck.Ebner played rugby but not football in his first two years at Ohio State before walking onto the football team as a junior. He was selected by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 2012 draft and has appeared in 57 NFL games, mostly on special teams.Patriots special teams captain Matthew Slater noted that Ebners father was a college rugby player. Jeff Ebner was murdered during an attempted robbery in 2008.That connection with father and son is bigger than sport itself, Slater said. I know this means a great deal to him and were all excited for him.Slater said hes in the market for an Ebner rugby jersey.---5 p.m.The IOCs new Olympic Channel will be launched next month following the closing ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Games.The International Olympic Committee says the digital channel will go live on Sunday, Aug. 21.The channel, which will operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, is designed to promote Olympics sports between each games and engage with young audiences. It will provide a mix of live sports coverage, historic Olympic footage from the IOCs archives, news programming and a platform for Olympic bid cities.The project, the brainchild of IOC President Thomas Bach, was approved by the full IOC in December 2014.The channel will be available via a mobile app and at olympicchannel.com.---4:45 p.m.The International Table Tennis Federation has cleared the three Russian table tennis players who qualified for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to compete.In a news release issued on Wednesday, the ITTF said its investigation included individual tests outside the Russian anti-doping system. Also, the ITTF said the World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed none of the qualified players were implicated in the McLaren report.The table tennis players are Alexander Shibaev, Polina Mikhailova and Maria Dolgikh.---2:30 p.m.The International Weightlifting Federation says 11 more weightlifters, including six silver and bronze medalists, have tested positive in retests of samples from the 2012 London Olympics.The IWF said Wednesday in a statement that all 11 athletes, who include four Russians, have been provisionally suspended until their cases are closed.So far, weightlifters have produced a total of 31 positives in doping retests carried out on samples taken at the 2008 Games in Beijing and the London Games.----1:30 p.m.Brazils suspended President Dilma Rousseff says shell skip the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games on Aug. 5.In a series of messages on Twitter, Rousseff says shell miss the event at which she was once expected to have a leading role.Acting President Michel Temer is expected at the Maracana stadium to open the games.Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also says hell attend. He was in office when Rio won the bid in 2009.Rousseffs impeachment trial is expected to conclude in the Senate following the end of the games.The suspended president is accused of breaking fiscal laws, which she denies.---11:40 a.m.In an innovative move that may not please purists of taekwondo, the sports governing body will allow competitors to wear color on their uniforms at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.Aside from their protective gear, fighters typically wear an all-white uniform. But the governing body has unveiled designs of 20 national Olympic committeess trousers, featuring national flags and colors. Blake Swihart Red Sox Jersey. The federation expects more national committees to submit their proposed designs.Committees are allowed to pick one color, in addition to white, for competitors to wear.The idea comes from the governing bodys technical committee, which is attempting to find ways for the traditional Korean martial art to evolve and modernize -- hoping the move might help fans more easily identify athletes.---9:50 a.m.Fighting back tears, two-time Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva tells Russian athletes going to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to defend the countrys honor.Isinbayeva spoke at a Russian Olympic team send-off ceremony at the Kremlin on Wednesday, saying that she and other athletes were banned from going to Rio in a rude manner and without giving us a chance to defend ourselves.The Court of Arbitration for Sport last week rejected the appeal by Russian track and field athletes against the ban imposed by the IAAF following allegations of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups.Isinbayeva and other track and field athletes attended the ceremony despite the fact that they are not going to Rio.She told those going to Rio to show them what youre able to do -- for yourself and for us too.---9:30 a.m.Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russian track and field athletes are victims of discrimination that the country is not going to put up with.Putin was addressing athletes at the Kremlin before the Russian Olympic team was due to fly out to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Thursday, while dozens of the track and field athletes who are not eligible to compete in the Rio Games also attended.Those barred from competing, Putin says, are victims of double standards and a campaign against Russian sports.Two-time Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and European hurdles champion Sergei Shubenkov were among those in attendance not eligible for Rio.Continuing his address, Putin told his audience your colleagues from other sports powers realize that the value of their medals will be different, because this victory will have a different taste -- or no taste at all.---8:35 a.m.The depleted Russian Olympic team, including some track and field athletes barred from competing, is taking part in a send-off ceremony in Moscow before flying out to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Thursday.The traditional ceremony, which includes a prayer at a Moscow Kremlin cathedral, began with the laying of wreaths at World War IIs Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin wall.Dressed in national uniform, the athletes walked across Red Square to meet President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.Two-time Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and European hurdles champion Sergei Shubenkov were spotted on Red Square mingling with the team -- despite the fact that they are not going to Rio.The Court of Arbitration for Sport last week rejected the appeal by Russian track and field athletes against the ban imposed by the IAAF following allegations of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups.---8:20 a.m.The IAAF has rebuffed Russias latest bid to overturn the ban on most of its track and field team competing at the Olympics.The Court of Arbitration for Sport last week rejected the appeal by Russian track and field athletes against the ban imposed by the IAAF following allegations of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups.Long jumper Darya Klishina is the only athlete eligible to represent Russia out of the 68 who were entered.Track and fields governing body says it received a letter Tuesday from Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko on Tuesday requesting a review but the IAAF responded by saying there are no grounds for further review.---8 a.m.Russian fencers are cleared to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after the sports governing body found no grounds to exclude any of the team for doping.The International Fencing Federation announcement was positive news for Russia, which has seen at least 105 athletes from its 387-strong Olympic team banned so far over the countrys doping scandal.The IFF says 197 tests taken from Russian athletes in 35 countries over the last two years were all negative.Sixteen Russian fencers have qualified for the Rio Games and there are four reserves. 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ST. Rick Porcello Red Sox Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Matt Moore pitched seven spotless innings and Brandon Guyer homered and drove in two runs in his return from a three-week stint on the disabled list, leading the Tampa Bay Rays to a 4-0 victory over David Price and the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday.Moore (4-5) allowed three singles, walked two and struck out five to outpitch Price (8-5), the former Rays ace who fell to 1/3 in five career starts against his old team.Guyer, who missed 23 games with a left hamstring strain, led off the second inning with his seventh homer. He doubled down the left-field line to make it 4-1 in the third.Moore, meanwhile, held the Red Sox hitless until Christian Vazquez singled leading off the sixth. Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts followed with hits to load the bases with one out, but David Ortiz popped up and Hanley Ramirez hit a routine fly that ended the threat.Price was beaten by the Rays for the second time this season, yielding four runs and nine hits over 6 1/3 innings. The 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner, who walked one and struck out 10, also lost to Tampa Bay 12-8 at Fenway Park on April 21.Boston was shut out for the third time this season. The Rays, who ended a streak of 13 consecutive games in which the pitching staff gave up five or more runs, also blanked the Red Sox 3-0 in 10 innings on April 19.Moore allowed three runners through five innings, with Dustin Pedroia reaching on an error in the first and Jackie Bradley Jr. and Bryce Brentz drawing walks in the fifth.The closest the Red Sox came to getting a hit before Vazquez singled was Ramirezs fifth-inning fly that center fielder Desmond Jennings caught at the wall.Rays reliever Erasmo Ramirez allowed an eighth-inning single to Pedroia, and Xavier Cedeno gave up a leadoff single to Ortiz in the ninth before finishing the five-hitter.TRAINERS ROOMRed Sox: Manager John Farrell said discussions about the status of INF Brock Holt (concussion) and C Ryan Hanigan (strained neck) will take place on Thursdays off day. Theyre getting close, Farrell said. Holt could return as soon as Friday against the Los Angeles Angels. . OF Chris Young (strained right hamstring) is undergoing treatment but wont return before the All-Star break.Rays: RF Oswaldo Arcia (illness) was a late scratch. . With Guyer being reinstated from the disabled list, OF Jaff Decker was designated for assignment. ... RF Steven Souza Jr. (strained left hip) will hit Thursday against RHPs Alex Cobb and Chase Whitley, who are both recovering from Tommy John surgery.STARTING TIMEThe Red Sox have not announced who will take LHP Eduardo Rodriguezs spot in the rotation, but Farrell said the replacement will pitch Sunday against the Angels. Rodriguez was optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket after allowing nine runs over 2 2/3 innings in Mondays 13-7 loss to the Rays.UP NEXTRed Sox: After an off day, Boston opens a nine-game homestand leading into the All-Star break. RHP Steven Wright (8-5, 2.18 ERA) starts Friday against the Angels, who counter with RHP Jhoulys Chacin (3-6, 5.64).Rays: RHP Jake Odorizzi (3-3, 3.93) starts the opener of a four-game series Thursday night against Detroit. RHP Jordan Zimmermann seeks his 10th victory for the Tigers. Jimmie Foxx Red Sox Jersey . Kyle Denbrook, a soccer player from Saint Marys University, took the CIS male athlete of the week honour. Stanley, a fourth-year business administration student from Charlottetown, scored both goals in a 2-0 win over Dalhousie on Friday and tallied again in a 1-0 win over Saint Marys on Sunday. Andrew Benintendi Red Sox Jersey . -- Sergey Tolchinksy scored his second goal of the game 3:56 into overtime as the Sault Ste. http://www.redsoxapparelsshop.com/pedro-martinez-jersey-c-20/ . Perhaps Carroll was so prepared for a break because he believes there is very little the Seattle Seahawks need heading into the off-season. "I dont see anything that we need to add. We just have to get better," Carroll said. LONDON -- The Latest on the Rio Games (all times local to Rio de Janeiro):11:00 p.m.Usain Bolt has touched down in Rio de Janeiro, ready to fine-tune his preparations for another bid at an Olympic double in the 100- and 200-meter sprints.The 29-year-old Jamaican has won six Olympic gold medals -- the 100, 200 and sprint relays at Beijing in 2008 and at London in 2012 -- and is the undisputed star of track and field.The official website of the Rio Games noted Bolts arrival on a flight from London with the headline: The main man has landed.The Olympics formally begin with the opening ceremony on Aug. 5, and the track program starts Aug. 12. Bolt is set to open his program in preliminaries of the 100 on Aug. 13.---5:42 p.m.When the New England Patriots reported for training camp on Wednesday, Nate Ebner wasnt with them.The special teams player has taken a leave of absence to play for the U.S. Olympic rugby team.Its a great opportunity for him to follow his passion, participate in the Olympic Games, Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. Were pulling for him to bring back something around his neck.Ebner played rugby but not football in his first two years at Ohio State before walking onto the football team as a junior. He was selected by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 2012 draft and has appeared in 57 NFL games, mostly on special teams.Patriots special teams captain Matthew Slater noted that Ebners father was a college rugby player. Jeff Ebner was murdered during an attempted robbery in 2008.That connection with father and son is bigger than sport itself, Slater said. I know this means a great deal to him and were all excited for him.Slater said hes in the market for an Ebner rugby jersey.---5 p.m.The IOCs new Olympic Channel will be launched next month following the closing ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Games.The International Olympic Committee says the digital channel will go live on Sunday, Aug. 21.The channel, which will operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, is designed to promote Olympics sports between each games and engage with young audiences. It will provide a mix of live sports coverage, historic Olympic footage from the IOCs archives, news programming and a platform for Olympic bid cities.The project, the brainchild of IOC President Thomas Bach, was approved by the full IOC in December 2014.The channel will be available via a mobile app and at olympicchannel.com.---4:45 p.m.The International Table Tennis Federation has cleared the three Russian table tennis players who qualified for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to compete.In a news release issued on Wednesday, the ITTF said its investigation included individual tests outside the Russian anti-doping system. Also, the ITTF said the World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed none of the qualified players were implicated in the McLaren report.The table tennis players are Alexander Shibaev, Polina Mikhailova and Maria Dolgikh.---2:30 p.m.The International Weightlifting Federation says 11 more weightlifters, including six silver and bronze medalists, have tested positive in retests of samples from the 2012 London Olympics.The IWF said Wednesday in a statement that all 11 athletes, who include four Russians, have been provisionally suspended until their cases are closed.So far, weightlifters have produced a total of 31 positives in doping retests carried out on samples taken at the 2008 Games in Beijing and the London Games.----1:30 p.m.Brazils suspended President Dilma Rousseff says shell skip the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games on Aug. 5.In a series of messages on Twitter, Rousseff says shell miss the event at which she was once expected to have a leading role.Acting President Michel Temer is expected at the Maracana stadium to open the games.Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also says hell attend. He was in office when Rio won the bid in 2009.Rousseffs impeachment trial is expected to conclude in the Senate following the end of the games.The suspended president is accused of breaking fiscal laws, which she denies.---11:40 a.m.In an innovative move that may not please purists of taekwondo, the sports governing body will allow competitors to wear color on their uniforms at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.Aside from their protective gear, fighters typically wear an all-white uniform. But the governing body has unveiled designs of 20 national Olympic committeess trousers, featuring national flags and colors. Blake Swihart Red Sox Jersey. The federation expects more national committees to submit their proposed designs.Committees are allowed to pick one color, in addition to white, for competitors to wear.The idea comes from the governing bodys technical committee, which is attempting to find ways for the traditional Korean martial art to evolve and modernize -- hoping the move might help fans more easily identify athletes.---9:50 a.m.Fighting back tears, two-time Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva tells Russian athletes going to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to defend the countrys honor.Isinbayeva spoke at a Russian Olympic team send-off ceremony at the Kremlin on Wednesday, saying that she and other athletes were banned from going to Rio in a rude manner and without giving us a chance to defend ourselves.The Court of Arbitration for Sport last week rejected the appeal by Russian track and field athletes against the ban imposed by the IAAF following allegations of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups.Isinbayeva and other track and field athletes attended the ceremony despite the fact that they are not going to Rio.She told those going to Rio to show them what youre able to do -- for yourself and for us too.---9:30 a.m.Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russian track and field athletes are victims of discrimination that the country is not going to put up with.Putin was addressing athletes at the Kremlin before the Russian Olympic team was due to fly out to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Thursday, while dozens of the track and field athletes who are not eligible to compete in the Rio Games also attended.Those barred from competing, Putin says, are victims of double standards and a campaign against Russian sports.Two-time Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and European hurdles champion Sergei Shubenkov were among those in attendance not eligible for Rio.Continuing his address, Putin told his audience your colleagues from other sports powers realize that the value of their medals will be different, because this victory will have a different taste -- or no taste at all.---8:35 a.m.The depleted Russian Olympic team, including some track and field athletes barred from competing, is taking part in a send-off ceremony in Moscow before flying out to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Thursday.The traditional ceremony, which includes a prayer at a Moscow Kremlin cathedral, began with the laying of wreaths at World War IIs Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin wall.Dressed in national uniform, the athletes walked across Red Square to meet President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.Two-time Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and European hurdles champion Sergei Shubenkov were spotted on Red Square mingling with the team -- despite the fact that they are not going to Rio.The Court of Arbitration for Sport last week rejected the appeal by Russian track and field athletes against the ban imposed by the IAAF following allegations of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups.---8:20 a.m.The IAAF has rebuffed Russias latest bid to overturn the ban on most of its track and field team competing at the Olympics.The Court of Arbitration for Sport last week rejected the appeal by Russian track and field athletes against the ban imposed by the IAAF following allegations of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups.Long jumper Darya Klishina is the only athlete eligible to represent Russia out of the 68 who were entered.Track and fields governing body says it received a letter Tuesday from Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko on Tuesday requesting a review but the IAAF responded by saying there are no grounds for further review.---8 a.m.Russian fencers are cleared to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after the sports governing body found no grounds to exclude any of the team for doping.The International Fencing Federation announcement was positive news for Russia, which has seen at least 105 athletes from its 387-strong Olympic team banned so far over the countrys doping scandal.The IFF says 197 tests taken from Russian athletes in 35 countries over the last two years were all negative.Sixteen Russian fencers have qualified for the Rio Games and there are four reserves. 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Manuel Pellegrini has warned his Manchester City players ahead of their dangerous derby match against Manchester United on Super Sunday. Cheap Soccer Jerseys Authentic . City welcome their local rivals to the Etihad Stadium - live on Sky Sports 1 HD from 3.30pm - with both sides fighting to secure a top-four finish and qualification for next seasons Champions League. A victory for United would bring them within a point of City and land a potentially telling blow to Pellegrini sides faint chances of catching current leaders Leicester.  Always a derby is dangerous. It doesnt matter the position of both teams. If its a derby of the Premier League it is doubly dangerous, Pellegrini said. Both teams will try to arrive as near the top of the table as they can for the next season. United and City played out a goalless draw earlier this season at Old Trafford City will be looking to return to winning ways in the Premier League after being held to a goalless draw by relegation-threatened Norwich City at Carrow Road last Saturday. The result left City 12 points behind Leicester with only nine matches of their season remaining.  Kompany blow Vincent Kompany could be out for up to eight weeks If West Ham claim victory at Chelsea on Saturday, City will kick-off against United outside of the Champions League qualification spots in fifth place.But Pellegrini insists he will not give up in his pursuit of a second Premier League title.  City were held to a 0-0 draw by Norwich last time out in the league He added: In football when you have a mathematical chance you cannot think you cannot do it. That is not a winning mind. You must always think you must do it.The more points you lose its more difficult, but you must have the mentality to win the next game and after that you will see which team has the most points. Jamie Redknapp previews the two derbies on Super Sunday Also See: City face PSG in CL quarters WATCH: Redknapps Sunday preview Henry on CL draw Sterling wont rule out title Arthur Jersey . On Tuesday, Ottawa placed forward Cory Conacher and defenceman Joe Corvo on waivers as trade rumours swirl around the Senators. Ivan Rakitic Jersey . After the whistle, Thornton skated the length of the ice, pulled Orpik to the ice from behind and punched him in the face several times. http://www.cheapbarcelonajerseys.com/?tag=ousmane-dembele-jersey .Y. -- Knicks coach Mike Woodson said Wednesday that J. NEW YORK -- Masahiro Tanaka rebounded from two rocky outings, Didi Gregorius homered and the New York Yankees held off the Cleveland Indians 3-2 on Sunday after announcing that Alex Rodriguez will play his final game in pinstripes this week.Mark Teixeira, two days since disclosing his own plans to retire at the end of the season, hit an RBI double and dove toward first base to complete a crucial play on defense. Dellin Betances got four outs for his second save as New York took two of three from the AL Central leaders and finished 5-2 in the season series.Cleveland, which remained two games ahead of Detroit, has dropped five of seven. Cleanup hitter Mike Napoli was ejected by plate umpire Lance Barrett after getting called out on strikes in the eighth inning.Hit hard by the Mets in a Subway Series loss last week, Tanaka (8-4) was lifted with a 3-0 lead following Rajai Davis leadoff double in the seventh.Carlos Carrasco (7-6) also bounced back from a poor outing and turned in seven solid innings for the Indians, who tried to rally late.Davis scored when Adam Warren gave up an RBI single to No. 9 batter Roberto Perez, his second hit of the day after entering in an 0-for-16 slump. With two on, the 36-year-old Teixeira went to his knees to make a sliding stop of Francisco Lindors two-out grounder inside the first base line. Teixeira gathered himself and barely beat Lindor to the bag with his outstretched mitt as both players dove headfirst.The effort drew warm applause from a crowd of 39,720 that also cheered Tanaka as he walked off the mound an inning earlier.Cleveland scored an unearned run on a wild pitch in the eighth and nearly got something going in the ninth. Chris Gimenez short-hopped the left-field fence with a leadoff drive but was held to a single by Brett Gardner. Second baseman Starlinn Castro then started a difficult double play on Carlos Santanas sharp grounder, and Betances struck out Yankees nemesis Jason Kipnis to end it. Thomas Vermaelen Jersey. About two hours before the first pitch, Rodriguez and the rebuilding Yankees (56-55) announced the slumping slugger will play Friday night against Tampa Bay at Yankee Stadium and then be released. After that, he plans to become a special adviser and instructor with the team next year.This is a tough day. I love this game and I love this team, the 41-year-old Rodriguez said, often choking up. And today Im saying goodbye to both.New York will pay A-Rod the remainder of the approximately $27 million hes owed as part of his $275 million, 10-year contract.Rodriguez, relegated to the bench again Sunday, said the agreement arose out of conversations over the past few days with Yankees Managing General Partner Hal Steinbrenner.TRAINERS ROOMYankees: Rookie catcher Gary Sanchez was rested after playing consecutive games behind the plate. Austin Romine caught Tanaka, and Brian McCann was the DH. ... Castro also was rested in favor of Refsnyder but entered on defense in the eighth and appeared in his 1,000th major league game.UP NEXTIndians: Following an off day, Cleveland opens a two-game interleague series at NL East-leading Washington. RHP Trevor Bauer (7-5, 4.08 ERA) starts Tuesday night against All-Star RHP Max Scherzer (12-6, 2.87). RHP Josh Tomlin will pitch Wednesday for the Indians instead of RHP Mike Clevinger.Yankees: RHP Luis Severino (1-6, 6.02 ERA) makes his first major league start since May 13 when New York begins a three-game series Tuesday night in Boston. RHP Rick Porcello (14-3, 3.46) goes for the Red Sox. Cheap Authentic Jerseys China NFL Hoodies Youth NFL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale NFL Hoodies Wholesale NFL T-shirts Cheap Jerseys 2020 Stitched Jerseys Stitched Jerseys China Jerseys Wholesale Youth NFL Jerseys Cheap Camo China NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Store Wholesale Authentic Jerseys Wholesale NFL Hoodies Nike NFL Jerseys China ' ' ' 

TORONTO -- Ever since he was named an All-Star for the first time, Blue Jays right-hander Marco Estrada has looked like anything but. Dustin McGowan Jersey .Rick Porcello pitched seven innings to become the first 20-game winner in the majors, Hanley Ramirez hit a three-run homer and the Boston Red Sox increased their AL East lead to two games by routing Toronto 13-3 on Friday night.Estrada (8-8) allowed four runs, three earned, and six hits in 2 1/3 innings, his shortest outing of the season. The last time Estrada failed to finish three innings was June 30, 2015, also a home loss to Boston.He was off, no question about it, manager John Gibbons said. He lives on the edges and he was just missing.Estrada is 3-5 with a 5.32 ERA in nine starts since his All-Star nod. He missed the All-Star Game after being placed on the disabled list because of a sore back.Estrada threw 30 pitches in the first inning Friday. He finished with 39 balls and 38 strikes, the first time in 58 starts with Toronto hes had had more balls than strikes.Nothing went our way today and obviously it started with me, Estrada said. When your starting pitcher is out there making a bunch of pitches like that, it brings everybody down.Toronto, which was swept in a three-game series at Yankee Stadium earlier this week, fell to 1-6 in September. The Blue Jays made two errors and had two wild pitches and two passed balls.We havent necessarily been playing good baseball the last week but I still believe, Gibbons said.Porcello (20-3) allowed two runs and six hits to become Bostons first 20-game winner since Josh Beckett in 2007. Porcello came in 6-7 with a 5.27 ERA in 15 career games against Toronto but kept the Blue Jays in check.Its hard to win one game in the big leagues, let alone 20, Porcello said. Im definitely very proud of that.Xander Bogaerts homered and Dustin Pedroia had three hits and four RBI as the Red Sox used 18 hits to rough up the sloppy, slumping Blue Jays in the opener of a pivotal three-game series between the divisions top two teams.The Red Sox broke it open by scoring six runs in a 10-batter seventh. Bogaerts hit a leadoff drive off Scott Feldman, his 18th. Three batters later, Ramirez connected off Feldman, his 22nd. Pedroia capped the rally with a two-run single off Ryan Tepera.Boston (79-61) surpassed its win total from a last-place finish in 2015, when it went 78-84.CHEEKY CHEERBlue Jays OF Melvin Upton Jr. dropped a fly ball in the third and misplayed a double by Brock Holt in the fourth. Upton got a derisive round of applause from the crowd of 46,953 when he cleanly fielded Bogaerts single later in the fourth. Fans offered another sarcastic cheer when Upton caught Travis Shaws fly ball to end the fifth.PARKA FOR PAPIBlue Jays sluggers Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion presented retiring Red Sox DH David Ortiz with a winter parka and a leather jacket before his final series in Toronto. Ortiz has 40 career home runs at Rogers Centre, more than any other road ballpark. Ive seen enough of him, Gibbons joked about Ortiz. The Blue Jays made a donation to Ortizs foundation.TRAINERS ROOMRed Sox: OF Andrew Benintendi (left knee) ran the bases before the game and will try sliding as early as Saturday. A very good day for him, manager John Farrell said. There is still no timetable for Benintendis return. ... Boston recalled LHP Henry Owens from Triple-A Pawtucket.Blue Jays: C Russell Martin (left knee) was held out of the lineup. Martin aggravated the injury in Wednesdays loss at New York and was replaced by a pinch-hitter in the ninth. 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SYRACUSE, N. Manuel Neuer Jersey .Y. -- Dwayne Pearl Washington left an indelible mark on Syracuse basketball, and the university is honoring his legacy by establishing the Pearl Washington Endowed Fund for Continuing Education.The school has set a goal to raise $1 million to endow the fund, which will support student-athletes who leave the university and later return to pursue their degrees.Those who visit the Honoring Pearl Washington website and make a gift of $31 or more will receive a commemorative window cling. Results of the fundraising effort will be announced at a tribute ceremony for Washington at the Georgetown game in the Carrier Dome on Dec. 17.Washington, who went from New York City playground wonder to Big East star for Orange coach Jim Boeheim, died of cancer in April at age 52.Washington left Syracuse after his junior year to play in the NBA. 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ATLANTA -- Looking rusty after sitting out his last start, Matt Wisler knows he cant keep pitching like this if he wants to be part of the rotation next season for the Atlanta Braves.Wisler started for the first time in nearly two weeks but couldnt make it out of the fifth inning, surrendering 10 hits and six runs in a 7-5 loss to the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night.After being sent to Triple-A in late July, Wisler returned to make two strong starts. But he strained his left oblique his last time out Aug. 31, forcing him to skip a turn.Against the Marlins, Wisler (6-12) again looked more like the guy who struggled much of the season.There was a little bit of rust, but I shouldnt have an outing like that, said Wisler, who turned 24 the previous day. I cant keep having outings like this if I want to pitch up here for a long time. Ive got three more outings to show I deserve to be up here next season.Forty-two-year-old Ichiro Suzuki scored two runs and drove in another during the 900th multihit game of his career, giving Miamis fading wild-card hopes a boost. The Marlins remained five games out of a playoff spot after only their fifth win in the last 17 games.Just when you think hes run out of steam here in the season, all of a sudden hes throwing hits up, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said of Suzuki. Hes an amazing guy. He stays in great shape. Hes really good for our club.Christian Yelich added a two-run double off Wisler, who surrendered 10 hits and six runs, walked two and didnt strike out anyone in 4 1/3 innings.Freddie Freeman and Matt Kemp homered for the Braves, providing a glimmer of hope in the middle of Atlantas order for next season.It should be fun, said Kemp, whose solo shot in the fourth was his 31st homer of the season and eighth since being acquired by Atlanta on July 30.Freeman reached 30 homers for the first time in his career with a two-run homer in the first.Justin Nicolino (3-6) earned the win with two hitless innings of relief. A.J. Ramos worked a perfect ninth for his 35th save.The Braves closed the gap with a pair of runs in the seventh, when Miami bench coach Tim Walllach was tossed from the game by home-plate umpire Ramon De Jesus for griping about the strike zone. Niklas Sule Jersey. But Kyle Barraclough escaped a bases-loaded jam by getting Jace Peterson to ground into a force.WEIRD DOUBLE PLAYFreeman grounded into a 6-5-3 double play to end the third.Thats right, 6-5-3.The Marlins had the shift on for the left-handed-hitting Freeman, putting three infielders to the right of second base. The slugger lined a grounder toward what would normally be the shortstop, but it was third baseman Martin Prado who made a nifty grab and made a backhanded flip to Hechevarria, the shortstop, covering second. He threw on to first to get Freeman.INSURANCE RUNMiamis Yefri Perez showed off his blazing speed in the eighth, racing home on a wild pitch that rolled only a few feet away from catcher Tyler Flowers.Perez broke as soon as he saw the ball skip away. Flowers quickly grabbed it and dove at Perez, but he was able to elude tag with a head-first slide, just getting his right hand on the plate.TRAINING ROOMMarlins: Ozuna was back in the lineup after being struck on the left knee with a pitch the previous night, forcing him out of the game. Being able to get him out of there was good for him, manager Don Mattingly said. We were able to keep the swelling down.Braves: RHP Mike Foltynewicz was hobbling around the clubhouse on crutches after being struck on the left calf with the line drive in Monday nights win. X-rays were negative and he hopes to pitch again this season, but its not known when hell be able to make another start with less than three weeks to go. I cant do anything, he said. I cant walk on it, let alone ... what its going to be like landing on it.UP NEXTJose Fernandez (14-8) will go for Miami on Wednesday in the finale of the three-game series. 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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. Daniel Robertson Jersey . -- Cooper Rush threw six touchdown passes and Central Michigan pulled away in the second half to beat UNLV 44-21 on Saturday.The Chippewas (3-0) are off to their best start since 2002, and showed no signs of a letdown after stunning 22nd-ranked Oklahoma State last week. That game should have ended on a fourth-down intentional grounding foul against the Cowboys but the referees awarded an extra play and Central Michigan scored on a wild touchdown for a 30-27 victory.Rush was 20 of 33 for 352 yards, and his six scoring throws was a Kelly/Shorts Stadium record. Corey Willis had six receptions for 108 yards and two touchdowns, and Mark Chapman finished with five catches for 80 yards and two scores. Jesse Kroll and Brandon Childress also had TD catches.Central Michigan lead 28-21 at halftime, and its defense had a safety and an interception in the second half. Rush added throwing scores of 31 and 42 yards.The Chippewas travel to face ACC-member Virginia with a shot a starting 4-0 for the first time since 1985. Sergio Romo Jersey . Batiste, who briefly signed with the Eskimos in 2006, has spent time with several NFL teams including the Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins. Adeiny Hechavarria Jersey .J. -- Josh Cribbs was in the Pro Bowl in February and out of a job six months later. http://www.officialraysgearshop.com/Rays-CJ-Cron-Kids-Jersey/ . Manuel was offered a position the day he was fired. He accepted earlier this week and the team made the announcement Friday. CLEVELAND -- An Ohio college student who ditched class to head to the opening game of the World Series in Cleveland has won a reprieve from his professor by being honest.Ohio University professor Damian Nance says Charlie Turner checked into his Tuesday class by swiping a card, but wasnt there when Nance took attendance at the end of the session.Turner came clean after Nance emailed him, asking for an explanation. Turner told the professor his father had gotten him tickets to the game agaainst the Chicago Cubs and that he left for Cleveland after checking in. Rob Refsnyder Jersey. He included a picture of himself and his brother at Progressive Field.Nance responded by calling it an impeccable excuse, and added no repercussions.Nance tells The Associated Press he let Turner off the hook, not because hes a big Indians fan, but because the student fessed up. Cheap Authentic Jerseys China NFL Hoodies Youth NFL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale NFL Hoodies Wholesale NFL T-shirts Cheap Jerseys 2020 Stitched Jerseys Stitched Jerseys China Jerseys Wholesale Youth NFL Jerseys Cheap Camo China NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Store Wholesale Authentic Jerseys Wholesale NFL Hoodies Nike NFL Jerseys China ' ' ' 

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And I can honestly say I feel like I did the right thing -- not that Ive looked back and doubt myself.New offensive coordinator Eli Drinkwitz worked with former Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn and was Boise States coordinator last season. He brings a scheme sure to pick up the pace in Raleigh.But the Wolfpacks offseason battle to replace Jacoby Brissett as starting quarterback hasnt settled on a long-term answer. Either Jalan McClendon or graduate transfer Ryan Finley -- both are redshirt sophomores -- will take the first snap Thursday night, but Doeren isnt promising anything more than the first series to the starter and said both will play.The Tribe will present a veteran challenge. Ranked No. 10 in the FCS coaches poll, William & Mary enters the season with 16 starters and 10 all-conference performers back from a team that claimed a share of the Colonial Athletic Association title.You cant dwell on what happened last year because obviously it was a very good year but its a different team, longtime Tribe coach Jimmye Laycock said. This years team has got to set their own identity.---Here are things to know about Thursdays William & Mary-N.C. State gameQB ROTATION: Doeren wouldnt commit to a specific rotation for McClendon and Finley, but it sounds like the position battle isnt over. Doeren said that the team has settled on the starter and wont reveal it publicly, but added the winner isnt necessarily the starter for the full season. I dont know how many reps well get, McClendon said, but were both playing.KICKING BATTLE: Quarterback isnt the Wolfpacks only unsettled position. Sophomore Kyle Bambard and graduate transfer Connor Haskins are vying to be the top placekicker. Bambard struggled last season by making 7 of 14 field goals, a 50-percent conversion rate that was last in the NCAAs Bowl Subdivision national ranks. Doeren said both guys would kick but wont publicly announce a starter.IN THE TRENCHES: The key battle will come up front. William & Marys line boasts three seniors and two juniors, including three all-conference picks, blocking for team captain Steve Cluley at quarterback and tailback Kendell Anderson. But Anderson is questionable with a shoulder injury and the Wolfpacks defensive front is a strength. Its pretty much going to come down to your quarterback and offensive line, Laycock said. Thats what makes you go.RUN IT: The Wolfpacks deep backfield is led by senior Matt Dayes, who had run for 12 touchdowns and was within reach of becoming the programs first 1,000-yard rusher since 2002 before missing the five games with a foot injury. 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Its not something that goes under the radar, Arndt said. Theyve beat us for the past four years.West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said he and his staff didnt need to remind each other about what the Wildcats have done.We understand K-State has been a thorn in our side, Holgorsen said.When the Wildcats (2-1) travel to meet West Virginia (3-0) on Saturday, theyll bring the nations top defense, although last weeks 35-0 win over Missouri State ended at halftime due to storms.Kansas State has allowed just four touchdowns and 537 total yards.West Virginia gets almost that every game and its fast-tempo offense that averages 80 plays will test the Wildcats ability to be ready.We worked against it diligently and constantly, but it is always a concern because you have not experienced it on game day yet, said Kansas State coach Bill Snyder. There are other schools in our conference that are even faster, so we know that is on the landscape right now.Quarterback Skyler Howard wasnt at his best against the Wildcats a year ago, completing just 19 of 42 passes. He also couldnt convert a run on fourth-and-2 late in the game near midfield. Kansas State then ran out the clock and won 24-23 .So far this year, Howard has improved both his poise and his accuracy. Hes been sacked only once behind a veteran offensive line and has completed 69 percent of his paasses for 974 yards. Quinn Cook College Jersey. Nine of his 31 completions last week against BYU went to running backs.They are doing it all, Snyder said. If you dont keep him contained, then he can bounce out of there and find open receivers, Snyder said.---Things to know about the meeting between the Wildcats and the Mountaineers:LEAKY RUN DEFENSE: The Mountaineers are giving up an average of 215 yards on the ground, second worst in the Big 12 only to Kansas. Kansas State uses a bevy of running backs and is averaging 5.5 yards per rush. Earlier this month Kansas State piled up 336 yards and seven touchdowns on 54 carries against Florida Atlantic . We got our work cut out for us on defense, Holgorsen said.RED-ZONE WAR: Kansas State has scored on all 16 trips inside the opponents 20-yard line, including 14 touchdowns. West Virginia has allowed six TDs in opponents 12 red-zone trips.SOLID RETURNS: Kansas States Morgan Burns returned a kickoff for a TD against the Mountaineers last year, and Tyler Lockett had a punt return TD against West Virginia in 2014. This year, the Mountaineers have to worry about Dominique Heath, who already has a 75-yard punt return TD this season.LAMBERT IS BACK: West Virginia kicker Josh Lambert returns from a three-game suspension for an undisclosed violation of Big 12 rules. Two years ago Lambert was a finalist for the Lou Groza Award, given to the nations top placekicker.LESSON LEARNED? 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